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THE WEATHER
Unsettled, with rain tonight and Tuesday.
Warmer tonight.
VOL. XXXIV.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COURT OF KANSAS IS
HELD CONSTITUTIONAL
U. S. Supreme Tribunal Declares It Is in Con
flict With None of Federal Statutes —
Refuses to Review Decision.
RULES IN DENYING HOWAT’S APPEAL
WASHINGTON, March 13. —The constutlonallty of the Kansas court
of Industrial relations, an innovation in the warfare between capital and
labor, was allowed to stand by the United States Supreme Court today.
The high court declared it was without jurisdiction to review the de
cision of the Kansas Supreme Court, upholding the court in an attack made
by Alexander Howat, president of the Kansas miners, and other labor
leaders.
The action is & victory for the State. The Kansas Supreme Court de
clared that labor leaders can be forced to appear before and recognize the
findings of the court and approved the sentencing of Howat and others
bo jail for contempt
This decision now stands final.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has no right under the transportation
act of 1920 to authorise abandonment of
a railroad lying wholly within one State
and doing a wholly interstate business
the Supreme Court held.
LAPEL CITIZEN
LEAPSTODEATH
FROM LOCAL Y
George R. Bullard, 77, Dies
After Plunge From
Fourth Story.
Despondent because of Illness. George
B. Bullard, 77, of Lapel, committed sui
cide at 2:15 a.m. today by plunging from
a fire escape at the fourth floor of the
T. M. C. A. Building. He was carried
Into the lobby of the building by three
men who had witnessed the fatal plunge,
and died fifteen minutes later.
Bullard came to Indianapolis Saturday
and was staying at the Y. M. C. A. as
the guest of John I. Ferguson, Room 58.
Mr. Ferguson was awakened about 2
o’clock by Bullard who seemed ill and
who left the room. Ferguson followed
and found Bullard in a washroom. Bul
lard, however, said he was feeling bet
ter and wonld return to the room soon.
'Ferguson left him.
After Ferguson left, Bullard walked to
a window at the end of the ball at the
west end of the 'building. Climbing over
a steam radiator and out on the fire
escape landing, he climbed over a 4-foot
railing and plunged to the pavement In
Muskingum street.
MEN AT OIL STATION
SAW MAN’S PLI'KGE.
Lawrence Weldon, and Frank Diehl,
both of 735 South Meridian street, and
J. E. Mouch of Greencaetle, who were at
a gasoline filling station at Indiana ave
nue and New York street saw a man
leap from the fire escape. They ran to
the spot and they found Bullard.
They carried him into the association
building Sergeant Dean made an inves
tigation and notified Dr. Paul F. Robln
•on, coroner, who ordered the body taken
to Shirley Brothers, 940 North Illlnoia
a treat
Two brief notes were found In Bul
lard's pockets, each stated, "My name
is George E. Bullard, I am la room No.
68 Y. M. C. A. Indianapolis.”
Bullard was a retired business man.
He had been in business at Muncle for
many years. Bullard is survived by two
daughters both of whom live at Denves,
Colo.
Tha police learned that several times
Sunday Bullard was seen to walk to the
window at the end of the hall and look
out into Muskingum street, but at that
:im nothing was thought of It. He had
planned to go to the Masonic home at
Franklin, it Is said, where It was said he
would pay his own expenses.
ANOTHER SUCCEEDS
AND A THIRD FAILS.
| James Scroggans, 2, 550 North Bolle
' vleu Place, committed suicide Sunday
night by swallowing poison. He was
•live when police arrived in answer to
an emergency call, but died before a
physician could be summoned. Domestic
trouble was given as the reason for his
killing himself. Dr. Faul F. Robinson,
coroner, has started an investigation.
The prompt work of a woman living
at 51S West Merrill street saved the life
of Arthur Russell, 27, 914 Chadwick
street, who decided to end his life. He
swallowed a small quantity of poison
and then rushed into the house in Merrill
street and announced he had taken
poiaon. The head of the house forced
him to swallow nearly a pound of butter
and drink a quart of milk. These old
fashloned remedies acted as emetics and
Russell’s life was saved. A doctor, who
arrived later, sent Russell to his home.
Winkler Promoted
to Dry Group Head
George Winkler, who has been a Fed
eral prohibition agent for more than a
year, has been named as group chief of
the central division of Indiana, accord
ing to a statement given out today by
Ilert Morgan. Federal Prohibition Direc
tor for Indiana. Mr. Winkler will be in
charge of thirty counties ia this part
of the State.
Heretofore there has been no group
chief in this division, the work being
in charge of W. O. Holman, head of the
prohibition field force. The State Is di
vided into three districts, the northern.
Min charge of George Weeks with head-
W quarters at Hammond: the southern, in
charge of Will Hays with headquarters
at Terre Haute and the central.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis aai v'cinity
for the twenty-four hours ending at 7
p. m.. March 14. 1922:
Unsettled with rain tonight ani Tues
day; warmer tonight.
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7 a. m 41
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Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Dally Except Sunday.
GOVERNMENT
WILL TRY TO
AVERT STRIKE
Outlook Gloomy, but
Not Believed
Hopeless.
1917 SCALE ‘BONE’
WASHINGTON, March 13.—While
a strike of soft coal miners is re
garded as virtually certain, Govern
ment officials renewed their efforts
■ today to bring about a conference be
tween the operators and miners as
provided for in the 1920 pact. Secre
tary of Labor Davis, although disap
pointed at the attitude of certain
operators in failiing to agree to a
council table gathering, is making
| other moves that may win over the
- rebellious operators. What these
move i are he declines to say, hold-
I ing their effect might be lost if they
| were discussed publicly at this time,
j Officials who are handling the threat
ened bituminous strike are awaiting with
deep interest the outcome of the confer
ence between the operators aud anthracite
miners, which will be held In New York
March 15.
Word has reached Washington some of
the important groups of operators are
“going back to the November, 1917, scale
with the miners, and are determined to
go back to that scale whether or not the
miners agree.” These operators declare
| present living conditions and the state of
1 the coal market warrant both sides to r
| tnrn to the 1917 scale. According to ln
formation that has reached officials
handling the strike situation, the oper
ators are perfectly willing to go along
with the union men, but they are deter
mined nothing shall deter them from go
i ing back to the 1917 scale.
Thus a virtual deadlock has been
reached In the negotiations which Secre
j tary Davis has put under way to bring
! the opposing sides together. Secretary
: Davis and his advisers are now easting
about for some plan to break this dead
lock.
Officials point out that unless the rail
road workers strike with the soft coal
miners, the effect of the coal strike
would not be felt appreciably for sev
eral weeks. For many weeks large stocks
! of coal have been going Into storage and
! the Government’s coni experts estimate
* by April 1, when the strike is scheduled
|to begin, about 50,000,000 tons will be
1 above ground. Non-union mines can be
i counted on to produce at once from 4,-
000.000 to 8.00.000 tons a week which,
j with the large stocks now In storage, will
carry the country along comfortably for
a considerable period.
“These facts are so apparent,” said a
high official “that the Administration can
only believe both sides are endeavoring
i to bring on a strike.”
TWO DIE FROM
POISONED FOOD
Several Others Reported 111
Canned Spinach Is
Blamed.
Special to The Times.
KENDALLVILLE, Ind„ March 13
Two persons are dead and several others.
Including nnrses. are critically ill today
as a result of botulinus poisoning which
developed among patients and nurses in
Lakeside Hospital. Authorities blamed
canned spinach.
The dead are Mrs. Raymond Walters,
age 26, and Mrs. Laura Rishop, age 62,
the caretaker. The critically ill ars Mrs.
Cecil Hossnger, patient; Miss S. Skeels,
hospital matron; Ellsworth Xcwman of
South Milford, a patient, and Miss Fran
ces Helmar, a nurse. Miss Frieda Fischer,
and nurse, and Dr. C. A. Gardner are
ill, but not seriously.
Every physician and available nurse
in the city was called to the hospital
and have been working feverishly to
rrevent further fatalities. Drs. Beal and
Duemling, Ft. Wayne specialists, were
summoned to aid in the battle.
Calls for Reports
of National Banks
WASHINGTON, March 13.—The comp
troller of the currency today issued a
call for the conditoin of all national
banks as of Friday, March 10.
Entered as Second Class Matter. July 25, 1914, at
Postoffice, Indianapolis, xad., under act March 3, 1879.
CALIFORNIAN
INASSAULTON
4-POWER PACT
Johnson Says Alliance
Exposes U. S. to
War Danger.
RAPS WAR THREAT
Raises Question Over
Anglo-Japanese
Alliance.
* WASHINGTON, March 13.—The
four-power Pacific treaty was flayed
in the Senate as a "quadruple al
liance, which exposes the American
people to the danger of war," by
Senator Hiram Johnson of California,
Republican “irreconcilable.”
Johnson demanded, if the Anglo-
Japanese alliance was considered a
menace to the United States, to know
why this country should be “forced
into a compact with the tw-o nations
who composed it under a threat of
war.”
"Do those who favor the four-power
treaty assert that Great Britain under
any circumstances would make war upon
us?” Johnson inquired.
“I do not believe It. Do they in
i tend us to Infer that Japan was ready
!to strike at us, or was only awaiting
a favorable opportunity to catch us off
jour guard and then attack ns?
WISHES NO ALLIANCE WITH
DISTRUSTED POWER.
| “But if thut were the attitude of Ja
pan toward us, and pro-treaty Senators
1 are all hinting at it, then I, for one,
want no alliance with her. If any coun
try is to be so little trusted that we
must believe that she lies In , wait for
our ruin and destruction —then by no
agreement like the four-power pact can
you either alter her Intention nor post
-1 pone the (lay of reckoning.
“If you have so bad un opinion of any
nation which is a party to the four
power alliance, you can only take the
Vmeriean people Into it because of base
fear. Yielding to fear by any nutlon will
i corrode its character.
i “I shall vote against '.he four-power
treaty, first, because It saps the spirit
which Is the genuine security of this
country. The genuine security of this
country is In the mood of mind that
took our soldiers across the forest of
Argonne. You cannot make heroea—you
cannot produce the human defense which
i is the essential defense of a country out
: of national policies which acknowledge
l fear, which teach fear and which prefer
i the alternative of surrender to the alter
j native of danger.
KWOKS INDEPENDENT
NATIONAL ACTION,
j “The argument for the present sur
! render of our ancient policy of Inde
pendent national action Is nothing In the
end but tha.. one word: Donger. The
j Anglo-Japauese alliance, Senators say,
exposes us to danger. Therefore, we
have no choice. We mnst accept this
(Continued on Pago Two.)
JOHN D. DODGE
IN JAIL AFTER
WILD CAR PARTY
Son of Auto Millionaire Is Ac
cused of Mistreating High
School Girl.
KALAMAZOO, Mich., March 13.—John
Duval Dodge, son of the millionaire auto
fnmily of Detroit, was in Jail here today
charged with driving an automobile
while intoxicated and violation of the
State liquor law.
The arrest of Dodge and Rex Earl, a
local boy, followed what Prosecutor
Stephen Wattles characterized as a “wild
party” Saturday night, climaxed by a
young Normal student girl diving from
a speeding automobile onto a country
road. The girl was injured seriously and
lay in the road for some time before
being picked up by a farmer.
“Dodge aud Earl picked up the girl on
the streets of Grand Rapids Saturday
night,” Wattles said. “Two other girls
also were in tho party.
“lie induced the Normal School student
to enter his high-powered machine by
telling her he would take her home. In
stead, he took her out in the country and
speeded up his automobile to more than
sixty miles an hour.
“The girls were offered liquor and oth
erwise terrorized. The Normal School
student Jumped from the machine.”
The Injured girl lay on the frozen
road for nearly an hour before a farmer
passing by picked her up and took her
to the Burgess Hospital, where it was
stated today she would recover.
Dodge and Earl were taken *-.to cus
tody Sunday and were held at the cotonty
jail without charges being preferred until
today. Dodge refused to talk regarding
the case. j
Held with Dodge and Earl were Miss
Ethel Clemens and Miss Sue Stegenth. of
Grand Rapids.
The injured girl, it was learned, was
Miss Emiline Kwaekerneck, of Grand
Rapids. She was in her second year at
the Normal School here.
The story told by Miss Cleklns and
Stegenth was as follows:
"We were at a dance ut the Armory in
Grand Rapids when we met Dodge and
Earle in an automobile who offered to
take us home. We were taken from the
city at a high rate of speed. We begged
Dodge, who was driving, to take us back,
but he appeared as though he did not
hear us. As the auto slowed down, near
Kalamazoo, to pass another mnchlne.
Miss Kwaekerneck opened the door and
jumped out.”
The girls said Dodge drove on despite
their cries to go back after the injured
girl.
“We called for him to ‘please stop, she
has been killed,’” the girls said, “but he
did not heed us.” (
Dodge was disinherited by his father.
After entering suit, a settlement finally
was affected by attorneys for the family,
under which the son was understood to
have received $1.000,000.
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1922.
WHACK!
WASHINGTON, March 13—Declara
tions of Republican leaders that big
slashes would be made in appropria
tions for the military establishment
for the next fiscal year were borne
out by the Army supply bIT reported
to the House today by the House Ap
propriations Committee.
The bill carries a total for the year
1922-23 of $270,353,030 which is nearly
$88,000,000 less than the amount de
manded by Secretary of War Weeks
and General Pershing, and $110,000,000
short of the total Army appropriation
for the present fiscal year.
SNIP! SNIP!
HOUSE CUTS
ARMY DOWN
Advice of Pershing
and Others Given
No Heed.
HAS ONLY BEGUN
WASHINGTON, March 13.—Disre
garding the advice of General Persh- i
ing and other high Army officers, the;
House Appropriations Committee to
day fixed the size of tho American
Army at not more than 11,000 of
ficers and 115,000 men.
No provision for the pay and main
tenance of a greater number was
contained in the Army supply bill,
reported out, and certain of passage.
The evident intent of Congress to slash
all along the line In military and naval
appropriations was noted again in a pro
vision of the bill designed to force the
return of American troops from China.
SOLDIER ‘BONUS’
BILL DOOMED TO
REST IN SENATE
House Committee Also Shows
Tendency to Delay
Action.
: WASHINGTON. March 13.- P.epubncan
members of the Ways and Means Com
mittee decided today to delay action on
the "bonus' 1 bill for another twenty-four
hours.
It had been Intended to report the bill
today, but after a meeting of the com
mittee, Chairman Fordney announced It
wonld not be presented until tomorrow
Several changes were made In the bill
chief among which was a reduction from
40 to 25 per cent In tho amount proposed
t for farm und home settlement aid to ex
| soldiers. Other changes were unimpor
tant, Fordney said.
i The House Ways and Means Commit
j tee met to put the last touches on the bill
i and report it to the House and the pro
! gram Is to put It on the floor March 24.
I Despite the fact the bill Is losing
1 strength dally In the House, Its passage
.Is thought certain there.
' The Senate Is busy with the arms con
ference treaty and after they are disposed
of the tariff bill and a vast lot of other
Important legislation which must be
passed before adjournment will come tip
I In addition to the “bonus" being caught
|ln a legislative Jam In the Senate. It is
pretty definitely known that President
| Harding will cull In Administration lead
ers if necessary and say the word that
will hold up the soldier bill.
Secretary Mellon's latest letter to
Chairman Fordney of the House Ways
and Means Committee attacking the
modified “bonus" bill on the grounds It
would be “dangerous abuse of Govern
ment credit,” did not create much of n
stir in the House. The opposition of
the Treasury to any form of soldier “bo
nus" is “well kuown already,” llouso
leaders declared.
Secretary Mellon, In Ills letter, reit
erated “there is no way the taxpayers
can avoid the ‘bonus' burden, and If a
‘bonus' Is to be Imposed, It would be far
better for all concerned to place It on a
direct and definite basis and pay It each
year out of current revenue.”
ISSUED STATE BANK CALL.
MADISON, Wis., March 13.—A Stale
bank call was Issued here today by State
Banking Commission Marshall Cousins.
The call Is as of tho close of business, on
Friday, March 10.
Divorce Suit Disclosure
Involving Princess Riles
Old German Aristocracy
BY 8. D. MEYER,
POTSDAM, Germany, March 13. —This
peaceful Prussian town, the last strong
hold of defunct German royalty,
swarmed today with correspondents rep
resenting papers in nil lands frantical
ly trying to verify the revelations in the
sensational Plettenburg divorce suit in
which the wife of the ex-Kaiser’s second
son, Princess Ettel Friederich Hohen
zoll’ern, plays such an important part.
Enraged by news that a fresh American
refsortorial breeze dared to blow through
the historic and exclusive courtroom
where the cream of German aristocracy
has been wont to air its scandals un
molested from the stare of ordinary
mortals and untouched by tlio glare of
pitiless publicity, the higher-ups In this
remarkable divorce case have clamped
down the lip tighter than ever and all
the papers have been put under lock and
key.
The secretary of Prince Eltel Frieder
ich issued a hot statement describing the
disclosure# as a "tissue of malicious
lies.’’
He refueed, however, to answer any
U. S. LATCH
STRING OUT,
SAYSREPLY
Hughes Tells World
America Plays No
Favorites.
WON’T BE BAITED
Regards Genoa Con
ference as Put-and-
Take Party.
Special to Indiana Dally Time,
ai.d Philadelphia Public Ledger.
By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.
WASHINGTON, March 13.—Amer
ica’s note to Europe on the Genoa
conference is intended, in effect, to
do for Russia what John Hay's note
to the powers did for China in 1899.
It proclaims the doctrine of the open
door. It is designed as notice to all
the world that the United States caa
not assent to any scheme, under
whatever guise put forward, that
would confer preferential advantages
in Russia upon any nation or group
of nations.
The Hughes note is a warning alike
to the Bolshevist government at Mos
cow and to other governments that
would traffic with It for selfish purpose*
The American declaration Is directly la
line with, and supplementary to, ttie
assurance proclaimed by the United
States on the eve <>f tho Washington
conference that there must tie a "moral
trusteeship" for Itussln pending its em
ergence from the r> and interregnum.
In addition to portraying, as above
mentioned, the true inwardness of the
American attitude toward Genoa, the
writer can relate, on high authority,
hitherto untold details of events that
led up to our rejection of Europe’s in
vitation. The overshadowing reason for
our refusal wag America's discovery that
Genoa, by and large, was a “frame-up”
to exploit Russia into Europe’s Interest.
Lenin, there is reason to believe, was
. ready to hand Russia over for that pur
pose in exchauge for European re og
i ni: ion of the Bolshevist government,
Germany was to be clothed with the
authority of an “economic mandatory.”
ito organic and administer Russia in
an industrial sense, on behalf of the
i outside world.
HERE’S HOW SCHEME
WAS TO WORK.
The underlying scheme was to pre
: pare the Russian market for the con
' sumption of foreign manufactured goods,
while draining Russian soil of raw ma
terials under a vast network of railway,
mining, forestry and agricultural con
cessions granted to foreign capitalists.
Russia was to be milked dry for foreign
benefit and eventually reduced to tho
ignoble status of an economic vassal of
alien slates.
| As soon ns the United States Govern
ment became convinced of tho actual ob
ject of Iho Genoa conference, America's
foot was put down on tho whole project.
; The Hughes note of March 8 was tf@-
(( ontlnued on Page Seven.)
SIPE INQUIRY
IS BEGUN BY
GRAND JURY
Experts Work Day and Night
to Complete Records
Examination.
The Marion County grand Jury today
began the inspection of documentary evi
dence in the case of Richard V. Sipo,
former Marion County clerk, in Jail
charged with embezzling trust funds.
This evidence consists of Slpe's state
ments, statements of other persons con-
I corned, the lists of Ripe’s assets and doc
uments of like nature.
The examination of witnesses probably
w-lli not start for several days. It is held
up pending the completion of the exami
nation of Ripe’s books by the Rtnte board
of accounts. This examination will cover
in detail tho years 1019, 1920 and 1921.
Examiners of (he board worked Sunday
j and are working day and night to speed
up Iho examination.
specific questions, waving off all Inquir
ers with a contemptuous air, to give the
impression that such a case never ex
isted.
Against this your correspondent is able
to reveal that the divorce action unques
tionably dates back two years. In that
time it has been aired off and on behind
closed doors.
The suit was brought by Baroness
Plettenberg, who nnmes Princess Eltel
Friederich. The Baron was formerly an
officer in 'a guards regiment and served
as aide de ennip to the former grand
duke of Oldenburg.
Up i to the time this cablegram was
sent not a single German newspaper had
printed anything about the divorce case.
This was accepted as proof of the au
thority still possessed by the old aristo
cratic and monarchist circle in Potsdam—
former scat of the court. It Is declared
that when a show of this authority oc
casionally comes to the surface it makes
even the most profound believers in the
German republic doubt whether full rep
resentation principles are yet to be found
in Germany.
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Lloyd George Ministry
Beset From All Sides
LONDON, March 13—The coalition
government, leader leg's for the moment
while Lloyd George is on a holiday in
Wales, today was faced w-ith a series of
crises which threatens Us downfall.
Trouble in India, in the Transvaal, in
the Near East and at home confronted the
already shaky Lloyd George ministry.
A hurry call for Lloyd George to re
turn to tile holm of the badly battered
ship of state has been sent out, it was
reported.
The premier might start back for Lon
don today, it was said.
Anticipated trouble in India where
scarcely repressed revolt has been in
tensified by the arrest and arraignment
of Gandhi, began with the slaying of two
natives in the Hardoi district following
rioting. Gandhi and a banker arrested
with him, pleaded guilty to the charts
of sedition. Fears are expressed that
Sikhs In the Punjab district, many of
whom have deserted to Join revolutionary
bands, may infltiny. The first troubles
since the arrest of Gandhi occurred in the
agricultural districts.
In the Transvaal, government troops
were reported l>y General Rrnutz to have
the situation well in hand, but consid
erable fighting remains to be done before
HELP WANTED
TO GET SHORT
WEIGHT SHARK
Mrs. Riddle, Chief Inspector,
Declares Cooperation Is
Necessary.
Citizens who wish to see tho practice
of short weighing on the city market
broken up were urged to give better co
operation to the city bureau of weights
and measures, by Mrs. Mary Pearl
Kiddle, chief Inspector of weights and
measures, today, after the case of Rus
sell Arnold, elerk on a curb stand was
continued until next Monday, because
the complaining witness was not iu city
court,
Arnold, who lives at 1014 East Ohio
street, was one of two clerks iu curb
stands arrested by R. 11. Hathaway and
Elmer Petty, deputy inspectors of
weights and measures, Saturday. Arnold
was accused of charging Mrs. J. West
fall, 4123 Cornelius avenue, for six
pounds of apples when she received
only five pounds, and seven ounces.
The ease of Charles Lark, 15, 41 South
East street, was sent to Juvenile court.
He was arrested on a charge of selling
Mrs. A. IV. Shear, 718 North De Quincy
street, one pound and nine ounces of
apples, when she paid for two pounds.
“We can break up the short-weight
game if we cun get the people to stand
behind us," said Mrs. Riddle. "So often,
however, housewives complain of being
shortweighted, we make arrests and then
the complainants don’t want to go to
court to appear against the defendants.
“Whenever any citizen has reason to
believe he has not been given full weight
lie should note the number of the stand
from which he has made his purchase
and take the package to the market office
which is in the first market house on
the Market street side, and ask the dep
uty Inspector of weights and measures
on duty there to reweigh it. If it is
found short the inspector will arrest the
offending stallholder tnil file charges
against him in city court. It is up to
the citizen, then, to appear ns a witness
against the standholder who has cheated
him or her. Many women, however, seem
to feel going to police court is some
thing disgraceful. Asa matter of fact
testifying against someone who has dis
obeyed the law ia a plain matter of
duty.”
GEN. JAN C. SMUTS.
the Johannesburg district is cleared of
re belli.
The Turco-Gtvek war has broken out
again in the Near East and this. In view
of the forthcoming allied conference, re
garding policies toward these countries
will prove extremely embarrassing to
Great Britain, which has backed Greece.
Mass meetings in London Sunday
showed that the industrial situation here
is approaching a crisis which would im
peril the government even if events
abroad were settled. Unless an agree
ment is reached by March 25, six hun
dred thousand more workers will be
added to ibe ranks of England's unem
ployed.
EXPECTED TO
TALK OX INDIA
LONDON. March 13.—That Premier
Lloyd George will make a statement in
Parliament upon the political unrest in
India as soon as he returns from his va
cation at Criccleth. Wales, was inti
mated today. A dispatch from the Welsh
town quoted the Premier as saying he
could "only answer the assertions of
E. R. Montague, former seereary for In
dia, upon the floor of the House of Com
mons." It is understood Mr. Montagu's
resignation was forced by the Premier
because of the former's pro-Moslem
policy.
ARBUCKLECASE
IS HELD UP TO
FIND TALESMEN
Fourteen Members of Panel
Are A. W. O. L. as Third
Trial Is Called.
RAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. March 13.
Failure of fourteen members of the Jury
panel to report today brought to an
abrupt, halt the third trial of Roscoe
(Fatty) Arbtickle for monslaughter when
the film comedian was arraigned before
Judge Harold Louderback.
Assistant District Attorney U’ren
moved adjournament until 2 o'clock this
afternoon when a roll call disclosed the
absence of the prospective Jurors. Bail
iffs were instructed to go out and bring
in the missing talesmen.
Arbuekle, looking remarkably fit, was
on hand early, accompanied by his wife.
The film comedian had Just come from a
ten-day stay at a health resort with his
physical instructor, w’here lie worked off
extra poundage accumulated during his
four months of idleness.
His attorneys were prepared to make
the greatest legal battle they yet have
made for their client, while District At
torney Brady and his assistants, flushed
with their uear-suceess in the last trial,
were ready to “go the limit” in prosecu
tion.
Harding and Party
Off forJPalm Beach
FORT PIERCE, Fia.,March 13.- Presi
dent Harding and his party left here
at 1:15 o’clock this afternoon aboard the
houseboat Nahmeoka for Palm Beach.
There was a possibility the Presidential
party would stop at Hobe Sound, as it
was not expected the houseboat would
reach its destination until early tomor
row morning.
2 Killed at Crossing
VALPARAISO, Ind., March 13.—Two
men were killed in a railroad cross
ing accident here late last night. They
were Harry and Carl Hayes, 28
years old, respectively. (
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AIR SQUADRON
ATTACKS WITH
LAND FORCES
Bomb and Machine
Gun Fire Rakes
Mine Fields.
SMUTS IN CHARGE
Personally Directs
Operations Has
Narrow Escape.
STRIKE STARTED IT
The trouble at Johannesburg and
vicinity is the result of a three
months’ strike in the Transvaal gold
mines.
The native workers led by whites,
struck to obtain higher wages and
better conditions in the mines.
Disloyal Boer chieftains seized the
opportunity to use the dissatisfied
natives in a minor revolt against the
Government. It is not a radical
movement for the Boers and ail con
servatives, but is an attempt to re
store a Boer government in the Trans
vaal.
The native miners are easily in
flamed and led, and the trouble began
with attacks upon police constables
guarding mines near Johannesburg.
When it was seen that a serious re
volt threatened to develop. Govern
ment troops were rushed to the re
lief of the police.
JOHANNESBURG, Union of South
Africa, March 13. Government
forces engaged with the rebels in the
mine fields are advancing all along
the line. Government leaders say the
whole military situation now favors
the government. Nearly 200 havo
been killed and more than 1,000
wounded in the battle.
All the western and northern side
of the reef are now held by govern
ment troops under General Brit
General Van Deventer's govern
ment forces are crowding back the
rebels.
Heavy fighting is anticipated in
the Benoni and Brakpan regions.
Continuous attacks with airplanes
are being carried out against tha
revolutionaries. The rebels are be*
ing bombed and fired upon with ma
chine guns.
Trench warfare Is threatened in the
Fordsburg sector. The rebels hold the
town and have thrown up earthworks ail
around it.
Houses at Benoni and Boksburg have
been fired in reprisal for the death of
woman from a bomb.
Large forces of farmers have re
sponded to Premier General Smuts’ call
for volunteers to help the government
troops.
General Smuts is directing the opera
tions of the government troops in person.
He declared the position of the loyal
forces is strong and that it should not
take long to put down the uprising. Tho
regular infantry is supported by
artillery, airplanes and armored ears.
GENERAL SMUTS
MAKES STATEMENT.
"The present revolutionary movement Is
the work of extremist agitators who havo
used the strike in tne mine fields as a
cloak for dissemination of the syndicalist
views among the many workers who were
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HAMMER USED
TO OPEN SAFE
IN $35 THEFT
Robbers Turn Vault Upside
Down and Cut Bottom-
Other Job Fails.
A safe in the Levinson hat store, 41
South Illinois street, was broken open
with a hammer and chisel by robbers last
night and $35 was taken.
The robbers entered the store through
a rear door and turned the safe over, cut
ting out the bottom. The robbery vou
reported to the police by Ivon Shaw,
manager of the store.
After opening the Levinson safe, th
robbers went next door to the WortnseP
hat store, 37 South Illinois street, enter
ing by a rear window, and attempted to
open a safe there, but wei-e unsuccessful.
The combination was battered from the
safe and the door was damaged. The
tools used were left in the store.
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