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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
BOY, Is, SHOOTS
DOWN PLAYMATE
Victim Seriously Wounded
RumOred They Had Been
Quarreling.

Vanleer Britt, 7, 7e4 West Twenty fifth
street, was shot and seriously wounded
this morning by William Grubbs. 10, 100
West Twenty fifth street, while the boys
were playing in the basement Of the Britt
home Both are colored.
Britt was rushed TO the city hospital
where 1t is said he is in a serio1s cOndi-
tion with a bullet in his abe omen.
Edgar Britt, II. a brother Of the
wounded boy, told the police there had
been a quarrel preceding the shooting.
Grubbs denied that he had trouble with
his playmates and declared the shooting
was accidental.
A 22-caliber revolver was used. Grubbs
admitted to the police that he had stolen
1t from the home OF Mrs. Rosa Hoskins,
761 West Twenty Fifth street, about two
weeks ago. Mrs. Hoskins, who is colOred,
was later arrested and charged with the
unlawful possession of firearms.
Following the shooting the revolver
was thrown into the alley, but Grubbs
located 1t on a demand from the police
Grubbs was arrested charged with as
sault and battery with felonious intent,
aud with grand larceny. The police IN
yestigation showed. they said, that
Grubbs had ordered Britt out of the cell
lar and that en- argument followed.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
HAD TRIED TO ROB
NEARBY HOMES.
ROW:
lin HOSPITAL
Negro Victim Is Seriously
Wounded in Hot~Discussion
Gun Wielder Surrenders.

Arthur Reed. At, 27s North California
street, colored, is in n serious condition
today as a result Of gun wound In
Hicted by big Bill" Harris. 81. also
colored, according to the police, after the
two had imbibed Of bootleg whisky and
engaged in a political argument. The
bullet entered Reeds left hip.
Following the shooting which took
place in front Of Harris home, at the
rear of 623 West st. Clair street Harris
surrendered to the police and was slated
on a charge OF shooting with intent to
kill.
Reed apparently had gone to the Har-
ris home to settle a controversy that had
arisen earlier in the day between Har-
ris and Reeds brother, when the brother
was said to have been assaulted by
Harris The two men began arguing
politics, and the shooting resulted.
Viola Mates, a Servian, 701 Haugh
street, Haughyille, is held by the police,
charged with The unlawful sale of a pint
of liquor to a negro. The arrest was
made by Federal Prohibition. Agents
Winklers Bundy and Chester.
Alec Gnea, 445 West Washington street,
was arrested last night by Lieutenant
Winkler and Sergeant Tooley, charged
with a violation of the prohibition laws.
The police say Gnea had four quarts of
white mule" whisky in his possession
when arrested at West Washington and
Missouri streets.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
MACHINE STILL
SEEKS WAY OF
BEATING SHANK
Three Schemes Proposed
Prove Useless-Support for
Democrat Considered.
LEMAUX WILL HESITATE

Whether the Jewett- -Roemler-
Lemcke Republican machine should
lie down and die without further ado,
following it's crushing defeat at the
hands of the organization of Samuel
Lewis Shank, or whether it should
treat the public to the spectacle Of
its going through few death throes
is the topic of serious discussion
among the leaders of the beaten COM
bine today.
A preliminary conference in which the
matter was discussed was held in the
office of Charles o. Roemler, Seventh dis
trict Republican chairman, in the
Fletcher Savings and Trust Company late
Friday. The request of Mr.. Shank that
Irving w. Lemaux, Republican city
chairman, resign to make way for DR.
E. E. Hodgin. one Of the candidate s
close personal friends and advisers, was
the specific subject under discussion, IT
is understood Besides Mr.. Roemer, Mr..
Lemau1, Ernest Kingston. Republican
city vice chairman; Leonard NJ. Quill,
campaign manager for Thomas G. Howe,
defeated candidate for the Republican
mayoralty nomination; Mr.. Howe, Harry
Hendrickson, Marion County Republican
chairman; Thomas d. Stevenson, Repub-
lican chairman Of the Fourth ward
Robert II. Bryson, ity controller; Mayer
Charles W. Jewett. win II. Thompson,
Emsley w johnson and Corporation
Counsel Samuel Ashby, attended.
GRoPE FOR PLAN
TO BEAT SHANK.
Politicians agree that If the News
Jewett outfit could find any way to de-
feat Shank and at the same time retain a
firm hand on Marion County politics It
most assuredly would adopt this course.
The difficulty is that no such plan has
been discovered and there Is little indi-
cation that 1t viii be.
The News Jewett combine first thought
OF instituting a movement for the com
mission manager form df government
after 1t was established that Mr.. Shank
was the Republican nominee. The fact
that no election on this question could
be held before a year from next June
stopped this. Two other suggestions are
being considered by those Republicans
who oppose Mr.. Shank. One is to estab-
lish a new party and enter a third can
didate In the November election aud the
other Is to join hands with the Democrats
and put over Boyd NJ Ralston, the Dem
ocratic pominee, or request Mr.. Ralston
TO resign and put up a Democrat whom
the News-Jewett crowd could rally
around.
PROSPECTS DIM FOR
THIRD CANDIDATE.
Upon The proposition of entering a
third candidate attorneys disagree. The
- h. I II,
viding that Independent candidates shall
flle notice Of their intention to enter the
November election not later than thirty
Continued on Page Two)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
j. Mcnamara Passes Out
of San Quentin Tuesday
COnUicted DynGn,iter Plans to Start Life
AneJU-M0y Resume Union Work.

for ten years I think I'm still a man
capable Of taking care of myself"
There was a pause.
"And will you be glad to get out?" he
was asked
alive, thinking of the day when I would
again become a free man. able to go my
own way" the man in prison gray replied.
"One hears so much-and so little-Of
what is going on outside that after an
active life, a prison term Is almost an
intellectual DEATH" he added.
STRIFE Is KEYNOTE
OF WORLD REFRAIN"
1--WE hear so much now of wars and
rumors Of wars that It is almost appalling
to think Of facing the age old conflict of
man and his brother.
with labor troubles paramount in this
country, disputes tearing Europe, strife
is the keynote of the world refrain"
Originally sentenced to a fifteen year
term, the board Of prison directors have
ordered Mcnamara released after serv-
ing ten years, part in San Quentin and
few months In the county jail in Los
Angeles. Good behavior and strict com
pliance with all rules earned the respite.
His brother, James Mcnamara was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment for bis con-
nection with the same case. 1t is possible
that he may be paroled at some future
date.
Union labor leaders in San Francisco
who know Mcnamara are preparing a
welcome for him on the day he is re-
leased.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
GUY WINS POINT
FROM RULING
{ ON PATERNITY
Evidence Indian Is Father Is
Outlawed, but Has Bearing
in Divorce.

NEW YORK, May 7.-An important
point has been won for Baby Guy Still
man, "the silent principal In the Still
man divorce case" by ruling of Referee
Daniel J. Gleason, that neither the testi-
mony of Dr. Hugh Russell OF Buffalo
nor the disputed Dear Honey"
letter alleged to have been writ
ten by Fred Beauvais, the alleged CO.
respondent, shall be admitted into the
evidence so far as the controversy over
the paternity of the boy Is concerned, 1t
was learned today. This ruling was Sc
cured by John z. Mack, guardian at law
for Guy. The referees assured Mr.. MACK
that the Russell testimony and the Dear
Honey" letter will be considered only as
affecting the multi milllonaire's plea for
a divorce.
WIFE MAY NAME
ANOTHER WOMAN.
Mrs. Fiji" Peter Stillman made the
angry accusation that an attempt had
been made to frame up" the case. Coun-
sci for Mrs. Stillman declared they had
learned that one woman, who is expect
ed to testify for the former banker for
nerly had close relations with a band OF
men and women of shady character who
were once suspected of blackmailing
Ntdlbug uGu anu WoiuGu 1T AlldHllt 1AAJs
This woman wss not identified, but 1t
was said that she was on good terms
with the plaintiff, who had advanced
her money.
Mrs. Stillman's lawyers were deeply
rc sentful over the publication OF letters,
alleged to have been written by Beauvais
They alleged that representatives Of "the
other side" had violated secret agree
ments.
AS a result OF the publication OF these
letters, 1t was reported that Mrs Still
man must file a second amendment to
her reply to her husbands suit. At
torneys for Mrs stillman, 1t was said,
might name another woman In addition
to the former chorus girl, Flo" Leeds
According to the gossip, Mrs Stillmans
lawyers would charge the ex-banker with
maintaining an apartment for the un-
named woman for two years.
BARE DICTAPHONE
PLOT ON MRS. sTILLMAN.
An alleged attempt to plant" a
dictaphone In the bedroom or writing
room of Mrs. Stillman at Malbanne the
Stillman home at Pocantico Hills, was
revealed today.
Another interesting report from the de-
fense camp was that Mrs. Stillman would
undertake to show that the Dearest
Honey" letter was planted" In her
writing desk by a maid whom she (Mrs.
Stillman) afterwards discharged from
her service. A forme- emplove of the
Stillman estate has tesii&.s,;; that she
found this letter in the desk.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
BID FOR $4,000
TO FILL CHEST
Community Workers Must
Raise This Sum to Reach
Goal Monday.

With all teams working today and
with appeals to be made IN the mems
Bible classes in each of the eity's Sun
day schools tomorrow, 1t is expected that
the 100000 mark in the campaign for
funds for the indianapolis community
chest will be passed by time for the noon
luncheon at the ClaypooI Hotel Monday.
In order to reach this goal it still Is
necessary to raise $4,000. Clerks are
tusy with cards holding the pledges of
citizens who have given 800 or more in
the previous campaign, and workers will
be given these cards, in the hope that
additional amounts may be received from
them.
The factory division. headed by George
Desautels and Walter johnson, is expect
ed to have several one hundred per cent
factories to report at the next luncheon
meeting, and it is confidently expected
that the goal Of $500 600 for the chest will
have been reached by the middle of next
week
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
JOE CANNON, IS
YEARS 'YOUNG,' is
CELEBRATING 1T
FOrgetfuL of Number StOgieS
He Has Smoked in Veteran
SerUice.

WASHINGTON, May Uncle "Joe
Cannon holder Of all marathon" records
for congressional service. is IS years old
today. He is the oldest member Of Con-
gress, both in years and point OF
service.
The veteran legislator celebrated his
birthday by working with the House ap-
preparations committee on the deficiency
bill. Although the House was not in
session, scores Of friends called at his
office to extend congratulations
We'll the calendar says l am IS, but
you will have to subtract a good many
years If you want to know how feel.
he said, as he puffed one OF his famous
black stogies.
Il can still show some OF these new
members a few tricks"
One of his birthday presents was a
box of the famous stogies.
How many stogies have you smoked r.
he was asked.
well, the figure probably would re-
sembIe some of these appropriations we
have been passing recently" he re-
piled as he pulled another one from HIS
pocket.
"Got a match?"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
DISARMAMENT
MOVEP'ROBABLE
U. S., With Representatives on
Supreme Council, in Po-
sitiOn to Act.

WASHINGTON, May president
Harding, having accepted the invitation
to put representatives. on the allied su-
preme council ambassadors conference
and reparations commission was In po-
sition today to inaugurate a disarma-
ment movement among the powers.
It is believed that Harding is consid-
ering a tentative plan for starting such
a movement through Ambassador George
Harvey, who will sit with the allied su-
preme council. The other American rep
resentative Will be Ambassador Herrick
at Paris, who will sit with the ambassa-
dors' conference, and Roland w. Boy
den, who will attend meetings of the
reparations commission.
The most important immediate tasks
confronting the American representatives
are;
1. Settlement Of the reparations ques-
tion without prostrating Germany eco
nomicany.
2 Securing recognition of American
rights in disposition Of former enemy
territories, such as the island of Yap
and the Mesopotamian oil fields
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
118INDICTEDBY
FEDERAL JURY
BEFORE JUDGE
'Muncie POnzi and Goshen
Furniture Men Among Not
Guilty Pleaders.
OLD CASES DISPOSED OF

One hundred eighteen defendants
indicted by the Federal grand jury
at its recent session were arraigned
before Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger
in Fedora, Court here today. In all
cases where pleas of guilty were en-
tered sentence was imposed and the
cases disposed of. Judge Geiger also
disposed of number of other cases
that have been held in allegiance for
several weeks.
AS was expected all defendants of
prominence entered pleas Of not guilty
and their cases win be set for trial at
a later date This was the case with
Alpha l. Holiday, "Muncie Ponzi,
charged with using the mails in a
scheme to defraud, and also benjamin
F. Deahl of Goshen, prominent bust
ness man, lawyer and president of the
I-X-L Furniture Company OF that city
Charles f. Morice Of Peru, formerly
sales manager for the company, and WI
liam D. Widner OF Auburn, formerly an
office employe Of the company. These
men were charged with consplring to file
false income tax returns for the furni-
ture company for 1918 and 1918 and Of
defraudlng the government out Of about
S47, 600 IN income taxes. Samuel NJ.
Ralston and Quincy A. Myers apeared
for Mr.. Deahl and filed demurrers to the
indictments.
OTHERS WHO ENTER
NOT GUILTY PLEAS.
Pleas Of not guilty also were entered
by Carl A. Heldt. formerly cashier of
a national bank at Evansville; Theodore
T. Hull, formerly United States com
missioner at that place, and his law
partner, Mark B. Ingle. These defend
ants are charged with having conspired
to violate the national banking laws. II
Is said that Heldt permitted the other
two to overdraw their accounts in large
sums and that he made false reports TO
the federal reserve bank at st. Louis.
Three East Chicago city officials. Ed
ward p. ODonnell, chief OF police
Thomas Downey, captain OF police. and
Stanley Reczkowski entered pleas Of not
guilty to violating the Federal prohibit
ton laws However John SupRnovich,
Nick Vujonivich and Nick Popoyieh, saId
TO be blind tiger operators, pleaded
guilty. In the indictments i is charged
they paid Chief O'Donnen and Captain
Downey sums ranging from $50 to 500
for protection In the Illicit sale OF liquor.
Pleas OF guilty were entered by six
residents of Monon, charged with steal
ing from interstate freight shipments.
These cases are an aftermath Of other
eases that were tried about two weeks
Continued on Page TwO.)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
DRIVER OF TRUCK
SERIOUSLY HURT
Ed EppersOn Injured in Col
lisiOn With CaboOse.

Ed Epperson, "a. 463 Blake street is
In a critical condition today at the city
hospital as the result Of injuries received
when an auto truck collided with a ca
boose of Big -Four freight train. on the
Speedway road at 8 o'clock last night.
The accident occurred at the same cross
Ing where a man and team Of horses
were killed a few weeks ago
Epperson was driving a big truck at
a high rate Of speed, according to Walter
Davis, 1887 East Ohio street, brakeman
on the train. Davis said the train had
passed the crossing except the caboose,
in which he was riding. He said that the
truck struck the side Of the caboose so
hard that It almost Knocked 1t off of the
track. The truck was badly wrecked.
Railroad men told the police that there
was another man in the truck with Ep-
person and that heran after the accident
and dropped a bottle that broke. The
police found a bottle that they say con-
tanned white mule whisky sixty feet
from the wrecked automobile truck.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
GET 2 TO IA YEARS
FOR $3.50 THEFT
Filling Station Thieves Sen
fenced by Collins.

Aaron Lewis, 27, and Steve Bait, %,
indicted on charges of burglary and
grand larceny for breaking into a gaso-
line filling station at 1850 Speedway ave-
nue. April last, today we're sentenced
from two to fourteen years in the In
diana State Reformatory by Judge
James A. Collins.
William Enrich Jr., who operates the
filling station, testified that Lewis and
Bait obtained tires, oil and other acces-
sories valued at about $3.50.
The evidence showed that at the time
Bait was arrested he had pictures of the
former German kaiser and of himself
dressed in the uniform Of an Austrian
soldier.
william Black, At, charged with
burglary and grand larceny, was sen
fenced to year on the Indiana State
Farm.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
The Shamrock and The Palm
~
4 D
ADV ~ AA%A ~ Wheeler Syndicate

nisher rolled the finished depictments of
Coralios citizens. Blanchard, the French
mining engineer, in his cool linen viewed
the smoke of his cigarette through his
calm glasses, impervious to the heat
Clancy sat on the steps, smoking his
short pipe. His mood was the gossip's !;
the others were reduced, by the humidity,
to the state of disability desirable In an
audience.
Clancy was an American with an Irish
diathesis and cosmopolitan proclivities.
Many businesses had claimed him, but
not for long. The roadster1s blood was
in his veins. The voice of the tintype
was but one of the many callings that
had wooed him upon so many roads
Sometimes he could be persuaded to oral
construction of his voyages into the in
formal and egregious. Tonight there were
symptoms OF diyulgement tn him.
.'Tis elegant weather for filibusterin' =
he volunteered. 1t reminds meaof the
time / struggled to liberate a nation
from the poisonous breath of a tyrant's
fCnu4fmuaA
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
COMPANY'S PETITION
GRANTED IN FULL BY
PUBLIC SERVICE BODY
Increased Charge, Effective at Once, Com
tinues Until Dec. 81, or as Long as
Emergency Exists.
REQUIRED STANDARD'
INSISTS ON

gas Indianapolis
O
the
of he Gas
emergency public
Zee act.
granting severely
company falling dispose Of
is he OF troubles
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07

SAN QUENTIN PENITENTIARY,
Cal, May 7.-on Tuesday. May 10, John
Mcnamara, convicted Of a felony in con-
nection with the dynamiting of the Los
Angeles Times on Oct. 1. 1910. will check
out through the great doors Of the San
Quentin prison for the last time. On
that day his sentence will be completed.
"The first thing I'll do when 1 get out
o. here will be to go to San Francisco,
see my friends and make arrangements
to go to Ohio to visit the various mem
bers Of my family who live in Cleveland
and Cincinnati" he stated in an exclu-
sive interview today.
'Then comes the problem of readjust-
ment after being out of the world for
ten years.
WOULD CONTINUE
UNION ACTIVITY.
'.At the time of my trial was inter-
national secretary of the Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers Union. I am
still a member Of the union and in good
standing.
THAT I will continue with that work
is quite probable, though that is neces-
as 1 find them on my release
Il have managed to keep more or less
abreast of the times during my imprison-
ment, but 1 fear I won't know how TO
act when I step OF the ferry in San
Francisco.
Though have been out Of the world
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07

n NE night there was no breeze, and
CoraIio seemed closer than ever to
- the gratings Of Ayernus, five men
were grouped about the door Of the pho
tograph establishment of Keough and
Clancy. Thus. in all the scorched and
exotic places of the earth, Caucasians
meet when the days work is done to
preserve the fuIlness of their heritage by
the aspersion of alien things.
Johnny Atwood lay stretched upon the
grass in the undress uniform of Carib,
ard prated feebly of cool water to be
had in the cucumber wood pumps of
Dalesburg. Dr. Gregg, through the pres
tige of his whiskers and as a bribe
against the relation Of his imminent pro-
fessional tales. was conceded the ham
mock that was swung betw the door
iar,b and a calabash- tire 4eogh had
that held the instrument for Furnishing
completed photographs. lie was the only
busy one OF the group. Industriously
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
20 Days in Jail for
His Apple Appetite

Vernon Saylor. 21, 362 South Illinois
street, was fined 81 and costs and
sentenced to twenty days in Jail on a
charge of petit larceny by Judge Ws ter
Pritchard in city court today. Saylor
was arrested at Kingan and Company
plant by Patrolman Martin yesterday and
is charged with stealing seventy five
apples valued at about cents apiece.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
Death Farm Owner
Denied New Trial

ATLANTA, Ga, May John S. Will
liams, Newton and Jasper County farmer,
convicted in Newton County on charge
of murder in connection with the death
Of eleven farm hands on his plantation
and sentenced to life Imprisonment, to-
day was denied a new trial when his
motion was heard in Decatur, Dekalb
County, by Judge Hutcheson.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
Leeds and Princess
to Wed in London

LONDON. May THE Evening News
printed a story this evening saying 1t
understands that the wedding of William
Leeds, son Of Princess Anastasia Of
Greece and Princess Xenia of Greece will
take place this coming summer in the
Greek Church in London.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
CITY GAS RATE HIKED TO 90 CENTS
LUSitdniG Sunk
BY German U-BOdt
6 Years Ago Today

NEW YORK, May To-day is
the sixth anniversary of the wars
greatest horror-the sinking of
the Lusitania. The great liner
was torpedoed off the Irish coast
by the German submarine U-39
in the afternoon of May Z, 1915,
with the loss Of 1,154 lives, ia of
them Americans.
The log of the commander Of
the U-39, giving the personal
story of the German who was re-
sponsible for this atrocity, was
published five years after the
sinking.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
BURGLAR
IDENTIFIED AS
MARTIN VASIL
Shot by Grocer Reused by At
tempts to Rob His
Store.
LEFT DUMMY IN BED

The robber who was shot and killed
by James NJ Smith. grocer at 100 Gels
endorn street, last night while fleeing
from the store was identified today as
Martin vasil, 975 West Pearl street
The Identification was made by Joe
Miskowz, 903 West Washington street,
after the police had tried yainly since
Midnight to learn the mans identity.
Smith sleeps in the rear Of the store
and he was awakened by some one try
ing to open the door between the store
and the bedroom. Securing his shotgun,
Smith opened a window in the partition
and he saw a man jump behind coun-
tel
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
Two Out of Derby

LOUISVILLE, May -Firebrand and
Billy Barton were scratchedp from the
list Of entries in tha Kentucky Derby
this afternoon. This left field Of
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-07
Public Apology
for Any Error
In Stacker List

WASHINGTON, May THE war
Department win make public apoI-
ogy If the name of any man is erro-'
neously published In the list of draft
evaders now being made public, Sec
retary OF War Weeks anounced to-
day. The secretary said every effort
had been made to check the list. but
that It was possible that errors aaight
bave creps In.