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THE WEATHER
Generally fair tonight and Sunday. Warmer
tonight. Colder Sunday.
VOL. XXXIV.
HAYS QUITS CABINET TO BE ‘MOVIE KING’
REROUTING
STREET CARS
TRAFFIC AID
Congestion at Busy
Corners May Be
Relieved.
EVOLVE NEW PLAN
Mayor’s Committee
Makes Extended
Report.
Equalisation of &treet car traffic
upon downtown streets so as to
eliminate congestion in crowded sec
tions of Illinois, Washington and Ohio
streets E.nd at the corners of Penn
sylvania and Washington streets,
Ilinnois and Washington streets,
Illinois and Ohio streets and Penn
sylvania and Ohio streets is con
templated in recommendatoins for the
re-routing of six car lines contained
in the report of the mayor’s street
car rerouting committee made pub
lic today.
James P. Tretton, superintendent of the
street raawsr company, and a member
of the committee which made the recom
mendations, said he believes the proposed
rerouting, which afreets the East XX ash
lngton, College, Riverside, East Tenth,
Columbia and Indiana avenues lines, is
practicable and would result in faster
running time for cars as well as the
elimination of much downtown conges
tion. A turnout at Washington and
Pennsylvania streets would have to be
constructed before the change in the
College avenue and East Tenth street
routings could be made, he said.
It will cost approximately SIO,OOO to
put In the turnout, Mr. Tretton estimated.
Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank, in ap
pointing the committee several weeks
before his inauguration, instructed it to
find a way, if possible, of eliminating
many of the turns into and out of Wash
ington street. The committee reported
this to be impossible until outlying rail
road tracks are elevated. Lack of such
elevation ties up cars in the west and
south sections of the city and makes
impracticable the establishment of
through lines, the committee said.
„Tbe Committee recommends the con
solidation of the Indiana avenue and Co
lumbia lines and the rerouting propo
sal j are as follows:
HOW COLLEGE
LINE WOULD REN.
College avenue line from Its present
route over Massachusetts avenue to
Delaware, south in Delaware to Wash
ington, west in Washington to Illinois,
north in Illinois to Ohio and east in
Ohio to Massachusetts avenue, thence out
Massachusetts avenue, to be changed to
south In Delaware street to Washington
streets, west in Washington street to
Pennsylvania street, north in Pennsyl
vania street to Ohio street, thence out
Massachusetts avenue.
East Tenth street line from its present
route from Massachusetts avenue over
Pennsylvania street to Washington street,
west to Illinois street, north to Ohio
street and east to Pennsylvania street,
thence out Massachusetts avenue to be
changed to south in Aiagama street from
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FIREMEN RESCUE
THREE CHILDREN
Flames Drive Two Families
From Apartments on
South Side.
Three children were carried to safety
ly the firemen of Truck Company No.
29 about 1 a. m. today, when fire broke
out in two flats at 1904 Shelby street.
The structure, a two-story affair, is
occupied by a grocery owned by A. C.
Lamb, and a laundry, owned by Frank
James, and the two families live up
stairs.
When the fire broke out in the grocery
Lamb and his family escaped down the
stairway, but the smoke was so dense
James and his family were taken down
the ladders by the firemen. The chil
dren, Elsie 11, Mildred 4 and Charles 14,
were carried down by Lieut. Jesse Day
and Fireman William Richardson.
The damage to the building, which is
owned by Henry Munster, is estimated at
S2OO and a like amount of damage was
done to the grocery stock.
FATE OF THREE
MINERS UNKNOWN
One Known Dead in Cave-in at
Scranton, Pa.
SCRANTON, Pa.. Jan. 14. —Three men
still entombed, either dead or alive, one
man killed and three injured today were
the casualties in yesterday’s mine cave
in in the devil's eyebrow of the Dun
more No. 2 vein of the national mine of
the Glen Alden Coal Company under
South Scranton. The entombed men are:
Edgar Hughes.
A1 Reese.
John Barrett.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending at 7
p. m., Jan. 15 1922:
Generally fair tonight and Sunday:
warmer tonight; temperature 25 to lid
degrees. Colder Sunday; strong south
shifting to west winds.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
fi a. m 14
7 a. m 15
8 a. m 20
9 a. m 21
10 a. m 20
11 a. m 32
12 (noon) ............... 35
1 p. m, 40
2 p. Hi. 43
Published at Indianapolis, Entered fta Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914. at
Ind., Daily Except Sunday. Postofflce, Indianapolis, Ind.. under act March 3, lS7f.
PARLIAMENT OF
SOUTH IRELAND
RATIFIES PACT
I)e Valera and Followers boy
cott Approving Ses
sion.
GRIFFITH EXPLAINS
DUBLIN, Jan. 14. —The southern Ire
land parliament today ratified the Irish
peace treaty. Eamonn de Valera, former
president of the Irish ‘’republic,” and
his followers boycotted the meeting.
The southern parliament created a pro
visional government to administer the af
fairs of all Ireland except Ulster province
until the British parliament at London
enacts a law officially creating the Irish
Free State.
The temporary provisional government
or administrative commission includes
Michael Collins, minister of finance in the
Sinn Fein cabinet, and chief leader of
the Irish Republican army; Alderman
Cosgrave, E. J. Duggan, formerly chief
liaison officer of the Irish Republican
army; Patrick Hogan, Fionnn Lynch,
Joseph McGrath, Kevin O'Higgins and
John Mac Neill, chairman of the Dail
Eireann.
GRI I lIT HO FEE RS
EXPLANATION.
Griffith explained that the provisional
government would execute the terms of
the Anglo -ish treaty but that the Dail
would rerr. In existence until a gen
eral elecUo. Is held. He appeals to
every “good Irishman" to support the
new regime, saying:
“The provisional government will re
gard no distinction in Irishmen. Its
policy will be fair play all round ard
for all factions. Let us banish our
old differences. New differences will
arise, of course, but only between Irish
owning one status.”
Griffith assured tne members of the
southern parliament that amnesty will
be extended to all imprisoned Irishmen.
Before the meeting opened it was re
ported that, for diplomatic reasons, Ar
thur Griffith, founder of the Sinn Fein,
would not seek a place upon the com
mission and that Mac Neill would be pro
posed as Its head.
LIFE LIKELY
TO BE BRIEF.
It Is likely the life of the government
will not extend over three weeks. As
soon as the Westminster parliament con
venes Jan. 31, steps will be taken to
bring the Irish Freee State Into being a*
rapidly as possible.
The ratification of the Irish trealy by
the southern parliament was more or
less a formality. Its fate was decided
by the Dail Eireann a week ago when
the pact was ratified by a majority of
seven votes. It had been stipulated in
the British-Irish treaty, however, that
the parliament meet to approve the pact
in order to confirm the validity of the
law which had created the parliament.
Little time was lost in discussion of
the treaty. The followers of the Col
llns-Grtffitb faction In the Sinn Fein had
things all their own way.
ISLE OF WIGHT
PRISONERS FREED
; LONDON, Jan. 14.—/Thirty Sinn Feln
ers, including the Rev. Father Dominie,
j Roman Catholic chaplain to the late Ter
| ence McSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, have
j been liberated from an English prison on
ibe Isle of Wight and will return to Ire
land at once. They were freed under the
recent royal proclamation of amnesty.
While MaeSwiney was on hunger strike
| In Brixton Prison the Rev. Father I>ora
; inic visited him and said mass every
j morning.
Chicago Jury Can't
Determine Value of
an Uninvited Kiss
CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—A Jury la Judge
j Harry Lewis court here today couldn't
I reach an agreement on the worth of an
uninvited kiss.
Miss Mathilda Benkhardt ihought it
was worth $25,000 and sued Dr. Justin 1..
Mitchell for that amount. Khc claimed
Dr. Mitchell attempted to kiss her while
she was in the maternity ward of the
! German Deaconess Hospital where she
j was In training.
i Several jurors thought she ought to
have the full amount white others be
lieved she was not entitled to anything.
The ease will be iried again.
FOUR FINED FOR
THEFT OF COAL
Detectives Nab 3 Youths and
Man Near Railroad Tracks.
Three 17-year-old boys and a man of
28, who comprised a gang of reputed coal
thieves that has been giving railroad de
tectives much trouble and who were ar
| rested last night, vere fined $1 and costs
j each in city court today by Judge Del
| bert O. Wilmeth.
I The four, Harley MeClung, 17, 837 East
I Lord street; Sam Burge, 17. 550 South
i Drover avenuo; Pete Dailey, 17, and
| Lowell I’armerlee, 28, both of 524 South
I Drover street, were caught at Division
] street and the Pennsylvania railroad
j tracks. They had about one thousand
j pounds of coal In a push-cart and more
j coal was on the ground nearby. All of
! the coal, which was valued at about SB,
| had been thrown from Pennsylvania coal
cars.
William It. Key, 1242 Wept Washing
ton street, was fined $5 and costs on
the charge of petit larceny. E'ey was
arrested at big home last night by rail
road detectives, who had traced tools
valued at $5 which were stolen from the
j Big Four railroad, to that place. Key
said he intended to return the tools after
he repaired his automobile. He appeared
In city court the early part of the week
as the prosecuting witness in a theft
case so Judge Wilineth imposed the $5
; fine instead of giving him another chance.
Furnace Explosion
Causes Death of Two
DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 14.—Two men
were killed and a number Injured In an
explosion in the plant of the Hanna Fur
nace Company, Zug Island, Delray, today,
according to a report to the police.
LEAKING TRANSPORT ARRIVES WITH 942 SOLDIERS
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After battling wild weather off the Grand Banks for three days with water gushing through sprung plates, the
Army transport Crooke from Antwerp, with 942 soldiers aboard, docked safely at New York today. The transport, be
sides carrying tho soldiers from the American Army of Occupation on the Rhine,carried a number of soldier dead and
several women.
Only Rescue Party Told
of Great Danger of Ship
i NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—How Cnpt.
Joseph J. Reppa. commanding his first
vessel at sea. brought the Army transport
Crooke safely home to port through
terrific storms, after the vessel sprung a
serious leak, was told today when the
Crooke docked with 1,000 doughboys
from the Rhine, fourteen German brides,
and 642 bodies of American soldiers.
The Crooke docked, after being escorted
up the bay by tugs and boats containing
relatives of tte returning soldiers and
city officials.
(ATTAIN REPPA
WINS PRAISE.
Highest praise of Captain Reppa, who
kept all knowledge of the danger from
his passengers and from most of the
crew was given by Capt. Walter Bernard,
marine superintendent of the United
States transport service.
Captain Reppa had never before been
in command o' a vessel.
Four women, besides the German
brides of the American soldiers, were on
the passenger list.
The Atlantic voyage had scarcely begun
before the Crooke ran into storms which
increased in violence as she plowed liet
way slowly westward. Tuesday morn
ing. Captain Reppa, who had been tak
ing soundings every fifteen minutes as
an additional precaution instead of twice
a day as was customary, noticed that
there was eighteen Inches of water in
No. 1 hold at 10 o’clock. At noon this
had increased to twenty-two inches Re
alizing that the transport was in serious
danger, Captain Reppa Informed Chief
; Engineer Charles E. Burkgist and Chlet
Officer Hoick of the situation and or
dered them nto to let the troops or
passengers know of the danger.
SHIFT 50 TONS OF
CARGO TO UNO LEAK.
Hoick, with fifty men, went into No,
t hold and shifted over fifty tons of
cargo and found a serious leak where
three rivets had sprung loose.
Tne damage was repaired without, any
one outside the rescue party being aware
of tho trouble. For fourteen hours the
men worked in darkness in the depths of
j the hold. Jt was not until 2 o'clock
ARBUCKLE JURY
STILL UNFILLED
Introduction of Evidence Prob
ably Won’t Begin Until
Monday.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 14.—They won't
get down to the real action In the Roseoe
Arbnckle-Virginia Rappe drama, now
playing its return engagement here, until
next week.
That seemed entirely certain today
when court opened with the jury still in
complete.
Probably Monday, attorneys thonght,
they would begin putting In the evidence
by which they will try to prove that
; Roseoe Arbuckle Is responsible for the
| death of Virginia Rappe.
Irish Rail Strike
Postponed One Month
DUBLIN, Jan. 14.—The conntry-wiao
I railroad strike, scheduled to start at
' midnight, has been postponed ror a
month, It was announced tonight.
Prohibition Bureau Presents Figures
COSTS §9,274,523 FOR YEAR’S LA W ENFORCEMENT
Liquor Withdrawals Cut Fifty Per Cent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. —The full
accomplishments of national prohibition
were revealed today In facts and figures
by the Prohibition Bureau on the eve of
the third birthday of the eighteen amend
ment.
This summary of last year's enforce
ment showed:
Arrests for drnnkeuess decreased GO
per cent.
Nearly a million gallons of liquor have
been seized.
Thirty thousand criminal prosecutions
were begun.
Twenty thousand convictions were ob
tained.
Property seized totaled nearly $13,-
000,000.
These major eomplishmeuts cost SO,-
274.523.47, including rent, miscellaneous
office expenditures, salaries and traveling
expenses of national agents.
This compares favorably with the esti
mated assessments, though only a total
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1922.
i Wednesday afternoon that the work was
i completed.
The following day the George Washing
ton responded to the. Crookes signals
and asked if he then needed help.
Captain Kepi i replied; “No,” and an
nounced in- would tiring the vessel In
under her own steam. Finally the St,
Miliiel, with Captain Oliver In command,
will' ll bad gone out to Ttie ' ro. tie’s as
sistance mi Wednesday, reached her vi
cinity about 3:30 Friday morning. Heavy
sea were running and a blinding enow
storm enveloped the two vessels.
ST. MIIH EL
STANDS BY.
With the greatest difficulty and no
little danger, contact was established and
tlio St. Mlhiel turned back and kept pace
with the slow moving Crooke which kept
steadily on toward New York, some
times making less than three miles an
hour against the high seas.
The glass rose yesterday and the ves
vels wero able to make bettor headway
in the afternoon and today they came
easily into port, the Crooke riding an
even keel. Members of her crew com
prising thirty different nationalities, were
praised by transport officers who heard
He story of the Creoke’a trip.
POLICE SEEK
OCCUPANTS OF
MURDER CAR
Slayers of Pursuing Oflicer Be
lieved to Have Been Hum
Uunners.
CHICAGO, Jan. It,—Five men who oc
cupied a mystery automobile from which
a shot was fired that killed William
Peterson, n motorcycle policeman of
Winthrop Harbor, 111., are being sought,
today by police of Chicago and half a
dozen, north shore towns.
Peterson was •-'hot from his motorcycle
as he was pursuing an automobile that
dashed through north shore towns nt a
speed of seventy miles an hour. Police
believe the men in the automobile were
rum-runners.
As tho car shot through Winthrop Har
bor, Peterson gave pursuit. After a wild
dash of several miles lie overtook the ma
chine and commanded it to halt. One of
the men in the car turned and fired a
charge from a shotgun point blank at
Peterson. The charge struck him in the
abdomen, his motorcycle veered Into a
ditch and he was catapulted ten feet into
a field, lie was dead when farmhands
who had witnessed the chase reached him.
The slayers’ car continued south with
out slackening its speed.
Passenger Charges
He Was Assaulted
for Pulling Rope
Damages of $3,000 today were asked
in a suit filed In the Circuit Court by
Edgar Lawrence against the Union Trac
tion Company. -Mr. Lawrence alleges on
Nov. 20. 1020, ie purchased a ticket at
Logsnsport for Indianapolis, intending
to get off at Forty-Ninth street, lie as
serts tho conductor was talking to the
motorman and not attending to his du
ties, so falling to get the conductor's at
tention he pulled a bell cord, which
broke. He alleges the conductor rushed
back, struck and choked him.
of $3,000,000 of the amount has been col
lected. The assessments themselves total
approximately $57,500,000. These Include
penalties, revenues and special taxes.
Property seizures reached an approxi
mate value of $12,907,095.40. About 050,000
gallons us distilled spirits and wines
wore taken by prohibition agents.
Os the thirty thousand criminal prose
cutions started, seventeen thousand de
fendants pleaded guilty and the total
convicted of violating the law was nearly
twenty thousand, indicating the courts
are not “easy” on dry defendants. Ac
quittals totaled less than one thousand.
Importation of liquor from other coun
tries for medicinal purposes was one
half of 1 per cent of the total consump
tion of liquor In the United States the
year before prohibition.
Liquor withdrawals were reduced 50
per cent in the last year. This was due
largely to the introduction of the sys
tem requiring the signature of the Direc
tor of the State In which the withdrawal
ATTORNEYS FOR
SMALL DEMAND
BILL REVISION
Attempt to Weaken State’s
Case by Alteration of
Charges.
WAUKEGAN, 111., Jan. 14 -Motions to
revise the bill of particulars charging
conspiracy against Governor Len Smalt
were filed In Lake County Circuit Court
here today.
Defense attorneys argued before Judge
Claire E. Edwards certain clauses of the
bill filed by the prosecution should bo
expunged and that other portions be
amended.
Governor Small and Vrne Curtis. Grant
Park banker, under indictment with hlin,
were in court before the session started
Bit by lilt. Attorneys C. C. Leforgoe,
Alex Beauholn and Warner Schroeder at-
I tempted to tear the charges fib-d by
j State’s Attorney Mortimer, Sangamon
| County, to shreds.
' Counsel for defense, it Is understood,
| have decided to submit motions asking
j that at least twenty six of the forty six
paragraphs in the State's bill of particu
lars be expunged. I.e Forges, It is ex
ported, will contend these paragraphs
are not vital to the case, but are “prop
sganda.”
Separate tMals also are to be asked, it
is understood, for Governor Small and
Curtis, and If this request is granted, at
| torneys for tho Governor will demand ho
i be tried first.
| There was no indication In advance of
! court opening aa to how long the argu
ments on the motions to be submitted
would continue or what date the case
finally might be s’’t for trial.
Thomas Marshall, attorney lor tne
State, in a colloquy that was inter
spersed with Beaubleu's argument, de
clared the State ennrged Smalt and
Curtis “took both principal and In
terest” of funds belonging to the state,
lleuutilon contended the bill or par
ticulars did not snow tnnt "tnese men
obtained money belonging to the state. '
Marshall insisted the pm snowed tne
State charged the defendants with con
spiring to obtain F-’.uuu.two or tne state s
money end s;g(A,<**, lntreest tnereon.
Attorney C. (’. bo Forgee, rouoweo
Beaublen In arguments for the detense.
Lc Forgee argued the State had shown
by its bill of particulars “the Grant
Park Bank, which Is alleged to be ficti
tious, is a real bank and thus falls their
charge of false pretenses."
’ A( cording to the State's own bill,” La
Forgee said, “Gils bank had n name; It
loaned money and it collected interest
and deposits.”
U. S. May Arbitrate
Stockyard Strikes
WASHINGTON, .Inn. 14.—Flans ror
tho settlement of strikes or meat cutters
In nearly all stockyard centers will do
discussed Monday. Secretary or Agri
culture Wallace. Secretary or Commerce
Hoover and Secretary Davis, by a
congressional committee headed by Rep
resentative Keller, Minnesota, Jt was an
nounced today.
it was understood that some or tne
congressmen would suggest Government
arbitration as a menus or adjusting dir
lleulties to effect the return or strikers.
Mother and Two Sons
Burned to Death
MARIETTA, 0., Jan. 14.—Mrs. James
Craig, aged &>, and her two sons, Lyttlo,
9, and Donald, 3, were cremated today
when their homo near Porterfield was
j burned.
is made personally inscribed on tho per
mit.
In tho list of property seized from vio
lators of the law were:
Six hundred automobiles, forty boats,
twenty-five wagons, one airplane, forty
five horses and mules, five motorcycles,
$7,500 in cash, ten tracts of land, seven
stocks of merchandise.
These were taken under the provision
of the law which allows for seizure or
property on which the violations occur,
with certain restrictions.
The approximate cost or operations in
cluded :
Kent, $120,847.05; telephone, $U,4U9.00:
supplies and equipment, $37,203.40;
evidence and miscellaneous, $103,401.10;
seizures and sales, $51,403.90; salaries,
$3,501,209.01; travel, $1,;i90,443.01; omee
expenses, $980,429.40.
This gives an estimated cost tor en
forcement of more than $,000,u00 during
the year.
KiihuerlTitlon Rates- I Farrier, Week, Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, 12c.
buDscnption Kat.es. j ßy Ma „ 500 per Month; J 5 00 Per Tear .
JITNEY DRIVERS
SEEK CHANGE IN
OLD ORDINANCE
Wish Repeal of Provision
Keeping Busses Off of
Car Lines.
ASK BOND REDUCTIONS
Amendments to the jitney elimination
ordinance which would practically wipe
out those provisions which several mouths
ago smothered the life out of bus com
petition with the street railway system
are included in an ordinance which Fred
It. Bonifleld, attorney fr the Indianapolis
Jitney Drivers’ Association, said today
will be Introduced in the city council at
the regular meeting Monday evening.
The changes proposed arc:
1. Repeal of the provision of the
ordinance prohibiting jitneys from
receiving or discharging passengers
upon streets where street car lines are
located.
HEAVY FIT IN
BONDS PROVIDED.
2. Reduction of the bonds required
of jitney drivers from SIO,OOO for
ears of five or less passenger ca
pacity to $3,000; from $20,000 for
cars of six or more capacity to
and adding a provision requir
ing taxic.ali drivers to be bonded the
same as jitney drivers.
3. Addition of a provision prohibit
ing the Issuance of a jitney license to
any person physically unfit and a
section giving the applicant the right
to appeal from the decision of the
city controller as to his tiiness to a
committee composed of one represen
tative each named by tlie mayor, tha
controller and the applicant.
WISHED LEGALITY
PASSED UPON.
A delegation of ten Jitney men. led by
It. S. Wright, 21N Seville avenue, presi
dent of the Indianapolis Jitney Drivers’
Association, called at the city legal de
pjartment offices today with Lloyd lb
Clay com be, member of the city council.
The ordinance has been handed to Mr.
Clayeouibe for introduction. The jitney
men wished the legal department to pass
upon the legality <f the amendments, but
Corporation Couns 1 Taylor E. Groninger
and City Attorney James M. Ogden re
fused, announcing that they would con
sider the ordinance if it were referred
to the department after Introduction in
the council.
None of the 500 or more Jitney drivers
driven out of business when the ordi
nance was passed have applied for new
licenses. Some are understood to have
been operating without licenses on ihe
sly. The Jitney men say they cannot ob
tain the high bonds required except at
a prohibitive rate.
The city administration is having Jit
ney licenses printed and flic work has
reached the point of proof reading. When
the legal department learned of the pro
pcsed amendments the printer was in
structed to bold up the Job.
MORNING VISITS
OF ROBBERS NET
VALUABLELOOT
Three Burglaries Result in
Theft of Between S3OO and
SIOO in Goods.
! Burglars obtained between s3o4* and
$440 In merchandise and cash rrom three
| persons In the city today, according to
1 reports made to police headquarters.
! They entered the home of Mrs. Martha
' Dorsey, 28 East St. Joseph street, tnis
morning and took three broche shawis,
valued at SIUO each, one gray shawl
valued at fib, ono gray and black shawl
valued at SSO, one nightgown, $tJ, six
1 muslin peticoats valued at $lO, six suits
of ladles underwear, .Sti, one lace dress
S4O, and one white silk shirt SB.
| V. Fisher, S3O North I’ennsylvania
j strict, told the police that while his
! wife was absent from their home bur
j glars entered and stole ea suit of clothes
! valued at $35, a bank book and a gold
watch valued at $lO. Elizabeth Hemphill,
430 North Meridian street, reported to
the police that burglars entered her
apartment ami carried off a beaded
pocketbook valued at $lO and more than
$7 in cash.
FAIR WEATHER
IS PROMISED
OVER SUNDAY
Local Atmospheric Wizard
Says No Real Cold Wave
in Sight.
I Fair weather, bright skies, crisp nut
not extremely cold weather is in prospect
lor today and Sunday, according to J.
H. Armlngton, meteorologist at the
United States weather bureau.
At 3 o’clock this morning the mercury
stood at 12 degrees above zero, tying the
lew mark for the year set on Jan. 1, but
after this hour tne temperature grew
steadily warmer and ut 2 o’clock the of
registered 43 degrees above zero. This
registered 21 degrees above zero. This
rise Is scheduled to continue.
However, no real cold wave is In sight,
according to Mr. Armlngton. In Canada,
where cold waves usually get under way,
there Is unusually warm wenther for
this time of year, at Banff the thermome
ter standing at 18 degrees above zero.
This condition has had a marked effect
on tho States west of the Mississippi
River and in lowa and Mlnesota there
have been Jumps of 20 to 38 degrees In
temperature in the past twenty-four
hours.
So for the present at least Indianapolis
is assured that there will be no zero
weather.
Will Make Ruling
on Railway Clerks
CHICAGO, .Tan. 14.—New rules and
working conditions for clerical employes
of railroads will be made public Jan. 23
by the United States Railroad Labor
Board. They will be effective Feb. 1.
The board practically has completed
work on the rules which will set hours
of work, overtime rates of pay and other
conditions for 300,000 persons.
LAST HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
DATE RESIGNATION
EFFECTIVE LEFT OUT
OF ANNOUNCEMENT
Postmaster General Makes Statement Fol
lowing Conference of Hour With
President Harding:.
EXECUTIVE EXPRESSES HIS REGRETS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. —Postmaster General Hays today resigned
from President Harding’s Cabinet to become the “movie king” of the
United States.
Official announcement of his intention was made by Hays, following
a conference at the White House in which President Harding acquiesced
to Hie Postmaster General leaving the Cabinet.
Hays, the first member to drop out of the official family, becomes head
of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry, representing
virtually all the largest film producers in the country.
Resigns Cabinet
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WILL n. HAYS.
LLOYD GEORGE
PLANS MEETING
WITH POINCARE
Anglo - French Negotiations,
Broken by Briand’s Resig
nation, to Be Revived.
i PARIS, Jan. 14. —Fresn opposition
| from political foes further retarded tne
i efforts of Raymond Poincare to form a
1 new cabinet today Insuccession to tne
resigned ifriand ministry, it was learned
this afternoon that only three men had
definitely accepted pcr.ioitos.
FARIS, Jan. 14.—I’remier Lloyd George
arrived today from Cannes to continue
conversations with the French relative to
the proposed Anglo-French treaty of al
liance. These negotiations were broken
off when the supreme counci! meeting
collapsed ns a result of the resignation
of ex-Premier Briand and his cabinet.
Arrangements were made for a meeting
between Premier Lloyd George and Ray
mond I’oineare who has accepted the post
: as French minister, at the British em
| bassy this afternoon.
j During the morning Poincare continued
j his efforts to form a cabinet.. He held
! numerous conferences with tils political
| colleagues. His friends said tho delay
I was occasioned by the fact that ,\J. Po.n
---| care was making every effort to create a
j stiong government that would have tte
! confidence of the people. It is Ihl wed
j M Poincare will not complete the cabinet
until tomorrow.
CITES VIOLATION
OF SUNDAY LAWS
W. C. T. U. Will Carry Matter
to City Officials.
I’lsns to call to the attention of the
city administration the fact that motion
picture theaters are operating on Sunday
ill Indianapolis contrary to law are being
made by the Marion County Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.
Representatives of the organization
also brought the subject before the re- !
cent conferences of prosecutors, rheriffs 1
and police officials called by Auorney
General U. S. Lesh. The women took the
attitude that all laws should be enforced
and that inasmuch as Sunday motion
pictures are not permitted by law tha 1
theaters should not be permitted to i
operate. They said the case was to have '
been presented by the Rev. C. H. Win- j
•lers. executive secretary of the Indian- ■
apolis Church Federation, but Mr. Win- I
dors had just stepped out of the room !
when Attorney General Lesh called for
the presentation of the matter.
Mr. Winders in commenting on the
subject said he belle:ed in the enforce
ment of tho law and not merely of cer
tain laws and pointed out that inasmuch
as the Sunday laws are on the statue
1 ooks they should be enforced. The
Sunday laws on the books in Indiana are i
seldom enforced aud many of them are j
not enforced at all, he said. He said the
lack of enforcement applies particularly
to motion picture theaters.
Storm Warning
WAiSHI.NGTUN, lan. 14.
warnings are displayed from Delaware
breakwater to Kastport, Me., tue weather
bureau announced today.
A storm of marked Intensity, central
over Northern Minnesota, la moving
rapidly Eastward. \\ inds will become
southerly, increasing tonight and reach
ing gale force by Sunday morning the
bureau said. Unsettled weatner ana
probably rain or snow are expected to '
follow.
NO. 212.
Following the conference at the White
House, Hays and Harding both issued
statements, but no mention was made of
when the resignation would become ef
fective.
Hays' statement said:
“With the President’s consent, I have
decided to undertake the. work suggested
by the motion picture producers and dis
tributors. No contract has been executed
yet I am assuming, of course, that a
satisfactory contract will be possible
and one which will make certain carrying
out the high purposes contemplated for
this great industry.”
President Harding expressed his re
gret at having Postmaster General Hays
retire from the cabinet “where he has
already made so fine a record.”
PRESIDENT ALSO
MAKES STATEMENT.
The President's statement follows:
“The postmaster general ana l nave
been discussing at considerable length
the proposal which has been made to mm
to become the head or a national as
sociation of motion picture producers
and distributors.
•'ll the arrangement proves to be, when
the details are worked out, wnat it
seems to be, l cannot well Interpose any
objection to Mr, Hays retiring rrom tno
laoinet to take up a work so important.
It is too great an opportunity lor a
helpful public service for Mm to reruse.
I shall be more than sorry to nave him
retire from the Cabinet wfiere He naa
already made so fine a record, but we
have agreed to look upon the situation
from the broadest viewpoint and seen
the highest possible good.”
In accepting the offer whiea he naa
I had under serious consideration Tor
i more than a month. Hays absolutely will
divorce himself from politics—the worn
i ln which he has battled so vigorously tor
j the last Tour years.
Hays announced deffnitely be had av
oided to undertake the movie work, his
j formal resignation wtu occur wnen ms
movie contract is signed.
The Postmaster General said no data
has been set for his conference with the
moving picture magnates to settle the de
. tails of the srr^r"?!*?6nt.
Meanwhile he will tontines his dntieg
as Postmaster General until the arrange
ments have been concluded
EXPECT MARCH 4
WILL BE DATE SET.
The general expectation Is that Hay*
will resign about March 4, which would
round out a year’s Cabinet service for
him. This, it was said, would be entirely
agreeable to the President.
Hays deprecated reports about the size
of the salary that his contract would call
for. but it is understood a figure of $150,-
690 a year for three years tentatively has
been agreed upon.
The Postmaster General said he wai
actuated in making his decision by th
opportunity that would le afforded him
to ’’undertake a great campaign of publU
service” in the moving picture field. H’j
acceptance of the offer, he said, W3i
predicated on the understanding that th
moving picture producers and distribu
tors are to reorganize the industry, un<
der his general supervision, to tho end
that the “undeslratle features” of th
industry may be eliminated.
He made it plain that he considers hil
undertaking as similar to that which
Judge K. M. Landis engaged upon in
the baseball world.
Hays sail he would not resign in any
ev<nt until President Harding had se
lected his successor, in order that then
would be no interruption to the work on
confusion in the Postoffice Department.
Payment of Check
Stopped; Payee Sues
Suit to recover $4,492.05, tho amount ol
a check payable to Dan C. Clarke ol
Louisville, Ky., and signed by Robert
F. Houghland of Scott County, on whirl
payment was ordered stopped at th<
Scottsburg State Bank, was filed bj
Clarke in Federal Court today.
The complaint charges that Houghland
defendant ln the cc.se, gave Ciarke thi
check in settlement of a debt Ang. IS
1921, and then ordered the baals mu
to pay It.
Clarke has lost the check, the conn
plaint states, and has been unable
find it. I
CHEESE EXPERT ENDS LTTE. I
FOND DU LAC, Wis., Jan. 14.—Henr.g
Krumery. founder and president of thrffl
Wisconsin Cbeese Producers Association
and a national authority on cheese mat|J
ters and an ex-assemblyman, committed
suicide at his summer home at Crystafl
Lake by hanging himself. He was 700
Worry over financial matters la said t j”
have been the cause for his act.
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