Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1920 — Page 3

OUT-OF-TOWN PREACHERS IN CITY PULPITS Announcement of Sunday Sermons Shows Varied Church Program. REFORMED SECTS MEET Six classes will be held at the eighth annual missionary conference of the reformed churches in the United States, which will be held here Aug. 24 to 29. The program includes a big banquet at the auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. on Wednesday evening under auspices of the Helderberg league, and the presentation of a pageant, ''Christ in America,” by the young people of the local reformed churches at Hollenbeck hall on Thursday evening. Indianapolis churchgoers during the vacation months have the opportunity to hear sermons by a number of well-known pastors from other cities. Rev. John Allen Blair of Philadelphia will preach at the joint morning services of the First and Fourth Presbyterian churches at the former’s auditorium. * “The Fundemental Unities” will be the theme of a sermon by Rev. Milo J. Smith, national secretary of the American Temperance board at the North Park Christian church tomorrow morning. Rev. H. C. Cllppenger, pastor of the Locust Street M. E. church, at Greencastle, will preach at the morning and evening services at the King Avenue M. E. church. Rev. P. L. Powell of Franklin college will preach at the First Baptist in the morning. Prof. Vs- W. Sweet of DePauw university will deliver the sermon at the morning services of the ileriidan Street M. E. church. A special musical program will be given. “The Call and the Commission” will be the theme of the sermon by the Rev. J. B Parsons at the Brookside U. B. church in the morning. A platform meeting will be held in the evening. Rev. Thomas R. White will preach at the Tabernacle Presbyterian in the morning and the Taberuacla chapel in the evening. “How Can We Love God ?” is to be the theme of the Kev. Loudan A. Harriman at the Second Presbyterian church in the morning. At the Meridian Heights church the Rev. T. R. White will preach in the morning. There will ba no evening services. PREACHES ON “JONAH’S ELVES.’’ “The City's Gates’’ and “Jonah Having the Blues” will be the themes of the sermons of Dr. George M. Smith, pastor of the Roberts Park M. E. church at the morning and evening services, respectively. At the Central Avenue M. E., Dr. O. W. Fifer will preach on “Separation Sequences” at the morning services. Musical numbers will be given by the choir. “The Three Crosses” and “No Room in the Inn” will be the afternoon and evening topics of A. C. Pope at the Wheeler mission. At the Broad Ripple M. E. church. Dr. E. A. Robertson will preach on "The Purpose and Teaching of Jesus’ Vacation” in tte morning and “The Word of God Ve*Bus the Word of a Woman” in the even ng. Rev. W. Davis will preach “The Mind of the Master” at the First Lutheran in the morning. At the Central Christian the Rev.Charles Lynn I’yatt of Transylvania university, Lexington, Ky., will preach the morning sermon. “The Sleeping Savior” will be the theme of the morning sermon of Dr. Benjamin Itist at the St. Paul M .E. church. Z In the evening there will be a Onioii service of the St. I’aul M. E., the Seventh Christian and the Home I’resbjl terian churches, 'with Rev. Robert Mcl.andres. Indiana superintendent of religious education, in charge. Rev. Charles Gunsaulus will preach at ti e Speedway Christian church on "Loose Him and Let Him Go” and “When He Shall Have Delivered Up the Kingdom of God” at the morning and evening services, respectively. At the Mansur Park Methodist Protestant church Rev. Fred Clark of Elkhart will preach in the evening. “God’s Great Game With the Children of Men" and “How It Was Healed” will 1>" the morning and evening topics of Kev. D. W. Nichols at the Hall Place M. E. church.

Pools of Blood New Clews In Death Case Special to The Times. PETERSBURG, Ind'., Aug-. 21.—Discovery of three pools of blood, a pair of robber boots and a cap. In the lnvestl patlon of the deaths of Cecil Sharp and Virgil Black, Muren boys, whose bodies were found on the tracks of the Southern railroad Sunday night, caused officers to redouble their efforts to solve the mystery of their deaths. The pools of blood were found at the Globe coal mine switch, one and onefialf miles east of the point where the lodie3 were found, and the cap belonging to one of the dead boys was discovered 100 feet east of the placv where the train stopped. The authorities are now following the theory that in the attack on the two boys, with robbery as the motive, one of the boys escaped and ran up the switch, where he was overtaken and hilled and that the bodies were carried down the railicad track west of the switch. ‘Goosie’ Lee Demands Jury in Gaming Trial Harry ‘‘Goosie” Lee, negro republican politician, who boasted to a Times reporter that he and his friends had gambled and would always gamble on Indiana avenue, has asked for a change of venue from Judge Walter Pritchard in city court and has also demanded a jury trial. Hamster Bingham, former assistant Indiana attorney general, will be the special Judge in Lee's case. Lee is charged with keeping a gambling house. He was captured with eighteen other negroes Sunday in a raid made by the morals squad on the Pioneer Republican club at 50914 Indiana avenue. The police knocked down the lookout of the alleged game and captured n pair of dice and 80 cents as evidence. The case will be tried Aug. 31. "Chip” Lewis, proprietor of a notorious roedbouse southeast of the city, requested that his case be continued until 31. Lewis is charged with keeping a gambling house. Fowler Youth Shot by Orchard Owner Special to The Times. * LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 21.—Linden Martin, 17, was seriously injured in Fowler when he was shot by Jerry Stanfield of that place. Martin was In company with a number of other youths when Stanfield appeared with a shotgun and all but Martin ran. It is alleged that Stanfield fired the gun without warning. A charge of shot struck Martin in the left leg, shattering the bone. . Stanfield says the boys were stealing Arult from his orchard.

Seeks Sentiment on Consolidated School Special to The Times. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Aug. 21.—W. E. Pursley, county superintendent of schools, is endeavoring to get the sentiment of the school patrons and taxpayers of Jackson township before deciding the consolidated school petition question, which comes up Aug. 28. The superintendent is visiting large numbers of the school patrons personally. A compromise may be reached by granting the school but placing it in a location different from that asked. HUGHES NAMES PROGRAM MEN Annual Municipal League Conference Here Sept. 17. Charles Evans Hughes of New York, president of the National Municipal league, has appointed a committee to handle the program for the annual conference, wiheh will be held in Indianapolis, Nov. 17 and 18. The committee is made up of Robert E. Tracy, director of the bureau of governmental research of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, chairman; Richard S. Childs, New York City ; Mayo Fesler, Brooklyn; James W. Roth, Rochester, N. Y.; C. A. Dykstra, Chicago, and Miss Edith Rockwood, Chicago. Mayo Fesler is a brother of Leo K. Fesler of Indianapolis and is secretary of the Brooklyn Chamher of Commerce. Robert E. Tracy is also a member of the committee on nominations and will make the nomination of the officers of the league for 1921. The National Municipal league had a conference in Indianapolis in 1898. It will bring at least 400 men and women to the city in November, including many of national and international note. Local arrangements for hotel reservations and meeting places will be made by the municipal research committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, ot which John R. Welch is chairman. TO DECIDE FARE JUMP NEXT WEEK Service at Cost Means Higher Rate at Once. The public service commission probably will reach a decision on the servtce-at-cost petition of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company next week, according to E. I. Lewis, chairman of the commission, who returned to Indianapolis today. A favorable ruling on the petition probably will mean increased car fare immediately. The plan contemplates the increase or decrease in rates as expenses increase or decrease. The car company recently pointed out the necessity for more revenues because of the increase in coal prices. Mr. Lewis said he has been in close touch with the financial condition of the company and that it has been satisfactory until recently, when coal pricea increased. He said that while he was away from the city he studied the operation of the service-at-cost plan in Boston and Montreal. He previously had gone over similar systems in Cleveland and Cincinnati. HEARING WILL BEGIN MONDAY. Hearing will begin Monday on the petition filed Aug. 2, by thirty-one ruilroacu operating in Indiana for increas"* in freight and passenger rates .to equal those granted recently by the Interstate commerce commission. Mr. Lewis, John W. McCardle, I’aul I\ Haynes, commissioners, and A. I). Cronk, freight rate expert of the commission, will conduct the hearing. The petition asks that the railroads be allowed to increase passenger fares 20 per cent, and asks for a boost in freight rates of 27 per cent, these being the increases approved by the federal commission. The following railroads will be represented at the hearing: Baltimore & Ohio, Baltimore A Ohio and Chicago Terminal Company, Chesapeake & Ohio, Central Indiana Company, Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, Chicago, Terre Haute & Eastern, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western, Cleveland, Cincinnati & Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis, Dayton & Union. Elgin, Joliet &. Eastern. Chicago & Erie, Evansville A Indianapolis, Grand Rapids A Indiana. Grand Trunk. Illinois Central, Lake Erie & Western. Indiana Harbor Belt, Louisville A- Nashville, Michigan Central, New Jersey, Indiana A Illinois, New York Central. New York, Chicago A St. Louis, Pennsylvania. I’ere Marquette, Pittsburg, Chicago, Cincinnati & St. Louis. Toledo, Peoria A Western and the Wabash. Several days’ time will be consumed in the hearing, it is expected. KEEP ILLINOIS GRANT IN MIND. “While the commission is hearing the petition of the Indiana railroads, it will bear in mind the fact that Illinois has granted only a 33 1-3 per cent increase,” said Chairman Lewis. Mr. Lewis, in commenting on investigations made in the east in regard to the petition of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company for “service at cost.” stated that he had become acquainted with fuel conditions as they affect utilities in that section of the country. “I found that their condition is much the same as that of utilities in Indiana,” said Mr. Lewis. “In a conversation with members of the New York state utilities commission, I learned that many companies there are paying as high as 817 per ton for coal. “Many of the utilities now are facing j shutdowns because of failure to obtain j fuel supplies.” 1 The Interborough Rapid Transit Com- ! pany, which operates cars in New York | city, was operating Tuesday with only a three-day coal supply, and. is daily facing curtailment of service, said Mr. Lewis. $10,410 Received From Ninety Acres Wheat Special to The Times. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 21.—What is believed to be the record wheat crop j per acre in Indiana was grown by Henry Plasphol, near Fowler. He planted ninety acres, which, when thrashed this week, averaged 45,27 bushels to the acre. Mr. Plasphol sold the wheat for $2.53 per bushel, realizing $10,410 for the! crop. The wheat was sown late in the fall and fertilized with 200 pounds per acre of 16 per cent acid phosphate. Because of the late planting no damage was done by the Hy. When^'to^Z vent something new to eat’ ’ you need Beecham’S Pills. Even when digestion is good, poisons are formed during its processes that unless eliminated irritate mind as well as body. BEECHAM’S Sold sroiy. HI I jpv Largest where, g# W 9 H in hexee, ij S 10c., 25c. ■ World.

SAYS U. S. HAS RECOGNIZED MEXICO RULE Representative Asserts Situation Parallels That Here After McKinley's Death. ASSUME OBLIGATIONS WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Declaring Mexico stands ready and willing to live up to the letter of her international obligations, Senor Iglesias Calderon, Mexican diplomatic representative here, has come back to Washington to press, not for official recognition of his government, but merely for “continued relations. “Diplomatically,” he declared, in an exclusive interview today, “our situation in Mexico today is precisely that of the United States following the assassination of President McKinley. “The vice president became president and there was no call or necessity for the United States to be "recognized again by foreign powers. “So it is with Mexiqp. Carranza was assassinated. Congress met and named a successor, as the constitution of Mexico provides. "The United States had’ already recognized the Carranza government. “I wish to say here,” he went on, “that the report that I wired Mexico City that Secretary of State Colby had laid down to me three principles which, if agreed to by Mexico, would have brought recognition of Mexico, is utterly untrue. “Secretary Colby made no such stipulations and I sent no such telegram. WON’T POSTPONE THE ELECTION. “Another rumor I would like to scotch is that concerning a postponement of the presidential election in Mexico scheduled i for Sept. 5. “The date is fixed by congress and provisional President De La Huerta could not postpone it even if he wished to, which he does not. “Since the withdrawal of Gen. Pablo Gonzaies, two candidates are in the field, Gen. Obregon and Senor Koderiguez Dominguez. “Gen. Obregon belongs to the liberal revolutionary party and Senor Dominguez to the republican conservative, or Catholic party. “The general, according to indications, is favored by the majority. “Immediately after the election congress will mett, review the process and issue a decree declaring the winner. “On Dee. 1 the new president will take the oath.” “I do not care to predict when relations will be resumed between the United States and Mexico —whether it will be at once, after the election, or not until the new president hus been sworn in. “I would like to see it done immediately. “There is not going to be another revolution in Mexico. “A few men in some of t|ie Mexican states have been doing pretty much as they pleased, and now rebel against being called to terms, but they will not succeed.” It had been rumored that Senor Calderon was on tho point of being recalled, his mission to the United States which was primarily to secure the recognition of his government by this country—having failed, but he denied this. Shelbyville Witness Taken at Kalamazoo Special to The Time*. SHELBYVILLE. Ind., Aug. 21.—A man arrested at Kalamazoo, Mich,, Thursdaj. giving ids name ns Frank Anderson, is said to be Howard Cerf. who was sentenced to the Indiana state prison for life from Marion county and who escaped from the Shelby county Jail on the night of Thursday. July 22, while being held there as a witness In the trial of George X. Ogdt n and others, charged with conspiracy. Cerf was arrested at Kalamazoo as a suspect while attempting to se.l cameras and after his arrest confessed to stealing autos at Indianapolis. Cerf will be returned here to testify in the prosecution of George Ogden and John and Harry Anderson. Cerf was sentenced for life on the charge of being an habitual criminal. He was convicted of stealing a number of cars in Indianapolis and It is alleged that the-o cars were seat to Shelbyville for disposal by the defendants in the conspiracy cases. ‘Borrow’ Machine and Smash It Up Special to Tho Times. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Aug. 21. Charles Bowman and Lawrence Babbitt, two local young men, “borrowed” an automobile owned by Frank Culbertson, a merchant, took a joy ride and demolished the machine when they collided with a telephone pole, Friday. Bowman was injured when a piece of glass from the windshield penetrated his side. No charges were filed when the boy promised to pay for the damages.

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WOMEN PARADE AT TERRE HAUTE Celebrate Ratification of Suff Amendment. Special to The Times. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Aug. 21. Women voters of Terre Haute and Vigo county made their first plunge into politics. They staged a “whale” of a parade last night to celebrate Tennessee’s ratification of the federal suffrage amendment. And did they unfurl the pictures of Cox and Harding? They did, and they didn’t forget to have pictures of President Wilson on the radiators of the automobiles in tho parade. When the cars passed bearing the pictures of Cox and Harding, the huge crowds which lined Wabash avenue cheered and yelled themselves hoarse. And when a picture of President Wilson appeared the crowds let out another war cry. MALE POLITICIANS SO ACCOMMODATING. And the male politicians were so accommodating and so polite. They were so willing to act as chauffeurs to the women voters and the republican men were also lavish in furnishing pictures of Harding. It began to look for a while that republican headquarters had a bigger supply of pictures on hand than the democratic crowd. There were shouts of “nurrah for Cox" and "Harding is the man" as the parade made its way down the main street of the town. Vigo county women are in polities for good, and the men are literally breaking their necks to be nice to the fair ones. , Handbills containing the following were scattered along the line of march : “Women Are Voters—Thirty-six states have ratified the federal amendment, which gives to every woman citizen of the United States a right to vote on equal terms with men for every office, national, state county and city. “Register in your precinct Sept. 4 or Oct. 4. “Every patriotic American citizen, man or woman, must vote Nov. 2. 1920. "Don’t be a slacker. "League of Women Voters.” PROMINENT PERSONS TAKE PART IN EVENT. Mrs. Frances Beach, who is considered the oldest active school teacher in the city, occupied the automobile which headed the parade. Mrs. Bench was born !u the year in which Susan B. Anthony started her first suffrage campaign and Mrs. Beach has always been an active suffragist. Among others who occupied prominent positions in the first cars were Mayor Charles Hunter, Miss Alice Ilainmersteln, county chairman of the League of Women Voters; Miss Emma May. district chairman of the democratic women. Hnd Mrs. George Moorehead, wife of the Vigo county chairman of the democratic party. Both men and women admit the parade was a big success. There is no argument here on that score. The only controversy Is whether Harding nr Cox had the most pictures lu the parade. Negro Is Taken in Napariu Murder Case TTenry Buckner, negro, alleged murderer of a bootlegger in a pistol duel on West Tenth street Aug. 14, is under arrest at Danville, Ind., and will be brought to Indianapolis todsy. Six other men, one of them white, are also under arrest on the charge of murder. but In tbelr testimony before the coroner the men (.laced the blame on Buckner, who was at that time a fngl tlve for whom the police were eearchlng. Adam Napariu and two other men are said to have gone to the West Tenth street and Ben Davis rootl* t. del!'-*r some “white mule” whisky, when the white man, a negro chauffeur and five other negroes tried to hold them up and tnke the wihaky. A pistol duel followed, Napariu was killed and one negro and one foreigner wounded. The wihsky was stolen and the gang escaped. Henry Lee, negro chauffeur, who drove the "death car,” was arreated and is said to have made a confession. Other arrests followed. Elected Superior of Holy Cross Order Special to The Times. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 20—Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, known as a poet, who recently returned from Itnly, where he nerved as chaplain with the American forces, was tonight elected superior of the Holy Crosa congregation of priests and brothers of the United States. Father O'Donnell will succeed Rev. Andrew ,1. Morrissey, who becomes the coadjutor superior general of the order. The selection of Father O'Donnell was made at the close of the general chapter of the congregation, which was attended by delegates from all parts of the United States, Canada and Itnly. Father O’Donnell was born and received his early education in Kokomo.

It’s Kiwanis Day at Scout Reservation Today was "Kiwanis day” at the Boy Scout reservation north of the city. The program was scheduled to start this afternoon with assembly and a parade starting from Meridian and New York streets. Joseph E. Bell was to make the speech presenting the Kiwanis hut to the Boy Heouts, and it was to be accepted in behalf of the scouts by L. A. Harrlma^. The remainder of the afternoon and evening was to be taken up with inspection and various amusements, ending with a campfire at night. GERMAN-RUSS PACT, REPORT U. S. Busy Gathering Evidence of Alliance. * WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The United States government is gathering circumstantial evidence of an alliance or understanding between Germany soviet Russia, it was learned today. While Washington has no proof of such an alliance, additional reports indicating its existence have been received, it was stated officially. However, the strictest secrecy is observed as to the nature of these reports. The government is quietly conducting a searching investigation to determine whether an alliance exists between the two countries. It is probable that if there is found to be a pact to the prejudice of the allies, the fact will be made public, as in the case of the famous Zimmerman note. Farme* Sells Apples, Then Tips Off Cops Special to The Times. GREENS BURG. Ind., Aug. 21.—A Decatur county farmer claims he sold a local grocer some apples at 4 cents a pound and then waited in front of the store to satisfy his curiosity as to the price the grocer would charge for the same apples. A customer appeared and asked the price of the apples and was informed that they were 10 cents a pound. The farmer reported the matter to the police.

This Means ‘Money Saved’ to Every One Who Reads and Acts Quick LOCATED CORNER PENN. AND GEORGIA STS. TWO BLOCKS SOUTH WASH. ST. Sweepers . r; . . To the People of Indianapolis and Surrounding Community HIRST SYSTEM 10-DAY SALE Os Honest Popular Priced Dependable Merchandise to be Offered to the Public in One Great Sensational Ten Day SELLING CAMPAIGN That Will Shake the Retail Business of This City From Center to Circumference HURST & COMPANY Corner Pennsylvania and Georgia Streets wash! ngto n°str eet Wednesday Morning, August 25th at 8 O’Olock °V F Most stupendendous price cutting sale campaigns of the entire contents of their big retail "tore at Pennsylvania and Georgia Streets and their mammoth warehouses. A most extraordinary effort, such as has never before been known, thought of, undertaken or attempted in the entire history of retail selling in this country. WATCH! WAIT! Don’t buy a dollar’s worth of merchandise of any description until you get the full particulars of this great sale. GET READY, BE PREPARED Watch Monday’s and Tuesday’s newspapers, giving all details of this great event, If and be prepared to get first choice and your share of the great money saving bargains that on Wednesday morning, August 25th, at 8 o’clock, will be thrown on the ga|klKjg3 I market at prices that will fulfill your fondest dreams of economical buying. 8ITil?jl AAHTCn 50 Salesmen, 50 Salesladies. Apply at stone WMSI I E.LJ after 12 noon, Monday, to MR. PENNINGTON. WD ■ 188 EWB ”1” A CORNER OF PENNSYLVANIA W iLJ iNt I cm U® ILJ and Georgia streets. 'tor * 2 BLOCKS SOUTH OF WASHINGTON.

SELLING AT HOME DRIVE DATE SET Indianapolis Manufacturers Are to Hold Exhibits. In Une with the campaign to sell Indianapolis industries to Indianapolis people, starting the first of the month, Indianapolis manufacturers will hold exhibits each week in the reading rooms 01 the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. One manufacturer will exhibit this week. The exhibits until the first of the year will be confined to long established manufacturers. Starting the first of the year the ex--1 hibits will be of those Industries which have been obtained for Indianapolis during 1920 by the Chamber of Commerce. Letters were sent yesterday by John B. Reynolds, general secretary of the chamber, to the manufacture*?, advising them that they had been permitted the privilege of exhibiting during the weeks indicated. Following are the exhibitors; Ang. 30. Eli Lilly & Cos.; Sept. 6, Midwest Engine Company; Sept. 13, E. C. Atkins & Cos.; Sept. 20, Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company, and Sept. 27, Acme-Evans Company. Oct, 4, Keyless Lock Company; Oct. 11, Oakes Manufacturing Company; Oct. 18, Indianapolis Brush and Broom Manufacturing Company, and Oct. 25, Udell works. Nov. 1, G. & J. Tire Company; Nov. 8, Lewis Meiere A Cos.; Nov. 15, International Metal Polish Company; Nov. 22, Tucker A Dorsey Manufacturing Company, and Nov. 29, Kahn Tailoring Company. Dec. 6, Leedy Manufacturing Company; Dec. 13, International Printing Company ; Dec. 20, Dilling & Cos., and Dec. 27, Holcomb A- Hoke Manufacturing Company. Hammond Sewers Full of Rasin Jhilp, Report Special to The Times. HAjIMOND, Ind . Aug. 21.—Residents .in East Chicago are manufacing so much raisin whisky that it has become a leading industry. Street Commissioner Peter Sterling resumed his duties today after a two weeks’ vacation and discovered that the city’s sewer system was completely blocked up by raisins which had been used in making whisky. During the last six months sewer Mocking by raisins has been reported to city officials a dozen times.

Lenine Would Take Bolshevism to Asia LONDON, Ang. 21.—Nicolai Lenine, premier of soviet Russia, sees the main hope of the bolsheviki in the establishment of sovietism in Asia and throughout the east. The bolshevists’ chieftain is quoted as making this statement in a speech reported in the Petrograd newspapers, according to a Berlin dispatch today. PLENTY OF MONEY READY FOR CROPS Opening of Chicago Trading in Futures Helps. CHICAGO. Aug. 21.—The midwest money market is prepared for the strain of moving the nation’s big crop and there is, in the words of leading financiers, “absolutely no danger of a severe crisis.” “Financing the crop movement during the next few months will not be as great a strain on the money market as has been generally believed,” said George M. Reynolds, president of the Continental and Commercial National bank. "Throughout the crop movement railroads will remain in a state of congestion. “It is not likely any particularly heavy movements will take place at any one time. Asa result, credit requirements will be spread over the entire period.” Movement of new wheat to Chicago, which for several days after July 15 equaled only one-fourth of normal, has been rapidly increasing. The general situation was materially improved by resumption of trading in wheat for future delivery on the Chicago board of trade, which tends to stabilize prices and prevent losses through congestion and like causes. "While strlnkage of Wall street stock market loans to the extent of several hundred million dollars in the last few months may help the situation, financing the grain movement to market in tho central west is done from Chicago as a center. “Comparatively little local money is devoted to New York stock market loans. ’’After the crops have reached Chicago elevators and the movement starts east, then there is a larger degree bf New York financing. “But this takes place after the original crop movement from farm to market.”

CHARLES FOX ON INDUSTRY BOARD President of State Labor Federation Gets Appointment. Charles Fox. Terre Haute, president the Indiana State Federation of Labor, has been appointed by Gov. James P. Goodrich to fill the democratic vacancy on the state industrial board. The appointment of Mr. Fox was made public last night. Mr. Fox succeeds Gilbert H. Hendren as a member of the board, the latter having resigned last January before the expiration of his term ou March 26. The new member of the board is prominent In Indiana labor circles, having been a coal miner for several years, serving for some time as secretary of District 11 of the miners’ organization. He was made first vice president of the state federation in 1911, and was re-elected in 1912, becoming president in 1913, succeeding Edgar A. Perkins, now a member of the industrial board. He served two years as deputy mine inspector, resigning that berth when the president of the state federation was given a salary. Big Four Cost Jump Beats Revenue Gain Transportation revenues on the Big Four railroad for the year just ended increased $2,378,957.54 over the preceding year, according to the annual report of the board of directors, making the total $H,911,350.24. Operating expenses, according to the report, increased 53,502,163.28, while incidental operating expenses increased $73,538.67. t . The report shows the capital stock of the road amounts to $57,056,300, and that at the first of the year the funded indebtedness was being increased later by $17,133,000. Bonds amounting to $4,082,189.27, retired, left the total funded debt at th close of the year at $111,412,405.54. The sum of $10,155,499.91, advanced by the government for improvements, will be returned by the company. The report shows a large amount expended for improvements of equipment and terminals at the company’s yards in Brightwood and Beech Grove.

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