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VOL. XXXIV.
OHIO MAN MAY
BE APPOINTED
TO ARMS MEET
Ohio Senator Favored Be
cause Democrats Want
Underwood Free.
NOT LEAGUE PROPONENT
Fought in Senate to Get
Agreement on the Treaty
of Versailles.
Bpecinl to Indiana Daily Time*
and Philadelphia. Public Ledger.
By ROBEBT BARRY.
WASHINGTON*, Aug. 22.—Presi
dent Harding Is understood to have
Senator Pomerene of Ohio under
serious consideration for appoint
ment as the Democratic member of
the American commission to sit in
the conference of the nations on dis
armament and the problems of the
Pacific. Selection of the President’s
former Senatorial colleague, it is
felt, would prove acceptable to all
groups in the Democratic party.
Suggestion of Senator Pomerene*
name grows out of fairly definite as
anrances that Senator Oscar W. 1 nder
wood. of Alabama, the minority floor
leader in the Senate, would not find it
feasible to accept appointment as the
Democratic member, because of the in
sistence of his colleagues that he remain
at his desk to lead the party fight
against the Republican tariff and taxa
tion legislation
All Indications point to a most aggres- j
sire political campaign by the Democrats
seeking to gain whatever partisan ad
vantage they might fiud in the policies
of the President as developed by the dis
armament conference. They justify their
course by the conduct of the Republican
Rena's which adopted a round robin in
opposition to the Covenant of the League
of Nation* before that instrument was ap
proved at Paris and signed at Versailles
The leadership of Senator Underwood is
desired by the party chiefs in the event
of a political struggle over the issues of
the conference. It Is regarded as im
proper that the floor manager la the Sen
ate should bind himself to support the
decisions of the parley.
The name of benaror Pomerene is said
to have been considered by the President
among the Democrats first called to
Kind. He has inquired of •‘-•me of bis
advisors to ascertain their feeling toward
a choice of the Senator from < hio. The
Pomerene has been that he stands fourth
among the Democratic members of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
and that bis appointment might be
viewed as an intentional slight on the
three Senators who rank him—Hitchcock,
Nebraska; Williams, Mississippi; Swan
son, Virginia.
It is fairly certain Senator Hitchcock
will not be chosen. Ho made too many Ke
publican enemies during the fight over the
League of Nations. In the Foreign Re
lations Committee and on the floor h“
was In constant clash with Republican
Senators, especially Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, of Massachusetts, chairman or
the committee. At one time the two
Senators scarcely spoke to each other.
Senator Pomerene was one of the Dem
ocrats who refused to submit to the rub
ber stamp distinction of the White
nouse. He demined to yield to Presi
dent Wilson's d“tnand that ratification of
the treaty with the Lodge reservation be
opposed by the Democrats. He not only
voted on both occasions for ratification
with the Lodge program, but he aided
la the adoption of many of the reserva
tions and he made several speeches urg
ing the Senate to take a common-sense
attitude and arrive at some sort of con
• promise on the treaty. His suggestion
for a bi-partisan compromise committee
prevailed, but its work came to naught.
—Copyright, 1921. by Ihiblic Ledger Cos.
GREAT BRITAIN
SEXDS ACCEPTANCE
WASHINGTON. Aug:. 22.—Great Britain,
in a note to the T'nited States
its “ready acceptance" of the formal
invitation of President Hardtop to par
ticipate in the disarmament conference to
be held In Washington on Nov. 11.
The note, which was handed to Am
bassador Uarvev by Marquis Curzon, ex
pressed the "earnest and confident hope
of his majesty's government that this
conference achieve far-reaching results
<xnductive to the prosperity and peace of
the world. - '
The text of the note follows:
“I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of the invitation offered to His
Majesty's government by the Government
of the I'ni'ed States to participate in a
conference at Washington beginning on
the 11th of November next for discus
• ion of armamtus and In connection
therewith of the international problems
presented bv the Pacific Far Fast.
“It is with sincere gratification that I
have the honor on behalf of His Majesty's
government to request your excellency to
cotfvey to the I uited States Government
our ready acceptance of their Invitation
to take part In this auspicious meeting
with objects of which His Majesty's gov
ernment and the British nation are in
whole-hearted sympathy. It is the ear
nest and confident hope of His Majesty's
government that this conference, ap
proached as it will be. by all concerned
with a spirit of courage, friendliness and
mutual' understanding, may achieve far
reaching results that will be conducive
to the prosperity and peace of the world.’’
Special Meeting of
School Board Held
A special meeting of the board of school
commissioners was held this afternoon at
which bids for supplies and school equip
ment of various kinds were received.
The completion of the first unit of
Arsenal Technical High School and sev
eral new grade school buildings has made
necessary the purchase of considerable
equipment of various kinds.
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Tuesday : rising temperature.
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Published at Indianapolis,
Ind.. Daily Except Sunday.
FEAR MOB VIOLENCE
IN SULLIVAN AFTER
ATTACK ON 3 WOMEN
Farmersburg Girl Taken From Bed, Struck
Over Head With Stone and
Assaulted.
CONSTRUCTION GANG NEGROES HELD
Special to The Times.
SULLIVAN, Ind., Aug. 22. —Three women were assaulted by three
negroes in the village of Farmersburg near here late last night. Race
feeling has grown to such a point that Sheriff Ed Douthitt has advised
Governor Warren T. McCray of the situation and told the Governor State
troops may be necessary to prevent mob action against three negroes held
in the Sullivan County jail here in connection with the crime.
Mias Glen Milan, 25, living south of
Farmersburg. was attacked as she slept
la her bed.
“I was asleep a few minutes after
eleven,” Miss Milan said. “I was
awakened by a man standing over my
bed. He hit me.”
The exact nature of the attacks against
the othPr two women was not learned.
There was some talk of an armed mob
marching against a camp of negroes em
ployed by a contractor in bridge work
near Farmersburg. where one of the
negroes was arrested. AII three of the
men under arrest were employed by the
contractor. Two of them fled to Terre
Haute and were arrested in "Bagdad,”
the negro section, by police. The other
one was taken at the camp.
Cal Smith, 27, of East St. Louis, was
arrested at the camp. He was brought
to the Jail here by a circuitous rout.*, tha
authorities fearing to pass through
Farmersburg. Martin Harris, 25, of Clin
ton. Miss., and Russell Wyatt. 22. of Dyer.
Miss., were brought here from Terre
Haute.
XEGROES TAKEN
TO RE IDENTIFIED
TERRE HAI'TE, Aug. 22 —Anticipating
an attempt at mob violence, Sullivan
County authorities today started for
Farmersburg with two negroes arrested
here, suspected of being members of the
trio which last night assaulted three
white women of Farmersburg. A third
negro held at Farmersburg. also will be
taken before the women for identifica
tion.
Residents of Farmersburg are aroused
to a high pitch and authorities make no
secret of the fact that they fear an at
tempt at lynching.
Martin Harris. 25. Clinton, Miss., and
Russell Wyette, 22. Dyer, Tenn., are the
negroes arrested here. Cal Smith of
Terre Hants was seized at Farmersburg
Miss Glen Melvin was one of the vic
tims. She was taken from her bed by the
negroes, she said, struck over the head
with a rock and attacked. The other vic
tims wore married women.
W. VA. MINERS
DELAY MARCH
Lack of Leader Given as
Reason for Failure of Pro
test Demonstration.
CHARLESTON, W. Vs.. Aug. 22.-
Armed miners massed at Marmet. twelve
miles east of here early today, still were
delaying their threatened march Into
Mingo County's coal fields.
The march was scheduled to start yes
terday noon. Miners from Cabin Creek,
Paint Creek and New Rivet- treked Into
Marmet all Saturday and Saturday night.
They declared their Intention of marching
In protest against martial law ordered In
Mingo because of Industrial conditions.
"They apparently haven't a leader who
is willing to undertake the eighty-mile
hike across the mountains in face of re
-istance from authorities." Sheriff Walker
said today in explanation of the Inaction.
GUARDSMEN AT
KENTUCKY TRIAL
Rival Clansmen. Under Arms,
Threaten Trouble.
MT. VERNON. Ky.. Aug. 22. Bailey-
Lee and Wldte, rival clansmen, number
ing 100, are under arms here today for
the opeuing trial of John Bailey. Jr., al
leged slayer of Beverley White. Ade
taehment of Kentucky National Guard
cavalry Is camped on the courthouse
grounds, dispatched here by Governor
Morrow on request of the Mt. Vernon
authorities
Incoming trains brought reinforce
ments of the opposing factions and
many other fendlstn.
TO AN NOUNCE POLL SITF \
County Auditor Leo. K. Fesier an
nounced today the official list of the
voting places for the coming constitution
al amendment eleetion will be made
public tomorrow. The names of the of
ficials will be made known within the
next week or sooner If the names are
submitted to Auditor Fesier by the Re
publican and Democratic chairmen.
Method of Retrenchment
Is Bothering Industries
Horizontal Cut in All Wages , as Against
System for Service Rendered , Dis
cussed in Business.
Special to Indiana Dally Times
and Philadelphia Public Hedger.
By RICHARD SPILLAHE.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22- In an
nouncing the last cut In the wage of la
borers in the United States Steel Corpo
ration, Judge Gary says: “Other wages
and salaries will be equitably adjusted."
It would be Interesting to know what
the steel corporation's ideas are on
“equitable adjustment” of the pay of
workers above the grade of rouyb labor
Opinions vary greatly.
Recently all the high officials of a big
industrial concern were called Into con
ference to discuas retrenchment.
The chairman plainly, but tersely, put
the situation up to them. Labor bad been
cut. There had been sharp reduction
of forces of employes shove th<> grade
of labor —the white collar brigades, so to
speak Labor had been cut enough. How
about the others, the chairman asked his
associates for their Ideas.
One staff officer spoke up promptly
Unquestionably the simplest method
would be a horizontal reduction in sala
ries all along the line, be said. This
would be eminently fair. All would be
JtiMmta Wit nes
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25. 1914. at
Postofflce. Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3. 1879.
No Report, Says
Governor’s Office
At the Governor's office it was
stated this afternoon that no report.,
had been received of probable race
trouble In ISulllvan. A similar state
ment was made at the office of A dpt.
Gen. Harry If. Smith.
TAXI DRIVER IS
BADLY WOUNDED
BY A POLICEMAN
Officer Shoots Everette Wain
scolt, Who Runs After
Being Put Under Arrest.
Evverette Walnscott. 35, 1113 Calhoun
street, probably was fatally injured at
6 o'clock this morning when he was shot
i by Patrolman William Mcßurney after
he broke and ran from tho officer who
had him with two other men under ar
rest ut Beecher anil Shelby streets. It
1* believed by physicians at the city hos
pitul that Mcßurney did not shoot di
rectly at Walnscott but shot at his feet
and the bullet glanced, striking him in
i the thigh and coming out through the
abd men.
The two men who were arrested with
Walnscott gave their names and ad
dresses as Charles Sauther. 39. 1413 Ta
i bor street, and Ira Hunt, IS, 1223 Ken
tucky avenue. Sergeant Burk, .villi De
i tectlve Golder and the emergency squad,
j who went to the assistance ..f M-Burney,
ordered Sauter and Hunt tak-"i io police
headquarters aud held under $5,000 bonds
each on charges of vagranry and reslst
'ng arrest, pending investigation. Siml
lur charges were lodged against Wain
scott.
HEARD MEN
WERE QUARRELING.
According to Patrolman Mcßurney, he
was going to Beecher and Shelby streets
to pull tho patrol box tv ben a man who
said his name wu Kolmrt*. a flagman
stationed at the Belt Railroad and Uheltiy
street, a half block from the patrol box,
made a remark to Idm about three men
who were standing on the opposite side
of the street and who had been quarreling
for some time. Mcßurney did not In
vestigate immediately but went Into a
grocery near the patrol box and when
he came out he said he heard either Huut
or Sauter say, "Here comes a copper."
(Continued on Page Six.)
MINISTER HELD
IN WIFE’S DEATH
ISays ‘Scorned Woman’ and
Doctor Conspire to Give
Him Trouble.
SAN JOSE. Cal. Aug. 22. Quarrels
over money were blamed today by the
; Rev. John A. Spencer, Santa Rosa min
j Istcr, held In Jn 11 here while authorities
investigated the death of bis wife,
j Mrs. Spencer was drowned while boat
i ing with her husband at Clear I,ake.
| Cal., several days ago, according to the
verdict of a coroner’s jury. But the
: body was exhumed and an autopsy per
formed, the findings of which have not
been announced
While prison workers sang hymns in
| (he clty'Jnll yard, the Rev. Mr. Spencer
told his side of the story.
Ho charged that a woman with whom
he and his wife boarded for a time, had
been “scorned’ by hlin after they had
had trouble over a board bill.
“It's a scorned woman burning for re
venge,” he declared.
He charged this woman had furnished
the authorities with the circumstantial
evidence against him.
He then detailed trouble he had hail
with Dr. Charles Craig, tho autopry sur
geon. over a doctor's bill. This, he de
: elared, caused 'him to believe Dr. Craig
| was anxious to see him prosecuted.
I Mrs. Spencer formerly was Emma Mor
ris of Toledo, Ohio.
treated alike. The only question to de
termine was the percentage of the cut.
Each man In turn as called upon agreed
with the first until all but two or three
had been heard from.
Then one, to whom the chairmat asked,
“Is that your view, too?" responded.
OBJECTS TO
HORIZONTAL CUT.
“No, emphatically no, r don't want any
sucli plan applied to my people, it isn't
fair. No horizontal cut can be fair. All
through this organization we have a lot
of people brought into It In war days
They came In on inflated values. Every
Ihtng else being equal, they are not e’n
titled to the same consideration ns old
and faithful employes. There is in
equality of pay in every establishment in
the country. I plead guilty to having
it in my division. Agree on the amount
you want cut in the salary expense of uiy
end of u\s business and I'll bring the
total dowr. tto It and below. But there'll
l>e no more'horizontal reduction. It may
be the easiest way, but It Isn't the Just |
(Contirkied on. Rage Two.)
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1921.
U. S. SUPPLIES
TO REACH RIGA
DURING WEEK
News of American Relief
Gives New Hope of Life to
Millions of Starving.
LIFE HARD IN MOSCOW
Paper Tickets for Food and
Wearing Apparel Are Is
sued by Soviet.
LONDON, Aug. 22.—The actual
work ot' Russian relief got under way
today. Six motor trucks were shipped
from London to assist In distribut
ing foodstuffs, medicines and cloth
ing In the famine district. Russian
relief headquarters announced a
consignment of supplies would reach
Moscow from Petrograd Thursday.
The first ship of the relic' fleet
hound for Riga is expected to reach
that port by Saturday.
Ft is understood considerable ship
ping that was made idle by the com
mercial depression will bo utilized for
the transportation of food, medicines uud
clot hi tig.
“The people of the Volak region of
Russia are reduced to bread made of
ground acorns, although they tad white
bread as late as April,” said a Moscow
despatch to the Daily Herald. "The in
habitants of the Middle Volga a:e digging
up seed potatoes which had not yet
sprouted, to stave off hunger, in less
than a month 90.000 peasants have left :
the Volga region by rail aud steamer for !
Siberia. Many others who hid no funds '
to purchase transportation t re walking.
Petrograd expects 15.0(H) refugees before |
the situation is relieved."
Brigadier General Thompson, who has :
just returned from Moscow, told the
Daily Herald that Russia is making big
sacrifices of her economic theories In
ord.-r to fight famine.
"The cholera situation seems well in
hand now." Brigadier General Thomp
son said.
NEWS OF RELIEF
CAUSES REJOICING
I*y JOHN (IB.U DE.VZ.
MOSCOW. Aug. 22.—News that Amcr
lean relief was on its way eprend like
wild fire through famine stricken Russia.
Starving fb-usand*. reduced to the last
extremity, have taken on uew hope of life
(Continued on Tag* Six.)
Amazing Crime Story
Revealed in Boy’s Death
CHICAGO, Aug. 22 —An ainnxing
story of Juvenile crime was revealed
today following tho death of Walter
Gryzbowskl, alia* Martin. 15. Chi
cage’s youngest bandit, mortally
wounded in a duel with Policeman
Thomas Kgao. personal bodyguard to
Police Chief Fitzmorrls
Gryxbowskl. a Pittsburgh youth,
was leader of a boy bnndit gang,
which perpetrated 107 robberies In the
Hyde Park district alone, according
to confessions from other members
of the band The dead youth was
implicated by Joseph Skalskt, 17;
William Bniegel. 17, and Alex Ille
baulvewct, 18.
Policeman Egan. desperately
wounded In the duel. Is fighting for
life, with physicians favoring his
DENIES MELLON
HAS RESIGNED
White House Statement De
clares Secretary Gives No
Intimation of Quitting.
Washington. Aug 22 •-Formal de
nial of reports that Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon has resigned was made
I by the White House today.
"The President has not received au ln
j timntion that Secretary Mellon Intended
! resigning or had any desire to resign.”
; Secretary to the President George B.
; Christian said.
At tlie office of the Secretary It was
stated he was tn conference, but he had
i not indicated ho had tendered his resig
; nation.
' Following defeat tn his tax revision
' program at the hands of Congress, ro
j ports were to circulation that the Seo
! retary was greatly displeased. Tb White
House denies any knowledge of any such
altitude on the part of the Secretary.
I President Iteturns
on Mayflower Today
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—President
and Mrs. Itarding returned here shortly
after 8 o’clock this morning on the May
flower, having spent the week-end in
cruising with a party of friends on the
Potomac Ittver and Chesapeake Bay.
CONGRESS
BRIEFS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The Admin
istration Mil giving the War Finance
Corporation authority to create a fund of
$1,000,000,000 to aid farmers in financing
the exportation of their products passed
tha House this afternoon by a vote of
314 to 21.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. —Action on
the foreign loan funding bill which au
thorized the Secretary of the Treasury
to refund war loans due the t'nited
States by foreign governments was post
poned until after the proposed recess of
Congress by the House Ways and Means
Committee today.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 22. A resolution
empowering the Senate Agriculture Com- j
mittee to inveslgate reports of the pro- i
jeetion of a national organization fur the
"announced purpose of combatting legis- j
lntion for the relief of the farmers of |
the country,” was passed by the Sen- j
ate today by a viva voce vote vote. Sen- |
ator Kenyon, Republican, lowa, chair- j
man of the sanatoria 1 "agricultural'’ bloc, |
sponsored the measure.
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WASHIXGTC N, Aug 22.—William J.
Burns, new chief of the Bureau of In
vestigation of 'lie Department of Justice,
was formally sworn in today Burns con
ferred at length with Attorney General
Daugherty concerniug the reorganisation
of the Bureau of Investigation and the
proposed consolidation of all Government
secret service activities under one head,
it was announced Daugherty would pre
sent his plans for this consolidation to
PrAident Harding before they are put
lit cfleet.
Here's List of
Bills Leaders Ask
Congress to Bass
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 —Here is
the legislation Republtcnr. Congress
leaders hope to pass before the vaca
tion recess due to start Wednesday.
The anti beer bill.
The measure enabling the War Fi
nance Corporation to aid in the ex
port of farm products.
The Capper-Tlncher bill to prevent
gambling In grain futures.
Extension of the dye emburgo in
the emergency tariff fur three months
Imposition of a DO jer cent duty
on all surplus war supplies sold to
the allies. If attempts are made to
bring them bac k to the United .Slates.
Deficiency appropriation for tha
disarmament conference and the Ship
ping Board.
Action on the Administration’s rail
road aud foreign debt refunding blits
will be delayed until after receaa.
chances ITe was shot twice Au
thorities at the same time announced
tliat Gr.vzbowskl had attempted to
■ hoot auother patrolman at his bed
side in tho county hospital just, be
fore he died
Tho youth attempted to snatch a
revolver from the pocket of Sergt.
Edward Flaherty while the policeman
WHS assisting nurses in attending the
boy. The policeman wrested the
weapon away from the dying bandit.
Other members of Grytbowskl's
gang declared the dead youth was
their leader The trio, held by po
lice. were being viewed by victims
of r .-cent hold ups. in nn effort to
connect the band with other crimes
Detectives meanwhile were tracing
the loot of the bands long list of
robberies
WEATHER HALTS
TRIAL FLIGHT
Delay in Test of Big Dirigible
Not Due to Faulty Con
struction.
WASHINGTON, Aug 22. Delays in
the trial flight of the dirigible ZB 2
which has been purchased by the Navy
from Greet Britain and which is to make
a trans Atlantic flight, are due to
weather conditions and not to faulty con
struction of the ship, the Bureau of
Aeronautics of the Navy Department an
nounced today.
Naval officials stated they had no con
firmation of reports from England that
damage to the craft bad disabled It.
They admitted that some of the girders
of the ship had been reported to have
buckled, but that this is n common fault
of all dirigibles and cannot be held to
have disabled the ship.
Reluctance to take the untried ship out
' n unftivoratde weather Is responsible for
the present delays, It was stated, but it
Is the hope of officials hero that the ship
will have met all tests satisfactorily
within a short time.
PLAN CUT IN
. EXPORT RATES
Iron and Steel Shippers Talk
25 Per Cent Reduction.
NEW YORK. Aug. 22.—A joint con
feronce was held here today between rep
resontatlves of eastern shippers of iron
and steel and tha traffic executives com
mittee of the Trunk Line Association,
with the result that an tippiicatlon for
permission to go in effect on Sept. 1 a 25
per cent reduction tn freight rates on
export shipments of lnon and steel mov
ing through Atlantic ports, will be filed
with the Interstate commerce commission
tn a few days.
The Iron and steel shippers represented
that trade competition In foreign fields,
particularly England and Belgium, made
a reduction of transportation costs ifl
openmtlve. They pointed out that lower
rates would not affect domestic business.
Western shippers of Iron and steel
products have arrived at a corresponding
agreement with the railroads repre
sented In the Western Freight Associa
tion.
To make the reductions at the earliest
possible date It Is believed the commis
sion will authorize the cut on Sept. 1
by reducing to two weeks the usual
thirty days’ notice of the new schedule.—
Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Cos.
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SAYS TROUBLE
NOT EXPECTED
WITH PANAMA
I State Department Asked for
Marines Merely for
Precaution.
|TO INSIST ON JUSTICE
Can Not Honorably Permit
Any Encroachment on
Costa Rica.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Tho
United States does not expect any
trouble to arise as the result of Costa
Rica putting into effect the White
award and talcing disputed territory
from Panama, It was stated officially
at the State Department today. The
dispatching of a battalion of Marines
to Panama is merely a precautionary
measure and the troops may not
even be landed, it was said.
The State Department view is that
Panama has no claim whatever to the
Goto territory, having abandoned that
when she accepted the Loubet award. In
view of this fact the State Department
officials believe the Panamanian repub
i lie will put no obstacles in the way of oc
cupation of Goto by Costa Itica.
| The reason behind tho State IJepart
] ment’s insistence on strict Justice to
! Costa Rica lies in the fact that America
is the guarantor of Panama's integrity
and could not honorably permit Panrua
j to exceed her authority and encroach on
Costa Klcun territory.
i With fourteen officers and 388 marines
aboard the superdreadnaugbt Pennsylva
nia sailed for Panama from the Delaware
Breakwater before dawn today.
Quantities of small arms and large
caliber ammunition were tuken üboard
the lighters at Ft Mifflin.
Narctsco Garay, foreign minister of
Panama, who has been here as head of a
mission seeking to have the United
States change Us attitude on Hie boun
Jury dispute, stated the Republic of
Panama would not use force in an es
fort to thwart the execution of the
White award adn decried the need of this
Government using force to put the award
into effect.
The population of Panama heretofore
has shown itself to be of aa extremely
excitable nature and It is believed this
; la one of the reasons for the orders send
ing the marines southward. In the event
the people of Panama get out of con
trol of the Government, the marines will
be reiied upon to maintain order in the
disputed territory while Costa Itica Is
executing the White award.
Costa It! a has advised the United
j State* it is ready to exercise Its Juris
diction over the disputed land and in
v'ew of tlte ac'lon of tills Government It
: 1s expected the White award will be
made effective immediately, thus ending
a controversy of some years’ standing.
IMMEDIATE SETTLEMENT
IS EXPECTED BY C. S.
Special to Indiana Dally Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Final noti
(U at lon has been given the Government
of Panama that the United States, as
mediator of the Panama Costa Itica boun
dary dispute will expect Immediate set
tlement on the basis of the Loubt-White
awards, which gave the disputed territory
to Costa lUca.
The Panamanian government, which has
demurred consistently to tho terms of the
awards and carried its contentions over
the head of the State Department di
(Continued on Page Two.)
SHOT 4 TIMES;
WOMAN IN CASE
Yal Pritchard, Although
Wounded, Holds Assailant
Until Arrival of Police.
As the result of what the police declare
was a quarrel over a woman, Val Pritch
ard. 30, ft4o East Now York street, is In t
critical condition at the city hospital
and Brack Neff, 27, of COG East Georgia
street, Is in the city prison, charged
with shooting with Intent to kill.
Pritchard was shot four times, once I
in the arm and three bullets lodged in ’
the abdomen. Surgeons at the city hos
pital do not expect him to live.
The woman In the case Is said to be
Mrs. Aunn Rieheson, 133 North New Jer- j
sey street. Neff, according to the story
told the officers, called at Pritchard’s
room and inquired if Airs. Rieheson was
there. On replying In the negative, i
Pritchard said he slammed the door in j
Neff's face.
Later he responded to a knock at the
door and Neff, he said, greeted him with j
a fulslllado from a revolver. Pritchard
desperately wounded, grappled with his
assailant and held him until the police
arrived.
Neff declared Pritchard struck him as
he was leaving tha house, and said he
fired in self-defense.
Plan Seventy Changes in
the Names of City Streets
Ordinance Prepared by Departments In
tended to Relieve Confusion.
■ Seventy changes in street names are
provided In au ordinance prepared at
the request of the city engineering
and fire departments and the Indian
apolis postofflee, for presentation In the
city council at the next regular meet
ing, It was announced at the city hall
today.
Streets which are so similar In name
to others they often are confused when
citizens telephone to report fires, those
which have different names although they
are continuations of the same highway
and those which have been given the
wrong numerical designation for several
years, are those affected by the pro
posed changes.
WHERE CHANGES
ARE NEEDED.
For instance there Is a Downey ave
nue and a Downing street. Dowuey ave
nue Is to be changed. Kenwood avenue
end* at Twenty-Second street and* the
continuation of this street from Eight
LAST HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
DISTRICT TOO LARGE,
SALARY TOO SMALL,
TO ENFORCE DRY LAW
Group Chief of Federal Enforcement Depart
ment Makes Discovery and Resigns 3
Days After Taking Office.
SEVERAL WET COUNTIES IN SECTION
Sometime between Friday, when J. J. Jones, mayor of Brazil, took
his oath of office as group chief of Federal prohibition agents for the Terre
Haute district, and today when he submitted his resignation to Bert
Morgan, Federal prohibition officer for Indiana, Mr. Jones made up his
mind that the territory in the district is too large for the number of agents
employed and that the salary of $2,625 a year is too small.
These are the reasons set out in the letter of resignation, which came
as a gAat surprise to Mr. Morgan.
4 ARE KNOWN
TO BE DEAD IN
MACON BLAZE
Historic Hotel Is Destroyed
by Fire During
Night.
SEARCH FOR VICTIMS
MACON, Ga., Aug. 22.—Four person*
are known to be dead and search was
being made in the ruins of the Brown
House for others, following a fire which
last night destroyed the ancient frame
hotel
Harry Swansburg, Atlanta engineer,
died of injuries in a hospital this morn
ing, bringing the total known dead in the
fire to four.
The fire, it was stated, started when a
gasoline tank in Brunner's drug store
exploded. The store occupied part of
the hotel.
It is believed the list of injured will
not exceed eleven.
The list of dead probably will run
higher than four. Os the seven missing,
some are believed to be buried in the
ruins. Firemen and police were digging
Into this mass In their search for bodies
The explosion, it has been definitely es
tablished, was the result of a leaky pipe
line leading from a sidewalk tilling sta
tion into the diug sore. The blast blew
out the Interior of the store and the
only stairway in the hotel. This cut off
the escape of those on the secoD 1 and
third floors. Most of the injured were
hurt In leaps from windows.
SUSPICIOUS FIRES
TO BE INVESTIGATED
INDIAN SPRINGS, Ga., Aug. 22. -
Three fires of suspicious origin, which de
stroyed two hotels and a residence bets
last night with a loss of $200,000. today
caused Sheriff Butts of this county to ask
the State fire marshal to make an investi
gation. Tha Wigwam Hote! and the
Bryan House, and a large dwelling were
destroyed. No one was reported injured.
FIDELITY COST
WOMAN HER LIFE
Refuses to Leave Husband
and Swain Shoots—
Poisons Self.
I’ORTERVILE. Cal., Aug. 22—Walter
Alexander, sought as the man who killed
Mrs. Ermin Bachman when she chose
her husband rather than him, drank
poison and died early today when sur
rounded by a posse of officers.
He was surrounded at the Joseph Luck
ranch, south of her.
Alexander took refuge in an obi ranch
house, but fled through a rear door when
officers charged the building.
A search revealed his gun left lying
against the rear of the house. About a
hundred yards away, huddled under a
fence. Alexander was found in the last
throes of cyanide poisoning. A small
bottle was near bis hand, the contents
drained away.
Alexander’s suicide brought to an end
a remarkable story of a wife who re
fuses!, when brought face to face with the
necessity of choosing between her hus
band and another tnan. to desert her le
gal spouse. \
“Well, you must choose between the two
of ns,” Alexander said to Mrs. Bachman,
ns she stood beside him and her hus
band, according to Bachman.
Mrs. Bachman turned to her husband
pledging him her loyalty. She was hold
ing in hpr arms her babe, only a few
months old.
Alexander’s shot gun boomed one shot
and iMrs. Bachman fell dead, while her
baby, unharmed, struggled on the ground
crying with fright.
Bachman and Ills wife had been separ
nted recently. Yesterday Bachman called
on Mrs. Bachman and was effecting r
reconciliation when Alexander was said
to have interferred.
The three started from Lindsay to
Popiar, near Porterville, a distance of
some 20 miles, in au automobile. Much
of the distance Bachman said, Alexander
kept a knife pressed against his side.
eenth to Sixteenth streets is Hall Place
From Sixteenth to Fourteenth streets it
is Byrain Place and from Fourteenth
street to Washington streets It is Muski
gutn street. If the changes are made the
entire street wilt be named Kenwood
avenue. An instance of incorrect naming
of a street by number which the ordi
nance would eliminate is the street offi
cially known as “Forty-Fifth” on city
maps. It is generally known ns "For
ty-Fourth” street and the ordinance
would change it to that.
The proposed changes are as follows:
Ohmer avenue from 152 feet south of
University avenue to Bitter avenue,
changed to Beecihwood avenue: Ohmer
avenue from 152 feet south of University
avenue to Pennsylvania railroad, to
South Hawthorne Lane: Downey avenue
(fomerly known as Burgess avenue)
from Kttter avenue to Intersection with
Beech wood avenue, to Beechwood avenue;
Downey avenue from Beechwood to Unl
(Continued on Page Six.)
NO. 87.
, Friday, tones was in Indianapolis and
went over the situation at length with
Director Morgan, took his oath of office
and went back to Brazil, apparently
ready to assume the duties of his office.
Today Mr. Morgan received his resigna
tion, which reads as follows;
TOO LARGE FOB
LAW F..YrOKCEMEN'T.
"1 hereby tender my resignation os
group <liief of the Terre 11 auto dis
trict to which I recently was ap
pointed.
“It is my opinion that tha territory
la too large for the number of men
employed a"-J for tliat reason effective
work ennnot lie done.
“X do not feel like undertaking
this work without reasonable assur
ance that the same ran be done suc
cessfully. Also the amount of work
expected to be done Is too large for
the salary paid, which is $2,250 plus
$2lO per annum.”
"Tills resignation is to take effect
at once.
"Thanking you for past favora, I
am.
“ A’onrs very truly,
I “J. J. Jones.”
The Terre Haute district is a large and
Important one, taking in a large part of
southern Indiana and including such well
known wet spots on the prohibition map
as Vigo. Vandorburg and Vermillion
! counties.
According to the assignments made by
Director Morgan, four Federal agents,
officially are stationed in the Terre Haute
district, seven in tho Indianapolis dis
trict and five in the Haiumond district.
However, he explained that these men
are shifted from place to place as the
exigencies of the situation demand and
sometimes a majority of the entire force
may be working in one district.
DRY ENFORCEMENT
SF-KIOTS MATTER.
”1 hare impressed on ail agents and
group chiefs appointed by me,” Mr. Mor
gan said, “the fact that thi3 prohibition
enforcement is a serious matter and that
we intend to go all the way down the
line with It. We. of course, can not ex
pect to put a stop to all violations of
the liquor law. but we can take the
work seriously and do the very best we
can to make the enforcement effective.”
No successor to Mr. J ones has been
named and Mr. Morgan said he ha* no ore
in mind for the position. It has been
his policy in selecting inen for posly
(lot: - to select a man residing in the corr
gresslonal district in which the head
quarters is located. Mr. Morgan was not
ready to announce tho name of the agent
who will be placed in charge of the Terre
Haute office temporarily, although he
said it would be someone who is work
ing in the field at the present time. It Is
believed the choice may fall upon Walter
Wills of Linton, who has been working
in the Terre Haute district as an inspec
tor.
WISHES JITNEY
LAW ENACTED
Ordinance Speed Said to Be
Mission of Dr. Jameson’s
City Hall Visit.
Dr. Henry Jameson, president of the
board of directors for the Indianapolis
Street Railway t'omapny, called on Mayor
; Charles W. Jewett at noon today. It was
i said the traction head urged the mayor
! to attempt to hurry the city council to
] action on the ordinance to regulate yjgofr
j busses.
For several days word has been cominjf
from sources close to the street railway
i company that unless the city council
takes regulatory action soon the com
i pany will follow up its threat to suspend
service upon streets where there heavy
j Jitney competition and it was understood
i that this was communicated to the mayor
! by Dr. Jameson.
A private discussion of tha Jitney
street railway controversy will be had by
members of the city council either beforo
or after the special meeting to be held
this evening, it was understood today.
President Russell Willson said that no
action is to t>e taken upon the question
of jitney regulation, which has been In
tlie hands of the council for several weeks,
since the Introduction of an ordinance
for thre purpose by Councilman Jacob P.
Brown. The call for the special meeting
docs not include the bus question so It
car. not be considered.
Several days ago, however, the coun
•ilmen agreed that they would meet to
night to privately discuss the report on
the street railway situations in Des
Moines and Sioux City. lowa, and Kan
sas City. Mo., submitted nst Monday
by Mr. Willson. Assistant City Attorney
Dixson 11. Bynum and Councilman Lea
J. Kirsoh, who wore commissioned by
the council to visit these cities. Mean
while the special meeting was called.
Introduction of the annual city civil
tax levy and appropriation ordinances,
resolutions appointing registration in
spectors and places for the first registra
tion day. Sept. 10, the anti-open vault or
dinance backed by the board of health
and au ordinance providing for advance
of a year's compensation to an injured
city employe constitute the business
which can be considered at the special
meeting under the president’s call, issued
last Friday.
RED CROSS MAN
UNDER ARREST
Assistant Treasurer Stole $14,-
000. Charge.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Charles Earle
Wilson, former Second Assistant Treas
urer of the American Red Cross, was
placed under arrest here today charged
with grand larceny.
At Red Cross/headquarters it wag
stated the loss Wivolved in the alleged Ir
regularities by/Wilson may approximate
$14,000. Wlls/i has been prominent In
banking clrclps tn Washington for many
years. /