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The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-11-17

whim, in neglect of my lawful spouse,
but my bank reserve is becoming
slim, with affinities in my house ..
But, what can | do, or what shall |
say? hate to admit I'm stuck. g.
| amt no hand to poster around an
swear at my blasted luck.
If Old King Coal is a merry old
soul, reckon Id ort to be. I'll
try to augment the vanishing roll that
lays between him and me. The
sooty vamp that warns my camp, is
calling me to her lair,-l must HE
foot of the kitchen Stairl
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
Americans Draw Terms
in German Prisons for
Trying to Nab Bergdoll

MOSBACH. Germany, March 23.-Two
American detectives connected with the
United States military forces were SEN
fenced today to serve terms in a German
prison.
They were convicted In German court
on the evidence Of German witnesses Of
attempting to kidnap Grover Cleveland
BergdOll, American Stacker.
Carl Neaf and Franz Zimmer the de-
tectives, were charged with illegally as
suming the power Of police officers. Neaf
was sentenced to fifteen months impris-
onment on the additional charge that he
shot and wounded a German girl in
Bergdoll's car. thinner received a SEN
tence of six months The men were de-
Tended by lawyers hired by the American
Legion.
BergdOn himself was a witness. He
told halting story and so clearly con-
tradicted himself that the presiding judge
finally warned him of the strictness Of
the German perjury laws.
While the American daft dodger was
on the stand the hostility of the crowd
toward the two detectives was shown by
its remarks.
'SchweinhundeD, and other character
istic remarks were heard.
a policeman who called one of the de
fense lawyers "a dirty dog" was mildly
rebuked by the judge.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
PENN RAILWAY
GIVES NOTICE
OF WAGE CUT
General Managers and En-
ployes to Decide Upon Re-
ductiOns, Is Plan.
CONCILIATORY, BUT FIRM

CHICAGO, March 23.-Employes Of the
PENNSYLVANIA lines today were served no.
tice that their wages must be slashed.
While W. w Atterbury, vice president
of the Pennsylvania, was urging before
the United States Railroad Labor Board
that national shop agreements be abro-
gated, President Samuel Rea served the
wage cut ultimatum on employees.
Rea's notice was conciliatory in tone
but expressed determination Of the com
pany to cut wages. No percentage Of
decrease was named.
The notice said that 70 cents out Of
every dollar taken in by the road was
paid out in wages, which created deficit
when other expenses were met.
1t is expected that other roads Will
follow the leadership Of the Pennsyl.
vania.
Railroad unionists were not yet pre-
pared to state what action they viii take.
Employees, however, are confronted with
this situation:
The United States Railroad Labor
Board which was established during the
war to arbitrate differences between rail
management aud employees, is powerless
to prevent wage reductions because the
law creating the board has no teeth in
IT, All the board can do, according to the
transportation act, is to make public its
findings"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23

An army Of job hunters, friends of
fob hunters and wCuld-be executive ad-
visers without a single cuspidor. That
Is condition that exists at the State
bouse as direct result Of suffrage.
when Governor Warren I. McCray
manned" his office with women, the
cuspfdors in the big waiting room DIS
aDpeared. Now the Governors waiting
room is filed with job hunters, friends
Of lob hunters and would-be advisers.
There is an abundance of thick black
cigars. long lean stOgies, scattering Of
cigarettes and some "eating tobacco"
The air is blue with smoke curling up
ward to the high ceiling but, is noted
before, there is NOT a cuspidor in the
place. Ashes are dropped indiscriminate-
Iv on the thick, soft carpet. Occasion
ally the situation becomes Unbearable
and some job hunter or friend Of a job
hunter or would-be adviser is faced with
the necessity either disposing Of his chew
or Of swallowing it or of disposing of a
particularly soggy butt"
PROTECTS PRIORITY BY
HOLDING DOOR KNOB.
1t Is then that the outer door of the
waiting room, leading to the lobby Of
the building, opens and a masculine form
partly emerges. While holding the door
knob with one hand, SO that nobody
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
Army of Job Hunters, Not
One CuspidOr, Found in
Governors Outer Room

can get in ahead of him, he expectorate,
or throws the chew or butt as the case
may be, In the general direction of n
cuspidOr and then disappears to con
tinue waiting his turn.
Crowds around the executive chambers
are growing thicker and thicker. There
is a regular process which must be gone
through First, the person who desires
admission must gain entrance at the
outer door, past Louis, the Governor S
messenger. Once inside he sits down,
if he is lucky enough to find an empty
chair, and he waits and waits and waits.
If he is an ordinary individual he proba-
bly, waits Indefinitely, or until he becomes
exhausted and gives it up. If he has a
particularly pleasing political record, or
if he is a person of prominence, or If
he knew the Governor when he was a
mere raiser of live stock. or if he is just
naturally lucky. he may succeed in gain
ing admission through another door TO
the office of Miss Adah Bush, the Gov
ernOr's secretary.
WAITING TINE
UNCERTAIN.
How long ne Is compelled to wait there
is uncertain for the ordinary observer is
unable to penetrate that far. If he is
especially lucky, the job hunter, or
friend Of job hunter. or would-be ad-
Continued on Page TwO.)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
WOMAN TO FACE
CHARGES HERE
Accused of EmbeZZlement in
Handling Stock Funds.

Pretty. clever and a wearer Of fashion
able clothing, woman some months ago
obtained a position to sell stock IN the
American Mortgage Company, bankers,
202 State Savings and Trust building.
She came to that company highly recon
merded a S a saleswoman.
Today Detective George +. Stewart left
indianapolis for Gary to bring back the
woman, who ia Miss Neva Welty, 26,
charged with embezzlement of $500 by the
mortgage company. The arrest was made
on q warrant sworn to by the treasurer
Of the company, Charles A. Butler. The
arrest was the climax of a pursuit that
led to Kansas City and Chicago and
ended in Gary.
Miss Welty's parents live at Young
America When in this city she was the
guest at some Of the most fashionable
hotels. She was employed, according to
Mr. Butler, by a man who had a con
tract to sell the stock for the mortgage
company and she sold the stock in varl-
ous Indiana cities However. she is al
.aged to have collected $500 from a man
Mt Dayton, Ohio, to whom she sold stock
and this money. the affidavit charges,
was never turned over to the company.
That was in October.
Later Mr.. Butler says he learned that
many Of the fashionable gowns worn
were not paid for and the company from
which they were obtained Is said to
have attached the wOmans baggage She
obtained the baggage but used the money
collected for the stock in paying for the
fashionable clothing, it is said. Then
she disappeared and the detectives started
the search that ended with her arrest
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
OLDER WOMAN
FINDS BODY IN
DRESSING ROOM
Bankers Wife III Recently,
but Apparently Had Re-
covered.
HUSBAND IN CHICAGO
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
DR.. Paul F. Robinson, Marion Coun-
ty coroner, announced this afternoon
that he would return verdict Of
double suicide in the deaths of Mrs.
Stoughton A. Fletcher and her
mother, Mrs. Eva L. HanIey.
He said that his theory was that
Mrs. Fletcher, weakened by a long
illness, drank prussic acid from a
glass and that when her mother dis
covered the body, she also swallowed
some of the same poison.
Mrs. Stoughton A. Fletcher, wife
of the president of the Fletcher
American National Bank, died sud
! denly at $3.50 o'clock this morning,
and about one hour later her mother,
Mrs. Eva L. Henley, who had found
the body Of her daughter, succumbed
as result, it is believed, of the
shock.
Mrs. Fletcher had been i'll for sew
eral weeks, but had apparently re-
covered several days ago.
Her body was found in her dressing
room, at the Fletcher home, known as
Laurel Hall, northeast Of Indianapolis,
near Millersville. by her mother, who
had been making her home there.
CORONER ROBINSON
STARTS INVESTIGATION.
DR.. Paul F. Robinson, county coroner,
started an investigation shortly after
being notified of the death.
Information reaching Elmer w Stout
Of the Fletcher American National Bank
and close business associate of Mr..
Fletcher, was that q verdict Of suicide
might be returned on Mrs. FIetcher's
death.
He said that information from the
Laurel Hall home was to the effect that
prussic acid had been found in the room
in which Mrs. Fletcher died and that the
coroner was proceeding on the theory
that it might have been instrumental In
causing the death.
airs. Fletcher has been in very poor
health for several months" said Mr.
Stout, and in the absence of more
definite Information it is not surprising
that suicide should be advanced as an
explanation OF her death. 1t Is impos-
sible Immediately to say whether the
suicide theory is tenable or not"
DAT GHTER OF LATE
WI LIAM HENLEY.
Before her marriage to Mr.. Fletcher
Mrs. Fletcher was Miss May Henley. She
was the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs VIII
liam Henley. Her father died several
years ago
Mrs. Fletcher leaves two children
StOughton J. Fletcher, Jr., and Louisa
Fletcher, and sister, Mrs. Jaquelin Hol-
fday OF this city.
Mrs. Henley is survived by her daugh-
ter. Mrs Jaquelin Holiday.
Mr.. Fletcher was not at home at the
time Of the tragedy, having gone to Chi
cagO last night on Il business trip. He re-
turned this evening at 8 O'Clock, having
started home Immediately on receiving
word Of his wifes death
Mayor Jewett, a personal friend Of Mr..
and Mrs Fletcher, was notified &c bis
office Of the death Of Mrs. Fletcher, and
Immediately went to the Fletcher home.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
PussyfOOt' Johnson
Going Blind, Report

NEW YORK, March % William
Pussyfoot) Johnson, famous prohibition
worker. is going blind, according to a
statement issued here today by Miss
Anna Gordon. head Of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union. Mr.. Johnson
lost the sight Of one eye when he was
attacked during a dry speech in London
and now he is losing the sight Of the
other eye.
According to Miss Gordon, Mr. John
son is under treatment in a sanitarium
in South Carolina, but specialists hold
out no hope Of saving his sight
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
COURT ADMITS
STATEMENT OF
CARL BERNAUER
Hard Fight Fails to Block
Description to Police of
Eaids Shooting.
DOPED,' PRISONER SAYS

SHELBYVILLE, ind. March 2S.-Ob-
jections Of the defense to introduction Of
statement said to have been made by
Carl Bernauer Of indianapolis, who is
being tried in the Shelby Circuit Court
for the murder Of Samuei Eaids. an In
dianapolis confectioner, We're overruled by
Judge Alonzo Blair and the statement
was submitted to the jury.
The Jurors had been excluded from
the courtroom the greater part Of the
second day of the trial while evidence
on admissibility Of the statement was
heard.
The statement was said to have been
made by Bernauer on Jan 81, 1921. at
the Office OF Lieutenant Fletcher at In
dianapolls, in the presence Of Detectives
Manning and Reynolds. According to
Bernauer, who was placed on the stand.
the statement was obtained from him
under duress and while he was in a
weak physical condition as the result
of receiving doped candy, cigarettes and
cigars.
Ia the statement Bernauer is said to
have admitted going to the store owned
by Eaids on the night Of Oct. %, 1920,
with the intention Of rObbing the place.
He ls quoted as saying Eaids Interrupted
him in the act Of taking money from the
cash drawer that he drew a revolver
and in q scufIle the gun was knocked
from bis hand: that Charles Jones, who
Bernauer Is said to have claimed was
with him on the job entered the place.
picked up the revolver and shot three
times, one OF the bullets striking Eaids-
The statement Is said to have been
read to Jones In the presence Of Ber-
nauer and Jones denied the charges.
maintaining that Bernauer shot the
Syrian storekeeper.
ADMITS VIOLATING
POLICE RULES.
Direct examination Of Detective Man
ming was resumed after the reading of
the statement. During the cross-exami-
nation Ira Holmes. attorney for the de
fendant. introduced book Of rules
adopted by the board Of safety Of In
dlsuapolis for the police department and.
referring 10 page 40. asked Manning
whether he had not violated the rules
there when. IA taking the statement Of
BernGuer. he had told him that all he
said would be brought out at the trial
Manning admitted he had not conf0rmed
TO the rule which says that should a
prisoner desire TO make a confession
the officers are not to coeFce or compel
any statement to be made. Manning
said that Beruauer at that time stated he
Continued on Page Eleyen)
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
TERMS 4
COST ROADS
Atterbury Holds National
Agreements Boost Pay Roll
to Extend of S3OO,00O,OOO.

CHICAGO, March 23.-NationaI agree
ments between railroads and their en-
ployes forced the roads to carry 176,SS2
unnecessary" employees in 1920, W W.
Atterbury, vice president Of the Penn
sylvania railroad. charged before the
United States railroad labor board today.
The roads were forced 10 pay out over
three hundred million dollars last year
on an excess pay roll, due TO the national
agreements, After y claimed.
Bert NJ. Jewell, president of the rail-
road labor department of the American
Federation of Labor, attacked the accu-
racy Of Atterbury's figures. Atterbury
made a formal statement to the board.
in which he quoted Federal statistics 70
show the total railroad pay roll for 1920
was 100000 600.
I'm classes Of employment covered by
the national agreement 1,206, 500 men We're
employed in 1917 he said. In 1GSs
there was an increase Of 229.9GS men,"
Atterbury said the increase was &c
to the eight hour day, decrease in p7ts-
duction per man and increased busins&A
In 1917 the earnings of employees were
$1,O1O.596.751, or $S3761 per man." the
witness continued
In 1920 earnings amounted to S2,444,-
7+S,441, or $1,7O1.20 per man.
Increase in ton miles was A per cent
in 1920 over 1917.
"Assuming that the increase in mum
Der Of employees is directly proportionate
to the Increase in business, which is an
assumption in the employees favor. it
would require 53,QS6 additional men,
leaving 116.SS2 men in excess in 1920 com
pared with 1917. These excess men at
the average earning of S1,701 20 per man
show an excess expenditure of $300911,-
65S. 40.
at is fair to state that in the 81, ,701.20
are many payments due to the agreements
and working conditions like checking in
and out, recla ssifcation of employees and
overtime rates If these payments could
be segregated for the 1.20G,520 employees,
it would greatly increase the $500 COO, 600"
Frank p. Walsh, labor attorney brought
out this statement because of previous
claim by Atterbury that national agree
ments cannot be made economically ap-
plica BILE to all railroads. Walsh pointed
out q rule Of general application is
applied by the railroads themselves. At
terbury's testimony was concluded.
Jewell will make a formal statement
to the board tomorrow in defense Of
the national agreements.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
ORDER CONCRETE
IN FIRE STATIONS
Wooden Floors Too FraiI for
Motor Apparatus.

Wooden floors in nine fire stations will
be replaced with concrete, the board OF
public works announced today. following
receipt Of a request from the board OF
public safety that this be done. The
wooden floors viii not withstand the
weight OF the new motor fire apparatus,
the board Of safety said.
The stations to be reaoored are Nos.
?, 3, 4, 3, G. II, IS. 10 and %. The work
will be done by private contractors. bids
to be received at a date to be announced
later.
Contracts were awarded as follows:
Sidewalks and graded lawns in Dewey
avenue, from Arlington avenue to point
3S5 feet east, Tood & Reid S1S5 per
hneal foot; total. S1,139.6O.
Sidewalks and graded lawns in Berkeley
road, from Boulevard place to Sunset
avenue, Frank Lawson, S3.O5 per Mneal
foot; total, ST,19249.
Sidewalks in Forty Eighth street from
Washington Boulevard to Central avenue.
John Arnold & Company. SL6O per lineaI
foot. total, S1,921O5.
Preliminary orders for two o-cOurse con
crete in the permanent improvement or
the first alley east Of Ruckle street from
Forty y-Sixth to Forty Second street, We're
made
A resolution for a sewer in Rawls
avenue from Audubon road to a point
S415 feet west Of Arlington avenue was
adopted.
Plans for cleanup week, beginning
April 10, will be made at a conference
OF the board with Mayor Charles W.
Jewett, DR.. Herman G. Morgan, secre-
tary of the board Of public health
James H. Lowry, superintendent Of
parks; and representatives of the Boy
Scouts and Junior Chamber of Com
merce, to be held in the mayors Office,
tomorrow afternoon.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23

Some Of you people are so good thar
you should never leave the communion
table and when you get away from 1t
on re so bad you never want TO go back,
Gipsy Smith told his Keith theater audi
ence az the noon meeting today.
I'VE can make big speeches, but are
we leading big lives? Its the life that
tells
Are you seeking to make every mo-
ment Of your life monument to Him 2"
Jesus doesn't want your patronage.
It's your worship. your obedience 20 His
viii that He demands. Are you for Him
I'm your business, I'm your home, in your
social circle 2"
Gypsy Smith made an appeal for that
old certainty Of religion that was evil
dent IN the days OF "our fathers and
mothers" as he expressed It. Good Fri
day to him, he said expressed hope for
the world and religious certainty, and
religious certainty, he said Is certainty
Of relgiou
where Is your certainty ?" he shouted.
USES WORDS OF
CHRIST As TENT.
The evangelist used the words Of Christ,
"Ee that is not with Me IS aaginst Aie. -
for his theme and declared that the
words still hold true.
Christ won't BE brushed aside, ne
gaid aHe's the stone upon which II you
tall. yoa'll be broken But there's mercy
for you. And If IL falls on you, you re
lost"
The ten minute sermon was given by
the Rev. f. r Dawson, pastor OF the
Zion Evangelical Church.
Drink Is stil about and we Chris
tlans should ferret It out said Gipsy
Continued on Page TwoD
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
SH! THE SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS
Receive Accountants Report and File II!

Strict secrecy, barred doors, guard
ed portals, war correspondents
crouching expectantly as close MS
possible to the battlefront, marked the
long heralded secret session Of the
board Of school commissioners last
night, called to consider the report
Of II. A. Roney, public accountant
on the business administration of the
board, Of which George {. Hit is
business director
Minute after minute passed and no
signs of battle issued from behind
the closed doors, the long expected
fight failed to materialize, and after
. forty five minutes the doors opened,
the five members of the board came
out smiling, intact, unruflled, as did
Walter Carpenter, official reporter
and the only outsider permitted in the
room during the meeting. It was an
nounced that the report had been re-
ceived and ordered filed and that the
party was over.
The volcano had turned out to be
nothing more than an imitation fire.
cracker, the bomb only a "dud."
So for the time being the report
reposes in the files of the school
board, and how long 1t Will remain
there before further action is taken
no man knoweth.
1t is generally understood that
what happened is substantially as
follows:
When the meeting opened Mrs.
Julia Belle Tutewiler, president of the
board, read lengthy Communication
from Charles J. Orbison. attorney, Of
Dear Jerry fame, In which he ex-
pressed highest approval of the Roney
report and Of its legal contents,
which had heen largely prepared by
himself.
The stage now being set for battle,
Clarence Il. Crippin moved that the
report be received and filed, AMI Bert
S. Gadd promptly seconded the mo-
ton. The motion was carried with
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
LIFE, NOTTALK,
COUNTS, SAYS
Gypsy SMITH
Appeal for Old-Time Religion
Made by Evangelist at
Noon Meeting.
DRINK EVIL
Home Run DriUeS
by Gipsy Smith

"If Jesus has not come TO your
home, It's because you don't want
Him. If He Is not In your heart it's
because you have not made room for
Him."
"SOme men say there is no devil,
but I've been in town long enough
to know there is lot of devilishness
here"
IF / had my way I'd burn every
distilIery of whisky. 1 would tolerate
no man who fattens of the ruination
of other mems souls"
1T man gets drunk, every fam
lily on the street knows 1t, but
chur chgOer can wreck his home and
mistreat his wife and family, with the
blinds pulled down, and the world
viii he none the wiser"
You cant say sin without his
sing Ike snake"
Most people in this country are
ready to jump or at everything but
the right thing"
IF you want to beat the devil you
have to fight him in the cradle"
You may be pauper spiritually
while you are riding about in an ex-
pensive automobile"
"The concerns of eternity demand
more than i've minutes death-bed at
tention."
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23
Year on State Farm
for Stealing 3 Cows

On a charge of stealing three cows,
Clifford Tate, 10, today was sentenced to
year on the Indiana State Farm by
Judge James a. Collins Of Criminal
Court.
Albert Anderson, charged with bigamy,
was released on his own recOgnizance
after the evidence was heard by the
court. Anderson claimed he had not
heard for years from his first wife and
married his second wife, who is now try
ing TO get a diovrce from him, after he
understood his first wife was dead.
Harry Fritz. charged with assault and
battery. was fined SO and costs.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-23

one dissenting vote, that Of Charles
l.. Barry.
At this point W. D. Allison broke
into the discussion with the ques-
ton:
IF this is what we are going to
do. why was this meeting called at
aIl?"
Mr. Crippln and Mr.. Gadd took the
stand that the members had not had
sufficient time to study the report
carefully, but Mr.. Allison thought
that then was the time to take the
matter up. particularly as all mem
bers Of the board have had before
them the itemized report for fully
two weeks and the supplemental re-
port for some time longer. But Mr..
Crippin and Mr. Gadd are said to
have been very firm in their stand
that the board members needed more
time to study the matter before dis
cussing 1t. Mrs. Tutewiler is said to
have agreed with Messrs. Gadd and
Crippin.
So the board adjourned without
setting any definite time to take .
the report for discussion or actit
and the secret session came to an u
eventful conclusion.
The State board OF accounts may
not approve the expenses incurred by
Mr.. Roney in making the investiga-
tion, it was indicated at the State
house today.
According to Lawrence Orr, a dep
uty examiner of the board of ac-
counts the Indianapolis school board
law, enacted in 1899. provides that
the board shall employ an accountant
to go over It's affairs. According to
Mr. Orr, similar laws were enacted
concerning other corporations previ-
Gus to the enactment of the board
Of accounts law and in every case
Of this kind the accounts board has
held that the latter law repealed this
provision Of the former.