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DEMOCRATS TO
MEET ON JAN. 15
Announcements of State
t '‘ Candidates Expected to
Follow Soon.
The announcement of democratic candi
dates In Indiana and other party activi
ties Is expected to follow the meeting of
the men’s and women’s state committees
in Indianapolis Jan. 15. This meeting
will follow the meeting of the national
committees at Washington Jan. 7 and 8.
The Indiana meeting will be for the
purpose of affecting a state organUation
preliminary to the campaign. A secre
tary will be named at this meeting. This
position has been vacant 6ince A. C. Sal
lee, the present state chairman, resigned
as secretary to become chairman to suc
ceed Frederick VanNuys, who became
United States district attorney.
LITTLE TALK
OF CANDIDATES.
There has not been a great deal of
talk of candidates for the appointment,
although the names of Samuel Trabue
of Rushvllle, Joseph W. Kimmel of Vin
cennes, Second district chairman, and
If. h. Ormsby, editor of the Huntington
F/ess, have been mentioned.
The committees will also take up the
question of new state headquarters. The
state committee will vacate its headquar
ters In the Denison hotel in the near
future. It is probable that Mr. Sallee
will propose several locations.
WATCH MEETING •
IN WASHINGTON.
Indiana democrats are turning their
attention to the meeting at Washington
which will open the national campaign.
The meeting will consider plans for the
campaign and presidential possibilities
will be talked of. President Wilson is
expected to settle the question of whether
lie will seek a third term.
Amorg the Indiana democrats who are
cxpectlig to attend the meetings are
Mr. Sallee, Edward G. Hoffman of Ft.
Wayne, member of tbe national com
mittee; Lew G. Elllngham of Ft. Wayne;
Mrs. Alice Foster McCullock of Ft.
Wayne, head of the democratic women's
organization In the state; Miss Julia
E. Landers of Indianapolis, member of
the women’s national executive com
mittee; Charles J. Murphy and Charles
A. Greathouse of Indianapolis and
Thomas Taggart.
Fletcher American
Employes Get Raise
Officers and employes of the Fletcher
American National bank and the Fletcher
American Company have been granted
Increases in salary and a bonus amount
ing to 10 per cent of tbe. 1919 salaries,
it was announced today. The award af
fects 175 officers and employes of the
bank and fifty-one employes of the
Fletcher American Company. Three
months ago the Fletcher Savings and
Trust Company awarded the increases In
salary, usually made Jan. 1. on Oct. 1 of
this year.
Trotzky Murder
Report Doubted
LONDON, Jan. 2.—An unconfirmed re
port from Helsingfors on New Year's
day that Leon Trotzky, the bolshevik
war minister of Russia, had been mur
dered, was regarded today as untrue.
Shortly* after the rumor of Trotzky’s
assassination a wireless message came
through from Moscow containing the
soviets new year’s greetings to the world
and both Lenine’s and Trotzky’s names
were attached to it.
Stutz Employes
to Get $65,000
Employes of the Stutz Motor Car
Company will share In bonuses aggre
gating $65,000, according to announce
ment made by William N. Thompson,
manager of the company. All persons
who have been on the payroll for more
than six months will figure in tbe
awards. Plans are being made by Mr.
Thompson whereby employes can buy
stock in the company.
A Money-Saving Event Extraordinary!
'Rubens Clothes
at Big Reductions
HUNDREDS of men are taking advantage of these F
unusual money-saving chances. We advise that
you get your share of these big values while our stocks |(—
are large and assortments so varied that every size is
here and every taste can be satisfied. We shall expect jl I
Every Suit and Overcoat Price Reduced 'll
is the sale price on is the sale price on is the sale price on !
Suits & Overcoats Suits & Overcoats Suits & Overcoats
worth S3O to $35. worth $35 to S4O. worth $42.50 to SSO.
Other Equally Interesting Values up to $48.50
Rir iroiPM lln Our Childrens Dept j
Save money during this sale
lit $7.35 to $17.35
, for Suits and Overcoats worth SIO.OO
39 West Washington Street tQ
Woman Sleeps 69
Days, Then Calls
for Her Children
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—After sleeping
sixty-nine days without interruption,
Mrs. Dora Mintz awoke Dec. 8 and
smiled. Her condition has been gradu
ally growing better until on Christmas
day she spoke the first conscious words
she has spoken for nearly three months.
And those words were:
“I want to go home to my children!"
The case is decidedly one of the most
interesting in tbe history of medical
! science, not alone because the woman's
I sickness was the result of flu, but be
! cause this is one of the few cases in his
!• tory in which a recovery is recorded.
And it is almost certain now that Mrs.
Mintz will fully recover from her
malady.
On Oct. 6, Mrs. Mintz complained of a
sore throat. She had been a victim of
the flu and was just recovering. The
next night she began the long sleep that
was first broken Dec. 8. She has been
a patient in Willard Parker hospital
since the first few days of her illness and
is likely to be compelled to remain there
for some time yet.
TIGER MAY ASK
POINCARE S JOB
Premier Clemenceau, in Fare
well, Says He Is Not Candi
date for Senate.
PARIS, Jan. 2.—Premier Clemenceau,
the “tiger of France," In a farewell ad
dress to electors at Draguignan yester
day, definitely announced he will not b.
a candidate for the senate, according
to a dispatch received today. The pre
mier also refused to admit he will be a
candidate to succeed President Poincare.
The announcement he will not run for
the senate, however, was taken as strong
evidence he is considering the presiden
tial candidacy.
In his address the premier urged the
electors to pay their taxes and “have
as many children as possible."
“While I will no longer represent yon
.In the senate, I will always remain
I France's most devoted son," Clemenceau
! said. “It is comforting to think I have
I done my duty and will continue to do
so until the end.”
Two Killed in Giant
Powder Plant Blast
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2.-Two men
j were killed and another perhaps fatally
| Injured In an explosion today in the
j Ilagley mill of the DuPont Powder Com
| pany, near Wilmington, Del. A frame
! building in which powder was pulverized
i was completely destroyed.
The explosion was felt throughout
West Philadelphia and many windows,
were shattered In a widespread area.
MINERS EARN
$75 A MONTH
Average for Five-Year Period
Compiled by Statistician
of Union Here.
Bituminous coal miners averaged less
than $75 a month pay for the six years
from 1913 to 1918, Inclusive, the United
Mine Worers of America will tell the
president’s coal commission, it was an
nounced today at the mine workers’
headquarters.
Out of this average wage, mine work
ers have had to pay for their supplies,
such as powder, caps, fuse, oil, transpor
tation to and from the mines, and other
Items, amounting to $8 to sl2 a month,
the mine workers’ officials will assert.
YEARLY WAGE
AVERAGES $878.25.
. In the central competitve field the aver
age annual wage of the workers for the
six years named was 5573.25, it is said.
The statistics on which the figures are
based was collected from government
sources, aa well as from the mining and
statistical departments of the various
states in the central competitive field.
The statistics are not complete for the
year 1919, it is stated. The average wage
of the miners was materially cut by the
six weeks' strike.
“Coal operators recently published ad
vertisements in vybich it was stated that
miners’, whose names were given, earned
from S2O Oto S4OO a month,” said F.lts
Searles, editor of the United Mine Work
ers’ Journal. The names or locations of
the mines in which these men were em
ployed was nto given. Nor did they give
the average earnings of all the men em
ployed in these particular mines.
DOUBTS TRUTH
OF ADVERTISEMENTS.
"We doubt if these advertisements
speak the truth and even if they did
speak the truth they do not mean any
thing, because the earnings of the high
est priced man can not be takeu as an
indication of the earnings of all of the
employes of the mine. The only fair
way to ascertain tbe earnings of the
miners is to take the earnings of all and
strike an average. It is unfair to the
public for the oepratore to pick out a
few men who are fortunate enough to
earn fair wages and then try to mislead
the people into believing that all of the
miners earn such wages.
‘The central competitive field is com
posed of western Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, and It produces
more soft coal than any other field in
the world. Its annual output is ap
proximately 200,000,000 tons, and it em
ploys nearly, if not quite, 200,000 mine
workers. Standard wages are paid In
this field and it is here that the average
earnings of the mine workers for the
six-year period referred to above were
only $873.85 per year. Any man with a
family to support will understand how
impossible it Is for a miner to support
his family on a decent American standard
of living on an income of less than $75
a month, In these days of outrageous
prices. That's why the miners feel that
they are entitled to relief in the form
of a substantial increase in wages.”
Dr. Hitchens Given
Honor in Boston
Dr. A. Pirker Hitchens, head of the
biological laboratories of the Eli Lilly
Company, is the new secretary-treasurer
of the Society of American Bacteriolo
gists.
He was chosen at the closing session
of tbe annual convention of the organi
zation in Boston.
Boy Scouts Guests
of DeWolf Hopper
Three hundred Boy Scouts, who won
honor medals for war work, were the
guestß of DeWolf Hopper at yesterdny
afternoon’s performance of “The Better
Ole" at English’s theater. During the
intermission Mr. Hopper praised the boys
for their work and told of tho patriotic
influences of their organization.
CAN’T WRITE; SENT BACK.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Jose Hadal, Sy
rian, speaks Spanish and French in ad
dition to his mother tongue, but because
he could not write any language immi
gration officials barred him.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1920.
Girl Routs Band
of Gunmen With
Her Dainty Foot
•' S . '
£ ' HARm
CINCINNATI, Juu. 2.—Mis-s Aland
Brockmeier has a dainty foot. When a
gang of bandits entered the First Na
tional bank at Lockland, Miss Brock
meier, the bookkeeper, held up her hands
obediently, but nothing was said to her
about her feet.
So she found an alarm button on ttfe
floor with her tapering right toe and
pressed it down.
A big gong started to ring violently.
The gangsters scrambled out and fled It)
an automobile.
The gang was variously estimated as
numbering from four to six. Employes
of the Lockland bank are good at figures,
but they can’t agree ou the gun count.
“The place seemed full of firearms,”
said one young woman, “and they were
all pointed at me.”
Miss Brockmeier said it was more fun
than a movie.
BUSTLES SOON
TO RETURN, SAYS
FASHION SETTER
LONDON, .Tan. 2.—Fashion, having
declared that backs must be bare, now
demands that they shall also he bustled.
The bustle, however, will be but a shad
ow of its Victorian self.
"Let no one be alarmed,’ is the reas
suring message one prominent modiste
semis to the public. “Those who have
fearsome visions of the wired, rlhbou
draped and lace-burg protuberances of
the fifties had better dismiss that idea
from their minds. The 1919 bustle is
chic in the extreme, dainty and light and
delightfully feminine.”
Lady Duff-Gordon (I.uclle), who is in
New York, has sent two of her mode
bustle frocks to her London establish
ment. These frocks were shown by the
manager to an International News Serv
ice representative. Neither of the dresses
—which are suitable for afternoon or
dinner wear Is at. all exaggerated in
style. The bunchlrsegs in the back of
each in achieved by concealed elastic
bands which gather - he material into
small, outstanding puffs.
All the newest frocr.s show a decided
trend toward the hustle,” said Luelle’s
manager. "To be up to date we must be
bustled, or nearly so. The bustle Idea
may be developed, and ! t is possible that
by tbe spring nearly every Bkirt and
dress may be designed for this effect.
‘“Che bustle is particularly becoming to
a young and slender figure, frocks with
quaint outstanding frills, wired to stick
out stiffly at the back, have been seen
lately at some of the dances. These
semi-bustled effects give a piquant and
charntlug effect.”
LEMON FOR SHOES.
One of the best and quickest ways to
clean tan shoes is to rub the soiled
parts with a half lemon. When the stain
has disappeared, and the leather has be
come thoroughly dry, the shoes may be
polished in the ordinary way.
SUGAR CONTROL
BILL IS SIGNED
President O. K.’s Measure Ex
tending Life of Equali
zation Board.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—President
Wilson has signed the McNary bill ex
tending for one year the life of the sugar
equalization board, it was announced at
the whitehotise.
At the same time a statement was is
sued at the whitehouse saying that it is
doubtful whether it will be practicable
for the president to use the power con
ferred so far as the purchase and distri
bution of sugar are concerned. This
would still leave in operation the power
to control prices, which, according to
the statement issued by Secretary Tumul
ty have “reached their peak.”
Rail Man 50 Years
Retires on Pension
Special to The Times.
LOOANSPORT, Ind., Jan. 2.—J. W.
Fairman, 71, a Pennsylvania passenger
conductor, has been placed on the retired
list of the railroad after serving just
fifty years as an employe. Falrman be
gan his work as a member of an extra
gang in 1869. Three years later he en
tered the train service. He was promoted
to conductor in 1875 and has served in
that capacity since that date.
MERCHANDISE PURCHASED PROM U. S. GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT CON
TRACTORS—ALSO SURPLUS STOCKS OF QUALITY COMMERCIAL MERCHANDISE
OPEN UNTIL 10 O’CLOCK SATURDAY NIGHT
—Everything marked in plain figures. All goods aa advertised.
Money Refunded.
Get ready—High School Cadets!
School reopens Monday morning and you can’t afford to
be without one of these— / / .
U. S. ARMY O. D. WOOL (t* fm
Overcoats v /
(THREE-QUARTER LENGTH) WHILE £.l I
—Just tho overcoat all high school boys are looking LAST. Ull “ \ 1 /y\
for. All are in first-class condition —cleaned and thor- /#/ j ,
Don't Miss These Big Shoe Bargains! Kji
U. S. Army Style rt* //j/
Officers* Dress Shoes //jji I
—Made of finest all leather, dark brown only, plain toe. I
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U. S. Army Style C prf Off 31 I
IJ{. Ilf “Munson last” March- <pL*ol) || ft
\Jr ing Type SHOES qJ 6
U. S. army style, light marching tan, Mun
son l®st, all-leather QA
shoes
5 14'1 1 Ladies’—
Storm Coats A u - S ’ slli PP in g Board
- ~ Merchant Marine
U.S.ArmyO. D. MIDDY SO
WOOL SHIRTS ' %f|aL blouses
—Every Shirt —New goods—made of fine heavy all-
Has Been n H /S !s*:•'yteSffF wool navy blue flannel and broadcloth.
Laundered, Thoroughly t I**
Pressed. (Reclaimed) Men! —
u. s. Army Heavy Heavy Wool SOCKS u ’iMT
Wool Shirts 12%C ”* lr Sailors’ $10.25
anrl DraWPrc mj L £ —Get here early for these. All have _ I
- u aVYCia been cleaned and thoroughly steri- p o ~ Co&tS JL Wr
—Reclaimed and thor- lized. w—mm
oughly sterilized, each p _J) —Made of heavy blue wool broadcloth.
A CARLOAD OF NEW EQUIPMENT
Made for Soldiers and Sailors. Now on Sale at Bargain Prices.
Cash, Certified Check
or Money Order. INIU-ill.
Chabgo’s Poison
” victims 17
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.—Chicago’s list of
ivood alcohol victims since Christmas rose
tlo seventeen today, with the report of
four more cases of poisoning.
Two victims were youths of 16 and 19,
who confessed that it was their first
drink. John Walstrom, 16, died from the
effects of his drink. Charles Bsder, 19,
is seriously ill, and It is feared he will
die.
Wood’s Order Lifts
Martial Law in Gary
GARY, Ind., Jan. 2.—For the first time
since Oct. 6, Gary was taken from under
martial law today.
Gen. Leonard Wood, commanding the
central department, removed the restric
tions at the request of Mayor Hodges.
The city w-as placed tinder martial law
because of riots attending tle steel strike
here. Armed regulars have patrolled the
streets ever since. The troops will soon
be withdrawn.
Train Hits Buggy;
3 Killed, 3 Injured
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 2.—Mrs. Gertrude
Rudolph, 48, and her daughter, Celia, 15
were killed; Joseph Rudolph and two
sons, Roberts, 11, and Clarence, 9, were
seriously injured when their buggy was
struck by a Chicago and Northwestern
train at the St. Francis crossing late yes
terday.
LEASE BRINGS
RECORD PRICE
Furnishing Store to Pay S6OO
a Foot Per Year for Illi
nois Street Store.
Negotiation of a five year lease on a
room at 27 North Illinois street, Involv
ing one of the highest rental agree
ments ever made In Indianapolis, was an
nounced today by Bert Essex, realtor.
Mr. Essex stated that the room, now oc
cupied by Kinzley’s ( hair store, has been
leased by M. Geller of Detroit, Mich.,
who will install a men’s furnishing
store.
The room, which has a twenty-foot
frontage and is 120 feet deep, will rent
for $12,000 a year the full five years,
which makes the rental S6OO a year per
frontage foot.
The building is owned by the S. B.
Whitman Company, 21 North Illinois
street.
Fever Hits Mexico;
Ports Quarantined
TAMPICO, Mexico, Jan. 2.—An epi
demic of yellow fever is raging in many
cities and towns of the states of Yuca
tan, Campeche, Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Quarantine has been established against
Salina Cruz, Progreso, Frontera and other
ports. It Is stated that Vera Cruz is
free of the disease.
43,000 to Teach
Physical Educlg
NEW York. Jan. 2.-More th3
skilled instructors are needed HHpKp
out tbe physical education
the American Physical Education asso
ciation, Dr. J. 11. McCurdy, secretary,
said at the close of the annual meeting
here.
The association was to start a cam
paign to establish physical education as
a compulsory course in all publia
schools.
Officials elected were D* - Dudley B.
Reed of the University of Chicago, presi
dent; Dr. McCurdy of the Springfield
“Y” Training senool, secretary-treas
urer; Dr. William Burdick of Baltimore,
Carl Schraer of the Saregeant Training
school, and Emil Rath of Indianapolis,
executive committee.
Premier Plant to
Get 10-Minute Carld
Ten-minute service during
and evening rush periods and cars
half-hour during the rest of the day wH
be provided on the Premier extension
the Brookside ear line, the Indianajttll
Street Railway Company
day. The service starts Sunday
under the order of tha board
works. ■
The schedule is so arranged that dtirinH
the rush period e-.ery other car on tbß
Brookside line will go to the Premie*
plant during rush hours, but at otheil
times every second car will go to the end!
of the line. *