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THE WEATHER
Unsettled, cold tonight and Tuesday.
Probably rain tonight.
VOL. XXXIV.
SIPE BLOCKS MOVE TO GET EVIDENCE
HARTMANCASE
TO GO TO JURY
BY 6 O’CLOCK
Indications Point to
Early Conclusion
of Arguments.
NEWS IS SCORED
Holmes Denounces
Prosecution as Po
litical Affair.
The fate of J. Herbert Hartman,
deposed Republican candidate for
city judge, who has been on trial in
Criminal Court for the past two
(weeks on a charge of receiving
stolen goods, will go to the jury
about 6 o’clock this evening, accord
ing to present indications.
Arguments will be completed at
about 5 o’clock, after which Judge
Murray Bain will read his instruc
tions to the jury. It Is understood
that these instructions are lengthy,
and will take the greater part of an
hour tc read.
At the morning session of court the
opening argument for the State was
made by Sidney J. Miller. assistant pros
ecutor, and Ira XI. Holmes for the de
fense. Imediately after the noon recess
Eph Inman took up the argument for
Hartman and at the conclusion of hi
address to the Jury Prosecutor William
P. Evans fired the closing oratorical
guns for the State.
HOLMES ATTACKS NEWS’
HAN'T* IN’ POLITICS.
Bitter denunciation of the Indianapolis
News as the instigator of the prosecution
was made by Xlr. Holmes. He termed the
prosecution of this case a political af
fair entirely and Insisted it was brought
about because Hartman had dared be
come a candidate for city Judge at the
last election without Its consent. He
frankly charged that the alleged “con
fession" of Frank Francis, which had
Involved Hartman, was obtained by the
X'ewg either by Its Influence or the use
of money.
He termed William H. Blodgett, repre
sentative pf the News, who obtained the
alleged confession, a “scavenger" and de
nounced officials of the Louisville police
department for their part in the mat
ter.
He turned his full powers of sarcasm
loose on Francis, the confessing burglar,
and Insisted that the Jury could not
con-vlct on testimony of a man of his
character or that of his wife.
Mr. Holmes also attacked the Indict
ment which charges that Hartman re
ceived a fur “cape,” which had been
stolen. There has been considerable con
flict of testimony as to whether this fur
piece was a cape, a coat, a aoiman or a
stole. If the State fails to prove It was
a cape. Holmes argued to the Jury that
it cannot bring In a verdict of guilty
under the evidence.
MILLER REVIEWS
STATEMENTS.
Assistant Prosecutor Miller. who
opened for the State, based his argument
largely on the statements of Hartman
and his wife, and atetmpted to show that
their statements on the stand had been
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ASK RECEIVER FOR
KU-KLUX-KLAN
Effort Made to Oust Head of
Organization.
ATLANTA, Ga., Starch 6.—The fight
of more than 300 Insurgent members of
the Klu-Klnx Klan to bare . receiver
appointed for the organization and for
• permanent Injunction forbiddb g further
connection with the order of Edward
Young Clarke, Imperial Kleagle, started
here today In Superior Court.
Harry B. Terrel, leader of the rebel
forces, appeared in court with his attor
ney, W. 11. Terrel, and asked that an
order be Issued to compel the attend
ance at tbe trial of Col. William Joseph
Simmons, Imperial wizard of the klan.
He said Colonel Simmons declined to
make an affidavit and that certain testl
tuoa3 from Mm was necessary.
Alleged Fugitive
Faces Two Charges
Martin Corydon, 40, 1817 South Talbott
avenue, was arrested today on a county
grand Jury Indictment for assault and
battery and robbery.
Police said Corydon Is a former police
man and deputy sherl ar.d while a
deputy sheriff he was charged with an
attack upon a man In a raid. The police
said Corydon was arrested but Jumped
his bond and they bad been looking for
him since. He Is in jail.
Stolen Rowboat Sign
Fishing Season On
The first sign that the spring fishing
season Is about to open was received in
police reports today. O. T. Owens. Min
nesota and Keisner streets, reported
someone had stolen his rowboat from
near his home. The boat is worth S3O.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending at 7
p. m., March 7, 1922:
Unsettled and cold tonight and Tues
day; probably rain tonight; tempera
ture about freezing Tueslay afternoon
and night; strong south, shirting to west
and northwest winds.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m 47
7 a. in 49
8 a. m 50
9 a, m 50
10 a. m 52
11 a. m 54
12 (noon) 57
1 p. m 57
1 p. m. 57
Published at Indianapolis, Entered a s Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914. at
Ind.. Daily Except Sunday. Postofflce. Indianapolis, In<L. under act March 3. 1379.
House Slated
to Get ‘Bonus’
Today
Payments to Survivors of Sol
diers Killed Now Chief
Problem,
e
WASHINGTON, March 6—-The certifi
cate ard lean soldier “bonus” bill will
be in the House late today.
Republican members of the Ways and
Means Committee made so much prog
ress In fixing details of the measure that
It virtually is completed at their meet
ing.
Clauses still to bs considered were all
approved with only Insignificant changes
In wording. The sole problem of conse
quence remaining for a contl lued ses
sion was what to do about payments of
“bonns” to survivors of soldiers who
have died since the war. The Democrats
will be called in tomorrow perfunctorily.
Their approval or disapproval will not
alter the committee's course. As now
j drafted, the biU provides a certificate
plan for former service men, with the
exception of cash for men to whom SSO
or less is due.
On the certificates, a loan up to 50 per
cent can be obtained from banks im
mediately. There w'ill be no rediscount
ing In the Federal banks; and the hold
ing banks can charge no more Interest
on loans than 2 per cent above the
Federal reserve rediscount rate. That
would be a total around 8 per cent
ordinarily.
The Republicans are quite satisfied
with their work. They scoff at Demo
crats' claims the “bonus’’ bill will mean
anew era of currency inflation “frozen
i credits” and high cost of living. They
point out under the loan system, the
tanks at the outside would hold not
more than about $800,000,000 of the cer
tificate paper.
Shortly before laying the "bonus” bill
before the House, Chairman Fordney of
the House Ways and Xleans Committee,
planned to go to the White House to
ask President Harding to reconsider his
announced policy of "no sales tax—no
bonus” and to agree to approve the
compensation measure which Is about
ready to be passed.
Fordney and other Republican menv
bers of the committee have no donbt the
bill will pass the House In the present
form, but they are anxious to got some
Indication!. from the White House that
can cause them to feel their efforts will
not be nullified by a presidential veto.
Chairman Fordney was scheduled to
lay the bill before the House as soon
as some minor amendments were gone
over and approved. After the bill Is re
ported, it will be referred back to the
committee to be taken up at a meeting
to be attended by the Democrats who had
no part In framing the legislation. After
laying over for a few days the measure
again will be brought back to the House
and made the “unflniahed business’ un
til It Is passed.
EVANSVILLE GIRL
BELIEVED VICTIM
OF WHITE SLAVER
Relatives Fear Louise Kiener
Kidnaped by Woman Met
on Trip to Chicago.
CHICAGO, March Louise Kiener, 12,
Evansville (Ind.) girl sought by police
for three days, has been kidnaped and
sold into slavery, relatives believed to
day.
The girl disappeared on a Chicago &
Eastern Illinois train Thursday morning
while coming to Chicago to visit her
uncle, William Kiener.
The girl, pretty, attractive and well
developed for her age, was -seen In com
pany with a woman, flashily dressed,
soon after the train left Evansville, train
men told the uncle.
“I believe my niece was kidnaped and
sold into slavery by that woman,' Kiener
said.
"Lonlse was five feet tall, weighed 120
pounds, had gray eyes, auburn hair, small
mouth, dimpled chin and spoke with a
slight lisp.
“I had intended to meet her at the
train, but was a few minutes late In ar
riving at the station and could not find
her. I did not notify police for several
honrs, believing she would show up at
our home as she had our address.”
The conductor of the train recalled
talking with Use girl as they entered Chi
cago. He said be feared for her safety,
according to Kiener, on account of the
friendship she had developed with the
woman. He asked ber If she was to meet
relatives and she told him she was to
see her uncle at the station.
A policeman on duty at the station
said be saw the girl and the older woman
in the waiting room. The girl Joined the
woman after she had checked some bag
gage.
12 CANDIDATES ,
FILE WITH STATE
Alfred D. Merrill of Brazil Is
Latest Entry.
! Twelve declarations ts candidacy were
filed today with the secretary of State.
Interest in the congressional situation
s enhanced by tbe entry of Alfred D. Xler
rell, Democrat of Brazil, as candidate for
the National House of Representatives
from .he Fifth district.
Arurew J. Hickey, of La Porte, and
Milton Krauss of Peru, members of Con
gress representing the Thirteenth and
Eleventh districts, respectively, have
fill'd papers as candidates for the Re
publican nominations and are seeking
re-election.
Other candidacies filed are;
Maurice Edwaril Crites, East Chicago,
Republican for judge of the Lake
Superior Court.
G. Pralle Erni, New Albany, Democrat
for the State Senate from Floyd, Harri
son and Crawford Couutles.
Fernando W. Wesner, Seymour, Demo
crat, for presocntlng attorney. Fortieth
Judicial District, Jackson County.
Ernest XL Causey, Clinton, Democrat,
for Judge, Forty-Seventh Judcial Dis
trict. Vermilion County.
Erie G. Sproat, nammond. Republican,
for State Senate, Lake County.
George S. Blllman, Democrat, Shelb.v
vilie, for prosecuting attorney, SheJb.v
County.
Truman A. Goldsberry, Frankfort, Re
publican, for representative in the Gen
eral Assembly.
James S. Dodge, Elkhart, Republican,
for Judge Elkhart Superior Court.
Cecil C. ’1 ague, Brookville, for judge
Thirty-Seventh Judicial District.
31 ititiaua Dailu Sintra
HULL BRANDS
ARMS PARLEY
‘PEACESTEP’
Democratic National
Chairman Not So
Enthusiastic.
REAL JOB AHEAD
G. O. P. Declared to
Lack Grasps of
Situation.
Special to Indiana Daily Times
End Philadelphia Public Ledger.
WASHINGTON, March 6.—A minor
and partial step toward world peace
Is the way Cordell Hull, chairman of
the Democratic national committee,
summed up the achievements of the
armaments conference. Mr. Hull in
discussing the results of the first
pear of the Republican Administra
tion in reply to recent statements of
! Administration spokesmen, declared
J the accomplishments of the Washing
ton meeting, "when compared to the
really great and fundamental prob
lems to be solved, dwindle into in
significance.”
“A political party,” he asserted, “un
til tbit has thus signally failed on a
great occasion is stopped from offering
an excuse or even a pica In mitigation.
"Republican leaders were supposed to
have a full and correct grasp of post
war conditions and problems when they
made their innumerable promises to the
people in 1920. In the light of true facts,
I charge the Republican leadership from
1918 to 1921 wholly failed to grasp world
facts and conditions and America's true
relation to them. Those lcauers early in
1919 proclaimed the policy of 'every na
tion for itself,’ and of ‘commercial iso
lation’ for ourselves. At that time the
crying need was the further establish
ment of peace conditions everywhere bv
the close moral and economic coperation
of all nations, especially the stronger
ones."
CITES IMPORTANT
NEEDS OF NATION
\\ hat the world needed from 1918 to
1921, Mr. Hull said, was the apeedy bal
ancing of governmental budgets, the es
tabllehment of sound currency systems,
the maintenance of trade relations and
acceleration of the work of catching up
with production. To the Republican
Congress of ihose years and the Harding
Administration for the year of its power,
the Democratic chairman ascribed the
failure of nations to avoid or to lessen
the '‘violent panic conditions.” which
came as the result of America's world
role.
"Had the Republicans,” continued Mr
Hull, “patriotically Joined during 1918
and 1920 in putting through the pro
posals of the Democratic Administration
America s business and economic condi
tions today would bo vastly different
Three big results of such blind partisan
negation at that stage are the loss of our
foreign markets, the consequent ruin of
out great merchant marine and failure
appreciably to reduce taxes.
NOT EVEN HEADED
TOWARD NORMALCY.
“This Nation never can get out of the
present economic ’slough of despond’
and back to sount.' stable prosperity until
our foreign market conditions are re
stored to a healthy reciprocal basis and
radical reductions of all governmental
expenditures are effected. The Repub
licau high tariff policy and commercial
isolation, which thus far have been their
outstanding remedies for post-war ills,
fly In the face of every sound economic
law of today.
"The Republican Congress, in control
for three years, and the entire Adminis
tration for one year have wholly failed
to make good their pre-election prom
ises and to grasp true economic condi
tions. The Administration clearly has
missed the fundamentals both of con
ditions and remedies.
“The patent failure of the chief Re
publican policies and the astounding
breakdown of reactionary leadership
after Xlarch 4, 1921, constitute the cb!‘>f
distinguishing characteristics of the first
twelve months of the Harding Admin
istration. The first year of this Admin
istration always will be notable for Its
failures, rather than Its successes." —
Copyright, 1922, by Fubllc Ledger Com
pany.
Nebraska Banker
to ServeJPrison Term
OMAHA, Neb., Xlarch B.—Willard V.
Matthews, former president of the de
funct Pioneer State Lank, was today
sentenced to an indeterminate term of
one to ten years In the penitentiary for
embezzling $200,000 of the bank’s funds.
Matthew's pleaded guilty to the charge.
He was the first of thirty-eight Nebras
kans indicted by a special grand jury last
fall for alleged violation of the “blue sky”
laws to be tried.
China Favors Seamen
in Settling Strike
HONGKONG, March o.—The Reamcn’s
strike which has seriously affected
Oriental shipping for several weeks and
which has been marked by violence was
settled today in favor of the seamen.
The Government forced the stiip owners
to grant the employes’ demands.
Fear of reprisals and of general riot
ing as a result of the killing of three
Chinese Saturday was believed to have
moved the Government to end the strike.
(f
Crawfordsville Man,
Times Policyholder ,
Gets Pay for Injury
I
James L. Washburn, Rural Route jj
| 9. Crawfordsville, who is the holder ||
h of one of the Indiana Daily Times Ac- j
II eident travel Insurance policies No. j
i 1 20527-G, received a check today for :
j! S3O in payment for injuries received
I while driving his automobile, when
the rear axle broke, causing the ma
chlne into a ditch.
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1922.
Gov. Small Asks Court
to Try Him at Later Date
Says Continuance Means $10,000,000 Saving
on Cement Cont racts in Balance.
COURTHOUSE, WALKEGAX, HI.,
March 6.—Motion for sixty-day con
tinuance of the trial of Governor Len
Small on the cliargo of conspiracy to
defraud the State of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars In State Interest funds
was made today by counsel for the Gov
ernor.
The Governor was formally placed on
trial at 1:35 this afternoon.
The Governor's motion for a continu
ance of tJio onso says the Governor's at
tention Is needed in State affairs. An
affidavit filed In tho Goveronr's beluilf
sold the State can save $10,000,090 on
cement contracts if the Governor Is free
to give the matter him attention.
The Governor, who Is charged with
conspiracy to defraud tho Stato out of
hundreds of thousands of dollars In In
terest funds, arrived in tho courthouse
at 130 o'clock, accompanied by his son,
Leslie, managing editor of a Kankakee
newspaper.
The courtroom was packed When the
Governor arrived. Ha was met by the
booming of newspaper flashlights and
then took his place with his counsel in
side tho courtroom railing.
The Governor appeared to be in tho
best of spirits. He chatted affably with,
friends.
The setting for the historic event was
complete when court opened at 9:30
o’clock this morning. An imposing array
of legal talent, representing both pros
ecution and defense, was in readiness for
the opening act, plans of battle having
been drawn to the smallest detail.
Judge Edwards appeared on the bench
promptly at 930 o'clock and called tbs
March term of court to order. Ho lin
£ - : '-^ i
Solons Ineligible
to Serve on Debt
Refunding Body
WASHINGTON, Xlarch A ser
\ ious obstacle to the appointment of 1
!| two members of Congress on the For |
i eign Debt Refunding Coinmltttee np- J
! pea rod today when tho Judiciary sul>-
| Committee by a voto of 3 to 2, decided .
: Senator Smoot, Utah, and Represent!*- j
tive Burton, Ohio, were ineligible to
| serve.
Present laws prohibit a member of
! Congres from accepting another Foil- j
| oral office even without pay, the inn- j
i Jority h"ld. Brandegee, Connecticut, j
; Joined the Democrats and voted down
\ the claims of eligibility made by Uo
! publican Senators. This may delay
) the refunding.
00GAH! 00GAH!
AUTO SHOW TO
OPEN TONIGHT
Everything in Readiness fo*
Debut of 1922 Motor
Cars.
Everything is in readiness for the
opening of the twenty-fourth semi annual
Indianapolis Auto Show 7 o'clock tonight
at the Auto Show Pavilion at the State
Fair Ground.
Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank and O. A.
lies, president of the Chamber of Com
merce, are among the dignitaries whose
presence will mark the inauguration of
automobile week.
The Indianapolis Automobile Show
which ranks with those of New York
and Chicago in size and Importance is
ready for the gaze of the public after
weeks of preparation. John B. Orman,
manager of tho exhibit, announced sur
prises of an important nature, await
the visitors to the show this year.
The automobile show is always the
signal for a rejuvenation of the Industry
in this city and for this reason, its pro
ponents say, has a direct bearing upon
the business situation in the city. The
periodical stimulation of the automobile
trade has a corresponding effect on other
lines of business, they say.
Tha place the manufacturer of auto
mobiles holds among industries of this
city and State has an important bearing
upon prosperity in Indiana. Those who
are backing the show cite the fact the
show is a harbinger of improved busi
ness conditions as ft reason why it
should be patroni ft well.
Unusual features of the show are nu
merous this year, according to those who
have had a part In its preparation.
More than one million dollars is rep
resented in the exhibit of ears and trucks
and in addition more than one hundred
booths, devoted to tho display of ac
?esorles, have been erected. Special
care has been taken In the matter of
lighting this year that the displays may
bo set off to best advantage. The illum
ination has been lowered and a number of
additional lights have been placed so
that a previous difficulty experienced
will be eliminated. A bandstand above
the reaeb Os the crowd has been erected
for this year’s show near the west en
trance. The celebrated Canadian Kilties
band of Toronto will play afternoon and
evening pon-erts each day of the show.
The stabi ization of the industry fol
lowing a season of unpreeendented price
cutting adds peculiar attraction among
buyers of cars. Dealers, believing the
(Continued on I’age Five.)
Railroad Man, Hurt,
Avoids Ambulance
“I have been hurt in train wrecks, and
I am not going home in an urn In lance
Just because I have been hit with an
automobile truck,” declared Buck Haw
thorne, 51, a railroad man living at
821 Bradshaw avenue, last night. He had
leen bit by an O’Donnell Transfer Com
pany truck at Meridian and Court street.
Hawthorne suffered a scalp wound and
was bruised. When lie refused to ride
home in an ambulance police officers
arranged for Hawthnr e to go home in
i:i driven by C. A. Seitz. 805
Virginia avenue.
Herbert Keene. 14, 238 North Summit
street, was struck by an automobile
truck yesterday afternoon as lie got off
of a street ear at Washington street
and Arsenal avenue. He was only slight
ly injured. The driver of the truck
failed to stop.
" THE SMALL CASE
Governor Len Small indicted July
20, 1921, by a Sangamon County' grand
jury for ulleged embezzlement of State
funds and conspiracy.
Claimed Immunity from arrest, but
was overruled by Judge E. S. Smith
at Springfield.
After a tour of roads of tho State
the Governor notified the sheriff of
Sangamon county Aug. 10 lie was
ready to have tho warrant served on
him.
Asked and was granted a change
of venue to Lake county.
Attorneys for Governor Small asked
Judge Edwards to quash the in
dictments against the Governor. Some
counts were knocked out by a ruling
ot the Judge Dec. 29.
Tho Governor pleaded not guilty
to the charge of conspiracy to em
.bexzle State funds on Jan. 37 and the
c&so was set for today.
__ * J
mediately began disposing of several
minor cases so as to reach the Small
case as soon as possible, it was indi
cated the Governor's case would not come
up until tho afternoon.
Governor Small was not in the court
room. It was said at headquarters of
the defense at the Salvation Army hotel,
that the Governor was en route to
Waukegan and would arrive shortly be
fore noon.
Less than 200 persons, all men. were
in the courtroom when the Xlarch term
open. The state's battery of lawyers
(Continued on Page Two.)
INSPECTOR OF
POLICE MAY BE
MADE NEW POST
Mayor Relieves Captain
\\ eaver Will Ke Promoted
by Safety Board.
COUNCIL TO DECIDE
An ordinance creating the position of
! Inspector of police who would be sec
ond In command to Chief of I’oliee Her
man F. Rikhuff, will be introduced in
i the city council meeting tonight, tho
city legal department announced today.
; Tho board of public safety desires the
creation of the place so there may he
a ruuking officer in personal command
of the police force at all times, accord
ing to a letter which will be sent to tho
council with the measure. The inspect
or's salary would ba $3,100 a year. Mayor
Samuel Lewis Shank said he believed
the board of safety will promote Capt.
Clefus Weaver to tho position. If tho
council authorizes it.
COUNCIL BLOCKS’
SHANE S PLANS.
Several weeks before the new admin
istration took office Mayor Shank an
nounced he would appoint three inspec
tors of police, naming Weaver, John
White and Martin J. Hyland for the lobs.
When the new regime began, however,
there was such opposition from the city
council the plan was dropped and Weaver
and W’ te made captains, while Mr.
Hyland was appointed street commis
sioner.
Since that time, the boon! of safety
says, a great need for an assistant for
Chief Itlkhoff has developed. It Is par
ticularly deslrnbie, the board says, there
be someone next to the chief in rank in
command at night and at times when the
chief is out of the city, ill, or otherwise
off duty.
FUND ADEQUATE
TO SIEET NEED.
Creation of the office would require no
additional appropriation to tho police
salary fund, it was said, because If one
of the captains is promoted to tho in
spectorship the increased demand on the
fund would be only about SSOO for tho
remainder of this year and there is a
balance sufficient to meet this.
Another ordinance creating a positton
will bo offered for introduction by City
Purchasing Agent Jesse H. Miller. The
measure would create tho Job of clerk
in the purchasing department at a salary ,
of Sl,fioo a year. Mr. Hiller said tlio
work of the department is so heavy addl- j
tional help Is needed. Besides tha pur- j
chasing agent, tho department now has
an assistant purchasing agent, one sten
ographer, three file clerks and an inspec
tor. The new clerk would relieve the
agent and his assistant of much of the
detail which now prevents them from
giving tho attention to bigger problems
which they feel they should, Mr. .Miller
said.
Shank to Open Way
to Riley’s Old Home
Lockerbie street, wher ©stands the home
famous as tho residence of James Whit
comb Riley, will be made passable to
tourists, if Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank
has his way. After a tour of the down
town district today the mayor prepared
a list of three streets and fourteen al
leys on which he said he will ask the
board of public works to order per- j
manont improvement. The other streets
are Miami, from New Jersey to Fast, and
Leon, from Michigan to North.
Bryan’s Former Home
to Become Hospital
LINCOLN, Neb., Xlarch 8. —“Falrview,”
famous as the former home of William ,T. j
Bryan, is to become a Xlethodist hospital. !
A telegram from Bishop Stuntr, of the j
Dos Moines diocese of the XI. E. Church,
received today by Charles Bryan, broth- ]
er of William J„ says the Methodists have 1
accepted the offer of the former presi
dential candidate and will take over Fair
view at once.
Concernin'! That
Economic Parley
_l
LONDON, March <!. —Relief was cur- j
rent in official circles in Downing street
today that the international economic !
conference at Genoa will not open until |
April 1“ Premiers Lloyd George and i
Point had tentatively, agreed upon ]
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SENATOR NEW
READS BRIEF
FOR TREATIES
Says U. S. Can’t Turn
Down Arms Parley
Agreements.
URGES ADOPTION
Assures Colleagues
They Contain No
‘Jokers.’
WASHINGTON, March 6.—“ The
alternative for such undertakings and
understandings as tho armament con
ference developed, is such a rule of
brute force as will plunge the world
into chaos and threaten humanity
with oblivion,” Senator New, Re
publican of Indiana, told the Senate
today.
In a long prepared statement urg
ing Senate ratification of the confer
ence treaties, Senator New, as an
administration spokesman, opened
what promised to be at least another
week’s debate on the four-power Pa
cific pact.
“We may not cast aside these treaties
as mere idle words under penalty of be
ing overwhelmed by the outburst of
righteous condemnation from all the peo
ples of the world,'” New said.
"It will not do for us to think these
treaties may be dismissed with a con
temptuous smirk that, being merely
treaties, they mean nothing, and ara
made only to be broken—that they are
valueless."
081 LAKES TIIEY
HIDE NO JOKERS.
If only because the spirit of sacri
fice which flowed in and through the
conference left the world a safer and
heiter place to live in. its decisions ought
to mei't with the Senate's approval, Sen
ator New contended.
He again advanced at considerable
length tho Adn^ntstrafion's interpretation
of the four-power treaty that it does
not provide for an alliance between the
United States. Great Britain, France and
Japan, nor for tho use of armed fore*
by them.
Senator New declared if en alliance
were even implied or contemplated by
the treaty be would oppose and advis©
against its ratification. Ha denied the
pact was in any way a reflection or an
offshoot of the League of Nations, as its
opponents have charged.
REVISION OF
TRAFFIC RULES
TO BE TAKEN UP
Council to Consider Ordi
nance on Parking and
Travel.
The traffic code revising ordinance,
which limits downtown parking to one
hour Instead of one and one-half hours
among other important changes, will be
go ported favorably out of committee
with only one or two minor amendments
at the regular meeting of the city coun
ct ltonight, council leaders said. It was
believed generally that the measure will
be passed without serious opposition.
It was introduced Feb. 20, after the coun
cil and the board of safety had discussed
its provisions for several weeks.
Prominent counciliuen said that there
is little liklihood that the jitney bus
amendments will be brought out for a
vote but that the boxing commission
bill and the ordinance authorizing a
$850,000 bond issue for the erection of
two new buildings at tho city hospital
are likely to be acted upon.
NEW PREFERENTIAL
TRAFFIC STREETS.
The traffic ordinance changes regula
tions so as to correspond with State
riglit-of-way and arm signal rules. It
makes Capitol avenue, Meridian and
Illinois streets from Georgia street, to
Xlaple road and East New Y'ork and
East Michigan streets between High
land and Emerson avenue preferential
traffic streets, which means that all
vehicles must oome to a full stot> before
crossing them. At all other points the
vehicle on the right would have the right
of way.
The bill leaves 45-degree angle parking
on Washington street from Southeast
ern avenue and White river and head
on parking In the Circle but provides
for flat-to-th-eurb parking throughout
the rest of the city, excepting in sec
tions of Market street and Kentucky
avenue where center of the street park
ing is permitted. The ordinance also
makes the parking limit effective from
8 a. m., to 7 p. ra., instead of from 8
a. m., to 0:30 p. m., ns at present every
where downtown, excepting in the Circle
where it would make one-hour parking
effective from S a. m. to 7 p. m.. instead
of the present two-hour parking from
9:30 a. in. to (5:30 p. in.
NO LEFT-HAND TURN
CORNERS ADDED
Nine new “no-left hand-turn” corners
would be established by the bill. Theri
now are four. It was understood that
the council would amend the ordinance
so as to provide for only eight such new 1
corners, eliminating that proposed at,
Washington street and Capitol avenue.
The boxing commission bill was intro
duced more than a month ago. If re
ported out of committee it will be rec
ommended for amendment so as to pro
vide for appointment of on© commission
ers by the council, one by the mayor and
a third to lie selected by the other two.
The commission would have control of
boxing and wrestling matches.
It is expected also that the much dis
cussed ordinance annexing Broad Ripple
to Indianapolis will be Introduced.
At the request of Mayor Samuel Lewis
Shank an ordinance reducing the city I
dog license fee from $2 to SI will be j
introduced by Councilman Hey don Hu -
Human. This will make the total license
charge $2 instead of $3 since there is
an issuing fee of $1 added.
STRIKE MENACE ENDED.
DUBLIN. March C.—The threatened
strike of postal and telegraph employes
has been settled. It was announced today.
19 Americans , Sick
of Spanish Bargain ,
Homeward Bound
(BY WIRELESS TELEPHONE)
NEW YORK, March 6.—Nineteen
Americans, former members of Spain's
foreign legion recruited hero to light
tiie Aloors In North Africa, will ar
rive here today on tha U. S. liner
America. Among the returning sol
diers who say they are sick of their
bargain and did not receive the pay
promised, is George Hardy of Cleve
land who went over last September
and was wounded by tho Moors. He
still has a bullet In his chest which he
refused to allow Spanish surgeons
to extricate. Hardy says he will go to
Cleveland to liave It removed.
Tills story, the first news dispatch
ever telephoned from a ship at sea
to a newspaper ashore was re
ceived by wireless telephone from the
United Press ship news reporter
Martin Retry, who is returning on
tho America.
SHANK THINKS
ASPHALT FIGHT
ENDED AT LAST
Issues Ultimatum to Local
Contractors as Regards
Rids.
ARMITAGE CARES NOT
“I think we’ve 4 got this asphalt fight
straightened out," declared Mayor Sam
uel Lewis Shank today. ‘Tv© told the
contractors that we are going to get
aoiua decent bids or else we're going to
go out of town and get some autside
contractors to bid. Now I think the
contractors who have their money in
vested here in Indianapolis don't want
an outsider to get tho business, and I
think they can bid cheaper than an out
sider if they will. I think we re going
to got some lower bids."
The mayor's statement was taken at
the city hall to foreshadow victory for
John L. Elliptt, city civil engineer, in
Lis fight for lower asphalt prices and
to prevent asphalt from being used ex
clusively. The engineer and William H.
Freeman and Dr. XI. J. Spencer of tha
board of public works have been at log
gerheads for several days because the
board Instructed the engineer not to
specify concrete in street Improvements
resolutions.
The enginerr wrote a letter to the
board several days ago in which he
pointed out the average price per square
yard on asphalt pavement bid by local
contractors Feb. 20 was sl.lO whereas
he believed, from study of material and
labor prices, tho figure would be fair
at from $2.80 to $3.
Meanwhile William H. Armltage, agent
for Barber Asphalt Company and leader
In the Shank political forces, declared
he dose not intend to insist the city use
Trinidad asphalt, for which brand he is
agent on practically all street improve
ments. He said, as far as he Is concerned,
the board can throw tEe specifications
wide open and receive bids on every
known kind of paving materials and he
is willing to let his brand taka Its
chance with the rest.
It was rumored at the outset of the
fight between Mr. Elliott and the two
board of works mmbrf Mr. Armitag
desired the majority of street and alley
Improvements to be made with Trinidad
asphalt.
Mathilda! Surely
You Won't Marry
Livery stable Man!
McCormick Girl’s Brother and
Sister Try to Dissuade
Youngster.
CHICAGO, Xlarch 6.—Fowler and
Muriel McCormick today attempted to
dissuade their sister Mathilde from her
announced intention of marrying ilax
Oser, Swiss livery stable proprietor.
The brother and Bister visited with
Mathilde at the home of Cyrus McCor
mick, chairman of the board of directors
of the International Harvester Company,
with whom Harold F. McCormick has
been making his tome since his wife,
daughter of John D. Rockefeller, ob
tained a divorce.
The visit by Muriel and Wowler was
believed to have been In accordance with
the plan of the Rockefeller branch of
the family to win Mathilde away from
her Swiss fiance. While publicly giving
his consent to the proposed marriage,
Harold F. XleCormiek also was reported
to he In on the scheme to separate Xla
thilde and Oser.
j It is the hope of Mnriel and Fowler
Ito Induce Xlathilde to stay in America
for five years before returning to Swit
zerland to marry. They believe U she
stays here that long she will have no
desire to return to Zurich, whore she
has made her homo for eight years.
XlEthllde’s present plans are to return
to Zurich in May and marry Oser soon
after.
Ask Permission
* to Issue Bonds
A petition was filed with the Indiana
public service commission today by the
Union Traction Company of Indiana for
authority to issue $60,090 in 7 per cent
equipment bonds. The petition sets
forth that the bond issue would be used
for the street railways at Anderson and
Xiuncie, which are operated by the trac
tion company.
Hoover’s Successor
Will Give Address
Dean M. E. Cooley, successor to Her
bert Hoover as chairman of the American
Engineering Council and president of the
Federated American Engineering Coun
cil, will address the engineers of In
dianapolis and vicinity at a dinner at the
University Club Thursday night. H. O.
(Jarman of Indianapolis, president of the
American Association of Engineers, will
introduce the speaker.
THERMAN APPOINTS DEPUTY.
Scott B. Martin of Terre Haute today
was appointed a deputy collector of in
ternal revenue and assigned to the Terre
Haute division office by M. Burt Thur
man. collector of internal revenue tdr the
district of Indiana.
HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
SHIELDS SELF
IN ANSWERS
ABOUT STOCKS
Refuses Certain Testi
mony on Grounds of
Incrimination.
OPEN QUIZ FACED
Former Clerk Witness
in Petition of Mrs.
Nola Parish.
Exercising the right not to ans wot
certain questions pertaining to his
admitted misuse of county money oa
the grounds that it might incrim.
inate himself, Richard V. Sipe, for
mer county clerk, who has admitted
shortages of about $140,000 in pub
lic funds, today, during a hearing
in a receivership matter in Superior
Court, Room 1, blocked all attempts
of counsel to obtain testimony re
garding his misappropriation ot
funds with the exception of matters
pertaining to transactions indicated
in a list of stocks and prop
erty turned over to the Hartford
Accident and Indemnity Company,
which was surety on Sipe’s official
SIOO,OOO bond.
FACES FIRST
OPEN INQUIRY.
In the same courtroom where Judge
James A. Collins of the Criminal Court
a few minutes before had instructed the
Xlarion County Grand Jury to make a
sweeping investigation to dtermiae not
only the method of Sipe's misuse of pub
lic funds but also to determine if other
parties consipred with the fromer county
clerk to dissipate a county trust fund of
more than $140,000. Xlr. Sipe faced tho
first open Inquiry into his manipulations
of public funds.
Xlr. Sipe was brought Into court as
a witness In the petition of Xlrs. Nola
B. Parrish against the bonding company
for the appointing of a receiver to take
charge of assets turned over to Sipe to
the bonding company. She also Is ask
ing judgment for $3,000 which represents
an amount of money which was paid
over to Sipe as county clerk on an order
of court.
BLOCKS QUESTIONING
ON STOCK PURCHASE.
By exercising his constitutional right
to answer certain questions, Mr. Sipe
successfully- blocked all attempts of
Chalmers Schlosser, attorney, to obtain
information concerning Sipe's purchase
of about $30,000 worth of stock in the
Hamilton-Harris Company.
Xlr. Schlosser asked Sipe how much
money he had invested in Hamilton-
Harris stock. Mr. Sipe refused to answer
by stating, "I don’t think I will answer
(Continued on Page Five.)
LOST JEWELRY
WORTH $4,350
ISREPORTED
Gems Mysteriously Missing
From Joseph M. Bloch
Home.
Jewelry valued at $4,350 has disap
peared from the home of Joseph M.
Bloch, 2710 Sutherland avenue, secretary
and general manager of the Gibson Com
pany. The diamonds and other jewelry
were taken some time between Feb. 28
and March. 3 from a drawer in the Bloch
home where they weer usually kept. The
disappearance of the Jewels was not re
ported to the police nntil noon today.
Details of the manner in which the
diamonds may have been taken have not
been made public. Detectives Duncan
and Lansing have started an investiga
tion. It is said that the house was not
entered and ransacked by burglars, blit
that who ever took the diamonds prob
ably had some knowledge of where the
Jewelry was kept.
The missing jewelry was described a*
being two rings, a necklace and a dia
mond tassel. One ring set with a two
karat diamond Is worth SSOO. Another
ring with an onyx in the center of which'
was a largo diamond surrounded by
smaller diamonds was valued at $450. The
necklace Is set with fifty-four diamonds.
Each stone is a half karat In size and
the necklace is worth $1,500. The dia
mond tassol Includes four strings of dia
monds with a large diamond at the top
and is valued at SI,OOO. Th eottal value Is
$4,350, according to the reports made
to the detectives.
New Muscle Shoals
Offer to Be Made
WASHINGTON, March S.—A new offer
for the plant at Muscle Shoals will be
submitted to Secretary of War Weeks
by a group of business men through
Thomas Hampton, Georgia, the House
was told today by J. Levering, Los An
geles. This offer will save the Gov
ernment $20,000,000 more than the Henry
Ford offer alTd $15,000,000 more than the
Frederick E. Engstrum offer, ha said.
“SAY IT WITH A
TIMES WANT AD”
ACCURATELY TELLING 13
ACTUALLY SELLING: When
your Want Ads don't spare
words at the sacrifice of the
real force and effect of your
ad. Tell a full story every
time.
MAin 3500. Classified Adr.
Dept
NO. 255.