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15-CENT INCREASE IN WATER RATES COMES WITH 1920 Additional Charge to Add sl2ofioo to Company’s Annual Revenue. Increased water rates oecame effective In Indianapolis to ay as a result of an order of the public service commission granting the petition of the Indianapolis Water Company for higher rates. The average Increase to flat rate consumers will be 13 cents p month. It is estimated that the increased rates will net the company from $120,000 to $130,000 additional revenue a year. The order changes twenty out of the 130 specific rates of the company. The following table shows the change In rates: FLAT RATRS Present New rate per rate per annum, annum. Bath private family $2.75 $3.25 Dwelling, 1 or 2 rooms.. 2.30 2.5 Dwelling of 3 rooms 3.25 3.5<> Dwelling of 4 rooms 4.00 Dwelling of 5 rooms 4.5<' Dwelling of 6 rooms 500 .N) For each additional room. .75 .JO HOSE USE. Per Per season, season. For a lot 20 feet or under.s3.Bo $4.00 Each additional foot over 20 feet 07 .10 METER SERVICE. Per Per 1.000 1.000 gal. gal. First 7.500 gallons, monthly.. .16 .18 Nest 15,000 gallons, monthly. .155 .17 Next 22,500 gallons, monthly. .15 .16 Next 45.00*) gallons, monthly. .12 .15 Next 410.000 gallons, monthly .07 .OS Next 500,000 gallons, monthly .06 .07 Over 1,000.000 gallons, monthly .055 .06 WATER CLOSETS. Per Per annum, annum. Private water closet $3.00 $3.50 Public water Additional water closet, private 2.00 2.50 Water closet In boarding house 5.00 6.00 The order of the commission asks that maintenance of the water system be brought up to normal and that the company file a report of Its earnings for Feb. 1, 1921, in order that the commission and the city may keep informed as to its needs and the efTeot of the increase. The commission points out that the increase was not opposed.

NEW HAS QUIET DAY IN PRISON Mother and Half Sister Spend New Year With Prisoner at Murder Trial. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Jan. I.—Harry S. New, Jr., whose trial for the murder of Freda Lesser is nearing Its close, spent New Year’s day as he arent Christmas day—in his cell In the county Jail. So far as known, New made no New Year resolutions and there was not the semblance of holiday festivity in his cell as there was last week when he was showered with gifts and spent the day with his mother, Mrs. Lillie M. Burger, and half sister. Miss Edna Clancy. Both Mrs. Burger and Miss Clancy called early and spent the day with New. He received a few cards from friends and ate a home-cooked meal brought by his mother. His attorneys would not permit him to be seen. When the trial Is resumed tomorrow the alienists who examined New for the defense still will be on the stand. As each Is asked ,a hypothetical question several thousand words long, their testimony is expected to drag. It was rumored today that Mrs. Alice Lesser, mother of the murdered girl, will likely attend the trial again before Its close. She expressed a desire to be present when Miss Clancy testified, but her health did not permit. HANGING‘LESSON’ SHOCKS WOMEN Move Started to Prevent ChiJ cago Prison Staging Grim Exhibition. CHICAGO, Jan. 1.--Cbteago club women are preparing today to prevent a “hanging party" announced by First Deputy Sheriff Harry C. Laubenhelmer as a “lesson" for 200 prisoners at the county Jail. Raffalo Durrage, sentenced to be hanged tomorrow for the murder of Onofrio Garhano and his wife, Mary, Is to be the "horrible example” In Laubenhalmer’e unique lesson. According to Laubenhelmer’s announced plans, more than 200 prisoners held on various charges are to witness the execution of Durrage. "I know from experience that anyone who has witnessed a hanging never will deliberately kill.” said Laubenhelmer. “The prisoners will be kept, in cells but will be placed so they may view the execution. I’ll 4ji:p.rantee every one will be sick of crime after seeing Durrage hanged.” Miss Mary MacDowell 'of the University settlement, who is taking the lead in preventing the “lesson” being driven home in this manner, today declared- the Idea “shocking.” "I am surpnfaed such a thing couldb be considered,” she said. “It would have a very immoral effect upon any criminal’s mind and Is wholly unnecessary."

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CHICAGO, Jan. 1. —She’s a man or rather, he’s not a woman. in other words Abbie C. Wisler, alleged candidate for the republican presidential nomination in the South Dakota primaries, is a husky male living in an unpretentious section of Chicago. Incidentally, he is gun- ... joker who notified the secretary of state in South Dakota that ... to run for president.

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Prince Cables Best Wishes to Guard WASHINGTON. Jan. I.—The memories of princes are proverbially but not invariably short. On his desk today, among New Year’s cards, veteran state department escort for visiting royalty and who personally watched over the safety of the prince of Wales during his recent visit to the United States, found this message: "Bill Nye, Department of State, Washington, D. C. “Happy New Year to you. (Signed) “EDWARD P.” WOMEN SHRIEK, GLASS FLIES, AT WATCH PARTY Host to New Year Welcomers Admits to Police ‘Somebody Started Something.’ PRINCIPALS IN FIGHT Persons living in the Burton apartments, 821 North Pennsylvania street, heard the old year pass out amid the din of flying glassware, overturning furniture and shrieking women. The police arrived in time to interecpt two women and two men who were in the street near the building and who, the police say, admitted having been in the apartment of Mrs. Helen McKinsey at the Burton. One of the women said she was Mrs. McKinsey, and explained to the police that she had given a watch party at which there was about a dozen

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persons. When Sergts. Sandmann and Jones and Detective Stewart entered the building they found two of the windows in the front door out. As Sergt. Sandman lifted his heavy foot into the hallway it struck a small object. It was the heel of a woman's fancy slipper. ELECTRIC LIGHTS TORN DOWN. It was dark in Mrs. MoKinsey's apartment and the electric lights refused to respond to the pressing of a switch button. The lights and the telephone had been put out of commission, the police say, and the entire place bore evidence of what they claim was a free-for all battle. The floor was strewn with glass and the furniture was in disorder. An empty champagne bottle, still bearing the fragrance of wine, was found, the police sav. They say there was a whisky bottle almost empty on a table. McKinsey admitted that there had been a fight in the apartment as the climax of the watch party, according to the police. A certain "Mr. Sawyer started the trouble,” they were told. The persons halted in the street near the battle scene gave their names as Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martin, rural free delivery 29, box 90, and Walter Zoller. 1454 Laurel street. The police say that Mrs. McKinsey had evidently been struck in the face, as her nose had been bleeding. Mr. Martin, the police say. had a scratch on his face. Zoller’s hat was missing. POLICE TAKE DESCRIPTION OF CARS. In front of the building a Buick automobile was standing, while across the street was a Nash. Martin told Sergt. Sandmann that Mrs. McKinsey would lock up the apartment and would accompany him and his wife to their home in his car, the Buick. They left the scene, supposedly for rural route No. 29, but the police claim they later heard from the machine at the Consolidated garage, 928 North Pennsylvania street. The same officers were sent there on a report that a man bad knocked down one of the garage employes. They met William Gay, a negro employed at the garage. Gay said the Buick car had been brought to the garage and a few minutes later the Nash car had driven up. The police recognized the description of the two automobiles as those they had seen earlier in front of the Burton apartments. They had made a note of the license numbers Gay said that a man who was in the Nash automobile had struck him without provocation. Gay was told to swear out a warrant for the man who had struck him. Both machines had disappeared when the police arrived. TROOPS QUIT STRIKE AREA Indiana Harbor and Neighboring Cities No Longer Under Martial Law. Martial law has been declared at an end in Indiana Harbor, East Chicago and in the industrial war zone within a radius of five miles, by a proclamation of Gov. Goodrich. Martial law was declared in this district early in October shortly after the state troops took over the district daring the steel strike. State troops were withdrawn Nov. 1, but martial law continued with militia officers in charge. The proclamation has no effect on the Gary district, where federal troops are in charge but where martial law has never been declared.

bitter opponents in that battle of perpetrating the hoax which has been cluttering up the Wisler mall box with official documents from South Dakota for the last few days. “We’re plain Jewish people,” said Abbie's mamma, “and we don’t like such foolish business. Abbie does not want to be president.”

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CITY USHERS IN NEW YEAR IN QUIET WAY Little of Boisterous Merrymaking of Former Years in Evidence. BOOTLEGGERS HARD HIT Indianapolis brought in the year 1920 quietly. Aside from the shriek of whistles, firing of pistols and cries of persons attending dances and watch parties there was little of revelry. The second dry New Year’s eve was very much dryer than the first. Some of the members of the midnight crews of former years loitered around hotel lobbies in hope that something familiar might show up. A few minutes after midnight most of the "gang” started soberly home. The quietness of this New Year’s eve can be explained in several ways. Most Indiana people who formerly welcomed the now year in a bibulous way were out of liquor and were not willing to run the risk of drinking something which might turn out to be wood alcohol. There is an honest fear that a flask handed out in some alley by a stranger might contain an everlasting sleeping powder. Whisky was priced at $20 a quart and the demand at that figure was said to be disappointing to those who are still taking chances. FEWER DRINKS THAN EVER. It's one safe bet that never in the history of Indianapolis nave there been fewer intoxicated people than this NewYear's eve. Besides the high prices of whisky, which was said to prevail last night in a few distant spots, the report circulated early that many federal agents and detectives were on the job. If a man had any private stock he kept it at home. A few “hip pocket buffets” were noticed about but these were quickly emptied and New Year's quickly came and went. A few Juveniles were able to get a "snort” or two of something and they immediately set out to advertise the fact. Three lads started down South Illinois street arm in arm, one rather sadly under the weather but apparently tickled over the fact. They received the best laughs when they knocked over a couple of sign boards. One lad with flushed cheeks said, “I wish they would arrest me.” The younger made merry dancing and eating at some of the downtown hotels. The biggest crowd was at the Claypool hotel, where the management started out early, suppressing anything that looked like a flask. OFFICERS WATCH HOTEL CROWDS. Uniform policemen were in the lobby of the hotel and private and city detectives mixed freely with the crowds. Younger people were noticeable in the crowds, but there was little of the boisterous roistering of former years. A few rather elderly men got enjoyment out of patting on red and white paper clown caps and blowing tin horns. The Washington hotel had a good crowd in the downstairs grill. The Severin was a deserted place, having an nounced there would be no special amusement provided for the evening. Taxicab drivers report that the night was quiet and that everybody seemed to be able to get home by themselves. At the Columbia club there was a New Year's eve supper and dancing in the hall room. A large crowd attended the dinner dance at the Independent Athletic club. The Academy of Music entertained many of its members at a supper which (Continued on Page Two.)

DATA TO SHOW MINERS’ H. C. L. Statistician of Labor Body to Present Facts to President’s Wage Commission. Carefully compiled statistics which will go before the coal commission named by President Wilson will show that prices of staple food and other necessary articles in small coal mining towns are higher than in the great cities of the country, Percy Tetlow, statistician for the United Mine Workers of America, declared today. In many isolated towns the only store is the company store, he says. When butter sold for 80 cents a pound in Chicago it was 99 cents in many mining towns, he asserts. Officials at headquarters of the United Mine workers of America here feel cer tain that the convention which meets in Columbus, 0., Jan. 5, will ratify the action taken in Indianapolis in ending the coal strike. The Inquisitive Reporter Every Day He Asks Five Persons, Picked at Random, a Question . TODAY’S QUESTION. What’s the best resolve the United States could make for the new year? WHERE ASKED. In Ohio street between Illinois and Pennsylvania streets. THE ANSWERS. 1. Mary Neil, Stenographer, 706 North Meridian Street —Resolved, that we start "doing things for America and let the rest of the world take care of itself for a little while. 2. G. O. Frenkel, Printer, College Avenue—For everybody to settle down and do some real work this year. 8. N. E. Easton, Automobile Mechanic, West Indianapolis—To cut the high cost of living. 4. Peter D. Kraft, Merchant, Detroit, Mich.—To ratify the peace treaty. 5. George T. Vinson, Soldier, Ft. Harrison—Clean up Mexico$1,000 Bonus Each Given 1,000 Salesmen NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—A New Year’s bonus of $1,000,000 was distributed today by the H. W. Johns-Manvtlle Company among its sales force. One thousand men will average $1,000 each.

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WILL PROTECT WAR GUILTY Germany Seeks to Avoid Delivery of Arch-Huns to Allied Justice. BERLIN, Jan 1. Germany will make every effort to limit the surrender of her war guilty, it was learned today. The government, beneath the surface, is making desperate attempts to have the allies modify as far as possible the question of delivery and trial of war criminals, according to information here. Herr Von Simson, German representative in Paris, has presented the German arguments to the peace conference. The surrender of Field Marshal Von Hindenburg and Gen. Ludendorff, it was pointed out, would be sure to raise such a storm from their following that the government would be in grave danger. The government also fears, it was said, to enforce order to quell demonstrations it feels certain any extensive delivery would incur. Von Simson, it was understood, had advanced all these arguments clinching it with a statement that dealing with the government toward peace is certainly more important than leading to trial any of the former German leaders. TROTZKY SLAIN, SAYS REPORT Rumor Circulates in Finnish Capital—Baltic States Negotiations Off. BERLIN, Jan. 1.— An unconfirmed rumor that Leon Trotzky, colleague of Nicholai Lenine in the bolshevik government, has been murdered, is in circulation at Helslngsfors, according to a report from that city today. Peace negotiations between the soviety government and the Baltic states at Dorpat are said to have been broken off. Rebellion his broken out among the bolshevik troops at Narva, 100 miles west of Petrograd, according to another report from Helsingfors. Bolshevik artillery Is reported to he violently shelling the city with shrapnel. Lazy Husband Act First Arrest Cause Fred Haboll, 46, of 1924 Bellefontaine street, was the first person arrested in Indianapolis in the year 1920. He was arrested at 3:20 o’clock this morning on a warrant charging him with being a lazy husband. The affidavit was sworn to by his wife. Patrolmen Coleman and Kennedy made the arrest. The second arrest of the year occurred ten minutes later when Liege Ratcliff, 59, of 1025 Blaine avenue, was taken at Massachusetts avenue and Pennsylvania street on a charge of drunkeness. The arrest was made by Patrolmen Barmfuher and Ball. After midnight and up until 8 o'clock this morning no women had been arrested. First Woman Judge on Job in England STALYBRIDGE, England, Jan. 1.—The first woman magistrate to preside in a police court in England took her seat on the bench here today. The mayoress, Mrs. Ada Summers was sworn in and heard cases.

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Greatest Parole Record Trails Goodrich into 1920 James P. Goodrich, the “pardoning governor of Indiana," exercised executive clemency in behalf of more convicts in the year 1919 than did Govs. Marshall and Ralston in the entire eight years of their combined

terms. His record for tne year 1919 was al-, most as great as for the two years previously, and the combined total of his interferences with the courts of the state in dealing with criminals in the first three years of his term is approximately ten times more than that of any governor Indiana ever had before him. The extent to which Goodrich has released convicts in the state of Indiana can only be conjectured. There is no public record that contains all the instances of his favors to convicted criminals. Hundreds of convicts have been

BOOST SUGAR PROFIT MARGIN Retailers Allowed 2 Cents a Pound, Wholesalers 75 Cents Per Hundred. New margins of profit for wholesaler and retail dealers in sugar are in effect today. Stanley Wyckoff, fair price commissioner, today sent letters to all county fair price commissioners authorizing them to increase the profit per pound to three-fourths of a cent for wholesalers and 2 cents for retailers. Margins of profit heretofore have been .65 of a cent a pound for wholesalers and 1 1/2 cents for retailers. The embargo on shipment of sugar by eastern refiners to points west of Pittsburg, Pa., was lifted today. This may mean that shipments of granulated sugar will reach Indianapolis soon. Wealthy Michigan Lumber-Man Dies MUSKEGON, Mich., Jan. 1.—Thomas Hume, multimillionaire lumberman, died here of pneumonia early today. Hume returned to this city from Florida to spend Christmas with his family. He was stricken with pneumonia shortly after arriving. He was 71 years of age. During his life he gave upwards of $30,000,000 to charitable Institutions. Mrs. Emogene S. Hare of Noblesville Dies Special to The Times. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. 1.—Mrs. Emogene Stevenson Hare, 60, wife of Elbert M. Hare, one of Noblesville’s leading business men, died at her home in this city late yesterday following an illness of two years. The husband and three sons, Frank, Willard and Albert, survive. The deceased was prominent in church and charitable work. Make Your Own, Lose Your Home ST. PAUI Minn., Jan. 1. —“Make your own and loi warning off, agairfct home brewers. Lai oJ^jropertry wly-rs i h

freed from the penal institutions of Indiana on nothing more than the telephoned request of Goodrich that they be released and there is no record to which the public has access that shows the number of such instances. In the office of the secretary of state there is an indexed record book showing the executive's actions that have been placed on record by Gov. Goodrich. It shows that clemency was extended to (Continued on Page Nine.)

LEMCKE MOVES IN AMID REJOICINGS Jazz Band, ’n Everything on Hand When New Treasurer Assumes Duties, Ralph Lemcke moved into the county treasurer’s office today. The occasion was one of ceremony and rejoicing, for Mr. Lemcke succeeds Edward G. Sourbier, who is not looked upon by certain of the republicans as being politically just as he should be. Mr. Lemcke also had defeated Henry Cochrane, Mr. Sourbier’s chief deputy, In the last primary. Consequently a victory was celebrated when the new treasurer took office. A victory celebration would not be Just right without music. Hence, three gentlemen of dusky hue appeared to provide the music. One played an elaborate series of drums, one a cornet, and the third a piano. In fact, it was what is generally termed a “jazz" orchestra. They made the halls of the court house ring, much to the edification of the brethren assembled, and the annoyance of persons in circuit court, where a trial was being conducted. Assembled for the celebration was the usual crowd that gathers around a political headquarters. In fact, the office is a sort of political headquarters, Mr. Lemcke being city chairman. The crowd was the usual outfit who appear in the list of “messengers” in reports of campaign expenses. Most of them came from the neighborhood of the “avenoo.” Bert S. Gadd, 2130 Prospect street, and William D. Allison, 1655 Park avenue, became members of the board of school commissioners, taking the places of Herbert Foltz, 1847 North Delaware street, and Theodore Stempfel, 1564 Park avenue, whose terms expired yesterday. The new commissioners will serve two. years. George Williams stepped into the newly created office of executive secretary of the board of public safety. He leaves the office of clerk to the board vacant. The board will fill the vacancy later. Gilbert H. Hendren, one of the democratic members of the state industrial board, retired to take up business affairs. He was one of the members appointed following the last session of the legislature, when the... pointed. Leo K. began his

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SPEEDING CAR CAUSES PANIC IN BALTIMORE Six During Fusillade of Bullets in Downtown Section of City. ESCAPES AFTER CHASE BALTIMORE, Md„ Jan. 1.—In the wildest orgy of New Year's shootings in the annals of the Baltimore police department, six persons, four girls and two young men, were shot, one of them seriously, at an early hour today. The shooting occurred at Baltimore and Howard streets, in the very center of the downtown hotel and theatrical district, and the shots were fired, it is alleged, by men in the uniforms of soldiers, from a high-powered automobile which, following the shooting, sped west on Baltimore street, soon outdistancing its pursuers. More than a dozen shots are said to have been fired. CAUSES PANIC AMONG CROWDS. The injured persons were returning to their homes from a New Year's eve party when they were fired upon. Hundreds of persons were in the vicinity at the time of the shooting and, terror-stricken, fled in all directions. The police were given a good description of the automobile and are scouring the city and its environs in an effort to apprehend the assailants. FOUR OF INJURED SENT TO HOSPITAL. The injured included Miss Lillian Brataman, 17; Miss Elsie Smokier, I8; Miss Fannie Rosenthal, 19, and- Joseph Brocker, 16, all of whom were sent to the Mercy hospital. The other two persons wounded received a treatment near the scene of the shooting and were sent to their homes In automobiles. TURK FUTURE KEPT SECRET Allies Have Made Decision, but Refuse to Make Known Details. LONDON, Jan. 1. — The future of Turkey has been fixed by Great Britain and France, but the details are as yet an official secret. Conflicting unofficial reports were in circulation today regarding the fate of Constantinople and'.the future seat of government. According to one report the sultan will be allowed to remain in Constantinople and the city will remain the seat of the Mohammedan religion, but political control over the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles will be vested in an international commission. The alleged decision to allow the sultan to remain in Constantinople, not as ruler of Turkey but as head of the Mohammedan faith, and thus the spiritual leader of some 100,000,000 moslem subjects, most of whom are in the British empire, was said to have been largely influenced by the belief that removal of the caliphate would involve India In turmoil. Tho Turks’ fangs are removed, however, through amputation of their political influence from a world standpoint, and by freeing all the races which heretofore have been subject to Turkish misrule. Great Britain has already set up the king of the Hedja to dominate Arabia and the Syrian Hinterland while coastak Syria and a bit beyond goes to France. Armenia, both as to frontiers and government, is the uncracked nut. With the United States unwilling to accept a mandate, the European powers are in a quandary, for they hesitate to rush further into liabilities. A mandate for a land barren of natural resources and natural wealth has few takers.

SEVEN IN RING FOR PRESIDENT Five Republicans, Two Democrats File Petitions in South Dakota. PIERRE, S. D., Jan. 1.—Five republicans and two democrats are officially in the race for the presidency of the United States. Their names have been filed with the secretary of state of South Dakota and will appear in the following order on the primary ballets In March: Republicans—Miles Poindexter, individual petition; Leonard Wood, convention majority proposal; Frank O. Lowden, minority convention proposal; Hiram Johnson, individual petition, and Abbie C. Whistler, individual petition. Democrats—James Gerard, minority convention proposal, and James O. Monroe, individual petition. No declaration of acceptance or rejection was filed for President Wilson, who received the majority endorsement of the democratic state convention. Nothing was filed for Gov. Lynn J. Frailer of North Dakota, who received the nonpartisan convention indorsement. Physician Held in Murder Case LOUISVILLE, Jan. 1,—Dr. Christopher Schott, 42, was bound over to a grand Jury here late yesterday in connection with the death by shooting of Elizabeth Ford Griffin, 17, his office attendant Bail of $8,000 for the physician's release was furnished. Fireman Injured in $100,000 Blaze CHICAGO, Jan. 1. - A $100,000 fire early today threatened an entire block in the warehouse district. John Felkner, a fireman, was seriously injured by falling glass. Crawfordsville Man Sought Here