Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1919 — Page 26

two countries to be regarded here today a* having reached a stage bordering on

the acute.

Washington, as well as the diploma tic corps, was awaiting

ts with keen Interest, as the

0 m, should harm befall the flyers, generally were recog-

nised. .

reports from Major-General

of the southern

development

snu*

nfzed.

Dfckman.

Is just a plain, everywbo, at recurrent

, joined wt

the hiring

with the

in to

On

effort, with to bring a

of food into this tnari price that made it more enand at that time he got flrst-

that agencies actual!#

I to keep foodstuffs out of the l that they have made him “hare

-“rf to travel.” '

I -«*,ement that many pedoffl- went out of busineee because and they were com pel led to sell by

Incredible. This system tc make dollars where t . Tk&rirti&ia Xt iter* r t ss^-11 -

r Chs Pound thlt maCs urffltTrr-

so much as the necessity of ie price by the pound. There's

line on the pound profit of m cents aloes and many added to the pound s since the weignt

was subnUtuted for selling by " and bushel / Should 1 bea peddler exists who the effrontery to go down calling, "Tomatoes, only *£> a And that Is just what they able to put over by camou the price by the pound price let us get back to quoting by the bushel and we wm

the price

A penny raise > additional pro the I of tomato*

ndtNl wholesals

Report

appointed marshal, after he had been warned by the marshal not to attempt

agS&ggg

S S«eventy-sl*th irtreet

«;v

are overstepping their authority, are subject to prosecution on the charge of obstructing a public highway and to

a suit for damages.

Mr. Arens In his test case also threatens to question the election of the town trustees last Friday. The he says, was elected by a only one vote. 'Most of he contends, have their legal residence and vote in Indianapolis and have summer homes In Ravens wood and for that reason can not be cltl-

sens of both places.,

Frank C. Wchmels, the marshal, contends that the property owners of Ravsnswood are acting within their legal rights. The citisens of the new town, he said, do not wish the place turned Into an amusement park, but want to keep It a settlement of summer homes.

■/ f somewhat ago a crate kept in cold 45 cents.

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700 ACRES; $238,000. f?pec»aj to The IndianapoSi* N>*b 1 I,.% FA VBTTE, led.. Aegeat l^C— Oee *f the largest reel estate transfers here ta ssway years was aegatiated tsday. whea Charles Wmm V erst. ■ haafcer aad tamer. mt t halssers, hsaght a fsrw of Tie acres Id White eaaaty frees Jobs Rsss, of this city. The price paid was fxri.esa, which was at the rate mt W mm sere for the

RUSH IS MADE TO BUY

Al

BY POST SUSPENDED FOR HOURS

Continued from Page One.

crowd in line and in directing inquirers to places of information.

Baked Beans Lead.

The business transacted the first halt hour amounted to JK^S.H, the second half hour to JS7S.S4. the third half hour , to midi, and during tin? fourth half : hour tc S95L99. At the close of business Tat noon the orders showed canned

TRACTION LINE TRAFFIC

Continued from Page One.

‘ ! SM"=,1?“!C0MPIAINTS CONTINUE

lions by Japan and the United Stales of the Lansing-Ishii, Mr. Millard said: “Japan stuck to her interpretation ami we stuck to ours, and there the matter has stood. China threw up her hands and said. The United States will not back us up and we must

do the best we can.’ •*

COST OF MR

they made their requests more than five weeks ago. but that their pleas had not been heeded. On Fridav morning they notified their foreman that if their de- i mands were not granted within tw enty- ! four hours they would quit work. At the : expiration of that time the firemen left f their fires, hut the engineers at the t plant were able to bring the westbound cars, which were scattered along the

_ __ hue. to this city, where the passengers

era! bureau chiefs, but there was no U±£t The 1 line of buyers quickly shorten^

Paso, ana Dr. Warren B. Davis, Strath- , soon aftar 11 o’clock, and at 11:30 mere. Gal. I am in good health and o'clock oniv a few" stragglers were buy- company

spirits; as I am wire war department i i ng Manv persons explained to the and none are members of labor organ-; in expenditures is to increase produc meet ransom. If not, goodby as 1 clerks in 'charge that thev wished to i *^ ons - , t,on but the output is less in everything

mean business. Love and don't b uv of* the fc«d but that they T* 16 men brought here to take the except agriculture. weVe^ot able to f^ke as much as a ! ftHkers’ places were taken to the Co- j He declared that it the country con-

informatton that the Mexican situation

was

Other Recent Cases.

The officers' ease comes doee on the beets o/ similar dstentkMi of civilians Late last month Philip Thompson, fourteen years old. son of John West Thompson, an American efttsen, was kidnapped from bta father's ranch, thirty miles from Mexico, and held for 1AW pesos ransom. Acting on the advice of the Mexican government and with the acquiescence of the American state department, the boy's father paid the ransom. The Mexican foreign office was to refund the amount of the ranceived as to whether this agreement

was carried out.

Several days later Lawrence L. Shipley, an American rittaen. was captured by Mexican bandits near Fresnilio. A ransom was demanded in this case also and the state department recommended that If be paid. It being set forth that

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the way the goods HOUSFHOLDKR.

FI

Continued from Rage One.

before Robert

ace.

tehee hall at

and the riv<Ar fronf

week ago. He contends that a respectable and prop-

dance hall and that he

same right to do business on

as do the beach at the river the bus lines, steamboat lines and other places of amusement. He also contends that Ravenswood Is not a legally Incorporated town and that the trustees and the marshal are not

duly authorised officials.

After his arrest, Mr. Arens said he would make a test case of hls trial, and If he was vindicated that he would Institute damage suits against the individuals involved. He says that in ob-

structing the public hlghwa;

ing 36 cents foriadmisslon to the ground

the public highway and chargmm ortadmisaion to the groi

the alleged officials of the alleged town]

failure to make the payment would endanger Shipley’s life. Ten days ago the d'-partment was informed that Shipley had been released, hut the dispatches did not state whether the ran-

som was paid.

PROMPT ACTION TAKEN.

will

they

Sfai harol:

Pensions cost the government £M0flW0.-

of this city, and all are married with j Md <?&».00<MW» yearly. L

w****.- enesu «»«I ta the exception of one man.

„ jPUMBWB RM ■■PPIRPRPI- Private expemribeveral of i tures in the aggregate, he said, were

-- iJ * ble than

the men have been in the employ of the more formidable than public expend! for more than fifteen years lures. One way of meeting the tocreaae

The foiowing message" was sent to 1 the* canned goods The ; lumbia hotel, which was surrounded by | tinued In the way In'which'it "was' goTng his son by Mr. Peterson: “Maktag:Sertc* ^ wen as the r^slma^ter found i man >' sympathixers. but the local offl- the adverse trade balance would reach every effort to comply with request of ft ^e^sMo to “pUir. manv thn^s that. ‘ cere succeeded in quieting any possible HjWWC00 (|S.OOft.oOft.O»). compared to bamfita. but get more time Impos- wniTThT exrept.on of flour dry beans trouble. I tl5h.noo.oA) CJTW.OOO.OOO) before the war * tD * et , tb r re Mondavx I and rtce a buyer could take any quan- ^ We 040 not Drosohr." he aai

^ i ^f go^ds he m^Fht desire. Most of

gniaiMttaaBg that the money had been i t jj e buyers of canned, goods were in less

Replies to his queries were received

by Mr. Peterson last night. One from

Major Walton was as follows: “Full information received here.

_ __ Government is handling matter. Wait but no information has been re-i developments. WALTON.”

Later a telegram from Colonel Langhome at Marfa, gave the following Information: “Tour telegram received and I have endeavored to send your message to Harold Peterson. We hope to get him. Our authorities have not yet authorised payment. Shall notify

you of result LANGHORNE.”

LETTER TO GONZALEZ.

Money for Ransom Said to Be at

Bank in Texas.

EL PASO, Tex., August 18.—Every effort was being made today to expedite the rescue of Lieutenants Paul H. Davis and Harold G. Peterson, aviators of the Unitbd 8thus army, who are held for a ransom of fi5,«» by Mexican bandits somewhere in Mexico south of the Big Bend district of west Texas, while no official announcement

made by the military was understood that tb

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authorities, it

^ ^ ...e ransom money had been arranged for ht a local bank gnd that a messenger would be started for Candelaria, Tex., where he would receive instructions about handing over the gold to an agent of the bandits. Cattlemen attending a cowboy camp meeting at Ft. Davis, Tex., also raised 1 115,000 in fifteen minutes Sunday and placed it at the disposal of thefbUitary authorities. After a week of suspense since the aviators, who were patrolling the border, disappeared, messages were received by military authorities at Marfa. Tex., yesterday demanding payment of the ransom in gold to Dawkins Kilpatrick, of Candelaria, Tex., before tonight, with death of the Americans •as the penalty in case of noncompliance. Another message, signed by the aviators, accompanied the demand for the ransom, in which they set forth practically the same facts as were contained In the message from the bandit

leader.

Messages to Relatives. They also sent messages to Gavis’s relatives In Strathmore, Cal., and Peterson's folk In Hutchinson. Minn., urging them to see that the ransom was raised at once. Another message was later sent to Candelaria, Tex., addressed to Dawkins Kilpatrick, an American, and signed by one of the bandit band, saying they would kill the aviators if there were any signs that the American military forces were preparing pursuit. 1 Replies were received from the parents of Lieutenant Peterson saying they would provide the ransom demanded for release of their son and his companion if the government failed to do so, according to messages from Marfa. These replies were immediately given to a courier, who attempted to reach the bandit rendexvous south of the border. Whether he succeeded was not known

United States Consul at Juarez Acts Under Telegraphic Instructions. JUAREZ. Mexico. August 18.-A W. Dow, United States consul, acting on telegraphic Instructions from the American state department, today/ prepared a letter in Spanish to General Francisco Gonzales, transmitting the request of the state department for the immediate release of the American aviators held by Mexican bandits in the Ojinaga district. The Ojinaga district, where the aviators are held, is a part of the Juerez district, under General Gonzales's command, although General Antonio Pruneda is commander at Ojinaga \ — EXPULSION PROTEST.

only when he failed to cornday with this request, he said.

Arens has retained Jackie! W. Joseph and Henry Abrams ty>defend him. It is understood his attorneys will take a change of venue from the Ravenswood justice of the peace, dn which case the trial will- probably be held before a Justice of the peace court in Broad Ripple. The question whethertRavenswood is a duly incorporated towis and the right of the town trustees and marshal to act

can be decided only in circuit court.

not far from the border and are hold ing the American aviators in some out-of-the-way canyon until the ransom is paid, whereupon they will release them and permit them to go to the border. Nothing has been beard of the scout biplane which the men flew when they

werQ*captured.

On Oetbched Duty.

Aviators Peterson and Davis are a part of the personne) of the Ft. Bliss aviation corps, but were on detached j duty with the Big Bend district military headquarters at Marfa. Tex., when they disappeared. They left Marfa last Sunday morning for the usual patrol of the border, planning to follow the north bank of 4he Rio Grande to the end of the district Peterson is twenty-five years old and Davis twenty-three. It is believed by aviation officers here they confused the Conchos river, which flows into the Rio Grande near Presidio, Tex., with the Rio Grande, and followed the course of this river into the interior of Mexico. Another theory advanced here by fellow aviators is that they were forced to land, either on the American or Mexican side of the border, in the wild country of the Big Bend district. and were made prisoners by the

, - • Mexican bandits, who make marauding

the Interbordugh officials and the trips across the border at frequent in-

~ ~ tervals. In search of cattle and other

Continued from Pago One.

the company's property and endeavored to control the tide of humanity sweeping through the streets. Notwithstanding the confusion, there was but little

disohier.

An effort to reach an agreement be seen the Interborbugh officials and strike leaders was scheduled for this evening at a conference with Public Service Commissioner Nixon. Mr. Nixon expressed the hope that a compromise

might be effected.

Question of an Increase. This hope was based on a statement attributed to President Connolly, of the brotherhiod, that although the men had made demands for an increase of 50 per cent. In wages, the strike would not have been called had the company offered a raise of 80 per cent In the unsuccessful negotiations last week, a JO per cent Increase was offered. The only subway In operation in Manhattan was the Brooklyn Rapid Transit line from Fifty-ninth street to the down-

town district

Tb* dry operated several motor bus lines, charging a 10-cent fare, but private buses, trucks and automobiles charged from SO cents to 81. Probes Collusion Reports. District Attorney Martin, of Bronx >unty,' today began an investigation of sports that strikers had informed policemen that they did not care how long the strike lasted because they were paid any way and that certain employes ^ £**£**.*>r work ere told by officials to leave yards because a strike was ’officials and others who have dethat there •was collusion between borough and its striking emobtaln a fare increase by the '* that they regarded as sixfact that no attempt has by the company to operate subway or elevated lines since

was called.

voted today to invite Mayor address them tonight at their

American and French Consular Representatives Said to Have Acted. LONDON, August 18.—American and French consular representatives in Mexico City have protested against the Mexican government's action In ordering the expulsion of William Cummings, In charge of the archives of the British legation there, it is Intimated in official ctfdM. Latest advices are that Mr. Cummings still remains in Mexico.

RESULTS IN APPEAL

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THREATEN TO SUE UNION MEN.

Rail Receivors Say Act Will Bo Rest to End Strike. PITTSBURG. August 18.—Receivers Pittsburg Railway Company this afternoon that they file suit against the local dlof the Amalgamated AssoclaStreet Railway Employes, its

members to "recover losses caused through

f contract which resulted of street cars” as their ward ending the trolley

■ted last Thursday breach of contract, it is

J:

com]

3,000

r ViSf„SS recently an hour ina 11-tent

property, which they carry off to

Mexico.

According to San Antonio advices, General Dickman said reports received indicated the two airmen came down at the little town of Dilares, which is on both sides of the Rio Grande, forty miles southwest of Marfa. Tex. The principal settlement * is on the Mexican side of the border but there are a few scattered houses and native ranches on the American side. This is in the most rugged part *of the Big Bend district Many killings, raids and cattle thefts have occurred in the district around Presidio de Pilares and American cavalry troops have crossed a number of times near there in following hot trails of bandits who have stolen cattle on the American side. * y Wild Stretch of Country. The Big Bend district and the Ojinaga district opposite it in Mexico make up one of the wildest stretches of country on the Texas-Mexico border. The Rim reck, near Candelaria, is a gigantic escarpment standing on edge like a clamshell. The Rio Grande flows through canyons and in. great curves along this part of the border, which has long been noted for its bandit activities. It Is over this same Rim rock near Candelaria that the Mexican bandits rode to raid the Brlte ranch, Christmas day. 1917, when they caught the American stage driver going to Candelaria, hanged him and cut his throat. Chico Cano, one of the leaders In the raid, is a member of the band believe*) to be holding the aviators, according to advices from Marfa. Although a few Villa rebels were reported near Pilares recently, Cano's band has been operating in the Ojinaga district for years. Cano was wounded when Troops K and M, under Captain Matlack, crossed in pursuit of his band last March. He was said to have been a Carranza captain. At one time later he asserted he was a Villa follower but has operated independently most of the time. . MESSAGE SENT TO MOTHER.

Continued from Page One. i to allow any teacher to teach until the following resolution has been complied

with:

“1. That any teacher applying to the trustee for a school or speaks to the trustee regarding a school In the township is a ‘scab.’ “2. That *all have pledged themselves that none will teach unless the trustee signs a collective contract with the Federation of Teachers. That he must hire all the teachers who taught in the township schools last year—term of 1918-19. (All of which is contrary to law.) Rule on Outsider*. “8. That all teachers that have taught ten years shall receive $120 a month without regard to qualifications except senior experience. This is all to be decided by the president oi the Teachers’ Federation No. 42 (the local union), and hls decision is final. Neither will they receive any new member in the union of teachers until all the old members are hired and placed in the district, and that all teachers, who hire to th^trustee before those who taught in 1918-19 are hired? as ‘scabs.’ and that they refuse to admit them intp the union or teach with them, regardless of whether they were born In Stockton township, educated where they might be, number of years’ experience or qualifications. “You want go*M schools and the best instructors—good enough is not as good as the best. The people should have some voice in matters of education of their children and of the governmentv and disposition of their teachers. “I want to ask this of the p>eopl4, patrons, heads of families, men and women who are interested in the education of their children and future generations: Who is better able to judge of the qualifications of teachers than the county superintendent? Whom did the people elect to do the business of the schools? I ask the impertial judgment of all and for equal rights for all and special privileges to none. The teachers should have fair wages. Points to Experience. “Where do you buy your bacon? Where do you tfiade? Sears, Roebuck & Co. are nonunion, yet all members of unions do not trade at home. We are *100 per cent, organized,’ but why did the Linton co-op>erative store close its door? It was owned and controlled by union men whose loyalty to organized labor could not be questioned. Evidently they would not trade with themselves. Why? The clerks are organized. Did the clerks’ union hold the jobs for the clerks employed there? “I want to go on record for high wages. We don’t get enough. That is the natural conclusion of all of us, which is right, as I see it. But the school children as well as the taxpayers should be considered as well as the teacher. Stockton township’s money should buy as much as any township’s money. Our tax money should buy as much as Linton’s or Jasonville’s or anybody’a Our money's worth is all we want ** ‘Experience alone is not sufficient to entitle a teacher to an increase in salary.’ School law, 1919. Page 6.’ ’’

WATCHING SITUATION.

\

Peterson Telegram Declares That the Bandits Mean Business. MINNEAPOLIS. August 1$.—Lieut. H. G. Peterson, who. with Lieut Paul Davis, is reported held for ransom by Mexican bandits. Is the son of Samuel G. Peterson, a clothing merchant of Hutchinson, Minn. Hls mother and two sisters are the other members of Mi*-family. r. Lieutenant Peterson enlisted in the aviation corps at the entry of the United States in the war. Most of his work has been done at Ellington field. Tex. The following telegram was received by Mrs. Peterson yesterday from

her son:

“Marfa. Tex. 1:45 p. m.. August 17: Mrs. S. G. Peterson, Hutchinson. Minn.: The following telegram has been received from your son: Aognpt IL—iixS,

State Officials Giving Moral Support

to Township Trustee.

The state department of public Instruction is watching the school situation in Stockton township, outside of Linton, but it was not known at toe office today Just what can bo done

about it. ^

Both the department and the state

board of accounts have expressed support morally for James T. Roach, the township trustee, and it is believed that a way will be found to open the schools there, even if Governor Goodrich and

state troops must bo called on. Jesse E. Eschbach, chief examiner for

the state board of accounts, has told the township trustee that he win not approve an agreement with the teachers’ union, if it entails expenditures not

strictly according to law.

CASTLE FOR WILHELM? Seat Near Doofn, Holland, Said to

Have Been Bought.

AMERONGBN. August W (by the Associated Frees).—Although it has been known In Amerongen tha t former emperor William, in the hope of settling down to life of a country gentleman hi Holland, was negotiating for the purchase of the castle of Doran, the correspondent today was unable definitely to confirm a dispatch from Utrecht that the deal had been completed. The castle is owned by Baroness van Heimstra de Beaufort and is situated near Doom <'A?4vifecia Haav* IaH ** vxrste fH*

■ ‘Nothing has been settled.’

reply of those

was the

dose to Herr Hohenzol-

lern when questioned, but they added that they could apt fppat tha naaotk

than case lots, the usual amount for each purchaser being from a quarter to

half a case.

City Represented. Every part of the city apparently was represented in the early line, which contained residents of the north side as well as residents of the south side. Irvington and Indiana avenue. Mr. Springsteen and Charles Byfield, assistant postmaster, kept a careful watch during the forenoon to make sure that all purchases were bona fide and not intended for resale. One hotel manager wished to buy ten cases of canned goods but was notified that he would have to be contented with two eases. A few others inquired as to the limit of the amount they might buy and were also told two cases would represent their share In view of the fact that an equitable distribution was desired. “Canned Willie” Not Popular. “Canned WHUe.’’ as the soldiers of the war contemptuously labeled corned beef and various other sorts of canned beef and canned hash, proved to be the least popular of the commodities offered for sale. Only one can of the No. 2 corned beef was sold, and only twenty cans of the No. 1 canned roast beef. Not any of the No. 2 cans or of the-Six-pound cans of roast beef were sold, issue flour (with adulteration and used to make "war bread,” at 17.06 a hundred pounds, found few buyers, as also did rice in 100-pound bags. The canned corned beef and corned beef hash are sold In No. 1 and No. 2 cans, while the canned baked beans come In sizes one, two and three, and the canned stringless beans, peas and canned corn in No. 2 cans. Vegetable soup is sold In No. 1 cans. In canned aoods a No. 1 can weighs approximately ten ounces, a No. 2 can from one pound and two ounces to one pound and four ounces, and a No. 3 can two

! pounds.

Orders on Record. Each order Is placed on a record sheet as soon as the money Is paid so that the purchaser will have hls order filled so long as he does not order after the supply of the commodity desired is not exhausted. The orders are being checked against the amount of commodities alloted to the office, so that no orders will be received for commodities over and above the amount announced to have been alloted to the office. The allotment announced has left some doubt Its to the amount to be received In some instances, but additional information is expected soon. - The individual orders are made out in triplicate and the purchaser retains a carbon copy. All the orders received will be added together and an order for the aggregate amount will be sent to Chicago. Receipt of the goods is not expected before next week. Delivery to the purchaser’s address will be made by parcel post wagons. Zone rates on postage for the surplus army goods has been lifted ko that the one rate of 5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional pound will apply in all zones as well as in the first and second zones. This does not affect postage from Chicago to Indiana-^ polls,-which is according to the second

zone rate.

PRODUCER DOESN’T GET FAIR CHANCE, HE SAYS Continued from Page One. the benefit of the producers and the public. ' Farmers Discouraged. Most of the local farm produce brought to the city market by farmers or gardeners is placed on sale at the curbs facing the courthouse. Mr. Hayes says that inquiry among farmers who arrived with their produce either early Friday evening or in the early hours Saturday morning convinced him that conditions are such on the market that farmers are discouraged from retailing their produce on the market. The farmers told him, he says, that they have no assurance of getting a place on the market unless they arrive in the city early in the evening before market day and remain there all night Next morning, many of them are ordered to leave .because they occupy places rented by standholders who are nonproducers, and others are ordered away by the police because the presence of wagons Interfere with traffic regulations. Mr. Hayes, who remained at the courthouse until 1 a. m. Saturday, said that sixty farm wagons took their places during the night on the Washington street front, which is supposed to be reserved for producers, and that five farmers' wagons containing principally corn and tomatoes could not get places. Public Doesn't Get Benefit “When I visited the producers’ wagons at 8 a. m., Saturday, the original sixty had dropped down to forty-five, and by noon all were gone.” Mr. Hayes

said.

In his opinion, this disappearance of producers' wagons In the early hours of market day means that the difficulty farmers encounter in trying to remain as retailers on the market, causes them to dispose of their produce as best they can at early hours, and thus the public does not get the benefit of the farmers’ competition in the retail business. Mr. Hayes says that if farmers could be induced to remain, on the market through better opportunities being given them for places about the courthouse, their competition would bring prices down As an illustration of this, he said he went to a wagon Friday night at 10 o’clock and found the farmer asking 25 cents for sweet corn. Next morning at 8:30 o’clock sweet com was being sold from the same wagon at 20 cents, as the farmer had found there was a large supply of sweet corn on the market. Mr. Hayes said that in questioning standhblders, he found that hardly any of the standholders on the county property are producers. He said that Saturday night there were forty-one stands In Delaware street, nx in Market street and thirty-four in Alabama street, eight of these being soft drink stands. Shank Not Familiar. When Commissioner Shank was asked about the situation, he said he knew little about tfie details of the management of the many stands within the courthouse yard, and did not know of a plat where assignments to standholders are marked. He said the regulation of these stands was left to B. H. Pierce, thecourthouse custodian, and the city collects all the rents that are collected for stands in the vicinity 6f the courthouse. However, there is a blue print of the courthouse stand assignments. Taken at random, some of the names from the list of 16B standholders in this blue print are as follows: Domenioh Serge, Mrs. Levey, Mr*. Flnalman. Emma Simas, M. Sevtaske, Anac Maodons. Sida Crews, M. C. Galop, B. Sorters. T. D. Hobson. P. Goldstein, M. Huison. Sam Smokiets, A. Messing. A. Pomering, Mrs. Mike Hodate AHonz Peima, Mrs. Barber, Isaac Needy, B.

Hortisar.

Mr. Shank said some of the stands had been given to returned soldiers, and

RICHMOND MEN STILL OUT.

prosper,” he said. ”we

can not even exist without recover^**

and maintaining our internal We must bring up the

MAILS BRING MANY LETTERS TO

DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

REPORT ON FOOD IN STORAGE

Iron Mofders’ Strike Causes Four "'i'Li’*.,'” ' >! ‘ r ‘* n ' 1 '•■"■-wn 1

Foundries to Close.

[Special to The Indianapolis News] RICHMOND. Ind., August 18.—The

strike of iron molders at Richmond,

Ruin at the Bottom. “We have, advanced some ROOO.OOO.OOO

(820.000,000,000)

to the world from which

^ , . .are getting something like £200,000,000 &***'**! "*$„*?* Yearly in interest. We BsSrSTtSS b .rr" foundries”bring *“ ^ **»“■ " « closed. Malders in shops not involved ...... ^ ua ,„ xa „ Wan< * !5 was . " aid that purpose. Our allies, including Russia, conditions there were satisfactory to« owe us fl.»*),00),000 (|9,mfoo.<M)0>. At

the men. at least, for the time being. Not only union moiders. but nonunion men. walked out in one of. the factories affected. The police department was t notified today that one concern contemplated importing strike breakers to fill the places of tne men who left their jobs. In the event this is done the firm

wishes assurance of adequate protection for Its employes.

the present moment our adverse trade balance is fSOO.000,009 l$4.000.000.000). We must bridge that chasm, or at

police

OFFER REFUSED, HE SAYS

Superintendent Asserts 43 3-4 Cents an Hour Was Offered Men. Commenting on the strike of fifteen men employed at the T. H., L & E. Traction Company power house ne&jr Greenfield, Guy K. Jeffries, general superintendent of the traction company, said the company offered the men 43A4 cents an hour and an eight-hour day. but that they turned the offer down and went on strike.

• Scores of Persons Stranded. [Special to The Indianapolis News] NEWCASTLE, Ind., August 18.—Scores of persons from Dunreith, Spiceland and intermediate points were stranded here Saturday afternoon as the result of the strike of power house employes of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company. The power ceased at noon and the spur operated between here and Dunreith, connecting with the main line, as well as the city service, waa discontinued. The main power house Js near Greenfield, but the strike there affected the substation at Dunreith.

Continued from Page One. officers are gathering evidence against hoarders and profiteers in the retail trade as well as wholesale. Arrests and seizures vyill follow soon, he said. POINTS TO SAVING AS REMEDY.

Federal Director Says People Must Leave Off Spending “Intoxication.” NEW YORK, August 18.—No solution of the high cost of living can be reached until the people of the United States shake off their present spending “intoxication,” according to William Mather Lewis, director of the savings division of the treasury department, in a statement appealing to 6,000,000 thrift and war stamp savers to check waste “through precept and example and wise buying.” Mr. Lewis said that to lower the cost of living in New York “every one must begin at once to curtail expenditures for luxuries’ now selling at exorbitant prices. He declared that, the people themselves were to blame for high prices of necessities because merchants observed the absolute carelessness with which people parted with their money. "Millions of persons are not spending from their earnings but from their savings of the past two years,” said Mr. Lewis. ”It is essential that we keep firm hold on the savings accumulated by purchase of war finance securities, not only as a matter of seittsh benefit but as a factor in bringing prices down. As Governor Harding, of the federal reserve board, has pointed out, it is absolutely necessary to work regularly and efficiently to produce and distribute the largest* possible volume of commodities and to exercise reasonable economies in order that money, goods and services may be devoted primarily to the liquidation of debt and to the satisfaction of the demand for necessities.” * STORED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.

We are buildby borrowing.

.he bottom of it is ruin fig a temporary bridge

not state borrowing, but traders borrowing for raw material, food and so forth. That will -only add to the catastrophe. “In every direction we are spending more. We are earning less. Wc are consuming more and we are ^producing less. These are facts. It can nit last. ’.

British Coal Situation.

The British government had accepted the policy of the state purchase of mineral rights in coal, the premier an-

nounced.

The production of coal this year, the premier said, would be 200,000,000 ton a compared with 287,000.0000 before the war. although 30,000 more miners are employed at present than in 19R A ton of. coal which cost 10 shillings in 1918 now costs 26 shillings. vHe declared that coal was the chief factor in the industrial situation. He said that the outlook was indeed dark unless the conditions which he declared

existed were changed. He continued: “In A are higher, hours of

After nearly two weeks of publicity and investigation concerning the high cost of living, complaints concerning the cost of foodr rents, coal gnd other items connected with everyday living, continue to come in the office of the United States district attorney. These complaints, which come by mall from every part of the state as well as from Indianapolis, are each given careful attention by George G. Rinier. assistant district attorney, and are filed for reference to assist the agents of the bureau

of investigation.

A report on the amount of food found in storage in Indianapolis has been submitted to the district attorney’s office by Charles P. Tighe, special agent for the bureau of investigation, and it is ex-

that this report will be made

public this week by L Ert Slack district attorney. The agents of the bureau of investigation are continuing their Investigation of the storage and the cost of foodstuffs and all available information will be gathered together in the form b«wt available to the federal grand jury, which convenes Tuesday, September 30. In connection with tKe investigation of the price and storage of foodstuffs, consideration is being given also to the cost of living affected In other ways, such as the increasing cost of rents and of coal. Reports being received by the district attorney and by Mr. Tighe indicate what are said to be particularly flagrant and unreasonable Increases In rents. One owner of a large number of houses In Indianapolis is said to have made the remark recently that he was "going to get while the getting was good T ’ and that, under that rule, he has increased rents on certain houses in less than two years from 817.60 a month tp 830 a month without making any repairs or putting

In any modern improvementa TOLD THAT STRIKE OF

SHOPMEN IS AT AN END RAIL ADMINISTRATION ASKED

TO TAKE UP DEMANDS.

America the wages labor are no longer

and the labor cost In proportion to the articles produced is less. This beim case, competition Is impossible an

tariff will remedy this.”

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Federal Agents Find Long-Held Hog in Detroit Plant. DETROIT, August 18.—Agents of the investigation branch here of the department of Justice said that In one cold storage plant visited Saturday, a frozen hog was found which they were told had been in storage twenty-five years. The officials declared that if the hog really had been held for that length of time, it was through an oversight, but that they Intend to investigate further next week. TWO ARRESTED AT CLEVELAND

Swift Manager and Provision Company Representative Held. CLEVELAND. August 18. — W. G. Fletcher, manager of the local branch of Swift & Co.. Chicago packers, and Joseph Nash, manager of the Cleveland Provision Company, two of the six Clevelanders charged by state officials with violation of the Smith cold storage law, were arrested today on affidavits by state officials/. SHANTUNG CLAUSE

No Other Alternative. The premier said the government could not accept Justice Sankey’s jfeheme for the state purchase of mines but had accepted in principle his plan for the unification and reorganization of the coal industry. , After pointing out that the British pound at present was worth trr the United States only 1"H shillings, the premier said: "We shall never improve matters until>we increase production, or we will be driven later to reduce even lower the standard of living in this country. There is no alternative except quitting the country for which we fought for four years.”

IN SENATE'S VIEW

Continued from Page One. the committee. It has had the treaty since July 10. For five weeks, therefore, the treaty has been in cold storage without a vote or any other action. •^Country Is Waiting.” "The senate is waiting and the country is waiting, and the impatience is increasing. Every one knows that the enemies of the treaty and opponents of the league of nations control the committee. Every one also knows that they do not control the senate. Public sentiment resents the suggestion that the opponents of the treaty might keep it locked in committee and this greatly delays ratification,” Mr. Hitchcock said it was the hope of the administration forces to begin voting in committee this week on proposed amendments preparatory to having the treatj^reported to the senate In a week or ten days. 1 * “It is l ol little importance," the senator continued, "what the committee does as long as It does something. If It recommends amendments the senate will reject them. If it mutilates the treaty the senate will cure the damage done. The chief harm that the committee can do is in causing delay. - "Every one now realizes that we are still suffering from war. arid that the first step toward relief is to raitfy the peace treaty. The President’s address served to arouse the country to the importance of treaty ratification as one of the steps necessary to reduce the cost

of living.

“He has very properly connected the

high cost of living with the war. He has shown that the first step must be taken

is the ratification of the treaty.

DENIES PREMIER’S SUPPORT Sir Horace Plunkett Says New

League Is Not Influenced.

DUBLIN, August 18 (by the Associated Press).—Sir Horace Plunkett, one or the directors of the Irish Dominion League, referring to a published statement thet the ieagrue was ’’Lloyd

George inspired,” says:

“There ts no foundation. 1 regret to say, for the suggestion that the prime minister has directly or indirectly given more encouragement to the league’s program than to the Sinn Fein. When Lloyd George’s policy appears on the film it Is far more likely to feature partition rather than unity of Ireland which the league is convinced can be

dominion plan.”

best secured on

The Irish Dominion League is .composed of men who believe that an Irish republic is unattainable and undesirable, but think that a prompt measure of home rule on the fullest colonial lines is ureently necessary. It was formed in June.

WAGE QUESTION INVOLVED

WASHINGTON, Aii*u«t 1«.-Th« r»llroad administration was notified today that the strike of shopmen was at an end and was asked to take up wage demands immediately. Acting President Jewell, of the railway employes department of the American Federation of Labor, went to the railroad administration to notify the officials in person. It was indicated that Director-General Hines would proeed at once to settle the wage demands. ASHORE WITH WOUNDED.

Steamer v Heffrorf, With Czechoslovaks, Aground in Korea Strait. SEATTLE, August 18.—With 1,100 wounded Czecho-Slovaks aboard, the United States shipping board steamer Heffron is ashore off Rokuren, Korc i strait, came advices received today by the Pacific Steamship Company from its agent at Kobe, said. BOUND TO GET ALCOHOL Remarkable Method Was Employed by a Russian. (Arthur Bullard, In Harper’s Magazine] The most original "system” for procuring alcohol I heard of in Russia wu i invented by my host Alexeev. He and his wife were a very devoted couple and always made a great to-do ovi> • their wedding anniversary. This yeai* was to be theif tenth and should l.a> » been especially festive, but my litt o snowball fOf supplies had long bet a melted and the prospect of getting delicacies was slight. - The chief of the British Club—to which allied officials were admitted— had a hidden store of sweets, and after much coaxing, he produced a smkll but highly decorative cake. Somehow or other, Madame Alexeev procured some eggs. But the sensation of the everiing was a carafe surrounded by little vodka glasses. Even the aromatic herbs could not disguise the taste—it was a very little crude alcohol great deal of water. However, it was hlghlyVappreciated, and all the guests were edWer to know how he got It. At the psychological moment, when general ^interest was at its hight, he brought out from a closet a large warn* paper basket overflowing with little bottles of pills. We were more mystified than ever. In the unlversity-he explalned-he had roomed with a chap who was an enthusiast on homeopathy, a very apostle. He had a little family medicine chest and was always looking around for people with the various complaints printed on the labels, so that he could demontrate the efficacy of hie pills. “There was one disease,” Alexeev said, "I’ve forgotten the name—perhaps it was leprosy—anyhow, it was a tropical complaint. He could not find a case in Moscow, One summer he made a special trip down to Samarkand In the hope hf finding a case. “He always looked at you sharply when you first came into the room, on the chance you had developed some new symptom for which he could try a pill. How I hated that medicine chest! He could not talk of anything else. He read me the list of !• contents so often that I knew it by heart. ‘Digitalis, paregoric,’ etc.—just like the Latig verbs utor, fruor • * • And the other day, racking my brain to think of some way to get a little alcohol, I remembered that there wae a bottle of it In that medicine dhest” The rest had been simple. He had found the only homeopathic drug store in Moscow. There were only six medicine chests left in stock and he had bought them all. “But,” he added, dolefully, pointing to the full waste-paper basket, “there was an awful lot of pills for a very small drink.”

Effective at Houra^ (Boston Transcript] A sundial eels off one's place,” remarked Mrs. Kawier, “but of course It's uaeleae at

night.”

“The one we are getting won’t be,” replied Mrs Newrtch. ,“W# intend to have it surrounded by electric lights”

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Continued from Page One. the President on the subject contained a statement to the same effect. ‘‘Unofficial” Adviaer. Mr. Millard said he got hls information from the Chinese delegates, whom he advised "unofficially.” He did not go into details about the questions China might have raised. He said, however, that some Chinese official wanted to employ two American international lawyers as advisers, but did not do so because the United States Indicated it would not favor such a plan. While hls expenses were paid by the Chinese. Mr. Millard said, he had no salary, but simply gave unofficial advice asked by the Chinese delegates because of hls familiarity with far eastern

affaire.

Mr. Millard said he had spent about twenty years in China. He declared the original acquisition of German rights in Shantung was largely responsible for

ha knew of three, or four prodwiers^ the

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