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VOL. XXXII. NO. 224.
WOMAN LIED IN
DEATH INQUIRY,
CORONERSAYS
Amy Canter, Alleged Common
Law Wife of ‘Medicine’
Victim, Is Held.
POLICE SAY SHE FLED
Amv Canter. 38, alleged common-law
wife of W. I. Taylor, 38, of Terre Haute,
today must tell the detectives all she
knows about Taylor’s death.
She was arrested early today on or
ders from Coroner Paul F. Robinson after
she had told alleged conflicting stories.
Taylor died in his room at the Spencer
house yesterday morning after swallow
ing a supposed dose of medicine. W hen
the authorities were called to the hotel
they learned that Taylor had been inti
mute -with the Canter woman. She left
the Spencer house when she learned that
Taylor was dead. Detectives found her
registered at another hotel.
CORONER CLAIMS
WOMAN LIED.
Dr. Robinson declared the woman made
a sworn statement in his office that she
was Taylor’s wife. Later at police head
quarters, when again questioned by the
coroner and Detectives Roach and Stew
art. she is supposed to have admitted
that she was not married to the dead
man. She said she first met Taylor when
he was employed in a brass foundry in
Kokomo.
“I came here about n week ago with
Taylor and Intended to marry him,”
she said.
She denied knowing anything about
what caused his death or what sort
of medicine he drank. Perjury is the
specific charge against her, although fur
ther investigation is being made Into
her association with Taylor and the
latter’s death.
MAN RECENTLY
OBTAINED DIVORCE.
Taylor was a traveling agent for an
automobile Insurance company. The Can
ter woman formerly lived in Kokomo,
where she was employed.
Police say the dead man obtained a
divorce from his wife in Terre Haute
last week.
Coroner Robinson will conduct an
autopsy and will also have the contents
of Taylor's stomach analyzed
MT. MERIDIAN
STORE ROBBED
Auto Bandits Escape With
Loot Valued at SI,OOO.
Auto bandits robbed the general store
of Delbert Pineture, at Mt. Meridian, be
tween Greeneastle and Indianapolis,
early today and sped toward Indian
apolis in a high-powered machine, ac
cording to a call received by the In
dianapolis police.
The robbers obtained twenty-five pairs
of shoes, seventeen automobile casings,
sixty inner tubes for tires and a large
quantity of wearing, apparel. The total
value of the loot was estimated at nearly
$1,000: Local police spread a drag-net
for the bandits.
WILSON TO ASK
BIG RELIEFFUND
Wants $150,000,000 to Feed
“Bolshevik Frontiers.”
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.- President
■Wilson, It became known today, will rec
ommend that congress appropriate $150,-
000.000 to be used in feeding the starving
people of Poland and other states on
the “bolshevik frontier.”
This appropriation has been urged by
Herbert Hoover, Gen. Bliss and others
in close touch with the situation In that
part of Europe.
The matter of making the appropria
tion is before congress at present.
Wilson is not expected to send a note
to congress, but will suggest to individ
ual members that the appropriation be
authorized.
Secretary Glass appeared before the
steering committee of the house only a
few minutes today and left Gov. Harding
of the federal reserve board to explain
the details of the present financial situa
tion. Glass urged that congress rush the
loan of $150,000,000 to prevent actual star
vation In Poland, Austria and Armenia.
POLICE LOSE
BOOZE STORE
Orbison to Dispense Seized
Liquor in Future.
Booze In possession of the Indianapolis
police department will be taken Into
custody by federal prohibition forces,
according to Charles J. Orbison, special
agent to enforce prohibition.
Mr. Orbison asked the police for an
Inventory of all liquor on hand this
morning. He said that all liquors will
be dispensed under his direction In the
future. Some will be alloted to hospi
tals for medical use and a great quantity
fed to the sewers.
WEATHER.
Local Forecast —Mostly cloudy tonight
and Wednesday; much colder, with low
est temperature tonight, about 16.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m...... 33
7 a. m 36
8 a- m 36
9 a. m 36
10 a. 38
11 a. m 38
12 (noon) 40
Sun sets today, 4:68; rises tomorrow.
6:67; sets, 4:59.
One year ago today, highest tempera
ture, 50; lowest, 35.
Have You Studied
Your Phone Book?
CHICAGO, Jan. 27.—The telephone
directory has supplanted works of
Messrs. Xenephon, Euclid v et al. as a
preparation for teaching.
Henry G. Clark, district superin
tendent of schools, said the only ex
amination given applicants now Is:
"What’s your phone number?” f
Teachers are that scarce, he said.
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HAS THEDA BARA
VAMPED A MAN?
MARRIED, REPORT
Said to Be Bride of ‘’Tom”
Bodkin, Theatrical Man,
hut Is She?
PITTSBURG, Jan. 27.—There was
much speculation here today as to the
Identity of Anna May Wood, bride of
“Tom” Bodkin, theatrical man, who was
reported by friends to have married
Theda Bara, motion picture actress.
Father Thomas Ryan of St. Bridget’s
Catholic church, who performed the cere
mony Friday, today characterized reports
that Anna Wood was In reality Theda
Bara as “nonsense.”
Bodkin is prominent in boxing circle!,
and in addition to managing "The
Sweetheart Shop,” now showing in To
ronto, is manager of Frank Moran,
heavyweight boxer.
The marriage license was issued to
Patrick Bodkin, foreman, and Anna
May Wood, housewife.
MIDDLE MAN’S
PROFITS PILING
UP, U. S. SAYS
Attorney General’s Figures
Show Prices Paid Pro
ducers Decrease.
COMPARISONS ARE GIVEN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Middle men
have accumulated vast profits during the
five months of the government’s cam
paign to reduce prices of necessities,
investigation of two government depart
ments indicated today.
Since the middle of August, when At
torney General Palmer announced he was
going after the “price gougers,” reports
show that:
Prices paid farmers for principal crops
decreased from 3.4 to 8.7 per cent each
month, according to the agriculture de
partment.
Prices paid by consumers Increased
continuously until they reached the
highest point In history In December,
according to the labor department.
BEY CHEAPER,
SELL HIGHER.
These reports seem to indicate that
middlemen are buying cheaper than ever
before, but receiving the highest prices
In history.
According to the agricultural depart
ment, the level of prices paid producers
of the principal crops at the farm de
creased like this:
Three and four-tenths per cent in
August, 8.7 per cent in September, 3.7
per cent in October and 4.7 per cent In
November. Part of this is due to a
seasonal falling off in demand, agricul
ture department officials say. But, pver
a ten-year period, the average 1 de
creases due to seasonal demand were“
only 1.2 per cent in August, 2 per cent
in September, 3.0 per cent in October and
3.6 per cent in November.
MEAT ON HOOF
ALSO DECREASES.
Prices paid farmers for meat-producing
animals also have decreased in the last
five months In greater proportion than
the average seasonal decreases for the
ten-year period. In the month ending
August, 1919, prices decreased .3 per
cent, as compared with a customary In
crease of 1.8 per cent, and in November
average: in September, 1919, 13.6 per cent,
as compared with a eustomery Increase of
2.6 per cent; In October, 9.1 per cent in
crease, as compared with a seasonal de
crease of 1. Bper cent, and in November,
2.9 per cent decrease, compared with 3.8
per cent decrease for the ten-year av
erage.
FIRE LOSS HUGE
IN COLUMBUS, 0.
Quarter of Block Gutted in
Heart of Business Section.
COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 27—Fire, result
ing from a defective furnace, caused the
total destruction of five buildings in the
heart of the business section of the city.
Practically an entire quarter-square was
gutted. The loss Is estimated at nearly
$1,000,000. No loss of life has been re
ported.
Soft Drink Thieves
Nip Alcohol Supply
Special to The Times.
ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 27.—Thieve*
broke Into the Mentha-Peps soft drink
plant here and stole ten gallons of al
cohol. The police are smelling breaths
for suspects.
And Villain Escaped
CLEVELAND, Jan. 27.—Dick Neale,
waiter, has a candidate for the "world’s
meanest man" contest. A patron tipped
him with four car tickets—good In
Detroit
Bryan Starts Survey With U. S.
Help to Dry Up All World
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. —William Jennings Bryan has inaugurated a
world-wide survey for the wet forces, it developed today, and has suc
cessfully enlisted the machinery of the state department in a concerted
drive to mass facts and figures of conditions in wet countries, preparatory
to campaigns to make the whole world arid.
The full strength of the government’s!
diplomatic forces have been placed at
Mr. Bryan’s disposal to prosecute the
canvas, which will not be complete for
many months.
High plenipotentiaries and consul gen
erals have been Instructed to make min
ute studies of prohibition and temper
ance conditions along many lines. These
reports are to be assembled and for
warded to Washington with all possible
expedition.
Already diplomats are beginning to
make their returns under the “dry” sur
vey. The earliest reports have come
from South American capitals. These
are lengthy and elaborate reviews of
*’wet” conditions in some of ftbe gsy
capitals to the south.
Mr. Bryan in conference with leading
“dry” leaders here at a recent jollifi
cation over the national amendment be
coming effective, initiated plans to throw
the bulk of the "dry” campaign fund
into South America, and to follow this
by a spirited drive in other parts of the
world. Early returns of “dry" tables
from South America, officials believed,
may explain in some measure the reasons
advanced for an early campaign In that
FARMS SIDE BY
SIDE MUST PAY
DIFFERENT TAX
How State Tax Board and
Township Assessor Bring
About Inequalities.
FEW CASES IN POINT
The Constitution
“The general assembly shall pro
vide by law for a uniform and equal
rate of assessment and taxation; and
shall prescribe such regulations as
shall secure a jast valuation for tax
ation of all property, both real and
personal.”—Constitution of Indiana.
Further inequalities in the valuations
of farm land in Center township, Marlon
county, were discovered today by a com
parison of land which was revalued by
the state tax board and land which re
tains the valuation placed on it by the
township assessor.
A comparison of the two shows that
the valuations of the tax board are nearly
uniform and that the valuations of the
township assessor are nearly uniform,
but that there Is a great difference in
the price per acre between the two valu
ations.
Paul C. Nelmann owns a farm In Cen
ter township. This property was re
valued by the tax board. It contains
21.34 acres and the total value of the
land Is placed at $6.350, or $298 an acre.
Next to this farm Is a farm owned by
Jacob Sleg. It contains ten acres and
the land is valued at $5,000. or SSOO an
acre. This valuation was not changed
by the state tax board.
AND HERE IS
ANOTHER CASE.
Another case Is that of two farms side
by side, each containing forty acres. The
one revalued by the state tax board car
ries a valuation of $12,000, while the one
which the ta* board did not revalue car
ries a valuation of $20,000. The former
is owned by Mary M. Burk and Mary
Shearer and the latter is owned by El
mer and Katherine R. Poppe. Both are
in Center township.
James and Jane N. Maggennls own a
farm containing 13.22 acres. This farm
was originally valued at $9,100 and the
owner, thinking it was too high, took
their case to the tax board, which re
duced the valuation to $3,900, or $294
an acre.
ON THE
NEXT FARM.
Separated from this farm by a fence Is
the farm of Rose Manzer. This farm con
tains twenty acres and was valued at
SIO,OOO. No request was made for a re
valuation, so the value on which taxes
must be paid continues to be SSOO an
acre.
These are simply additional examples
of the irregularities resulting from the
revaluation of farm land by the tax
board. It is true that nearly every
.►farm In Center township was revalued,
but it is also true that with a very few
exceptions no other Marion county farms
were revalued, with the result that Cen
ter township farm property must bear a
smaller burden of taxation than almost
any farm property in the county.
HAAG SUIT GOES
TO NEW COURT
Druggist Accused of Alien
ating Affections of Woman.
The SIOO,OOO damage suit against Louis
j E. Haag, in which Earl Faulk charges
the alienation and seduction of his wife
by Haag, has been sent to the Shelby’
county circuit court, on a motion for
a change of venue filed by Haag’s at
torneys.
| Recent efforts to have this suit dis
j missed by the intercession of another
attorney than those who brought the
eult on behalf of Faulk failed, and the
Haag attorneys admitted the jurisdic
tion of the superior court by asking a
change of venue five days before the
case was set for trial.
Paul Davis and William E. Reilley are
attorneys for Faulk, who is employed
| In government service.
Gompers, 70, Works
18 Hours Each Day
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Samuel
Gompers, president of the American Fed
eratlon of Labor for forty years is 70
today. Mr. Gomper* works eighteen hours
a day, works at his meals, and “eats
and sleeps and at regular hours and only
when convenient.” gloomily testifies one
| of his secretaries.
Armenian Republic
Not Yet Recognized
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Announce
ment from Paris that the United States
has agreed to , recognize the. Armenian
republic Is premature, as the matter la
still under consideration, It web an
nounced by the state department today.
direction. Particular stress was laid
upon the Importance of returns from
Cuba, asked for by Mr. Bryan, and this
may be the forerunner of an active cam
paign there.
Mr. Bryan is in constant touch with
the state department in the canvass. As
soon as cabled or mail reports are re
ceived they fcre quickly deciphered, cop
ied and sent to Mr. Bryan wherever he
may be on his speaking tours.
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 27.—Oregon wants
to help the United States and her sister
dry states in fighting the Rhode Island
suit against the validity of the prohibi
tion amendment, according to a telegram
sent to Gov. Mllliken of Maine today by
Gov. Olcott.
Mllliken recently telegraphed to ascer
tain if Oregon would go in with twenty
one other dry states to aid the govern
ment In its fight to have the amend
ment declared legal. Gov. Olcott replied
that Oregon would. He also concurred
in the matter Os appointing Charles
Evans Hughes attorney for the drya.
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1920.
PRESIDEN TNAMES DA VID S. HOUSTON
TO BE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
Boy Forger Is
Caught After
Long Pursuit
Capture Comes After Flight to
Coast and Return—Girl
Wife Among Victims.
How an 18-year-old boy obtained hun
dreds of dollars through forged drafts
and checks within a few mouths, eloped
with and married a 14-year-old girl and
eluded detectives in a chase half way
across the continent and ba”k, was dis
closed by officers here today in an
nouncing the arrest of Raymond Harry
Muster, alias Raymond Mulford. He was
taken into custody at Akron, 0., yester
day by operatives of Pinkerton’s Na
tional Detective agency. Detective Mul
lins of the local police force left last
night to hring the youth here.
Muster came to Indianapolis from hi*
home in Jefferson City, Mo., last July.
Soon afterward he went to the City
Trust Company and, posing as A. L.
Cain, a raiiroad man, had the bank tele,
graph the First National bank of Jes
fcr&on City to “send S3OO to the City
Trust Company of Indianapolis” A. L.
Cain of Jefferson City is a railroad man
and an uncle of the youth.
SENDS FOR REMAINDER
OF UNCLE’S ACCOUNT.
The Jefferson City bank honored the
telegraphic draft and Muster obtained
the money from the City Trust Company,
the officers say.
A week later, according to the detec
tives, Muster went to the Fidelity Trust
Company and had them telegraph the
Jefferson City bank to send them the
remainder of A. L. Cain’s account. Again
the draft was honored and Muster re
ceived $330.
Muster, among his acquaintances about
.the city, went by the name of Raymond
Mulford. He told them he was a brother
of Ralph Mulford, the famous automobile
racing driver.
Soon after the fraudulent drafts were
passed on the local banks. Muster, ac
cording to the detectives, eloped to a
small county seat in Kentucky with a
14-year-old Indianapolis girl. They re
turned to Indianapolis and the girl re
turned to the home of her parents, where
she remained.
TRIED CHECK GAME
AT COLUMBUS.
About this lime the deception at the
banks was discovered and the chase of
Muster began. In September the youth
went to Columbus, Ind., and, it is de
clared, attempted unsuccessfully to get a
friend ofdiis wife’s father to cash a check
for SSOO.
Detectives next heard of Muster when
he was sabl to have shown up in Chi
cago. From there he jumped to San
Francisco, where he applied for enlist
ment at the recruiting office of the
United Star as marine corps in November
■and was accepted. He was provided
with transportation to a west, coast
tra'lnitig station hut failed to show up
and his enlistment was never completed.
He was then traced back to Indianap
olis and to Broad Ripple, where he
stayed for a. short time with a relative.
He left Broad Ripple several days ago
for Akron, O.
Telegrams to the detective agency to
day stated that Muster had made a
signed confession telling of forgeries
totalling more than $1.67*0 in Jefferson
City, Mo., St. Louis and Indianapolis.
KNOW NOTHING
ABOUT MARTIAL
LAW FOR IRISH
LONDON, Jan. 27. —Reports that mar
tial law is to be declared throughout
Ireland because of the growing frequency
of clashes between the Sinn Feiners and
the British soldiers and police were de
nied by government officials today.
At the office of the chief secretary for
Ireland, J. lan MaePherson, it was said
that “Nothing had been heard about
martial law for Ireland.”
Downing street (the seat of the British
ministry) branded the reports “false.”
Two thousand American rifles were
lnnded on the Irish coast a fortnight
ago, a Dublin dispatch to the Daily News
said today.
Police, the dispatch said, have been
unable to find the weapons.
POINCARE SPURNS OFFICE.
PARIS, Jan. 27.—President Poincare
will devote himself to the reconstruction
of the department of the Meuse and
will not accept a position In the govern
ment for three years.
WOOD MANAGER 1
1/ OJ
Ch\ % Jr v'.
\feouLt>
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Congressman
Norman J. ..Gould of Seneca Falls, N. Y.,
has been named eastern manager of
the Leonard Wood national campaign
committee. Gould will have charge of
New England states, New York and alv
the Atlantic states south to Maryland,
with headquarters at the Imperial ho
tel, New York,
DEMAND FOR
CARS SWAMPS
ALL RAILROADS
Shortage General, Says Penn
sylvania Line Official—
Business Greatest Ever.
[
MANY FILE COMPLAINTS
Railroads In Indiana are swamped
with calls for cars. Business is so heavy
they are unable to handle It.
This was the assertion today of J. L.
Doer, chief clerk to J. W. Coneys, super
intendent of terminals for the Pennsyl
vania lines, Iri discussing complaints
from Indiana shippers that they are un
able to get cars. Business is the heaviest
lit the history of the railroads. Mr.
Coneys is out of the city.
There is a marked shortage of re->
frigerator cars, automobile cars and box
cars in general. Much freight that could
be shipped In ordinary cars during !
milder weather must, at this time of
year, be shipped In refrigerator cars, Mr.
Doerr said. This i s particularly true ot
potatoes and other vegetables and canned
goods.
NOT ENOUGH
AUTOMOBILE CARS.
There has been complaint from a num
ber of Indiana automobile companies to
the railroad administration that they
had exhausted their storage space and
were facing a shutdown unless they get
cars. Os this class of cars Mr. Doerr said
there was a shortage due to the fact :
that the demand for automobile* Is so j
great that the equipment can not be ob- |
talned to haul them.
Repair men are working day and night
in every railroad shop repairing equip- J
incut and trying to keep it moving. They j
are turning out the cars as rapidly as j
possible but are unable to keep up with
the demand for box cars in which to j
ship grain. There has been much com- j
plaint on this score from the Indiana j
Grain Dealers’ association.
The Indianapolis market, according to |
W. B. Riley of the association, is get- j
ting forty to fifty cars of grain daily i
when with an ample supply of cars it i
should get 150 to 200. JThe same is true lu j
Chicago and other grain markets, he
said. Mr. Riley laid the car shortage j
partly to the fact that old cars nre \
much lighter than the new equipment !
built in the last two or three years and |
the railroads will not put the light cars |
In the same trains with heavy steel
cars.
Ml NEK*’ STRIKE
CAUSED SHORTAGE.
There has been a serious shortage of
coal cars ever since the miners’- strike,
be declared On only a few days has the
Pennsylvania railroad been able to sup
ply the mines along Its lines with 11*0
per cent of their needs. At present ap
proximately 60 per cent of the needs Is
being supplied.
The railroads are doing everything in J
their power to remedy the situation. Mr/
Doerr said. Repair forces are working
day and night to keep the equipment
rolling. Car manufacturers are working
without letup turning out new equipment
but the needs can not be met.
One of the causes for the shortage in j
coal cars, according to Mr. Doerr, Is the
fact that so many coal cars were
diverted from the original consignees
and held loaded that they have never:
all been returned to the mines. The de
mand for coal is so great that the mines :
simply have to wait, after loading a car,
until It can reach Its destination, be un
loaded and returned.
‘FRAMEUF CRIES
VINCENNES GIRL
Teacher Held in Pistol Episode
Has Fiance Arrested.
Special to The Time*.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J„ Jan. 27.
“It's all a fraineup," said Miss Frances
Johnson of Vincennes, Ind., the young
teacher arrested here several days ago
on a charge of carrying concealed
weapons.
She was taken Into custody after she
is alleged to have threatened the life of
Clarence K. Llddle, employed In a United
States shipping board storehouse.
Subsequent events led to an Investiga
tion of Miss Johnson’s mental condition.
“Sane,” was the verdict handed flown
yesterday. She Is still held under SI,OOO
bond on the charge of carrying a pistol.
When she was released the young
woman preferred charges against Llddle.
He is held to the grand jury under $3,000
bond. Miss Johnson told a story of how
she was engaged to Llddle and had come
to Perth Amboy at the request of her
fiance from Honolulu.
Nine Held as Reds
to Be Given Hearings
Nine alleged reds taken in the govern
ment raids of Jan. 3 will be given a
hearing in Terre Haute and Clinton to
day, it was announced this morning.
J. 11. Paul, United States immigration
officer, was in conference with members
of the department of justice today. He
said he would hear leases of reds in Terre
Haute and Clinton today. There were
no hearings in Indianapolis.
Seek Man Who Sold
Shop Three Times
NORLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. 27.—Charged
with obtaining money under false pre
tenses, Thomas McCran, manager of a
local photograph gallery. Is sought by
the police. He is charged with selling
his gallery three times. One man Is said
to have paid SI,BOO for the place, another
$2,000 and a thlrdd $2,200.
Oscar H. Williams of Indianapolis,
state supervisor of teacher tralinn, told
the police he was partner with McCran
In the business. He has asked a receiver
for the business. He says he put $.1,500
into the business.
Vonnegut Employes
Get Free Insurance
Life insurance policies are being dis
tributed to 165 employes of the Vonne
gut Hardware Company, of which Frank
lin Vonnegut is president, as the firm’s
Christmas gift. The po’ieies range from
SSOO to $1,500 and aggregate SIBO,OOO.
Every employe who has been In the serv
ice of the company six months or more
receives a policy.
. ) By Carrier, Week. Indianapolis. 10c;
Subscription Rates. { E i sewhere> 120 . By Mall, 50c Per Month.
New Germany
Gives Pledge of
“Square DeaU ,
Chancellor Tells British Rep
resentative Treaty Terms
Will Be Observed.
LONDON, Jan. 27. —Germany’s first
direct cUplomatlc correspnndeuee with
England in five years is an earnest avow
al of anew “square deal” policy.
Chancellor Bauer seized the first op
portunity personally to emphasize to the
British representative in Berlin, Lord
Kilmarnock, that Germany has no inten
tion of re-establishing her pre-war for
eign political activity, it was stated to
day in authoritative circles.
Herr Bauer was said to have informed
Lord Kilmarnock that “Germany expects
to fulfill all the terms of the treaty of
Versailles.”
Official dispatches from Berlin quote
the chancellor as saying that the effect
upon Germany of the ratification of the
treaty was generally good, but he ex
plained that unless the Germans could
get supplies, including raw materials,
food and clothing, the establishment of a
stable regime with a contented people
would be seriously retarded. The chan
cellor gave official assurances to Great
Britain not to feel any anxiety over Ger
many’s desire to get her industries
“going full tilt," as the Germans recog
nize that it is only by Increasing produc
tion to the maximum that they can pay
their reparations.
CHARGES DIRTY
SUGAR FLOODS
LOCAL MARKET
Dr. Morgan, City Sanitarian,
Asks Wyckoff’s Aid to
Halt Abuse.
SUGGESTS INSPECTION
Dirty sugar is being sold in Indian
apolis, Dr. H. C. Morgan, city sanitarian,
charged today.
Inspection shows that sugar “highly
•contaminated with dust, dirt, hair, plas
tering and other (jebrls - ' has been sold,
lie said In a letter addressed to Stanley
Wyckoff, fair price commissioner.
Dr. Morgan’s letter to Mr. Wyckoff I
follows:
“The health department is receiving a ,
number of complaints relative to dirty j
sugar which is being sold in various
sections of the city. Inspection and
-analysis of some of these wunides prove*
that they are highly contaminated with
dust, dirt, hair, plastering and other
debris.
PRICE WARRANTS
CLEAN PRODUCT.
“It is a conceded fact that there Is a
sugar shortage, but I see no reason why
the same care can not be exercised in '
producing clean sugar as was formerly
the case before there was a shortage in
this highly essential food article. The
public is certainly paying enough per
pound for sugar to warrant getting a
grade of goods which is free from any
contamination. We have condemned
several iota of this sugar on the retail;
market and find that after the whole
saler takes it back it is again resold to
some other line of trade. Personally, 1
think that refining establishments should j
be Inspected more carefully, thereby pre
venting unclean sugar from reaching the
market.
“I would welcome your advice as to
methods to be used to prevent such
grades of sugar from being offered for
sale to the public,”
USE AIRPLANES
TO HUNT RESCUE
PARTY ON LAKE
Seven May Have Drowned in
Trip Over Ice to Stranded
Ship Near Chicago.
CHICAGO. Jan. 27.—Airplanes were
sent out again today to search for per
sons believed missing and possibly float
ing on the ice floes of Like Michigan
while attempting to reach the icebound
steamed Sidney O. Neff. Air patrols of
the lake shore continued last night until
darkness Intervened.
Those believed missing are Edward
Williams, a photographer, who set out to
get pictures of the imprisoned vessel, and
Capt, H. T. Anderson and five members
of tne crew, who had succeeded in walk
ing to shore over the ice. They have not
been heard from since they set out on
their return trip. They may have made
the ship in safety..
The Neff has broken loose from the ice
and when sighted was drifting northeast.
The boat is no longer visible from the
Chicago shore.
AUSTRIA LOOKS TO GERMANY.
VIENNA, Jan. 27.—Under the rallying
call of “starvation or fusion” a mass
meeting in support of a union of Austria
with Germany was held under the aus
pices of the Pan-German party.
Apaches on Rampage in Paris
for First Time Since War Began
PARIS, Jan. 27. —The apache terror holds Paris in its grip today for
the first time since before the war. Newspapers are demanding that the
police immediately launch a vigorous campaign against the lawless ele
ment as a result of the wholesale attacks on escorted women, stabbings,
robberies and holdups that are daily reported to the prefecture.
Operations were begun by the apaches
In the suburbs, but they gradually en
tered other fields until it now reaches
the central part of Paris. Practically all
are youths of 18 and 20, assisted by
young girls who are put out as “bait”
to lure the victims. Some of the depre
dations have exceeded anything In the
past for boldness.
One 19-year-old leader was arrested by;
the police after he had directed a number
of raids from the basement of a case.
The “headquarters" were heavily barri
caded and the officers had to break down
several doora before they got In. A
dozen girls are suspected of working as
"lures" for this gang. They made a
EDWIN T. MEREDITH
APPOINTED AS NEW
MEMBER OF CABINET
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Davis S. Houston, secretary of agriculture,
is to be appointed secretary of the treasury by President Wilson, it was
learned today at the whitehouse.
Houston will be succeeded by Edwin T. Meredith of lowa, editor of
the paper Successful Farmer.
Meredith is on his way to Washington from Miami, Fla., and it is un
derstood he will take up his new duties at once.
Cabinet Member
Transferred; New
Official Appointed
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DAVID S. HOUSTON.
David F. Houston, named secretary of
the treasury to succeed Carter Glass,
wlio resigned to enter the United States
senate, has been secretary of agriculture
in President Wilson’s cabinet since
March 6, 1013. He was born at Monroe,
N. C., Feb. 17, 1866, and was educated
at South Carolina college and Harvard
university. He was a professor of po
litical science in the University of Texas
from 1891 to 1902, the last four years
being dean of the faculty. From 1902 to
19(6, he was president of the Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical college,
when he returned to the University of
Texas as president, remaining until 1908,
when he was elected chancellor of Wash
ington university, St. Louis, Mo. He was
granted leave of absence to enter Presi
dent Wilson’s cabinet but resigned from
the university In 1917.
E. T. Meredith, appointed secretary ot
agriculture, recently came to Indianap
olis and spoke to members of the ad
vertising club and representatives of
clubs from all parts of the country on
•the plans of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World for the 1920 con
vention, which Is to be held here.
Gaby Deslys Ready
to Leave Hospital
PARIS, Jan. 27.—Gaby Deslys, the ac
tress, has improved considerably follow
ing her last operations. Dr. Gossett, the
surgeaon who performed the thirteen op
erations on Gaby, announces the incision
made In the throat from the first opera
tion will not leave a scar. She Is ex
pected to leave the. hospital soon.
SJAY START POWDER PLANT.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan. 27.—In
vestigation of the construction of the
$70,000,000 federal powder plant at Nitro
was begun by a congressional sub
committee.
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strenuous attempt to save the youths
with alibis.
Other suspected apaches were arrested
on the charge of having revolvers, knives
and quantities of chloroform in their pos
session. Many of the lawbreakers are
said to be ex-soldiers.
Aroused by the depredations In the
Montmartre section, the police are mak
ing a roundup of dance halls and cases.
Especial efforts are being made to get
girls of suspicious character. Their part
of the apache outlawry is to make the
chance acquaintance of men and then
lure them Into dark and unfrequented
streets, where they fall easy prey to
apache bands.
Home
edition
TWO CENTS.
iNEW MEMBER
DES MOINES MAN.
The nomination of Secretary Houston
is the first transfer made in the cabinet
since the auwinisrration of Preside Sly
Wilson. It is understood Secretary Hon*
ton, who wag a collegiate professor la
St. Louis before entering the cabinet,
has been anxious for some time to take
up the work of the treasury department,
and he was willing to accept the post
when Secretary McAdoo resigned.
Meredith's home is in Des Moines, la.,
and he has been prominent in democratic
politics in liis home state for some years.
At one time he ran for governor of
lowa. He is well known in agricultural
circles and is regarded as an authority
on such matters.
Meredith is president of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of America.
THIRD IN OFFICE
UNDER WILSON.
In taking over the post of secretary of
the treasury, Secretary Houston becomes
the third man to fill that office since
President Wilson took office. William
G. McAdoo resigned and Carter Glass,
incumbent, resigned to accept appoint
ment as senator from Virginia.
Secretary Houston has long been re
garded as a student of finance and is
familiar with many of the problems
which will come before him in his new
office.
The appointment of two cabinet offi
cers today leaves President Wilson's desk
free of cabinet resignations for the first
time in a month. 1
Secretary of the Interior Lane some
time ago announced that he contem
plated resigning, but his resignation has
not yet been sent to the president.
TELLS VALUE
OF GOOD WILL
Advertising Man Addresses
Department Store Clerks.
Strictly fair dealing with the public
means the building of good w-ill not only
for a department store, but also in
dividually for all clerks who make satis
fied customers, William P. Green, or
ganization secretary of the national vigi
lance committee of the Associated Ad
vertising Clubs of the World, told a
group of representatives of departments
of the Wm. 11. Block Company in a
meeting at the store, held under the
auspices of the Better Business bureau
today. , .
The meeting was' the first of the gath
erings of department store employes be
fore which Mr. Green will speak this
week in the Better Business Bureau's
campaign to increase its membership,
funds and influence. Tomorrow "morn
ing Mr. Green will address four groups
of employes of L. S. Ayres & Cos.;
Thursday morning he* will speak to
groups at the New York Store and H.
P. W asson <fc Co.’s establishment. The
meetings are designed to spread the
message of “Good Will in Business” to
the salespeople. Similar meetings are
being held among newspaper and bank
employes. Mr. Green addressed the edi
torial and advertising departments of
Daily Times this afternoon.
‘ Good will is the thing which causes
a man or woman to make a purchase
at a store, come back- for something
else and tell all his or her friends that
It Is a good store to trade with,”' said
Mr. Green.
“What is good will worth to Mary
Plckford ? People know that they are
going to see a good picture when they
go to see Mary Plckford. Therefore tht
good will which Mary Plckford has built
up by her splendid acting Is worth sl.-
000,000 a ye*r in salary to her. The
same is true, In a degree, of a clerk
in a department store. The more gooff
will he or she builds for the store the
more salary he or she Is worth.”
Mr. Green spoke briefly upon the work
of the Better Business bureau at the
joint meeting of the Advertising and
Rotary clubs at the Claypool hotel thlv
noon.
G F. O]win, secretary-manager of the
Better Business bureau, spoke on the
work of the bureau before members of
the American club at the Lincoln hotel
nt noon today.
L. S. Iliff, Retired
Business Man, Dies
Lewis S. Iliff, 65 year3 old, 2250 North
Pennsylvania street, who died at hi*
home yesterday, will be buried tomor
row. Funeral services will be held at
the home by members of the Christian
Science church and the Masonic lodge
will have charge at the grave. Mr. Iliff
formerly was In the stationery business,
but retired several years ago.
NEW BREAD RATIONS SOON.
BERLIN. Jan. 27. —Beginning with
February the bread ration will be de
creased. New food regulations to go Into
effect then require wheat and rye must
be ground on a basis of 10 per cent
wheat to 90 per cent rye.
Spanked by Family
I'M TH' BO3S ' j"
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 27.—“ I’m the
master of the house bo long as they
don’t ‘gang’ me, Judge,” declared Adolph
Johnson, summoned to court to tell why
It was necessary for his four daughters,
and two sons to hold him prone whQ:
his wife spanked him. I