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ROADS REFUSE
/ PARLEY; RAISE
AX TO CUT PAY
Tinish Fight* Inevitable, With
Rail Leaders Rejecting
Conference.
CHICAGO, Feb. 19—A "finish
fight” between the railroads and their
employes over the issue of collective
bargaining seemed inevitable today
as railroads prepared to announce
wage reductions for laborers and the
heads of railway labor unions mar
shaled their strength for a bitter
fight to prevent wage cuts.
Railway executives had definitely re-
Jecte'd collective bargaining a* a method
of arriving at wage scales. The plea of
B. M. Jewell, president of the railway
department of the American Federation
of Labor, for a conference to discuss
rules and working conditions was re
jected flatly by the American Association
of Railway Executives.
More than one hundred railway heads
from all parts of the country attended
the conference at which decision was
reached to decline to participate in such
a conflerenre.
FIGHT FOR RIGHT
OF BARGAINING.
Jewell, Frank P. Walah, general coun
sel for the railway brotherhoods, and
other union leaders have emphatically
declared that they will fight until the
'•fundamental principle'’ of collective bar
gaining Is accepted.
Railroads throughout the country are
reported to be preparing to post notices
of wage Eductions affecting certain
Classes of employes, chiefly unskilled la
borers and track workers. Employes are
expected to object and the dispute on
each mad automatically will come before
the railway labor board as a contro
versy between the Individual company
and its employes.
“Nationalization of the roads In the
Interest of consolidated labor unions'"
•was the way the executives character
ized the conference proposed by JeweiL <
TO DEFEND
FUBLIC INTEREST.
The executives declared they were not
opposed to labor organizations, but as- ;
•erted that the position of the unions
"raised the Issue of whether maintenance
and Increase of the power of the national
labor unions shall be placed above pub
lic Interest in the efficient and econom
ical operation of our transportation sys
tem.”
Os Its own volition the railway hoard i
granted Jewell until March 10 to pre
pare his rebnttaL Evidence of the main
tence of way employes, clerks, firemen,
■oilers and signal men concerning alleged
violation of the national agreements by
the railways will be heard by the board
March 1.
Decision by the railroad board on the
petition by railroads for right to reduce
wages and abrogate some national agree
ments will be handed down during April,
according to indications.
The decision on whether the board of
adjustment shall be national or local in
scope will also, probably come In April.
DRIVE IS HONOR
TO WASHINGTON
Legion to Make Special Mem
bership Effort.
Every member of the American Legion
In Marlon County has been requested to
put forth his full energy next week,
when the legion forces will concentrate
on the campaign for members, which will
be concluded March 1.
The week has been designated ‘‘Ameri
can Legion week,” J. F. Cantwell said.
Cooperation of the women’s auxiliaries,
the merchants and manufacturers will
be asked.
A special effort Is to be put forth
Tuesday, 'Washington's anniversary, and
on that day every member will be ex
pected to get at least one new member
as a tribute to ‘‘the father of our coun
try.”
The chairman declared the showing
made hy the posts that have reported Is
very satisfactory, but urged that there
be no let-down on the home-stretch.
Full reports on the number of new
members gained this week were to be
compiled at headquarters late In the day.
Sunday Services
in City Churches
Trinity M. E.—The Rev. C. N. Wilson.
Sestor, In the morning on ‘‘Christ in the
lidst. Yet Unseen,” and in the evening,
"What Think Ye of Christ?” Dr. W. S.
Flemming will addres a union meeting
of the Baptist. Nazarene and Methodist
Charches at Trinity M. E. Church at 7:43
Monday evening.
Victory Memorial M. P. —The Rev.
Jesse L. Bucgley, pastor. congre
gation will celebrate its first anniver
sary tomorrow. The Sunday school will
unite with the church and the pastor
will preach an anniversary sermon in
the morning. There will be an evange
listic service In the evening.
Representative Paul L. Haworth will
deliver an addres on “Washington and
Lincoln” at the North Park Christian
Church tomorrow evening, and Henry
Victor will lead in thq singing of pa
triotic songs. At the morning service
the Rev. J. D. Garrison will preach on
"Finding the Way for the Lost.” Miss
Norma Sutton will sing.
Hraolfside Park C. B.—The Rev. J B
Parsons, pastor, will preach In the morn
ing on ‘‘Pauline Purposefulness, a Sequel
to Power” and in the eveuiug on “Jonah
Went Down to Joppa.”
West Washington Street M. E.—The
Rev. W. E. Cissua, pastor, will preach in
the morning on “The Great Harvest
Yield” and in the evening on “How I
Know I Am Saved.” Illustrated songs
will be “America” and “The Holy City.”
At the “Everybody Service” at 230
o’clock In the afternoon Dr. Bailey pas
tor of Simpson M. E. Church (colored)
will speak and his choir will sing old
time camp meeting melodies.
Hall Place M. E. Church—The Rev.
Horace A. Sprague, pastor, morning,
“True Worship” and evening, “A Pe
culiar Investment.”
Eastern Heights Christian—The Rev.
K. C. Hendricks, pastor, will speak in
the morning on "The Great Cos quest.”
Grace M. E.—The Rev. C. E. Line, pas
tor. The congregation tomorrow will
observe the fifty-second anniversary of
thj dedication of the church with an all
day service. The Rev. Dr. Line will
E teach In the morning and Dr. C. E.
aeon will preach at night. In the aft
ernon at 2 o'clock an old-fashioned love
feast will be held.
H'dton Christian Church—The Rev.
Otarles H. Gunsaulus will preach in the
morning on “Jesus’ Psychology” and In
the evening on “The Greatest of Thesa
Is Love.”
A great Healing Circle meeting will be
held In Morrison Hall, 52 ! £ Monument
Circle at 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon.
There will be special solos by Mrs. Ada
Quaekenbush and Mrs. Ida Stillwell. The
lesson for the afternoon will be “The
Healings Which Were Done By Jesus As
He Made His Affirmations to the Sick.”
The book of Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John will be dis nssed. The niglM serv-
Jce will be at 7:45 and the subject for
liscnsslon will be “Divine Healing.”
Sermon by the Rev. narlrnd D. Carrick.
Special muaic. The public is Invited.
Unity M. P.—The Rev. J. C. MeCaslin
Will fill the pulpit, preaching in the
morning on "The Appeal of Cnrlst to
Touth.” and in the evening on “Slavery
vs. Reason.”
Evangelical Lutheran—The Rev. L. C.
E. Faekler, pastor, will preach in the
morning on “Whom Do You Love!” and
in the evening on “Peter Denies Christ.”
On Annday,, Feb 27, E Howard Cable
will make an address at the church at
rtvht, taking as his subject "The Hop
5Fb Came Back*
Auto Law Violators
Feel Pritchard Hand
Two men charged with violating the
motor speed laws and one charged with
failing to display lights were fined in
city court today by Judge Walter
Pritchard.
John Guedelhoefer, 2002 North Meridian
street, was fined S3O and costs and on
account of his age, Martin Nissen, 20, 834
Fletcher avenue, was fined sl3 and costs
-for speeding. Phil Samuelson, 121 West
Maryland street, was fined $1 and costs
for parking in an alley without lights.
TYPHUS SPURS
SENATE FIGHT
TO BAR ALIENS
(Continued From Page One.) t
ized Americans instead of the total num
ber of alien residents here.
Treasury loans to European govern
ments under new credits established after
the close of the war have aggregated
$2,000,000,000.
Surgeon General Hugh S. Cnmming
today extended the Federal sanitation
battle against the typhus and sleeping
sickness. He soon will have $200,000
available for the typhus prevention fight
in New York, this amount having been
voted into a bill now in Its final stage
of passage in Congress.
This after-the-war phase In the gov
ernment’s program of financing Europe
was revealed in figures to be laid before
the Senate Judiciary Committee. France
and Italy were the chief borrowers after
the armistice, although England and
other beneficiaries of loans continued
after the war to receive heavy cash ad
vances made possible by credits pre
viously established.
Data showing how the $10,000,000,000
lent to the European governments was
expended over the entire period after
America’s entry Into the war. is ceady to
be presented by Secretary Houston on
his reappearance Monday before the com
mittee.
The facts disclosed by the new reports
assembled apparently Indicate that most
of the money loaned to European gov
ernments was spent in the United States
for American commodities. Apparently
heavy loans made after the fighting in
Europe had ceased brought buying In
America to unprecedented totals and pro
vided a vital connection -with the wave
of profiteering which swept the country
most of last year.
MAY BREAK OUT
IN U. S . INTERIOR
NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Typhus may
break out In any part of the United
States as the result of vermin-infested
European Immigrants being admitted by
Federal officials, according to Dr. Royal
S. Copeland, city hbalth commissioner.
Dr. Copeland declared the discovery of
three typhus cases in Cortland, near
Syracuse, N. Y., indicated that an Inde
terminable number of the disease carriers
had penetrated the interior of the coun
try.
“There are no means of telling how
many Immigrants infected with the
deadly typhus louqe got past the health
authorities before rive established the
process now In force.” he said.
“The period of incubation for the ty
phus germ is twelve to twenty days. lor
that reason we may expect to know very
shortly whether any persons already in
fected with the disease wore admitted
to the country before we undertook the
present precautions.”
SPECIAL RULE
SPEEDS TARIFF
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—Steps to
epet-d up final action on the Fordney
emergency tariff bill were taken today
by the House Rules CommUtt-e.
It reported a special rule to enable
the bill to be sent to eonfereuoo before
the Senate and the Housq,
Representative Treadway. Mnssaehn- I
setts, has been able to block tao con
ference thus far.
INSISTS ON PLANES ~
AND SUBMARINES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—"N0 navy
can control the sea without holding con
trol in the air under sea,” Rear
Admiral Fullam, retired nival officer,
today told the Senate Naval Affairs Com
mittee, considering naval appropriations.
“The war disclosed that the battleship
could do nothing against the submarine,"
he said. “I do not contend that battle
ships should be scrapped, but they must
be supplemented with air and undersea
craft.”
HAAGS PRESENT
SORRY PICTURE
AT STATE FARM
(Continued From I’age One.)
get If the purpose of such Imprison
ment Is to teach respect for the law It
has accomplished its purpose.
For the Haags have no further desire
to seek ways to circumvent the law, nor
have they any remaining faith in their
ability to hire lawyers who can circum
vent the law.
The Haags went to the penal farm de
termined to serve their sentence there
land rid themselves of obligations to the
State. They do not feel that they are
I Justly imprisoned and probably to the
end of their lives they will feel that they
were misled, abused and “double
crossed.”
But the burden of their complaint to
day is not against the officials and the
citizen* who brought about their prose
cution.
It Is against the lawyers who advised
them to go ahead in the course they did,
who told them that there was no merit
in the criticisms of them and no “Influ
ence” back of the attempts to prosecute
- them.
To the writer they expressed a great
longing to come back to Indianapolis
and conduct their stores without “taking
any chances” with the law. They agreed
that never again would they risk their
freedom on the adviceof an attorney.
! In fact, they unite in declaring that they
never want any more relations with any
attorney under any circumstances.
“When a man steals-.fi horse and goes
to prison for it the public forgets him
and when be comes out of prison it
does not lay for him with a club," says
Julius.
“Why should the people of Indianapolis
want to keep on our trail?”
Both Louis and Julius Ilaag insist,
that they took no extraordinary steps
to obtain paroles from the Federal au
thorities. They say that the members
of the parole board treated them no dif
ferently than they treat other prisoners
and that in asking paroles and in getting
recommendations for paroles they only
took advantage of the usual routine and
i opportunity.
In going to the Penal Farm to serve
their sentence without continuing the
fight to avoid it the Haags feel that
they have shown their willingness to
abide by the judgment of the court and
to atone for their acts iu the past.
At the farm, officials say, they have
asked no favors and entered no objec
tions to anything required of them.
They are making model prisoners and
are patiently biding the time when they
can leave the farm, free men.
And when they do leave the farm this
much -can be said of the results of their
experience—they will not again believe
themselves above the. law.
The punishment they have received has
been snfflclA’-t to destroy all their okl
tlme faith It their ability to “get by,”
whether or n<k U has made them law
lorlcf
CITY EXPENSES
NEARLY EQUAL
STATE’S COST
(Continued From Page One.)
proceeds fund greatly over 1919. There
was a balance in this fund Jan. 1, 1920.
of $10,906.81. Receipts during the year
were $435,965.35, making the total avail
able $446,563.36. Expenditure of $93,948.60
le,ft a balance Dec. 31 of $352,914.76. The
big balance was left because only a
small portion of the cost of motorizing
the fire department was paid out, .most
'of the equipment being on the way to
delivery at the present times. There was
expended out of this same fund in 1919
only $8,208.90. The administration ac
counts for this wfth the explanation that
'no bonds were issued in 1919.
The park fend expenditures in 1920
were $506,606.97 and in 1919, $408,900.42.
A balance of $81,077.04 was left. Dis
bursements from the board of health
fund last year were $778,002.22 and In
1919. 5492.354.93. The balance Dec. 31 was
$36,308.05.
From the school health fund $24,161.24
was expended in 1920 and $14,203.41 in
1919. The balance in this fund at the
close of the year was $9,702.
From the recreation fund $63,855.43 was
spent, leaving a balance of $20,030.33. In
1919. $62,016.25 was disbursed.
Increased construction activity on the j
sewage disposal plant and the fact that
the contract of the William R. Grace
Company was revoked and relet to the
United States Fidelity and Guarantee I
Company, which held the contractor’s
bond, at a higher price than the con
tractor would have received, account for
the expenditure of more money out of
the public sanitation fund in 1920 than
in 1919, It is said.
On Jan. 1, 1920, there was a balance
of $118,127.27 In this fund. During the
year $1,093,890.90 was received, chiefly j
from temporary loans and bond Issues, ;
making a total available fund of sl,- j
212 017.36. The expenditures were $995,- j
986.30, leaving a balance of $216,030.86 on
L*ec. 31. in 19J9 only $156,131.51 was
spent out of tills fund.
Track elevation added considerable to
the increased expense. The track ele
vation fund, Jan. 1, 1920, contained a
balance of $293,507.16 and was increased
by receipts during the year to a total of |
$461 693.71. The expenditures amounted |
to $305,434.68, leaving a balance of $156,- I
259.03. The payments from this fund la
1919 totaled $215,984.73.
SINKING FUND
SHRINKS GREATLY.
The city sinking fund contained $657,-
899.38 on Jan. 1, 1920, was Increased by
$950,955.95 In receipts to $1,618,355.33 and
decreased to a balance of $749,564.53 by
expenditures of $868,790.80. The 1919 ex
penditure out of this fund was only
$24,497.50.
Expenditures from the flood preven
tion sinking fund in 1920 amounted to
$ 4,743.03, as compared with $32,486.10 In
1019.
The five main departments operating
out of the city general fund all in
creased their expenditures, the report
shows. Os the $2,064,624.60 appropriated
for the finance department $1,084.047 33
was spent, leaving a balim-e of $80,577.27.
The expenditure by this department in
1919 was $1,224,300.85, which is $700,-
740.4S less than In 1920.
The department of public purchase
spent $10,720 In 1919 and $14,704.21 In
1920.
The board of public works activities
cost the city $1,346,078.50, as compared!
with $1,267,407.70 iu 1919. This board j
had $130,088.28 left jn Its fund Deo. 31. |
The board of public safety spent '
$1,553,742.89, as compared with $1,297,- I
613.80 in 1919. The board had appro
priated to it $1,600,607.70 In 1920.
The report shows that the city re
ceived from fees $69,757 10 during 1920;
from licenses, $107,7>87.i8, and from
franchises, $35,301.99, representing small
Increases. From miscellaneous sources,
which include taxation and temporary
loans, $4,805,223.31 was received, in 1919
$3,688,001.17 was received from these
so unes.
The administration raised for the gen
eral fund by tuxes in 1920, $2 973,580 18.
The total city tax levy was $ 732 on the
SIOO Hild the assessed valuation was
$593,512,550. In 1919, $2,090,316.75 was
received In taxes for the general fund. |
The total citj- levy was $1.14 on the SIOO
and the assessed valuation was $276,592, |
880.
The report shows that the true assessed
valuation of property in the city ol In
dianapolis for 1921 is $008,328,470.
MOKE THAN EXFF.CTED
TO COME IN Til 18 YEAR.
Last full when the budget for 1921 was
made up County Assessor Leo K. Fesier i
gave the controller an estimate of the
valuaMgn, fixing It at *602,525.060, so tlint
the city on Its new tax rate of $1,061, i
will receive more money this year than J
was at first thought would come in from
taxes.
It Is pointed out that the city sinking
funds had In them Dec. 31, $028,799.88,
while the total outstanding bonds
amount to $5,143,500. The sinking fund,
the controller said, is In unusually high
ratio to the bonded Indebtedness, which
is a sign of a healthy condition In this
particular branch of city finances.
The Barrett law department Issued
$087,358.58 worth of Earrett law bonds
In 1920 and redeemed $447,736.32 worth,
leaving $2,459,333.21 worth outstanding.
Only $2,500 worth of street Intersection
certificates are left outstanding, $288,-
884.08 worth of the $290,584.0S worth Is
sued from 1914 to 1918 having been re
tired.
A law pasßed at the special session of
the Legislature last year provides that
the controller shall publish a report of
. appropriations and expenditures by
funds within thirty days after the close
of each calendar year. Mr. Bryson has
not Complied with this law.
He stated that It would be impossible
for him to do so because some of the
figures necessary for his report are not
available until the middle of January.
He said that be feels he is getting his
report ready early enough by having it
out at this time and declared that his
1 predecessor did not make public his last
report until August of the following
year. ‘
BRYSON EXPLAINS
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
Mr. Brysoji offered ari explanation ot
the expenditures column of the “Reoa
pltulation of All Funds” table of his
report to show that the actual total
amount of money which left the city
coffers during the year was not $8,622.-
71833, as the table shows. He said that
$905,879.09 shown as having been ex
pended from the improvement sinking
fund, the city sinking fund and the flood
prevention sinking fund in reality was
n't paid out but had to be shown ns
having been expended because in trans
ferring these sums from banks during
the year it was necessary to issue checks
The money, he said, riill remains in the
hands of the sinking fund eominlssioiiers,
with the exception of $120,460, which was
actually paid out to retire bonds.
He also Insisted that the $93,948.60 in
eluded In the table as having beer, ex
pended from the bond proceeds fund does
not represent an “expense,’ since It was
used to pay for “Improvement-
The fact remains that the $93,948 60 is
not in the city treasury and actually was
paid out, so It Is considered as an ex
| penditnre.
If Bryson’s explanation regarding
j the sinking fund “expenditures” is to be
accepted the amount of money which
! actually passed from the l ands of the
city under the Jewett administration In
1920 still would be $2,561,617.54 greater
than that which, under Mr. Bryson's
method of figuring, was actually checked
out In 1919.
Since $ 20,460 worth of bonds were re
tired in 1920 this sum should be deduct
■ Included In the
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1921.
To Aid Relief Work
/
ffei-i
MRS. CHARLES FFAFFLIN.
Among the organizations assisting on
the%!l-day music program for the bene
fit of the Hoover relief fund, to be held
in Roberts Park Church, is the Ladies’
Matinee Musleale, headed by Mrs. Charles
Pfafflin. The musical numbers will be
given between 2 and 3 o’clock and will
be as follows:
Organ-Scherzo from Sonata E
Minor Rogers
Phantom Waltz Arensky
Gavette In “F” (1786) Beethoven
Indian Flute Call Laurence
Mrs. Carrie Hyatt-Kennedy
Voice—My Little Dutch Garden... Loomis
Sweet Little Woman O’Mlne... .Bartlett
Lost Paradise Mary Helen Brown
Mrs Jnhii L. Elliott
Piano—Concert Waltz Paul Stoye
Mrs. James W. Hurt
Violin—
Miss Ella Schroeder
Voire, Violin, Harp and Organ—
Agnus Dei Bizet
Mrs. Reid Steele, Bertha Schell
bchmldt. Loulae S. Koehne and
Carrie Hyatt-Kennedy
Organ—Raymond Overture Thomas
Carrie Hyatt-Kennedy
Preceding the Matinee Musical pro
gram will l>a. the musical hour of the
Cathedral Choir. The program will In
clude the following numbers:
Quartette —H. E. Calland, H. P. Pa
gine, C. A. O’Connor and Edward La
Shelle.
Hirer-tor—Elmer Andrew Steffen.
Violinist —Miss Ruth Elizabeth Mur
phr.
Motets (a rnpella).
(a) Jesu Dulols Memorla.. ...Koth
(b) D Ileus Ego Amo Te Bauer
(c) Spirit of Mercy Salter
Male choir.
(a) Homing.
(b) Sorno Day, Some Time Xlark
(c) Values Vanderpool
H. E. Calland.
Three movements from Don Lorenzo
Perosi'w “.Messa da Requiem.”
(:y Requiem.
(b) Kvrie.
(c) Libera.
Cathedral Choir.
Violin solos—
Melody Czerwonk.v
Norwegian Air Ole Bull
Chant Viennots Krelsler
Miss Ruth Elizabeth Murphy.
(n> Trees and the Master.. .Chadwick
(h) It Is Enough (Elijah).Mendelssohn
(c) There Is No Death O’Hara
Edward La Shelle.
Tantum F.rgo Yon Wldor
Pupal Hymn .... .Ganss
In the evening between 6 and 7 o clock,
the Sebellschmldt Trio, assisted by W. T.
Shannon, organist, will present the fol
lowing numbers:
Trio Oberthnr
Organ $o! set ed
Cello, Berceuse A. H. Schellschmldt
Harp. C'rg<n and Violin Massenet
Quartette, liarp, Celia, Violin and Piano
Arabroslo
Violin Hubay
Harp Hasselmans
Trio, Spring Song Mendelssohn
The all-day concert will open at noon
with a recital by Hansen, organist, and
will continue through until 9 o'clock.
penditnre* in order to show what wax
left as having been actually taken out of
the treasury, according to Mr. Bryson’s
figuring. In this > wnner it is figured
tbnt $7,773,299.24 aci ally left the treas
jury. The same dedu - ions must be made
l from the total expen liture item a* listed
in the corresponding recapitulation table
in the report fur 1919. This would leave
I $5,211,691.70 as having been uctuslly paid
out in 1919. Deducting the 1919 figure
! from that for 1920 gives $2,561,617.54.
which would still represent an increase.
! figuring ,ln Mr. Bryson's wuy, of 49 1 per
cent.
In a letter accompanying the report Mr.
| Bryson sets out that the bonded ln
i debtedness of $5,143,500 consists of sl,-
j 443,000 at 3<4 per cent interest, $3,193,000
!nt 1 per cent, $83,000 st -Ib, per cent,
j $20,000 nt 5 per cent and $!00,fl00 at 6b*
i per cent.
j He states that there was outstanding
j against the city Dec. 31. 1020, SIOIO,OOO
! in temporary loans, of which $595,000 is
to Iu paid bnck out of the general fund
this, year, $215,000 by the board of public
health and $200,000 by the board of sani
tary commissioners.
lie figures the total outstanding obli
gations of the city at $6,153,500, which,
he suya, would leave a bonding margin,
under the legal limit of 2 per cent of
the UHoossed valuation of $0,013,029.
THIEF SHOOTS
STOREKEEPER
TO SLIP TRAP
(Continued From I’i One.)
store a number of times during the day
asking the price of various articles, but
making no purchases.
James Stone, negro, 1651 Columbia ave
nue, is under arrest on a vagrancy
charge and is held under $5,000 bond as a
suspect. Stone declares he will prove an
alibi. Gold failed to Identify Stone as
the robber when tips police took the sus
pect to the hospital.
Mrs. Stone said she thought Stone
locked like the man.
Burglars broke into the Jaggers Whole
sale Grocery Company’s store, 458 South
Meridian street, at 1 o'clock this morn
ing and were robbing the place when
interrupted by Patrolman Martin Shea.
The of) leer saw lights burning lu the
stqre
Shea went to the rear of the building
and was in time to see the burglars
escape in a big touring car. They took
only two cartons of cigarettes, hut had
dragged a number of boxes of canned
goods to the door ready to haul them
away.
Burglars made an attempt to force an
entrance to the store Thursday night, but
wei’GTrightened away. A few days be-
I fore Christinas burglars entered the
j store and carried away a large supply of
I canned goods and cigarettes.
| S. E. ltaugh, 3024 No th Meridian
street, reported to the police that $290
was stolen from his home.
Three stores were entered by burglars
during the night. John B. Whitehead,
grocer, 240 Minerva street, found that
thieves had visited his store. He re
ported $4 in pennies m.sstng from a cash
drawer. The burglars also took bam,
cigarettes and other valued
at sl7.
Louie Sattllnger's meat market, 3718
East Twenty-Fifth street, was visited.
, The clerk who discovered the robbery
; told the police he was unable to say
what was missing, but $6.30 was found
scattered over the flqr.
Mrs. Emma Lyke, 517 North Liberty
street, reported that thieves had broken
into a storeroom at 031 Massachusetts
avenue during t&e night and carried
away the counter, two showcases and
two ice boxes.
&OLONS URGED
TO SPEED UP IN
FINAL EFFORT
(Continued From Page One.)
State, counties, townships, cities and
towns from engaging in engineering
work entailing a cost of more than
$10,060, unless the task is supervised by
a registered engineer.
Representative G. C. Shultz, Randolph
County, In talking on the measure, de
clared that when the highway commis
sion act was “put over” the people were
promised greater efficiency by the cen
tralized control. Representativo R. U.
Barker, Posey County, said in attack
ing the proposed legislation that he was
afraid it would work out like the high
way commltsion ana said he “understood
there was some sort of an Investigation
on down there now,” referring to the
State board of accounts’ charges against
the/ commission.
Representative Calef and Representa
tive Elmer R. Waters, Tippecanoe County,
denied that the measure would allow the
formation of "an engineers’ trust.” They
both contended It would serve to raise the
standards of the engineering profession.
AGRICULTURAL
BILL PASSED.
The House today passed -the adminis
tration bill introduced by Representative
Murray S. Barker, Bootle County, pro
viding for voluntary dissolution of the
State board of agriculture. The bill Is
a companion to the one passed under
suspension of the rules some time ago,
making the State board of agriculture a
department of the State government.
The bill gives the present board au
thority to dissolve before expiration of
the terms of the members set by the
charter. The written consent of the ma
jority of the membership is required,
and it is also necessary to publish a
notice of the dissolution meeting in two
Indianapolis newspapers tow weeks be
fore it Is heJd.
The measure was passed by a vote of
76 to 0.
The House also passed Representative
Otto R. Beyler's bill, pi-emitting the
city of South Bend to collect Interest on
Inactive track elevation funds and to
otherwise carry out its track elevation
program, now under way.
Gl ARDIANSUIP
MEASURE KILLED.
House bill No. 243, introduced by Rep
resentative Omer U. Newman, Marion
County, and providing that a guardian
niny loase lands belonging to wards for
period* not to efeed ninety-nine years
when the money Is required for the edu
cation and support of the wards, was
killed on motion of Representative Claude
A. Smith to strike out the enacting
clause. The vote was Pi to 2L
The Willis bill, allowing women to
keep their voting residence In the pre
cinct In which they would have voted if
they had not married and removed to
another precinct after registration, came
nearly being lost through lack of a
quorum. The bill passed by a vote of
75 to 0, but it was necessary to round
up the loitering members before a quor
um was obtained.
The Harrison bill, providing that before
a child can be taken from the Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home and placed
in a private home, cousent in writing
roust be obtained from the person who
placed It in the Institution, was passed
by a vote of 70 to 4.
Representative John T. Jameson’s bill
giving the public service commission spe
cific power to investigate and determine
the efficiency of headlights in use on in
terurban cars was passed. 70 to 0.
The House alio passed Representative
J. I>. Mlltonberger's bill permitting in
surance companies to invest In bonds Is
sued or guaranteed by the Dominion of
Canada.
VOTE TO FREE
OFFICIALS OF
SURETY COST
(Continued From Page One.)
rigkt to meet once a week and increasing
salaries of members from $3 to $7 a
day.
It also passed a bill requiring the use
of electric lights In mines where there Is
danger of explosion and a bill requiring
the registering of persons entering and
leaving mines.
A bill Introduced by Senator Estes Dun
can of I’utnamville giving the Putnam
Connty auditor additional assistants was
passed.
A motion by Senator Masters to recon
sider his bill allowing draymen to take
| Hens on goods transferred for the trans
i fer charges was carried after a motion
to table was lost.
Purchasing Agents’
Headquarters Fixed
E. T. Klee, chairmnn of the hotel com
mittee of the Purchasing Agents Asso
ciation. announced today the Claypool
Hotel would be headquarters for the con
vention of the National Association of
Purchasing Agents, which will be held in
Indianapolis Oct. 10 to 13.
This convention, according to A. E.
Wilson, general chairman, will bring at
least 3,000 purchasing agent*. Approxi
mately 75 per cent of the purchases of
the 120,000 corporations in the United
States are rnado through members of the
association.
Dwight S. Ritter, city purchasing agent.
Is president of the local organization.
SAY'S WRONG MAN IN PEN.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19.—Leaving a
note stating that a guiltless man was
serving a penitentiary term in New York
for a murder he had committed, Edward
Perry, or Daniel Plummer, shot tuid
killed himself in Lancaster, near here*.
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Man Describes Ilold-up in
Which Coin Is Saved.
A story of a hold-up and a thrilling
escape that would rival any moving pic
ture robbery waa told to the police to
day by Ralph Ilimperdy, 100 East Palmer
street.
Himperdy was on Palmer street be
tween Union and Meridian streets at 5:30
when a large limousine stopped near him.
Three masked bandits got out of the
car, covered Himperdy with revolvers,
and commanded him to hold up his
hands.
Instead, Himperdy swung a stiff upper
cut to the Jaw of the leading bandit
and the robber staggered from the blow
and then turned and ran. His com
panions jumped into the automobile and
drove away. Five hours after the thrill- j
lng experience Himperdy told the police j
about the hold-up. Tue rebbe-rs obtained
no money. Handkerchiefs were used as
masks and there was no license numbers
on the limousine. The automobile, the
police believe, probably was a stolen car.
SAYS OFFERING
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IS INCOMPLETE
(Continued From Page One.)
automobile manufacturing center, will
agree that the library should furnish
to automobile industries here one of the
best collections of up-to-date automobile
books and magazines in the United
States. Asa matter of fact, the collec
tion actually on the library shelves is
so small and Insufficient as to be almost
a laughing stock.
So. In these desperate straits, when the
' city purse cannot limber up any more
for library needs, and when something
i must be done to keep the library from
going down hill, this appeal Is made to
the individual citizen for money -ind for
books. There are many people In In
dianapolis who believe In tho value of
the library to the community and who
would be glad to lend material aid if
they realized that the remedy for the
library's present deficiencies lies In their
hands. We are asking for gifts of much
needed books and we are asking for them
now. We are asking for permanent
funds, bearing Interest which can be used
for the keeping up-to-date of book 001 l
l lections on such subjects as autom* bila
Industries, chemistry, engineering, motel
Industries, foreign literature, poetry,
drama, travel, education, religion, etc.
LIST IS OFFERED
AS SUGGESTION.
In order to give concrete suggestion*
of books desperately nt-eded the follow
ing list Is indicative of the sort of thing
we want the people of the city to give
te their library.
“History of the World," by H. G.
Wells; "Now It ('an Be Told," by Philip
Gibbs; "White Shadows in the South
Peas.” by Frederick J. OBrten; “Margot
Asquith;” complete works of such writers
as Dickens. Scott. Eliot. Cooper, Twain,
Kipling, London, Thomas Hardy, How
ells. Emerson. Poe, Tolstoi, Turgenev,
Dostoievsky, Hugo, Dumas and other
such standard writers; “Chronicle* of
America," published by the Yale Uni
versity Press; new books of Action by
such popular writers as Conrad, Walpole,
Sinclair Lewis. Swlnnerton, Ervine, May
Sinclair. Edith Wharton, Mackenzie,
| Dreiser, Doyle, Rinehart and a dozen
others which will readily occur to you;
new books of p"et v by the living Eng
! ilsh and American poets, such as Pand
! burg, Mlllny, Masters. ItoMnson. De la
Ms re. Teasdale, Amy Lowell, i'ntermeyer,
Gibson, Masefield, Le GalUenne, Sassoon,
Lindsay and many more.
We could make this list a great deal
long- r. Lot it might weary you. If you
do not find here suggestions for a gift
such as pleases you come to the library
for more, or telephone your name to
Charles E. Kush, the city librarian, and
| he will send to you a much longer list
of books of which the library finds itself
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not be regarded as a blow to the organi
zation of a road de.partment. Ekfr that
reason he is said not to be-in favor of
any additional legislation on the com
mission. He is credited with being par
ticularly opposed to the bill Introduced
yesterday by Senator Nejdl of Lake
Connty asking abolishment cl the high
way commission.
An indicat'an that Governor McCray
proposes to take a decided Interest In the
administration of highway affairs was
noted yesterday when he repeated that
a State highway would go past the
Nancy Hanks Lincoln burial ground in
Spencer County. Mr. Wright has fa
vored another route, but the Governor
indicated he had definitely settled on the
Lincoln thoroughfare, no matter what
Mr. Wright’s sentiments are.
A shape-up it expected in the public
service commission within a short time,
according to reports prevalent about tbe
Stntehouse.
TWO PLACES
TO BE FILLED.
Paul P. Haynes of Anderson, whose
term does not expire until May 1, 1924, I
is expected to offer his resignation to the i
Governor within a short time, reports
from reliable sources indicate. Fred
Bates Johnson of Richmond a Demt> ;
cratic member of the commission, will re
tire when his term expires May 1, 1921, It
it also said.
These retirements will leave two va
cancies for the Governor to fill One re
port has it that Fred B. Robison, one of
the Governor’s campaign managers, will
be selected for one of the posts.
John W. McCardle, whose term also
will end May 1, Is expected to be reap
pointed and It is also*reported that no
effort will be made to disturb Glenn Van
Auken, Democrat, who has until May 1,
1923, to serve.
Some reports are to the effect that E.
I. Lewis, chairman of the board, whose
term will not end until 1923, will offer
his resignation to take a post with the
incoming Harding administration.
ALSO WORRIED
BY TAX BOARD.
The tax board situation aso is unset
tled. The Governor has asked Judge
Carr of Montlcello to take the place re
cently made vacant by the resignation
1 of Fred A. Sims, but until It Is shown
that there Is no constitutional bar against
a Judge taking the post the appointment
will be held up. The Governor also has
on hands the perplexing problem of get
ting rid of Philip Zoercher, the Demo
cratic member of the commission.
He has publicly announced that he will
ask for Mr. Zoercher’s resignation and
It is understood that he is casting about
for a Democrat to take his place. It is
probably the showdown, however, will not
come until the Governor settles on Mr.
Zoercher s successor.
With scores of minor appointments
also waiting, the weeks following the end
lof the Legislature promise to be mighty
| busy for Governor McCray.
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| county, is dead at his home at Ross
-1 moyne, Ohio., near Cincinnati, according
Ito word received here today. A brother
and two sisters living here and a sister
i living In Delphi, Ohio, survive.
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