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West Washington Street Merchants’ Spring Opening Section
THE WEATHER
Cloudy, colder tonight, freezing. Saturday,
fair, slowly rising temperature.
VOI* XXXIV.
MERCHANTS OF
WEST SIDE WIN
BY TEAM WORK
Far-Sighted Business Men
Organize and Achieve
Goal.
PROVE VITAL FACTOR
SPRING OPENING
Wee* T*Mnirtn street mer
chants, i. Illinois street west,
will have their annual spring
opening day Saturday. The beau
tiful new styles and modes of
spring wKI be reflected In all lines
throughout the West Washington
street district.
That body of energetic, far-sighted
men with the best Interests of a com
munity at heart can. by their combined
e' -Is, make themselves a power for good
city and achieve things gen
erally believed to be impossible of ac
complishment has been proved conclu
sively by the splendid success of the
West Side Merchants Association.
Two decades ago the district Immedi
ately west of Illinois and Washington
street was looked upon as little bet
ter than a commercial desert. Conser
vative business men could prove beyond
the shadow of a doubt and with a per
fection of logic which seemed flawless
that Washington street, west of Illinois
street, had about as much of a business
future as Goldsmith's deserted village.or
a “busted boom” town of the gold rush
days in the far west.
BUSINESS MES
LOOK TO FUTURE.
However, there were a number of busi- t
ness men in this locality, who blindly
and stubbornly refused to admit that j
this part of Indianapolis was a candid- ,
date for the morgue and the graveyard, j
so they got together and formed, about ;
fifteen years ago, the West Side Mer- i
chants Association.
And what has been the result? The j
“blindness” of fifteen years ago now is i
admitted on all sides to have been the
acme of bnsiness acumen. The '‘stub
bornness'’ of that day has turned out '
to be a most admirable brand of coura- j
geous determination. And today the as- i
sociatlon, with a membership of ap- i
proximately fifty, representing the busi- ;
ness, financial and industrial life of the
community lying west of Illinois street,
is recognized as an active power in j
civic and business affairs and its record ;
of accomplishments is a long and im- !
pressive one.
VITAL FACTOR IN'
BUSINESS LIFE.
The West Side Merchants Association
has made itself a vital factor in the
life of this part of Indianapolis, and
has left nothing undone to advance the
interests of this section of the city.
Largely through its efforts, a multitude
of public improvements have been made
in this section of the city and its inter
ests kept on a par with those of every
other part of Indianapolis.
No matter what the question may be,
street improvements, sewer construction,
street car rerouting, or flood prevention,
the association can be depended upon
without fail to study the question care
fully and then to see that the interests
of the west side are safeguarded.
TEAM WORK
IN' EVIDENCE.
It is doubtful In any other section of
Indianapolis marchants have combined
so effectively in the interest of their com
cunity. This has been, members of the
association say, due to the fact that with
out exception personal ambitions, selfish
interests and individual aims have been
kept in the background by members of
the organization and everything has been
secondary to the welfare of the west side.
Team work has been the outstanding
characteristic of the association.
Officers of the association for 1922 are:
J. Edward Morris, president of the
Washington Bank BDd Trust Company,
president; J. A. Ehrensperger, barber,
vice president; H. A. Kahn, president of
the National Furniture Company, treas
urer; Meyer Efroymson of the firm of
Efroymson A Wolf, secretary; Bert
Goldberg, Edward Green, G. G. Doran.
Sol Soloman, S. H. Prunk. Mlctael Mc-
Shafce and George Williams, directors.
10 Are Indicted in
Grand Jury Report
Ten indictments were returned today
by the Marion County grand jury in its
eleventh partial report to the Judge of
Marion Criminal Court. Eight persons
were discharged. The indictments were
relceived by Frank Symmes, judge pro
tern. Two of them were not made public
because arrests have not i>een made.
Those indicted are: .Tames Lovell and
Louis Huff, Noah Bryan, and John
Gabriel, assault and battery with intent
to murder; William Coleman. Roy Mit
chell, grand jarceny; John Price,
burglary and petit larceny; Vernie Mc-
Coy, robbery and grand larceny, and
Arthur Tucker, forgery.
Service Commission
Amends Rate Order
A supplementary order was issued by
the Indiana public service commission to
day to the order issued recently deereas
ing light and power rates in this city.
The amendment is merely merely an ex
planation of technicalities, that patrons
may be classified more readily and sched
ules applied.
Revenue Cutter Is
Safe, Says Report
NEW YORK, March 31.—The revenue
cutter Surveyor, which was reported
missing in Long Island Sound, is safe at
Northport, N. Y., according to a mes
sage received at the barge office here to
day.
Operators Are
to Blame—Davis
WASHINGTON. March 31 —Biame
for the nation-wide walkout of coal
miners, now under way, rests on the
operators, Secretary of Labor Davis
declared, in a statement today.
“The operators,” Davis said, “have
failed to fulfill their contract obliga
tions to meet the miners, in a nation
al wage conference before April 1.”
Published at Indianapolis, Entered as Second Class Matter. July IS, 1114, at
Ind- Daily Except Sunday. Postoffloo, Indianapolis. Ind.. under act March S. I*7l.
.SECRETARY HUGHES BECOMES RADIO FAN
M^rm
'im-. ..iL ■ \ .v .. ...
Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes has become a radio fan. This picture taken in the office of the Secre
tary shows the head of the Cabinet “getting an earful” over the radiophone.
FLIERS TO KEEP
ON THEIR WAY
Portuguese Aviators to Fly to
Cape Verde Islands From
Canaries.
LISBON, March 31.—Word from Las
Palmas in the Canary Isles early today
said the Portuguese aviators, who com
pleted the first l.OOrt miles of their trans-
Atlantic flight to Brazil were preparing
for the second leg of their long Journey.
They will fly to the Cape Verde Islands
fro mthe Canaries. Captain Coutinho,
who piloted the Fairey hydro aeroplane
which successfully reached Las Palmas,
has been quoted as saying the odds are
long against their completing the trip.
Captain Sacadura, the other aviator, is
more optimistic.
HALF MILLION
COAL MINERS
QUIT TONIGHT
(Continued From Page One.)
; cordln gto Frank Farrington, union head.
| Only a few miners to keep up tile
properties and the pumps will be loft at
the pits.
No attempt will be made to operate
the mines during the strike, F. C. Hon
nold, secretary of the Illinois Operators’
Association, announced. This secures, it
was said, peace in the coai fields during
the strike.
Illinois miners will quit with the
knowledge that their chief, Farrington,
is not altogether in accord with the sus
pension. He has been quoted as saying
he blamed Jahn L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers of America for
the walkout.
Farrington, an insurgent, hat been at
odds with Lewis for over a year.
BRINGING MULES
FROM CLOSED MINES
WILKES-BARRE. Fa.. March 31.
Work in the anthracite mines contliLuevl
until about noon. The afternoon was to
be devoted to bringing the mules to the
surface and placing the mines In order
for indefinite suspension.
NON UNION MINES
TO DISREGARD CALL
CHARLESTON. W. Va., March 3L
State police were en route to posts
throughout the mine fields of West Vir
ginia today in preparation for any dis
turbance in connection with the nation
wide strike of union workers called for
midnight.
The non-union workers of West Vir
ginia—a vital factor in the situation—will
disregard the call to join In the strike,
according to reports gathered here to
day.
The “open shop’’ mines will fight the
strike with Increased production.
Union miners in Mingo County and
Pike County, Kentucky, will walk out
at midnight, according to Daviu Fowler,
international organizer.
Kanawha operators will post the new
wage scale tomorrow offering union min
ers work at 30 per cent wage reduc
tions, and on an “open shop" basis. If
the offer Is accepted. State officials feared
new warfare In West Virfginia’s hills.
RAILROADERS
FORCED TO QUIT
TERRE HAUTE. Ind., March 31.—Five
hundred railroad workers in this section
will be affected immediately by the
miners' strike. M. J. Griffin, assistant
superintendent of the Chicago, Milwau
kee & St. Paul Railroad, today stated
200 men, including shopmen, trainmen,
yardmen and telegraphers, would be laid
off Monday. Crews of four miners’ trains
will be laid off by this road, which is
shipping coal from its mines at the rate
of 900 cars a day to Indianapolis and
Chicago.
The Evansville A Indianapolis branch
of the Big Four Railroad will drop 100
men at Terre Haute. Washington and
Evansville, it was learned today, and
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois will drop
fifty from Its rolls.
The Big Four ami Pennsylvania lines,
it was said, will make cuts In their per
sonnel after the first week of the strike.
KENTUCKY MINERS
REMAIN AT WORK
EVANSVILLE, Ind., "March 31.—The
order calling for a mine strike at mid
night tonight, means nothing to South
western Kentucky miners. More than
eight thousand miners will remain at
their work, pendlug a basis wage agree- j
ment in the competitive field. This de- 1
cision was reached, after all day's con
ference with miners represented by Lon- j
nie Jackson of the scale committee of the 1
3 niiiaua Jlailu cEitiira
KEEP HANDS OFF
WASHINGTON, March 31.—Presi
dent Harding and his Cabinet dis
cussed for two hours today the Im
pending tieup In the Nation's coal
fields, now but a few hours away.
At the conclusion of the meeting
members said there had been no
change in the Government’s policy to
“sit tight, keep hands off and await
developments.”
Last minute effort by Congress to
halt the strike failed.
Two resolutions to be presented di
rectly from the House Labor Commit
tee to the President, asking him to
call a conference in Washington of
miners and operators immediately for
the purpose of agreeing on a sus
pension of the strike for thirty days,
were shelved. The resolutions were
offered by Representatives London,
Socialist, New York and Upshaw,
Democrat, of Georgia.
In the Senate a resolution of Sen
ator Calder of New York, asking the
Federal trade commission to make a
report on the coal situation was
blocked by the objections of Senator
Sutherland of West Virginia to im
mediate consideration.
district and thirty-five operators at Cen
tral City, Ky„ Thursday .
While the miners will continue to work
until a definite scale has been agreed
upon, they say they have made no sep
arate agreement with the operators.
100 PER CENT IN
OHIO WILL QUIT
COLUMBUS, March 31—Ohio coal
fields were quiet today on the eve of the
nation-wide coal strike.
Early reports were that everything was
in readiness for the tie-up and the strike
would be 100 per cent effective in Ohio.
Fifteen hundred miners In eastern
Ohio quit work thjs morning. By 4
o'clock this afternoon, 17.800 men in 194
mines in Harrison, Jefferson and Bel
mont Counties, comprising the field, will
be idle.
OPEN SHOP PLAN
SEEN IN SIX STATES
KANSAS CITY, March 31.—Coal oper
ators of the trans-Mississippi district,
comprising six States, will form plana
to reopen their mines Immediately the
men therein stop work thla midnight.,
Harry N. Taylor, chairman of the trana-
Mississippl Association, announced today.
Taylor said a meeting of operators
would be held here Monday to formulate
such plans. Union officials saw in the
announcement an attempt to inaugurate
the open shop.
MINERS TO RISK
KANSAS COURT
Regardless of the order of the Kansas
Court of industrial Relations extending
for thirty days the present wage scale
in the Kansas coal fields, miners of that
district will drop their tools at midnight
and strike with the rest of the Nation’s
miners, John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, declared today.
The union chief said as the order is un
derstood, it applies only to the operators,
and even if it included the miners, the
union does not recognize the right of
the court to compel men to work.
Former Clerk’s Aide
Is Granted Decree
Mrs. Mary Gunter Bell, former em
ploye in the count;,• clerk's office under
Richard V. Sipe, was granted a divorce
from her husband, John P. Bell, In
Superior Court, room 4, by Judge Ar
thur J. Robinson today. The complaint
filed by Mrs. Bell alleged “cruel and in
human treatment.” The defendant did
not appear in court. Mrs. Bell also was
granted her maiden name of Mary Gunter.
She has been divorced before, she testi
fied.
Czarist Financial
System Is Resumed
MOSCOW, March 31.—The soviet gov
ernment today issued a decree resuming
letters of exchange basest on the old
czarist financial code. They were
abolished when the soviet came into
power.
BUY COAL NOW
Fred B. Robinson, secretary of the
State purchasing committee, has is
sued orders to all State institutions
to lay in a ninety-day cflal supply
if possible in view of thf nation
wide strike of miners to ttegin to
night.
Reports were being received on the
amount of coal held by the; various
State institutions and no sei4ous sit
uation is expected, Mr. Robindbn says.
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1922.
I MORSE REFUSES
| TO ENTER PLEA
Indicted Ship Builder and
Others Declare Charges
Vague.
| WASHINGTON, March 3L—C. W.
. Morse, wealthy shipbuilder; his three
j sons and eight associates, recently in
i' dieted on charges of a conspiracy to de-
I fraud the shipping board, refused to
i plead either guilty or not guilty when
arraigned In the Supreme Court of the
District sere today.
Because of the alleged vagueness of
the charges, the defendants said, they
could make no pleadings.
To Replace Hoffman
With A tty. McGuire
The four mem!**rs of the hoard of
park commissioners Intend to discharge
J. Clyde, '.Homey for the board, and
employ Newton J. McGuire In this
capacity, at a special meeting this after
noon Mayor Shank said today. Mr. Mc-
Guire is an assistant city attorney, as
signed to the board of public health. Ad
ditional compensation goes with the park
board.
Frequent threats to have Hoffman dis
charged have been made by the mayor.
Hoffman was the attorney lot the board
in the Jewett Administration. It was
planned to oust him early in January,
but the board refused to do it. The
park commissioners now have agreed to
j let the attorney go, the mayor said, j
j The mayor critlsized Hoffman several
j weeks ago because he was not at the
■ cit ycontroller's office when bids for a
j park bond issue were opened, lie said
! he wanted an attorney with an office in
j the city hall who could be found there,
! Huffman ha- his headquarters In his own
law office.
Michigan Storm
Damage $2,000,000
i CHICAOC March 31. —Damage amount
j Ing to m.., than $1’,000,(100 was caused by
j the alee, ind snow storm, which swept
I Michigan the last two days, it was esti
mated by -Ire and railroad officials to
day. Wires were down to all northern
| points.
THIS UMPIRE GOT UEYENGE.
! SHEFFIELD, England. March 31.
| Thomas Wood was arrested for striking
j the umpire In a football game and had
to pay a fine of $25.
MEXICAN'S QUIT U. S.
| MEXICO CITY, March 31.—Since the j
| first of the year the government has re ,
i patrinted several hundred Mexicans from '
the United States. Most of them are I
! from Toledo and Detroit.
YANSCI, WHY HIDE UNDER RUG?
Jib,
This picture is of Yansci Dolly .one of the famous Dolly sisters, known
throughout the country for their terpslchorean abilities.
SHIELDS SEES
SCHEMING TO
TAINT JUSTICE
Charges Anti-Saloon League
Back of Plan to Increase
Federal Judges.
HOT ATTACK ON BILL
WASHINGTON, March 31.—The Anti-
Saloon League proposes to "invade the
sacred precincts of the courts and pollute
the administration of Justice” by means
of the bill increasing the number of Fed
eral judges and providing for the tran*
fer of Judges to districts where dockets
are clogged. Senator Shields (Hern.)
Tennessee, charged in the Senate today.
“There are now, before this bid be
comes a law,” said Shields, “seififfi in
terests that are contriving and conspir
ing to take advantage of it to control
the courts and judicial decisions by se
curing the designation of Judges in sym
pathy with them and who have fixed con
victions upon the law and the facts, to
try their cases. I am reliably informed
that the Anti-Saloon League, through its
paid lobbyists, Is attempting to influence
Senators to vote for the provisions of
this bill, giving the Chief Jus ice (he
power to assign judges in his dls?re 1 ion
to courts, and, of course, to try certain
cases pending in those courts.
CHARGES EFFORT
TO INV ADE COURTS.
“Tills Interest has not hesitated to ad
vocate laws violating the constitutional
guaranties of the rights of personal lib
ety and private property and now they
propose to invade the sacred precincts of
the courts and pollute the adminlntra
' tion of Justice by placing judges upon
the bench who have nt least to some ex
tent pro Judged the cases they are to try."
The bill which Shields attack—l would
allow the chief justice of the Supreme
Court to shift and assign Judges to dis
tricts not their own, where congested
dockets or other conditions seemed to
make addltionad Judges or different
Judge* desirable. This, Shields de
clared Is a step In the direction of “ju
dicial autocracy” and menaces the Inde
pendence of the courts.
Sbeilds said Ills statement concerning
the Anti Saloon League ‘‘only illustrates
the horrible consequences of vesting this
new and great power over the trial
courts In the chief Justice of the United
States. Its blighting effects will fall
upon both the high office of chief Justice
and the district courts. The action of
the Anti-Saloon League in favoring this
bill simply forecasts that it will try to
influence the chief Justice to assign
Judges selected b ythem solely for the
purpose of trying prohibition cases ana
without regard to the Interest of other
litigants.
I E VltS ALL SORTS
OF APPLICATIONS.
“If this bill becomes a law, the chief
Justice may be assailed with applica
tions from all sorts of Interests and all
sorts of Influence In the designation of
Judges selected by them solely for the
whisky Interests may contend before him.
The coal operators may ask for Judges in
West Vlrgtuia to try the striking miners
for treason and the miners will want a
judge who will discharge them. Capital
may ask for Judges favoring Its views
and the various Interests of the masses
may also clamor for representation upon
the bench.”
Shields said ho did not mean that
Chief Justice Taft or any successor in
that high office would knowingly yield
to such Influences, "but he should not
be placed In such a position where even
a shadow of suspicion could fall on him.
Rail Labor Unions
Triumph in Ruling
WASHINGTON. March 51 The Inter
state Commerce Commission, in a deci
sion today publicly condemned the
Pennsylvania and New York Central
Railroads for paying excessive costß
for repairs of its equipment at shops
other than their own.
The decision was a victory for the
railroad labor unlors. which have been
charging certain railroads have been
closing their own shops and giving re
pair work to other plants at increased
coats, to break down the unions.
Jap-China Shantung
Rail Pact Adopted
TOKIO, March 31. Negotiations be
tween Japan and China for the return of
the Shantung railroad have successfully
been concluded, according to reports re- i
celved here today from Peking.
Subac intlnn R.t.. (By Farrier, Week. Indianapolis, 10c: Elsewhere, 12a.
suosc. iptlon Rates J By Ma „ 50<J Per Month . , s „ o ' Per Te>ar
* Figgers * Get His
Goat His Plea
for Aid Is Heard
George W. Dorrel of the Hope tele
phone exchange, knows how to run a
telephone exchange, but is not good at
“figgers,” if a report sent to the public
service commission is to be believed.
According to Harry Boggs, chief ex
aminer for the commission, the annual
reports required of telephone companies
are not difficult if a good system of
bookkeeping is used. In sending in
his report Dorrel attached this sorow
| ful postscript:
“My God! My God! Why perseeufc
! est thou me?
“Oh Lord! Deliver us from any
| more reports like this. Can’t some
one with brains get a plain, simple
report blank by next year? Oh Lord?
“Here she is. I am ashamed of
lier— but I can do no better. Please
tile her in the archives of time. Do
not return it, for I'll never unfold it.”
The report is said to be unacceptable.
It will be returned. Help will be given
Dorrel in making a proper report.
LINER BURNING
150 MILES OUT
IN THE PACIFIC
lowan Bound for Panama
Canal From Los
Angeles.
PANAMA CITY. Panama, March 3L
Fire has broken out on the Ameriean-
Hawaiian liner lowan, according to a
wireless message received from her today.
She is bound for the Panama Canal from
Los Angeles and tugs have been sent to
her assistance.
The vessel was about 150 miles at sea
when the radiogram was received.
LOCKS MAY BE
USED AGAINST
BOOTLEGGERS
‘Padlock’ Provision of Vol
stead Law to He Invoked
by Haynes.
WASHINGTON. March 31—Use of the
“padlock” weapon, to stamp out boot
legging and Illicit distilling is to be re
sorted to upon a large scale over the
United States.
| Prohibition Commissioner Haynes said
that the “padlock" provision of the Vol
i stead law. authorizing the seizure and
closing of places occupied by violators
of the liquor laws may prove in the end
to be the greatest single method of dry
ing up tlie country.
Mr Haynes, Impressed with the salu
tary effect In a number of places follow
ing the closing of hotels and other
places where very serious violations were
shown, now believes that the handicaps
to prohibition enforcement must be over
come by the rigid application of this
provision.
The great degree of wetness prevailing ]
over the country, in spile of alt that the
Federal authorities have done, has
Drought Commission Haynes to the con- i
elusion that still more vigorous tactics j
must be employed.
Prohibition officials up to this time
have been reluctant to employ the “pad- j
lock” provision to stop liquor making '
and selling. Even now, they declared,
they would like to find some other i
equally effective way.
The records of tho prohibition en
forcement organizations in the different
Mates show very conclusively that small
fines and light sentences generally im !
posed amount merely to a license to
Illicit liquor makers and venders to do
business.
There are now pending in Federal
courts about 10.000 liquor law cases.
Officials cited that fact todav to em
phasize the importance of their plan to
use the “padlock.” It was declared that
in the cases pending there are thousands
of second and third offenders. Ability
to pay tho fees of bondsmen and at
torneys renders them practically immune
from penitentiary service.
According to the programme agreed upl I
on, officials will ask for the closing of
buildings ocupled by those known to be
engaged In the making and selling of In
toxicating liquors ns a business. Officials
said they can stop a great deal of the
Illicit bootlegging now going on by that
means, especially In the larger cities.
Publicity to Stop
Fake Stock Selling
WASHINGTON, March 31.—Publicity
is the weapon the Government will use to
disarm the fake stock swindler.
The Treasury Department in a general
appeal to editors of newspapers and other
publications now seeks to expose the
worthless stock salesmen by editorial and
other warnings to the public.
Foreign language publications will be
relied upon to prevent many forms of
high-handed robbery of the pocketbooks
of foreign-born residents of the United
States.
A large percentage of the mere than
$1,000,000,000 sunk annually by misguided
Investors in alleged sto :ks that are
wholly valueless, represeats the hard
earned coin of the foreigr ers.
Religious Relies
Guarded by Troops
MOSCOW, March 31.—Rioting was re
ported from various places today as a
result of the Government's orders that
church treasures be contributed for
famine relief. Troops wore called out to
prevent the seizure of religious relics.
British Miners to
Aid Strike in U. S.
LONDON, March 31.—The British
miners' union is going to give Its
support to the American miners in
their national strike which begins at
midnight tonight. The British coal
miners, however, will not take any
action to stop the shipment of coal
to the United States unless the United
Mine Workers of America request it.
This information came from Vernon
Hartshorn, M. P., head of the South
Wales Miners' Federation and a mem
ber of the executive committee of the
Miners’ Federation of Great Britain.
C. W. WATKINS,
JURIST, IS DEAD
AT HUNTINGTON
Youngest Civil War Veteran
Prominent in Practice of
Law in Indiana.
I
. '
I *
C. \\. WATKINS.
HUNTINGTON, Ind., March 31.—C. W.
Watkins, formerly Judge of the Hunting
ton Circuit Court and reported to be the
youngest soldier in the Civil War, died
at his home here today. He was well
known throughout northern Indiana and
was a veteran of the Civil War. Mr.
Watkins had been seriously 111 for sev
eral months.
Judge Watkins was born in May, 1849,
in Logan County, Ohio. He served as a
private during the latter part of the
Civil War, taking part in the battle of
Overman's Mills and the campaign in
Tennessee which followed that battle.
CIRCUIT JUDGE
FROM 1802 TO 1898.
He had practiced law in Huntington,
since 1875, with the exception of the time
he was judge of the Huntington Cir
cuit Court, from 1802 to 1898.
Ho was elected prosecutor of Hunting
ton and Grant counties during his early
career and Justice Willis Van Devanter.
now of the United Mates Supreme Court,
served as his deputy at Marlon during
that time.
As Judge of the Huntington Circuit
Court Mr. Watkins made an enviable
reputation In that few reversals by the
higher courts on appeals ever occurred.
During his last year as Judge he had
but eleven Jury trials. He was regarded
so fair that juries were waived and he
tried both the law and the facts.
He was in the active practice of law
at the time he was stricken with his
fatal illness.
During the late war he was the sec
retary of the draft board of Huntington
County.
SOLDIER AT
AGE OF FOURTEEN.
The claim frequently has been made
that Mr. Watkins was the youngest
soldier of the Civil War. He enlisted
at the age of 14. There were younger
drummer boys, but he did the full
duties of a soldier. He was a member
of tho G. A. R. and Knights of Pythias,
and eontlnned to represent Important
clients until his dpnth.
He frequently held court as special
judge, and had a wide acquaintance In
northern Indiana. He was for a long
time president of the local bar. also a
member of the State Bar Association
and the American Bar Association. His
law practice was always very active. In
earlier years he was quite noted as a
criminal lawyer.
TRAIN WILD SIXTY MILES.
BUDAPEST, March 31.—The Mid-Con
tinental Express for Constantinople ran
Told for sixty miles when a piston rod
Nroke and pierced the boiler, which ex
ploded, blowing out the firebox. The en
gineer nnd firebox. The engineer and
fireman were killed.
Marriage Licenses
Harry D. Perry, Avoca, Ind 21
Alice E. Van Tiiyle. 2419 Prospect st. 16
Franklin A. Wegerly. 210 N. Liberty. , r >9
Govena J. Wegerly. 2729 Jackson st.. 60
William Baumann, 623 W. Washington 35
Alma Maddox. 11 North Blackford st.l9
Glenn S. Lough, Danville, Ind 21
I’auline S. Merritt. 246 N. Mount 5t.,,19
Births
William and Ida Smallman, 1034 North
Tremont, boy.
Roy and Adeline Bryan, 1230 St. Peter,
boy.
Thomas and Mary Lonz, 1997 Hillside,
boy.
Harry and Lillian Hansel, SIS Arbor,
girl.
Tony and Muriel Foster, 1453 Blaine,
boy.
Charles and Mary Goodrich, city hos
pital, boy.
Leslie and Anna Woolford, city hos
pital. boy.
John and Cora Andrews, city hospital,
boy.
Morton and Effie Lock, city hospital,
boy.
James and Mary Horseley, 359 West
Eleventh, girl.
John and Mary Overton, 1022 Fayette,
boy.
John and Alice Head, 2041 Bloyd. girl.
Frank and Mildred Jardiana, 818 Greer,
girl.
Homer nnd Annie Scalf, 658 Coffey,
boy.
Jerry and Nellie Doody, 1533 Saulcy,
boy.
Dillard and Anna Bates, 312 West
Fort .'-First, girl.
Terty and Mamie Rutledge, S3l West
Elev -nth, girl.
Evan and Anna Piers, 3740 East
Twenty-Eighth, hoy.
James and Edna Hinman, 2943 Olney,
girl.
Thomas and Edna Madden, Deacon
ness Hospital, boy.
Peter nnd Mary Farley, 236 South Ar
senal. girl.
Leon and Rosella Dill, 1615 Wilcox,
boy.
Sanford nnd May Pittman, 312 West
Twenty-Ninth, girl.
Deaths
Effielean Jones, 14. 644 West Thirteenth,
pulmonary tuberculosis.
Harvey J. Hutchins, 68, city hospital,
lobar pneumonia.
William Schrader, 18, Methodist Hos
pital. acute myocarditis.
Julia Ilg, 26, 1038 South Senate, tuber
cular meningitis.
Edmund Littlewood, 94, 530 East New
York, chronic myocarditis.
Mike P. Cintoi, 47, Deaconess Hospital,
cerebral hemorrhage.
{Caroline Philehaum Myjcs, 53, Metho-
SPRING OPENING
SECTION
FORD’S OFFER
FOR PLANT TO
BE SET ASIDE
Congress Asked to Grant $7,
500,000 for Muscle
Shoals.
WORK IN THIRTY 7 DAYS
WASHINGTON, March 31.—Congress
will be asked to appropriate $7,500,000,
within the next thirty days, for the im
mediate resumption of work on the Muscle
Shoals nitrate plant. It was announced to
day by Senator Norris, Republican of
Nebraska, chairman of the Senate Agri
cultural Committee. This recommenda
tion, Senator Norris said, will be sub
mitted to Congress as a result of the
committee's Inspection tour of the Muscle
Shoals site.
Norris declared that no action will be
taken at this session of Congress on the
offer of Henry Ford to lease the project.
HENCEORMETO
RESIGN FROM
COUNTY BOARD
Hence Orme. now serving In the Marlon
County council, will resign at the next
meeting, he said today. Mr. Orme was
elected to the council in 1920 to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Albert Hoffman, who then was serving
as the representative from the Third dis
trict, composed of Wayne and Decatur
Townships.
Mr. Orme is a resident of Perry Town
ship and is therefore legally ineligible to
represent the Third district, in which he
does not live. According to the statutes
of Indiana, no councilman other than the
councilman-at-large, who is not a resi
dent freeholder of the district from which
he is elected or appointed, shall hold
office.
When questioned, Mr. Orme said: “I
am sure the members of the council acted
in good faith in electing me. I shall re
sign at the next meeting of the council.’’
ENTIRE TOWN"
FACES LOSING
FLOOD FIGHT
(Continued From Page One.)
flood stage. White River on the south
and Arnbra on the west in Illinois are ris
ing rapidly.
Late yesterday the dam at Lakewood
Turk, a local resort, broke, releasing
waters covering about fifteen acres. Farm
ers in lowlands are beginning to show
great concern.
INTERURBAN
SERVICE HALTED
PERU, Ind., March 31. —Internrban
traffic between here and Ft. Wayne was
suspended today when flood waters of
the Wabash River and tributaries inun
dated Union traction lines.
PATROL BOAT OX
GUARD AT FT. WAYNE
FT. WAYNE, Ind., March 31.—A po
lice patrol boat was on the flood waters
of Manmee, St. Joseph’s and St., Mary's
rivers here today to protect families liv
ing in the lowlands.
Residents of Lakeside, Spyrun and Ne
braska were fearful as the rivers con
tinued to rise. In Bloomingdale and in
Lakeside cellars are rapidly filling with
water and part of Baltics avenue is un
der water.
HUNTINGTON
UNDER WATER
HUNTINGTON, Ind., March 3L—High
ways, internrban lines and basements of
homes were flooded today by overflow
waters of the Wabash River and tribu
taries. Furnace fires In many homes
were extinguished.
RIVER GOESOVER
FLOOD STAGE
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 8L—
Lowlands of western Indiana are Inun
dated by flood waters of rivers and
creeks. The Wabash River here went
over the flood stage of sixteen feet at 10
o'clock this morning.
Weather Chief Moery sent out flood
warnings.
Automobile roads in western Indiana
nnd eastern Illinois are Impassable and
in many cases flood water is a foot deep
on highways.
WASHINGTON (IND.)
RESIDENTS MOVE
WASHINGTON, Ind., March 31.—Resi
dents of the river bottom lands along
the East and West Forks of White River
were fleeing from their homes today in
anticipation of a flood that threatened to
equnl that of 1913.
The East Fork rose six feet In twenty
four hours, a rise of four Inches an hour
being recorded this morning. The West
Fork was rising two inches an hour here
and three Inches an hour at Worthing
ton.
Both East and West Forks are flood
ing thousands of acres. Highways to
the north, west and south are blocked*
ILLINOIS FLOOD
VICTIMS ASK TENTS
SPRINGFIELD, 111., March 31.—An ap
peal for fifty tents to house citizens who
are in danger of being driven from their
homes by waters of the Illinois River
was received at the Governor’s office to
day from Valley City. -
Adjutant General Black was given
charge of the situation and an inspection
of tents to be sent to the danger point
was ordered immediately.
HIGH FLOOD STAGE AT
LAFAYETTE PREDICTED
LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 31.—The
highest flood stage on the Wabash River
here in several years was forecast today
while the stream was rising at the rate of
two and one-half inches an hour and rain
falling steadily. The stage at noon was
eighteen feet above normal. Traction
service to Battle Ground was suspended
when tracks near the Soldiers' Home were
flooded.
MU NCI E, Ind.. March 31.—Lowlands
along White River are flooded and several
families have left their homes, water hav
ing already filled the cellars. Tracks of
the steam and traction lines are under
NO. 277.