Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Newspaper) - May 30, 1920, Fort Wayne, Indiana For cloudy Saturday warmer north Sunday fair FORT WAYNE THE PEOPLE'S WAYNE AND NORTHERN IN DIANA'S LEADING HOME NEWSPAPER AND WANT AD MEDIUM 40 PAGES TO-DAY GAZETTE I JOURNAL lift NEWS OF THE WORLD SUNDAY MORNING MAY 30 1920 BY ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS TOTALS COLORED EXPECTED TO BE IN CDSTODY SOON Police Learn That Young Southern Negro Who Attacked Mrs Panko Is Employe of Pennsy Bound House Posse Search Woods Police Officer Misses His Mark FAILS TO SHOW HP FOR WORK HAT JOHN JOHNSON a young southern negro em- ployed at the Pennsylvania railroad company's house and boarding at 605 Huff street is the colored brute who at o'clock Saturday afternoon attacked Mrs Laura Panko near her home at the corner of Congress and Keed streets after stabbing her in the chin and neck several times attempted to criminally assault her was ascertained shortly after 6 the evening when a notebook bearing Johnson's name and address was found within fifteen feet of the scene of the attack by Charles Haig who lives near the corner of Winter street and McKinnie avenue Lawrence Writes on sion of President Wilson on Virginia Platform SEN GLASS MENTIONED Figures That McAdoo port Might Go to Virginia Man in Contest 1920 by The WASHINGTON D C May President Wilson's approval of the Virginia platform which it no secret was largely the work of ator Carter Glass is the first sion from the white house of what the president would like to have adopted by the tion at San Francisco He does not ask the unqualified indorsement of the covenant and but prompt ratification without tions which would impair its essential integrity There's the Democratic national platform on the treaty issue con- in ten words Inasmuch as the president considers the Lodge reservation to be nullifying and inasmuch as he has ready endorsed the Hitchcock cations the democratic claim is un- changed from that which the majority of the democrats stood for in the various votes in the The big query is whether the republicans will stand by the Lodge reservations or the Hiram Johnson program ot no treaty and no league at all But the president's endorsement of the Virginia platform and his of commendation for Senator Glass may have another significance The junior senator from Virginia has been endorsed for the the democrats of state in convention assembled He himself is a strong supporter of the candidacy of liam Gibbs McAdoo But suppose for various reasons the delegates to the national convention decide that Adoo cannot win if To whom would the McAdoo strength be Not to Palmer for there is deep-seated rivalry between the Adoo and Palmer camps which will not vanish on the convention floor Senator Glass is a man after Wilson's own heart He is a- fearless combatant an ing fighter and a man who as man of the house committee of ing and currency helped frame the present federal reserve act and later made a splendid impression is tary of the treasury There's one important factor to keep in mind in trying to figure out who will be the democratic nominee The principle held good when lican presidents were in office and it Continued on Page 11 An investigation by the lice revealed the fact that Johnson had not appeared a his place of employment al day Saturday neither had returned to his boarding house at a late hour night However police cers investigating the case believe Mrs is still in the city and predict his before many hours At St Joseph's hospital where Mrs Panko was removed following the at- tack it was found that the wounds in her neck and chin a very nature the blade did not any large blood vessels Mrs Panko was able to give a good description her assailant which aided in trailing him through the south of the city where a negro answering the description had been seen by a number of persons When the report of the negro's at- tack on a white woman reached the city city police officers and sheriffs deputies were immediately rushee to crime and within a short time a posse of officers and farmers the latter armed with guns and clubs were on the trail of the negro Motorcycle Officer Kirkpatrick was the only police officer who came near enough to the fleeing negro to him from the description by Mrs Panko When the officer on his motorcycle crossed the Continued on Page 11 TWO FORT WAYNE BEAUTIES IN THE SALESGIRL CONTEST Indiana Republicans Making Final Plans for Attending National Convention INDIANAPOLIS Ind May he plans in connection with the of Indiana republican in Chicago for ion week were completed when the was let for the the ion of the Hoosier rooms on the mezzanine floor of the Congress hotel In addition to flags and ing pictures of noted Indiana re- publicans Be displayed nor Goodrich will depart to-day for Chicago where he will remain for the convention With the withdrawal of Harry G of Port Wayne as a date for national from is said that there is little that Joseph P Kealing ot Indianapolis will be chosen for the Place when the Indiana delegates meet in Chicago at 10 o'clock June 7 it but j League and Mexican Planks Unsettled By MISS ALMA In charge of the Glove Department at the Rurode stors Photo By MISS DORIS WALSH at the Glove Counter in the Wolf Dessauer store Senator fLewis Makes Extra Effort to Come for Speech on Wednesday AUBURN POET Frank Nelson Will Recite Original Poem in Honor of Distinguished Guest Members of Toung Men's Democratic league in particular and all Allen county democrats in eral are elaborate tions for the meeting to in the Moose hall next night at eight o'clock at which time Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois will deliver the principal ad- dress Senator Lewis was to have come to Fort Wayne shortly after the primaries but other ments kept him so he wired the chairman of the local cqmmittee on arrangements that he could be here Wednesday night Committees are working almost night and day in an effort to make the meeting a huge success anq hose who have the matter in hanc want to make it the largest held in Fort Wayne in many vears Senator Lewis is a man who will say something pleasing to hose who do not agree with him well as who do He seems o have a style of speaking that makes a profound impression ver he goes and the Young Men's Democratic league feels fortunate in having procured such a man to speak under its auspices poet S Nelson Howard Clarence II c N a b b May tive draft of the republican tional platform has about been com- by the group of party leaders in conference on the subject here It will be ready for submission early next week to prospective members of the resolutions committee who will be given several days to study it before the Chicago convention meets Planks on Mexico and the league of nations are omitted from the draft It was said to-day that the party's stand on these subjects would have to be worked out at cago Efforts to bring republican senators into agreement on a treaty declaration so far have failed but the leaders said substantial progress had been made in that direction and the basis had been laid for Chicago conferences The Mexican plank is generally expected to follow the findings of the senate sub-committee which has spent several months in ing Mexican affairs The sub- committee is about ready to make its report In order plank and put finishing touches on to discuss the treaty the other number platform declarations a prospective members of the resolutions committee have been asked to meet in Chicago next day with Watson of Indiana who has presided over the ences here and is slated for man of the committee which will frame the platform Frank Nelson Coming Frank Nelson the Hoosier if Auburn Ind will appear on the He will prepare and an original on Senator something on the order of Jie poem he wrote in honor of Clark a few years ago Mr Nelson has written that he will be present Yesterday afternoon the following committees were ed: Glad hand I chairman J Herman Bueter Cleveland S Schlatter A C R Yank R Bulin A E Thomas H Kerr T G Moorehead A Callahan chairman to appoint the other members As previously announced Lewis will noon and will be met by the re- ception committee and escorted to the Hotel Anthony In the evening n reception will be tendered him be- tween 6 and o'clock and the public is invited to meet him He is one of America's biggest men a powerful orator and Fort Wayne will extend to him a royal welcome while he is here The general committee in charge of the Lewis meeting is composed of A Frai Groves Clyde Driesbach Emerick B Shoaff president of the Young Men's cratic league will call the meeting to order Tuesday evening a ing will be hold at Mr fice by the officers of the league complete details The committee has reports from every county in the northeast part of the state stating that large crowds will attend the meeting MANY CONTESTANTS IN MOVIE CONTEST ADDITIONAL PRIZES To-day Journal pictures of the Fort entered In the nation wide movie star contests the principal prises of which are six weeks in filmland iand the same and there many entries In addition to the prizes for national winner The offers cash prizes to the three tiest salesgirls in the city The firs will be second and third length of time in the Zeigfeld revue at j Who will be the winner is the a salary of a In the next tion Girls can hare their pictures few weeks there will be pictures of taken without a cent of expense the contestants almost daily and from the first it looks like Fort Wayne has a splendid chance of the ner The salesgirls of the city have shown great interest in the contest the Van or Jefferson studios If you cannot arrange to be during the day appointments can be made with the photographers for RELIEF BILUS Vote in House Is 289 to 92 Goes to Senate Two- thirds Vote Necessary IS PRECEDED BY DEBATE Charge Made That Measure Is Trick to Gain Political Support From Soldiers WASHINGTON May dier relief was passed to-day by the house 289 to 92 sent to the senate Under the program that brought he final showdown a two-thirds rote in support of the measure was sary for its passage and it was ob- after a during which test votes had indicated defeat of the measure While only the direct vote on the was possible under the sion program it was preceded by test which showed porters of the measure gradually gaining strength The first vote of 192 to 189 coming i a parliamentary question that advocates of the were short by 64 votes of the two-thirds majority while the second he suspension program was adopted 200 to 165 showed they lacked only 37 votes The third test was on applying the suspension program to the itself which was carried 175 to or two ess than the required number for Between roll calls the debate was The democrats aided by a minority of the republicans attacked he gag rule of the majority Ad- of the suspension program a vote against it was a vote gainst the itself and gradually hey wore down the opposition the recording forty republicans nd democrats in opposition Supporters of the measure de- lared that the was just to the men for losses they the war but its lents denounced it as a political rick to win the soldier vote through n attempt to commercialize sm Attacks on the suspension program rere made by Mann linois and Clark of the democratic leader while hairman Campbell of the ruies and others defended it as the Continued on Page 11 Attired in Regulation Blue Denim Garb of Prisoner When Committee Calls THE RULES ARE RELAXED Prohibited From Giving ment But Is Permitted to Make Brief Speech ATLANTA Ga May V Debs accepted to-day the socialist nomination for president of the United States formally tendered him by a committee from his party The ceremony took place inside the Atlanta federal penitentiary where Debs is serving a ten year term un conviction of violating the espionage act and the nominee was clad in the blue denim garb of a prisoner For once however prison rules were somewhat relaxed speechs were made motion picture men cranked their machines and a half newspaper men jotted down notes on what was said There were some fifteen persons present at the meeting which was in a spacious room on the ground floor only the barred windows that broke view of a beautiful lawn giving a prison back ground Under prison rules Debs could not sue a statement but he made a speech in ho thanked the party for the honor again conferred upon him and expressed his regret that he could do so little personally in the campaign The socialist form adopted recently in New York Debs said states the essential of socialism but added that he wished it could been couched in a form to make an appeal more effective to the working classes that it brought out stronger the peal of class that it the need of industrial organization BULLETIN WASHINGTON May Without a record vote the house adopted late to-day the conference report on the providing for a federal budget system The now goes to the president CONTESTS 10 EUP Delegates to the Republican Convention Are Flocking to Chicago ARE COMPLETING PLANS Managers for Candidates Are Deciding on Nominating Speakers CHICAGO May to the republican national convention from all sections of the flocked into Chicago to-day A of the early arrivals were from southern states and a large tion were negroes contesting for seats in the convention from states where the race question has been an issue The national committee's ings on 137 contests will start on Monday The campaign managers fo the announced presidential aspirants were perfecting their plans for the actual work in the convention ly after Wood headquarters ed that Governor Henry J Allen of Kansas had been selected to make the principal nominating speech foi Major General Leonard Wood it was announced that George H Walker of Seattle had been chosen to perform similar office for Senator Miles Poindexter of Washington These announcements completed the list of the principal candidates except Lowden and Hoover Clarence B Miller acting tary of the national committee was busy throughout the day arranging the rooms and offices of the com- at the Coliseum annex in an- of their active use on day He also was concerned in that the business of the com- was in shape for Will H Hays chairman of the committee who will from the east to-morrow Mr Says first official act will be to en- the newspaper correspondents a luncheon After this function he ill discuss with those members the committee who may be here the selection of a permanent chairman or the convention Not all members of the committee will be here for the opening of the contest hearings Several proxies have been arranged for but the exact number probably will not be known in til the committee formally sembles One of the absentees will be ator Frank B Kellogg of Minnesota He visited convention headquarters and arranged for a proxy an- nouncing that an engagement in on Monday and a promise to lake some speeches in Iowa next veek for Senator Cummins would eep him away from Chicago until ext Friday One of the which con- ronts tiie committee is the reducing if delegations to a size will permit of their being 0.1 ted in the space reserved for ates This has placed several of the in n i According to Secretary Miller t majority of these cases resulted to harmonize factions in various states and when the tions were asked to cut down their membership tc conform to the con- hall the same problems appeared TREASURER TELLS OF MILLIONAIRES GIFTS William Cooper Procter John D Rockefeller Jr William Wrigley and Others Giye Big Sums While Chicago Banking Houses Make Loans of on Notes NOT EXPECTING MONEY BACK WASHINGTON May campaign fund of mately has been raised for Major General Leonard Wood A S Sprague of Chicago treasurer of the Wood organization testified to-day before the senate gating committee Mr Sprague said contributions totalled that Colonel William Cooper Procter Cincinnati manufacturer had advanced A E Monell of New York 000 and that the Corn Exchange National Bank of Chicago and the Merchants Loan and Trust company of Chicago had each loaned on notes signed by Col Procter Contributors to the fund Mr Sprague said included John B Rockefeller jr A E Monell William jr Chicago H M lesby and C D Shaffer Chicago He added that William Loeb representing a New York committee had forwarded The witness told the committee the agreement with Colonel Procter was that his advance would be paid back but he said he had doubts that it would be done ing that he expected to pay his own note referring to an Instrument placed with one of the and signed jointly by self and Colonel Procter Mr Sprague testified that the whole deficiency that is the ence between the amounts and those spent was to Senator Reed democrat Missouri he said there was no un- with any group of rich men that this was to be repaid Mr Sprague handed Chairman a detailed statement of re- and expenditures It showed of and of with a mce of Expenditures on state organization were placed at for postage speakers expenses billboards and telephone and telegraph and for advertising ier a general head of expenditures was included of which the argest item was on Page 11 President Wilson's Request for Mandate Under Fire in the Senate IS UNDER ADVISEMENT Would Authorize Splendid Program Has Been Arranged for Observation of Annual Event Witli weather conditions the most for many years on a occasion and with all plans the indications point to a successful observation of ial Day by Port Wayne citizens ay and to-morrow This morning the veterans will at- end services at the First Methodist hurch and will listen to a sermon y the pastor of that congregation lev Neal This afternoon the lal services will be conducted at T I C A gymnasium at which M Hench will preside The will start at o'clock The lurch services this morning will be- in at o'clock Monday morning at o'clock lere will be memorial exercises at ie monument Law ten park Continued on Page 11 Sale of in Bonds for New WASHINGTON May dent Wilson's request that congress authorize a mandate over Armenia came under fire from both democrats and republicans to-day when the resolution to deny such an tion was brought up in the senate Prom the democratic side however came a proposal to soften the tion by adding a provision extending American aid in the building of the new re- public The plan was taken under ad- by the republican leaders In order that senators might have an opportunity to study it an agreement was made to defer until Monday any attempt to set a date for a vote Under the suggested provision which was presented by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska the tration leader in the treaty fight a joint committee of Americans and Armenians would be authorized to supervise the sale here of in Armenian bonds The proceeds would go to the purchase of railway and agricultural materials and lar equipment and to the ment of an Armenian banking system In urging his proposal Senator Hitchcock said he felt that the lution as reported by the foreign re- lations committee would have taa effect of discouraging the Armenian people Senator Lodge of the republican leader replied that the proposals to aid Armenia would be received with much pathy on his side of the chamber but added that there were many ways in which aid could be extended There was only a brief discussion of the merits of the president's re- quest which Senator Hitchcock saSi he did not intend to support Several other democratic senators also indicated their disapproval but Senator Williams democrat sippi declared the United States would be unfaithful to its if it declined to take the mandate Senators Jones of New Mexico and Robinson of Arkansas democrats said the resolution involved an im- portant question and a vote should not be taken without giving it serious consideration The former called at- tention to the fact that the matter had been considered for months and inly lack of time and a belief that reasons for refusing a mandate were so plain a child could under- stand them were responsible for the absence of a formal report Baker and Daniels Send Messages May toe day messages were made tri c to-night by Secretaries Baker and Daniels following the custom of the ar and navy departments The tribute of flowers which iy are placed on the graves of our ore the outward emblem of deep and solemn emotion which Ms the entire nation Mr Raker aid We shall have in our minds ie virtues of those to whose memorial days were originally set part and we will think with fresh j has not played out There are ride and of the American j many Males in every nun the wot Id war who oo be filled with sympathy as it ies to spare the personal burden of whose family ties were broken by the sacrifices of the war The country that forgets its de- fenders does not deserve n ship courageous enough to place their iives in jeopardy to defend Daniels said The oi he youths of our day the number of four million who were ready in the world war to die for America teaches that the bread or heroes as of the wot Id war youth and strength carrien over seas and showed tht Id world the of institutions hieh your our soldiers all generations have victoriously defended The heart of the nation will boundary dred youths to-day as there were in the revolution AS we honor Uie dead heroes to-day let the people of the republic themselves to a love of freedom that knows no creed nor race nor crime nor
