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THE WEATHER
Showers and probable thunder
tonight and Saturday.
VOL. XXXIV.
‘EXPERTS’ GIVEN
SOFT PICKIN’ BY
SCHOOL BOARD
Engineering Firm Gets For
tune From Construction of
New Buildings.
I
COSTS ARE INCREASING
By BLYTHE Q. HENDRICKS.
In the entire history of the In-1
dianapolis board of school commis
sioners itfts doubtful if any one thing
has ever been used to foster so much
general adverse criticism and
aroused so much distrust as the rela
tions existing between the present
board and the firm of Snider & Rotz,
consulting engineers, and L. A.
Snider, a member of that firm.
Under date of Feb. 27, 1919 the board
entered Into a contract with Snider
Rotz. by the terms of which that firm was
to act as engineers for the board, pre
pare all plans and specifications for all
engineering, such as heatlrg, ventilating,
plumbing and electrical work ands. r its
services was to be paid 5 per cent on the
cost of all such work, general contracts
excluded.
About a year 1 ter, March 2, 1920. the
board employed L. A. Snider, a member
of the firm. In a personal capacity, to
act as building advisor for the board.
He was given general supervision of all
buUdlng operations and by the terms
of the contract Is paid 1 per cent of the
cost of all general contract work, en- :
glneerlng excluded, ordered by the board.
Just what these contracts mean in
dollars and cents to the city cf Indian- ;
spoils can best lie shown by considering
the contracts let by the school board
since the middle of December, 1919. when
the contract for the first unit of Ar- j
senal Technical high school was let.
In the eighteen months which hfve
elapsed since that time the hoard. - in
/following out the building program
favored by its majority members, has let
contracts for thirteen new buildings at
an approximate cost of $4,500.00 and has
advertised for bids for four additional
buildings which will cost in the neigh- i
borhood of $487,000.
COMMISSIONS
OVER *70.000.
The engineering contracts for these
thirteen buildings amount to more than
$1,000,000. On a 5 per een£ basis this
will net Snider & llotz more than $50,000.
Now In addition to the above sum L. A.
Bnlder, as building advisor, is entitled to
1 per cent on all general contracts let
after March 2, 1920. when his contract
as an individual was entered into. This
will amount to about $20,000 additional,
a total of $70,000, that must be paid out
to Snider & Rotz and L. A. Snider on
contracts entered Into in the past eigh-1
teen months. Asa matter of fact the
figure, $70,000, Is conservative as It takes
Into consideration only the contracts on
the thirteen buildings covered by the
building program and does not include
smaller expenditures at other schools.
If the board carries out Its building
program this sum will be greatly in- 1
creased before the end of the year.
These contracts have been subjected
to a hot fire, both from the public ana
from State officials, for a long time. The
objections of the ordinary taxpaying cltl
(Contlnued on Page Fifteen.)
DIRIGIBLE R-38
IN TRIAL FLIGHT
Airship Purchased by U. S.
Government to Cross Sea
in August.
LONDON, June 24.—The great dirigible
balloon R-3S (re-christened the ZK-2)
which has been purchased by the United
States Government, completed Its first
trial flight today. The test was suc
cessful.
The flight was .oade from Uarrtington,
Bedfordshire. The weather conditions
were perfect. After a voyage of sis hours
and twenty minutes, the dirigible landed.
The R-38 carried forty eight persons
The air ministry announced that, as a
result of the experience gained in the
construction of the giantess of the air
a larger dirigible is being designed. It
will be capable of carrying 60 people
and 13’-4 tons of freight and will have
COOO.OOO cubic feet capacity.
Airmen who were on board said the
R-38 “flew beautifully." Lieut. A. 11.
Wann, acted as skipper. Others on board
were Commander Maxfield. Commander
Dyer, Air Commoder Maitland aud flight
Lieutenant Pritchard, who was a mem
ber of the crew of the H-34. which
crossed the Atlantic to the United States.
It is expected the R-38 will leave on
the voyage to America early In August.
Reports Theft of
2 Diamond Rings
Two diamond rings valued at I5*X) were
stolen from the room of J. L. Van Bus
kirk, 460 Massachusetts avenue, today.
Mr. Van Buskirk told the police that the
rings were in a pocketbook which was
In his spare trousers pockets. The trou
sers were hanging In his room, he said.
He said the theft was committed between
9 a. m and 11 a. m.
New American Legion
Head Harding Caller
WASHINGTON. June 24.—Commander
Emery of the American I.eglon today was
a caller at the White Hons? for the first
time since he succeeded the late Com
mander Galbraith.
Report Fields of Ice
in Atlantic Liner Lane
BOSTON, June 24.—Warning of Ice
fields southeast of Halifax have been
Issued at Washington. The Yamacraw,
a patrol boat, reported the bergs.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and "iglnlty
for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.,
June 23. 1921: Showers and probably
thunder storms tonight and Saturday, no
mneh change In temperature.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m 73
7 s. m 79
S a. m SI
9 a. m 82
• a. m 85
'! a. 87
12 (noon I 88
1 p. m 88 i
2 P. m 79
Published at Indianapolis,
Ind.. Dally Except Sunday.
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to ‘Vanishing Ships’
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mOM SABINE TEXAS ARE
AMOfjG THOS~ MISSINO
The “Sea of Mystery” : being
searched by ships of the United Suites
Navy in the hope of finding some trace
of the twenty vessels which mysteriously
disappeared. Government officials in dis
cussing the case hinted at piracy of the
kind that harks back to tne days of
Captain Kidd. One theory Is that boot
leggers are using the craft In liquor
running In the South. The map shows
where the Carroll A. Deering Is believed
to have gone down, while the question
mark takes in the territory of the mid-
Atlantle seaboard, where other ships are
thought to have disappeared.
Washington. June 24.—a clew that
may reveal the fate of at least one of the
twenty "vanishing ships’’ was being fol
GUNMAN FREED
AFTER PASTOR
TALKS TO JUDGE
Court Changes Sentence in
Walter Roberts Case and
Puts Him on Probation.
Following a conference between the
Rev. E. P. Jewett, father of Mayor
Charles IV. Jewett, and Judge JBines A.
Collins of the Marion County Criminal
Court, for more than twenty minutes be
fore noon today, Judge Collins took of
ficial action which wiped out a sentence
of from ten to twenty-one years which
had previously been given to Walter
Roberts. 25, and substituted a reforms-
I tory sentence from one to fourteen years
which was promptly suspended pending
good behavior.
The Rev. Jewett and others Interested
! in Walter Roberts, who testified last Sat
urday that he held the revolver at the
! time Frank L. Heflin of Eiwood, Itid.,
i was robbed of about $35 in cash and a
ring valued at sls, were in court most
l of the morning.
Roberts and his brother, William
Roberts, appeared last Saturday in the
| Criminal Court on a charge of robbery
and grand larceny.
At that time. Walter Insisted that he
was the one who held the revolver. Other
witnesses had testified that it was Wil
liam who was responsible for tbo rob
bery.
INFLUENCED IN
HIS TESTIMONY.
In view of Walter's statement. Judge
Collins sentenced the brothers from ten
to twenty-one years. William has been
taken to prison, but Walter was confined
in Jail here until Judge Collins passed
upon a motion for anew trial.
The motion for anew trial set up the
assertion that Walter was "melancholy”
and when young sustained a stroke of
“brain fever” and that he did not have
sufficient will power to resist the domi
nating influences of his brother. For
that reason it was contended in the mo
tion for anew trial that Walter did not
give “free and unrestrained testimony”
when the case was first heard.
Following his conference with the Kev.
Jewett, this morning Judge Collins
ordered Walter before him. The court
sustained the motion for anew trial.
Then Attorney Reagen entered a plea of
guilty to the second count of the In
dictment In behalf of Walter. Judge
Collins then pronounced sentence of from
1 to 14 years at the reformatory and
Immediately suspended sentence "pending
good behavior." The Rev. Jewett is to
supervise the reports which are to be
made for three years concerning the con
duct of Walter. Mr. Hardin agreed to
take Walter back into his employ.
JI'DOE SAYS
WITNESS LIED.
“Now Walter,” 6ald Judge Collins after
suspending the latest sentence, “in
making up this record I recognized last
Saturday you would not tell the facts in
this case as long as your brother was In
court. All the facts which were related
were true with the exception of what
you said. 1 thought that either a com
mission should be appointed to in
vestigate your sanity or that a motion
should be sustained for anew trial. Jinny
fine people have come to the front for
you In your behalf. You served for
twelve months la France.
“I do not know why your brother had
such an Influence over you. You are a
married man and have one child. If you
do not walk the chalk line you will serve
this sentence," said Judge Collins.
This casa is considered one of the
strangest on record, because everything
was in favor of Walter until he took the
stand and insisted on giving harmful
evidence against himself.
Part of Employes
Pay Act Held Invalid
Local attorneys today were interested
In the notion of Judge Harry Chamberlin
of the Circuit-Court In bolding as “un
constitutional” that section of an act
passed March 3, 1915, by the Legislature
which requires employers to pay an em
ploye within seventy-two hours after the
employe leaves his employment either
voluntarily or because of discharge. The
act provided a penalty upon conviction of
employers not heeding this statute.
The court made this ruling in disposing
of a case filed by Leo Burns against the
Spacke Machine and Tool Company in
which Burns asked Judgment for SIBO.
The court sustained an auiwer filed by
the defendant company, , /
3niiiatta ilailw OTttttffl
Entered as Second Clrst* Matter, July 25. 1914, at
Postofflca. Indianapolis, Ind.. under act March 3. 1879.
lowed by Government Investigators to
day.
A colored postcard mailed from Paris
to the xnutbci of a member of the crew
of one of the vessels that disappeared 1u
the vicinity of <’ape Ilatteras constitutes
the bit of evidence.
The mother says the writing on the
postcard is that of her son.
Investigators refused to reveal the
name of the man supposed to have seat
tie postcard and asked that the name of
the vanished vessel be withheld for the
time at least.
Officials point out that the postcard
may have been mailed by someone other
than the missing sailor and signed with
his name. They probably will ask the
Paris police to aid in their investigation.
OH! HO! PEGGY'S
TO HE NAMED IN
STILLMAN CASE
Said to Hare Been Guest t f
Florence Leeds at Gay
Parties on Yacht.
NEW YORK, June 24.—The name of
Peggy Hopkins Joyce will be brought
into the Stillman divorce scandal when
hearings are resumed In Poughkeepsie
next week. It was learned today.
The show girl, who Is now being sued
for divorce In Chicago by her third mil
lionaire husband, will be described as a
guest of Mrs Florence I.awlor Leeds, at
some of the "gay parties'' aboard James
A. Stillman's yacht, "tne Modesty," It
was said.
No attempt will be made, It was said,
to connect Peggy's name directly with
that of Stillman. The witness, who is
expected to furnish this testimony, Is
Frank Murphy former steward on "the
Modesty.”
Reports were circulated that Stillman
Is suffering from a nervous breakdown
and might lot be able to appear for
cross-examination next week. These
rumors could not be confirmed.
Mrs. SUiiman's attorneys were reported
to ha' e discovered anew witness—a for
mer nurse of Mrs. Leeds—who is ex
pected to testify regarding the parties on
“the Modesty” and iheidents with the
“love nest” in Florida.
BALTIMORE MAN
KIWANIS HEAD
Defeats J. L. McCulloch of
Marion, Ind.
CLEVELAND, .Tune 24.—Harry E.
Karr, of Baltimore, v.ss elected president
of the Klwanis Club International at the
c'osing session of the convention here
today. He defeated Col. ,T. L. McCulloch,
of Marion, Ind., by a vote of 3 to 1.
Toronto, Canda, was chosen as the 1922
convention city.
HARDING PASSES
COUNTRY'S PROD
ON TO CONGRESS
Public, Tired of Horseplay,
Demands Action From
Salons.
WASHINGTON, .Tune 24 President
Harding is “jazzing up” Congress to
dey as 1t has not been “jazzed up" since
it was convened by him in extraordinary
session April tl.
The “Jazzing" had its Inception In the
flood of protests pouring in upon the
White House and the Capitol from all
sections and classes of the country at
the failure of Congress to speed up the
long promised program for relief from
taxation and business depression and the
consequent high cost of living.
For two months the President virtu
ally kept his bands off Congress beyond
offering occasional suggestions to its
Republican leaders as to how they might
best meet the pressing need for domestic
legislation.
The Senate and House split on Army
and Navy appropriations and on foreign
relations.
The Republican members of the House
Way's and Means Committee got into a
wrangle among themselves over the tariff.
Finally the President, spurred on by
the Republican national committee and
by Republican leaders “back home,”
stepped In. During the last few days
he has had several Republican leaders
of Congress at the White House. They
returned to the Capitol to Inform the
Republican rank and file in the Senate
and House that the President wants both
tariff and tax legislation provided be
fore the present session ends. The situ
ation has altered suddenly. The “back
fire” from the country is making itself
felt, and Congress is really beginning to
speed up.
Repulican leaders now are talking dif
ferently.
‘Pompadour Bob’ for
Quizjtm Discipline
WASHINGTON, June 24.—A congres
sional Investigation of navy discipline
was asked in a resolution introduced by
Senator La Follette, Wisconsin, today.
The resolution fellows removal of Cant.
Clark Stearns from the battleship Mich
igan when he allowed a committee of
enlisted nj?n help decide on the discip
line aboard the vesseL
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1921.
BETTER SCHOOL
LEAGUE FIGHTS
FOR BUILDINGS
Back Men on Board of Edu
cation Who Favor Im
proved Facilities.
SOME ARE FIRE HAZARDS
“Indianapolis must have new and
better school buildings,” is the slogan
of the “Better School League of In
dianapolis,” an organization which
has been formed for the purpose of
continuing on the school board the
three so called majority members
who have been insisting on the erec
tion of more buildings immediately.
In a twelve page pamphlet which has
Just been issued, the League has set out
in purposes and the causes that move It
to action. In Its conclusion it recom
mends the re-election this fall of Clar
ence Cripp'n, Mrs. Julia Tutewiler and
B. S. Gadd, and the election to the board
of Fred I. Willis and James L. Pierce.
The booklet, published under the cap
tion, “Why make the Kid the Goat?”
reads as follows:
“Indianapolis must have more and
better school buildings. Only a vastly
enlarged building program can restore
the lost supremacy of the Indluuapolis
school system. Once in first place among
cities of Us class, Indianapolis has
slipped far down the list. Our school
system is Inadequate. It must not be
so!
"Do yon know that more than 7,500
school children In Indianapolis t*-ls year
have been limited to half-day sessions
because there are not enough school
rooms?
"Do you know that many thousands
more are crowded Into buildings that
are a positive menace to their health—
poorly lighted, poorly heated, poorly
ventilated ?
"Do you know that through antiquated
fire-prevention and fire-escape apparatus,
a situation that is greatly aggravated by
overcrowding, many Indianapolis m hool
buildings are potential fire-traps? Does
Indianapolis want to see 173 children lose
their lives in a school fire as at Colllu
wood ? Does Indianapolis want to see
the Uvea of 22 children go out In the
torturing agonies of a schoolhouse fire
as at Peabody, Massachusetts?
"Do you value your dollar of taxes
above the health, the education and even
the lives of your own and other children?
“You as a voter have the power to help
determine what shall be tho school pro
gram in Indianapolis.
CHILDREN ARK
GREATEST ASSET.
“Your Influence now and your, vote at
the fall election will help decide whether
the present policy shall be continued —
the policy of providing full school fa
j duties for every Indianapolis child,
j "The school children are the commu
nity's greatest asset. Upon them the fu
ture of Indianapolis They are
the citizens, the taxpayers, tho buslntss
men, the philanthropists, tbo lawyers, the
i teachers, the ministers of the future
Now, they are absolutely dependent upon
Indianapolis for thetr education- They
t get It, or they don't get It, Just In pro
portion as Indianapolis fulfills Its ob
(Continued on Page Four.)
SHELBY STREET
CONTRACT LET
Seven Other Permanent Im
provement Projects Com
pleted.
Permanent Improvement of Shelby
street, between Prospect street, to the
first alley south of Georgia street, was
among eight street and alley projects
upon which contracts wero let by the
board of public works today. The hard
surfacing of Shelby street has been un
der dllsoussion for several years.
Although this was the second ’.lme H
had been advertised no bids were received
for the construction of the East Tenth
street sewer.
Contracts wero awarded as follows:
Permanent Improvement of Thirty-
Sixth street from College to Carrollton
avenues with bituminous concrete,
American Construction Company, $6.50
per lineal foot total, $4,759.30.
Permanent Improvement of Shelfcy
street from Prospect street to the first
alley south of Georgia street, with as
phalt, Union Asphalt Construction Com
pany, $7.4“ per lineal foot; total, $53,-
391.35.
Permanent Improvement of Berkley
road from Illinois street to Boulevard
place with bituminous concrete. Mans
field Engineering Company, $10.49 per
lineal foot; total, $26,606.58.
Permanent improvement of Kenmore
avenue from Washington street to Pleas
ant Run parkway with bituminous con
crete. Mead Construction Compsuy, $5.49
per lineal foot; total, $12,807.2'1.
Permanent imj rovement of Spring
street from Ohio to Walnut streets with
bituminous concrete, American Con
struction Company, $4.09 per lineal foot;
total. $19,279.63.
Permanent improvement of the first
ailev east of Ashland avenue from Twen
ty-Fifth to Twenty-Seventh streets with
two-course concrete; A. D. Bowen, $4
per lineal foot: total, $6,405.25.
Permanent improvement of the first
nlley west of Illinois street from Georgia
to Maryland streets with concrete; J. W.
& W. C. Martin, $3.39 per lineal foot;
total. $2,614.20.
Permanent Improvement of the first
alley west of Northwestern avenue from
Eugene to Thirtieth streets with con
crete; Krcbay Construction and Paving
Company, $2.75 per lineal foot; total,
$1,457.50.
Now Try to Wish
Yellow Paint Off
Doors at Cppitol
Governor Warren T. McCray, Auditor
William G. Oliver, Secretary of Stitte Ed
Jackson and Custodian Roy Couch held
a conference today to determine what
should be done about tho doors of the
Statehouse. Work of painting and grain
ing the beautiful quartered oak doors
has stopped with the graining practically
applied, as a result of protests against
covering up the natural beauty of the
wood.
During the last two days various per
sons engaged in wood refining business
have Inspected the doors and have ren
dered “expert” opinions. The Governor
said the thought the present process is a
“shame,” but at the same time he pro
duced letters from three wood finishers
saying nothing else could be done be
cause of the weather beaten condition of
the wood.
"I simply remarked when I was In
specting the building recently that the
doors should be reflnished," the Governor
said. “Mr. Couch weut ahead and or
dered them painted without saying any
thing to me.
“I don’t know that anythin else can
be done, but we are still locking for a
way out." /
Want a Divorce?
Hire a Detective
to Fake Evidence
NEW YORK, June 24.—Crooked
divorce detectives aud lawyers are
operating so extensively throughout
the United States that the “li e of the
country Is threatened,” Supreme
Court Justice Norman S. Dyke of New
York told the United Press today.
These gangs are arranging fake
evidence, supplying bogus corespond
ents and employing professional
perjurers, he said.
He recommended national revision
of the present law to allow trained
State investigators to probe the evi
dence offered in court and find out
whether It Is true before a final degree
Is granted.
“If this were done many of the
divorce cases now granted would he
thrown out of court.” Dyke said.
“There are detective agencies through
out the country supplying profes
sional perjurers for the divorce
hourts and we judges are powerless
against their scheming systems. These
perjurers are trained In their despic
able trade and It is hard to catch
them.
“A divorce court judge must he
very wary and watchful. We throw
out of court any case where we enn
find symptoms of collusion, but we
are powerless to Investigate the train
of the evidence under the present law.
“You will find when the family ties
of a nation are beinp cut as easily
and with as little effort as Is non - the
case, It is a sure Indication of the de
cline of a nation.”
SCHOOL LUNCH
ASSOCIATION IS
NOW DISSOLVED
New State Law Causes Local
Organization to Quit
Business.
With the pasage of the law in the last
session of the Indiana Legislature, pro
viding for the service of lunches in the
schools of the State, and with the pro
mulgation of that law by Governor War
reu T. McCrays tbe School Lunch Associa
tion of Indianapolis has passed out of
existence, and the property of the as
sociation has been turned over to the
Indianapolis school board. The final
dissolution of the association took place
at a meeting held last night at the
Chamber of Commerce building.
In a report submitted at the meeting,
it was shown the milk lunch was served
in ail school* except Nos. HI and C 9
this school year. Early In January the
lunch was discontinued at schools 37,
(54 and 60, situated In outlying districts,
due to poor road conditions and refusal
of dairies to make deliveries on such
small orders.
From Oct 25. 1920, to May 27, 1921.
1.140.259 bottles of rnilk were served:
41,277 bottles were served free, and 20,3 H
bottles were paid for in part. An In
ventory of material an hand, at the disso
lution of tho association, shows material
amounting to $138.34 in value, which will
be turned over to thu Indianapolis school
board, ■
A balance of $6139 remaining in the
association's treasury will be turned
over to the Coiumunity Chest. A recapit
ulation of the receipts and disbursements,
as made by a certified public account
ant. who found the hooka of Mrs. J, W.
Moore, secretary treasurer, to be bal
anced perfectly, is as follows:
For the period Dec. 12, 1919, though
June 21, 1921, cash received from pupils
In schools. $66,436.31; from the War
Chest, $8,300; from donations, $2,162 54;
from subscriptions, $357; from Interest
on checking account, $32.26. Total cash
received. $77,289.11.
Cash disbursed—For milk, $61,874.32;
for crackers, $11,661.12; for supplies.
$1,320.88; for equipment, $2,154.10; for
expanse, $119.80; for audit, $97 50. Total
cash disbursed, $77,227.72. Balance on
hand, $61,39.
The amount donated by the school
children approximated slx-seventha of
the total amount received by the asso
ciation. The expenses of administra
tion reached only about one-half on 1
per cent of the total expense.
CONFERENCE ON
WITH CAR LINES
Officials of Street Railway and
City Meet Today.
Negotiations for a contract granting
the city all the regulntory powers It
had under the franchise surrendered a
few. weeks ago, excepting that of rate
making, were to be resumed by city and
Indianapolis Street Railway Company of
ficials at. a conference in tho office of
Mayar Charles W. Jewett at 2 o’clock
this afternoon.
The conference was to have been held
this morning, but Corporation Counsel
Samuel A.'bby announced a few days ago
that it would have to be postponed, prob
at ly until next week. Unexpected pres
ence of all interested parties In the city
this afternoon caused the date suddenly
to be fixed for today.
NAMES COLLIER FOR CHILE.
WASHINGTON, June 24.—President
Harding today sent to the Senate the
name of William Miller Collier of New
York, president of George Washington
University here, to be ambassador ex
trji.ordlnary and plenipotentiary to Chile.
Nips Plot to Restore
Lives of Executed Men
CHICAGO, June 24.—A plot to restore
the spark of life to two executed mur
derers was frustrated here today.
Jailor Lawrenz Meisterhoim who dis
covered the plot, ordered that the bodies
of Grover Redding and Oscar McGavick,
who were hanged early today, be held in
jail for two hours after execution,
j The plan, according to the jailer, was
Ito rush the bodies of the murderers to
jan undertaking room immediately after
execution and apply hot blankets and
pulmotors In an effort to restore life.
Meisterhelm. stated that he had defi
nite Information that the gallows was
almost cheated last December when a
spark of life was restored to Nick Bianca
who was handed.
Blanca, ii few seconds later, died “a
second time," according to the jailer.
Meisterheim said it would be possible
to restore life in cases where the con
demned die of strangulation if treatment
were applied soon enough.
Redding and MeGavick were hanged
for the murder of a sailor, who was
siain in an attempt to ryfeveut an Ameri
can flag from being bjjJJjed.
The State ,venged th® death of Bob
_ . ... _’. (By Carrier. Week, Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, 12c.
Subscription Rates: | B}r Ma „ 60c Per Month . *5.00 Per Year .
A. F. OF L. SETS
ELECTION FOR
10:30 SATURDAY
Contest for Presidency Grows
Warm and Gompers Is
sues Warning.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
DENVER, Colo., June 24.—The
American Federation of Labor has
decided to elect officers at 10:30 a.
m. Saturday and wind up the busi
ness of its convention tomorrow
night.
The contest for the presidency be
came so hot today that President
Samuel £ompers was forced to warn
against electioneering by federation
organizers.
Gompers stopped the proceedings of the
convention when a half dozen campaign
conferences were on in various parts of
the convention hall, and said:
“I am Informed that some organizers
of the Federation are interfering with
the election of officers. No organizer
has the right to espouse the candidacy
of any one.
SUEPFARD-TOWNER
BILL INDORSED.
Indorsement of the Sheppard-Towner
bill was voted by tbe labor body.
The convention urged the Government
to place restrictions on naval yards and
arsenals, preventing the employment of
aliens.
Federal control and development cf
the country's natural resources was
urged In a resolution also adopted.
Big money Is being wagered over the
contest between Samuel Gompers and
John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine
Workers of America, for the presidency
of the American Federation of Labor.
At tae Gompers camp today odds of 10
to 1 were quoted on the re-election of the
veteran leader. With $17,000 to wager, a
group of labor delegates supporting Goin
pers went seeking a Ix-wis boster said
to bo ready to bet SIO,OOO. They re
turned with tho announcement that “he
hasn't even ten cents to offc^.”
Bitterness is growing from tho fight
with reprisals threatened on both sides
ns an aftermath. A shako up of the ex
ecutive council is predicted even if Lewis
is defeated. There is talk of suspend
ing the rules and holding tho election
some time today. Tho rules provide that
it shall be held on the last day of the
convention.
Gompers’ speech yesterday attacking
William Randolph Hearst Is generally re
garded s his campaign speech. The
Lewis snj)porters are claiming that by
directing the speech into other channels
then the Irish question he evaded a
statement of his position on that issue.
Members tof the Irish faction which sup
ported the defeated boycott issues are
charging that "ho walked all around the
Shamrock without once touching it.”
Lewis today demanded that “outside
Issues be kept from tho convention." He
announced that he had no apologies to
offer “for daring to enter the race.”
Two old time members of the execu
tive council and hitherto closely affili
ated with Gompers, will vote for Lewis.
They ore William Green, secretary of the
(Continued on Fage Two)
MRS. ORTHWEIN
CRINGES, CRIES
State’s Attorney, in Argument,
Asks Only Verdict of
Manslaughter.
CHICAGO, June 24.—Mrs. Cora C.
Orthweln cringed and wept today when
she was attacked a* "the scheming, eola
blooded murderess” of Herbert P.
Ziegler.
Lloyd Ileth, prosecutor, charged that
Mrs. Orthwcin did not slay the Good
year Tire and Rubber Company execu
tive in self defense, but that she planned
tbe crime.
"This woman killed Ziegler because
he grew Inattentive to her,” Raid Heth.
“She was old and he turned to younger
women. She asked tho jury for a square
deal. What kind of a deal did she give
Ziegler's wife and child?”
Ben Short, Mrs. Orthwein's attorney,
made the closing argument for the de
fense when Heth concluded. He asked
freedom for his client because, he said,
she shot Ziegler to save her own life.
It is expected the case wilt go to tne
Jury today.
The State did not ask the death
penalty for Mrs. Orthwein. Ileth asked
that she be found guilty of manslaughter
which carries with it a sentence of Trorn
one to ten years.
Destitute Soldiers Get
Aid Home
WASHINGTON, June 24.—Free trans
portation from France and Siberia to
the United States of destitute American
soldiers and their families is provided
for by a bill finally disposed of by Con
gress today.
As passed by thecßenate the 'bill pro
vided for transportation from France
only, but aid for soldiers In Siberia was
added In the House and concurred In by
the Senate.
Tlie transportation Is to be furnished
by the War Department.
ert L. Rose, young sailor, when the
noose was slipped around the necks of
Grover Redding and Oscar McGavick
the two men and the trap sprung.
Rose was killed in tho bloody Abys
sinian riots here a year ago. Redding
and McGavick, both colored, attempted
to foment rebellion among the blacks lr
this country and lead them back to
Abyssinia. An anti-American demon
stration was staged, during which the
American Government and institutions
were ridiculed.
The climax came when Redding and
McGavick unfurled an American flag,
threw it on the ground and' applied the
torch.
Rose, in uniform, rushed from the side
walk and commanded "Don't!”
Several shots were fired. Rose's body
fell across the burning flag.
Redding and McGavick, who through
out their trial and in the death cham
ber maintained the attitude of “bold,
bad man,” lost their composure on the
way to the gallows.
They whimpered and whined to the
rop®.
LAST HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
PETITION DEMANDS
PLAN FOR MEMORIAL
RE LEFT TO PEOPLE
12,900 Signatures Obtained to Request That
Matter Be Submitted to Voters at
Referendum Election.
BRIBERY CHARGE MADE BY MULLER
Petitions bearing signatures of 12,900 Indianapolis voters demanding
that the city’s proposal to create a plaza adjoining the site of the proposed
State War Memorial Building be submitted to the people at a. referendum
elecion were filed with the city clerk today.
The State law providing for a referendum on this question requires
remonstrances of 5 per cent of the qualified voters. It is estimated that
8,527 voters would constitute that requirement.
C. W. Miller, 2747 Shelby street, an ex-service man, and his brother,
W. G. Miller, 909 Edison street, who were active in the circulation of the
remonstrance petition, carried it to the clerk’s office. They were accom
panied by Winfield T. Miller, former State senator; Joseph Collier, former
judge of Superior Court, and Martin J. Hugg, attorney.
‘PUSS’MEINERT,
POLITICIAN, TO
TAKE JAIL TERM
Supreme Court Upholds Ver
dict of $25 Fine and Ten
Days Behind Bars.
The decision yesterda-<■ of the Indiana
State Supreme Court upholding the
Judgment and sentence which was pro
nounced by Special Judge James M.
Berryhill in the Marion County Criminal \
Court In the ease of William Meinert,
known as ‘‘Fuss’’ Meinert and a former \
powerful figure In politics at Evansville, i
means that Meinert will be compelled to j
pay a fine of $25 and costs and serve ten
days In the Marlon County Jail. The
clerk of the Criminal Court on receiving
official notice from the higher court, will
notify Attorney Ira M. Holmes of Indi
anapolis who Is surety on Meinert’s S3OO
appeal bond to deliver Meinert in eus- j
tody of the sheriff of Marion County.
Failure to produce Meinert would re
sult, if the natural course is followed, In
the trial court setting aside the bond,
declaring it forfeited and ordering thelj
re arrest of Meinert.
"Puss" Meinert was the alleged head
of the gambling “trust” which existed,
according to tlife evidence and the finding
of the trial court, at the Marion County
jail at the time Robert F. Miller, known
as “Honest Bob,” was sheriff of Marion
County.
On April 17, 1902, the Marlon ‘County
grand jury returned an Indictment
against Meinert, John Douglas, Frank
Kemp and Adrian Van Cleave on charges
of keeping a gaming house and know
ingly permitting gambling at the Marlon
County jail. On June 4, 1920, Kemp and
Van Cleave were discharged at the close
of the Introduction of the evidence of
the State on the ground that the State
had failed to make a case against them.
On motion of the State, John Douglas
was discharged. The court refused to
approve of a motion to discharge Meinert
on the grounds that insufficient evidence
was introduced.
On June 19, 1920, Judge Berryhill
found Meinert guilty as "barged and fined
him $25 and costs am. sentenced him
to ten days in jail. Meinert at once ap
pealed to the Supreme Court. On Aug.
23, 1920, an appeal was perfected when
bill of exceptions was filed. The Su
preme Court upheld the trial court late
yesterday.
This exposure of Jail conditions dur
ing the regime of former Sheriff Robert
F. Miller was caused by testimony of
Federal prisoners, who were kept there, j
Federal officers told Judge A. B. An- ]
derson that prisoners were practically
compelled to gamble so that Meinert,
who was a favored cell, boss, could get
a “rake-off" out of the ‘pot.”
Sheriff i filer was indicted on charges
of neglect of duty for alleged serving of
“unwholesome, spoiled, nauseous, tainted
indigestible. Improperly and Insufficient- ]
ly cooked food” to the prisoners.
His case has been allowed to sleep on :
the Marion County Criminal Court docket |
since July 6, 1920, w-hen the last entry
wns made. The delay was started in the
Miller case when Judge James Collins of
the Criminal Court on May 17 "declined
to proceed" as judge in the case and
named five judges. From that number
Judjtrw Henry Vinton of tha Circuit Court
at Lafayette, Ind.® was selected. He
qualified on June 24, 1920, and on July 6,
1920, heard argument on a motion of
the defendant to quash the Indictment.
The record on the date of July 6, 1920,
shows that Judge Vinton took the ruling
on the motion under advisement and not
a single entry has been recorded since
that date. The case has been allowed to
sleep for nearly' a year.
The Supreme Court, in upholding. Judge
Berryhill in the Meinert case, held that
since the evidence showed that Meinert
presided over a table and even placed
the table in the cellhouse and arranged i
it for the purposes of gambling, and that j
poker for money had been played on this
table. and for which Meinert had ob
tained 5 cents for every “pot," there was
sufficient evidence to warrant the higher
courts In sustaining tho finding of the
lower court. *
Meinert was an alleged member of the
famous Evansville “booze ring,” which
was wiped out of existence by Judge
Anderson.
Want a Choice Dog?
Visit City’s Dog Pound
Without Any Delay
Do you want a dog?
Care for the opportunity to look over
a large collection of all kinds of dogs
und decide whether it will be a mastiff
or a poodle or one of the kind of dogs
that reach an intermediary size?
The Indianapolis Humane Society Is
in a position to supply nearly any kind
of canine that may be desired. There
is an unusually large nmpber of dogs
at the dog pound and th£y are not
strays, but pets that have lost their
homes for one reason or another. The
society and the pound employes have
put these pets Into the best kind of
physical conditions and they are offered
to those citizens of Indiana who will
give them a good home. The license fees
and the taxes constitute the price of the
dogs and applications are in order. The
dog pound Is at 924 East New York
street. The phone number Is Main 0872.
The earlier you get there the larger the
field from which to choose.
SENATE QUERY OF DISORDERS.
WASHINGTON, June 24.—The Senate
this afternoon passed a resolution au
thorizing an Investigation of the fccent
disorders In ths West Virginia f coal
fields.
NO. 37.
The plan against which the remon
strance is aimed includes the purchase
of two blocks of property lying between
University Park and the State School
for the Blind and Pennsylvania and Me
ridian streets. The State Legislature, at
a special session last summer, appro
priated $2,000,009 for the erection of a
war memorial building, where the blind
school now stands. At tho regular session
this year the Legislature authorized the
city and county to join forces In th®
establishment of a plaza. Opposition t®
that measure by retrenchment advocates
In the Legislature resulted in Its amend
ment to permit the people to have a
voice through a referendum.
“In circulating this petition we bars
acted upon our conception of a publla
duty, Mr. Miller said in his statement.
“It was the intention of the State Leg
islature that such an election as the on®
we geek to Invoke should be held. Th®
authorization act would otherwise not
have passed, for the Legislature did
not intend to trust any set of city ot
county officials with so large a project
at a time when the entire country i®
staggering under an increasingly daa*
gerous burden of taxation.
COWARDLY ATTACKS
MADE, SAYS MILLER.
“Notwithstanding that we were only
carrying out the intent of the statute
we have been subjected to cowardly and
humiliating attacks by a group of
strong headed persons rallying around
Mayor Charles IV, Jewett. We have been
castigated in a very unjust manner by
' Indianapolis News, onr motives have
en impugned and our characters as
sailed; baseless insinuations mve been
fabricated concerning our integrity and
sincerity; we have been ordered cut of
a publie building owned by a city offi
cial; one of onr solicitors was assault
ed and his petitions torn up (a viola
tion of the election laws since signa
tures on this petition are votes and th®
petition is expressly made subject to
the election laws).
“Attempts have been made to bribe u®
not to file this petition. If the prosecu
tor of Marion County desires any evi
dence of this fact It will be furnished
him immediately. The evidence would t>®
(Continued on Page Two.)
3D ACCIDENT AT
LINHURST DRIVE
Section Hand Run Down and
Killed by Big Four
Freight Train.
Albert White, 53, was run over and
killed by a west-bound Rig Four freight
train today near Llnhurst drive, two
miles west of the city limits. The body,
was badly mangled.
White was employed as a section band
and was working with Walter Moore,
Curt Hoffman, Frank Harold and Joa
Casey when the fast west-bound freight
passed. There are two tracks at the
place where the men were working and
the men stepped back out of the way, but
White waited too long. The other men
told Sergeant Burk they did not see th*
train hit White and that the train did
not stop.
White's body was taken to the city
morgue. This is the third accident at th
place within two weeks. A man driving
an automobile was killed at Linhurst
drive two weeks ago and a few day*
later a section hand was struck by a
freight train and seriously Injured.
Householder Given
SIOO Fine,JFarm Term
Roy Householder, 304 South New JePs
sey street, arrested last Sunday on a
charge of operating a blind tiger, was
found guilty and was fined 5100 and
costs and sentenced to thirty days on
the Indiana State Farm by Judge Walter
Pritchard in city court today. Six men
arrested in Householder's home charged
with vagrancy at the time of the raid
were discharged.
Arthur Eaton, 2175 Bluff avenue, In city
court claimed the liquor that was seized
by the police in an accident near Glenn
Valley, May 28, which two other men
was charged with owning, was fined SSO
and costs and sentenced to thirty day*
in jail by Judge Pritchard.
Kansans Protest
Peck’s Nomination
WASHINGTON, June 24—Senator*
Capper and Curtis. Republicans, of Kan
sag called on Secretary Weeks at tha
War Department today and asked him to
withdraw the nomination of Robert Gk
Peck, for lieutenant colonel. If upon In
vestigation he. found to be true tha
chnrges that Peck had disparaged the
Kansas National Guard's participation
in the World War. Weeks promised to
give the Senators protest against Peek'*
recommended promotion careful considers
ation.
5 O'clock Closing
The 5 o’clock closing hour for re
tall stores In the downtown dis
trict will begin Tuesday, July B.
This closing rule will apply to the
first five business days of the week,
Monday to Friday inclusive, and will
continue in effect until Friday, Sept.
8. The rule will not apply to Sat
urday, many stores closing xt noon
that day In July and- Auguzt,
Early closing shortens a 1-ing, hard
■lay and gives sales people And other
employes a needed relief. E xcour&ge
the 8 o’clock movement b,- defng
youur shopping early In the day.