THE WEATHER
Thunder showers tonight or Sunday. Not
much change in temperature.
VOL. XXXIV.
CHANGED ORDER
HAS ITS EFFECT
ON SCHOOL LIFE
New Conditions Demand
Equipment Not Dreamed
of in Old Days.
COST MOUNTS UP, TOO
By BLYTHE Q. HENDRICKS.
Modern education in 1921 is a far
more complex affair than it was less
than a generation ago. In the old
days all that was necessary for a
public school was a school building,
some teachers and a half dozen text
books. Instruction was given only in
courses that could be studied out of
books and was confined to compara
tively elementary subjects.
In those days what the children did
with themselves before coining to school
or after leaving it was of no concern to
the educators, and such matters as at
tention to the physical welfare of the
pupils or training along vocational lines
was considered entirely outside the realm
of school affairs.
Today everything is different. Not
only is the academic education of the
children a matter of importance, but an
enlightened humanitarian policy of edu
cation demands that something be done
to look after the bodily welfare of the
pnpils and to extend the advantages of
vocational training to those desiring it.
SCHOOL AFFAIRS
MORE COMPLICATED.
Theee features are of great importance
in a growing, Industrial community and
as a result the administration of school
affairs has become far more complicated
than it was in the past. The school
building of 1921 must have more than
classrooms. It must contain rooms
adapted to cooking, sewing an 1 < ther
forms of instruction in home econo nics,
ad there must l>e provisions for manual
training as well.
Necessarily this has increased the cost
of the operation of the school system, has
made necessary larger and more expen
give school buildings and has greatly in
creased the number of pupils to be taken
care of.
Indianapolis has made considerable
progress along these lines. although
much remains to be done and in some re
spects the system here is behind that of
other cities of the same class, however,
considering the fact that the department
of vocational education has been in ex
istence only about five years the results
accomplished to date have been, on the
whole, satisfactory.
VOCATIONAL
INST RECTI ON.
The department, which was organised
under the State, but is now operated in
accordance with the Federal statute,
which is similar in a general way to th*>
old State law. is now headed by R. C
Lowell, director of vocational education.
The department has about SIOO,OOO a
year to spend which is inadequate to
the needs of the schools. However, with
this amount educational facilities have
been extended to almost 5.000 persons
during the past year and about 140
teachers have been employed.
In a general way vocational education
comes under three separate heads, all day
schools, evening schools and part time
schools.
Under the first heading comes the Ar
senal Trade school, generally regarded
as a part of Arsenal Technical high
school, but as a matter of fact an en
tirely separate organization legally. The
school has an enrollment of about 300
pupils and a teaching staff of about fif
teen. This is an all day. full time school
and its curriculum contains a list of sub
(Continued on Page Nine.)
PREMIER CALLS
STRIKE SESSION
British Miners and Mine Own
ers to Meet With Lloyd
George Monday.
LONDON. June 25.—Hope for a settle
ment for the great coal strike which
has been in force since April 1. assumed
substantial shape at noon today, when
Premier Lloyd George, acceding to the
request of the miners, called a confer
ence between miners, mine owners and
himself at the Board of Trade Monday.
"Shark’ Attorneys and
Bondsmen Solicit at
Jail Before Turnkey
Tlie order issued by Judge Walter]
Pritchard of the city court, prohibiting j
soliciting in the city prison by bondsmen ,
and attorneys is being openly violated. I
Conditions almost a# flagrant as those
that existed some time back, when the
board of public safety made a “cleaning"
and put certain turnkeys out on the dis-!
tricts. is said to exist today at the prison.
Shortly after midnight a man. who j
said he was an attorney, entered the j
turnkey's office, went to the wicker win- ]
dow in the cellroom and called for Hor
ace Janes. Jones, a well dressed, clean
appearing man, told a representative of
the Times today that the ina* was a
stranger to him and that be had not
sent for an attorney.
“I am an attorney,” Jones said the
man told him. “Have you a checking ac
count in the bank?"
Jonea aaid he was told that he was in
serious trolble, but if he had a checking
accounts he could get out, declaring the
“attorney” said he was a friend- of the
turnkey and could “arrange things."
Jones, who was charged with vag
rancy, told the “atorney” he did not
want to employ him.
Samuel Joseph, an Indianapolis busi
ness man. called attention to a system of
"get the money from the prisoners." j
which he charges exists at police head
quarters. Mr Joseph cited the case of
Harry Ice, 734 North Capitol avenue,
who was arrested on the charge of vag-
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Sunday; not much change in temperature.
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Dad in Missing Ship
■ i §
jXTiSy Jy'ul u, 'Wbx-ave. 11. I
Miss Laura X. Wormeil, daughter of
Captain W. D. Wormeil, of the schoon
er Carroll A. Peering, who has asked
the United States Government to investi
gate her theory of piracy in connection
with tle disappearance of her father. The
Carroll A. Peering is one of twenty ves
sels which have mysteriously disappeared
since the Ist of January. The vessel was
found beached off the coast of North
Carolina.
KILLS STEPSON;
HIDES THEBODY
Woman Says Youth Abused
Her While Drunk and
She Used Ax.
. CARLIXVILLE. 111 . June 25.—Follow
ing her confession that she had killed
her stepson early last Sunday morning
by striking him three tines over the
bead with an ax, Mrs. Catherine Har
mon of Green Ridge today was held to
await the verdict of a coroner's Jury.
The alleged confession was made after
an investigation of several hours by
Sheriff Morris, Coroner Jacoby and other
officials.
G. J. Wallace, who was picking ber
ries near the Harmon home, found the
mutilated body of Roy Harmon, 19, in a
well close by the house and notified
authorities.
According to the confession, the boy
had been drinking Saturday night and
had beaten her in the father's absence.
On Sunday morning, she said, the quar
rel was resumed, during which she struck
him wth an ax over the head.
She told of hiding the body in a shed
Sunday, later burying it In a hole in
the yard. Sheriff Morris said, con
tinuing :
"On Monday she went to Gillespie and
wrote letters to the boy's grandmother
stating that Roy had been kidnaped. On
returning to Green Ridge last Wednes
day she removed the body to the well,
where she deposited it. weighted with e
piece of tile,” according to her confes
sion.
Authorities found bloody matted hair
in -the shed where the body lay and the
hole where it was temporarily burled.
Following the bits of evidence, Mrs. Har
mon was questioned and she broke down
and finally admitted the killing. The in
quest is expected to be completed
Monday.
LAWYER DIES AT
COUNTRY HOME
John B. Stanchfield Suc
cumbs to Short Illness.
NEW YORK, June 23 John B
Stanchfield, one of the best-known law
yers in the United States, died at Islir,
L. 1., today following a brief illness.
Stanchfield had been ill for ten days
suffering from kidney trouble. He for
merly was one of the attorneys for Mr*.
James A. Stillman, but recently with
drew from that case. He was prominent
In Democratic politcs and participated in
many law suits.
rancy, told the “attorney” he did not
an electric iron which some patrolman
thought might have been stolen.
“I have known Harry Ico for a long
time,” said Mr. Joseph. “He was ar
rested on a vabrancy charge and I felt
certain that he had committed no crime,
so 1 decided to help him out. 1 found
his bond was SI,OOO. That was pretty
high and, after an Investigation, I went
to Judge Pritchard and asked him to
reduce the bond. The judge gave me a
written order reducing the bond to SIOO.
I told Ice his bond had been reduced
and would put up a cash bond for him.
1 told him it would require only a few
mic.ntes for me to obtain the money and
return.
"When 1 got back Ice told me that I
had been gone only a few minutes when
a man who calls himself a lawyer and
does a professional bond business, called
him to the cell window. Ice had not
sent for this man. Ice was asked If he
wanted to get out on bond and told that
he could get his SI,OOO bond signed for
a SSO fee. Ice told the bondsman that
he bad not sent for him and that his
bond had been reduced to SIOO. His vis
itor said he was mistaken and he would
prove it by the turnkey. The turnkey
declared the bond had not boon reduced.
Ice, however, waited until I returned
and I put un a cash bond of $100.”
Ice verified Mr. Joseph’s statement of
the open soliciting from prisoners in the
presence of the turnkeys.
Judge Pritchard, some months ago,
held that this was in direct contempt
of court and sent one professional bonds
man to jail for soliciting. Following
the city primary election Judge
Pritchard “lifted the lid,” and said he
would let all the professional bondsmen
sign bonds provided no bondsmen or
attorney solicited from prisoners. He
issued strict orders to the turnkeys to
see to it that no soliciting was per
mitted. Some of the professional bonds
men, against whom the ban was lifted,
have not abused the privilege, but others
have taken advantage of the situation,
and when a prosperous looking prisoner
comes In there is great activity.
Jittoaua Hatl® mtnt&
STREET RAIL
ISSUE LEADS TO
JEWETT THREAT
Says City May Join in Seeking
Death of the Public
Utilities Law.
REGULATORY RIGHTS UP
A threat that Indianapolis will be
found among the cities working for
the abolition of the public service
commission at the next session of
the State Legislature if “that's the
way the public utility law is going
to work out,” was made by Mayor
Charles W. Jewett, following a con
ference of officials of the city and
the Indianapolis Street Railway Com
pany in his office yesterday after
noon in which the traction men flat
ly refused to enter negotiations for
a contract which would give the city
all regulatory rights over the com
pany excepting that relating to
rates.
The conference broke up with city
officials gloomily shaking their heads
and declaring that the utility men
were making a mistake.
"You're Just going to make the street
railway company a football *of politics,'
said Mark n. Miller, president of the
board of public works. The mayor ana
corporation counsel agreed with him.
CHARGE OF BAD
FAITH HURLED.
ijr. Jewett flung a charge at Dr. Henry
Jatoeson, president of the board of
directors of the utility, that the company
j has changed its attitude since the last
session of tlie Legislature. He said that
Dr. Jameson promised him that if the
city would not use its influence aganist
the bill to permit public utilities to
surrender their franchises that all the
company would desire to do would be
to get relief from the fare provisions of
its contract with the city and would
submit to city regulation in all other
matters.
Dr. Jameson denied having made suoh
a promise. Baying : “The fact Is. I said
the city would not lose a single economic
advantage." He insisted that he was
standing by his word, that the company
would now be In position to render bet
ter service than ever, providing it could
be relieved of some of the burdens it
believes the city should not hold over
it and that “that law was the most for
tunate thing that ever happened to the
city."
It was pointed out by Mayor Jewett
that the city administration lent its sup
port to the utilities in their light to pre
vent the representatives of a number of
outside counties from getting through
the bill to abolish the public service com
mission.
SAYS PENALTY COMES
IN FIGHT FOR LAW.
“And Indianapolis had to take a pen
alty for fighting to presort the public
service commission law,’’ said the mayor
“The outßtate legislators said ‘All right.
We’ll take the street car company out
from under your control,' and they did
It.-
Upon refusal of the company to enter
into negotiations for the contract Cor
poration Counsel Samuel Ashby an
nounced that the city will seek to have
its common council pass an ordinance or
ordinances granting It such regulatory
i powers as it desires, under authority of
. section 10 of the public service commis
sion law which provides for such pro
(Contlnued on Fage Niue.)
ADMIT WILSON
TO LAW COURTS
Former President, 111, Ac
companied to Courthouse
by Former Associates.
WASHINGTON. June 25—Woodrow
Wilson, former President of the United
States, was admitted to the District of
Columbia bar today.
Accompanied by Bainbridge Colby, bis !
law partner and former Secretary of '
State, and Joseph P. Tumulty, former i
secretary to the President, Mr. Wilson !
drove up to the courthouse here shortly
before noon and was aided by court at- I
tendants as be left his car and was taken ]
in an elevator to the chambers of Chief i
Justice McCoy of the District Supreme j
Court.
The former President took the oath I
and after a very brief reception by court 1
officials, left.
Although Immaculately dressed in a !
smart frock coat and gray trousers the
former President showed plainly that his
illness is still a strain upon him.
UNCLE SAM SUES
LOCAL CAR LINE
Asks Recovery for Damage to
Mail Truck.
Damages in the sum of $67.10 were in
flicted upon the peace and dignity of
the United States of America as repre
sented by United States mail truck No.
198 by the Indianapolis Street Railway
Company on Jau. 25, 1918, according to
a complaint filed in Federal Court today
by Frederick Van Nuys, United States
district attorney. .
The complaint alleges that on that day
the streets were buried in snow and a
snow plow, operated by the street car
company, had swept the snow off the
street car tracks in such a way as to
make it impossible for the mall truck
to drive on any part of Washington
street, at its Intersection with Cruse
street, except on the tracks. While so
driving along came a street car and
smashed into the mail truck, damaging
it to the extent of $67.10, so the com
plaint states.
Storm Off Honduras
WASHINGTON, June 25—A disturb
ance, probably of moderate intensity, was
central today over the northwestern Ca
ribbean Sea near the coast of Honduras,
apparently moving northwestward, the
Weather Bureau announced today.
B. Ruth Connects
NEW YORK, Jane 25.—Babe Ruth,
home run king, this afternoon scored his
twenty-sixth circuit hit of the season off
Walter of the Washington club.
The drive came in the fifth inning with
one man on base.
On this date last season Ruth had
twenty-twq home runs to his credit,
t
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921.
CITY ATTORNEY
TAKES PETITION
TO HIS OFFICE
Demand for Referendum on
War Memorial Removed
From Clerk’s Ca^e.
TO CHECK SIGNATURES
Removal of the petition bearing
12,882 names and calling upon the
city council to order a referendum
upon the war memorial plaza project
from the city clerk’s office to the
private law office of T. D. Stevenson,
city attorney, today brought the first
clash between the opposing forces.
The petition was removed in or
der to give attaches of the city legal
department an opportunity to check
over the names, as every endeavor
is to be made, according tc a state
ment given out by Corporation Coun
sel Samuel Ashby, to nullify the re
quest by finding fraudulent signa
tures.
At noon W. G. Miller, who had charge
of the circulation of the petition, and
Charles A. York of the Disabled Sol
diers' League, demanded to see the peti
tion at the city clerk’s office. A deputy
clerk told them be knew nothing of it,
and the men left with the Intention to
bring legal procedure to bear to force
the return of the document to the custody
of the city clerk.
Just prior to the appearance of these
two men, John W. Rhodehamel, deputy
city clerk, said that representatives of
the city legal department had taken the
petition and had left a receipt for It.
Miller contends that under the munic
ipal code the city clerk “shall be the
custodian of all ordinances, resolutions,
petitions, memorial and all other papers
pertaining to the business of the com
mon council,” and that he violated the
law by letting the papers get out of hu
hands.
ASSUMED HE HAD
RIGHT TO PETITION.
"I assumed that I had a right to take
out the remonstrance," said Mr. Steven
son when asked about the affair. ll*
said it now Is in his private law office at
1110 Hume-Mansur building
“I took It out In my capacity as city
attorney for the purpose of examining It.
It is an official document, addressed to
th“ mayor and tho city council whom, in
the absence from the city of my superior
(Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby) I
represent as attorney.’'
He sail he had not looked up the
law upon the matter of such a re
inoval of an official document from the
office in which it was filed. In addition
to being examined the signature* on tho
petition are being copied, he said. This
was thought to presage a campaign on
the part of those who favor the memorial
to induce signers to withdraw their
names.
EVANS READY TO
START ANY ACTION.
The law requires that the bona fide
signatures of 5 per cent of the voters
of Indianapolis, approximately 8,500 per
sons, be attached to the remonstrance
In order to make It mandatory upon the
city council to call a special election In
which the citizens may vote "ye" or
“no” upon whether the city shall ctrry
out its Intention of cooperating with
Marlon County In th* purchase of land
for gift to the State ass. site for the
proposed memorial building.
Prosecuting Attorney William P.
Evans said be was ready to make a probe
(Continued on Page Two.)
BILL TO KILL BEER
SALES SCHEDULED
Mondell Says House May Pass
Measure Monday.
WASHINGTON, June 25.—he Willis
Campbell bill, preventing the sale of
beer as a medicine, will probably pass
the House on Monday, Republican Leader
Mondell stated today at the White
House, following a conference with the
President,
Mondeil also predicted that conferees
will report out a disarmament resolu
tion giving the President more latitude
in calling a disarmament conference
than was provided by the Borah resolu
tion passed by the Senate.
The House program calls for the con
sideration of the new tariff legislation,
July 6, Mondeil stated.
CONVICT 11 IN
MAIL ROBBERY
Only Two of 13 Men and Wom
en Are Freed.
TOLEDO, Ohio, June 25.—Eleven of
the thirteen men and women tried on a
charge of conspiracy in the sl,ooo,o'>o
poat.office robbery here were found
guilty this morning. The two acquitted
are John J. Epps, Chicago broker who
was accused of disposing of souio of the
stolen bonds and Charles Furrier,
Toledo.
The jury was out all night. The trial
lasted three weeks.
Sentences will be deferred until the
conclusion of the robbery trial. A num
ber of defendants will be tried on a
charge of actually staging the robbery.
The hold-up occurred Feb. 17.
The Higher Abdication
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I I I —B |H [vj H * * Cos., Published by special arrtnge-
LJy • X llji NXV X ment with the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.
CURLY the tramp sidled toward the
free-lunch counter. He caught a
fleeting glance from the bartender s
eye, and stood still, trying to look like
a business man who had just dined at
the Menger and was waiting for a friend
who had promised to pick him up in his
motor car. Curly’s histrionic powers
were equal to the impersonation; but his
make-up was wanting.
The bartender rounded the bar in a
casual way looking vp at the celling as
thought he was pondering 8/me intricate
problem of kalsomining, and then fell
upon Curly so suddenly tha* the roadster
had no excuse ready. Irresistibly, but
so composedly that it seemed almost ab
sentmindedness on his part, the dispenser
of drinks pushed Curly to the swinging
doors and kicked him out, with a non
chalance that almost amounted to Bad
ness. That was the way of the South
west.
Curly arose from the gutter leisurely.
He felt no anger or resentment toward
bis ejector. Fifteen years of tramp
hood spent out of the twenty-two years
Volstead Fond of
Chewing Tobacco;
Is Given Warning
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 25.
Every member of the House has re
ceived by mail a small plug of to
bacco. On a card attached to each
plug was this inscription:
“Unfit for chewing purposes;
‘‘Contains 1 grain tartar emetic.
“Please hand to Mr. Volstead.”
Mr. Volstead is author,of the dry
enforcement law as well as the more
drastic supplementary bill which has
been sidetracked by tho more conserv
ative prohibitionists.
Mr. Volstead is extremely fond of
chewing tobacco.
MAN BEATEN BY
ROBBERS; LEFT
UNCONSCIOUS
Attacked by Four in Douglas
Street—Cripple Is Ar
rested.
Beaten and left unconscious on the
sidewalk In front of 14.1 Douglas street,
a man said to be William R. Howe, 37
South Tuxedo street, was found by tne
| police last night. lljwo probably was
robbed as an open bill book was found
| near him, but bis condition was such that
i he was unable to tell the police his
| name. He was identified by letters found
( in his pocket.
Esther George, 150 Gelsendorf street,
! and Lulu IJrunner, 217 Blake street, were
I sitting on a porch across the street from
| where Howe was found. They told the
| police that Howe and four other tnen
| walked to the sidewalk In front of the
! Douglas street address when suddenly
the four men started to slug Howe.
| Helpless to defend himself Howe sank
Ito the sidewalk beaten until uncon
scious.
The men had disappeared before the
I police arrived. The women said one of
i Howe's assailants was crippled and had
j crutches. The police arrested John
j Murphy, 20. 31(1 Douglas street, on the
Charge of vagrancy. Murphy Is hell
tinder $2,000 bond. lie denied being with
H >we. Murphy is a one-legged man ami
Wilts with crutches. Howe was ar
reuted on charges of druukenuess and
vagrancy.
FIRES ON
BURGLAR.
1 Lowell Sims, proprietor of a grocery at
[ 4fs Divlson street, gave a burglar a real
1 welcome. Situs lives In the rear of his
; store. The burglar cut the screen from
! the door of the living apartment. Sims
awoke and the burglar started to run
j through the store. Sims tired one shot
i and the burglar escaped through a front
; door.
The grocet ran after the burglar and
fired two more shots. Nothing was
, stolen.
H. A. Rathhans, 1104 Southeastern
avenue, was held up and robbed at
North street, between Illinois and .Me
i rldlan streets. A big negro, described
| as weighing 225 pounds, came up behind
; Rnthhaas '. put his anus around him,
giving hi" a "bear hug." A negro
; woman tin n searched the victim’s pockets
and relieved him o< SSO.
JEWELRY AND
MONEY STOLEN.
A burglar used a skeleton key and
entered a residence at 2339 North Illi
nois street, yesterday. Miss Grace Sour
wlne, Mist Audory Mahan, and Miss
Saroua Green reported Jewelry worth
|sso ar.d about sls In money taken.
A. D. Ginmn, 427 East Ohio street, re
ported fiat )t thief stole his eyeglasses
i yesterday, the glasses are worth $22.30.
: Mrs. Frank Harrttt, 1822 North Rural
street, reported the theft of $2.50 from
! her home.
ASKED TO ‘GET’
WAR GRAFTERS
Stimson of New York Offered
Post of Chief Prosecutor
by Daugherty.
WASHINGTON, .Tine 25—nenry L.
Stimson, of New York, has been asked by
Attorney General Daugherty to direct the
Government's search and prosecution of
alleged war grafters, it was learned to
day.
Attorney General Daugherty is await
ing Stimsons acceptance. Stimson, a
member of the Cabinet of former Presi
dent Taft, has been urged by the at
torney general to accept the post with
the assurance that ho will have the as
sistance of some of the country’s ablest
lawyers. He is now abroad. Meanwhile
the attorney general is proceeding with
his war graft investigations.
Plane Overweighted;
Flight Put Off Again
RIVERSIDE. Cal., .Tune 25 Finding
their huge biplane was overweighted
David R. Davis and Erie Springer today
again postponed the start of what they
had planned as a non-stop flight to New
York. They nrnse from March field, near
here, and circled about, but were forced
to land. It wajj decided to lighten the
big machine as much as possible and
to attempt another start early tomorrow.
APPROVES SCHOOL BONDS.
The State board of tax eoinmlssioneVs
today approved a bond issue of $15,000
for a school building in Lagro Township,
Wabash County.
of hts life had hardened the fibers of
his spirit. The stings and arrows of
outrageous fortune fell blunted from
-the buckler of his armoured pride. With
especial resignation did he suffer con
tumely and injury at the hands of bar
tenders. Naturally, they were his enemies,
and unnaturally, they were often his
friends. He had to take his chances with
them. But he had not yet learned to
estimate these cool, languid, Southwest
ern knights of the bungstarter, who had
the manners of an Earl of Pawtucket, and
who, when they disapproved of your pres
ence, moved you with the silence and
dispatch of a chess automaton advancing
a pawn.
Curly stood for a few moments In the
narrow, mesquite-paved street. San An
tonio puzzled and disturbed him. Three
days tie had been a non-paying guest
of the town, having dropped off there
from a box car of an I. At G. N. freight,
because Greaser Johnny had told him in
De Moines that the Alamo City was
manna follen, gathered, cooked, and
served free with cream ting sugar. Curly
(Continued on Phu Six.)
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Subscription Rate*: j ßy Mall 50c Per Month . j 5.00 5 .00 Per Year.
GOMPERS BEATS
LEWIS IN FIGHT
TO RULE A. F. L.
Veteran Leader Is Elected
President for Fortieth Term
Amid Wild Scenes.
HAS 25,000 OF 38,000 VOTES
DENVER, Colo., June 25. —Samuel
Gompers, overcoming bitter opposi
tion, was re-elected president of the
American Federation of Labor today
for his fortieth term.
The veteran labor leader won over
John L. Lewis, of the coal miners’
union, who put up a strenuous fight
for leadership.
Lewis was unable to overcome the
handicap of the strong sentimental
hold which Gompers obtained on the
labor movement by nearly two score
years of administration.
Lewis polled 12,324 votes, while
Gompers was given pproximately
25,022.
The secretary of the convention was
instructed to unanimously cast the vote
of the convention for James Duncan of
Quincy, Mass., as first vice president
of the federation. He was declared
elected.
J. F. Valentine of Cincinnati, Ohio,
was unanimously elected second vice
president.
The convention adjourned at 12:30 after
the election of a second vice president, to
meet again at 2 p. m. and to remain In
cdntiuuous session until its work is com
pleted.
The vote was taken amidst dramatic
scenes in the auditorium. The galleries
were packed with supporters of both
factions. The floor of the convention
hall was crowded with spectators.
Delegates applauded every vote as It
was announced.
< It was the first time that Gompers
lias been strenuously opposed since 1804.
when he was defeated for the presi
dency by another miner. He won' the
poistion back the next year, however.
DELEGATES CALL
FOB GOMPERS.
Gompers' triumph was an endorsement
by representatives of organized labor of
his administration and approval of his
slow moving, cautious methods. In
preference to the swift, spectacular
driving methods of Lewis.
Gompers was given a tremedous ova
tion us the vote was announced. lie
could scarcely control his emotions.
As delegation after delegation cast
its vote for "the grand old man of
labor," It was easily seen by delegates
that he would win and they cheered
each vote as cast for him,
Lewis’ own delegation was badly
split. lie got 2,129 of the miners’ vote,
while 1.590 eust their ballot for Gompers.
When the vote was announced there
was u tremendous cheer from the floor
and delegates called for Gompers. With
tears in hi* eyes, he stood up to start his
speech.
Ha said:
"Whatever favor has come to me in
previous elections I took It simply as a
call to duty. There was little if any
gratification In it. The source of my
gratification Is not In the fact that I de
feated Delegate Lewi*.
"The source of gratification to me in
this case comes from the fact that a
newspaper mud slinging machine cannot
control the American labor movement.
"My election will bring no comfort to
Gary or to Hcarst.
“The voice of labor I will Interpret and
(Continued on Page Two.)
CITY IS FORCED
TO GO TO TRIAL
Demurrer on Michigan Street
Suit Overruled.
Judge Arthur J. Robinson of Supe
rior Court, room 4, today overruled a
demurrer which was filed by the city
of Indianapolis, which is a defendant to
an action brought by William C. Freund
and Stella E. Freund, asking that the
city lie restrained from proceeding with
the proposed changing of the course of
Michigan street from Dorman street to
Highland avenue and also from collect
ing any assessments.
The court held that the complaint of
(he Freumls did state sufficient facts.
The city, in its demurrer, contented that
the complaint of the plaintiffs did not
state sufficient facts to constitute a cause
of action. '
This action of the court will compel
the city to go to trial.
The plaintiffs ask that a restraining
order be Issued preventing the city from
taking over any ground of the plaintiffs
and also to restrain the city from col
lecting any assessments.
The court has not issued a restraining
order.
Jazz to Give Way to
‘Nut’ Song Warble
CHICAGO, June 25. —Know what a
“nu.” song is? it's a sentimental warble
about sweethearts and moonlight and
love-longing. “Nut” songs are coming
into their own again. At least so say
publishers. And the Jazz fs passing. And
the waltz is coming back. It’s going to
be a little livelier than the waltz of
yore, but it's on the way to its old fa
ro f.
J. Ham Lewis Sues to
Release Booze Store
CHICAGO, June 25.—J. Hamilton
Lewis, attorney and former U. S. Senator, ]
today filed suit against the Government
for release of $500,000 worth of liquor
now being held In Government ware
houses.
Lewis represents 100 prominent Chi
cago clients who claim the Government
refused to give them their liquor.
Suicide Had $7,000
CALGARY, Alberta, June 25.—George
L. Dyer, reported a millionaire from New
York, committed suicide by shooting him
self at the Sanatorium at Banff summer
resort Friday. Very little is known of
him here. lie was 52 and had $7,000 iu
his pocket when he took his life.
NO MORE HAMS FOR 00 DAYS.
Hubert Clevenger, negro, 532 North
West street, arrested on a charge of
petit larceny by Patrolman Ludgin yes
terday morning, was found guilty and
fined $1 and costs and sentenced to ninety
days on the Indiana State Farm by Judge
Walter Pritchard in city court today.
It was said Clevenger stole five hams and
two cartons of cigarettes, valued at $24,
from Bair's restaurant, 47 North Illinois
street.
LAST HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
Winner and Loser
La*
SAMUEL L. GOMPERS
JOHN L. LEWI; I .
WOMAN SURETY
ASKS RECOVERY
; Seeks to Get Back $5,000 For
feited When Priloner
Failed to Appear.
The right to become a party defendant
to a suit brought by Prosecutor William
P. Evans to have distributed to the var
ious school funds a $5,000 cash bond
1 which was given by Edward Stevens and
j which was forfeited w hen Stevens failed
| to appear in the Marion County Criminal
i Court for trial, was granted today by
! Judge Harry Chamberlin of the Circuit
Court to Rose Phillips of Chicago.
| It developes now, according to Rose
i Phillips’ petition to be made a party
defendant to the suit, that it was her
money which Stevens put up as a cash
bond when Jail doors were oponed for
him Aug. 30, 1919. Stevens is now in the
Indiana State Prison serving a sentence
from two to fourteen years for unlawful
possession of explosives.
She states in her petition that she
“was desirous of securing his (Stevens)
release from custody by bail,” and that
Stevens "prevailed upon her” to furnish
him with $3,000.
She claims that she virtually has be
come "at law and in equity the surety
of Stevens," and that the action of the
i authorities in returning Stevens to In
! dtannpolis for trial from Illinois de
i prived her of all opportunity of sur
: rendering Stevens to the sheriff of Marion
I County.
| This introduces anew phase to the ac-
I tion, bbt Prosecutor Evans is prepared
I to fight the case in behalf of the State
j when it comes to trial, probably some
"time in July, before Judge Chamlerlin.
Banker Says He Took
$200,000; Speculated
LANCASTER, Pa., June 25.—Charles
D. Zell, treasurer of the Agricultural
Trust Company, which was closed
Wednesday, today confessed to taking
$209,000 in securities from the bank's
vaults and losing them through specu
lation. It is stated that his defalcation
may reach $500,000. Zell is in jail await
ing court action.
Bandits Get Pay Roll
AKRON, Ohio, June 25.—Four bandits
in an automobile dashed up to the of
fice of the Akron Sand and Gravel Com
| pnny today, seized the pay roll, amount
| ing to $1,500 and made their escape.
Boys Stealing Cherries
Give Idea That Leads
to Woman's Murder
HEMPSTEAD, L. X., June 25.—Three
boys stealing cherries last Wednesday in
Mrs. Minnie S. Bartlett’s orchard were
the cause of her murder that same day,
for when Lawrence Kubal, a Polish la
borer, who happened to pass by, asked
them if they weren’t afraid of- arrest,
they replied, “We are not afraid. The
cherries belong to a rich woman, who
lives alone in that house over there.”
And that, according to Kubal’s con
fession to the police, put the idea of
robbery in his mind.
"I was out looking for work that
morning,” he said, "and had no idea of
committing crime. Then I met the three
boys. That was about 9 o'clock.
“I decided to go to the house. A good
looking woman opened the door. I told
her I wanted to buy the house.”
RETURNED WITH
SHARI* CHISEL.
After some discussion as to the price,
Kubal, according to the police, said he
left, ostensibly to consult with a rela
tive about the price. When he returned
at 1 o’clock, carrying a sharp chisel in
his pocket, he gained admittance to the
house.
“I had decided if she let me in I would
make her give me $500,” said Kubal,
“When she started to open the frontdoor
NO. 38.
CONGRESS HAS
PRETTY RECORD
OF WRANGLES
Special Session Fails to Pas3
Any Legislation for Which
It Was Convened.
NEW ONES PREDICTED
WASHINGTON, June 25.—The
legislative record of the special ses
sion is now in the balance, Congress
men admitted today.
The fate of many pieces of im
portant legislation is uncertain and,
unless a change of sentiment occurs,
more wrangling and new delays will
develop, it was indicated.
The special session was called for
the main purpose of declaring peace
with Germany and of revising the
revenue and tariff laws.
The permanent tariff bill probably will
be completed by the House Ways and
Means Committee next week, but there ia
a growing demand in the Senate that this
measure be shunted and the new taxes
passed through oCngress. This, however,
is causing a serious dispute between the
two houses.
FORDNEY SAYS HE'S
•UNALTERABLY OPPOSED.’
“I am unalterably opposed to thli
nlan," Chairman Fordney of the House
Ways and Means Committee said. “Near
ly three months have been devoted to
the flaming of the tariff bill and it
would be a big mistake to cast it aside
now. I feel sure such action will not be
taken.”
It is generally admitted that the tariff
bill wil? not reach the Senate before
Aug. 1. Then Chairman Penrose, Penn
sylvania proposes to consider it In the
Finance Committee for two months, he
has stated. Much greater speed will
have to be shown if it is enacted before
the close of the special session, leaders
admit.
The House will not consider a revenue
bill until after the tariff is passed, and
with the continued hot weather the de
mand for a recess is growing. It is
probable that the House will adjourn
during August, while the new revenue
bill is being framed, Republican Leader
Mondell said.
MAY AGREE ON
THREE NEXT WEEK.
Final agreement may come next week
on three important measures which have
been in dispute for many weeks. These
are the peace resolution and the Army
and Navy appropriation bills.
With the return of Senator Lodge from
the Harvard commencement exercises,
conferences on the peace measure will
be resumed. The Army bill probably
will be signed by the President and an
agreement on the naval bill is expected
with the House agreeing to the Borah
amendment.
TWO CHILDREN
TWO WOMEN DIE
Three Generations of Family
Hurt or Killed When
Home Burns.
BALTIMORE, Md.. June 25.—Fire early
today wiped out or caused serious in
jury to three generations of a family
when four persons—two women and two
children met death in the flames. Three
other persons were badly burned and two
more had narrow escapes from death.
The fire destroyed the home of Meyer
Sandler.
The dead:
Mrs. Meyer Sandler, 52 years old.
Mrs. 11. A. Baron, a bride, 19, a daugh
ter of Mrs. Sandler.
Doris Sandler, 12, another daughter.
Evelyn Silbert, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Silbert and granddaughter
of Mrs. Sandler.
ELEVATION BILL
IS PAID BY CITY
Union Railway Company Re
ceives $326,792.61.
The city today paid the Indianapolia
Union Railway Company ?326,792.(>1, rep
resenting the sum owed for track eleva
tion work done by the railroad over and
above that which the road owed the city
in the period between the start of the
project in 1912 and March 1, 1921. Pay
ment was made under the terms of aa
agreement reached by the city and the
company in April, after it became certain
that work would have to he stopped on
the Union Station improvement unlesa
funds were forthcoming.
Proceeds of the sale of track elevation
bonds were used in making the payment.
The city on Thursday received from
Estabrook & Cos. of Boston, Mass., pur
chasers of the bond issue representing
payment for $375,000 worth of the se
curities. $2,500 premium and $3,380.21 ac
crued interest.
again to let me out I told her I was
bluffing and was a poor man.
“She started to scream. I had the
chisel in my pocket and took It out and
told her if she did not give me the money
I’d kill her. She tried to open the door
and I struck her across the face with
the chisel and put my back to the door.
WOMAN BATTLES
FOR HER LIFE.
“But she was a stronger woman than
I had thought and began to fight. I
struck her several times on the face and
head with the chisel and knocked her
down. But she dragged me Into the
dining room and tried to stab me with
a fountain pen she picked off the tablet.
Then I knocked her down and made up
my mind to kill her. All the time she
was screaming I thought ‘Will she never
die?’ so .uch did she seem to be Buffer-i
ing.”
The unequal battle ended and Mrs.
Bartlett soon succumbed, whereupon
Kubal threw some rugs over her and be-<
gan a search for loot.
Kubal’s arrest followed his confiding
to his wife that he was the slayer of Mrs.
Bartlett. I’anic stricken, she ran to her
brother with the news and through him
the information became known to the
police. i