Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1919 — Page 10
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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1910.
CLOSING HOURS.
•«UI1 stores .11
lay, 8«pt«nb*r 2, for closing of the
will be reeunied—5:20
for the first fire day* of the k except the clothing store*,
i close a* « p m.
Saturday. September 5, hour* for stor«j that icon during the heated again be 6 p m. These be observed until further
^retail dtetrtct day Monday,
day. 1
majority of the stores -n the
win remain closed all September 1. Labor
SHOPMEN RELIED \i ON BY PRESIDENT!
SPEAKERS AT MASS MEETING
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statement* contained in the President’* ; | letter and the responsibility that must i j be assumed If a suspension of work ; I is to take place, your executive council ; S has decided that it would fail in ita I duty were It to authorize a strike until I i the membership has bad an oportunity f I to decide their course of action on this ■ j proposition.'*
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n WILL MM OWN LIST OF PRICES
e premises, i pledges wer f adjourned.
. I and several were made be-
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take in the
if aueh meeting
The Text of the Pledge. The pledge read* aa follows:
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"Owing to trade conditions resultfrom the war, the high cost of
which hi said to be the rethe increased demand and production, and unfair and owing to the increasing which require* that drastic be taken. I agree to observe a program of conuervation as
be outlined by the economic di-
of the Women * Council of Hautg. believing that by -rethe demand for certain ar-
ticles of drew and food, prices will
Other Workers Watch.
The view is very generally exoreseed here that the action of the 500.960
essf-o nfii- !
were
resolutions
vote:
citizens
eufter dally inconvenience and hardtween our family pocketbooks aifd
women
of our family neceasitle*;
We hear the big such necessities under Investigation lay upon
the blame for such disproaccuslng women of buying
much and too little;
is. We are not blind to the real abuses that big
icing in wilful and raw ma-
and of the deliberate sup-
pression of outputs which threaten to lower the market price on their
portion, ac< ‘n&r man/ of tl handlers a deat ruction ter 1 a isi ant
road ^>opmen that in about to be taken i win have an influence on the general labor situation. # The committee of I tito, repreesnfing the shopmen, re- ; alize this, members say. and for that j very reason it has cautioned the shopmen to think before they vote. If the: shopmen should vote to strike, the fed- t sral government, it is pointed out. hav- j ing taken a definite stand with respect j to the wage question, will, of necessity, j be obliged to see that the transportation syajgms of the country are not In-
terfered with. *
Samuel Clampers, president of the American Federal ton of Labor, who arrived in New York yesterday from Parts, is to see the President in the next few days, it \was said at labor headquarters today. Undoubtedly President Wilson intends to ask him to exert his influence on wsge workers everywhere to bold themselves to a conservdtfve course. There is the general feeling, that if the American Federation bor would exert its influence tobringing down the cost of living than toward pushing up wages. It would do the country a great serv-
i Ice. The organized part of the employes
of the United States Steel Corporation
1 is said to be watching the development*
here with keen Interest. „ The shop men will vote ’‘yes*’ or “no on the President's proposition. If the “noe#'* prevail the committee of 106 will be obliged to call a strike under the vote to stirke that was taken some time ago.
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Warren 8. Stone Agree*. Warren 8. Stbne, president of thf Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, today indorsed President Wilson’s stand on railroad wages, saying: "The solution of the wage problem, not only on railroads, but in all other lines of business, lies In a reduction of the living costs, not in increased wage*. For the last year oV so we have seen
leeung.
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rather
special products; therefore, be it "Keaolved. That the United State* senators from Indiana and the representative In congress from th* Fifth district be earnestly requested to hasten as much aa possible the disclosures of the real cguses for such intolerable conditiona. and to punish the person* guilty of such
pr " We*a*k*thelr full
■■■■■: . support for th#
Kenyon bill, aimed at the
suppres-
of such domestic piracy/'
Copies to Congressmen. The secretary was Instructed to forward copies of th# resolution to Harr^ S. New and James E. Watson, United senators from Indiana, and Everett Sanders, representative in the congress from the Fifth Indiana district. In which Terre Haute is situ-
ated. ■ j>
Perry 8. Douglass, prosecuting attorney for Vigo county, was one of the few men atte. ding the meeting, and was called on for an address. He Mid
office, as far aa the law made it was at the disposal of the and their committees in endeavflnd out whether profiteering «««». He added that he had attend-
__ previous metings for the same purpose as the meeting of the women. At the first of these, Mr. Douglass asserted, they had whitewashed th* wholesalers, and at the second the retailers, but he believed the women would be able to accomplish what the others had
been unable to do.
The prosecuting attorney called attention to the fact that he said unfair prices prevailed for the Mie of two commodities of life, ice and milk. He said that ice could be sold for 45 cents a hundred and good profit realised, and
said lie felt free to declare publicly that th* ice companies had made one hun-
dred per cent on their investment last year. and. In spite of this, had advanced the price this year to 55 cents a hundred. Thirty cents a gallon profit was being charged for delivering milk to consumers he said, and he did not believe this was fair. When questioned by one of the women as to what law would apply to bringing a reduction in these commodities, as well as other*, he said
that thfc law of publicity would accom^
'SOLS COUNTY OFFICIALS FOR S&OOO DAMAGES
INDIANAPOLIS FIRM IS PLAINTIFF AT EVANSVILLE.
LETTING OF ROAD CONTRACT
(Soecial to The Indianapolis News)
EVANSVILLE, Jnd.. August 27.-1 | Vanderburg county officials were j j sued in the superior court here late | * Tuesday for 525.060 damages, for | i awarding a road Improvement con- ; tract to Philip Euler, contractor and , formerly county treasurer of Vander- j l burg counts, and the court was asked 1 to c-njoln Euler from doing the work. ; The suit was filed by Smith & Truss- ;
j ler, an Indianapolis firm. # k Tt Y A a s m a r
DIVORCE RATIO GAINING.
fSpecial to The Indianapolis Newal BROWN STOWS, lad., Anguat 27. ——The number ef divorce on sea being applied for In the Jaekaon county circuit court, here, la inereaaiug at a rapid rate, having reached a ratio of one divorce case for every two marriage IIeensea Issued. Since the adjournment of the May term of eoart. twenty-two divorce suits have been filed. During the same period fortythree marriage licenses have been Isaued.
SCALES FOR PUBLIC USE
BOARD OF SAFETY REQUESTS
INFORMATION ON PRICES?
COMPLAINTS ABOUT WEIGHT
MAYOR WES SAURY
Continued from Page One.
Louis Winternheimer. John Koch | 1 and Walter Williams, county eommisI sioners; Willis Copeland, county auditor; Newton Thrall, county treasurer. I August Pfafflin. county surveyor. are the defendants named in the
suit. Smith & Trussler allege that i , , .
the county officials awarded the C on- ment I ranltin £ ^ patrolmen who have tract for the improvement of Slaugh- s * rve<i on * Y^ar, receiving 13.60 a day.
: ter avenue, in Knight township, on S i July 24, to Euler, although his bid was
i not the lowest.
f Accord.ng to their figures the In- f dianapolls company bid 326.044 and
The board quested the
of public safety has reclty purchasing depart-
ment to get prices on scales for use on
ket. Edward McGufT, chief
Amendment Provides Increase. The ordinance which thd mayor vetoed would have increased the salary
the local contractor J2T696. The of flrst year Patrolmen to $3.66 a day
the city mar*
inspector of the city weights and 'measures department, suggested to the board that three large scales might be placed at the three entrances of thf courthouse that would be available for use in weighing produce bought ffom
farmers.
Mr. McGufT reported that he has been receiving complaints from retail grocers. sundowners on the city market and i commission men that in buying produce ; by the bushel basket from farmers they do not receive the legal weight. They (.point out that when they in turn sell this produce by the pound, the pricepaid to the farmer for the "buaheV’ does not shoir a true basis for the resale price as there is sometimes a variaVon of five to fifteen pounds on the
"bushel."
The board of safety is making an Investigation of the feasibility of placing sales about the market to overcome such objection*. It Is pointed out that If such scales were available, the commission
lM«YsS\iSSi-p«»»a?«« mmmewm
; to make the improvement.' and j ment rat—.„«* ,. - „ that they were entitled to the work Srade firemen would be Increased from ™'® n ? «xcus* *<>]■ attributing part of because they were the lowest bidders a day to $3.«2 and the salaries of I Jr* ‘v? 8 * °. f Produce when retailed to The improvement was not to be | first-grade firemen and members of the J “'f, fact . t" 81 lb®!** ‘ bushels” were not made until this fall and it ts expected Police department ranking as patrolmen weight _ that the suit to enjoin Euler from do- w ould be increased from $3 SO a day to Farmers selling on the market genering the work w ill come up in court 86 aUy have smal1 scales, but when it during the September term. Two hundred and nineteen members routes to weighing a bushel or several
j —♦ . ..— t of the police department and 240 mem-
j hers of the fire department would bp
; affected by the increases.
wages advance, and have watchad living
Then we
coats mount to the new level.I have enjoyed another raise and then again cost* have approached and soon exceeded the new level. This situation ha* got to end. The remedy lies in checking the high cost of living. No matter bow high you make wages, living costa have demonstrated that they can climb as fast. In fact, take delight In ho
doing.”
DIVISION IN INDIANAPOLIS.
Some
Shopmen Favor Accepting,
Others Oppoee It
Local shopmen affected by President Wilson’s offer of an Increase In
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Q
SEATS RESERVED FOR WOMEN'S AU1W
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the nation, on nationalism and pure Americanism and will strike straight from the shoulder against the spread l of Bolshevism and of other insidious movements which threaten the nation. The legion ha* placed itself on record against the granting by the congress of
bonuses on the ground that it is placing patriotism on a commercial basis and
In the words of Theodore Roosevelt: ”We are not going to try to sandbag the government out of something; primarily we are going to try to put some-
thing Into the government.”
The speakers at the mags meeting Thursday night, Mr. Moorhead pointed out. are Indicative of the nonpolitical efforts of the legion. Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, is a Republican, and the son of former President Roos-
^ evelt. J. F. J. Herbert, of Mass-
wages of 4 cents an hour on a basis achusett*. is a Democrat. He was of eight hours’ work, and ten hours’ ' elected mayor of Worcester on the
pay, expect to receive the instructions from the International officers in Washington and take the vote in a
few days.
There ts much division of sentiment amdng local union nven, whether. to vote for the increase or reject the offer. \||B
Not Favored at Lafayette. [Special to The Indianapolla News] *
LAFAYETTE. Ind., August 27,-The proposal of President Wilson and Walter D. Hines, director-general of the railroads, that a 4-cent an (hour increase be granted all railroad shop employes, does not meet with favor among the employes of the Monon shops here. The 1,006 men affepted are awaiting word from their representatives? Wilmer J. Cahill and R. A. Davis, who are in Washington. It i^ expected that a
mass meeting will
the offer. Mechanics in the shops are
called to consider
now receiving, 68 cents an hour and are asking S> cents. Helpers receive 45 cents and are asking 60 cents an hour.
GENERAL
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had been f that city
turned
was better with labor preserved, for general
a v*i f-* a »i v i <
v n.m, plant Close. •They said It would the cannery going, some way to relieve i there, but with of sugar coming
a most difficult prohof the federal govern-
tfcfe can
the desired reductions.
Women Tell of Experlencea.
Several women told their experiences M to profiteering, among them, Mit* I Will McFarland, who formerly lived In California, and who has just returned from a long visit there. She Mid she was especially fond of beans, and objected to paying the preaent prices for them, in view of the fact, she alleged, that storage places in California were bursting with their stocks of beans that are being held to maintain the present high price*. She said she knew this to be true from her own personal observations. and that It was the duty of the authorities to seise such holdings and throw them on the market to bring reduced prices. Another woman Jold of a local grocer who paid 75 cents a bushel for tomatoes and retailed them for 15 cent a pound, or $9 a bushel. She was applauded loudly when she said that one didn’t hav# to go to Chicago or New York or St. Louts to find instances of
profiteering.
The meeting adjourned, subject to the call of the economic committee, which announced that investigators would at once set to work to learn the buying and selling prices of retail dealers in all th* commodities of life, and that the result would be made public so that the further plahs of the committee might be carried out. by asking the public to refrain from the purchase of army articles, the prices and profits of which
were found to be excessive.
Discused at Ft. Wayne. [Special to The Indianapolis-News]
FT. WAYNE. Ind., August 27.-Views of the shopmen on’ the federal wage offer were discussed when members of all railroad crafts on the night force met
in this city at 2 o’clock this afternoon
"mi-
in machinists' hall Although a discussion of considerable range was held, no vote on the question of whether the men
would go on strike was taken.
FARMERS DEFEND PRICES.
IARGER THAN GERMANY
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on the Volga in General Denikine’s territory. They report the capture of Kamishin on the Volga. 120 miles southwest of Saratov, and say that their forces are advancing toward Tsaritzln. 100 miles farther south on the Volga In the district northeast of Kamishin. the Bolshevik statement reports the reoccupation -of the towns of Boris-
f sogllebsk and Povorino.
* Another Bolshevik communication savs that the Cossacks of General Mamantoft broke through the Red armv, whose heavy masses closed behind them, cutting off their communication with
the antl-Bolshfvik forces.
KUN EXTRADITION DEMANDED.
merles going if
Plan for Public Safe.
Indiann polls' housewives who can y grape* and peaches and
f ? I
-demanded sugar. Mr.
the justice
1L. „• P thin feet taking the
* haa been ty of takij
ir department sugar
up In ten-pound It at Tomlinson j
promise to use Itl
In one carload inds. This would ten pounds each, turn the carload would give no
wish to can fruit, reached the grocers grocer would be sol
than a pound or at a time, and this
housewives who wisji
r more goo*! i-ik>und lots
Wyckoff is turning is whether It would j the 66,600 pounds tgular channels to make sales
or
ten-
proposed, on Way. showing
of sugar on the most of them from jobbers. Only two more t sugar prom-
Declars Cost of Milk to Consumers
at Muncle Not Too Hlgji. [Special te The Indianapolis News}
MUNCIE. Ind., August *7.—Delaware county organisations of farmers are protesting against (he agitation in Muncie against milk prices to the consumer. whi£h are 8 cents a pint or 14 cents a quart. The farmers receive from the dealers | 1-3 cents a quart, which the producers say is as low a figure aa they can sell it at a profit They do not regard the difference between that and 14 cents a quart too much for the distributor s gross profit, considering the dealer’s overhead expenses. The high cost of feed for cattle Is the principal cause of high milk prices, the farmers say. The Home Protective Association, of Muncie. with BOO members, has pledged Its members not to pay more than 10 cents a quart for milk In surrounding cities and towns the prevailing milk prices are 12 cents a
quart and 6 cents a pint
Hungary Calls on Austria to Deliver Former Communist Heads. BASLE, August 27.—The extradition of Bela Kun and his associates in the former Hungarian communist government has been demanded by Hungary from the new Austrian foreign office, according to a dispatch from Vienna.
MARTIAL LAW IN HUNGARY.
Democratic ticket and now is a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of his state on that ticket. Both men have demonstrated, Mr. Moorhead said, that In matters pertaining to patriotism and the legion they are capable of laying aside their political views and aspira-
tions.
Roosevelt's Stand* Recalled. Mr. Moorhead recalled that the St.
Louts caucus, held May 8. 9 and 10. stampeded in favor of electing Roosevelt permanent chairman of the caucus. Roosevelt repeatedly refused the office, but the caucus in a wild demonstration insisted over and over again that he accept. Roosevelt would not accept the office for fear the country at large might be misled into believing the legion could be used for the personal
advancement of certain men.
Mr. Herbert is the man, Mr. Moorhead said, who at the caucus refused to accept the recommendation of the committee to hold the national convention. in November in Chicago and in a speech that started a demonstration in which the banners of Chicago were torn
from the walls, said; .
“As the spokesman for my delegation on this question of the next meeting place I want to say that if no other body and if no other party of this caucus wants or believes it is its duty to rebuke any city or the representatives of any city for un-American-ism during the time when the soldiers of that city were offering their lives In defense of the world, then Massachusetts stands ready to offer that rebuke. Massachusetts will not agree willingly to have* a convention of soldiers una sailors in the great war go to a city that has as its flrst citizen, by vote, one who can not measure up in any small part when the test is 100 per
cent Americanism.
Women Urged to Attend. Mrs. Robert L. Moorhead, chairman of the woman’s auxiliary of the World War Veterans has urged all members and all women interested }n the organization to attend the Roosevelt meeting. The officers of the American Legion have issued a special invitation to mem-
bers of the woman’s auxiliary. Mrs. Moorhead has announced that reserved seat tickets are free to members and may be obtained at the Lieber art store.
Spends Day at Detroit. DETROIT, August 27. — LieutenantColonel Theodore Roosevelt arrived here early today, this being the flrst stop on his tour of the country i nthe interest of the American Legion of which he is one of the founders. It was ar-
JOHN F. J. HERBERT. Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, and J. F. J. Herbert, of Worcester, Mass., who will address former military service men at the state-wide mass meeting under the auspices of the American Legion, at Tomlinson hall, Thursday night. “Americanism and Its Relation to the Legion” will be the subject of the address of Mr. Roosevelt, and Mr. Herbert will speak on “The Ex-Service Man of Today.” Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Herbert are on a four weeks’ speaking tour of the middle western states.
ranged for Colonel Roosevelt to spend the day in various industrial plans studying methods of re-employing or re-educating returned soldiers, addressing the flrst rally of the Michigan posts of the American Legion at night.
' Bill to Incorporate Legion. WASHINGTON, August 27—A bill incorporating the American Legion, an organisation of veterans of the great war. was passed today by the house and sent to the senate.
CONFERENCE AGREED ON.
Taxi Drivers Will Be Heard by Board of Safety. Attorneys for taxicab drivers, who are contesting sections of the new traffic ordinance which regulates parking in certain specified streets, appeared before Judge Linn Hay. in superior court. Room 2, today. Counsel for the taxi drivers agreed with the city's attorneys not tp take a change of venue in the case from the city until they could confer with the board of public safety and tjie city council, concerning proposed changes in the ordinance. The temporary restraining order issued by Judge Hay. a few days a*go. for nonenforcement of certain sections of the ordinance relating to the taxi drivers, will be continued until an understanding is reached.
DRAMATIC MOMENT IN NEW PLAY
APPE1L TO PEOPLE
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cock, of Nebraska, senior minority member of the foreign relations committee after a conference with President Wilson. "V e are satisfied that the Shantung amendment will be very substantially beaten, said the senator. “There will he at least a dozen Republican votes against the Shantung amendment. Senator McCumber put the nail in its coffin. , t h ® N « bra8ka senator said he himself felt that the proposed trip of the President to the Pacific coast seemed more advisable now than heretofore. He said, however, that the President did not disclose his plans with regard to the tour.
$22,032 Added to Pay Roll. For the remainder of the year, the increases would add approximately $10,512 to the pay roll of the police department and $11,530 to the pay roll of the fire department. The ordinance vetoed would have become effective September I and the mayor flrst planned to have the proposed amendment become effective September 1 until his attention was called to the fact that a new pay roll is made up beginning September 11 and to have the increases go into effect between September 1 and 10 would cause a great amount of work In preparing the pay rolls with five days to be figured on the old basts and ten days on the new basis.
bushels large scales are necessary. The board also is considering the practicability of building several small houses
iu which to keep the scales.
SPIT2BERGEN TREATY READY.
Norway Gets Archipelago About Size of West Virginia. PARIS. August 27.-The Spitsbergen treaty has virtually been completed and probably will be before the supreme council for aproval this week. This treaty gives to Norway the entire tSviUbergen archipelago-territory equivalent K. 8 fl e V ^ est Vir k 1 nia. It is valuable chiefly for Its coal mines, developed by Americans, but now owned by Norwegians. v Russia. Sweden. Denmark and several other countries claimed Spitsbergen, but practically all of them have waived their claims, and it is expected that there will be little difficulty In getting all the great powers to ratify the treaty. Sweden seems to be the only country likely to refuse Its signature and the council expects to persuade It to give up its claims. The treaty will provide for the protection of the rights of ail Nationals having property in Spitzbergen.
BUSY ON AUSTRIAN PACT.
Supreme Council of Peace Body Holds Morning Sessions Only. PARIS. August 27.—The supreme council of the peace conference met this morning for the consideration of the treaty with Austria. The council will hold morning sessions only, as Premier Clemenceau and Foreign Minister Pichon will attend the discussion of the^ peace treaty in the chamber of deputies each afternoon. M. Clemenceau has decided that the cabinet must be present at every session of the chamber until the treaty is ratified. Charles R. Crane and Dr. Henry Churchill King, who went to Asia Minor in June as an American mission to investigate conditions In the near east returned to Paris today. They will report tomorrow to the American delegation on the Syrian situation and the next day on the conditions in the remainder of Asia Minor.
TALKS OF AMERICA'S DUTY.
Paris Paper Says Treaty Action Concerns All Europe. PARIS, August 27 (Havas).—The peace treaty will come up for discussion In the Italian chamber of deputies September 3, according to the Journal. The Figaro says it is the duty of America to ratify the treaty, because acceptance or' modification of it consems not only the United States, but the whole of Europe.
BELGIUM RATIFIES IT.
Senate Follow* Chamber in Indorsing
Treaty With Germany.
BRUSSELS, August 27 (by the Associated Press).—The Belgian senate yesterday unanimously approved the peace treaty with Germany. The chamber of deputies ratified the treaty Au-
gust 8.
New Proclamation at Budapest Ex-
tended to Whole Country
PARIS, August 27—Martial law, which was proclaimed In Budapest a
few days ago. has been extended to the whole of Hungary, according to a
W «V/ 1X7 ^#1. l .J * Ctl-V'-’t u Havas dispatch from Budapest.
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DEPAUW STILE WANING FOR GROSE STATEMENT
Continued from Page One. Columbus, O.. and. in which.
Carloads
The protesting part of the Muncie j letter says, the professor explained his public declares that not only* is the! beliefs. Professor Calhoun is underprice of milk to the consumer here ( stood to have been asked to resign at
’ churches that hav
iv e
tor the state fair possibility that to serve with eofcoming to
far too high in general, but that there is an unjust discrinminatlon in the price the purchaser of a pint must pay as against what the buyer of a quart
pays.
The dealers and farmers have on their side the support of J. F. Treasure. county agricutural agent, who says the present milk prices are fair.
MISS HIGBiE DEFEATED.
Clark and Kentucky State universities because of his views, previously to being considered for the DePauw place. Dr. Grose has two stops to make en ! route. Professor Calhoun is said to be in Pennsylvania now. Public sentiment \ here is strongly against Professor Calhoun and mauv men in all walks of life have expressed themselves as being opposed to his coming here, no matter what position he takes regarding the published letter. No official denial -has | thus far been made of the letter ac- ' credited to Calhoun by him or any
at New
to Mr. on the
sw York
be sent to fie moment, that reached rru
taken out.
penitentiary
Western Golf Runner-Up Eliminated associate.
by Unhearled Chicago Miss. Aroused at Prospect. DETROIT. August 27.—Miss Dorothy j According to the federal district attorHlgbie, an unheralded Chicago girl. | ney at Chicago, the photographic copy was the surprise of the second round of the letter and other evidence was
of the women’s Western Golf Association tournament here todaic. defeating Mias Frances Hadfield. of Milwaukee, runner-up In the western last year, 4 and 2.
submitted by & man, who had ac'cess to the matter and who was aroused at what he believed was an effort to
preach Bolshevism in leges and universities.
American col-
Goodrich Backs Cincinnati Reds for Baseball Honor
Relief Aimed for All. In his letter to the council the mayor
said:
"The question of adjusting the salaries the police department has been given careful consideration by the administration and the budget for 1920 provides for such increases as are deemed necessary’ to insure the men of each department a fair living wage under ex-
isting conditions.
"I realise that patrolmen in the police department and the privates in the fire department are confronted with an emergency which necessitates relief before the budget for the coming year will be effective. General ordinance No. 64 does not include patrolmen assigned as plainciothesmen, nor policewomen who rank as patrolmen. Neither does the ordinance provide relief for the private of the fire department. The same emergency confronts the members of the fire department and the other branches of the service receiving the same pay as patrolmen in the police department. I believe, in justice to other members of the police department who are now receiving the pay of patrolmen and who are doing the same class of work and in Justice to members of the fire department, an ordinance should be passed which gives relief to the members of each depart-
ment
Amendments Suggested. “Therefore. I submit for your consideration an ordinance amending Clause D, Section 3, under the heading, ’Police Department,’ and Clause E, Section 3, under the heading, ’Fire Force,’ which gives to all members of the police department ranking as patrolmen and all members of the fire department ranking as privates, the increase provided in the budget for 1920, to be ef-
fective September 11, 1919.
“If this ordinance is passed. It wfll give to patrolmen and firemen practlcal-
y the same increase as general ordinance No. 6-1 gives to patrolmen only. “In order that this relief may be 1m
firemen and policemen
and that it may be effective September 11, I recommend that the rifles be susnded and the ordinance be placed on
passage.”
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leave that out of your statement,” rejoined Senator McCumber. Senator McCumber said that as Senator Fall was prescribing for the conduct of senators, he should take some of his
own medicine, adding, “and you will take it before you are through.” His Excess of Patriotism.
Referring to statements by Senator McCumber that the committee had Intended to “slap Japan In the face.” and make trouble by the Shantung amendment. Senator Fall said he was “weary” of having his motives impugned and of the efforts of some to make t#»e na-
STET PA1G SPEIT FOR PROPERTY OWNERS
SOUTH, ILLINOIS TO ALABAMA, WOOD BLOCK; COST $32,000.
OTHER WORK IS CONFIRMED
The contract for the resurfacing of South street, from Illinois street to Alabama street, with wood block, wai> awarded today to J. H. Morgan A Son by the boar dof publle works at $1U‘‘ a lineal foot, a total of $32,312.47. The board Rescinded action on th# resurfacing of South street from Illinois street tq_ Kentucky avenue after property owners living in the street west of Missouri street filed a petition for brick instead of wood block. The board said that as property owners east of Missouri street desired wood block, they
would split the street into sections for ■■ * fin ii ii *1 ■* -uiair'^ i—
resurfacing to permit the property owners of the different sections to get tha
kind of pavement they desired. Resolutions for the Improvement of
th* following streets and atleye were conflremd: Washington street. Woodland drive to Wallace street, and Wallace street to Audubon road and Balmont avenue to Harris avenue; Rural street, alley north of Newton street to Southeastern avenue; South street, Alabama street, to Virginia avenu-j; College avenue, Forty-sixth to Fifty-first street; Thirty-sixth street, College avenue to Fairground avenue; Thlrty-thiid street, Senate avenue to Iliinois street: first alley north of Sixteenth street. Sixteenth street to the second alley east of Coyner avenue, and second alley east of Coyner avenue, Sixteenth strest to the
flrst alley north of Sixteenth street The resolution for resurfacing Blake
street, Washington street to New York street,'was postponed until September 3,.and the resolution for resurfacing Shelby street. Pleasant Run to Raymond street, was postponed until Wednesday to permit the board to make
further investigation.
FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR THE ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL
Wm. C. Bobbs Announce* Appointmonta—Will Not Be a Strong Arm Campaign, He Says. Organization plans for the Roosevelt memorial campaign, which will be conducted during the week of October 20-27, are rapidly maturing, says William C. Bobbs, state chairman, who today opened state headquarters In Room 207 Hume-Mansur building. Mr. B<%bs announced the appointment of a finance committee, .of which Albert Sahm, of Indianapolis, treasurer of the State Life Insurance Company, will be chairman. The other members of the committee
are:
Samuel M. Foster, Ft. Wayne; Isaac D. Straus, Llgonier; Walter J. Riley, East Chicago; William G. Irwin. Cofumbus; L, S. Bowman, Richmond; John A.
M. Adair, Portland; John J, Nolan, Evansville: William H. O’Brien, Lawrenceburg; Captain W. B. Gray. Covington.
“Thil
is will In no sense
arm’ campaign, as were the war drives
said Mr. Sahm. “It
y.
lie a ‘strongt ,.e war drives.”
will be conducted in
tion take the treaty “just as it came from the White House typewriter, with no more consideration for the American people than was shown the Germans when they signed at the point of the
bayonet.”
“If I err,” he continued. “I err sincerely. I err through an excess of patriotism. I err because I am an
TTlCil*! CStTl **
The declaration started a wave of handclapping in Jhe galleries which drew the usual warning from the chair. Referring to President Wilson’s recent
* .. „ , I reply to twenty questions submitted by
ervbodj s talking about the Reds, him, Beijator Fall said it liras his gen-
^ ot tlte Russian Reds, of course, but tlie Cincinnati Reds, the Reds who are setting the National .oeague on fire
with baseball.
Statements and statements have been issued about these Reds. They are almost as common as war office statements about the Lenine and Trotsky Reds. Governor James P. Goodrich is the latest fan to come out strong for Moran's Reds. _ Says the Governor, in a letter to August Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati National League base-
ball club:
“When a boy I used to go to Cincinnati and see the Cincinnati Red Legs play oali. Ever since I have been a consistent rooter for the Reds and have watched the ups and downs of this club with considerable concern. “As I see them headed toward the zoal, I feel like singing that good old Methodist hymn,
I Sm
This Is the way I long have sought. And mourned because I found it not.’ The Governor is very careful not to say who the winners in the American League will be. But he is certain that the Reds will be his choice in the world’s series.
WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
GEORGE SOMNES, GREGORY KELLY AND RUTH GORDON.
Here is an exciting scene from “Piccadilly Jim,” the new Guy Bolton and P G. Wodehouse play, which is being presented by the Stuart Walker company at the Murat this week as a farewill attraction. Gregory Kelly as Piccadilly Jim and George Somnes as Alan Copies are each learning that the other
is not the English peer whose name he has assumed. Cootes is threatening to smash a tube of powerful explosive if Piccadilly Jim tries to prevent him from leaving the house. This is the only bit of melodrama in the piece, which is a comedy of the sort that Wodehouse and Bolton have made popular. Amusing lines sufficient for several comedies have been crowded into the piece.
Mary Evans, Drug Store Owner, Was Under Arrest on ‘‘‘Tiger” Charge. Mary Evans, who has a drug store at 2463 Martindale avenue, attempted to commit suicide late Tuesday afternoon after she had been arrested on a charge of operating a “blind tiger.” members of tne morals squad reported. Sergeant Ball and patrolmen Dean and Reilly, who made the arrest, were telephoning for a patrol wagon when the woman went to the rear of her store and attempted to drink the contents of a small bottle of poison, according to patrolman Reilly, who said he knocked the bottle from her hand before she had swallowed all of the poison. She was sent to the city hospital where her condition is reported pot serious. Th woman had sold a drink containing Jamaica ginger to a man giving his name as Henry Mall, 2660 Columbia avenue. before she was arrested, the police
said.
elusion from the President’s response that Mr. Wilson was so obsessed with the idea of getting something like “the shell of a league of nations” that he could not give attention to details of the treaty or even the details of the covenant, adding that parts of the treaty were construed differently by both the President and Secretary Lansing. Senator Fall defended vhe committee * action, declaring the document contained. a great mass of detail regarding future* European boundaries and peoples. that the committee should know
about.
Alluding to the President's statement that full trade relations could not be resumed until ratification of the treaty had permitted the return of the AmerVan consular officers to Germany, Senator Fall said the Spanish consular agents were looking out for American Interests there "apparently just as effectively as if we had rstored our own consuls.”
a reverent spirit and it will be assumed that each contributor will deem it a high privilege to do honor to this distinguished American. No one will be urged, but all will be invited to participate. It is my understanding that the monument to be built at Washington and the national shrine to be established at Oyster Bay should represent small contributions from millions of Americans rather than large contributions from a comparatively few.” The state headquarters will be In charge of Carl B. Fritsche, of Indianapells, as campaign director. Mr. Fritsche was active in organization work for the state council of defense during the first year of the war and later was national field organizer for the United States employment service under the department
of labor.
SCHOONER BLOWN UP.
Survivor* Say Elmer Roberta Wa*
Loaded With Ammunition.
YARMOUTH, N. 8.. August 27.--' Twelve members of the crew of the four-masted auxiliary schooner Elmer Roberts arrived here today and reported that their ship, loaded with ammuni-
tion caught fire and blew up at sea.
695 tons net.
The schobner. a vessel of
was owned in Lawrence, Tex., and was returning from Bordeaux to New York on her maiden trip. A lamp exploded in the engine room at midnight Thursday and the flames spread so rapidly that the crew had only time to escap* in one boat, losing all their effects. The* crew commanded by Captafn Jorgensen. were In the boat until 6 o'clock Saturday night, when they were picked up by the fishing schooner Roseway, of Yarmouth, 110 miles southeast of Cape
Sable.
Soldiers Now in Europe. But that, the senator said, seemed to have been overlooked'by the President in his plans to establish the league of nations. Under the President’s policy.
Senator Fall continued, American soldiers "now are spilling their blood” in
Europe and the American people did
not even know it.
‘<1
How long are outraged people to be compelled to submit to. a dictatorship
- Ha M
in this country?” he demanded.
REPLY IS SENT TO MEXICO.
United States Answers Troop Pro-
test of Carranza.
WASHINGTON. August 27.-The American government's reply to Mexico’s protest against the dispatch of American troops into Mexico In pursuit
Af bandits who held two American serious. The aviators for ransom was sent forward U if £1 Ft nYl tl fl fit ttlA
today. It was announced at the state department. Officials declined to discus* the conten* of the note, saying that it probably would be made public tn Mex-
ico City.
TO CONTINUE SALES.
Springsteen Receives Letter in Re-
gart^to Army Food.
J. I. Blaksiee, fourth assistant post-master-general, has written to Robert Springsteen, postmaster, authorizing him tocontinue the sale of the -surplus army food until the supply has been exhausted. The only commodities remaining of the allotment to the Indiana-
polis postoffice are canned corned beef,
corned bee
beef hash, roast beef and bacon. The last of the canned baked beans were sold today. The sale of the canned meats is continuing ateadiiv so tl\at another week or two will probably ace the last of the allotment in the hand* of
customers.
RAIN DRENCHES COURTS.
National Tennia Play at Foreat HMIs Delayed by Downpour. * FOREST HILLS, N. T . August IT.— Rain drenched the courts of the Went
Side club thla afternoon and the open
ing matches of the second round „ national tennis singles were postponed
until later in the day.
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