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THE WEATHER Increasing cloudiness, showers tonight, Thursday; warmer tonight. VOL. XXXIII. MOTHER GOOSE HELPED U. S.TO WIN CONFLICT *Seven Up’ and ‘Quack! Quack!’ Perplex German Code Experts. HEROIC DEEDS APLENTY By JOSEPHUS DANIELS, Former Secretary of the Navy. Copyright, 1921. b y John F rCopyright by National Newspaper Serv ice. Copyright In Great Britain. Canada and throughout France. AH rights re served, Including translation into foreign languages. Including the Scandinavian. Unantiiorixed reprinting for any purpose forbidden. ARTICLE 6. "Quack! Quack! Quack!” I can Imagine Herr Teufelsdorff, of the German intelligence depart ment, solemnly setting down the strange words. “Hey, diddle-de-diddle. The cat and the fiddle.” That must have been as puzzling as “Ride-a-cock-horse to Banbury cross” “Little Jack Horner sat in his corner,” “Jack and Jill went up the hill," and similar extraordinary statements picked out of the air by listening Germans, and sent to Ber lin for translation and for study by their code specialists. did the herr professors make of them? What did they made of such seem ingly, meaningless combinations of words as “corn-mush” and "high-low jack”? Doubtless there were profound consul tations. I can vision the research car ried Into libraries, where all available “Amerigana,” was ransacked for a clew to the mystery. Mother Goose, no doubt, was discovered as the source of the rhymes, and her history was studied for some possible explanation of their use. I can imagine heated debates between retund and rubicund literati as to the occult significance of these quotations from the nursery songs of the United States. I can imagine erudite and elabo rate theories advanced. GERMANS WERE DAZED. The reference to the breakfast menu of the American people and to one of their popular indoor sports must have been hopelessly bewildering. The Teuton mind never could under stand the American mind. It was per plexed, baffled, dazed by our thought processes, and the more it tried to explain or Interpret them the more mystified it became. So far as I know it never guessed the meaning of our Mother Goose messages, which sang over the North Sea and out on the Atlantic In wireless vibrations. For that matter, the British were puz zled at first when they picked up the queer words and phrases and snatches of rhyme. It sounded as if the Inmates of a lunatic asylum had somehow got hold of a wireless apparatus and were calling •-Quack 1 Quack 1 Quack!” and “Corn meal mush” to a war-crazed world. "Red-white-blue” was one of the phrases which had a sound of possible sense to British ears, but when it was amplified to “Quack! Red-white-bine 1” even their smartest code experts were at a loss to interpret it. British naval officers at Plymouth were much concerned about these inexplicable sayings which floated through the atmos phere and founded in their radiophones. FEAR NEW GERMAN TRICK. Was somebody “spoofing them.” and the war and the world in general? Or was It some new German trick? Some scheme of the enemy to distract atten tion, to set the British puzzling over a meaningless mystery while he pulled oft some plot against them? They were relieved when explanations were made. They smiled, and even chuckled politely, when they were told that these quaint contributions to the aerial communications of the war zone were merely the issuings of orders and exchanges es compliments among the perky little American submarine chasers which lately had arrived from across the Atlantic. A saucy, high-spirited, devil-may-care lot they were, and they come capering Into the zone of danger and death with laughter and song. I doubt if you will find in all the an nals of the war a better picture of American psychology—the psychology of American youth In the face of peril and &Sdr the high obligation of duty. Nor will you find anything which Illustrates better why Germany lost the war and the allies and America won it; why our hurriedly trained armies played the mis chief with the morale and fighting front of the enemy's super-trained disciplined and experienced troops. HAD FAITH AND HOPE. The child-hearted attitude toward life which could go to war talking the language of the nursery, using homely phrases and the songs of the cradle to conceal the serious mes-ages of iife and death and tragic action which compose the communications of war, wns tiie at titude of faith and hope and cheefui comradeship which endured all denials and pains without murmur, and faced all perils without flinching. In those days of hardship; in those days when men endured long vigil, whipped by wind and spray; in those days when sudden death lurked beneath the wave and every gob kissed his sweet heart’s picture good-by at least once In twenty-four hours, you can Imagine how It helped In the grimness and serious netts and deadly oppressiveness of the job to have the comic relief which came when your sub chaser scudded, through the seas calling “Quack! Quack; Quack: High-low-. Tack!” from its wireless; or when some bit of nursery lore sounded in your radiophone, such as a reference to “Mary’s little lamb,” conveying Infor mation that the enemy would have given all the beer In Munich to get. This new code, the words of which were familiar to every American, had (Continued on Page Nine.) WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis nnd vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 ?> ni . April 21. 1921 : Increasing cloudlnes with showers tonight nnd Thursday Warmer ton girt; cooler Thursday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 8 a. m 50 7 a. m 52 8 a. m 50 9 a. m 00 10 a. m., 64 U a. m 65 12 (noon) 67 1 p. m 67 Published at Indianapolis, Entered as Second Clas* Matter, July 25, 1914, at .nd., DRtly Except Sunday. Postofflce. Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 8. 1879. Boy's Murder Trial May 31 ,?v * ; f>s*4 <*jjyfSlPs >s, * j KNOX, Ind., April CO.—Trial of Cecil Burkett, 11, charged with murdering Bennie Slavin, 7, a playmate, today was set to begin Muy 81. The trial recently was postponed on account of the serious The Suspended Sentence Rule at Work Again Collins Says It’s Also ‘Duty’ to ‘Save a Roy From Prison.’ Three youths were given suspended sentence in Criminal Court today by Judge James A. Collins on the theory that it is as much the “duty” of the court to "save a boy from prison as to send him there." Those who came under this ruling of Judge Collins' suspended sentence plan were Joe Natalie, 13, and Phillip Besessi, 17, who wore each lined SSO and sentenced to ninety days on the Indiana State Farm on charges of contributing to the delin quency of a 15-year-old girl, and liomer Smith, 17, who was sentenced from one to eight years at the Indiana State Re formatory on a charge of aiding in steal ing $174 from a grocery with three other boys. Smith claimed he only stood on the outside of the store. The court suspended sentences and the fines on the three young men pending good behavior. General Knight, 36, a negro charged with tseallng a trunk and clothing val ued at $413 from Charles Lanham, at tempted td got onto the suspended sen tenco wagon also, but failed, although he succeeded g.ttlng a sentence from one to eight years at the Indiana State Reformatory on a petit larceny charge. Knight apparently thought he was en titled to a suspended sentence also on grounds ranging from a religious nature to the desire to lead a better life and even work at a good Job. Knight beck oned several of his friends, who were seated In the courtroom, to oome forward and plead with the court. The court finally held that he could not suspend the sentence. Knight was taken to Jail apparently disgusted, but still hopefuL BOSSE APPEARS BEFORE BOARD Defends Action Condemned by Examiners. Benjamin Bcsse, mayor of Evansville, and John Brill, city attorney, appeared before the State board of accounts today to show cause why the board should not turn charges which it has made against the mayor and numerous other persons connected with his administration over to the Attorney General for prosecution. The board recently charged lllegul expend itures of a large amount of money. The charge against Brill, In which he is said to have collected fees for prose cutions illegally, already have been turned over to the Attorney General, fol lowing a letter to the board in which Brill declared he would not refund the money. Mayor Bosse defended the alleged ille gal expenditures for hand concerts on the ground that he could spend park funds for anything he pleased connected with the parks. The accounts board has declared that it is necessary for the city council to appropriate such money. In connection with charges of Illegal pay ments for street sweepers, Mayor Bosse said he bought the sweepers at a price S3OO under that paid by the City of In dianapolis for similar machines. G. A. R. Encampment Slated for Newcastle General orders governing the forty second ar.r tal encampment of the G. A. R„ at Newcastle, May 10 to 12. have bepn issued at State headquarters. A sffectal train will leave Indianapolis at 11 a. m. May 10. Special reduced rates will be obtained. The headquarters of the en campment will be at the Hotel Bundy at Newcastle. William A. Ketcbam, na tional commander, and M. D. Butler, na tional adjutant, will attend the meeting. Moresss DENVER, Colo., April W.—The American ••cartwheel” is coming back, tiovernment officials announced today that- coining of silver do iars will be gin next week in an effort to replace for cir- ulation more than $.'©0,000,030 withdrawn during the war and melted down fur shipment to India. Quanti ties of silver ore have been received at the Denver mint from Western mines during the past months and the work of turning out sliver dollars will be started. It is the first time the lo cal mint has ever made the large coin. Juifcma ilailij Sintra illness of Prosecutor Hilts. Judge IV. E. Pentecost, of the Starke County Cir cuit Court, will preside. Young Burkett is charged with shoot ing his playmate last Thanksgiving day, following a quarrel. WORKS BOARD CALLS GAS CO. Will Seek Explanation for Re fusal to Construct Main Extensions. The Citizens Gas Company wns called upon by the board of public works to day to send a representative to the board meeting Friday to discuss the company's ! announcement that it will not construct any of the thirty gas main extensions or dered within the last few weeks by the board. The company has stated that It is without sufficient funds to buy and lay the new pipe. A resolution for the construction of a main sewer in East Tenth street from a point forty-five feet cast of Denny street to a point 155 feet east of Hawthorn lane ; was adopted. The sewer is one of the ; major sanitary projects the board has on I its program this year. Its estimated cost I is SIIO,OOO. A contract for the permanent improve ' tnent of the first alley north of Northern avenue from Cornelius avenue to Boule vard Place with two-course concrete was awarded to A. I>. Bowen for $2.40 per lineal foot, total, $2,191.45, and another for the permanent improvement of the first alley northeast of Virginia avenue from Woodlawn avenue to Shelby street was awarded to G. IT. Harries for $3.03 per lineal foot, total, $1,722.07. Plans were ordered for curbing in pealing avenue from Tenth street to * I point 390 feet south and bids were re | celved for the permanent Improvement of the first alley north of Washington street from Senate avenue to Osage street, | permanent improvement of the first alley ! sonth of Maple Road from Carrollton to i Guilford avenues, permanent Improvement I of the first alley south of English avenue from Spruce street to State avenue, per manent Improvement of the first alley east of Guilford avenue from Edgewood Place to Maple Road, grading and gravel ing of roadway and grading of sidewalks in Gimber street from Shelby to Dietz streets nDd a local sewer in the first al ley west of Senate avenue from Rav street to a point twenty feet north of . Wilkins street. ASHBY ATTACKS GAS CO. BRIEF Denies Claim There Is No Opposition to Hike. ! The contention of the Citizens Gas ! Company that the board of public works i and the city council “know and under stand that an Increase in rates is im , perative - ' is incorrect, Samuel Ashby, | corporation counsel for the city of Indi anapolis, declared today in a supple mental brief filed with the public serv ice commission which hns before It the petition of the gas company for a rate of 00 cents for each 1,000 feet of gas. The case will be reopened at a hearing which will start Monday. Mr. Ashby also denies the statement of the attorneys for the gas company that no citizen has appeared to protest against |an Increase. Mr. Ashby takes the attitude that as corporation counsel for the city i he bus represented the eitizons in mak ing a protest. 1 Mr. Ashby stated that he had talked j with all the members of the board of pub i lie works and with eight of the nine | members of the city council, none of j whom took the attitude that the eom ! puny should have an Increase. The ninth j member of the council is Dr. O. B. Pettl | John who is ill. Mayor’s Salary to Continue 50c Year lIOOPKSTON, 111., April 20.—-Tl* fctUary of the mayor of llooputon will remain at 50 cent* per j’ear. A pro posal to Increase the salary from 50 cents to SOO per year was decisively defeated In an election yesterday. Boyce Says U. S. and Britain in Accord SYDNEY, Australia. April 20.—William D. Boyce, proprietor of the Times and Chicago publisher, at n banquet given here by the Institute of Journalists, de nied that the British and American peo ples were not In accord. He declared that when the United States says to Great Britain, “You police the Atlantic while we police the Pacific." Australia will b' as safe as if it lay where Scotland is. Senator Mlllen. the Australian repre sentative at the Geneva conference of the League of Nations, was also enter tained by tlie Institute. He declared that the white Australian policy was misun derstood and unappreciated, the Aus tralian continent being so remote that the delegates could not visualise lte posl i— * INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20,1921. EIGHT FAMILIES ROUTED BY FIRE ON NORTH SIDE Apartment House and Several Residences Burn at 19th and Meridian Streets. DAMAGE ABOVE $50,000 Eight families were rendered homeless today by fire which started from a defec tive wiring in a two-sory apartment house at 1915 North Meridian street, and which spread to houses situated at 1919, 1923 and 1913 North Meridian. The dam age is estimated at between $50,000 and $75,000. Occupants of the apartment house are Judd McCarty, proprietor of “Judd's, Men's Duds” store, and I*. L. Flater, re siding downstairs, and Roy Koehler and Charles Kuhn, living upstairs. The roof of this building was burned away and considerable damage was caused by fire and water to the body of the building. The wind carried the flames to the two story frame residence on tHe adjoining lot north, occupied by Henry Brill. The roof of the Brill home, as well as the Inside of the building was destroyed. Annabelle, daughter of Mr. Brill, discov ered the fire and turned in the firm alarm. Before the firemen had the flames un der control the residence of George Mc- Cray, 1923 North Meridian, had been nlted front sparks, and damage esti mated at $15,000 was caused by the fiames. The flames spread also to the south of the apartment house, and al most completely destroyed the two story frame building occupied by the families of J. M. Drake and Erwin McCulloch. A second alarm for aid was necessary before the firemen could place the flames under control. Much comment was heard following the j fire over the manner in Which the fire de partment checked the blaze. M. Everetts, | 702 Harmon street; Arthur Bowman. 1641 Cornell avenue, and Thomas Capen, Twenty-First and School streets, painters who were working across the street, said ; they took their ladders and fought the lire for twenty five minutes before the fire ! department arrived. i Lack of sufficient water pressure, the ■firemen said, prevented them from ren dering effective service at first. Million Quarts of Real Booze at $1 a Gallon! Uncle Sam Seeking Legal Purchasers for Supplies Seized at Borders. | WASHINGTON, April 20.—-Nearly i 1,000,000 quarts of imported whisky, giu and fancy brandies purity certified by j the Government now Is begging for legal | purchasers at f t a gallon, Chief Ash worth of the United States customs serv | Ice said here today. The whisky is for sain by the customs service, which seized It from border rum runner*. Before offering !t for sale ue customs service hud it tested and none is offered which is leas than bO proof, which means that it contains about 40 per cent alcohol. This is fully up to the pre-war liquor standard. “Customs houses all over the country are overflowing with this seized liquor,” said Ashworth. “Unless we find pur chasers we shall have to destroy it. it ts accumulating faster than we can store ; it. The customs officials are embar rassed by the quantities in which it is : being seized. It makes the offices tar get for burglars and costs money to guard it. Some time ago we had a total ,of nearly 800,000 quarts. Probably by now it is beyond the one million quart mark. “In trying to dispose of the liquor, we ; circularized hospitals and druggists. But for some unexplained reason we found few purchasers. \Ye are anxioius to get rid of it.” To buy this liquor it Is necessary to have a permit Issued by the Federal pro hibition unit. SUES TO COLLECT ON STEVENBOND Prosecutor Starts Proceedings Against Clerk. I Prosecutor William P. Evans took a 1 step today to collect the $5,000 cash bond i | put up by Edward Stevens, held here for i some tlmo under charges of burglary and grand larceny by bringing a suit in the name of tile State cf Indiana against Stevens and Richard V. Sip*, county clerk. Stevens was Indicted May 22, 1920, and was not taken into custody until Aug. 30, of the same year. He wns given the benefit of a reduced bond after falling to avail himself of an opportunity to leave the Jail in tlie big Jail delivery and when his case was called for trial on Jan. 17, 1921, he failed to put in appearance. | Tho prosecutor at that tlmo moved that | ills bond be forfeited and the court grant ed the motion. Mr. Slpe is made a party to the suit because the bond was de posited with him. New Zealanders Enthusiastic Race Fans | * .... j | t A great crowd on the grandutand and lawn at Elleralie, of the Auckland Racing: Club’s meet. Tbe attendance on tills day was more than 40,000. In New Zealand racing: meets of more than four days are prohibited aU people come to the ract cities ffetr* *|l r teUvwf, Sft DENIES GIVING APPROVAL OF BONDS BONUS | Eschbach Says No Mention Made to Him About the Matter. HIGHWAY BOARD MEETS Approval for the payment by the State highway commission of $19,108 to be applied to a bonus \on bonds sold by Fountain County for the erec tion of a bridge across the Wabash River at Attica was never given by the State board of accounts, Jesse E. Eschbach, chief examiner of the board, declared today. This statement was made by the chief examiner just prior to a meeting of the commission at which Charles Ziegler, Attica, who was instrumental in making the bridge contract, was named presi dent. A. V. Burch of Evansville, a newly appointed member of the commission, was named vice chairman. The resigna tion of L. H. Wright as director of the commission, was not demanded, but It is expected to come within a short time. Mr. Wright has expressed his willingness jo resign. | Governor Warren T. McCray, in connec tion with the meeting, announced that road contracts would not be let until the prices of labor and cement are reduced. He also stated that hereafter the road ! specifications probably would tie broader. ! He said he believed material suitau.e to I meet local conditions should be used. ' The highway commission has constructed ; roads of no other material than concrete j heretofore. It has been frequently pre | dieted that the McCray administration would look kindly on other material, no tably brick. Mr. Eschbach declared nothing was said to him about the State paying a bonus in order that Fountain County should be able to sell its bonds. “I was called upon by members of tho commission and others interested and asked if it would l>e permissible for the ! highway commission to supply $19,000 worth of concrete to go into the ..ttlca bridge,” Mr. Eschbach said. “I told them this would be perfectly legal because the j bridge was on a State highway and the I commission is authorized by law to build such bridges and to participate in their ; construction. j “A bonus was not mentioned and would j not have been approved if it bad been mentioned. The commission had the ques tion of its paying premiums on county bonds at another time and the board of accounts refus'd to give Its approval. “Nothing was said about keeping the transaction secret and it was my under standing that the proposal was regular In all respects aud there was no reason j for secre< y." ‘ Lawrence Lyons of Brook, one of Gov ernor McCray's former campaign man agers, wiio has been prominently men tioned as a possible successor to Wright, was at the Statehouse during the com mission session but did not attend the meeting. . . —— - - FORMER ‘PUG’ HELD BANDIT Julius Levy Arrested in Chi cago’s §590,000 Mail Robbery. CHICAGO. April 20.—Julius Levy, for mer prize fighter and said to have, a long criminal record, was under arrest today suspected of having participated in the $390,000 Dearborn Street Station mall robbery. Five mall truck drivers positively iden tified Levy ns the driver of the bandit automobile. i Levy denied complicity in the hold-up when questioned by police. Prisoners Saw Way to Freedom j KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 20.—Fifteen ' prisoners at the municipal farm at Leeds i sawed their way to freedom early today | Six were later recaptured after a chase !by the guards. Niue are still fugitives. Toronto ‘Wets’ Slay Contest ‘Dry’ Vote TORONTO, Ontario, April 20.-—'“Wet” forces of Ontario may contest the validity I of Monday’* election when tho province j voted by nearly 200.000 majority to pro ; bibit the importation of ntoxicating I liquors, It was intimated today. The new dry- law is expected to become effective In three month*. r Ex-Union Head Dies After Brutal Assault j OniCAGO, April 20.—Stanley Rokosz, | 62, former president of the Meat Cutters' j and Butcher Workers' Union of Chicago, died here today of blows on the head when he was slugged with n baseball bat April 8. His assailants have not been apprehended. John Kilulskl. whom Rokosz succeeded i as president of the district council, was | assassinated a year ago. KTeat Is the demand for. transporta tion that the government-operated railway lias been Known to disrupt regular train schedules in order that tlie racegoers* specials may have the right of way. While the races ar© on It U diffloult to get any busineo# _ (By Carrier, Week, Indianapolis, lOo; Elsewhere, 12c. Subscription Rates: j ßy Mall 50c Per Month; 0 0 Per Year. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Two stories, either of which might well cause the people of the State of Indiana to fiause and wonder “whither we are drifting” came indirectly from the statehouse yesterday. One was the discovery that Dennis J. Bush, penal farm convict, has been allowed his freedom on a parole signed by Governor Warren T- Mc- Cray on the recommendation of the State board of pardons and paroles, which parole is declared by Miss Adah Bush, secretary of the Governor, to have been a “clerical error.” The other was the disclosure that in July, 1920, the State highway commission went into a contract with a contractor who had a contract to build a bridge for Fountain County by which that contractor was paid $19,108 from highway commission funds as a bonus for the completion of his contract, and that the transaction was approved by the State board of accounts on condition that it be kept secret. In other words, it has been demonstrated that convicts may leave Indiana’s institutions through such trivial things as “clerical errors” which upset not only the judgments of the criminal courts but also the judgments of the Supreme Court of Indiana and that public money to the extent of $19,108 may be paid by State officials to contractors as a “bonus” without public knowledge and the transaction approved by the State board of accounts on condition that it be kept secret! It would indeed be difficult to design two episodes that would do more to shake public confidence in our government than these two affairs which mere chance has brought to light. Is the penal system of Indiana so weak that a clerk holds in her hands the power to set at naught the verdict of a Jury, the judgment of a court and the review of the highest court of the State? Are the safeguards thrown around public money so few that a group of public officials may meet in secret, vote $19,000 to a contractor as a bonus and subsequently prevail upon the State board of accounts to ignore the transaction on condition that It b© kept secret? Have we reached tho point in Indiana where such an institution as the parole board may publicly announce a refusal of clemency while clerks privately bring about that clemency? Have we reached the point In Indiana where public fund3 are dis sipated in s'ecret meetings and the action condoned by the State’s one regulatory body through agreement? Isn't It time to call a halt? Isn’t it time to lift the veil of privacy off public affairs, bring public officials into the open and insist that they submit their acts to the scrutiny of the public they are presumed to represent and to protect? In the words of the boys who fought to maintain the democracy that appears to be crumbling here in Indiana; “Where do we go from here?” Rival Forces Mix When Howe Men Steal Music From Shank on ‘Av’noo’ With blaring bands, tin horns and fireworks, rival candidates for the Re publican mayoralty nomination sought lost night to the colored voter with their sterling virtues and gifts for administration of affairs. The Shank meeting at Indiana avenue and West street was declared by veteran politicians to be the greatest demon stration iu point of numbers and noise ever held at that historic oratorical bat tleground, not excepting those of past presidential campaign. It had been ad vertised. Tho Howe celebration was an impromptu counter attraction. Word of the growing crowd reached the Howe leaders early and strenuous ef forts were made to build up a rival demonstration at the same corner, partly to detract from the Shank meeting and partly to share in the crowds already as sembled. By 10 o'clock the Shank shooters had things their ow n way on tho avenue and a hurry-up call was rushed to the Co lumbia Club adn other fashionable re sorts. Soon all the notable Republican politicians of tlie city were present, lending advice and offering ideas. “GOOD GOVERNMENT” HEAD THERE. Mayor Charles W. Jewett came speed ing up the avenue in a car to mako a frantic effort to save the day for his can didate, Mr. Thomas C. Howe. “If you nominate Lew Shank it moans Indianapolis will havo a Democratic mayor aud the avenue will be tilled with policemen us it was under tiie Beil ad ministration,” he shouted, standing on the front seat of his car. Rivalry between the two factions was manifested early. Crowds and automo biles oegan to gather on West street and BETTER BUSINESS CONDITIONS SEEN High Rail Rates Arc Reported Handicap. WASHINGTON, April 20.—Increases in the volume of distribution of Jobbers and retailers In March over February is a distinct Indication that business con ditions are Improving throughout the country, according to a report of tho committee of statistics and standards of the United States Chamber of Commerce, made public today. Archer W. Douglas, chairman of the committee, points out that the improvement tends to “fore shadow a return to more settled and stable conditions.” The report declares, however, that high railroad rates are one of the most serious handicaps in the situation. SHIPPING STRIKE LOOMS. NEW YORK. April 20.—With operators and employes apparently deadlocked on the question of a wage cut. the prospect of a great shipping strike May 1, loomed here today. IV. D. Boyce, who is heading a “West by Southwest Expedition” In the South Pacific Seas, lias written an Interesting article on the sports of New YeaianA. It will be found on the odltorlal page of this edition of the Times. LAST HOME EDITION TWO CENTS PER COPY by 7 o'clock the street was thronged for two blocks with persons attracted by th* Shank meeting, the only one which had been advertised in advance. Automobiles four abreast filled the two blocks Shank marshals scurried about seeking word of the band which had been engaged for the occasion. It was discovered - that the Howe forces had employed every colored band in the city. Including the missing otio. A band concert wag forward in front of Ilowe headquarters, fifty paces around the corner, another band was playing in the fdubroom on the second floor and a third 'was blaring away somewhere in the distance. AND STILL ANOTHER BAND. At 8 o’clock it was decided to move the Shank parade with only a drum corps ahead/ but with 110 automobiles iu Hue. As the drummers ad vanced another band went into action at the head of a Howe parade of colored women which was bearing down on the head of the Shank procession. Sight of the Howe banner borne aloft by a colored boy excited Shank negroes who immediately set up a howling de mand that the Shank cars run down the marchers, about twenty In number. As the Shank parade swerved farther Into tiie street, headed toward the business district, the Howe marchers broke ranks and scurried for the sidewalk. What the Shank parade lacked in the musical lino it made up in cheers, song and fireworks. Near Senate avenue on Indiana street a hastily assembled band joined the parade aud proceeded with it to Indiana avenue and Illinois street, (Continued on Page Two.) 150,868 FOREIGN BORN IN INDIANA Germans Lead Nationalities With Total of 37,377. WASHINGTON, April 20.—Preliminary figures showing the distribution of the foreign-born white population by coun try of birth in Indiana were made pub lic today by the Census Bureau. The figures show a total foreign-born white population of 150,565, with natives of Ger many iu tho lead with a total of 37,377. Other races which predominate are: English, 8,522; Scotch, 3,707; Wales, 1,106; Irish, 7.271; Norwegian, 544; Swedish, 4,942; Danish, 909: Belgian, 2,530; French, 8,247; Dutch, 2.013; Swiss, 2,334; Aus trian, 9,099; Hungarian. 9,352; Czecho- Slavs, 3.394; Russians. 7,073; Lithuanians, 1,445; Spanish, 407; Italian, 0,712; Greek, 4,106; Bulgarian, 431; Roumanian, 2,731; Asiatic, 1,256; African, 37; Canadian, 5,(96; Mexican, 001. Born at'sea, 133. Gambled 10 Years With Boston’s Cash BOSTON. April 20.—City Cashier Thomas O'Daly confessed to City Auditor Fred Mitchell today that he was $40,000 short in his accounts, that the money was spent in stock speculation, aud that his peculations extended over a period of ten years. Mayor Peters announced fol lowing a conference with Mitchell and O'Daly. Killed in Effort to Escape From Police CHICAGO, April 20.—Simeon Shonk man, 18, was shot nnd killed today when he attempted to escape from tire custody of police officers. Shonkman was found loitering around a garage. Policemen caught him and took him to a patrol box. He broke away and the patrolman fired. Two other youths are in a hospital nursing gunshot wounds received in a pistol battle. Police believed the trio were members of a gang of youthful automobile thieves. Anderson Laborer Killed by Cave-in Special to The Times. ANDERSON, lnd„ April 20.—Charles Merritt, 40, laborer, was killed today when he was buried under tons of sand while working in a sewer. Two hours' work was necessary before his body could be recovered. He leaves j a wife and four children. NO. 295. BUSH MUST GO BACK TO FARM, GOVERNORSAYS New Order Correcting ‘Cler ical Error’ in One Releasing Him Issued. HOW GET HIM THERE? Dennis J. Bush, who was sentenced to the Indiana State Farm for an assault on Ralph Richman, a deputy fire marshall, during the 1914 cam paign, and who Was paroled by “mis take” Monday, must go back to the farm, Governor Warren T. McCray declared today. Governor McCray issued an order cor recting the order which resulted la Bush’s parole before his sentence ex pired May 10. In sending the new order to the Criminal Court and to the farm the Governor asked that the incorrect or der be returned to him. The new order calls for the remission of SSOO of the SOOO fine against Bush, but does not call for the remission of his four-months sentence. Meanwhile Bush is enjoying his lib erty in Indianapolis. CORRECTED ORDER RECEIVED AT FARM. Ralph Howard, acting superintendent of the farm, stated today that he had received the corrected order and that ha would consult with the Governor as to the manner in which Bush is to be re turned to complete his sentence. Governor McCray expressed his de termination to see that Bush gets back to the farm and he expressed the opinion that the correction of the order is aU that is necessary to send him there. “Do you think it will be necessary for mally to revoke the parole as well as ty correct the error?” the Governor was asked. “No, I do not believe it is necessary to do anything more,” he said. “It was merely a clerical error and its correction should be sufficient.” Mr. Howard said he was uncertain what steps would be taken to get Bush back to the institution, but declared that if the Governor orders him back he will take action to see that the order is carried out. MEANTIME HALL CROWD ANXIOUS. “If the corrected order had been re ceived before Bush left here," he said, “he would not have been released.” Pending the settlement of the question whether Bush will be returned to serve out his unepired sentence membeta of the city hall crowd are anxiously aflmlt ing his appearance la the local polin,-x% arena, where in the past he has served well so rthe Jewett crowd. Bush had served two-thirds of his sentence, which was imposed only after he had successfully dodged it for nearly six years, when the order releasing him arrived at the Penal Farm. It is claimed by the attaches of the Governor's office that the executive clerk. Miss Jeannette Harris, in copying the recommendations of the State board of pardons, which de nied a parole for Bush, but remitted a part of his fine, included an order for his release by mistake. THOS. A. RILEY GETS STATE JOB Named Member of Industrial Board by Gov. Mc- Cray. The appointment of Thomas A. Riley, Democrat, a member of Mayor Charles W. Jewett’s board of public works, to a po sition on the State industrial board was announced by Governor Warren T. Mc- Cray today. The appointment was the Governor’s first official recognition of the Jewett organization. Mr. Riley will succeed Edgar A. Per kins. who is a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for mayor. His term will expire May 24. Mr. Riley was ap pointed for a term of four years. The salary Is $4,000 a year. Mr. Riley, until his election as city clerk eight years ago, was prominently identified with the labor union movement in thj city. For twenty-five years he was an active member oj, the Printing Pressmen's Union No. 17. During the latter part of his term as city clerk he became identified with the group of Democrats who cooperated with the News-Jewett Republican machine and was rewarded with an appointment on the Jewett board of public works in 1918, which position he has occupied since. Mr. Riley has followed the policies of tha mayor closely as a member of the board of works. Appointment of a successor to Mr. Riley on the board of works is not epected to be announced by Mayor Jewett until after the primary election May 3. It If expected that the apolnteo will be chosen from the Democratic group with which Mr. Riley works politically. JANE ADDAMS WILL GO TO EUROPE, CHICAGO, April 20.—Jane Addams of llul] House will leave for Europe June 4 to attend the national conference of tha Women’s League for Peace and Freedom, she announced here today. Spring Is the Time to Set Out Roses The rose is the most beautiful and popular of nil American flowers, and the one which yields the finest decorative ef feet for the least money. If you have ft house you hare a piac* for some kind of a rose bush. 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