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The Washington herald., 1920-05-18
Signature Of President Will
Mark End Of a Long Up
hill Fight for Rights Of
Workers Engaged in Aid
ing Uncle Sam.

ice Upon recommendation of the
Civil Service Commission the provi-
sions of the bill may be extended to
any classes Of employees not yet. in
cluded in the act.
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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
Tenants Band
Together Here

The Tenants Protective association"
was incorporated today.
It's purpose is safeguarding the ten
ants against unfavorable legislation by
any lawmaking body OF the state Of In
diana, and protecting tenants from un-
due advantage take nof them by land
lor@=.
ITO act as n unit In protesting against
high rents and prohteerlng.
ITO act as n unit In influencing and
urging upon all law making bodies o.
the state of Indiana to modify exist
ing landlord tenant laws and enact laws
more equitable toward the tenant.
To act as a unit IN aiding the author
tiles Of the city Of Indianapolis and
state OF Indiana in maintaining law
and order"
The articles Of incorporation provided
that a board Of advisors, consisting OF
ten In number, shall be elected annually,
board Of directors OF five shall br
named and the directors shall manage the
association.
Incorprators are Walter K. Beard, 453
East Washington street, furniture dealer
Henry b. Miller, 1905 Arrow avenue,
druggist; James +. Ryan, lis East st.
Clair street, cigar store owner. Elmer J.
Murphy, 122 East New York street, of
Robins Electri. Company, and Chtrles ~
BARLEY, 1909 South Olive street, manager
Robinson Music Company.
Karrer & Stroch are attorneys for the
incorpo-atOrs.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
COUNTY BOARD
TO PROBE y. p
Petition of COlOred Attorney
for Mueller's Place Basis.

On the demand OF County Commissioner
Joseph Hayes today, the commissioners
ordered a complete investigation OF the
expiration Of the term OF Charles II.
Mueller, a Justice of the peace of Center
township, and the petition OF W. Il. Hen
derson, a colored attorney for the
vacancy.
The hearing was scheduled for 10 n. IN.
next Wednesday in the commissioners
court.
The commissioners were informed to-
day by Attorney Henderson that Squire
Mueller had turned over his books and
records to Frank l.. Glass.
Let us air this entire matter so we
can decide what should be DONE" said
Commissioner Hayes.
Information has reached the board that
Mueller had decided to retain his office
until his successor is qualified.
The negro voters are attempting to
make this controversy a political issue
and Commissioners Lewis George and
Carlin Shank appeared to be lodging the
issues until Mr.. Hayes called for a
hearing.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
SUGARS 21.45C
WHOLESALE NOW
Two Cent Margin Allowed for
Retailers Profit.

The new wholesale sugar price in In
dianapolis Is q. As cents a pound, accord
ing TO Stanley Wyckoff, fair price COM
missioner.
This price was agreed upon after a
conference of wholesalers.
Allowing a 2-cent margin of profit, this
will make the retail price generally 23h
cents a pound
Mr.. Wyckoff, asserting that spectators
in Cuba and New York have cornered the
Cuban crop, declared Indianapolis whole
salers had agreed TO sell the sugar at
21.45 cents a pound, although they had
been offered as high as 30 cents pound
by manufacturers who use a great deal
Of sugar.
The Wholesale price in the city was
fixed at 1870 cents pound several
days ago.
No sugar was on sale today at the
city market, except in cartons.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
FAIL IN ATTEMPT
TO BURN UP HOME
Detective Sneed's House Fired
but Wife Finds Blaze.

Following the attempt TO burn the
home Of Detective George Sneed, colored,
DIS West Thirteenth street. the police
today are making every effort to arrest
the incendiary.
wednesday some person set a handle
of newspapers on fire and piled the liv-
ing room rug on the papers in Sneed's
home. but Mrs. Sneed discovered the FIRE
in time to put out the flames.
At 10 o'clock Wednesday night Mrs.
Sneed returned home from a theater and
found the house had been broken into
and the gas in every room turned on.
Some weeks ago a strange negro en-
tered the house and said he was search
ing for Sneed.
He grabbed an srm-load of the de-
tectives' clothes and ran, but dropped
most of them when Mrs. Sneed fred at
him with an automatic pistol
Sneeds efforts TO capture notorious
burglar known as Hell Cat" Thomas.
who was killed in a pistol duel with
the police in which duel Sergt. Maurice
Murphy was shot and killed, is believed
to have caused some of the burglars
friends to attempt to get even with the
detective.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
WOMAN LOSES
JEWELS WORTH
$4,000 IN HOTEL
Mrs. Julia Rogers Reports All
Her Valuables DISAPPEARED
From Room.
$1,000 BOND ALSO GONE

Jewelry valued at about $4,000 and
$1,000 liberty bond, the property
of Mrs. Julia Rogers, residing at
the Claypeol hotel, have been lost or
stolen, it became known this after
noon.
Detectives vino are seeking to unravel
the mystery of the missing jewels are
uncertain as to how they disappeared,
but Mrs Rogers is positive in her dec
laration that they have been stolen.
The list of missing Jewels includes a
velvet dog dollar, set with diamond
slides valued at $1.TO0; watch valued
mt 5000. a pearl and diamond ring valued
ut $500 a pearl and diamond ring val
ued mt $3.50 diamond broach valued at
$3.50 an amethyst matrix valued at $75,
gold chain and a coral bracelet set
with pearls.
USUALLY CARRIED
JEWELS IN HOLDER.
Mrs Rogers usually carried the jewels
during the day in a holder about fifteen
inches long. which folded three times,
and attached to a belt which she wore
about her body, she explained to the de-
tectives.
At night she usually placed the jewels
between the sheets Of her bed.
Mrs. Rogers left her suite in the Clay
pool at 10 80 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing
Late in the afternoon she missed the
jewels and reported their disappearance
Detectives William Larsh and G. NJ.
Stewart tracing down the loss Of the Jew
els, were told by the maid that she had
thrown all bedclothes in closet, from
which they were removed, and sent TO
the Claypool hotel laundry.
Before the clothes are thrown into the
washing machines they are shaken out
by a man who has been employed at the
lob for several years snd is said 10 bear
an excellent reputation for honesty.
GENERAL SEARCH
Is CONDUCTED.
search was made Of all washing ma
chimes in the laundry on the chance that
the jewels might have gone into them.
but no trace Of them was found.
The velvet dog collar was one Of the
finest pieces Of jewelry in indianapolis
IL Is said
II was purchased in New York for
81 700, it is said, and is worth $4,000 at
this time.
Each Of the five slides in the collar was
studded with diamond.
Mrs Rogers, who was much disturbed
over the robbery, called in Pinkerston
detectives I'm the case.
She was extremely anxious to avoid
publicity.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
SEE WILSON BACK
IN OLD-TIME FORM
Cabinet Meeting Hailed as
Hopeful Signal at Capital.

WASHINGTON, April i5.-President
Wilson. Il was understood today stands
ready TO resume regular cabinet meetings.
probably once a week.
Or. Grayson announced that the presi-
dent is perfectly able 10 meet with bis
cabinet whenever he deems II advisable.
1t is understood the new members OF
the foreign diplomatic corps will be re-
ceived shortly.
The cabinet meeting Wednesday is re-
garded in administration circles as the
signal announcing the resumption by the
president Of approximately his normal
official activities.
Since the president was taken i'll, Japan
has sent a new ambas sador 20 Washing
ton. so has Italy, Argentine republic and
Belgium. while two Of the new countries
created by the peace Of Versailles, Poland
and Czecho Slovakia have appointed
ministers to this country.
None OF these has presented his ere
dentias to the president
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
HANCOCK COUNTY
BARS AUTO TRUCK
Supplies Coming by Motor
From Detroit Held Up.

indianapolis shippers and manufac-
turers were given a fresh setback in
their fight to keep necessities moving to-
day when W. G. Bridges. road official
Of Hancock county. denied motor truck
frelghters the privilege of using Han
cock county roads on the route to De
troit.
More than thiry-f five Indianapolis
trucks are on the road here from Detroit
with supplies for automobile f~ctories
and others today.
Tue effect of closing the Hancock
county roads will be To make trucking 10
Detroit impractical and the time when
automobile factories here must shut
down will thereby be fastened, accord
ing to Tom Snyder, head of the transfer
division of the Chamber of Commerce.
All automobile and motors factories
here are dependent on Detroit, Toledo
and Cleveland for materials and nothing
is being received by freight.
A number of departments in factories
here have been closed and all factories
will have to shut down eventually II the
strike continues
A detour of five miles from the Ma
tional road in Hancock county would en-
able continuance of trucking
II. X. Bishop, engineer of the state
highway commission. said at noon today
that there is nothing in the law which
gives the commission authority to inter
fere in the county road jurisdiction.
number Of trucks have been held up
in the northern part of the state by
township officials who refused permission
to pass over roads and in Ohio truckers
have had some difficulty with rural au-
thorities about heavy loads. drivers in
some cases being forced to unload their
trucks
The trucking division of the Chamber
OF Commerce is putting on more trucks
for the local freight business, it was an
nounced today.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
THE WEATHER
PAPER AT
ANY PRICE!

Print paper prices have taken
another jump skyward due to the
railroad strike holding up ship
ments from the paper mills.
Before the strike there was a
serious shortage of paper; now
it has become acute.
The Times paid IA cents per
pound for the last paper it was
able to buy, in carload lots.
This was an emergency order,
given regardless of price, to make
sure of continuous publication.
Under our present low advertis-
ing and subscription rates we
would soon be up the fiue" if
we used 14-cent paper regularly.
If paper bought on contract
continues to advance in price, as
now appears certain, the only
course open to the newspaper
will be raise in its rates.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
Blue Eyes Ask
for Jury FAVOR
Mas ANNA M. GOSSETT

Two beautiful blue eyes may clear
their owner Of charge OF murder in
the first degree.
Mrs Anna NJ Gossett, young and
pretty, was on trial today in the crlmi-
nal court on a charge Of the murder
of her husband Omer j. Gossett.
Under a black hat the blue eyes Of
this little woman inquired appealingly
as juror after juror was questioned rs
to fitness 10 decide her fate.
with some furs nesting close about
her neck and shoulders, Mrs. Gossett, 4
trim and neat little person in a black
suit, appeared selfposseSsed as the or
deal began.
She occupied seat by her attorneys,
Claycomh * Giivan.
KEEPS HER EYES
TRAINED on JURORs.
Close by was a Jail matron in whose
custody Mrs. Gossett is entrusted dur
ing the hours Of the trial.
Mrs. Gossetts blue eyes carefully
played upon the Jury box every min
ute during the examination OF the wit
nesses
At no time during the opening session
did she appear agitated, but calmly
peered into the faces Of the men Nho
will decide II she is guilty OF hrst degree
murder
Mrs. Gossett was the object OF interest
OF those who crowded into the court
room to hear the evidence surrounding
the tragedy.
She paid close attention while her
attorneys interrogated prospective Jurors
concerning their married life, attitude
on reasonable doubt, whether any Of
their relatives had ever been murdered
by man or woman and as TO their abil-
ity to consider her innocent until provei
guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The hands OF Mrs. Gosso:t are not
restless as they lie idly In her lap.
TELLS OF ATTACK IN
DYING STATEMENT.
With those hands she Is charged witt
fntally stabbing her husband on the
night Of Dec 20 last.
In a dying statement Gossett told the
authorities he bad been waylaid while
on the way to the Chalfont apartments,
oOS North Pennsylvania street. where he
lived. and attacked and stabbed by an
unidentified man.
Following his death. the authorities
found butcher knife, covered with
blood, Oh the roof OF O building adjoin-
ing the apartment house.
The police doubted Gossett's state
ment as the overcoat be wore at the
time of the alleged attack was not cut.
Mrs Gossett, some time after her hus-
bands death, made statement, accord
ing to Investigator Claude Worley, in
which she is snld to have admitted stab
bing her husband in self defense.
Mrs Gossett has entered plea of
not guilty and her defense will be self
defense.
Indications were that the entire after
noon viii be used in an effort to obtain
a Jury.
Fifty mon have been summoned for
jury service.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
Mrs. Haugh Resumes
Fight for Children

Mrs. Marguerite Haugh, divorced wife
of J. Guy Haugh, former local haber-
dasher is back in indianapolis to con
tinue her fight to gain custody of her
two small children.
After she was freed recently of a
charge of attempting to Kill her former
husband, she Went 10 New York, where
she said she expected to teach French.
The children have been in custody of
Dr. Amelia Keller and Otto Keller of In
iianapolis, who asked Judge Sparks of
Rushville, who granted a divorce to Mr..
Haugh and awarded the custody of the
children to the Kellers pending final dis
position of the case, to relieve them OF
their care
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
800 WORK UNDER
FIXED BAYONETS
State Troops Escort Employees
to Illinois Plant.

KEWANEE, Ill, April 15.-Threatened
by crowd Of 1900 angry strikers, a
company of the militia regiment sent
here to maintain order today escorted
800 workers into the plant of the Wal
worth Manufacturing Company under
fixed bayonets
The order "fx bayonets" was given
when the strikers assumed threaten
ing attitude toward the militiamen and
their charges and attempted TO close
In on them.
The crowd quickly gave way after
the display of cold steel.
Sheriff Wilson and a number of spe-
cial deputies were responsible for the
start of the rioting, it was charged by
Emmett Flood, organizer for the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor.
He declared the deputies slapped WON
en- strikers in the face and abused OLD
men, causing the people of Kewanee TO
rise against them.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15

As fast as the strike lead derS were ar
rested they were arraigned before the
local United States commissioner and
held in bonds of $4,000 each. Their
hearing was set for April "a.
OTHERS ARRESTED
BY FEDERAL AGENTS.
Among the others arrested were Fred
L. Schultz, vice chairman of the United
Enginemens association; Michael Eli
gass, treasurer of the United Engine
mems association. Martin ]. Kenney,
vice president of the Chicago Yardmen's
association; A. W. Cassidy, temporary
secretary of the Chicago Yardmen's as
ISOLATION; Joseph Scott, trustee of the
Chicago Yardmen's association, and VIII
liam Larrabeile, treasurer of the Chi
cago Yardsmen's association.
Some of the strike leaders were ar
rested at their homes, while others were
taken into custody while directing
striker meetings.
DENIES CONNECTION
WITH RADICALS.
We've never bucked the government
and we won't start now" said Grunau,
when he surrendered.
I'VE have no connection with the
l. W. w. or the communist party and do
not countenance their methods.
IF I have to 90 to Jail for what I've
done. III go gladly"
While the arrests were taking place
the claim was made at the headquar-
ters of the brotherhoods that the strike
had been shattered in the Chicago dis
trict.
Railroad officials backed the assertions
of the brotherhood heads and reported
that the movement of freight was rap
idly nearing normal.
At the stock yards ii was reported all
departments in all the big plants were
operating and that 5000 Of the 10000
men forced out because of the strike were
back at work.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, who can
celled his presidential campaign engage
ments because of the strike situation,
was at his desk at army headquarters
here ready to take military charge of
the situation Il eventualities make thig
necessary.
While dealers have been obtaining un-
precedented prices for potatoes here,
claiming scarcity and the railroad strike
as responsible. eighty-five carloads Of
"spuds" have been kept on side tracks
since April 2. in order to keep up the
high prices, it was disclosed here today.
~s5TI&TIoR CONTINUES
TO IMPROVE IN WEST.
Continued Improvement marks the
strike situation in the west.
Some Indignation was expressed by
strikers at the charge OF Attorney General
Palmer that the Russian soviet was be-
hind the strike, but on the whole the
tendency was to return to work.
I. W. W. headquarters here denied
they had anything to do with the strike
I'VE approve of the strike, but have no
connection with it," said William Hay
wood, executive secretary Of the organi-
Zation.
Switchmen on several roads have voted
TO return to work here and forty more
were to return toG.ay on the Rock Island
Firemen and er%s ineers on both the Ft.
Wayne and Panhandle sides of the Penn
sylvania also We're to return to work.
Chicago public schools were expected
to close tomorrow for an indefinite Pc
riod following a vote of the school en-
gtneers' union to strike Friday.
The engineers demanded 20 per cent
| increase in pay or complete separation
of the engineer and janitor service.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
DIES, POISONED
IN GRAVEYARD
Coroner Probes Cause of Oh
mer Williams Death.

DINER Williams, "a. of 2S44 Bluff road,
was found dying in Holy Cross cemetery
early today OF poisoning.
He succumbed few hours later at
the City hospital.
An autopsy is being performed by DR..
Walter s. Given this afternoon TO de
termine what kind Of poison caused
williams death.
Two bottles which the police believe
contained a mixture Of wood alcohol lay
near the man.
Roy williams, n brother, and Oscar
Dr0ke 1854 Blun road, who are EN-
ployed in the cemetery. found Williams
when they went to work.
He was FIRST taken home, but bis con
dition became so serious the police were
notified and Sergt. Sandman, who went
to the house, ordered him to the hos
pital.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
DR.. Roberts Must
Serve His Sentence

MADISON, Wis, April 15.-Gov. Phi
lipp has denied the application for the
pardon of DR.. David Roberts Of Wau-
kesha.
DR.. Roberts is serving a years sen
tence in The house of correction at Mil
waukee on a statutory offense with Miss
Grace Lusk, who murdered DR.. Roberts
wife
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
SALESMAN ENDS
LIFE WITH GAS
Body of L. V. Harm, so, Found
in n. Meridian St. Room.

L. V. Harm, so, was found dead of
asphyxiation in his room over 10h North
Meridian street. shortly before noon to-
day.
Coroner Paul F. Robinson pronounced
the case q suicide.
The body was found when Leona Dan
ner. a maid living at 615 Eddy street,
smelled gas.
She gave an alarm.
Harm apparently had been dead sew
eral hours.
Gas was coming from an open burner
in small heating stove.
According to Coroner Robinson Harm
has a wife, from whom he had been
separated since last December, living
on West street near Military park.
Harm was a salesman for the 81. 81.
Mumm Company of Chicago
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
.M'ADOO CHOICE
OF DEMOCRATS
AT SOUTH BEND
Party Leaders in Thirteenth
District Say Sentiment
Is Unanimous.
DRY ISSUE CROPS OUT
BY a Staff Correspondent.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, April Is
William Gibbs McAdoo is the choice
of the democratic voters of the Thir-
teenth Indiana district for the presi-
dency
After interviewing numerous party
leaders in this neighborhood who make
II a business to keep their fingers ON
the pulse of public sentiment this con-
clusion is inevitable.
In answer to the question: "Who do
the democratic voters favor for the
presdencyf" the invariable reply is
"McAdoo."
Vice President Marshal is no longer
being seriously considered as posi-
bility. according to best information OBJ
taInable here
The mention of Gov Edwards or Gov.
Cox. who are talked of almost exclr-
sively in the steel district, a few miles
10 the westward. Is met simply with
smiles.
OF course, not all democrats have made
NJ their minds concerning candidates
for the presidency. but among the
leaders McAdoo is unanimously the first
choice
IMPOSSIBLE TO SOLVE
INDIANA SITUATION.
There Is considerab difficulty far
Ing any one who would attempt to for
lnulaee any adequate idea of the stu
alton in Indiana from a democratic
standpoint at this time.
The difficulty lies in the fact that there
are no democratic candidates in the state
presidential primary race.
No lines have been drawn as they have
T. ha
Despite this fact, however, ii is ap-
parent that democrats in South Bend
and Mishawaka and the surrounding ter
ritory have been doing considerable
thinking, and they are convinced that the
former secretary OF the treasury Is the
best qualified OF any Of the democratic
possibilities.
A. Mitchell Palmer, United States at-
torney general. who has been active in
the east, apparently is not considered
seriously here or In other parts Of north
ern Indiana
The only thing that is worrying dem
ocratic politicians who are out for the
votes frst is the fact that there are n
number Of Germans here who are not
raticularly favorable 10 any democratic
can lidate, much less one who was ac-
tiTe in the war.
I
TOWARD JOHNSON.
It seems to be the general opinion that
these voters viii cast their ballots al
most exclusively for Hiram Johnson.
Attention in this district at the present
time centers on the democratic congres-
sional race. in which prohibition is an
issue.
II slso centers on a vice crusade in the
city of South Bend where a democratic
prosecutor Is attempting to make a
cleanup in the face Of opposition Of a
republican city administration, which is
rapidly falling into disgrace.
In the congressional fight Ralph \.
Smith Of Laporte represents the dry
element.
He has stated his platform and it con-
sists largely OF one broad. well seasoned,
dry plank.
The principal plank in the platform Of
George Y. Hepler, the other democratic
candidate is soaked thoroughly in some
thing more than pa per cent.
The issue is clearly drawn and the
candidates are hghting it out, much to
the dismay ot the party organization
Continued on Page Eighty
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-15
7 Candidates Favor
Teachers Pay Raise

L. n. Hines. state superintendent OF
public instruction, today made public
letters from the seven candidates for
governorship nominations in Indiana
declaring in favor of increased salaries
for school teachers.
Those whose views were set forth were
DR.. c. B. McCulloch, indianapolis; Ma
son J. Niblack, vincennes; John Isen-
barger, North Manchester, and James K
Risk, candidates for the democrats
nomination, and Edward c. Toner, An
derson; !. ". Fesler, Indianapolis and
Warren T. McCray. Kentland. candidates
for the republican nomination.
All expressed themselye as determined
to aid the movement to improve condi-
tons in the teaching profession.