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THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and Saturday-. Warmer to
night.
vol. xxxm.
WATER CO. ASES
RATE INCREASE
TO MEET TAXES
Boost Sought From 5 to 20
Cents Per Month, Accord
ing to Petition.
PLANS TO SPEND $600,000
In a petition for Increased rates filed
today 'with the Public Service Commit
a!on, the Indianapolis Water Company
declared that the high city, county and
State taxes have practically absorbed the
grant made by the commission a year
ago.
The company sets forth that the rate
granted on Pec. 31. J 9, increased the
revenue to a figure between $123,000 and
*130,000. but that taxes increased during
the same period from $155,000 to $244,000
and that as a consequence approximate
ly $56,000 of the higher rate went to pay
the new taxes.
The petition declares that the water
company is planning extensions and Im
provements during the next year that
will total $600,000 and that It will be
neccessary to Issue, bonds to make tbls
program possible./ The company asks
the commission to sc? a rate that will
bring a fair return on its investment and
one that will enable it to undertake the
extensions at once.
WILL BCN FROM 5 TO
SO CENTS FEB MONTH.
The schedule of rates and tolls attached
to the petition show that the amount
believed necessary by the company would
Involve an increase of from 5 to 20 cents
a month to the consumers, according to
the size of their Installations.
The company, in the petition, specifies
that during 1020 It has been “subject to
increase* in labor costs and also in costs
of all materials used, and that petitioner’s
operating costs have been greatly in
creased during tho year by reason of
city, county and State taxes, which in
creased approximately from $155.000 in
1910 to $244,000 In 1920. In other words,
approximately $86,000 of the $125,000 re
lief granted under the order of Dec. 31.
Wl9. was absorbed during the year in
added taxes: that the total increases in
costs have practically wiped out all of
the relief given In said order."
Continuing it sets forth that the com
pany in the last year “has expended
approximately $320,000 for extensions and
betterments to its property; that saia
expenditure was financed In part through
the issuance of $295,000 of 7 per cent
preferred stock, which stock was sold
at a discount, and petitioner aays that
in view of its present investment in the
property and the increased cost of opera
tion, with taxes as above recited, peti
tioner’s net earnings are no more favor
ably to be company than they were as
4f Nov. I, 1919.
“Petitidner further says* that rhe- re
quirements of the city of Indianapolis
for water main extensions for the year
1921 will be in excess of $200,000; that
it is necessary for petitioner to begin
immediately the construction of a stor
age reservoir of ten million gnllons- ca
pacity to supplement petitioner's pump
ing capacity, to care for said city of
Indianapolis during the summer season
nu that said reservoir will cost ap
•phosimately $283,000r that additional
-veils, bridges across the canal, new
taffies in sedimentation basin, meters
and other necessary extensions to the
property, will bring a total expenditure
'or extensions and improvements during
1921 to $600,000; that a!l of said exten
sions and betterments are absolutely
(C ontinued on rajp Fifteen.)
BROWN GUILTY;
2 TO 21 YEARS
Taxi Driver Convicted of Man
slaughter in Death of
Catholic Sister.
Ollle Brown today was found guilty of
manslaughter in Criminal Court and
sentenced by Special Judge Leathers to
erTe from two to Twenty-one years In
the State reformatory.
The manslaughter charge grew out of
the death of Sister Mary Blanche of the
Sisters of Providence who was killed on
Monument Circle when struck by a taxi
cab driven by Brown.
The jury retired shortly before 4
•'clock yesterday afternoon and when a
verdict was not returned late in the
evening. Judge James M Leathers, who
Is presiding, instructed the jury to re
turn a sealed verdict at 9 o'clock this
morning.
Just as the Jury retired. Sister Theo
data. the companion of Sister Mary
Blanche McCormick, at the time of the
fatal accident, walked slowly over to
where Brown sat with a guard nearby.
Sister Theodata said softly to the taxi
driver, who only a few hours before had
admitted a criminal record, as well as
acknowledging that it was his car which
struck Sister Mary: 0
"I hope that you will be a better man
and I will offer prayers for yon.’’
The indolent look that Brown wore
during the trial faded from his face as
he gazed Into toe eyes of the aged Sister,
and as he realized the great meaning
of the nun's words his face lost its stem
and hardened aspect for a few seconds.
He defended himself by saying that it
was “an unavoidable accident."
Sister Theodata again expreseed the
hope that he would be a “better man."
As the aged sister, whose eyesight has
been Impaired by years of splendid serv
ice, walked slowly away from the taxi
driver, many o? the spectators cried
softly and a lawyer or two was seen
to brush away the tears.
Brown on the witness si and admitted
that be had a criminal record and it was
ipparent that he had shaped his testi
mony to save himseif from a prison
term. Although he denied he was speed
ing, the State contends that when his
evidence is studied carefully, everything
points to fnst and reckless driving.
Slater Mary Blanche McCormick, for
many years slater superior of the Holy
Rosary School, was fatally Injured by
Brown’s taxi on Monument Circle about
noon on April 9, last. Witnesses for the
Rtnfe claimed that Brown wns driving at
1 rate of speed from twentv-fi\e to thirty
miles an hour. This Brown denied. Tie
ilalmed he was going only twelve miles
in hour.
Many students of the late Slater Mary
attended the trial.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m..
Nor. 2rt: Fair tonight and Saturday;
warmer tonight.
MOi RLY TEMPERATi'RK.
6 a. m 40
7 a. m 40
8 a. m 40
9 a. m 40
10 a. m..... 52
U a. m., 55
13 (noon) 66
Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Daily Except Sunday.
And None Knew It
A. M. Glossbrenner, Republican
member of the city sinking fund com
mission, whose term expired Oct. 4.
will be reappointed, Mayor Charles
W. Jewett announced today. The
fact that the term of the commissioner
had expired more than a month ago
slipped the attention of city officials
since there has been no meeting of
the commission during that period,
it was said.
John E. Hollett is the Democratic
member of the commission and City
Controller Robert H. Bryson is a
ex officio.
The mayor h*s indicated that he
will reappoint Samuel Rauh, whose
term expires the end of this year, to
the board of park commissioners.
SNAG RETARDS
PLAN HATCHED
AT WEST BADEN
Republicans Don’t Want New
in Cabinet and Hays
as Senator.
The West Raden conference plan of
awarding a cabinet job to Senator Harry
S. New and placing Will H. Hays in the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy
and run for election in 1922, ha struck a
gnag, . . • .
The rank and file of the Republicans
of Indiana are not warming up to the
proposal, and Warren T. McCray, Gov
ernor-elect, has begun to hear some de
cided objections to the appointment of
Hays as a Senator.
As Mr. McCray has let it be known
that he will endeavor to make his ad
ministration an administration for the
people of* ImllAna. without regard to
possible national honors for Ulmse'.f, ,
tiiere is a growing doubt in the minds
of many Republicans that he will agree
to appoint H.iys to the Senate in event
Harry New retires.
Opposition to the appointment of Hays
is coming from Republicans who declare
that he is not entitled to anything at
the hands of Indiana’s administration.
They say Hays has never put hi* pop
ularity to the test in tin* State. and while
he has been mu 'h advertised as a pop
ular man. there is nothing to indicate
that he has any popularity outside of the
little drop* of political managers and
officeholders with whom be has always
transacted party business.
These same objectors to the appoint
ment of Hays declare that in event Mr.
McCray should have tho opportunity to
appoint a Senator he should not over
look the eligibility of Arthur It. Robin
son of Indianapolis.
Mr. Robinson got 25.000 Totes that his
opponents were compelled to count in a
primary race that was so corrupt that It
brought a complaint out of the easy
going Senator James E. Watson when
Harry New was nominated. •
In the State convention Robinson had
the pledges of 100 delegate* and the
(Continued on rage Fifteen.)
Report 3 Americans
KiMed in Mexico
MEXICO CITY. Not. 19.—An uncon
firmed report was received here today
that three American* haTe been killed in
strike disorders in the State of Coahuila.
Neither Government officials nor own
ers of the coal mines where the riots oc
curred have been able to verify th re
port. It is admitted, however, that tur
bulence In the mining fields Is increas
ing.
Toole in Each Class
To find four representatives of one
family attending college at the same time
Is -oiisidered somewhat unusual, bnt to
find fourth brothers attending the same
school at the same time, and ea'h a
of a
TirpJty In the class of 181*7.
Aw—We All Do It!
An extremely heavy Individual halted
before one of the downtown “your cor
rect weight free" scales, carefully peeled
“I’ve gained ten pounds!"
What a Come Down
Chnrb-s F. Miller of the Vacuum Oil
Company was visiting a farmer near Mar
tinsviile, jn the vicinity of whose home
__
was a resort noted for Its musical enter
tainment.
The farmer was a Du roc Jersey hog
fancier and invited Miller to go with
him to “hear the Duroc chorus."
With visions of Jazzy songs, chorus
women and all attending Joy, Miller
painstakingly shaved and touched up his
face with a bit of powder, donned anew
suit of clothes, carefully polished his
shoes and at length annbunced that he
was ready to hear the Duroc chorus.
The farmer conducted him to the pen
where it score of hogs, pigs and piglets
w i-.- grunting and squealing.
When they had watched the proceed
ings for what Miller considered a reason
able length of time he rather impatiently
inquired: “When are we going over
to hear the Duroc choru*?”
“Why, this is the Duroe chorus,** was
ths reply.
Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25. 1914, at
Postofflce, Indianapolis Ind., under act March 3. 1879
INDIANA G.O.P.
SPENT VAST SUM
IN CAMPAIGN
Manufacturers and State Ma
chine Men Donate Most of
$222,438.18 Raised.
PARTY IN DEBT $77,202.62
The contributions of large sums of
money by important manufacturers of
this city and of the State as well as by
the friends and associates of Governor
James I*. Goodrich and these increased
by contributions from the Republican
national committee as well as candi
dates on the Republican State ticket,
aided in swelling the campaign fund of
the Indiana Republican State central
committee for the last election to the big
sum of $222,438.15.
This is revealed in a certified report
of campaign contributions and dis
bursements made by Fred C. Gardner,
treasurer of the Indiana Republican
State central committee for a period ex
tending from Nov. 16, 1918. and ending
N'ov. 17, 1920 ntifi which is now on file
in the office of County Clerk Richard V.
Sipe.
The report shows' that regardless of
the fact that $242,438.15 was contributed,
out of which $222,308.44 was spent, the
committee owes $77,202.62. Os that debt
$60,000 Is due the Indiana National Bank
of Indianapolis as loans; $755,32. the
Thomas Susnck Company for advertis
ing; $5 968.95, the Hotel Severin for
headquarters rental; $5,510 69, William
B. Burford for printing, and S3,JO 1 ), the
American Tent and Awning Company for
tents.
This report is an Illuminating com
mentary on the tremendous expense of
the last campaign of the State Republi
can committee, which . resulted in the
complete election of the State Republi
can ticket from Warren T. McCray a*
Governor to the smallest state office. The
report also reveals the extensive ns wall
as the expensive methods used by the
committee in exploiting and advertising
the candidates. Every available method
apparently was used regardless of the
cost.
GOODRICH EARI.Y
CONTRIIU TOR.
When Mr. Gardner became secretary,
he reports that there was a balance of
$3,129.51 on hand on Nor. 16. 1918, and
that on Nov. 20, 191$. Governor Janies
P. Goodrich contributed $1,000; on Dec.
9, Will H. Hays, now the National Re
publican Chairman, contributed $2,000,
aqd on Dec. 19, W. B. Lackey gave SI,OOO
and the National lieputdiran Congres
sional committee caine across with $2,000.
Only small donatlous were made in
1919, the report shows. On Jau. 6. tho
Fountain County Republican Central
Committee gave $75; H. L. Johnson. $500;
George I.etnaux, $100; G. A. Ball, F. C.
(Continued on Fags Nine.)
MOVE TO MERGE
2 DEPARTMENTS
Plan to Put State Fair Under
Conservation Body.
Steps will be taken by the State Board
of Agriculture at 1U meeting here next
month looking toward consolidation of
the board twi-d the State department of
conservation. i‘. was learned her* today
It Is understood that the proposition
has the indorsement of Governor-elect
Warren T. McCray nnd members of the
board, hut is strongly opposed by Rich
ard Lteber, director, anil other mem
bers of the department.
This would be In line with the pro
posal fostered by some members of the
board to abandon Its present statua in
favor of another agricultural body with
full, insteaJ of qu.ia! publle powers, and
to turn over the State Fuir Grounds to
the State government. At the present
time the grounds eonstltute a private In
stitution.
The next meeting of the board Is pro
Wired to discuss a bill for presentation
to the Legislature which convenes in
January providing for such a change.
The idea < f such a movement would be
to direct all the efforts of tho conserva
tion department into a channel connect
ing directly with the farm life of the
State. I'nder the plan, the divisions of
i ?ology. entomology, forestry and the
other parts going to make up the con
servation department, would turn their
energies toward improving and enlarging
the crops and taking advantage of the
nutural resources of Indiana.
Greencastle Mayor
Is Hunting for Coal
ftperls! to The Times
GREENCASTLE. Ind., Nov. 19 Mayor
Bartley was in Indianapolis Thursday
conferring with the State Coal Com in Is
si >ri In an attempt to obtain a sufficient
coal supply for Greencastle.
The mayor has been In communication
with the commission for a week, bur, has
gained little In the way of increased coal
supply for the city. Many households
here are without fuel.
Receiver Named for
Transfer Company
Clarenee Earl Armstrong was appoint
ed receiver of the Armstrong Transfer
and Warehouse Company by Judge Solon
Carter of Superior Court, room 2, on a
petition tiled by Clarence M. Armstrong
to secure payment of $1,054.73, in return
for services performed In the eapnelty
of president of the company.
The petitioner claimed the company
had total assets of $42,300 and a total
liability of $14,200 nnd convinced the
court that a receiver should be appointed
to manage the affairs of the company.
Hog Market Hits New
Level at Yards Here
Hog prices today hit anew low level
for the year, whan on a further doeline
of 50 cents, the bulk of the good hogs
were sold at $11.75 to sl2.
Commission men attribute the slump
In the market to the large receipts that
have been pouring into the market fn
the past week, the lower tendency of some
of the other lending hog markets of the
country, anil to the general disfavor of
the public against the prevailing high
prices.
Declines set In more than three weeks
ago, and have continued since that time
with more or less Irregularity.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 19.—Dclines
in the hog market here continued today.
Prices ranged from sll to $11.60, anew
low for tho last four years.
CLEVELAND, Nov. 19 —For the
first time since early in 1917 tho best
grades of hogs sold here today for $12.30.
Hogs opened 65 cents under yesterday’s
close.
Bt'FFALO. N. Y., Nov. 19. -Best grade
of hogs reached the lowest price since
1917 on the East Buffalo inaiket today.
They were quoted at $12.50.
It waa predicted by live atock men that
the price will go still lower because of
th* drop in the price of c*rn.
cut class, is a dis
tinction held by
few.
That is the dis
tinction enjoyed by
the Toole t.rothers
of De Pauw Univer
sity.
Carl, senior; Oa
lean W„ Junior;
Orin A., sopho
more, and Manley
E., freshman, are
sons of the Rev. R.
11. Toole, pastor of
the First Methodist
Church of Bedford,
who was graduated
from Dc Pauw Unl-
off his overcoat,
threw It across
his arm and
hopped on the
platform of tiie
scales.
He watched with
dismay as the In
dicator rushed
past pound after
pound, and when
the dial finally
settled on the 215-
pouud mark he
turned to a friend
and moaned:
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1920.
Gen. Nivelle, Verdun Hero,
Indianapolis’ Guest Today
Tho hero of Verdun. Gen. Robert
Georges Nivelle, will be a guest of Indi
anapolis tonight and tomorrow.
He will participate In the tercentenary
celebration of the landing of the May
flower at the First Baptist Church
tonight.
Tomorrow morning he will be taken
on art* automobile tour of the city by a
committee of the American Legion
headed by Bowman Elder. In the aft
ernoon he will attend the Wabush-De
Pauw football game at Washington Park,
in the evening he will attend a dinner
In his honor at the Chamber of Com
merce.
General Nivelle came to tho United
States as an official representative of
the French government at the many
celebrations of the anniversary of the
landing of the Pilgrims. He was at one
time commander-in chief of the English
and French forces on the western front
with the rank of field marshal.
Besides General Nivelle, Col. Paul Azan.
bis aide, and Dr. H. L. Willett of Chi
cago will speak at the meeting tonight,
which win be under the auspices of the
Indianapolis Church Federation. At the
dinner ti morrow night Governor Good
rich. Mayor Jewett and MaJ. Gen. George
W. Road, commander of the sth Army
Corps, will lie the speakers.
Tho following committee was named
by Mayor Jewett to meet General Nivelle,
who will arrive at 4;30 o'clock: E. J.
Dubois, Felix Schwart, John Ray and
Auguste Dryer, representing the ludlan-
DECLARES PULL
' - CHECKED QUIZ
Investigator Testifies to Po
litical Influence in Ship
ping Board Scandal.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19,—Political lnffn
cnee was used to prevent thorough In
vestlgatlon Into the purchase of shipping
board supplied at New York, Peter J.
Sullivan, for elvn ju;r* an invstigator for
th Unttd Stats Trasury Department, told
the congcaiional Investigating com .id Ue*
today.
Sullivan said he had been ordered to
survey “to the bottom" the activities of
the purchasing department, which was In
charge of David Whamoßd, but that wheu
"certain matter* were being unearthed
Whamond threatened to have me pulled
of the Investigation.”
“My month * w rk had shown,” Sulli
van contlni ed, that firms which had
made low bid* had received scan! atten
tion.
“Were you pulied off the inveatigation
asked Chairman Walah.
“Yes, I was transferred to Nogales,
Arix."
Sullivan said his a islstsnt, Martin J.
Jewel), of New York, was left to Com
pict the investigation. Jewell said he
found Irregularities in purchasing ship
ping board supplies and the disposal of
these supplies. j "
'•Shipping board officials *t New York
could nut 'ovi-rrat- wtfc. ie We f
condition* t th" -- shipping board ware
houses deplorable. There wet* no Inven
tories and no means of checking Bj> an
enormous supply of goods of all descrip
tions. We couldn’t ascertain where all
tho stuff went to."
l Governor Goodrich
Issues Proclamation
Governor Goodrich's annusl Thanks
giving proclamation, calling on the peo
ple to observe Thursday, Nov 23, "as
a holiday and a day of thanks to God
for the blessing* bestowed on u during
the past year," was Issued today.
Lester Winter to
Be New’s Secretary
It was announced today nf State Re
publican headquarters that I,ester Win
ter, n reporter on the Indianapolis News,
would become secretary to Senator Harry
|S. New the first of the year. Mr. Winter
will assume his new duties In Washing
ton on Jan 4.
He has been in tha newspaper bus!
trs ever since leaving Indiana I'nivrr
rliw In 190?, having served on tho An
derson Herald, the Indianapolis Sun and
Star and for the last thirteen years he
has been a member of the News staff.
Mr. Winter's original home was In Mar
tinsville.
Independent Ticket
Put Out by Juniors
An independent ticket was put in the
field for the coming election of officers
for the Junior <’hamli*r of Commerce for
next year
Ticket No. 1, made np by the regular
nominating committee elected at the last
meeting, wax announced yesterday. The
second ticket, with Myron Hughel for
president. Joseph Lutes for first vice
president, George Mels for second vice
president, nnd George Stafford for third
vice president, was put in the field to
day.
Independent tickets may he put in the
field by any ten members of the Junior
Chamber.
The eleetlon will be hold on Tuesday.
Dee. 7, by ballot at the Chamber of
Commerce.
Works Board Asks
About Street Repair
A. J. Louth, manager of the Republic
Construction Company, was naked by
the board of public works members to
day if his company will repair ruts and
cave-ins which have developed In Park
avenue between Forty-Second and Forty-
Fourth streets. "The company put down
the street more than five yearn ago.
but was ordered to put It in repair be
fore the five-year guarantee period ex.
pi red.
Mr. Loutli said he could make no
promise nnd the hoard will serve legal
notice upon the company to repair the
street or suffer deduction from Its guar
antee bond of the amount necessary to
liuve the work done.
The contracting company contends that
It is not altogether to blame for the
fact that tho street did not wear well,
Mr. Louth asserting the city had per
mitted Improper use of the pavement.
Whipped to Death
Special to Tho Times.
GREENS BURG, Ind., Nov. 19 —nenry
Vogel. 50, living one mile southwest of
Napoleon, was killed this morning at
the home of John Huntermau, when his
clothing caught in the fly wheel of a
gasoline engfine, dashed him to the
ground and beating his head almost to
a pulp.
The engine waa running a corn
shredder.
jjfcgfas, Vk n
GEN. ROBERT GEORGES NIVELLE.
spoils French Society, and Blair Taylor,
Mrs. Gilmore, Guy A. Wainwright and
Miss Marguerite Do by of the Alliance
Francalse.
GERMANY PUTS
UP BACK AGAIN
Notifies League She Holds;
Colony Clause of Peace
Treaty Void
GENEVA, Nor. 19 Germany no longer ;
considers herself bound by the clause* of
th* peace treaty ender which she sur
rendered her colonies.
This position was taken in an appeal
Get many addressed to the League of Ns
tlona today. The appeal protested
against establishing mandates for former
'kerroan colonies..
It declared that the allies luid not
abided by tho treaty, which provided
that mandates for the former Gorman
; colonies were to be distributed by the
league.
Germany state* that sho .*> and the j
| peace treaty ar.d tho league 'oove.ymf
with tha expectation of betnjJ admitted
I and thus b-slug iminDtod to/particlpate
; in the distribution of manciples over her
! colonics. /
| Since she has not beep admitted to j
membership ant. had uo s>art in the dl* :
tribu'ioix of mandates, Al le appeal said,
she therefor* considered/herself no longer
bound by the treaty dinars affecting her ;
i colonies /
<*■-.m* Nicholl Large-, a labertte mem
her of the BritiMi ITkrilaroent, speaking
Ifj-tw'jttl* of the f rofl . a workers, urged
the I fltgtie of Nations Assembly to *d
kmtt ' erxnany to* the Iragm- a* soon a*
possible.
Rarues spoke- at length and after he
h*d finished tiie*e was scattered applause
from the rtalegaie* Hr pointed out that
nil of the enemies of Germany, with the
exception of the United States and Rut
sla. ale member* of -he league and that
the presence of Ameri u in the league
i* greatly desired
The committee on nppli ntions for
membership Intth* ltaf .e did not trans
ect any bualiAV After a five minute
session It adjA Vned until tomorrow.
INDIANAPOLIS
MAN FINED $5,000
Heavy Penalties Assessed in
Chicago Fraud Cases.
I CHICAGO, Nov. 10 Six men nnd one
• woman, officials mid employes of the
I Consumers' Packing Company, were
given henry fines and prison s-ntenecs
by Federal Judge Kraus today as a
result of their conviction of conspiracy,
to usw the mails to defraud.
Federal officials charged the defend
ants sold slock totaling close to a mil - [
; lion dollars to Investors throughout the
i country without any Intention of making
good on toe investment.
| Fines and sentenced imposed Included:
j Ely Thnelzer, president, fined $10,000;
K J. Adcr, secretary, lined $10.0(4) and
sentenced to fDe years In Ft. 1/cavea
worth Prison; J, M Kantor, fiscal agent,
and now living In Indianapolis, fined
$5,000.
Crucible Steel Cos.
Elects Directors
JERSEY CITY. N. J.. Nov. 19 William
It. chillis and Hamilton Stewart were
elected directors fur u term of three ;
years of the Cruclld* St.vl Company at
Its annual meeting here today. F. B.
Hufnagel. W. It. Jarolrmou and Duane
Armstrong were elected for a term of j
thr> o years, replacing H. D W. English, ,
G. H. Garton .Singer, resigned, and J. j
M. May, deceased.
Carter Not to Sue
for Election Fee
Jackson Carter, Republican member of j
the Marlon County board of election I
commissioners, has decided not to take j
to th* courts Ills claim of SI,OOO for j
services as an election commissioner, but ;
has accepted a check for S7OO for pay
ment In full soy his services.
Woodburn Masson, Democratic member,
has filed suit asking for SI,OOO In the cir
cuit, court. The county commissioners
stated that they would not grant the
SI,OOO claim, hut were willing to aettle
for SBOO if there were no suits filed and
If there was a contest In the courts the
commissioners would allow only S7OO to
each commissioner unless directed dif
ferently by a court.
Irish Town Official
Tells of Home Burning
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—John Der
ham, town commissioner of Balbriggan,
Ireland, today described to the unofficial
American committee of 100 Investigating
conditions in Ireland, how his home had
been burned by royal British constabu
lary and how the houses of fifty other
sympathizers with the plan to make Ire
land n republic had,been destroyed.
Among other witnesses were Francis
Hncket.t, a writer, of New York, and his
wife, who writes uuder the pen name of
Signe Toksvlff; Mrs. William A. King of
Trontown, Ohio, and Paul J. Furman of
New York, representing the Society of
Friends, a British branch of which re
cently made an investigation of Irish af
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CHANCE SEEN
IN COST PLAN
Street Car Service Proposal Is
Held Askance by E. I.
Lewis.
VIEW GIVEN TO LEAGUE
Expressing fear that a rervice-at-cost
plan of street car operation merely would
enable a street car company to charge
np in exorbitant costs to the public, E. I.
Lewis, chairman of the Indiana Public t
Service Commission, addressed the con
vention of the National Municipal League !
today.
Mr Lewis divided his speech into two
parts, namely, "The Five sent Fare in
Indianapolis” and "Servlco at Lost—,
Panacea or Nostrum?”
He gave his belief that the service-at
cost plan would enable the company to
“charge it up to the public'’ ns his rea
son for opposing such a plan for In
dianapolis.
Ho spoke with considerable pride or
the fact that Indianapolis Is one of the
few cities with 5-oent fare and recited
the history of the street car consolidation
and the rate bontroversie*.
Mr. Lewis laid especial emphasis on the
fact that tho property of the Indian- .
spoils .Street Railway Company is as- ,
sensed for taxation at nearjy $5,000,000
more than the value agreed on for rate
making purposes and pointed to high
taxation as one of the reasons for the
company's difficulties.
in his paper on “Tse State Trustee
Flan,” James L. Jackson, chairman of
the trustee* of the Boston Elevated-Rail
way, explained that what is known a*
the public control act, passed by the
Massachusetts Legislature, effective July
1, 1918, arranged what is practically a
I lease of the Boston Elevated Railway
| for ten years to the State of Massaebu-
I setts, as representing Boston and cer
tain suburban cities and towns which
[ the railway serves, five trustees to be
1 appointed by the Governor of the S4nte
! and to hold office for the lease period,
being given control over the management
und operation of the railway.
“To the legislative mind," he said, “the
probiem for experience to solve wns
whether a public management could be
efficient, that Is, conducted without waste
and without loss of ambition or pride
in achievement, and it was thought that
n trial was worth while.
“The basic plan for this experiment,”
h* continued, "was that which I bellev*
Is the best /or any street railway enter
< Continued, bn Fage Twenty-Hire a.)
Seeks to Enlist
Women in City
Managerial Plan
“City managerial work Is becoming a
career and profession that meu will train
for,' said Dr. Augustus R. Hatton, rtcii
secretary of the National Municipal
League in hi* talk before the women of
the Seventh District Federation of Clubs
I today.
"iisor cities are carrying out the
managerial policy in their municipal
gnvernut*ht* snd finding Hi a big sne
<■**, aud lu that policy is the solution
I to problem* that are troubling Indian
spoils folk in connection with their city’s
government," he said.
Dr. Hatton urged the women to study
the question of tnnungerlnl government
and to back the measure when it comes
before the legislature this winter.
Dr. Hattons speech wn* preceded by
the general business of the federation,
Mrs. John Downing Johnson, chairman,
presiding *
The next federation session will be
held Dee. 17.
MAYOR JEWETT
IS BACK ON JOB
Mayor Charles W. Jewett came back
i on the job with a bang today.
He attended a meeting of the board
of public works for the first time In
niopths and announced plans for Imme
diately pushing the city hospital nurses'
house project through to completion an!
plans to provide work for the unem
ployed this winter, and otherwise tndl
rating that the long period of compara
tive Inactivity around th? executive
chambers Is at an end.
The mayor announced that the legal
department has been Instructed to pie
pare an ordinance authorizing the Is
suance of SfO9,OQO worth of bonds to
finance the construction of the nurses'
home.
It was decided at a conference attended
by Dr. Herman O. Morgan, secretary,
and Dr W. Latch, president of the board
of public health, City Controller Robert
11. Bryson and Corporation Counsel Sam
ml Ashby and the mayor to let *he con
tract for excavation work immediately
after the money Is available and push It
to completion this winter, Mr. Jewett
said. The contract for the building will
lie let eariy in the spring, and the home
completed during the Rummer.
The big program of const ruction work
which the administration plans for next
year will serve to provide employment
for many men now out of work and ex
pected to he unemployed within a short
time, the mayor said. The track eleva
tion work, the municipal yards, rehabili
tation of the city market and the nurses’
home will provide hundreds of Jobs, so
(hat tho city will measurably releave the
expected labor situation by absorbing
some of the surplus.
Sinn Fein Execute
2 Britons as Spies
CORK. Ireland. Nov. 19.—The execu
tion of two British officers ns spies was
announced by the Sinn Fein today. Ac
cording to the announcement, Captain
Greene and Captain Chambers, who were
recently kidnaped, were tried for espion
age nnd then put to death.
Refuses Comment
E. I. Lewis, chairman of the Indiana
public service commission, refused today
to comment on the action of the inter
state Commerce Commission, In the ac
tion wherein 40 per cent Increase In'
Intrastate freight rates was allowed in
New York. Mr. Lewis said In view of
the case pending in Indiana he could not
comment on the Federal commission’s
action.
It is thought the action of the Inter
state commission will liavo a direct bear
ing on the decision of the case pending
In this State. The railroads here took
their case before the interstate commis
sion followdng refusal of the Indiana
commission to allow the full 40 per cant
increase authorized In Interstate com
merce, to be effective in intrastate com
merce.
TKXAK AFTER ANTI-JAP 3.AAV.
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 19— A bill to pre
vent land owning In Texas by Japanese,
patterned after California laws, will be
introduced at the January session of the
Texas Legislature, State Senator Bledsoo
announced today.
"LAST HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
You Never Can Tell!
A few days ago a writer for the
Times obtained a photograph of the
new Manual Training High School
building that collapsed yesterday,
showing the progress of the construc
tion work.
The picture was designed to illus
trate a story describing this new
school building. The print made was
not up to the required standard for
newspaper etching and was held up
pending the obtaining of, another
photograph.
When the building collapsed the
Inferior print was rushed through the
etching room with the result that an
etching that was better than the orig
inal print was obtained in record
breaking time.
This picture, which is, as far as Is
known, the only photograph taken of
the building before its collapse, gave
the people of Indianapolis through
the Times extra their first concep
tion of the nature and the extent of
the accident.
STEEL PRICES
WILL BE KEPT
ON SAME BASE
Increase Justified, but Busi
ness Stability First Con
sideration—Gary.
NEW YORK. Nov. 19.—Believing that
stabilization of business Is of the highest
Importance, the United State* Steel Cor
poration has decided not to increase
prices, although cost of manufacturing
has increased, Judge E. 11. Gary, chair
man of the corporation, announced to
day.
In a formal statement Gary declared
since the base selling prices of iron and
steel commodities were fixed by repre
sentatives of the steel Industry and the
Government in March, 1919, the produc
ing costs had increased and that “under
usual circumstances we would be Justi
fied in making additions to the average
base price.”
No change in price will be made at
this time, Gary stnted.
Gary’s statement follow*:
“Our subsidiary companies have con
sistently and uninterruptedly maintained
the base selling prices of all iron and
steel commodities which were mutually
fixed by representatives of iron and steel
Interests in the United States and rep
resentatives of the Government on March
1. 1919.
“Since that time producing cost of all
manufacturers of iron and sted, In'lull
ing an advancement of wage rates ag
gregating $51,000,000 a year to the rltce.
Corporation and larger freight rates,
have materially Increased. Under usual
circumstances we would be Justified In
making additions to the average base
prices.
“However, after deliberate and careful
consideration, we have decided to rec
ommend to presidents of our subsidiary
companies that the present selling price
of ail commodities continue in force un
it*** snd until it become* necessary and
proper to make changes to meet altered
conditions.
“IV* think stability in business is of
the highest importance and that every
man, to the extent of hi* opportunity
and ability and even at some sacrifice,
is obliged to assist in stabilizing snd
maintaining prices on a fair and sane
level. The producer, consumer and work
man will be benefited by this attitude. '
SHOOTS MARRIED
GIRL, THEN SELF
Man Enters Home as Husband
Leaves, Repulsed.
Special to The Time*.
KOKOMO. Ind., Nov. 19. Mrs Leona
Hunt. I**. was shot today at her home.
123 I’urdam street, by Walter Armstrong,
the bullet entering at the point of the
Jaw socket.
Armstrong then turned the revolver
on himself, the bullet entering the head
Just above the right temple.
Both are said to be in a serious con
dition.
Armstrong wns taken to the hospital
from the Hunt home, around which be
had been prowling all night, and which
he entered when the husband left.
He committed the deed, police say.
when his advances were repelled by Mrs.
Hunt, who was holding a baby in her
arms when the shot was fired.
The infant was uninjured.
I'olice investigation disclosed that Mrs.
Hunt spent a night of terror and that
Armstrong, whose real name has been
found to be Clevenger, entered the home
just before the husband returned from
work and that he threw her on the bed.
saying “Here Is where we end It all.”
He snapped the revolver twice, according
to Mrs. Hunt, before the shells exploded.
She shifted the baliy to prevent injury.
Mrs. Hunt says she has been annoyed
by Clevenger at various intervals. She
Is given a good reputation by neigh
bors.
Eat Corn Meal and
Improve Your Health
Do you know how to make corn meal
cheese pudding? Or corn meal fish balls?
Or Philadelphia scrapple? Or polenta?
Aon may not even know what polenta
is.
Then there Is corn meal mush with
fruit, buttermilk, waffles, corn meal
puffs and fritters. Only the Initiated
know the joy of cracklln bread, ash cake,
corn dodger and corn poue.
There are a thousand ways to use
corn meal and lend variety to the diet.
Corn meal is nourishing, but aside from
that It stimulates the innards like a
massage does the scalp. It is just
scratchy enough to bo invigorating.
There is more food value locked up
in corn than in any other product of
the American farm. The housewife who
does not draw on it 1b overlooking the |
nation’s greatest food reserve.
Get the bulletin of the Department of |
Agriculture which tells many ways to
use corn meal. It Is full of practical
aud tempting recipes.
Frederic J. Hask.n, Director,
Tile Indiana Daily Times
Information Bureau,
Washington. D. C.
I enclose herewith two cants in
stamp* for return postage on a free
copy of the bulletin on corn meal.
Nam*
Street
City
Btat*
NO. 165.
CORONER IS NOT
ABLE TO FIX ON
CAVE-IN CAUSE
Thirteen Witnesses Appear,
but Are Unable to Aid
Solution. <
INVESTIGATION GOES ON
An investigation of the collapse of tb
new building of the Emmerich Manual
Training High School, which resulted
the death of Ezra W. Tabor, 1306 Brad
bury street, and the injury of twenty
one other workmen, war begun by Cor-’
oner Haul F. Robinson today.
At the close of the morning session,
the coroner stated that none of the wit
nesses questioned had been able to ex
plain the cause of the collapse.
The testimony of witnesses will not
be made public until the close of tha
investigation.
Thirteen witnesses appeared bnt tha
testimony of three was not recorded, as
it had no bearing on the possible cans*
of the accident.
Harry Treeter, lOidfij Southeastern are*
nue. was the first witness before Coroner
Robinson, Walter B. Sterne, city building
inspector, and Jacob Ifinkens, represent-*'
ing the city building department; Fir*
Chief Louckes, and Detective* Houlihan
and Long who are conducting the In*
vestigation.
WERE WORKING
ON WEST WALL
Treeter is a stonesetter and In com
pany with Al Warner, employed by th*
Ittenbaeh Stone Company, was working
on the west wall at the time of the col*
lapse.
Other witnesses who testified were C,
F. McCarthy, living In the Savoy flats*
a plumber employ*-'! by the Freyn Brotlw
ers Company; William Boipp, 1521 Madi
son avenue; Rule Mitchel, 424 Nortlx
Blackford street: George Mathews, 7?A
South Capitol avenue; Henry Cushion
berry. 430 North Meridian street; Aaron
Stephens. 1010 East Eleventh street, ams
John Vaughn, 435 West Sixteenth street,
ail employed by the Jungclaus Company,
W. H. Hogdson of the firm of .Tame*
Hogdgon and Son, brick contractor*, tes
tified.
The morning hearing closed with th*
testimony of .Tames Van Meter, 721 North
*w Jersey street, foreman for the Jame*
Hogdson and Bon Contracting Company.
NEW INFORMATION
IS ADVANCED.
Van Meter is said to hare brought out
new information in his testimony telllnff
of two derri ks instead of one being on
the top of th? high school building at th*
time of the collapse, and also mentioning
that he had warned a man operating *
derrirk not to place more stone on A
scaffold on which be was working for
fear it would break down.
Van Meter said ho did not believe both
derrirks were rigged but that he wa*
positive both were on top of the build
ing and expressed it as his opinion that
this made considerable weight for a roof
of that type to support, and the large
“stiff boom derrick." the one used for
laying stone which had been in constant
use Thursday, had a boom seventy-flve
feet Jong.
He said one derrick bad been pnKyrfr
by Melvin and the other by Ittenbaeh.
The grand Jury investigation will not
be started until after the coroner has
completed his investigation, or at least
until that investigation is well under
way. * -
Ten snbpoenr.es were received by th*
police Inst night and served, ordering tea
witnesses to appear in the coroner’s in
vestigation. Dr. Paul Robinson, the cor
oner. issued an ord-r to each contractor
who had any part in erecting the build
ing to have all men employed in th*
construction of the building appear at
the investigation as fast as it is possiblo
to notify these employes
OUTCOME OF FOUR
HELD AS in doubt.
While Tabor was the only man Wiled
in tiie accident four other men were seri
ously hurt and physicians say they har*
slight chance to recover.
They are:
Lewis Edward Neff, 51, of 923 Lexington
avenue, fractured skull, City Hospital.
L. C. I’ennburton. 41, of 745 King ave
nue. concussion of the brain, body
crushed; City Hospital.
George O’Dell, 42, of 316 Euclid avenue,
crushed about the chest: Deaconess Hos
pital
fhrlst Molten, 37, of 520 Orauge street
jaw broken, head and faee out possibly
internal injuries; Deaconess Hospital.
Eleven of the Injured men were taken
to their homes and their condition wa*
reported as uni serious. Eight were re
moved to tiie I’itv Hospital and two
w. re taken to tiie Dcacones* Hospital,
Tabor’s body will he shipped to Bed
ford. ind.. Saturday morning ar.d tho
f : ner 1 1 servi. es will be held at the home
of his mother. Mary E. Tabor, at 3
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Burial will
be at Bedford.
The building was to cost the school
board S4,VMVx> and the board had paid
the contractors ?;i4.O(H). It had been estL
mated that $150,000 worth of construction
work had been completed.
It was estimated today that th* los*
caused by the collapse of the building
wf'll’d reach about $75,000.
CONTRACTORS AND
FOREMEN CALLED.
Coroner Robinson issued subpoenas call
ing for the appearance of Fred Jnug
rlaus. general contractor for the build
ing; Robert Berner of the Hetherington
A- Berner Steel and Iron Works; Cart
Ittenbaeh of the Ittenbaeh Stone Com
pany, and Herman Scherrer of the firm
of Adolph Scherrer, architects for th*
building.
Subpoenas were for the fora
men employed by the various contractor*.
The coroner obtnned a list of the name*
of the workmen, numbering about sixty
five, and as fast it it is possible these
witnesses will appear before the coroner
to testify in the Investigation of the ac
cident.
Walter B. Stern, city building Inspec
tor, is cooperating with the coroner In
conducting the investigation.
Chief of Police Jerry Kinney assigned
detectives to assist the coroner In making
the investigation and in obtaining evi
dence of criminal negligence, if there
was ary, in the construction of the build
ing.
Fugitive Caught
KEARNEY, Xeb.. Nov. 10.—Dennis
Chester, accused of killing Florence Bar
ton, Kansas City society girl, was cap
tured four miles south of Oconto today.
Chester was alone and unarmed and of
fered no resistance.
Girl Held in Robbery
OKLAHOMA CITY. Nov. 19.—Federal
and Colorado authorities have taken Josie
Clinton, 17-year-old girl wife, in connec
tion with a bank robbery near Colorado
Springs.
FAVORS LABELING CLOTHING,
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 19.--.Tohn R.
ShiUady, executive director at the Na
tional Consumers’ League convention, ad
vocates labeling clothing so that the
consumer will know what if Is made of,
as a atop toward lowering prices.