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2 CENTS PER COPY. VOL. xxxn. NO. 248. TWO OFFICES, STORE ROBBED; THREE HELD UP Bandits Use Wild West Meth ods in Visit to Washington Street Pharmacy. *VIEE WITH S4O IN CASH Four burglaries, three holdups and one pocket picked. This was the crime record in Indi anapolis for the last twelve hours ending at 10 o’clock this morning. Here’s the record in tabloid form: BURGLARIES. Athel C. Smith, 61S Parkway ave nue. Home . ransacked and small amount of money taken. William Nackenhorst Company, Dawson and Naomi streets. Draw ers and desks ransacked. Stamps valued at $2 taken. Ed Huckleberry, 543 Berwick ave nue. Two Liberty bonds and jew elry missing. A. B. Meyer Company, 1240 Madi son avenue. Looted cash drawers. Got revolver, but no mone.v Checks undisturbed. HOLDUPS. T. A. Althardt’s drug store, Wash ington street and Garfield avenue. Twenty-four dollars taken. Harvey Parker, jewelry salesman, 756% West Michigan street. Held up In rear of 1417 Alvord 6treet and badly beaten. Unidentified woman. Knocked down In front of 527 East Twelfth street snd relieved of 525- POCKET PICKED. Ernest Lepper, railroad man from Pittsburg. Met stranger at Wash ington street and Kentucky avenue. He’s shy S7O. Detectives believe the same burglars visited the offices of William Nackenhorst Company, Dawson and Naomi street, and the office of the A. B. Meyer Coal Com of entering the offices was the same. BREAK GLASS, THEN OPEN WINDOW. A hole was knocked in the glass of a rear window, and the thieves reached through and unlocked the window. At each place the burglars apparently wanted only money for cash drawers and desks were ransacked. At the Meyer office the burglars got only a revolver. The cash drawer was thrown into a corner but checks were not molested. James Kimble, 2125 Madison avenue, manager of the south yards of the Meyer company, discovered the rob bery. He told Sergt. Murphy that no money was ever left in the office. At the Nackenhorst Coal Company’s office the burglars found the safe un locked and ransacked it, scattering the papers over the floor. They obtained about $2 worth of 2-cent postage stamps. They ransacked the desks and then sat down to enjoy a smoke. John Schreyer. 1420 Prospect street, manager of the yards discovered the robbery. HAD GOOD CIGAR ANYWAY. “Those crooks got a good cigar.’’ he told Sergt. Murphy as he looked at the ashes on the floor. “I was saving it to •moke after dinner today.” The police believe the robbers are the same who entered two offices in the nortbast part of the city the night be fore. • Os the three holdups the boldest was committed at 11 o'clock in the evening at the T. A. Althardt’s drug store, Wash ington street and Garfield avenue. Charles C. Hahn, 818 North Jefferson avenue, a clerk, was In charge of the store. He was- behind the prescription case when the holdup men entered, but he did not know it until he w alked to the front part of the store and saw Leon Hazel, S5 North Colorado street, a clerk in the store, and Joe Graham, 30 South Denny street, a customer, standing with their bauds raised high above their beads. MASKED MAN / TOTES TWO REVOLVERS. One of tbe two robbers wore a black mask. The other was not masked. The man with the mask carried two revol vers and ordered Ilahn to open the cash drawpr. The robber then helped himself to $24 and the holdup men ran from the store. Lieuts. Shubert and Ball were (Continued on Page Four.) HOOSIER SLAIN IN CLEVELAND Supposed Laporte Man Stoned, Stabbed, Thrown Over Bank. CLEVELAND, Feb. 24.—The mangled body of a man, believed to be Muzzio Laporite of Huntington, Ind., was found In a pool of blood near the outskirts of Cleveland today. A card bearing a post office number. Box 411, and the above name and address, were found in the vic tim’s pocket. The victim had been beaten over the head with a stone and stabbed several times. The body wasthrown over a forty-foot embankment. Police found the stone and knife used in the murder at the top of the embankment. No trace of the slajers has been found by police investigating. .DEATH IN TRAIN ' OF SNOWSLIDES DENVER, Feb. 24. —Two are dead, one is seriously injured, rail traffic is tied up and much property damage is re ported from various points on the Den ver & Rio Graide railroad today as a result of snowsltdes caused by heavy rains and high temperatures. Dispatches report thirty slides in a distance of nine miles between Shoshone and Glenwood Springs. Mexico to Release 2 U. S. Army Flyers WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—The Mexican government has ordered the release of the American army aTlators, G. L. Usher and M. E. Wolf, "held with their planes below the border, the state department was advised today. The order said tht aviators with their planes would be re turned to the United States. ,U. S. Hunts Retail Meat Profiteers WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—The United Slates bureau of investigation is hunt ing evidence against retail meat profit eer* In every section of the country, It was learned at the department of justice today. Arrests a A expected. Puallshed at Indianapolis, Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at Ind., Daily Except Sunday. Postoffice. I ndlanapolls, Ind., under act March 3. 1579. Nation Uniting to Back McAdoo With Ballots Old-Time Managers Worried by Strength of Popular Movement for Him. NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—William G. M'-- A.doo is contlnuins just as persistent in his detreminalton not to enter preferen nomination for president, as his friends tial primary contests for the democratic nomination for president, as his friends rea persistent that he shall be the San Francisco nominee. Mr. McAdoo took the stand some time ago that the convention should be an assemblage of ••untrammeled men and women,” free to enunciate a platform and select a candidate In a truly de liberative manner. For that reason he has refused to authorize any effort on his behalf in the states that have pri mary laws which could be utilized to Instruct delegates. Friends have Impor tuned him to change hls attitude, but he has not indicated that he has any Inten tion of altering hls position. The result of Mr. McAdoo’s attitude and the enthusiasm of his friends is that there are unauthorized movements to place * hls name on preferential ballots In several states, and these moVements simply “will not down.’’ GEORGIA TO , GO ON RECORD. When Mr. McAdoo’s old friends In Georgia circulated a petition and pre pared to place hls name on the preferent ial ballot, he wrote them u respectful letter in which he declared tlmt he would not be a party to the movement. There 'after he gave out the word to those friends who visited him that he meant just what he said. The visitors argued, appeared surprised, but weut away con vinced that McAdoo really meant what he said when he wrote that he would not take part in a fight for delegates. They went home and held an all-day conference and then sent out the word that, whether McAdoo wanted it done or not, they would put his name on the ballot, on the theory that they had the right to express their preferences and proposed to exercise that right. McAdoo paid no attention to this "revolt." He assumed that he had made his position clear and that ended the matter as far as he was concerned. Inquiries on the same subject coming from other states were answered by ret erence to the Georgia statement and when it was suggested that the Georgians did not appear to be abiding by Mr. Mc- Adoo’s wishes, it was made very apparent that the announcement of Intention to proceed without his approval was not taken seriously by Mr. McAdoo nor was it any part of his wishes. SAME ANSWER TO INDIANA. Along about the same time the Indiana situation was brought to the attention of both Mr. McAdoo and hls most intimate friends. They were advised that a strong McAdoo sentiment had grown up In In diana and that petitions to place hls name on the ballot were being very well received. The Information did not ap pear to make a particle of difference to McAdoo In so far as hls determination to stay out of the primary fights was concerned. He again took the position of the man who had ‘‘said his piece" and expected that to end things. Th result of these two Incidents Is that politicians at Washington and New York are puzzled. They are beginning to -realize that a campaign for a nomi nation without a manager, without an organization and, In fact, without the participation of the principal has been launched and they do not really know whether to laugh or worry. A campaign of this kind has never been started before. It is contrary to the "best usages” In political circles. And It Is so thoroughly unique that' the politicians just do not know how to (Continued on Page Four.) COPS ROUND UP ALLEGED GANG Six Men Under Arrest as Re sult of Box Car Thefts. Six men are under arrest today follow ing the roundup of an alleged gang of thieves. George Hodges, 21, Linden hotel; Harry O'Haver, 19, 911 East Washington street, and Henry Tunnicliff, 29, 3518 Balsam avenue, are charged with grand larceny. Leonard Mersberger, 19, 1637 Union street; Ralph Shortrldge, 19, 1730 South Meridian street, and George Kugleman, 39, 914 Edison avenue, are charged with receiving stolen goods. The Investigation and subsequent ar rests followed the sale of a quantity of shoes and automobile tires and wheels by Tunnicliff to Shortrldge and Mersberger, according to the police. They claim some of these articles were stolen from box cars in the ea6t yards of the Pennsylva nia railroad. Hodges and O’Haver, it is charged, 6tole an automobile in Kokomo and sold it to Kugleman for S2OQ. The arrests were made by Rugenstein, Hynes, Fields, Rader, McMurtry and Irick of the auto squad, co-operating with Railroad Detectives Daisy and Hussey. They claim all of the men are members of the same gang. Goodrich Plan to Get Millions in Road Taxes to Meet Fight When the next special session of the Indiana legislature is convened, probably in March, an attempt will be made to pass a bill designed to raise millions of dollars for the building of roads in Indiana. This bill, which will be written by the republican majority in the assembly, will seek to levy a tax of from 40 to 20 mills, the sum thus obtained to be placed at the disposal of the present Goodrich controlled highway compassion. Opposition to this measure, for there* is sure to be opposition, will not be based on the fact that It means another increase In taxes for the state, nor will it reflect a sentiment against road Im provements. It will be based wholly on the grounds that the Goodrich appointed and Goodrich controlled highway com mission is not competent to be entrusted with the expenditure of such large sums and that money so entrusted will be expended without producing the roads which it should buy and which it is conceded every one in Indiana wants. Speculation as to the future action of a body such as the highway commission must necessarily be predicated largely on its action In the past and there Is noth lug In the last year’s work of the high way commission to indicate that it is a fit body to have in band the expendi ture of millions of the taxpayers' money. On the contrary, it Is absolutely certain that future generations will look back upon the expenditures of the Goodrich commission of 1919-M as the v.'ldest ex- Jnirtmra llaifo Hunts STOP ANARCHY, WORD TO RUSSIA FROM PREMIERS \ Commission to Study Soviet Rule Before Resuming Diplomatic Relations. BORDER PEACE SOUGHT LONDON, Feb. 24. —The council of premiers has decided to ask the league of nations to send a commis sion to Russia to study the situation there, it was announced officially today. “It is highly desirable to obtain authoritative information concerning conditions in Russia,” an official statement said. It was further announced that the council had decided : “We can not take up diplomatic relations with the soviets, In view of past experiences, until we are con vinced that the bolshevik horrors have ended.” In official circles it was presumed tbe duty of the commission will he to deter mine if the “horrors” have ended and to gather Information relative to the re sumption of trade between the allies and the Russian co-operative societies, now said _by Premier Lenlne to be under soviet control. The decision to resume trade was reached by the old supreme council in Paris several weeks ago. ATTITUDE ON BORDER NATIONS. The council has decided to notify Po land and Roumanla not to attack the bolesbviki, It Is understood. In the ev. nt that these nations are attacked by soviet armies, however, the entente will guar antee Its help. In some quarters reports that soviet armies already have attacked the Pole* were received with considerable anxiety. These observers pointed out that the attacks, if they presaged a movement in force, might hare a tremendous Influence on future allied relations with tbe soviet. Outlining the deeper significance of the council's action diplomats pointed otit that back of every move by Lloyd George or Millerand has been an attempt to Im prove the position of his country In re lations with the new Russia. Far-seeing statemen realize clearly that In the future Russia will play an Immense part In European politics, diplomats pointed out. and the nation having the friendship of the Kus lan people and its government will have powerful hacking. FRENCH AND BRITISH PLANS COMPARED. Both Fraince and Great Britain have gained the enmity of tbe soviets. It was pointed out, arid each has had a differ ent plan to get ba- k Into Russia’s good graces. Premier Lloyd George, accord ing to the diplomats, believer the soviet government is destined to remain in power, at least temporarily. For that reason be has pressed Immediate resump tion to trade between Russia and Great Britain as the Initial step In re-estab lishing British prestige Now, they be lieved, tbe British premier was ready to advocate open peace with the soviet government. The French, it was pointed out, have incurred greater hostility from the Rus sians. While Millerand realizes that Lloyd George's vourse offers the greater advantages, he Is forced to carry out the policy started by Jiis predecessor—con sistent opposition to the soviet govern ment. His chief hope, the diplomat* be (Cantlnued on Page Four.) IRISH EXECUTE BRITISH AGENT Former Sinn Feiner Is Court- Martialed and Shot. CORK, Feb. 24—Evidence of the first Instance of an execution of a British secret agent by order of a “court of thf Irish republic” came to light here today. It was iearned. Investigation Into the death of Harry Qulnnllsk, alias Quinn, a former Sinn Kelner, has revealed that he was sen. fenced to death by a Sinn Fein court martial, led Into a lonely field at mid night and shot down. None of the men were masked. The proceedings throughout were drastic, according to Investigators. Qninnlisk, they said, stood in the center of the Sinn Felners while the findings of the “court" were read by tbe rays of a flashlight. The document recited the charge against Qulnnllsk, the evi dence to subetai tlate the accusation that he was a British spy and the final sen tence of the "court” that he be executed. The man was allowed three minutes In which to pray, then his body was rid died with bullets. Tbe dead agent had served during the war with the Royal Irish regiment, was captured at Laßasse and taken to a German prison camp. There he met Sir Roger Casement and Joined the famous Irish brigade organized to carry out tbe invasion of Ireland. He was well ed ucated yand spoke several languages. He was made a sergeant major. After the armistice Qulnnllsk was re leased and returned to Ireland. travagance in the road building history of Indiana. No one who has gone to the trouble to make comparisons between the road work ordered by the present commission and the road work done by states that have for many years been engaged in improvement of their transportation fa cilities can help being appalled by the foolishness of the policies adopted by the Goodrich commission. Comparison shows that Indiana is to day building under the guise of “per manent” roads, structures that have been abandoned by New Tork state as un suitable "durable” roads. Comparison also shows that such roads ns are now being built by the Indiana commission are costing from $5,000 to 510,000 more a mile than better con structed roads of the same type cost New York. The indictment against the kind of roads that are being built by the hlgh (Contlnued on Page Five.) INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARtf 24, 1920. PHONE RA TES GO UP 25 CENTS MONTH; MA YNOT ISSUE SPECIAL SESSION CALL GOODRICH, IN LETTER, SAYS HE’S UNDECIDED Time Approaching When He Must Make Up His Mind, He Tells Republicans. SUMMONS CANDIDATES A second special session of the In diana legislature may not be called. Despite definite promises made by Gov. Goodrich in nearly every speech deliv ered on his recent tour of the state an-J despite definite promises to the American legion that appropriations for its national headquarters would be taken up at a special session, he Is-still unde termined whether or not to call a session, according to letter received from him today by republican candidates for gov ernor. HERE 18 TEXT OF GOVERNOR'S LETTER. The governor’s letter to candidates fol lows : “The time Is approaching when It is necessary for me to determine whether or not a special session of the general assembly- Is to be called. “I would like to have a conference with the candidates for state office upon the republican state ticket next Thursday. The state committee meets upon that date and i assume that most of the candidates will be In the city anyway. I would like very much to have you meet me In Room 321, at the Sevcrin hotel, Thursday, Feb. 26, at 2 o'clock." This Is the first Intimation from the governor that a special session may not be called. He has given persons asking blm about It to underhand that there was no doubt about the calling of a session. AND IT HAD BEEN “INE\ ITABLE.” On Jan. 17, the day after the one day session, which ratified the national suffrage amendment, tbe governor, when asked If he Intended to call a second special session of the legislature, said: “There Is no doubt about a second special session being culled, {such a session Is Inevitable. The onl.V ques tion is when It will be culled.'* This statement followed u conference with republican members of the assembly the night before when the governor gav* them to undent.ind that ■< second session would be called and when he gave them to understand that be would not oppoa smeudmeiitM to the tax law taking from the hands of the tax board tbe power to past on local bond Issues. LEGION COMMITTEE I*AYH HIM CALL. Just before the one-day session con v > tied a committee representing the .Cll'|wvi<-an legion and representing an or ganlzHtlon of citizens who are interested In the construction of a war memorial building In Indianapolis to be used as the national headquarter* of the Amerl can legion called upon the governor and asked him when the legislature would consider an appropriation for the erec line of such a building. This committee was told that tbe question would not come before the one-day seslon, hut thit It would come before a second special session. When the one day session was convened Senator Cravens attempted to Introduce a bill providing an appropriation for such a building. Kenator Tague. a member of the American legion, led the oppn*|tlou to (he lntroduetlou of the bill. He said the American legion did not wish to have the bill Introduced at that time, referring to the governor's promise that It would be considered at a second special session. On the strength of this argument tbe sen ate refused to accept the bill. WHAT GOVERNOR SAID AT EVANSAILLF- In hls speech at Evansville Feb. 10 Gov. Goodrich said: "The legislature will be given an opportunity at a special session which will couveno In thirty to sixty days to consider amendments to the tax law. I will not object to changes lit the law In regard to the control of the legis lature over bond Issues and local levlea." In hls speech at Logausport Gov. Good rich promised definitely that a special session would be called "In thirty or forty days.” THEY’LL TALK IT ot’ER. When the meeting or the state commit tee and tbe state candidates for Feb. 26 was announced It was said that the meeting was to be called to determine what, measures should be presented to the assembly. It was stated that a pro gram would be outlined and that tbe program would be sent to members of the legislature for their approval or for suggestions for Its alteration. Noth ing was said about the possibility that no session would be called. The letter caused considerable con sternation among candidates for the re publican nomination for governor, who had Understood that a “session was in evitable." Lieut. Gov. Edgar D. Bush, one of tbe candidates, said he would not be a party to any attempt to gag the assembly should a session be called, Other candidates would not make state ments, but there were general expres sions of surprise over the governor’s letter. The governor has demanded repeatedly that all republicans. Including candidates for office, approve hls administration. The candidates are now wondering whether they will be expected to approve the administration, with all its mistakes which the legislature was to be asked to correct. O'NEIL TO SEEK CHAIR IN CONGRESS LAPORTE, Ind., Feb. 24.—Official an nouncement of the candidacy of William P. O’Neil of/Mishawaka, former lieuten ant governor of Indiana, for the demo cratic nomination for congressman In the Thirteenth district, has been made. Ralph N. Smith of this city has al ready announced his candidacy. Newsprint Shortage Gives Papers Holiday BOSTON, Feb 24—Ail the afternoon pnpers In this city, most of those In Massachusetts, and several in other parts of New England did not publish yes terday. Announcements generally at tributed the omission of publication to the holiday observance, but It was Raid the Shortage of newsprint paper was a factor in thoylecislon in many instances. Willie , Milk Does Not Grow in Cans CLEVELAND, Feb. 24.—Following' the assertion of one school boy that milk grew In cans, It was decided to take classes of children to the coun try for a study of farm animals. REFUSES WRITS FOR ARREST IN RUM REBELLION U. S. Inclined to Censure Dry Oflicers, Not Iron County (Mich.) Prosecutor. EXPLANATION SATISFIES MARQUETTE, Mich., Feb. 24. War rant* for the arrest of Martin McDon ough, prosecuting attorney of Iron county, and other officials alleged to have Interfered with enforcement of pro hibition in Michigan, were refused to day by United State* Commia-loner 11. It Hatch. When called upon by Maj. Palrymple for warrants, Commissioner Hatch said he could not Issue them without Instruc tions from either United States District Attorney Walker at Grand Itapids or Unite'! States Judge Clarence Ses*lon-> or Attorney General Palmer. Hatch in a telegram to Walker at Grand Rapid* ask‘d Instructions as to whether he should Issue the requested warrants Immediately. ud if, after ar rest* are made by Palrymple, he should Issue warrant* lo hear the case. Palrymple announced that he would watt until 2 p. m. for arrival of war rants. If warrants have not arrived at that hour, Palrymple *ai<! he would pro ceed Immediately with hls party of armed deputies to Iron river and make arrests. Following the conference with Hatch. Palrymple said "Hatch stated h was wilting to Issue the warrants, but that be Is following Instructions.” EXPLANATION SATISFIES U. S. WASHINGTON. Feb. 21—Tbe depart ment of Justice Is uot likely to Interfere In the alleged “whisky rebellion" In Iron county. Michigan. This was stated at the department today pending the return of Attorney General Palmer A complete report of the Michigan af fair has been received by the department. It was stated, and It indicated that the prohibition officer* proceeded Incautious ly In tbelr activities and without prop erly consulting local officials. This re port Is expected to be accepted by tbe attorney general. Commissioner Roper of the bureau of Internal revenue held a long conference with prohibition officials In an effort to lay down definite rules which would bring about closer co-operation between local and federal authorities and which would restrain over zealous prohibition officers. Assistant Attorney General Frierson atated he had received a message from State’s Attorney SI. S. McDonough In Iron county, charging that the state ments made against him have been ”ma llolousfy false,” and that he correctly protected men whom prohibition officers sought to “prosecute.” Mr. Frierson ald he was Impressed with the “frank ness" of McDonough’s telegram and that the nrtorne.v general had ordered United Htates District Attorney Walker at Grand Rapids to attempt to “Iron out" difference* between McDonough and Maj. Palrymple, prohibition officer. Mr. Frierson said there was little likelihood of nn investigation of McDonough’s con duct. ADRIATIC NOTES TO BE PUBLISHED Wilson’s Latest Reply Being Decoded for Premiers. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—President Wilson's reply to the silled premiers’ note on the Adriatic question was ex pected to be in the hands of Ambassador Davis in London within twenty-four hours. It was officially stated today. It will be immediately transmitted to the allied premiers after being coded. Full publication of all of the Adri atic correspondence is expected shortly after the reply his been placed In the hands of the premiers. | The president received the completed note late yesterday and it is under stood that he approved it. It was ex i peoted to be placed on the cables lm j mediately. FIGHT DELAYED BY SHIP BOARD Court Signs Unopposed Order Against Big Sale. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Justice Bailey of the supreme, court of the Dis trict of Columbia today signed the temporary injunction order sought by William Randolph Hearst, restraining the shipping hoard from selling the thirty passenger ships seized from Germany during the war. Counsel for the shipping board gave no notice of intention to tile an appeal, indicating that the shipping board will await actiou of congress before taking further steps for the sale of the ships. 1-Cent Stamp Bill Favorably Reported WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Favorable re port on the annual postoffice appropria tion bill with an amendment providing for a 1-eent drop letter rate, has been ordered by the senate postofflee commit tee. FATALLY SHOT BY BROTHER. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. “’4.— Roy S. Bradford, 11, son of W. D. Bradford, wealthy farmer of Union county, Ken tucky, died in ™ h <spltal here today of wounds received when big brother Mor ris, 16, shot him accidentally while duck hunting. _ . ... t, I By Carrier, Week, Indianapolis. 10c; Subscription Rates. { Elsewhere, 12c. By Mail. 60c Per Month. RISK IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR AS DEMOCRAT Lafayette Man Announces Candidacy in Letter to John R. Jones. STATES VIEWS ON ISSUES James K. Risk of Lafayette today ! announced his candidacy for the democratic nomination for governor of Indiana. The announcement was contained in a letter to John R. Jones of Plymouth, who,'as a member of the legislature in 1915, “fathered" the present primary law. Mr. Jones, it j is understood, will he Mr. Risk's cam | paign manager. Mr. Risk's letter ! follows: I j “I haw given your letter of Feb. Ift 1 very careful consideration and I note , what you say in regard to my becoming a candidate fur governor and your rea i sous for forming an opinion. “Yon speak of my qualifications and broad acquaintance tn Indiana. The ques ! tion of qualification is an; extremely Im portant one. I believe ttW one of the essential qualifications the democratic candidate for governor should have ts the knowledge and acquaintance of men. He should know men who prey upon gov ernment in order that government may be protected from their eornipt and de bauching Influences. This is just us e* sential ns it ts for a governor to know men, who are consecrated to the right principles of government and who would desire to serve both their part;- and the state honestly and efficiently, believing that the roan who serves his state hon estly and well best serves his party. “I believe that I have a sufficient ac quaintance In the state of Indiana to meet this one qualification. “You say the Risk sentiment Is grow ing stronger, as the political discussions of available candidates become more pro nounced. I think, perhaps, yon are mis taken in regard to this being a Risk sentiment. I think there ts a sentiment In .Indiana, not only In the democratic party, but among all citizens, men and women alike, that candidates mast have I convictions and be willing to fight for them, and I believe on this proposition I can qualify. STANDS WITHOt T FEAR OR FAVOR. “I not* what you say In regard to the machine opposition and I am of the opinion that the machine has realized long ago that I was unafraid to de | elnre mv position on questions effecting ! the party's organization, and to defend my |M>*ition without fear or favor. "You an? of lie opinion that the ma chine’s outspoken opposition to my pro nounced views on th“ temperance and wont*n's suffrage question Is not their 1 real reason for opposing me. buV that you think thetr '•enl opposition Is due to the demoralizing defeat of the rryicbine In the direct primary fight during the IPI.I legislature, and that the machine realized that -my management of the pri mary fight had much to do in securing the passage of the bill. “You. perhaps, are right in yotir final conclusion. 1 think the greatest blow that the old democratic machine ever received wits the passage of the direct primary law and if anything that. I did to help the passage of the bill incurred Increased enmity e.f the ma chine In the tight. 1 certainly am glad to have won the additional enmity and on the other hand, I accept as a fair (Continued on Page Four.) NEGRO SLAYER CASE NEAR END Jury Expected to Hold Fate of ‘Big Boy’ Northington Today. Special to The Times. SHELBY VILLE. Ind., Feb. 24—Tbe case of Upshaw Northington, Indianap olis negro, charged with the murder of Sergt Wade Hull of the Indianapolis police department, is expected to go to the Jury late today. Arguments were be gun by both sides when court reconvened after the noon recess. Northington took the stand in his own defense during the morning. He said he had left the revolver which the detec tives say was used to kill Sergt. Hull at the home of Tommie Timmons on Spring street before he went to the gam bling house. Northington claims he did not see a policeman as he fled through a window when the raiders broke In. The fact that tbenegro does not, read or write caused much of the state’s evi dence concerning his supposed confes sions to be thrown out. Fifteen witnesses were used by tbe prosecution Monday, Claris Adams, prosecutor of Marlon county. Inform ing Judge Blair at 5 o’clock that the state had finished with its witnesses, although It did not wish to rest its case until this morning. Since being brought, into court at the beginning of his trial, Northington has been very jovial after four months or confinement in the Shelby county Jail, In which there have been no other pris oners. He ohated with a number of his friends Monday and after court ad journment Monday evening was the een tetr of a group of colored friends from Indianapolis who looked upon the big negro as rather a hero. Northington be came loud several times Monday while he was being consulted by his at torneys and bad to bC admonished to speak in lower tones Valentine Baby’s Dad Faces an Affidavit The alleged father of the “Valentine Baby” was revealed today as Washington Stockton of Sidell, 111., In an affidavit filed In juvenile coart. The “dependent affidavit” was Alert by Irene Byers, a policewoman, the intent being to have the child, horn of parents of another state, declared a dependent so that authorities eanrpermlt it to be adopted. In the affidavit she gives Stockton as the father and a 17-year-old girl as the mother. Several people wanr. to adopt the baby, it ia aaid. , - ■ - - ■'' PUBLIC SERVICE BODY ORDERS INCREASE FOR INDIANAPOLIS LINES HOW PHONE RATES HAVE ADVANCED The following table shows how telephone rates in Indianapolis have advanced in the last three years, including the increase allowed by the Indiana public service commission today: Business Unlimited- Pre-War. War. Proposed. Ordered. Individual $4.50 $6.75 SB.OO $7.00 Two-party line v .. 3.50 5.75 6.75 6.00 Extension . 83 1-3 1.00 1.00 1.25 Residence Unlimited— Individual $2.00 $3.00 $3.75 $3.25 Two-party line 1.50 2.25 3.00 2.25 Extension 50 .50 .50 .75 Rural Unlimited— Residence ......# $2.00 $2.00 $2.25 $2.00 Business 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.75 Business and residential telephone rates in Indianapolis are increased 25 cents a month by the rate order handed down today by the Indiana public service commission. Rates for private exchanges were also increased. The rate for two-party residential telephones was not increased. The order resulted from the petition for an increase in rates, amount * g to nearly 90 per cent above pre-war rates, filed by the Central Union Telephone Company, Nov. 20, 1919. SEEK TO BLOCK PHONE INCREASE BY COURT FIGHT The order of the public service com tbission, granting increase of rates to the Central Union Telephone Com pany, will be fought in the courts. T. Ernest Mabolm, counsel for the Tele phone Patrons' union, asserted today. "The petition as filed was a petition by tbe Central Union Telephone Com pany, an Illinois corporation,” he s-rid. “The public service commission law specifically sets out that It la applicable only to Indiana corporations. I filed a motion attacking tbe jurisdiction of the commission. To get around this, after the public bearing was held, the Central Union people organized the Indiana Be.l Telephone Company, and they expect to come In and get the benefit of the in creased rates. Tbe Indiana Telephone Company never hag been beard to com plain of rates. •'We will Immediately file a petition for a reconsideration of the action, and If this Is dented will file Injunction pro ceedings in the circuit court." Dr. M. J. Spencer Is president of the Telephone Patrons’ Union and Lew Shank Is a prominent member. Mabolm said the patrons also will at tack the order of the public service com mission, permitting the Central Union to buy the Indianapolis Telephone Company, declaring such a sale would violate the franchise of the later corporations. MANY PLEDGE RELIEF MONEY Fund for Armenian Orphans Swells With Subscriptions. j That the appeal for Armenian or phans has stirred the city is Indicated by S subscriptions received at Near East Re lief headquarters at Pennsylvania and Market streets, from people who have not | waited to be solicited by team workers. 11. B. Turner, who did not give his address, was nn parly subscriber at headquarters today, pledging support for six orphans. William L. O'Connor of M. O'Connor & Cos. mailed a check with a note in which he declared “the appeal can not be re sisted by any good citizen.” Edgar H. Evans, chairman of the ex ecutive committee, is a donor to the ex tent of SI,OOO. Arthur Jordan contrib uted S3OO for the support of six orphans. It Is annount-ed that Central Avenue M. E. church has made pledges aggregating SI,BOO. Motion picture-houses will be asked to show Near East Belief pictures this week and full-page advertisements will be run in the newspapers. The execu tive commit t# wants It understood that all expenses of the appeal all over the country are underwritten by private sub scription. “Every cent given for orpoan support goes directly to these children,” said Chairman Evans. FLAGS OF TRUCE TO GHEET AGENTS Michigan to Offer Rum Crush ers No Opposition. IRON RIVER, Mich., Feb. 24.—1r0n county, Michigan, today bad more than three sheets to the wind. Panic-stricken residents of this min ing country, awaiting the approach of “huge bands of federal officers armed with all modern Implements of war," i tacked sheets to their shacks in token of surrender. Pillow cases and other ar ticles approaching whiteness were made to serve as tokens of surrender. All night long lanterns bobbed over the rugged country here as residents caehed their supplies of home-made liquor. Some, uncertain as to their rights, destroyed their kegs and barrels, stajnlng the snow with wines of high percentage. Iron county simply surrendered. There will be no opposition to MaJ. A. V. Dal rymple and his men when they arrive tonight. County Attorney McDonough, who compelled Prohibition Officer Leo J. Grove to give up the wine he had seized from the Stalcucci Brothers here, was first to announce that there will be no trouble. McDonough said he was convinced he acted within his rights, charging that Grove failed to show proper credential'!. McDonough admitted he ordered Grove out of town. He claimed stories of tha “rebellion’,' were exaggerated. Home edition TWO CENTS. It Is stated by the commission that th* new rates are only temporary and to govern operations of telephones pending the consolidation and unification of the Central Union and Indianapolis Telephone companies, which the commission adds “Is urgently needed and should not be delayed." Value of Indianapolis property of the Central Union Company was tentatively estimated at $6,409,657 by the commission. Today’s order is the culmination of a long wrangle over telephone rates in In dianapolis and Indiana between the tele phone companies, the federal wire ad ministration and the Indiana public serv ice commission. FEDERAL INCREASE Dt RING WAR OPPOSED. Tbe commission opposed the inaugura tion of the Burleson phone rates during the war. contending In the courts, both •date and federal, that the wire admin ’stratlon's order increasing phone rates was a usurpation of the state commis sion’s rights. The case was finally t<ed by fb : United States supreme cotfrt, which upheld the Burelson rate. Soon after the supreme court decision was rendered announcement was made that the telephone systems would be returned to their owners Dec. 1. 1919. That meant the re-establishment of the rates under which the systems had been operated prior to the beginning of the government’s administration of wire bus lnf ss, unless state authorities saw fit to make changes In those rates. Because of Increased costs of material, labor, etc., it was conceded telephone systems could only be operated at a considerable loss if the old rate main tained. The Central Union appealed to the Indiana commission for relief, ask ing Increases more than 20 per cent higher than the Burleson rates. CONTINUATION OF RATES GRANTED. Asa measure of temporary relief th commission granted a continuation* of the Burleson rates “until further hear ing.” The order announced today grant ing a slight increase over the present rates, which are in effect the Burleson rates, is the result of the further hear ings. More than forty local hearings we-s held in all parts of the state and more ■than four months’ time was required for bearing and considering the cases of tbe Central Union Company. “On the basis of appraisals filed by tbe company with the commission in 191.8 the Indianapolis exchange property had a reproduction cost of $6,995,000 and a present or depreciated value of 56,- 247.0)10,” said Paul Haynes, a member of tlie commission, today. “The com pany filed new appraisals in the recent hearings showing a cost new of the phy sical property of Indianapolis of $9,228,- 000 and a present or depreciated value of $8,389,000. To these latter figures tbe company added $137,993 for working capital and $1,998,822 for going value.” The Indiana Bell Telephone Company, a newly incorporated company with a cap ital stock of $10,000,000, appealed to the commission recently for authority to take over all the property of American Tele phone and Telegraph subsidiary com panies in Indiana, Including with tbe Central Union Company, the Indianapolis Telephone Company, “if and when It Is purchased by tbe Central Union.” HELD IP BY CONTRACT SUIT. The Central Union Company has entered into a contract to purchase the holdings of the Indianapolis Telephone Company for $4,250,000. but the merger has been held tip by a suit brought by the Indianapolis Company to compel specific performance of contract. Tbe case is pending in the Indiana supreme court. Members of the public service commission are disposed to hasten the merger. Hearings on the Central Union's peti tion for increased rates throughout the state began Nov. 7. The case of the Indianapolis exchange was heard Nov. 24. A general hearing on cases of all ex changes in the state was held Nov. 25 and 26 to determine facts in connection with toll rates. Orders on toll rates and exchange rates in other Indiana cities are expected to be issued soon. The rates provided in the new order will produce a revenue for the Indian apolis exchange this year of $2,472,879.55, which, on the basis of figures approve*! by the commission, will he* $64,418.13 (Continued on Page Three.) #THE Local Forecast—Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight 20 to 30 de grees HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. in 24 7 a. m 24 K a. fn. 25 0 a. m 25 10 a. m 25 11 a. m 25 13 (noon) gg l P- m 27 Sun sets today, 5:81; rises tomorrow. 6:34; nets. 5:83. One year ago today, highest tempera ture, 47; lowest, 30.