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THE WEATHER
Generally fair tonight and "Wednesday.
Slightly colder tonight.
VOL. XXXIV.
SCHOOL CITY MUST BORROW $1,000,000
SIPE INQUIRY
AS TO FUNDS
WILLBEDEEP
Investigators Plan to
Seek Trace of
Every Cent.
HIDING FRIEND?
Some Think Former
Clerk Hasn’t Told
All.
All agencies of the office of Prose
cutor William P. Evans as veil as
those of John F. Robbins, who has
qualified as receiver of all moneys
and properties receiver, by the Hart
ford Accident and Indemnity Com
ipany from Richard V. Sipe, default
ing former county clerk, today were
placed in motion to trace every cent
of money expended by Sipe while he
was exhausting a public trust fund
of $140,000.
Mr. Evans made it clear that the main
object of the prosecutor's office at this
time is to obtain information of “every
cent of money" expended by Sipe from
public funds.
Sipe has accounted for only S7O/00 of
the $140,000 shortage. It is the opinion
of some officials Sipe is shielding some
one and for that reason has failed to ac
count for about half of the missing trust
fund.
RECEIVER GIVEN
BROAD ROWERS.
In cooperation with the proposed
sweeping grand jury investigation of
Sipe's cirminal misuse of public funds.
Judge Pro Tern. Robert R. Dalton of
Superior Court, Room 1, bestowed broad
and extensive powers upon Mr. Robbilns
as receiver. The court haa empowered
the receiver to make a sweeping investi
gation of all expenditures of Sipe for the
purpose of tracing funds.
The entry of Judge Dalton outlining
the duties and powers of the receiver, are
as follows:
L He is empowered to receive all of
said property (that turned over by Sipe
to the bonding company) and to receive,
discover and and reduce to possession all
other property of every other nature be
longing to said Richard V. Sipe as clerk
of the Marion County Circuit Court by
virtue of his office or acquired by him by
(virtue of hi. office with funds held in
'trust by him as clerk.
2. He Is further empowered and or
dered to hold all of said property and
money subject to further order of this
court.
$ He Is empowered to collect on notes
lnvt ived and hold the proceeds as part of
asses.
4. It Is adjudged further the receiver
take and hoM the property passing into
his hands hereunder suljct to the
rights. Interests and trust with which the
same are now charged and such rights,
interests and trusts shall pass to the pro
ceeds of any property *o taken, subject at
all times to the orders of this court.
The entry further shows Pickens,
Moores, Davidson <fc Pickens, attorney,
have shown in open court they have col
lected $9,088 from William H. Dana, for
the benefit of whoever is entitled to the
same and the attorneys ‘now stand ready
to pay the same to the receiver, 1/ so or
dered, anil the court now, upon showing,
orders said money paid to said receiver,
and he is hereby authorized to receive
the same.”
Mr. Robbins tendered bond in the sum
of $-'>o,ooo as receiver with the United
States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
as surety. The bond was accepted by
the court.
Following the administration of oath
as receiver. Mr. Robbins held a confer
ence with Judge Dalton and later went
to the office of the prosecutor. Mr. Rob
bins asked the prosecutor to furnish him
with a list of all stocks purchased by
Sipe, as well as money loaned and to
whom.
. The receiver stated he desired to trace
fall mon**y expended by Pipe, for the pur
pose of determining what legal action
should be taken by him to recover it.
NO WITNESSES
VET CALLED.
No witnesses have been summoned as
yet to appear before the grand Jnry. as
attaches of the prosecutor's office sro
hourly receiving new data which must
be investigated. It is probable Mr. Sipe
will appear voluntarily before the grand
Jury tomorrow.
Claud M. Worley, special Investigator
for the prosecutor's office and the Crimi
nal Court, held a lengthy conference with
Mrs. Mary Gunter Bell who was cashier
to Mr. Sipe. It Is understood she will
be called to testify before the grand
Jury.
While steps are blng taken for a grand
Jury investigation. Sipe remains in Jail
discouraging every effort of friends to
provide bond for Mtu. Prosecutor Evans
said he wished to hold a conference, with
Sipe at the jail. Indira.tons are the
prosecutor will make inquiry along the
lines of conspiracy.
A negro minister called upon Mr.
Evans and told him “Brother Ripe” gava
him a missionary donation of S2O or S3O
and the money had been turned over to
the missionary board.
"Os course, I don’t want undue pub
licity, but if the money is to be re
turned, I will make it good,” the minister
told the prosecutor.
IT’S WORTH TRYING.
LONDON, March 7.—One British educa
tor has come forward with the suggestion
that better mustcal training in the lower
igrades wonld do a great dea to curb
the whistling office boy. -
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending at 7
p m , March 8, 1922:
Generally fair tonight and Wednes
day; slightly colder tonight, with low
est temperature 25 to 150 degrees; rising
temperature Wednesday.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
ti a. m 34
7 a. m , 34
8 a. m 33
9 a. m S3
10 a. m 33
11 a. at 33
U (noon) S3
1 p. k. 33
t 9> m , .. 83
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THOUSANDS PAY HOMAGE TO JAP STATESMAN
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The funeral of Marquma, one of the Japanese Elder Statesmen, was attended by thousands of mourners, who
gathered at Hi Ulya Park, where the nailonal ceremonies were held and his body laid at rert. HU funeral was one
of the most elaborate ever h< Id in tho Flowery Kingdom. The picture shows the coffin arriving at lliblya Park, whore
multitudes paid their last respects.
FATE OF MORE
THAN 4-POWER
PACT MISTAKE
Pacific Treaty Held
Keystone of Whole
Arch.
JAP ISSUE ARISES
Special to Indiana Daily Tlmea
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
By FREDERICK W. WILE.
WASHINGTON, March 7.—Ad
ministration leaders say the time has
come to remind the country that far
more than the fate of the four-power
treaty—now undergoing debate In
the Senate —is at stake there.
The Pacific pact virtually 13 the
keystone of the whole arch of treaties
adopted at the Washington confer
ence. It was discussed, formulated
and concluded first of all on that ac
count. It has been proposed for rat
ification before any of the other con
ference agreements for the same rea
son. If the four-power treaty falls in
the Senate, there Is danger the entire
structure reared by the conference
may crash to the ground.
That statement is made on the highest
authority. It is not alarmist. Senator
Lodge has assured President Harding
that, in his judgment, the treaties are
‘‘safe,” though the four-power pact may
be towed into harbor only by the slim
mest margin of securlt; What the
friends of the treaties thi k ought to
be more keenly realized is > lat they are
so essentially interlocking that if the
Pacific pact collapses the est are seri
ously imperiled.
DEFEAT WOULD REVI" <5
ANGLO-JAP ALLIANCJ
The most obvious an- disquieting re
sult of the four-power treaty's defeat
would be the maintenance of the Anglo-
Japanese alliance. The treaty scraps that
alliance. If the treaty itself is scrapped,
the alliance continues. With its continu
ance would remain the menace of men
aces in the Far East which the United
States was bent upon banishing when
it called the Washington conference. The
effect of the automatic retention of the
Anglo-Japanese alliance on the naval
limitation treaty can hardly be doubted.
It would lead, in Administration spokes
(Continued on Page Five.)
GRAND Jt'Rl INDICTS TWO.
The Marlon County grand Jury today
returned two Indictments, one being made
public by Judge James A. Collins at
this time. Robert Woolrldge, now In Jail,
was indicted on a charge of issuing fraud
ulent checks.
Reorganization Plans
Upset Cabinet Harmony
WASHINGTON. March 7—President
Harding's plans for a sweeping reorga
nization of Governmental departments in
Washington have been delayed indefi
nitely, if not smashed entirely, by the
strenuous opposition that has cropped
In and out of the Cabinet.
Formed nearly a year ago under White
House direction, the Brown reorganiza
tion committee made a wide survey of
existing conditions, and recommended
sweeping hcanges which were in the
main approved by the President.
Laid before the Cabinet, these changes
provoked such opposition as to not only
endanger the success of the plan as a
whole, but they also have shattered Cabi
net harmony today to a considerable
extent. Some Cabinet officers wanted to
get rid of bureaus they had and ac
quire others, some wanted to retain their
present organizations intact, while some
objected to being given additional du
ties.
In addition to Cabinet opposition, the
proposed changes met with powerful op
position from outsids sources. t
Harding Still Opposed
to ‘Bonus’ Unless Money
Comes Through Sales Tax
WASHINGTON, March 7—President
Harding “stands pat” agaiust any
method of providing a soldier “bonus"
except through the sales tax, it wns of
ficially announced at the White House
today.
Just before announcement of President
Harding's attitude, tho House Ways and
Means Committee approved a soldier
“bonus" bill and prepured to introduce
it Into the House.
L Cash for men whose readjusted
pay runs under sot>.
CROWDS TAKE
POSSESSION AT
BIG AUTO SHOW
Formal Opening Demonstrates
Keen Interest in Spite
of Rain.
The twenty fourth semi annual auto
mobile show continued at the fairground
pavilion In a blaze of glory today, fol
lowing the opening last night. There
was no official opening, for the crowds
began coming about 7 o'clock and soon
filled tho spacious exhibit hall, and this
despite the fart that the weather wa
such that those who had to use an open
car or one of Mr. Todd's had to bravo
the elements
As an automobile show the twenty
fourth surpasses them all. They get bet
ter each year. It appears, but It would
be hard to see what possible Improve
ments the future has In store for tho
automobile, because tile present show of
class does not look as If there were any
places for Improvements to be made.
MAYOR SHANK
MAKES PREDICTION.
However, as Mayor Samuel Lewis
Shank said in delivering his official ad
dress :
“Twent’- years from now they will be
making to m so that they will run with
out gasoline or oil."
On seeking Ihe advice of several ex
perts whose classy sixes and fours shone
resplendantly in the glittering rr.ys of the
brilliant pavilion lighis, it was discovered
that the best bet was to buy the new bus
now and not wait for the millennium.
An added touch of prophecy or rather
hopefulness was expressed in the mayor'*
address when he said:
“i hope that everybody in Indianapolis
can make enough money—honestly you
understand—to buy an automobile my
four years as mayor even if it is only a
flivver."
No one said anything, of course, be
cause this roseate dream was particularly
gratifying to both automobile men and
those present who hoped to buy either
a high class car or a flivver, but some
concern was felt as to how his honor
would devise a traffic ordinance which
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
The professional dryg objected to the
transfer of prohibition enforcement from
the Treasury to the Department of Jus
tice.
The plan to merge the War and Navy
Departments has met with decided op
position In both Army and Navy cir
cles.
The proposed abolition of the Depart
ment of Labor and the merging of its
functions into anew Department of pub
lic welfare has been subjected to at
tacks from labor.
Secretary of the Interior Fall wants
the Forestry Service transferred from
the Department of Agriculture to the
Department of Interior, contending the
Interior has charge, of all other public
lands, and should have the Forestry
Service.
A storm or opposition has arisen to this
proposal that threatens a revival of the
old llallinger-Plnchot row of the Taft
Administration.
While there has been no open break
in the matter between Secretary Fall and
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, the
situation 1| described as “tense.”
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1922.
2. Insurance certificates with a loan
provision to needy soldiers who can
get 50 per cent advance's at once from
a bank.
3. Options In the way of vocational
training, farm land grants or homo
building aid.
Postponement is the only alternative to
the sales. tux which President Harding
will permit, it wim stated on lilghest au
thority.
The President has not even given the
new certificate plan serious study, sotting
Insurmountable difficulties os the sur
face of the plan. It was emphatically
slated the President has In nowise
changed the view set forth recently in
tho Fordney letter and has no Intention
of altering this stand in the slightest. In
accordance with the committee order.
Chairman Fordney introduced the bill
this afternoon.
6 KILLED AND
40 INJURED IN
S. C. TORNADO
25 Houses Razed at Warrens
viile and Ten at Stifile
ton.
AIKEN, 8. C.. March 7.—Six peraon*
were killed and about forty injured by a
tornado and rain storm which swept the
western portion of the State early to
day, according to reports received here.
Six dead and twenty-five Injured were
reported at Warrenavllle.
Fifteen were reported injured at Stiffle
ton.
Property loss will run high.
Both Warrensville and Stlfflcton are
cotton mill towns near here. Twenty
live houses were reported destroyed at
Warrensville and ten at Stiffleton.
Wire communication was demoralized.
Relief workers, carrying medical and
food supplies, have been despatched to
the two towns.
Several injured, rushed here from War
tens viile, are being treuted in hospitals.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 7.—Before
firemen could send for a life net, seven
persons wore forced to Jump from the
upper stories of a burning rooming house
early today. One died of injuries a few
houis later and four others were se
riously hurt, two probably fatally.
Mrs. lonia Frye, 37, who died, suf
fered from bares about the body and in
ternal injuries. She Jumped from a
aecond-story window.
The fire started from an explosion In
a grocery, which was under the rooming
house. The explosion was believed to
have been caused by on accumulation of
gas.
THREE PERISH
IN TANK BLAST
AJr Container Lets Go With
Disastrous Effect in
Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. March 7.—Three
men are known to be dead and fourteen
others, throe probably fatally, were In
jured today when an air tank exploded
In the car barns of the Kansas City Rail
ways Company.
The force of the blast tore out a forty
foot brick wall and shattered windows tn
the neighborhood.
The dead are Clarence Elmer Legate,
18; Earl Haynes, 26; Frank Baumgarten,
2.1, all machinists employed In the barns.
Henry Bowman, 50, Is dying.
The three dead were decapitated from
the force of the explosion when the tanV
flew Into pieces. Their bodies were muti
lated and torn by the flying pieces ot
metal.
The air tank was located In the ma
chine shop room of the building. Thirty
men were in the room when the explosion
occurred. Fire followed the blast, but
was extinguished with small damage.
The cause of the explosion has not been
ascertained, but an Investigation is under
■way.
HARTMAN, OUT
ON ONE COUNT,
FACES OTHERS
Deposed Candidate Is
Confronted by U. S.
Charges.
WEEPS IN^COURT
Plans to Go West
When Troubles
Are Over.
Although acquitted of one charge
of receiving stolen goods by a jury in
Marion Criminal Court last night, J.
Herbert Hartman, deposed Repub
lican candidate for city Judge last
fall, is not yet a free man. Indict
ments against Hartman, his wife and
associates still are pending in both
Criminal and Federal Courts.
Following the return of the verdict,
speculation became r:fe ns to what will
be done with the other indictments
against Hartman, his urife, Laura, arid
his brother Fred.
Prosecutor Evans refused to discuss the
matter.
“I have nothing whatever to say.” was
the only statement he would make.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
HAS NOTHING TO SAY'.
When asked about the cases now pend
ing In Federal Court, Homer EUiotf,
United States district attorney, said:
“With a grand jury on my hands and
just beginning its work. I have more Im
portant things to think about. This mat
ter is not urgent and I will not decide
what to do with it until after the grand
Jury has ended its present session."
The State must depend in other cases, as
It did in this one, on the testimony of
Frank Francis, the confessing burglar,
and bis wife. I.ura, to make its case
j and apparently the Jury refused to con
vict on testimony of that character.
Gases now pending against Hartman
in Criminal Court rhargo him with re
ceiving stolen goods from another State
and violation of the prohibition law.
Mrs. Hartman lg charged with receiving
stolen goods, and Fred Hartman Is
charged with receivei good.stolen from
! another State and violation of the prohl
i bitton isw.
In Federal Court Tlnrtraan Is charged
! with violation of the national prohibition
! lawg, transportation of stolen uutomo
! biles In interstate traffic and Conspiracy
to commit these offense*. Mrs. Hartman
, Is charged with conspiracy to vtolate the
I prohibition and national motor vehicle
| laws. Fred Hartman also la charged
; with violation of the liquor laws.
There has been some talk that Fred
(Centlnned on Pago Seven.)
A. ./. Balfour,
Has Praise for
Lloyd George
LONDON, March 7. —"No man could
have headed the government better than
Lloyd George,” Arthur ,T. Balfour de
clared In his speech before the City
Carlton Club here today.
“We must not weaken the government
at this time by attempting to restore
prematurely the two-party system."
Balfour's speech w;s interpreted as
definite announcement that Lloyd George
was determined not to resign at tho
present time.
"The country's best interests." con
tinued Balfour, “have been ami can he
served by a coalition.” lie added, how
ever, that he would remain a member >t
the Unionist party for the rest of his
life.
Balfour's speech was a glowing tribute
to Lloyd George. Ho insisted that tho
treaty establishing tho Irish Free State
will ameliorate conditions in Ireland.
Premier Lloyd George, who Is suffering
from a breakdown and bronchial
trouble, was beter today. At
10 Downing street, the Premier’s
official residence, it was said Mr.
Lloyd George expects to be able to
leave his bed later in the day. The
Premier will leave for Crlccleth, Wales,
tomorrow If he is able to travel.
The general belief at present Is that
Premier Lloyd Georgo will remain in
office until after debate is concluded in
tho House of Commons on Great Britain's
program in the Genoa economic confer
ence.
Final passage of the Irish Free State
act, officially creating the Irish Fret
State, is assured in the House of Com
mons, but the political enemies of the
Premier In the House of Lords are pre
paring to attack it.
Lloyds are offering 7 to 8 against the
Premier's resignation.
DEMAS DEMING, 81,
FINANCIER, DIES
Terre Haute Banker and Prop
erty Holder.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 7.
Demas Doming, 81, well-known Indiana
financier, died here today.
Mr. Deming was president of the First
National Bank and one of the largest
property owners In the city. He had
been ill for several weeks. From his
sick bed he directed the tearing down
of an old church and the erection of a
new building to serve as offices for anew
enterprise.
Although not a man of strict religious
tendencies, he gave liberally to churches.
He also aided Rose Poly-technlcal In
stitute here.
President to Comply
With Senate Request
WASHINGTON, March 7.—President
Harding will lose no time in complying
with the Senate’s request for informa
tion as to the status of the Lanslng-Ishii
agreement.
After a conference between the Presi
dent and Senator Lodge at the White
House this morning, it was stated the
President would probably send a reply
late this afternoon. c
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Bandit, Attired
as Woman, Fails
to Obtain Loot
PITTSBURGH, l'a„ March 7.
Dressed as a woman, a bandit
squirted an ammonia gun In the face
of Charles Lazaro, Homewood Na
tional Bank messenger, at Sixth and
Liberty here today, and attemptea
to escape with a satchel containing
$15,000 in cash.
La/.uro. half blinded, managed to
retain his grip on the man who later
gave bis name as Joseph Yiudsay, 23,
of Homewood.
SAYS MINERS
VOTING FOR
STRIKE APR. 1
Executive Board Sees
Evidence of Unani
mous Result.
DISCUSSION HELD
Having before them scattered re
ports indicating that the miners, in
a nation-wide referendum, are voting
unanimously in favor of a strike
April 1 in event of failure to obtain a
new wage agreement, John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mino Work
ers, and members of the international
executive board of the union went
into conference today to discuss the
deadlock with the coal operators,
which still persists.
Miners officials in the conference were
confronted with these facts:
1. Refusal of powerful group* of op
erators to recede from their position of
holding out against negotiations on a
national basis.
2. Lfforts of Illinois operators to effect
anew wage agreement, applicable to
Illinois aloue.
3 Possibility that Frank Farrington,
president, and other officials of the Illi
nois union may enter into a separate
agreement despite advices to the con.
trary from Lewis.
4. Virtual division of the international
union, or at least a lessening of it* power,
if State agreements are affected.
Whether the Government, through
Secretary of Labor Davis, may yet bo
able to compel the recalcitrant operators
to abide by their pledge to meet with the
miners before the expiration, March 81,
of the existing wage schedule, was still
problematics] today.
The operators' ranks are broken and a
rift In th miners' ranks, admittedly. Is
a possibility. On the question of strike,
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
UNCERTAINTY
IN SUPPORT OF
4-POWER PACT
Republicans Can Defeat Reser
vations, but Can’t Pass
Treaty.
WASHINGTON, March 7.—President
l>-rilinir nil! maintain a “hands off" at
titude ton ard the siutrp tight being waged
in the sntst* against the four-power Pu
ri tic treaty, It was stated officially at the
While House today.
Tho President takes the position that
tho treaties are the beat tlutt could be
negotiated and he (lor- not intend to
“lobby, trade, supplicate or admonish”
tiro Senate regarding them.
WASHINGTON, March 7.—The mathe
matical uncertainty of the Democratic
line-up on the four-power Pacific treaty
continued today to plague both Senator
• Lodge, the Republican leader, and Sen
ator Underwood, who is finding it diffi
cult to maintain his titular leadership
of the minority side.
The Republicans are in the same posi
tion that the Democrats wero in the
League of Nations tight. Most of the
Democratic Senators have banded togeth
er to defeat the treaty unless it is bur
dened with such reservations as the Ad
ministration forces declare would vir
tually destroy it. In tho league battle
which ended in tho rejection of the Ver
sailles past most of the Republican Sen
ators united in attaching a long string
of reservations to the league covenant.
These tho Democratic side denounced as
destructive and President Wilson refused
to accept them.
The Republicans now have enough
vote* to command the majority necessary
to defeat reservations but they cannot j
force ratification of tho treaty itself by
(Continued on Pago Two.)
Margot Asquith Laments
Missing Political Crisis
NEW YORK, March 7.—Margot Asquith,
“grandmother of the flapper,” interviewed
and written about in a score of cities in
the United States and Canada, is not satis
fied just to read about herself in Ainei
lean newspapers, she said today. She la
eager for news from home—England.
“X ant missing a political crisis in
England,” she said, "because your papers
don’t give enough information to keep me
in touch with the situation.
SAY’S FRONT
PAGES ABOMINABLE.
“Your newspapers are all right in the
way they have treated me, but the ‘top’
of them is abominable. I never read the
first sheet, which is usually filled with
murders and suicides, Charlie Chaplin’s
pants or Mary Pickford’s* dogs. They
screech and bellow —the front pages—
not the dogs.”
Between puffs on her ever-present cig
arette she gave her views on interna
tional affairs, the British cabinet crisis,
American prohibition, American cities
and American traits in general.
“There will be an election in May, un
doubtedly,” she said. “Lloyd George may
weather the storm, but the coalition Is
doomed, there is no doubt about that.”
BIDS ARE ORDERED
ADVERTISED TO BE
RECEIVED MARCH 17
Sum Necessary to Meet Teachers’ Pay Rolls
and to Return $525,000 From Build
ing Bond Fund.
SMITH COMPLAINT IS UP THURSDAY
In order to meet teachers payrolls it will be necessary for the board
of school commissioners to borrow $1,000,000 Immediately, and at a spe
cial meeting of the board today bids for this amount were ordered ad
vertised, the bids to be received March 17 at 10 o'clock a. m.
Bids on two propositions will be' received, one for the entire amount
to be delivered to the board March 20; the other for SBOO 000, to be turned
over to the board March 20, and the other $200,000 April 13.
Os this amount $525,000 will be repaid to the board's building bond
fund from which it was borrowed recently. The borrowed money wiH
be placed in the teachers’ tuition fund.
DOVE 0’ PEACE
AGAIN COOING
AT CITY HALL
Freeman Asks Armi
stice in Asphalt
Conflict.
SITUATION EASES
Relations between City Civil Engi
neer John L. Elliott and William H.
Freeman and Dr. M. J. Spencer, mem
bers of the board of public works
were less strained today than they
have been for the past two weeks.
A bid for peace by Mr. Freeman,
which Mr. Elliott came halfway to
meet was the means of easing the
situation.
Tho officials had disagreed over the
order of tho two works board members
instructing the engineer not to specify
concrete for use in Indianapolis street
Improvements, but at the moating of
the board Monday afternoon they were
calling each other “John,” "Bill” and
“Doe.”
It was during a discussion of the per
manent impre ement of Osage street that
the atmosphere, which has been super
charged with lightning, ready to be un
chained at any moment since Feb. 21,
began to clear. The board several days
ago rejected all bids on Osage street
because they all were of one material,
concrete. This was after the board had
announced it would build no more con
crete pavements unless specifically re
quested to do go by property owners.
Property owners rarely specify what
kind of material they wish.
Practically every one In touch with
board of works affair# assumed asphalt
would be the material used almost ex
clusively. William H. Armitage, who is
trying to make Mr. Freeman, Republican
county chairman, is the agent for the
Barber Asphalt Company. The Barber
Asphalt Company sells TTinldad asphalt.
Mr. Freeman was quoted as “believing"
Trinidad was a “very excellent material.”
The Osage bids were rejected several
days ago. This added to the engineer's
ire because Osage street is little more
than an alley, being fifteen feet wide,
and he thought some cheaper material
than asphalt should be used. He in
formed the board several days ago that
he thought asphalt pavement Ought to
cost from $2 20 to $3 instead of the $4.10
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Asks Investigation
of Newberry Inquiry
WASHINGTON, March 7.—A resolution
for investigation by a special Senate com
mittee of statements by Senator Poin
dexter reluting to influences brought to
boar on the Senate in the Newberry ease
was introduced today by Senator Cara
way (Ark.) Democrat.
Thu resolution was referred to the
Elections Committee. It states Poindex
ter had charged evil influences were used
to influence the votes of Senators in
seating Newberry. It provides for ap
pointment of three Senators to Investi
gate.
TENTH WARD DEMOCRATS MEET, j
Matters of special Interest pertaining
to the coming elections will be discussed |
nt the monthly meeting of the Tenth j
Ward Democratic Club at Hoyt and 1
State avenues Wednesday evening at 8
o’clock. Several Democratic primary
candidates will speak.
In forceful language Margot character
ized tne \ ersaiUes peace conference as
"fruitless,” the Cannes conference as
"fatai.”
“Your Washington conference was the
conference,” she declared, “That con
fereruce accomplished something.”
Amerian life is too fast and furious for
her England sensibilities to grasp, Lady
Asquith said.
To American prohibition, Margot raised
a warning finger, and admitted she had
told the President what she had thought
about it.
“At balls and parties in England, the
boys and girls don’t get even this much
drunk,” she said, holding two fingers of
her right hand very close together. “Here
I understand it is common practice since
prohibition for young folk to drink and
get drunk at dances. But when I arn
traveling and am thirsty, or am having
ray dinner and ask for just one sip of
brandy, I am told it is Impossible. When
I first came over, I thought I would ad
mire prohibition, but now that I hnve
seen how it works, I think it is abomin
able.*' ‘
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A special meeting of the board w*R
te heard Thursday to consider complaint*
registered against Tessl* J. Smith, prin
cipal of School No. 86, Capitol avenue
and Twenty-Eighth street, and from ad
vance indications the meeting promises to
be a hot one. About a dozen addi
tional charges were filed against Mis 9
Smith by residents in the neighborhood
of the school today, and a delegation ©<
her supporters was on hand to uphold
her. However, the board refused to go
into the matter before Thursday.
TRANSFER PETITION
IS SIGNED BY 150.
At the last regular meeting of tha
board a petition asking the transfer of
Miss Smith from the school, signed by
150 residents of the neighborhood, was
presented to the board and wan referred
to the instruction committee and E. U
Graff, superintendent of schools.
The petition charged Miss Smith wa*
behind the times, was unprogressisve, ad
ministered school affairs in a dictatorial
manner, and even interfered with tha
conduct of the Parent-Tteacher Associa
tion.
Following the meeting Miss Smith en
tered an emphatic denial of all charges
against her.
It. C. Lowell, director of vocation train
ing, came in for considerable criticism at
the hands of the board today following
his request, presented through Superin
tendent Graff, for an additional $5,000
with which to conduct the part-time
schools. The letter stated half of the
school already have closed and it will
be necessary to close the other April 25
if the money Is not appropriated for their
support.
Recently $5,000 wa* appropriated by the
board to carry on the work and it was
thought at Ihe time this would be suffi
cient to continue the classes until the end
of the year.
Some of the members criticized Mr,
Lowell for not keeping expenses down,
and President Charles L. Barry seemed
particularly hurt to think the matter had
found Us way into the newspapers.
“I didn’t know he would go to ths
press with it,” President Barry said.
GREAT DEMAND TO
CONTINUE CLASSES.
There has been a great demand for tha
continuance of these part-time schools
and board members have been flooded
with petitions and telephone calls asking
their continuance.
Adolph Emhardt, a board member, said
he believed this agitation was comlnjf
from some outside SQurce.
A communication was received from
Milo H. Stuart, principal of Arsenal
Technical high school, asking that tha
board reoensider its action to have all
high school commencements at Tomlin-|
son Hall, and to hire the Cadle taber
nacle for the “Tech” commencement
Saturday, June 10. If this is done ha
said it will be possible for the com
mencement to be held at one time in
stead of on two nights as will be the
case if Tomlinson Hall is used. He said
the tabernacle can be obtained for S3OO
and that the pupils are willing to make
up the difference in the cost of the two
places in order to make use of the taber
nacle.
The matter was referred to the in
struction committee, of which Dr. Mario
Haslep is chairman. Dr. Haslep Op
pressed herself as opposed to the change,
for she said the commencements of tha
three high schools should be held at tha
same place.
RESCUES TWO
PERSONS FROM
. BURNING HOME
Lon Heart Carries Sister-in-
Law and Brother, Both 111,
to Safety.
With flames crackling about them tw
persons, seriously ill from pneumonia,
were carried from a burning house at
1541 Holliday street early today Just ttt
time to save their lives.
The rescue was made by Lon Heart,
30, who awoke to find the house in flamea.
The persons rescued are Heart's brother,
Thomas, and Mrs. Thomas Heart. Lot*
Heart had been nursing them during their
illness.
Awaking from his sleep In a chair, Lon
Heart found a kerosene heater in the
room had set the house afire. He rushed
to the bedside of Mr. and Mrs. Heart and
carried Mr. Heart to the home of J.
Frank Russell, 1543 Holliday street. Ha
then rushed back to the house, carried
out Mrs. Heart and took her to the boma
of a third brother, William Heart, 1543
Gimber street.
When Lon Heart returned to the
scene of the fire he found the Russell
home In flames. Thomas Heart had been
carried to the front porch and the sis
Russell children had carried blankets
from their beds and placed over him.
Both the Heart home and the Russell
residence were destroyed and the fire also
damaged the residence of Henry Smith,
1545 Holliday street. The loss of furni
ture and of the buildings is estimated at
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President Will Go to
Florida This Week
WASHINGTON, March 7.—President
Harding expects to leave Washington
some time this week for a short vacation
at St. Augustine, Fla., it was learned
today. Plans for the trip have not been
completed, but Mr. Harding probably
will accompany the President. f
NO. 256.