Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1920 — Page 1

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Jm REFORMS DEMANDED BY WOMEN OF CITY Uniting for Precautions in Future and Punishment k on Present Scandal. TAKES ACTION of graft, cruelty and in the management of county jail, as related in court, have a rouse cl the wornthe leaders in vomer. atfatrs are KHA r ;n, to formula'? f r nrid'-ration clubs measures which will prevent such conditions in the future, as well as to demand the punishment of the tnen responsible for those revealed this week. The allowance of the actual cost or feeding to the sheriff, rather than the flat rate of 60 cents per day for each prisoner, the appointment of a woman “housekeeper’* for the jail and the abolition of fees for the sheriff are proposals which will be debated. INQUIRY MAY INCLUDE jWOMKVS DEPARTMENT, ft Several prominent women of the city l.oday expressed the opinion that the ■women's department of the jail, which pas not been referred to in the federal EnvestigatTon, will need a lug’* along with the other departments of the Jail. „ A committee repre*®nttng the Woman s Department club made an Investigation cf the woman's section at the Jail last fall and made some recommendations as to improvements, according to Mrs. Samuel E s Perkins, president. I “Our committee, of course, was only permitted to see the surface of things fct the Jail, and it did not go there in p spirit of criticism, but rather to assist in bringing about better conditions,” said Mrs. Perkins in discussing the scandal today. “The committee made some recommendations as to minor changes and reported that conditions in general were apparently favorable." Mrs. Perkins was of the opinion thar women's organizations will take some action In the matter. 1 Miss Marine L. Bass, president of tae ■Toman's City club, said that she felt tome action to relieve the deplorable conditions should be taken and that the rations organizations in the city would Luke efforts to bring about improvement. ■There will be a meeting of the board directors of the club next Tuesday, time the jail matter will probbe considered. HKi£N INVESTIGATORS HrE~.TED COURTEOUSLY, BI T Hflrs. W. H. Hart, president of the league, said there is no H,bt that some action should be taken ■ protect women prisoners from uiisat the Jail. women get an equal Hf the right to vote such conditions not be tolerated," said Mrs. Hart. present we are treated very courteHslv when endeavoring to improve matL'of this kind, but they show us only they want us to see and tell us what they want us to know and our recommendations to suit BnidvH. ■llrs. Ovid Butler .Tameson. well known ■nb and suffrage worker, said she Hrored some action being taken by Hunen's clubs to bring about an imBovempn’ of jail conditions and that the clubs should joiu in an effort that line. bo urd will JUDGE FWR HEARING. a conference in the goveroffice with Got. Goodrich. Demarcus aMt-owii and J. A. Brown. Amos W. secretary <>f the state board of Hnß|es. this afternoon announced that (ByHard would ask Judge Anderson to a hearing connection with investigation. ! ex- ffirio president of r d, Demarchus Brown is ta? SsprpPLemb- -and J. A. Brown is superthe a report which gave :;;e COUPBfikmtnlstration a ■ b"’ iralUly Fran-rfs H G* ! *k and Mr aUPnetn v .r* of the board. HCpB; had said there would he no MuH, is from members until ‘be board said that ne meet!? z had caUed Mr. Butler to the and be. in turn, summoned iPjßSfthna Brown and .T A. Brown AND AT JAIL. w set of rules and anew set of STslu employes governed th lad today. Gffifclresuit of the sensation.;: expo-.;;res federal investigation. Robert F. Miller, he.d bv FedA. B. Anderson to be responthe deplorable condltdcn. had conference with Mark Ftoren. marshal, and promised to the practices exposed In th WBHBberiff sill that In the future be relatives or' prisoners to rwY-m food, including fruit an-1 will be admitted through door of the jail, instead of windows, as baR been the practflfi id he again request f county commissioners to s over the jail windows so 1 be impossible to smuggle i or whisky into the jail channel in the future. Heated today that Sheriff bring to light some inforon Page Two.) IIQTHAM FOOD mKEPT ON MOVE Service Used to Break J&sgf >or Workers’ Strike. YORK, April 3.—Railroad aiiferry the harbor strike of 5,000 t <ti2kiymarine workers. food supply, threatened by was moving slowly with prosyfA*)f all congestion being removed j^^^Hnightfall. captains, mates and pilots who ifatmf ent out with the strikers, are reto work, according to the rall!.0 leaders continue to assert that activity has been suspended. 'April 3.—Traffic experts saw the menace of a rail tieup Bj. **Yv ' atsV ' Kp re made by the Chicago s T'niou that 16.500 switchmen if the demands cf Milwaukee switchmen are not met. i SVI& union claimed it would Jraw full Sjgfort from fellow workers lln th*, which would seriousll affect I ■nisportation of the entire dftuntry.

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SCRAMBLE TO GET NAMES ON COUNTY BALLOT Tickets of Both Parties Virtually Complete as Time for Filing Nears End. The offices of both the secretary of state and the county clerk were swamped today with the last minute filing of declarations of candidacy in the coming primary. Nearly every place on both tickets were filled this afternoon. The only exceiitions were the list of Marlon county democratic candidates for the legislature and the democratic contestant for county surveyor. Last minute filings for these place* were planned by party workers, and it is certain that the ticket will be completely filled by the time the tilings close. One of the features of the filing at the office of the secretary of state was the number of democratic candidates for congress. The only districts where contests were not indicated this afternoon are the First. Sixth. Seventh and Eighth. The republicans, it appeared, would have only two congressional contests, one In the Fourth district and one in the Seventh. Interest in the county filings still centered on the office of sheriff. The tame of Robert F. Miller, the present sheriff, who is under fire in federal court for graft and inhuman methods at the county Jail, remained on the books at a late hour. Thre were rumors of a last-minute filing by the Jewett organization of a substitute for Miller, but the name of the possible candidate could not be learned. There also were stories that the Jewett organization will unite on George Snider, who is now known as an anti-Jewett candidate. Clarence J. Flrey. former manager of the Marlon club, filed a declaration of candidacy for sheriff, but no particular significance was attached to his action. Following is a complete list of candi dates for important offices who had filed up to 1 o'clock this afternoon: DEMOCRATIC TICKET. CONGRESS. First District—Calvin* \V. Hunsinger. Second District—Walter J. Wakefield and William A. Ciillop. Third District—Thomas B. Buskirk, sr„ Jacob L. O'Bannon, John W. Ewing. K. C. Brown and Sherman Minton, Fourth District —Dr. J. A. Craig, William D.Ricketts, Harry C. Canfield. Clarence E. Custer and Charles.H. Conway. Fifth District—Charles S. Batt, Jacob E. Craven and Alfred D. Merrill. Sixth District —William A. Yarllng. Seventh District—Henry N. Spaan. Eighth Dtsrrlct—Charles A. Paddock. Ninth District —Charles F. Howard and Ben M. Scrifres. Tenth District—'William M. Crockett and Fred Barnett. Eleventh District—Samuel E. Cook and William C. Coryell. Twelfth District—Joseph R. Harrison and Orner Hugh Downey. Thirteenth District—Ralph N. Smith and George Y. Hepler. JUDGE OF MARION COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT. Edgar A. Brown. Chalmer Schlosscr. Blythe Q. Hendricks. MARION COUNTY PROSECUTOR. Jacob L. Steinmetz. William Clay Batchelder. Edward I*. Brennan. Earle E. MeFerren. MARION COUNTY TREASURER. George M. Spiegel. MARION COUNTY SHERIFF. Willett Alexander Judson. William P. Stuck. William P. Eindiinger. Theodore E. Brown. Edward E. Mcßride MARION COUNTY CORONER. Heydon W. Buchanan. Dr. Frederick E. Urum. James W. Birchfield. COUNTY COMMISSIONER, SECOND DISTRICT. James Kervan. Frank S. Clark. Charles C. Morgan. COUNTY COMMISSIONER, THIRD DISTRICT. George D. Hardin. William R. Johnson.' STATE SENATOR FROM MARION COUNTY. Floyd E. Williamson. Frank A. Bruce. STATE REPRESENTATIVE FROM MARION COUNTY. Walter T. McNamara. J. Oita Vanier. Albert A. Henry. Herman F. Backemeyer. Carl E. Wood REPUBLICAN TICKET. CONGRESS. First District—Oscar R. Luhring. Second District —Oscar E. Bland. Third District—James W. Dunbar. Fourth District—John S. Bentmm and Franklin P. Smith. Fifth District—Everett Sanders. Sixth District—Richard M. Elliott. Seventh District—Merrill Moores and Luke W. Duffey. Eighth District—Albert H. Vestal. Ninth District—Fred S. Purnell Tenth District—William R. Wood. Eleventh District—Milton Kraus. Twelfth District —Louis W. Fairfield. Thirteenth District—Andrew J. Hickey. JUDGE OF MARION COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT. Louis B. Ewbank MARION COUNTY PROSECUTOD. William E. Reiley. William P. Evans. Frank C. Rilev. MARION COUNTY TREASURER. Henry W. Cochran. Ralph A. Lemoke. MARION COUNTY SHERIFF. George Snider. Robert F. Miller. Clarence .T. Ulrev. MARION COUNTY CORONER. Paul F. Robinson. Richard A. Poole. MARION COUNTY SURVEYOR. John J. Griffith. i Geore-e G. Schmidt. COUNTY COMMISSIONER, SECOND DISTRICT. Henry Adams. Alex Alexander, Harry D. Tntewiler. John Blumberg, George W. McCray, John E. Zener. COUNTY COMMISSIONER. THIRD DISTRICT. -

Luther E. Tex, Albert Hoffman. STATE SENATOR FROM MARION COUNTY. Charles A. Messmore, Winfield Miller, .Tames R. Norrell, Robert L. Moorhead, Charles .T. Bnehanan, John L. Duvall. • STATE REPRESENTATIVE FROM MARION COUNTY. Charles Sumner Williams. Kendall Rawlins. L. J. Wessel Fred A. Davidson. Frank .T. Noll. ' Floyd Levi Morris. John L. Benedict. James L. Kingsbury. Omer U. Newman. Henry Abrams. Clinton R. Glvan. Simon B. Fox. Charles M. Clark. Elias W. Dulberger. Harry W. Heath. James H. Hamilton. Silas C. Pritchett. William E. Leibold. Lester X. Vay. Janies B. Parsons. Andrew J. Donlan. Samuel G. Joseph. Guy D. Rock. Thomas Harvey Cox. Carol H. Gilmore. Nelson W. Heinrichs. Henry M Wing. Charles L. Hutchinson.

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Baby Bob Back in Mother’s Arms After Wild Race From Chicago Mrs • Earl Pattison Steals Ch ild Away From Hiding Place and Father Is Placed Under Arrest Domestic Tro üble Bared. Snatched up by his mother, bustled Into a taxicab and beating his father In a race between two trains from Chicago to Indianapolis was the experience of little Bob Pattison, 4 months old, today Unconscious of it all, Bob clung to his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Pattison, H 706 North Meridian street, in juvenile court, whero subsequent events led the small family. Earl Pattison/the father, is detained under SSOO bond Last Saturday the police were informed that Pattison disappeared with the baby. A wide search failed to reveal their whereMrs. Pattison, working secretly, learned her husband was In Chicago with Bob. With Miss Grace Farrand, 923 North Alabama stret, she arrived there early yesterday. & In a taxicab they went to 5520 West Troy 4 street, where they learned the baby was being BABY 808. cared for. Obtaining admission to the house, they found Bob sleeping. After a short conversation with the woman in charge, Mrs. Pattison is supposed to have grabbed Bob and darted out into the taxicab.

Hotel Severin Guest Robbed of Diamond Edward A. Brlel, who occupied room No. 312 at the Hotel Peverln, reported to the police that his room was entered by use of a key and a 'diamond pin valued at $270 and a silk shirt valued at 515 were stolen. Two French Aviators Cross Sahara Desert PARIS, April 3.—MaJ. VuiUemln and I ieut. Chalus, two French aviators, have arrived at Dakar, having flown a-ross the Sahara desert, a distance of 3,500 miles. MacPherson Named Pensions Minister LONDON, April S. —The appointment of lan MacPherson, former chief secretary for Ireland, to he minister of pensions, succeeding Sir L. Worthington Evans, was announced officially Jodny. MacPherson's resignation as Irish secretary was announced yesterday. He was succeeded by Sir Hamar Greenwood. Toledo Walks Third Time in J7our'Years TOLEDO. April 3.—Toledo was again without street car service today through the strike of railway workers for more money. The strike became effective at 4 a m. today. This la the third atreet car strike In Toledo within the last four year*. Logan sport Grows; Connersville, Too WASHINGTON. April 3.—The census bureau announced the following 11)20 population for Indiana towns; Logansport, Ind., 21.626; Increase. 2,576, or 13.5 per cent. Connersville. Ind., £t,9(Jl; Increase, 2,163, or 28 per cent.

Inventor of Voting Machine Dies in East ROCHESTER, N. TANARUS., April 3.—Jacob H. Meyers, 79, Inventor of the Meyers ; ballot or voting machine. Is dead at his | home here. He was a native of Bellcfonte, Pa., and formerly resided in Philadelphia and Norristown, Pa. His voting machine was the first to ba nsed In this country. U. S. Debt Reduced in March WASHINGTON, April 3.—A reduction of $705,660,000 In the national debt, more than double the amount by which the debt was lowered during any previous month, was accomplished during March, the treasury made public today. The natlonat debt now stands at $24,- ! 698,000,000. Alienist Is Called ' to Examine Croker PALM BEACH, Fla., April B—Richard Croker, who In the opinion of his children Is mentally Incompetent to manage his $10,000,000 estate, was under examination of an alienist today. Dr, Ralph N. Green, former head of the medical staff of the Florida state hospital, conducted the Inquiry into Croker's mental capacities. .Say Delaware Will Reverse on Suffrage DOVER, Del., April 3.—The women of America will vote 1n the presidential j election this year If the predictions of Delaware leaders of both parties come : true. Headed by Gov. John G. Townsend and Alfred I, Dupont, leader In Sussex country, politicians openly presage a victory for the suffrage amendment when the state assembly convenes next week. Jhe Sussex delegation, whose votes defeated the amendment’s adoption early this week, are pledged to suffrage. Two Killed in Auto Carrying Booze TERRE HAUTE, lnd„ April 3. Joseph Wilson of Terro Haute, and an unidentified woman were killed instantly when their machine was struck by a Pennsylvania switch engine in* West Terre Haute at noon today. j Bertha Robar of Marlon Heights jumped from the car and is in the hospital, seriously Injured. In removing the debris of the car two large grips of whisky were found. The car was completely destroyed and so was the whisky. PRICES | CHEER NEWS. Butter down retail 1 cent pound to 70 7§!73c. Eggs down retail 2 cents pound to 43@ 46c. GLOOM NEW’S. Potatoes up 20c 100 pounds to $8.70t Head lettuce up $1 crate to $5.60.

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Off they sped to a railroad station. Pattison was Informed Immediately that the baby was gone. He knew It was Mrs. Pattison who had the child. He reached the station while Mrs. Pattison, Mis* Farrand and the bahy ere waiting for a traln> Mrs. Pattison had suspected trouble. When she got out of the cab at the station she told a policeman what she had done and asked protection from her husband. A policeman was at her side when Pattison arrived. “I can't arrest her," he told Pattison —“she can’t be charged with kidnaping ter own baby.” As the pollct-man barred him from taking the train to Indianapolis with hit wife and baby he went to another nearby station, where a train was soon to leave for this city. MRS. PATTISON HERE FIRST. Mrs. Pattlson's train reached here he'.f an hour before the train carrying her husband. With Miss Farrand and the baby sh went to the home of Arthur Gage, 1141 West Thlrty-tnlrd street. Mrs. Gagp Is a close friend. She told her what she had done. This was *t 11 o'clock last night. This morning Patttsoui appeared at the Gage home. He was denied entrance. Persona in the neighborhood claim he tried to get Into the house through a window. The police were called. Sergt. Saudmann and detectives responded In the emergency. They found Pattison and Mrs. Pattlson's mother sitting on a terrace In front of the Gage home. “I guess I'm the man you're nftetr,” Pattison said as the police approached. "I'm Just about crazy—you’ve got to let me see my baby," be demanded. ALL TAKEN TO JUVENILE COURT. After a preliminary investigation Sergt. Sandwann took father, mother and baby to juvenile court. In court Pattison wept. He said he must have tho child. The story related to Prosecute Thomas Indicated Pattison had separated from his wife and taken the baby because he was Jealous of her. It was said that a man named McCarthy had come between him and his wife. Mrs. Pattison, happy at having her bahy In her arms, only laughed. The court decided that Pattison should be locked up on SSOO bond charged with child neglect. Court attaches said he was in a nervous condition and "that it was for his own good ho was being locked up.” The father Is a former soldlor. He was gassed and wounded In France and It Is feared his condition over the affair may beepme serious. Little Bob was a nursed baby before he was slipped away by his father. He took to a bottle when he reached Chicago. Pattison said he consulted a physician before he placed the baby on a bottle diet. The case will come up in juvenile court Tuesday morning.

CUPID HAS RUSH OF EASTER KNOTS Thirty-Five Marriage Licenses Issued Up to Noon. Easter marriage licenses were 1u great demand today. Up to noon the county clerk's office had issued a total of thirty-five licenses. A year ago thirty-seven were Issued during the entire day, and it Is tbo prediction of Miss .Marguerite Mahoney, license elefrk, thin the record will be broken by closing time iste this afternoon. At times today couple waited in line at the clerk’s office. Young men, wtf-h Mussing girls at their sides ,aud elderly men, whose former marriages ended In the divorce courts, also waited In line. The list follows: Hnllie Maux, 44, painter, and Cordelia Nayer, 48, both of 321 Bowman street. Harold W Rosemeyer, 26, shipping clerk, 5427 East. Washington street, and Alta M. Crump, 21, 25 North Chester. William A. Rumsey. 35, manager of shirt factory, Moundsvllle, W. Va., and Lydia M. Paffroth. 33, 1902 Commerce Nell Howard, 24, accountant. Linden hottfi, and Marie M. Shaw. 18, 1636 Montcalm street. Samuel Conner, 22, machinist. 147 West Vermont street, and Minnie Miller, .19, 2314 Adams. Charles 51. Stiller, 29, Insurance, Leavenworth, Kas.. and Alma Stephens, 22, 330 Congress avenue. Bates Hlghtehal. 26 operator, 1253 South Pershing, and Hattie Oliver, 34, 610% Birch avenue. Samuel F. Holt. 50, elevator operator, ISO Bright, and Hffie E. Slusber. 47, 517 West. sfnryland. Wendell H. Starrett, 27, store manager, 726 North East, and Eva Haig, 22, 430 Massachusetts avenue. Verner R, McAdams, 22, laborer, 821 North Elder avenue, and Lola V. Hazelwood, 19, 1618 Milbnrn street. Theodore Wilte, 27, farmer, and Leona Hart, 21, teacher, both of R. R. J. Forrest Abram, 25, baker, 1326 Shelby (Continued on Page Two.) Tremont Avenue Residence Burned Fire destroyed a frame house at 1044 South Tremont avenue, early today. The house Is owned by Otto Brown aDd was occupied by the family of John Hunt. An overheated stove cansed the fire. The estimated loes 1 $2,600.

WYCKOFF SAYS WAR PUT RENTS UP 35 PCLHERE Fair Price Commissioner’s Report Shows Need of Increased Building. Indianapolis renters are paying $5,200,000 a year more for a place to live than before the war. Forty-seven thousand heads of families are paying this added rent in apartment houses and dwelling houses. Figures showing the Increase, compiled by Stanley Wyckoff, fair price commissioner, who is conducting an investigation into the rental situation, emphasize the need of increased building in Indianapolis. The rent of dwelling houses has increased an average of 35 per cent and apartment hhuses about the same, the report of Mr. Wyckoff shows. WHERE NO RENT BOOST REPAIRS LET LAO. "I have found many owners of houses who have not increased the-rent at all," 6nld Mr. Wyckoff. “In most of these cases, the owner collects the rent himself, and has made no "repairs. “I had a request from one man today who felt very kindly toward his landlord for not Increasing the rent, but wanted me to get the landlord to make some repairs. ‘‘Rental agencies usually are given a per cent of the rent collected, and the more the rent the greater Is the agent's profit.” it is estimated there are 70.000 houses In Indianapolis, of which 23.000 are own®d by the people who live In them. The other 47,000 are rented. AVERAGE Jt MI’S FROM $lB TO $25. <*> Before the war the average rent wns $lB and It Is now $25 per month. There are ahout 10,000 apartments In the city. Before the war the average rent was $35 a month and is now $-*5 per month In some instances the Increase in rental Is 100 per cent, hut the number of cases In which landlords have not Increased the rent at all reduces the average. The average rent of apartment houses In Imllatuipolls was higher before the war than In many cities, according to Mr. Wyckoff, because the apartment houses mostly were of the higher class The era of building of small, less expensive apartments had only started when wai broke out, Mr. Wyckoff said. SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON FUTURE. owners should think of the future of the city in fixing their rents,” said Mr. Wyckoff. "Everyday we bava Inquiries from large manufacturing concerns which are seeking locations as to bousing conditions In Indianapolis. "Indianapolis Is on the eve of a great era of Industrial expansion, if we only do not spoil It. "Fair rents and Increased building Is the best advertising Indianapolis can have.” v The home building project of the LaFayette Motors Company is expected to he the biggest alnglu building project of the year. The Prest-O-Llte Company 1s planning to build seventy-five or more homes In Speedway City for empViyes.

HUMAN‘LARK’ UNAPPRECIA TED Cavorts ‘a la Natural ’ in Fashionable Suburb. CHICAGO, April 3.—Dawn's early light today spread peacefully over the fashionable North Shore suburb of Wlnnetka. Slowly the wealthy residents along the lake shore started to rub the sleep from their eyes, glancing lakeward aa they did so. Then, with startling swiftness, Wlnnetka woke up. Skipping and dancing along the beach with the grace of a water nymph sped the figure of a man. It was clad exclusively In the rslment of nature, enhanced by strands of long, matted batr, which covered the face completely and dangled nearly to the walat. From beneath the foliage there came a continuous lilting trill, like the Pipes of Pan engaging In a controversy with a blrdhoilse. The village police force was hastily summoued and he leaped upon the apparition and hurled It to the beach. “Tweet, tweet. I'm a lark,” shrilled the vision from the sands. “I’ve been living here in a hole in the beach for weeks, getting In tune with nature. “I'm perfecting anew scale of musical notes which will charm the world. “Tweet, tweet, I'm a lark.” The new specimen In ornithology was finally lodged ip a padded cage. U. S. Ambassador to Japan Coming Home TOKIO, April B.—United States Ambassador Morris is preparing to leave for America, sailing early thla month. Steel Strike Cost A. F. of L. $418,141.14 WASHINGTON, April 3.—The steel strike cost organized labor $418,141.14, according to the financial report of the strike made public today by Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor. Two Damage Suits Sequel to Injuries Damage suits aggregating $15,000 have been filed in the superior court by Clarence Carter against Arthur J. Gibbons and tbo H. L. G. Manufacturing Company and by Benjamin F. Uhl against the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company. Carter, who Is a minor, alleges he was injured Feb. 14 when struck by an auto driven by Gibbons for the manufacturing company, and sues for SIO,OOO. Uhl alleges he was Injured while riding on a street car and asks $6,000. Golf Courses Open Season on April 15 The golf season will be formally opened on April 15 at the Riverside, South Grove and Ellenberger courses, according to announcement made today by James H. Lowtry, superintendent of parks. Mr. Lowery also announced that plana have been made to open municipal ball grounds on May L

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Flee Hi Meat! Co-op Abattoir to Be Erected Butchers Unite in SIOO ft 00 Packing House Project to Relieve Costs. ' A co-operative company has been formed in Indianapolis to erect a SIOO,OOO abattoir and packing house, it became known today. The stockholders chiefly are wholesale and retail meat men, who conduct small businesses. The new plant will give them a place tu have butcher stock under humane and sanitary regulations. C. B. Sedwick, bead of the Sedwiek Live Stock Commission Comnnnv who 's the prime mover in the. enterprise, believes the new plant will reduce the cost of meat by reducing *ho cost of slaughtering to the “little fellow.” At present there is no place in the city where butchers can have their own stock slaughtered. If they buy live stock they must pay a packing plant for slaughtering It. WEAR YOUR OLD ONES TOMORROW Look What Weather Man Has in Store for Easter. Try and smile when you read this: "Unsettled; probably rain tonight and Sunday. Colder Sunday with freezing temperature by night.’’ It's Just the way the weather man said It. He knows tomorrow is Easter, too, because he made some remark about it. So It looks like the new suit, new hat and new shoes may not have a successful debut. Anyway that freezing part of the forecast doesn't speak well for "B. V. D.’s.” SAUNA, Kas., April 3.—The Kansas wheat belt was In the grip of one of the heaviest snow storms of the season today. The snow was accompanied by an easterly gale. LINCOLN, Neb., April 3.—The severest snowstorms of the season, accompanied by a heavy eastward gale, was sweeping southeastern Nebraska today. The snowfall up to a late hour this afternoon in this city had reached a depth of several inches, with no apparent abatement of the storm in sight. PALMER FIGHTS COAL INCREASE Notifies District Attorneys to Keep Eves Peeled for Profiteering. WASHINGTON, April 3.—Attorney General Palmer all federal government district attorneys to take steps to check profiteering in Coal, which may arise out of the fact that restrictions upon coal prices by the government have been removed. Attorney General Palmer Instructed all district attorneys to receive and give Immediate consideration of all complaints by the public of profiteering among coal dealers. This action was taken Immediately after a flood of complaints reached the department. The attorney general held that advances on bituminous coal ranging from $1.50 to $2 per ton were unjustifiable.

FRAMING BILL TO AIDSO.DIERS House Committee for Direct Tax to Raise Funds. WASHINGTON, April 3—A new tax hill to provide the necessary funds for a soldiers' bonus and other suggested plans In behalf of ex-service men is being whipped Into shape by the house | ways and means committee 'today. It is expected a bill will be reported out within two weeks. The committee has gone on record aa favoring direct taxation as the only practicable solution of tkrts problem. Republican lenders said that to attempt to float another loan or to otherwise borrow money would threaten Liberty and Victory bonds with depredation and might bring a financial crisis. A consumption or retail sales tax Is said to be the one more likely to be adopted by the committee than any other. Considerable opposition to the pro. posed tax is expected to develop In both senate and house. Cost of Turkish Mandate $275,000,000 WASHINGTON. April 3—A mandate over Turkey and Transcaucasia by the United States would cost $273,000,000 for the first year, according to the report given to President Wilson by the commission of investigation headed by MaJ. Gen. Harbord. - The report was sent to the senate this afternoon. The commission recommended that if the United Stales accepts such a mandate It should do so only after the British and French had subscribed to the terms of agreement and the Russians and Germans had approved It. Garage Man Hurt in Car Smash Up Thomas George, proprietor of a garage at 632 West Vermont street, may die from Injuries he received this afternoon when a street car hit a machine he was driving. He is at the City hospital suffering from a possible fracture of the skull. According to Carl Kneff, 702 Arnolda avenue, riding with him, George was delivering the car he was driving. He thought he had gone past the address he wanted and whirled around directly In front of the car. The accident happened at the east end of the West Washington street bridge. A West Michigan street car, A. Armstrong, conductor, 891 Massachusetts avenue, hit the machine. It was on the way t othe barn. WILL BOOM M'CULLOCH. John Spiegel, formerly census supervisor of the Seventh district and former president of the Indiana Democratic club, will make a tour of the northern part of the state next week In the Interest of the candidacy of Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch for the democratic nomination for governor, and will visit various parts of the state before primary day.

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STATE PAYS HEAVILY FOR INFERIOR TYPE OF HIGHWAY PAVING Awarded 1919 Contracts at $6,191 a MHe More Than Similar Work Cost Marion County During Same Period. INDIANA LOSER BY AT LEAST $702,238 The state highway commission of Indiana in 1919 awarded contract* for 113,429 miles of paving at a rate of approximately $6,191 a mile more than the basic average cost of similar paving to Marion county in th same period of time. These contracts cost the state of Indiana $702,238,939 more than similar but better paving would have cost had it been obtained at the same basic average price per mile that contractors received for paving done in Marion county in 1919.

NEW HIGHWAY ROUTES FIXED Governor Finds Few Objections to Commission Plan. Virtually all the routes included in the state highway commission’s proposed system, planned under the new highway law, which requires a system reaching every county seat and city of more than 5,000 population, were approved by Gov. Goodrich today. The governor withheld his approval of the route from Madison to Yevay and of Route 39, described In the commission's plan, suggesting that the com- | mission examine the route further before designating them a part of the ' system. Objection was raised by the governot to that portion of the Lincoln highway i running from Ft. Wayne to Ligonier on the ground that it would give Noble county more mileage of state roads than any other county in the state, notwithstanding that Noble county ranks forty-second in amount paid in taxes. H ANTS NOBLE COUNTY LEFT TO LEGISLATURE. The Ft. Wayne* to Llgoniej road was established in the plan by the fi?H commission and confirmed by the legislature, but after that the legislature passed the law requiring that the state system reach every county seat. If that rule were observed in the case of Noble county it would greatly increase the county's mileage over the allotment fixed by the original plan. The governor said he would seek a change in Route 47 and conditioned his approval of the system on the commission's willingness to have that matter taken before the legislature. Routes 4-4, Y'ellowstone Trail, from War--1 saw, west; Route 39, Brookviile, through i Rushtllle to Indianapolis, and Route 45 will be re-examined by the commission. ROUTES MAPPED Ol'T IN NEW SYSTEM. The roads which become a part of the ! state highway system under the designaJ tion o{ the state highway commission are ns follows; * Route I—Beginning at the Indiana and Michigan state line In St. Joseph county, Ind., extending thence southeasterly through South Bend, Lakeville, Lapaz. Plymouth. Argos, Rochester, Greenoak, Mexico, Peru. Kokomo, Westfield, Carmel. Indianapolis", Greenwood, Whiteland. Franklin, Columbus. Seymour. Crothersville, Scottsburg, Henryville, Sellersburg. New Albany and Jeffersonville. Route 2—Beginning at the Indiana and Illinois state line, extending thence easterly through Dyer Schererville. Merrelville. Deopriver, Valparaiso. Westville, I.aporte, New Carlisle, South Bend, Mlsh(Contlnued on Pago Two.) Dardanella Made Basis of N. Y. Suit NEW YORK. April B.—Felix Barnard, who wrote the music for Dardanella, sned the publishers for royalties, alleging he received only SIOO. He says John Black, who wrote the words, got $50,000. John Barrymore, 111, Quits Stage for Time NEW YORK. April 3.—John Barrymore, who, until Thursday night, was playing in the Plymouth theater production of “Richard III,” has suffered a nervous breakdown. He will be absent from the cast for an Indefinite period, according to announcement made public at the theater today. Aw, Gee, This Ain’t No Way to Spend Easter Many Indianapolis kiddles will spend Easter day In bed with measles for a companion Instead of searching for Easter eggs in the back yard this year, according to Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary to the board of health. There has been a decided increase in the number of measles cases in the city during the last week, bringing the total number of cases this year to 1,530.

Roger C. Sullivan Gets Out of Politics CHICAGO, April 3.—Roger C. Sullivan, nationally known as a leader in democratic politics, and a man whose influence has created congressmen, senators and governors, and has helped ma- ! terially in the making of presidents, is out of polities, probably for good, it was learned here today. Sickness, almost resulting In Mr. Sullivan’s death, Is responsible. Jurors’ Kicks Bring Spring Cleaning Painters were at work today In some of the jury rooms of the courthouse, correcting insanitary conditions and redecorating them, following complaints to the board of county commissioners by C. J. Moll and a Jury of superior court. One thousand dollars has been appropriated for the work. Chile Declines U. S. Intervention Plea WASHINGTON, April 3.—Chile will not accept intervention in any controversy •and has so informed the United States in a note which was made public today by the state department. The note, after stating that Chile does not intend to accept intervention in any controversy, states that the Chilean government Is satisfied that the attitude ol this government is “one limited to friendly council,” In urging Chile use her good offices to prevent trouble between Hum and Bolivia. *

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* The state highway commission has designated 3,200 miles of highway for its control. If these highways are paved at the same ratio of cost that prevailed in 1919 they will cost the state $19,811,200 more than Marion county has demonstrated is a fair price for them. These and other statistics, which show beyond a doubt that the present highway commission of Indiana is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for which the state is not getting value, are contained in a detailed report of the operations of the commission, which has been prepared for Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, democratic candidate for the nomination for governor. DEMANDS an INVESTIGATION. Dr. McCulloch says that the information furnished him is sufficient to warrant a complete investigation of the affairs of the highway commission, and a determination of why the state is spending so much money for what appears to be an inferior type of road paving. “I have frequently been asked why 1 desired to be governor of Indiana,” said Dr. McCulloch. "It is suck things as are contained in this report on the highway commission that move me to desire that place. I am led to believe that the taxpayers of Indiana are being burdened with a tremendous load that may be legally Imposed, but is neither necessary nor morally right. I want to go into the governor’s office for the purpose ot putting an end to such things as the favoring of contractors at the expense of taxpayers, for the purpose of seeing that every dollar of state money spent brings to the state a full measure of value.” THE FACTS ON ROAD PAVING COST. The comparisons of the cost of road paving which have been submitted to Dr. McCulloch disclose: In 1919 the county of Marion built one course cement concrete roads twenty feet wide at an average cost for paving slab of $24,611 a mile and reinforced them with steel. The state highway commission built ! one course cement concrete roads eighteen feet wide without reinforcements at a coit of paving of $29,201 a mile. Hair the county roads been only eighteen feet wide, it i s fair to assert that they could have been built at a cost for paving of $23,010 per mile. In this event the difference between the reinforced cement concrete paving costs In favor of the county roads would have been $6,191 a mile and the total saving to the state on the paving of the 113 429 miles of state highways paved would have been $702,238,939. STATE ROADS NOT REINFORCED, This comparison of the cost of highway paving when done by the state commission and when done by the Marion county commissioners is neither exact net is it exaggerated. The difference between the roads built by Marion county and the roads built by the state highway commission Is vast. The principle differences are these; 1. County roads of the one course reinforced concrete type are reinforced with steel laid in the concrete. State roads are not reinforced. 2. County roads of this type run from 18 feet to 30 feet wide. State roads have heretofore been confined to 18 feet. In none of these comparisons has the cost of preparation of the foundation or subgrade of the road been considered. Comparisons are based solely on tha cost of the actual paving, which is in accordance with specifications that prove the county roads to be the better when* they are laid. WHAT THE COUNTY DID IN 1919. Marion county, in 1919, actually built steel reinforced, two-conrsc cement concrete pavements at a less cost per mile (considering width) than the state highway commission built its famous onecourse, non-reinforced cement concrete road surfaces. On the unit yard basis of costs of road slab, the county's contractors would have collected $27,126 a mile for eighteen feet, steel reinforced, twocourse cement concrete pavements had they laid this kind of road where the state spent $29,201 a mile for one-course cement concrete pavement without reinforcement. In other words, the basis of payment sgi which the contractors laid twoconrse, steel reinforced cement concrete pavements twenty feet wide for Marion county wag only $929 more per mile than the basis of payment on which the contractors laid one-course cement concrete. without reinforcement, and only eighteen feet wide, for the state highway commission. Thus it is readily seen that Marion (Continued on Page Two.)

FRANCE BLOCKS RUHR OFFENSE Premier Asks Immediate Withdrawal by Ebert. PARIS, April 3.—Premier Millerand today sent anew note to Dr. Wllhelro von Mayer, the German charge d’affaires, inviting immediate withdrawal of Ger man government troops in the Ruhr district. Millerand re-stated France’s position. He Insisted France had the right to occupy Rhine cities if Germany's violation of the peace treaty continued. In an early statement the French offered to allow German national guard to enter the Ruhr area to put down the communist movement. LONDON, April 3.—German government troops are marching into the Ruhr district, despite the agreement between the cabinet and the workers, said an Essen dispatch to Daily News today. BERLIN, April 3.—Although Herr Severing, the government emissary, has entered Into an agreement with the armed, workers In the Ruhr district, doubt was expressed today if the leaders can control their followers or make all clauses of the agreement, effective.