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MIDDLE WEST
FARMERS BLUE
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion Told Price Decline
Hard Blow.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—Agricultural
Industries In the Middle West are in a
deplorable condition, due to the decline
in prices, Asa E. Ramsey, chairman of
the board of directors of the Federal Re
serve Bank at Kansas City, Mo., declared
before the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion at a hearing on the application of
the public utilities commission of Kansas
for a reduction of interstate freight rates
on grain, grain products and hay.
Ramsey told the commission that
probably In no other section of the coun
try Is there such a variety of agricul
tural products grown as in the territory
embraced In the Tenth. Federal Reserve
district. The chief factor, he s:td, in
bringing about the present condition of
stagnation prevailing throughout this
great agricultural belt la the fact that
the cost of production and distribution
la greater than the price received for the
various commodities.
CHICAGO, Ang. 15.—A $13,000,000 bond
issue to enable farm banks to finance
the farmers with farm mortgages as col
lateral, formed the main topic of dis
cuasion before the American Association
of Joint Stock Land Banks In session
here today. The issue, which is to be
distributed among the farm banks on
long time and to carry s' a per cent, has
been approved by the Federal Farm
Board. Bankers from all over the coun
try are here for the session.
7 KOKOMO MEN IN
RACE FOR MAYOR
Campaign Comes to Close
With Downtown Parade—
One Woman Candidate.
Special to The Times.
KOKOIfO, lud., Aug. Id.—Republicans
will go to the poll 9 today to choose from
the biggest field of candidates that bis
ever sought nomination in local political
history.
Seven men are seeking nomination for
mayor, three, including a woman, are
after the city clerk's office while prac
tically every ward has competition for
council.
Two eondidates, B. F. Moon, a promi
nent attorney, and J. C. Davis, seek the
Democratic nomination for mayor with
few contests among the rest of the ticket
The primary campaign ended last night
in a blaze of red fire that rivaled that of
a national election. More than
manhed in the parade for one of the
mayoralty candidates while motor cars
with flags and streamers dashed up and
down the streets for the other would-be
nominees.
Charges and counter charges by some
of the leading candidates that election
liquor was flowing freely were made,
but no arrests were made —except for
drunkenness. A number of arrests were
made over Sunday and Monday and al
though there was no evidence as to where
the men obtained their liquor, all had
candidates **vke;r in their pockets
The primary is being held today as the
result of postponement for the ele-'tion
on a city manager form of government
last June.
Preliminary Disarmament
Conference Blocked by U. S.
Story of How It Was Done Will Be Thrilling,
but It Can’t Be Told Now.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. it oamo
b<* told, the history of how the United
States successfully oppos' and the holding
of a preliminary disarmament eoaferenve
to the Washington parley will make
thrilling reading. The secret is in the
keeping of eralted authorities here, whose
lips are sealed until the events of th?
comitig winter are things of the pas:.
So muoh is known—it required shirt
sleeves diplomacy and plain speaking to
knock out the plan to cut and dry cer
tain big issues outside of American ter
ritory and reduce the Washington con
ference to a mere rubber stamp. Presi
dent Harding and Secretary Hughes put
down their foot on such proposals with
a vengeance and after tho quality of their
atubbornness had been * thoroughly tes
ted the scheme was abandoned.
The British government was the leader
in the movement for a conference cur
. tain-raiser. The estensible motive was
|tbe traveling convenience of the dominion
ktnim The actual reason was an
■ksr; and thereby hangs the tale that
Hnnot yet be spun.
mi it ABLE HOUSING
&*\’E BIG PROBLEM
P. Fletcher of Pennsylvania has
B‘om America's super-host. Upon the
proad shoulders of the under-secretary of
State now have fallen the Hlimlnable
duties of arranging for the physical side
of the Washigton conference. He will
fulfill the manifold functions of budget
officer, welcomer, entertainer and general
utility man of the conference, both dur
ing the preparatory stages and when
the pow-wow actually Is on.
Housing presents the immediate and the
baffling problem. The Government may
have to call on various organizations in
Washington to submit to eviction, in
order to obtain suitable premises for the
conference proper and for the sheltering
of Its participant*. Hotels, clubhouses,
private homes and Federal departments
all come within the category of premises
that may be commandeered.
Senator Walter E. Edge. New Jersey,
has failed to obtain the selection of At
lantic city as the scene of the disarma
ment conference, but the “shore'' tuay be
come the conference's holiday abode.
There Is almost certain to be a week's
adjournment over Christmas and New
Tear’s. The conference will have been
sitting aix weeks by Dec. 23. and all and
sundry will be ready for relaxation. It
has been suggested to Senator Else that
Atlantic City place itself at the disposal
of the conference delegations fur holiday
week.
ONLY NAME OF
SHIP REQUIRED
Few people know how to address a let
ter to in officer or sailor afloat in a man
of-war of the United States Navy. Ar
rangements have been made with the
postmasters of New York and San Fran
cisco to forward promptly mail matter
addressed to American naval men on
•veraeaa service. Thus an admiral or a
Vne-*!cket anvwhere In the seven 6eas
STEEL TRADE
GROWS MORE
OPTIMISTIC
Price Cutting Lessens and Be
lief Prevails That Definite
Turn Is Reached.
Special to Indiana Dally Ttmes
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1 Conditions in
the iron and steel trade as developed last
week confirm the optimistic sentiment of
most factors in the trade over recent
weeks, although there are some who
claim they will not believe a definite
turn has come until the cutting of prices
ceases. Prices are still cut some, but in
a much smaller way than during previous
weeks.
The iron market has been featured by
the withdrawal of several sellers of foun
dry iron and others have but scant stocks
for sale. None of the merchant furnaces
seems ready to resume, so that with the
Pittsburgh stock of foundry iron about ;
cleared up this grade must be obtained
in other markets, where some low prices
are reported.
Moderate buying of steel has continued
with further mild increases In capacity 1
at work in both the Pittsburgh and
Youngstown dis'rlcts. Statements made
that the Increase In buying is due to low
prices are disputed. The increase is due
entirely to further depletion of stocks
of steel in the hands of Jobbers and
manufactured wares in the hands of
manufacturing consumers.
Cut price orders are only for quick
delivery. Every shipping order given
mills by buyers whether In the form of
a strictly new order or in the form of
a specification against a regular contract
requires very prompt shipment, showing
that the buyer must have the steel at
once to continue conducting business.
Most expert observers now figure that
the long decline in mill operations is
past the low mark.
While foundry iron is more scarce and
at least two furnace sellers have retired
from the market, prices are about un
changed while both Bessemer and basic,
the steel making grades, are In plentiful
supply. Basic has definitely settled to
$lB.
Improvement ha* continued In sheets
with prices somewhat more stable, tin
plate has declined from $5.50 to $5.25 per
base bax and that might he shaded.
Easily the most conspicuous case of Im
provement in demand upon mills Is
furnished by tbe sheet mill operations of
the American Sheet and Tin Plate Com
pany. which have grown to 45 per cent
with independents doing about es well.
In sheets price cutting is diminishing.
Semi-finished steel demand has not im
proved as most mills have contracts or
are using up stocks. New price average
about $o per ton below those named of
July 5. SLeet bars are being quoted at
s32.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger
Company.
HOOSIERS TO GO
TO CINCINNATI
To Attend Dixie Highway
Meeting Sept. 8-10.
Drivers from Indianapolis. Crswfords
ville. Bloomington, South Bend. New
Albany and other points along the road
will represent Indiana at the meeting of
the Dixie Highway Association in Cin
cinnati. Sept. 8-10.
The “trippers - ’ from the State are ex
pected to assemble at Lexington, Scott
Connty, the morning of Sept. 8, for the
entry into Cincinnati.
Chicago is expected to be represented
by a large number of cars, and Michigan
also will send a delegation. A prize of
SIOO will be given to the motorist com
ing the greatest distance, and there will
be prizes for the largest delegation from
any c .mty on the Dixie Highway farther
than 100 miles from Cincinnati and to
the largest delegation from any county
within 100 miles of Cincinnati. Hamil
ton, Ken on and Campbell Counties of
Ohio are excepted.
will be reached with the least possible
delay. 1f addressed simply “I'are qf Post
master'' New York or San Francisco, de
pend ng on In which particular part of
file globe the addressee may be. only
the name of the ship Is required.
While the Harding Administration Is
tackling ways and means for making
prohibition enforcement less "absurd.”
the British government is considering
legislation to amend the drink-restrictlou
regulations of war-time. The principal
changes will be an extension of the day
and evening hours when Intoxicants may
be sold. A “theater-supper hour” just
before midnight is the most interesting
alteration contemplated. Figures illus
trating the effect of war-time restrictions
have Just been submitted to Parliament.
In 1913 there were convicted of drunken
ness in Great Britain 153.112 men and
35.765 women, the consumption of abso
j lute alcohol being 92.000.000 gallons. In
111*1 S convictions decreased to 21.833 men
and 7 722 women and alcohol consumption
j to 67.000.000 gallons.
' Another altercation between the United
I States and China will be effected about
the time China becomes the bone of con
tention at the Washington conference. It
is the new Rockefeller Medical College at
Peking, which has been established by
the Rockefeller Foundation. I)r. George
E. Vincent, president of the foundation,
shortly will start for China to attend to
the dedication and formally present tho
I college to the government of the republic.
HARDEN MAY PROVE
DISAPPOINTMENT
Maximilian Harden, the vitriolic Ger
| man editor who Is coming to the United
j States to lecture, may prove as keen a
• disappointment to American audiences as
his Belgian conferee, Maurice Maeterlinck,
, did. As Harden speaks no English, he
probably will try Maeterlinck's scheme
and attempt reuding it from manuscript.
Harden's histrionic platform style may
enable him to ncompltsh the task. He
was once nn actor and his whole man
ner, both In private and In public, is
theatrical. His real name is Max Wit
kowskl. Harden was born In Prussian
Poland. He has a brother, who changed
his name to Witting and is one of Ber
lin’s leading bankers.
The State Department, members of
Congress. Washington correspondents
and everybody else hereabouts supposed
to be capable of molding public opinion
nre being drenched with anti-Japunese
propaganda from the Pacific const. City
officials. Chamber of Commerce, Ameri
can Legion posts and newspapers in
Washington State. Oregon and Caiifo-nia
are seizing upon the approaching dis
armament conference as an opportunity
t ■ vir the coast grievance against Japan.
n heir activities are hardly in tune with
President Harding's expressed wish for
the creation of a “friendly” atmosphere
before and during the Washington par
ley.—jCopyrlgbt, 1921. by Public Ledger
Company.
DOG HILL PARAGRAFS
ippg
Kile Klldew rau out from under his
derby while crossing the street at Tick
ville Tuesday.
• * *
When he was over at Luke Mathewsla's
house last Sunday Raz Barlow found an
old almanac in the attic, and he is now
regaling his friends with a lot of brand
new Jokes.
As soon as he got through with his
sermon last Sunday the Dog Hill preacher
went back to the door and smiled at the
people so that they would tell him how
well they liked his sermon, as they went
out.
3 INJURED WHEN
AUTO OVERTURNS
Freshly Oiled Street Cause of
Accident.
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Three persons were injured yesterday
afternoon when an automobile driven by
David Shaneman, 142 West Twenty-
Eighth street, turned over on the Lafay
ette pike, a half mile west of White River.
The road had been c-iled recently and
when the car reached this section it
spun around and turned over. Mr. Shane
man was slightly injured, and his wife,
Mrs. Mario Shaneman, was badly cut
on the right hand by broken glass Mrs.
Samuel Lawn. 27, 3007 North Delaware
street, who was in the car, suffered an
injury to her left eye.
George W. Elliott. 1123 Falrfldd ave
nue, driving an automobile on Fall Creek
boulevard last night, struck Doris E.
Hansford. 5, negro, 2270 Cushing street.
The boy was taken to the city hospital.
Witnesses said the boy ran in front of
the automobile.
CHARGED WITH
INTENT TO KILL
Windhorst Fractures Jaw of
Aged Watchman.
Jacob Pchrank, 81, a watchman em
ployed by commission merchants on
Alabama street, is In a serious condition
today at the city hospital. His Jaw is
broken in two places.
Fred Windhorst, 2 1 *, arrested on a farm
south of tho city late last night, is
charged with assault and battery with
intent to fc’.Jl the watchman.
Tlie atack or. Schrank is alleged to
have been t.ru'.ai. Witnesses told the
police that Windhorst struck Schrank
after a quarrel over a watermelon. The
police say that after the elderly watch
man had been knockel down that " lnd
horst kicked him on the Jew
Windhorst t .lay admits hitting the
watebtnnn but denied he kicked him. He
said Sehmnk called him a vile name. He
said he had been drinking. Windhorst
served in the United States Army during
the world war but his brothers who had
tipver been in this country were sold4er=!
In the German army.
SPECIAL SALE
NOW ON
AH wool suits to your A re. f*/\
meusure for lif * ill
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Are the
Ready for School?
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You have provided their shoes and clothes and other school needs.
Surely you will not neglect the far more important matter of their
eyesight and provide glasses, if needed.
This Is the “School Children’s Week”
in Block’s Optical Department
Bring the children this week. We have made preparations to make
examinations for an extra large number of children, besides our
usual trade.
EXAMINATION FREE
If your children do not require glasses, our thorough tests will soon
determine the fact. In either event, you will be under no obligations.
We grind our own lenses and can save you money on glasses. All
the latest styles in mountings.
We are making a special price for examination, case, frame and
lenses, complete cost, $4.00 to SB.OO.
OPTICAL DEPARTMENT
THE Wm. H. BLOCK CO.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16,1921.
RESUME TRADE IN
LATIN AMERICAS
Merchants Have Little Cash,
but Good Credit.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 16.—Resumption
of trade on a large scale In Central and
South America Is not far off, in the opin
ion of Gustav I.auter, general manager in
Honduras of the Mercantile Overseas Cor
poration, who has just arrived from Cen
tral America.
“The merchants there have not much
ready cash with which to purchase goods
J~7l Special Prices
J —on the —
B&—Duplex
4*o Fireless Cookers
• : No. 25 Single Cooker. sl2
* No- 30 Double Cooker. s2l
ybgljl ijfij | Uai-J help, that cooks your meals
I*®*' ' without tiresome attention.
Lilly Hardware Company
114-118 East Washington St.
I It seems almost impossible the prices
I these suits are selling for at the
1 MEN’S SUITS )Am j 1
■ Serges, worsted, cassimercs, < hev- / U T| SOL iy. •} so / Ck
m iots. flannels, thibets. Herring- * E* /■ mJj YWtL gfc
■ bone weaves and others. fl B 'v| K
E 9 iligh .-lass, well made clothes, i #ll JT a •/ 1 M K
§3 Value-* up to $45 00 \ Y ■“* w fc.
■ Slightly Smoko Damaged. / * Sp
Ready-to-Wear and Shoes Almost Given Away.
I Granger Department Store I
336-338 West Washington Street
Office Furniture
We have one of the largest as- —"?r— ------1
sortments of every style desk Ifk '
needed for the office. Let us la—wwsj jl jmiaJL—.
help you in the proper selection. SafegyiSgg&gl i 4
Fire find burglar proof safes and
Safes for home or office. ® B tt *
FIXTURES FOR STORE, OFFICE AND BANK.
AETNA CABINET COMPANY
Display rooms, 321-29 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis.
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HOTEL PURITAN
Corner Market and New Jersey Streets.
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Progress Laundry
but the credit standing of many of them
is of the best and they ought to be ac
commodated,” Lauter declared, “particu
larly it American manufacturers wish to
prevent Germany and England from again
gaining a foothold In that market.”
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( A memories of these nm-
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jjraf i Duvetyn with the following colors to
, choose from: New Poppy Red,
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PENNSYLVANIA SYSTEM
EXCURSION SUNDAY, AUG. 21
TO $2.25 Round Trip
MADISON Including War Tax
Special train leaves Indianapolis 8:05 a. m , C. T. Returning, leaves
Madison 7:05 p. m. C. T.
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OHIO RIVER EXCURSION, Sunday, August 21 '
Enchanting Scenery, Cool River Breezes. Dancing. Cafeteria, Soda Foun
tains are Just a few of the pleasures and conveniences that have done so
much to popularize the
I ™ EAST ST. LOUIS
After arriving at Madison on the Pennsylvania Railroad excursion Train,
take that delightful river trip to Carrollton, Ky., and return (36 milesl on
tbe beautiful Ohio River. Steamer leaves Madison 1:30 p. m. (central
standard timet, returning to Madison 5.00 p. m. (central standard time).
Excellent music. Free dancing. Tickets. 55c round trip.
V. I I ...I. I II I. Mil /
1 LAST EXCURSION OF THE SEASON |
I LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILROAD
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21st
TO
Sandusky $3.60 and Cedar Point $3.90 I
OHIO
and return, war tax Included. Special train will be open for occupancy I
at 11:60 p. m.. Rtid will leave I ndlanapolls Union Station at 12 o'clock I
midnight I>ATI RBAY, AI C.l ST rOTH, 1921.
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\ > Formerly priced $2.50 to $5. This ia
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