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WASHnilOS^. August Jp.—Opponeat® of l<<^l®latioa providing for rogoiatim® of the maat packing induatry warm Iprord today when the aenatc agricpfihire committee reetimed eoneigeratioa of the subject WfUiatn T. Nardln. of St Louis naiHigor of a milk eondonsery. objected to fadarml licensing on the S ouhd that other tadustiial estabItmests erottld he reguired do *911mlt to regvlatloa- Thooftoatfoa from the retafl hsteherg^ Mai^polnt was presoatod Iw gbamgstml Wawermaa. 1 of Horfollt Vm. I ‘^▲ny l^siat^ tkmt harts the patdters will h«n ths retailer and the btudnoao*" he aaki- “I’ve alwiyn® found the packers fair and sqsare.’' Talked to Him Ahofrt it. Senator Kenyon, Repid^lfcaa, of Iowa, asked whether paekers* representatives hadn’t urged the witness to appear. *'Vbey talked to me about it.” he said, “but I was iat«restcd mya^f* “Is there any ceanidalnt from Korfolk eonsuoMrs aboot prices aad tseuAtecring?** ^T®s. ah tlw time. I don’t doubt •ome retailers are profiteering.’* “Do the packers maintain uniform prlees?** asked Senator Fage (Rep.), ^ Vermont “No. sometiinea they are In line, and aemaUmm they are not.“ Sa^ Thoy Wero Cheapor. In the main, the witness said, the large packers suppifed better meat at lower price® theta independenta , T. Davis Htti, head of a Baltimore packing house, and fourteen other mdt^pi^ents, presented a letter of protest against the regulation measures, Ible to «r* live stock producer and consumer. “No living man,” the letter stated, “has the experience necessary to administrate the regulation proposed without injuring the business enterprise. "It’s my opinion," said Hill, ‘that after this suit which the government has brought against the packers comes to trial there’ll be a complete change of attitude on the pan of congress toward the eubjecL’* * *“ influence. Not Control. '•you've seen the statement of the federal trade commission that the five packers control live stock prlees r* Senator Kenyon asked. "You think that’s wrong"*" "They influence prlcee, not control them." Discussing profits in the packing busines®. Hill »aid*that hi® own firm "did bftter than the large packers, if you take their ®tatement.“ That meant an 8 per cent dividend'on its 11,000,000 capital. he explained. “About profiteering," Senator Kenyon said "Do you tblrilt there Is any of th«t In the packing buslnros?" ' “When I hear of the profits of some of my friends In the shoe and drygood* business. I'd tw inclined to think we were profiteering if we did a® well." Asked About Pooig Senator Capper, (Rep.), Kansas, asked (as to the control of live stock prices by pooling purchases, a practice attributed to the five larger packers by the trade commission "You’ll find that system waS discontinued years ago," Hill said. Questioned about the org^isation of the American Institute of Meat Packing. Hill insisted that !U control was in the hands of the independente. WOULD OUST PACKERS.

$610 A YEAR FOR POOD FOR FAMILY OF FIVE P? Contlnuod from Page One. be measured in pounds caioriee, or lIPNHra jfSMfis. It is interesting to note ttot fiMuai expenditure for clothing in all iQScnm groupe combined, for wlvee awd children of different agee conforms quits closely to the ecale for food con■UB^Don. Unfortunately we have no unit of measure with which to ^teratose whetoer the clothing bought is sikiMate or not The chaige so freqsantiy made that the American worklaipatoaL ie extravagant in expenditures fbr tor himself and his family •SiWto fiardiy borne out, by the Diets reported. Clothing Exponditurea ^^Kxpenfiltures for clothing per adult during the high price year ISIS ranged from a minimum of |9(i in the lowest tnoome group to about USD in the higheet Inoome group. The average cloth-

much room for extravagance in ^etkhm at the existing prioea Probably (his sum to sufficient to enable the wudmit aundi economical house wife to k«m> her family clothed warmly enough. Imt it does not leave much nuungin for styto. "Pw (he typical tomtiy of husband, wife and three children under fifteen years, there are In the cities for which tabulatkms are completed, invariably more than one room per aduit. The rooms per person decline as the slse of the family Increases. Families having an tofoma of tU*® also have well over one room per person. The number of roQtaa pw person does not tell us whethmr hopstog ta satisfactory. For agampla, the rooms per person are higher amwg colored fismiliee than among whRs fhasS^a in Baltimore. No one wmaid naatmain, however, that housing cmidMaad are better among the colored people than among the white pao^de/* PERSHING AT BADLE FRONT American Commander, in Italy, Spends Part of Day at Venice. ROME. Aogust ifi~43sneral Pershing part of yestmrday in Venice. In Cha^evwiag he Venice for a tour mg the batU^i^s and the liberated

WASHINGTON. August M.—Genwal wfit oaS tor the United States r X on the transport ML Veria calded the war department to-

Perpetuat Injunction Suit Filed in MitslaaippI Court. JACKSON. MIm.. ».-Perpetual Injunction agalnsf the five leading packers, which would bar them from doing business In this state, is asked In a petition filed in chancery court today by the state revenue agent. The court is asked to put a statutory penalty of 16,000 a day on the packers CI1YMAY0BT1 FRESH ARMY MEAT Continued from Page One. Ing fair by the United States food administration, the dealers said that during the time they had been overcharging for sugar they were under the Impression that the conunodlty was no longer under the control of th® equalisation board. Slack Wfahes to Know. According to an agreement reached between the' district attorney and the Kenny company, the latter agrees to refund excess charges made during the last few weeks while at the same time the retailers are to refund to customers, whenever so requested, the amount In excess of 11 cents a pound chaiwsd for sugar. Mr. Slack is desirous that he be notified concerning any retailer who is selling sugar for more than 11 cents a pound or concerning any retailer who refuses to refund the amount of excess charges made in the last two weeks. The district attorney is basing his action, in having the price of sugar reduced. on instructions received last week from the attorney-generai. in which it was pointed out that the United States food administration takes the position that sugar should not sell for mors than 11 cemts and that a price in excess of that amount indicates that the whotesaier or retailer to making ar unreasonable profit. The attorney-gen-enU also instructed district attornevs that in case of the larger dealers holding a license to sell sugar the license could be revoked. Sugar held b\ smaller dealers at excessive prices can be taken throuid» process of law hs the district atternex'. Immediate Action Asked. Information that the Indianapolis Real Estate Board was accepting the question of hUfo rents merely as a matter of routine business and was holding a communication from the district attorney for consideration at the first oieeting of the season of the bcuuid of dif rectors on the first Tuesday In September, caused Mr. Slack to address another letter to William L. Elder, president of the board, reqaeeting that the matter of excessive rents receive immediate attention. The first letter to the board from Mr. Slack was written j last week, and to this Mr. Elder replied j that the matter would receive attention ‘ by the board Statement by One AgenL An Indianapolis real estate man conferred with the district attorney today and explained that’the increasing cost of labor and material was making It necessary for him to increase rents considerably over what they were a few xears ago. He said that, for instance, he had a double house mlued at 16.000 from which he wss receiving rent amounting to 189 a mbnth. The rental charge was, he said. $30 for six rooms and a bath This dealer said that ho did not know what per cent, of profit owners sought to make on their Investment. As for his houses, of which he owns several in the city, he said his rents increased "automaticaily” to take care of the “income tax and increased cost of repalra” He agreed that thorough hivesttgation should be given to a comidaint which had emne to Mr. Slack telling of a rent increase in North Alabama street, from ISP g month to $75 a month

ErlUMl RdR ^rlki Avarted. ijkaguirt ah—An agreement tween ^ Aukland ster of reconstrucengtaeers aad • Ifirlka

WYCKOFF ORDERS REFUND.

Decidas on Action About Excessive Sugar Prices Charged. Stanley Wyckoif. federal sugar dtstributmr for Indiana, will send out an order to every wholesaler who has charged more than 10 cents a pound fm* sugar in bulk or barrel to reftmd to the

I has <ffiai"^F1ig$ber ttait toe regalatioB I pries because of the higlMar wholesssle I charge, wifi be aSksd to rsfond to his

cuetomen.

This course warn deckled on at a c^- ; ferasee of Mr. Wyckoff with L. Ert SladL United States district attorney. ' A firw days ago Mr. Wyckoff ttarned I ovea- to Mr. Slaidt faivaioea Miowlng that : at leask two wholcsalsrs of Xodiana had charged more than the nqpfiatira grk^ But for the moot part. Mr. Wyedtoff says, toe wholssalers coneeientieai^ comidied whh federal regulatlom. la sense effiea and towns oee rrtailrr who bought at regulatisB prices sold amau'’ for len than aaoiher eeold sell tt. because toe other had paid higher wbo^ sale prfeeo. Thhi Mtnatioa bresight Ruury oomitoitots to Mr. Wyckoff.

tiN|gfriea About Power.

He ae»t a tiMeixam to the sugar cgualixatioa boari. New Yoric city. aMiteg abssit toe power to dtol sritli vkfiatioae. The aaswer cams mm toBowmz "DtsOict attorney has power to revoke ticesse under food cewtrol. Food admintotratioti New YoHe city has forced dealers overcharghm to refund buyev

exccas proffta"

This teiegshm was eex^dered in the conforawese today between Mr. Slack and

Mr. WyckolY

The latter points out that -wfatdeaskrw or retailers oohtg a vitoiine of boslasas of IMtAto or more a yoar are still under govmmmcBt JJbense. and hmics tbs food oontrM act mpf^m to them as to

sugar prfeoa

Prices on Stfgar

In a general way, Mr, WyekoS si^ a retailer Is eatltlsd to charge one cent a pound more for sogar than the cost to him. plus freight. A eoosamer who has paid more than 11% cents a pound for sugar may be reasonably sore be is entitled to a rebate. Mr. Wyckoff atos that in any case in which a Jobber or retailer refuses to refund,

the invoice be sent in

The Indlanl^M>iis remtoUion vgiolesale r to of sugar is t.77 cents a pound' bulk; t.77 cents ia twenty-flve-pound packages: 10.9? cents in ton-pound gmekages; 1917 omits in five-pound imckages, and 10.29 cents in one-^und packagea A retail grocer of another part of the state who buys In Indlana^is hi entitled to add the freight charge. And toen charge the retailer one cent a pound imure than too total cost. Mr. Wyckoff says. If a consumer bi Indianapolis has paid more than 11% cents a ptHtnd foe a five-pound m- smaller imekage, Mr. Wyckoff saim, he Is en-

titled to a rebate.

Fair Prica Committee to MeeL The first meeting of the fair price committee for Markm county, appointed by Mr. Wyckoff, srill be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Chamber

of Commerro.

He will turn over to the committee complaints about rent profiteering. He received one complaint today from a tenant of North Delaware street The tenant brought in a letter from the owner of the property, who wrote that the rent would be increased to IP) a month, the first month, then to $66. then to ^0 and then to $75 The tenant told Mr, Wyckoff he was now paying 150 a

month

The letter from the owner reads In

part:

"Circumstances have brought on conditions whereby we must have more money to meet these conditions, it would be useless for me to go into details to explain these facts, for we are all quite familiar with them Therefore, I will rent the property at $75 a month.’* The letter then sets forth the plan to increase to MO at once and an additional $6 a month until the $75 is reached. Complaints have also been received in regard to alleged profiteering on ice cream, and attention of the fair price committee will be called to them. Mr. Wyckoff finds that retailers pay $4 for a four-gallon can of vanilla Ice cream. They retail it at 46” cents a quart, 25 cents a pint and IS cents a half pint. A gallon costing $1 is retailed In quarts for |180, the retailer doing the work and providing the container, but Mr. Wyckoff says some allowance must be made for shrtokage, so the profit is not as great as 'indicated. It is thought that the fair price committee should recommend a fair price for it

GREATER FOOD SUKY

; MEMBERS OF STATE COMMIT1 TEE MEET WITH GOVERNOR.

Wia BOOST PRODUCTiON

Continued from Page One. the railroad tracks, he was informed, and likewise other trucks at the Marmon plant. Others at Other Places. Furthermore, there are 8,000 escort wagons and about 2.500 trucks at the Jeffersonville depot and smaller numbers of trucks at other places in Indiana. Senator Watson took the matter up some time ago with the war department. but the department said the equipment, or a large part of it. had beew given to the agricultural department for use in road building. So, today, in an effort to get to the bottom of toe matter. Senator Watson addressed letters both to the war department and to the highway bureau of the department of agriculture as follows: "There are several thousand army trucks and other equipment located at Camp Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis; at the govwnment depot, Jeffersonville, Ind., and at other points in Indiana, Standing in the Fields. “These trucks and other vehicles have been standing in the fields for months afkd rapidly depreciating. It is occasion for comment from the people generally that the government has suffered and will suffer great loss because of this condition and failure either to employ these trucks and vehicles In government work or to dispose of them immediately at nubile or private sale. “Will you please inform me what definite action has been taken on this subject to dispose of these trucks and vehicles and save our government further loss"^ "How soon will they be taken from where they are now located? "What is the probable expense that will be required to place them in running order and full details as to your methods of distribution and how soon It could be accomplished?" BUILDING TO BE COMPLETED Electrical Workers’ Demands Met for • State Fair Structure. Through fear that the manufacture ers’ building at the state fair ground would not be completed In time for the state fair loecause of the strike of electrical workers, the Universal Electiie Supply Company has agreed to meet the demands of the union pending the completion of this work. It is expected that a full force of electrical workers will be *on hand Thursday morning and every effort will be made by the electrtcal company to complete the work on scheduled time TTie automobile show is to be held in the

to the history tlnued delay because of the strike would have prevented the completion of the building it is said. The union men struck several days ago as individuals. The union agreed to provide contracting companies with men at the regular schedule, but the contractors were unsrilling to meet these terms because they Insisted that they would have to deal with new men praceach day. FIRE AT STARCH PLANT. Considerable , Oamag* Apparent at P\m\ Plant, Dover and York 8to. Fire *>»xt started in the second floor of toe byproducts building of toe Pi^ Bros. Starch Company, Drover and York streets, this afternoon, quiidcly t^rtoia to toe roof of the building, and seemed to be causing considerable damage. The flames were fanned by a southwest wind. FiTwnen were directing their e£ftMTts to preventing fire from spreading. The cause was not determined.

ITALIANS GO TO HUNGARY.

No Details Announced of Troop Movement Toward East, PARIS, August to—Italian troops are on their way into Hungary, according to reporta received here today. No details of the movement |vere announced.

Tlw stats food prodaetkw committee;. Warrso T- McCray. chalrmBn. and O. L Chritole. state food director, shmrtly win rsopsa state headquarters in the statsiiousa. as during the war. and will

imperative need tor a greater food mipply and will undertase to encourage prodoctSos by sttmulatlng toe former from tone to time. It will undertake also to dtrset pubiie attentloB to praettese that may reUeve certain food slioitags condltJoito Public StatomenL Ftost o« toe committee’s prograns Is to be a pubiie statement to the form of reaoluttoas to express toe committee's idea of toe why and wherefore of the high cost of living and toe bow of remedying It. Waiter Q. Fitcli. assistaut secretary of the eosnmfttee, will he in charge of the statMtouae headquartera Mr. Fitch hss had charge of the headquarters since the committee’s orgsnisation. before toe ofganixaUon of toe state council of d^ense, with which toe committee worked. When the state council was dipaolved the committee eras oonttoued by request of Ckivernor OoodHch. It had headquarters at Purdue university. Members of Committeo. Ralph Moss was first chairman of the committee, but after hJa death he sms succeeded by Mr. McCray, of Kentland. W. W. Bonner, of GreenMmnr, ta secretary of the committee. Other mmnbers of the committee are Charles B. Rliey, Indlanapolto; W. A, Samuel Oeorge. F^klto; WW a Robbtna Borac^ William J. Hogan, Indianapolis: H. E. Barnard, todianapoils; Samuel Schiosser, Plymouth; F. SrSeacock, Salem; L, H. Wright. Indianapolis; Ralph a Poik. Greenwood. Members of ths committee met Tuesday with toe Governor a$tois request and arranged for reopelnlim headquartmw to the statehouse. The Ctovernor will provide money for the committee out of his contingmit fund. One of the first campaigns to be carried cm by the committee is to be one for more wheat planting-

gather, should be established, tvary-’ where provokes a choru® of objection®. It is pointed out that if such a system should be put Into effect throughout the country tbouaanda of mm with mtabttsiied bSHdnees would be compeiled to engage to some other lines of Industry: that the totroductimi of such a system might even bankrupt many men engaged to handling foodstuffo. that the retail grocer might be seiioualy Injured and soon. The anssrer to this is. say men who have tooked Into the subject, that milv the profiteers would be seriously hurt. 'The whoiesade grocer and the retail grocer would. It is bedieved. continue to proeper under the new system For one thing the comer grocer could buy direct from the former, a thing he can not do now hecaime the commlsskm mas srtth whom he deahi will no9 permit H. Should be violate this rule that be must not buv direct, the com mission nuin as a rule will not sell him products. It is assumed that under the ttotninal maricet system, most consumers would prefer to deal with their corner grocer Just as they do now, and would be srilltog to pay a rmtsonalde profit for the accomiiKMlatlon. if toev would have the satisfaction of knowing that they were paying one mroftt and not three or four and sontotimes as man.% as six (w eight. /

AN EIRGENCY SYSTEM

MOTOR TRANSPORT TO BE U8EO IN EVENT OF RAIL TIEUP.

LETTERS TO CITY CLERKS

STARTS GROCERS’ ‘UNFAIR LIST’

IMEH TAKE PART ING.O.PJSSffi Continusd from Page One. is able to put into it, although confidence was felt that conditions are naturally favorable in this state to Republican success, ^fter ‘a luncheon, the conference was continued- in the afternoon. Prospective Candidates Present. The gathering of party workers naturally created much talk about prospec; live candidates Many men who would like to get a place on the state ticket were In town and many of their friends came with them The question of the most available man for the nomination for Governor was a matter of general conversation In a private way, and even wise politicians who are generally first to "get next" to situations seemed to be confused in regard to who might be the lucky candidate So many men have been mentioned as possible governorship timber since Will H. Rays, ReS ublican national chairman, announced e would not run, that no one seems to be able to estimate how much support any single one will get Jackson’s Friends Present When the conference opened none of the men mentioned most frequently for the nomination for Governor was present. Ed Jackson, of Lafayette, who resigned as secretary of state to enter the United States army, was not present, but several friends were on hand pointing out that if he gets into the race in an active way he will be a hard man to beat Warren T McCray, of Kentland. whose friends already have a strong organization in the field on behalf of his candidacy, was attending a fair at Suringfield, 111, where he has a live stock exhibit. Announcement Soon, Lawrence E. Lyons, of Brook, was on hand, however, and expressed his belief that Mr. McCray would make a formal announcement for the governorship In two or three weeka Oswald Ryan, a close friend of Edward C. Toner, of Anderson, who is expected to announce his candidacy for the governorship at an early date, also talked with many of the workers. Bert Thurman, of New Albany, who is managing the campaign of Edgar D. Bush, Lieutenant-Governor, tor Governor, was also present, but Mr. Hush was not seen albout the hotel. Committeeman In Attendance. Among the committeemen present were: ^L A. Folsom, Boonvllle. First district; Bert Fuller. 6f Vincennes, representing David R. Scott, of Linton, chairman of the Second district; Bert Thurman, New Albany, Third district; L W. Henley, secretary of the Republican state committee, who represented John G. Bryson, of Brasil, chairman of the Fifth district; Walter F. Bossert, Liberty. Sixth district; J. W. Fesler. Indianapolis, Seventh district; Harry Long, Muncie. Eighth district; CHiarles E. Butler, Crawfordsville, Ninth district; Lawrence £. Lyons, Brook. Tenth district; Chairman Wasmuth, Huntington, Eleventh district; William G Carpenter, Ft. Wayne, representing Henry G Hogan, chairman of the Tw^fth district. and Verpon W. Van Fleet, South Bend, Thirteenth district James A. Hemenway. of Boonvllle. Republican committoeman for Indiana, made the fitst address at the conference He came to the defense of the state tax law, declaring that it is a good law and will work out in a fair and equitable manner. When the Ohio tax law was put Into effect, some time ago, he said, it caused considerable disturbance. but it is now working out ail right, and Governor Cox has been le-elected. Governor James A Goodrich attended the conference Mrs. Stephenson, newly elected secretary of the women's advisory committee, in an address, declared that the Republican party must be depended on to save the principles on which the United States government is founded. lAYERSOFUFIT HIGH COOTS FACTOR

Continued from Page One. The introduction of such a system would, of course, be revolutionary In a sense, but in the estimation 'of persons who have made even a cursory examination of the present situation, it Is high time that something revolutionary with respect to the present system of distribution be undertaken. It bas been suggested that If these terminal markets are established by the municipalities, the states should exercise some sort of supervisory authority over them, and the f Jeral government perhaps, also exen^ authority to some extent to the matter of fixing prices on staple commodities The efty 01“ the state that starts off with this new system and starts off in the right way, that is to aay, to a big way, will undoubtedly set an example that the entire country trill sooner or tater be following. It does not as far as can be seen, seem to be a subject with which the congress can deal. Neither can It be said to be a problem that might make necessary extra sessions of l^rislatures, though, as one expert pointed out today, it might be worth whffe for a state like Indiana, as its legislature is shortly to come together, to consider what might profitably be done along total lin& Big Forces Against Idea. Of course toe mere auggestlon that terminal markets, where the producers and tbe consumes could be brouitot to-;

District Attorney Clyne Announces Secret Watch Established. CHICAGO. August 2®.—Announcing m secret srmtdh on t,M9 CYhicago retail grocers. tbe United States district attorney, Charles F. Clyzle, declared that he had started an “unfair list" for profiteering grocers and already had placed at its its hMd the name of a dealer who charged 19 cents a pound for sugar and $4.80 a bushel for potatoes. Eridence aiminst the grocers will be turned over to tbe September grand jury, Ctyne said. Henry H. Rolaph. chairman of the sugar distribution committee of the food administration, asserted that he had found that grocers were splitting their supplies up into small lots and •emttering thgm among other dealers “to make ti confusing for the department of lustlce." Walter Sheehan, president of the Csn(ral Sugar Company, was arrested here today on chargee of vioiatlng the federal food control act The complaint against Sheehan mllegee unfair profits In sugu’ Bales It was alleg^ that the company bought sugar in Phliadeiphia at 19.69 per 190 pounds and sold It for 112.75. ■nie sugar finally reached a retailer at $12.60 District Attorney Cfiyne annouBced the arrset MUCH STORED SUGAR SEIZED.

4,500,000 Pounds Takan Over by Boston Federal Authoritfee. BOSTON. August tO.—Federal authorities have seised 4,600.900 pounds of granulated sugar at the warehouse of the Terminal Wharf and Railroad Warehouse Company, in the Charleston district The action was taken on a warrant issued by Judge Morton, of the federal district court after evidence concerning the hoard had been presented to the federal grand jury, which is investigating the high cost of food stuffs DTSAPTIVES OF PRICE FI Continued from Page One. among them. If we exempt the merchant doing less than $100,000 business a year, we fail to reach many gougers *' Kegarding the farmers and farm organizations, Mr. Palmer said he would exempt them from the hoarding provisions, as he b^ieved they should be permitted to hold their crops imtll they desired to sell, but that he wished to enforce the profiteering laws against them. The attorney-general declared that already profiteering in sugar has practically been stopped by the departmeht of Justice. He said that thirty-six state food adtnmistrators of wartimes have agreed to co-operate with toe department In naming fair prices for the varioss communities

CLEVELAND MAN INDICTED.

Eleventh Grand Jury Return Accuses Fruit Mahager Under Trust Law. CLEVELAND, August ».-George W. McWilliams, local representative of the California Fruit Growers Association, was Indicted today, charged with violation of the Valentine anti-trust law, by the special county grand ’’Jury' investigating alleged food price profiteering in Cleveland. This is the eleventh indictment on a similar charge returned by the Jury. ^ — ACTRESS TESHFB IN CASE OF ACTOR STRKE Continued from Page One. Blackstone theaters. “Three Wise Fools" and "On the Hiring Line," respectively, may not open tomorrow as billed William Wright manager of the Blackstone, asserted that he would open without stage hands or musicians. "We’ll open unless they cut off toe lights," Mr Wright declared, "and even then I’ll continue l>y using dark lantema”

Cate Dismissed. NEW YORK, August 20.--Appearing in court today to answer a charge that he had thrown Harry Lambert an actesr picket out of the Cohan dc Harris theater by the nape of the neck, Samuel Harris was discharged without a word of testimony. The maglMrate looked In Harris he saw a slight man five feet two Inches tall and weighing only ninety-five pounds. Lambert is six feet three inches and weighs about 210 pound® "Case dismissed," said the magistrate. Aided by Governor Smith, a committee of playrisdits today renewed efforts to settle the strike. « INDIANA GUARD IS SLOW. No Report Filed With Department Concerning State Troop*. [Special to The Indianapoila Kews] WASHINGTON, ^ugust ».-The militia bureau of the war department states that Indiana Is one of the twenty-seven states that bas n(K reported any enrollment of national guard troop® under toe plan of reorganization announced July 16. In twenty-one state® toe work of building up toe new national guard organization has been started. Texas now has the lead with an enlisted strength of 14,609. For the country a® a whole only 36.013 men have been enrolled. ’The congress has appropriated for an enrollment of 13L109 for this fiscal year. Harry B. Smith, adjutant-general of Indiana, said that the reason Indiana is one of the many states from which reports have not been receivfd by the department at Washington, is probably because be did not receive a copy of the orders of July 19 until after he had seen newspaper accounts of them and wrote to Watoington for the orders General Smith said that he did not then receive the orders untH the latter part of July. The orders specified sixty - five men to a company and Indiana proceeded to draft plans for such organizations Then atme another order enlarging toe companies to 100 men each. The work already under way in Indiana was then reorganised. Genersl Smith said that Indiana is progressing very well with it® organization work. He said that the good showing in Texas probably is due to Che fact that Texas already had an entire brigade of cavalry and possibly other border patrol troops organised even before July 16 and that very likely all that Texas had to do was to report

Governor Goodrich began formulating plans for a motor transport system for Indiana, today, to serve Hoosier cltlaens In event of a steam and electric railroad tteup or breakaown. because of strikes and weather conditions this winter He has called on the highway transport division of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to manage the details of the work. More than 600 letters went out today from the Governor’s office to city clerks of as many Indiana towns and cities inclosing blank questionnaires calling for motor truck statistics The information is to be assembled by the transport division and a plan for covering the state by trdeks in event of failure of other transportation systems will be worked out

Wish to Get Stativtica.

The officials wish to know the number of trucks, names of trucking, companies and location of ail persons engaged in public transportation by gasoline motor vehicles U is Intended to ascertain also which firms do only a within-toe-city business and which ones do an intercity or town business, as

well as their routes etc

The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce for some time has maintained a return load bureau, by which it waa sought to have trucks entering the populatton centers from rural districts take back a lodd as well «a bring one to the stockyards, markets or warehouses The system is said to be work-

ing admirably. ,

To Get Complete Data.

ITie bureau already has much information of the sort the Governor wishes to acquire, but the Information is not complets The questionnaire method has been adopted to obtain all statlstlca BO that a complete state system of motor truck transportation may be arranged if necessary at any other time. More than 400 trucks now are engaged in work that could well fit into such a system, state offlctals believe. Recent railroad tieuiw because of strikes and other conditions have directed considerable attention to the motor transport

plan.

With the plan well started for a complete state system of Improved and hard surface roads under the direction of the state highway commission, it ia believed that motor truck transportation soon may beoome a thoroughty dependable factor in Hoosier progress. Text 0# L*tt*r, The letter sent out by the Governor today to city and town clerks waa as follows: lo view of the poMlble Interruptions In the regular trsnaportsUon facUlttes of the state, it appears to be advisable that we have a complete record of all of our transportation resouresa Tbs motor trucks of the state can render a very great aarvioe If they are called upon in aa emergency, and if there is. In s<h»« central location, a complete record of these trucks, so that they can be mobilised for service quickly. I am incloalng a blank asking for information relative to the motor trucka in use In your city and X will apprselats your cooperation In filling out this blank .as completely aad as quickly as you can Ton Will note that the blanks are to be returned to the Indianapolis Chambsr of Commerce. This mo\ement. howevsr. Is not an Indianapolis movemei* 1 am merely using tbe facilities of the Indianapolis chamber because of the fact that it has conductsd a highway transport division for over two years and has a very definite and tried system for utilising motor truck service, which will be used by the state If necessary Tour immediate eo-opwatton in this matter will be very much appreciated lAYERSOFfliOFIT

jin the Ojinaga dtscnct ars attoeh^ 'nominally to VlHa'® comnsiBd and alK) operate in the country throagh which

the American troops are passing.

The rains are not without advaiitagMi. however, for the softened cmiditions of the earth would make fresh trails more easily dlscernable tbai toe trails mad®

previous to toe raina g - In Fan-8ha|>ed Formation.

The Amerioin troopa In tosir dash across tbe border were spread out in a fan-shaped formation over a wide stretch of Mexican country south of toe

Kio Grande.

With nearly six hours' start on toe punitive expMitlon. the bandits are be itoved to have scattered in the mountain passes and canyons, and it probably will be necessary to search every square mile of toe rough country below toe border to find them, in toe opinion of military men. It waa not known how many art tn the bandit band. Lieutenant Davitand Lieutenant Peterson said that the\ saw six men There were twenty other bandits at the ranch where the outlaws stopped. The American aviators were tola that the band numbered sixty. Hospital Work Goes On. Arrangements for nuraes, ambulances and surgical drsosinia for the punitive expedition troops were made last night by Elmer Donnell, of St Louis, for use In case of emergency. H M. Fennell, a banker of this city, arrived late yesterday and announcM that the amount of ransom actually wid for relimse of the aviators was 18,500. Fennell took the $15.01)0 demanded to C^delarta Monday. He declar^ that

Continued from Pag# One. do not abide by the government piicr llsti, will really afford a solution. It '^1 all depend, it Is obvious, on whether th# government price lleto are fo hr baTOd on the price# that the retaUer immt oay for the stuff, or whether the\ Si to ?akl into consfAeratl^ S which the producers part with the “*TJf'otoer words if the government i® aoing to fix price® for food®tuff® it will fSome a party to the that njkw snoinff on uitioM iL f^llnilns.t## th# Siadtomm throu*!. tli. .y.teni oi SSllln« .nd, tiroMh viriou. •ch.row of roftnlpnlm-ttoit CEOnfit^ntly pliiti#it one profit on another 9^ — ~—— — —- ** $dtB at the fa ISnfnuSmtIon, whk:h“ira "ifoverninent fMtrmnentallty. could through a search o“ltn«l^ to every liicallty undoubtSly uncover much valua^ wldenro ruiating to the resale of products. For fnlS^nce. if a carload of potatoes la bSSht to Michl^n. sW^ to n. Wayne, reblUed to India^Pplls, and fr^ t^re rebilled to St Louis and ro ^ the records In the poaseMlon ^ the government would show the fact and fhe records would be prima facie evldunceitot the stuff had been resold. “"“1.5^5.™ that th..,?... gross through some of its committees SSfare ^tog into the hlgh^cegt wbiect Insist on the railroad admmistraUon’i co-operating with the department of JiMtice. Terminal Marttet Pro|}oaat. A nation-wide jtennlnal market ayet«n would in the #®tlmattaJn of many persons who have devoted earnest thought to the subject of distribution come nearer solving the problem than anything that ha® thu® far been proas can be learned, neither the •*^tive department nor the congress hfl^p to thi® time given any thought ♦otoe introduction of such a ■ystem, prevailing ^ timt It i® a subject for states and muntclDalltle® to deal with rather than the federal government, and perhaps this is ‘Tf** such a «y»teTO would do w^t It# friend® assert it would do. it certainly Kid be introduced either by toe federal government, by the states, or by the munkrlpaUtlM. Sneaking in broad terms, such a systemwould provide for great markets near the railroad terminals In every city and town of consequence in the country. At those central points producers and consumers would be brought together. The farmers would ship their stuff in. knowing tn advance that they would find a market for it at a certain prica, and the consumers would know in advance through dally or weekly price lists what they were to pay for stuff.

TRAIL OF OANDHS

Continued from Page One. ceived by Colonel Langhorne today from Don Coame Bengoechea, Mexican consul at Presidio. The consul reported that General Antopio Pruenda was sending cavalry troopa in the direction of San Antonio, (toihuahua, which is

opposite Candelaria.

The Mexican troops left Ojinaga last night under personal command of Gen-

eral Pruenda.

To Make Air Inspection.

Lieutenant-CVilonel Royce arrived In an airplane from the headquarters of tbe southern department aertiti service at San Antonio. Ho planned to cross to Mexico In aa airplane to make observations and Inspect toe work being done by the flying corp# In the Big TBend

district.

Hipolito Villa, brother of Francisco Villa, ia believed to be in hiding In the mountains near where tbe American

mained. Fenneli brought the 19,600 fo Marfa and deposited It in a bank. Ths money waa in 560 bills. Fennell said that the imny would reimbur*® toe cattlemen who had aubscrlbed the ransom money. Through Wild Country. The district within ths angle formed by a Junction of the Rio Grande and Conchos rivers Is the wildest district of nortoern Mexico, noted tor rugged mountains, dero canyons aad barren deserts The Conchos river flows into the Rio Grands near Ojinaga after tumbling through San Juan pass from Cutihlljo Parado to San Juan Del Rio. Both rivers are lined with cottonwood ♦roes Lowland forms in Delta Conchos are the only green spots to be seen m the entire district, where palo venfo mesqulte and cactus grow. Barren hills, rocky canyons and mountains are superimposed on I esas tieyond the border over which winding trails are trsMd In white. Along these trails toe- cavalrymen made their wav. It was said here that It virtually was impossible to carry out Major-General TDickman’s order instructing officers to pay the bandits ths full ransom, unlsse toe bandits are overtaken and captured by American troopa. < ■ MEXICAN ATTITUDE UNVOICED.

Government Gave Flyera PtrmlMion,

But Not Troopt.

MEXICO CITY. August 10 -The Mexicon govemmsnt announced that American troops had crossed the border, in a bulletin Issued last night, but has given no indication of its attitude. El Universal demands for Mexico an opportunity to be heard "before being outraged" It calls on all Mexicans to contribute to the defense of the country and announces that Its section printed in English will be disconttnued until the Americans Isave Mexico. El Heraldo soys thaJ the situation has assumed s-grave character and declares that toe crossing by the Americans was without notice or request for permis-

sion.

It had previously been announced that the Mexican government had given permtseton for Amwican flyera to croe® thi border In search of the two avlatois who were later rescued, but no permission wa® given for troop® to cro®» the border into Mexican territory. The executive committee of the federation of syndicate worker® of th® federal district has issued a manifesto t >

its members saying that the committee is disposed to aid the government 11 the present crisis and asking President

Carranza to bend all efforts to obta) 1 the co-operation of all the Mexlcit 1

people.

The American consuls at Tampko Vera Uruz and Oaxaca, the Excelsior says, have instructed Americans In outlying districts to come into pmailatcfl

centers.

General Juan Torres, chief of operations in the state of Sonora, reports 11 the war department that the Yaq )l bandits who killed an American chauffeur named White have been -disperse I with losses H. 8. Whitd, an Amsrican. was rported killed near Hermosillo, Sonora, last May, when twenty Yaqul Indiane attacked a truck train carrying illver or*. _ ■ WORK “WITHOUT aLOVEi.”

New Policy for Dealing With Bandit! Is Indicated. WASHINGTON. August M.->Mexican border raid® and depredation® by bandit® directly aero®® toe border, evidence from official sources today ehowed, will In toe future bring on the mamuder® toe armed forces of the United State®. ’The preaent punitive expedition, led hy Major-Genera] Joseph T. Dlckman, commander of tbe eouthera department, it was learned, constltutee the first workiito out of ths nsw policy, which one official eharactorised qp "handling the border nuieance witoout glovee." Tbe border guard, it was said, was equipped admlmbly for such work with swift moving cavalry, machine gun eectione and airplanes stationed at detached points along the Rio Grande. Interest In the •earch of toe tth cavalry continued intense today at the war department Dispatches were received late yesterday from General Dfckman but were not made public. NEWSPRINT PAPER PROBE. Read Rotolutlon Ordering inquiry Adopted by the Senate. WASHINGTON, August 20.—Inveetigation of the newsprint paper industry to determine whether it is engaged in illegal practices and whether prices are excessive was authorised In a resolution introduced today by Senator Reed. Democrat, Miseouri, and adopted by the •enata SHOPMEN’S WAGE DEMANDS WASHINGTON. August 20i—DlrectorGmieral Hine® and representatives of the six railway shop crafts began discusetons today of to# shopmen’s wag^ demand® which recently caused »trlk''s In many parte of the country. It was said that Mr. Hines was working on a plan for the handling ef these and sTmilar demands from other unions affecting virtually all toe railroad principles. Details are expected to be announced in a few days.

columns are working. Hipolito Is Said to have a small bodyguard and to be seriously Ui Army offloers hers said

that It wks possible American troops mtatot get in touch with toe Villa bands while searching for bandits who held toe American aviators. Many bandits j

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