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THE WEATHER
Fair, slightly colder tonight. Thursday
fair, rising temperature.
VOL. XXXIII.
$235 FEES PAID
BACK ON ORDERS
OF U. S. COURT
Attorney Ruggles Turns Over
to Judge Anderson Money
From 3 Defendants.
GETS SHARP WARNING
‘lf I ever hear of you approaching
nt defendant in a case in this court,
lor pretending that you are close to
tthis court in any way I am going
to take steps that w-ill fix your fu
ture,” Judge .Anderson told M. Al
vin Ruggles, attorney, 55 When
Block, when Ruggles appeared before
him today, in accordance with in
structions given him yesterday and
deposited jvith the court $235 that
he had collected as fees from Maggie
Lampkins and Gertrude Wilson, Mun
cie negresses, indicted in the Mun
cie liquor conspiracy cases, and Wal
ter Jefferson, negro, charged with
passing a raised bill.
Frederick Van Nuys, United States dis
trict attorney, read to the court a state
ment that had been made in writing by
Daisy Dean, another Muncle defendant,
which said Ruggles had come to Muncte
and had represented himself as a lawyer
for all Muncle defendants, and had said
that he and Judge Anderson and Fred
erick Van Xuys "were like this,” holding
BP three fingers pressed closely together.
He had further stated that he was "a
Federal Court lawyer and not a police
court lawyer,” when, as a matter of fact,
he has never been admitted to practice
In Federal Court here.
The statement also said that some man
who represented himself as Captain Fox
of the Muncle police force had called the
writer by telephone and told her that
Ruggles was coming out to see her and
that she was to employ him to handle
her case in Federal Court.
Judge Anderson returned $35 to
Thomas Jefferson, father of Walter Jeffer
son, and ordered Marshal Mark Storen
to hold the balance of S2OO until Mag
gie Lampkins and Gertrude Wilson called
for it.
Ruggles attempted to show that he had
advised Jefferson to plead guilty if he
was guilty, and Jefferson admitted it.
but Judge Anderson said this had no
bearing on the case as Ruggles had never
Ibeen admitted to practice in his court.
Yixal disposition
OF SEVERAL CASES.
Final disposition was male of a num
ber of cases which Judge Anderson had
taken under advisement, when the de
fendants were arraigned Monday and
Tuesday.
Walter Jefferson, negro, Indianapolis,
received a two-year sentence at the At
lanta Federal prison for passing a bill
that had been raised from $1 to $lO.
One year and one lay at Atlanta was
the penalty imposed on James F. Parrott
©f Vincennes, who pleaded guilty to
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FORT BOMBED
FROM PLANE
Insurgents Harass Petrograd
by Air Attack—Street
Fighting Occurs.
LONDON, March 9.—The fort at Bys
terbaek, one of the forts defending Pet
rograd, has been bombed by an airplane
from the fortress of Kronstadt, which
Avp.s still In possession of the Rebels at
r last reports, according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen to
day.
The dispatch added that street fighting
has been occurring at Petrograd and that
the Insurgents captured large areas.
According to British foreign office ad
vices. some of the Red regiments re
fused to fire upon Rebels when ordered
to do so. The soviet was reported to be
bringing up Chinese and Lettish troops
to combat the insurgents.
Minister of War Leon Trotski, and
Zionleff. head of the Petrograd soviet,
have established headquarters in the
fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul at Pet
rograd.
WASHINGTON, March 9—Confirmation
that Kronstadt is in the bands of the
Russian revolutionists was received today
In dispatches from Baltic sources, which
the State Department described as author
itative.
The department's advices said infor
mation concerning the general movement
of the revolution was lacking but they
indicated that the revolt is of consider
able proportions and that fighting is in
progress.
Bandits Slay Man,
but Leave Money
CHICAGO, March 9.—Andrew Wittert,
south side saloon keeper, was shot and
killed today by one of four automobile
bandits near bis place of business as he
was returning from a bank with several
thousand dollars on his person. Without
waiting to take his money the bandits es
caped in a green touring car. bearing an
almost indecipherable Wisconsin license
plate.
‘Seeing Atlanta’
Party to Leave Soon
k United States Marsha! Mark Storm's
personally conducted “seeing Atlanta”
party of Federal prisoners sentenced
Monday and yesterday by Judge Albert
B. Anderson, will not be long In getting
under way. Mr. Storen announced yes
terday that he expected to have the pris
oners taken to the Federal prison not
later than Friday and perhaps tomorrow.
Until Judge Anderson disposes of sev
eral cases which he has under advisement
the number of Atlanta-bouud convicts
will not be known, but It will not be less
than twenty-five.
HOLD CERE MON V AT VATICAN.
ROME, March 9.-—The formal Imposition
of the red baretta on the new cardinals
was carried out In the Vatican today.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vldnitv
for the twenty four hours ending 7 p. in’..
March 10: Fair and sllghtlv colder to
night. with lowest temperature about 23
.degrees: Thursday fair, with rising tem
"perature.
HOI'RLT TEMTERATI RE.
6 a. m 36
7 a u 34
9 a. m 34
9 a. m 34
' a. m 36
l a. m 3S
: (noon) 41 ,
1 p n> 42
2 p. ti.~~ .. 42
Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Daily Except Sunday.
HARDING FACES
CRITICISM, TOO
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Presi
dent Harding today appeared con
fronted by the sort of Congressional
criticism that faced Woodrow Wilson
when he made his ‘'personal appoint
ments.”
Criticism followed announcement
that Harding will appoint Ir. C. E.
Sawyer, his physician, as a brigadier
general.
HARDING TO ACT
CAUTIOUSLY ON
FOREIGN MESS
;
Home Problems First, Is Bur
den of Conversations
With Leaders.
PANAMA SQUABBLE UP
WASHINGTON, March 9.-There were
unmistakable signs today that the new
administration Is going to proceed slow
ly and with extreme caution in straight
ening out the kinks in our European re
lations.
The allied occupation of German terri
tory and the tide of revolution which
for the first time in three years bids
fair to engulf soviet Russia are two
situations that are being closely watched
by the administration. But they are be
ing scrutinized more against the time
when American policies must be formu
lated than with any Idea of taking steps
immediately.
In the five days that he has had in the
White House President Harding has con
ferred with scores of men high in pub
lir and business life, but the overwhelm
ing burden of his talk has concerned
conditions at home and not abroad. With
only two men. Secretary of State Hughes
and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, has he
discussed international affairs, and even
with these the conversations are de
scribed as ‘'general” in character.
HOPES TO SET OWN
HOUSE IN ORDER.
Those in the confidence of the new
President said this was In keeping with
the promise often made by Harding dur
ing the campaign that if elected he
would adopt a policy of "putting our
own house in order first" before attempt
ing to cross eituer tn Atlantic or Pa
cific.
The Panama-Costa Rica controversy,
so far as known, Is the only international
issue to which the new Administration
has given serious attention, and this is
so close to home that it is considered
practically a domestic question.
President Harding is committed more
or less to the recall of American troops
from the Rhine as soon as that is found
practicable. During the campaign he
frequently asserted American troops
“have no business there and they should
be home."
The allied advance Into German terri
tory, however, has altered the aspect of
this problem materially, and If there had
been any Intention on the part of the
new Administration of Immediately re
turning these troops it Is now considered
virtually certain such Intention will not
be carried out for the present at least.
To call for the return of the troops
might result In embarrassing England,
France and Belgium and certainly would
be construed In Germany as widening the
crack which admittedly exists between
the policies of this Government and the
allies. While the new Administration
may differ greatly with the allies on
questions of policy, there Is no Intention
to advertise that fact to our late enemy.
The same situation exists to a great
extent in the proposed passage of the
Knox resolution, declaring a state of
peace with Germany. Following the ex
ample of their candidate. 'Republican
speakers during the campaign told their
audiences that if the Republican ticket
was elected there would be peace with
Germany "as soon as a Republican Con
gress could pass such a measure for a
Republican executive to sign.”
* Whether the resolution will be pre
sented and urged for immediate pass
age when the new Cougress assembles
early In April, is problematical.
In any event, there is going to be no
hurry in getting at the European prob
lem. Taxatiou and tariff and other do
mestic affairs are going to occupy the
atetution of the new Administration al
most exclusively at first, regardless of
European matters.
BASSETT MUST
SERVE HIS TERM
High Court Denies New Trial
in Forgery Case.
Edward W. Bassett of Indianapolis,
formerly a prominent grain dealer and
promoter of various business concerns,
must serve his sentence of two to four
teen years in prison for forgery, the In
diana Supreme Court decided today.
Bassett was convicted in the Marlon
County Criminal Court Nov. 13, 1919, of
having forged the name of C. F. Mcln
tyre, a business associate, as the indorse
ment on a check presented at the People's
State Bank.
Bugsett, at almost the same time, was
involved in Government prosecutions con
cerning alleged questionable grain deals.
He appealed to the Supreme Court, al
leging the Crimiual Court had erred in
refusing him anew trial.
Press to Be Excluded When
City School Board Takes Up
Accountant Roney ’s Report
“There are many thing we wish to
dis-uss that we don't wish piinted,”
said Mrs. Julia Belle Tutewiler, president
of the board of school commissioners,
last night in support of a motion to ex
clude representatives of the press from
the executive session of the bo.ird, which
will be held the night of March 22, to
discuss the complete report made by
H. A. Roney, certified accountant, of the
business management of the board. This
report severely crltizes the business man
agement of which George C. Hitt is busi
ness director.
The question of whether the meeting
should t>e open to the press came up
when Mrs. Tutewiler said she believed the
matter should be discussed In secret. A
motion that the board m“et in executive
session March 22, was made inmiedi..tely
by Clarence E. Crippin and seconded by
Bert 8. Gadd.
Charles E. Barry opposed the motion
on the ground that It showed discourt-
Mj and distrust of ths press, The mo
Entered as Second Class Matter. July 25, 1914. at
Fostoftice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.
INVADERS’ LINE
PUSHED CLOSE
TO KRUPP CITY
Essen. Seat of Munitions
Works, Only Five Miles
From Allies’ Guns.
CUSTOMS TO BE SEIZED
PARIS, March 9. —The allied military
lines today were advanced to a point only
five miles from Essen. This important
German industrial and coal mining city,
which is the seat of the gigantic Krupp
works, is now within easy range of the
allied artillery.
The night passed calmly and without
Incident in all the three Ruhr district
cities taken over by the allies Tuesday—
Duesseldorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort.
General Gaucher, who led the French
advance into Dusseldorf, issued a proc
lamation calling on all Germans* except
the police to surrender all their arms and
ammunition within forty-eight hours.
The Inter allied high commission has
established censorship on telegraph and
telephone lines in ail the zones of occu
pation both the new and the old —in-
cluding the small area held by Uulted
States troops at Coblenz. Dispatches re
ceived from the occupied area were
marked "censored.”
President Tirad of the interallied
high commission has arrived here to con
fer with M. Doumer, French minister of
finance, for the establishment of a cus
toms line along the “French front” on
the Rhine.
“There are rumors at Mayence that the
allies plan further occupation of Ger
man territory,’’ said a Mayence dis
patch.
"If the present movement proves In
sufficient, the allies will occupy all of
the coal mines in the Ruhr district." said
Gustav Herve, writing In La Vlcoire.
AMERICAN TROOPS
TO ST A Y ON RHINE
WASHINGTON, Marco 9. American
troops will be kept on the Rhine until
the flare-up between the allies and Ger
many over reparations is settled, ac
cording to best information here.
President Harding had planned to call
in the American army of occupation of
Germany at once on assuming office, but
the existing situation, it is understood,
makes this inadvisable at present
A withdrawal now might be resented
by the allies.
There is no intention, however, of per
mitting the American troops to partici
pate In the occupation of additional
German territory.
GERMANS DECLARE
TREATY TORN UP
BERLIN. March 9 From the Com
munist organ Rot Fahne (Red Flag! to
the monarchist newspaper, Deutsch Zel
tung. the German press today viewed the
advance of the allied armies- on the
Rhine as "cancellation of Germany’s ob
ligations under the treaty of Versailles.”
"The entente has formally begun a
new war. having torn up the peace treaty
with the mailed fist us though It was a
(Conilulled on Puge Two.)
2 MINERS DEAD,
OTHERS DYING
Explosion at Pennsylvania
Colliery Accompanied by
Serious Results.
COALDALE. Pa., March 9.—Two min
ers were killed, five are dying and eight
others were badly burned as a result of
an explosion at No. tl colliery of the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
this morning.
Physicians and rescue parties have been
rushed from all parts of the Panther
Creek Valley to aid In the rescue work.
ASKED TO ANNUL
GIRL’S MARRIAGE
Court Gets Petition During
Husband’s Trial.
While Judge Frank I.ahr of Juvenile
court today was hearing evidence in the
case of Oscar Throndsen, said to be em
ployed at a local branch of an automo
bile concern, charged with contributing
to the delinquency of Lucille Fuller
Throndsen, formerly Miss Lucile Fuller,
n dancer, who Is 15 years and 5 months
of age, a petition was filed before Judge
Solon J. Carter of Superior Court ask
ing that her marriage to Throndsen be
annulled.
The complaint In Juvenile court states
that Throndsen, knowing the girl was not
of the age of consent, persuaded her to
go to Jeffersonville, where they were
married. It is stated that the girl gave
her age as 18. After the ceremony the
couple went to Louisville, Ky., and vis
ited friends. Mrs. Throndsen testified
'ntoxicatlng liquor was served there,
‘•’ince their return to Indianapolis she
has not lived with her husband. Mrs.
Throndsen admitted she was under a
doctor’s care.
The Juvenile court case Is based on the
charge that Throndsen influenced the girl
to be delinquent by persuading her to
marry him.
The hearing was resumed in the after
noon.
tion was carried by a 4-to-l vote, Mr.
1 -r y being the only one to oppose the
motion.
Mrs. Tutewiler said that she had re
ceived a communication from Charles J.
Orblson. attorney employed by the board
in connection with the Roney investiga
tion. In which Mr. Orblson said that he
fully approved the report submitted by
Mr. Roney.
Just before the meeting adjourned,
Mr. Barry moved that at the executive
meeting the official stenographer he
present and make a full report of the
proceedings and that at the request of
any member of the board he muUe a
transcript Mr. Gadd seconded the mo
tion. but when it came to a vote he
failed to vote in favor of it. The motion
was met by objections. Mrs. Tutewiler
and Mr. i'rippen insisted that the tran
script should be given only ou order of
the majority of the board.
“Do von -mean that three members of
(CsJunusd on Fags Two.)
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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1921.
Capital Society Looking for Brilliant Season
Left to Right. Above—Mrs. Charles *> A. ;
an, Hughes, Mrs. M urren G. Harding j m/j l > !&' * ' <■> ~
.1 Mrs. Herbert Hoover Center VI - \AQ \ • ‘ ,
nies J. Ituvis. Mre. Edwin Denby and • \ ,?* ■¥-: I/ 4 fefr I'
•. Albert U. lull. Relow—Mrs. Will \ " xwgj- J i J IraK /Or 4 ■
WASHINGTON, March 9—With the ts |{\
rsonnel of President Harding's Cabinet V. || | j
e social aspect of the new adinlulstra- (■ ■ aky J f iJp / • (J
■n. which will be formed largely by the
bluet hostesses. Mrs. Hughes, wife of ,
isrles E. Hughes, named us Secretary of
ute. Is well known in Washington so and also entertaining numbers of them
tl circles having spent six years there over the week ends at the country place ..
len her husband was associate Justice jtbat she and Mr Hoover leased In the
the Supreme oart Mrs. Hugh, k as Woods,” near Rockvlib-, Maryland
rst lady" of the Cabinet, and Mrs Edwin Denby. to w Secretary of the
irding. us "first lady " of the la: 1. Navy, married Marlon Bartlett i’burbcr
II be the social b-ad.-rs during the next of Detroit, eldest daughter of the then
nr years In Washington. secretary to President Cleveland. Mrs. *'
Mrs Albert II Fall, whose husband is Denby received tier early education In
e new Secretary of the Interior, has the White House kindergarten with Hit
ken a prominent purl In the activities Cleveland children. The Denby* inter
the Congressional Club and tho organ lived here during Mr. Denby s six years' ' is. '” ' . :. r >AM£L
ition known as "The Ladies of the service In Congress. - • - ■ . SSBpfl
nate.” Mrs Will H. Hays, daughter of Judge tC,
During the World War. Mr and Mrs. A. I>. Thomas of Crawford-svllie. Is a * -W : # ’
-rbert Hoover had a home in Washing- woman of striking personal.t.v. She has .
a and entertained frequently but quiet- an unusually good voice and is artist*. ;
as Mrs. Hoover is opposed to soc ial ■ ally lie lined, both It. drawing and paint- a zjSAfifegßy
iplay. She did a great deal for the lng. She carries herself well Id society , *.
• men employes of the food Mdmlnistra- and promises to hold her owe In Wash
>n, aiding them lo establish a club, legion's official life. f A Mht Ml.
7 ight Brewing SESSION COSTS
on Scheme for TOTAL OF $115,000
Bigg Pl C (lb met Ultimate Shows Big Increase |
\mgress Against Department U\tr IJI9, Due > ;
of Welfare With Woman to _"il!! g ’
as Chieftain. Expenses of the Seventy Second Gen-
ir.tl Assembly totaled about $115,000, etn-
WASHINGTON, Marca 9 -President •>>*•*• ' f t**- Auditor of ■ l'
. . . . , , State estimated tl*y. Tho 1919 session vEßlSlfflrr* /U- ‘
trdlng s pr.ncpal campaign pledge to SJO2 IVJ ., 4X /
imen voters probably may be the first The Senate’s expenses for employes /- i( J
fall of realization. wers somewhat lower than in previous r^'er m
Left to Right. Above—Mrs. Charles
Evans Hughes, Mrs. \Yurren G. Harding
and Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Center —Mrs.
Janies J. Davis, Mre. Edwin Denby and
Mrs. Albert U. kail. Below—Mrs. Will
11. Hays.
WASHINGTON, March 9—With the
personnel of President Harding s Cabinet
announced, society is deeply interested In
the social aspect of the new administra
tion. which will be formed largely by the
Cabinet hostesses Mrs. Hughes, wife of
Charles E. Hughes, named us Secretary of
Stute, Is well known In Washington so
dal circles, having spent six years there
when her husband was associate justice
of tho Supreme Court. Mrs. Hughes as
"first lady" of the Cabinet, and Mrs.
Harding, as "first lady” of the land,
will be the social leaders during the next
four years iu Washington.
Mrs Albert IV Fall, whose husband Is
the new Secretary of the Interior, has
taken a prominent part In the activities
of the Congressional Club and tho organ
ization known as "The Ladies of the
Senate.”
During the World War, Mr and Mrs.
Herbert Hoover had a home in Washing
ton and entertained frequently but quiet
ly, as Mrs. Hoover is opposed to social
display. She did a great deal for the
women employes of the food administra
tion, aiding them to establish a club.
Fight Brewing
on Scheme for
Bigger Cabinet
Congress Against Department
of Welfare With Woman
as Chieftain.
WASHINGTON, Marcj 9.—President
Harding’s principal campaign pledge to
women voters probably may be the first
to full of realization.
Harding, It wan learned today, has been
Informed that the proposal to create a
department of welfare to be headed oy
a woman Cabinet member, will meet a
quiet but firm opposition in Congress.
Harding has informed women leaders he
will make the recommendation and tight
for it despite the opposition, the strength
of which he fully recognizes.
The proposal for a department of wel
fare was made In one of Harding’s
speeches to women.
Women leaders have called on the
President since his inauguration and
asked about the department of welfare.
Hording, it was said, assured them ho
would urge It on Cougress. He was care
ful, however, not to hold out any hope
that the recommendation would receive
action.
SAYS COURT IS
NO LAW SCHOOL
Judge Refuses to Let J. W.
Haley Change Complaint.
Declaring that he was “not conducting
a law school,” Judge Harry Chamberlin
of Circuit Court today refused to per
mit J. W. Haley, an attorney, 415-416 Law
Building, to amend a complaint In a case
In which be was the plaintiff while the
case was in progress.
Judge Chamberlin held that the pro
posed amendment would entirely alter the
principle upon which the suit was based.
Some days ago Judge Solon J. Carter
of Superior Court, room 3, declared he
would refer Mr. Haley to the grand Jury
and to the Indianapolis Bar Association
for Investigation, following certain de
velopments In a case in which Mr. Haley
was counsel. No report has been made
as yet from the grand Jury or the bar
association.
In the suit Mr. Haiey was trying he
asked judgment- of S2OO from Harry C.
Stevens for damages and alleged breach
of contract.
Mr. Haley dismissed the suit In the
middle of the healing.
Italy to Ask Time,
Not Debt Erasure
WASHINGTON, March 9—Extension
l’or the payment of Italy’s debt to tho
United States will probably be asked, but
there is no thought of suggesting cancel
lation, Rolando Ricci, Italian ambassador,
declared here today.
35 MILLIONS
UNEXPENDED
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Former
President Wilson spent only (114,742,-
915.50 of the (150.000,000 allotted to
him by Congress for war purposes,
according to the accounting which he
rendered to Congress and which was
made public today.
The accounting was prepared by
former Secretary of Treasury Hous
ton.
SESSION COSTS
TOTAL OF $115,000
Estimate Shows Big Increase
Over 1919, Largely Due
to Printing.
Expense* of the Seventy-Second Cen
tral Assembly totaled about $115,000, em
ployes In the office of the Auditor of
State estimated today. The 1919 session
cost tho State $102,092,43.
The Senate's expenses for employes
wers somewhat lower than In previous
years. In the House, although figures
have not been completed, It Is said the
cost of help will be about the same as In
previous years.
Printing bills have done much to
bring up the cost of the session Just
closed. This expense totaled $20,472.40,
as compared with $16,016.21 two years
ago.
The figures given for the Seventy-First
Assembly do not Include the expenses of
the two Goodrich special sessions, which
cost the State 333,251.04.
The Legislature appropriated only
SIOO,OOO to pay its expenses, but the
specific appropriation bill took care of
any in excess of this amount. This In
creased the total appropriations of the
session $15,000.
HITS CONTRACTS
ON TWO SCHOOLS
Eschbach Declares Snider &
Rotz Provision Illegal.
Severe criticism of the plans and speci
fication* for heating, ventilating, plumb
ing and electrical wiring for Schools Nos.
73 and 57, prepared by Snider & Rots,
engineers for the board of school com
missioners, Is contained in two letters
sent by Jesse E. Eschbach, examiner for
the State board of accounts, to Snider &
Itotz under dotes of Feb. 1? and Feb. 26.
The communications state that Article
21 of the specifications providing for se
lecting the contractors and adjusting the
contract sum In conformity therewith
cannot apply legally to a public contract
and should be omitted. This article reads
as follows:
“The contractor shall include In the
contract price all allowances mentioned
In the contract documents and shall cause
the work so covered to be done by such
contractors and for such sums as the
engineers may direct, the contract sum
being adjusted In conformity therewith,
but without additional charge profit. The
contractor shall not be required to em
ploy for any such work a subcontractor
against whom he has reasonable objec
tion.”
It is charged further that the specifica
tions fail to conform to the laws rela
tive to public contracts providing that
complete, definite and explicit plans and
specifications be prepared and that free
and open competition be provided In
every instance.
A number of specific Instances were
cited to substantiate this charge. One
is that only devices made under patents
held by Claienee C. Shipp of Indianap
olis met the demands of the specifics*
lions and plans.
Under date of March 4, Snider & Rotz
answered Mr. Sehbaoh’s letter with a
nine-page letter, which amounts prac
tically to a general denial and which pur
ports to refute every charge made by
the examiner.
Bill Says Not Yet
LOS ANGELES, Cal., March o.
Cupid hasn’t 'captured Bill Hart yet.
At least so said the famous ‘‘Bad
Man’’ and cowboy of the screen to
day In emphatically denying hie re
ported hetretbsd te Jane
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DATO, SPANISH
PREMIER^SLAIN
Struck by 27 Bullets Fired
by Three Men on
Motorcycles.
MADRID, March 9—Formation of a
new cablfiet was held in abeyance today
pending the funeral of Eduardo Dato,
premier, assassinated late yesterday as
he left the Senate.
Twenty-seven explosive bullets struck
the premier ns his automobile was pur
sued down the Calle Sorano by three
motorcyclists.
Police said the assassination was the
work of syndicalists. Motorcyclists fol
lowed the cur as it left the government
building. As they turned into the Cnlie
Sorano the men opened fire. Tho premier
was struck In the face by one of the
first shots and his jaw was shattered.
The chauffeur, bending low over tho
wheel, was uninjured and made full
speed for a hospital. Dato, however, was
dead long before reaching the surgeons.
The three assassins escaped.
Uncle Sam Ships
Spaghetti to Italy!
NEW YORK, March B—American
spaghetti I* now being exported to
Ital.v. When the Princes* Matolka
■•tiled for Italian port* she carried
fifteen ton* of American spaghetti.
Ardmore Public Opinion
Holds Clara Smith Hamon
Guiltless in Murder Case
ARDMORE, Okla., March 9.—Clara
Smith Hamon strolled down Main street
today and didn’t attract any more atten
tion than the cowboy cop tramping his
beat.
On any of the hundreds of other Main
streets In the country crowds would have
gaped and fingers would have been point
ed at Jake Hamon's chic girl, who stands
trial for his murder tomorrow.
But Main street In Ardmore Is Main
street In Ardmore and not comparable
to any other in the country.
The South meets the West and forms
Ardmore. This town of 20,000 is typi
cally Southern In its aspect, with a dash
of cowboys and Indians thrown In to
give a wild and woolly Western effect.
Public opinion has acquitted Clara
Hamon—she is not guilty of the charge
of slaying Jake Hamon, picturesque mil
lionaire promoter and politician, In tho
eyes of the Ardmoreltes.
However, use offapotag of the rale e3
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WORKS BOARD WILL
DEMAND EXTENSION
OF STREET CAR LINES
Lemaux Tells Delegations Body Not Con
trolled by City Administration
or Corporation.
ORDERS TO COMPANY ARE OUTLINED
The board of public works will insist on the Indianapolis Street Rail
way Company making immediate extensions of its lines which have been
contemplated for years, President George Lemaux announced, with the
approval of the other members, to three delegations of indignant prop
erty owners from two sections of the northern part of the city today.
When some of the spokesmen for the delegations made statements
inferring that the extensions have not been made because of the “sophistry
of the city administration and the perfidy of the street railway company,”
President Lemaux arose from his seat and declared:
“Gentlemen, this board la controlled neither by the city administration
nor by the street railway company. This is an absolutely independent
board. Whenever it ceases to be such you will not find me here.”
The hundred or more citizens present cheered.
MAKING GRADE
IN 1921 TOPIC
OF AUTO TALK
Graham Gives Trade Associa
tion His Version of Busi
ness Outlook.
”We are an optimistic kind of a peo
pie In the automobile business. That Is
what has made us great; and we don’t
quit,” said George M. Graham of Cleve
land. vice president of the Pierce-Arrow
Company, today, in bis talk on "Mak
ing tte Grade in 1921,” at the luncheon
of the Indiana Automobile Trade Associa
tion, at the Claypooi Hotel, at which
members of the Indianapolis Auto Trade
Association and the Kiwauis Club were
guests.
Continuing. Mr. Grnbam ald in part:
“I feel that during the ljst three months
conditions have been more difficult thaD
we would concede. 1 am very hopeful
that we can go through the show stim
ulus and also go through with plans
that we can work out in gatherings of
this kind.
PLAN TO MAKE
THE 1921 GRADE.
"To speak in our own phrase and in
our own tongue, we are for a week turn
irg Indianapolis Into a garage, a repair
shop, and we have got to patch up the
car. It has had a tough six months and
you gentlemen have got to fix the car up
to tackle the 1921 grade. I am not saying
that this la an easy Job. We can t do
whitt we did last year; we can’t rush
the hill at the start at forty miles
an honr. Our problem is to get
away at about five miles an hour and
gather momentum as we mount. That
takes a pretty good car and a pretty good
driver.
"I don’t see any Impossibility In the
Job. Let’s not think about (be sixty
miles an hour at the crest of the hill
for perhaps six months. Let that vision
be a little remote, but let ns gamely face
the present situation and the present dif
ficulties.
“Continuing the figure of speech, we
can do this Job if we get the motor righr.
We have been running on too rich a mix
ture; not only our industry, but the
whole country—and the oil has worked
up past the three piston rings of sanity,
caution and economy.
"We must grlud out the excess carbon,
tighten the fit and get the compression
right before we can go again as we
should. We start with some great funda
(Continued on Page Two.)
COLLINS AGAIN
LIFTSPENALTY
Suspended Sentence Policy
Invoked in Case of
Forgery.
The suspended sentence policy was trot
ted out again today by Judge James A.
Collins of the Criminal Court and ap
plied in the case of Willard Troutman,
33, a former soldier, who saw service in
France, and who is married and has a
minor child.
Troutman was Indicted on a charge of
forging the name of his brother to a
check for SBO. The State was informed
that the brother did not care to press
the matter further.
The evidence showed, according to the
State, that Troutman became Intox
icated and wrote the check.
Judge Collins fined Troutman $lO and
costs and sentenced him from two to
fourteen years. The sentence was sus
pended during good behavior.
Grace Dean was sentenced to six
months In the woman's prison for
burglary. Claude Houston, charged with
bigamy, was found not guilty. Wayne
Markoffer, 17, was sentenced from two to
fourteen years on a charge of forgery.
Walter Wright, 19, charged with vehicle
taking. wa3 sentenced from six months
to five years at the reformatory.
the South and West dre not all wrought
up over (he case. A conviction, perhaps,
would cause a slight ripple; then Ard
more would go back to work coaxing oil
out of the ground and raising turbulent
crops of politics.
Years ago Jake Hamon moved into the
Randol Hotel, on Malu street, with a
woman who was not his wife—Clara Smith
Hamon.
Tongues did not wag them out of town;
the morals commission did not call on
them. Ardmore figured that w-ns Jake s
and Clara s business and then went about
Its own affairs.
Os course, .Take Hamon and Clara
Smith were counted In on the social af
fairs of the frontier community.
Main street wasn't even excited when
Attorney General S. P. !•'reeling. Clara
Hamon’s prosecutor, went up to rooms
28 and 29 of the Randol Hotel to yis
oalUe the scene of the alleged tragic
death f Shis* Ms mew. )
NO. 259.
What the board proposes to do la
summed up as follows:
L Order the street railway company
at once to extend the College avenue line
from Forty Sixth to Fifty-First street*.
2. Stand upon the order to remove the
Meridian Heights line tracks now in
Torty-Nlnth street from Pennsylvania
street to College avenue, and re-lay them
ln Pennsylvania street from Forty-Ninth
to Fifty-Second streets.
3. Insist that the company carry ont
the order for the extension of the Illinois
street car line from Thirty-Ninth to
Forty-Sixth street, placed on the books
of the board of works four years ago.
THREE DELEGATIONS
WAIT ON BOARD.
The declarations of intent of the board
resulted from the appearance of three
delegations, one composed of residents
who desire the Forty-Ninth street trans
fer. another composed of those who do
not wish the tracks transferred, and a
third which demands that the board do
something about the four-year delay in
curry out the promise that the Illinois
line would be extended.
The board issued an order about two
weeks ago for the transfer of the Forty-
Ninth street tracks. When residents ol
the district served by the tracks as they
are at present protested that they would
be left without city car service Mr.
Lemaux declared that the board was go
ing to extend the College avenue line
from Forty-Sixth to Fifty-First streets,
and that this would serve the district.
“When,” shouted Forty-Ninth street
citizens.
“Right away,” answered Mr. Lemanx.
Board Member Mark 11. Miller entered
the controversy, asserting that last year
when the street railway company finally
agreed to and did extend the College
avenue line from Thirty-Fourth to
Forty-Sixth street it was agreed that if
the board did not push the company at
that time that the extension to Fifty-
First street would be made this year.
President Lemaux pointed out that the
street railway company will have to buy
the right of way and trackage from the
L nited Traction Company of ludlana.
PLEA USED FOR NEW
LAW TO BE TESTED.
“This year the company has been plead
ing lack of funds,” declared Mr. Miller.
“The company went before the Legisla
ture and with a large lobby managed to
get through a bill which will make It
possible for it to surrender Its franchise.
The company claimed that its credit will
be improved by the passage of this act.
Well, they've got the bill through now
and if they were In good faith about It
making It possible for them to get more
funds there Is no excuse left for them not
going through with this College avenue
extension.”
"We'll put that Fifty-First street order
on the books right now,” said Board
Member Thomas A. Riley.
“Yes. and tkey’ll act on it two or three
years from now," someone In the crowd
shouted.
Mr. Lemanx Insisted that action would
be immediate, but continued to point out
the difficulty of getting the street rail
way company to make extensions.
“The present mayor made his campaign
on the north side on promises to you
people that he would get the street car
lines extended.” said Mr. Lemaux, "but
when he went to do it he found he
simply couldn't In the caso of the Col
lege avenue line because the Union
Traction Company owned the right of
way and the street railway company
didn’t have money to buy it. You had
to wait until the company could buy It.”
DEMAND MADE FOR
ILLINOIS EXTENSION.
In answer to the storm of protests ol
those opposed to the transfer from
Forty-Ninth street, Lemaux said that tho
board was looking at the proposition
from the broad viewpoint of the develop
ment of all of the northern part of the
city.
This, apparently, was what tho Illi
nois street delegation had been “wait
ing around the corner for.” They
hopped on the statement with such
avidity that the board was left speech
less for a moment and demanded the Illi
nois extension.
\ S. K. Strickland, one of the leaders
of the Illinois street delegation, said:
“As the representative of the citizens liv
ing on or near North Illinois 6treet, I
want to respectfully inquire why it is
that if you are so anxious to develop the
north part of the city, yon are putting
orders for further extensions of street
car lines on your books when for four
years you have had an drder for the ex
tension of the Illinois line with a SSO
per day penalty for failure for the street
(Continued on Page Two.)
Houfd You Like
to Be President?
WASHINGTON. March 9.—President
Harding laced another heavy day today
and was at his desk before 8:30 o’clock.
The President's appointments were as
follows:
10 to 11 a. m. —Congressmen Woodyard
of West Virginia and Srentx of Nevada;
Col. K. N. Harper, Gridiron Club com
mittee, Prince Kalanlauaole. Hawaiian
delegate; Senator Moses, New Hamp
shire; Senator Cameron, Arizona; Col. A.
L. Remmill, Republican national com
mitteeman from Arizona; Senator Len
root, Wisconsin: Thomas W. Lament, W.
F. Wiley, Cincinnati; Walter F. Dickey,
Kansas City.
11 a. m.—The United States Supreme
Court will be received In the Blue room.
11:30 a. m. —Senators FrelinghuySen,
Edge, New Jersey.
12 noon—Senator Elkins, West Vir
ginia.
12:15 p. m—Edward B. McLean, Wash
ington.
12:30 p. m.—Chicago schoolboy skaters,
12:46 p. m.—Mrs. Floyd and friends
and Congressman Treadway of MMasha-
Hill flrlf At,