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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
COUNTY BOARD
MAKES VERBAL
OIL PURCHASE
Price Higher Than Bid Offered
Nothing to Show for
Deal.
PROBED BY EXAMINER

The Marion county commission
ers have purchased road oil on moth
ing but a verbal contract and there
Is nothing in their once to show for
II but the claim of the Indiana Re
fning Company for $3153.21, ac-
cording to a report made today by
A. [. Donaldson, an examiner OF
the State board of accounts. The
account was finally settled by the
deduction of $1,O5108 as represent
ing an excessive price charged for
The oil. the report shows.
The commissioners, according TO the re
rort. agreed in their verbal contract.
which WAS made without receiving bids,
to pay the company 1872 cents a gallon
for the oil which was An cents above the
market price II was on the basis or
this excess price that the deduction was
made.
In the examination Of this matter /
fnd nothing or record IN the auditors
office. except a claim filed by the In
dian Refining Company for the sum CT
S3153.2l." reads the report. However,
]
Of Nav. 1890. the board Of commissioners
verbally entered into "A contract with the
Indian Refining Company for 23.30I gal
Ions OF road oil at a stipulated price OF
1915 cents per gallon and on the 9Th
dav Of November 1920 the Indian Re
Gulug Company filed claim No. 5l9i
At thls point follows an itemized state
meut Of the claim showing charges for
three carloads Of oil The report states
shat The claim Was allowed aHd evidenced
by the signatures OF Commissioners
Lewis W George and Carlin II. shank.
REFUSED PAYMENT;
PRICE EXCESSIVE
Leo K FesslCr, county auditor. re-
fused to draw a warrant IN payment Of
said claim as allowed for two reasons
First. the board Of commissioners did not
advertise for bids as the law required ;
second. that the price at which said oil
was purchased was excessive, and in
formed the Indian Refining Company
that he would refer the matter to the
State board Of accounts for investigation
and report Therefore. I have investi-
gated the matter the best 1 could from
verbal information in the absence Of
record information and submit the fol-
lowing result Of such investigation:
"Itrst. l find that the oil purchased
contained a high percentage Of asphalt
which made it Of much more value than
the ordinary road oil, and likewise more
expensive
Second I find from personal in
vestigation that the market price of crude
oil in May, 1920 was very high ($3.77l
per barrel. At TINS price for crude oil
the manufactured road oil should have
been sold at about cents gallon
which is AZ cents per gallon less than
was charged for the oil in question
under the verbal agreement
Just prior to the date on which this
oil was purchased the board of com
missioners advertised for bids on about
10000 gallons Of road oil and the Texas
Company bid for an equivalent grade
6la cents per gallon plus freight, which
CONTINUED on Page TwO)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
College Pays Truant Boy
at Rushville to Collect
Dogs for Its Experiments
UNANSWERED

indianapolis inquire if is
helpless at the Indiana
University the
0 gunshot
o question, the
l. list that
public number
The city administration felt called collect city
consequently there
description
requires
locked
the doctors
The bodies of the mutiaed emated prevent
them.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06

Thomas Kemp, 16-year-old boy
who has repeatedly been before the
authorities at Rushville for truancy and
other improper conduct, has been one
Of the most active OF the "dog-snatch
ers" used by the Indiana University
School of Medicine to get dogs for the
dissection tables in the college near the
Long Hospital.
Kemp. who lives on West Third street,
in Rushville, admitted yesterday that
he collected dogs and held them for the
college dog trucs. He said he was paid
about one dollar apiece" for the dogs
by the driver of truck which came
from the medical college for them.
OF course, young Kemp insisted that
he does not steal dogs for the college
He says he just picks up stray dogs"
and delivers them to the truck driver.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
Ammunition Boxes
Found Near Dublin
Bear u. S. Markings

LONDON, April S.-Three big secret
. underground ammunition dumps have
feen discovered in Dublin, according TO
q dispatch from that city today.
Most OF the ammunition boxes found
bear markings of a Massachusetts firm,
II is added, and as a result the aUthori-
ties are working today on the theory
of system of gun smuggling to Ireland
by American sympathizers through isO-
lated ports on the irish west coast. where
the Sim Feiners have wireless stations.
CIews Indicating gun-runnin= opera
tions from Germany also are being in
vestiEated.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
CALL VISIT OF
VTVIANI BOOST
TOKNOX PLAN
Republican Leaders Convinced
Senate Ma jOrity Will Sup
port Resolution.

WASHINGTON. April 6-Republican
leaders Of the Senate today expressed
qualification that the visit OF Rene Vivi-
ami. former French premier and now en-
voy TO the United States. has resulted
in crystallizing the avowed purpose OF
the majority of Republican Senators and
Representatives to support the Knox res
olution for peace with the central powers
by congressional resolution.
Discussions Viviani has had with Re
publican Senators regarding the Senate's $
attitude toward both the League or
Nations and the Knox resolution can
have left no doubt in his mind. they say.
as to where the Republican leaders OF
the Senate stand on them.
Some Of the Senators apparently re
sent efforts Of Viviani, as the accredited
envoy Of the French government, to in
fiuence the foreign policy Of both the
Administration and the Senate, and
pointed references to his activities may
be made by his senatorial critics in the
Senate in the near future.
BUSINESS
PROPOSITION.
1t has been pointed out to Yiviani that
the Knox measure is a simple business
proposition" entailing the resumption of
American relations with the German and
Austrian governments through regular
diplomatic channels, as we'll as ending
the still existing technical state Of war
between the United States and Germany
and Austria. which is seriously hamper
ing American commercial, business and
financial interests.
He has been asked by Republican Sena-
tors why the United States should be
denied the right any longer Of having
an ambassador at Berlin and consuls
throughout Germany to look after Ameri-
can interests when the duly accredited
diplomatic representatives, of France are
doing business direct with the Germans
at Berlin and elsewhere in Germany.
PROVIDES FOR
PROPERTY DISPOSAL.
To this he is represented as conceding
there is no answer.
Ylviani has been informed that the
Knox resolution paves the way for the
negotiation by the American Government
Of commercial treaties with Germany and
Austria. and Of reciprocal arrangements
for the amicable disposition of the Ger
man and Austrian property held in this
country and of the American property
held in those countries.
How far these negotiations would pro-
ceed or how soon they might be under
taken by the State Department cannot
be determined until the Knox resolution
Is repassed by Congress, approved by
President Harding and then accepted by
both Germany and Austria. But Repub-
lican leaders declare they are convinced
the Knox measure, as the first step to-
ward re establishing this country on a
genuine peace basis, will have a salutory
affect, not only on this country's foreign
relations, but on its existing domestic
conditions
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06

Investigation shows that Kemp, who
has been a source Of trouble for the pro
baton authorities Of Rushyille for some
time and whose case has been under con-
sideration by Judge VIII Sparks for
some time, was a patient at the Long
Hospital when the scheme OF gathering
dogs for the college was concocted and
he was induced to become a dog snatcher.
Rushville dogs are not the only ones
which he admitted gathering in for the
college. He said that at one time he got
about eight dogs that had come from
Milroy, small town near Rushville.
Arvy Wilfong, chief of police at Rush
vile. has been seeking for some time TO
disrupt tie dog snatching business In and
about Rushyille
Wilfong says that nearly every day be
Continued on Page EIeyen)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06

a sign OF relief through the length adm
breadth of the kingdom.
The situation is still tense and fraught
with dangers, but valuable time has been
gained.
In a second letter to the miners. Lloyd
George demanded that the miners guar
antee before the conference can be held.
Athat they will safeguard the continu-
Y NFnee Of the pumping of the mines to avert
Alrther flooding.
IaThis demand was rejected by Presi-
w. 1t Hodges Of the miners organization.
y added, however, that nOnacceptance
- his condition should not be regarded
bar to negotiations. Hodges further
S&# the premier In his answer that the
Ars desire a speedy settlement.
fe da's vOlley Of sensations had be
DgGX with the disclosure Of an alleged
Sim Fein plot TO set Ireland afame with
a great revolt at the moment the min
ers' strike broke out The date fixed. it
was charged, was April u. American
and German ammunition smuggling
schemes were hinted at in revelations
made by Scotland Yard.
WAVE OF VIOLENCE
CONTINUES To GROW.
Meanwhile the wave of violence that
followed in the wake Of the tie-up of all
the kingdoms coal mines assumes more
menacing proportions hourly The toll
Of casualties in riots and disorders at
collieries, especially in the fields Of Scot
land, is reported as heavy. Fresh re
ports of clashes between armed miners
and police are coming in with growing
frequency.
Thus far military Intervention has not
been resorted to, but the government has
utilized every moment TO intensity its
preparedness. London swarms with tin
helmeted troops with war footing equip
ment,. DestrOyers are dashing to ports
where shipping is tied up and threatened
with sabotage.
Evan Williams, accepting the premier's
invitation on behalf of the mine owners.
declared he did so assuming that the
miners would take steps to keep the
mines safe pending the negotiations"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
Barber, Who Charged
Too Much, Gets His

Carlo Mazzo, 226 South Illinois street,
employed at a barber shop at that num-
ber, was fined 81 and costs and SEN
fenced to serve four days in Jail on
charges of petit larceny by trick by
Judge Walter Pritchard in city court
today.
Mazzo was arrested yesterday by Ser
geant Cliff Richter and Patrolman Cum
mings, who received a complaint from
Edward Polling of Lafayette, that Mazzo
charged him 81 for a shave and a hair
cut, when Polling said, Mazzo told him
the price would be rs cents,
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
Governor McCrGy'S
Open Door Policy
Really Closed Door

Despite Governor Warren T. McCray' 9
announcement early in his term that his
administration would be governed by an
open door policy, closed door tactics con-
tlnue in his office. The doors are guard
ed by Miss Adah Bush, the Governors
secretary, and only certain individuals,
including persons seeking pardOns, are
permitted to see the Governor. Former
Governor James p. Goodrich called at
the Statehouse to pay his respects to the
present Governor. He was compelled to
wait, but finally solved the problem by
walking in without permission.
Persons affected by the new procedure
are finding it difficult to adjust them
selves to the new "clOsed door" policy
because under the Goodrich regime the
Governors office was open to the pub
lie at all times.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
Man Who Says
He s Preacher
Held by y. S.
BIuftOn Resident Charged
With Sending Obscene
Mail.

With the arrest of L. o. Fisher, who
a charge OF sending obscene matter
through the mails, Federal officials be
lieve they have run down one of the most
vindictive and persistent men of this
type ever arrested in Indiana. Fisher
was arrested by o. e. Whicker, deputy
United States marshal yesterday at
Bluffton. and was taken to FIT. Wayne
for arraignment before United States
Commissioner Thomas J. Logan. In de-
fault Of bond of $500, Mr.. Whicker
brought Fisher to indianapolis and
placed him in the Marion County Jail
to await action of the Federal grand
jury.
The case grew out of correspondence
with a woman clerk in the pOstoffice at
Charlottesville, which originated as a
joke when she answered an advertise
ment in a matrimonial bureau publication.
Her letter went 10 Fisher, who carried
on a correspondence with her under the
name of wv. f. Watson" Later he
called upOn her in person, and still later
she requested him to discontinue his at
tentions to her. When he refused she
went to an attorney in Charlottesville
and he wrote to Fisher insisting that, he
discontinue all correspondence with the
woman.
Apparently this aroused in Fisher a
desire to get even" He wrote letters,
so the postoffice authorities say, to young
women in Charlottesville, signing the
name Of the lawyer to them. These let
ters were all of a scurrilous nature and
involved the lawyer in a series of un
pleasant experiences with irate fathers
Not content with this, Fisher is said
to have written untrue and discreditable
things about the woman with whom he
had corresponded and then mailed them
tc her, telling her he had found them
in railroad trains. To these letters were
signed fictitious names, supposed to be
those Of travelling men.
The case was investigated By A. c.
(serrfruz nostofffca fnanactar
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
County Board Makes
Provision for Insane

Announcement was made today by Car
lin Shank, president of the board Of
county commissioners. tnat the board had
decided to equip three padded cells in
one wing of the Jail COR insane male pa
tients, held prior to commitment to the
State Hospital for the Insane There
will be three similar cells built in the
abandoned power house near the Jail
which will be made into a cell house for
women prisoners.
The commissioners plan to give the
insane patients the needed medical and
nursing attention
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
Accident Victims
Sue for Damages

Judgment of $1,000 was asked today in
Superior Court, room 5, by Ella Welborn
Bader against William D. Kautsky for
injuries said to have been received when
she was struck by an automobile driven
by the defendant on Jan. 80, 1921.
Peter Russ In Superior Court room 3,
asked for the foreclosure Of a mortgage.
which was given as security on a loan of
$1,000. Nicholas Presecan is named as
defendant
Damages of $4,000 is asked in suit
filed in Superior Court, room 1, by Grace
Bottoms against George NJ. Baldwin and
r. Wesley doing business under the
firm name of the Baldwin Trucking Com
pany, growing out of an accident on May
"a, 1920.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
Asks S21O for Hog

Damages Of 500 was asked today in
suit filed in Superior Court, Room ?, by
Austin II. Sheets. raiser Of fine hogs Of
near Broad Ripple, because OF the loss
Of q valuable hog. The action was d-
rected against the American Railway Ex-
press Company.
Mr. Sheets claims that the hog was
shipped from Columbia, Miss, and that
he was not notified when the hog arrived
last August at Broad Ripple. He claims
1t was placed In a warm room and died.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
Dame Nature Plus
Yeast Cake Equals
Melon With Kick

BURLINGTON, Cole, April G.
Dame Nature turned bootlegger today.
Y. H. Chandler, watermelon grower,
who has made hundreds Of expert
ments with melons, today claimed he
had discovered a process to turn
watermelons into natural stills.
His process follows:
Plug the young melon and put a
cake Of specially prepared yeast in it.
Put plug back in and wax it.
Wait until the melon grows up.
Then shake well before drinking.
Several business men here have con-
tracted for an acre each of melons
with a 10 per cent kick in them at 81
each.
The Burlington Melon Growers As
sociation, and every one with a back
yard, is testing Chandler's process.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
KILLS SELF ON
WAY TO JAIL
Minister Ends Life After Ad.
mitting Implication in
Daughters Death.

MARIETTA. Ohio, April 6-The Rev.
]. II. Mindling, 40, minister CT the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Water
ford, near here, committed suicide in the
courthouse at noon today. He had just
stepped out of the courtroom, where an
inquest was being held on the death Of
his daughter Miss Elizabeth Mindling.
10, where he had confessed that he had
performed n criminal operation that re-
suited In her death last Thursday.
Sheriff Roberts had started for the
Jail with Mindlng, but left him alone
for a few minutes. When he returned
he found the minister lying on the floor
breathing his last.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
PEONS CRY FOR
MERCY, BUT GET
RIVER GRAVES
Negro AccOmplice in Death
Farm Case Recites Weird
Details to Jury.
MODERN LEGREES TRIAL

COURTHOUSE CONVICTION, Ga,
April 6.-"The boys begged mighty
hard, but Mr.. John said throw them
in the river.
"Me and Charley Chisholm pitched
them over the bridge"
This statement was made today by
Clyde Manning, negro, to the jury
in the case of John S. Williamson
rial for the murder of eleven negroes
killed on and near his Jasper county
farm
Manning said "the boys" he and CHS
holm drowned. were Lindsey Peterson,
Willie Preston and Harry Price, peon
farm hands on Williams plantation.
Chisholm later was killed to keep him
from talking, 1t is alleged
BOSS. l don recollec' the exact date"
said Manning. But 1t was on a Satur-
day night late in February or early In
March
SAYS WILLIAMS
DROVE TO RIVER.
Peterson and Preston were tied to
gether and thrown in the Yellow River.
They begged awfully hard, but we
had to throw them in the water.
Price was drowned in the South
River"
"Mr williams drove us to the river in
his automobile.
"The three boys were killed the next
week after Government agents had
talked to us about peonage conditions
Attorney William Howard, special
prosecutor, asked Manning where Price
mo DIT. tfq
being drowned.
In the car"
Here Greene F. Johnson. country law
yer" chief counsel for Williams, moved
that Manning's testimony regarding
Prices death be stricken from the record.
The jury retired while the point was
argued.
Judge John r. Hutchinson, presiding,
oyerruled the motion.
Resumiug the stand after lunch, Man
ming continued his story.
1--WE took Price IN the car to the South
River. about a mile and half away.
He begged VS. not to throw him in
the river, saying he would jump in him
self.
SACK OF ROCKS
HUNG on NECK.
Price had a sack of rocks tied around
his neck.
Il helped him climb on the bridge
railing
He said, Lordy. have mercy on my
soul as he jumped into the water.
Mr.. John drove the car from Aliens
bridge to the South River"
Manning said Williams told the three
negroes ne was taking them TO the sta
tion when they started ou the "Ie1th
ride
Manning knew, he said two or three
days I'm advance that the three negroes
were TO be killed / told Mr.. John ]
didn't want 20 Kill them.
He told me it was either my life or
theirs.
Il knew he meant It and helped him
kin them
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
CHICAGO PLANS
RUM ROUNDUP
Forged Withdrawal Permits
Basis of Operations of
$10,000,00O Ring.

CHICAGO, April 6.-Federal prohibit
tion agents here today are on the trail
Of a 100000 rum ring, which they al
lege has been revealed through confes-
sions Of men under arrest. Politicians,
liquor dealers and capitalists are said
to be involved
According to Government agents the
ring operated exclusively through stolen
or forged permits for withdrawal OF
liquor from Government warehouses.
Three men arrested in connection with
the ring are Walter A Sadler, New York
stock broker; Jack Covello. an actor
and James Shea, a private detective of
New York.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
Held in Auto Theft
at New Palestine

Lester Hutchlson, 81, of New Palestine.
alias Clifford McCampbel of Shelbyville,
was arrested here today by Detectives
Trick and Giles in the CITY Auto Parts
and Tire Company. 519 North Illinois
street and is charged with being a fugi-
tive from justice and a vagrant
The detectives say Hutchison Is
wanted" In New Palestine by the pO-
lice on a charge Of vehicle taking They
also say HutchisOn stole a machine be
longing to Virgil r. wilkins of New Pal
estine out Of the garage on Aprily 5.
Hutchison said he had just sold the ma
chine to the Auto Parts Company for
$500 when he was arrested
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
MCRAY TAKES CUE
FROM GOODRICH AND
PARDONS BLEIWEISS
Injuring Another Goes Free With
out Serving Day.
HIGH COURT CONFIRMED SENTENCE


virtually decision of Indiana
using the the
day Jail of Bletwe
and battery which injured another died
Beiwes
failure
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
CHURCH MUST >
MAKE GOOD TO
ROUT UNBELIEF
Religion Stands or Falls by
What 1t Does for Other Eel
low, Gipsy Says.

Before the church and the church peo-
pie of the world can convince the un-
believing that they are fulfilling their
mission, II is necessary FOR them to pro
Guce evidence to that effect Gypsy Smith
said today, speaking before an audience
that packed Keiths Theater.
The people In the olden days called on
Jesus TO produce His evidence, he said.
and He did it In the presentation of the
lame man who was cured, of the blind
man to whom He restored sight, and in
His preaching to the poor.
The world is saying, You say you
are the people of the Church of Cod
Where's your evidence? What's your
answer.
Religion stands or falls by what it
is doing for the other fellow. We must
be ready to produce evidence that we
are what we say we are. Your healed
man must be produced. If you can't pro-
duce him, your religion doesn't amount
to much.
GET OFF Stills
AND ON YOUR KNEES"
The work of God is manifest today.
The poor are hearing the reading of the
gospel. When you go to church ten min
utes late and find some poor persons sit
ting in your pew, do you stand in the
aisle and sing the praises of God, or do
you say to the usher, Don't you know
that's my pew?' There are some places
where the poor are not wanted in church.
You'll have to get off your stills and
get on your knees as a poor sinner. Does
it make you angry to think that you have
to get down on your knees before God?
Its the only way"
The evangelist, following the theater
meeting, was taken to the Hotel Severin,
where he spoke before the luncheon meet
ing of the Hiwanis Club. He was given
(Continued on Page TwO.)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
BATTLESHIP AND
TANKER COLLIDE
Smaller Vessel Reported in
Danger of Sinking.

CAMDEN. y. J., April 6-The L. ).
Battleship Connecticut and the tank
steamer s. c. Folger, from Port Arthur,
Texas. collided off Point Breeze. four
miles south of here at noon today. The
Connecticut was steaming up the Della
ware River, when the tide caused the
moorings of the S. c. FOlger to break.
The Connecticut was not badly dam
aged but 0 calls said the Folger
was in danger OF sinking and aid was
rushed at once The crew of the tanker
is in no danger.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-06
Marshall to Accept
Memorial Board Place

LOCKHART. Texas, April G.-Former
Vice President Thomas A. Marshall. here
on speaking our, today announced he
VIII accept the appointment rendered
him by President Harding to the va
cancy on the board Of trustees of the
Lincoln Memorial, caused by the death
Of Champ Clark