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THE WEATHER
Cloudy and somewhat cooler tonight.
Tuesday rain.
VOL. XXXIV.
BOTH PARTIES
LAY CLAIM TO
NEW CONGRESS
Democrats and G. O. P.
Map Out Lines of
Campaign.
LOOK TO INDIANA
Hull’s Plan to Get Best
Men in Race Illus
trated Here.
Specie.! to Indiana Pally Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
WASHINGTON, March 27.—The
congressional campaign is on in ear
nest. Both Republican and Demo
cratic managers confidently are
claiming and predicting party suc
cess. But the season is early and
figures to back up clairA and predic
tions are lacking. The claims, how
ever, are no whit less confident and
predictions not an iota less positive.
The Republican manage-s say
there is not a shadow of doubt about
that party controlling both Houses
In the next Congress. In view of the
Republican majority of twenty-foui
in the Senate and the political situa
tions in States holding senatorial
elections this year, the Democrats
make no extravagant claims of col
laring the Upper House. They ej
pect to make gains, but they are con
fident that the next House will be
Democratic.
BOTH ORGANIZATION'S
Bl SY AS BEAVERS.
Neither party is content with making
the claims. The organizations of both
are busy as beavers now. The Republican
National Committee, under John T.
Adams of lowa, and the Republican Con
gressional Committee, headed by Repre
sentative Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, have
the campaign mapped out and are both
driving their plans through. Judge Cor
deU Hull of Tennessee, and Representa
tive Arthur B. Rouse of Kentucky, chair
man, reapectlvely of the Democratic Na
tional Committee and Democratic Con
gressional Committee are working in
harmony and not overlooking a bet that
will tend to confound the enemy.
The Issues upon which the campaign
will be waged will be largely confined to
“Katie did and Katy didn’t.” The Re
publican Issue, according to Mr. Fess
will necessarily be adjustment under Re
publican control. Tha big Democratic
tsue will he the failure of the Harding
dminlstration and the Republican Uon
•ess to redeem their campaign pledges
Democratic managers are planning a
.■rrifle assault on the Republicans for
(Continued on rare Eleven.)
LEGION WOULD
IMPRESS DEBS
BY CONVENTION
10,000 Former Service Men Ex
pected to Atten t Terre
Haute Session.
NEW RITUAL IS USED
Special to The Times
CULVER. lad., March 27.—Th ritual
istic ceremony adopted by the national
convention of the American Legion at
Kansas City last October was Introduced
to the Indiana department today in open
ing the first business session of the de
partment conference, at Culver Military
Academy here.
Plans are being made at the conference
for drawing a record-breaking State con
vention crowd to Terre Haute next Sep
tember when the legion of Indiana plana
to make an impression on Eugene V.
Debs In his home town.
Estimates ranging as high ss 10,000
are being made on the attendance at
the convention.
Mayor Ora Davis of Terre Haute, him
self a legionnaire, and A. C. Huddleston,
a Terre Haute attorney and historian
of the department, are here representing
their city to make plans for the recep
tion of the veterans.
Among the department officials attend
ing the conference are: Scott Shields of
Brownstown, sergeant-at-arms: Hairy A.
Leighton, athletic officer; Walter G. Had
ley of Danville, executive committeeman
of the Fifth district; Richard U. Haiibe
of Indianapolis, committeeman for the
Seventh district; Paul Raiinbaugh of
Muncle, committe°man for the Eighth
district; 11. F. Noble of Culver, com
mitteeman for the Thirteenth district.
Other officials were expected to arrive
today. About 150 delegates were pres
ent and another hundred are expected.
The item of chief interest today is the
arrival of Hanford MacNider. national
comanJer, who vas due to reach here
about 3 o'clock from Binghamton. N. Y.
Mr. MacNider will remain here over night
and will depart about noon tomorrow for
St. Lauis
This afternoon he was to review the
corps of cadets of the academy and wit
ness a special exhibition by the corps,
Including artillery driving, fancy rid
ing by the cavalry troops, calisthenic
drills by the two infantry battalions,
and similar other spectacles.
TO RETI E r.iMors
BLACK RORE TROP.
The national commander was also to
be honored with a membership in the
famous Biack Horse Troop of Culver.
Immediately after his arrival here ho
was scheduled to be escorted to the big
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity 1
for the twenty four Lours ending at 7
p. m.. March 28, 1922:
Cloudy and somewhat cooler tonight :
Tuesday rain.
HOI KLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m 41
7 a. m 47
8 a. m 48
9 a. m 48
10 a. in 49
11 a. m 54
12 (noon) 59
1 p. 60
2 p. 62
Published at Irdian&polis. Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at
Ind., Daily Except Sunday. Poatofllce, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.
Mrs. Harding Intervenes
for Youthful Prisoners
Officials Say Youngsters, 7, 8 and 11 Years
Old , Were Convicted Unfairly.
WASHINGTON, March 27.—Three
small boys. 7. 9 and 11, now serving
five-year prison terms for alleged bur
glary of a postoffloe in West- Virginia,
soon will gain their liberty and be
returned to their parents through the
interest and intervention of Mrs.
Warren G. Harding, it was learned
today.
An investigation of their cases by
the Department of Justice, which fol
lowed Mrs. Harding’s intervention,
disclosed an unusual set of circum
stances which led to the imprison
ment if these "youthful desperadoes.”
Offic .-.ls said they never should have
be a sentenced, not alono because of
♦ eir to. der years, but also because
she evb mces in their cases did not
warrant conviction. They already
have served about six months in the
national reform school here.
The lads are Andy Bergom, 7;
Frank Bosko, 8. and Teddy Bosko,
11. Their parents live at Weirton,
W. Va. They were tried in the Fed
eral Court of Northern West Virginia
before Judge Baker and were sen
tenced along with seven other older
boys, ranging in years up to 15, each
to five years' penal servitude.
Two Missing Women
Formerly of Redkey
KANSAS CITY. Mo., March 27.—Police
today had instituted search for Mrs.
Myrtle Hammond, 45, and her mother,
Mrs. Rachel Fountain, 73, following in
formation which indicated a possible sui
cide pact.
Mrs. Hammond and her parent came to
Kansas City eighteen mouths ago from
Red Key, Ind.
Annie Is Rescued
From Tall Fine Tree
WASHINGTON, March 27.—After being
perched precariously in the topmost
branches of a tali pine tree for eighteen
hours, defying al attempts to reach her,
and threatening continually to jump to
h*-r death in u deep ravine below, Annie
I.ymhoroplas, an inmate of the St. Eliza
beth’s insane asylum, was rescued this
afternoon.
It tobk the combined efforts of the
Washington fire department, the police
department and the attendants of the
Government institution to get her down.
7 Terre Cotta Makers
Face Trust Charges
CHICAGO, March 27.—Seven terracotta
manufacturers were indicted by a
Federal grand jury for alleged violation
of the Sherman anti-trust act. The seven
concerns agreed not to compete wilh
each other, the Government charged.
Among those indictments were re
turned against are: R. E. Grady, presi
dent. St. Louis Terra Cotta Company,
St. Louis; John G. Hewitt, vice presi
dent, Winkle Cotta Company, St. Louis;
William Zimmerman, president Webster
Terra Cotta Company, Kansas City, Mo.
SAY RICKARD
IS ‘WHITE’ MAN
Rex Beach Among Character
Witnesses for Accused
Boxing Promoter.
NEW YORK, March 27.—Character wit
nesses for Tex Rickard, sporting pro
moter. accused of Improper relations with
four little girls, today said the defend
ant was “one of the squarest, whitest
men" of their acquaintance.
Maj. A. J. Hrexel-Biddle of Philadel
phia testified he was leader of a Bible
class and said he considered Rickard a
man of high moral character and “very
square.”
Rex Beach, author, and Charles E. Her
ron of Nome, Alaska, said they had
known Rickard for more than twenty
years and characterized him os “a flue
man, of excellent character.”
Mrs. Rickard, the promoter's wife, was
put on the stand. She testified In a low
voice she had been ill on the evening of
Nov. 12, the night mentioned by Rick
ard’s accusers and Rickard was with her.
Search for Bodies of
Flying 1 Boat Victims
MIAMI. Fla., March 27.—Search for the
bodies of the five victims of the ill fated
flying boat, Miss Miami, was continued
today by converted submarine chasers.
John S. Dickson of Memphis, husband
of one of the victims, and Harold E.
Smith of Kansas City, whose mother and
father were carried to their deat hon the
Miss Miami, are here.
Klansmen’s Visit to
Church Sensational
EVANSVILLE. Tnd.. March 27 A spec
tacular visit of twenty masked, white
robed members of the Ku Kltix Klnn to
Central Methodist Church here Sunday
night was the subject of mu< h discus
sion today.
The klansmen, in their first public
demonstration here, walked into the
church just before the sermon began.
The leader, handing the Rev. A. M.
Couchman, $25, said:
“In the interest of the work you are
doing in the church, we present you with
tliis sum of money.”
Truce Is Declared
in Oklahoma City
Fight on Lingerie
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.. March
27.—An armistice today was de
clared in Oklahoma City's lingerie
“war.”
Members of the local chapter of the
f W. C. T. U. who objected strenuously
to live models displaying the latest
styles in women's lingeries in public
at the automobile show, have agreed
to leave the issue up to County At
torney Hughes.
Hughes announced he would ap
point censors who would see “the
morals of the community are not in
jured.”
Some of the most prominent society
girls of Oklahoma City are to act as
models.
“Costumes" are said to he direct
from Paris.
The chief evidence against the
youngsters, it is now shown, was
provided by bloodhounds. The dogs,
used by the local police of Weirton,
took up a scent at the point of the al
leged robbery and tracked it through
the woods to a settlement of steel
workers. There the police gathered
up the ten boys and, on what now is
said to be purely circumstantial evi
dence, all were found guilty.
The Attorney General's Investiga
tion showed the three youngsters,
along with the seven other alleged
“desperadoes," as they were called by
the District Attorney, were put
through the third degree and police
officers at Weirton wrung confessions
of guilt from them. The boys later
denied their guilt and so pleaded, but
apparently were victims of police
prejudice, in a locality where the
steel workers are under the lash of
police authorities.
Warren Martin, assistant to the At
torney General, visited the lads, in
vestigating the facts and declared
steps were being taken to return the
boys to their parents. They probably
will be pardoned by the President.
TURKEY TO BE
RESTORED TO
INDEPENDENCE
Allied Concessions Conditional
Upon Acceptance of
Armistice.
PARIS, March 27.—Turkey is to be re
established as an independent sovereign
nation. In response to millions of Mo
hammedans throughout the Moslem
world, including India, the allied Near
East commission today officially an
nounred decisions restoring to the Turk
ish nation a “vigorous independent na
tlonal existence.”
Foreign ministers of France. Great
Britain and Italy who met last week to
consider revision of the treaty of Severes
and to bring an end to the Greco-Turk
ish war issued a communique formally
announcing th following decisions:
1. Thousands of square miles of terri
tory including the entire country of An
atolia and a large portion of Thrace, are
to be returned to Turkey.
2. The Turks are to tie permitted a
larger garrison in Constantinople, vlille
the allied army of occupation is to be
considerably decreased.
3. Turkey is to be permitted to in
crease Its army from 30.000 to 80.000.
4. The allies will occupy the Gallipoli
peninsula to safeguard the entrance to
the Dardanelles straits.
5. Commissions will he set up on which
Turkey will be reported to revise the
financial and judicial clauses of ijle
Sevres treaty.
These concessions to Turkey are made
conditional upon acceptance by the
Turks of armistice terms to end the
Greco-Turklsh war.
IMPORTED COAL
MAY SERVE TO
HALT FAMINE
Shipping Board Considers
Scheme to Utilize Fuel for
Ballasting Vessels.
INTERESTING TO BRITISH
CHICAGO. March 27.—Frank Farring
ton, h. id of the Illinois union miners,
and the president of three Middle West
coal operators' associations, will confer
here Wednesday in an effort to avert the
coal strike scheduled for April 1, it was
announced here today.
The announcement made by F. C. Hon
nobl, secretary of the Illinois Coal Oper
ators' Association, followed receipt of n
telegram from Farrington agreeing to
meet the operators.
WASHINGTON, March 27—A project
for importation of coal to anvo the na
tion from a fuel famine which might re
sult, from the walkout of miners April
1, is planned bv Government officials, It
was learned here today.
The shipping board has been asked
to consider a scheme for utilizing coal us
ballast on its vessels, plying between the
United States tnd coal producing
countries. Experts say if this plan ma
terializes, no fuel shortage could result
within five months' time at least.
Senator Borah was to continue Ids con
ferences this week with labor representa
tives and other involved in the coal
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
‘lf Winter Conies’ Most in Demand by
x Indianapolis Readers of Recent Novels
Copies of Hutchinson's
Book Can Not Meet
Demands.
About six months ago the Indianapo
lis Public Library received it? first cop
ies of A. S. M. Hutchinson’s novel. “If
Winter Comes," s comparatively unher
alded story of modern English life, by
a writer whose previous work wits only
slightly known in this country. “If Win
ter Comes” has never been as widely
advertised as its popular predecesaoi,
Sinclair Lewis' “Main Street;” in fact,
the greater part of its advertising has
conte through those who have read It,
which makes all the more amazing the
stir it has created among the reading
public.
There are now in circulation In the
public library and Its branches thirty
four copies of Hutchinson's novel, a
supply of which cannot possibly fill the
demand for the book. According to
Mary Dyer Lemon of the main branch
library, it is asked for almost every ten
minutes of the day and since the library
does not keep a waiting list for fiction,
the full extent of the demand can hardly
be estimated.
Some idea of its popularity may be
gained, however, from the fact that In
two of the popular rental circulating
libraries of the city, one with seven and
the other with ten copies of the book,
there ia\ a combined waiting Ust of
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1922.
11 DEAD TOLL
OF NEW IRISH
OUTBREAKS
Ulster Premier and
Free State Chiefs
to Meet.
WAR’S END SOUGHT
British to Put Pres
sure on Battling
Factions.
LONDON, March 27.—The Irlfcli Free
State act passed the House of Fords to
day on third and final roadins:. It now
gees to the House of Commons for action
on the Carson amendment which provides
that decision# of the Lister boundary
commission may be appealed to the
House of Fords.
BELFAST, March 27. While
news was arriving today of Irish
outbreaks and violent deaths, the
Ulster cabinet met and accepted, on
behalf of Premier Sir James Craig,
the invitation to go to London to a
peace parley.
Eleven deaths have been reported
in Belfast and elsewhere in Ulster
since Sunday morning.
The decision of the Ulster cabinet as
sures that ttie peace council will be held
in London under the patronage of the
British government. Michael Collins,
minister of finance, in the Irish pro
visional government at Dublin, already
had accepted a similar invitation.
Sir James will go to London tomor
row and the pacification meeting is ex
; pected to open Wednesday.
The British government will exert
i strong pressure upon both the Irish Free
1 Staters and the Ulsterites to compel
them to settle their differences and re
store peace along the Ulster frontier,
where guerilla wnrfaro is now in full
swing.
Terror reigned throughout the night
with rlfio and pistol volleys and bomb
Masts in the streets. Some of the street
' battles between Sinn Coiners and Orange
| men rose to savage fury. Large forces
fought fiercely iu the central business dis
| trict, shooting and throwing bombs in
discrimtnatidy. Many stores were set.
: afire and gutted. There was much loot
, in*.
A man and woman were killed In the
| outbreak of firing.
! Four deaths were reported from Cain
don, County Tyrone. The victims had al!
fallen in border fights.
A woman—owner of a confectionery
shop—wus killed by a sniper Sunday
night.
Firing was continuous *1! along the
\ frontier.
Throughout the week end police and
soldiers carried on an unremitting search
(Continued on Pe*e Eleven.)
THREE SLAIN
IN NEW YORK
Week-end Crime Wave Claims
Toll—Robberies, Assaults
Numerous.
I NEW YORK. March 27. -A series of
week end crimes that started with the
slaying of a man late Saturday night,
ended shortly before dawn today, with
th murder of another.
One additional murder, that of a boy,
7, was reported along with a long list
of assaults and robberies.
James Meuny, 18, was shot and died a
few minutes later during a party in an
apartment house.
Samuel Lielit, 17, said by police to have
been released recently from n reforma
tory, was shot ami killed Sunday after
noon as he gazed iu a store window.
Richard J. O'Shea was slain Saturday
as he raised his hands to comply with
demands of three boy bandits.
Woman Kills Three
Children and Self
GREENWICH, Conn., March 27.—Mrs.
Henry Barker. 32, wife of a carpenter,
killed her three children, Margaret, 5,
Johanna, 3, and Ilenry, 18 months, in
her home here last night and then took
her own life. The throats of the three
children were slashed with a keen-edged
carving knife and the mother took her
own life in the same way.
The womun la believed to have been de
mented.
‘IF WINTER COMES’
pronounced by the reading public
and the critics the greatest novel of
the decade, the best seller In two
continents, will bo run serially In
THE DAILY TIMES
starting Monday, April 3. Everyone
Is talking about A. S. M. Hutchin
son's great story and the demand
far exceeds the supply of the books.
Don’t miss this masterpiece of mod
ern fiction. Place your order for the
DAILY TIMES hv letter or
TELEPHONE, MAIN 3500
ninety-eight, which seems to show that
some persons are willing to wait several
months for a chance to learn why “If
Winter Cornea” is not only the season's
best seller, but from present indications
will outsell any of the books which have
had the most sensational sale in former
seasons.
Miss Lemon comments particularly up
on the call for Hutchinson’s novel from
busy people who have not the time to
give to any, but the most enduring and
worth-while books, and who, for this
reason, seldom read a book until it is
several years old, realizing that In that
length of time most of the books which
were fads of the moment will have been
forgotten.
“If winter cornea it doe* not depend
[RAISES ISSUE
; 0N COMPANY’S
LEGAL STATUS
City Engineer Asks
Order Incident to
Resurfacing.
EXPLAINS ACTION
Attitude May Permit
Receipt of Formal
Notice.
An opportunity to bring to the
issue the question of whether the In
dianapolis Street Railway Company
is to be compelled to pave and resur
face between its tracks, when the
city improves streets where tracks
aro situated, was laid before the
board of public works this afternoon
in a recommendation by John L.
Elliott, city civil engineer. Mr. Elliott
recommended the awarding of con
tracts for resurfacing of Prospect
j street, from State avenue to Shelby
street, and from State avenue to Key
stone avenue, and *'in connection
with this contract, would recommend
an order be sent to the Indianapolis
Street Railway Company directing
that they resurface and repave their
tracks located in the ceuter of the
above mentioned street.”
The engineer said lie was making this
recommendation because tha street rail
way company has said that it did not
receive formal orders for track laying.
If the board of works issues the specific
order the company cannot offer tide ex
cuse, he pointed out.
The track paving question arose at the
time the street railway company sur
rendered its franchise early last summer.
The franchise provided specifically that
whenever the city paved or resurfaced
a street containing tracks the company
must pave or resurface the portion in
which its tracks lay, ns well as a si rip
eighteen inches wide outside the tracks
Tlie company never has flatly denied tbn>
it is liaMe for this work but Its offi
elais, whenever the question has come
tip, have said they do not believe the
company should he compelled to bear the
Initial cost of paving and that the mat
ter is one which should he referred to by
the public service commission.
For several months the Jewett admin
istration discussed the matter with the
utility heads and officials often remarked
that the question would be brought to
tiie public service commission in some
manner. It could be brought up now if
the board of works wore to issue the or
ders on Prospect street and the com
pany appeal from such order to the pub
lic service commission, city officials
pointed out.
T WENT T- FT V E SECTION*
WITHOUT THAI K PAVING.
There are twenty-five sections of
streets which have been resurfaced in
(he lat four years in which the street
railway company has not touched its
tracks. Twelve of these sections were
re-surfaced before the company surren
dered its franchise and before there had
been raised any question as to the com
pany's liability to re-surface the track
pnvbmonts when the city
the remainder of the streets. There aro
also five sections o fstroets which have
been permanently improved In which the
street railway company lia sleft Its
tracks unpaved. Two of these were
(ton tinned on I’uge Ten.)
Times Radio
Expert Hero
of San Diego
Rudolph Duncan, radio technical ex
pert. for the Daily Times, who begins
today a series of lessons in radio
telephony. Is rnled with the famous
Jack Blnus as a hero of the sea. He
was chief radio electrician on the
IT. S. R. Sau Diego when that battle
ship was sunk on July 19, 1918.
Duncan, last to leave, had to be or
dered off by the captain. Even after
his radio apparatus had been Inca
pacitated, he rigged up an auxiliary
sel and kept on flashing S O S calls.
From railroad telegraph operator,
Duncan has become a veteran in the
field of wireless. He broko in when
he was 15 and has learned wireless
from the ground up.
His first article will be found on
Pago 11 of this issue.
Waiting List of 98
at Two Branch
Libraries.
upon any sensational appeal to attract
the many who have read it and those
who wish to read It, Barrie is quoted
as pronouncing it the best noved he had
rend for many a day, but neither style
nor subject matter would make its pop
ularity so general if it did not possess
that rare insight into character, that
complete understanding of human nature,
that has characterized tho best books of
all times.
Perhaps no better estimate of Its
worth can be given than that which Miss
Lemon has made In her recent commen
tary on "If Winter Comes.” She says:
“There Is but one way that we can
judge a book —by our own reaction to it.
So this I do know for myself; that this
is the best novel I have read for many
years; that the character of Mark has
taught me a higher sense of loving kind
ness than I had had before; has taught
be not to judge; has shown me a sense
of honor In tho face of crucifixion; has
hinted to me the value of sorrow; lias
shown me that nothing is unbearable so
long as one is acting according to Ills
highest sense of right. When a book
has done this I conclude that It is made
of stronger fiber than many of the late
publications I have re^tl.”
Subscription Ratee: } By Mall . 500 Per Month . £ 5 .00 Per Year.
Boy Bandits With Faces
Masked Rob Confectionery
Hold Up Pair at Point of Revolver in East
Sixteenth Street Store.
Striplings who assayed the bandit role
featured the week-end reports of bur
glaries and robberies to the police. A
wide variety of thievery was chronicled.
Mr. and Mrs. George Lehman were sit
ting In their confectionery at 3507 East
Sixteenth stret about 8 o’clock Sunday
evening, when two boys, whom they said
could not have been more than 17, held
them up. The boys wore handkerchiefs
over their faces and one earned a revol
ver. They escaped with $3 from the cash
register.
A masked youth also held up Omer S.
Whiteman, attorney, living near Cler
mont In his office at 208 Lemcke build
ing Saturday evening. The bandit, ap
parently not more than 18, surprised Mr.
Whiteman as he sat at a typewriter writ
ing a letter.
“Stick 'em up; stick 'em up, quick!”
ordered the youth and ordered him to
stand up and turn around. Taking a
bill fold with $t in it from the attorney s
hip pocket, the youth warned his victim
not to look out the door or he might get
his head blown off. Whiteman waited
a while, held his hat out the door and
when nothing happened reported the
robbery to the police.
John White saw two men break the
glass la the front door of his grocery at
’Nother Quake
RIVERSIDE, Cal., March 27.—A slight
earthquake was felt here early today by
light sleepers and early risers. Accord
ing to thoso who felt the shake. It oc
curred at 4 :55 a. in. and lasted only a few
seconds.
Staplehurst Breaks
Into Preferred Class
STAPLEHURST, Neb., Mnroh 27.
Robbers blew open the safe of the State
Bank of Staplehurst Sunday night and
escaped with the contents. The amount
stolen has not been determined, but it is
believed to be several thousand dollars.
The robbery was not discovered until the
bank opened for business today.
Indiana Woman’s Plan
to End Life in Doubt
CHICAGO. March 27.—The condition of
Mrs May Cramer, who took-bichloride j
"f mcn-urv poisoning “because sho was
tired of life" was still in doubt today, ,
it was stated at Columbus Hospital. Mrs. \
(Tamer, a member of Chicago's Bohemian
colony, came here from Princeton, lud.
Two Men Lose Lives
in Cofferdam Pit
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wls., March 27.
—Two meu were killed and ten others
forced to floe for tlo-ir lives when the
paper mill cofferdam at Byron, near here,
gave way before a sudden rise in the
Wisconsin River. The men were working
in a pit below the dam when trapped by
the sudden rush of water.
Three Men Killed
in Freight Wreck
ROYSE CITY, Texas, March 27.
Three men were killed and one man aerl
ously Injured today in a freight wreck
near here.
Those dead are:
Eivln S. Hill. Denison, Texas; Roy Col
lett, Peoria, II!.; Bruea Frazier, Peoria,
111.
Another man was injured.
Ponzi’s Troubles
Still Incomplete
WASHINGTON, March 27.—Charles
Ponzi, the Boston “get rich quick” finan
cier, must stand trial under Massachu
setts larceny laws by decision of the Su
preme Court of the United States today.
The decision was handed down by Chief
Justice Taft. Ponzi was convicted under
Federal statutes and sought to avoid trial
under the state laws.
Court Rejects Plea
of Armour Concern
KANSAS CITY. Mo., March 27.—Judge
B. T. Ilainer, commissioner for the Gov
ernment, threw out tha petition of Ar
mour & Cos. for dismissal of the cast,
brought by the Kansas City Livestock
Association to prevent operation of the
company's private hog yard, known as
the Mistletoe Stockyard, nt ttie hearing
which opened today. The dismissal was
asked on grounds of lack of Jurisdiction.
Knight of Pencil Dazzled
by Flirtatious Posies at
Opening of Flower Show
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN.
Powder-puff she used not, but Gosh,
how she loved the old-fashioned sprink
lin' can.
And the beautiful color on her “cheeks”
faded not one bit.
What a complexion to stand an arti
ficial rain storm. Wow!
I thought Rose nodded to me once. I
wanted to pick her tip, but a big tall
copper cast a mean and significant look
nt me and I wandered confused like to
the Old Dutch
S r " ,l "*“" It u 1 ~ Gar(ll>n
8 The last I saw of
I Rose, she was
s • / nodding her head
# Ak lieve she was
&/■* flirting with the
A Jr ■$ .... copper). What
ia&jFi \“ {/•>**’ chance has a guy
W| clothes with
man in uniform?
I ‘ tion iu tin' quaint
Wit old-sash i o n e and
rose k ariien at
wonderful day in
the Manufactur
ers’ building at the Indiana State fair
ground.
If Rose Isn’t careful I will leave her
flat and have a “ease” (purely flirtatious)
Minerva and New York streets, early
Sunday morning. He called to Patrol
man Fahey, who was nearby and the
burglars ran down an alley. They had
a block start and escaped.
E. C. Worker, 1118 North Pennsylvania
street, returned home late Sunday night
and found a glass broken in a side
door. The burglar had taken a pump
shotgun worth SBS, a revolver valued at
$lO and a? 25 leather handbag.
When Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jefferson,
1725 Yandes street, returned from church
Sunday evening they found their house
ransacked and a revolver worth sls miss
ing.
The garage of Elbert Eddington, 3209
Madison avenue, was entered and three
tires, worth S3B, stolen.
Other victims of burglaries reported
as follows:
Mosis Bledstein, 841 Maple street, two
pairs of trousers, containing 90 cents.
The garments were found in an alley
later; Phillip Atleman, 848 Maple street,
a pair of trousers containing sl, the
pants left outside the house; Fred A.
Mueller, household goods stolen from
his workshop at 348 West Twelfth street,
recovered in a shed in the rear of 2121
(Continued on Page Two.)
NOBLESYILLE
MAN ASPIRES
TO CONGRESS
Robert 11. Kinney, Democrat,
to Be Candidate From
Ninth District.
Robert H. Kinney of Noblesville. Demo
crat, today filed his declaration of candi
dacy for the nomination to Congress
from the Ninth district. He is un
opposed for the nomination being the
first Democrat to file.
Mr. Kinnej- is a prominent attorney and
has made a deputation on the lecture
platform, having been on the Chautauqua
circuit several years. Mr. Kinney said
lie had completed arrangements to de
liver eighty-eight lectures during the
summer months, but will forego these to
make an aggressive campaign for a seat
in Congress. Mr. Kinney’s favorite sub
ject for his Chautauqua lectures is “The
American Boy.”
A platform of economy and an effort to
aid ex-soldiers in obtaining a Just
“bonus” will characterize his efforts, Mr.
Kinney said.
“I intend to put nil the Tiger pos
sible into this campaign and, although
in a normally Republican district. I
believe dissatisfaction with the presen'
Congress "ill Insure my election, if I
receive the nomination,” he said.
Mr. Kinney was born in Ireland and
brought to this country when seventeen
months of age. He is a Mason and be
longs to several oilier fraternal orders. _
Marion County was not represented In
the list of candida'es declaring them
selves with the Secretary of State on the
first day of the final week of filing. Des
pite the proximity of the time limit, a
few candidates were listed.
Those who filed today were:
Bernard F. Haines, Republican, Repre
sentative Noble County.
Herman J. Weinke, Democrat, South
Bend, Representative St. Joseph County.
John C. Arnold, Democrat, Terre Haute,
Representative Vigo County.
Frank Miller, Democrat, Terre Haute,
Representative Vigo County.
Elmore Barca, Democrat, Fowler, Joint
Representative Benton and White
Counties.
Charles S. Arford. Republican, Repre
sentative Do Kalb County.
Albert J. Wedeking, Joint Representa
tive Spencer and Berry Counties.
Fred W. Saers. Republican, Lafayete,
prosecuting attorney, Twenty-Third Ju
dicial District.
Charles W. Isenbarger, Republican,
La Cross, Representative La Porte
County.
Alex M. Hestand, Evansville. Re
publican, Representative Vanderburgh
County.
Jealousy Believed
Cause of Tragedy
COLUMBUS, March 27. Jealousy is
hold responsible for the murder here to
day of Lemanuel Mare, 35, enginuer, at
his home. Mrs. Mary Mare, 32, widow,
is held by the police.
Responding to a call from neighbors
who heard shots fired In the Bare room,
police found the lifeless body of Bare
nt the bottom of a stairwag. Bullets
had penetrated the head and body.
wlthm Miss Hyacinth (a dazzling creature
nestling near a white fence in the front
yard of Mr. and Mrs. Bulb).
THAT BOSE PERSON
NEEDN'T GET UPPISH.
Rose need not put on so many fine airs
with me because old man Webster has
this to say about Miss Hyacinth— “A
plant fabled In a classic myth to have
sprung from the blood of the youth !
j Ilyaeinthua. by some supposed to be the
Turk's cap lily.”
i That surely gives Hyacinth some royal
standing.
The best Webster can do for Rose Is —
I “Any plant or flower of the genus Rosa. '
I Roses are erect or climbing shrubs, etc." |
All right, my Rosa, flirt with a copper j
I Tho Manufacturers' buildins la the i
! sweetest place In the world. Thousands :
of gaily colored heads nod back and '
forth. Each has Us own sweet message
! of loveliness. Flowers cannot talk, but :
i each flower gives forth a message of love j
and tenderness In waves of delicate per- I
j fume.
j In the center of the exposition hall |
' Is a miniature statue of the Goddess of
Liberty. Streams of water coming from j
1 a big star at the base of the stavue en- j
, velop Lady Liberty in a veil of dazzling I
I beauty. She is the hub of Flowerland. !
To the right of Miss Liberty is a reg- j
ular ocean of flowers. To her left is a
mountain of many flowers. All one can
see is flower after flower.
FLOWERS HAVE NO
FAVORITE HUE'S.
There is no prevailing fashionable color;
in the flower family. Some are content i
with one color. The lily is gorgeous In j
her white-like wedding gown with a j
dash of yellow. Rose all done up -in her i
(Continued on Page Eleven.;
HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
DECLARATION
MISSING FROM
SENATE ROLLS
Without It 4-Power
Treaty Declared
Dangerous.
LEADERS IN SNARL
Hitchcock Doubts if
Ratification Is
Complete.
WASHINGTON, March 27.—Ad
ministration leaders were still strug
gling today to straighten out the
snarl which entangles the unratlfled
declaration respecting domestic
issues and mandates, which accom
panied the ratified four-power Pacific
treaty.
The "’{nation which is threatening to
tie up indefinitely the armament con
ference pacts, was further complicated
by a statement by Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska, ranking Democratic member
of the Senate Foreign. Relations Com
mittee, that he had discovered the dis
puted declaration is no longer in the pos
session of the Senate.
Senator Hitchcock called the Senate's
attention to the fact that when the offi
cial copy of the four-power pact was re
turned to the White House, after its
declaration, the declaration went with it
as part of the smae copy.
“My understanding is that the treaty
and the declaration were one and part
of the same official document and that
when the treaty left the possession of the
Senate, following its ratification, the deiac
ration wa 9 sent back to the White House
with it, although the Senate had not
acted upon the declaration at all,” Sena
tor Hitchcock said.
PRESIDENT MUST SENT)
TREATY IN ORIGINAL.
“I can not see. therefore, how Senator
Lodge can carry out his announced in
tention of having the declaration rati
fied separately by the Senate unless the
President resubmits the original docu
ment containing the treaty itself.
“I hold that the declaration is an in
tegral of the treaty and should have
been ratified with it. Senator Lodge
holds that I am wrong. I think a grave
doubt has been created ns to whether
the Senate really ratified the treaty when
it Ignored the declaration at the same
time. ‘
“Without It the treaty seemg to me to
be a dangerous thing.. It lg remark
able that there should be a conflict of
opinion not only between Senator Lodge
and Democratic Senators as to whether
the declaration is a mere interpretation
of the four-power pact by its signatories,
or a treaty, or part of a treaty, but that
President Harding and Secretary Hughes
themselves should have apparently dif
fered as to what it really ia.”
LODGE PROPOSES JOINT
RATIFICATION IN DEBATE.
Senator Lodge, the Republican leader,
proposed to the Senate that when it rati
fies the supplemental agreement taking
the Japanese homeland out of the four
power Pacific treaty that it ratify at the
same time the declaration respecting do
mestic Issues and mandatory island
which accompanied the pact.
Senator Lodge suggested that Joint
ratification of the two supplements to
the treaty offered a solution of the tangle
involving the declaration, occasioned by
the Senate’s failure to act upon it when
the treaty itself was ratified Friday.
Lodge and Hitchcock got Into another
hot verbal exchange as the wrangle over
the status of the declaration was re
sumed. Hitchcock asserted it was the
“evident inteution of the Administration
forces to use strong arm methods to force
over the four-power treaty, no matter
what doubts, incongruities or inconsist
encies might be attached to Its ratifica
tion.”
BILL POSTERS’
SUIT DROPPED
Supreme Court Dismisses Al
leged Conspiracy Case on
U. S. Motion.
WASHINGTON. March 27.—The Supreme
Court of the United States today, on a
motion by the Government, dismissed the
Government case against the Associated
Bill Fosters and Distributors of the
United States and Canada.
This was an anti trust case prosecuted
by the Government as a conspiracy to
restrain Interstate and foreign commerce
and trade In posters. The Government
and the concerns have reached an ami
cable settlement.
The Hump Hair Tin Manufacturing
Company lost Us legal fight to escape
payment of $5,975 to the State of Illinois
for doing business in that State.
Tho Hump company must pay the fee
or Its Illinois license can be revoked* Sis*
court held.
‘Big Jim’ to Stay Put
ALBANY, X. Y., March 27.—Governor
Miller today denied the application for a
pardon for “Big Jim” Larkin, Irish agl
ator, who was sent to prison a few years
ago because of his radical activities.
EVERETT TRUE
Our old friend with the quick
temper, the strong arm and tho
powerful boot, who has devot
ed his life to fighting the bat
tles of the General Public and
holds the championship as
Swatter of Pests, is
BACK ON THE JOB
Artist Condo, creator of this
famous character, has resumed
his work in the Dai’y Times.
Everett will be found today,
and every day from now on,
performing with all his old
time vigor
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