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THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy and colder tonight and
Wednesday.
VOL. XXXIV.
NEW TARIFF BUILDS HIGH DUTY WALL
LOW REGIONS
UNDER WATER;
RISE GOES ON
•
Streams Reach High
est Stage for This
Year.
DANGER SLIGHT
Four-Foot Rise Neces
sary in Flood
Menace.
Flood * caused damage amounting
to miilions of dollars throughout
Western States today.
Risers, swollen by days of rain,
overflowed their banks, flooding low
lands and drenching cities.
Storms continued, rain sw?pt be
fore high winds well in the southern
sections and sleet and snow In the
north.
White River and Fall Creek were
higher today than at any time this
year and lowlands in some places
were flooded. No serious flood dam
age was reported, however, and the
situation is not expected to become
serious unless there Is considerably
more rain.
The river was reported to have
reached the fourteen-foot mark and
to be rising slowly. It was said by
pe sons who observe the stages of
river that a rise of four more
Bet would be necessary before a
mangerous stage is reached.
In the lowlands near Mars Hill and
along Big Eagle Creek, which usually
are first to be flooded, deep water was
reported. This territory has been flooded
frequently recently. Water also was
higher than usual in the neighborhood
of Northwestern avenue and Thirty-
Eighth street.
MAT HAVE
HOOD HERE.
J. H. Armlngton, Government meterolo
*:st, said reports from Anderson show
White River to be at 11.5 feet, which is
within six Inches of flood stage and at
13 feet, within one foot of flood stage at
N'oblesville. The Government gauge here
Jggistered 14.3 feet. From the amount
water that has fallen Mr. Armlngton
Btimated the river will go one or two
Het above flood stage at Anderson and
Hpblesvi’le, and will rise to Id or 17
Het here. Such rises will flood more
than have been submerged in
B.y of the recent rises, but will not be
■.iusually dangerous, he said.
■ The temperature fell to 54 degrees at 8
■'clock this morning, a drop of ten de
crees from the same hour Monday morn
ing- The thermometer registered 77 yes
terday afternoon, making the fall from
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BEVERIDGE MEN
ASK SENATOR
JOHNSONS AID
Huge Lake County Vote Re
ceived by Californian Seen
as Good Omen.
Efforts of the ISeveridge-for-Senator
campaign in the northern part of In
diana have been concentrated toward
getting Senator Hiram Johnson to come
to Indiana to speak in behalf of Bev
eridge. A letter has gone forward to
Johnson urging him to appear in Lake
County either April 21 or 22 In the
interest of the Beveridge candidacy.
The letter points out that, while Har
ding got but 450 votes in the 1920 pri
mary campaign in Lake County, Wood
approximately 2.000 and London about
the same number. Johnson received more
than 12.000.
"Beveridge will carry Lake County by
as big a majority as you did," the letter
says." if you will come out here. You
know what the machine and money did
•tore in 1920. We are up against the same
proposition."
"Beveridge said he would support our
dear President, but you would say the
same thing in Indiana, perhaps. This
does not mean that he is going to swal
low the President's policies hook, line
and sinker." .
Mr. Beveridge Is scheduled to go to
Lake County April 21 and 22 for ad
dresses. Lake County as the letter
states gave Johnson s large majority in
1920. and It is said that the Beveridge
forces expect great strength there.
Hughes Takes Hand
in Navy Fight
WASHINGTON*. April 11.—Secretary of
State Hughes today took a hand in the
fight against reducing the personnel of
the Navy to 37.000 men. In a letter to
Representative Rogers (Rep.) Massachus
etts he said it would be injurious to the
Interests of the United States not to
maintain fully the standards of the naval
limitation treaty.
WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twentv four hours ending 7
p. m.. April 12. 1922:
Parly cloudy and colder tonight and
Wednesday.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
6 a. m 55
7 a. m 55
S a. ra 51
9 a. in 52
10 a. m 52
11 a. in 50 4
12 (noon* 58
1 p. m 47
2 p. m 4H
THF TIM FS
X lli-j X XIViJJ>O
Romance of Corn
Whisky and Hot
Spanish Blood
City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth dis
missed charges of assault and battery
against Maud Billie Baddeaux, 20. of
New Orleans, and Romany 11. Hampton
of Chicago, who wire arrested Sunday
night after a quarrel in their room at_
the Colonial Hotel. Miss is'
said to have objected to allowing a pet
alligator belonging to Miss Baddeaux
sleeping in bed with them.
Miss Baddeaux attributed her trouble
to the romance in her Spanish and French
blood aud corn whisky.
IRISH TRUCE
AGREED UPON
IN CONFERENCE
Collins and De Valera Accept
Invitation of Lord Mayor
to Parley.
MAY END DISORDERS
DUBLIN, April 11.—A truce conference
between representatives of the Irish Free
State and the Irish republicans was ar
ranged today.
Invitations were sent by the Lord
Mayor of Dublin, to both Michael Col
lins, of the Irish provisional government,
and to Eamonn de Valera, leader of the
Republicans to attend. Both accepted.
An effort wiil be made to bring about
a peaceful agreement which will end
hostilities between the mutinous faction
of the republican army and Irish Free
State troops and avert the threatened
civil war.
The Roman Catholic, Archbishop of
Dublin, was largely responsible iu ar
ranging the truce conference.
Look! Ice Prices
Topple—Not Here
ANDERSON, Ind., April 11.—Following
the dissolution of the local ice delivery
organization, one manufacturer an
nounced that he would sell tee in Ander
son at 40 cents per hundred weight dur
ing the coming summer. The price last
year ranged from 50 to 70 cents.
Missing Girls Back
Home in Terre Haute
CHICAGO. April 11.—Myrtle Thomas.
23. and her sister. Louise, 10. mUsing
from Terre Haute, Ind., according to re
ports to police here, were on their way
home today. As Chicago police searched
for the girls, an informant called head
quarters with information the girls had
returned.
Find Nude Body of
Woman in Tenement
NEW YORK, April 11—Slashed to
death by an unknown assailant, the nude
body of Miss Helen Tracy, 40 years old,
was found lying face downward in the
hallway of a tenement house early today.
A crimson trail leading out into the
street showed that the body had been
dragged into the house from the out
side.
Charges Robberies
on War Contracts
WASHINGTON, April 11.—The Ameri
can people were robbed of hundreds of
millions of dollars through fraudulent
contracts made by *ne Government
during the war. Representatives Johnson,
South Dakota, and Woodruff, Mich., Re
publicans. charged in the House today.
They demanded a congressional in
vestigation and prosecution of the guilty
persons lyr the Department of Justice.
City Family Will
Have Outing
City officials and employes will at
tend a picnic as guests of the Riverside
Amusement Company at the park June
14. Mayor Shank appointed Raymond
Wright, assistant city purchasing agent,
chairman of a committee on arrange
ments.
Lewis A. Coleman of the amusement
company offered free use of ai! the amuse
ment devices to city employes in the aft
ernoon. The usual charge will be made
after (! o’clock in the evening and one
half the proceeds given to a charity to
be designated by the mayor.
‘Mistaken Identity,’
He Arrested
Charles Jordan. 37. of Live Oaks, Fla.,
was arrested today on warrants charging
him with forgery. He is held under a
$5,000 bond. The arrest was made at a
fashionable downtown hotel. Jordan de
clares it is a ’Vase of mistaken identity."
but detectives assert that his signature is
the same as appeared on two checks.
One check written July 2. 1021, was
cashed by the Mutual China Company,
and Is the one alleged to have been
forged. The other check written Aug. 4.
1921. cashed by Paul Stires, 27 North
Highland place, was on a Trinidad As
ph.a.t and Roofing Company blank and
it is alleged Jordan raised the check from
$5 to $75.
The police have held this warrant for
a long time being unable to locate Jor
dan until today. Jordan's wife was
with him at the hotel.
BLEEDING KANSAS!
SMITH CENTER, Kan., April 11
Western Kansas was battling against
the worst April snow storm In Its
history today. Railroad snow plows
were bucking against snow drifts six
to twelve feet deep between here and
I the Colorado line. No trains cast- ii
bound from Denver, have as yet bvh i
able to plow through the storm.
3 uiiiaua Hails <xintf9
AID TO FOOD
GROWERS BY
GOVERNMENT
Vital Problem Faces
Cattlemen Who
Need It.
FORESTRY CHANGE
Two Major Issues in
Western Country’s
Position.
[Editor's Note—Edward G. Lowry,
distinguished Investigator and re
porter for tlie Philadelphia Public
Ledger, is touring the agricultural
section west of the Mississippi River,
In behalf of the Public Ledger and
the Dally Times, mid writing a series
of articles upon conditions as he finds
them. This Is the thirteenth pro
duction based upon observations In
the great Most. Others will follow
at regular Intervals.]
By EDWARD G. LOWRY.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aril 1L
—Two matters of public interest are
beginning to engross the attention of
all of this Western country. One of
them Is whether the powers of the
War Finance Corporation, which ex
pire by law or. July 1 next, will be
continued in the present organization
or whether some substitute agency
will be set up. The other is, whether
the forest service will be trans
ferred from the Department of Agri
culture to the Department of the In
terior, as suggested by Secretary
Fall.
The matter of the continuance of the
War Finance Corporation will provide
an interesting and important debate.
Everywhere that we have been, from lies
Moines right round the circle, through
the Middle West, the West, the South
west and the Pacific Coast, the question
has been asked by stock raisers and
farmers: Will we again be able to bor
row money from the Government when
we need It? They have wanted to know
whether the War Finance Corporation
will be continued with Its present organ
ization or whether some agency cf the
Government, such aa the Farm Land
Board or the Federal Reserve System,
would lie empowered. In times of emer
gency, to make advance* to the agrl
cultural and livestock interests. That
Is a question for Congress to decide. An
urgent demand will be made upon 1t
to decide in the affirmative. Whether It
is a part of wisdom to make such affir
mative decision Is a matter for consider
ation and discussion.
If the agricultural and livestock inter
ests are to be relieved with Government
money In times of stress, the next step
will be to relieve the lumber and mining
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BURGLAR CUTS
HOLE IN WALL;
GETS CLOTHING
Value of Loot Not Determined
by Owner of Store—Job
Well Planned.
By cutting a hole at the top of the
wall on the third floor of the Paul H.
Krauss Company's store. 20 North Penn
sylvania street, a burglar entered the
store during the night and visited each
department. The value of h)s loot has
not been determined.
Five dollars was stolen from the cash
drawer in the office, and the tin cash
bor, personal property of a young
woman employe, was broken open, but
it was found to contain "fancy work."
“The thief was around In the silk
shirts/’ said Mr. Krauss, “but I don't
know what is misßing."
It was evident the burglar had taken
some expensive suits of clothes, rain
coats and other wearing apparel on the
third floor, but how much was stolen Mr.
Krauss was unable to say.
That the thief had planned the robbery
carefully was apparent. A door at the
entrance to the stairway la, as a rule,
left unlocked. This stairway Is south
of the part of the building occupied by
the Krauss store. The burglar entered
from Pennsylvania street and climbed the
stairway to the third floor. A heavy
wooden door and a steel bar door pre
vented him from entering, but he opened
a small door leading to the roof, the"!?
used a hatchet and saw to Cut a hole
through the wall. The hole was about
fourteen by eighteen inches in size and
the laths were sawed off to make getting
through easy.
In leaving the building the burglar
used a step ladder to reach the hole in
the wall.
This is one of a series of robberies
that have occurred at the Krauss store
during the last few years. One of these
was a robber named St. Qulnten, who
commit! ted a series of burglaries In In
dianapolis and Louisville.
St. Quinton admitted entering the
Krauss store Iwice and he told where
much of the merchandise was sold In
Louisville and clothing and Jewelry was
recovered following his confession.
Two years ago another burglar en
tered the store by forcing a door at the
third floor hallway before the extra Bteel
barred door was placed theao. This bur
glar has never been caught.
Tells Police Thief
Took Purse and S3OO
A purse containing $309 was taken from
C. T Tuttle. 3035 Northwestern nvenue.
by a pickpocket in the Terminal Station
today, Tuttle reported to the police.
INDIAN 'a
COMPLETE AND PRACTICAL
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1922.
MAROONED
Clyde Stewart, 22, giving hi* ad
dress as the Craig Hotel, was ar
rested today on a charge of drunken
ness after be had been rescued from a
perilous perch on which he was
sleeping, surrounded hy water. Stew
art told police he had been drinking
last night and became tired. lie
went to an old abutment near Wash
ington street and White River,
crawled into a hole and slumbered.
Persons living in the neighborhood
saw him and mill'd the police. It was
necessary lo wade into the water and
climb over rocks before Stewart could
be reached.
NEW SOCIETY
OF POWERS IS
ANTICIPATED
Lloyd George Idea Ex
pected to Grow Out
of Conference.
PEACE IS OBJECT
Pact May Include
Both Russia and
Germany.
GENOA, April 11.—Hither the creation
of anew society of nations or expansion
of the present League of Nations will
grow out of the international economic
conference If the plans of Premier Lloyd
George succeed, it was learned this after
noon.
The French believed that they had per
suaded the British statesman to abandon
his plans for an organization of powers
to guarantee the peaee of Europe for a
specified number of years, but It Is un
derstood that Lloyd George already has
approached other delegates on the sub
ject.
Premier I.loyd George's pact of powers
was to include both Russia and Germany
on common equality with the other slg
natorles.
Dr. Bene* of Czecho Slovakia and other
strong supporters of the League of Na
tions are to persuade Lloyd
George to divert hls energies toward
strengthening the present League of Na
tions, instead of attempting the forma
thin of anew international body. There
are Indications that France wtl! agree to
the admission of Germany and Russia
to the League of Nations lit order to
prevent the creation of a rival pact.
CLASH REGARDED AS
FRENCH DEFEAT.
The clash between the soviet delegation
and the French was generally r-garded
as defeat for France inasmuch sa It
forced the French Into an open stand on
the question of disarmament.
The first commission charged with
political affairs convened at the Reale
Palace at 10:30 o'clock. At the con
clusion of the meeting at noon. It was
announced that a subcommittee to be
Ifnown ns the Russian commission had
been formed to work out a program for
Russia.
The general commission on political
affairs consists of two representatives of
the convening powers, two representa
tives of Germany and Russia and one
delegate of the various other Dowers. The
sub committee of eleven members con
sists of five representativs of th convon
Ing powers, two representatives of Ger
many and Austria and two of the "little
entente" and two neutrals.
George Tcbitcherln, head of the Rus
sian delegation, made a protest Insisting
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DORIS DA Y LOYAL TO HER DAD
MISS DORIS DAY.
It waa Iloris l>ay. the pretty 20-year-old University of Oklahoma co-ed
and (laughter of Judge and Mrs. Jean Day of Oklahoma City, who was
hurt deapest and stood up bravest best de her father In his fight for freedom
following the shooting In tile Day horn e of Lieut. Col. Paul Beck. Book, Ft.
Sill aviator, was shot by Day, accordin g to the story Day told police, when
the ex-judge returned home and found his wife fighting off Beck's advances,
A coroner's Jury acquitted him. “My father was right; he was never any
other way," Miss Day says. The daugli ter was at Norman, university city,
when the tragedy occurred.
R A DIOPHONF
JLV jM JL-/ X V-/ X XX V/i IJD
DAUGHERTY TO
DEFER ACTION
IN MINE CASE
Attorney General Not
Asking Indictments
Be Quashed.
BACK TO CAPITAL
President Says He
Will Keep His
Hands Off.
No steps will be taken at the present
time by Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney
General of the United States, toward the
dismissal of the Indictments against 225
coal operators, union officials and com
panies now ponding iu the local Federal
Court.
This fact became known definitely to
day following a two-hour conference be
tween tho Attorney General aud Judge
Albert B. Anderson, and a fifteen-minute
talk between Mr. Df.ugherty, Homer
Elliott and L. Ert Slack, special assistant
to the Attorney General for tho prosecu
tion of the coal cases.
The Attorney General announced he
would leave for Washington at 5:43 this
afternoon and before leaving bo would
give out a public statement regarding
his vlsi there and some of his plans for
the future.
HARDING AVI LI.
KEEP HANDS OFF.
Advices from Washington Rtated Presi
dent Harding will take no steps In tho
matter o fthe indictments but would leave
everything to the Aattorney General.
Mr. Daugherty said that he had talked
to "some people from out of town" In
regard to the situation today, and that
before leaving he expetced to see other
persons.
it Is generally believed on his return
to Washington he will confer with rep
resentatives both of the miners and tho
operators and that no further steps will
lie taken in the local criminal cases for
some time.
It was exactly 11 o'clock when Mr.
Daugherty entered Judge Anderson's
chambers and his conference lasted
almost two hours. On coming out he
asked for Mr. and Mr. Elliott, anil
went to Mr. Elliott's office where he
had a brief talk with them. Mr. Slack
had been waiting for two hours to see
the attorney general.
ANNOUNCES UK WILL
ISM E STATEMENT.
Before leaving tho Federal building
Mr. Daugherty announced he would have
a statement to give out before leaving
for Washington at 5:45 o’clock.
Accompanied by his lurge retinue, the
Attorney General bore down upon tho
Federal bdlldlng at 3:25 o'clock yester
day afternoon and was met in the ante
room of the Judge's chambers by Judge
Anderson. Immediately they went to tho
Judge's private office and it was notice
able when they entered Judge Anderson
left the door standing wide open.
After the conference had been under
way about an hour, Mr. Daugherty was
seen to come to tho door and close it.
After a talk of two hours tho Attorney
General emerged, looking rather glum
and a trifle ill at ease. He did not seem
to be particularly well pleased with the
large number of newspaper men that
swarmed around him, and said.:
"Are these newspaper men? I thought
nt first they were n Jury.”
Finally ho sat down at a table and
dictated a long statement which covered
everything in generalities and touched
upon nothing in any definite spots. He
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Strike Not Serious,
Daugherty Tells
Governor McCray
Attorney Genera! Daugherty called at
the Statehouse today "to pay bis re
spects,” he said, to Governor -McCray and
Attorney General U. S. Lesh. He de
clared he had no conversation with either
of the Indiana officials concerning the
Nation-wide mine strike which brought
him to Indianapolis Monday. He was
accompanied to the Statehouse by Homer
Elliott, United States District Attorney.
Governor McCray said ho asked Mr.
Daugherty about the strike situation,
and that the Attorney General had re
plied that "It was not serious so far as
Government action was concerned.”
Mr. Daugherty said he expected to
leave Indianapolis for Washington late
today and that he might have something
to say concerning the strike before he
left. Other than that he refused to
divulge any information.
APPEAL FILED
TO TEST ORDER
ON ELECTIONS
Attorney General WithdraAvs
Opinion Given by Him on
March 7.
EFFECT OF NEW RULING
An appeal to the Supreme Cour of In
diana was filed today to test the consti
tutionality of th eleglslative apportion
ment law passed by the 1921 session of
the Legislature. The appeal was from a
decision of the Ilancosck Circuit Court
which granted an Injunction against
holding an election for Joint Senator In
that county in the manner planed by tho
legislative gerrymader.
Tho Injunction does not affect the pri
mary and it Is assumed that candidates
will be voted on* in the regular way in
Hancock County May 2.
If the decision of the lower court is
affirmed the whole State will be af
fected in the opinion of Attorney General
U. S. I.esh. who suld tda ytliat a change
could not apply to Hancock County alone,
and that either the 1015 apportionment
law would have to stand or new legisla
tion be enacted. Some candidates tiled
both under tlie 1915 anil the 1921 appor
tionments, but the Hancock County decis
ion would result In considerable confus
ion If applied to the entire State.
Hancock County now has a Joint
Senator, elected two years ago for a four
year term In a district created by the
1915 aportlonment. The gerrymander
brings this Senator’s status into question.
DISTRICT CREATED
CONTRARY TO LAW.
The Judgment of the Hancock County
Court Is that districts were created con
trary to law. Counties were added to
districts already having sufficient popu
lation to be entitled to a joint Senator
or a Representative, while others having
population less than required by law
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PAPER MONEY
VALUE IS CUT
Greek Rank Notes Are Worth
Only One-Half.
WASHINGTON, April 11—The Greek
government, deflating its paper currency,
has cut the value of bank notes of
various denominations to one half, forc
ing the closing of the Bourse at Athens
and the National Bank of Greece, accord
ing to a cablegram to Secretary of Com
merce Hoover today from Consul General
Lowrle at Athens.
City Plan Expert
Works at Atlanta
The zoning plan, worked out by Robert
H. Whitten, city plan expert, has been
adopted by tho city council of Atlanta,
Gn., Lawrence V. Sheridan, executive
secretary of the Imlianapolls city plan
commission, was Informed today. Mr.
AVhitten, ns consultant of the commission,
is working on the local zoning scheme.
He spent a year studying the Atlanta
problem.
Mr. Whitten will arrive in Indian
apolis Thursday and remain until Sat
urday. Ills contract with the commis
sion calls for his presence in the city
at least ten days a month.
Mayor and Brother Carlin
Fail to Patch Up Split
City Executive and County Commissioner
Meet , but Nothing Comes of It.
County Commissioner Carlin H. Shank
and \County Clerk George V. Coffin to
day made earnest attempts to persuade
Mayor Shank and William H. Armitage
to withdraw their declaration of war on
the Coffin-Dodson, Lemcke-Jewett Re
publican combines.
The mayor had declared that he was
tn favor of lighting the combine, which
he decided was out to control of the
county organization to the detriment of
himself and his friends, and that he in
cluded his brother, Carlin, in those upon
whom his displeasure rested.
After the mayor made this announce
ment Mr. Armitage said the Shank forces
were going to support Arthur Haverstick
and Robert F. Miller for the comtnission
ershlp nominations against Carlin H.
Shank and Harry TV Tutewiler, candi
dates ot the Coffin-Dodson, Lemcke-
Jewett combines. He said also that Ed
ward J. Robinson for county treasurer,
John Castor for county recorder and Al
bert J. Beveridge for United States Sen
ator were on the city hall slate.
He placed on the city hall blacklist, be
sides Carlin H. Shank and Tutewiler. Ben
Fierce for recorder, Harry Dunn for
auditor and Harry S. New for Senator.
SSyTaKE!
OLD. SEE ANNOUNCEMENT ON
SENATE BILL RAISES
RATES OYER P AYNE
ALDRICH SCHEDULES
Senate Finance Committee Completes Draft
of Measure Expected to Produce
350 Millions Yearly.
PLACES BURDEN ON GENERALPUBLIC
WASHINGTON, April 11.—The Senate
tariff bill, the product of months of tire
less deliberation, a measure designed to
protect the American manufacturer,
workman and farmer and to raise an esti
mated revenue of about $350,000,000 a
year was reported to the Senate today
by Senator MeCumber, chairman of the
Finance Committee.
Its friends hailed It as a remarkable
piece of work, destined to help American
business, shielding it from the inroads
of foreign “dumping,” “price wars" and
general competition. Its enemies desig
nated It a tariff "protecting” American
farming and big buisiness at the cost
of Increased living prices for the general
public. :
Based on a foreign valuation of goods
—it Is slated for a stormy time both In
the Senate and House. An outstanding
feature of It is that It raises rates on
farm products and in general maintains
a level about on a par with the Payne-
Aldrich bill and much higher than those
of the present Underwood law.
Senate backers say it will pass by
J uly—with foreign valuations. House
ways and means Republicans openly
wrathy at ignoring of their wishes for
200 DROWN IN
DVINA FLOODS
FROM ICE JAM
LONDON, April 11.—Two hundred per
sons have perished In a flood of the Dvina
River at Dvlnsk, said an Exchange Tele
graph dispatch from Riga today. The
flood was caused by the sudden release of
an Ice Jam. Dvinsk Is 6H the border nt
Latvia.
FORMAL ORDER
ENJOINS UNION
Further Work Among West
Virginia Miners Stopped.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 11.—
The formal order of Injunction, closing
all the mining fields of West Virginia to
the organizing activities of the United
Mine Workers of America, today had
been served on C. Frank Kennef, presi
dent of District 17, and more than one
hundred other defendants in the Border
land Coni Corporation suit decided In
Federal Court here. Copies of the order
were also forwarded to Indianapolis for
service on John L. Lewis and other In
ternational officers of miners’ union.
Counsel for the mine workers were to
day engaged in the . preparation of an
appeal, having given the required bond
of SIO,OOO.
Continued absence of trouble In the
coal fields leads the authorities to be
lieve that no resistance, outside of court
action, is planned to the injunction.
GET A PERMIT
OR PAY FINE
Building Commissioner Issues
Warning.
Violations of the city ordinance re
quiring that a permit be obtained from
the city building department before any
construction or building repair work be
done within the city limits have become
so numerous that a campaign of arrests
has been started. Francis L. Hamilton,
commissioner of buildings, announced to
day.
Inspectors of the building department
are discovering cases of building without
permits every day, Mr. Hamilton said.
This Is not only a violation of civil but
moral law. he said, because the building
department was created to cheek plans
in order that unsafe construction might
be avoided.
Persons convicted of evading this pro
vision of the building code are subject to
a fine of not more titan SIOO.
City hall politicians said publication
of this news caused a mad scramble of
Coffin-Dodson leaders and candidates.
Carlin 11. Shank called upon the mayor
at his home, as did Ben Fierce.
Mr. Coffin and Carlin H. Shank spent
more than an hour with the mayor and
Mr. Armitage at the city hall trying to
get them to take back the declaration of
war.
The mayor and his political captain
said they I old Mr. Coffin and the mayor's
brother that their position has not
changed and will not until the Coffin-
Dodson faction swings squarely into line
behind William H. Freeman. Shank Arm
itage candidate for chairman of the Re
publican county committee. It was said
that Carlin H. Shank said he would be
for whatever man for chairman his
brother indorsed, but neither he nor Mr.
Coffin would pledge the faction's sup
port to Mr. Freeman.
Mr. Coffin Insisted that his cohorts
would not be for anybody for county
chairman until after the primary elec
tion May 2. The city hall leaders said
Hon Ma 2. The City Hall leaders said
they then told their callers that matters
stood just as they did before.
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American valuation, swear that foreign
valuation must be ditched If the bill Is
to get through both Houses.
Some prophets are saying it will never
be passed in this session, but must await
the next.
l ights on the floor are detained over
hides and shoes—perhaps the bitterest
row of all; on dyes, silks, sugar and
wool.
New, special means of fighting "dumps
ing" and unfair “price wars” are pro
vided.
WHAT FOREIGN
VALUE MEANS.
, . Whenever possible, the dutiable value
is to be the foreign value of the export
value which Is higher. Foreign value is
defined as "the price at the time of ex
portation—which the same or similar
merchandise Is freely offered for sale—
In the principal markets of the country
from which exported." The export value
is the price such or similar merchandise
Is offered In the foreign country in
wholesale quantities for exportation,
plus cost of containers and coverings and
all other charges incident to preparing
the good* for export.
The bill's basic provision—the method
of fixing values upon which duties shall
be assessed—is broad and elastic and
Includes revolutionary grants of author
ity to-the President to meet hcanglng
world economic and business conditions
by altering the tariff law to conform to
such changes.
The President Is authorized to:
1. Increase or decrease duties or’
I change classification of merchandise so
as to equalize differences in covipetitlve
conditions as between America and for
eign producers, such increase or de
crease not to exceed 50 per cent of rates
specified in present laws.
2. Apply American valuation to ar
ticles the Importation of which; under
foreign valuation, would tend to injure
an American industry.
3. Modify or abrogate action taken un
der the above authority when he finds
; necessity for such has passed.
4. Prevent dumping of foreign goods,
either by increasing duties from 10 to 50
per cent, or by excluding such goods
| entirely from the United States,
j 5. Meet tariff discrimination by other
I countries against American products by
proclaiming new and additional duties
against the products of that country, or
by excluding those products entirely.
Penalty duties imposed under this au
thority may be as high as 50 per cent
ad valorem.
6. Seize and declare forfeit to the Unit
ed States any products Imported In
violation of any proclamation made un
der the preceding provisions.
PROVISION’S FOR
ENFORCING LAW.
Elaborate provisions are made for
necessary Investigations for enforcement
of findings and proclamations; for noti
fications. for hearings and appeals.
The House Ways and Means Repub
licans are angry at the foreign valua
tion scheme. They say It will lead to
under valuations, hence loss of revenue
to this Government and too little protec
tion to the American industries.
FARM BLOC HAS
BEEN SHOWN FAVOR.
Rates on many things will ba In
creased above those provided by the
Fordney House bill. The farm block
has admittedly been given special con
sideration, and It Is In general quite
happy with the rates applied for sharp
increases were made In rates on farm
products. Cattle were increased from
IV* to IV, cents a pound; sheep and goats,
from 1 cent a pound to $2 a head, re
gardless of weight; fresh lamb, from 2
to 5 ceifts a pound, and mutton and goat
meat, from Hi, to 1H cents a pound. The
latter provisions are aimed at Imports
of Australian and New Zealand meat,
largely, it being recalled that such Im
ports were once tried In an effort to force
down home prices.
Bacons, ham, shoulders and other pre
pared pork'were increased from It* to 2
cents a pound; lard compounds and
substitutes, from 20 per cent advalorem
to 5 cents a pound.
Opponents of the bill say the new rates
will keep meat prices from dropping;
perhaps cause them In some cases to
raise.
HOUSE RATES ON
MEATS INCREASED.
Reindeer meat, Tenlson and other game,
except birds, goes from ly, to 4 cents a
pound M eats fresh or prepared 20 per
cent advalorem instead of 15, the House
rates: milk 2Vj cents a gallon instead of
1 cent, sour milk 1 cent, sour milk and
butter milk 1 cent instead of % cent,
cream 22Va cents instead of 10 cents a
gallon.
Live poultry was raised from 2 cents
to 3 cents, dressed from 4 cents to 6
cents; all other dead birds, rated S cents
a pound Instead of 20 per cent advalorem.
Eggs went from 6 cents a dozen to 8
cents; frozen or preserved from 4 cents
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