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THE WEATHER
Rain tonight and Tuesday.
VOL. XXXIII.
ROYAL FAMILY
PLACED UNDER
BRITISH GUARD
Net of Protection Drawn in on
Prominent Ones by Scot
land Yard.
TORCH HITS LIVERPOOL
LONDON, Not. 20.—Police precautions
ware taken today to guard King George
and other members of the royal family,
now that Irish terrorists bare opened np
their warfare in England with the
burning of part of the business district
of Liverpool. Scotland Yard detailed a
detachment of picked men from the
secret service section to protect Bucking
ham palace. In addition to the police
and military guards secret service agents
are employed as gardeners In the palaoe
grounds and cleoners In the palace
proper. Ail persons approaching the
home of the royal family are carefully
scrutinised.
There was a long conference on the
"terrorist situation’* at the premier’s
official residence at 10 Downing street.
Those participating were Premier Lloyd-
Oeorge, War Secretary Winston Church
111, A. Bonar Law. Sir Hamnr Green
wood, Earl Curzon, the foreign secre
tary, Speaker Lowther of the House of
Commons; Genera! Dorwood and Sir
Basil Thompson, head of Scotland lard.
The members of the ministerial con
ference are known to have taken a most
serious view of the new Irish menace
It was decided to bring more troops
into London and to increase the police
cordons guarding “strategic centers.
The galleries of the House of Lords were
ordered closed.
Government officials refused to admit
that they had discovered a plot against
the lives of tbo royal family, but de
clared they were taking no chances.
Scotland Yard has asked the newspa
pers to make no mention of the public
movements of Premier Lloyd George, A.
Bonar Law. Sir Hamar Greenwood, Sir
Edward Carson and other public fignres
who are believed to have been marked
for attack.
Additional guards were posted about
Parliament bribltng at noon.
rOLICE ARMED
WITH REVOLVERS.
Police in the vicinity of the house of
commons and other government property
were armed with service pistols, con
trary to all traditions of the metropoli
tan police. Bodyguards have been pro
vided for all members o? the cabinet.
All women were barred today from tae
spectators’ gallery of commons. Mon
who applied for admission and who were
not personally known to the guards were
searched.
"The incendiarism attack at Liverpool,
when fifteen houses and three lumber
yards were burned, has alienated any
tepid sympathy which the English hav*
felt for Ireland and turned It to anger,"
!t was declared by Colonel Carver, sec
retary to Sir Basil Thompson head of
Scotland Yard and chief of the metro
politan police. “I believe for certain
that if any terrorist should now dare to
lift his hand against the life of Premier
Lloyd George or any member of the
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PRITCHARD BARS
FIVE BONDSMEN
Ruling Hits Hiatt, Walker.
Fai*b, Winkler and
Temple.
Orders barring five professional bonds
men from giving bonds for the appear
anee of prisoners in City Conrt were
issued today by Judge Walter Pritchard
of that conrt.
The men barred from signing bonds
are Kinney Hiatt. John (Cull Moose!
Walker, Sam Farb. Harry Winkler nnd
Carter Temple. The court called atten
tion also to the fact that be had prev
iously barred ‘■Buster” Lee, a profes
sional bondsman, from signing bonds.
This ts the second time during his ad
ministration that. Judge Pritchard has Is
sued an order tarring professional bonds
men.
“While I have no definite information,
1 am under the impression that thea-.
men have been soliciting business about
the court,” the Judge said, in explana
tion.
The fact that these bondsmen have
been operating openly for months had
l>een generally known and the fact hai
been repeatedly made public. There has
also been evidence that they hove been
working In combination with certain at
torneys, refusing to sign bonds unless
the prisoners agree to employ attorneys
chosen by them.
An investigation of the operation of
bondsmen was made in open conrt Nor.
17, when a woman on trial told the court
Walker refused to sign her bond for
11,000 unless she changed attorneys. She
§ld the court Walker had charged her
0 for signing the bond. Walker, at
■t time, admitted the charges.
Following the questioning of Walker
a number of attorneys informed the
court they could give him Information
concerning the operation of bondsmen.
These bondsmen, who have long made
unforunates their pre7, bare come to be
looked up as almost a part of the city
court under the present administration.
p.lt Is said, they frequently fall to meet
the legal requirements of bondsmen.
There has been a rule that bondsmen
may pot solicit prisoners In Jail, but they
made a practice of obtaining the names
of prisoners from policemen and then
asking to see those prisoners at the Jail,
giving the appearance of calling on them
us friends or visitors.
Gun Toter and Buddy
Get Stiff Treatment
It's costly to carry a revolver In In
dianapolis, If you’re caught.
Frank Wolf and James Collins, two
young men from Detroit, who have been
wandering around the country, are said
to have tried to steal an automobile from
a down town parking space, but were
Interrupted by the police.
Wolf carried a loaded revolver.
Collins bad a pocket full of cartridges
that -fitted the weapon.
Judge Pritchard fined Wolf SIOO and
costa on the charge of carrying a con
cealed weapon.
OoZMns was fined SSO and costs on a
vagrancy charge.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending T p. m.,
Nov, 30: Kaln tonight and Tuesday.
HOIiBLF TEMPEKATI/KK.
6 a. m 41
7 a. m 4-*
8 a. 44
9 a. m. 45
10 a. 47
U a. m.r- 47
13 (noon) - 4d
1 p. m... 48
2 p. m 43
Published at Indianapolis.
Ind.. Dally Except Sunday.
Luck Better With
Auto Than Shotgun
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 29.—Dr
William McManus has discarded the
shotgun In favor of the automobile
for hunting. After missing them all
lay, he ran down a rabbit while
driving home.
AUTHORITIES IN
WRANGLE OVER
WOMAN IN CASE
Shooting of Oklahoma’s Oil
King Politician Provides
More Contention.
HAMON FUNERAL TODAY
ARDMORE, Okla., Ngv. 29. Counter
charges were made here today In con
nection with the death of Jake Hamon
Hamon died Friday of a revolver wound.
Authorities charged he was shot by Mrs.
Clara Smith Hamon, hls secretary and
protege. Hamon, on hls deathbed, said
he had accidentally wounded himself.
Hamon’s friends claim the alleged as
sailant has been secretly hidden by au
thorities In hopea of springing a sur
prise in the case against her. County
Prosecutor Russell R. Brown denies this,
while announcing a statutory charge and
a charge of assault with Intent to kill
against Mrs. Clara Smith Hamon will
stand unless her version of the Incident
leading up to the shooting of Hamon
changes the facts he claims to have.
The case wus made more mysterious
when a search of the local photographer's
shops disclosed that all plates and pic
tures of the woman had tteen destroyed.
Mrs. Hamon, widow of the dead man,
reiterated her belief that her husband
accidentally shot himself. Funeral serv
ices of an Impressive nature were to be
held for Hamon today.
Ilamon, who played a prominent part
In the nomination of President-elect
Harding Hi the Republican National con
vention last June, was well known na
tionally and leading politicians from all
parts of the country were expected to
attend the funeral. Hamon was elected
national committeeman In the last pri
maries and was the first Republican to
carry Oklahoma for his party. Hls
wealth was reputed to amount to
$30,000,000.
Among those who were to attend Ha
moD'i funeral was Will Miller of Ooium
bus, Ohio, assistant to Hurry Daugherty,
who was President-elect Harding's pre
convention manager.
WIDOW TO SEEK
COMMITTEE SEAT
ARDMORE. Okla., Nov. 29.—Mrs. Jake
L. Hamon, wife of the late multi-million
aire oil magnate, today announced she
was a candidate to succeed her husband
on the Republican national committee.
“For the sake of ray husband and hia
friends," said Mrs. Ilamon, “I will accept
the position ho held on the Republican
national committee if It is tendered me.’’
Oklahoma Republicans Bre urging that
the post be giveu her.
Chicago Meat Prices
Approach the Pre-War
Levels and ‘Normalcy*
Pork Heads List of Declines,
Spuds Lose Caste, but Some
Aristocrats Remain.
CHICAGO, Nov 20. Chicago, the meat
center of the world, started the buslnes*
week today with meat prices nearer the
pre-war levels than they ever had been
before. Declarations that the ■‘bottom”
has fallen out and that the period of
“normalcy" will be reached very shortly
are freely made by lending retailers.
Pork heads the lint with a decline in
price during the past few days that la
little short of sensational Loin pork,
which sold a month ago at 38 to 4.5 cents
a pound, can be bought today for from
22 to 27 cents a pound. Pre-war prices
for this meat were from 15 to 1.8 cents.
Pork chops also have declined, dropping
from 50 to 55 cents a month ago to 25
and ?.0 cents a pound today.
Grass fattened beef baa recorded a de
cllno of approximately 35 per cent, dealers
dec.are. Corn fattened beef has not
shown any marked decline as yet, but,
with the drop in the price of corn, more
of this grain Is being fed to stock and
increased offerings of the market are ex
pected to bring corn fattened beef to
the price level of other meats within
the next few weeks.
Other commodities that have shown
sharp declines hero recently aro butter,
which hae dropped 8 .-ents per pound
In the lasi week; sugar, which has de
clined from 31 cents a pound last spring
to 10 cents a pound; potatoes, which
were 10 cents a pound a year ago, and
have dropped to 3V4 cents a pound now;
coffee, flour, milk, bread, canned goods
and apples and oranges continue to be
the aristocrats of the family table.
Prices of these edibles continue to lurk
near the peak reached during the war.
McAdoo Is Wished as
Mayor for New York
NEW TORK, Nov 29.—“McAdoo for
mayor” is the slogan today of frienda of
the former secretary of the treasury, who
are laying plans to run him for the office
on the fusion ticket. Fusion leaders who
supported the late John Purroy Mltchel,
former mayor of New York, are under
stood to be backing the movement.
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Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3. 1878
CONGRESS TO BE
BESIEGED FOR
REMEDIAL ACTS
Farm and Business Interests
| Demand Legislation to Right
Reputed Wrongs.
LEADERS AT CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Although
Congress does not reconvene until one
week from today, its leaders, now re
assembled here, are being bombarded with
demands for early remedial legislation by
agricultural and business Interests.
Representatives of those Interests have
been Informed by Republican and Demo
cratic leaders alike that there Is little
likelihood of Congress finding time dur
ing the next three months to do much
more than pass appropriation bills.
Until they have consulted with Pres
ident-elect Harding upon hls return from
Panama, the Republican leadrs will not
attempt, however, to complete their pro
gram for the approaching short session,
they said.
Several senators from the Middle West
deciar* they Intend to support the Kett
yon-Kendrlcks bill for regulation of
packer*. This measure, a holdover from
the last session, is on the Senate calen
dar as "unfinished business” and will,
therefore, have the right of way when
the Senate begins consideration of Im
pending legislation. Senator Kenyon,
Republican, of lowa, one of Its authors,
declares he Intends to press it to a vote
despite the opposition he anticipates It
wrlll encounter.
Unless the Treasury Department asks
to revive the war finance corporation to
facilitate movement of the country's
crops anil to correct the financial situa
tion about which farmers are complain
ing, Senator (’aider, Republican. New
York, will Introduce a resolution culling
upon It to do so, he says.
Senator Capper, Republican, of Kan
sas. who states he will support the Ken
yon-Kemlrlck MU, hn* prepared it bill to
"stop gambling In bread arid other e*
sential food supplies," he has an
nounced
"I will shoot this bill In on the first
day of the coming session,” Capper says.
"We must put an end to grain gambling !
on boards of trade. I am not advocating,
and never have advocated, doing away '
with the exchanges, and their legitimate
activities. What 1 am after la to stop i
the gamblers and price speculators in i
farm products."
The Senate Finance and House Ways
and Means Committees are planning to
give attention to the taxation and tariff
situation, members said, but aside from
conducting hearings they indicated they
did not believe anything could be done
to meet the situation until the next
Congress meets In extra session in
March or April.
It Is not Improbable, ohewver, members
of Congress stated, that President Wit
•on will be called upon to place nn
embargo on grain Importations, especial
ly Canadian wheat and other Importa
tions, such aa cotton and wool, with
which American producers say they are
uuable to compote.
‘WHISKY RING’
SCENT IS KEEN
Mystery Touches Quiz of
Liquor Traffic in North
ern Indiana.
Considerable mystery today *hroudd
the reported activities of the Federal
Government looking toward the break
lng up of an alleged ''whisky ring” In
Indiana. Involving high officials In sov
oral northern counties.
It was reliably reported from South
Bend that more than 100 persons have
been subpoenaed to appear before the
Federal grand Jury Dee. 20 and 21, to
testify as to violations of the national
prohibition laws. From Mn nolo there
came a report thst at least ISO persons
are to be subpoenaed there.
Official* here gave conflicting state
ments. Charles J. Orblson, Federal pro
hlbltlon agent, Intimated premature pub
licity had been given the activities of
lit* department. Vlnted . States Marsh,il
Mark Rtoren emphatically denied that
any of hls meji have been serving a
iarge number of subpoenas In South
Bend or anywhere else In connection
with liquor Investigations and that, he
now hag In hls hands a large number of
such processes.
United States District Attorney Frede
rick Van Nuys, who hn* charge of the
grand jury, also denied that hundreds
of subpoenas have been Issued and In
timated that stories of an Investigation
of tremendous scope were absolutely
without foundation.
In spite of those statements Mr. Orbl
son admitted there has been nn Investi
gation of the liquor traffic throughout
the northern portion of the State for the
last several weeks. When told the mar
shal denied having the number of sub
poenas reported, he Indicated that If they
have not been Issued, they will be.
South Bend dispatches stated emphat
ically that Frank 8. Ream, deputy l lilted
Ktates marshal, will complete today the
service of 100 subpoenas. Marshal Sto
ren declared with emphasis that his dep
uty la not In South Bend on this mis
sion.
"Mr. Ream went to South Bend with
subpoenas for Just two men and neither
of them could be found,” the marshal
declared.
Chicago-Twin Cities
Air Service Opened
CHICAGO, Nov. 29. —Air mail service
was opened today between Chicago, St.
Paul nnd Minneapolis. The first plane
left the Maywood field here shortly after
8 o’clock, piloted by William Carroll. It
carried 400 pounds of mail for the Twin
Cities.
Fire at Hotel Does
Damage of SI,OOO
Damage estimated at SI,OOO was caused
by a fire that started In the locker room
in the basement of the Claypool Hotel
Sunday. Employes of the hotel assisted
the firemen In putting out the flames and
many of the guests of the hotel did not
know there had been a fire In the build
ing.
Rail Union Heads Ask
Return of Old Boards
CHICAGO, Nov. 29. —Unable to reach
an agreement with railroad owners re
garding appointment of boards to inter
pret national agreements entered Into by
the Government and railroad employes
shortly before the railroads were re
turned to their owners, leaders of rail
unions appeared before the United States
Railroad Labor Board today iAj an ef
fort to havtold boards re-established.
3fotirtaiti! Hailti OTttti tQ
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1920.
Aviator Is Held in Mail Robbery
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fenborger nnd
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Nov. 29 Keith
Collins, aviator wanted in connection
with the $3,500,000 mail tr.iln robbery at
Cotin,-II Rluff-t, lowa, several weeka ago,
was under arrers' at Westvllle, Okla.,
today. Collin* was a Treated at the home
of hi* uncle, after a struggle with post
office Inspectors
Authorities said Collins made way with
the loot from the train In an automo
bile. .Six men already are under arrest
LEAGUE JOLTED
BY MESSAGE ON
OIL TO ENGLAND
Note Involves Rights of Man
datory Power on Special
- Privileges
WARM DEBATE FORESEEN
GENEVA. Nov 29 The American
note to Great Britain protesting against
favors shown t> British oil Interests In
Mesopotamia. f*r which country Britain
holds a mandate, was a bombshell for the
League of Nat l.ins assembly meeting.
It was briefly discussed this morning at
a secret session of the League of Na
tion! council and promises to furnish
material for vigorous debate later on In
open sessions of the assembly.
America’s note involves not only the
oil controversy, hut th" whole question
of the rights of n mandatory power to
exercise special privilege* In the country
for which It holds a mandate. Further
more, It Involves the right "f the United
States, a non naom'.'sr of the league, to
Interfere In del ,n* of the league in
terpreting war treaties
On account of lh>. delicacy of the dlplo
mntte negotiations It was regarded us
possible that Great Britain and France
might take steps to prevent open de
bale on the American note, fearing that
representatives of small states and non
mandatory nations might say things
which would further retard the entrance
of America Into the league.
Lord Robert Feel!, representative of
South Africa, contends that any power
taking a mandate for n atnull and feeble
state, should have special privileges In
(Continued on Logo K.loven.)
SOLDIERS RULE
MINING COUNTY
Troops Take Charge of West
Virginia Field.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Nov. 29.
Mingo County, the scene of numerous
Moody battles between striking coal
miners and mine guards, was under mar
tial law today. Governor Cornell asked
for martial law to restore order In the
strike tone.
Col. Herbert Iln]l and a battalion of
480 men arrived in the Mingo County
county sent yesterday front Camp Sher
man. Ohio.
The troops are quartered in the court
house, tho city hall and a building for
merly used ns a hotel. Three companies
are hil letted In Williamson. The re
mainder were dispatched to the east and
west with orders to establish headquar
ters posts at Kermtt, Chatteroy, Nolan
nnd Matewan.
Orders to company and platoon com
manders aro secret, but Williamson civil
authorities say tho men have been in
formed of Governor Conrwcll’s statement
that ho did not Intend to call Federal
troops to Mingo again “to act aa sign
posts.”
The troops are part of the 10th In
fantry stationed at Camp Sherman since
the return from overseas. Tho pro
visional battalion is fully equipped with
horses, mules, army trucks and field
equipment. One company of expert ma
chine gunners is attached to the bat
talion.
Negro Won’t Stop—
but He Stops Bullet
Harry Patterson, 24, negro, 011 Fay
ette street, is held In tho detention ward
of the City Hospital on a charge of va
grancy while the police aro Investigating
to determine it he Is a hold-up man.
Patterson was wounded when ho ignored
Patrolman Hillman’s command to halt.
Hillman fired five shots, one hitting the
negro In the hip.
PHILADELPHIA BREAD DOWN,
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29.—Tho price
of bread in Philadelphia will be reduced
1 cent a loaf Dec. 1, Frank B. McClain,
fair price commissioner, umibunced. The
present price Is 11 cent* for a one-pound
loaf and 115 cents for a twenty-four-ounce
loaf.
and Orville Chimps. Below i Fred Pof
r. A. Italy.
!in Council Bluffs. They are said to have
j confessed.
Costal authorities declared be had ob
tained more than $1,000,000 in loot from
j the robbery, most of It in unnegotiable
; Liberty bonds and securities. He is also
; known to have obtained at least $23,000
jln cash. Authorities refused to state
(Continued on Page Nine.)
FIRE FIGHTING
METHODSHERE
IN FOR SCORING
National Hoard of Under
writers’ Inspection Last
August Just Revealed.
PLANS ARE OUTLINED
The attention of city off!,dais ha* been
directed to the need of civil service reg
illations, a repair shop, drill* and train
ing for Are fighting Improvement and
the extension of the underground sjs
tem of the alarm service for the fire de
partment as rapidly as possible by th#
committee on fire prevention and en
gineering standards of t-he National
Board of Fire Underwriters, a bulletin
receded from the board's headquarters
at New York tfUy today, discloses.
The fire department was Inspected
Aug. .30 to Bept. 1 by E. R Townsend,
engineer for the committee, the bulletin
states He conferred with the board of
public safety regarding the Improve
ments made and needed. The board has
never made announcement of Mils Tlslt.
Among plans for the future, which the
bulletin snj s the board of public safety
has. but which the board Itself has not
announced, arc the extension of the bu
reau of Arc prevention by the addition
of four assistant Inspector* to the pres
ent force of six men. This extension Is
expected to be made by Jau. 1, the bulle
tin stale*.
Reviewing conditions In the fire de
partment. the committee report states:
“The fire force has been Increased
from 347 to 337 and members are now
allowed one day off In five. Instead of
(Continued on I’age Nine.)
MORE SHIPPING
GRAFT REVEALED
U. S. Material Used on Private
Jobs, Witness Says.
NEW YORK. Nov. £9.- Further testi
mony regarding the utter lack of a
checking and accounting system in the
United Suites Shipping Board was given
before tho Walsh congressional commit
tee here today by William E. Cash,
formerly traveling auditor for the ship
ping board.
Cash testified that ship building con
tractors who had both government and
private vessels under construction or re
pair made free use of government ma
terials on private ships. This method,
the witness suid, prevailed all along the
eastern dlstrli t, notably In New York,
Philadelphia and Boston, and there was
no way of checking up the materials thus
wrongly used, or the loss Incurred by
the government through this misappro
priation. Cush also testified to payroll
padding and petty graft.
S. M. Hildreth, the next witness, man
ager of the Belmont Packing and Rubber
Company, tolil of the rejection by tho
shipping board of bids submitted by
him, “for no reason whatever except that
we were not on the shipping board's ap
proved list.”
Some of the rejected bids, he said, were
21 to 25 per cent lower than those which
were accepted. His testimony was cor
roborated by Frank Stringer, a salesman
for the eume firm.
William Denman, tho first chairman of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation and the
Shipping Board, was on hand ready to
testify before the committee.
Robert B. Lagren of Philadelphia, head
of the supplies and sales division of the
shipping board, also was among the wit
nesses slated for examination.
Fail to Identify
Jail Mob Party
Special to The Times.
SEYMOUR, Ind., Nov. 29. -Local po
lice authorities have been unable tl learn
the identity of any of the masked men
who removed Henry Bentley, colored,
from the Seymour jail Saturday, then
liberated him after threatening to take
his life by lynching.
Bentley will be taken to Putnamville
today to begin sentence of six months
at the State penal farm on the charge
of assault and battery.
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STREET CAR CO.
GIVES FIGURES
TO SHOWNEED
Hearing on Petition for In
creased Revenue Opens Be
fore Utility Body.
ARGUE TRANSFER FEE
Figures showing the necessity for in
creased revenue for the Indianapolis
Street Railway Company were presented
at the hearing before the public service
commission today on the company’s peti
tion for a 2-cent charge for transfers.
The figures were presented by Joseph A.
McGowan, secretary and treasurer of the
company, and by Robert I. Todd, presi
dent of the company.
Samuel Ashby, corporation counsel for
the city, opposed the granting of the
transfer charge In a statement to the
commission and in an answer to the pe
tition.
Mr. Todd, in response to a question,
said that although there was no way to
arrive at anything like a correct esti
mate, a charge for transfers might cause
the demand t< r them to be about 65 per
cent of what It is at present, and in re
sponse to a further question he said thnt
of the transfer* t*sued at present prob
ably 12 to 15 per oent of them ere mis
used or not used,
FART IKS REPRESENTED
AT THE CONFERENCE.
In response to a question as to what
effect a 2 cent transfer charge would have
in relation to Jitneys, he said he did not
believe It would have any appreciable ef
fect, but that If a 6 cent fare were put
Into effect he believed they would very
seriously affect the company's revnue un
less some regulation were provided for
them.
There were represented at the hear
ing. in addition to the Indlanaptills
Street Railway Company and the city
of Indianapolis; the Interstate public
Service Company, the Indiana Union
Traction Company, the Indianapolis &
Cincinnati Traction Company, and the
Roech Grove Traction Company.
The Beech Grove Traction Company
was represented by Carl Weyl on behalf
of the Fletcher Savings & Trust Com
pany, receiver for the traction company.
Mr. IVoyl explained that abont a year
ago, In order to cut down expens*-* of
operation for the Beech Grove line It
1 vu decided to put Into service one man
i cars, of much lighter weight than the big
cars of the street railway company; that
these would soon be put into operation,
ad that in view of these light cars and
the fact that the company does not use
the traction terminal station a charge of
! 2Vj cents per passenger would be charged
the company by the street railway com
| pany Instead of a 3-cent charge.
SAYS COMPANY
CAN’T AFFORD BOOST.
He said that the company could not
afford an increase in this charge by the
street railway company and expressed
the belief that the contract under which
this rate ts granted should be
protected in any order that the commis
sion might see fit to make.
Mr. Aahby. in speaking of th# peti
! tlon for a 2-cent transfer charge by the
i street railway company, expressed the
I belief that, on th* average, transfer pas
senger* ride no greater distance than
straight haul passengers.
He spoke In favor of higher rates be
I lng charged the interurhan companies by
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HOLD 3 IN DEATH
OF PEACH KING
Accused of Murdering Shep
ard, Wealthy Georgian.
MACON, Qa., Nov. 29, —Detectives were
working today on a web of circumstantial
evidence In an effort to firmly enmesh
Mrs. F. Eugene Elmer In the alleged
murder of her former husband. Fred B.
Shepard, millionaire Georgia [teach king.
Mrs. Elmer has been charged with
the killing Ernest Hopson, her son by
a former marriage, and Mr*. lone Henry,
a sister, were held on the same charge.
It la alleged Mrs. Elmer with the con
nivance of the others arrested In the
case, killed Shepard -when he was her
husband by giving him bichloride of
mercury and that she concealed hls will
under which the bulk of hls $3,000,000
estate went to hi* relative*. She took
control of the estate herself and later
married Dr. Elmer.
Later Mrs. Alice Crandall, sister of the
dead man, received anonymously through
the malls, a will made out by Shepnrd,
whl-A cut hls wife off with SIO,OOO and an
Income of slo*3 a month, and left the
bulk of bis estate to hls sister and hls
son. This aroused suspicion and Shep
ard's body was exhumed and examined
for evidence of murder. The examina
tions of the body, which was exhumed
twice, revealed unmistakable traces of
bichloride of mercury poisoning in the
opinion of State Chemist Dverhnrt.
Dr. Funk, a pathologist, Issued a sup
plementary statement nssertlng that
large quantities of bichloride of mer
cury had been administered to Shepard
through the mouth.
Mrs. Elmer declares she Is being per
secuted.
Shamokin, Pa., Scene
of $300,000 Blaze
SHAMOKIN, Pa.. Nov. 29.—Fire, start
ing In the poolroom owned by B. H.
Hbhs, swept the Windsor Block in the
business section today, causing h loss of
at least $300,000. The fire was still
burning at noon, but was under con
trol. The origin is unknown.
Figures Announced
for Three Estates
Inheritance tax appraisements total
ing $0,778.91 from three estates today were
announced by William T. Rasmussen. In
heritance tax appraiser for Marlon
County.
On the estate of the late Walter H.
Eastman, the tax was fixed at $884.79 and
the net estate value at $07,959.47.
The tax on the estate of Sarah F. At
kins was announced as $8,554.51 and the
net value of tho estate fixed at $549,-
374.50.
The estate of the late Albrecht Kipp
was appraised at $47,902.29 and tho tax
fixed at $339.81.
Prosecutor Files
Suit for Bond Money
Claris Adams, prosecuting attorney, in
behalf of the State, filed suit today to
recover judgment on a bond of S2O which
was tendered by John Goins when he ap
pealed from the City to the Criminal
Court. Goins is now among the missing.
Harry “Goosie” la>e, notorious politi
cian, is the surety on Goins’ bond and Lee
was mnde a party defendant to the suit
filed by the prosecutor in the Circuit
Conrt. Goins was fined $5 and remand
ed to Jail In the City Court until the fine
and costs were paid. Mr. Adams asks
that his $lO prosecutor's feo also be col
lected.
LAST HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
Lights Match to
Fill ‘Gas y Tank
ERIE, Pa., Nov. 29. —Gasoline and
matches don't hitch. Leo Miller, fill
ing bis automobile tank while a
friend held a match to direct the flow
in the darkness found this out. The
fire department extinguished the
blase.
STATE COURTS
ARE GIVEN RAP
BY FARM BOARD
Penal Trustees Advise More
Severity in Dealing Out
Penalties.
LAMENT FOR TAXPAYERS
Asserting that the courts of Indiana
have been “too lax in their administra
tlon of the law" and that “It taxes
credulity to believe that law-breakers who
have received suspended sentence for law
violations, cease their law-breaking,” the
board of trustees of the Indiana State
Farm at Putnamviile, in their annual re
port to the Governor today, arraign the
State courts vigorously.
"If the courts would show more se
verity in dealing with illicit traffickers
in and users of forbidden beverages, the
number of men sent to the farm would
be greatly Increased,’’ says the report.
"Usually they are given suspended sen
tences pending good behavior.
“Generally speaking, the courts have
been too lax In their administration of
the law. If the State farm is a wise In
stitution and It is better for misdemean
ants to be sent to the farm, there to
work and by their work support them
selves, instead of to the jails where they
pass their time in idleness and eat their
hread in the sweat of the taxpayers’
faces. It is obvious that it would Iks bet
ter for the misdemeanants nnd for tae
people at large If they were sent to tae
farm Instead of to the jails.’
FEWER BEING SENT
TO STATE FARM.
The report of the board of trustees
state* that "a marked feature of the farm
during the last year has been the reduced
number of men sent to It. Within the
last few months of 1920 the decline
ceased and a alight upward movement
began.”
The report then goes into the cause
for the reduction of men being sent to
the Institution, ending with the arraign
ment of the courts.
One of the outstanding facts in the
report of the trustees is the statement
that it has ceased to reqnire money an
nually for its maintenance and now re
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THEATER PLAN
OFF FOR 3 YEARS
Proposed New English Build
ing, to Begin in January,
Hits Rocks.
Plans for the construction of the pro
posed new English Theater, work on
which was to begin about Jan. 1, un
der the direction of the le?sees, the
Famous Plryers-lAskey Company, have
been changed and no steps will be taken
for three years, it became known to
day.
The original plans to dispose of the
present hotel building, leased by the
Watson McMahon Company, whose lease
expires Jan. 1, included the leasing for
ninety nine years of the west half of
the structure to the Famous Players-
Laskey Company, who were to remodel
that part into a theater by enlarging
the present English theater space.
With the expiration of the Watson-
McMahon Company lease arrangements
were made whereby W. T. Riley, present
clerk of the Hotel English, would as
sume control of the east part of the
bu ! ld!ng under a long term lease and
continue hotel accommodations.
Because of abnormal building condi
tions the Famous Players Laskey Com
pany has decided to postpone building
operations nnd has granted a three-year
lease of the west half to Riley, accord
ing to George L. Glllott, auditor for the
Watson-McMabon Company.
The furniture of the Hotel English
will he sold at public auction next Mon
day by Bamuel Kreiser, auctioneer, of
New York City, after which Riley proba
bly will equip the entire building with
new furniture.
The Watson-McMahon Company will
confine Its operations to the management
of the Hotel Jefferson of Peoria, 111.,
which was leased by the company Dec. 1.
Proposed Coal Rate
Increases Suspended
WASHINGTON. Nov. 19—Proposed
Increases of 20 cents per ton on coal
from points on the Cumberland rail
road to points on the Louisville & Nash
ville railroad in Alabama, Georgia. Illi
nois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina,
Ohio, Tennessee and A’lrglnia today were
suspended by the Interstate Commerce
Commission until March 28. The sus
pended schedules also would hare In
creased rates on lines in Kentucky and
Tennessee, connecting with the Louis
ville & Nashville railroad.
3 Pints of ‘Left Over’
Found in Cabinet
When Lieutenant Woollen and a squad
of police raided quarters occupied by
Fred Kirtley, negro, at 714 Douglas
street, this afternoon and found three
pints of white mule bidden in the kitchen
cabinet, Kirtley said It was some he
“had left over.” At first he insisted he
possessed no liquor, but after the dis
covery he admitted he had Just pur
chased a quart of white mule this morn
ing for SB.
Kirtley, who lias been arrested before
for liquor violations, was slated on a
charge of operating a blind tiger.
Water Rate Hearing
Wednesday, Dec. 15
Hearing on the petition of the In
dianapolis Water Company for an In
crease in rates will be held at 10 o’clock
Wednesday. Dec. 15, the public service
commission announced today.
Hearing on the petitions of the In
dianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Com
pany. for authority to charge 10 cents
for fare between any two points within
the corporate limits of Indianapolis, and
of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & East
ern Traction Company, for authority to
charge 3 oents per mile within the
corporate limits of the city of Indian
apolis, will be held Wednesday morning
at 10 o’clock in the office of the Am
mission, a
NO. 173.
COURT WIPES
OUT GOODRICH
COAL MEASURE
Power of Commission An
nulled by Federal Court
Decree.
ATTORNEYS IN WRANGLE
Practically every power of the special
coal and food commission of Indiana
was wiped out by the text of the Inter
locutory injunction entered In behalf of
two coal mining companies by Judge A.
B. Anderson In Federal Court today.
Following the hearing on the petition
for the injunction before Judge Ander
son, Judge Francis E. Baker of Chicago
and Judge George T. Page of Peoria, 111.,
Saturday there was soma doubt as to
whether or not the court’s order would
prohibit the commission from exercising
its covetd power to fix prices, but til
doubt on this point was eliminated >y
the formal text of the order.
Ihe text of the order was prepared
by attorney for the Vandalla Coal Com
pany and the Vigo Coal Products Com
pany, the two plaintiff companies and
presented to the court for entry In the
record today. James W. Noel, chief
counsel for the commission, objected
vigorously to the text of the order be
fore Judge Anderson entered it but with
out avail. Hot words passed between
the attorneys for both sides and the
court during which passage the court
spoke of Governor Goodrich's “socialistic
government."
The interlocutory Injunction is In
force until final hearing and determina
tion of the cause. The commission has
thirty days in which to file an answer
and the date for final hearing will be
set sometime thereafter.
OTHER COMPANIES
MAY ENTER SUITS.
Mr. Noel said that the commission
probably will confer today upon what Its
-uture course will he. Attorneys for the
plaintiff maintained that the commis
sion’s power is practically wiped out
aecause, while the injunction applies
only to the two plaintiff coal companies,
all other companies may bring similar
suits and get identical injunctions, since
facts surrounding the operation of all are
practically the same.
The injunction contains six prohibiting
clauses, that regarding the fixing of
prices being the first.
Jess*) E. Eschbach, chairman of the
special coal and food commission, an
nounced this morning that a conference
would be held this afternoon between
member* of the commission and attor
ney* and that a statement would bo
issued following the conference. No In
dication as to the contents of the state
ment was ghen by Mr. Eschbach.
Governor James P. Goodrich, a mem
ber of the commission, left today for
the East to attend a conference of Gov
ernors of States to be held in Harris
burg, Pa.. Dec. 1, 2 and 3.
Rl LING PROHIBITS
PRICE FIXING
The injunction reads in part a* fal
lows;
"That pending, and until the final hear
ing and determination of this cause, the
defendants, as constltutiing the special
coal and food commission of Indiana, the
Individual members thereof, and its, and
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CATCH 2 MAKING
SPURIOUS MONEY
Cincinnati Police Get Hoosier
in Counterfeiting Raid.
t INCINNATI, Nov. 29. —Two men
caught in the act of printing counterfeit
$lO bills during a raid on a rooming
house here Sunday, were held today by
police for Investigation by Federal au
thorities.
About $3,000 in finished bills waa !
seized. The men planned to circulate It
during the Christmas shopping rush,
they said.
The prisoners registered as Martin
naniman, 47, Cincinnati, and Charles
Schwibbe, 25, Vincennes, Ind.
Harnman was released recently after
serving five years in Leavenworth prison
for counterfeiting, he said, and Schwibbe
said he had served nine months for
cracking a safe.
The bank notes were counterfeits of
the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank issue
of May IS, 1914.
Educators of Five
States in Conference
CHICAGO. Nov. 29.—The first regional
conference on education met here today
under the leadership of United States
Commissioner of Education P. P. Clax
ton, with superintendents of schools and
educators in attendance from Illinois,
Michigan, 'Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana.
The meeting will pave the way for fu
ture conferences at which educational
problems as they apply to the regions
Involved will be discussed and ways of
coping with these problems evolved.
The meeting Is the first of twelve to
be held in various sections and is tho j
direct outgrowth of the big national con
ference held in Washington last year
Eat the Right Food
to Make You Strong
One's physical condition is more de
pendent on the food he eats than on
any other thing.
A perfect body can no more be built
from improper food than a Swiss watch
can be built from the Junk pile.
It, therefore, behooves every indtvdual
to take thought of his food—to find out
if the proper materials In the proper
proportions enter into his three square
meals a day.
Our Washington Information Bureau
Is distributing a bulletin prepared by
the Department of Agriculture which
tells “What the Body Needs.”
Get it. study it, and find out if yon
are doing justice to your stomach. No
charge, except 2 cents in stamps for
return postage.
Frederic L Haskin, Director,
The 1 udioJui Daily Times
Information Bureau,
Washington, D. C,
I inclose herewith 2 cants in
•tamps for return postage on a free
copy of “What the Body Need*.’*
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