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ROTARY CLUBS
OF STATE HOLD
SESSION HERE
* Frank H. Hatfield of Evans
ville. Mentioned for
Governor.
With a large attendance, the fourth
annual conference of Indiana Rotarians,
which will continue until Wednesday
night, got under way today. Indications
ore, at least 2.000 Rotarians will attend
the convention, according to club officials.
The usual Hoosier avidity for politics
cropped out even before the conference
opened and there was a world of gossip
S3 to the next district governor and the
luclty city to be awarded the 1928 con
ference. Among the politically wise, the
general opinion seemed to be Frank H.
Hatfield of Evansville will have no op
position for the position of governor,
while Wabash and South Bend are con
sidered the most likely candidates for
the next conference.
The greater part of the morning was
taken up with registration at the head
quarters at the (Jlaypool Hotel under ,
the direction of Henry L. Stenger.
BOWhING MATCH
MARKS GETAWAY.
First on the program came the third
annual Indiana Rotary bowling tour
nament which began this morning at the
Capitol alleys, 115 West Market street,
anu this was one of the early centers of
attraction for the visitors.
The most elaborate and complete
preparations were made for the reception
of the guests. Squads of local Rotarians, j
under the direction of Clyde A. Bowers,
chairman of the reception commltteo,
were esslgned to railroad stations and
hotels to welcome the out-State Ro
farians. and several hundred automobiles
wers available for their use. These ma
chines are stationed at Capitol avenue
and Washington street and the visitors
were not slow In taking advantage of
the opportunity given them of seeing
the city.
During the conference traffic will be
suspended on Washington street between
Illinois street and Capitol avenue In
order to facilitate the passage of the
Rotarians back and forth between the
Hotel Lincoln and the Claypool, where
the principal meetings of the conference
will be held.
MUSICAL PROGRAM
IS PLANNED.
For this afternoon a special musical
program has been arranged on the mez
zanine floor of the Claypool Hotel from
2 to 4 o'clock. Following dinner there
will be a concert by the Newsboys’ Band
In the Claypool lobby and this will be
followed by a theater party for Rota
rian women at Keith’s.
The business sessions of the conference
will get under way this evening with
two special assembles. One of Rotary
activities, will be held in the Claypool as
sembly hall, and the other, which will be
a special assembly on the 1922 Interna
tional Rotary convention will be held in
the Palm Room on the ninth floor of the
r hotel.
The assembly on Rotary activities will
be addresses by Dr. A. W. Millis, presi- |
dent of Hanover College, who will speak j
on “The Education of Rotarians as to i
Rotary.” Other speakers and their sub- i
jects will be “Boys’ Work,” Dr. Samuel ■
E. Smith, superintendent Eastern Hos- ]
pital for the Insane, Richmond; “Rotary |
Efficiency,” Samuel Strlckler, Marion; !
"Just Ballast,” Will C. Ehrhardt, Greens- j
burg; “The American College ns an Ex- .
emplifleation of Rotary Spirit,” Prof. W.
Gear Spencer of Franklin College; "The
Relation Between the Employer and the ■
Employe,” Dr. C. A. Lippincott, South
Bend.
DISCUSSION WILL
FOLLOW TALKS,
These talks will be followed by a
general round table discussion on the
best things done by club committees dur
ing the year.
One of the principal events of the con- j
ference will be an address at the ffurat
Theater Wednesday afternoon by Col.
Charles Repington, British Journalist and
miitary critic, who was famous for his
articles during the World War. He will
speak on “The Washington Conference
and Its Results.”
Crawford C. McCullough, international
president of the Rotarians, and other in
ternational officers were to arrive this
afternoon from Chicago.
An address of welcome will be deliv
ered by Governor Warren T. McCray at j
the opening of the second day of the con- j
ference. This will be followed by a
business session at 10 o’clock when the j
proposed revision of the constitution and
by-laws of the international organization
will be presented by Frederick E. Matson. !
Then will come the nominations for dis
trict governor.
SPIRITS HOVER
OVER HEARING
Physician-Spiritualist on Trial
Before Board.
Spirits, alcoholic and otherwise, figured
today In the hearing before the State
board of medical registration of the case
o* Dr. Frederick E. Crura, 2845 Annette
street, who was before the board to show
cause why his license as a physician
should not be revoked.
Witnesses testified Dr. Crum was ad
dicted to the use of liquor and drugs. It
was testified the physician who was she
head of the State Spiritualist convention
at Newcastle last year “beat up on’’ one
of the delegates and the melee stopped
only_after another delegate had drawn a
revolver.
FIREMEN’S VOTE
IS MADE PUBLIC
Election of Walter West and Jesse
Dn( sell as firemen's pension fund trus
tees In the voting by city firemen Feb.
13, announced today by Ben C. Wheat,
secretary of the fund.
West succeeds Henry Peterman for
four years while Hntseil will servo two
years of the unexpired term of Feel
Pr rainier who w;fs retired from the fire
deportment in January.
The votes received by the six candi
dates in the election were found by
Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank. City Clerk
John Rhodehamel and Fire Chief John .T.
O'Brien, sitting as a canvassing board, to
be as follows: West, 410; Hut sell, 311;
John Mahoney. 130; Ernest Hinchman,
133: Phillip Moss, 91 and Arthur Rose
meyer, 65.
Electric Engineers
M ill Hear Lecture
The second meeting of the year of the
Indianapolls-Lafayette section of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
will be held at the Chamber of Commerce
Friday night. R. H. Kruse of the Cutler-
Hammer Manufacturing Company of Mil
waukee will speak on “Measuring Cas
Electrically.” The lecture will be illus
trated.
INCREASE CAPITAL STOCK.
The Stewart Talking Machine Company
of Indianapolis, today filed notice with
the secretary of State of an increase in
capital stock from $50,000 to $400,000. The
stockholders are given as Alexander M.
Stewart, George E. Stewart, James T.
Stewart and Henry P. Ross.
MURDER TRIAL BEGINS.
TERE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 21—Joseph
Lobovlch of Clinton, indicted Jointly with
Mnrv So -'fci for the alleged --de- of
UoseA S'lixski r
JwreGvdnv. Sonzak. wuc sia.u .a#i Aw.
SCHOOL BOARD
ALMOST HOLDS
CALM SESSION
Gadd Learns Inspector Was
Employed Between
Meetings,
Routine matters and odus and ends of
unfinished business were disposed of by
the board of school commissioners at a
special meeting today. The meeting was
the quietest and most uneventful since
the new board came into office Jan. 1,
and was devoid of the stormy scenes
which, have been so characteristic of other
meetings.
On recommendation of the instruction
committee the transfer of $5,000 from the
special fund to the vocational training
fund was authorized. This action was
tnken that it may not be necessary to
discontinue the part time and evening
classes because of exhaustion of the fund
set aside for their maintenance.
A delegation representing the Indian
apolis community chorus, with R. C.
Wilson as spokesman, appeared before
the board and asked support given the
chorus in past years be continued. The
matter was referred to the instruction
committee.
Only once did storm clouds appear in
the sky, but, after a few threatening
signs of an outbreak, things aguin be
came peaceful. The near-disturbance
arose when Walter J. Twiname, business
director, suggested the “inspector” be
asked to look over school No. 73 and re
port as to whether it is ready for ac
ceptance by the board.
Bert S. Gadd, the minority member of
the board, wanted to know something as
to the identity of this Inspector, whose
name was not mentioned. George H.
Riekes, superintendent of buildings and
grounds, arose and admitted he had put
Edward Stelhorn to work temporarily as
inspector, and in answer to Mr. Gadd's
question why the appointment had not
been reported to the board snid that there
had not been a regular meeting of the
board since the appointment was made.
•‘ls this the same Stelhoru you had
at the coal yard watching coal at an In
spector’s salary?” Mr. Gadd asked.
Charles L Barry, president of the
board, rushed to the defense of Riekes
with a long explanation of the whys and
wherefores of the case, and Mr. Gadd
restored peace by dropping the subject.
A special meeting will be held Mon
day morning at 10 o’clock to receive bids
on $250,000 vh’cn is to be borrowed for
the special fund until the next install
ment of taxes U available.
The appointment of Clara E. Brook and
Mabel Scott HuggiDS. trained nurses, as
instructors in charge of the nutrition
classes was reported by E. U. Griff, su
perintendent of schools.
SAFETY BOARD
DEFERS ACTION
IN TWO CASES
Chief Rikhoff Files Neglect
Charges Against Two
Patrolmen.
Cases of two policemen charged with
conduct unbecoming an officer were
taken tinder advisement until March 1,
by the board of public safety today. Two
patrolmen were promoted to sergeant and
one sergeant was reduced to patrolman.
Charges of neglect of duty were filed
against two patrolmen by Chief Herman
F’ Rickhoff.
Testimony In the trial o Motorcycle
Officer George Melton was to the effect
he accepted $5 from Russell S. Coulsoa,
in payment for torn clothing and a
sprained thumb, suffered when Coulson's
automobile struck a police motorcycle on
which Melton and his partner were rid
ing. It was charged also he did not re
port the accident to headquarters.
Patrolman Frank Johnson admitted
cursing Lieut. John Volderatier in front
of the latter's home. Patrolman Frank
Volderauer, son of the lieutenant, testi
fied he caught Johnson’s right hand when
he acted as if he were going to draw it
ont of his overcoat pocket ind he felt a
revolver in the hand. Both Volderatier
and Johnson said they have been friends
and neighbors for twenty jears and bore
no malice toward each nth?r.
“I’d rather lose any friend in the de
partment than Volderauer," said John
son, with a catch In his rope. The testi
mony indicated Johnson thought Vol
derauer had had him moved to an out
lying district.
Chief Rikhoff charged Patrolmen Mo
riarity and Howard Tenbroek with full
ing to report, and declared one of them
shot Clane Hunter in the foot the night
of Feb. 11. The charges recite the po
licemen found liquor on Hunter when
they searched bira and Rowel Montgom
ery, and ordered them to walk away and
destroy the booze. Hunter started to
run Instead, and one of the officers fired,
the chief charged. Their trial was set
for March 15.
Patrolmen Samuel Rariden and John
Sheehan were promoted to sergeants and
Sergt. Oral Chitwood was reduced to
patrolman.
Fireman W. G. McCullough, who has
been in a hospital for five months, was
retired.
A contract for purchase of one Xnti
touring car for use as a “night rider
squad car” in the police department, wSs
awarded to the Losey Nash Company on
a bid of $1,085.
Building permits for the week ending
Feb. 18 totalled 127 in numbe rand $211,-
920 in vahie. Building Commissioner
Francis L. Hamilton reported.
Will Build New Barn
at State Fairground
Architects today were conferring with
the State board of agriculture on plans
for anew barn ,it toe State fairground
to replace the one destroyed by fire Sun
day. The new barn probably will be
built on the same plan as the one de
stroyed by fire, except It possibly will
have fire walls at frequent intervals in
order that a blaze can be confined to one
part of the building. It is also possible
that flu additional wing will be built on
the s^icture.
Isaac Hits Goldie
With Fined
“I didn’t hit her with a poker because
I loved h"r,” declared Isaac Barr, negro,
78S Indiana avenue, who was tried in city
court today for assault and bntterv.
Goldie Cravens, negress, living fn the
rear of C2l IVest St. Clair street, made
“goo goo” eyes at Isaac, during the trial
and told of being hit with a poker, but
admitted she loved Barr very much.
The affair appeared to be only a sweet
hearts’ quarrel, but Judge Delbert O.
Wllmeth thought it was rude of Barr
to hit Goidie With a poker, and he fined
him $1 and eostb.
Mortality Report
for 24 Hours
Four deaths from pneumonia and one
from influenza were reported to the city
health department during the twenty
four hours ending at 10 o’clock this
morning.
Piles Cured In 0 to 14 Days.
Druggistß refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fails to oure Itching. Blind,
HI- #>g or Protruding Piles. Instantly
’• ■lt hlrtg Piles. C2c.—Advertise
800 Roof Fires
Result in Call
tor Conference
Roofers Asked to Meet Pre
vention Bureau and C. of C.
Committee .
Eight hundred fires on shingle roof*
since the first of the year have moved
the fire department, the fire prevention
bureau and the fire prevention commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce to call
a meeting of all roofers for Friday noon
at the Chamber of Commerce to plan for
a publicity campaign which tbe sponsors
hope will eliminate inflammable roofs in
the city.
"We are issuing a call to all of the
roofers in the city to meet with us in
conference,” said a statement issued by
Fire Chief John J. O’Brien today, “to
consider plans for a city-wide campaign
of publicity in reference to tbe elimina
tion of shingle roofs and it Is our hope
that this campaign will, during the year
1922, result in the substitution of ton or
twelve thousand fire resistant roofs for a
like number of shingle roofs.
“The serious condition existing in the
city of Indianapolis on account of the
large number of shingle roofs has been
brought most forcibly to our attention
during tbe past few weeks. During the
period Jan. 1, 1922, to and including
Feb. 18, our department responded to
1,072 fire alarms, 800 of which were fires
due to shingle roofs. On Feb. 16 the de
partment responded to sixty-three
alarms, this number exceeding all pre
vious records in the history of the de
partment, and on that day practically
every one of the sixty-three alarms was
caused by a shingle roof. The vital im
portance of the elimination of this great
fire hazard will be readily understood
when if is realized that there was one
period on Feb. 16, when every piece of
apparatus in tbe city was at work on
some of these fires. Last week’s fire In
the 1900 block on North New Jersey.
street, had gained considerable headway
before our department reached the fire,
and it looked as if the entire block would
be swept by fire. The fire department
was, however, materially aided In its
work by a fire resistant roof on the
property at 1927 North New Jersey street
and the fire did not go beyond this
property. During the past year we have
had quite a number of similar Incidents,
showing clearly that the man who places
a fire resistant roof on his house pro
vides fire protection for himself aDd pro
vides a valuable barrier against spread
of fire.
“Our fire prevention campaign has
been of great value, our records showing
that we have very few fires from burn
lng trash, oily waste and other similar
preventable causes, but our large number
of fires and consequent heavy fire loss
will continue so long as Indianapolis has
its sJiingle roofs. We will ask the city
council to enact some stringent ordi
nances and will do everything in our
power to get rid of this serious fire
menace.”
BIG COP BARS
GIRL’S ESCAPE
Rooming House Occupant Is
Held on Vagrancy Charge.
Flossie Harris, 24, 38 North Oxford
street, almost escaped from a house at
484 East Market street yesterday after
noon by climbing through a rear win
dow, but a big policeman was in ‘be
way. He was waiting outside, and when
the fashionably dressed young woman
attempted to make a hurried exit he or
dered her back Into the house and l.ieu
i tenant Jones, who conducted the raid,
arrested her on the charge of vagrancy.
The police testified in city court today
that they were sent to the East Market
i’reef house on the report that the place
was a resort. When they arrived they
found tbe doors locked, but Lieutenant
Jones climbed through a window. Two
paperhangers were so frightened by tbe
i arrival of the police that they climbed
I off of ladders and ran upstairs, and Miss
i Harris tried to escape through a rear
window. The men were not arrested and
the police did not bring the proprietor
of the rooming houße to police headquar
I ters, but Miss Harris was arrested She
j explained to the police that she worked
at 101 North Pennsylvania street, and
the police say they Investigated and
learned that she had not been employed
there for two and a half years. Judge
Delbert O. Wilmeth took the case under
advisement until March 11.
FINED ‘sso AND’
ON TIGER’ COUNT
Judge Delbert O. Wllmeth In city
court today fined Louis Sattlnger, 63.8
South Meridian street, SSO and costs on
the charge of operating a blind tiger,
when Sattlnger, who Is an ex saloon
f keeper, pleaded guilty. The police ound
nine quarts of Vermuth, two quarts of
i gin, and two quarts of whisky in a raid
i on Sattlnger’* home.
i Spite work resulted in Mrs. Saille
' Kelscta, 1539 West New York streer, be
! lng brought Into court on the charge of
operating a blind tiger. Henry Scl.mlJf,
966 North Sheffield avenue, who swore
out the affidavit, admitted that he had
put a heating plant into Mrs. Kclsch's
home and that they had settled their
trouble in court following an argument
about the pay. Today he testified that
Mrs. Kelsch had given him and his son
! wine while they worked at her borne.
Mrs. Kelsch and other witnesses test!*
tied the wine was uufermented grape
Juice. Judge Wilmeth discharged Mrs.
Kelsch.
Failure to Use Same
Scales Loses Case
Failure of Patrolman Broden to weigh
the coal on one of the I. A. Barker Coal
, Company's wagons on scales where the
j coal was weighed originally today re
sulted in Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth dis
j charging Carl Struckman, charged with
i short weight. Struckman is employed
! by the I. A. Barker Coal Company and
the policeman alleged the ton of coal
I was ninety pounds short and testified
! he weighed the coal on another com
pahy’s scales Barker testified lie weighed
the coal on the Barker company’s, scales
and it wns not short. Barker admitted
on cross-examination that he was con
victed of short weight about two weeks
ago.
Government Still
Has Positions Open
! Owing to the fact sufficient applications
for a number of government positions
! were not received the last time civil serv
ice examinations were held, additional
examinations will lie held March 22.23,24.
according to nenry M. Trimpe, secre
tary of the civil service board. 421 Fed
eral Building. Positions for which ex
aminations aW‘ to held are: junior en
gineers nnd deck officers, coast find
geodetic survey ; assistant examiners for
pateut office; special agent in revenue
service, reconstruction aide and assastant
in veterans bureau; photographer in de
pjartmental service, charwoman service,
PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY.
Horace Wright of Clinton, garagetnan,
filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy
in Federal Court today. He scheduled
liabilities of $9,042.83 and assets of
53.77L24
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1922.
IDENTIFIES MAN
WHO VICIOUSLY
ATTACKED HER
Stolen Jewelry Is Located
Through Arrest of Re
puted Thief.
John Mulhanl, 77, today was Identified
by Hattie Tharp, 1018 North Illinois
street, as the youth who calleu at her
home Sunday and asked to rent a room
and when taken to the second floor struck
her with a “blackjack.” The man, Mrs.
Tharp said, attacked her to get the dia
mond rings from her hand. She was
wearing Jewelry valued at more than
SSOO. Mulhaul ran from the house when
Mrs. Tharp screamed and escaped before
the emergency squad arrived.
• Detectives regard Mulhaul as a good
catch. They say he has been staying at
a rooming house at 323 West New York
street, but that his home Is in New York.
Detectives said he operated with another
man in Louisville and came to Indian
apolis, where the other man left him.
A diamond lavalier, stolen Feb. 11 from
the home of Bessie Welch, 837 North
Delaware street, was form! in possession
of Mulhaul, detectives say.
Mulhaul was arrested yesterday after
noon when he attempted to sell jewelry
at an Indiana avenue pawnshop. The
Jewelry, valued at $l4B, was stolen from
the Moia Olsliewltz pawn shop, 648 East
Washington street, earlier in the day.
Olshewitz was at police headquarters re
porting tbe theft of the jewelry when the
police brought Mulhaul into the detec
tive office.
NEW PLANS FOR
MIDWEST PLANT
MADE PUBLIC
(Continued From Page One.)
dianapolis, have agreed to waive their
claims or rights, aud they will receive
nothing for their common stock holdings.
The control of the new eorporatlou will
be vested in the preferred stockholders,
in which the bank interests will predomi
nate. However, after the new company
bus paid dividends on the preferred stock
for two consecutive years, the control
will be In the hands of the common
stockholders of the new company.
Full power for putting the reorganiza
tion plan into effect when a sufficient
number of stockholders and creditors
have assented thereto will be In the luiudr
of a reorganization committee with the
same personnel as the creditors’ commit
tee which has been cooperating with the
management of the company for the last
six months.
The stockholders are represented by t
preferred stockholders’ committee con
sisting of William W. Mooney, Leo Rap
poport and Thomas Taggart, all of In
dianapolis. 11. W. Griff th, treasurer of
the company. Is secretary to this com
mittee.
COMPANY CONTRACTS
FOR 1922 EXTENSIVE.
The company has contracts for engine*
for the year 1922 with truck, tractor and
bus manufacturers whose norma! require
ments total over two nnd one-quarter
million dollars' worth of engines. The
officials of the company also report that
contracts are on the verge of being
closed with well-known manufacturers
whose normal requirements would amount
to another $2,000,000. This means that
there is enough business uetually in sight
to give the reorganized company an ex
cellent start. In addition to this present
business, a large number of other users
of truck and tractor engines already
have tested and approved the Midwest
engine and have indicated their inten
tion to adopt It as soon as general busi
ness conditions improve sufficiently so
that the total engine business of the re
organized company may easily reach, In
the opinion of the company officials, a
figure of six or seven million dollars
when It gets well under way. This, with
the utilltor business and the pumps and
turbines manufactured at the Andersou
plant, which, together will ultimately ap
proximate $2,000,000, Is expected to pro
vide profits for the new company.
The growing demand f<-r Midwest
c ngines, a rd 1 t ; > the fTt
company, lies in the fact that it is the
only engine designed specifically to taka
care of the requirements of trucks, trac
tors and busses; The company was.
therefore, able to introduce an engine
that on a performance basis has little
or no competition and one which manu
facturers were quick to see the value of.
Many contracts were obtained at higher
prices than those quoted by competitors.
MANY CONCERNS I E
MIDWEST ENGINE.
The chief manufacture.s that are using
the Mldwust truck and tractor engine
are such well known concerns as Allls-
Chalmera Manufacturing Company of Mil
wnukee. Bates Machine and Tractor Com
pany of Juliet, 111.; Huber Manufacturing
Company of Marlon, Ohio; Lauson Manu
facturing Company of New Holstein,
Wls.; Dill T-actor Mann fa cm ring Com
pany of Little Rock, Ark.; Service Motor
Truck Company of Wabash, Ind. ; Aroer
ieau Motor Truck Company of Newark,
Ohio; Pittsburgh Truck Company of
I’ittshurgli and the Harmer Knowles
Company of Toronto. Substantial orders
and contracts have also been received
from well-known bus manufacturers in
cluding the Fifth Avenue Coach Company
of New York, American Motor Bus Com
pany of Chicago, Trackless Transporta
tion Company of New York, American
Motor Truck Company of Newark, Ohio,
nnd the Abbott-Dowulng Truck and
Body Corporation oi Boston, Mass.
The Bowen Motor Railway Car of St.
I,o*uis, tho Burton Industrial Locomotive
of Cincinnati nnd the Bicicle Fire En
gine of Woodstock, Ontario, are using
Midwest engines.
The Midwest plant Is equipped through
out with new and modern machine tools
of the best and most approved typo for
large quantity production. Before giv
ing the Midwest Company a contract,
one of the largest truck Manufacturers
of the country sent their technical nnd
manufacTYtrlng staff to Inspect and in
vestigate the manufacturing facilities of
the Midwest Company, a.id after the
closest, detailed examination, those par
ticular experts reported their entire satis
faction with the company's unusually
good facilities for precision manufactur
ing in quantities.
MANUFACTURES
UTILI.TOR TRACTOR.
The Company also manufacturers a
small, general purpose tractor knowu as
the Utilltor. Many thousands now giving
satisfactory service nil over tho country,
testify to the usefulness and efficiency
of this device. Chief among this year’s
improvements of the Utilltor Is anew
model on which tho operator rides. This
Is a very important Innovation designed
to increase the market consider:: oly.
In this new model, the operator rides
in front of the tractor and has an un-
RESINOL
Soothinq and He&linq
Household Ointment
EXCHANGE YOUR OLD PLAYER ROLLS
They are worth 83c each on the pn rcliase price of any word roll in our
music dept., regardless of make, condition or original purchase price. Only
one roll accepted on each new one.
Records,s9c Each. 2 for SI.OO
Win. H. BLOCK CO M Music Dept.
obstructed view of the field ahead at all
times. Directly beneath him are those
implements which require the most care
ful observation while in use. It is said
that the Utilltor agents throughout the
country are enthusiastic about this new
riding type machine and predict a much
broader field for the Utilltor.
A spring sales campaign was begun on
a conservative scale a few weeks ago and
has resulted in a satisfactory number of
new distributor and dealer contracts and
a large number of inquiries from farm
ers and truck gardeners.
The company at its Anderson plant has
an established business for pumps and
turbines, numbering among its custom
ers such companies as Swift & Cos.,
Armour fc Cos., Libby, McNeill & Libby.
Stone & Webster, Proctor & Gamble, and
a long list of municipalities, railroads
and industrial plants that use this class
of equipment.
Recent power projects over the country
will also influence attractively this divi
sion of the Midwest Engine Company's
business, it is said,
SIMILARITY IN
CEMENT BIDS
FOR CITY PLANT
Purchasing Agent Notes Of
fers for 200-Barrel Contract
About Same.
A remarkable similarity in bids upon
200 barrels of Portland cement for tbe
city asphalt plant was noted by City
Purchasing Agent Jesse E. Miller today.
There were four bids of $2 30 per bar
rel of cement in paper sacks, two of
$3.20 in paper sacks ; two of $2 61 In -cloth
sacks and one of $2 26 in paper sacks.
The bids all for Indianapolis prices
were as follows :
F. W. Aldag Cos . Lehigh Portland ce
ment in paper, $3.20 per barrel.
Indianapolis Coal Company. Lehigh
Portland cement in paper sacks, $2.86
per barrel; In cloth sacks. $2.61.
Indianapolis Mortar and Fuel Com
pany, Lehigh Portland cement in paper
bags, city tested, $3.20; I/ehlgh Portland
cement in paper bags, $2.26.
A. B. Meyer & Cos, Atlas Portland ce
ment, In paper sacks, $2.36.
Peoples Coal and Cement Company,
Portland cement In cloth sacks, $2.61; In
paper sacks, $0 86.
Brannum-Keene Lunmber Company, ce
men’ In paper sacks, $2.36.
Mr. Miller took the bids under advise
ment.
When the State highway commission re
ceived three identical bids on road con
tracts recent y, Governor Warren T. Mc-
Cray started an Investigation into ce
ment prices.
RAILROAD MEN
AWAIT DETAILS
OF LEWIS’ IDEA
(Continued From Pore One.)
Lewis proposal la advance of presents
tlon.
Not one railroad labor leader openly
favored a sympathetic strike with the
miners. One of them declared privately
that the railr aii men “had taken a lot,”
that they were ready for almost any
thing but, if they found it advisable to
strike, they “would pick their own time
The consensus was that the Administ
ration is dead agnlnst them and some
thing must he done.
Mr. Lewis said there was “nothing
destructive” In tho defensive alliance
proposal he was to uutline to the riiiiijny
union leaders. This was taken to in
dicate Lewis would not ask the railroad
men to support hie Idea to the extent of
backing the miners with a sympathetic
strike.
The leader of the miners indicated he
wns confident a coal strike can be averted
if the operators will attend the conference
If tho operators refuse to meet with the
miners on or before March 31, the strike
April 1 is Inevitable, he declared.
Tbe Joint conference was provided for
in the formal d* mantis of the miners for
rev.- wage contracts formulated at their
convention in Indianapolis last week.
One call wns snt (>y Mr. Lewis to the
operators who signed the present agree
ment In New York March 31, 1920, and
the other to officials of vnrlous coal op
eratona’ assorts tlnns in Pennsylvania,
Ohio. Indiana aud Illinois. In their new
demands the miners asked for a six hour
day, a five day week and continuance of
the present scale of wages.
The conference call was sent to Michael
Gallagher, president, Pittsburgh vein
Operators' Association, Cleveland; IT. C.
Adams, president of the Central Illinois
Coal Operators' Association, Chicago; W
K. Kavanaugh, president of tha Coal
Operators' Association, St Louis; Rice
Miller, president of the Illinois Coal Op
erators' Association, Hillsboro, 111.; P. H.
I’cnna, secretary Indiana Bituminous Coal
Operators’ Association. Terre Haute; O.
Ii Blackburn, president of the Pitts
burgh Coal Producers' Association, Pitts
burgh, Pa.; James Pritchard. Columbus,
Ohio: J. A. Donaldson, Pittsburgh; \V.
M. Henderson, Pittsburgh; C. E. Maurer.
Cleveland: George M. Jones, Toledo'; H.
C Perry, St. Louis; E. C. Senrles. Centra.
Illinois Coal Operators' Association, Chi
cago; Thomas T. Brewster, St. Louis, nnd
M. I. Gould, president of the Indlauu
Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association,
Indianapolis.
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ASKS CENTRAL
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Typographical Union Would
Leave Car Problem to
Author* ies.
Indianapolis Typographical-Union No.
1 today sent copies of a resolution to
Mayor Shank in which the union asks
the Central Labor Union to withdraw
from any further participation in the
conference called by Mayor Shank for
consideration of tiie street car problem.
The resolution says.
“That we call attention to the fact
that the public service commission would
not, and should not, be swayed in the
slightest particular by public clamor and
that the wishes of the people as ex
pressed through any mass action would
have no weight with that body.
“That under tho law means are pro
vided for the fixing of rates and that
the public service commission. If it ad
heres to the law, will follow the method
laid down.
“That we consider amusing the state
ment of Dr. Jameson to the effect that
the street car company is not asking for
an increased rate, but that all it is asking
is fair treatment.
"That Mayor Lew Shank knows, if he
has mental power sufficient to compre
! lieud the duties of his office, that it is the
! duty of the ciiy administration to protect
S the rights of all the people—the street
' car company, as well as the individual
; citizen—and that he cannot shirk this
1 duty by commissioning any outside or
ganization to take over this work.
“That Mayor Lew Shank was elected
last fall by the largest majority ever
given a candidate for mayor In this qjty
i and Is thus, more than any other similar
official we have ever had. the spokesman
for the people of this community.
“That we think the Central Labor
Union, without participation in any con
ference, should Insist that Mayor Shank
tieeep! the proposal of the street car com
pany for an Investigation of its books—
although this has been done appareutly
on oecasion by the public service commis
sion and that ho through this method
inform the people if the company is still
paying 6 per cent on the $5,000,000 Issued
by the Citizens Street Railroad Compnny
In 1895. and If so If this has any bearing
on the necessity for Increased rates.”
Policemen Protect
American Miners
WILKESBARRE, Pa., Feb. 21.—Twen
ty policemen were sent to Butler col
liery in Kingston, near here, to protect
more than 400 American miners who re
turned to work.
The colliery has been closed for several
weeks because of activities of alleged
foreign radicals who will not be per
mitted to resume work.
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CITY ATTORNEY
FILES MOTION
IN RATE CASES
Asks Public Service Commis
sion of Rehearing on
Schedules.
A motion for uc reopeuing of rate
schedule cases of the Indianapolis Light
and Heat Company and Mechants Heat
and Light Company, closed by the pub
lic service commission in an order issued
Jan. 25, was to be filed by the city this
afternoon, Taylor E. Gronlnger, corpora
tion counsel, announced. lie also stated
that Samuel Ashby, former corporation
counsel, has volunteered to assist the city
and William L. Taylor, representing
large power users, in the hearing before
the commission next Monday of the
power users’ petition for lower electric
rates in Indianapolis. Mr. Ashby will
make no charge for his servi.-es, Mr.
Gronlnger said.
The purpose of filing the motion for re
opening of the rate schedule cases is so
that the city will be officially a party
to the ease opening next Monday, Mr.
Gronlnger stated.
The eases grew out of an order of the
commission late in 1920 directing the two
electric utilities to file inventories of
their property and new, simplified rate
schedules. These eventually were tiled
and the commission granted the com
panies a surcharge. The city objected
but was overruled.
Mr. Groniuger and Mr. Ashby spent
several hours yesterday and today going
over the complaint to block the Indiana
Electric Corporation merger which In
dianapolis and Kokomo will file in a
Marion County court. The complaint will
be ready for filing tomorrow, the cor
poration counsel believes.
I. C. C. ORDERS
PROBE OF RATES
Hearings to Be Conducted in
Southern Cities.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—The Inter
state Commerce Commission today
ordered a general investigation into all
class rates throughout the Southern
territory and applicable from the South
to the West, Central West, Middle At
lantic and New England States.
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greatly on similar classes of articles and
that uniformity was lacking In applica
tion of rates.
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crossings, to Potomac River crossings
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