Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1920 — Page 1

THE WEATHER. Fair tonight and probably Saturday. Not much change in temperature.

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BOILED DOWN FIGURES GIVE HARDING 404 Practically Complete Returns in £nd Election Almost Forgotten. ELECTORS MEET JAN 10 WASHINGTON, Not. S.—The 1920 presidential and congressional elections tvere passing into history today and with practically complete returns in, the score appeared like this: Senator Warren G. got 401 electoral votes and Governor James M. Cox got 127. The Republicans won ten additional Beats In the Senate, giving them a total of fifty nine to the Democrats thlrtyeeveo. 'The Republicans gained % the House, giving them a total of SSI to the Democrats 153, and the Social lets one. The Prohibitionists lost their only member. While those figures show that the Republicans gained the greatest political Victory that has come to any party since 1812, when Woodrow Wilson was elected President and the Democrats controlled overwhelmingly both branches of Congress, they do not tell the full story, for the Republicans won Tennessee, a unit of the solid South; they won Oklahoma, almost as strongly Democratic, and they elected one Congressman from Texas, a brother-in-law of Postmaster General Burleson being the Democrat defeated They also carried some election districts in the traditionally Democratic States of Georgia, Louisiana and MisshslppL PIC TUBE 9QrE FIGCRE WILL PASS on. With the Democratic defeat there passes out of public life some of Washington’s picturesque figures Champ Clark, one time candidate for the nomination for President and former Speaker of the House, who enlivened the debate lu that body with ats quaint, homely phrases, was defeated. Isaac R. Sherwood, the oldest man In the house, and one of the few surviving Civil War generals, will not return from hi* Ohio district. Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, another of the Democratic veterans, will not come back, w With the oldest member of the House there goes the youngest member, W King Swope cf Kentucky, who was slightly more than the legal age of 25 when he was elected to fill out a term vacancy caused by the death of Harvey Helm. Another youngster Is coming from Michigan, however. From the Senate there goes Senator Phelan of California, who since the going of James Hamilton Lewis has been classed as the Senate's Beau Brummel. Senator Gore, the blind member from Oklahoma, was beaten in the primaries. SECOND WOMAN MEMBER IN HOUSE. Coming Into the next House Is Theodore E. Burton, whose refusal to stand for re-election to the Senate from Ohio la ISI4, gave Senator Harding his chance to run. The House also will have its second woman member, Alice Robertson of Oklahoma. From the executive branch of the Government there will pass Postmaster General Burleson, who rides in a horsedrawn carriage Instead of an automobile and carries an umbrella In feir weather as well ss clondy; Secretary of the Navy Daniels, w*o clings to the broad brimmed straight crowned rat, and William B. Wilson, who fought bis way from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to the office of Secretary of Labor. The electors meet in their respective States the second Monday in January ar.d cast their ballots for President anil Vice President. These ballots are addressed to Jhe president of the Senate and when all have reached him they are opened and counted before a joint session cf Congress.

THROAT OF GIRL CUT, EAR TO EAR Believed She Gave Up Life to Defend Honor. ST. LpriS, Not. s.—TVlth her throat cut from ear to ear, the bruised and battered body of Mlm Edna Ellis, 18, stenographer, wa found on a vacant lot within a block and a half of her home at 1833 North Gr&celand avenue, this morning. Every clew Indicated the girl had given up her life In defending heraeli from an attempted brutal attack. Her Clothing whs torn and the kid gloves •he wore were slashed to threads. Her hands were cut to the bone, evidently due to her having attempted to grab the weapon. Both her eyes were bruised and blackened. The vanity box which she clutched In her hand was crushed and broken. Abuses of Foreign Passports Called WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—The State Department Issued a statement condemning >the use of a foreign passport by a I’nited States citizen as a wrongful act and Inconsistent with true allegiance to the United States. Warning was given holders of such passports that it would be the duty of American diplomatic and consular officers te whom they applied for a vise, not to assist them to return to the United State*. Sawmills Closing or Slashing Wages TAMPA, Florida, Nov. 5. —Sawmills through the yellow pine belt of south Georgia and Florida are either closing down or reducing wages 25 per cent. Wages for common laborers are cut to $3.50 and other pay accordingly In an announcement given out by the GecrglaFlorlda Sawmill Association, effective November & AMERICAN WOOI.ES CO. CLOSES. LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. s.—The four mills of the American Woolen Company In this city closed for the rest of the week and next Monday will go on a fourday a week schedule. WEATHER* HOCKEY TEUPERATCRKS. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Nov. 6: Fair topight and probably Saturday; not much change in temperature. ft a. m 40 7 a. 40 8 a. m 44 9 a. 4ft 10 a. m 49 11 a m 52 * IS (noon) 54 1 P- 58 2 lb 88

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THE NEW SENATORS State. Present Incumbent. Elected. Alabama Gong term) Oscar W. Underwood, D. Oscar W. Underwood, D. Alabama (short term) Braxton P. Comer, D. Thomas J. Heflin, D. Arizona Marcus A. Smith, D. Ralph H. Cameron, R. Arkansas .William F. Kirby, D. Thaddeus H. Caraway, D. California ." James D. Phelan, D. Samuel Shortridge, R. Colorado Charles S. Thomas, D. Samuel D. Nicholson, R. Connecticut.. Frank B. Brandegee. R. Frank B. Brandegee, R. Florida Duncan U. Fletcher, D. Duncan U. Fletcher, D. Georgia Hoke Smith, D. Thomas E. Watson, D. Idaho John F. Nugent, D. F. R. Gooding, R. Illinois .....Lawrence Y. Sherman, R. Wm. B. McKinley, R. James E. Watson, R. Janies E. Watson, R. lowa Albert B. Cummins, R. Albert B. Cummins, R. Kansas... .Charles Curtis, R. Charles Curtis, R. Kentucky J. C. W. Beckham, D. Richard P. Ernst, R. Louisiana E. J. Gay, D. Edwin 8. Broussard, D. Maryland John Walter Smith. D. O. K. Weller, R. Missouri.. Selden P. Spencer. R. Selden P. Spencer, R. Nevada .Charles B. Henderson, D. Taßkep L. Oddie, R. New Hampshire George H Moses, R. George H Motes, R. New York J. W Wadsworth, Jr., R. J. W. Wadsworth, Jr., R. North Carolina Lee 8. Overman. D. Lee S. Overman, D. North Dakota .Asle J. Granna, R. E. F. Ladd, R. & N. P. Ohio Warren G. Harding, R. Frank g Willis, R. Oklahoma Thomas P. Gore, D. J. W. Harreld, R Oregon .. ..*. Geo. E Chamberlain, D. Robert H. Stanfield, R. Pennsylvania Boies Penrose, R. Doles Penrose, R. South Carolina Ellison D. Smith, D. Ellison D. Smith, D. South Dakota Edwin S. Johnson, D. Peter Norbeck, R. t7f a ii Reed Smoot, R. Reed Smoot,-R. Vermont Wm. P. Dillingham, R. Win P. Dillingham, R. Virginia (shortterm) Carter Glass, D. Carter Glass, D. Washington Weslev L. Jones, R. Wesley 1.. Jones, R. Wisconsin Irvine L. Lenroot, R. Irvine L. Lenroot, R. Totals I Dem.. 9; Rep., 15. Deni., 19; Rep., 26. Present Senate. Holdover*. New Senators. Next Senate, Bops 40 Ri-ps 84 Reps 25 Krpe 63 Perns 47 Denis 28 Denis. 3 Denis 87 Majority * Total. v . 63 Total 34 Majority * According to latest figures, still Incomplete, the standing of the new Hous* will be: 2SI Republicans, 153 Democrats and 1 Socialist. The Prohibitionists lost their sole member.

Sutherland and Weeks Held Cabinet Certainties

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Two of th# ten men who will constitute the next Cabinet and assist Warren G. Harding In directing the destinies of th* Nation for the to(tr years beginning March 4 next have already been tentatively selected by the President-elect, it Is believed. While Cabinet-making Is yet In the speculative stage, a summer spent on the Harding front porch In Marlon revealed the activities of seyerai men, activities which were a vital factor in providing the unprecedented Republican victory and those close to Senator Harding do not believe that places can be denied these men. One of the men “to whom a Cabinet post is assured Is former Senator George Sutherland of Utah. Sutherland waa at Marlon most of the summer. He was perhaps Senator Harding's closest adviser and confidant. He la by long odds the leading candidate for th* attorney

18,297 IS COUNTY PLURALITY FOR G. 0. P.CHIEFTAN Harding’s Official Vote Is 79,957 Against 61,660 for Gov. Cox. WARD FIGURES GIVEN It was announced officially this afternoon that Senator James E. Watson received 70.509 votes In Marlon County, Thomas Taggart, #4,1*8; Merrill Moore*, 79.783; Spaan, #1,893. Marlon County gave President-elect Warren G. Harding a plurality of 18,297 votes over Governor James M. Cox, according to a tabulation based on the official figures of the canvassing board today. Harding's total vote In Marlon County was 79,937 and Cox's wss 61,660, the official ward and township tabulation shows. These figures, based on official returns, shatters the claims of Republicans that the majority In Marion County would be from 20.000 to 30,000. Following Is the official total of the Harding and Cox vote cast In the fifteen city wards and the nine townships of Marlon County: First Ward—Harding, 6,350; Cox, 4,605. Second Ward—Harding, 6,432; Cox, 3,529. Third Ward—Harding, 6,033; Cox, 2,267. Fourth Ward —Harding, 11,336; Cox, 6,11 C. Fifth Ward —Harding, 3,654; Cox, 1.242. Sixth Ward—Harding, 3,050; Cox, 1,323. Seventh Ward—Harding, 3,283; Cox, 2,867. < Eighth Ward—Harding, 4,697; Cox, 2,867. Ninth Ward—Harding, 7,040; Cox, 6,929. Tenth Ward—Harding, 4,222; Cox, 4 804. Eleventh Ward—Harding, 2,117; Cox, o \ • Twelfth Ward—Harding, 1,132: Cox, 1,670. Thirteenth Ward—Harding, 2,942; Cox, 4,282. Fourteenth Ward —Harding, 1,940; Cox, 2.733. Fifteenth Ward—Harding 986; Cox, 1,189. Center Outside—Harding, 513; Cox, 451. Pike, Washington and Lawrence — Harding, 5,126; Cox. 8,260. Warren, Franklin and Perry—Harding, 4.461; Cox, 3,431. Wayne and Decatur—Harding, 4,545; Cox, 5.175. A slight change, caused by the rechecking of the official tabulation of Harding’s majority, Is possible, but not ; probable. In 191. Evans Woolen, a Democratic presidential elector-at-large, received a i total of 35,043, and Walter J. Riley, a Republican presidential elector-at-large for Mr. Hughes, received 40,699. "On the basis of the vote cast In 1916, the Republican majority would have been approximately 9,000 without the women voting, ’’ estimated County Clerk Richard Ripe. With the women voting this year Harding’s total was 79,975, compared to the vote cast for Hughes in 1910, which was 40,099, as based on the official vote | for Elector Riley. Man Hit on Head When He Answers Doorbell Detectives today are investigating the mysterious attack made on Harold Hancock, 2219 North Dearborn street, last night. , Hancock was at hts home when two men rang the door boll at 8:49 o’clock. As he opened the door one of the men struck him a stunning blow on the head. Both man ran and disappeared before the police arrived. Hancock aald the men were alrangera to him and that h> believed they la* tended te cob him.

generalship. He la a lawyer by profession and an ex-chairman of the American Bar Association. i WEEKS HELD LIKELY SUCCESSOR FOR DANIELK Th* other man who la considered a Cabinet certainty la former Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts. Weeks was one of the most Influential members of tAa Republican executive committee, the organization nominally reeponalble, at least, for Tuesday's avalanche. Senator Weeks la an Annapoll* graduate, conversant with naval affalra and Indication, point to hi* aucceedlng Josephus Daniels as the head of th* American Navy. The Secretaryship of State, the moet Important poet which Harding will bare to fill. Is one that already la canalng tb* President-elect and hla advisers much concern. Four names so far have been prominently mentioned for thla poet—(Continued on Pact Nine.)

Electoral Vote The electoral vote aa the result of Tuesday’s balloting la grouped by State* Rt follows: FOR UAKDIXO. Arison* ....a... S California ........................... 13 Colorado 6 Connecticut .......................... 1 Delaware s Idaho ...J... 4 Indiana i; lowa 1* Illinois 99 Kansas u Minnesota .- it Michigan ............................ 15 Maine fl Massachusetts is Maryland S MUoourl 1* Montana 4 New Tork 45 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey .......................... 14 Nebraska • North Dakota 6 Nevada 8 Now Mcxloe ......................... 8 Oregon 5 Ohio 24 Oklahoma 10 Pennsylvania 3* Rhode Island 5 Sooth Dakota 6 Ten neons* It Utah 4 Vermont ............................. 4 Wlflconiln 13 Wyoming ............................ 8 Washington . 7 West Virginia 8 Total* 404 FOB COK. Alabama 12 Arkansas 9 Florida 6 Georgia 14 Kentucky 13 Louisiana 10 Mississippi ....... •*..• .............. 10 North Carolina If Honth Carolina 0 Texas 20 Virginia 12 Totals 1U Total number of electors, 531; majority, 2(16. Best She Could Do Samuel E. Garrison, deputy United State* district attorney, telephoned to I ftrwVusSTl Robert C. WllI **•* Maine, secretary of it*y \ \?> th# Forbes-Hub-wwr bard Lumber Company, but was i.nlaV iformed the latter ' r&ii Y\ was not In. \\ “When he re|Sk ~. >!|n* J] turns tell him to | gij a tj/ul call the office of United States attorney," Mr. Garrison replied. The clerk, with her mind still on the election, penned the following notation: "You are requested by Mr. Garrison to call bis office and ask for the United States returns."

COUNCILMAN SCHMIDT MIXES WITH BOARD OF WORKS

Hot with anger because George Lemaux, president of the board of publio works, declared the city council has no power to order the city baraa at 1134 Shelby street vacated on Jan. 1 to make way for the proposed Fountain Square market, Gustav G. Schmidt, president of the council, vowed today that he will see that the board Is impeached. The ruckus occurred In the private office of the board of works, where Mr. Schmidt had gone to Inquire whether the board had taken any steps to move the street cleaning mules and equipment from the Shelby street barns. Language which passed between Mr. Schmidt, Mr. Lems.ux, and Board Member Thomas A. Riley varied £rJa> mildly sarcasti* to "unfit to _

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1920.

CITY TO OPPOSE INCREASED, FARE ON STREET CARS Would Harm Rather Than Help Company, Ashby m Declares. FIGHT 1-CENT TRANSFER The city of Indianapolis will oppose any increase lu fare to the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, following the withdrawal of the petition for the establishment of the service-at-cost plan before the public service commission. Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby declared today. The company has been doing splendidly upon its present finances and any Increase would harm, rather than help, its finances, according to Mr. Ashby. Opposition to an increased fare also Includes oppositiou to 1-cent transfer charge which frequently lias been discussed, the corporation counsel said. The transfer, according to Mr. Ashby's theory, is a boon to the company, rather than a convenience to the passenger, because the company through issuing transfers gets lota of passengers on snort uauls, who, if they had to pay 1 cent to go from car to cat would walk the entire distance. SAYS IAiIL BOOSTS HAVE Cl T BUSINESS. “It has beeu shown in cities where the fares have been increased that the operating expenses increased and the amount of business decreased," said Mr. Ashby. "People Just decided they would waik Instead of ride. This is particularly true In Cincinnati, where the fare waa raised to 8 cents. The company there le operating under a $2,000,000 deficit aa a result. "I have contended all along that the Indianapolis Street Railway Company is entitled to more money from the Interurban companies which use its tracks. The iuterurban companies have to pay the Street Railway Company only 4 cents per passenger hauled over, rtie city tracks, while it collects from the passeuger at the rate of 3 cents per inkle. “From passengers being brought from the east over the Richmond division of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company, the comifiiny collect* 18 cent* for the ride from Sheridan avenue to the terminal atatlon. The Street Railway Company gets only four cents for the use of Its six miles of tracks, power and the terminal station facilities. The Public Service Oonuuiselon Increase'! the loterurban fare* to 3 cents per mile because power and track maintenance cost more, and yet these same companies pay the same rate to the city company for these very Hems that they did before the war." DISAGREES WITH HEAD OF FIBLIC WORKS BOARD. George Lamanx. president of the board of public worka, has stated several time* that he believes the Street Railway Company Is entitled to a 1-eeut transfer charge and that he never has believed the service-at-co*t plan was a good one. This was pointed out to Mr. Ashby, who said that he would oppose such a charge nevertholes* and that the matter would be before the public service commission and not 4he besrU of public works. Decks are cleared in the public service commission for any action that may be taken by officials of the street ear company In an effort to obtain higher rates. With the dismissal of tb* suggestions of the city for granting of prlvlieg- for the company to operate on a sen-lee-at-cost plan, all matters relating to the street car company, relative to Increased fare* were disposed of. The petition of rue street ear company, asking permission to charge t cent each for transfers, was denied some time ago by the commission. Members of the commission refuse to state what their attitude will be toward another petition of the street car company for increased fares.

Marshall Silent on Bryan Utterance FRFEPORT, 111., Nov. 5- Vice President Thomas R. Marshall declined to comment today on the suggestion of William J. Rryan that Wilson resign and that Marshall, after succeeding him, appoint Senator Harding Secretary of State and then resign. “I ended my campaign Inst Monday night.'' said Marshall. “I don’t care to talk politics." Wilson Places at Harding’s Disposal WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.- Secret)r.v of Navy Daniels today telegraphed Preei-dent-elect H:\rdlng, offering him, on belmlf of President Wllsdn. the use of a warship to carry him and his party on his trip to Panama, and also offering the use of the presidential yacht Mayflower to bring the President-elect from Texas to Hampton Roads te board the warship. Crawfordsviile Man Heads County Agents Special to The Times. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 5.—0. E. Ackerson, Orawfordsvllle, was elected president of the Indiana County Agents Association at the annual meeting held today at the Agricultural Extension Workers' Conference at Purdue University. Calvin Perdue, Frankfort, was chosen vice president, and Russell G. East, Shelbyvllle, secretary-treasurer. The Daily Hold-up Story FnunjChicago CHICAGO, Nov. 5. —A hold daylight robbery on the south side this afternoon netted four bandits $30,000 and S4OO in bonds, which was on its war to the State Bank at Hyde Park. The four men attacked Thomas Grace, bank messenger, rn the Illinois Central Railroad trncks at FiftyThird street. The men escaped.

“It’s a physical impossibility for us to vacate those barns by Jan. 1, because we can't find any place to house the equipment and mules until the first unit of the municipal yards at Kentucky avenue and Drover street Is built,” said Mr. Lemaux. “It’B~ physical impossibility for us to get out by Jau. 1 and if you want to start impeachment proceedings, by G —d you Just go to It, we’ll go to bat with you.” "If that’s where you stand,” roared Schmidt, pounding the table, “by G—d we’ll see that you do go to bat with us. "Well I say again,” shouted Lemaux, "I want to say again for the board of public works that we're got no place to move that stuff and we're not going to get oat m Inn. V

Hundreds in Furore When Man Is Killed NEW YORK, Nov. s.—Hundreds of commuters and travelers in the Grand Central station were thrown into a furore and near panic when a young foreigner dashed through the crowds with a revolver iu one hand and an open razor in the other. Entering the washroom the man shot Gulsseppe Laurla, a bootblack, killing him instantly, and then ran to the street, where he escaped. The dead man’s friends told the police the slayer was another Italian with whom Lauria had been on bad terms.

TRY TO IDENTIFY AMNESIA VICTIM Finger Print System to Determine if Soldier. AMNESIA VICTIM NO. 8. The detective department today started an Investigation which may lead to the Identification of amnesia victim No.*3, who la now at the city hospital, where he waa taken two days ago after he waa unable to tell his name or where he formerly lived. There appears to be no question bat that the man formerly was a Canadian soldier and that he served overseas during the war. The polli* believe his first name Is Jnmes. hut bis last name and home are mysteries the finger-print system must solve. Two amnesia victims were Identified some weeks ago, one being from Milwaukee and the other a former Canadian soldier. The present amnesia victim la a powerfully built man we gblng 206 pounds. He IS six feet In he'ght. RKMEMUKKA UMNO IN’ l MOV STATION. "The drW thing I remember l** *Mthug Hi the Union Station,” he said a* be talked to a newspaper man. "Then I w-nt to a physician’* office and the polite took me to the hospital after questioning me. "The only thing that 1* familiar to me Is th* ward at the hospital and why that should be familiar, 1 don't know. The boy* at the hospital asked me to play cards yesterday and I told them I did (Continued on l‘ago Throe.) ‘GIRL OF TODAY IS INSULT LURE’ BOSTON, Nor. 5. -Drees. the awing of the body and the ssney eye of the modem yom g woman are bids for Insults, according to Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard. In an address hero. Eltot gar* women a full share of blame for a lowering of moral*. "Moral tenets and the dictate* of propriety. I believe, are considered more binding among middle clast people than in the more rarlfied atmosphere of the higher social circles," Eliot said. “I know a young woman who cannot go out without having some man make an insulting remark. It la because of the way she drosses herself, the way she swings her body and the look In her eye. "These young women do not wish to he Indecent. They merely desire to he fashionable and pretty, hut the clothes are Immodest and thev have a psychological effect. They tend toward immodesty In manner.” Boston Broker Found Dead, Valuables Gone BOSTON ( Nov. 6.—Ambrose E. Roberts, a broker, waa found dead under su plclons circumstances today In an alley in the fashionable Back Bay district. Stock certificates of unknown value and $1,500 In cash were missing, as were his watch and diamond stickpin. Gompers Says Labor Gained in Election "VYA SIIINGTON. Nov. s.—Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, today Issued a statement, declaring that the American Federation of Labor, In Its Donpartlsan campaign defeated fifty congressional candidates hostile to labor and elected from fiftyfive to sixty-nine whose records showfair and considerate service. PROTEST TRACK CONDITION. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Nor. s.—The City CouncU here Is contemplating some legal action, If possible, to force the Union Traction Company of Indiana to Improve the condition of Its tracks In this city.

The battle started pleasantly enough. Mr. Schmidt came In loaded for bear, but he mildly Inquired what the board was going to do about moving those mules. Mr. Lemaux replied that that hung upon the completion of the first unit of the municipal yards. “Yes, and In the meantime la this Shelby street market proposition going to hang fire?” Mr. Schmidt iuqulred. “I don't sec how It can be any other way," Mr. Lemaux replied. “Let me tell you gentlemen,” said the council head, an ominous note creeping Into his voice, “that If you have It In mind to develop your municipal yard and let this Shelby street barn situation go by the boards that you’re going to get Into trouble. Wa’rsk not going to let you lake a monkoy cm* at tho council.”

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Commerce Body Turns to City Planning Problems Legislature Will Be Asked to Enact Law Embracing Suggestions . It Is expected that within a short time Charles F. Coffin, as president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, will announce the Committee of Hundred which wil Itake up the preliminary work looking to city planning for Indlanapois.

As was suggested some weeks ago by the bureau of municipal research of the Chamber of Commerce, “there Is not much doubt about the need of a city planning movement In Indianapolli*. Almost every day seme phase of city planning comes np to vex city official* or citizens. These problems are developing ripSrlly and cannot longer be deferred. With reference to the street plan, there is great need of more scientific study In planning as evidenced by the small number of streets running completely north and south through the city.”

INDIANAPOLIS COAL SUPPLY NOT ADEQUATE Retail Dealers Here Unable to Meet Demands of Consumers. PROBLEM NOT SOLVED Despite report* received at the office# of the Special Coal and Food Commission from mine operator# of ’ Indiana showing that half the operators of the State hsve sold 133,561 tons of coal to Indiana dealers, Indianapolis consumers still are practically unable to purchase coal on the retail market. A survey of the coal situation In thla city reveals the Information that practically no Indiana coal la on hand at Indianapolis coal yard< and shows that It Is an extremely difficult matter to obtain coal from the mines. MANY COAL CARS ALLOTTED TO STATE. Vcrlons retail dealers are divided In their opinions ss to why Indian* coal cannot be bought, but all agree they are having a hard time obtaining coal for j their retail trade. Some dealer* say the shortage la still | due to the inability to obtain cara at i mines, and all say they cannot get the | coal from the mine operators So difficulty should be experienced because of a shortage of coal oars because the Interstate Commerce Commission has recently alloted a large aupply of cara for Indiana. John W MeCardle, a member of the Public Service Commission, eaye the Big Four Railroad la (tending an 80 per cent supply of cars to the mines of the State, and that other roads are supplying from 60 to 80 per cent of their car*. Therefore there should be no trouble experienced from thla cause. WIT-FLY FAR below Normal. A. B Meyer, of the A. B. Moyer Coal Company states hit company la having extreme difficulty In obtaining coal from Indiana mines His company at preseat has not enough coal on hand to ear# for i Its trade, he said. “We have only about 80 per cent of our normal aupply,” said Mr Meyer. When asked If there waa any chance to obtain an Immediate supply, In view of the reports made by operators totfce coal and food commission, Mr. Meyet said he saw no chance, but added that a tew cara of coal come straggling in now and then. DEALERS UNABLE TO BIT FROM OPERATORS. The I’olar Ic* and Fuel Company 1* enable to buy coal fitter from oporator* or from jobbera. officials of the companystate. The company la told by the operators that they have no coal for sal*. The company hag barely enough to aay It has Indiana coal, hut the aupply does not approach In any degree the amount needed for tho trade, the officials say. What little coal the I’olar company ha* for sale te being sold at the commission’! prices, It is reported. While It has a small supply of Indiana coni on blind, the Indianapolis Coal Com-p-ny has not near the normal supply, officials*of the company stated. They say they are able to purchase Indiana coal occasionally, but they are not able to buy anywhere near the amount they desire. YARD SEEMS CERTAIN FOR IT. WAYNE Special to The Times. FT. WAYNE. Ind., Nov. s.—That Ft. Wayne will have* a municipal coal yard seems certain, by the assurance of the tocal committees of tho cooperation of tho Indiana State Coal Commission. A meeting with the union labor committee, which is pushing tho municipal coal yard proposition, was held last eight by tho city council committee. The two committees appointed a subcommittee to draft a resolution which will be presented to the city council at Its regular meeting next Tuesday night Well, We May Be! 11. M. Tebay, division chief in the office of William L. Elder, collector of lnbernal revenue, has hov HI prepared th* £ monthly report of * / applications for f™ certificate* and clearance permit*, and naming the forHwrSY Spy fl el ß n coniUUs I mi'ffrS * ,h,ch United State* tmMII V '-v citizens wished to wHKmuliil visit and those to which resident aliens wished to return. It Is claimed that a “typhographical error” Is responsible for the following statement: “The foreign countries to which the applicants were going are: Greece, Panama, Indiana • • *”

“Tho board is not trying to make a monkey out of anybody," Mr. Lemaux, Mark Miller and Mr. Riley replied In unison. Further words passed In which the board Insisted that It was doing all It could to get the municipal yards project started and Mr. Schmidt insisted that it was not. “The only objection I've got to you fellows In tho council Is that you talk about removing those mules is If It could be done tomorrow,” saUl Mr. Riley, who, as supervisor of the ash collection department, is directly concerned. “I’m telling you that it can’t be done.” Mr. Schmidt said he supposed the only way to make the hoard hurry up with (GoaUans* am Fag*

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“The elimination of th# Jogs In sc many of our principal streets,” continued the report on suggestions, “is another phaae of city plannlug that the board of work* is now undertaking to deal with. All this widening and straightening of street* should be done In the most careful and farseeing manner. “The placing of the Soldiers' Memorial building and the home for the American Legion la a very vital step and 1* also a problem for the city-planning com(Contluned on Page Two.)

Returns Indicate 2 Women Sheriffs DETROIT, Nov. 3. —Two women sheriffs are likely to hold office in Mtchigon. In Bentla County, Mrs. Estella Gates, wife of the present sheriff, has • small lead over her male opponent, George Weaver. In Roscommon county. It Is reported, a woman waa elected ss county sheriff. Benxle County’s population la 10,000, and that of Roscommon County, 2,200.

M’CRAY HAS 38 BERTHSTO FILL Appointments to Minor State Offices Are on Schedule. In addition to steering the course of the regular session of the Indiana General Assembly > which convenes Jan. 6, under the administration of Governor James P. Goodrich, Warren T. McCray, Governor-elect, who takes office Jan. 10, will In the first six months of hts administration face the necessity of making thirty-eight appointments to minor State offices. Terms of office of thirty-seven present incumbents will expire between Dec. 1, 1920, and June 1, 1921. No Indication of who these appointees will be has been given by the Governor-elect. These appointees whose terms expire and the dates of expiration Include places on boards of trustees of the various State benevolent institutions and minor positions In the Statebonse. A conference was te be held late today between Governor Goodrich and Mr. McCray, relative te appointments that must be made before the new Governor takes office, es Governor Goodrich baa said he does not desire to appoint any person who will not be acceptable to Mr. McCray. Those whose terms expire and the date of appointment and expiration of terms of present incumbents are: John E. Williams, Anderson, Democrat, (Continued on Page Three.) Citizenship Denied 3 Men Who Clinq to Old World Ties Holding that a man who believed It was his duty to fight for Germany before the United States entered the war, as well as the man who signified his readiness to answer the call of hU fatherland, had automatically cancelled first papers. Judge W. W. Thornton, of Superior Court, Room 1, who recently returned from a visit to the war rone In Europe, today dented three men final naturalisation parers. Judge Jhornton admitted thirty others to citizenship. The petition of Henry Hoereth, whose address was given as 1137 Maple street, was denied, the court holding that as Hoereth was of the opinion that It was his duty to fight for Germany until the United States entered the war, he was not deserving of citizenship. The court denied citizenship, by dismissing the applications, to John Takacs, 921 Concord street, and Valentine Strop, 923 Arnolds street, because they had signed with the Austrian counsel which made them subject to the call to arms of Austria. Judge Thornton was careful to determine the participate i of each applicant In the war. A number of petitions were continued and some applicants failed to appear with their witnesses. There were ninety-nine cases on the docket for consideration. School children of school No. 8 attended the hearing In order to obtain first hand Information as to the process used by the Government In naturalising citizens. Margaret Sweet, Artemesia Hornaday and Elizabeth Smith, representing the ■Woman’s Relief Corps, were present and presented each of the new citizens with a small American flag. The representative of the Government asked each applicant If he Intended to make hts permanent home in this country and not a negative reply was received. Palmer Orders Vote Sifting in Kentucky __ WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—Attorney Genel’s! Palmer today wired Instructions to District Attorney Slattery at Covington. Ky., to Investigate charges of election fruuds In various counties of northeast Kentucky. The charges were brought to the at toraey general's attention last night. They charge that In some diatrteta there was wholesale repeating by voters, the practice having been particularly llagrant In th* mountain precincts. Palmer directed that Immediate prose cations be lodged where the facts warranted that course. More Interest Asked of County Council A special session of the Marlon County council has been called for next Thursday to consider increasing the Interest on a $300,000 bond Issue from 5 to 6 per cent, to enable the Immediate resumption of work on the erection of a new Northwestern avenue road bridge, as well as completing the paviag. This Is brought about by the county commissioners awarding overlapping contracts to Sheehan Construction Company and A. J. Vawger & Cos., now represented by a receiver W. H. Price. ▲ fsw minor appropriations wIF also bo asked <X the council.

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TELLS WHY HE SENT PALMER BID TO COURT Will Find Out if Attorney General Can Suppress Evidence, Judge Says. LAWYERS SUMMONED “I am going to find) out If an attorney general has the power to suppress evidence in a contempt cas* In thla court.” Judge A. B. Anderson made this statement today In reply to a statement by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer that he did not know on what ground hia connection with the conspiracy case against miners and operator* Is to be Investigated In Judge Anderson’* court, Mr. Palmer made his statement following the receipt of an Invitation fram Judge Anderson to appear In court hen Monday. The attorney general sent an urgent request to Frederick Van Nuys, United States District Attorney, L. Ert Slack, special assistant District Attorney, 'and Dan Simms, former special assistant District Attorney, that they come to Washington Immediately. Mr. Van Nuys and Mr. Slack will leave this evening, but Mr. Simms wIU not go. Meanwhile they were In conference with the court, presumably on the proposed Investigation. Legal obJervera were of th* opinion that on the result of the inquiry Monday turns the question of whether the prosecution will collapse entirely. No reply had been received at th* Federal Building to Judge Anderson’s Invitation to Mr. Palmer to be In court Monday, bnt the attorney general Issued s statement In Washington In which he said he was unable to understand what "Judy* Anderson la proposing t* Investigate.” DECLINE TO DISCUSS JUDGE'S MOVE.

It was said In Washington that If Mr. Palmer does not come to Indianapolis he will send his former first assistant, C. B. Ames, who la familiar with the case and Mr. Palmer's attitude toward It, Judge Anderson. L. Ert Slack, special assistant United States attorney In charge of the prosecution, United States District Attorney Frederick Van Nuys and attaches of the coilrt declined to discuss Judge Anderson's move. Mr. Slack declined to discuss any plans for the case, meeting each inquiry with the statement: "My lips are sealed.” This is considered unusual, since government attorneys rarely refuse to give advance Information as to the number of witnesses subpoenaed, the length of tlmo they expect the trial to last and what. In general, will t>o their line of stuck. Mr. Slack's careful reticence led seme persons interested in the case to believe that If Attorney General Palmer Insists on holding his sund of several weeks ago that none of the evidence used agslast the miners lu the coal strike Inproceedings aun, November should be used In the present prosecution, It will b* necessary for the Government attorneys either to proceed with a more or less perfunctory prosecution or drop the whole case. LAFAYETTE LATVTRB THREW CP CASE. Dan W. Simms of Lafayette, who up to that time had beeu In charge of the Government’s case, resigned when the attorney genera! sent this Instruction from Washington, remarking that the order "cut the heart out of the case.” Since Mr Slack said he could not dlacuss plans for the case, it ia presumed by some that there are no preparations to proceed with the case If the vlUl ■trike evidence Is to be excluded. There Is no statement of any Federal officer on which to base this premuptlou, howerer. Attorneys for the defense, led by Charles Evans Hughes, former member of the United Stares Supreme Court and Republican nominee for President In IDIG, are completing their plans to combat the Government. AND PROUD OF IT The following appears In the Ledger, one of the papers In Indianapolis published for the negroes, in cn issue under date of Nov. 6, 1920: GOOD BYE YE DEMOCRATS Bj ALVIN D. SMITH. Goodbye to nil ye Democrats, With ye league of "notions;” Republicans will now ta*o charge. And stop your monkey motions. Goodbye ye Georgia Democrats! You tried to put Cox In— New York’s landslide was your downfall, Thus Harding had to win. Again, goodbye ye Democrats; Exit, disappear, go! I’m nut* see your time is out, Black Americans voted so. Eat Corn Meal and Improve Your Health Do you know how to make com meal cheese pudding? Or corn meal fish ball*. Or Philadelphia scrapple? O* polenta? You may not even know what polenta la. Then them Is corn meal mush with fruit, buttermilk waffles, corn meal puffs and fritters. Only the Initiated know the Joy of crackling bread, ash cake, corn dodger and corn pone. There are a thousand ways to use com meal and lend variety to the diet. Com meal Is nourishing, but aside from that it stimulates tho Innards like a massage doss the scalp. It Is Just scratchy enough to be Invigorating. There is more food value locked up la corn meal than In any other product of the American farm. Tho housewife who does not draw on it is overlooking the nation's greatest food regerve. Get the bulletin of the Department of Agriculture which tells many ways to use com meal It Is full of practical and tempting recipes. (In filling out the coupon print name ard address or be sura to write plainly.)

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