Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1921 — Page 12

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Those Nickels and Dimes that you spend so easily are the very ones which, if saved, would constitute an emergency fund invaluable to you and yours, in times of stress. Have you ever used one of our metal banks? Ask for one when you make your next deposit or open that'new account. jflEtcher Checking Accounts g>a\3tttgs antj Crust Company Will Help You to Save Safely N. W. Cor. Market & Pcnnrylrxnia

LEAF SITUATION IS SERIOUS IN KY. ‘Growers’ Cabinet’ Formed and Burley Taken Off Market. LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. s.—Every ■white burley tobacco market in central Kentucky had announced total suspension of sales last night, according to reports received by a "Grower's Cabinet,’* which convened spontaneously at the Lafayette Hotel Tuesday afternoon. After sales in other counties had been closed the largest loose leaf market in the world in Lexington shut down and central Kentucky was brought to face probably the greatest crisis ever presented to the farmers. After mass meetings in Mt. Sterling. Owingsville and Winchester, four delegates from each gathering of farmers were dispatched in haste to Lexington, where they met with Fayette leaf growers. Charles Land of Fayette County. John W. Newman, president of the General Association of Burley Tobacco Growers of Kentucky and of the adjoining counties of Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee, and T. B. Hill of Mt. Sterling, secretary of the Growers* Association, also were present representing their organizations. The action, however, was not through the agency of any particular organization. SITUATION IS RETORTED SERIOUS. No attempt was made to minimize the seriousness of the situation at the end of the session. The following program was announced: Thursday mass meeting of farmers will be conducted In every hurley tobacco growii g county In the entire "white belt.” at which delegates will be chosen for a general convention. Friday morning at 10 o'clock a convention of delegates from the burley growing counties will be held in Lexington at which a decision In regard to the disposal of the crop will be made. Friday afternoon there will lea con ference of bankers and warehousemen of Kentucky In Lexington, to receive reports from the tobacco growers convention and lend their aid In meeting the crisis. Exciting scenes occurred in several smaller cities in old Kentucky Tuesday when tobacco growers, incensed at the low bids made in market on their leaf tobacco, made .a concerted movement and stopped the sales. In Carlisle violence was averted onl> by closing the market and declaring all sales off. Growers stopped the sales at Maysrllle about an tour after the opening. General disorder prevailed. Thirty-five hnndred growers from six counties— Mason, Lewis, Bracken and Fleming, Kentucky, and Brown and Adams Counties, Ohio, crowded around the buyers, cursing and yelling and pushnlg buyers back. Tobneco-’-that brought from 25 to 35 cents last year, sold for 3 and 5 cents today. FACTORS IN

BURLEY AFFAIR. The situation thus far Is: The Lexington loose less market, the largest In the world, closed an hoot after the opening this morning with the announcement that It would reopen tomorrow. The Tobacco Warehousemen's Association, through Ben Bosworth, supervisor of sales, announced that the local market would not reopen until Tuesday, Jan. 11 at the earliest. Farmers have already begun hauling their tobacco out of the Lexington warehouses. in which there "were about 7,700,000 pounds when the sales started. Bankers and warehousemen are to meet at Lexington on Friday to decide on means of tinanclug growers who do not want to sell. URGESTTNITED FEDERAL BANK Chicagoan Proposes Plan to Replace Reserve System. CHICAGO, Jan. s.— The proposal to establish a centralized bank of the Vnited States in place of the present system of twelve Federal Reserve Banks was indorsed here today by David Forgan, president of the National City Bang of Chicago. The plan will be urged by some Republican leaders when the new administration takes place. Forgan, in an Interview, said he advocated the centralized bank at the inception of the movement to start the Federal Reserve system and stated he had the backing of many of the leading bankers of the country. The onebank system would be a more workable institution. Forgan said. Funds of all of the Federal Reserve banks wonld be united Into one huge sum, thus making tmi.ornj the interest rates which now vary in different sections of the country. Under this method all people In ail sections of the country desiring to borrow money would be given equal treatment. The proposed method would also eliminate the borrowing of funds by one Federal Reserve Bank from another, Forgan pointed out. Shelby Circuit Court Gets Injunction Suit Special to The Times. BHELBYVILLE, Ind., Jan. 5. —The suit for an injunction filed by the Interstate Public Service Company and the Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern Traction Company against the city of Franklin, the mayor, members of the city council, cltjr clerk and city engineer of Franklin has reached the Shelby Circuit Court on a change of venue. The suit followed proceedings started Oct. 21, 1920, by the city offieia.s of Franklin for the widening of North Main street In the city of Franklin. A demonstrance was filed to the improvement resolution, which was promptly overruled by the city council. According to the complaint the proposed widening of the street will necessitate tearing up the tracks of the plaintiff's rellway and the temporary suspension of its bnsiness involving a loss of more than SIOO,OOO. * KOKOMO WOMAN 18 DEAD. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. s.—Mrs. Mary Walsh, 84, resident of Kokomo for fortyseven years, is dead.

Here's Good Word , Old Suits in Style CHICAGO, Jan. s.—The old lightweight suit hanging In the clothes press will be right In style this spring, delegates attending the International Association of Clothing Designers’ convention Indicated today. Men are still waiting for price slumps and are doing very little buying and fears that this condition will continue to prevail militate ngainst any change in fashion's decree, members said. Nearly 50 per cent of the clothing WTfrkers todny in the Chicago district, the largest clothing center in the world, are out of Jobs, according to M. M. Holtz, secretary of the association. Lack of buying caused this condition, he said. Holtz refused to forecast any reduction in prices, saying action on this would be decided later by the convention.

COMMITTEE GETS SCHOOL FIRE PLAN Board Refers Recommendations to Body. Recommendations for eliminating fire risks at School No. 18, following inspection by State fire authorities, were re ferred to a committee for consideration, at the meeting of the school com misj sjoners last night. The board will be ; reorganized Tuesday night, j Commissioner Bert S. Gadd, Carl Eur. ! ton, superintendent of buildings and grounds, and L. A. Snider, building adviser, form the committee which will j confer with State Fire Marshal Kriedley. ! Investigations of other schools will continue. In the meantime, ru.ee, prepared by a committee, will be distributed In all school buildings of the city. Recommendations by State fire authorities will lead to the adoption of more comj plete orders for fire prevention, it Is i said. Recommendations by the State fire marshal provide for the installation of fire extinguishers, removal of all rubbish under stairways and of locks and hooks on exit doors, nnd the elimination of windows too heavy to be opened by pui plls. Provisions are made for the insulation of steam pipes near woodwork, ! the adoption of exit Indicators and the installation of locker rooms for the cbtii dren's clothing. The statement that “there never has i been on inspection made by city lnspec. i tors” was nttaehed to the report. A fire ‘drill, in which the building was cleared iin fifty-five seconds, was mentioned in [ the report. I Advice from the State Board of Aej counts will be solicited in regard to the j payment of a bill of $1,484 presented by j the School Lunch Association, which re- | centiy asked for an appropriation to pay J for scales used jointly by the association and by physical departments in various : school buildings. The original request j was refused and the association bought i the equipment, hoping to receive public support. It is said. Only $336 of the cost of the apparatus could be raised, a letter from the association states. Albert Baker, attorney for the board, advised ! that the request be refused. Thomas F. Carson, real estate agent, ; was allowed *I.BOO in payment for servj lees in connection with obtaining the site for the North Side High School j building. At Its last meeting the board ) agreed to allow a sum of SI,OOO for the | service, but Carson refused the check j and returned It for consideration. I Teachers who instruct pupils in two j schools will receive S2OO yearly in addition to their regular salary, the board | derided. Payment will take effect at the ! beginning of the spring semester, SIOO ! being alloted teachers handling two | schools for the remainder of the year. ! Action on a system of vistial education •was continued. Installation of portable motion picture machines for educational instruction will bo made after a comi piete survey of all methods. Plans for School No. 57, which are in ! the hands of Mr. Snider, will not be presented to the board for approral until “a more opportune time,” he announced. Extension of time was granted Hayes Brothers for plumbing work at Schools Nos. 58 and 22, and to Freyn Brothers for electrical work at School No. 22. Poors will be placed on -toilets In nil school buildings. A contract for the installation of an air compressor at Arsenal Technical schools wait awarded the Powers Regulating Company.

John Nicholson Gets Attendance Prize The Edgar M. Heaton 1920 prize, a dia-mond-studded Rotary watch fob, given for perfect attendance during th'e year, was awarded to John Nicholson at the weekly luncheon of the Rotary Club at the Clsypool Hotel yesterday. The Charles B. Dyer 1920 attendance prizes were awarded to twenty other Itotarians with perfect records for attendance. There were talks at the luncheon by the following past presidents of the club: Lucien King, Frank R. Shepard, Walter E. Plttsford, Dick Miller and Frank I*. Manly, M. E. Clark, Frederick E. Matson and James Bowen. Mr. Bowen was represented by a manuscript, which was read by Dr. Herbert T. Wagner. Colorado Assembly Opens Session Today DENVER, Colo., Jan. 5. —The Twentythird Assembly of the Colorado Legislature opened at noon today. As both houses are overwhelmingly Republican, the party’s selections for President of the Senate and Speaker of the House will be elected. The legislative program will not begin until Friday, when Governor Shoup's message will be read. i Protect the Children Healthy Blood and a Healthy System la a Child's best protection against Colds. Grip and Influenza. Give them GROVE'S IRON TONIC SYRUP. 75e— Advertisement.

SAY RUSSIAN FORCES PLAN SPRING PUSH Parisian Military Experts See Roumania and Galicia as Objectives. NEW WAR BEING HINTED PARIS, Jnn. s.—The Russian government is planning a spring drive into Roumania and Galicia, according to military experts here. Recent developments along the western frontier of Russia convinced critics that the soviet army will drive into those territories when the weather permits. Anew Eurepeon war, with various nations dragging and toppling one another into the fighting, was seen as a possible consequence. Recent reports from Russia have shown N’ickolai Lenin in conflict with extrem ists wiio are anxious to pasha campaign of conquest. The Russian army, still mobilized, is chafing, eager for a continuation of its success ngainst Genera! Wrangel in Crimea at ’the close of the 391!) campaign. Huge concentrations of troops have been bulked against the Bessarabia front, which recently was assigned to Roumania. Others havo been gathered farther north. These movements with the promise of a spring campaign have acted to soothe the impatient warriors, who are said to be devoting the winter months to gathering munitions. SEE PLAN TO SAVE PORTS. Critics here saw in the promise of a southern campaign a desire on the part of the soviet to avoid jeopardizing the northern ports through which most of tlieir expected commerce with Great Britain and other nations will tlo.v. It was believed, however, the fighting will Involve Poland and that will necessitate a campaign in the north. The fear of other nations toppling over the brink resulted from the realization that the Bolshevists now have linked themselves with Turkey through the crushing of Armenia. The Turks, armed and still in the field, protesting against the settlement of the Turkish boundary, would l*e easy to lead into the conflict, it was believed here. Roumania, soon to form a family alll ance with Greece through two marriages between the royal houses, might count on the support of King Constantine's troops, busy in the new territory acquired in the war. \Jfith these two j nations in the field, there would be every possibility of another Balkan explosion. FRANCE PLAN'S TO All) POLAND. France openly Is preparing to aid I*o- j land In case of a Bolshevist attack. Credits already have been voted for the purpose. France, through her alliances, must be expected to pull still other* into i the wa r. Roumania has mobilized the classes ol j 1913, IUI4 and 1315 for service In ltessar abla. This mobilization was said not to have been brought about by the present Bolshevist scare but critics pointed out i that while the Russians are piling up troops along the border, there Is little chance Roumania will demobilize these classes. Roumania is credited with 450,000 troops ready for quick service. Roumania authorities proudly pointed out that these are trained men, better able to withstand an attack than were the hastily assembled Poles of last year. Meanwhile General Wrangel is conferring with the French, and President Pllsudski of Poland will be here next 1 week. The possibilities of a Bolshevist program will be discussed thoroughly while they are here.

CULVER OFFICER BACKING RELIEF Col. ver European Fund. Col. L. It. Glgnllllat of Culver Academy, Culver, Ind., commander of tlie department of Indiana, American Legion, In a strong Indorsement of the Herbert Hoover European relief fund, expresses confidence that the leglonaires throughout the State will aid in the movement. In a statement made today Colonel Oignilliat declares: “The appeal for the starving children of Europe, comes with especial force when the Joyfulness and luxuries of our American children stand out in such vivid contrast, itesides the justice of the cause itself, it is no small satisfaction to see tha eight great relief organizations united to meet the great teed. With this pooling of effort and the efficiency of Mr. Hoover there go**s assurance that every dollar will reach its goal. I am confident that the leglonatres throughout the State will be found heartily in sympathy and glad to aid in any way they can.” Mrs. Meyer Kfroymson, chairman, and Mrs. Wolf Bussman, vice chairman of the women’s organization to .canvas the mile square, have called a meeting sot Thursday fornlng at 10 o'clock at 147 North Pennsylvania street. All who arc willing to cooperate are invited to attend. Boys Say Farm Hand Gave Them Liquor Special to The Times. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. 5.—A sample of reputed home brew, which two 14-year-old boys In Juvenile Court declared bad been given them by Robert Butler, a farm hand, will be sent to Indianapolis for analysis. The boys were arrested on charges of stealing chickens. When arraigned in Juvenile Court they declared they were drunk when they took the chickens. They released, after receiving a lecture from the court. No action will be taken against Butler until the analysis has been made. Prominent Shelby County Man Dead Special to The Times. SHELBY VILLE, Ind., Jan. s.—Harry F. Hill, 44, is dead at his home In Ray's Crossing, southeast of here following an illness of two years from tuberculosis. He was the owner of the Ray's Crossing elevator and one of the prominent men of the county. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Ida Hill; two daughters, Norah and Mary Hill; four brothers, Peter niil of Arlington, Frank and Andrew Hill of this county and Eli Hill of Oklahoma City, and one sister, Mrs. Catherine Hey, of this city. To Pick U. S. Agent for Indianapolis Work George H. Bruns, district director of the United States Employment Service, Department of Labor, left last night for Detroit, after investigating employment conditions in Indianapolis. Mr. Bruns announced that he will return next month and will appoint a special agent of the bureau at that time to continue the work In this city. GKEENSBI RG MAN DEAD. CREENSBURG, Ind., Jan. s.—John Eddis, 71, is dead at* hls home near here of paralysis. He leaves the widow and ■everal children.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, ISZI.

DUG HILL FARAGRAFS plrHVtl ; Clab Hancock, wan has been trying to ; get his name in print for the last several weeks, has presented the editor of the Tidings with •’ ’ bel of turnips. • • • Sile Klidew, who u. i! the church at ! the protracted meeting last summer, stopped in at a dance on Musket Riuge Saturday night and lost control of both feet. • * • Cricket Hit ks was aiming to go somewhere last Sunday, but during the week he got busy nnd forgot all about taking his collar to the laundry. EUROPE’S WAIFS SEEK SHELTER Near East Relief Workers Get Word of Conditions. Thousands of hungry, starving children are knocking at the gates of American orphanages, already overcrowded In Armenia nnd Syria, according to the Indiana committee of Near East Relief, 403 City Trust building. Telegraphic appeals burdened with distress from national headquarters in New York are of so much concern to the State committee of which John II Holliday is chairman, that religious organizations, fraternal societies and women's clubs particularly are urged to strain every effort to obtain orphan adoption and keep these children alive. "Imagine the responsibility ami heartache," said Thomas (\ Day, treasurer of Near East Relief, "when a big hearted American relief worker lias to decide which two or three of a group of twelve or fifteen waifs he cun offer shelter and food, kindly but firmly closing the door on the others who must then move on, literally worse off than the stray dogs nnd eats which may have similarly survived the massacres nnd deportations.” Five dollars a month will afford food and shelter fur one of these children. Mrs. E. C. Rumpler, chairman of the woman’s division of Near East Relief, Is striving to have every woman's organization in Indiana ‘'adopt” one or more of these orphans. 300 Exhibit Corn at Columbus Show Special to The Time*. COLUMBUS, Ind , Jan. 5 -The s-venth annual Bartholomew County Corn Show opened at the Columbus city hall with more than three hundred exhibits of corn In place. Many corn growers from the surrounding counties, ns well ns local farmers, entered exhibits. The show will continue all this week. Premiums will be awarded Friday afternoon. Workers Favor Strike LONDON, Jan. 5.—A majority of the German railway men In the Ruhr district and the Rhine Valley have voted In favor of a general strike unless they are granted a wage increase, according to an Exchange Telegraph Company dispatch from Berlin today. BAD BLOOD Impure, Thin, Weak, Afflicts the Great Majority of People Whether In scrofula, sores, bolls, and eruptions; or us rheumatism with agonizing pains and aches in ltmbs, Joints or muscles; as catarrh with its, disagreeable inflammation nnd dis- , charge; in disturbed digestion, or drag ging down debility arid tired feellng--lt , is corretced by Hood's Sarsaparilla, that most coo- j nominal and reliable blood remedy nn<l building-up tonic. Thousands use this j medicine and praise it for wonderful re- j lief. Made from the most valuable remedies that physicians know, and on- | paralleled In character, quality, taste and ; curative power. When n cathartic Is needed, use Hood's I’iils. —Advertisement. ■ ■ ■■ 1 1 Dees Bask Ache? A weak and painful back says your system needs Cleaning. Flush your Kid- ] lieys and bowels with Kirn * Kidney Ten to get rid of headache, constipation, rhea- j matte pain, bloated feet or legs, chronic 1 colds. Sold more than 20 years by j druggists. Get a 30c pkg. today. J. W. i Brant Cos., Albion, Mich.—Advertisement, j

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STATE PRISON RECORD BEST Parole Violations of Institutions Shown in Report. During the thirteen and one-half years the suspended sentence low has been In affect, sentences have been suspended In the eases of 3.506 persons, of whom 2,788 were men and BP6 were womon, according to a report of Amos W. Ilutler, secretary of the State Board of Charities. Os the number given suspended sentences. 329 were later required to carry out their original sentence because of misbehavior. The report shows that 489 others were delinquent, but had not been apprehended at the close of the fiscal year. These 818 constitute 29.3 per cent of the entire number placed on probation. The percentage of violations reported from the different State institutions follows: State prison, 24.3; reformatory 31.3; women's prison, 31.3. Os the remaining 1,970, twenty-one died, 216 were under supervision, 1,727 had been discharged and six had been pardoned by the Governor. Woman Fasts 38 Days in Effort to Save Her Husband Spouse Is Opposed to Praying and Shouting on Streets. DANVILLE, 111., Jnn. 5 Mrs. Sadi" Harrington, wife of Daniel Harrington a Danville business man. today entered the thirty-eighth day of a "hunger strike” begun for the purpose of saving her husband. who refuses to take an active part in church wArk. Harrington says his wife wants him to “pray and shout and get out on the street and preach nnd give everything I have to the church.” "If she wants to live." Harrington added, "she can live. If she wants to die, she can die. I have done all I can for j her.” Mrs. Harrington admits she did not expect to have to fast so long, hut says that God has given her strength nnd she "will con lnue fasting until he grants • my prayer." l

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Here Is an Added Inducement that makes it a particularly wise move to start a Savings Account, here —NOW. If you start saving on or before January 10th, your savings will earn full interest from the first of the month. We Pay On Savings MEYER-KISER BANK 136 East Washington Street.

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Gas Rate Question Liquidating the Inventory We hear much at the present time about liquidating inventories. It is now recognized that prices of most commodities have declined. Banks which made loans to merchants and manufacturers on the basis of higher price-levels are insisting that loans be reduced or paid off, and the borrowers are therefore seeking to convert their goods into cash ns speedily as possible. Merchants liquidate their inventories by selling their goods. All merchants are now forced to sacrifice profits in order to do this. Some must take heavy losses. Sale3 at cut-prices are now the order of the day in the retail trade, and wholesalers are making similar reductions in their efforts to move tiieir goods. Manufacturers liquidate their inventories by working up tlielr stocks and selling their products. Their problem is thus much more difficult than that of merchants. They have on hand large stocks of goods which are not salable at all. To get their money out they must Spend much more money in working them up, and then they must sell the products on a declining market. They know that they must Jose because many of their raw materials cost more than the finished product will bring. Therefore, in order to know what profits or losses last year's business brought them, they must reprice their inventories now and find the shrinkage between actual cost and what it would now cost to replace them. The Gas Company does not differ from other manufacturers. In those statements bearing on our situation wo have not attempted to set forth our earnings for the year 1920. If we could liquidate our inventories without, loss, we could show large earnings for the year. But we know that our inventories have shrunk greatly in value. How greatly we shall not know until the end of January or later, for we are now engaged in repricing our inventories to find their present worth and consequently our losses on all supplies which we had accumulated to enable us to do business this winter. We can give some general idea of what this will mean to us. At December Ist, our total inventories of supplies represented an actual investment of $1,362,904.37. We do not know how much of this will have to be written off, but we do know about how much shrinkage has occurred in some of the leading items. For example, on December Ist, we had $664,232.43 tied up in coal piles. This did not include our steam coal or coal on cars. If these were included the total would be $719,436.23. Referring only to the coal which we had laid by to assure regular gas production this winter and for which xve had paid out over $660,000 several months ago, we find a shrinkage in value of the stock of December Ist amounting to $238,018.36 when measured by what It would cost today to replace It. Similarly, we find a shrinkage in our gas oil stocks of December Ist amounting to $14,961.97. Indeed, we doubt whether there Is a single Item in our inventories which will not show a similar shrinkage. Let it not be assumed that these large stocks of coal were accumulated blindly. When we were buying coal at any price that was required to obtain reasonable supplies to assure a continuous supply of gas to Indianapolis this winter, we knew that we would have to take a heavy loss on our coal reserves. We knew that the price of coke would decline in 1921 and that the stocks of highpriced coal would be left on our hands. A depreciation reserve was started, just as we provide for one to meet shrinkages in our fixed plant. We went into this investment with the certainty of loss before us solely because we desired to safeguard the City's gas supply. • .. t ■ The necessity of these inventory and other adjustments prevents us from presenting at this time a statement of our 1920 earnings; but it is quite apparent that even remarkably heavy earnings throughout the year can leave little in the way of surplus after providing for a loss of a quarter of a million dollars on coal with much shrinkage in other inventories yet to be calculated. Citizens Gas Company

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