Indianapolis Star, The (Newspaper) - February 22, 1915, Indianapolis, Indiana Jt Mf f Call The Star for information on how to vein a Free Exposition Trip THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR VOL 12 NO MONDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 22 1915 CENTS Be the First in Your and it will be raster to win that trip to the Exposition at I rUco Start Can American Ship Blown Up in North Sea YEGG TAKEN AT WORK ON LOCAL SAFE Trapped Red-Handed by Proprietor Who Hears Breaking Glass and Calls Police EMPTY GUN FOR BLUFF Burglar but Drops Weapon When Officers Shout While Floyd L manager of the Kresge Five and Ten Cent 21 West Washington was alone in the store early day a crash of glass on an upper floor aroused his fear that burglars were in the building He slipped summoned men Claude Johnson and Roy Peats and the store Leading the silently in the Kresge entered the office and immediately found himself looking into the muzzle of a revolver held by a man crouching before the safe and surrounded by para- Kresge s hands went up The men behind and un- seen by the pulled their guns and drew a bead on the man they commanded and we 11 shoot M The taken completely by dropped his and while one of the policemen kept him ered the other placed him under arrest The man gave his name as Richard 25 Beside Burk was a bottle of three feet of fuse a number of a drill and seven bits Burk had already begun to bore a hole above the combination of the safe The policemen were on a stairway leading from the ond floor to a balcony where the office is and could see Burk when he leveled the revolver at Kresge It was found then that the revolver was not loaded Burk had entered the store from a fire escape at the rear of the building The windows on the fourth floor were not locked He went to the third floor and down the stairway leading to the second The door the stairway to the second floor is kept but Burk laid A stepladder from the stairs to a above the door climbed along the ladder and got on the floor It the breaking of the transom which attracted To prevent himself from being cut Burk had placed a heavy piece of black cloth which he found in the store over the transom where he crawled Burk had been from the time Kresge called the police until he was more than ten minutes He had taken oft his coat and shoes and put his drill and had begun working on the safe His watch lax beside him so that he could time the fuse he touched it off Believed Good Burk is well and at no time was he excited or nervous He laughed hen he talked of frightening Kresge ith the empty i et He said his reason for not having it loaded that he did not wish to any one The police believe that Bwk is a clever safe CONTINUED ON PAGE COLUMN Two Men Suspected to Be German Spies Detected in Boston Me Feb 21 ad- vices received here from Canadian sources state that two men who arrived at ton today from an Italian are under surveillance as suspected German spies It is asserted that the men were dis- guised as Russian but that an examination of their baggage re- evidence that they were German officers This it was in- cluded a map of the St Lawrence River and the bridges over it It was stated the men were bound for Canada INSULT BY NEWS RAISES THE IRE OF LEGISLATORS Democratic Members Denounce the Unpardonable Presumption of Questions Addressed by Newspaper to Governor SOLE PURPOSE IS TO RUIN THE THEY DECLARE Bitter resentment was expressed yesterday by Democratic members of the Legislature at the gross insult to Governor Ralston contained in a series of questions addressed to him Saturday by the Indianapolis News These questions were to quote one of THE STORY of the Governor's activity in the last few days in behalf of the finance board The second j and third were directed at j ing out whether Thomas Taggart had asked the Governor to take an interest in the finance board The Governor replied sharply to these questions His response follows may tell the editor of the News that his questions and the insinuations back of them are an Insult to any self-respecting to say nothing of a sworn officer of the state Tell him that I believe them to be as Intentionally insulting as they are dishonest and hypocritical Tell him that I am not yet ready to submit either my private or my official conduct to the of him or that of his paper and that I am not likely soon to do so in view of the fact that the public is coming to the view that the Influence of the News is a public Insolence Arouses The insolence ot the questions and their reflection on the integrity of the Governor and the dignity of his produced a storm of indignation among Democrats yesterday Members of the party in the Legislature were outspoken in their denunciation of the unscrupulous methods to which an unfriendly newspaper has resorted in its attempt to embarrass Democrats and cast discredit upon their most distinguished state official questions an insult not only to the Governor and his but to the people of the state who have ored him with said tive William Habermel of Harrison County 1 The purpose of the Indianapolis News is solely to embarrass and mislead in the Legislature and in the state That newspaper has no honest friendship CONTINUED ON PAGE COLUMN 4 ARE KILLED BY FAST INTERURBAN CAR Maysville Visiting Meet Death on Way to to Hasten Across Says Only Witness Two elderly unmarried on their way to the morning services at the Central Christian were killed instantly at Forty-first street and College avenue yesterday when struck by an inbound Noblesville interurban car There were np witnesses of the tragedy except the but it is thought that the who were unused to and mistook the interurban for the Broad Ripple car on which they intended to ride to church and were killed in an attempt to hasten across the track signal the car to stop p The victims MISS MARGARET years Ky MISS JACOVA 56 Maysville Ky The Misses Bacon been for several weeks with their sister Mrs W Holton 5104 Ashland avenue u ere regular attendants at the and left the Holton home in ample time to the inbound Ripple ar The in- tar preceded the Broad Ripple car social minutes Charles L Ben v 001 Helm ille Ind was motorman of the rar killed the two women Me told Coroner Poole and Sei gt that he saw the two w liking down the street toward tlu tracks as though about to but he thought would stop He blew several warning blasts nn the whistle he said as the women weie still distance from the did not his speed a few from the r he the women snd denh attempted to run across the tracks not to realize the speed nf the persons who ran out when they heard the crash he allowed the bodies to be re- moved to the home The bodies will be taken to today and the funeral will be held there tomorrow WEATHER FORECAST Father of His As From the Warns Us Against European Entanglements Never la all the 119 years that have elapsed since the Farewell Address was given to the American pepple has the need been so extreme the duty so imperious to invoke the Immortal spirit of ton as a mentor in troubled times Perhaps the most serious peril that confronts the United States at the present tragic and solemn crisis in human history is the revival and cultivation of Old World loyalties and athies here To all such from the path of pure the words of Washington supply a fitting and scathing rebuke Typical expressions from the Farewell Address are here re- CRAFT CREW ESCAPES Meager Report From Consul at Bremen Indicates Disaster Occurred in German but Fails to Tell Whether Torpedo or Mine Was Theory Because of Department Orders Searching In- There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to by birth or of a common that country has a right to concentrate your affections liberal intercourse with all are recommended by humanity and inter- est But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or And it gives to or de- citizens devote themselves to the favorite facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own without sometimes even with with the appearance of a virtuous sense of a commendable deference for public or a laudable zeal for public the base of foolish compliance of or tion Against the insidious wiles of foreign in- fluence conjure you to believe fellow the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government But that be must be else it becomes the instrument of the very influences to be instead of a defense against it Excessive partiality for one foreign and excessive dislike of cause those who they actuate to see danger only on one and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be without anything from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every in cases in which it is free to main- tain inviolate the relations of peace and amity toward other So a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils Sympathy for the favorite facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest and in- fusing into one the enmities of the other be- trays the former into a participation in the rels and wars of the without adequate inducement or justification It leads also to con- cessions to the favorite nation or privileges de- nied to which Js apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions Europe has a set of primary which to us have or a very remote Hence she must be engaged in frequent the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns It must be unwise in us to implicate by artificial in the ordinary vicissitudes of her or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities Antipathy in one nation against another dis- poses each more readily to offer insult and to lay hold of slight causes of and to be haughty and when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur Hence quent envenomed and bloody contests The nation prompted by and sometimes impels to war the contrary to the best calculations of policy SUMMARY OF THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR FEB POLICE THWART THEFT OF CLOTHES BY MAID CRISIS WITH BELLIGERENT POSSIBLE States government was advised of tho destruction of the first American sel vii high seas since the outbreak of tho European war ican Consul Fee at Bremen cabled that the steamer Evelyn and its ot hound for had been up at just off the of hut that the crow had been The or not given in the dispatch After a conference with President Secretary Bryan cabled Ambassador Pago at London and Ambassador Gerard at Berlin to an exhaustive as the if the crow was ed at either of respective to provide every care and convenience to Capt Smith and his men so that might turn home safely Not in Submarine Area Although extent of the sea zones of war proclaimed by Germany I waa never defined the kum Inlands are considered far dis- tant from the danger areas of sub- although the waters of vicinity are filled with mines for de- fensive through which Germany always has piloted ing ships At the German Embassy it was pointed out that the accident must have been by a since in need of would have no object in a vessel laden such cargo for German Karly press dispatches from lin announcing the loss of the vessel COMPROMISE ON PRIMARY SOUGHT Following Conference of House and Senate Announces New to Be In- CONVENTION IDEA RETAINED A compromise movement between the House and Senate on the pri- mary election measure by the sage of a extending the primary principle to every county and city in the but retaining the state convention for the selection of state was inaugurated last night when Senate and House ers conferred informally at the was proved to be a mine there ison Hotel Senator Fred VanNuys i Probably would be no ground for by a mine caused somewhat of ft sation in this where the sion has been pronounced over the situation in the war zones since the dispatch of warning notes by the United States to both Great Britain and Germany It was practically conceded that if the cause df of majority leader in the announced a new primary will be ready for introduction diplomatic action by the United since the laying of mines not prohibited by any international and that a caucus likely will convention now in force LEGISLATURE RAIN Rain Ti colder For ecast for Indiana for Monday and M o n d a and Forecast for Indi anapolis and for Rain bin walking by side and both were thrown 100 feet when struck The police automobile ns speeding n Central avenue to the scene of the whon a man out into the wiving Ins hands madly Thinking another accident had occurred the mar stopped to learn that the mi i was Holton a nephew of the two women who eie Villed and he was laken to the Coroner Poole arrived a few after the accident and after tak ing the statements of the motorman and ALMANAC OF THF DAY Sun rises at fi TO nt Amount during the 24 ho urn priding at 0 fH Jan 1 4 in mutated departure from normal since Jan 1 o pern 4 4 j I A c For thP Samp I ast am H i H i R h P t 31 Lowest Compromise primary discussed at conference of Assembly leaders 1 Democrats are aroused by News insult to Governor Ralston 1 Bloomington citizens lo oppose move to consolidate Indiana and due verities at Senate tee hearing 12 WAR American ship sunk off Berkum supposedly United States orders ins estimation 1 Two men suspected to be German spies are under surveillance in Boston 1 German operations in east are puzzle to Russian general staff 2 i Rome iq aroused over attack by Aus tria on ships bearing Italian nag 2 Former Representative Scott says gian destitution has passed i but food still is needed 2 The Downshire Irish toasting steamer Is sent to bottom bv German sub- marine 4 Grand of In declares Turks were forced into war by Triple Entente 5 Champ Clark in address excuses faults of George Washington 2 Kentucky quarantines another county and orders stock killed to prevent foot and mouth disease 9 Two Indians and one white killed in i ftah battle 9 i Both and United States are I at Uvf h engaged in bringing WPI i ner Horn to justice 9 I f enters week with hilU commanding attention 2 SOS call sent out nf Indiana Mate wide tn Colons in Washington 5 FOREIGN Maxim restored into i graces of Russian government 2 DEPARTMENTS LOCAL Yeggman caught red-handed m apolis store 1 Two elderly sisters of Kv killed here car 1 Police arrest maid in of gowns at to local woman 1 Standing of candidates in exposition contest 3 Lenten spirit manifested in lis church set vices 4 Washington s to generally observed heie 4 200 attend banquet of MI at Hotel 4 Indianapolis Rotarians depai t on cial train to attend Chicago 5 men are taken in gambling raids 9 Meeting speaker urges ers to open hearts to God 11 Chauffeur held under high bond after car collides with another injuring woman occupant 4 The Rev F S C in Lecture League address UmK of Thomas Paine 12 FIRE RAGES IN BUSINESS DISTRICT ST LOUIS KAST ST bOt r h 0 a this morning thm nji several blocks of the t here An hour after HIM hrr Ind n tho damage w t- r th d at hundred Marguerite JO wai s a maid f at the of A M 1610 North Meridian was last with the theft of wearing belonging to Mrs Stewart at The was made Haw son and Dugan after had been on the girls trail a fpw hours and had notified thf Station and Nation lo nn lookout for uunk Marcellus an man Cornell took the trunk to the I Station to it checked to it and es Larsh mil Stf wart rcf rol it at about the MI mo time v JH arrested it Tw naid lit re from V but t r d to give Ihr name of the town Tho Stew irt left homr in the ifu moon to i about an and v M turned maid had departed with be held tomorrow afternoon at which the measure in all probability will be agreed to Following the Senate It is will ho a joint aucun tween the and Senate at which the majority party will to agree on the proposed Provisions in The new will provide for the y nomination of all candidates for and offices in the by the direct safeguarded by all of the election and for the election of all delegates to state conventions by primary at the same time the c or officials would be nominated Follow ing the passage of the equal rage by thf Senate on Satui of the I House who tofore have predicted there would be no primary legislation at this Lime took a view of the situation Theie are not votes In of the state-wide primary which Houst last to pans that measure in the Senate In Us I form hut Senate leaders last pre- I there will be no difficulty In com- Ing tn art agreement on a Debate Not JoneH will be considered on Its Fee's Wire Is Brief American Consul Fee's for- warded fiom Bremen through the at gave the State Department meager information It said Capt agents Bull New blown up early Fi iday at Crew saved and lost U WHS generally taken for fore the message arrived that the blown up bv a but the sion of any mention of cause introduced an element of significant of the solicitude which Is felt on every side since the diplomatic correspondence arose with the belligerents over the misuse of neutral and submarine It had been practically decided earlier bv the Washington government to make no reply to either the British or the man note concerning the use of neutral or attacks by submarines on neutral vessels In tho new sea zones of war Policy Is Significant Added significance was attached to this because of the implication that the strong warning sent to both Great and Germany might now be lowed by a crisis In the relations of this government with the belligerents If if it comes up in the Senate j through their American vessels There is no disposition among the or lost crath to cut off debate Some while mines have been laid in of the Democratic who voted for i wime the early days Of ment of the I a measure to the craft been but the has passed the Jones i the practical Impossibility of fixing the measure without considering of its j blame tor accidents of that kind has Members of the House main- I the tain th it few of the knew from taking diplomatic ar tlon When the what thf fonts North Sea was first some of the JoneH and as- t protested to both that it out the and Great Britain but the United platform pledges H passed Staten took tlie position that it waa discussion except that of a possible to determine country had the therefore made CONTINUED ON PAGE COLUMN 2 no protest though It does not consider Its m am wav by this n f M i S t 111 s Victimized Expressman and Developments in War at Sea In Indianapolis Today Railroads Real estate Editorial s Runa June i Theaters anniversary celebration at German evening Nature Study Club banquet Y W C A 6 30 p m Dinner in honor of Dr Richard C University 6 30 p m Child Welfare all day of both houses 10 a m and 2 p m hearing on to con sol I date Indiana University and Senate evening In to thf li unk in u h had pi 1 s the girl h id t d WH li 11 Milt and t It us ha Wfi r I The 11 vt s it tined th it an N pressman h M bee n t rn d il tinn s by the to haul I t i tt unk fot her and thf v lit f d won Irl him mi lea me I h t Uh d PW n he n tht to his h mif thr Kit I w is in the kit hen to t r uf In the front d ft saiH f had H Mm I'd I tf tin ir ink t i I jn is hasp i ti ket Milwaukee ani fe I1 ii it to I 01 it ins I In police i tint thai the thr il the dresses taken one at a not I if i valued at a i r at it and a second rout tt I he Kirl fused to liM self h i 1 en i fi Mf TA h rl 11 f s e it is lu i nu I hori nt u r i kmK i mi mud t the of the then bound for with largo of mine off Berkum Inland and winks rew IR report from Berlin n with and an IK steamer were Mink bv a man Thr Irish Kunk a I off the Calf of tra The rrw time to 1 hf Hal Ian nmi werf upon hv pedo and aUo of of a report that Austria u war on of the In the Adriatic Sea rew hot I after tin It the nil out I silent P Have No the States and are helpless as far as obtaining redress for the loss of ships with mines is concerned unless absolute proof A tare be adduced to the nationality of the mines that no pilot was available 01 that the mlm s drifting from their am far distant from been made from time to t line tn obtain HD agt among of the to prohibit the ng of mines took the lead in this at the second Hague con- in and a convention finally and the United Mates nnd and a few of the other nations though it never I its terms it was n to unanchored automatic ontai t ept w hen so HR to be ome one hour at most the person who laid them to them Similarly it was foi hidden to lav anchored b dn not become harmless When In from their HIO also provided it forbidden to automatic tat t off tbe toast and ports of an CONTINUED ON PAGE COLUMN
