The Evansville Journal from Evansville, Indiana • 1

AN INSTITUTION FOR THREE GENERATIONS i EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAE No 211 Aitmd at tha Fostoffloe at BvanaviUa Ind aa lad Class Ufttu THURSDAY EVENING JULY 29 1920 SESSm 10 PAGES TODAY THREE CENT Up Abandoned Babe Mystery The Black Hand tOoojrifbt! lSStfi hirVhaCUsMnTribaa! OF UNTO EVANSVILLE IDLfr IF --V-- I 1 Nine Hundred Men Out In Jack Kern Princeton Coal Dealer Charged With Assault bn Mrs Cleveland Who Deserted Baby The mystery surrounding if elght-bonr-old-bab? found la Gibson Coal Opcr ators Meet in Chicago tc Discuss Move Of tha forty ednee In the Southern Indiana Mine bureau district only six were working Thnraday morning and It ws not known how long these would remain active Approximately 10M miners an Idle la this die Met' So form report' are eon- I corned these six mints ere also all that art being worked In SET NO LIMIT ON DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN FUND Contributions of Any Amount Will Be 'Accepted 'WASHINGTON July The Democratic campaign war cheet it open -to contributions of any amount Georgs Wblte chairman of the national committee announced today Party leaden Ur White will examine the source rathe than tha amounts of all contritnt tlons progress prosperity" will be the three word slogan of the Democratic campaigners Ur White said adding that with this slogan the party should bo of victory The new national chairman referred to Illinois Indiana and Ohio aa "the battleground of the but he Indicated that aa the campaign plana developed Governor Cot would carry tha fight direct to the people end would visit a majority of tha states Discussing campaign contributions Ur White said the restrictions which had been proposed aa to the nlzo of the gifts wen so easily circumvented as to mnke them useless and that tha national committee therefore' would content Itself with a scrutiny of all contributions In order that no obligations on the candidate would bo entailed by the acceptance of campaign fundi Evansville Team Is Entered CLEVELAND July The selection of a supreme commander of the Knights of Fythlaa was scheduled to take place during -session of the national encampment of that organisation now being held in this city The present supreme epmmXnder MaJ Gen Wm Gdmpers and White House Official Say Slowing Down of Industry Is Due to Republican Moves By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING Chicago Tribune- Cvansvllls Journal Service WASHINGTON 0 July Insinuations that tha woolen mills shot down and tha discharge of en-perfloons employee by the Pennsylvania railroad represent a Repntn llcan move to discredit the Wilson administration and to' promote the election of Harding wera forthcoming from both the White Hones and President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor LENGTHY DISCOURSE A White House official who directs propaganda snonymonsely for President Wilson discoursed at some length upon manifestations of the slowing down of Industry He hoped there wee no political plot to Injure the ad-mlnistratlon and the Democratic party Involved In the laying off of men In big Industries bnt )t such should prove the case he wae ears the president would make good hie threat of some seven yetre standing to hang the culprits than 4 Practical! all of the mines la the Evansville district were Idle ALL OUT IN GIBSON All coel mines In Gllaon county with the exception of the email Liberty or old Hackett mine seven mllee east of Princeton are ldlciv In addition to the loo Princeton miners who were ont Monday GuO EXTERIOR OF HOME FOR MRS ARMSTRONGUP Citizens Continue to Help Unfortunate Widow Here 9 Exterior structure of tho home being built for Mrs Martha Armstrong from volunteer subscriptions and workers la expected to be erected Friday The frame wort of tho little house wee prsrticaUy completed Thursday The work has been superintended by i Real Estate board committee whose committee members worked 11 day Monday building the foundation Mrs Armstrong's home belongs and clothing were completely destroyed by lightning on the night of July Following a story In The Journal July 4 kind hearted citizens began volunteering donations and material for replacing her home A bundle of new gingham Muslin and hand tonte mas brought to The Journal Thursday for Mrs Armstrong by Mrs Henry Lehr Various organizations of the city are getting behind the movement to donate an additional $30(1 needed to finish tho bourn Marriage Via Mtdl Did Not Last Long Swearing that aha really loved him Margaret Campbell 18 216 Wert Ckdqmbta street told circuit Judge Gould Thnraday In her divorce case that she bed been engaged to her husband Ruby Campbell 20 Lanslnfc Mich through never saw him before the geek of our marriage ahe said After the marriage Campbell took his wife to Lansing They separated In a month began staying ont late at night and going with other Mrs Campbell mid Alya- Campbell testified that her husband race told bef he did not love her and never did He objected to bar going to church on Sunday Mm Campbell said she had four etetererand five- The divorce wee granted Mrs Campbell's maiden name Margaret Floyd wae restored Scenario Writer In a Divorce Tangle MINNEAPOLIS July Anita Loos scenario writer and wife of John Emercsn actor playwright and motion picture producer became Involved In a matrimonial tangle akin to that which followed the marriage of Douglas Fairbanks snd Mary Plckford -Miss Loos or Mrs Emerson is named In a suit for annulment tiled hero by Mrs Thelma 'A Pali ms gainst Frank Pallma Jr former Iiii band of Miss Loos In her complaint Mrs Pallma alleges that she waa married to Mr Pallma In November 10101 before Miss Loos' divorce from blmi took effect Upon learning that tho divorce did not become effective until May 1919 ahe brought suit to have her marriage declared Invalid Mrs Pallma formerly Mien Thai' ma Carlin waa a pianist In the Band conducted by her father John Emerson snd lllss Loos were married at the rammer home of Norma Talmadge In Bayside I the the 'hedge at 822 Upper Second street et 1 midnight' Saturday cllmaXtd rapidly Thursday noon The myaterioua In blue1' who brought the baby' from Prince ton and abandoned It was ldentl- i flod Mra-Emeline Smith Cldre oland 19 yearsold a widow since 1018 and adopted daughter of Edward Smith a retired railroad man living at 1218 Glbeon street Princeton i An affidavit waa filed ahortly be fore noon -at Frlncetpn before Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Comp ton hp Ur Smith charging Jeese Kern member of the Kern Coal company living at 114 West Water street Princeton with forcing Una Cleveland to submit toyhte attentions KEEN NOT LOCATED f-Officers have been unable to locate Mr Kern and the general 1 opinion waa that he wee In Evsns-villa to see the in Ur Kern la a widower and baa two children by' hie former wife He haa lived In Princeton aU hla Ufa end la highly respected The pitiful story related by the mother of the abandoned baby captured the hearts of everyone at the police station and their sympathies were openly expressed? The fother of the unfortunate black-eyed youngster was universally condemned The mother la In a critical condition at the Christian home dne to her nervous condition but It tlionght she will recover An operation la necessary but this wlll be postponed for a day or two waltlng the mental condition to Improve CHILD BORN SATURDAY The child wee born at 2 o'clock Bnturday afternoon according to the mother and ahe brought it to Evansville on the traction car leaving Princeton et 10 She Intended returning on the earns car but missed It and returned to her home on the A I train leav-tag Evansville at 2 am Mrs Cleveland la a widow hav-" tag lost her hnshand during the more Joined the ranks of the strikers District officers wen bare at-Princeton Wednesday looking over the situation These men are paid day wages and not by the tonnage-1 Day men quote a recant case la a mine near Princeton when a day men drew $42 for a seven pay4 end a loader drew flUS for thtta same length of time 4: The Glbeon mines affected by tha walkout are: Ft Branch lSd men Royal at Francteco 188 men laid gell at Oakland 200 Borne Buckskin CO Tho liber" small mine the principal -being -driving new- ertr -emptoyes only about a doze Loomis of Grand Rapids Brig W1 Gen Thom MlnShull ot 2 I 1 fflv CENTS Price Fixes New Low Leve for the Season In Evansville Cereal statement from Ur Gompers a few hours later Inquiring whether laying oft of workers Is a revival ot that old and crude policy -Of lay ingff -men daring a'poUticaKeam-palgw- for 'ti isp them In fright and necessity Into I a political I HEARD OTHER CRY I months wo ha vs heard thej ay dinned end dinned end dinned Into oar ears Increase production Increase production" said Mr CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO FEW CARS ARE AVAILABLE FOR MELON RAISERSl WARSAW July Bolshevik Transportation Is Bigm wroanro has compelled tha roles fi ti I to abandon Brody Bolka Jnst I northeast of Blaljstok and Swlsloc- Posey County rt en reported to have been cap- Itured by tha bolshevikL The loss confroBtto of Brody endangers Lemberg Lem-Poeey county melon growers thisllllir year Is the scarcity of railroad carellj" tli0 thJetned to transport the melons to market the uat 018 communication report- sccordlng to George Water I Inf severe fighting In the region of president of the Poseyvllle Bonman iTarnopol where detachments Lemberg Is Threatened From Two Sides by the Army Bolsheviks of CHICAGO 111 July 29 executive committee of Ionian coal operators convened here t( day to consider the etr! In Indiana Philip Penns of Ter: Hants chairmen of tho com mitt-declared inaccurate reports tbS operators would meet tho miners The coal situation In Indiana better end I feel that today then will be even a larger number miners et work than there wee ye terdey Mr Penns raid today befoif the committee went into session He estimated Indiana coal production at about 38 percent below nor mal Coal In dealer yards In Chicane today Is oneelxth to one-seventh of the normal supply an official ct the largest coal compary said to day He declared that If nothing is done to Improve the constantly diminishing receipts Chicago would bo a next week REFUSE TO RETURN TERRE HAUTE Ind July 39 Officiate of the United Mina Workers of America this morning reported tho coal strike situation practically unchanged following a meeting of the men affocted AWI-needs at which they refused ta approve a recommendation of a CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE land is also an aspirant Drilling for prises aggregating $4000 began today end because of the large number of teems entered the contents are expected to go over until tomorrow In class A two teams from Terre Haute Ind and one each from Danville TIL and Albion MlchH are entered In class are entered foom Piedmont Va Massillon Ohio St Louis Mo? PlttolnH Pa Evansville Ind Butler IX Ta-corns Wish Jasonville Ind and and Oil City Pa Me Adoo Agrees to Campaign For Cox NEW YORK July 29 Wm A McAdoo former secretary of tha treasury announced today that he had consented to deliver some speeches In behalf of Governor Cox tl: Democratic presidential nominee In a statement issued after a conference with George White chairmen of the Democratic national committee and Governor secretary last night Ur McAdoo warned that the people would not stand for a presidency" and urged that tha spotlight of pitiless publicity be turned on campaign expenses during the forth-oomlng campaign A Encampment Dates Announced COLUMBUS Ohio July September 19-25 are dates of the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to ba held at Indianapolis this year It was announced hero today by Joseph adjutant general Announcement will be made Angnrt 5 as to special rail rates General said Railroads an working on a schedule of rates from all sections of tha country bo said stArt trp to SAN FRANCISCO Will Carry Mail-ant Map Oat Other Routes NEW YORK Three all-metal monoplane carrying the first trans-continental mall left the flying field at Central Park at 10 o'clock today for Ban Francisco 1 Eleven airplanes escorted the trans-continental machines In farewell flight over New York before the Jnmp westward on the pathfinding' trip to establish an aerial mall route between here and the Pacific coast The monoplanes carried letters from the mayor of New York to the mayors of Ban Francisco end other cities along the ronte' STOP AT CLEVELAND Cleveland Is the first scheduled stopi Other stops will be nude at Chicago Omaha Cheyenne Bait Lake City lteno and Han Francteco The trip not only is expected to maka possible the establishment In September of regular aerial mall service from coast to coast but to yield Information of value to the war department The party includes Lieut Colonel Ilertney chief of the training group army air service Major Lent John Larsen owner and designer of the all-metal planes Captain Rlckenbacker Lieut Charles Colt Wm Btouath of Detroit designer of airplanes Gould Diets of Omaha Alynne of Clevelandl army snd civilian photographers pilots and mechanics Two of tha planes will ba left on tha coast and one la to ba used for forest fire petrol by the sir service week National bank rede crossed the Zbrncs river end ricking of melons will begin nextaM flKhtin along the railroad I which connects with the road below 'Utody URGE DEFENSES Then is fighting ell along the Ztornci river some of tbs bolshevik! Recruit Troops to Battle iri Mexico Wheat prices dropped again Thursday Prices lowered from $2 AT bushel at Evansville to 2A0 Wheat at stations dropped from $2A4 to $247 The change In price Thursday makes a total drop for the test two days of 10 cents Wheat was selling at $290 end $2A7 on Uou day The present price of wheat is the lowest wheat prices have retched this summer The high mark wee reached when $280 and i 378 were paid Borne formers are holding their wheat till they can get 8 bushel Upton Accepts Bid to Reception NEW YORK July Blr Thomas Llpton owner of the defeated America's cap challenger 8hamrock IV announced that he had accepted the Invitation of Mayor Hylan to give civic reception in hla honor here next Tuesday The tentative program Includes a concert end public reception In Central park In the afternoon end a dinner et one of the hotels In tha evening HOW STRIKE WOULD AFFECT EVANSVILLE MEXICALI Lower California I troops having forced a crossing east July 29 Troops wera hrfng Kananetx Podolsk which front Cantu governor of the northern di-wert wlthlll tba outskirts of Bialy-trict of Lower California to repel stok the foil of which is expected what ha described yesterday aa an to occur at any mints Mexican soIdlfn I ticnches fortifications and other Three recruiting officers were works 'for the defense of the War-busy until late last night enrolling nWa Morris president of til Evansville Manufacturers' assorts tlon and general manager of th Bncyrns steam shovel works tot The Journal that the Bncyrus com pany bad only a four cos supply on hand will not be able to run ov Morris said TIis plas burns over 80 tons of coal a day Four hundred employes of th company will he forced out unie the coal situation he rorcea outunws lion Is relieved LUDENDOKFF OFFERS FARI8 July 29 Gen Ludcn-dorff Is said a dispatch to the Journal to have made an offer to the French charge in soldiers Gov Cantu hoped to obtain tn army of 4000 aa tha advancing federate It waa said numbered 8000 Tha governor expects an attack at Ensenada In about Were idolised by the adopted parents end It was the fear of the fa- thrr that caused the mother to attempt to keep the news of the ar- rival of the new baby from him The adopted mother according to the story told knew of the condition and assisted In planning the method of disposing of the Jby 1 OmCKRS POUND HER 'r '4 Officers Shrode and Lew Ison ob-' talned tha Information leading to the location of the mother of the deserted babe Wednesday after- noon after carefully combing the residence district with ten or twelve blocks of the Baldwin Heights stop of the Princeton trae- tlon they found the home of the unfortunate mother At first she refused to admit any knowledge of the affair bnt finally admitted She brought the baby to Evansville herself The adopted mother and i grandmother an old lady almost blind said: father finds this ont kill It wae this fear that caused them to attempt to dispose of the' baby WANT TO HELP HER The Evansville police are not In favor of punishing the woman for desertion Chief Wiltshire Lis raid: she were pat In Jail It would I- probably kill her and It seems a crime to pnt the poor woman In Jail for doing inch a thing aa aha did under tha circumstances" Princeton officers and others familiar with the case are of the earns opinion The foster-father however when first appraised of tha happening demanded that she be punished bnt les plant euiployirq a will be forced a week unless th Posse Fights Bank Robbers JACKSON Mich Three bandits who this morning held np end robbed the Farmers State bank at rasa Lake near here were reported surrounded by a posse at Wolf Lake seven miles southeast of thla city this afternoon An unconfirmed report said that on man haddieen killed In an exchange of shots between the pome and the bandits Deputy been seriously said the Gram a then fled armed Join the at Writ and haa been Being Affray Elliot by assault commit affair was Injured Smith's continued Ireland anin Berlin to raise an army of 1800000 Srt to fight tha bolshevikl in re- point lnaboutfour dsy Thegor- vtn rn of Posed end js sst- Provisional President De La Huerta I i ira AGREED protesting against tha Invasion Hal LONDON July 29 France Vnder' I It-teSd Croat Brittoro tacSS plet recment M8rdlng negotte-tnero waa open rebellion in Lower tima with the Russian soviet gov- CsIHornla lernment despite statements to the contrary mads by sensational and eteranS tO MlVe Inaccurate newspapers declared pAj Premier Lloyd George In the home rarty ana JOCialot nmone today In replying to th iuestlons concerning the Boulogne will give a lawn party ana los I mrif mviuhl orsam soolal at the home ot Chaitsa I Tba mambtra of tha eommlttae In I hevik drones against Poland had charge arsi ChaHaa Eths Jobs Aliz-1 ceased Premier Lloyd George stated andar Osorgo Nsxssn Chaos I he had Jnst received mesas ge and a Brown from the British military mission saying tha bolshevik advance In the CAPT COCHRAN IIERR I north had slowed down and It did Earl Cochran former army eap-liMt appear It was being pushed with tain who did stunting hart last year gnt vigor for tha Centennial In In Evansville Mr Lloyd George said he wee not on a tew bmlnees trip sure shout the situation In Gsllda The Hercules over 1800 men dosed In about coal situation Is relieved Th plant has only a few days' sivpplv on hind du about two cars cfcal John Craft fiiaiagei told The Journal Edward Ploeger au nigtr the Globe-Bosse furniture falter sold that his plant had a upply pi hand that would test stvur weeks the end of that said "we would be forced The Globe-Bos furnl pl! employs shout five hundvd regularly Republican Leader Feels Confident CHICAGO IL July McCarl secretary of the national Republican congressional committee arrived here today and conferred with Senator New regarding assignments of speakers for meetings In the congressional campaigns We feel certain we will retain our present majority ho Bald we also expect to pick np a few seats In the $nd middle west Former Principal of Baker Is in own formerly principal of Baker school and assistant superintendent at Central Sunday school fa here from CM-cago on a 'visit Anderson left Evansville to become a teacher at the Carter Harrison high school of Chicago Baker Avenue Is Paved Into Garvin Work has been started on the Improvement of Baker avenne leading Into Garvin park Dirt from Baker avenne is luting need for filling purposes In the parks Park Superintendent Humphreys Thursday FLINT SELLS PLAYERS FLINT Ulch July Tht sale of Pitcher Walter Tengen end Third baseman Pan! Bpersw to the St Louie Americans was announced today by the Flint vclnb of the Ulclilgan-Ontnrto league' Spent It was said will Join the St' Louis Armed Bandits Rob a Michigan Bank JACKSON Mich July 297-Throe armed bandits today entered the Farmers State bank at Grass Lake seven miles east of here locked the cashier end hie assistant In the cage end escaped la an automobile after looting tho bank Officiate of the bank said the lots might reach $100001 Crime Evidently Result of Heat Hot weather may have been the cause of a theft at tha Arthur Kling Advertising Agency et Second and Main streets An electric fan and a one-piece Iwithing suit were lulsslng from the Kling studloe Thursday brother of Slain Girl Is Arrested JACKSON1 Miss July Russell Hlckox 1 3-yes r-old brother of Beatrice Hlckox 12 who was murdered a week ego et the Hlckox form homo near Charlotte wee taken Into custody by the sheriff to-day end la held as a witness Rules Man Cannot Steal From Wife NEW YORK' July On the tariintaal point timt man can not steal from hla wife John Pedro San-self -styled bull tighter here wis formally released lmre Nefliieday night fwn ''M- Ho iwljvin hevd ns The -report stated that 8hertff Worden had killed and Deputy Verl Kntt wounded It was also bandits after escaping from Lake held np and robbed hotel at Mack Lake ind Into a swamp Scores of men have left Jackson to posse Telephone wires Lake were cut by the bandits only meager information obtained from that point charged With in Shooting Preston Smith colored SOS street wee arrested Wednesday Officer 8aum charged with and battery with Intent to murder following shooting In Baptlsttown No one At tho request of attorneys the case waa until next Tuesday by Judga Muscowitz Looks For Stolen bailiffs duty Is to people Right now Bailiff Jska la looking for some one tote bte watch at tha Ky fair Monday Jaka had left hla timepiece cost In the Henderson sheriffs Someone took the car and lU ticker Later the the nt wera fonnd Bnt the watah to still missing At- and Mrs Tom O' a im BODY OF YANK WILL ARRIVE HERE FRIDAY funeral Services For Russell Goad Jfj eld at Home I The body of Private1 Russell Goad who died st Brest France Oct 20 1018 will arrive In Evans-villa Fridey-Funersl services will be held from chapel 8sturday at 3 pm Ur end Urs Hooker Goad 1822 East Maryland street en the pnrente of the teamens Sentence Is Suspended Eugene Kearney pleaded guilty to violation of the llqnor tew In circuit court Thursday He 'waa fined 100 end given a Jell sentence of thirty days Tha sentence was suspended daring good behavior Federal Officers Collin and Harris captured a trank full of whisky belonging to Kearney at the Lottie bfitol April 2T Sheriff Males was ordered to destroy the liquor Kearney mid that there were twelve quarts snd five pints In the trunk Dct-tructlnn of tho liquor will not ukn u'tOcn till 9utuiiLix nrtwr REVOLT RETORTED ft I I According to word received here ClVt WefllliCT I today soviet revolution has INDIANA AND KENTUCKYi Fnr I started at Kovno where the Iith-tonlaht Friday and probably Batur-uanlan' government ban been over dayi Utde chants In temparatdre I thrown No details of tha1 revolt have reached here TCMPERATUIUB AT AK it la thought he has became reconciled and -la anxious now to help the unfortunate girl and maka the father of the baby maka all restl-tntion possible tomother and child Ortmeyer Meets Rabbi IsiraeVs Friends Delegates to the Northwestern Mutual Agency conference at Mll- waukee this week displayed great Interest' In Evansville Arthur Ort-tneyer agent here said Thursday upon returning great many asked about Rabbi I IXurael tha new pastor at Washlng-1-' (ton Avenna Temple" Ortmeyer said fBJher is the 'Northwestern g-nt'ht Cluciunati and his a prominent Northwestern lunu in New York City jVe nipt tit'i if itivr Oowpn sl- returned frmn i The coal supply of the ios a Werts-Klamer Klamer-G a 0 A Klamer furniture will last them about thlriy'd' according to Oscar Ktamt-r present we are vtipl'y men who would thrown ont of work in cnee we were forced to riose he told The Journal RAILROADS AFFECTED Samuel McLeteb of the Big roar Mid the Iilg Four would be able tn run as It gets ite cool from ell over tie cusl district The I and If will to shut down If there is a c-i' Mrik- In Indiana a moat rf fields lie in Illinois nr-i i'! iivi'ta i iv ill ihiiimit Watch hunt for Musco-wlte who Henderson la hla ant coat car and Four ro- aw- IrorMa STOLE ALCOHOL JJI Louis Weekly Janitor of the Col- ored A living at 42 niand Dearest Bvansrllle TI Claelnnatl TO wtrwwt ws arrested by Offleefs PhLu Tsylor and Morrla charged with Denver MLn RIVER stages AT 1 AM- denatured ab-ohol from behind the Feet Feet I prescription case of the Kraft drug Cincinnati llllKt Paul T5 store Wednesilay fiva ii mi pnm'llllty of I -J" Bi-x'V-Tn 1 Brown while Tnniuuiviii: sirduah uj Imb recelvd 1 nml tan chtrx Mail tllrtlrt Itofjh Wlfft.