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THE V/EATHER
Showers tonight and Saturday. Cooler
Saturday.
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\ OL. XXXIV. Ind.. Daily Except Sunday. Postofflce. Indianapolis. Ind.. under act March 3. 187*.
BRITONS DEAL
WITHGERMANY
OVER RUSSIA?
French Paper Says England
Proposes to Give Siberia
to Japan.
RELIEF WORK PLANNED
Director Brown Expected in
Riga Next Week—City Fears
Refugee Raid.
BERLIN, Aug. s.—The soviet
military authorities have pre
pared to defend Moscow frem th*
on-marching famished hordes of
peasants with poison gas, ao
cording to reports reaching hero
today from Copenhagen. Follow
ing reports that vast numbers of
peasants were moving upon the
Russian capital from the Volga
district, earthworks were thrown
up around Moscow and poison
gas apparatus erected.
PARIS, Aug. s—Following Pre
mier Brland's promise to aid Russia
“If America leads in the work,” the
well-informed Matin printed a sen
sational • article here today charging
Great Britain and Germany with
uniting in a conspiracy to grab Rus
sian trade monopolies and conces
sions.
“From an authoritative source, it
is learned there has existed for sev
eral months an Anglo-German plan
for exploitation of Russia,” said the
Matin. “The British policy Is in
spired by two circumstances:
"First. England does not wish to see
Russia reconstituted into a potential
powerful rival as she was before the
war.
Second, England wishes to exploit the
Russian market for the profit of her
own Industry.
EXGLAMD BUTS
GERMAN' SI PPORT.
“Reconstruction of economic life in
ruined Russia is a task too great for
England alone, so German aid has been
bought and the price paid Is England's
uncompromising attitude against Poland
In the Upper Silesian Issue.
“Through her well informed spy sys
tem, England maneuvered a split between
the moderates and the extreme com
munists, the plan being to put Leonid
Krassin, who is an engineer and former
employe of Hugo Srinnes, at the t*n*; of
anew libertl government lr Russia’updn ‘
the following conditions.
Banishment of Leon Trotzki, T- hit
cher! n and Zinoviev.
The creation of a foreign police
force.
Demobilisation of the Haitian red
army.
Repatriation of Russian exiles. The
exiled leaders would have land
granted to them in the British col
onies or South America.
Note: Although Krassin is a
frosted agent of the soviet govern
ment the Matin said be is not a Bol
shevist.
“Krassin would be the first premier of a
coalition government designated by Eng
land. England would obligate herself
to send to Russia the following:
“The necessary coal for industry and
transportation; railway rolling stock and
equipment and agricultural supplies.
There would be an exchange of huge con
cessions between Germany and Russia,
handled by syndicates.
“The exploitation of Russia would
come under three rones. The Japan
ese would he allowed to develop Si
beria while England scald take Cen
tral Russia and Germany the western
part. The German syndicates would
be financed by the British.
"Upon completion of the plan the head
quarters of the Third Internationale
would be removed from Moscow to Vien
na or Prague. In case France objected
to the seizure of a debtor nation—a na
(Conlinued on I’ate Eight.)
NO CONFUSION
WITHOUT CARS
Des Moines Finds Jitney a
a Success—Official Backs
Plan for Busses.
DES MOINES. lowa. Ang. s.—John
Budd. commissioner of public safety, to
day announced he would back the plan
to give busses the sole franchise of Des
Moines streets
This action was taken to mean that
motor transportation instead of street
cars had been successful here.
There was no confusion on the second
street earless day. Every one got to
work on time.
Busses supplanted street cars yester
day after the street car company had
gone bankrupt.
SPANISH ARMY
CAPITULATES
King Alfonso Summons Cabi
net, Which May Resign.
PARIS. Ang. s.—The army of General
Navarro in Morocco has been completely
defeated by the rebellious tribesmen un
der Abdul Krier. according to a Madrid
dispatch to the Paris Journal today.
The fate of the Spanish cabinet is
hanging in the balance and It was re
ported the ministers would resign with
in twenty-four hours.
King Alfonso summoned the cabinet
to communicate to It the news of the
capitulation of the Spanish army.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis snd rkinifv
for the twenly-fonr hoars ending at <
p. m. Aug 0. IK1:
Showers tonight and Saturday: cooler
Safurdar.
MOi'RLT TEMPF-RATT RV.
• a. m thi
'• a. in V*
7 a. tu 74
a. m. Tv
10 a. m 80
11 a. 82
IS, I noon) 88
1 p. m 86
2 p. m. 86
ARREST DRIVER
AFTER MAYOR S
CAR KILLS GIRL
Woaneta Franke, 9, Run Down
by Speeding Auto on
Thirty-Eighth Street.
ADMITS 30-MILE SPEED
Roy Howell. Mayor Chas. W. Jewet's
personal chauffeur, waa arrested on a
charge of manslaughter today after an
automobile he was driving at an exces
sive rate of speed ran down and killed
Woaneta Franke, 9. daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Franke, Thirty Seventh street
cvw and Emerson ave
nue. this morning,
‘gfy / shortly after 9
tllfe y l' 1 o'clock, on Thtrty
f Eighth street, be
a ■ tween Arlington and
Kk-- {Ritter avenues. He
f 1 " :ls r,, l'ased on his
* . own reeogubsanee
pending au Investl
' j -- I .ration by Con ner
*V * “aul F Robinson.
Y . ' * Howell. who is
\. >■ J olo> ..1 by the
~ card of publle
works and assigned
, to the mayor, w., driving a Cole auto
mobile, which wus purchased by the
, board of works for the mayor's personal
] use. In a statement to police chauffeur
admitted he was not on city business but
declared he was coming from Mayor
Jewett's “hog farm” at the Pendelton
pike and Arlington avenue to the city
to get Mrs. Jewett and take her back
to the farm, when the accident occurred,
ne confessed he was driving thirty mile*
!an hour, according to the police, and
witnesses bore out his statement that he
was traveling at a very high rate of
speed.
VICTIM WITH SISTER
AX'D OTHER GIRL.
Woaneta Franke. with her sister. Thel
ma Franke. 11. and Helen Ricks. Thirty-
Sixth street and Emerson avenue, were
walking west an Thirty-Eighth street on
the south side of the street. Just as the
big car came speeding along in the same
! direction.
A car driven Ly Jesse Todd of Law
rence. who was accompanied by John
Trendelman. 381.7 Denny street, was go
ing east ut the same time and the little
girls moved OTer into the middle of the
street. Trendelman said the car was
coming toward him at a terrific rate.
According to Waneta's playmates she
saw a brilliant piece of tin foil lying on
the cement pavement and ran over to
the side of the road to pick it up. and
as a result stepped directly in front of
the mayor's machine.
Her body was badly crushed and flung
to one side of the road. Howell pm
on the brakes and brought his car un
der control a short distance down ihe
road, but UIL not return to the scene of
the accident when he learned the little
girl was dead.
“I haven’t the heart to see her," he
Is reported to have said. He went to a
nearby house and notified Mayor Jewett,
whom he bad taken to the "hog farm"
earlier In the morning The mayor In
(turn notified the police and the coroner
end then came to the scene of the
tragedy himself.
The girl's body was taken into the
1 home of Mrs. Alice Wilson, nearby. The
i mayoT entered the home and also made
arrangements to have the body taken to
the Franke home. Mr. Franke Is a build
ing contractor.
The car which Howell was driving
was purchased by the board of public
works about two years ngo without
an appropriation from the city council
and the circumstances under which it
was bought raised considerable criticism
at the time. The board, fearing to ask
for an appropriation for a personal car
for the mayor from the council, bought
the machine w'thont tires In order to
i keep within the limits of a fund it had at
Us disposal. The tires came later.
Howell Is rated as an assistant me
| chanlc by the board and is paid .VS cents
an hour. He lives at 306 West Twenty-
First street, apartment 3.
MAYOR SAYS HE BELIEVES
ACCIDENT UNAVOIDABLE.
As the mayor !ft the Franke home he
said:
“We have done everything that we
\ could do. It Is a sad thing Indeed that a
■ bild should be killed. I don’t see how
i the accident could have been avoided ac
. cording to what has been told me. 'l'he
; little Franke gin with her sister and Ba
, other girl were walking In the some di
rection the automobile was going. Sud
denly she started to run across the road
,to pick up a piece of tin foil. Howell
was so close when the child started In
front of the machine It was either hit
one. child or turn and hit the other two.
The lamp on the right side of the car
struck her head.
“Roy Howell drove me to mv farm early
thla morning. I.ater I told him to go to
; my home and he started to drive to the
! city. He had not been gone long and
I had started to the field to make an In
spection when Ilowell telephoned to El
mer Wlggers. manager of my farm.
“He told Wiggers of the accident and
then Wiggers hurried to the Held and
told me what had happened. I went at
odcc to the S’-ene of the accident.”
Mrs. FVanke was so overcome with
grief that she remained In her roocj and
! only personal friends were permitted to
see her.
KU-KLUX BAND
TOLD TO QUIT
North Carolina Organization
Called ‘Fraud.’
DURHAM. X’. C, Ang. 5. —The organiza
tion of the Knights of the Ku-Klux Klan
in North Carolina toda ywaa ordered dis
banded by its head grand dragon, Bruce
Crsv*>n.
Crs-eu issued a statement In which he
declared the Ku-Klux Klan to be noth
ing more than "an organization engaged
exclusively In collecting initiation fees
under false pretense without any >gal
standing in the State" aud in his opinion
a "failure and a fraud."
Craven communicated his action to
Col. William J. Simmons of Atlanta, im
perial wizard of the Ku Xlux Klan.
SENATE FORCES
TO TAKE UP BEER
Drys and W6ts Have Expe
dients Ready for Use.
WASHINGTON, Aug s—The Senate
today was preparing to lighten th" laws
against beer.
Drys were quietly moving toward the
vote that is to prohibit doctors pres<-rib
ing beer.
Wets had a number of expedients In
mind to stave off as long as possible their
eventual defeat. The first was a motion
to send the bill back to the Judiciary
Committee.
If thtj fall to recommit th* wets will
try to amend.
3)uiiiaua flails SBtttfS
GOING BACK
That the restless desire for a
change which actuated thousands
upon thousands of voters at the
national election last November
to vote the Republican ticket is
rapidly wearing off was indicated
a few days ago by three Rouman
ians who called at the office of
H. M. Tebay, division chief of
this district for the Department
of Internal Revenue These men
asked for clearance papers in
order to return to Roumania.
When asked why they were going
back to Europe the spokesman
said:
“We vote for Harding last fall.
Country not good any more.
Normalcy all bad.”
RIVER BRIDGE
AT KENTUCKY
HELD UNSAFE
Street Commissioner Reports
Structure to Be Near
Collapse.
BOARD ASKED TO ACT
Supports and piers of the Kentucky
avenue bridge over White River have be
come so weakened by twenty-seven years
of service that there Is danger of the
structure collapsing, declared A. O. Meloy.
street commissioner. In a report to the
board of public orks today. The
bridge's condition was discussed by the
board with the county commissioners.
County Engineer J. G. Griffith, Couuty
Attorney Harry Hendrickson anil County
Auditor Leo K. Fesler. the county agree
ing with Mr. Meloy and City Civil En
gineer Frank C. Llngenfelter that an en
tirely new structure should be built at au
approximately cost of $750,<i00 but Audi
tor Fesler objected. Mr. Fesler said lie
does not believe the couuty council will
approve a bond Issue for anew bridge,
the financial condition being as It la, and
suggested repairs. The engineers said
repairs would be Impracticable.
MAY BE CLOSED
TO TRAY IC.
“The condition of the bridge Is such
that 1 have Jußt about reached the point
of recommending that it be closed to
traffic." said Mr. Lingcnfejter
The county officials came to the con
ference to discuss the kind of material
to be used In the permanent improve
ment of three stretches of city streets
connecting paved city and country high
ways -under the law passed by the 1921
Legislature providing that where the cost
of such Improvement exceeds .70 per cent
of the assessed valuation of the abutting
property the county and city shall equal
ly divide such excess.
It was agreed that two course con
crete should be used in the permanent
Improvement of YVasblugton street from
Harris street to the east end of the Big
Four subway, sheet asphalt on Madison
avenue from Raymond street to Glen
dale avenue, aud brick with asphalt Oder
on Indiana avenue from Montcalm to Six
teewth street. It was decided to post
postpone action under the same plan on
the paving of Churchman avenue from
teb Belt Railroad to Keystone avenue
until >i;xt year
PROSPECT STREET
RESOLUTIONS.
Three resolutions for resurfacing of
Prospect street from Madison to Key
stone avenue and too for resurfacing of
Morris street from White River bridge
to West street were adopted.
The resolutions on Prospect street were
upon sections as follows: From Madison
avenue to East street, thence to Virginia
avenue, thence to Keystone avenue. The
resolutions upon Morris street were for
sections from the west end of White River
bridge to 20C feet east and thence tc
West street.
The contract for the resurfacing with
woden block of Maryland street from
Illinois street to Virginia avenue was
awarded to the Marlon County Construc
tion Company on Its bid of $16.87 per
lineal foot, total. $43,830.97.
The board confirmed r-eso'ntions for
the resurfacing of Sutherland, avenue
from College to Park avenues with as
phalt. and of Alabama street from Mary
land street to 265.13 feet south with
wooden block. A resolution for side
walks In Pennsylvania street, south side,
from Forty-Ninth street to Beverly drive
was confirmed, while alt action was re
scinded on resolutions f r sidewalks In
Delaware street, west side, from Wash
ington to Market streets, and Market
street, south side, from Delaware street
to the first alley west.
Resolutions were confirmed for the va
cation of the following streets:
Mill street from the first alley north of
Eighteenth to Nineteenth streets, Nine
teenth street from Northwestern avenue
to Mill street. Klondyke street from
Mooto avenue to a point 175 feet north
and Keeling avenue from St. Clair street
to the Belt railroad.
Plans were ordered for sidewalks In
Thirty-Ninth street from Central aren.e
to Broadway.
A remonstrance filed against the per
manent Improvement of Twenty-Seventh
street from Meridian street to the first
alley oast of Pennsylvania street was
found not to hear a majority of .he resi
dent property owners’ signatures, while
a remonstrance against the permanent
Improvement of Tweuty-Seventh street
from Capitol avenuo to Illinois was found
to contain the required numtier of names
and the latter was killed.
TRAIN ROBBERS
GET LIGHT HAUL
Men Rifle Express and Postal
Cars in Illinois.
SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Aug 5. Nine ex
press packages containin',' n number of
watches and other valuables were rifled
by bandits who boarded the Baltimore &
Ohio passenger train lat-* last night near
Beecher City, Recording to expr-ts com
pany official* here this afternoon. The
loss is estimated around SSOO.
Several ma l packs are believed to have
been taken by the two hold-up men who
dropped off the train at the Wabash
railroad crossing Just outside of Alta
mont.
Postal authorities herp, however, could
shed no light on the amount of money
taken.
TWO REPORT BANKRUPTCY.
Voluntary petitions !n bankrupt y were
filed in Federal Court today by Jessie A.
Coyle. It. F. D No. K. and Otto L Coyle,
K. F. D. No. 5, Shelby villi*. Ind. Jessie
A. Coyle listed her liabilities at $54,-
138.88 snd her assets at $40,135.68, $40,000
of which is represented by real estate.
Mr. Coyle scheduled liabilities of $71,-
931 19 assets of $95,000. of which
smonnt & 4:000 consists of real estate.
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1921.
SHANK CLUB OF
30,000 MEMBERS
IS ANNOUNCED
Louis W. Carnefix, Organi
zation’s President, Tells
of Purpose.
DRIVE ON FOR 60,000
Completion of th? organization of the
Shank for Mayor Club with an initial
membership of 30,000 was announced to
day by Louts \V. Carnefix, president,
l'he club will open a drive for 00,000
members Monday morning, which figure
will be reached Oct. 15, the club officials
hope.
Other officers are Benjamin Branson,
vice president; Herman Rlckhoff, treas
urer; Edward Lnversaw secretary, and
J. F. Walker, assistant secretary. Lead
ers in the club were among the promi
nent figures In the Shank primary or
ganization aud include all those not
transferred to positions in the regular
Republican city organization following
the declaration of peace between the
Shank and News Jewett factions.
C LUB’S PURPOSE
SET FORTH.
President Carnefix issued a statement
setting forth the purpose of the club as
follows:
“The club at this time has a member
ship of 80,000. It Is ihe hope of the
Shank leaders to have 60.000 by Oct. 35.
More that 1.000 Democrats have been
enrolled since the primary.
“The management extends an invita
tion to every voter in the city of In
dianapolis regardless of previous party
affiliation to Join. The club will be main
tained as a co-ordinate Interlocking po
litical organization with the regular Re
publican city committee. Conferences
have been held between the regular Re
publican committee and the Shank ex
(Contlnued on Page Fifteen.)
RICH MAN’S SON
HELD FOR THEFT
Manager of Hammond In
dustry Reputed ‘Brains’ of
Auto Stealing Ring.
CHICAGO. Aug. 5 Walter Keller,
sdon of a wealthy Philadelphia family,
today was held under SIO,OOO bonds fol
lowing arraignment In South Clark street
court on eight charges of larceny. Keller,
who is manager of the 6500.000 l’ratt
Food Company of Hammond, Ind., was
arrested while changing the peering
mechanism on a stolen automobile. Po
lice charged he was the “brains ’ of an
automobile ring.
Two of the eight charges brought
against him were new ones, the victims
having charged Keller with stealing ihelr
ifiach ne.
Keller pleaded not guilty to alt the
charges, terming them "fairy tale*.”
The accused man was represented by an
array of attorneys, who announced thut
Kelier’s father In Philadelphia was “com
lug to his son's aid."
"I knew my father would stick to me,” !
said Keller.
Ills case will be tried Aug. 23.
4 KILLED, MORE
MAY DIE IN FIRE
Children Are Trapped on Top
Floor of Apartment House
in New York.
NEW YORK. Aug. S.—Trapped bj
flames on the top floor of a Bronx apart
ment bouse, four children were burned
to death today.
Three persons are dying In the Lincoln
Hospital and ‘our others were severely
burned ss a result of the fire, which
swept through the house.
The dead children, ranging in ngo
from 5 to 14, were all of the Corsine
family, which occupied the fourth floor
of the building. Mr. and Mrs. Julio
Corsine escaped, carrying two of their
little children to safety down the rear
fire escape.
The origin of the fire Is not known.
SIX BANDITS
GRAB PAY ROLL
Hackensack (N. J.) Firm Loses
Nearly $50,000 Cash.
HACKENSACK, N. J., Aug s.—Six
bandits today held up several guardß bd<l
the paymaster of the Barrett Manufactur
ing Company and escaped with a sum es
timated at between $40,000 and $50,000
In currency.
The robbery occurred near the com
pany's plant at Shadyslde, near the Hud
son River.
The bandits, concealed in bush's,
slowed the paymaster's car by tossing
stones into the road. With drawn ve
volvers they Jumped into the road, cover
Ing the guards, who were not given time
to lift their guns.
The paymaster's bag was seized. One
bandit cut the wiring in the car whh b
was roiled Into the bushes.
The guards were disarmed and tin*
bnndits disappeared in the bushes, where
one of their number had remained in an
automobile with its motor running.
Nobody Interested!
Piled against the fence that sep
arates St. Clair Tark from the prop
erty of the Blind Asylum are the
bodies of more than five hundred
birds that were killed in the park by
the storm last Monday.
These bodies are in a state of de
cay and the eteneli Is terrible.
The childrens’ playground in the
park Is located only a sow feet from
the pile of decaying flesh and the vi
cinity is rendered unfit for the pres
ence of humane beings.
The park Is under the Jurisdiction
of tlie park board.
Sanitary conditions in Indianapolis
are presumably under the supervision
of the board of sanitary commis
sioners.
Back of these two boards Is the
city hoard of health with a long list
of sanitary Inspectors and this biard
has power to clean up premises which
are offensive to health.
But In the meanwhile the stench
from the bodies of the dead birds
continue* to contaminate the neigh
borhood and nobody in authority is
errs mildly interneted
U. S. IS GIVEN
FREE HAND AT
ARMS PARLEY
Foreign Governments Inter
pose No Objection to Wash
ington Proposals.
JAP CONVERSATIONS ON
Secretary Hughes Hopeful
All Disputed Points May
Be Cleared Up.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. - The
United States has been given prac
tically a free hand in shaping the
course of the international confer
ence on disarmament and Pacific
questions scheduled to meet here
Nov. 11 next, it developed today.
Great Britain has indicated her
willingness to let America take the
initiative in matters appertaining to
the meeting and program. Italy has
followed the American lead in ev
ery instance and France to date has
interposed no objections to anything
Washington has proposed.
There remains only Japan to complete
the conference table personnel aud in
the conversations that are now pro
ceeding between Secretary of State
Hughes and Baron Shldehara. the Jap
anese ambassador, officials are hopeful
that all the Irritating questions at issue
between the two countries can be cleared
op before Nov. 11.
Almost complete silence is being ob
served by officials here regarding the
I progress of these conversations, but both
sides are “hopeful" of favorable results.
Unless such questions as Yap aud Shan
tung and the “open door" In China are
cleared up In the next three months.
It Is certain that the November confer
cnee will have to settle them before au
approach can lie made to the real pur
pose of the meeting, which Is disarnia
t uirnt.
! Conversations between Secretary
Hughes ami Baron Shldehara to date
have been confined principally to Y'ap.
Current reporrs that both sides have
made concessions and that settlement Is
near, are met in official quarters with
the statement that "progress la being
made."
NAVAL MEN
TALK SITUATION
WASHINGTON. Aug 5. The “super
Hoods” gtaur warships which Great Hrli
ain has Just authorized for building, nr?
today the real mystery ships ><f the
world, in the opiulon of naval expert#
here.
No on" not la the confidence of the
British Admiralty has been allowed to
g*t more than an Inkling of their real
character. They have been represented
vaguely as some new type of destructive
moneter surpassing anything now known
to naval science. In naval circles here
there Is a strong inclination to lay much
of this mystery to a desire for "blutT”
and although speculation atuung naval
oxperts about the new boats overshad
ows the posatbillt es of the pending dis
armament talk no one ts seriously
alarmed over them.
The American Navy has ships afloat
or building that approximate the super
Hoods from the little that Is known of
the latter
What naval officials are more con
cerned with on this aide Is the Inter
pretation they are to put on the situa
tion. They see In the laying of the
uew ships a well defined plan to have
the United States carry out her part
of any disarmament pact by discarding
(Continued on Page Right.)
LASKER ASKS
SHIPS BE SUNK
Recommends Wooden Vessels
of Early War Days Be
S&nt to Bottom.
WASHINGTON, Aug. s—Definite rec
ommendations to sink all the wooden
ship* by the Shipping Board in the early
days of the war. has been made to the
House appropriations comui*ttee by
Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board,
it was learned today.
Thesa ships cost approximately $250,-
000,000 to build. Their upkeeji is costing
around $1,000,000 a year. Chairman
Lasker can find no purchasers for them
and they aro unfit for service in the
shipping business operated by the board.
"Congress should share responsibility
with me," ho said, “butts It does not
I shall soon sink them unless I can give
them away,” Lasker announced
PLAN BUDGETS
FOR G. A. R. EVENT
Committee Heads Hold Ses
sion at C. of C.
A meeting of chairmen of committees
for the G. A. R. encampment which will
be held here September 25 to 29. was held
at the Chamber of Commerce today for a
general discussion of plans and to sub
mit budgets. It was stated that noue
of the budgets submitted would l>e given
out for publication until all had be£n
submitted so that the amount of the gen
eral budget might not be exceeded.
The Indiana Federation of Patriotic So
cieties lias decided upon an intensive
campaign to obtain funds to finance their
part in the G. A. It. encampment. A
lawn fete, a benefit performance at Hie
Ohio theater and a “penny campaign"
among members of the organization are
included in the plan to raise money.
It was explained by speakers at a
meeting of the societies yesterday. In G.
A. R. hall, that the fund so collected is
in no way connected with the actual ex
penses of the encampment, provided by
city and State, but that the expenditures
of the federated societies will be limited
strictly to providing aditional comforts
and entertainment for guests.
Bill Proposes York
as Army Captain
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—A btll au
thorizing tlie President to appoint Sergt.
Alvin C. York, formerly World War
hero, as a captain of the United States
Army and then to place him on the re
tired lit, was introduced in the Senate
today by Senator McK|llar, Democrat,
Tennessee. *
„v. i dn,f... (By Carrier, Week, Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, 12c.
Subscription Rates | iJy Mall 50c Per Month; j 5 00 p e r Year.
Negro Paid $4,400 for Job
at City Hall Which White
Man Did for S4OO in 1917
One man. working steadily eight hours
| a day. accomplished in four mouths dur
j ing the last year of the administration
iof Mayor Joseph E. Bell, and at oue
' tenth the cost, what five negroes, working
! without any agreement as to when they
' shall get done, have failed :o do iu more
than five months during the administra
tion of Mayor Charles W. Jewett, James
11. Ilegarty, custodian of the city hall in
the Bell administration, declared today.
W hile city officials still contended that
Hays Wilson, negro political worker,
will not have been overpaid when he is
allowed $4,400 for cleaning the walls of
the city hull and stretching the job out
over a period of six months, Mr. Hegarty
declared the work could have been done
at a cost of not more than S4OO and thut
he knows it could becaase this vas ac
complished four years ago.
Further proof that the city hall job is
an extravagant waste of public funds is
furnished by the fuel that two men are
cleaning walls at the courthouse of a
' total square yardage practically equal to
that of the city hall for SSOO.
TOTAL COST
W ILL BE $4,400.
Wilson has been paid a total of $3,700
for cleaning the walls. He has no writ
ten contract with the board of public
works, but. according to statements made
I by him and by other officials he was to
receive $8 a day as foreman, four assist
cuts were to get $0 a day and he was to
|be reimbursed for materials. The clean
ing was started late in January. Hayes
1 and his four negroes are still at it aud
still drawing $8 and $0 a day. No one
at the city hall will say when it will
end, further than that President Mark
U. Miller of the board of public works
has stated that the total cost probably
will be $4,400
City officials who have attempted to
Justify the big payments to Hayes Wil
son upon a more or leas vague verbal
agreement have said the job is worth
$1,400 because the walls of the city hall
have not been cleaned since they were
1 put up more than ten years ago and that
ts they had not been washed they would
have had to have been redecorated at
probably twice the expense.
DECLARES WALLS
HAVE BEEN CLEANED.
"it Is not true that the walls have
not been washed since the city hall was
: built." declared Mr. Hegarty. "During
the last year of the Bell administration,
LINK SPURGIN
IN BOOZE RING
Raid on Home Reveals Large
‘Private Stock’—Trail Lost
in Mexico.
< Hit AGO. Aug. 3 Evidence linking
Warren t\ Spurgln, missing president of
ttie looted Michigan Avenue Trust < o-u
---pany, with a bootlegging "ring" was
unearthed here by Assistant States At
torney Roscoe C. Andrews.
Prohibition agents, armed with search
warrants, seized a truckload of whisky
and wines In a raid on the bank's vaults.
Tlie liquor, bank officials said, was Spur
glu’a "private stock."
Andrews announced that indictments
would he sought against bpifrgin imme
diately ns a result of evidence obtained
in the raid. The missing banker will
be charged with violation of the prohibi
tion act and for conspiracy in connection
with a "rum ring," Andrews said.
It was Intimated that developments
may show that Spurgln used the bank's
funds to finance a booze "ring.” The llq
uurs seized today were valued at thou
sands of dollars.
"1 thtnk we can establish a very clear
connection between Spurgln and a 'boo*,
ttng’ before we are finished with our in
vestigation," said Andrews.
A crowd of depositors, loitering around
the bank, denounced the missing banker
when they learned the liquor belonged to
him.
The trail of Spurgln has t een lost in
Mexico, detectives said.
Operatives, who traced the alleged
embezzler of nearly a million dollars to
tlie vicinity of Chihuahua, Mexico, said
all traces have been lost
It was said at headquarters the State
Department would he asked to solicit the
aid of President Obregon to arrest the
banker. There Is no extradition treaty
with the border republic.
FIVE TAKEN FOR
MAIL ROBBERY
Alleged Pennsy Bandits Ar
rested at Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 7—-Five men sus
pected of being members of the gang of
bandits who last Friday rifled the mall
car of the crack Manhattan limited train
of the Pennsylvania Railroad near Cas
sandra. Pa., were taken Into custody here
: tojlay following a raid on a house on
Alpine avenue. The men were taken so
! completely by surprise they offered no
resistance. -
They will he held ponding arrival of
mail clerks who were on the rifled train.
As far as known a watch and revolver
were the only loot obtained by the rob
bers.
COP HERE TO
GET SWALLOW
Baltimore Man Must Face
Shooting Charge.
Ueut. George W. Armstrong of the
Baltimore police department, is In Indt
un a polls today to take Elmer Swallow
hack to Baltimore to answer the charge
of shooting with intent to kill. Swallow
was arrested in tills city a week ago un
der Jhe name of Jack Burk, and his w ife
was also held on a vagrancy charge at
that time. The arrest was made iu an
Illinois street rooming house by De
tective Fossati and Koch.
Swallow shot Joe Larague, May 27. in
enfe -and saloon conducted by Swallow
at Baltimore. Larague is paralyzed as
the result of the wound. Swallow was
arrested but Jumped a $2,500 bond. Swal
low was at one time a physician in
New rYork but detectives say he has
scried an eight-year sentence iu Sing
Sing Prison in New York.
Five Booze Busses
Sold by Storen
Special to The Times.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind. Aug. 5. United
States Marshal Mark Staren. sold five
automobiles here late Thursday. The
machines had been seized by Federal of
ficer* when their owner* Were eonvloted
of transporting liquor* Clyde Randall,
United States eommlsauMu*, acted a*
auctiaeaar.
LAST HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
which was only four years ago, we had
an Italian named George Gristo on the
janitor force of the city hall. Gristo was
drawing S6O a month. He cleaned the
walls and did a tine job of It in ap
proximately four months at a total cost
to the city of about S4OO. i see no reason
why that could not have been done this
time."
Gristo cleaned the walls practically by
himself, thereby doing in four months
what five negroes have failed to complete
in almost six months and at an expense
of one-tenth of what it will cost the tax
payers as a result of the providing of
easy berths for the negro politicians.
For two months, it is said, Gristo la
bored away at S6O a month. Then he
ftppeured before the board of public works
with his several children and put up a
plea for an Increase to $75 a month, as
sorting that he thought he was cleaning
the walls in a manner to merit the in
crease. He took the hoard up to the as
sessment bureau where he had left an
uncleaned patch to contrast with that
which he had washed. He got the in
crease. it is said.
NEGRO l SEB
SPECIAL FORMULA 1
Hayes Wilson contends that to clean
such walls as the city hall, expert work
men and a special cleaner, manufactured
upon a secret formula which he possesses
are necessary.
“Nonsense,” remarked Mr. Hegarty,
when tolil of this. “All you need is
some soap powder and hard work. Os
course you coldn't complete the job in
two years if the men on it spent most of
their time sleeping In the 1 basement.
Gristo did not use a special formula aud
everybody said he (lid a fine job.”
Several months ago the county council
appropriated SSOO to have the walls of
the basement, first and second floor cor
ridors of the Courthouse cleaned. At the
last meeting of the council the sum was
increased to SBOO because It was desired
to clean the five Superior, the Probate,
juvenile. Criminal and Circuit Court
rooms as well.
Hayes Wilson contends that the men
working on the Courthouse are not do
ing a good job, but persons who have
vis is ted the Courthouse regularly com
ment upon the great contrast for the bet
ter between the looks of the walls as
they are now and as they were before
being washed.
HARDING MAKES
PLEDGE, U. S. TO
CONTROL SELF
Believes Agreement on Dis
armament Can Be Reached
Without European Meddling
LANCASTER, N. II„ Aug. 5. Presi
dent Harding scratched a day from his
vacation calendar to motor to Gorham,
N- H.. today and gave a word of cheer
to several hundred disabled service men
at the Government hospital there.
The President told the soldiers America
covets no one's position or wealth. He
reiterated his previous statements on op
tlmism over the status of international
affairs and the success of the disarma
ment conference.
While the President stated that the be
lieved an agreement would be reached by
which wars would be ended, he declared
emphatically that the United States will
continue to control her own affairs.
"The United States is in a position to
lead,” the President declared, and said
the "auguries were good for the success
of her leadership in disarmament.”
President Harding also rpoke briefly
at North Stratford.
The President went to Gorham shortly
after breakfast and got in a game of
golf after his visit to the hospital. He
plans to leave here Saturday for Port
land by way of Poland Springs, taking
the Mayflower at Portland. He should
reach Washington Tuesday.
BARES SWINDLE
RING METHODS
‘Wolf of Finance,’ Aide to
Worthington, Makes Chi
cago Confession.
CHICAGO. Ang. 5. Charles W. French, j
arrested here in a raid on • a loop
hotel, as an aide to John IV. Worthing
ton. head of the alleged million dollar
swindle ring and called “Wolf of Fi
nance." today bared the frenzied tinan
elal undertaKings of “Honest John" ac
cording to the State's attorney's office.
French, after his confession. - was freed
under a personal bond. He wili tie used
as the State's star witness against Wor
thington and tlie latter's associates.
French, according to his story, was a
“silent partner’ ’ in Worthington's
schemes. His story also involved Mel
ville Reeves, known as the unconvicted
“skyscraper burglar.”
French also is said to have disclosed a
scheme by which scores of small banks
in Illinois and Wisconsin were victimized
of hunt reds of thousands of doliarV
through a series of credits, nis most
important testimony, it was believed,
would involve the placing of huge sums
by the “trust” in foreign banks.
After his confession, French’s bonds
were reduced from SIO,OOO to SI,OOO and
he then was allowed to sign his own
hood. lie was arrested earlier in the
day at a “loop" hotel.
START QUIZ ON
HAITI TROUBLES
Occupation Called Blot on
U. S. Navy.
WASHINGTON, Ang. s.—lnvestigation
of the American occupation of Haiti and
I Han Domingo was started today.
Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher, and
norace Knowles, former minister to San
Domingo, appeared before a special Senate
committee with sensational charges con
cerning the American occupation which
began in 1915. Naval officers were called
in defense of their administration.
Villard and Knowles declare the oc
cupation of Haiti is a blot on tlie Navy.
According to Villard,there was no trou
ble there until the United States went
in, but afterwards, "inexcusable mur
ders” were committed by American
troops.
Charges that the Wilson administra
tion "took advantage of a weak and de
fenseless nation" in establishing a mili
tary occupation Haiti following disturb
ance* at Port au Prince in 1915, and ,
the subsequent death of Preeidentv'Saui,
were made by Stenio Vincent, farmer j
president of th# Haitian Hvnafe.
NO. 73.
WISH DAWES
TO ‘CUSS’ OFF
U. S. EXPENSE
Committee’s Hopes of Cutting
Taxes Pinned on Budget
Director.
VIEW MELLON’S PICTURE
Leaders Realize Difficulty of
Fulfilling Campaign
Promises.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 0. The
hopes of the House Ways and Means
Committee that taxes can be reduced
this year now are pinned on “Heil
and Maria” Dawes, director of the
budget.
Determined to cut this year's gov
ernmental expenditures $1,000,000,000
below the $4,550,000,000 estimate of
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, the
committee probably will ask Dawes
to seek a program by which this
economy can be effected.
The secret hope of the committee is
that Dawes will let fly some o£ his cholq
est “cuss” words at those responsible for
Government extravagance and then “use
the ax” in cutting off their appropri
ations. Dawes probably will appear be
fore the committee within the next few
days.
HOUSE LEADERS
SEE DIFFICULTIES.
Republican leaders of the House, as the
result of the dark picture of the Gov
ernment financial situation given the
committee yesterday by Secretary Mel
lon. realize it will be most difficult to
make good their promise of reducing
taxes to any great extent. Upon Mellon's
estimates of expenditures, taxes must
be increased $260,000,000.
To cut taxes $5<)o.000.000. the new reve
nue bill must not yield more than three
billion dollars. The revenue re ision
program suggested by Mellon with the
several new taxes would yield approxi
mately $3,565,000,000.
In expenditures can be cut to $3,750,-
000.000, or $804,000,000 under the Mellon
estimate, the $500,000,000 cut in taxes
eoudl be accomplished.
TARIFF BILL AND
SALVAGE TO HELP.
in addition to three billion dollars
which would be provided in the new tax
bill the Forduey tariff is expected to
tiring in $37,000,000 if passed by Jan. L
and $350,000,000 will come from the sal
vage of war material.
The mnrkid business depression is in
large measure responsible for the present
difficult fiscal problem which confront*
the Government. The present taxes at
the height of war profits yielded about
six billion dollars a year, The same
rales now are producing ■ only $3,070,-
(Coiitinued on Page Eight.)
SEEKS TO KNOW
DEATH CAUSE
Coroner Probes Sudden End
of John Shanon, Kurt
in Fight.
Or. Paul Robinson, coroner, today or
dered nn autopsy to determine the eauso
of the death at the city hospital lata
yesterday of John Shanon, 44, SJStj East
Washington street.
Edward Flannery, 39, 115 North Lib
erty street, is held in the jail on the
Charge of assault and battery with In
tent to kill. Whether Flannery will be
charged with murder depends on the au
topsy.
The two men had a fight Sunday aft
ernoon at the home of Lucille Henry, 40,
115 North Liberty street. The woman
said the men were jealous over her,
WOMAN HELD
AS WITNESS.
The Henry woman held on a vagrancy
charge as a witness was rearrested and
her hond fixed at a high figure after
Sbanon's death.
Following the fight Sunday. Flan: -ry,
who was cut in the back and who had
two black eyes, was sent to the ehy hos
pital. His injuries did no! seem 8
and he was brought to police headqu tv
tors. On the next day the case was con-; ;
tinned in e ; ty court.
. Shanon. a big powerful man, did not
appear to be seriously injured. He was
arrested and sent to police headquarters.
Roth men were charged with assault and
battery with intent to kill. . Shanon had
been lo< ked in the cellroom less than two
hours when he called the turnkey and
showed him a swelling on the right side,
lie declared he had been kicked by
Flannery.
SENT TO
CITY HOSPITAL.
lie was suffering so much that the
police officer sent Shanon to the city
hospital detention ward. On the follow
ing day Shanon was operated on and it
thnt time it was reported he had ap
pendicitis. His condition became more
serious Tuesday and hospital author
ities notified the police there was little
chance for his recovery.
The story told in the east end district
where the fight occurred Is that there
was another woman at the Henry home
over whom the two men fought, but that
the police never learned her name.
Shanon told the turnkey he was born
in Dublin, Ireland. a I- d that he came to
the t'nited Stales thirty-seven years ago.
He said he was unmarried.
Ex-Editor Named
State Gas Supervisor
Theodore Kingsbury, former editor of
tin- Indiana Farmer, Indianapolis, ar..l
recently connected with the press service
of the United States Department of Agri
culture, today assumed his duties as
natural gas supervisor for the State of
Indiana. Mr. Kingsbury is to be con
nected wltfh the division of geology
of the department of conservation.
His duties will consist of inspecting
abandoned oil wells, to see that they
are properly plugged, and to investigate
cases of wilful waste of gas.
Why Not Dismiss
Whole 11, S. Army?
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—Reduction
of the Army to 100,000 men Is pro
vided In a resolution introduced to^ay
by Senator Borah, Idaho. H
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