Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1920 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature.

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79 COAL SUITS FILED AGAINST GOODRICH BODY Retailers Charge Prices Fixed Are TJnjust and Confiscatory.’ COMMISSION BACKS UP Charging that the maximum price for the sale of coal at retail to consumers when determined in accordance with the orders of the special coal and food commission of Indiana, is too low to cover the cost of delivery and permit a reasonable and fair profit to the retail coal dealers and charging that the price as fixed Is “unjust, unfair. Inequitable, confiscatory and is less than tbe actual expense of delivery plus a fair and reasonable profit," Seventy-nine Indiana retail coal dealers this afternoon filed suits in the Marlon County Circuit Court asking the court to Tacate and set aside the pricefixing order of the commission. The suits were filed, despite the announcement of the commission that anew order affecting retailers will be filed. *SO SUITS WERE PLANNED AT FIRST. Counsel had Intended to file about 250 suits, but at the eleventh hour the action of the commission in changing part of its order resulted in the attorneys withdrawing about seventy-five retailers from the original list. Approximately 175 cases were filed about 1 o’clock, County Clerk Richard Sipe announced. The plaintiffs are prominent retail coal dealers in many of the Important cities and towns of the Btate. The action does not seek an injunction, but asks the trial court to set aside the order of the commission on the grounds of unfairness. Each retailer filed a separate suit against the Special Cool and Food Commission of Indiana, contesting the order of Oct- 6 of the commission fixing the prioa of coal. Clarence W. Nichols and the law firm of Matson, Kane & Ross filed the suits In the circuit court. • were awaiting Instruction to file the suits, the commission, through Its counsel, James W. Noel, announced that anew order applying to retail coal dealers would be issued The order is expected to divide the I State into zones and to provide different L margins of profit for different tones. In I many cases increasing the margins which 'the commission previously characterized as “liberal.’’ TO MAKE FURTHER INVESTIGATION At the same time Mr. Noel announced the time for filing suits would expire tonight at 12 o’clock. He said the order affecting retailers stands without modification and will continue to stand until anew order is ' Issued. The following tentative grouping of dealers was announced: Group 1, dealers within the city limits of Indianapolis. Group 2, Gary, Hammond. Indiana | Harbor, Whiting and East Chicago. | Group 8. South Bend. Mlehawaka, Elkhart, La Porte and Michigan City. Group 4, Ft. Wayne. Grouo 5, Kokomo, Anderson, Muncle and Marlon. Group 6, Lafayette, Richmond and Logansport. Retailers In these groups did not file gaits. Mr. Noel said the commission will make a further investigation before the order Is Issued. The announcement was made following a conference of Clarence W. Nichols, attorney for the retailers, with the commission. Mail Plane Aviator Is Burned to Death CHICAGO, Oct. 18.—An aviator flying a Government mail plane was burned to death at Bald Mound. 111., a short distance west of Chicago, today, when his [ plane, speeding through n heavy fog bank, crashed to earth and the gasoline tank exploded. The flyer was believed to be Aver McCullom of Omaha, who left the flying field at Maywood at 8 a. m. today. CHICAGO, Oct. 16.—Pilot McMullen of the United States air mail service was killed today when his plane fell at Batavia, 111., fifty miles west of here. McMullen left Chicago on the Omaha mall route early today. His home was In Omaha. PROCLAIMS EDUCATION* DAY. A proclamation by Governor Goodrich urging that Sunday, Nov. 7. be observed in the churches of the State as Educa t:on day and that the ministers devotq a portion of that day to the discussion of “The Needs of Education In Indiana. ’ was Issued today.

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Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Sunday, Oct. 17: Fair tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature. . HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. ni 59 7 a. m 59 8 a. ni 69 B a. in 66 f 10 a. a 70 Ji a. m 72 12 (noon) 74 1 p. m 75 - ni - 77 Have You Read the League Covenant? Every one should read the covenant of the League of Nations, in order clearly to understand the great issue of the national campaign. The Dally Times has arranged to distribute copies of the league covenant through the information Bureau of this newspaper at Washington. Simply fill out the attached coupon and mall it, with 2-eent stamp for postage. to our Washington Bureau. (In filling out the coupon print name and address or be sure to write plainly.)

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Campaign Quiz to Open at St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 16—The Senate subcommittee investlgiating campaign expenditures, was scheduled to resume hearings here Monday. The committee is expected to go into the expenditures for senatorial campaigns, with special reference to the campaigns waged by Breckenridge Long and Selden P. Spencer, Democratic and Republican nominees from Missouri. P.oTWages Sliced CHICAGO, Oct. 16. —Wages of approximately 450 expert employes of the Chicago postoffice were ordered reduced by Postmaster General Burleson today. Present salaries of $2,000 a year will be cut to SI,BOO by the postmaster general’s order. The employes whose salaries were cut are bookkeepers and tellers for the most part. PLANS FOR NEW PUBLIC MARKET GO GLIMMERING Board of Public Works Unableto Find Barn for City Mule Teams. People of the south side who have tried for years so rid their neighborhood of the street cleaning and ash hauling barns at 1134 South Shelby street and who thought that the city ordinance establishing a municipal market therein finally would accomplish this end on Jan. 1, are doomed to disappointment, according to a statement of George Lemaux, president of the hoard of pubI lie works. I In order to get the 100 street cleaning 1 mules and equipment out of the Shelby street barns It is necessary to obtain some other place to house them. This Is the duty of the board of public works. Mr. Lemaux in response to a question as to whether the barns would be cleared for the establishment of the market on Jan. 1, stated that so far as he knows they will not. CAN’T FIND PLACE TO HOUSE MULES “There isn’t any available place in the city large enough." he said. The only feasible new home for the aniftials and apparatus is at the proposed city yards, which the Jewett administration has been promising to build at Kentucky avenue and Drover street for almost three years. It will be impossible, Mr. Lemaux said, to have the street cleaning barn, the first unit of the municipal yard, constructed before next summer even under the most favorable conditions. Until that time, he indicated, the mules and equipment will stay where they are. “Why haven't the yards been started?’’ “Is it lack of funds or lack of direction?” he was ssked. MUNICIPAL YARD PLAN* COMPLETED IN 1918 “It looks like a little of bath,” he replied. “On Feb. 14, 1918, you will remember. I wrote the mayor a letter In which I outlined the plan for the municipal yard.” When it was suggested that the board might be forced to vacate the barn to make way for the ordinance established market. Mr. Lemaux replied that the city council has no right to tell the board olworks wbat to do with a public building. The board intends to order Street Commissioner A. O. Meloy to put his street repair gangs to grading the Kentucky (Continued on Page Throe.) MEXICO STRONG FOR WORLD PACT Outline of New Administration’s Attitude Announced. MEXICO CITY. Oct. 16. Declarations by President De La Huerta to American correspondents covering Mexico's national and international policies, were interpreted today as reflecting the attitude of the incoming Obregon administration. Among the points made by De La Huerta were: Mexico will pay all her Just debts. She will cooperate with the United States and Guatemala in maintaining peace along the international boundaries. Although Mexico has not received a note from the United States outlining conditions for recognition, she would accept conditions which would not affect her national dignity. The League of Nations Is an Institution beneficial to humanity. Mexico has no intention of confiscating property. De La Huerta's statement is known to have been prepared after conference* with Alvara Obregon, president-elect; Robert Fesquera, fiscal representative in Washington, who has just returned, and George Creel, former head of the American committee -on public information. Big Snow in Colorado PUEBLO, Colo., Oct. 16.—Much property damage has been done by heavy mows the last few days in the region south of here. Ready to ‘Hop Off WINONA, Minn., Oct. 16. —Four army airplanes on the way back to New York from Nome, Alaska, for Grand Rapids, Mich., expected to hop off during the afternoon. BOOTLEGGER FINED SSO. Albert .Tacobßon, an Anderson contractor, was fined SSO and costs by City Judge Pritchard today on a charge of operating a blind tiger.

The following compilations show the increases in taxes which the citizens of Marion County will be compelled to pay under the present Republican administration. These examples are taken at random from the tax duplicate and are indicative of the tremendous burden of taxation that follows the extravagance and waste of the "good government" administration. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP. J IPayable' IPnyablolPyable f 1918 | 1919 | 1910 { 1920 | 1921 Name and description. ! value. | tax. value. | tax. | tax. i Dorothy Bennett, Sec. 16-10-4, 10 31-100 Ii I ' acres | $1,301 • $19.24 | $6,000 ! $43.20 $04.50 Francis J. Benton. Sec. 1-16-3, 75 2-100 I | i acres 3,100 j 45.88 [ 21,000 ; 151.20 226.80 ! Eugene 11. Darraeh. Sec. 33-17-4, 21 80-100 | acres 1,280 18.94 I 4.880 33.14 52.70 William Fox. Sec. 9-16-3. 40 acres 4,000 | 59.20 j 15,060 J 108.60 | 162.00 i Forest G. Hoover. Sec. 34-17-3, B*. acres.. 5,9C0 , 87.32 24,000 172 00 209.20 Dr. J. McGehee. Sec. 21 17-3, 79 23-100 acres 4,770 | 70.60 24,000 172.00 259.20 Hillary & L. C. Morris. Sec. 35-17-3, 80 j acres 6,000 1 88.80 i 36,000 250.20 388.80 Abraham R. Nicholas. Sec. 7-16-4, 50 acres. 6,500 96 20 I 22,50 162.00 243.00 Samuel M. Ralston. Sec. 0-16-3, 26 acres.. 2,200 I 32.56 > 12,000 86.40 129.60 Warren H. &J. A. Simmons. Sec. 17-16-4, I 2190-100 acres 3,800 148.84 1 18,180 04.54 J4LBO

Entered as riecond Class Matter, July 25. I#H. at Postoffice. Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3. 1879.

BRITISH COAL MINERS BEGIN BIG WALKOUT Lloyd George Says Nation Will Resist With All Its Strength. 1,000,000 MEN AFFECTED LONDON, Oct. 16.—Miners responded solidly to the call for a nation-wide coal strike today. Reports from the coal fields declared the men are swarming out of the mines, many re-fusing to wait for the change in shifts. By midday it was estimated that more than a million miners and auxiliary workers had been affected. Only the pumping engineers and maintenance staffs are remaining in the mines as an Insurance against flooding or deterioration of machinery. Many of the moa sullenly admitted that “we are likely to he beaten,” but maintained they could stay out for at least six weeks. “The nation must and will resist such an attack with all its strength, and there can be no doubt as to the issue,” says Premier Lloyd George in an appeal to the people of the United Kingdom. He said there is no need for alarm regarding fuel supplies an dassured the people ample and fair distribution will be made. The miners have decided to make a “straight wage fight,” dropping all incidental issues, particularly such as might be interpreted as political questions. They agreed to stand pat on these claims: Advance of 48 cents a shift for workers over 18 years of age; 24 cents a shift for workers between 16 and 18 years old. and 18 cents a shift for those under 16. GOVERNMENT PREPARES FOR LONG SIEGE. No disorder Is anticipated, with the possible exception of the more excitable Welshmen, but the stubbornness of the northerners and the Scots is expected to embitter industry for many months. Iron and steel plants in Yorkshire are reported to be closing down. Twenty thousand workers in the Teeside district are expected to be idle Monday. In several sections of Durham and Nottinghamshire the afternoon shift failed to report for work yesterday, it was learned. The government is making extensive preparations to combat the threatened paralyzation of industry while tho press and the public cling to the hope that the strike can be checked before it reaches an irresistible momentum. This hope centers about Monday's joint session of the Parliamentary Labor party, the Trades Union Congress and the Labor party. The belief prevails that the majority of members secretly oppose the miners. The prevalent idea is that labor as a whole disapprove* of, or is passive, regarding the strike. If this proves to be true It is accepted as n caning there will be no sympathtlc strikes. Executives of the Transport Workers’ Federation also will meet Monday to discuss ways and means of carrying on during the coal strike, which will ltnme(Uontinued on Page Nine.) FLEE PRISON IN GAS-FILLED PIPE Two Convicts Brave Death Fumes in Daring Break for Liberty. JEFFERSON (’ITT, Mo., Oct. 16. Making their way three hundred yards through a gns-fliled sewer, ('Tiarleg Me. Kinsey and Ray Haynes of Kansas City gained their liberty from the Missouri penitentiary it was learned this morning. They had been sent from Kansas City to serve eight years for robbery. MeKiusey and Haynes with John Souther and Oakley Mania, two other eonvicts, pried a trap from n twenty.fottrinch opening into the sewer in the prison playgrounds and started to crawl through to the river. Souther and Mania were driven back by the fumes, and prison officials believed MeKinsey and Haynes lost their lives in the attempt until Investigation today failed to reveal their bodies. Haitian Killing Quiz May Be Held Soon WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The Navy Department was today preparing for the court of inquiry ordered by Secretary of the Navy Daniels to inquire into the Haitian situation and the charge that United States Marines had been guilty of Indiscriminate killing among the natives there. The court probably will not get intj action until next week, when Brig. Gen. George Barnett, on whose report the inquiry is based, returns here.

KATHLEEN DISCOVERS HARDING’S STAND ON LEAGUE

By KATHLEEN M’KEE. Having cogitated deeply over the announcement that Senator Harding would leave his front porch long enough to honor our no mean city with a visit, I wai suddenly possessed with a mysterious desire to learn the Senator’s latest stand on the league, which very original longing I communicated to my neighbor, who assured me lti condescending tones

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State and Revenue Departments Clash N on Diplomats ’ ‘Nips’ WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—The State Department and the Bureau of Internal Revenue are at odds over prohibition enforcement, it was learned this afternoon when the State Department announced that it will protect the rights of diplomats accredited to this nation in regard to the bringing of their baggage and es--1 sects the United States without inspection. The Bureau of Internal Revenue Issued orders several day's ago that all persons making entry to this country should have their effects subject to inspection of dry agents. The State Department announced that this order cannot be inforced insofar as it affffect* diplomats. It was stated also thnt it is the opinion of the State Department that diplomats within the country may have liquor shipped to them with immunity. FEDERAL FOOD QUIZ SET FOR INDIANAPOLIS Provisions Left on Tracks Cause Price Boost, Says Report. Failure of commission men in Indianapolis to unload 1 cars of foodstuffs invariably has resulted in Increased prlcen, a report released today by the Department of Justice shows. The report will result in an Investigation to determine the motives of commission men in failing to unload cars, it was announced. In elaborately prepared charts, wherein the arrival and unloading of the cars and the price* of the commodity on different days are shown, the price* are indipated as fluctuating Inversely in the proportion to the number of cars unloaded. The charts show only a small percentage of the cara received were ui loadeo immediately during the entire month of .September. It Is revealed also that, after Sept. 29, when a meeting of the officials of the railroads with Stanley Wyekoff, Federal fair price commissioner, and commission men was called and arrangements made for an Investigation by the Department of Justice, the cars which then were standing 0a the tracks were unloaded and that with the unloading prices decreased. Sweet potatoes demanded a high price during September, but since Oct. 1 the price ha* dropped, the report showed. The charts show that during September commission men let cars tilled with sweet potatoes stand on the tracks, but that since Oct. 1 they have beau unloading them. PEACH PRICE NOW NORMAL. The price of peaches, which was comparatively “out of sight" during September, is normal now, and the chart shows that in the last two weeks the cars are not only being unloaded on their arrival ,bnt that many cars which were standing on the tracks before that time were unloaded. The same condition la shown to apply In other commodities. District Attorney Van Nnys satd such action on the part of the commission men is not contrary to the Federal laws ualess R could be proved the handlers of periahable foodstuffs deliberately refused to un. load thp cars so aa to increase the price of foods. Investigation by operatives of the Department of Justice will continue. Mr. Van Nuys has Instructed Charles P. Tighe. head of the department, to prepare additional charts on the climatic (audition* which might have affected the produce, as well ns to obtain data on the amount produce which was in cold storage during September, that the motive of commission men in refusing to unload cars might be determined. PRICES REDUCED OS COMMODITIES Sugar Down to $10.50 a Hundred. Reductions in prices of many commodities are being noted. City Purchasing Agent Dwight Ritter said today. Gauze for use at the City Hospital has dropped from 7 cents a yard to 5V* cents since Aug. 1. . Flour costs $2 a barrel less than in June; sheeting 25 per cent less than in May; rioe has dropped from cents a pound to cents; beef Is cents a pound lower than in June; box cereals art* 10 per cent under the June figures; tires are 20 to 25 per cent leas, and sugar, for which the highest price ever paid by the city was $24.95 a hundred, now coats 810.50. Horse feeds are considerably lower, corn which cost $2.10 a bushel a few months ago being at $1.40 now; oats, formerly sl.lß, being at 60 cents a buahe! and bay, for which the city paid aa high as f3B a ton, is S2B.

that I '‘was not the only one” inclined in that direction. From among my treasured masterpieces of English literature I resurrected a collection of Mr. Hardin’s speeches, and counted up ten effusions of oratory containing ns^ many different viewe of the league, Including a “conditional league,” "a Senator Lodge league,” “a separate peace with Germany” and a “no league at all.” , Terror stricken lest Senator Harding would favor us with another League of Nations In addition to the ones already on record, I saw that, the only way for me to do to keep that gentleman from getting my mind any more confused than It already wan—not that It could be, but I was afraid that such a possibility might exist —would be to ask him gently, but firmly, w'hat his “official” stand constituted, and pray to the gods that he would not change his mind again before I get n chance to decorate one of those cunning little ballots named after somebody or other. The touching strains of "TUI We Meet Again,” with all their significance, were being executed with mournful feeling when I reached the Hotel Severln lobby. (Evidently some seemed to think they had arrived in the "Washington lohby,” judging from the conversation.) It was a lovely mob, packed with the eonsistensy of a can of baked beans. A bunch of “sweet sixteen” seenrely buttoned-holed each misled entrant with a likeness of pur friend from Marion, Ohio. A delegation of gentlemen were all dolled up with pugilistic red ribbon badges which prolitm4 be-

M’ADOO SPEAKS IN CITY TODAY Democratic Rally Scheduled for 4 O’clock at Tomlinson Hall. . - * -r WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO. William G. McAdoo was scheduled to speak to the voters of Indianapolis at Tomlinson Hall late this afternoon in behalf of the candidacy of Governor i James M. Cox. i Mr. McAdoo, who bss been making a speaking tour of northern Indiana, was | expected to arrive in Indianapolis in | time to open the meeting at 4 o'clock. I Arrangements for the meeting, which . are in the hands of Woodburn Masson, have been completed. A section of the hall will be reserved for employes of the Big Four shops, who, with other railroad men, are eager to I hear the former Director-General of Railroads speak. A parade will precede the meeting and 1,000 railroad men were expected to be in line. Mr. McAdoo will be Introduced by Samuel M. Ralston, former Governor of Indiana, and Reginald Sullivan, Democratic County chairman, wfil act as temporary chairman of the meeting. I Besides Mr. McAdoo the speaker* will ! be Thomas Taggart, candidate for United State* Senator; Henry N. Spaan, candidate sor ’ Representative from Maj rion County, and Mrs. Antoinette Funk of Chicago. Mrs. McAdoo 1* accompanying her hus hand and the following reception committee was named to greet them; Mrs. W. 11. Coleman, Mrs. P. H. Bine, Mrs. John E. Mollett, Mrs. John Downing Johnson. Mr*. Joseph E, Bell, Mra. Wood- ■ hum Masson, Thomas Taggart. Henry N. Bpaan. John H. Holliday, Harnuel >1 Hnlsfon, F. 8. Thomas. Dick Miller, Fred Hoke, Joseph E. Beil, J. E. Wood, Evan* Woollen, Charles J. Murphy, Burt New, John W. Hnlttmnn, B. H. Sullivan. W. E. Barton and John E. Hollett, chairman. A second Democehtlc meeting will be held In Tomlinson Hall tonight with Bourke Cockran of New York at the principal speaker. | Cockran will be escorted from the train ! to the Claypool Hotel by tho Taggart Marching Club. M'ADOO STRESSES LEAGUE BOYCOTT By Rtm/T rorrMpoiulfnf. EN ROUTE WITH WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO IN INDIANA, O si. 16—The economic boycott provided in the covenant of the League of Nations to be invoked against unruly nations will prevent war, William Gibbs McAdoo declared 'ln a speech at Logapsport. The former secretary of the treasury Ts ou his way to Indianapolis, where he will speak this afternoon. Mr. McAdo? declared the world war would have been prevented if conferences such as those provided in tho coveuaut had been held. He was cheered when he declared he would vote for Senator Harding If he were for the League of Nations and Cox against It. Everywhere along the route Mr, McAdoo has been speaking to overflow tneefl igs. Mr. McAdoo In bis speeches is dealing largely with the operation of the rail roads under Government supervision, ns compared w‘*n their operations under the Esch-Cnramlns bill. He pointed out that the railroads are operating at an anormous loss and that under the act a total of $634,652,358 must be paid out of tho treasury to the railroad*. He pointed out also that the Each-Cum-mins bill has been followed by an increase in freight rates of 25 to 40 per cent, in passenger rates of 20 psr cent, and in Pullman rates of 50 per cent. Mr. McAdoo pointed out that another car shortages has resulted under the Eseh-Summtna bill.

long to “the special nardlng party,” whatever that meant. Senator Harding’s entrance was the signal for hysteria on the part of the women present, and I expected another Republican panic to ensue when I beheld them climbing all over the furniture. But the pandemonium subsided as Mnyor Jewett's faithful blue-coated sub jects escorted Mr. Harding down the velvet carpet to his position beneath the palms close to the Rainbow room, which seemed (,o bo n very fitting location symbolising what he might see after Nov. 2. Having always considered palms a sign of victory I wondered what victory the senator was celebrating unless it could be his triumph over his friends who didn't want him to leave his front porch for fear he might say something that they had not told him to. I spotted Mr. Schortemeier, secretary of the Republican committee, and informed him of my trouble. He assured- me that Senator Harding’s secretary could tell ine all about -it. “I prefer to have Senator do his own talking to me,” I insisted. Principal to Talk The Shortridge Parent-Teacher Club will meet in the Study Hall at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon. George Buck, principal, will talk on "Organizations of High School Students,” and Mary U. Sullivan, colimercial department, on tbs “Routine of tho High School.**

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HARDING‘FACES’ LEAGUE ISSUES ONCE ‘SCRAPPED’ Forgets He ‘Turned His Back’ Recently and Returns to ‘Article 10.’ HECKLER IS THROWN OUT Senator Warren O. Farding ”unserapped” the League of Nations and faced about from the position of “turning his back” on the treaty taken in his speech at Des Moines, lowa, Oct. 7 In an attempt to place a peg upon the G. O. P. hail tree upon which pro-league Republicans may hang their hats In an address before a huge crowd at Tomlinson Hall last night. It was more than evident that Indiana, being considered a pro-league State, the Senator elected to side with Eiihu Root, Herbert Hoover, Ex-President Taft and other pro-league Republicans rather than the irreeonclltable group. To this latter group his Des Dolnes speech was in the nature of a sop and his Indianapolis speech was to check the decided drift to Governor Cox, which has been noticeable in the State ever since the lowa “league-scrapping” outburst. COX HECKLER IS OISTE1) BY POLICE. John Klee of Indianapolis, who shouted ‘Hooray* for Cox," when Harding was introduced, was thrown out of Tomlinson Hall by the police. So far as ?lie crowd knew Klee was undisturbed after his cheers for the Democratic candidate, for Senator Harding lm- ' mediately seized their attention with a prolonged discussion of the rights of all Americans to heckle. Meanwhile Klee wag- forced from the west balcony to a downstairs entrance and thrust Into tbs street. His return to the hall was prevented by the police, it was later learned. W'hen the crowd shouted, "throw him out” at Klee, Senator Harding raised a warning hand and in unctioua tones said; "No, don’t throw him out. “This isn’t a campaign of throwing anybody out. “This is a campaign of appeal of reason.” The heckler shouted back in derision. “Choke him," the crowd yelled. "Throw him out!” COPS ••HELP*’ KLEE AN HARDING TALKS The hall was in an uproar for several minutes and then the Senator stretched forth his hands for quiet. With the crowd under his control once more he stated. “No, my countrymen, the only people (Continued on Page Three.) RUSSIAN REVOLT NOT CONFIRMED Rumors Are Believed to Be Propaganda of AntiSoviets. LONDON, Oct. 16.—From various obscure sources on the continent, including Geneva, vague reports have l>een received here within the test twenty-four hours of a "big revolution” in soviet Russia, notably in Moscow. It was admitted in official circles thst an uprising against the soviet regime is not beyond the range of possibility, chiefly because of the great food shortage in Russia, but so frequent have been rumors of revolt in that country, invariably found uutrue, that there is a tendency here to look on the revival of these reports as antl-sovlet propaganda. “r 65 DAYST.7 LONDON, Oct. 16—Terence MacSwlney was alive early this afternoon. The hunger striking Lord Mayor of Cork was, however, *o weak that those who saw him in his cell In Brlxton prison expressed the belief that the end was nearer. This is the sixty-fifth day of his selfimposed starvation. REPORT THEFT OF CIGARETTES. Four cases of cigarettes valued at $320 and one case of smoking tobacco valued at S2O were reported stolen from MoCnme, Wiles & Ross Company, 118 South Pennsylvania street, by J. T. MeCume, secretary of the company, last night.

Valuable Paper 9 in Vote Box ‘Tragedy’ CHATHAM, N. 8., Oct.. 16.—W’hen tellers here began counting ballots cast in the provincial election last week, one voter hovered nervously around the ballot boxes and insisted that a "terrible mistake" had been made. For some time 4t was thought a recount might be necessary, but the “terrible mistake” was corrected today when the authorities returned to the anxious voter a “prescription.”

So I perambulated toward tho Senator’s placement for at last my torturing doubt would be at an end, and I could tell my friends Senator Harding's views on the League of Nations. Calling up to my mind all of my knowledge concerning the psychology of United States Senators, I Inquired: "Senator Harding, what Is your stand on the League of Nations?” The psychological pause did ensue. Senator Harding turned a shade pinker, if such a thing were possible, for he already was of qnito a rosy hue. He glanced at his wife, sent a fleeting look around the circle enclosing him, and ,;I concluded he was looking for his publicity man to tell him what to cay. “I am against the Wilson league,” he announced at last. So why ask him what was the matter with the league, since he tnrned It down flat, the whole twenty-six articles, and why discuss Article 10? Such discussions were of no Importance since Senator Harding gave his dictum that the league was ‘no good.” I had Intended to ask him how he could call it ‘Mr. Wilson’s league" when all the other countries l-dpcd make it and Mr. Lodge and Mr. Taft bud been asked for thetr opinion on what should go Into a world league, and many oi their suggestions had been adopted, but he flustrated me so that I forgot. But why should I question the gentleman fnrther, for be will tell us all about what he Intend* to do after he gets In th* Whito Hons* and his friends have laid out a plan him?

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Woman Barber to Be No. 3 for Viscount, 77 LONDON, Oct. 16.—Announcement is made that Charles Saunders Dundas, 77, sixth Viscount Melville, will soon marry Miss Margaret Todd, an assistant in a barber shop in Edinburg. This will be the third marriage of the viscount.

G. 0. P. LEADER OF CALIFORNIA BQLTSHARDING Marshall Stimson, State Committeeman, Says lowa Speech Last Straw. Special to The Times. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 16.—The following statement was given to the press this afternooq by Marshall Stimson of Los Angeles. j “Asa progressive Republican I had | hoped to vote for the Republican cafi- | didate for President. | “While neither the platform nor the ■ candidate chosen were satisfactory to me, 1 1 intended to vote the ticket and work 1 for better party conditions four years later. “The position taken by Senator Harding in bis Des Moines speech makes it impossible for me to support him any longer. “After long continued wiggling and wobbling, forced by the threats of the I bitter-enders, be declares himself against the League of Nations and the treaty perforce for a separate peace with Ger- ; many. | “Such a course of action means breaking faith with our allies and an abandonment of war alms, l “Up to the time of the armistice our 1 wonderful response to the call of duty filled every American with pride. | “Since then our incapacity for action has been cause for shame. | “That failure must bo charged to the narrow partisan Jealousy of a group of j senators and their influence over Harding ! is proved by his Des Moines speech. “I approved his early statements that : he would seek advice and consultation I on matters of public policy and I did i not consider that evidence of weakness. FEARS WRONG HEX WILL CONTROL HIM. “Now, when we find him yielding to bullying and threats instead of acceptance the counsel of leaders like Taft, Root, Hughes, Wickersham and Hoover, (Continued on Pnge Nine.) NEW DEMANDS | ARE PREPARED Farmers Will Ask American Bankers for Extensions of Credit. WASHINGTON, Oct. IS.—Representatives of more than thirty national farmer organizations today were preparing deI mantis for extensions of credit to be placed before the nation's bankers at the meeting of the American Bankers' Association here next week. The demands are being framed by a diplomatic committee of farmers including Secretary Charles A. Lyman of the national board of farm organizations; R. M. Barton of Washington, D. C., and J. S. Wanamaker of South Carolina, president of the American Cotton Growers* Associations. Farmers declare they must have Increased credit facilities so they need not be forced to sell their crops at present prices all of which they declare are below production coats. Rooster’s Balled Up A rooster in the Ticinlty of Broad Ripple not ouly crows at break of day, * -but is on the Job } jfcgai rom midnight un- ' f jiSfcgSs til long after most W'yUt' 'jnWBSS of the residents I have gone to work, according to one jfisaß 'who vouchee for t I this story: "" I Vufflfllnw/r\ fr* en< * of mine I lIU-- mimmlif. M } who was visiting the other night rolled out of bed at 3 a. m. when he heard the rooster crowing. "He dressed hurriedly, then looked at bis watclj, "Then m* took off his clothes again and went to bed the second time.” Stolen Auto Causes Arrest of Four Men Ernest Diller, 15, of 22E West Washington street, and Garnet Ensley, 16, of 315 West Ohio street, are undar arrest, charged with stealing an automobile owned by Otto B. Butler, 1461 South Eastern avenue. Frank Gray, 18, of 925 North New Jersey street, and John Murphy, 18, of 144 Bright street, were charged with unlawful possession of the machine. So Absent Minded! An Indianapolis citizen departed from a hospital and hopped Into an automobile, which he thought h had parked outside. He drove the crt to his home, only to find his own car standing in front of the house. Investigation showed he had driven away with an automobile belonging to George Thomas, 1706 Central avenue.

OPEN LETTER To William P. Evans, Republican Candidate for Prosecutor: Dear Sir —With the single exception of one statement In which you attempted to defend the policies of Claris Adams, for whom you are now working In the prosecutor’s office, you have not made public your stand on law enforcement in Marion County. Do you still approve of the administration of Claris Adams? Do you intend, if elected prosecutor, to pursue the same policies? Do you approve of attorneys appearing before the grand jury-in defense of their clients? Do you approve of compromising suits against bootleggers? * Do you approve of filing oases against Center Township citizens in Irvington Justice of the Prae Court? Do you approve of law or the “easiest way?" }

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‘NATIONS PACT OPENS WAY FOR DEVELOPMENT’ Cox Tells Cleveland Women League Will Free Funds for Welfare Work. CITES G. O. P. NEGLECT , CLEVELAND, Oct. 16.—Governor James M. Cox promised here today that if elected he will aßk repress Jtatives of all women’s organizations to hold a national meeting and formulate "a program of * human welfare and social progress” for I congressional and legislative action, j Speaking before a non-partisan or- | ganlzation of Cleveland women the Demj ocratic candidate attacked the RepubIllean Senate for being so interested in “scrapping the league” that it neglected ■ questions of public welfare. He asserted that out of total appropriaI tlons of $5,500,000,000 by the last Con- ; gress only 1.01 per cent was alloted to welfare and development purposes. The Governor left the Inference that he favored a Federal Department of Educaj tiou and Health by Baying that “eqOal : consideration with labor” should be I given these two features of public life i by the Federal Government. He declared in favor of A Federal Bureau of Americanization to cooperate with the States in educating aliens. “Tho surest safety valve for law and order is to teach foreigners our language, to treat them justly and to In, spire them with American ideals,” Cox ■ I said. 1 "Now that the war is over, I urge the J prompt restoration of our ancient civil ] liberties of free speech, free assemblage* i and free press.” LEAGUE WILL DIVERT FUNDS TO WELFARE WORK. Throughout his speech he claimed that , by entering the League of Nations appropria tions heretofore mads for military and naval purposes can be diverted to j fighting disease, maternity educational work, stamping out of illiteracy, Ameri- > canizatlon work and the enlargement of educational facilities. “Not to have given the right of suffrage to the women-of the country this year when the greatest of all issues la before the people would have been little short of a calamity,’’ the Governor satd. "Since the mothers of America can exi press their will I have no doubt of the j result.” The Governor said he believed he could anticipate what a national meeting of women would demand and that he could j Indorse many of “the planks.” | "Women are concerned with the fact j that every year a quarter of a mL.Uon i little children and twenty thousand mothers in child birth die from preventable diseases. The majority of these babies and others die, not in cities, despite the beat and congestion, but in farm . and mountain settlements, where medical help is out of reach. In the last session of Congress a baby's bill carrying Fed- ! eral help to the States for maternity and Infancy care waited in min while reaej tlonary leaders spent their time scrapping the League of Nations. Our plat- ) urges cooperation with the States for the protection of child life through infancy and maternity care. Not only ; do I stand upon this platform, but if. ; within inr power, I will act so promptly that this toll of American child life shall not be needlessly prolonged. FAVORS SORTING OF NATIONAL PROBLEMS. "At present the Federal Bureau of Edu- ; c *4l* n la burled with a Taried assortment of national business In the Department of the Interior, My opponent has spoken recently for anew department of public welfare under which to group certain social welfare activities. While I am in | hearty accord with the idea of housecleaning our Government department* auu sorting out the human from the technical problems, I feel that we should look forward to giving education and health equal consideration with labor, instead of lumping all social questions j again in another grab-bag, ill-defined deI partment. “The question of real efficiency in any government service hinges, of coarse, upon adequate funds. The supply bill of 1920 passed out of a total of five and a half billion dollars for welfare and de velopment purposes, as distinguished j from commercial and military purposes. "This leads me to reassert to you that I favor going into the League of Na- ■ tions, not alone to keep your children ’ from the terrible experiences of war, but ! to enrich their lives by turning onr national resources from battleships and armaments into schoolhouses, playgrounds, work for health, child hygelne and child happiness." The Governor declared that he had lent his support to the passage of fiftyfour laws to better conditions of life and labor. Before a large crowd at Detroit last night Governor Cox attacked EU.hu Root. Charles E. Hughes, Herbert Hoover and other pro-league Republicans for their statement in support of Harding, and following his declaration at Des Molne* for rejection of the Versailles covenant In a brief address at Elyria, Ohio, Cox characterized Senator Harding's remarks on the covenant at Indianapolis last night as "his twelfth somersault on the League of Nations issue.” "This thing of trying to wiggle Into the presidency wiU not do in this modern day of advanced civiliaation,” he warned. Consider Gas Measure The special city council committee on gas met this afternoon with Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby In an attempt to agree on the gas rationing ordinance. President G. G. Schmidt, Russell Wffieon and Jesse E. Miller constitute the council committee. FIRE EQUIPMENT COMES UP. Members of the city council will be Invited to a conference with the board of public safety at which bids for the equipment needed to complete the motorization of the fire departmeht will be gone over early next week, it was announced today.