Kokomo Tribune (Newspaper) - March 7, 1919, Kokomo, Indiana MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY TRIBUNE PAID CIRCULATION VOL 158 FOUR 0 CLOCK EDITION KOKOMO MO FRIDAY MARCH SIXTEEN PAGES CENTS GERMANS SEEK E T MONEY is DEAD I S SOLDIERS AWAY AT THE HOME OF HIS Disturbances in Berlin Make the Civilians Eager to Reach Area Occupied By Americans PUBLIC HEALTH IN DANGER Physicians and Surgeons De clare Strikes Make Sanitary Work Impossible Amsterdam March cellor Scheidtmann bunded his to President to the president to have a free hand to with the present sit according to the Zeitung A Mittag of Berlin declined to accept the resignation and re and the cab inet to remain in office Served as Purchasing For the Funeral Monday Morning T age 03 years died at oclock this afternoon at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs James S Maloney 913 West Superior street after a lingering Illness al though had been confined to his bed only Saturday The funeral have not been completed but it is thought the services will be Monday from St Pat ricks The deceased has been connected with tht circus as purchasing agent for thirteen years He is survived by his parents five sls ivrs and three brothers The sisters nre Mrs Flannery of Detroit j Mrs John Braden Misses Gene j Loretto and Frances Maloney of j The brothers are Joe James Daniel all at home A brother dld in October at his home in the Kast Sirs Walker Gets Decree j A decree of divorce was granted j Nellie C Walker from Amos D I FT in the Delaware Superior court by I Judge Robert F Murray yesterday i Custody of two minor children was i granted the plaintiff The court as Incased the costs of the action against Berlin Wednesday March and him to pay the Associated governing i nto lhc of he court per board of the Society of Physicians and as t Surgeons has sharply condemned the In Germany on the ground that It In gravely jeopardizing public health through the stoppage of all transpor tation and telephone service well as public utilities Sanitary crews en gaged In checking the spreading of the nnd typhus fevers declare they arc unable to do their work he ratine of Ilie strike The the socialist organ reports that railway employes refuse to walk out The clerical and station In the Berlin district have an they nro standing buck of the present government eek as support money Walker formerly resided in Kokomo THINK FLU ME Thursday March I he Associated ances In Berlin and other ports of unoccupied Germany havu resulted In such an Increase In thenumber of civilians eager to reach the bridgehead urea where condition are more nor mal the American of oc have been compelled to take steps to prevent Germans from nil of the country overrunning the occupied zone along the Rhine To prevent civilians coming in merely to take advantage of the food situation and to gut away from the centers of disturbances the Ameri can authorities have had to tighten up permit privileges Only those desir ing to travel on urgent business or are returning to their homes will be al lowed to pass within the American oc area The Germans within the occupied rone are already laying their plans for the days after the Americans have But Warn All Citizens Against Exposing Themselves to the Disease MEETS Holds Regular Monthly Session in Three New Members At the regular monthly meeting of the Howard County Medical society Lut u withdrawn For Instance applies ons held n assemb roora were made recently for the Privilege Qt th lb of holding public meeting to urge the rence Qf was organization of volunteer j discussed at considerable length over affairs when the Americans R fye of h left the districts These were that the flu here EXTRA SESSION Mil PROBABLE Lieut Governor Bush Tells the Senate That There Will Be No Extra Session REDUCED APPROPRIATION Less Money For Insane Hospital Proposed By Bush But Meets Defeat again and that the number of cases i ed today by the third army of n ls Tho was is in form as It was in the earlier part of the winter and that it is not likely to be ns difficult to cope with All tho physicians frankly stated however that the recurrence of the to organize small forces in districts these forces to act as guards nnd do police duty when the time came for the of occupation to start homo disease calls for the sounding of a warning to all citizens to take all reasonable precautions against expos ing themselves This warning could best be given the public through the newspapers It was agreed and it was decided that the latter should be ask ed to emphasize the following points 1 A person with symptoms of In should immediately go home and should stay there until recovery has been accomplished 2 Every well person should be care ful to stay out of any home that is known to have Influenza cases in it It was the consensus of opinion that quarantine would not be practical though all agreed it would be was cut off from all if It could be carried out Ex with the other government forces In of clues that undertook to capital late Thursday combat the last London March German wire less dispatch received here states that in addition to the volunteer marine di vision and a portion of the republi can militia parts of the second guards regiment and the guards of the fusi lier regiment went over to the Sparta cans on Wednesday A Berlin dispatch to the Mail sent there Wednesday midnight asserted that it was reported in government circles that as a result of a mise reached at Weimar the strike end today Copenhagen March head quarters in Berlin which has been be sieged by the for two days the Gorman when the cut the telephone a telegram from wires according to Berlin persons were killed and a num ber wounded in Thursday fall and winter by resort to tine revealed that that method was a failure as it was found to be impos sible to enforce the quarantine regu fighting there The physicians were not at all dis building posed to view the has been severely in the I flu lightly nor were they inclined eaw the having i to the importance of guns and artillery against all reasonable precautions to its spread They do not feel that the community is in for any such serious siege of the disease as it went through in the earlier part of the win ter but they want all the people to it OX SPECIAL General Attorney Pern from en Koutc to Detroit John B Cochrum general attorney know that they should be carefully on guard against the malady Dr R P Schuler presided at the Xo Continental Detroit where a daughter of Mr Cochrum is lying at the point of death from pneumonia The special train was in charge of conductor Will Smith and engineer Frank OConnell of this city and arrived here at The Wabash train was due to depart at received word this morning of the serious condition his daughter and Inasmuch as there was no regular train to make connections with the Wabash the special was run for Chro nicle Infant Son Dies Thomas Earl Morris age two weeks died of pneumonia at 9 oclock Thurs day evening at the home of its parents Mr and Mrs Morris 418 East Wheeler street The funeral will be held from the home at 2 oclock Satur day afternoon with Mrs Laura Cook in charge of the Burial In Crown Point cemetery the medical corps in the United States army but he asked to be excused in order that the time might be spent in discussing the influenza epidemic Three new members were received into the society They were Dr W H of New London and Dr Bruce D Lung and Dr J Slater Nixon both of this city Government Will Sot Object to For mer Cotton Deals Washington March ob will be made by the bureau of markets to bona fide cotton sales or purchases under old style contracts for the sole purpose of liquidating actual existing Ions or short interests provided such liquidation is not later than May 1 1919 after which date all transactions must be new style provided in the law approved March 4 Indianapolis March 7 Lieut Governor Bush today told the senate that there will be no extra session of the general assembly to pass the ap and other necessary legis lation and said he desired to refute the rumors that it would be necessary for Governor Goodrich to call an ex tra session to dispose of these matters Bushs declaration was made dur ing consideration of the regular ap which the senate took up at oclock in committee of the whole Senator Eisner minor ity leader was chosen as chairman Shortly after the senate had re solved itself into committee Bush made the announcement that he will try to cut in half the proposed in creases in appropriations for state in His statement accompani ed a motion to reduce the appropria tion for the centra hos ital for the insane at Indianapolis from to Last years appropria tion was and motion was in keeping with his announce ment After Ions argument and some heated debate the motion was lost by a viva voco vote Just prior to this the senate ad opted a motion of VanAuken to strike out that section appropriat ing for each of the next two years for the maintenance pro posed branch of the state normal school at Winona Lake On this question Senator Brown presented a letter from the authorities of the nor mal school at Terra Haute advising against the establishment of another normal The sense of the senate on the in sane hospital appropriation was taken to on all increases in over the last year There was a heavy majority against the Bush motion Senator M union chairman of the legislative visiting committee declared that all propos ed appropriations should stand as they are now and that the committee acted In good faith when it made its recommendations He paid tribute to the dent of the Evansville institution in reply to a question from Senator when he said the appropria tion for this place was not increased because tho superintendent had tho happy faculty of inducing his insane patients to do the When inquired about the in creased appropriations Senator Dun can countered with the assertion that to reduce them would injure the wel fare of patients To this Bush re plied that he did not desire to take any action that would not befor the good of the patients but cited the de creased attendance of the institutions and compared it with the greater ap He declared that the recommendations were based on war prices and that the country is now turning into a new era during which the prices of necessities would be lowered Senators Furnas Kiper Beardsley VanAuken Kline and Hagerty opposed the motion Mc Cray upheld it The senate adopted a favorable committee report on the house re pealing the present registration law After a brief fight two house the wide entry and the wash house mining trans ferred to the committee on labor from that on mines and mining where they have been resting for some time During the discussion Senator Kol sem declared that the mine operators had been refused a hearing on these bills Bush tried to urge the senators to more speed in its work when several vacated their seats and left the body without a quorum He said that there was so much business yet that greater effort must be put forth He was forced to suspend business for a short time until the broght in the absentees SERVICE BRITISH PARLIAMENT CONSID ERS BELL FOR Would Provide Men For British Army of Lair Defends Measure London Thursday March F E Guest Introduced a in the house of commons which proposes compulsory service for the British army of occupation This army ac cording to the would be composed of nine hundred thousand and the en period would expire on April 30 1920 Alexander Shaw laborite moved the rejection of the measure because the labor party Is opposed to a continuance of conscription Colonel Winston Spencer Churchill defending the argued that the government In providing for an army lo insure peace was pursuing a path toward universal voluntary There is not the slightest truth In the suggestion that this be design ed to raise troops to be sent into Rus he continued Our army along the Rhine and on the approaches lead ing up that river numbers about PRIMARY LAW BY THE HOUSE Legislature Strikes Out Enact ing Clause of the Dun can Measure CONFERENCE ON TAX Four Senate Measures Passed By the Affects Contractors Indianapolis March change will be made In the primary election men which is no larger than the totted States army there and much law relative to the date of holding the than the forces France is nominating elections according to ac smaller maintaining in the occupied Andrew Bonar Law government leader in the house of commons main that the involved no de tion taken by the house of the ture which body this morning struck out the enacting clause of the Duncan parture from election pledges and evoked loud cheers by asking Is of holding the really suggested that after fighting side by side with France for four and a half years we are now going to leave it to France alone The passed second reading by a vote of 2M to 71 SHARPSVILLE IS measure The provided for the primary being changed from the first Tuesday in May to the Tuesday in March It had been passed by the senate by a vote of to 8 The house received the Mendenhall tax in the form as amended and passed by the senate but no action was taken House leaders said the house would refuse to concur in the amendments and would ask appoint ment of a conference committee Many visitors known to be interested In the tax measure were talking to members at every opportunity When the was received the house minority joined by a few republicans applauded Passage of four senate measures concurrence in the senate amendments to two house bills and adoption of a minority report to postpone indefinitely the senate measure proposing Increases in the maximum salaries which Did Not Get AS Big a ials of cities of the different cations may be paid and advancement of a number of senate measures In the county unit to third reading constituted other business be fore the house Bills passed provide for a penalty of a fine of not to exceed or for one year being imposed up on conviction of any contractor who issues a receipt falsely stating that all labor and material obligations have been paid in full for county commis to erect and maintain at Im portant road junctions guide posts and boards and for prison sentence of from one to five years being imposed upon conviction of any public official who demands or receives any compensation legally belonging to a deputy clerk or employe Another passed provides for the Haul As Was At First Reported WORK OF PROFESSIONALS Is the Belief of Think Gang Was From Another State The latest report from Sharpsville where wrecked all the safe ty deposit boxes of the bank of that place Tuesday night and carried off all the Liberty bonds they contained is to the effect that the Joss will not be as as was at first announced The first reports indicated that the authorization and regulation of the ex change of certain classes of reciprocal and interInsurance contracts between individuals partnerships and corpor ations Senate amendments to the Deem antired flag measure and to the Kim GENERAL ALARM DISTURBS WILSON Presidents Rest Cut Short by Boat In terest in Election On board U S S George Wash ington March wireless to the Associated Wil sons rest this rooming was cut short by the sounding a general alarm sum all hands to the boats to ab andon ship The signal for the boat drill came at nine oclock and the president arose and escorted Mrs Wil son to their boat He adjusted Mrs Wilsons and his own life belt and stood quietly by until the drill was completed The president was greatly interest ed in the result of the election of the 22nd Pennsylvania congressional dis the returns having been receiv ed by wireless from Secretary of the I Navy Daniels and J P Tumulty the presidents secretary The president today sent a wire less message to William J Bryan who has been ill The weather cleared today and sea was smooth ably This is the estimate made yesterday by Cal cashier of the bank He has no way of knowing the exact amount in bonds the safety deposit boxes contained but the in he has made among the box holders have led him to conclude that the total taken was not more than 000 The Tipton Tribune says that had the robbers visited the bank a couple of months ago they would have found a very large swag as most of the bonds owned by Liberty township people were in the bank at that time but since then tho portion of the bonds were sent to Indianapolis and turned over to one of the large con cerns for safekeeping Detectives representing the State Bankers association and the detective association were in Sharpsville at noon Wednesday and were going over the ground with a purpose of picking up any information that might lead to the arrest of the thieves There was little to guide the sleuths In their quests They found the big gas container It was abandoned by the thieves after it had answered their purpose There was enough gas left in the container to handle a couple of additional jobs the size of the one at Sharpsville but of course the thieves were too wise to put that tank in their machine and attempt to get out of the country with it It Is about six feet tall Some gunny sacks were also found and names on them indicate that they were stolen from farmers or grain men In the southeastern part of the state The fellows who blew the Sharps ville bank are believed to be the same people who robbed the bank in the southeastern part of the state a few weeks ago Detectives are of the opinion that there is an organized gung of these robbers having headquarters in some large city in Ohio or Ken tucky They are making a specialty of robbing safety deposit boxes going on the theory that they contain bonds which are as good as cash A number of small banks have been robbed in this and adjoining states and in ev ery instance the chief swag was bonds little attempt being made to get any other class of valuables The bonds are easily disposed of Mr Holman says the only loss which the bank will sustain is the damage to the deposit boxes All of them were damaged In gaining an entrance to the vault that contained the safety boxes the thieves used their acetylene gas burn ing the locks from the vault THE WEATHER tonight and Saturday prob ably rain In south and rain or snow In north portion Saturday not much provisions for prosecution of Bolshevists who attempt to spread that propaganda In Indiana The county unit measure was saved from material amendment today when Representative Winesburg of Wabash moved to table a motion by Represen of Putnam county to give county commissioners authority to file objections to proceedings the same as provided in the for tax pavers Objections to changing the date ot holding primary elections were based on assertions by members that candi dates suffer exposure to weather con ditions when campaigning in January and February that they would be call ed upon for many more contributions for suppers and entertainments If the date were advanced and that the time elapsing between the March primary and the November election would be too long for sustained public interest Farmer members differed in regard to the earlier primary date bringing out a larger vote than would the May date in the rural districts The which provides for councils of cities of different classifications raising salaries of officers and for ap pointment of assistant city attorneys provoked acrimonious debate Mem bers favoring It declared that home rule should be given to the cities in deciding what salaries are to be Representative Cann of Frankfort who led the fight against It said that giv ing councils authority to Increase the salaries would be equivalent to order ing them raised BODY OF TAXI DRIVER FOUND Bullet Wounds in Head and Pockets Turned Wrong Side Out Clinton March body of Cliff Taylor 51 owner and driver of a taxi cab was found in Little Raccoon creek near north of here today Four bullet wounds were in his head All his pockets were turned wrong side out money missing Taylor usu ally carried considerable money and often displayed it Taylors taxi cab was found yester day morning south of this city It had numerous blood spots Blood spots also were found on the bridge near which caused the search for him to turn in that tion The authorities are without de finite clewa so far they have an Amu OCCASION SECTIONAL NET TOURNEY WILL GOOD LODGE OF CLOVER LEAF LODGE Sixty Members of the Made Trip to Thursday Sixty members of Good Intent No 29 Knights of Pythias met with Clover Leaf lodge Xo 330 at Green town Thursday night The ranks of Esquire and Knight were by Good Intent finish Ing up a class of seven members After the work all present were served with a luncheon provided by the Sisters which was followed by a list of interesting talks There were present at this gather ing of 200 Knights representatives from at least ten of the various lodges of the state The time for departure came all too soon and as this meeting closed all were loud in their praise of Clover Leaf Lodge as a royal entertainer and came away feeling If possible more sure of the teachings of and the bonds that hold Two Flue Fires Two fire alarms were caused this forenoon by sparks igniting roofs The first was at 10 the department hurried to Ike residence 612 North Market street Apparatus out Time Place W D Herolds residence at 506 South Courtland street Sparks on ex makes another quick out No damage in either case Estimated That Not Less Than Five Thousand Fans Will Witness Games KOKOMO IS A FAVORITE Choice of Local Fans Over Mar ion Tipton and ford City JERKED UP BY INTO A SHAFT Mrs Bertha Spoon Victim of a Serious Accident at the Brass Works HER LOCKS PULLED OUT By the Roots Owing to Weight of Her Body Saving Her Hurts Mrs Bertha Spoon East Sycamore street came near meeting death this morning while at her employment at the plant of the Kokomo Brass Works While she suffered severe and even se rious injuries the attending physician Dr William H Harrison Is confident of her recovery Mrs Spoon was passing under a shaft when her hair in some way was caught The wheels drew her toward certain destruction but the of her body caused the entangled hair to pull out by the roots and she thus avoided possible death Her scalp as have been expected was not torn away from her skull but the In jury of the hair being literally pulled nut by the roots in several spots pro excruciating pain She was taken to the Good Samari tan hospital in the S C Moore lance and the physician summoned As the hours wore on her pains became less intense Despite her misfortune she is thankful that life and perma nent injuries were spared her Examination disclosed that she was severely bruised about the head and shoulders as a result of the poundings to which she was subjected STRIKERS AGREE TO PROPOSALS OF GOVERNMENT Other Unions Yet to Decide Upon Terms in N Y Harbor Strike New York March acceptance by the Tidewater Boats mens union of the offer of the railroad administration for the settlement of the harbor strike was announced to day by John Brennan president of the union representing boatmen The action of the other six affiliated unions representing the remaining un ion harbor boatmen had not this aft been determined The railroad administration operated forty per cent of the boats that have been by the strike which began Tuesday morn ing and has virtually stopped trans Atlantic and coastwise commercial shipping from this port Before going into a conference with officials of the railroad administration representatives of the Marine Workers Affiliation the general organization which is conducting the strike sought to obtain from Bris Gen Frank T Mines in charge of the work of de at government piers here a promise that the army would abide the terms of settlement of the railroad administration General Hincs declared that ha was not empowered to act but that he would take the matter up with Secre tary of War Baker Sermon Announced There will be a Lenten Service and sermon at the St Andrew Episcopal parish tonight at oclock There was a confirmation instruction for Ti this nt 4 Marlon Eliminated 2721 The very first game this afternoon upset the dope bucket when Mont a dark horse defeated Marion a strong favorite for sectional honors 27 to 21 Thus Marlon is eliminated at the jumpoff and the other leaders will have to revise their working dope Summary and lineups 21 27 Hinkle f f 5 Squires f 4 Williams c c 4 Sisson Been ff Wilson g Been s substituted for Sis son Free 3 out of 6 1 personal Nessel 1 personal Squires 1 personal puts 1 out of 5 Morse missed t Corcoran 3 personal M Been 2 per sonal technical Score at end of first half SU in fa vor of p Academy 10 Hartford City 11 iml summary Fairmount Acady 10 Hartford C 11 f 2 f f I Smith c c s Allen s Fairmount puts Smith 2 out of 9 1 technical 1 personal McCombs 3 personal Allen 2 personal 1 technical Hartford substituted for Dunbar 1 Free puts Towns 3 nut of S 3 technical Dunbar 1 personal 1 cal 2 personal 1 personal Score of first half In favor of Fairmount Academy Montpelier and Hartford City both loom up as strong contenders for the sectional championship p vs Howard Township game begins Saturday Morning The results of this afternoon will Ins Montpelier and Hartford City up for the first game at 8 oclock Saturday morning From time immemorial high school pupils been considered ble creatures How true the charge is broadly and generally speaking may be considered a debatable question but there is one period in every year when they arc individually and collectively is when the long season of basketball excitement arrives at its zenith and the delirious thrills and shocks and stun ning climaxes of the sectional tourneys During today and Saturday no rational wore or act should be expected from any school girl or boy Whatever their behavior now nothing in their speech or conduct today and should be held against them In the future What is the idea of holding a school session this morning C E Hinshaw of the Kokomo high school was asked Mr Hinshaw laughed We have to observe some routine of discipline Turn all these boys and girls loose this forenoon and they would escape from under our control as quickly and com as if they had Meanwhile every arriving ban car and train not to mention pro cessions of automobiles that braved the wretched roads brought brighteyed tnger squads of players to the city flanked by their ardent admirers of both sexes all aflame in their brand new sweaters and for some myster renson for the most part quiet Yea quiet But wait until they get into action until their respective teams bound out of the dressing rooms and upon the high school gym floor and begin practicing Then a steady pulsa tion of noise will start that will cres cendo to a mighty climax of pande And when a team boy How they will turn on all the gas theyve sot and throw the muffler away Starting this afternoon at 1 oclock with Montpelier and Marion facing each other as the opening contestants n the eighth annual sectional basket ball tournament of the Indiana High School Athletic Association this year gives promise of seeing the biggest gathering of fans that any preceding session ever attracted There were not less than a total of spectators at last seasons games and it is anticipat ed that at least will witness the games that are to be staged on the lo cal hih school floor this year There are certain features that in sure crowded galleries for some of tho games For one thing this is Marions first appearance in a sectional tourney Strange to relate she does not enter with the timidity of a stranger and an amateur but is one of the four ad mitted contenders for sectional honors So an intense interest exists in Marion which will insure the presence here of hundreds of fans whose numbers will swell as long as that squad continues to win The same is true of Tipton another strong favorite for first place laurels Mr Hinshaw said this morning that he believed full twothirds of the
