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WOMAN SOUGHT
IN WIRE TAPPING
Wife of Ringleader Missing
From Atlanta Home.
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. Sl—Police and
detectives are today sea rehiuir fur Mrs.
Clyde Smith, wife of one of the missing
ringleader* of the fake wire tapping gang.
She has disappeared from Atlanta.
The authorities believe Mrs. Smith waj
in intimate touch with the part her hus
band played in the wire tapping fake
swindle and also with the work of others
associated with him. Her home. 803
Peachtree street, triple locked, padlocked
and chained, is now believed to be the
place where the various operatives found
safety after the investigation into the
operations of the gang-started and seised
the Jirst opportunity to leave Atlanta.
Mrs. Smith had been under surveillance
and twice grilled by the solicitor-general.
Her small son is also missing.
Victims of the gang continue to ap
pear before Prosecutor Boykin, among
them being a man said to be a Georgia
banker who had been swindled out of
$38,000. Many of them had lost every
thing they possessed.
J. L. Broadnax and M. E. Graham are
under arrest charged with bookmaking
on races in New Orleans and other towns.
The officers state they found telegrams
announcing race results and other race
“dope” when they searched the couple.
Couple’s Marriage
Blocked by Doctor
Special to The Titles.
COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 31—Cupid ana
eugenics clashed in the offiee of the
Bartholomew County clerk here, when
Dr. J. K. Hawes, of the United States
Public Health Service, forbid County
Clerk C. M. Johnson to Issue a marriage
license. The young couple stood be- j
fore the clerk's desk and pleaded with j
Dr. Hawes to remove his objection.
When the would-be bridegroom, who
had been a patient of Dr. Hawes, found
that the doctcr would not remove the
objection, he went to another physician
and obtained a health certificate. Armed
with this he returned to the clerk's of
fice and demanded a license, tut Dr.
Hawes still blocked bis way. County
Clerk John-con refused to issue the
licence.
300 Cases of Whisky
Held After Accident
UNION TOWN. Pa., Dec. Sl.—Three
hundred cases of Gibson whisky, the kind
with the “kick of an army mule,” are
hei.-g guarded here today instead of be
ing on their way to New York. One of
the trucks hauling the liquor went over
an embankment shortly after midnight
on the National Pike. News of the mis
hap soon reached Fayette County author
ities who seized the liquor.
The whisky was being taken from the
Gibson distillery at Belle-Vernon to New
York on New York permits. Monte Gold
stein of Pittsburgh and four other mea
are being detained weile an investigation
of the regularity of the permits is bt.ng
made.
Richmond W T oman
Dies From Burns
Special to The Times
RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 31.—Mrs. A’ ! ee
M. Newman. TO, pioneer of Wayne
County, was found burned to death m
her home in West Richmond late Thurs
day, by a ii-:ghhor who entered the
house after detecting the odor of burn
ing clothing.
It is the belief of Coroner Bond that
Mrs. Newman had a la.nting spell and
slipped from a chair into the gas grate,
where her clothing was Ignited. Two
sons, Ray Newman of this city, and
Victor Newman, who is a clerk in the
Senate postoffice in Washington, sur
vive.
‘Pennsy’ Employes
Ordered Back in Shops
Special to The Times.
LOGAN'PORT, Ind.. Dec. 31.—Notice
ordering six hundred Pennsylvania shop
employes in this city to return to work,
Jin. 3, were posted at the shops today.
The lay-off at the local “Pencsy" shops
here occurred last Monday morning, no
explanation being made by the officials
in regard to the temporary suspension of
operations.
Gun for Protection
Proves Death Dealer
ATLANTA. Ga.. Dec. 31.—With a
pistol he had bought for protection after
being held up Wednesday night. Albert
Kt ufman. K), president of the National
Straw Hat plant, shot himself through
the right temple accidentally at Ins of
fice. dying almost immediately.
The Bankers investment Company
Established 1914
Conservative investments for banks, trust com
panies and individual investors.
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U.S. DICTATOR
IN MOVE FOR
DISARMAMENT
Other Powers Will Cut Navies
if America Decides or.
Reduction.
MOVEMENT IS GROWING
By J. W. T. MASON,
Written for the United Press.
NEW YORK, Dee. 31. —The movement
for limitation of naval construction is
spreadiivj so fast throughout the world
as to mJTe it a more immediately in
centive instrument for world peace than
the League cf Nations.
America controls the world’s naval
situation. Whatever the United State?
says will be done. America alone has
the financial resources sufficient for an
indefinite expansion of warship con
struction. If America is willing to de
clare a naval holiday the other powers
will eagerly seize the opportunity to
cut down their own expenditures. A
conference of the world’s naval powers
to meet at Washington at the invitation
of the United States would do more to
guard civilization against the outbreak
of another war than the meeting of the
assembly of the League of Nations at
Geneva was able to do. Complete dis
armament cannot come at once because
the risk is too great. But the first
stage is to limit warship building.
America alone can Inspire this program
because America controls the world’s
balance of power.
There are now only three naval na
tions of major rank. They are the United
States, Great Britain and Japan. The
key to the problem of naval retrenchment
is the proportional future strength lu
warships which these nations shall
possess.
The United States with two vast sea
boards to protect and Great Britain with
the outlying parts of the British em
pire to safeguard, are entitled to heavier
national insurance against unforeseen
possibilities than Japan. When Amer.
lea's present naval program is completed
the strength of the American and Brit
ish navies will be about eoual. Japan
will have about 50 per cent of America’s
power. That proportion is a fit com
promise.
If an agreement is reached for a con
tinuance of the same relative strength,
the problem will be solved.
C. K. Poer New Head
Shelby Cos. Thrashers
Special to The Times.
SIIELBYVILLE. Ind.. Dee. 31.—Chaun
rey K. I’oer of Hanover Township has
been elected president of the Shelby
County Thrashers Association In the
annual banquet atl meeting held here.
Worth I.isber of Van Buren Township
was elected vice president, and A. C.
Howe of Noble Township, secretary
treasurer Mr. Poer, Mr. Howe and Harry
Brown were elected delegates to the State
convention in Indianapolis, and Mr.
Lisher, Walter Arnold and J. R. Peek
are members of the legislative commit
tee appointed. Resolutions were passed
at the meeting that the Shelby County
Farmers’ Association appoint a commit
tee to confer with the executive commit
tee of the thrashers at the beginning
of the coming season regarding tha fix
ing of prices, equipment needed and the
method to be followed this year. Mr.
McCreary, secretary of the State Asso
ciation of Thrashers, gave the principal
address of the meeting.
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She Kildew went to Tlckville Satur
day afternoon and stood around for a
while. Ho leaned against a telephone
pole and tried to eavesdrop on some
body, but he says the line much have
been out of fix, as he couldn’t hear a
word.
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Yam Sims ia now thinking about mar
rying a red-headed girl near Rye Straw.
But she has a good farm:
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It was first believed that by having
both sides of the checkerboard at the
postoffice checked off that two games
could be kept running at once.
ANNOUNCEMENT
We’re Going to
Our New Location
with the New
Year
From this time on The Starr Piano Company,
one of the lanumarks in the Piano Industry of
the City and State, will be associated in the pub
lic’s mind with another great landi .irk, the
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument.
Our new location gives us a central and conven
iently reached store, with ample room for the
display of
Starr Pianos, Player Pianos,
Phonographs, Gennett Rec
ords ani Player Rolls
Thus has Indiana’s pioneer piano house moved
another step forward.
We Invite Your Early Visit to Our
New Store Located at
49-53 Monument; Circle,
Next to Circle Theatre
THE STARR PIANO CO.
Make Your Waste Earn a Profit
We Buy Waste Paper of
All Kinds
Old Books and Records — Don’t
Burn Them—Sell Them to Us,
That Means Their Destruction
American Paper Stock Cos.
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Happy and Prosperous I
New Year
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1920.
PENROSE JOINS
IN OPPOSITION
TO TARIFF BILL
Returns to Capital to See That
Measure Takes Proper
Course.
TERMED AS ‘ILL ADVISED’
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. —Renewed
and strengthened opposition to the omni
bus tariff bill was seen today In ths re
turn to Washington of Senator Boise
Penrose of Pennsylvania.
Before his arrival, Penrose com
municated to several of his Republican
colleagues his opinion that the bill Is
"111 advised" and "emotional."
Even though he Is not yet a well man,
he cun, even from the suite of rooms he
is occupying at the Wardman Park Inn.
do much as chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee to influcuce the
course the bill takes in the Senate, it Is
conceded by Democratic and Republican
Senators alike.
Penrose, as chairman, is expected to
supplant actively Senator McCumber of
North Dakota, who has been acting
chairman In Penrose’s absence, in pre
siding over meetings of the committee.
McCumber ia a supporter of the bill.
NONAGENARIAN DIES.
SHELBY VILLE, Ind., Dec. 31.—Mrs.
Lydia Burchfield, 96, is dead from Ill
ness incident to old age. She is sur
vived by two ‘sons, James Neal of In
dianapolis and Charles Neal of St. Paul,
and a brother, Samuel LelHer of St.
Paul.
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Gillette ().. ,8T Auto Strop
Durham Duple: (8) 7o
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Knders (6)..,280 Keen Kutter
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Little Furniture Store
211 E. Washington St
Mending TUtue
So sewing or darning. Repslre clothing.
Bilk, **tln cotton good*, ribbon*. fabric*
of al! kind*, kid glove*, mackintoshes,
umbrella*, parasol*, stockings. to. Pack
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Commercial Photographers
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Gas Rate Question
Why Coke Oven Gas Is Produced
Tn 1905, when a franchise wm issued to citizens who were under
taking to convert the old n-iurai gas system to the service of manu
factured gas, it contained a clause fixing the rate at 60 cents.
It was possible to meet this condition by one means, and by one
means o.iiy, namely, by producing gas from by-product coke OTens.
This Company was organized for (he purpose of supplying the City
with gas by use of the by product coking process. This was an
nounced r iblicly throughout the entire period of promotion, which
extended to October 31, 1907, when the natural gas lines wert actually
acquired. Ail persons who subscribed to the stock of the Company
and made cheap gas possible, did so under the assurance that the
enterprise could be made a success by use of the process named.
That the Company made no mistake is proved by the fact that it
has supplied the people of this City with gas at the lowest rate In
the United Rtates from April, 1909, to the present time, ana at tho
same time has been able to build np great plants, to carry on a
great industry, and to establish for itself the highest credit both at
home and abroad. The Judgment of the directors of the Company
has been fully justified ly a remarkable history of nearly twelve
years, during which business has passed through more varied
changes than during any previous similar period In history.
The Company undertook to conduct a by-product coking industry
with full knowledge of Its difficulties. The most important of these
may lie briefly stated;
1. A much heavier Investment for manufacturing plant
would be required than for any other known process of gas
production This raised a tremendous problem for anew
company with meager resources, without the backing of any
wealthy interested men. with no credit, confronted with
competition by an organisation in the hands of wealthy and
experienced men, and regarded by all important men tn the
gss Industry as doomed to certain failure. Yet this problem
was faced because of a desire to serve the community and a
confidence iu the soundness of the undertaking.
2. A much larger and more complicated working organiza
tion would be required than for any other system of gas
production This meant much greater difficulty in securing
competent employes (especially when the enterprise was
generally regarded by gas men as hopeless), and entailed a
continuing greater task In superintending such a force.
3. A large new Industry had to be built up, with product*
•which would have to be marketed over a wide territory. In
dianapolis was not then, and is not now, a good point for the
location of by-product coke ovens. It has no natural ad
vantages of location and the coke consumption of the local
industries was known to be very small. It was known In
advance that great tonnages of coke would have to be pro
duced. said it was known that Indianapolis would never buy
mote than a small proportion of the output. Even at the
present time this city absorbs only about 8% of the com
pany’s output of coke. It was known that a wide market
would have to h# established and maintained in the face of
competition. This has done only by the most careful
selection of coking coals, the most careful manufacture of
coke, the closest watching of general business conditions and
of special market conditions. The company has established
a reputation for its leading product and has built up exten
sive business connections of immense value, but only by
eternal vigilance can this business be carried on successfully.
Other products of great Importance must likewise be mar
keted over a wide territory. The company’s various products
go to all parts of the United States Khd even to Europe and
Asia. Its total revenues for the first eleven months of this
year have been $8,165,917.88, of which only $1,723,519.03 has
come from gas. In other words, to give this city cheap gas,
the company has been obliged to do a business which will
draw $3.76 from competitive markets outside of Indianapolis
for every SI.OO which it receives from the local community
for gas. Such a business throws upon this company a burden
of business management such as few, if any, other public
utilities have assumed.
4. Such a business would subject the company to
tions in revenues and' expenses such as public utilities are
seldom or nevor willing to face. The line of greatest safety
and least trouble would have led to adoption of a process
which would furnish the city with gas but which would leave
no other products t 6 be marketed. Expenses and revenues
would then have remained relatively stable except for the
radical changes caused by war conditions. But with such 'a
process gss In Indianapolis would never have sold for less
than about 90 cents, and would now be selling at not less
than $1.25. By constant attention to business, as indicated
In the preceding paragraph, it has been possible to weather
all of the financial and commercial storms which have swept
over the country since 1909. If the by-product coking busi
ness is to be kept on the same basis as heretofore and gas
production restricted, we can continue to do this.
Ji Bat conditions have changed so that more gas is wanted at a
time when expansion of the by-product coking industry is not com
mercially practicable. We shall endeavor to explain these changes
in our next two statements. jW 'a j
Citizens Gas Company
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New Year
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YOUR MATERIAL PROGRESS
can be measured by your Savings Account. Have you
made any progress in 1920—anything to show for a year’s
hard work?
The chance to save is not gone—start NOW—One Dollar
will do it. WE PAY 4y 2 % ON SAVINGS
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A more Beautijul Store with a larger
assortment of Exquisite Furniture
at Specially Reduced Prices
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Furniture from the Besn
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If you want a suite or an individual piece of furniture buy I
here, where you are sure to find what you want. Ours ia the 1
largest used furniture store in the United States. J
CASH OR PAYMENTS
BAKER BROSH
219-225 East Washington Street. I
Important Notice
Broad Ripple City Cars
Beginning Jan. Ist, 1921, the fares on Broad Ripple-Indianapoli*
cars will be as follows:
From Indianapolis or any intermediate stop south of Fifty-
Third Street to any stop north of Fifty-Third Street, in
cluding Broad Ripple, the fare will be 10 cents.
From Broad Ripple or any intermediate stop north of
Fifty-Third Street to any stop south of Fifty-Third Street,
including Indianapolis, the fare will be 10 cents.
Between Indianapolis and any Intermediate stop up to
and including Fifty-Third Street the fare will be 6 cents.
Between Broad Ripple and any intermediate stop np to
and including Fifty-Third Street the fare will be 5 cents.
Six tickets for 50 cents, on sale at Traction Terminal Ticket
Office, Indianapolis, Broad Ripple Depot, and such other points as
the company may from time to time designate.
Passengers will board cars at front entrance and leave cars at
rear entrance.
Pay-cs-you-leave.
See small hand bills for detailed instructions.
UNION TRACTION COMPANY OF INDIANA
BFire and Pu glar Proof Safes and
Real Flrcpro jf Filing Sales
In Five Sizes
From 20x30 to 40x60 tub We. These safes can be
equipped with any stool filing system. A com
plete line of office furniture and equipment.
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