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JOY-RIDING TAXI TURNS FLIP AT RIVERSIDE PARK Two Girls Hurt, Two Men Escape Injury and Another Arrested in Accident. BOOZE CAUSES SMASHUP A joy ride of the pre-dry day variety ended disastrously at 2 o’clock this morning on a lonely road west of Riverside park. Two women were painfully injured, one man is under arrest and two men escaped injury in the crash which ended the party. The taxi in which the five were riding turned over on the Cold Springs road, a half mile north of Thirtieth street. The taxi crashed as hard as if it had been kicked by “white mule,” which, the police said, filled an important role in the party. When the police reached the scene the machine was badly wrecked. Their diagnosis of the case was that it first had swerved from the road and hit a big boulder, a piece betng chipped from a large stone along the road. Tl T BNED OVER SEVER.iL TIMES. The automobile apparently then jumped back on the road, chose a path leading down a steep hill instead of one into Riverside park, turned over three or four times and landed at the bottom of the hill in a heap. Mrs. Frances Hinton, 24. of 421 East New York street, was taken from the wreckage suffering from severe injuries to her head, neck and hip. Mrs. Pearl Butler. 19, Linden hotel, suffered bruises and sprains. The male escorts escaped injury and gave tbelr names as Bruce Campbell, 23, of 53*5 South L*rover street and Harry Y'an Arsdall, 19, of 850 West N'ew York street. Wilbur Matlock, 29, of 464 Massachusetts avenue, employed by the Y’ellow Taxi company, Is under arrest on a charge of operating a blind tiger, drunkenness and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor. He was slightly hurt. SUPPLIES BOOZE TO JOY RIDERS. Matlock supplied the liquor for the party, the police chajge, giving as their Rource of information the men of the party. They gave Matlock $8.30 to buy liquor, and he purchased a pint of white corn whisky, also known as "white mule,” the police said. A bottle almost empty was found in his pocket, they'added. While Police Sergeant Houston was investigating the accident, Capt. Reed learned from the taxicab company that they had sent another automobile to the scene of the accident. The automobile had taken all victims to a rooming house at 421 East New York street. Lieut. Bail was sent there to investigate and he was at the rooming house when Sergt. Houston and his squad arrived. Wheu Sergt. Houston and his squad arrived at the scene of the accident, all the victims had been taken away. The police received first information of the accident from the husband of Mrs. Butler, who called at his hotel and said his wife had telephoned him that she had been injured in an automobile accident on the Cold Springs road. Tie asked how serions the accident proved to be, and the police investigation began.

WAR CHIEF AIDS ARMENIAN PLEA Relief Work Spurred by Native General’s Appeal. Workers of the Marlon County Near East Relief organization returned to their task with renewed rigor today as a result of the strong appeals made by Gen. Mezrop Azgapetian. an Armenian who served with the Russian army In the war. at the T. M. C. A. big meeting at English's theater yesterday afternoon and at Roberts Park M. E. ehurcb last night. Team captains, workers and committee officers of the county organization met at the T. M. C. A. today to lay plans for following up the advantage gained through the general's eloquent plea. Gen. Azgnpetian declared America Js the only friend starving Armenia can turn to in the whole world. He told of the exploits of the Armenian soldiers in the early days of the war aDd of their stubborn courage in "carrying on'' after the bolshevistic plague had destroyed the Russian army. It was Armenians, the speaker said, who kept the Turks from the rich Baku oil fields, on which Germany depended for fuel. The Marion county committee has undertaken to save the lives of 2,000 Armenian orphans. 29 BANDITS DIE; TOOK 17 WOMEN Mexican Troops Execute Captives After Mine Town Raid. HERMOSILLO, Mexico, March I, Twenty-nine members of the band of brigands who raided the Camp Los Torres mine last week and abducted seventeen wives of Mexican miners were summarily executed Sunday following their capture by Carranza troops, it was reported here today. Fifteen of the kidnaped women were rescued. Two died as the result of brutal treatment they received. Twenty, eight of the bandits were shot and their leader was banged to a tree. Wood and Poindexter Arrange for Debate CHICAGO, March I.— Leonard Wood and Sexibtor Poindexter of Washington have arranged a joint debate to be held March 20 at Pierre, S. D., Wood campaign managers announced here today. Wood will make a second tour of South Dakota, it was announced. Wood speaks this afternoon at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, following an Inspection of Camp Custer. He will speak in Detroit tomorrow and In Battle Creek Wednesday. McNamara Mentioned for Labor Portfolio LONDON, March I.— T. .T. McNamara, M. P„ financial secretary of the admiralty, probably will succeed Sir Robert Horne as minister of labor, if Horne Is advanced to the post of president of the board of trade to succeed Sir Auckland Geddes, the Daily Mail said today. Geddes, it was understood, probably win depart soon for Washington to become ambassador to the United States.

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Know a Good Joke? Here’s Your Chance to Go to Show Free Lew Dockstader Wants to Get Two Best Laugh Producing ‘Lines’ in Indianapolis. Big gobs of soap and water were being applied to Lew Dockstader’s face when a Times' reporter entered his dressing room at Keith’s. Lew was washing off the redness of bis nose as he held out his wet and slippery right hand to the visitor. His big figure was covered with a comfortably-sized pair of B. V. D's. ‘‘Excuse my appearance,” said Dockstader, as the last red stain left his stage nose and that member became natural again. “I am not a ballet dancer, as I have too much bay window.” We laughed. “Where do you get your jokes, Lewi”' the reporter asked. Dockstader glanced toward a little carry-me-a round typewriter. “I knock out many of my Jokes on that machine, but some jokes come from the people I meet.” “But what I want is some good local jokes to pull.” said Lew. UNION STATION JOKE BEST BET. “What's the best joke you ever cracked* Lew? The one the people have liked the best?” Lew wiped his hands in silence a minute. “I remember my minstrel days," he said. “We had a joke that always knocked them cold. No matter where we were, the union station Joke always laid ’em cold.” “The joke ran like this: 'Say, Mr. Bones, what has become of Noah's ArbV’ And Mr. Bones would say, ‘I don't know.' The end man would shift around, face the audience and say, ‘They are using it for the union depot In this here town.’ ” Lew even laughed when he repeated It. Lew Is using one of the latest jokes on Lis Keith's audiences here, which he has Just pounded out on his typewriter. ,C\_ 7^ M x He uses it on his encore and he always gets many of those, this veteran minstrel man. AND HERE’S HOW lIIS LATEST GOES. Lew drawx out his watch, looks at it! and tells bis audience that he in invited to a banquet and so must not tarry in [ front of the curtain too long. "It's going to be some banquet,” declares Lew. "It’a a banquet in honor of Admiral Sims, given by Josephus 'Daniels.” And everybody laughs. In being reminded about his minstrel days, Dockstader said: “We actors used to howl and kick about the mlnstrei parades at noon. But, gosh, they did me a world of good. After sleeping in a close stuffy sleeper, T would crawl out, get into the parade, breathe in the fresh air and the scent of delicious home-cooked grub. It was those parades In my minstrel days that gave me mv fine health of today. No Joking, that’s the truth.” HE’S LOOKING FOR GOOD JOKES. As the famous mlnstrei man and humorist began adjusting bis tie he said to the reporter: “I want to get hold of the two best Indianapolis jokes. I want 'em sent in HERE’S rOOR CHANCE/ SEND jSfct'TUr'/i dcas) A GOOD ONE- C? IN fO LEW. i1 and I will read them from Keith's stage on Thursday night.” Lew has hundreds and hundreds of jokes, but he wants the two best Indianapolis Jokes. So, get busy. Write 'em out. Mr. Dockstader and Manager Eggleston of the Keith theater of Indianapolis will give a pair of seats each to the winners for Thursday night. Write the jokes out now. Send or bring them in to the Dramatic Editor of The Times. All jokes must be in the office of The Times by 9 a. m. next Thursday. (let the best joke out of your system. Send it Id at once. Lew will pick the winner. Political Jokes are excluded. Pennsy Army Officer Dies in Koono Mutiny HARRISBURG, f’a., March 1. —Lieut. 1 Samuel J. Harris Jr. of Harrisburg died in the government hospital at Riga ffom wounds received in helping suppress a i mutiny at Kovno, Russia, according to , word received by his mother here. He ' was attached to the American Lithuanian ' brigade. Noted Jurist Dead NEW Y’ORK, March I.—Justice Philip Henry Dugro of the New Y’ork state supreme court died here today.

‘I Can’t Think of Any thing But My Dead Boy, ’ Says Marshall CHICAGO, March I.—Walking through the lobby of a hotel here, a newspaper reporter chanced to see Vice President Marshall and asked him for an interview. The vice president attempted to speak, but his voice broke and tears came to his eyes. “Please, not now,” he said gently. “I can not think of anything but my dead little boy. Mrs. Marshall is upstairs now, crying, as she has been since we lost Morrison several days ago. We both had to get away from Washington because —because we could not bear to remain and look at his toys.” The vice president and Mrs. Marshall expect to leave for Phoenix, Ariz., today.

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SEN. BANKHEAD, ALABAMA, DIES AT AGE OF 78 Long Public Career of Veteran Congress Member Ends in Capital. SERVED PUBLIC 40 YEARS WASHINGTON, March I.—United States Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama died here today at the age of 78 years. Senator Bankhead was born at Mos- j cow, Ala., in 1864. He was graduated j from the University of Alabama in 1893 1 and from Georgetown university in 1893, where he studied law. He was elected from the Tenth Alabama district and was a member of the sixty-first and the present congress. He was a democrat. His home was at Jasper, Ala. He was first elected a congressman in 1880. In 1907 he was elected •a senator. He has served continuously practically forty years. HAD BEEN ILL SEVERAL WEEKS. Senator Bankhead died shortly before 1 o'clock at his residence on Columbia road. He had been ill for several weeks and his Illness weakened his heart, which caused death. He had apparently been very comfortable for (be last few days and the end was unexpected. COMES TO LIFE IN TOMBSTONE Prosecutor Thought Dying Ready for Stormy Trial. TOMBSTONE. Ariz., March I.—After two days of drowsy quiet, disturbed only by the braying of donkeys, the cawing of crows and the occasional chug of an automobile, Tombstone sprang into life agalrr today with resumption of the Hisbee deportation trial. Both sideß promised this would bo the stormiest week of the trial to date. It is expected to see completion of the Jury and taking of evidence. Tombsone is still gossiping over the recovery of “Bob” French, county attorney. French, belifeved to be dying of cancer, gave Tombstone a shock by rising from his bed and walking to the courthouse. He explained that A1 Turner, cowpnneher and “miracle man,” had cured him, removing the cance.rous growth from his face by an application of some salve, the formula for which Turner la said to have obtained from Indians. French's physicians had insisted an operation was necessary, but now the aged lawyer says he's almost well and will be able to proceed in the trial this week.

Real Estate Men Form New Concern Anew real estate firm has been formed by Chester W. Henry and .T. Edward Hollins with offices at 155 East Market street. Mr. Henry has been with the of B. M. Ralston for fifteen years. Mr. Robins has been associated with J. G. McCullough for twelve year*. They will do a general real estate business. Both men are members of the Indianapolis real estate board: Illness Halts Tour , of Mme. Tetrazzini NEW YORK, March I.—Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini, operatic and concert star, was to arrive here today to undergo medical treatment for the illness which caused her to cancel her concert tour at Erie, Pa., yesterday. The star's manager has canceled all engagements for the next few weeks. She has been under the care of physicians for several days. Houghton Balloon Wins Naval Flight ROCKAWAY POINT, L. 1., March I. | The naval hydrogen balloon, commanded by Lieut. Houghton, which landed near Quebec, Canada, reported today as the winner of the navy's endurance flight which started from here Saturday. Two other balloons landed safely at Canaan, N. Y., and Orleans, Vt. The latter stayed in the air thirty-one hours. The craft depended entirely on the wind for power during the flight. Burglar Caught in Act, Says Policeman Heriiert Hodge, alias Ralph Jackson, is under arrest today on a charge of larceny. He was arrested by Patrolman Joe Everson, who says he detected hint in the act of breaking Into a grocery conducted by Mck Kerz, at Patterson and Michigan streets. It Is said be admits tho charge and alaso that he entered the building Feb. 10 and took $.15 from the safe. Financial Policy Aim inj^ongress WASHINGTON, March I.—Republican leaders have decided on a tentative financial policy for tho present congress. “Elimination of the ‘excess profits taxes' will be the first move considered,” Senator Watson, republican, of Indiana, said today. Senator Watson was placed in charge of tariff and finance legislation in the senate when Senator Penrose was forced to leave Washington on account of his health.

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PROGRESSIVES BREAK WITH G. 0. P. STANDPA TS; 21 DRY ST A TES FIGHT RHODE ISLAND ‘ WET SUIT

HUGHES ASKS ‘ RIGHT TO KILL STATE’S PLEA Rhode Island to Eight Back, Contending Commonwealths Must Act Separately. DECIDE WISCONSIN CASE WASHINGTON, March I.—Twentyone prohibition states, Represented by Charles E. Hughes, former supreme court justice, today announced to the supreme court their intention of lighting -the efforts of Rhode Island to have the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law enforcement declared invalid. A* the court met Hughes asked permission to file a brief for the dry states which backs the contentions of the federal government that the Rhode Island suit should dismissed. Rhode Island, It is understood, will oppose the notion on the grounds that it must ho filed by the attorney general's office of the varl oil* states and not'Hughes. The states represented are Delaware, North Carolina, Kentucky, Louisiana. Indiana. Alabama, Maine, Arkansas. Mich! gan, Florida, Oregon, Kausiie, West Vir ginla, Nevada, Nebraska, Montana. North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and Arizona. The wet forces sought to advance an appeal from •! Kentucky federal court decision, holding constitution'll prohlbi lion valid. The suit wns brought by the Kentucky Distilling and Warehouse Company. RULES FIRM CAN MAKE 2A PER CENT BEER MILWAUKEE, March 1. Federal Judge F. A. Geiger today ruled in favor of the Manitowoc Products Company In Its motion for r.n Injunction restraining federal prohibition officials from inter sering with its manufacture of 2.5 per cent beer, under the Mulberger state law. This means that Wisconsin breweries can manufacture 2.5 per cent beer, unleas the federal supreme court overrules Judge Geigers’ decision.

85 RESCUED IN INDIANA FIRE Heroic Work Prevents Loss of Life in Sanitarium Blaze. Sped!*! to The Time*. ATTICA, Ind. March 1-Eighty five person*, many of whom are rheumatic cripple*, rescued‘from Are in the Mud lavla Srrlngs hotel and sanitarium today were recovering from shock aud exposure. But for heroic rescue work many would have perished in tie fire which swept the frame structure at 8:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Miss Anna Reinhart, 17, of Pesolum, 111., suffered a broken left ankle nhd perhaps other injuries when she dropped from a third story window. She was the only person seriously injured^ The damage to the building is estimated at $250,000. Many of the inmates of the sanitarium suffered heavy personal loss. The flames were discovered eating their way out of the storage room near an air shaft on the second floor, in a few minutes the fire was roaring through the shaft oil nil five floors. Virgil Ramer of Peru, Ind., and F. E. Lewis, an undertaker of BushneH, 111., did heroic rescue work. Had it not been for them five at least would have perished. While they were making their way through the premises clad only In negligee they learned that a number of invalids were still in their rooms. The two men succeeded in carrying out the five persons from their smoke filled rooms on the upper floors. Among the patients who suffered heavy personal property loss were Mrs. H. L. Kramer, wife of one of the founders of the institution, who lost $20,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables, and Mrs. Joseph W. Keenan of Detroit, who lost clothing and Jewelry valued at $15,000. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Button of Indianapolis were among those who got out of the building. They lost clothing and other effects. The main part of the building was frame and was erected about thirty years ago by Harry L. Kramer of Chicago. It is owned by Mr. Kramer and his two sons, Robert B. Kramer of Chicago and Wililam C. Kramer, who was manager of the establishment. RUFE ARRESTED , BUT WHAT OF IT? Police Didn't Get the Dice, So Gambling King Should Worry. Rufe Page, negro republican politician, who has the reputation of possessing a charmed life so far as conviction is concerned, has been arrested again for operating a gambling house at 1317 North Senate avenue. John Overton, negro, nis manager, also has been arrested on a charge of operating a gambling house, and twenty-one negroes we re arrested In the place for gambling. But there Is the secret: The police didn’t get the dice and money. It is a rule in police court that dice and money are necessary as proof of a craps game, consequently, Rufe stands a very good chance to get away with it again, probably with apologies from the city administration. It all happened at about 3 o'clock Sunday morning. The police decided to raid a Saturday night game of "African dominoes" they say was conducted in Rufe’s place. Lieuts. Sbubert and Belt aud Sergts Johnson and Detter, with a squad, vlsiied Page's place. They listened and they beard voices coaxing the “bones" to "seven” rfnd "eleven." Then they attempted to break down a side door. After making considerable noise they found the door couldn’t be broken, so they decided to go around to the front. By this time any dice ot money which may have been present, were gone. The police have no way of proving that the twenty-three negroes weren't talking in their sleep. Consequently, Rufe, who is out on a cash bond, Isn’t worrying. Rufe has learned that he usually doesn't have any- I thing to worry about anyway.

U. S. Turns Back Most Valuable Property in World to Private Owners After WASHINGTON, March 1. The most /x_ gers increased 43 per cent In 1919, but valuable aggregation of property In the payrolls and increased cost of coal and world was returned today to the hands wJSZS- materials rose 81 per cent. Uncle Sam of its private owners after two years paid out to railroad labor in 1919 apin the hands of Uncle Sam. The rail-' ‘ [% f (tA proximately $2,600,000,000. For coal he roads of the United States, whose book vv - dpent $559,000,000; materials, $1,316,000,00; value is approximately $19,000,000,000, taxes, $200,000,000; a total of $4,666,000,000. include almost one-third of the total L V<| I The dlfference between s3l3,ooo,ooo—the railroad mileage of the whole world. Out / CARS \f CAPS 11/ CARS V /LOCOflOTlvrs mA><r • 0.000 34.000,1; \\ \rf2.000,000 J W US v; pailrond / x t-s Erl RFCE? 1 PTr X

of 729,845 miles of rail on the earth, the railroads of the United States comprise 233,899 miles. Compared to this, Russia's mileage of 48,953 (1916) Is inconsiderable, and yet Russia has the second largest railroad mileage in the world Canada has only 37.434 miles; France, 31,958; Germany. 39.600, while the British Isles have only 36.286 tulles. Uncle bam hands back to the private owners a total of 200 railroad systems, with a vast equipment of locomotives,

ROADS HERE NOT REDUCING Same forces Will Continue for Present, Say Officials. No red - Mon* have been made in the Indianapolis working forces of the railroads, which were returned to private onnersh.p today. In offices of most lines it was said no changes are contemplated. Views of division superintendent* and other officials seemed to be that the railroads have been employing no more men than necessary under government control, although there were rumors In railroad civeies that there would be drastic cuts in tho number of employes There is a death of good shopmen, they say. J. W. Coneys, superintendent of terminals of ftho Pennsylvania line*, said be lias been asking a draft on ills ofthe for clerical help by other offices of (he company where a shortage exists. Some reductions in the number of em. j.loyos inav be possible when the line regains normal running conditions, but for the present ail tho help employed It needed, he said. At the L. E. Sc W. offices it was said no dismissals will result directly from lhe change In control. It may be found piosltfle to reduce forces in some departments later, an official said, but nothing of the sort 1s definitely known. At the Big Four and Monon offices, it was said, nc changes are contemplated. Child Falls 2 Stories; Only Slightly Hurt Eugenia Kent, 4, daughter of Mrs. Maud Kent of the Roland hotel. 129 South Illinois street, today was recovering from slight injuries sustained when she fell from a second story window of the hotel to the sidewalk below. The >hlld was rushed to the City hospital, where an examination showed that she was only slightly injured. Passengers Taken From Reefed Ship BOSTON, March I.—The sixty four passengers on the Leylands liner Bohemian, on Cnpt Sambro, N. H., were taken off by rescue tugs and steamers in a blinding snow storm, according to a radio received here by the Lbylands line today. The transfer was effected without a mishap, the message stated. SUCCUMBS V. $. SENATOR JOHN 11. BANKHEAD of Alabama, Who Died Today.

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cars and equipment. These Include 62.759 locomotives, 53.515 passenger cars, 6,000 Pullman cars, and 2,299,840 freight cars of all kinds. On these roads In 1919 Uncle Sam collected a total of $5,181,000,000 lit revenue. After paying their operating expenses and taxes of $4,666,000,000, there was left a net operating income of $315,000,000. This amounted to 2.74 per cent of earnings on the book values of the railroads. The receipts from freight and passen-

Parents Oppose West Side School Roof Playground Petition Asks Board to Consider Purchasd of Additional Property as Alternative. West side parents don't want their children to have to play on the roof of a school building. One hundred patrons of McCullough school No. 5, West Washington and California streets, have signed a petition protesting against plans of the board of school commissioners for the building of anew building. The board plans to replace No. 5 with a larger building. The new building would take up practically all of the around the city owns. The architect has evolved a plan to put the playground on the roof. George Lewis, 220 Blake street, who Is circulating the petition opposing the plan, declared today that school patrons feel that the board should acquire additional ground aud give the children ample play facilities. RECREATION FOR CHILDREN OF WORKERS. “We feel that our children need the playground just as much as do the children in any other section of the city, or even more,” he said. “The school serves families of working people, and the school playground is about the only | place the children have an opportunity for recreation." Mrs. Julia Belle Tutewller ,n member of the school board, agrees with Mr. Lewis in this respect. “We tried to buy ground adjoining the school for a plnygrouud," she said, “and found the price prohibitive. 1 believe ask about SIOO a front foot for property out there. We can not move the school to another location which will serve the people of that district just as well and get land any cheaper. Our survey shows that the present location is just where the school should be ROOF PLAYGROUND ONLY ALTERNATIVE. “The architect has worked on plans to make a playground on die roof of the new building, and if we can not buy land for a playground at a reasonable figure we may have to use this method, although we would much rather not do it." The petition of Lewis says: “We desire to respectfully suggest to your honorable board that our children are surely to us much freedom and opportunity to play as the children of wealthy parents living, for example, in the neighborhood of school No. 60, on Mnple road. “We have learned through reliable sources that roof playgrounds are extremely windy and dangerous to the j health; that it is imperative, it boys nrej to be allowed on (he roof, that a very j alert watchman be maintained, and, in addition, because of toilet problems and lack of freedom which ground play- j grounds give, they are very undesirable.” j Hold Mexican Must Face Court in Texas WASHINGTON, March 1.-Roberto Gayon, a Mexican, under indictment in j Texas for conspiracy in attempting to j raise armed forces to go into Mexico to j fight in a revolution there, must return | from New York to Texas to stand trial, the supreme court decided today. Allied Naval Show Planned for Turkey LONDON, March 1. —A naval demontration by British, French and Italian squadrons in Turkish waters and the j landing of marines in Cilicia and at Con j stantlnople, was ordered by the supreme j council today as a result of -otitic 1 j reports of Turkish outrages against I Christians.

amount earned net—and the government guarantee to the railroad owners was $390,000,000, whi<-h deficit Uncle Sam made up out of the treasury. The 1918 deficit was s2ls,ooo,ooo—the total deficit for the two years of government operation amounting to $600,000,060. The roads go back to approximately 648,000 stockholders, who own .them. Os these, a record of the twenty largest stockholders in twenty-three of the country's largest railroads, shows that these (Continued on Page Four.)

HOLDS NAVY NOT UNDER SHIP LAW 100 Vessels Sold Without Registry Provision. WASHINGTON, March I.—More than 150 vessels of ail classes, the largest of which was the Cambridge of 3.000 tons i displacement, have been sold by the navy ■ department without restriction as to their t future registry under the American flag, 1 Secretary of Navy Daniels today informed ! the senate in response to a senate reso- j lutlon. The secretary declared advice of law of- j fleers of the navy departmert contends: the law relative to prohibiting registry transfer does not apply to vessels under 1 control of the navy department during the was. * FILE TAGGART PETITIONS SOON! Indiana Democrats Insist He Run for IJ. S. Senator. Petitions asking that the name of Thomas Taggart be placed on the Indiana primary ballot us a candidate for tho democratic nomination for United States senator will be filed with the secretary of state within the next few days. These petitions have been circulated in every part of Indiana and now include the names of thousands of democrats who are determined that Mr. Taggart make the race for senator. Although Mr. Taggart has declared he was not a candidate these supporters of him insist that he will not refuse to make the race in response to the demand for him and (hey have positively declared that they will tile the petitions whether he agrees to have them filed or not. Mr. Taggart is out of the state and no ; statement has come from him relative to his intentions regarding the nomination. ! BUT FRIENDS ARK BUSY. His friends in Indianapolis, however, have organized for the purpose of plac. ing his name on the primary ballot, and they say they have assurances that Mr. Taggart will make the race if the party wishes htm to do so'\ \ With these assurances in mind they have determined to place his petitions on file and there is no question but wnat ; he will be the party choice by an overwhelming majority. So far as is known no one has made (Continued on Page Four.) Coffin Sees Chance to ‘Sell’ City What the Indianapolis centennial celebration in June will mean to Indianapolis. By CHARLES COFFIN, President of the Chamber of Commerce. The Indianapolia centennial celebration offers a splendid op- j portunity to “sell” the city to it- I self and the world by making j known the remarkable progress the city has made in the 100 years of its life. Every organization, j every business man and every person in Indianapolis should feel proud of this best of cities and should take a personal interest j in the centennial observance.

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HAYS WIDENING PARTY SPLIT AS STANDPAT HEAD Progressive Republicans Are Angry at Activity for IJninstructed Delegates. HAND SHOWN IN IDAHO Special to The Times. NEW YORK, March I.—A nationwide split between the progressive and the standpat elements of the rcpublican party has begun and promises to reach large proportions before the republican national convention at Chicago. The most marked signs of the deflection are visible in f r ew York and Washington, but reports from all over tb# country indicate that the revolt of the progressives against the standpatters in control of the is spreading. To It may be attributed not only the new alignment in congress, but also the sudden and material slump in the atock of Will H. Hays, chairman of the national committee. The revolt bas been keeping Mr. Hays in the east, principally in New York, and although desperate efforts have been made to conceal it, there is nevertheless a well-defined idea of it spreading through the country. The activities of the old regular, or standpat republicans in their effort* to control the coming convention are the basic causes for the split. HAYS BRINGS DOWN WRATH. Mr. Hays has been insistent that the delegates to the Chicago convention shall be uninstructed. He has not only been working quietly to that end, bnt he finally made a statement to that effect which brought down on his head the wrath of the progressive leaders who have been trying to obtain instructed delegates for Leonard Wood and Hiram Johnson. The New York Times recently announced that there was much Indignation in the Wood camp over the discovery that in Idaho Mr. Hays was using hit official influence to prevent the republicans from instructing delegates. Congressman Gould, the eastern manager of the Wood campaign, made the charge publicly to John W. Hart, national committeeman from Idaho. Mr. Gould said: “1 have no idea what Chairman Hays meant. He has often stated that he believes it is his Job to elect, not select candidates. Considering how insistent he has proclaimed this policy it ia surprising, to say the least, to receive such advises from Idaho.” A little further investigation disclosed that Mr. Hays' activities were not confined to Idaho, but were general throughout the country. It was learned that In his tours of the west and the east he had been making careful effort so to arrange things that there should be no Instructed delegates in the convention, regardless of the efforts of Gen. Wood and Hiram Johnson to obtain such delegates.

FACTIONAL FEELING BECOMES INTENSE This action, considered In the light of the plans that were laid last spring by the standpatters for the purpose of controlling tne convention, have brought the progressives to a realization that they are helng bunkoed by the organization, which is in the control of the standpatters, and It has made them exceedingly wrathy. The following from the New York Times is significant of the situation : "Factional feeling of such Intensity has been aroused by the various candidates fighting for the republican nomination that Will H. Hays, chairman of the republican national committee, has decided to step in and do what he can to bring about harmony. With this object In view Chairman Hays has requested that representatives of all the warring candidates meet him in the future at regular inferences to be held at the headquarters of the republican national committee in West Forty-seventh street. The first of these conferences will be held early this week. 7' “Thp request of Mr. Hays was received with surprise by some of the managers whose candidates have headquarters in this city. Just why he should want these conferences puzzled the managers. although they admitted that obviously the chairman wanted to keep informed regarding the details of t|ie contests the presidential aspirants are making in the several states for delegates' to the republican national convention. In some of the contests the republican local organizations have become embroiled and bitter feeling has been engendered. NOW TRYING TO PATCH UP PEACE. “It was declared that Chairman Hays had become alarmed at the bitterness of the factional feeling between several of the candidates in mldwestern states and that he foresaw infinite trouble for the party if something were not done immediately either to patch up the quarrels or keep them from spreading. Mr. Hays has returned from a trip through the middle west, and it was said that tho conditions he found in Ohio and other states impressed him with the necessity of pouring oil on the troubled republican waters. Mr. Hays made no announcement of his new plan himself. In fact, considerable mystery was made of it, but It was admitted by the managers of two campaigns that such a request had been received. Whether all the campaign managers will agree to take part in the conferences is doubtful. One manager who did not wish his name used at this time flatly declared that he considered Mr. Hays was overstepping his duties as national chairmnn in interfering and telling (Continued on Page Four.) WETHER) Local Forecast—Fair tonight, with lowest temperature about 25; Tuesday fair and warmer. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 20 7 a. m 20 8 a. m 25 9 a. m 28 10 a. m 82 11 a. ra 35 12 (noon) 81 Sun sets today, 5:37; rises tomorrow, 0:17; sets, 5:38. One year ago today, highest temperature, 83; lowest, 14.