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SHERIFF INDICe BY GRAND JURY
Robert F. Miller, of Marion County, Charged With Neglect of Official Duties.
SIX OTHER MEN ARE NAMED
Report Condemns Foe System, and Urges Changes in Equipment and ‘ Management of Jail Robert F. Miller, sheriff of Marten county, was indicted by the comity grand jury today on a charge of neglect of his official duty. Indictments also were returned against five men formerly employed as jailers and guards at the jail ami one man who formerly was a federal prisoner st the jaU. The namei of these men were not
SMALLEST FREIGHT TRAIN
(Spea&l to The Indianapolis News] NEW ALBANY, lad-. April 17.— Carry lag sisraala aaS raaaJajr der orders rrweiwcd Croat the trots dispatcher's offiro at lllooasia^rtosu probahlp the sssallest (rehsht traia ever raa over the Meeea railroad autdr • trip peaterdap Croat Brooas Mill to thla eity aad retara. It was dispatched to the relief of a crew of teletrraph Iteeasea teasporarflr at Broota Hill, who had emhaaated their fael sapplr* The traia waa eaaipaaed of a aeetioa saapr's pash ear, eoapled to a saaoMae saota^^prepelled Its ad— ear, aad was atsaacd hy a rettalar ceadacter aad capiaeer. With orders to take eertata stdia^s for awettatt polats. the little traia asade the raa of tweaty atiles to this eity, loaded a toa of coal ta Sachs oa the paah car, aad retarded to the UaeaMa's smarter*.
ARE GETTING BUSY
Politicians of Old Guard School Interested in Having Chicago Convention Deadlocked.
BIG PLAN TO BLOCK WOOD
Emisssriss of “Backroom Confer dnoe” Tiptoeing Around Country With instructions to Faithful.
POWER DISCONTINUED; 1,11 ARE OUT OF WORK
public, as they had not been
- immediately after the re- COAL • H ORTAOE FORCES PLANT
AT NOBLESVILLE TO ACT.
port of the grand jury. They are charged with assault and battery on prisoners at the jail; permitting gambling at the jail and permitting prisoners to escape from custody. The grand jury, in a comprehensive report, recommended many changes in the equipment and
at the coun-
ty jail, as well as legislation to abolish the fee system for feeding jail prisoners. The names of the other men indicted win not be made pub-
lic until they are arretted. Hr. Miller, when told of the Indict-
msat that had been returned against him, said he had no etatement to make at this time. Later, he aaid.
he might make s statement. CJapiae Delivered to 1‘oreaer. The grand jury capias for the ar-
rest of Miller was delivered to Dr. Paul K. Robinson, coroner, the law providing that such papers be served on a sheriff by the coroner of the < ounty. Millers bond la Aasd at fl,9#9. He had not been arrested this afternoon and it waa understood the arrest would not be made until
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MANY FACTORIES CLOSED
The ladJaaapelis News Bereaa.*
SS Wyatt Balldlas
WASHINGTON, April 17. —As the date for the Republican national convention approaches thg men who {think they are the real candidate- | makers are getting busy. Some time ’ago the gentlemen who make up I this group let it be known that act cording to their sense of things the I results of the presidential primaries ,in some twenty-two states would not count for much after the “or-
ganization” took a hand.
A somewhat indiscreet representative of this group also made the boastful observation that a few mem Kms-rn A# SUa «■»****• * all ^W
[Special to The ladianapoUa 5ew«] NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. April 17.—All factories In Hamilton county that use siectrtc current for power suspended operations Friday evening at the request of the NoblesviUe Heat. Light
and Power Company.
The power company ia short of coai on account of lack of transportation caused by strikes of railroad switeh-
„-m.. i, n * M V certain that the convention will men in various cities, it can not keep b« coll , e deadlocked. A deadlocked its plant in operation longer than the convention is necessary to the success first of the week unless mors csal Along with a dead-
... locked convention they must be able thrown « u » to co “ nt . ? n th « ultimate control of of employment when the following | ***7*^®
bers of the party wouM. In all probability. assemble in a back room in Chicago at the opportune stage of the convention and pick the candidate.
Favor -Mtsed” SI toot lea.
These clever politicians of the old guard school who are perfectly willing to select a candidate for the 1.000,000 Republican voters are at tho present stage of the proceedings Interested first of all in creating a situation “so mixed” as to make it reason-
ably certain that
STONE AGE STUFF
onday. Bonds fixed in the charges Inst the six other men range from
1500 ta $1 .Oi “SgljSL'
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Those men will be
sheriffs.
rt was subfollowing an nearly two toff followed ral court rerisonars, who fold n that gambling nera was permitted, bv O*-* Jailers; f E>nera wxa of »t could not
received
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concerns closed down:
U nion Sanitary Manufacturing Com -1 pany. American Straw board Company. Pennell-Dull n Lumber Company, Neher Lumber Company. O. E. Talbert A Son Lumber Company and Noblesvilla Milling Companv. Jiitcr plants that use electric power previously
had shut down.
The supply of gasoline in Noblesville has been practically exhausted. Retail dealers are selling gasoline only to physicians and motor truck operators. ^ ;; y - OSE EMBARGO REMOVED.
Evansville ftbtppera Handicapped.
Mawever, By Aew Restrictions. (Special to The Indianapolis News)
EVANSVILLE. Ind., April 17.—The Chicago A Eastern Illinois railroad announced today the removal of the embargo on dressed poultry, butter and eggs for all eastern points, Including New York. It ia Impossible for the Big Pour railroad to make con sections with eastern < roads, according to Samuel D. McLefsh. general agent, and the road will not accept shipments of dairy products for livery to points beyond its own
ng of an embargo on Indianapolis by the C. A
tlvlty
day. has curtailed of shippers here.
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subictments, exlinst Miller would be *. The law pro1 to tho suprems MkMMB of a pubwere imrmltted. unice pendby the eight “ and trough court explained.
iron now In prisoners with the other prieof
of the Chicago,
estern railroad to accept _ it at HUlodale made such acnecessary. officials of the C. A E. Evansville and Indianapolis r on the C. A E, I, which was off early in the week because strike of the awitchmen at >, will be put on again w jt, it has been announced, of embargoes on southern iv# begun to pour Into local Freight is refused now when
Uned for Ft. Worth. Shreveport or
Many Evansville manufacare dependent on certain cities In the south for raw material.
IMPROVEMENT
Strike
AT MANCIE.
Situation Easing and Some
Coal la Arriving.
(SpedalAo The Indianapetts News! MUNCIE. Ind-, April IT.—Continued improvement in the genera! situation here ta shown as a result of the easing of the railroad workers* strike, although there Is fear that some facmay have to close for a short e of inability to get empty it cars and raw materials se coal is coming into Muncie. but gasoltno supplies are still short. No set rationing system has been adopted, however. SHORTAGES AT GMBBNSBURG. 1 jBWftioim m| SMidb CsM»#llMC —Sngrar Price le SS Cents. (Special to The Indianapoha New*] aRKENSBURO. Ind, April 14.— Shortage of gasoline, due to the freight tieup following the railroad strike, has made Itself felt In Greensburg, and dealers are selling only three gallons to a customer. Greensboro also ia facing a sugar shortage, and sales are limited to one pound to a customer. Cane sugar ia selling at retail at 3t cents a pound. Continued on Page Two.
RAIL EMPLOYES IN 'OVERALL" MOVEMENT
MEN AND WOMEN ADOPT STANDARD UNIFORM.
SIX MONTHS’
HU!
°* tylvania
AGREEMENT
125 men and women in the
^Kfat freight offices of tbo Fun-
railroad in Indianapolis
joined the “overall" movement today. They adopted a standard uniform consisting of blue denim overalls with blue shirts and black ties for the men and -coverall- aprons of blue calico
and a for the women.
Those who are “In on** the agree-
ment have until Saturday. April 24. to buy their uniforms and begin wearing them. The agreement bolds
ood for six months from that day. In the office of the freighthouae the employes voted to wear uniforms both week days and
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win'bY
and coveralls will be worn
in the gensver. Several
in the
, ^ . overalls I to wear the united by their fellow-em-off hours on week days at one of the downtown ores were quoted at from
Emissaries of the men who expect to be present in the back-room conference 'on or about the fourth day of the convention” are now tiptoeing around the country whispering instructions to the faithful. Several of them have been in Wakhington this week conferring with Republican senators who belong to the inner
circle.
Polltlelaaa % toft Capital. That gracious aii<i astute politician. Joseph B. Kealing. of Indianapolis, was among the week's caiters. He came with the goneral plan of tho elder statesmen with its special adaptation to the Indiana situation. Former Senator W. Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, also dropped In during the week.* and former Senator John W. Weeks, also of Massachusetts. who is living here temporarily, attended moat of the conferences of the week. Bojse Penrose, senator from Pennsylvania. aboard his pHvate car en route from Florida to Philadelphia, uncoupled his car at the Union Station long enough to enable him to dictate a statement in which he fell in with the general plan of the group that expects to “do the best thing for the parly after studying the situation at Chicago.' Some leaser lights were in during the week getting instructions from the men at the top. What Self-Selected Seek. The more Important instructions of the professional candidate makers mro these: | See to it that no candidate gets too far In the lead. There Is always danger of an aspirant becoming the band-wagon candidate. Put every obstacle within your reach in the way of progress sf Leonard Wood. He is the one man that most endangers our program. Accept results in presidential pr4ference primary states gracefully even though they .nay not be to our liking, bat see to It that In choosing district delegates and detegates-at-large. men who will take orders from the inner circle of the party are chosen. This la the most important thing to keep In mind. Favor uninatructed delegates wherever such an outcome ia a possibility bat be sure under all circumstances, instructions or no instructions, that delegates are hand-picked. No New Political Invention. This la no now Invention of the professional politicians. The plan is as old as the Republican party or as the Democratic party. It has generally been applied successfully to national conventions. The one thing in particular that menaces its success at the present time la the existence of presidential preference primary laws in twenty-two of the forty-eight
states.
The gentlemen of the Inner circle, however, are confident that they have hit on a rather happy solution of the situation that confronts them as the result of so many statva having pres-
Continued on Page Two.
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MUNCIE MAN IS KILLED WHEN TIHS TRUCK
SON PROBABLY FATALLY HURT IN CROSSING CRASH.
GUARD GATES WERE RAISED
[Special to The Indianapolis News] MUNCIE. Ind., April 17.—Arthur B. Bishop, age forty-seven, an employe of a local baking company, was killed and Walter Bishop, age twenty-four, his son, is thought to have been fatally injured, when a bakery delivery truck in which they were riding was struck at a railroad crossing in the eastern part of the city early today by a Big Four\ passenger engine. The crossing is guarded most of the time by safety gates, operated from a tower, and the accident happened about five minutes before the tower man went on duty. The elder man was hurled about twenty feet and died before the arrival of the ambulance and physicians. Walter Bishop is suffering with a broken back and internal injuries It is believed that the men. seeing the crossing gates raised and thinking that it waa the time of dky that the safety gates were being operated drove on the track without looking for a train. Arthur E. Bishop until recently owned and operated a grocery and meat market here. He waa delivering bread to groceries when the accident happened and his son. who is employed in a local foundry, was assisting his father. Mr. Bishop is survived by a widow, his son and his mother, Mrs. Margaret Bishop. Walter Bishop is married. MINERS TAKE HOLIDAY.
AT‘PASSING THE BUCK’
REFUSES TO RELIEVE STATE COURT IN HUDGINS CASE.
LECTURE FOR OFFICERS
TOLEDO INDUSTRY GETS WAGE HEARINGS BEGUN
READY TO OPEN PIANTS
STRIKE BROKEN AND WORKERS RETURN TO YARDS.
All Shafts la the Bfekaell Field Are Reported Closed. fSpecial to The Indianapolis News) TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. April 17 — Reports to the headquarters* of the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association here indicate that all mines in the Btcknell field were closed today, the miners there demanding that Saturday be made a holiday to make up for their loss of a six-hour day. In the Clinton field, Miami mine No, 10 is closed on that account and others are reported working with reduced forces.
THOUSANDS HAVE BEEN IDLE
a covemus wi 11 k bv emnioves It
W Pi
Continued on Page Two*
TOLEDO. April 17.—With the etrlke of switchmen having come to an and. the men beginning to report for work todas, manufacturing plants that have been closed by the strike made plans today for resumption of industry. The plant of tho Willys-Over-land Company, the closing of which threw more than 10.M0 men out of work, will resume Monday, it is un-
derstood.
Breaking of the strike at this time will avert many other business suspension. in Toledo and surrounding territory Many of the plants had planned on shutting down at the close of the working day today. Resumption of freight traffic, it waa said,
would prevent this.
It was forecast in both railroad and labor circles today that every striking switchman in this district would return to work before nightfall. A mass meeting was to be held today to ratify an offer made by the Baltimore
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BY NEW lAOOR BOARD
TRAINMEN'S REPRESENTATIVE FIRST WITNESS HEARD.
Judge A. B. Anderson, of the federal court, does not intend to use the authority of his office to relieve local officials of the responsibility of
enforcing state laws.
His attitude was set forth emphatically Friday afternoon when John G. McNutt, of Martinsville; Elmer Bassett, of Shelbyville. and Oren 8. Hack, of Indianapolis, counsel for Thomas J. Hudgins, of Martinsville, appeared before the court in sapport of a suggestion that a penitentiary sentence be imposed on Hudgins In the federal court, so that the "ends of justice" might be met without further prosecution of a case pending against Hudgins in the Johnson circuit court, taken from the Morgan circuit court on a change of venue. Hudgins, who was a member of the state senate in 1017 and 1019, was taken before Judge Anderson. January 30, when he entered a plea of guilty to the charge of sending obscene and lascivious letters through the mall. The defendant is sixty years old, and the evidence was that he sent the letters to his ward, a nineteen-year-old girl. She is the plaintiff in a case based on statutory charges, now pending in the state court. This is the case which the attorneys desired to drop. Judge Anderson took the federal charge under advisement when Hudgins pleaded guilty, and the defendant has since been out on bond.
Letter of Klvett.
The suggestion in regard to the two cases was set forth in a letter written to Frederick VanNuys, United States district attorney, by 8. C. Kiv ett, assistant to the prosecuting attorney of Morgan county, and indorsed by Orla W. Smith, the prosecuting attorney. This letter suggested that Justice would be satisfied If Hudgins were to receive a penitentiary sentence in federal court and that in event such a sentence were Imposed ~the prosecuting officials of Morgan county could see their way clear to set aside the case pending against Hudgins in the state court.
Judge Anderson tossed aside after he read it.
•They want to pass the buck. That’s the term. I believe, passing the buck. That’s what they want to do, isn’t itr’ he inquired of the district at-
torney.
Mr. McNutt started to protest
LEONARD WOOD FINDS RAIL TRAFFIC IMPROVING.
SEES NO I. W. W. ACTIVITY
CHICAGO. April 17.—Leonard Wood, who broke off an eastern speaking tour to return to the central department headquarters because of the strike. left last night for Nebraska after announcing that he found traffic conditions improving throughout the department. He said army intelligence officers had found no evidence of connection between tne strike and I. W. W. activities. Attorney-General Palmer Wedneeday declared reports from his department linked the •illegal” switchmen’s walkout with Industrial Workers of the World plan for "one big union” and a nation-wide walkout. Military intelligence officers had been unable to find any connection between the two. General Wood said. “L ^ 1 ^. v,nK for Nebraska, and probably will return Sunday,” he said. General Wood added that he would remain on leave for the present as nothing in the situation hers made necessary his presence at department headquarters.
Republican Primaries la Delaware. DOVER, Del., April 17—Delaware Republican primaries were held today. The state convention will be held here Tuesday. Delegates were to be elected from every “hundred,” corresponding to voting precincts in cities. The state will send an uninstructed delegation to the national convention.
the letter
Continued on Page Two.
SESSIONS AT WASHINGTON
Railroad Company, and ln-
HVHplt -jrs~ tem. that the men return to duty pend-
ing adjustment of their grievances. It is understood that the strikers will insist against discrimination, and that the promised wage adjustment
will be made promptly.
Railroad officials declared today that Toledo was nearly 50.000 cars of freight behind its regular shipments. It was pointed out by them that necessities would begin to move imme-
diately.
The strike of switchmen began here
April S.
»w Industrial l stversfty Opens. AKRON. O., April 17.—With an enrollment of 5,700. the new Goodye&r Industrial University, the first of its kind, was dedicated here today. The classes, which are free, offer 33.900 courses to employes, ranging from America fixation work to postgraduate studies for college men and
women.
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Hearings on the wage demands of the country’s 2,900,000 railroad workers were begun today by the railroad labor board with W. N. Doak. vice-president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, presenting the employes* case. R. M. Barton, of Tennessee, who failed to arrive in time for the first meeting yesterday, was present today as was A. O. Wharton, the other absent member. , Temporary offices have been established by *he board in the Union Station and hearings probably will be conducted there for two or three weeks, when the board expects to establish permanent headquarters in Chicago. Permanent Organisation Effected. Permanent organisation of the railroad labor board was effected today with the election of R. M. Barton as permanent chairman and the appointment of C. F. Carrithers as secretary. Mr. Carrithers ia now secretary of adjustment board No. 1 of the railroad administration. E. H. Fitzgerald, president of the Brotherhood of RaUway and Ship Clerks. Freight Handlers. Express and Station Employes, and J. h. Pruett, of New York, representing the Master Mates’ and Pilots’ Association. appeared before the board on behalf of steamship clerks and firemen in New York. Mr. Fitzgerald said the New England Steamship Association had refused to give striking employes their old Jobs and that the men now were subject to a virtual lockout. ]
MEYER-KISER STOCKHOLDERS ARE INTERESTED.
LOCKERBIE STREET HOUSE
TO FINANCE AUTO BUYERS
Articles of incorporation are being prepared for the Meyer-Kiser Corporation, a financing organization to have a capital stock of 11.599,000. Its purpose will be the financing of the buying of automobiles and to engage in a general mercantile loaning business. Although much of the stock will be held by the stockholders of the Meyer-Kiser Bask, It Is understood that it is to be a separate organization. Sol Meyer, president of the MeyerKiser Bank, although declining to discuss the details of the new organization. said it is planned to file articles of incorporation for a new financial corporation with the secretary of state either late Saturday afternoon or Monday morning. Divisfo* ef the Stock. The capital stock of the incorporation. it is understood, is to be divided Into 21.999.999 preferred stock and 2509.999 common. No dividends are to be paid for three year*, but all the earnings of the corporation are to he used to retire the preferred stock. After the three-year period a certain part of the earnings are to be Continued on Page Two.
Sale of Riley’s Old Home to Citizens Approved by Court Order. A court order approving the sale to a committee of Indianapolis citizens of the house in Lockerbie street in which James Whitcomb Riley lived during the latter part of his life, was issued by Judge Mahlon E. Bash in
probate court today.
The property was sold for 28,500, the sale being made by the Union Trust Company, administrator of the estate of Mrs. Magdalena N. Holstein, who owned the bouse. Announcement of the sale was made last October. It is understood the committee plans to have the property preserved as a
memorial to the poet.
Mr. Riley lived with the Holstein family for a number of years, but he did not at any time have an interest in the house where they lived. The property was own4d by Charles Holstein. and later hy his widow. Mrs. Holstein died In October, 1912, and her will provided that her housekeeper, Katie Kinder, should have free use of the house for three years. Proceedings to sell the house were not begun until the three-year period had
elapsed.
MEXICAN TROOP MOVEMENT Request for Panage Through V. 8. i s
With War Departneat.
WASHINGTON. April 17.—Senator Knox (Rep.. Pa.) told the senate to day that he was informed that the state department had refused the re quest of Mexican officers for a per mlt to transport troops through American territory to move against anti-Carranza forces in Sonora,
YARDMEN VOIE NOT STRIKERS IN EAST Tl
Ballot Taken at Labor Temple After One Failure to Obtain Action on Proposal.
DECISION IS UNANIMOUS
President of Association Assorts Msn Aro Mors Determined Then Ever to Remain on Strike.
The Indianapolis Union Railway, the belt line, this afternoon issued an ultimatum to the strikers that they must return to work by 7 a. m. Monday or lose their status as employes of the road. Members of the Indianapolis Yardmen’s Association, the organization composed of striking switchmen in this city, voted today not to return to work. This vote was taken at a meeting at the Labor temple, following a meeting at the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen in the Saks building, at which union officials had sought to obtain a vote from the association
men present.
At this proposal, howsver. leaders of the striking forces called on their men to refuse to vote at the brotherhood’s headquarters, saying that any such vote should be at the Labor Temple, where all-day meetings of the association have been held during the strike. The decision there was unanimous to remain out until wage
demands are granted. Speakers representing
unions, including John F.
the regular
g John F. McNamee,
editor of the Firemen’s Magazine, talked to the switchmen in the Labor Temple later in the day, urging them to return to work and not to disrupt organised labor’s only stronghold, the unions. Frank J. Peters, president of the Yardmen’s Association, said the men were more determined today than ever to hold out for their de-
mands.
Reno and Hartman Speak.
It had been hoped by officials of the brotherhood that following a meeting Friday evening at Moose hall in which the switchmen were urged to return to work a favorable vote on the proposal could be obtained today. Charles Reno, general chairman of the grievance committee of the Big Four, and U. D. Hartman, secretary of the general grievance committee of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, spoke to the men at the meeting in the Saks building, in an attempt to have a vote taken. Officers and other leaders in the association, however, advised their followers to reject this plan, and the reply to all arguments was. We will go to work when we get 38 per." The session was attended for the most part hy members of Local 291, although some of the Big Four men, who "belong to No. 374, were present. Railroads of Indianapolis continued to handle freight today in about the same way they have for the last two daya Railroad officials said they have enough switching crews in the yards to handle all freight on the tracks, which, because of strike conditions in other cities, is below
normal.
Rain Interferes With Trucks. Because of the rain Friday not so many motor trucks left Saturday with freight as on other days of ths week. In several places in the state the roads are too soft for trucks, and in other places trucks have been held up by a gasoline shortage. Tom Snyder, secretary of the transfer division of the Chamber of Commerce, says that he has about 100 tons of freight scheduled that will be sent out as soon as the roads become dry. Mr. Snyder said shippers are not pressing for delivery at this time because of a belief that the strike of the switchmen is near %n end. Legal Methods Urged. At the meeting Friday evening at Moose hall, called by the four railContinued on Page Two,
Road Officials Say Ultimatums Havs Broken Ranks of “Outlaw” Railmen.
NEAR NORMAL IN THE WEST
Chieago Yardmen** Union, However, Sticks to Demands and Adds New Onee to List.
First He Learned the Price
(Special to Tbs Indianapolis News] LAFAYETTE, Ind.. April IT.—Roseoe Sarlee, an automobile race driver, who Is entered as a driver at the Memorial day race at Indianapolis, took part In aa exciting clash at a dry cleaning establishment hero today. Before going to the dry cleaner’* he called at a local newspaper office aad asked a friend what wsald happen to him if ke chastised a maa who needed tt. He was told he might ke daed from fl# to $25. Paries’ story was tkat tke manager of tke dry eleaalag estabHakment kad refused to give klm several garments, wklek ke kad left tkere to ke cleaned, and kad made ft accessary for klm to engage a constable to recover his goad*. Soon after Paries left the newspaper office a telephoae rail Informed a reporter tkat tkere was a lot of excitement la front of a local dry cleaning establishment. Sarlea bad made gaod his threat. No arrests were made la the eaae.
CHICAGO, April 17.—Hope for immediste settlement of the rail strike here today apparently was lost st noon when the grand lodge officers, directors and trustees of the “outlaw” union reiterated their original demands, and added new ones to the list. It was reported when the leaders of the insurgent organization went into session that they were planning to advise their men to return to work. NEW YORK, April 17.—Railroads reported that strikers began returning in small groups to their posts at noon today, when the milroad managers’ ultimatum, threatening to open their books for a period of twenty-four hours for men seeking re-employment and reserving the right to refuse to reinsUte strikers ’’considered to have proved unfitness for further service” expired. The executive committee of the strikers characterized these reports as “utterly false.” and in a slatement issued in Jersey City, where the strikers were meeting, declared the men would not return “without a genuine assurance of increase in pay," Live Stock Embargo Lifted. All roads, with the exception of the New York, New Haven & Hartford, where employes continued to walk out in groups of three or four, announced that men were returning and passenger service was approaching normal. The Pennsylvania announced that the embargo on 'Shipments of live stock had been lifted. All the roads reported movement of freight Increasing. Milk and mail train schedules were said to be normal, ✓ Railroad officials said the return of the men was due to a large extent to the ultimatum of the railroad managers. The Central Railroad of New Jersey and other lines issued a statement saying that most of the returning strikers had been reinstated. Tronble Makers Turned Away. Some strikers who were active in acts of violence and Intimation were turned away. Several lines have partly lifted the embargoes on freight. Movements of food into this city greatly improved in the last twenty-four hours, and the danger of a shortage in foodstuffs was said to have passed. Potato Crop to Suffer. The freight embargo on various railway linee In New Jersey, dug to strike conditions, has held up many shipments of seed potatoes to New Jersey 'farmers from outside points and consequently the summer potato crop, on which many other states rely, probably will be greatly reduced, it was announced today by Alva Agee, secretary of the state department of agriculture of that state. New Jersey farmers, he said, would lose hundreds of thousands of dollars because of inability to plant on time. One thousand striking switchmen and shopmen at Camden, N. J., today voted to return to work pending adjustment of wage demands by the railroad labor board. The «yclsion was reached at a meeting during which there was great excitement, a number of the* strikers bitterly opposing abandonment of the strike. The men were employes of the Continued on Page Two.
WEATHER jNDIICATIONS. UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU. Indianapolis, April 17. 1020. —Temperature—
tbs. ■■ _ Senator Knox said later privately that be had taken his information from the New York Sun, which said the American government "will not grant permission” for the transporting of Mexican troops across United
States territory.
An hour before the senate met the state department announced that the Mexican request, which had come from army officers and not the government. had been referred to the war department, which had It under
consideration.
THREE BURNED TO DEATH. New York Yaektmea Die la nr* at Pori Cttatoa. O. PORT CLINTON, O., April 17.Three men were burned to death and two others seriously burned today f n a fire at the Matthews Boat Company plant here. The dead men were E. Gove. M J. Roy and L. Pearce, all of New York city. W. McFadden, of Clayton. N. Y., and C. J. Frederick, of Buffalo, were badly burned. The men were visiting yacht men and were asleep in a boathouse.
OPERATING DENISON HOTEL
Smith Brothers la Charge Durlag Leaae Negotiations. It was announced at the Denison hotel today that the hotel will not be closed pending negotiations between W T B. and H. J, Smith and the heirs of the Erwin estate, owners of the building, to take over and operate the hotel. The brothers are owners of the Stubbing and Lorraine hotels. Crawford Fairbanks, owner of the Denison hotel, had announced that he would close the hotel today and give up his lease the last day of April. The Smith brothers, after the announcement, obtained an option on the furniture and opened negotiations with the Erwin heirs to continue the operation of the hotel It is understood that the two parties have not agreed on the minimum time the lease is to run. The Erwin heirs wish to make the lease terminats on notice after
nine months.
MRS. F. J. SHEPARD RESIGNS Gaits Y. w. C. A* Hoard mm Retmit at Paltry Caatraversy. CLEVELAND, April 17.—Open warfa r* over tke future scope of the work of the Young Women’e Christian Association, which impended yesterday when the national board voted to start a campaign for improved conditions for women workere broke out at today's session of the. nations! convention when Mrs. Finley J, Shepard, for»rly Helen Gould, of New York, ten deren her resignation ae a member of tho board. !
' April 17, 1919“ 7 a ® i» m 39 2 n. m 38
April 1*. 1920. 7 a. gt 40 12 m. ft.’t h, 1* ♦ *
—Barometer— T » m *
. 20.78
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—Local
Forecast— :[
' Local forecut for Indianapolis and vicinity for tha twesty-fottr hours ending 7 p. m . April 18: Increasing cloudiness, probably followed by rain lats U^iight aad Sunday not much change in temperature. Forecut for Indiana: Increasing cloud.nms. probably followed by Spin tonight and Sunday: somewhat wanner in mdmne south part. t Forecast for lllinoia: Increasing cloudiness with rain tonight and Sunday: warmer tn south part tonight. f Forecast tor Kentucky: Probably showers tonight and Sunday; somewhat wamsr. Forecast for Ohio: Cloudy tonight and Sunday: probably rain Sunday: cooler tn extrema southeast part tonight,
—Precipitation—
Amount of precipitation for twenty-four Sours ending 7 a. m . .95 Total amount of prodpitatlon sines January 2. 1920. S.S5.
since January 1. 1920. ASS. —Weather in Other CU**»—
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