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NEW KEPT 3USY
DODGING WHILE
FIXING FENCES
Political Interest Centers in
Postmastership Quiet
Conference Likely.
While United States Senator Harry S.
New Is building his fences in bis race
for rennmlnation he also is forced to play
s game of hide-and-seek with the nu
merous candidates for the postmaster
ship of’lndianapolis who are bringing
and having brought considerable pressure
upon him for Ms indorsement.
And while s.nator New is haring a
hard time making himself unavailable to
the applicants for his favor. Mayor-elect
Samuel Lewis Shank, regarded as another
force in the postmastersiiip race, was
enjoying temporary security from the
onslaughts of the support seekers on a
cross-country trip from Hot Springs,
Ark., to Memphia, Tenn. Before he can
be located there he probably will have
left for Louisville, Ky., and by tbe prac
tice of a little Ingenuity It la possible
that be may get all the way back to
Indianapolis late this week without
reaching the stage where he wishes there
were no such thing as a postmaster.
For weeks politicians have regarded the
postmastership as being almost certain
to be given to Frederick E. Schortemeier,
secretary of the Republican State commit
tee, or City Controller Robert H. Bry
son. They thought that right after the
municipal election the long delay In su
perseding Robert E. Springsteen, Demo
cratic lncumbant, with a. Republican,
would be broken. But a United States
Senator and a Congressman of the Sev
enth District are to be nominated and
elected next year, and Senator New an
Representative Merrill Moores still are
understood to be undecided as to whon
they will recommend for the postmaster
ship.
Since Edward J. Robison, original
Bhank choice, was found to be ineligible
because of being over the age limit,
most of the Shank lieutenants have ex
pressed preference for Mr. Bryson. Mr.
Bryson came out of the News-Jewett
camp and worked for the election of Mr.
Shank after Thomas C. Howe and Mr.
Ralston were defeated In the primary.
But Mr. Schortemeier entered the post
mastership race and politicians figured
that hs would not be an applicant unies
be were practically certain that he had
the appointment tied up.
SHANK DENIES
BACKING ANYBODY.
In ths face of reports that Mr. Shanl
had pledged himself to Mr. Bryson, Rob
ert Acre, a primary lieutenant of Mr
Robison, announced today that he had
received a message from the mayor-elect
saying that he is not backing any of the
applicants.
Meanwhile it is understood that Sena
tor New has been quietly seeking to ar
range a meeting with Shank leaders. It
was thought that this conference might
be held even before Mr. Shank gets back
to the city and that results of Important
bearing upon the postmastership contest
would come out of it.
So far as is known, the civil service
commission has not certified to the Post
master General the three applicants re
ceiving the highest rating from the post
office and civil service inspectors who
Investigated them several weeks ago. Un
der President Harding 1 ! ruling the Post
master General must select one of these
three.
One of the applicants for the post
mastership said that tbe inspectors said
before they left the city that the names
of the three high men would be given to
the press at Washington as soon as they
were certified to the postmaster general.
Mr. Shank will face another important
problem when he returns. It was an
nounced yesterday by William H. Arml
tage, who had Just returned from a visit
with tbe Shank party at Hot Springs,
that the mayor-elect Intended to offer the
Democratic membership on the board of
public safety to Mrs. Shank. Today It
was announced that Mrs. Shauk had re
fused the post.
Before he left the city, Mr. Shank had
Andrew Wahl and Edwin H. Beck under
consideration for this place. In view
of his offer to Mrs. Shank, It is thought
he has dropped both Mr. Wahl and Mr.
Beck and will try to decide upon some
one elss when he returns. It Is under
stood that Mr. Beck can have another im
portant post In the administration If he
will accept It.
Marines to Listen to
Wireless Program
Members of the Marines’ Club will
bear a wireless concert in thetr rooms.
137 North Illinois street, Friday evening.
The concert will be played at the F. F.
Hamilton studios on North Alabama
street and will be transmitted to the
clubrootLs' by wireless. All marines and
former marines are Invited to be present.
Marriage Licenses
Jerry Somerville, 2061 N. Capitol... 29
Ruth Slayer, 4202 X. Capitol 29
Waymsn Byers. 2109 Bluff 21
Retta Jarrett, 23 E. McCarty 19
Ilemlet Carothers. 145 IV. 2d 28
Marty Beltz, 2172 N. Illinois 25
Richard Burgermeister, 1862 Barth...’ 29
Thula Roy. 1445 Linden 27
Raymond Earler, Helena, Mont 26
Mabel Daugherty, Helena, Mont 31
Joseph Kennelly. 201 N. New Jersey.. 25
Eliza Schroenberg, 201 N. New Jersey 24
Sherman Miller, Philadelphia, Pa..... 31
Elizabeth Miller, Rockford, 111 32
Fred Bisehoff. 625 Prospect 23
Florence Blnisdell. 1113 Church 28
Henry Herler, 1819 Union 31
Tisha Oakley, 1541 Central 23
Births
Russell and Thelma Clark, 2191 Dexter,
boy.
Fred and Mary Goforth, 900 Congress
girl.
George an dAnna Gibbs, city hospital,
boy.
Truman and Bessie Coan, city hospital,
girl.
Ira and Mamie Wheeler, city hospital,
girl.
Arthur and Mary Carey, 3125 Suther
land. glrL
Earl and Lillian Wllkerson, 1022 South
Senate, girl. i
Charles and Genera McCracken, 514 N.
Noble, boy.
Jamea and Edith Miller, 2638 Burton,
boy..
Earl and Minnie Reed, 1606 Orange,
girl.
Grorer and Hattie Glbln, 919 E. Ray
mond, boy.
John and Stella Cnstner. 515 Birch, girl.
Albert and Mabel Saba, city hospital,
boy.
Charles and Margaret Dickerson, 1100
Knox, girl.
J oseph and Lena Scbmoll, 1218 King,
boy.
’’’bomas and Thelma Prather, 1220 Lin
de a, boy.
Herbert and Mary Green, 1211 E. Kelly,
girl.
Deaths
William Sommers, 27, Long Hospital,
pulmonary tuberculosis
Thomas Bayne, 3. c.ty hospital, diph
theria.
Ethridge Hicks, 34, 968 Pershing, bron
cho pneumonia.
George T. Colvin, 78. 2508 East Wash
ington, broncho pneumonia.
Mary Clark, 73, 801 Fayette, catarrhal
r?inmonla.
Louisa Strahl. 73, city hospital, chronic
interstitial nephritis.
John Andrew Cutting. 66, 1718 North
Illinois, erysipelas.
Nancy Jane Potter, 78. 1215 Broadway,
arterio sclerosis.
Charles F. Wider. 65, city hospital, frac
tured skull, accidental.
Alice Meson, 59, 741 West North, cere
bral hemorrhage.
Mary Goins, 38, city hospital, lobar
pneumonia.
Vincent Frederick Funke, 12, 924 North
Keystone, diphtheria.
Charles J. Scherrer, 66, 1400 Rembrandt.
earcinoma.
Hold Night Sessions
in ‘lce Trust* Case
Indications are that Judge W. W. Eich
horn of Bluffton, who is presiding in
the so-called ’‘ice trust” case in Superior
Court, room 1, will hold a night session
tonight for the purpose of speeding up
the trial.
Night sessions are said to be necessary
if all the evidence is to be submitted
this week. The defense today continued
its introduction qf witnesses in an ef
fort to show that there was no combina
tion of ice dealers to control the retail
price of ice.
WATSON MAKES
THREAT CHARGE
AGAINST LEGION
Georgia Senator Says Former
Soldiers Fear to Tell of
Hangings.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—" Officers o? the
American Legion and interests favorable
to tbe War Department,” are intimidating
witnesses by whom Senator Watson,
Democrat, Georgia, expects to prove the
wholesale hanging of American soldiers
In France without trial, according to
charges made today by Senator Watson.
The special Senate committee hearing
Watson s charges is to begin Thursday.
“Some of my witnesses, who are dis
abled soldiers, have Informed me that
they fear a loss of compensation if they
testify, and others tell me of having re
ceived veiled threats that they will lose
their Jobs or that their business will be
made to suffer if they tell what they
know before the committee,” continued
the Georgia Senator.
“Nevertheless, I am going ahead. When
I am through I think I will not only
have proved every charge that I have
made, but I will have shown that there
was a deliberate falsification of the rec
ords of executions sent to the War De
partment from France.”
Senator Watson pointed to a great
sheaf of letters and affidavits.
“There is the letter of William A Small
of Little Rock, Ark., who writes that he
refused extra pay to serve as a gallows
guard and that he saw fifteen men 'hanged
by a halter,’ he said.”
“Another man writes that he saw a
negro and two .whites hanged at St. Ain
gen and ‘twenty men strung up from one
end of France to the other.’ ”
VAN NUYS FLAYS
U, S. DRY SLEUTHS
(Continued From Page One.)
he had purchased liquor from tbe Szabo
and Csailo places in South Bend, he said
he could not remember. Persistent ques
tioning by the court failed to elicit a
definite answer, and turning to Marshal
Mark Storen, Judge Anderson said:
"Take him to jail, Mr. Marshal, until
his memory improves. This man commit
ted rank perjury on the stand here the
other day. I am going to show some of
these people that they cannot come here
and commit perjury at will.”
Marshal Storen was told to bace Eis
ner back in the courtroom at 2 o’clock
this afternoon to see if his memory had
returned to him after a few hours tn Jail.
Indications were that Eisner will be held
for perjury to the Federal grand Jury it
he persists In his refusal to “remember'
as to what he testified to before the last
grand jury.
During revelations as to the extent of
tbe liquor traffic In northern Indiana.
Judge Anderson expressed surprise that
the chief of police of South Bend and
other officials bad not been indicted.
Floyd J. Mattice, assistant district at
torney. explained that there had been
nothing to connect these officials with the
conspiracy, although apparently they had
shown little or no interest In law en
forcement.
Judge Anderson then took up the mat
ter of considering each individual case of
the defendants to determine the extent of
thir gulst and the extensiveness of tblr
operations.
“HIGHJACKED” AT OAKY;
GIVEN NO TRIAL.
The frankest statement of the day was
made by William Jones of Indianapolis,
who was held up by Melloy and Herman
Nyhoff, constables, while running liquor
in from Chicago.
“After these men ‘highjacked’ me," he
said, “I never had any trial at Gary. If
there had been a trial I would not have
been here today. My sentence in the
State courts would have been served and
I would have been all through."
“You have a right to complain,” Judge
Anderson said. “It is an infamous out
rage that we have to take up our time in
this court with these cases. If they were
handled honestly in the State courts these
people would not* be here now.”
Mr. Van Nuys backed up the state
ments made by Jones.
“I have known .Tones for twenty-five
years,” he said, “and while he Is s liquor
law violator I know that he is telling the
truth in this case.”
ANDERSON SAYS PROFIT
NOT UNREASONABLE.
"I bought five cases at $l5O a case,”
Jones told the court.
"How much a quart did you get for
it?” he asked.
“I didn't sell by the quart, only by the
case or by the load,” he answered. He
added that he made a profit of sls a case.
"That is not unreasonable,” Judge An
derson said.
When the cases were called this morn
ing there was a stampede of pleas of
guilty, with the result that the South
Bend case faded out whereas a big fight
had been expected.
The conspiracy cases against John
Maculskl and Joe Voordie were nolled,
although Maculskl entered a plea of
guilty in another case of individual viola
tion of the law.
COOK COUNTY SHERIFF
FAILS TO HONOR WRIT.
There Is an angle to the Voordie case
that may cause some trouble in the Fed
eral Court at Chicago before It is settled.
It was necessary to nolle against Voordie,
according to Mr. Van Nuys, because of
the absence of a witness, Harry Durst,
who In the Cook County jail at Chicago.
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Laudis had or
dered his removal to this State as a wit
ness. but the sheriff of Cook County is
said to have refused to recognize the
writ. This may lead to contempt proceed
ings before Judge Landis.
The list of those awaiting final dispo
sition of their cases are Agnes, Theresa,
George and Joe Szabo, Alex and Eliza
beth Csailo, Tony Korases, John Demns,
Peter Manos. John Maculskl, Stephen
Crabb, Joe Czigany. all of South Bend;
Julius Muslck, Andrew Kekko, Joseph
Varga, Daniel Melloy, Anton Koslha and
Herman Nyhoff of Gary; Peter Herron,
Charles V. L. Marshall and John M. Katn
of Chicago: Frank L. Arndt, Michigan
City; William .Jones of Indianapolis.
Dmiter Njegovian of Gary entered a
plea of guilty of transporting fifteen gal
lons of whisky, and a jury found Peter
Streitoff, also of Gary, guilty of viola
tion of the law after being out only a
few minutes. These cases will be dis
posed of today by the court.
Cases against George Hosier, Louis
Powell. Alex Csailo and Lewis Nemuth,
all of South Bend, and Guy Swartz and
Sam Archer of Toledo, were nolled. These
men were charged with, being Implicated
In transportation of liquor between
South Bend and Toledo.
Piles Cured In- 6 to 14 Days.
Druggists refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure Itching. Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Instantly
relieves Itching Piiss. 00c.—Advertise
ment.
STOCK DEALER
FOUND DEAD IN
HIS BEDROOM
John A. Schmalz of Near
Patricksburg Dies From
Asphyxiation-
In a gas filled room at 829 North Illi
nois street the body of John A. Schmalz,
00. of Patricksburg, Ind., was found to
day. At first it was thought the man bad
committed suicide, but Dr. George Cbrls
tion, deputy coroner, and police officers
who investigated declared that death was
due to accident- A window of the room
was raised more than five Inches and the
authorities declare that If Schmalz wished
to commit suicide that he would have
closed the window.
Schmalz is a stock dealer. Papers found
in his possession showed he had dealings
with Ray & Galbraith at the Indian
apolis stock yards. He is a member of
tbe order of Moose at Spencer, ind. Ho
had his own bank checks with his name
printed on them.
Schmalz came to the rooming house of
Mrs. Docie Welly at 4 p. in. Saturday
and rented rt room. At 6 a. in. today
Schmalz went downstairs and asked for
some drinking water and returned to the
room. Shortly before noon Dolly Smith,
a roomer, smelled gas, and on investi
gating found Schmalz lying on the bed
in his room. The room was filled with
gas escaping from a gas jet which had
been turned on.
WORKING RULES
BEING ARGUED
Disputes of Rail Employes
Brought Before U. S.
Labor Board.
CHICAGO. Dec. o.—Consideration of
disputes over working rules between rail
way maintenance employes and the rail
road companies v s started today by the
United States railroad labor board.
Modification of the national agreement
made between the United States railroad
administration and the maintenance of
way men will probably result. Already
this agreement has been suspended or
nearly forty roads and replaced by an
understanding entered into between each
line and its employes. These under
standings will not be affected by the
board's ruling.
About ninety-five roads are involved ir
the dispute.
Agreement has been reached betweer
the individual roads and the unions op
all except six of the rules. These rulet
relate to over time and pay of men
while traveling to and from work. Only
those rules still in dispute were taken
up by the board.
$2,200 ADDED TO
ELECTION BILLS
Additional Appropriation Or
dinance to Be Put Before
Council.
An ordinance appropriating $2,200 to
the city elections fund, making possible
complete payments of allowances to the
city boards of election commissioners
and canvassers which he had opposed on
the ground that they were excessive, will
be recommended to the city council at a
special meeting next Monday evening
City Controller Robert H. Bryson an
nounced today. He did this after Cor
poration Counsel Samuel Ashby gave him
a formal opinion bolding that, the council
was legally right In adopting resolutions
fixing the pay of Maurice E. Tennant and
Thomas D. McGee as appointive members
of the board of election commissioners
at. $1,500 each and of Tennant. McGee and
City Clerk George O. Htttsel! ss mem
bers of tbe board of canvassers at SSOO
each.
Mr. Ashby's ruling is directly opposed
to an opinion handed down by Jesse E
Eaehbach, chief' examiner of the State
board of accounts.
Mr. Bryson announced several days
ago that if Mr. Ashby formally advised
him that the council was right he would
do what was necessary to make the pay
ments. The elections fund does not con
tain enough to pay the commissioners and
canvassers the full amount, ns well as a
few small bills for the Nov. ,8 election
which hnVe come In since most of the
bills were paid, Dec. 1, so Ml Bryson
said it will be necessary to ask for an
additional appropriation of $2,200.
Fletcher Companies
Give Annual Dinner
The annua! dinner and danre of the
Fletcher American National Bank and
the Fletcher American Company for their
employes was held at the Athenaeum last
night, with 210 employes and officials of
the two companies present.
Ralph K. Smith was toastmaster at
the dinner, and the principal address was
by Fred Hoke. Addresses of welcome
were made, on the part of the bank by
E. W. Stout, and on behalf of the Fletcher
America i Company by George Forrey,
There was a vocal solo by Miss Jose
phine Fogarty, accompanied by Mrs.
Shelley Given, pianist. Dancing followed
the dinner.
Post Will Entertain
by Wireless Concert
George Dewey post No. 3, through the
eourtesy of the Hoosier Radio Company,
has arranged a special feature for Its
meeting tomorrow night at the post hall
Sixteenth and Illinois streets. A musical
program will be transmitted by wireless
telephone from the F. F. Hamilton studios
on North Alabama street. All ex-sailorr
and marines are invited to attend, whelli
er members of the post or not. Follow
ing the entertainment a meeting will be
called to complete final plans for a huge
smoker and rally, to be held at the
Chamber of Commerce Wednesday follow
ing, at which Mayor Charles W. Jewett
will make the principal address.
New Delivers Talk
Before Rotarians
Senator Harry S. New made a brief
speech at the weekly meeting of the In
dianapolis Rotary Club at the Ciaypool
Hotel at noon today. He spent most of
the day conferring with party leaders
from all parts of the State. Others on
the program of tlie Rotary Club were
Mr. and Mrs. Will Cressy, botli Rotarians,
who were prominent in the work of the
Actors’ Overseas League during the war.
RUN DOWN BY AUTOMOBILE.
Paul Carelll, 5, 1525 North Arsenal ave
nue, was knocked down and run over by
an automobile driven by Ed Lewis, 550
Fletcher avenue, today. The boy ran di
rectly in front of the maehine, the police
were told. At the city hospital it was
said his injuries are not serious.
BAR MEETING POSTPONED.
The regular meeting of the Indian
spoils Bgr Association, which was sched
uled for tomorrow night, has been post
poned. Tie date will be Aged later.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6,1921.
Officials Take
Finger Prints of
80 School Kids
LEESBURG, Ind.. Dee. 6.—Finger
prints of the eighty students of the
local school were taken by city au
thorities today.
Some oue climbed in through the
window last night and stole twelve
fountain pens from the schoolroom.
The crook left ills dirty finger marks
on the window frame. Thus, the in
vestigation.
HEARINGS ARE
CONCLUDED ON
APPRAISEMENT
Ashby Announces Plaza Bond
Issue Will Be Ready by
Dec. 23.
Appraisers of the property in the block
to be acquired by the city for Memorial
Plaza purposes today completed hearings
of property owners. Corporation Counsel
Ashby announced that bids on the sl,-
600,000 Memorial Plaza bonds Issue will
be rece.ved Dee. 23.
Joseph J. Schmid, secretary of the ap
praisement board, comprising seven real
estate men and two architects, said the
board has been greatly pleased with the
attitude of the property owners, all of
whom responded to invitations to come
before the board in the offices of the
Indianapolis Heal Estate Board, 817
Lemeke building and tell what they
thought their holdings are worth. Mr.
Schmid said that nothing to indicate that
any of the property owners intend to at
tempt to block acquisition of the real es
tate by the city hag occurred in the
hearings.
The appraisers adjourned today, prob
ably until Friday, when they will tart
making personal inupectious of all o' the
property to be taken. This is located
in the block bounded by Norths Michigan,
Meridian and Pennsylvania streets.
Mr. Ashby announced the date for the
receipt of bids on the bouds after *
conference with City Controller Robert
H. Bryson. The bids will be received at
the controller's office and will be opened
at noon on Dec. 23. Advertising of the
issue will be started Wednesday. The
issue is of five-year <5 per cent, bonds, it
being the intention to refund them at a
lo.yer rate of interest at t>e end of five
years, when it is expected that interest
rates will be lower.
The appraisers expect to have their re
port of valuations of all of the property
in the city’s block in the hands of the
board of public works within the next
two weeks so that the board can start
negotiating the transfers of the real es
tate as soon as the money from the bond
sale Is available.
MURAT AGAIN
CALLS POLICE
Anew chapter in the Murat Theater
mystery was written in police records
today. Y'esterday three masked bandits
each" carrying revolvers held up and at
tempted to rob Nelson Trowbridge, man
ager, and a number of employes who
were in the office. The hold-up was un
successful, but Mr. Trowbridge said he
was hit In the mouth by a bandit when
ho refused to open the safe.
William Garr, night watchman at the
Murat Theater, at 5.-20 a. m. today notl
fie I the police that burglars had at
tempted to enter the theater office. The
police hurried to the scene and Garr
showed them a ladder which he said he
bad found leaning against the building
under the office window. The police
declare there were no niarka on the
window that would indicate an attempt to
force the window.
DECKER MURDER
CASE WEARS ON
Fennsy Brakeman First to
Reach Lovett After Death.
Special to The Times.
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind.. Dec. 6.—The
star witness for the State in Fred
Decker's murder trial became confused
under cross-examination today and a
hearty laugh from the crowded court
room interrupted the story of the brutal
killing of Lovett.
Clayton Merrell, a private detective of
Elkhart, gave testimony which conflicted
with that, submitted at the trial of Virgil
Decker, Fred's younger brother, who was
sentenced to life imprisonment for the
crime.
“How long have you been a detective?"
a defense attorney asked.
"A little over a year,” Merrell replied.
The defense then brought forth evl
dence from Virgil Deckers trial, where
Merrell said he became a private detec
tive in February, 1920.
“I thought this was February,” Merrell
said while the murder fans laughed.
Raymond Cleary of Ft. Wayne, a
brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad
train which struck a buggy placed on n
crossing near Atwood in an accident ruse
to cover up the murder, testified for the
prosecution.
Clenry testified he saw the horseless
buggy before the train struck it. He
saiil he was the first one to rench Lovett, !
who was lying nearly dead between the
tracks. A farmer passing by told Cleary
the dead youth was not. Vlrgtl Decker, j
although letters were found In the pock j
eta of his clothing addressed to Virgil. ;
The State is trying to convict Fred of |
conspiring with Virgil, another brother, i
Cal, and their mother to collect $24,000!
life insurance Virgil carried by falsely !
identifying Lovett’s body.
Merrell accompanied Mrs. Lydia Decker i
from Goshen to Bourbon, where Lovett’s
body was in the morgue. Samuel Lovett,
father of tho dead youth, was also along.
After the elder Lovett had identified his
son, Mrs. Decker entered the room, and,
stroking his hair, said, according to Mer
rell. “Oh, my poor Virgil.”
Merrell said he and Samuel Lovett en
countered Mrs. Decker accidentally In the
Goshen traction station and that her
first question was:
“How long will it be before I get my
Insurance ?”
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SEEK TO HOLD
DAIRY SHOW IN
INDIANAPOLIS
Governor and Mayor Head
Plan to Bring National
Display Here.
Efforts io bring to Indianapolis the
annual national show of the American
Dairy Show Association, one of the big
gest agricultural exhibits in the coun
try, next year were made at a meeting
of business men with Governor Warren
T. McCray, Mayor Charles W. Jewett and
members of the Indiana board of Agri
culture at the Statehouse today.
The Governor, the mayor and repre
sentatives of business houses made short
talks urging the representatives of the
organization to bring the show to In
dianapolis. The association was repre
sented by H. E. VanNormao, president,
and head of the dairy department of the
University of California, and W. E. Skin
ner, manager of the show.
Among those attending the meeting
wer6: John B. Reynolds, secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce; Henry Law
rence of the Indiana Hotel Association;
W. H. Howard of the Board of Trade; F.
P. Humston of the Monon Railroad; Jack
Quill of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Paul
M. Havens of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis
& Western Railroad; John 11. Crall of
the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern
Traction Cos.; L. K. Babcock of the Op
timist Club; John G. Brown, president of
the Indiana Federation of Farmers Asso
ciations; Eben H. Wolcott, president of
the State Savings & Trust Cos.; Cnarles
Hall of the Rotary Club; Prof. C. R.
George of Purdue University; P. H.
Crane, secretary of the ludlanh Federa
tion of Farmers' Associations; Samuel O.
Dungan of the Polk Sanitary Milk Com
pany; Henry Schlosser of Scblosser
Brothers; R. M. Fuller and P. A. Besslre
of Besßire &, Cos.; Samuel J. Miller and
Thomas Grant of the board of agricul
ture; Senator C. J. Buchanan; L. H. Wil
son of the Indiana Condensed Milk Com
pany; W. E. Smith of the Central States
Butter Company; Dr. J. E. Gibson of the
United States Bureau of Animal Indus
try, and J. B. Carney of Morrlstowu, a
dairyman.
Dairymen from all parts of the State
were meeting today for the purpose of
forming a cooperative marketing organ
ization. It was stated that the organiza
tion is sponsored by the Indiana Fed
eration of 1-itrmers Associations and that
it will attempt to work through market
ing chauuels already established.
NELLIE KIROFF
FACES JURY ON
MURDER CHARGE
(Continued From Page One.)
Both admitted that Kiroff had served
wlxtv days on the Indiana State farm for
bootlegging, but denied that they had
ever *een any “white mule" at the Kiroff
home on West Michigan street.
SAY VICTIM
DENIED “ACCIDENT.”
Detectives Fossati, George E. Stewart
and Charles E. Bernauer, police emer
gency ambulance driver, testified that
Kiroff while bleeding from his wounds
branded the story told by his wife that
the shooting was accidental as a “lie"
and asked the police to take his wife
Rway. According to the detectives. Kiroff
in his dying statement accused bis wife
of being with a strange man in her bed
room prior to the fatal shooting. Ac
cording to the detectives, Kiroff said
his wife warned him that if he entered
her room she would “shoot him." Kiroff
told tbe officers, according to their tes
timony, that his wife fired one shot at
him when he was about five fret away
from her.
Mrs. Kiroff, on the other hand, de
clares she was preparing to go to bed
when her husband called to her on the
outside of the house to get hla revolver,
which was In a dresser drawer, because
he was going to “kill a man.” She
asserts that Carl entne toward her with
his fist upraised as If to strike her and
in the excitement her finger must have
caught on the trigger, causing the re
volver to explode.
ADMIT KIROFF
WAS BOOTLEGGER.
The defense admits that Kiroff was a
"bootlegger" and also that he had secret
still at his home and that he compelled
Nellie to keep watch on the outside of
his home when they lived east of Irv
ington while "white mule” was being
distilled.
One of the most important witnesses
for the State was Mrs. Mable Davis, 2819
West. Michigan street, who lived next
door to the Kiroffs on the night of the
tragedy. She testified that she and her
husband were awakened shortly after 11
o'clock on the night of July 19 by crier
from Carl Kiroff and his wife.
"I am shot. I am dying. Get a doctor
quick," Kiroff told the Davises, Mrs.
Davis testified. Kiroff, she said, then
sank exhausted to the floor of tbe porch
of tho Davis home. William Clssell, 44P
North Haugh street, aided In carrying
Kiroff to his jiome.
WITNESS SAYS
VICTIM ACCUSED WIFE.
Mrs. Davis testified that Kiroff told her
that Ms wife shot him. At one time she
hearu Nellie Kiroff begging the wounded
man, “Don’t tell it, Carl. Don’t tll it.”
Mrs. Davis testified that Mrs. Kiroff
at times u.’ed her telephone to talk to a
man and that Nellie had told her that she
had been out to a dance.
Mrs. Davis aid Kiroff appeared to be
kind to Nellie, but that she had com
plained to her of Carl's treatment. Mrs.
Davis testified that she did not see a
strange man at the Iviroff home on the
night of the ’tragedy and that she could
see Into the bedroom. All of the officers
ndmttted that the house was well lighted
when they arrived to Investigate the
Hhooting.
According to all witnesses, Mrs. Kiroff
was in a loose fitting gown and was bare
footed.
Sidney Miller, deputy prosecutor of
Marion County, Clande Worley, spectal
investigator of the Criminal Court and
O. W. Smith, prosecutor of Morgan
County, are conducting the case for the
State. Mr. Wetter is being assisted by
.1. E. Sedewlch df Morgan County In the
defense. Judge Alfred M. Bain is pre
siding.
The case probably will go to the Jury
late today or early Wednesday.
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Telephone Company
Gives Up Franchise
•
The Monticello Telephone Company
filed notice with the public service com
mission of the surrender of its franchise
today. _
The Central Indiana Gas Company of
Muncle was authorized to issue $2,000,000
jin preferred stock for refunding pur
poses.
The Springvale Cemetery of Lafayette
filed a motion for a rehearing of the case
in which the fare charged by the Indiana
Service Corporation between Lafayette
and the cemetery was Increased from 5
cents to 7 cents.
PRINCETON MAN
HOLDS UP BANK
Pulls Gun on Patoka Cashier
and Walks Out With
Big Roll.
Special to The Times.
PRINCETON, Ind., Dec. 0.--Lee Carl’s
idle mind turned to mischief and his
fingers Itched for something to do.
He strayed over to Patoka. a village
of 500. and after loafing there for sev
eral days, drew a gun on the cashier of
the national bank. He went out the
door with $872.
But two girls saw Carl at work and
spread the alarm. A hastily organized
posse which grew as it passed through
the town, found the robber behind a tree
a few miles away and a few shots were
exchanged with no injurv to either side.
•*1 was down and out,” the man told
Sheriff Dink Flowers, “and I couldn’t
find work."
BRITISH O. K.
IRISH PEACE
SETTLEMENT
(Continued From Pare One.)
It traveled at top speed to Holyhead,
where the courier boarded a destroyer
for Belfast.
Three British and three Sinn Fein dele
gates signed the Irish peace agreement
They were:
British— Premier Lloyd George. Lord j
Birkenhead and Wlnstou Churchill
Irish—Arthur Griffith,. Michael Collins I
and R. C. Barton.
SESSION HOLDS
UNTIL 2:30 A. M.
Tho night session of the Irish peace '
conference did ?at break up until about j
2.3<t. A small group of newspapermen *
worn waiting in the drizzling rain in I
front of No. 70 Downing street when the
delegates began to emerge.
Among the first to leave was Lord
Birkenhead, the lord chancellor, and a
member of the British delegation. He i
was smoking a cigar and his face was ;
wreathed in smiles.
One of the reporters asked:
“Any news?"
“It is not a bad,” replied the Lord j
Chancellor. “In fact, an agreement has ]
been reached.”
Michael Collins of the Sinn Fein dele- j
gallon refused to make a statement. j
The terms of the agreement have been ;
sent to Belfast by special courier and i
were expected to reach there before Sir
James Craig, head of the unionist gov
ernment of Ulster, began his speech this
afternoon on the Irish peace situation.
ULSTER KEEPS
PRESENT STATUS
BIRMINGHAM. England, Dec. B.—Un
der the new Irish peace agreement.
Ulster province is given the option of
maintaining Its present status. Lord
Birkenhead. Lord Chancellor of England j
announced In a speech here today.
Anew British dominion, to be known
as the Irish Free State, has been born.
Lord Birkenhead said.
“In the matters of finance Ireland is
the supreme master in her own house,
but she agrees to pay her due share of
the war debt,” declared Lord Birken
head.
The provisions of the agreement as
outlined by Birkenhead arc:
t. The new dominion Is to be known as
“The Irish Free State.”
2. It Is to have the same status as
Canada. Australia. New Zealand and
South Africa, with one exception.
3. In matters of finance the Free State •
government will rule supreme.
4. The new government must pay her j
portion of the national war debt.
5. Sinn Fein must give reasonable i
guarantees to the South Ireland Union
ist minority.
If Ulster does not wish to join the |
Free State she may retain her own sta- I
tua, the chancellor declared. In that case j
she will submit to the ruling of a boun- j
dary commission which will determine j
thee boundary line between the Irish Free
State and Ulster.
If parliament does not sanction these
terms, Birkenhead predicted the govern
ment would go before the people on th-j
Issue and submit It to a general election.
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FEW PROBLEMS
3 Negro Firemen on Carpet, 1
Officer Suspended and
1 Resigns.
Three negro firemen, one a captain,
from Pumper Company No. 10, Sixteenth
street and Ashland avenue, were in the
bad graces of the board of public safety
today as a result of a mix-up, the chief
Ingredients of which are alleged to have
been intoxicating liquor and a stolen
razor. The men involved are Capt. Clar
ence Miller and Firemen Roy Pope and
! Ernest. Rockbold. Charges were pre
! ferreq against Miller and Roekhold and
Pope’s resignation was accepted,
j Patrolman Milton Hyde, charged with
intoxication, was found guilty and fined
his pay while under suspension for
eighteen days and put under probation
until Dec. 20. The resignation of Patrol
man Thomas McKinney, held in the
county Jail upon charges of complicity
in the Beech Grove Bank robbery, was
accepted. Lieut. Otto J. Petty of Pumper
Company No. 22 was promoted to eaptairf
and Fireman James Myers of Truck Com
pany No. 27 waa promoted to lieutenant.
Five firemen were promoted, to chauf
feurs. Five substitute firemen and thir
teen probationary patrolmen were con
firmed as regulars.
The charges against Fireman Roekhold,
filed by Fire Chief John C. Loucks. soy
that on Dec. 1 he was guilty of conduct
unbecoming a fireman and prejudicial to
good order, and of drinking intoxicating
liquor in or about the fire station. Fire
man Pope told Assistant Fire Chief S. C.
Hoyle on Dec. t that Roekhold had
stolen a razor from J. Oliver's barber
shop at 1314 North Senate avenue and
that he had given Roekhold a drink at
the fire station before the alleged theft
occurred.
The charge of neglect of outy against
Captain Miller specifies that he failed to
report to the chiefs office that Roekhold
bad the alleged stolen razor in his pos
session at the fire station.
, The charges upon which "atrolman
Milton Hyde wa* convicted and punished
specified that he was found intoxicated at
a dance at 1102 English avenue while iu
uniform ahd on duty.
Trial of Patrolman William Mcßurney
upon a charge of conduct unbecoming
an officer was postponed until next Tues
day at the defendant's request.
In his resignation Patrolman Thomas
McKinney denied the charges that he waa
involved in the Beech Grove Bank rob
bery, and said that he was resigning be
cause of the unfavorable publicity given
him and the fact that this publicity
makes it Impossible for him to properly
and efficiently serve further.
Firemen promoted to chauffeur are
Charles Caveuder of Engine Company Nx>.
1, William Alexander of Truck Company
No. 29, Charles Neal of Pumper Com
pany No. 31, Louis Moore of the water
tower and August Schmidt of Truck Com
pany No. 27.
Fire Chief Loucks reported a decrease
of ninety-two alarms in the month of
November under the same period of 1920.
There are now 588 members of the de
partment, 353 of whom are Republicans
and 225 Democrats, the report shows.
‘FREAK TITLES’
TEXTOFTALK
Abstracters Hold Sixteenth
Annual Convention.
The address of the president, John
Held of Williamsport, the report of offi
cers and committees, an address by Clar
ence E. Bowen, Crawfordsville. and a
general discussion on the subject of
“Freak Titles.” were the principal fea
tures of today’s session of the sixteenth
annual convention of the Indiana Ab
stractors’ Association at the Denison Ho
tel.
The subject for Mr. Bowen's address
was “Defects in Titles and Remedial Leg
islation,” and the general discussion on
“Freak Titles" was to be led by W. Oli
ver Marks of Salem. There will be an in
formal smoker this evening.
At the closing session of the conven
tion tomorrow afternoon officers will be
elected and unfinished business trans
acted.
Man Dies as Result
of Injuries in Fall
John Berry, 47, 714 Ft. Wayne avenue,
died at the Deaconess Hospital today ns
the result of injuries received when he
fell while working at Sellers Farm yes
terday. Berry was employed by the
Henry W. Horst Company. He was on a
small scaffold when a board broke and
Berry and Wilson Wright fell about seven
feet. Berry, however, fell on a piece of
iron which penetrated his hip. Death
was due to hemorrhage and shock, the
coroner said. Wright was uninjured.
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