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THE WEATHER
Unsettled with thunder showers tonight or
Sunday.
VOL. xxxiv.
RUM RUNNERS
GET AWAY IN
LIVELY CHASE
Officers Laid Booze
Trap on National
Road.
BULLETS ALSO FAIL
Patrolman Figures in
Wild Ride on Run
ning Board.
After making a dash through a
barricade on the National road east
Os Cumberland at 4:40 a. m. today,
two whisky runners, dressed in
soldiers' uniforms, escaped police
and Federal officers after a lively
gun battle in a high-powered auto
mobile, carrying between fifteen and
twenty gallons of bonded liquor. An
other machine, piloted by a lone
driver, evidently a member of the
gang, turned around and sped away
when the duel started. The officers
say it also was loaded with whisky.
According to R. H. Abel, he. with Fed
eral prohibition agent. Patrolman Henry
Bnrris, Federal Officer J. A. Bryan and
Deputy Sheriff Simon, had just lifted the
barricade to allow an Ohio tourist's car
through, en route to Indianapolis, when
two automobiles of identical make drove
up from the east. They were stopped
by the officers.
POLICEMAN SFIES
BOOZE IN' CAR.
When the officers approached the lead
ing machine in which two men were rid
ing they were asked whether they had
any liquor. Patrolman Burris looked in
the rear of the car and spied the con
traband booze. Seeing the officer take
hold of a bottle, the driver put his into
gear and it lurched forward. The po
liceman caught the side of the car, leaped
to the running board and threw his arms
'around the driver's neck
After a thrilling half-mile ride the
policeman's hold was broken and he was
■knocked from the side of the auto,
taking with him the driver's overseas
cap. The officer's cap fell into the ma
chine.
Patrolman Burris’ ride was made more
perilous due to the fact his fellow of
ficers were sending bullets after the
•pending auto in an effort to bring It to
a stand still. The other man in the
ear returned the fire, but none of the
bullets took effect.
SHOTS FIRED
AT IT TOO.
During the gun battle with the irst
machine, the second machine was turned
around and sent speeding back East.
More than a dozen shots were fired at It
and several bullets struck the rear of
the car but none drew a target.
Numerous other automobiles that were
stopped and searched on other roads by
police and other Federal officers, carried
no liquor, the ofifeers say.
Leaving the Jail at 11 o’clock last
Bight, Sheriff George Snider, with sev
eral deputies and police officers, did not
abandon their watch on the Brookville
road for automobiles carrying liquor un
til after 6a. m. today Only a few ma
chines, the sheriff said, came into the
city on that road and in none of them
evidence that liquor was being trans
ported was found.
NO INCREASE BY
LESH’S RULING
County Unit Road Fund Here
Part of Sinking
Fund.
Following the ruling by Attorney
General U. S. Lesh that the county unit
road law creates a separate taxing unit
In every county in the State, County
Auditor Leo K. Fesler today stated the
opinion of the attorney general would
not cause an increase In the tax levy
for next year, as the county unit road
fißnii was a part of the sinking fund
for next year.
“That will mean we must make a sep
arate county unit road fund as a part of
the county's total tax levy,” said Mr. Fes
ler. “That makes a special levy Just
as the free gravel road repair fund and
the county tubercular fund are separate
taxing units. It will mean more book
keeping.”
The auditor explained that under the
law the 2 per cent limit based on $700,-
000,000 tax duplicate would mean a limit
of from twelve to fourteen millions.
The present county unit road bond
Indebtedness In the county Is only $320,-
000 which represents the money ex
pended on the Pandleton Pike from Fort
Benjamin Harrison to the Hancock
County line, according to Mr. Kesler.
This is the only road In the county to
be improved under the county unit plan.
i Weeks Receives Word
Ikof Wood’s Acceptance
■WASHINGTON, Sept 3—Secretary of
War Weeks today received a cablegram
from Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood announc
ing his willingness to accept the ap
pointment of Governor General of the
Philippines. The Secretary said the
formal offer had not been tendered to
General Wood, but It was understood
It wa9 open to him if he choose to ac
cept It. General Wood is understood to
b* ready to retire from the Army to
accept the post.
SOVIET DENIES RUMORS.
RIGA, Sept. 3. —The Soviet press today
denied reports which had been circu
lated here that Nicolai Leaine, the Bol
shevik premier, is willing to hand over
his power to the Patriarch Tichen of
Moscow and to form a coalition ministry
of communists and members of the revo
lutionary left.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending 7
p. m., Bept. 4, 1921 :
Unsettled with thunder showers to-
BlFht or Sunday; not much change in
•temperature
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
8 a. m 70
7 -a. m 70
8 a. m 70
9 a. 70
10 a. 71
11 a. m 75
12 (noon) 73
1 p. m, 73
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Published at Indianapolis Entered a* Second Class Matter, July 75, 1914, at
Ind., Daily Except Sunday Postofflce, Indianapolis. Ind.. under act March 3, 1879.
1,000 MINERS QUIT LOGAN FRONT
Fearless of Huge Task
Ahead, Russian Relief
Party Leaves New York
Ex-Governor Goodrich
Accompanies
Haskell.
MOSCOW, Sept. 3.—The feeding of
Russian children assembled from the fnm
ine-strlcken areas was started by file
first group of American relief workers
here today.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Calm, confident
and unafraid of the gigantic task of
Russian relief that confronts him. Col.
William X. Haskell, director of Russian
relief of the Ameri<y>n Relief Commis
sion, in a farewell interview today em
phasized the absolute independence aud
disinterestedness of the work to be done
under his directions. Colonel Haskell
and a party of fifteen experienced relief
workers sailed on the Olympic.
‘‘Mr. floover said the service we are
able to perform must be in the true
spirit of charity,” said Colonel Haskell.
“There must be no discrimination. If a
man among us fails to live up to this
standard, I'll send him home.”
“Are you going to take orders from
the League of Xations relief officials?”
he was asked.
Colonel Haskell's blue eyes blazed.
“I take my orders from Mr. Hoover
only,” he replied.
"I think most American organizations
will prefer to cooperate by giving their
material support aud leaving the dis
tribution to us," he added. “The Amer
ican Red Cross is financing the medical
side of our work, right up to the Rus
sian ports of entry.”
The bulk of relief work is to be done
in the Volga basin, and there Colonel
Haskell anticipated his greatest dif
ficulties.”
"I can see all sorts of difficulties.” he
said soberly. “Bad roads, run down rail
roads, winter weather and a half
starved population.
“But, we'll make it go”—this with a
smile. “We will make the Russians work
for all they're worth and it's surprising
how many freight trains you can run,
News Writer Finds Poland
Held in Grip of Disease,
Suffering- From Famine
'The author of the subjoined dis
patch is the only American corre
spondent who succeed* J in s dug
from Warsaw to Moscow. The trip
took her fifty-four hours, the road,
being clogged by the caravans of
thousands of Polish refugees. Miss
Strong made the greater part of the
Journey in a box car.;
By ANNA LOUISE STRONG
MOSCOW. Sept. 3.—ln the course cf
my arduous voyage from Warsaw to the
soviet capital, I found that Poland also
is grievously stricken by food shortage
and epidemics. Hundreds of Polish ref
ugees camped on the tracks. Fire partly
had wiped out numberless villages and
there are areas, fo-merly prosperous and
well ordered, that now present a desolate
wilderness. Thousands are without shel
ter and food.
There Is no chance of land cultivation
for there is no agricultural machinery.
There are parts where no plow has been
seen in years.
Polish quarantine headquarters at
Baranowice, capable of accommodating
4.000. now is swamped by 12,000 men,
women and children.
Russia was in fair condition until last
STOLE TO HELP
CLERK FRIEND
Girl Cashier to Be Charged
After Leaving Hos
pital.
AT'RORA. 111., Sept. 3.—Miss Jessie
Enck is under guard today at a hospital
here after undergoing an operation. Po
lice are awaiting the outcome of the
operation before arresting her in con
nectlon with a $12,000 shortage in her
books as cashier for the Western United
Gas and Electric Company.
E. 11. Johnson, chief bookkeeper for
the firm, already is under arrest and at
liberty under $5,000 bond. Miss Enck is
said to have become involved through
cashing bad checks for Johnson who in
duced her to cash the checks for the
sake of his wife and child.
According to the police Miss Enck and
Jcbnson have confessed. Miss Enck is
said to have admitted taking money
from the firm and withholding payments
for gas and electric enrrent made by
patrons of the firm, to cover her short
age. Her were discovered
when 3n Irate citizen protested against
being “dunned" for a bill he had paid.
A Blackjack Bargainer
By O. HENRY
THE most disreputable thing In Yan
cey Goree'g law office was Goree
himself, sprawled in his creaky
old arm chair. The rickety little office,
built of red brick, was set flush with
the street—the main street of the town
of Bethel.
Bethel rested upon the foothills of the
Blue Ridge. Above it the mountains
were piled to the sky. Far below it the
turbid Catawba gleamed yellow along its
disconsolate valley.
The June day was at its sultrieat heur.
Bethel dozed in the tepid shade. Trade
was not. It was so still that Goree, re
clining in his chair, distinctly heard the
clicking cf the chip* in the grand jury
room, where the “courthouse gang” was
playing poker. From the open back door
of the office a well-worn path mean
dered across the grassy lot to the court
house. The treading out of that path
had cost Goree all he ever had—first in
heritance of a few thousand dollars—next
the old family home. and. latterly, the
last shreds of his self-respect and man
hood. Th gang had cleaned him out.
The fcrokaa gambler bad turned drunk-
3niiiaua Haifa Slimes
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even with old and defective equipment.
If you have the confidence of the rail
way authorities they'll find a way out
for you.
“I don’t anticipate trouble with the
Soviet authorities and 1 don't want to.
1 expect them to do the right thing.”
Included in the party that accompanied
Colonel Haskell was ex-Uovernor James
F. Goodrich, Indiana.
year, when the great drought set in. but
living was still possible thep. ’SrHc
All Russia is praying for .-ib,, b
rain comas. The withered branches are
symbolic of the Indescribable blight that
has stricken at least a hundred million
people and from which there seems to
be no salvation Humans and animals
ere dying like flies.
The population of whole villages are
fleeing to Liberia. The food rations,
meager as they have been for months,
are growing smaller and smaller. There
Is no discrimination; everybody gets the
same.
From Minsk to Moscow I was fortun
ate in traveling in a fast special train,
carrying mostly reparation officials and
doctors. The train had the long for
gotten luxury of a buffet aboard, and
there was free tea for all passengers.
All along the route we could see huge
posters advertising shows and balls for
the benefit of the plague and famine
sufferers. Swarms of barefoot boys, clad
In a single garment, are working tire
lessly ana enthusiastically collecting
help for the poorer districts.
On the train the sole tonic of conver
satlon was, of course, the famine and
its effect on the people. All agreed that
the Russian population is showing a re
markable spirit and endurance. Work
ers are donating part of their wages to
the famine sufferers. The peasants In
the Jara district, where the harvest wn
fairly good, have donated 40,000,000
pounds of potatoes.—Copyright, 1921, by
international News Service.
Ex-Kaiser Bill
Didn't Fly Away
The HAOCE, Sept. B.—The ex-Kaiser
Is still In his csstle at Doom, it was au
thoritatively stated today.
Ptrls despatch*-* yesterday qnoted the
newspaper I.'ln'ranslgeant as reporting
the former German emperor had escap'd
via airplane from his exile in Holland,
presumably for a coop to reguin his
throne.
BOV, It, IN.TCBED by acto.
William Cummings, 14, i:i(K5 East
Eleventh street, sustained a slight scalp
wound today when the bicycle on which
he was riding was struck by an auto
mobile driven by 11. K. Harder of Shel
byville, at Alabama and New York
streets. The Cummings boy was taken
home in an ambulance.
Copyright. 1920. by Doubleday. Page
& Cos. Published by special arrange
ment with the Wheeler Syndicate. Ino.
nrd and parasite; he had lived to see this
day come when the men who had stripped
tihn denied him a seat at the game. His
word was no longer to be taken. The
daily bout at cards had arranged itself
accordingly, and to him was assigned the
iguol e part of tlie onlooker. The sheriff,
the county clerk, a sportive deputy, a gay
attorney and a chalk-faced man hailing
“from the valley,” sat at the table and
the sheared one was thug tacitly advised
to go and grow more wool.
Soon wearying of his ostracism, Go
ree had departed for his office, muttering
to himself as he unsteadily traversed the
unlucky pathway. After a drink of corn
whisky from a demijohn under the table,
he had flung himself into the chair, star
ing. in a sort of maudlin apathy, out at
the monnta-ins Immersed in the summer
haze. The little white patch he saw away
upon the side of Blackjack was Laurel,
the village near which he had been boi u
and bred. There, also, was the birthplace
of the feud between the Gorees and the
Coltranes. Now no direct heir of the Go
rees survived except this plucked and
singed birdjjof misfortune. To the Col
tranes, aisrybnt one male supporter was
(Cr;Named a Fags Four.)
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921.
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! A VERY MERRIE TALE
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It Happened in the Days of Prohibition , 1921 , Right Here in Indiana
Time. About midnight several days
ago.
Place i Crawfordsvllle road, “some
where in Indiana.”
Dramatic personal: Federal prohi
bition agents, deputy sheriffs and other
lawful liquor sleuths, and man with
broad brimmed hat.
In the distance is seen the headlight
of an approaching auto driven at a
high rate of speed in the direction of
Indianapolis.
First Liquor Sleuth—"Methlnks I
detect the approach of a booze-bearing
bug.”
Second L. S. —“Yea, bo, verily, I, too
believe it is a nefarious bootlegger with
a cargo of quarts. Bring out the trusty
REPAINTING OF
SHORTRIDGE IS
‘REPAIR WORK’
Accounts Board Said They
Couldn’t Do It, but
They Did.
ACADEMIC ARGUMENT
That the painting and redecorating of
Shortridge High School is a “repair” and
not an "improevemnt” is the contention
of officials of the board of school com
missioners, and therefore, the members
asert, lit does not come within the prov
ince of the law, which says the board
shall not do its own work where the cost
of the “improvement” exceeds $2,500.
The State board of accounts has
charged the school board acted illegally
in employing Its own force for the paint-
Ing of Shortridge High School, the es
timate for which was SIO,OOO. As the
work practically has been completed, ac
cording to Ralph W. Douglass, business
director, the question becomes one of an
academic nature, as the hoard of ac
counts is placed in the position of ob
jecting to the performance of an act al
ready completed.
The contention of the board of ac
counts Is based on an opinion handed
to the myesterday by U. S. I,esh, attor
ney general of Indiana, in which he held
the Shortridge painting Job could not
be done legally by regular employes of
the school board.
DOUGLASS CITES
BAKER S OPINION.
In support of the contention of the
board, Mr. Douglass, under date of June
17, addressed a letter to Jesse E. Esch
bach. Stale examiner of the board ol
accounts, citing au opinion given by Al
bert Baker when he was attorney for
the school board.
LIvSH SENDS THEM
ANSWER.
Mr. Ltsb's opinion' follows.
“I am in receipt of your letter of
Ang. 2d. making inquiry concerning
schools In citiea of more than Ioo.UW
population.
"Would It be legal for a school board
to direct its own employes to do s
certain painting In a school building, the
cost of which was estimated at slo,<>UO?
“ ‘Under the same statute can a school
hoard legally award a contract for more
than SSOO without advertising same for
two weeks, and can a board legally
award a contract for more than $2,500
without advertising for three weeks?’
“Section 6537, Burns R. S., T.ill, which
relates to the Government of schools
In cities of 100,000 or more Inhabitants,
provides that school boards may make
improvements by the labor of its own
employes when the cost Is not to ex
ceed $2,500.
“In view of this provision, It seems
clear that work estimated at slo,tM>
could not be done by such labor.
"The same statute provides that
three weeks' notice should be given for
bids for such work, except that If
amount of expenditure does not exceed
$2,000, then two weeks’ notice Is suffi
cient.
“In view of this provision your second
and third questions should be answered
In the negative.”
Twelfth Victim Dies
From Mine Disaster
HARRISBURG, 111.. Sept. 3—Fatalities
caused by an explosion Wednesday In
the Ilarco mine here today were brought
to twelve, when Thomas ltibon, rescue
worker, died from effects of poisonous
gas.
Seven of the eleven men who were en
tombed In the mine shaft were burled
late Friday. The funerals of four cithers
were held today.
U. S. Budget Laid
Before President
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—The Govern
ment budget of estimated expenditures
for the next fiscal year was laid before
the President today by Budget Director
Dawes. The director refused to disclose
the sura of tlie estimated expenditures
or indicate whether it would be a re
duction or an Increase.
RAIN HALTS FOREST FIRES.
MISSOULA, Mont., Sept. 3.—C001,
rainy weather today has saved the for
est fire situation in Montana and north
ern Idaho. Forest experts declared the
fire danger is practically over this year,
as heavy rains may be expected from
now on. Ail fires were reported under
control today, including one near Javay.
Mont., which burned over an area of
5,000 acres.
Notice to Agents and Carriers of the
INDIANA DAILY TIMES
On Monday, Sept. sth, all editions of THE INDIANA DAILY
.TIMES, except the noon edition, will be published, early in accord
ance with our holiday custom.
Out-of-town agents who receive papers on interurhan cars leaving
Tndianapolls between 1:30 and 2:30 p m., may expect their bundles
from one to two hours earlier than usual. The fourth edition will
leave at the regular time and also all bundles delivered via steam
roads. Agents having regular subscribers on the late financial edi
tion will be supplied with the home edition.
Carriers in Indianapolis will receive their papers from one to two
hours earlier than usual, with the exception of those whose papers
are delivered by traction cars. These carriers will get their papers
at the same time as usual. There will be no LATE FINANCIAL
EDITION.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES Circulation Dept.
red lantern.”
(Business of swinging red lan
tern in the road. With a grinding
of brakes and a small of burning
rubber, the big automobile comes to
a stop. From it peers out a tall,
smooth-shaven man wearing, among
other things, a big broad-brimmed
black hat.)
First Liquor Sleuth—“ Have you any
forbidden hootch in that there car?”
Man With Broad-Brimmed Hat —“No."
Second Liquor Sleuth—" Well, beat it
out of there and we will give the bus
the once over and see for ourselves.”
Man with Broad-Brimmed Hat—“ All
right, friends, search the old car good
and if you find any booze I’ll pay you
for it.”
Service Men’s Pension May
Be Substituted for ‘Bonus’
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—A service
men's pension as a substitute for the so
c-'Med soldier bonus Is being considered
by Administration lenders today, in con
nection with tax revision.
While the pension plan contemplated
may not be worked out lminediattly or
may not be presented to Congress until
next year, it is likely to prove one of
the determining factors in whatever
system of taxation Is adopted finally to
meet the Government s estimated obliga
tions and running expenses during the
next and the following calendar year.
Administration leaders are suggesting
that Senator Smoot's plan for a modi
fied commodities sales tar In the gule
of a manufacturers' tax of 3 per cent
Would Rent $15,000 House
at Capital for $3,000 a Month
Special to Indiana Dally Times
and Philadelphia Publlo Lsdgvr.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—While Gov
ernment departments are crowding into
the smallest possible space in order to
make room for the secretariat of the
Washington conference, foreign govern
ments are having the greatest difficulty
In finding housing accommodations in
the capital for their delegations at any
thing like a reasonable price.
An Instance reported to the White
House by one of the embses'es capped
the climax. A residence in Washington
which Is on the market to be sold for
$13,000 was sought to house part of the
men that that nation is sending here.
Inquiries, were prude as to the rental tLtt
would be expected bv the atonlb with the
right to surrender the property upon a
month's notice. The repr smtntlve of ihe
foreign government was informed that
It would be S3OOO.
The discovery was made In the face of
efforts that have been made by Govern
ment officials to get suitable property
at reasonable rentals for the foreign
visitors. Percy M. Russell, chairman of
WALLS CAVE IN;
3 MEN INJURED
Workmen Caught in Exca
vation at Cadle Taber
nacle,
i Three men were Injured today when
they were trapped in cave in in the
Cadle Tabernacle, New Jersey and Ohio
streets.
William Lamb, 40, negro, 2500 Oxford
street, was the most seriously injured
and was taken to the city hospital. >l.
J. Massy, 40, also a negro, S2B Athens
street, sustained severe injuries, and
Charles O. Wlesner, 80, 634 East Tenth
street, white foreman, was severely
bruised.
These men, with Burt Hdlen, negro.
1007 Churchman avenue, and Myron Hol-
I man, 820 Athens street, negro, were en
gaged in digging a furnace cellar be
■ neath the tabernacle, when the walls
; caved In.
j Lamb and Massy were completely
burled, and it required the unite def
forts of a number of workmen and fire-
I men from the headquarters company
near by to extricate them.
Wieaner escaped being burled, but was
bruised by the force of the falling walls.
The excavation was about ten feet deep
and framework tand been erected around
the sides to retain the gravel walls.
ELEVEN OF CREW
ROW TO SAFETY
Travel 625 Miles on Water
After Mishap.
SAN FRANCISCO, Kert. 3.—After hav
ing been given up for lost, eleven sea
men of the waterlogged freighter,
Canadian Importer, performed the ap
parently Impossible feat of rowing (125
miles to this port.
The news of their safety and first de
tails of their feat became known today,
when the red stack tug Sea Lion, which
left here last nlgbt to tow in the Canad
ian Importer, wirelessed that she .had
picked up the lifeboat with its eleven
men and all were in good shape. She is
returning them to the Canadian Importer.
q (By Carrier. Week. Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, lie.
Subscription Rates. j ßy M „, 500 Pcr M or.th. *6.00 Per Tear.
First Liquor Sleuth —“Say, who are
you, anyway ?”
Friend of Man with Broad-Brimmed
Hat—“ Gentlemen, this is Senator Harry
S. New.”
First Liquor Sleuth —“Haw! haw! haw!
That's good. And this man vith me Is
President Harding, and that guy over
there with the automatic revolver is
General Pershing, and that little short
gink back there is Mr. Volstead.”
All Liquor Sleuths —“Haw! haw! haw!
Senator New! That's good, ain’t it.”
(Search proceeds, no contraband
booze is discovered. Big car goes
on its way toward Indianpolls. Pro
hibition sleuths resume businese of
searching automobiles.)
P. S. —It really WAS Senator New.
be held hack rr a possible means of
financing the pension plan when the time
!s ripe for it.
The suggestion that the sales tax
might be used to raise revenue neces
sary to provide ex-service men with pen
sions in lieu of the bonus denied them,
is said by Republican Senators closely
associated with the Administration, to
have been discussed with President
Harding by Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon this week.
Secretary Mellon and Republican
House Leader Mondell are both credited
by these Senators wit hseeking to have
the Smoot plan deferred so the Admin
istration could fall back upon it when
it Is ready to put the proposed pension
plan into operation.
a special committee of the Washington
real estate board had reported that
many properties listed for the Wash
ington conference "appear to be well
suited for the use intended and also
that the prices asked for their rental are
In the main fair and reasonable.”
The space to be given the secretariat
of the conference has been taken from
the Navy Department. The first floors
of two wings of the new Navy building
in Potomac Park are to ba cleared by
the Navy and remodeled for conference
purposes The offices arc the nearest
available to the Government in the vicin
ity of the Pan American building, and.
in fact, n re immediately a.ros* the
Street Abut’ oro hupdi.d f ffl'es are
to be evacuated by the Navy so it is
anticipated all the needs of the secre
tariat will be met.
No fnr’her action has been taken, it
was stated at the White House, cn the
tide of the American delegation to the
-o-iference, and no further definite selec
tions for membership have been made. —
Copright, 1921, by the Public Ledger Cos.
C. N. KENDALL
DEAD IN EAST
Former Head cf Indianapolis
Schools.
Word was received in Indianapolis to
day of the death of C. N. Kendall,
formerly superintendent of the Indian
apolis schools, at Knoxville, N. Y. Mr.
Kendall's home was in Princeton, N. ,T.
After leaving the Indianapolis schools
Mr. Kendall became commissioner of
education for New Jersey and was ac
counted one of the foremost educators of
the country.
He held the superintendency here prior
to J. G. Collioott, who was succeeded by
E. 1 7 . Graff, the present school head.
Mr. Kendall's wife died about a year
ago and he had been lu 111 health for
some time.
Dr. Kendall was appointed superin
tendent of the Indianapolis schools in
1900 and served In that capacity for
eleven years. During that time he served
(from 1904 to 1906, as president of the
Southern Indiana Teachers’ Association
and from 1910 to 1911 as president of
Ihe State Teachers' Association. He
came to Indianapolis from New Haven,
Conn., where he had been superintendent
of schools for five years.
Dr. Kendall was born in Augusta, N.
Y.. Feb. 9, 1859. He was graduated from
Hamilton College aud later received de
grees from Yale, the University of Michi
gan. New York University and Rutgers.
He married Alta B. Field of Jackson.
Mich., where he was superintendent of
shcools from ISSfi to 1890. From IS9O to
1.892 he was superintendent of schools
in Saginaw, Mich. For three years after
this he was in business, lu 1895 he be
came superintendent of schools in New
Haven, Conn. He then came to Indian
apolis until he was appointed commis
sioner of education for the State of New
Jersey by Governor Woodrow Wilson.
He held this position until his death.
SHANK WILL GO
AT RAPID PACE
After Fair Week He Plans
Six Meetings Daily.
To establish closer relations between
the workers and the men on the ticket,
Samuel Lewis Shank, Republican nominee
for mayor, and other Republican candi
dates will attend meetings In every pre
cinct in the city, to be held beginning
the week after next, at the rate of five
or six a night, it was announced at
Republican city headquarters today. The
move will not be started until after next
week because of the State fair.
With the fair cut of the way. Repub
licans say they will start their organ
iation to working at a speed which will
not be diminished until after the elec
tion In November. The first meetings
will be hdd In the Thirteenth ward.
Mr. Shank will be ’’he principal speak
er at an outing of |.je Moose lodges of
Fulton County at 1.0 .e Manltou Monday.
No. 50/ or Ruth
NEW YORK, ept. 3.—Babe Ruth
moved up to with i four runs of the 1930
record this afte .00(1 when be bit his
fiftieth home tv i of the season in the
third inning of .ho game with Washing
ton. Two men were on base. Courtney
WM pitching.
LAST HOME EDITION
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WELCOME SOLDIERS,
AND PREPARE TO END
‘WAR;’ GOING HOME
LOGAN, W. Va., Sept. 3. —One thousand miners
left the front this afternoon on a train wlr.ch brought
United States troops to Hewitt’s Creek.
The miners are through.
This was the Information brought here by a scout
late today.
CHARLESTON, W. 3.—An
engine and group of miners who hau
seized it were captured near Sharpies to
day by Federal troops, according to a re
port received at the Governor's office
this afternoon. The men were disarmed,
the report says.
No resistance to the soldiers was of
fered. ,
This is the first contact between sol
diers and miners thus far reported.
The sheriff s office at Logan states re
ports have been received there this morn
ing of fighting on Coal River and as
there are no defenders on the Coal River
side of the dividing ridge, the action is
believed to be between miners aud Fed
eral troops that arrived at Sharpies early
today.
Sharpies is at the mouth of Beech
Creek, so that the Federal troops have
driven a wedge through the miners’
army.
CHARLETOX. W. Va., Sept. 3—Word
has reiched here that with ihe arrival
of the Federal troops thq miners are
moving back from their entrenched po
sitions In the mountains, preparatory to
returning to their homes.
The feeling is general here that the
end of the fighting, if it already las
not come, is in sight. It is believed to
dty will mark the end of hostilities.
The miners, it is said, feel that with
Federal troops on the scene they will
BULLETINS
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Sept. 3.
United Mine Workers officials,
condition that C. F. Keeney and
(ouch with the prosecuting attorney
of Mingo County to learn what as
surances, if any, would be given on
condition that C. F. Keeney andn
Fred Mooney, district president and
secretary respective!,, wanted in
Mingo on ihe charge of murder, sur
render, it was learned here today.
The prosecuting attorney sent back
word no promises of any kind would
be made and indicated that the of
ficials would have to face the charges
in the same manner as ottier defend
ants.
Sheriff Henry A. Walker, who has
the warrants for their arrest, is con
tinuing his search for them.
WILLIAMSON, W. Tn.. Sept. 3.
AI! special State policemen in Mingo
County, numbering approximately
700, have been moli bi zed by Maj.
Thomas B. Davis, military com
mander of the county, following
alarming reports of the concentration
of armed miners at several points on
the Kentucky sine of the Tug River.
One asentbly is opposite Merrimac,
four miles east of Williamson, where
heavy fighting took place during the
three-days' battle last May. A con
siderable force assembled at Kermit
but was dispersed.
A demonstration is feared against
the county Jail, where a number of
officials are being held on murder
and other felony charges in connec
tion with recent disturbances.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Sept. B.
Reports today from sources consid
ered reliable stated that the armed
miners already have begun to break
up. Several officials of the Vnited
Mine Workers are in the disturbed
area and are believed to have spread
tlie news among the men that Fed
eral troops have arrived.
There was a feeling this morning
in circles in rloso touch with the
military authorities that the martial
law proclamation already drawn up
and signed by President Harding
and withheld, will not be promul
gated.
WILLIAMSON. W. Va.. Sept. 3.
Forty-two funerals for miners killed
In the fighting on tlie Logan-Boone
County border were held Friday lu
Blair, Sheriff A. C. Pinson was in
formed in a telephone message from
the sheriff’s office at Logan today.
“The number of miners killed is
between 250 and 500, according to
my estimates,” said Sheriff Cliafln
over tlie telephone to Sheriff Pinson.
This number of dead has not yet
been, reported from any other source
and from no quarter has there been
so high an estimate of tlie killed.
Sheriff Cliafin reported that all the
miners taken prisoner had made
statements of how and why tiiey
came to participate in tlie march.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 3.—After
conferring witli the President, Secre
tary M eeks said tie would not make
the trip with the President on tlie
Mayflower this afternoon hut would
remain in Washington to keep in
close tonch with the West Virginia
situation.
Peace First and
Then Conference,
Gompers Is Told
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. President
Harding today was asked by Samuel
Gompers, president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, and James Lord, head
of the mining department of the federa
tion, to call a Joint conference of West
Virginia miners and operators to con
sider means for a final end of the labor
troubles there.
Gompers and Lord supported the sim
ilar suggestion made by John L. Lewis,
head of the United Mine Workers.
The President informed the labor lead
ers that until the authority of the United
States has been established in West Vir
ginia and order restored, he does not feel
he can act further. He said his first duty
is the re-bstablishment of peace and
order.
Gompers told the President that even
though peace may be restored in the
present situation, it will not settle the
long drawn out labor warfare and he
urge the Government to take steps to
wipe out the causes, of the controversy
between the miners and the operators.
He suggested that the President shdfcld
not only call the joint conference, Jut
should have a representative upon It. .
NO. 98.
be able to return safely to thalr homes,
with the assurance that their Interests
will be protected.
The arrival of the troops wa* welcomed
by the miners, It was reported hero.
COMMANDER SAYS
FIELD IS QUIET
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—Official re
ports indicate that the situation in West
Virginia is quieting, althougn there are
unconfirmed reports of continued fight
ing, General Bandholtz reported to the
War Department this afternoon from Ms
headquarters at Charleston.
General Bandholtz made no recommen
dations for the promulgation cf martial
law.
All troops, with the exception :.t those
from Camp Dix, 'now have arrived in
West Virginia and begun duty as patrols
iu the “fiattle areas,” General Bandholu
reported.
Reports from the office of Governor
Morgan. Sheriff Don Cbafin of Logaa
County and Col. R. R. Smith of the
Logan defenders, indicated the crisle
had been met with the arrival of Federal
troops.
The Administration is reluctant t
establish martial law In West Virginia
unless it becomes absolutely necessary,
it was stated officially, and final de
rision on the necessity for this action
has been placed, in the hands of General
Bandholtz. Until he recommends martial
law. the proclamation will be withheld,
it was stated.
One reason the Administration is loath
to declare martial law is that it might
Interfere w)Uh business in the West
' irginia coal regions, it was stated. It
is the hope of officials that after the ar
rival of troops the situation will be
such that military rule will not be neces
sary.
President Harding is keeping in close
touch with the situation. Secretary
Weeks continued to withhold comment
on the repor's of military plans of Gen
eral Bam "loitz. He stated the General is
handling he situation as a tactical
problem and may use whatever military
methods are necessary.
57 KILLED IN
THE FIGHTING
LOGAN W. Va., Sept. 3.—Fifty
seven are dead and as many wounded
as a result of the nine days of Indus
trial strife raging in the West Virginia
mountains.
The casualty list is unofficial, but Is
believed to be conservative, being esti
mated from reports reaching headquar
ters of the defenders at Logan court
house.
Seven deputies are known to have been
killed ar.d several are missing from the
Loganite army; the miners' casualty list
is believed to be much heavier.
Firing continued over the entire front
of twenty-five miles during tonight, but,
according to early reports, no general at
tack was attempted by the miners. The
firing consisted of sniping. Automobiles
carrying reinforcements and reliefs from
Logan courthouse to Ethel were fire!
upon and several shots were fired ince
the town of Logan.
EXTECT MINERS
TO GO HOME.
That the miners will quit when the
troops arrive is the general opinion.
However. Logan men say it will be
many weeks before order Is completely
restored. They say trouble will continue
In isolated sections and that the au
thorities will be confronted by a tre
mendous problem In ironing out the sit
uation.
The most severe fighting late yester
day and early today is reported at Blair
mountain and Crooked Creek. Four Lo
ganltes and several miners are believed
to have been killed at Blair mountain
yesterday.
A heavy attack was launched late last
night at Crooked Creek. The miners
were able to make slight progress, but
were later thrown back with losses, ac.
cording to officials here.
NO OFFENSIVE
THIS MORNING.
The daybreak danger period passed
this morning without the general offen
sive of miners that has marked the past
three days. The military authorities
took this as a hopeful indication that
the “Red band" army had decided to
suspend hostilities in anticipation of the
arri.il of Federal troops
However, vigilance was not relaxed.
New reliefs were sent out under Colonel
Jackson Arnold to Blair Mountiln. The
battle hag radiated around this strong
point and Crooked Creek.
It was rumored that Arnold world
launch an offensive this morning to clear
Blair of miners. The little mountain
town, like Verdun, lies In the shadow of
the mountain. In it the miners have
maintained positions for four days.
They have made periodical ealliss out
of the town, attacking the Loganites on
the hilltop. The hills surrounding Blair
Mountain are suid to be filled with min
er's snipers.
SEE END OF
FIGHTING TODAY.
The Logan men are expected to make
a strong effort to clear the Blair Moun
tain district of miners today. Miners
would have to pass this point or pass
at Crooked Creek in order to reach Logan
Courthouse.
Reports fit headquarters Indicated that
firing occurred during the night over
the entire front, but that it is quieting
down this morning. Air scouts reported
here that Federal troops are in Boone
County and are approaching the front.
This announcement was greetod with
great satisfaction. End of the fighting
is anticipated today.
300 TROOPS SENT
TO BHARPLES FRONT.
Seven hundred troops under command
of Colonel Martin arrived here early
this morning. The commaning officer
immediately dispatched a special train
with 300 men to Sharpies, ten miles
bark of the Logan border.
Sharpies has been a big congregating
point of the miners.
What action will be taken by the Fed
eral troops to meet the situation Is not
known. It la considerably doiibtfsl
whether it will be necessary for them ap
engage the misers. WZi