Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 175, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1920 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday. Little temperature change. Lowest tonight 30 to 35

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AUSTRIA TAKES HER PLACE AS MEMBER OF WORLD LEAGUE Unanimously Admitted by Vote of Assembly Committee Reply to Wilson on Armenian Mediation Being Drafted . U.S. ASKED TO SIT IN ON ARMAMENTS

GENEVA, Dec. I—The League of Nations committee on applications for membership today voted unanimously to admit Austria to the league. Austria thus becomes the first member among the former enemies of the allies.

LEAGUE DRAFTS REPLY TO WILSON GENEVA. Pec. I.—President Wilson’s communication to the League of Nations accepting the invitation to serve as mediator between the Turks and Armenians was received today and the council Immediately began to draft a reply. President Wilson made it clear that his efforts could only be personal os he is lot authorized to use American military forces for intervention. Brazil and Spain already have pledged President Wilson their support. The council has adopted the military commission's report asking America to send a representative to discuss disarmament without committing the United States to the league. WAITS ON NEXT MOVE OF LEAGUE WASHINGTON. Dec. I.—President Wilson is only waiting for the assembly of the I-eague of Nations to indicate to whom he shall address his offer of mediation. to take the next step in his effort to settle the disputes between TurWILSOX MESSAGE IS ALMOST READY Taxation Expected to Play Big Part in Communication. WASHINGTON. Pec. 1. President Wilson has nearly completed his forthcoming message to Congress—in all probability the last lengthy communication he will make to that body. As has been his custom with former important communications, the President has pecked out the major part of his message on the dilapidated typewriter which has turned out so many historymaking documents in the last four years. It was still undetermined today whether the President will attempt to deliver his message in person. Ills condition, it was said, is so much Improved that it will be possible fir him to take the dais next Monday If he so desires, although some of his closest confidants have advised against it. Secretary of State Colby has been almost a daily visitor to the White House, postponing his departure for South America several times that he might be at the President's call. One problem which it is considered certain wiii be taken up at length in the President's message is that of taxation. It is expected in Washington that he will make some concrete suggestions for relief meaaures. at least for a more equitable distribution of the burden, it is also believed that he will urge the repeal of the excess profits tax. Goodrich of Lake Fame Sells Out CHICAGO. Dec. I.—Ownership of the Goodrich Transit Company, oldest and largest steamship company operating on the Great Lakes, today passed from Albert W. Goodrich and 11. W. Thorp and associates. The new- organization Is reported to have paid $1,000,000 to Goodrich for his intcreata. Harding on Last Lap of Vacation^Journey ABOARD TIIE S. S. PAPTORES. Dec. 1 (By Wireless). —President-elect Harding was on the last lap of hia vacation Jonrney today. The Pastures, nfter the few hours' stop In Jamaica yesterday will make no further stops before reaching Norfolk. Cordial greetings were given Harding by Governor Prubyn and other British officials on his arrival at Kingston. The city was decorated with intertwined American and British flags. After a luncheon with the governor the party was taken on a sixty-five-mile automobile ride. The picturesque scenery along the flanks of the Blue mountains apparently gave the President-elect much enjoyment. Native women trudging along the perfect roads, shyly waved greetings to the tourists speeding by. Will Calls for Home for Elderly Persons Under the will of the late James Proctor, former Indianapolis merchant, a home for elderly men and women is to be established with part of his sso'),000 estate. The will provides that the Institution shall be a real home and that the couples admitted should be given two rooms and also a little garden tract. It provides that aged couples be encouraged to maintain their own homes by giving them supplies from the storehouse of the Institution. It is expressly stated in the will that no Roman Catholics or Hebrews be admitted to the home because these faiths have adequate homes for the aged. He stipulated that people of Scottish birth be given preference. The will provides that large bequests be made to institution* in Scotland. Thief Slays Officer DENVER, Dec. 1.- Police Officer Roy Downing. 27, was shot and instantly killed today by a burglar who had been discovered ransacking a fashionable Park Hill residence. Downing's pistol failed to explode when lie attempted to Are at the robber, who escaped without securing any loot. WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Dec. 2: Fair tonight and Thursday; not much change In temperature; lowest tonight 30 to 35 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 31 7 a. m 31 8 a. m S3 9 a. m 37 10 a. m 41 11 a. m 42 12 (noon) 45 1 p. m 47 2 p. m 47

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key and Armenia, it was announced at the State Department. Immediately on receipt of this information lie will present his formal offer to the two nations.

Held in Robbery Mm lW : . i l suv-, * at r i KEITH L. COLLINS. Keith 1.. Collins, alleged to be the •'master mind” of the gang that staged the record mail train robbery at Council Bluffs, lowa, has been arrested. He wore the uniform >f a captain in the aviation service and were three medals Army official- say he was a private in the air service and did not see service abroad. Collins denies these charges. Short Circuit Flash Calls Burglar Squad A bnrglar report was weighed In the balance and found wanting this morning. An excited voire notified the desk sergeant that, there was a burglar with a flashlight In J. -I. Heckerirk's grocery, 1213 East Twenty-Second street. The emergency squad snrrnonded the building and Sergeant White entered the store by using n key. The light continued to flash on and off jnst as reported, but the light wag on an automatic scale and there was a short circuit that made it flash and disappear at Intervals. New Asked to Urge Department Change An urgent letter bus been Kent hr John B. Reynolds, general secretary of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, to Senator Harry S. New urging that he take an netlve Interest in Senator Kenyon’s proposed plan to remove the Interior Department and the Department of Agriculture from Washington to a more favorable location in the middle West. In his letter Mr. Reynolds points out that Indianapolis Is centrally located and that tlie two departments could well b* established here In the city.

Quadruplets Born to Utah Woman OGDEN, Utah, Dec. I.—Mrs. Vina T. Knight, 30 year* of Hire wife of William T. Knight, a farmer, 81, gave birth to four children at Plain City, 44 miles from Ogden today. They were three boy* and a girl. They are to be named Kenneth, Kenton, Keith and Kathryn. There are already four children In the family. The quadruplets make six boys and tun girls.

Gen. Obregon Inaugurated Mexico’s President; Many Americans at Ceremonies

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1. —General Alvaro Obregon was Inaugurated president of Mexico today, succeeding Provisional President Adolfo do lu Huerta. Tlie ceremonies began at midnight. A large number of Americans, including the Governors of three States, witnessed the ceremonies. There are more Americans In the capital today lhan at any time within the past ten years. The city is in gala attire with flags and hunting. Business was suspended to give every one a holiday. There was a ] big display of fireworks beginning be-! fore midnight ami the principal streets and buildings were illuminated. Several receptions and bulls were given for prominent visitors and Mexican officials. General Calies, former minister of war, will be chief of the new cabinet. Senor de la Huerta consented to accept the post of minister of the treasury. RUMORS OF NEW MEXICAN PLOT WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. Coincident with the inauguration of President Al-

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ATTORNEYS PRY INTO GEORGIA’S ‘MURDER CABAL’ State’s Investigation of Death of Millionaire Peach King Shrouded in Mystery. ‘WHOLE STORY’' PROMISED MACON. Gn„ Dee. I.—Secrecy today shrouded the State's investigation of the alleged "murder cabal” which resulted in the death by poisoning, June 1, of Fred It. Shepard, millionaire peach king. Authorities indicated they believed a veritable Borgia plot existed to poison Shepard and seize his estate. The poloon—bichloride of mercury—is believed to have been slipped into the drinks of whisky he was accustomed to take in the evening. Then the alleged conspirators, detectives will endeavor to prove, watched him sicken and die. Four persons are under arrest today; Mrs. Pauline Elmer, wife of Shepard at the time of hts death ; her sister, Mrs. lone Henry: her sou by another marrlace, Ernest Hopson, and Mrs. Annie E. Cults. All those Involved are well-to-do southern farmers with estates and handsome homes of tlieir own. HOPE TO GET LINE ON STATE'S EtIDENCK. Attorneys for ttie prisoners hope to pet some Idea of the prosecution's evidence, Dec. 7, when arguments will he heard In court on their demand for ball. Dr. F. Eugene Elmer, husband of Mrs Elmer, one of the prisoners, returned to Ills home In Jacksonville today. At the proper (line, he said, he will lay liure "the whole sordid story.” "it is a dirty and sordid story, but my wife has no connection with it.” he said. ''They” referring to the faintly of Mrs. George N. Crandall, the dead fruit grower's sister —"ore fighting to hold the possessions In California. They care nothing for the pittance in Georgia, but are afraid they will lose everything else." ESTATE \ Al.l Ml AT *325.000, The Shepard estate has been variously estimated as worth between $200.t*4) and *325,000, located in fifteen different States This estate was the goal of the murder cabal, detectives state. Indh-atlons today were that Garrett's evidence centered around the gathering of the Shephard family and friends at Eidridge Cutt's home In Abbeville. Ga.. May 17. when John S. llopson, Mrs. Ulmer's son. was mysteriously shot. Statements made by Mr. and Mrs J. A. Turner and J. J. Patterson of Abbe vllle we'e to the effect that the "murder plot" was perfected lu detail at this meeting, it Is alleged. The generally accepted solution ns to how poison was gtv.-n to Shepard la that it was placed in a bottle of whisky from which Shepard is alleged to h>ve taken several drinks before being stricken. GARDENERS ASK IMPROVED ROADS Do Not Agree With Program of Farm Federation. Inquiry Into the motives behind the petition of the Marlon County Federation of Farmers, asking that the Marlon County commissioners refrain from maxing any new road Improvement contracts wtthtn a period of the next two years, or until such time ns road nut terlal 1* cheaper if price, was under way today. C. F. Peepper of the Marion County Gardeners' Association, appeared before President Lewis George of the commissioner's court and asked the commls stutters to improve the Bluff road tiy making it n hard surface road. Mr George railed the attention of Mr. Peepper to the resolution of th- fanners' federation. .Mr. Peepper said he was confident the gardeners would be willing to pass a resolution asking that th>- letting of now road improvement contracts be made next year Mr. Peepper Invited the commissioners to inspect the condition of the Bluff riad. lie said many (Continued on Page Ten.) France and Vatican Resume Relations PARIS, I tec. I.—Resumption of diplomatic relations with the Vatican was hali-d Jubilantly today by the Catholic press. Other papers refrained from comment except to say that the action was a foregone conclusion. There was lively speculation ns to who will be the first ambassador to the Vatican since relations were broken off In 1905. Charles HelioUt, minister to The Hague, n prominent Catholic ami an authority on Vatican affairs, was mentioned as the probable choice. Charles Jonnart was another name put forward. Two Steel Officials Facing Fraud Counts PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1. The Federal gnml Jury today voted nil indictment against Herbert Dupuy, former president and chairman of the board of directors of the Crucible Stool Company of America, and George A. Turvllle, former vice president and secretary-treasurer of the company, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the United States Government out of excess profits taxes. The Government claims its loss amounts to several millions of dollars.

varo Obregon of Mexico,, it was said at !ho State Department today that reports have been received of a conspiracy against the new Mexican government, j The State Department is investigating the reports, officials said, and is closely watching developments in tho Mexlcau situation. The plotting against Obregon was said to have its inception on the Mexican border. The reports to tlie department were Incomplete and for this reason officials refused to reveal all the information they carried. OBREGON STRONGEST MAN IN MEXICO BY RALPH H. TURNER. NEW YORK, Dec. I.—Alvaro Obregon, who today became president of Mexico, is believed by the majority of Mexicans to be the strongest, most capable leader in the republic. He represents Mexico's greatest hope in her struggle to recover from the chaos into which she has been plunged by ten years of revolution, i (Continued on Png® Four.)

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1920.

Divorce Great Than Death, Thornton Gives Results of Ilis Observations After Long Period on Superior Bench . (Editor’s Note—Judge W. W. Thornton of Superior Court, Room 1, has prepared a series of three articles for the Times showing the causes of the divorce evil and pointing the way for couples to avoid falling into the web of domestic unhappiness. Judge Thornton's articles nr> illuminating, as his opinions are based upon the facts and evidence submitted to him lu many divorce hearings during his years of service on the bench. More than fifteen hundred new divorce cas-M have been filed lu the local county courts this year.) By Jt DGE U. W. THORNTON Os Superior Court, Kooin I. You have asked me the legal definition of a divorce. Speaking in a general way, It is the dissolution of the matrimonial bonds existing between hits hand and wife. If there never was a marriage there could be no divorce, even though the presumed husband and presumed wife maintain toward each other the apparent relation of husband and wife. If the marriage was a voidable one that is a marriage under proper proceedings a court would declare void yet a divorce would make it legal from the time U was entered into. A divorce | Is not a declaration of the court that the marriage was Illegal, but the severing of matrimonial bonds created by a valid marriage. A divorce Is a grealer calamity to the offending hatband than the loss to him of his wife by death; for the wife to him In law and in domestic and social life Is dead and he is branded by the decree of the court In bringing the of fetise upon Ills own head. • There are many underlying causes occasioning divorces. My observation, from the hundreds of divorce cases 1 have tried. Is that eariy marrlages are a potent factor In bringing applications for divorce. Such marriages are almost universally hastily entered into under the Impulse of mere Infatuation and not from any deep seated love for each other. Noon the gloss am! glamour is stripped away by the rough experiences of everyday life, and there is

JOHN DAMPIER DENIES BUYING STOLEN AUTOS Admits Purchase of Car, Saying He Thought Ownty Sanctioned Sale. The case of J< hti Darupier, former dry bar keeper, charged with receiving stolen, automobile*. I* scheduled to go to rlt* Jury In the Marion County Criminal Court late thl* afternoon. Deputy Pro* editor William Kv.tux began the flrst argument for the State wln-a court re convened this afternoon. He was to be folio we. 1 by attorney* for the defendant Prosecutor Claris Adam* vti to make the final argument for the State. Dampb-r took the witness stand in his own defense prior to the noon adjournment. tie dented that be had arranged with Ralph McGuire to steal eight Fords, but admitted that he purchased one car from McGuire for 1175 under the Impression that an unidentified man with McGuire wan the owner of the car. He stated that he has porch used several second hand cars, but denied that he had knowhslge that tho curs were stolen property. Mrs I’ampler, wife of the defendant, attempt'*! to refute the evidence of \f Gulre that she saw a Ford car r.l her home, which had beet, delivered during the night. McGuire had previously testlfi*sl that be delivered a stolen Ford at Dumpier'* home on* night and left it lu Id* yard. The Da in pier* denied nil the testimony of McGuire The defense contends that the Stare must prove that Dumpier bail knowledge that the cars were stolen property. The state rein * on the testimony of M -Gulre that he had an understanding with Dumpier to receive $75 for every car he stole and delivered to Dumpier, to get a con v lotion. Suspended Fine and Term Rut Into Action Because. Calvin Severance, 1220 Springdale Place, failed to obey the Instructions of Judge Frank Lnhr of the Juvenile Court, the court today revoked a suspended sentence of iso days and a line of SSOO which was given him on .any 17, last, on a charge of child neglect. Severance was Jaken # to the Marlon County Jail preparatory to going to the Indiana state Farm. At the. time the sentence was suspended lie agreed to live with hts wife, support Ids family and leave the ‘‘woman In the case” alone. Donnelly’s Original Bond Divided by 10 In view of the order of Judge Walter Pritchard of the City Court that no professional bondsmen shall operate in connection with ills court, the release of John Donnelly, who Is charged with being a gambler and with vagrancy on a SSOO bond Is creating considerable comment around police headquarters. The bond was originally fixed at $5,000, the police believing Donnelly was wanted In Pittsburgh, but in some way It wots reduced to SSOO. Then it was signed by Henry Rothchlld, a tailor, 433 Massachusetts avenue. Donnelly formerly wore a diamond ring In which attorneys and bondsmen took considerable interest. He no longer wears the ring. Two bonds recently signed by Rothchild In Criminal Court brought the attention of Judge Collins to Ills activities. "

Do It Now! Christmas shopping will be much more pleasant and enjoyable for the person who does his or her shopping early instead of delaying until a few days before Christmas, Indianapolis retail merchants point out. “Shattered nerxes,” as a result of delay, were more or less common in former days when the rule, rather than the exception, us it Is today, was to wait until the last minute to purchase Christmas articles. •"The best way- to avoid ’shattered nerves’ is to Christmas shop now Instead of delaying," one merchant points out. “Do your Christmas shopping now” Is the udvice of merchants.

er Calamity Judge States i[,r*i!imrrn ——r if —-~y— JUDGE W. W. THORNTON. noth'ng longer to bold the young coupte together. Many young people have the notion that if they cannot get along agreeably with their spouses they can and will get 1 a divorce on application to tile court. I recall once a young negro woman who c.iuie Into my court office and asked r.it for a divorce. She thought she could get It for the asking. The marriage or elderly men to young women is another source of divorces; atul when the husband is young and the wife elderly (which do.-s not often occur) the marriage Is generally disastrous. Th.*re Is no question that there is (Continued on Page Three.)

FIRE THREATENS AT SHORTRIDGE Students (aim as Stubborn Blaze in Kindling Room Is Fought. Fire, starting In the kindling room of the Nbortrldge High School annex at W o'clock threatened the building for a time. By the time firemen arrived the Games had spr.-ad to the room, but were soou brought under control. When the alarm was given tits *til dents, who were In the midst of their classes, were marched to the street and Inter to the auditorium, where they were held. The best of order prevailed, despite the fact that smoke was pouring from the basement. SAYS THERE’LL BE NO LOWER PRICES State Implement Dealers in Session Here. In an address before th* fourth anmini convention of the Indiana Implement Dealers' Association at the Claypool Hotel today, George I’. Wagner of Jasper, president, predicted there would be no drop In the price of farming Implements. Besides Mr. Wagner's address T. H. McGeorge of Covington, secretary treasurer, gave id* annual report. In bis address Mr. Wagner said that the products of tin* farmer have depreciated In price, and that this was a crime In view of the high costs of his supplies and labor. lie said that because of the lowering of the price* In merchandise It 1* natural that the farmer will expect lower prices j in implements, but that with the higher quotation of pig-iron, steel bars, coke und coal, as compared with a year ago, and the advance tn freight rotes, "we ran not expect lower prices on Implements.’' In his report, Mr. McGeorge said the farm equipment dealers of Indiana have very generally taken on Ihe sale of tractor and power farm machinery, a tin, basing his Judgment on the reports he ha* received, more than 75 per cent of the larger dealers ore now successfully handling tractors und tractor equipment. The program for this afternoon’s session Included addresses by Floyd M. Todd of Moline, 111., on "The Present Outlook for tho Implement Industry,” and by Professor G. W. McCuen of Ohio University on "Tho Field of Agricultural Engineering and Its Relation to the Tractor and Implement Industry." The convention will adjourn Friday. Ft. Wayne Paper Cos. Hit by $75,000 Fire Special to Th* Times. VINCENNES, Ind., Dec. I.—The Ft. Wayne Paper Company sustained a loss of $75,000 here today when 200,000 bales of straw and n shed In which it was stored were burned. The value of the straw was placed at SOO,OOO and the warehouse at $15,000. Six hundred thousand bales of straw were stored in the warehouse, but most of It was saved. Says Board of Works Favors Repair Shop Discussing the recommendation of the local representative of ttie National Board of Fire Underwriters that the Indiana polls lire department have a fully equipped repair shop in a building of Its own, George Lemnux, president of the board of public works, stated today that the board favors starting construction of the municipal garage and repair shop units of the proposed municipal yards at Kentucky avenue and Drover streets early next spring. The fire department repair shop would be situated in the general city repair shop building. Some time ago the board announced that it Intends to start work on the construction of the street cleaning and ash hauling department barn this spring as the first unit of (he municipal yards. Mr. Lemnux, in adding the garage and repair shop units to the proposed program, said he favors making the necessary bond issue large enough to pay for the construction of the three units Distend of the barn alone, as was originally contemplated.

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CAR CO. SHOWS LOSS OF $6,900 j IN RENTAL DEAL ' Pays $12,500 for Freight House | Sub-Let to Traction Line for $5,000. TODD DEFENDS ACTION Basing their procedure on the ruling of the Public Service Commission that it Is hearing evidence on what the Kerv Ice rendered interurban companies by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company Is worth and not on bow much revenue the. interurban companies derive from the benefits enjoyed, attorneys and other representative* of the local car company and of Interurban companies continued to present evidence to the commission today. The hearing Is the one In which the street railway company Is usklng for permission to charge 2 cents for transfers and for a readjustment of Interurban charges. It developed In the coure of testimony by Robert I. Todd, president of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company nnd of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis AEastern Traction Company, that the local company Is sustalnning an annual loss In the rental of the freight terminal I (’ii Kentucky avenue because of ape--1 eullar arrangement with the Terre Haute, j company. | The Terre Haute, Indianapolis A Eastern Traction Company owns the common stock of the realty company which holds the property, the testimony showed. At the same time the street railway company, bound by contract to provide frl-ht ferinlnnl facilities, rents the freight house for $12,500 a year, and then re rents It to the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company for ’ approximately JY.fiOO a year, the latter amount varying according to the number of cars using the terminal. ( DEPENDED ON PASSENGER BUSINESS TO EVEN IT. In reply to a question from Commissioner Lewis as to how lie Justified such a procedure, Mr. Todd explained that the street railway company was required to furnish freight facilities for s'l Interurban companies under a contract covering both freight and passenger service. ' The contract ns a whole was considered very fair,” Mr .Todd said, "but the freight business has never paid its way from the standpoint of the city company. The passenger business has always been a profitable one. The Kentucky avenue property was purchased for a general freight house for all companies. The reason It was financed in the manner described whs that this was the only way in which securities could be sold.” Mr. Todd explained that the freight house, which represents an investment of something more than s'.’oo,ooo, is the beginning of a project which was to call for an investment of SOOO,OOO and which would take care of all freight traffic. He said he believed that If the property is, (Continued on Pago Two.) 2 AWAIT HEARING BY COMMISSIONER Trafalgar Hank Cashier and Muncie Doctor Arrested. Guy Russell. 37, arrested In F.lwood by Deputy United States Marshal John Gavin, and Dr. Xene V. Smith, arrested in Muncie by Deputy Marshal Frank S. Kerns, are in the Marlon County Jail awaiting hearings before a United State* commls- toner. Russell was arrested on a commissioners warrstit In which he is charged with the embezzlement of $4,030.00 from the Farmers' National Bank <-f Trafalgar, and Dr Smith is charged with violating the Volstead net. Frederick Van Nays, district attorney, stated that Smith is alleged to have had liquor It. hts possession nnd offered some of it for sale. Russell was the cashier of the Farmers' National Bank at Trafalgar until last June, when lie Is said to have been discharged. He took money from the bank lit various amounts during a period of nine months previous, according to evidence which the district attorney says he has. The defalcations were covered by false entries for a time, it Is alleged. Russell is married and has one child. He was working in an Elwood factory when arrested. Dr. Smith was at one time a police commissioner In Muncie. The district attorney said he Is thought to lie very close to the alleged whisky ring, which Is under Federal Investigation \ Street Car Lines Waive 7-Cent Fare MINNEAPOLIS, Dee. L—The Minneapolis Street Railway Company today waived its right to charge a 7-cent fare, beginning Dec. 15. The city council, last August, authorized an incrensc to fl cents from 5 cents, and to raise to 7 cents on Dee. 15. ‘‘Because wo hare been unable to put on the number of cars contemplated we believe we should not aslc car riders of the city to pay the 7-cent fare,” said the company's letter. Y__ J Suffering Fac Workers in j Feud of Bv HAROLD D. JACOBS. (Copyright, 1920, by the United Press.) WILLIAMSON, W. Va„ Dec. I.—The biggest and bloodiest feud in the his- j tory of this famous feud country is being | fought out here today. Starting l*st May as a struggle between capital and labor, the coal mine operators and the miners, it gradually developed into a man to man contest with nonunion miners and mine guards fighting the battle for tho operators. Twentythree were killed and fifty wounded. Governor Cornwell characterized the situation as an “insurrection” and ; United States troops marched in. Today 500 men of the 19th Infantry, i under Colonel Hall, nre birouaccd in , Mingo County with headquarters in ! Williamson. They patrol the mining ter- I rltories with fixed bayonets. In addition I to their rifles, they have available a number of machine guns and one-pound cannons. The miners and their families are living in tent colonies. Sentries, rain gleaming on their slickers, paced up and down in the mml ns I stepped from D train. It was stormy.

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CITY BOUGHT MORE FIRE EQUIPMENT THAN NECESSA R Y Expenditure of $75,000 of Indianapolis Taxpayers' Money Called Needless and Not - Desirable by Underwriters 9 Board, ‘CUT DOWN STATIONS , NOT BUILD 'EM 9 * ; That the city of Indianapolis recently purchased eight combination pumpers, one aerial truck and three service wagons for the fire department that were not regarded either as necessary or desirable by the National Eoad of Fire Underwriters, was disclosed yesterday at a meeting of the board of safety. That as a result of this expenditure of more than $75,000 of the taxpayers’ money, a situation has arisen in which the city will have such a large amount of fire equipment that it cannot be fully manned and hence will not entitle the city to a reclassification for insurance, was indicated by the underwriters’ representative. That instead of the establishment of two new engine houses in Indianapolis the underwriters recommend the abandonment of three houses a3 unnecessary, also has been disclosed.

To Face Grand Jury Carl Ittenbach, 2205 North Alabama street, superltrtenrtaat of the Ittenbach Stone Company, is shown in the picture as he stepped from the City Court room today, where he was bound over, to the grand Jury on a charge of manslaughter, growing out of the collapse of the Emmerich Manual Training High School annex, which resulted lu the death of two men. ALL BOUND OVER TO GRAND JURY School Collapse Case Passes to New Investigation. Carl Ittenbach. Marion West and David Carroll, named in Coroner Paul Robinson's verdict as being responsible for the fatal collapse of the new Emmerich Manual Training High School annex building, waived examination when arraigned in City Court today on charges of manslaughter, and were bound over to the Marlon County grand jury. They were placed under arrest yesterday afternoon. Henry Abrams, sitting ns special judge, fixed their bonds at SSOO apiece, all three being signed by John Ittenbach. According to the coroner's findings, those men were responsible for the operation of the derrick, which caused the crash resulting in the death of Ezra Taber and Edward Neff. Traction Rate Boost Hearing Postponed Because of the hearing on petition of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, the petition of the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company and the Terre Haute, Indianapolis Eastern Traction Company for higher rates in Indianapolis, which was scheduled to open today, was postponed to Saturday morning. The Indianapolis A Cincinnati Company is demanding a straight 10-eent rate and the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Company is asking for a 3-cent-a mile rate. ABANDON HOPE FOR EX-EMPRESS. DOORN, Dec. I.—Physicians have abandoned hope for the recovery of the former Kalserln Augusta Victoria, it was announced today. es Mine Bloody Coal West Virginia The hills were shrouded in mist. Somewhere in tlieir recesses were the sharp shooting feudists who sometimes ere<rp close enough to the towns to send bullets whining down the streets. The few civilians in sight viewed roe with frank suspicion. Tall, rangy sons of the West Virginia mountains, they slouched through the mire, coat collars turned up against the rain, keeping an eye open for trouble. “ONLY MODIFIED MARTIAL LAW.” “Only modified martial law has been established to date,” Colonel Hall said today, “Besides maintaining order, we expect to end all possible future disturbances by arresting all members of tlie lawless element, in coopesation with the civil authorities. We expect to be here for some time.” Striking miners who are living in tents are each receiHr a week from tlieir national organization, with $2 extra for each woman, and $1 for each child. When the tent colonies were first established there jvas more inconvenience (Continued on Pag® Four.) \

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The board of public safety, in its recent purchase of $400,000 worth of equipment to complete the motorization of the fire department, did not follow the recommendations of the local representative of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. This procedure, It Is said, might jeopard the position of the city in the national board's classification .n which lower insurance rates than the city is said to he entitled to are enjoyed if the apparatus which the underwriters’ representative considers unnecessary la Placed in operation. This was brought out late Tuesday at a conference of E. It. Townsend, traveling representative of the national board, and E. M. Sellers, manager of the Indiana. Inspection Bureau, with Felix M. McM hirter and Henry L. Ditbmer of the board of public safety. The underwriters discussed with the board a set of thirtynine recommendations for the local fire department, compiled by Mr. Sellers in October and sent to the board Nov ;\, but never made public until Tuesday. In these recommendations, it is asserted. the city's rating will suffer if tbs additions! equipment over the amount considered necessary by the underwriters Is placed in service for the reason that some companies will have to be undermanned in order that the surplus apparatus may be manned. It is better to have a few companies fully manned than to have a larger nuinbe- partly manned, the underwriters stuted. Instead of adding two firehouses to the present quota, as the board of safety contemplates, the underwriters would abandon three of the stations now in use because they will not be needed with the department motorized. These t’atlons are No. 6, in Washington street near West tret; No. 16, at Ashland avenue and Eighteenth streets, and No. 31, In Maryland near Meridian street. The underwriter official's recommendation ns to the personnel of the depart(C'ontlnued on Pnge Five.) MUTE, HIT BY CAR, SERIOUSLY HURT \\ orkman’s Skull Fractured on I. & C. Traction Line. Louis A. Sims, IS, son of William A. 61ms, 1330 North Haugh street, was probably fatally injured at 11:15 o'clock today, when he was struck by an inbound Indianapolis A Cincinnati traction car at Fenton, five miles east of Indianapolis. Sims, who is deaf and dumb, was shoveling gravel on the interurban tracks and failed to hear the car, although repeated warnings are said to have been sounded. The boy sustained a fractured Skulk Dr. Samuel McGaughey, 5217 East Washington street, who was a passenger on the car, gave Sims first aid treatment. He was brought to Indianapolis on th* car and was taken to the City Hospital, where his condition is said to be serious. Sims was employed by the traction line and wa* helping to reballast the road bed when injured. Motormnn Philip S. Tyner and Conductor 11. H. Corey were in charge of the interurban car. Hoosier Booze Net Put on Prison City Special to The Times. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Dec. I.—The Federal dragnet, set for members of the reputed gigantic Indiana whisky ring, was extended to Michigan City today, evidence being secured. It was said, against nearly one hundred persons engaged in Illicit liquor traffic. Within tlie last week Federal agent* have obtained evidence against more than two hundred law violators in northern Indiana cities and towns, it wa* declared.

Reduces Housework 25 Per Cent This Is the end accomplished when a study is made of the average household, and it is rearranged from the standpoint of convenience ami efficiency. Did you ever stop to think how much time on her feet, how many miles of walking, would bo saved the cook if the kitchen cabinet were arranged for her with every article she needs in Its place nnd a comfortable stool drawn ud in front ? We offer a booklet issued by the Department of Agriculture which tells what kind of cabinet to buy—or how to make one cheaply. It also tells how to make a tireless cooker, a drainer that does away with drying dishes, a service troy, an lcelesa refrigerator, a shower bath, un evaporator. Wuen the housewife learns to do her work with 1"83 effort, she has more time for recreatiou.

Frederic J. Haskin. Director, Tlie Indiana Daily Times Information Bureau, Washington, I). C. I Inclose herewith 2 cents in stamps for return postage on a free copy of the booklet, "Home Conveniences.” Name Street City State