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THE WEATHER
Generally cloudy tonight and Friday.
Wanner. Colder Friday afternoon.
VOL. XXXIV.
SEEK SEAPLANE AND 6 PASSENGERS
MINERS MAY
MARE TERMS
BY DISTRICTS
Action Would Defeat
Nation-Wide Coal
Strike.
OFFICERS ACTIVE
Effect of Order Rests
With Policy Com
mittee.
Separate State wage agreements
between mine owners and miners
may yet avert the nation-wide coal
strike called for April 1, it was
learned today at United Mine Work
ers’ headquarters here.
Whether the strike actually ma
terializes depends now upon the
power international officers of the
union are able tc exercise over their
subordinates at a meeting of their
policy committee in Cleveland to
morrow.
If they can hold the policy committee
tightly In line for wage negotiations on
the basis of the central competitive field
of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and western
Pennsylvania, the strike U bound to
come. President John L. Lewis has said
to abandon the central field as operators
demand, woul'd permit operators to play
one union district against another in
wage fights.
WATCH COURSE
OF FARRINGTON.
Some members of the policy commit
tee, especially those from districts where
open shop conditions predominate, will
be led by Frank Farrington, president
of the Illinois district, in a fight within
the committee meeting to force adoption
of a policy sanctioning district wage
conferences. Farrington, long an in
surgent against the I.ewi? administra
tion and leader of the most powerful
district in the union, has threatened to
submit to demands of Illinois operators
for State negotiations.
The “little fellows”—the leaders of dis
tricts having a small union membership
near a large unorganized field —have been
subjected to pressure back home to con
sent to State negotiations, according to
reports here. Under this pressure, they
kill go into the meeting. If Lewis and
her officers can overcome the effects
It and smother the Farrington in
tgency, the strike Is on. If they can
it, the nation-wide aspect of the sus
pension is lost and it will be confined to
Tarious States.
The policy committee is the “all power
ful” within the organization while the
strike Impends and after it gets under
way. It will map out the course the
union will pursue In its trouble.
For the committee to override the
strike vote of the 500.000 union members
could be done theoretically , Secretary
William E. Green said, but It would be
“humanly impossible” unless mine own
(Conti rfued on Page Eleven.)
THREE HELD AS
DRUG PEDDLERS
Policeman Declares Vv'oman
Suspect Attempted to
Swal!c*v Evidence.
Two women and one man were arrested
today In the investigation of alleged
traffic In morphine. Lieutenants Jones
and Helm went to the Oxford Hotel,
where they arrested W. M. Klelne, 36,
and his wife, Catherine Kielne. 27, on
vagrancy charges. Sf t morphine was
found at that piae r i officers allege
they obtained Vecre*" *? f rom Julia Dean,
28, 318 r to* ll6l street. The Dean
womni> arrested on a vagrancy
cl *e ar .S held until Federal narcotic
offiecsr eg . investigate the case.
When the police visited the Dean home
the Dean woman is said to have attempted
to swallow a small quantity of the drug.
However. Lieutenant Jones seized her
and forced her to spit out what she had
placed in her month. This drug was
placed In a little box as part of the evi
dence. A small lamp, said to be used In
‘•cooking" drugs, a teaspoon containing
a small amount of the dope and two
hypodermic needles were taken to police
headquarters as evidence.
LEGION DRIVE
GETS RESULTS
Every Former Service Man
Likely to Get Job.
Indicatoins are every former service
man out of employment will be placed
in a job before April 15, the tentative
date set for closing the big unemployment
drive of the American Legion, according
to O. W. Powell, assistant director of
Americanization for tbe legion.
"Reports from all parts of the coun.ry
have been decidedly encouraging to of
ficials ■at national headquarters,” Mr.
Powell said. “Rapid progress la being
made in placing men in positions, al
though It will be several days before
complete returns are received. Yesterday
cur icports showed approximately 400,000
men had been placed In positions and
this number has been Increased apprecia
bly in the iast twenty-four hours."
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twentv-fonr hours ending 7
p. m.. March 24, 1922:
Generally cloudy tonight and Friday;
warmer tonight; colder Friday after
noon.
HOURLY iEMPERATIRE
6 a. m 35
7 a. m 36
8 a. -a 41
9 a. 44
10 a. m 49
11 a. in 58
12 (noon) 60
1 p. m ... 64
2 p. m 66
Published a' Indianapolis,
Ind., Dally Except Sunday.
Says Heavenly Climate
Resembles California’s
Los Angeles Paper, Through ‘Spook,’ Gets
Interview With Dr. Peebles’ Shade.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 23.—Los
Angeles newspapermen obtained today
what purports to be an Interview with a
man no longer living, obtained through
newspaper man, also deceased.
The dead man “interviewed” is the
noted savant, Dr. James Martin Peebles,
whose one hundredth birthday anniver
sary will be celebrated this evening by a
banquet at which, according to the hosts,
he has promised to be present in spirit.
The deceased newspaper man credited
with obtaining the heavenly “interview.’'
is Herman Keuhn. former Chicago pub
lisher and journalist, who in life was a
close friend of l>r. Peebles.
Through the agency of Dr Guy Bogart,
who acted as asserted intermediary be
tween the earth and astral, Keuhn ac
cepted, according to the medium's state
ment, an assignment to interview Dr.
Peebles.
No claim whatever Is made for Its
authenticity.
By HERMAN KETTHX.
I am always glad to act as Interme
diary for Dr. James M. Peebles.
He says the climate of Heaven re
FEDERATION OF
BOYS’ CLUBS TO
MEET MAY 8-11
R. Walter Jarvis Announces
Features Planned for 4-
Dav Session.
Features of the program of the Six
teenth Annual Boys’ Club Conference
under the auspices of the Boys' Club
Federation, to be held at the Claypool
Hotel, May 8. 9, 10 and 11, were an
nounced today by It. Waiter Jarvis, city
superintendent of parks and general
chairman of the local committee. Mr.
Jarvis was superintendent of the In
dianapolis Boys’ Club before he became
director of the city department of re
creation three years ago.
More than three hundred men engaged
in boys’ club work from all parts of the
United States and Canada and at least
a hundred older boys who will attend
the Older Boys' Conference to be held
In conjunction with the mens sessions
are expected to come to the conference.
The leaders in the boys’ work of tomor
row are picked from the older boys.
The spirit of the conference ts
In the conference motto, a quotation from
Horace Mann: “Where there Is anything
growing, one farmer is worth a thou
sand reformers.” Conference publicity
being sent all over the two countries
features Indianapolis as “the capital city
of Whitcomb Rlley-land ... In the
heart of the country made famous by a
poet who slngß of the ‘Barefoot Boy’ and
'The Ole Swimmln nole.’"
Among the special features announced
by Mr. Jarvis is the Acquaintance Din
ner in the Tilley room Mondny evening,
May 8, when a special tribute will b?
paid to the memory of Riley as “the
poet of boyhood." Tuesday afternoon the
i delegates will be taken on a tour of lu
■ dlanapolls parks apd playgrounds, end
ing with a picnic supper In one of the
parks and an open-air pugennt to be
staged by the Indianapolis Boys’ Club
at the city recreation department. The
men will give a complimentary luncheon
to the older boys Wednesday noon, and
the closing banquet with anniversary
exercises will be given Thursday evening.
Divisional and State groups will hold
separate luncheons at various places
Thursday noon.
Indianapolis men have prominent
places in the program. Frank C. Jordan,
president of the Boys’ Club Association,
will be toastmaster of the acquaintance
ship dinner and Mayor Samuel Lewis
Shauk will give an address of welcome.
Former Mayor Charles W. Jewett Is
scheduled to speak on “Life, the Game,
the Flayers and the Goal," at the com
plimentary luncheon to the older boys
Wednesday.
While the conference is on an exhibit
of boys’ werk, such as Juvenile art,
photographs, charts and diagrams will
be on display at the Claypool. Harper .T.
Ransburg of Indianapolis is chairman of
the exhibit committee. Other local com
mittee chairmen are Herbert S. King,
hotels and publicity; George L. Denny,
program; Miss Bara Lauter, music;
George O. Wildhack, auto tour, and Mrs
Clark E. Mallery, registration. Glen F.
Kline Is secretary of the local commit
tee.
Mr. Jarvis and Mr. Kline are on the
general conference committee with S. J.
Duncan-Clark, chairman, and Robert D.
Klees, both of Chicago, and C. J. Atkin
son of New York City.
The Boys’ Club Federation has head
quarters in New York and a divisional
office in Chicago.
Thurman Appoints
Valparaiso Deputy
Ralph O. Parks of Valparaiso has been
named deputy collector at that city, ac
cord tyr to announcement today by M.
Bert Thurman, collector of internal reve- I
nue. Mr. Parks will succeed M. F. De
Jarnatt. who recently was promoted to
the position of division chief at South !
Bend.
Civic Federation
Will Meet Tonight
A number of Droposala for municipal
betterments will be brought up for In
dorsement at the meeting of the Federa
tion of Indianapolis Community Cltlc
Clubs at the Chamber of Commerce to
night. The desires of Brlghtwood and
Mapteton for playgrounds will be among
the matters discussed.
The Federation is made up of repre
sentatives of most of the civic clubs. Its I
function la to back movements of city
wide Importance and to interest the j
various clubs In taking concerted action
on such matters Edward O. Snethen i
was chosen president at the organlza- ;
tion meeting Saturday.
MAJOR McACFEE RETORTS.
Major McAufee of the United States j
Army, stationed at Ft. Harrison, report- |
ed to Governor McCray today to begin j
his duties as medical officer of the Na- j
tioaul Guard.
Entered as Second Class Matter. July 25, 1914, at
Postofflce, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.
sembles very much'that of southern Cali
fornia ns it is pitured by the Chamber
of Commerce.
This Is Herman speaking, but I shall
paraphrase his statements and put them
down as if he were speaking directly to
you:
“It ail seemed queer to me when I
came over here, spite of sixty-five years
of belief in the spirit world and my
knowledge of many of its great laws.
‘ffilan does not jump suddenly from one
state of vibrations to another, but car
ries into the astral, tho mental and emo
tional vibrations which were strong in
the lust period in the tlesh.
“You were aware of my long sickness
before the passing across. When 1 woke
here I found myself sitting in a chair
and warmly covered by blankets. Now,
a spirit doesn't need blankets and warmth
but I had carried over enough of the
earth vibrations to feel this need for a
time.
“I’ll be at tho dinner without fail
Thursday .night for my hundredth anni
versary.”—Copyright, 1922, by United
Press.
INVESTIGATES
BABY’S BURIAL
IN VACANT LOT
Railway Employes Say Two
Policemen Disposed of It
Near Roundhouse.
An investigation of the statements of
more than twenty men that they saw two
policemen bury the body of a perfectly
formed baby boy in a shallow grave near
Senate avenue a block anil a haif south
of Wisconsin street was started by Chief
of Police Rikhoff today.
The men. employes of the Illinois Con
tral roundhouse said the baby was buried
by policemen Saturday They exhumed
the body yesterday arid it was later car
ried avay by the same two policemen,
they believe, to bo burled somewhere
else.
Jake Mullen and H. H. Cooney, motor
policemen, wore the officers who burled
the “mysterious package." The two po
lice officers say the baby lacked many
months of being a fully developed child
They were sent to the 1500 block in South
West street, where they learned that
some person in an automobile had tossed
a bundle out of the car and had driven
away. The bundle was found lying In
the street which is not open to traffic
at that point. Inside of the newspaper
wrappings the officers found cloth wrap
pings and inside of that the body of
what they say was an undeveloped
child. Mullen said he called the captain
and was told to dispose of “it" and he
and Cooney took the package to tiro field
near the round house and buried It.
Harvey Tucker, negro, who lives near
the place where the bundle was buried,
told William Pash, 34 Carson street,
about the policemen burying a bundle
and Pash obtained a spade and dug it up
yesterday. J. B. Kernings, 1909 South
Delaware street, another employe of the
Illinois Central railroad, called police
headquarters and the desk sergeant said
he would send police officers to take the
bundle away. It happened that the same
two policemen who had hurried the
bundle were sent to remove it.
T. A. Merick, 095 Southern avenue, was
present Saturday when the policemen
drove to a point near the employes’ ga
rage and, leaving their automobile, got
out, one carrying a package and the other
a shovel, they walked around a shed. Hu
was also present when the package was
opened yesterday.
11. T. Loughery, foreman of the Illi
nois Central roundhouse told the officers
that he did not believe a lot so near the
shops where men were employed should
be used as a cemetery. Mr, Ilemings who
called the police when the body was dug
up again called headquarters and asked
in regard to tho case. That was last
night and he was told he was talking
to the captain. Homings said tho votoo
over tho phone stated that a report had
been made on the case and that It hail
been taken care of.
Chief Riffhoff said he knew nothing of
the case and started an Investigation. Tho
chief said he was not familiar with tho
usual custom in such cases, but thought
the body should have been sent to the
city morgue.
It has been customary In most cases
In the past for bodies of babies "whether
fully developed or not to bo sent to tho
morgue.
Cement Contracts to
Be Awarded March 29
The State highway commission will
let contracts for cement to be uaed on
State highway projects, March 29. in
stead of April 5, as previously announced.
Bids were opened recently on several
thousand dollars’ worth of cement. These
bids have been held in abeyance, but <t
Is expected that they will be disposed
of and contracts entered Into possibly
for more cement when the commission
meets.
3 tttriaua JlaiUj aitttfo
Luther Burbank Tells How to Make Tour Home Garden a Success
ARE you planning a garden for this summer 1
/_\ Well, of course you will want it to turn out
a success. And success or failure, in garden
ing, depends on the way you till your soil,
plant your seeds and care for your growing plants. No
garden is a real one where weeds come up from the
ground where radish or daisy seeds have been planted.
LUTHER BURBANK, world’s greatest scientific
agriculturist, has devoted his life to the study of
plants. He knows plant life as it really is. That is why
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1922.
NAVY IN LINE
FOR TRIMMING
BY CONGRESS
Harding and Others
Watch Chopping in
Despair.
OUTLOOK GLOOMY
Naval Measure to Be
Passed, Only as
Ceremony.
WASHINGTON, March 23—The
American Army and Navy had their
backs to the wall today with the
congressional knife wielders stand
ing out front ready to proceed with
the cutting down process as soon as
the legislative machinery can ho
geared to the Job.
President Hurdlng and Administration
leaders, also the general staffs of bo*h
services, lust hope today anything can
be done with tne recalcitrant House to
prevent the Navy being trlnunedtoUo.tHK)
men.
The temper of the House, as revealed
in applying the knife to the Army, con
vinced them the Navy is going to ex
perience the same cutting pains. The
House sliced the Army to 115,090 men
In the face of repeated warnings from
the President, General Pershing, and the
War Department that 150.000 was the
minimum consistent with safety.
A canvass of the House revealed the
Naval Committee’s bill, authorizing a
Navy of 80.000, as desired by the Ad
ministration, is going to be passed, but
"it won’t mean anything." The House
intends to get In Its cutting work
through the appropriation bills by au
thorizing pay for only C 5.000 men, so
while there will be a paper Navy of
80, OiiO there will be only a pay drawing,
or actual Navy, of Bfi.Oun. Administra
tion’s hopes were shifted over to tho
Senate today, where It is believed enough
support can be mustered to annul tho
House action.
The seriousness of the Navy situation
was impressed upon president linriling
at the White House today by Assistant
Secretary of Navy Roosevelt. They con
ferred for an hour and Roosevelt laid
before the President a digest of tlie cur
tailment which will have to follow Sen
ate approval of the House plans for a
Navy of 63,000.
2.3 LOSE LIVES
AS SUB SINKS
British U-Boat Collides With
Destroyer in Gibraltar
Strait.
LONDON, March 23.—Twenty-three
11 vps were lost when tho British sub
marine 11-42 was sunk in collision with
H British destroyer in the Strait of
Gibraltar during naval maneuvers, it
was announced by the admiralty this
afternoon.
The British submarines of tho H. class
were built under tho war emergency
program, most of them In 1918 19. They
are of the single hull Holland type,
modified by the admiralty, 104>4 to 171
feet long, and 15% feet beam. They dis
place from 440 to 500 tons and are
equipped with two acts of Diesel engines,
giving a speed of thirteen knots on tho
surface. They carry four torpedo tubes.
Their ordinary complement is twenty
two men.
House Will Pass
‘Bonus’ Bill With
Oral Field Meet
WASHINGTON, March 23. The soldier
“bonus” bill will bo passed lute today
by tho House.
The special gag rule enabling Its
backers to pull It through without alter
ation was called up In the House shortly
after It convened at 11 o’clock and tho
semblance of a fight was started.
Its majority probably will be three or
four to one.
Its pathway, smoothed out by “gag”
arrangements In advance, was strewn
with nothing more serious than talk.
This talk was of the flag waving, brave
soidter and-slacker type of poor-taxpayer
and-overburdened-buslness variety, ac
cording to whether the speaker was for or
against tho “bonus.”
The total —four hours—for debate, is
so limited and the crowd of speeehmakera
so numerous for the most of the men
there will be only a couple of minutes'
talk—with leave to “extend remarks In
the Congressional Record.”
Once through, tho House tho bill goes
to the Senate where It la likely to linger
longer and undergo alterations.
Party on Way
to Bimini From
Miami Missing
Left Mainland Resort Yester
day, but Did Not Reach
Destination.
MIAMI, Fla., March 23.—A search
ing party, which Includes six Govern
ment and privately-owned airplanes, aid
ed by fast motor boats, was hurriedly
organized at noon today when word was
brought here that the flying boat “Miss
Miami,” which left yesterday for Illminl
had not arrived there. News of the dis
appearance reached hero on arrival of an
airplane.
Five prominent Memphis and Kansas
City people were aboard the “Miss Mi
ami" when she left here.
The aircraft and boats will comb the
waters between here and Bimini for trace
of the missing plane.
Instructions were broadcasted from the
wli’eless station at Jupiter to all ships
to look out for the missing plane. The
craft besides Us pilot, carried five pas
sengers, said to bo Mr. and Mrs. AugMst
Bulte and Mr. and Mra. Lawrence E.
Smith of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs.
Dixon of Memphis, Tenn.
DEMOCRATS IN
SENATE STATE
TREATY TERMS
Opponents of Four-Power Pact
to" Support It if All Na
tions Included.
WASHINGTON, March 23.—Democratic
Senators lined up against the four-power
Pacific treaty offered today to vote for
ratification of tho pact if it were ex
t< tided to nil nations having, or aimlug
to have, interests In tho Pacific and the
Far East.
The offer was tendered to Senator Un
derwood of Alabama, Democratic leader
by Senators Pat Harrison of Mississippi
and Robinson of Arkansas and was in
turn transmitted by Underwood to Sen
ator Lodge of Massachusetts, the Repub
lican leader.
Administration leaders will keep the
Senate’s nose to the treaty grindstone
unr*l all the pacts growing out of tho
arms conference have been dis iosc.l of.
Ratification of the four-power Pacific
treaty is regarded certain by a margin
of two to five rotes more thou the neces
sary two thirds.
An eleventh hour poll of the Senate on
the four-power treaty, taken by Admin
istration Senators showed it will rati
fied with the Bratidcgee reservation at
tached by a vote of at least C 9 to 27.
The poll also dtselosed the fact that
the danger of an upset, due to the de
sire of some Republican Senators to
eliminate the Brnndegee reservation is
past. Fewer than a dozen Republicans
would vote for a motion to strike out
the P.randegeo proposal.
Senator Lodge today was preparing to
follow the four-power treaty, which will
be voted on tomorrow with the naval
limitation treaty, which provides for
scrapping war vessels and fixes the 5-5-3
ratio of naval strength. Lodge will call
It up Saturday, according to present
plans.
WASHINGTON, March 23.—President
Harding was charged with “lobbying”
for the four-power treaty by Senator
Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas, dur
ing debate on the four-power treaty in
the Senate today. Robinson said he pre
sumed the President was “trading votes
in order to Insure ratification of the
treaty.”
The “lobbying,” Robinson said, was
being done at the White House, whore
the President was “calling Senators ev
ery night.”
Negro Would Will All to
Mayors Employing Him
With death’s shadow hanging over him
Alien T. Garnett, aged negro, messenger
to mayors of Indianapolis for the last
generation, wishes to make former Mayor
Charles A. Bookwalter and Joseph E.
Bell, nnd Mayor Sh.uik the chief bene
ficiaries of his will. Allen Is suffering
from heart trouble at his home, 1028 Col
ton street and his days aro said to be
numbered.
Mayor Shank and Mrs. Shank have been
calling nt Allen’s homo regularly for sev
eral days to see what could be done to
make biin comfortable. He has steadfast
ly refused to go to the city hospital,
saying that his wife and his sou went
there and both of them died. Nothing
that his “white folks" have argued has
been able to shake him from this super
titi-in.
It was thought Wednesday that the
end was near and Allen wished to make
his will. Mr. nnd Mrs. Shank nnd City
Attorney William T. Bailey went to the
neat little cottage in Colton street, where
Alien lived oiono before his illness.
Allen was messenger for Mayor Book
waiter, Mayor Shank and Mayor Bell.
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FARMERS NOW
BUSINESS MEN
IN OKLAHOMA
Cooperative System of
Marketing Products
Is Adopted.
PLAN GOOD
Cotton Growers’ Idea
Provides Basis for
Arraignment.
(Editor’s Note—Edward G. Lowry,
distinguished Investigator and re
porter for the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, Is touring the agricultural
suction went of tile Mississippi Itlver,
in belialf of the Public Ledger and
the Dally Times, and writing u series
of articles upon conditions as lie
finds them. This Is Ids third produc
tion based upon observations in Okla
homa. Others will follow at reg
ular intervals.)
Special to Indiana Dally Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
By EDWARD G. LOWRY.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., March
23.—Hero in Oklahoma ono encoun
ters anew farmers’ movement that
will be worth watching. It is the
farmer turned business man and pro
jecting himself as the salesman as
well as the producer of his crop. If
the essay succeeds, it will have a
wide and revolutionary effect, not
only on the method of distribution of
the cotton crop, but on tobacco,
wheat, cattle and other agricultural
resources. These cotton growers
here have begun a system of co
operative marketing analogous to the
successful system of the California
fruit growers.
The movement, born in Oklahoma, has
spread over the South. Texas. Arizona
and Mississippi have sold -otton co
opura’.ely this season. North Carolina
and Arkansas Lav*; completed recently
their organizing campaigns. Georgia
and South Carolina are now firgaulzing
to sell the 1922 crop. Altogether eight
States are coordinating their efforts In
the American Cotton Growers' Exchange,
the National Ovedhead Sales Agency, now
composed of Oklahoma, Texas, Miss!*
sippi and Arizona. Ail participating
States aro organized on the Oklahoma
pi 'n.
WILL HANDLE 90
FER CENT OF CROPS.
When the States now organized and
organizing are operating actually they
will handle a good percentage of the
erops of the States representing 90 per
rent of the country's production. The
Oklahoma Cotton Growers’ Association—
the parent project—was born of a reali
((ontinued on Puge Three.)
Japan Wishes Sift of
Agreements Charges
TOKIO, March 23. Fullest investiga
tion of charges that secret agreements
exist under cover of the four-power pact
is eagerly desired by Japan, It was stated
on high authority in tho foreign office
today,
appoints School head.
Governor McCray today announced the
appointment of Dr. Byron E. Btggs, as
medical superintendent of the Indiana
School for Feeble Youth at Ft. Wayne.
Dr. Biggs formerly was head of the Mis
sissippi Colony for Feeble Minded.
It was no difference to him. “Demo
cratic “white folks” were Just as good
ns Republican. Then for four years he
was out of the city hall. Mayor Charles
W. Jewettt had another choice. But
when Mr. Shank was elected Alien got
on tho Job at once. He notified tho
mayor elect that no matter whether he
wanted him or not, he was going to bo
his messenger. Mr. Shank appointed
him and one of the happiest persons at
the Inauguration ceremony on Jan. 3
was Allen.
So when Mr. Bailey asked him what he
desired put In his will lie replied:
"Charley Bookwalter, Joe Bell and
Mayor Shank. They’re the men X loves
the best.’’
Alien owns four houses and lots In
Colton street. He directed that one
should go to each of his mayors aud
that the fourth should be sold by the
mayors and a fund created out of which
flowers for his wife's grave should be
bought once a month.
Mayor nnd Mrs. Shank dissuaded him,
however, and Allen was stil] debating
today what to do with his property, it
was said.
the Times is going to present a series of gardening
stories by Burbank—stories that will help every In
dianapolis gardener to have better luck this year.
BURBANK calls attention, first of all, to the fact
that plants are living things. “They are sensitive to
intelligent care,” says he. Then he deals with the care
of the soil, the planting of the seeds, the proper water
ing of plants, and the art of crossing plants. His first
story will appear in tomorrow’s paper.
Engaged
>•' • •
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Miss Mary Angela Mond, daughter of
Sir Alfred Mond, Britain's minister of
health, has announced her engagement to
Sir Neville Pearson, son of the founder
of St. Dunstan's Hospital for Blind Sol
diers.
JAMESON SAYS
SITUATION IS
NOT REALIZED
Thinks Shank Committee
Seeks to De Fair, but
Misses Point.
Statements of Mayor Shank's commit
tee on investigation of the Indianapolis
Street Railway Company's financial con
dition, contained In a preliminary re
port made public Wednesday, indicates
the committee "does not grasp the situ
ation at all,” said Dr. Henry Jameson,
chairman of the executive committee of
the utUlty, today.
Izr. Jameson said he did not wish to
criiicise the committee; he thought It is
“trying to be fair-minded,” but it evi
dently had missed the point the com
pany Is not earning a fair return upon
the tentative valuation fixed by the pub
lic service commission and the city.
la its preliminary report the commit
tee, which was named to help the mayor
find out If the company really needs the
financial relief its officers say Its does,
said it had reached it point where it re
quires the assistance of an expert auditor.
It had found, the report said, whereas
officials of the company said the West
Washington street power bouse “Is ante
dated and all that could be realized on
It would be the salvage," the company
had listed the power house at a value of
$1,173,942.93 in the inventory of proper
ties on which It is permitted by the pub
lic service commission to make a return.
REPORT SHOWS
INDEBTEDNESS.
The report also stated the company is
carrying a “pyramided indebtedness of
stocks and bonds amounting to $13,000,-
000,” which is further described as “lug
gage" and $045,067.94 was charged “bond
Interest, etc.,” in 1921.
“The committee has gone back and re
hearsed a lot of stuff gone over by the
public service commission two years ago
and eliminated then," said Dr. Jameson.
He said the commission went thoroughly
Into the history of the company at the
time of the re-organization out of which
the Indianapolis Street Railway grew
(Continued on Page Two.)
HEH-HEH
KOKOMO, Ind., March 22.—Sheriff
Ora Butler will answer the sugges
tion of Lawrence J. Lane, superin
tendent of police at South Bend, that
lie employ a stenographer and type
writer to render his letters intelli
gent, by writing a letter of explana
tion.
A few days ago, a demented pris
oner asked the sheriff for Jail sta
tionery and the incident was forgot
ten until he received the communica
tion from South Bend, inclosing the
letter, which Mr. Butler himself is
unable to decipher. It was written
on the official's letter paper and Is
a Jumble of confusion.
The prisoner had indneed a cell
mate to address the envelope which
carried the letter to Its destination,
but Sheriff Butler is not held in
high repute at South Bend as a
scholar and a man of clear-cut ex
pression. The insane man was try
ing to have his wife arrested at South
Bond, but the fact never would be
gleaned from the letter.
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HAIL EIREANN
FACES CRISIS
UNDER THREAT
Anti - Collins Faction
Will Attempt
Overthrow.
LEADERS DEFIANT
Collins Expected to
Take Drastic
Action.
DUBLIN, March 23.—The Dali
Eireann cabinet —the executive
branch of the Irish provisional gov
ernment —was confronted with its
worst crisis today as a result of the
declaration by Roderick O’Connor an
attempt would be made by the anti-
Collins faction of the Irish republican
army next week to overthrow the
government
Richard Mulcahy, minister of defense
In the Irish provisional government, con
tends a majority of the Irish Republi
can army does not favor Sunday’s con
vention.
“Out of fourteen divisional and At*
brigade commands, only five divisional
commanders and two brigade command
ers favor holding the convention,” said
Mulcahy. “Under such circumstances,
the convention would be oniy sectional.”
The seriousness is intensified by the
apparent fact leaders of the Irish re
publican army are to hold the proposed
military convention Sunday in defiance
of the wishes of Collins and President
Griffith.
Collins and Griffith are expected to take
at once drastic steps to deal with the
threatened mutiny and rebellion.
Collins, in replying to statements by
the London Morning Poss denied the
Irish republican army crossed the Ulster
frontier and raided police barracks at
Maghera an<) Pomeroy. He pointed out
between Feb. 11 and March 6, not less
than thirty-nine persons were murdered
in Belfast—the 6eat of the Ulster Union
ist government.
“Murders are continuing daily at Bel
fast," said Collins. “Os the thirty-nine
victims I have mentioned, twenty-two
were Catholics aud seventeen were protea
tants.”
FARM HOUSES
USED AS FORTS
ON THE ULSTER FRONT, CALEDON,
COUNTY TYRONE, March 23.—Rifles
were barking defiance across the Tyrone
border early today.
Along the Monaghan frontier, Ulster
Volunteers and Irish Republican army
troops are facing each other across a nar
row no-man's land.
Farm houses are being fortified. Shal
low entrenchments have been thrown up.
Both sides are ready for the threatened
civil war.
The trouble along the Ulster border is
the climax of a series of raidß into Ulster
by Sinn Fein extremists. Ulster con
stabulary has been rushed to protect the
Tyrone frontier and Irish Republican
(Continued on Page Two.)
DELAYSSTORY
OF ARBUCKLE’S
HOTEL PARTY
State Arranges Evidence With
Hope of Having Zey
Prevon Testify.
SAX FRANCISCO, Cal., March 23.—The
third trial of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbnckle
for manslaughter, reached the first cli
max In the presentation of the State's
case today when Alice Blake, showgirl
guest at the Labor day party, following
which Virginia Rappe died, took tbe
stand to again tell the details of he
hilarious affair.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 23—The de
fense In the third trial for manslaughter
of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle fought de
terminedly today to get into the record
and before the Jury Virginia Rappe's
version of the cause of her death. They
sought by every possible means of cross
examination to bave Dr. Albert Breads
lee, hotel physician, who attended Miss
Rappe the evening of the fatal party at
the St. Francis, relate a conversation
with Bambinn Maude Delmont In the
presence of the Rappe girl.
The State fought just as hard to keep
this out, and under the rules of evidence,
was successful, although the defense suc
ceeded in conveying to the jury that the
story told at that time to the physllcan
by Mrs. Delmont was favorable to Ar
buckle. The State brought out that, in
response to inquiries from the physician.
Miss Rappe had merely nodded her he. and
and it was held that, any statement made
by Mrs. Delmont vtas In the nature of
“hearsay” and therefore inadmissible.
So far the testimony has been regard
ing Miss Rappe’s death. Highly tech
nical medical testimony and the story
of the autopsy surgeons have been in
troduced. paving the way for the telling
of the story of the fatal party.
The State probably will delay the tell
ing of the story of the party, in hopes
that 7>ey Trevon, one of the prosecution’s
two star witnesses, will recover from her
illness and return here from New Or
leans. If she does not arrive her testi
mony will be read and Alice Blake,
showgirl party guest, will testify.
The State plans again to read the en
tire testimony of Arbuckle at the first
trial.
Bandits Get SIOO,OOO
at Cincinnati Bank
CINCINNATI, March 23.—Three
bandits staged a daring daylight holdup
here today, obtaining loot estimated at
SIOO,OOO from the Liberal Loan Bank.
Two employes were locked la a closet
while the burglars robbed the •safe.®
NO. 270.