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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
Mystery Ship Theory Exploded; Believe
Men Mutinied, Put Off in Storm, Drowned

where the Deering was wrecked. Ac-
cording to Ray, the note was IN a
bottle, which evidently had been
washed ashore. II was the note.
which ultimately reached the hands of
Captain WormelIs daughter, that
started the investigation and the
stories that a pirate raider was oper-
ating Ia the Atlantic or the coast Of
the United States.
Mr.. Richey interviewed Ray and
finally forced the latter to acknowl-
edge he wrote the note himself The
confession was made to the Govern
ment investigator after the hand
writing Of letters Ray had sent to
the customs officials at Norfolk.
Va, had been compared by experts
with tho handwriting Of the note.
Ray first maintained he telieved the
note had been written by fishermen
and planted" In the bottle so he
would ind it. BE explained that
fishermen In the vicinity Of Diamond
Shoals were dissatisfied with the work
Of the Coast Guard in that section
and wanted to put the coast guards
men in a bad light Ray himself, It
developed later had had an alterca-
tion with the lighthouse officials,
after he had failed to get a job
with the lighthouse service.
According to Mr.. Rlchey, who
made an inspection of the bottle IN
which the note was alleged to have
been found, the container was a pint
affair, and It appears doubtful if the
note could have been extracted with
out breaking the bottle.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
HOLY SEE IN SYMPATHY,
NOT TO TAKE PART

WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.-AlthOugh the
Pope is in accord with President Hard
ings attitude on disarmament there will
be no attempt at papal participation in
the coming disarmament conference. ac-
cording to a signed statement by Mon
signor EnricO Pucci, from Rome, pub
lished here today by the National Catho-
lie Welfare Council News Service.
After outlining a previous expression on
disarmament by the Pope during the war,
Monsignor Pucci stated. after four
years the Holy Sees opinion is un-
changed"
"A hope is therefore fostered." the
statement continued, that the papal con-
siderations may pervade the conference
proposed by President Harding.
The Holy See will maintain In the fu-
ture its past and present moral attitude,
but it will do no more and it viii take no
active part in the conference proposed by
President Harding. 1t had been asserted
that His Holiness would publish a docu-
ment about the conference. This is not
true. Unless new events occur to change
the situation, His Holiness has no inten-
tion Of publishing anything further about
disarmament"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26

HULL, England. Aug GA 100-ton
floating admiralty crane arrived here to-
day to attempt to lift the wrecked body
Of the dirslble ZR , at low tide. The
wreckage was so deeply imbedded in the
mud and sand at the bottom Of the
Humber River that little hope was en-
tertained that 1t could be salyaged. Only
three more bodies have been recovered
and hope was fast dwindling that many
OF the thirty eight missing British and
American air sailors would ever be
found.
one CT the recovered bodies was that OF
Alfred L. Loftin Of Lake Charles. Iowa,
one Of the sixteen Americans who per
ished. The other two were the remains
Of British air sailors.
Police and British navy men patrolled
the Humber about the scene Of the III
fated ZR2 all night long A consider
able amount Of debris was found some
distance from the main body Of the
wreck.
Divers reported that the metal parts
Of the airship were almost completely
covered with silt, which had been washed
up over It BY the strong tide. The
bodies that are believed TO be under
meath the wreckage are now buried many
feet under mud and sand.
Commander Dyer, an expert on aero
nautical construction. mas been named
to represent the ns1y at the inyestiga-
ton.
The board or inquiry win not sit until
there has b"en q complete examinstioD
gf the wrecksge.
The inquest WIS scheduled to begin to-
day. but Coroner Adam Jackson said that
it would not be colnplcted for some time
The authorities desire to exhaust every
effort for the recovery OF more bodies
Continued on Page Two)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
LLOYD GEORGE
.PAVES WAY TO
MORE PARLEYS
Admits of Discussion of Irish
Peace, but Demands Ad-
mission of Sovereignty.
TO SPEED SETTLEMENT
Ireland Reflects De Valera
President - Says Nation
Would Defend Itself.

LONDON, Aug. 26-Further peace
negotiations between Britain and
Ireland will be futile unless some
definite progress is made toward ac-
ceptance of a basis of settlement,
Premier Lloyd George declared to-
day in a communication to Eamonn
De Valera.
Lloyd George, replying to the Sim
Fein refusal to accept the British
peace terms, declared he was pro-
foundly disappointed that Ireland
failed to recognize the Government
had gone to the limit in its offer.
The premier said he considered the Bri-
tisE proposals completely fulfilled the
wish Of the Irish people for Government
with consent Of the governed. which he
said should be the broad guiding prin-
ciple Of the settlement.
Iloyc Georges reply was forwarded
after the British cabinet meeting at
Downing street, had thoroughly gone over
the Sim Fein refusal.
COMPANION WITH
BELGIUM NOT FAIR.
lie pointed out that no British govern
ment could ever accept the Sim Fein ar
gument that relations between ireland
and the British Empire We're comparable
with those Of Holland and Belgium with
Germany.
The government, he said. will discuss
no settlement which involves IreIand's re
fusal to accept free and equal partnes-
ship Of ireland and British within the
empire. under one sovereign.
He insisted it was essential that some
definite and immediate progress be made
toward a basis Of settlement. Further
negotiations. he declared, cannot be pro
louged by a mere exchange Of notes.
The amazing swiftness with which the
British cabinet made reply TO the Sim
Fe!u astonished London.
The Sim Fein communication had re
jected the English peace offer. hut OF
Continued on Page Fifteen.)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
GIVE DEFENSE
OF ELECTRICAL.
MERGER PLAN.
Attorneys Say Proposed Deal
Capitalization Not
Excessive.
INDIANAPOLIS OBJECTS
Claim They Do Not Wish
Order That Will Affect
Rates.

Declaring the proposed Indiana
Electric Corporation, which is to-
combine seven large utilities in In
diana for the purpose Of supplying
electrical energy from a central
power station in the coal fields, does
not desire that any order shall be
made which will in any way affect
rates and that the amount of secur-i
tiles proposed for the corporation Is
not in excess of a legitimate amount,
attorneys for the company, before.
the public service commission, to.
day opened their defense against op-
position based on the grounds the
project is to be overcapitalized.
The hearing before the commission was
for the purpose Of attempting to obtain
the commissioners consent to the pur-
chase of property by the utilities and to
the issuance Of over SO, ,000, 900 in securi-
ties. The companies are the Merchants
Heat and Light Company, indianapolis;
the Indiana Railways and Light Com
pany, Kokomo; the EIkhart Gas and Fuel
Company, Elkhart; the Valparaiso Light
ing Company, Valparaiso; the Wabash
Electric Company, Clinton; the Putnam
Electric Company, Greencastle, and the
Cayuga Electric Company, Cayuga.
The hearing opened with statement by
J. W. Fesler, attorney for the company,
who pointed out the question Of rates is
not involved and the project is not a
merger. but a purchase and sale. He ex-
planned the plan Of physical operation
briefly.
He was followed by Samuel Ashby,
Indianapolis, corporation counsel, who
filed objections in behalf Of the city. In
this objection he declared the proposed
capitalization is far in excess of the ac-
tual value Of the property. He pointed
out also a valuation Of the property OF
the Merchants Company is now going on
and the city has no information as to
the value Of the other utilities involved
In a fourth paragraph he objected to the
Continued on Page TwO.l
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
WASHINGTON TO
MAKE INQUIRY

WASHINGTON. Aug. 26-A complete
inquiry into charges now being made
that experts had declared the giant
dir!gible ZR-o unsafe before it ever took
the air VIII be conducted by the Navy
Department in conjunction with the
British Air Ministry, Admiral Moffett,
head Of the naval aviation said today.
The monetary losses incurred by the
explosion OF the dlrtgible ZR-2 Will be
borne jointly by the United States and
Great Britain, the Navy Department an
uOunCed.
The Navy Department disclosed that
it was under an agreement with rreat
Britain. that in the event Of total loss
Of this aIrship while under construc-
tom or during trials, the two govern
ments would jointly bear the loss on an
equal basis"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
ZR-2 Girders Broken in
'19, Never Replaced, Says
Navy Man; Matter flushed
People in Bedford Said
Ship Would Not
Cross Atlantic.

NEW YORK. Aug 28.-Girders Of the
ZR-2 snapped when the dirigible first was
inflated and were never properly re
placed. Frank II. Corey, former chief ma
chinist's mate United States Navy, and
one Of the original crew Of the airship
declared in a sworn copyrighted state
ment published in the New York Daily
Times today.
Corey alleged twelve girders out OF
twenty-five broke. This was at Bedford
while the ship was under construction in
1919. The broken parts were merely
spliced, he said
I'VE were told and cautioned often to
be quite, and left lots OF things go by,
the statement said.
Going 10 the movies or any stores
where we would speak TO the people in
Bedford they would say to US:
The Yankees never viii get the ship
home"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
TAKE SUSPECTS
IN MURDER TO
REFORMATORY
Fear of Mob Violence at Sey-
m0ur Leads to Action
Farmer Killed.
Special TO The Times

SEYMOUR. Ind, Aug. 26.|nvestiga-
ton of the Amazona Montgomery muir
der centered today around Bess Brooks
and his three sons, who were rushed to
the State reformatory at Jeffersonyille
last night as threats of mob action
spread.
Private detectives and county and city
authorities were trying to fasten the
crime on Brooks and his sons follow
ing the finding of Montgomery's body IN
a thicket a mile and a half north of the
Montgomery farm late yesterday. Al
though there were other wounds on the
body. it is believed he died from the
blow of a heavy instrument which
crushed his skull. Near by lay the body
Of a dog which always had followed
Montgomery wherever he went. The dog
had been killed, authorities believe, to
prevent it from giving a clew toward
clearing up the mystery.
Brooks and his sons were taken into
custody shortly before the body was
found. They had been freed on $1,000
bond each. although they faced charges
IF stealing $50 chickens from Mont
gomery. The charges were preferred by
the victim and caused i'll feeling. When
the men were picked up again by the
sheriff their bonds were raised to 5000
each which they could not furnish. In.
this way they are held pending further
probe of the murder.
1t is believed Montgomery was at
tackled at his farm Just as he was start-
ing TO feed the chickens. His keys were
found in the lock of the chicken house
and none CT his other chores was done
Another thing TO strengthen this theory
Is that the grass where his body vas
found was not trampled down to indi-
cate a struggle. 1t is presumed mis- as
sailants leaped from their hiding place
as he started to open the door Of tho
chicken house and struck him the blow
which resulted in death.
An inquest was to start this afternoon
to determine the exact cause of the death
of Montgomery. Immediate relatives of
the Brooks family were summoned as
first witness. Among them were the
wives Of three of the men under arrest
Montgomery was to be buried following
the inquest The widow, his mother
who is seriously i'll, and two brothers,
Otto, of Indianapolis and ]. L. Moas-
gomery of Seymour, survive.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
Fair Official Says
City Has POWeTS
TO Halt Fly Pest

william Jones, member of the
State Board of Agriculture. in COM
menting on the much discussed fly
nuisance that attends every State fair,
declared the sanitary officers of the
city have ample power TO enforce
sanitary regulations among the con-
cessiOns.
THE State Fair Association pro-
vldes steel garbage cans for every con
eessiOn," said Mr.. Jones, "and they
are gathered up two or three times
day by teams supplied by us. They
are then turned over to the city for
disposal in its garbage plant.
'sEvery contract with q concession
aIre has clause providing it may be
revoked II ths premises are not kept
absolutely clean. They all are sub
Ject to the orders of the sanitary OIL
GERS"
Mr.. Jones admitted 1--we stock is
bound to attract fies. but asserted
the fair ground authorities would do
all ia their power to abate a nuisance
that has been inflicted annually on
residents OF the north side.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
UNION CHIEFS
TELL MINERS
TOTURN BACK
Vanguard of Army Inter
cepted as They Enter
Madison, w. Va.
FACE CERTAIN DEATH
Also Threat of FOrcibIe Stop
by Regular Troops
Meeting Set.

MADISON. w, Va, Aug. 26-The
vanguard of the miners army" 250
strong, reached Madison early this
afternoon and proceeded to march
through the town. Just then C. f.
Keeney, president, and Fred Mooney
secretary of District IT, United Mine
Workers, dashed up and overlook
the men. Kenney hurriedly ex-
planned the men must end the march
at once or face slaughter at Logan.
He also told them they would have
to face United States regulars If they
did not. The outposts turned back
and are awaiting the main army, p"
which is expected momentarily.
A meeting was scheduled this afternoon
at the town ball park, where Keeuey was
to tell the army # must disband forth
with. Indications are Reeuey's advice
will be needed The miners who have
reached here are orderly and no trouble
has been reported.
CENSORSHIP OK REPORT
or BATTLE WITH MINERS.
All efforts to confirm reports Of 4 gun
battle at Blair, said to have been par
ticipated in by 80 deputy sherlTs and
a large force Of armed miners, have
failed
Sheriff Don Chain, whose deputies are
said to have been parties 20 the battle
has established q warl.ke censorship and
In response to all requests for informa-
ton simply says: We are not giving
out anytbaR."
Signs - activity were reported at the
encampme2. Of miners at Indian Creek,
near Racine. IN Boone County Watch
ers said all Indications pointed 20 the
probability that tho marchors were about
to break camp and resume their march
20 Mingo County.
The armed miners who left Marmet
twelve miles east OF here yesterday had
been encamped on Lens Greek for a week
adn had gathered with the av0wed pur-
pose OF marching to Mingo County and
ending the reign Of martial law en-
forced by Governor E. +. Morgan.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
Treaty Boiled DOUn

Germany recognizes all rights
claimed by United States in Knox
peace resolution.
Germany agrees to all stipulations
In the treaty Of Versailles in which
the United States Is Interested.
The United States Is not bound by
the League Of Nations covenant and
assumes no obligations under clauses
of the Versailles treaty relating TO
Shantung, German boundaries, strict
aly European matters and international
labor provisions,
Tbs United States is put on an
equal footing with all nations In
benefting by rights and advantages
stipulated In Versailles treaty.
The United States is entitled to
participate in meetings of the repara-
tions and other commits sions, If 1t de-
sires.
The treaty omits reference to Ger
man responsibility for the war, or
trial of war criminals, ineluding the
former Kaiser.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
Confer Saturday on
Release of Gene Debs

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26-President
Harding and Attorney General Daugherty
at a conference Saturday will discuss
the release from prison Of Eugene V.
Debs. Socialist leader, 1t was learned at
the Department Of Justice today.
It Is understood the main question to
be determined is whether the action the
Administration plans to take on the re
quest should be announced or delayed
until formal ratification of the German
peace treaty.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
Knowledge of Why We
Arm Real Value of the
Disarmament SeS sion

war There will not be tun frankness
in dealing with the thoughts that are
now Rctuating the various nations un-
less there be a very large degree Of open
discussion, open voting. There must, of
course. be frequent executive sessions.
Committee work must, in the nature of
things. be carried on for the most part
behind closed doors for it is work OF
preparation, sitting, classifying, expedit
ing business. But the great business Of
presenting and meeting the reasons for
ornaments now in the minds Of the ma
tiOns concerned should be carried on in
the open If we are to get real and per
manent results-Copyright 1921, by In
ternational News Service
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
BY IDA NJ. TARBELL.

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-Even II the pro-
posed disarmament conference should dis
band leaving things as they are 1t would
be worth holding. The failure would
compel explanations. We would know
better why we arm at all. There is
nothing more nebulous on earth now than
the reasons given for the United States
spending hundreds of millions a year for
an Army and Navy. If we get nothing
more out of the disarmament conference
than materials for making clear and
trustworthy summary and classification
Of the reasons for this expenditure, we
shall have made a substantial gain. We
shall then know how large a part of the
argument for armaments is based on su-
perstition, tradition, fear, greed-how
small or wise foresight providing against
real dangers
BENEFIT 70 COME
FROM CARDS ON TABLE.
If the disarmament conference succeeds
in bringing about any degree of limitation
it will be because each of the nations in
terested frankly and publicly puts all
its cards on the table, analyses It's fears
and suspicious and explains any desiref
it may have to expand. If each nation
comes to the conference with an honest
intention to demonstrate clearly to its
conferees the soundness of what is in its
mind and with Willingness to abandon
its position, II convinced that its fears are
groundless or fits desires dangerous to
the peace of the world, we shall certainly
see substantial disarmament.
To cut armaments and leave the rea-
sons that now are keeping nations in
arms indefinite and undisturbed is small
insurance against war, for ornaments
are the tools and not, to any appreciable
degree, the causes Of wars.
OPEN DISCUSSION
TO BRING FRANKNESS.
Moreover, they are tools easily ex-
temporized. Witness the experience of
England, Of France and particularly Of
the United States, in the recent great
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
Sen. France Advises
Russian Relations

NEW YORK. Aug 28.-The United
states should establish diplomatic rela-
lions with soviet Russia at once, Senator
Joseph /. France of Maryland, declared
today upon his return from several
weeks visit in that country.
Returning with France on the liner
Rotterdam was Mrs. Margaret +. Harri-
son, correspondent Of the Baltimore
Evening Sun, who was Imprisoned in
Russia for ten months
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
Lucy ResignsI

CHICAGO, Aug 25.-Miss Lucy Page
CASTOR today rendered her resignation as
the head of the Anti Cigarette League, an
organization lighting for the adjustment
of cigarettes
''The work of the organization can now
go forward unhampered by individual In
fiuences and leave Miss CASTOR free 70
carry out her moro drastic and pro
hibitory methods" said the board of di-
rector in announcing the resignation.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
DIR. ERZBERGER
REPORTED SLAIN
Long Conspicuous in German
Politics.

LONDON, Aug. e6-Dr. Matthias Err
berger, a member Of the German Reich
stag and former minister Of finance In the
German cabinet has been murdered, said
a press despatch from Berlin this after
noon DR.. Erzberger was long a leader
Of the Centum or clerical party.
DR. Erzberger was murdered at Baden,
the dispatch said. and added that only
ueager details had been received regard
ing the assassination. Twelve bullets
were fred into Erzberger's body.
DR.. Erzberger long was a conspicuous
hgure in German nationsl politics. He in
trodueed the famous peace resolution in
the German Reichstsg in July, 1917,
which split that body into two camps. He
was a member OF The German commission
which signed the armistice, Nov. II. 1918
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
DOUBT EXAMINATION
CAN BE MADE

HULL, England, Aug. o6.-Maj. T. E.
Van Nostrand, OF the United States Army
air forces. following careful inspection Of
the wreckage, has begun compiling a
formal report for the American Navy.
The inability to raise and inspect the
body Of the ZR-2 pro5aly has ended all
hope Of learning the exact nature OF the
structural weakness which is believed TO
have caused the disaster said Major
Van Nostrand-
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
Dry Leaders Not
Concerned iy1 the
Fight on Tobacco
,faI to Indiana Daily Times

Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
SHIN G 7 0 \, Aug. 26.-An-
nouncement by the national committee
of the Womens Christian Temperance
Union pledging itself to continue its
fight against tobacco as one Of the
seventeen reasons for stricter enforce
ment of the Volstead act, led leading
drys here to reaffirm their decision to
conhne activities strictly to prohibit
ton. Although allied with the W. c.
T. T., in the fight for prohibition, the
Anti Saloon League of America, Wayne
B. Wheeler, general counsel. declared,
was in no way connected with the fight
against tobacco.
II don't see the connection between
the enforcement of the Volstead act
and the Sc of tobacco" the high
priest of Volsteadism said. Our or
ganixation Is not taking any hand IN
the campaign against tobacco. Copy
right, 1921, by Public Ledger Co.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
WASHINGTON
TO GIVE WORD

wAsHINGTON.h .h,Aug 2g-No troops
will be sent 10 West Virginia uutil or
ders have been given from Washington,
1t was announced at the War Depart
ment today.
Officials could not account for reports
that troops had left the Columbus lOhio)
Continued on Page TwoD
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
Armed Bandits Stick
Up Los Angeles Bank

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 26-Five
heavily armed bandits today held up the
Huntington Park branch of the Los An
Eeles Trust and Savings Bank, in South
Pacific boulevard
Reports at the sherins Office stated the
bandits escaped In an automobile with
all Of the banks funds, amounting TO
approximately $50, 600
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-26
DIRIGIBLE is so
DEEPLY BURIED
FEW DEAD FOUND
Hundred Ton Crane Will
Make Effort to Lift
Wrecked DirigibIe.
TO MAKE FULL INQUIRY
HOcsier, Who GaUe
Life in ZR-2 Crash,
in Disaster in 1919

ANDERSON, Aug 26-William j.
Steele. the only InIiana man lost in
the ZR-2 disaster over Huh, England,
was absolutely fearless and eagerly
awaited the trip in the dirigible. ac-
cording 10 his sister Mrs. Z. o. Mod
I'm of this city. Steele. she said,
was in another sea disaster in De-
cember, 1919, when 4 seaplane came
down on an island near New York
City and the crew Of the plane was
stranded for three days. Steele lived
in Bainbridge, Putnam County.