Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight. Temperature 15 to 20 degrees. Warmer and cloudy Sunday.

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FILL PLANS FOR HOOVER’S VISIT HERE MONDAY Relief Leaders Expect Honor Guest for Luncheon to Arrive at 10:25. MANY TO GET SLIM MEAL Herbert Hoover will arrive ia Indianapolis at 10:25 o'clock Monday morning to attend an “invisible guest” luncheon, be given in bis honor at noun at the Claypool Hotel, under the auspices of the Marion County European Relief organization. Mr. Hoover will speak at the luncheon. The menu will be the same as is served to the starving children In the American feeding stations In Europe and will consist of rice, black bread and cocoa. The tables will be bare boards. Heavy kitchen bowls will be used for the rice and tin cups for the cocoa. The fare will be the same as was served at the dinner in New York for which 1.000 persons paid $2,000 each. The luncheon will be served at 12 o'clock. Beginning at 11:30, tha orchestra from Keith's /Theater will play in the corridor. There will be no music during the meal. Mr. Hoover will be met at Greensburg by Caleb S. Penny. State chairman, and Harper J. Ransburg, county chairman At I'nlon Station the party will be welcomed by a committee with J. I. Holcomb at its head. Mr. Hoover will attend a conference of county chairmen from over the State before the luncheon. He will leave the city shortly after 3. TO HE SERVE!) HY CANTEEN'ERS. The luncheon will be served by former members of the Red Cross canteen under the chairmanship of Mrs. Phllomen VI atson, who organized the canteen for war service. About fifty canteeners will be required. Reservations have been coming in so fast the last two days that the headquarters force 13 kept busy counting money and writing out tickets. Most of the local clubs have arranged for reprjjsentatlon. Half a dozen of the rublic scboo.s have raised funds to send representatives fro::, among the faculty and pupils. Manual Training High School students collected S6OO. The teachers and pupils held ele< tions to choose representatives. E. H. Kemper McComb. principal: Miss Bertha Thormever and Bertram Sanders being .selected from the faculty and Mary Ray Hynes and Fran' is M< Am e from the students. > Probably the most interesting plan for collecting donations was that of Miss Kate Mason, principal of Ralph Waldo Emerson school, who opened the domestic science kitchen to prepare a Hoovei luncheon cf rice, butterless bread and cocoa, which was served to the pupils each day for a minimum of 10 cents. Inspired by the example of the children, their mothers gathered at the school Thursday to partake of a rice luncheon. The amount collected was S3OO. At School No. 45. Miss Lee, principal, end Miss Georgia Alexander, supervisor, planned to raise SIOO, but by Friday they had $461. Miss Alexander. Miss I.ec and Vincent Owens, ift 1 voted to represent the school and SSO wal given to a school in a poorer district to help It complete Us SIOO fund. School No. 16, Mrs. Maude Moody, principal, raised SIOO and will be representeu at the luncheon. Irvington School No. 57 collected $lO5 and the pupils elected Miss Helen Loeper, principal, to represent them. Reservations made through the Associated Employers are as follows: 11. K. Khortemeler, Philip Cornett and William Rathert, Grocers' Baking Company; Mr. and Mrs. William A. Avant, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kahn, E. U. Graff, superintendent public schools; William J. Clooney, J. G. Mueller, Marlon Warn and C. S. Dearborn. Mooney-Mueller, Ward Company; Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Huey and Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Vonnegut. Other reservations are: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Block, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Frenzel, Jerome Lyons, Dr. Alfred Henry, Albert E. Metzger, Dr. and Mrs. Louis Burckhardt, William E. English, Oscar F. Prenzel, Philip E. Efroymson, Louis M. Efroymson, Automobile Lnderwrlters' Company, C. A. Ammerman (two reservations), C. W. Wells. J. F. Wild & Cos., G. A. Schnull. Thomas C. Howe, Henry M. Talbott (Butler College representative!, Otto F. Hauetsen, Society of Past Masters (four reservations!, D. T. Weir, R. C. Roberts. Meyer Efroymson. T. C. Rapp, Mt. and Mrs. Frederic M. Ayres. t Mr. Ransbnrg announces that the Hoover relief headquarters at 147 North Pennsylvania street will be open all day Sunday for the accommodation of those wishing to obtain tickets for the luncheon. Applicants who ordered tickets too late to receive them by mall can obtain them at headquarters or at the Claypool Hotel Monday. *

DE PAUW SENDS TWO TO LUNCHEON GREENCASTLE, Lid , Jan. 15.—Ue Pauw University will sen dtwo representatives to tlie Herbert Hoover luncheon In Indianapolis Monday. Lr. Hillary A. Cobin, vice president, and James Claypool, a senior, are tlie representatives chosen. Claypool was elected by the students. Oppose Rate Boost With Costs Falling Protest against an Increase In rates for certain classes of service by the > New Richmond Telephone Company, on which a hearing was held today by the public service commission, has been filed by several New Richmond citizens. The protest declares that the rates are too high in view of the recent drop in prices of materials. It was' stated some time ago when an increase was sought by the company that objection was withheld because of the high material prices then prevailing. Galli-Curci Married VTWEMOT,TS Tan l.Y—There was no music when Mme. Amelita Galli-Curci, soprano, became the bride of her accompanist. Homer Samuels, at the home of the bridegroom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Samuels, at St. Louis Fark, at noon today.

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L Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity ■lor the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. ni.. ■fan. 16: Partly cloudy tonight anti Sunday; temperature tonight 15 to 20 degrees; warmer Sunday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 7 a. m 18 8 a. m 18 9 a. m 19 10 a. m 20 11 a. m 20 12 (noon) 21 1 p. m 22 2p. m ... 23

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‘Breakfast Now, ’ and Sadie Ends Salvation Fast Pastor Convinces Her Bible Condemns Her Way of Converting Husband. DANVILLE, 111., Jan. 15.—Mrs. Sadie Harrington broke her fast today, after abstaining from food for forty-eight days, following a two-hour conference with the Rev. G. S. Payne, overseer of the Church of God in Illiuois. "I am ready for breakfast," she said, after the Rev. Mr. Payne had won the victory. The Itev. Mr. Payne called Ada I’eerc.v, a nurse, to bring a cup of milk, which Mrs. Harrington immediately drank. "Mrs. Harrington was very gentlo and submissive throughout my Conference with her and Bhowed a wonderful spirit,’ he said afterward. “She did not attempt to argue with me and I stated incident after incident in the Bible to prove to her th.it the Lord did not expect any one to go without food.’ MINISTER CALLED from revival. The Rev. Mr. Payne was located In Eldorado, 111., after search for him by frlends of Mrs. Ilarrlngto.i, who wished him to plead with the starving woman to break her fast had failed. He had been in Paris. Texas, conducting a revival. When Informed that Mrs. Harrigton wished to consult with him, he came to Danville immediately. The minister said It would take him just half an hour to tell Mrs. Harrington bow to walk straight in the ways of the Lord. Mrs. Harrington carried on her fast In an effort to save the soul of her husband, Ernie, and force him to take off his butcher’s apron for the babilameuts of the clergy. “1 plan to visit her and point out the error of her ways in a plain, common sense manner,” the Rev. Mr. Payne Bald when he arrived here. “If you’ll allow mo to become a btt slangy, I am going to talk to her like the well known Dutch uncle.” NO nOTBT OF HER SINCERITY. The Rev. Mr. Payne said he did not doubt the sincerity of the woman and was quite sure she is pious. “I believe she has fallen In with a of fanatics who have led her astray,” he said. The Rev. Mr. Payne stated positively that the church docs not believe in fasting. "Mrs. Harrington has no Biblical foundation whatsoever for her fast,”, he continued. “Os course, Moses and Christ ■sated, but look who they were—supermen. ■‘Abstaining from food Is suicide. AVe have very doflnlte divine laws against suicide.” The Rev. Mr. Payne, when told that since she has started her fast Mrs. Harrington had said she was doing it not only to save her husband, but also other sinners, and that it was probable that anew church would be founded on her fist, said : “The Lord in the Rlble and the history of churches never yet called woman to lead such a movement. I don't see why the Lord should change His program now.” Mrs. Harrington appeared cheeks, however, were as rosy as evet and she did not appear to have lost much rlesb. BOSTON REPORTS ANOTHER SCHEME Three Sell German Marks to Extent of $500,000. BOSTON, .Tan. 15.—Three men said to have been implicated In another “get-rich-quick" scheme, by which their clients were defrauded <>f $500,000, were under a west today. The men held are Nathaniel P. Goodman, Abraham Horowitz and A. Gardner Bostedo. They aie charged with conspiracy to commit larceny. The operations were carried on under the name of Rothschild & Campbell Company, Ltd. The firm dealt in German marks, according to Assistant District Attorney Hurwitz. Customers would be charged two points above the quoted price on marks in exchange for an option on them to be terminated within a period of six months, when the pun baser was to complete tfio deal.

Dishonest Dealer Scarce Here, Says City Inspector Reweighing Figures Show 28 Minus Cases in 27£81 Investigated . “The dishonest or careless merchant is a rarity in this city," declared Edward McGufr, chief inspector of the city department of weights and measures, in his annual report to the board of public safety. Mr. McGuff points out that out of 27,581 packages found in all kinds of stores that -were reweighed by city inspectors during 1920 only twenty-eight were found incorrect. He reports increased activity in his department over 1919.

The report shows that in 1920, 5919 places were visited by Inspectors, as compared with 5,525 In 1919. The increase was 894 visits. In 1919 only 14,927 articles were rewelghed. The 1920 figure on this branch of the work Is 12,645 greater. According to Mr. McGuff, the rowelghing work Is regarded one of the most Important branches of the weights and measures department’s work. “We consider it the most important feature of the department for the reason that it keeps ihe merchant on the anxious sent all the while," his report states. "The system has a tendency to make the honest merchant careful and it causes the dishonest merchant to hesitate before packing, and wrapping' up a package which does not contain what the weight marking Indicates.” POINTS OUT PROBABLE PUBLIC SAVING. Mr. McGuff points put that his department probably saves the citizens hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by this system of Insuring them against short weights. Specifically he says that if ail the butter sold to citizens of Indianapolis were just one ounce short a pound the annual loss would be $400,000. Before the department started the rewelghlng campaign two years ago much of the butter sold In Indianapolis was short in weight from one to two ounces on the pound, he states. Luring 1920 the department caused only five arrests to be made, the report Indicates. Probably more arrests would be, made, Mr. McGuff says, If the public were better educated to the fact that the weights and measures department needs tips from citizens just as the police de partment does. Luring 1920 only twentysix complaints from citlsens were re-,

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CLEAN SLATE BY MARCH 4 IS NOT PROBABLE Many Hangovers in Congress Will Greet the New Administration. PACKERS TO GET ACTION WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Presidentelect Harding's first, last and only request to the present Congress—that it leave his administration a clean legislative slate on March 4—seems in a fair way to be disregarded. -When Senator Harding paid his hurried visit to V.'nshington after his Panama trip he impressed upon his colleagues at the capital the need for switt action In clearing the tables for anew deal in March. He did not want any hangovers to embarass the new regime when it comes into being. But with only forty legislative days of the present session left it has become Increasingly apparent that the expiring session will do little but pass the thirteen large appropriation measures. These measures are of the “must” variety. They must be passed It the Government is to continue to function. As for the others—and their numbers are legion- they appear certain of going over. Among them are some important measures, such as the emergency tariff measure, the soldier bonus bill, Senator Calder's bill for national regulation of the coal Industry, the proposed Immigration restriction legislation, various measures of importance to particular industries, repeals cf war legislation, various welfare measures, such as tha maternity bill, and a flock of others of lesser importance. The one measure on which definite action Is certain is the long disputed bill for regulation of the parking Industry. By unanimous consent the Senate will vote on this measure Jan. 24. The House next week probably will take up the proposal to increase the membership of tha House from 4145 to 453, and this is certain to produce some warm political and sectional battles. Unless the leaders can choke it off it will provide enough vocal fireworks to keep the House busy for days. SEEKS TO AMEND CITY TRAFFIC LAW Proposal Eliminates Parking Exemption for Doctors. An amendment to the traffic ordinance to eliminate a clause which Judge Walter Pritchard of city court has held makes invalid the parking limitation of one and one-half hours In the congested district, was prepared today by Harry E Yockey. assistant city attodney, and special counsel to the board of public safety. Judge Pritchard held that the section limiting the parking is Invalid because tt exempts automobiles o t physician* with offices within the congested district. Mr Voekey’B amendment will make the section read practically as it did when the traffic ordinance first was written, which did nut Include the exemption for physl clans. The amendment will read : In the congested dlstrtet no vehicle shall be parked for a continuous period of more than one and onehalf hours between the hours of 8 a. m. and 6:30 p. in., except as hereinafter provided. The “cxeept ns hereinafter provided” refers to the limitation of two hours for parking on the Circle and other limitations which differ from the hour and a half rule. The amendment will be introduced in the city council Monday. High Bond Fixed in Child Assault Case John Hungate, 68, formerly of 229 East Tenth street, who was arrrested Jan. 1 on serious charges brought by parents of four girls nil under 13, has been held to the Marlon County grand Jury under bonds of $lO 000. A charge of contributing to delinquency was referred to the Juvenile court. Hungate was arrested at 005 North Alabama street by Detectives Pressley and Coleman.

celved. In 1919, IST came In. The department stopped the drivers on streets and rewelghed eighty-four loads of Ice, five more than In 1919. Os these eighty-four, sixty were found correct, twenty-one overweight and three underweight. Loads of coal rewelghed totaled 169. In 1919, 184 were rewelghed. The 1920 figure fell below because of the coal shortage, the report says. Os the 107 I loads, fifty-two were correct, ninety-eight ! overweight and seventeen underweight. MANY SCALES ARE SEALED. Sixty thousand four hundred eighty scales, weights and measures were sealed ; 4.141 adjustments made; 153 scules, weights and measures condemned; 277 confiscated and 161 relnspected. The grand total of Individual inspections made during the year was 65.212. Robert E. Tracy, director of the bureau of municipal research of the Chamber of Commerce, Is thanked by Mr. McGuff for his "aid and timely suggestions.” The State department of weights and measures has completed a checking of - the standard scales, weights and meas- ; ures of the city department and found | them, In most instances, to be slightly light, due. to wear since the last State inspection. Frank W. Tucker, chief inspector for the State department, has written Mr. McGuff. Mr. Tucker corn- ! plimented the city department on its activity. The city department has completed Its inspection of scales, weights and measures at the city market. Out of 800 Inspected, forty-five were condemned and confiscated. The Inspectors are on their regular annual rounds of the six districts Into,which they have divided the i city for Inspection purposes.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1921.

TOGA CONTEST BEHIND FIGHT OVER PRIMARY Lines Sharply Drawn in Legislature, New-Watson vs. Beveridge. SNAG LIKELY IN SENATE In the background of the fight to have the Legislature abolish the Indiana primary law is the Republican senatorial contest that threatens to develop two years hence between Senator Harry S. New and former Senator Albert J. Beveridge. Already the lines are plainly drawn. On one side are Mr. Beveridge and Edward C. Toner of Anderson, former leader of the Progressive party, standing for the strengthening of the present primary law through passage of Senator John S. Alldredge's bill. On the other side is Governor Warren T. McCray and tlie Republican State organization, exemplitiers of standputtism, aided and abetted by the adherents of Senators New and Watson, standing for the repeal of the primary system. It is the progressive element of tho Republican party aligned against the standpat crowd. Governor McCray, who ever since his election has advocated the abolishment of the law, may get his l<leas, which are Incorporated In u bill Introduced by Senator A. H. Beardsley, through the House, but he will strike a snag In the Senate. This was made apparent yesterday, when the Senate elections committee held a public hearing on the two bills and nine Senators took a determined stand again* the administration. OTHERS IN LINE-UP AGAINST REPEAL. Those who lined up for a primary law besides Senator Alldredge are senators James J. Nejdl nud Oliver C. Holmes of Lake County; Senators Lee J. Hartzell and William.E. Bowers of Allen County; Senators Robert L. Moorhead and J. Fred Masters'of Marlon County; Senator Oliver Kllue of Huntington County and Senator Don I*. Strode of Howard County. Only Senators Beardsley and Alfred Hogston of Marlon spoke in defense of the McCray program. It was the first public test of strength the admlnlstrn(Contlmied on Page Three.) 24 INDICTED BY GRAND JURY 18 of Number Taken in Burglary Hold-up Wave. The first step In the program of Dep uty Prosecutor Jackson Carter In having the grand Jury return indictments promptly against men arrested by the police on charg< sos burglary and robbery. win taken today when the new Marion County grand Jury returned twenty-four indictments, eighteen of which directly resulted from (he hold-up and burglary wave which has been prevalent In Indianapolis for the past four weeks. Prosecutor William P. Evan* said be intended to see that those indicted by the grand Jury are given trials as speedily as possible. Among those indicted were Edward Mitchell, burglary, William Magson ami Frank Webster, burglary; Ernest Brinr.on. burglary; Carlin Rowlett, burglary; Claude Welker and Ernest liogsett. grand larceny and embezzlement of S2OO from the Central Amusement Company; Fred Abbott, entering house fn commit a felony; Harry Patterson, robbery; Elmer Montgomery, burglary and petit larceny; J. F. Prims', issuing fraudulent checks; Spencer Williams, grand larceny; John Trout, grand larceny. The following were indicted on charges of vehicle taking: Harry Hines, Ross Moore, Garrlty Borden, Thomas Umphrey, Cecil Rhoades, Marshall Heed and Posey Hilton. The grand jury recommended a discharge for Rose Earl, charged with assault and battery with Intent to murder, as there was not sufficient evidence to warrant the return of an Indictment. The rames of others who were indicted were not made public because they are not under arrest or under bond.

NURSE KILLED WITH LEAD PIPE Found in Gully Reside Road Near Annapolis. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 15.—Miss Harriet M. Ravanaugh, 35, nurse at the Naval hospital here, died today after being beaten Into unconsciousness with a pleee of lend pipe last night and thrown Into a gnll.v beside the roadway. The attack occurred on a road leading to the reservation on which the Navnt hospital is situated. A piece of bloodstained pipe two feet, long was founo near the spot. It was first thought that Miss Kavanaugh had been criminally assaulted, but this was found tint to be the case. Hear Admiral Seales, superintendent ot the Naval Academy, ordered an Immediate Investigation. As yet no clew has been unearthed. Miss Knvanaugb's home was In Buffalo, Blizzard Hits Mich. TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Jan. 15.—The northern Michigan spring-like weather today was becoming burled beneath a blizzard which Is sweeping the lakes from the North. The barometer this morning was the lowest In years and winter fishermen along the water front are predicting the biggest snow storm In years. '

TODAY In CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.— Congress today : SENATE. District of Columbia appropriation bill pending business. Finance Committee orders temporary tnriff bill favorably reported. Former Governor Gooding sworn In as Senator from Idaho. Reconstruction Committee will net on Calder coal control Mil next week. Attorney General Palmer asks Agri-| culture Committee for authority to distribute sugar Imported to break hlgn prices. HOUSE. Indian appropriation bill pending business. , Ways and Means Commute considers tariff on lumber Railroad executives ask Interstate Commerce Commission to direct Immediate payment of guarantee to railroads. Women want war machinery destroyed. Mrs. Charles Edward Russell tells Foreign Affairs Committee.

Another ‘Dear Jerry' Letter Usrofc 12* 1920# £3*. Jerry Kinney. Chief of Police, teiiaaapolla* Indiana. Dtsx Jerry*--Kindly deliver to S. H. Abel l/2 pt. of This whisky is used by bln in connection with hie inreetlgatioo wori* Kith, kindest recarda* I beg to retrain Yotsr fpieod, TUBRI& FRQHIBI7I3E DIRECTOR. FOR lIC lAS A*

IRVING LEMAUX HEADS G. 0. P. ORGANIZATION Jewett Crowd, in Control, Names New Republican City Chairman. SLATE GOES THROUGH Tyring W. Lemaux was named chairman of the Republican city committee by acclamation at a meeting of precinct committeemen, at the courthouse, this afternoon. The administration wing of the party npnrently was in complete control and put its slate of officers through without difficulty. Tho “anti” wing did a t put up an opposing stare. Ernest L. Kingston was elected vice chairman ; Leonard M. (pill!, secretary, and Kelly C. Adams, treasurer, In accordance with the plans of the administration faction, laid last Monday at a meeting In the Lemcko Annex office of Ralph Letnoke. county treasurer, and city chairman for the past four years. $50,000 Reserve Bank Funds Stolen, Belief CHICAGO, .Tan. 15 - A mail bag containing $50,000 gent from the Manufacturers National Bank, Racine, Wl, to the Federal Reserve Bank here, Wednesday, Is believed to have been stolen. It bail been reported lost in transit. NOW IT'S TAX ON OLD MAIDS ‘No Discriminationlnsists Woman Lawyer,

NEW YORK. Jan. 15.—The proposed tax on bachelors Isn’t enough, according Ito Miss Lucille C. Pugh, lawyer it should he extended to Include “old ina ids.” “There It is again—the old double standard, ’’ Miss Pugh declared, in commenting upon the suggestion of Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor of Washington that the 10.000,000 bachelors in the country should be subject to a graduated tax of from $1 to $5 a year, yielding an annual income of $20,000,000. “I thought we were getting away from that. Why should we women be discriminated for or against in the matter of taxation any more than in voting? Personally, I mn certain I would lie willing to pay $1 or $2 or SI,OOO or any amount a year to insure, my continued freedom.” Miss Pugh was just a bit inclined to feel, however, that If bachelors and "old maids’’ were taxed the former would get somewhat the Inst of It, ns they would lie free to change their status, while the latter would still be handicapped by the social precedent which decrees that man shall do the proposing. "You may judge how serious I am about including ‘old maids' In such a taxation scheme,’ she said, “by the fact I frankly admit that I am one myself.” Texas Town Faces Destruction by Fire HOUSTON, Texas. Jan 15. — Fire which broke out early this morning In the heart of Humble, an oil town near here, got beyond control of the Humble fire department and threatened destruction of the entire business section. Fire apparatus was sent from Houston in response to an appeal for help. Great oil wells adjoin the town. Murder and Suicide Wave Claims Two NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—The tragic national epidemic of wife murder and suicide claimed two more victims here today when John Dt Maio cut his wife’s throat and then with the same weapon, still dripping with his wife's blood, killed himself. The double tragedy took place In Brooklyn, where the couple lived. Boy’s Leg Broken in First Sled Accident The first coasting accident of the season was recorded today. Thomas Quilter, 15, of 419 West Empire street, was sliding down a railroad embankment at West and Georgia streets and coasted into a coal truck driven by James Williams, 20. colored, of 129 West Sixteenth street. The boy’s left leg was broken. He was sent to the olty hospital by the police emergency squad. Fined SIOO for Totin’ Concealed Weapons Orville Thatcher, 523 Lord street, yvlio was arrested by Patrolman Go?.ns at Prospeet and East streets .Tan. 10 and charged with carrying concealed weapons, was fined SIOO and costs by Judge Walter Pritchard In city court today. The case against Herman Griffith, 715 Buchanan street, who was arrested with Thatcher and”held on a vagrancy charge, was dismissed. m

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HOMES RAIDED BY HOUSE SNEAK Many Residences Reported Entered While Occupants Arc Away. A thief who for the last week has been entering residences while people are away from their homes was busy last night. William R. Bess, 811 North Oxford street, found Oiat his residence had been ransacked and that two watches, it gold chain and a box of cigars had been taken. James C. Goodlet. 4331 Broadway, reported bis home entered by a burglar, who had broken open a side window. Two suitcases, one tilled with baby clothes, valued at SSO; two kimonos, two watches, a diamond pin, silk hose and silk underwear and a savings bank had hen taken. Charles Hahn, 752 West New York street, was In his kitchen at 10 o'clock last night when two masked robbers entered, covered him with a revolver and relieved him of $9, and two diamond rings valued at $l4O. Fred A. Boedcker, room 10, the Denison Hotel, reported that a scarf pin valued at S7OO was stolen from his room. Mrs Fred O'Brien, 1733 North Meridian street, attended a theater last night antj when the show was over she mls-ed u black fox fur valued at $0". Charles Hlttenaer notified tho police that be was attacked Friday by a r.egro at the Capital bowling alley, 117 West Market street, and later missed his watch and gold knife valued at $33. Mrs. Lizzie Douglas, 517 Bowman street, told the police that a thief stole n pair of lace curtain* valued at $lO from a line In the rear.of her home. Even the chicken thieves were busy and Ellen Ellington, 2401 Northwestern avenue, reported that ten hens and a rooster had disappeared from her chicken coop. John Wilhelm, 3038 West Vermont street, was robbed of $25 while he was in a dry beer saloon last night on West Walnut street. George Harris, KatserhofP Hotel, was robbed of $25 in an East Washington street restaurant, he to!d the police.

20C SMOKES AT JAIL DRAW 75C 18-Year-Old Hoy Tells of Janitor’s * Profiteering' What might come under the head of profiteering was revealed In a story told by Howard Shaw, 18, Anderson, when he appeared In city court today. The cost of cigarettes at police headquarters to prisoners is 75 cents for a 20-oent package, according to Sliaw, who said that was the price charged for cigarettes bv a janitor. Shaw had been arrested on the charge of carrying con coated weapons, but the charges were dismissed when the detectives admitted that the gun found In his possession and which he had Just purchased had no cylinder. In the cellroom Shaw said he asked the turnkey if he could get some cigarettes, that the turnkey gave a janitor $1 and that the Janitor brought back the cigarettes, a 20 cent, package and returned 25 cents. Shaw was unable to identify the Janitor when Judge Pritchard ordered the suspect in court and the turnkey who had called the Janitor was not on duty. Tlie janitors recently, since the shift iii turnkeys have, by order of the board of safety, visited freely with prisoners, carrying out messages, bringing In food and tobacco In a way that has never been tolerated by the police before. Five Held to Grand Jury in Auto Cases Iceland Parker, Norman Brice, Carl Bernaucr, Bob Jones and Ansel Slipptfr, five young men recently arrested in connection with a large number of automobile thefts, were bound over to the Federal grand jury under bond of $5,0 Hi yesterday at a hearing before Howard 8 Young, United States commissioner The boys waived arraignment and were sent back to jail in default of bond. The specific charge against them is conspiracy to transport stolen automobiles In interstate commerce, the car or Frank Wampler, 2100 North Meridian street, being named in the affidavit. GIBBONS STILL IMPROVES. BALTIMORE. Md., Jan. 15. —Cardinal Gibbons' condition continues to show slight Improvement, It was stated at his residence.

Bible Purchased and Laid Away for Harding Inaugural ’WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The Bible upon which President-elect Harding will take his oath is now in tb" safe of the United States Supreme Court. It was purchased by James D. Maher, clo;k of the court, who believes in ‘being prepared." The hook is a rattier large, giltedged leather edition of the King J antes version In which Clerk Maher has Inscribed the date of the Inauguration and the oath.

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I WHISKY ALSO USED ■ IN ‘INVESTIGATION WORRY 1T ISSHOWN Additional ‘Dear Jerri/ Letters Disclose Or bison Issued Booze Permits to Enforcement Agents, : NEW DISCOVERY BOOSTS LIST TO 182 Whisky, the wonderful cure-all of the medical world, is also “used In investigation work” by the prohibition enforcement agents of the Gov- ■ ernment, according to additional “Dear Jerry” letters which Charles J. | Orblson found in his office and which were not included in the original j “complete file” made public through the Times.

CABINET DOPE SHIFTS DAWES TO WAR POST Mellow Seems Leading for Treasury, Also Desired by Weeks. INDIANA MAN IN MARION MARION, Ohio, Jan. 15. —A shift in the Harding Cabinet siato appeared to be taking place today. Charles A. Dawes, Chicago, who has been mentioned for the Treasury post, is now being considered for the War Department, and Andrew Mellow, Pittsburgh. Pa., appears In the load for the Treasury. This situation was further complicated by the arrival of ex-SeUator John W. Weeks, Massachusetts, who is understood to desire the Treasury post in preference to becoming Secretary of the Navy, ns has been suggested by Harding’s advisers. Dawes would fit Into the war job equally cs we]] as in the Treasury. He was one of General Pershing's righthand men In France, having had charge of all purchases for the expeditionary forces. Ills experience with the volunteer forces during the war also fits him for the voluntary military training program Harding has in mind, which contemplates summer training camps modeled after the Piattsburg camp. WEEKS DESIRES TKK'ASI RY JOB. Senator Weeks himself, aecordlpg to his intimates, would prefer the Treasury portfolio. Senator Harding and some of the Republican leaders are said to desire that he take over direction of the Navy. A compromise may seat him in the chair of the Secretary of War. Senator Weeks’ objection to the Navy post, it Is said, is based on the fact that In- was educated at Annapolis and is the das-mate and Intimate friend of mauy 1 of tho higher officers of the Navy who would be under his direction. Congressman Joseph W. Fordney, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, discussed with the next President the tariff legislation which will be considered at the special session of Congress. He Is counted on to help frame the schedules which will make effective Senator Harding's plans for revision of the tariff upward. ODELL GIVES CABINET ADVICE. Former Governor It. B. Odell of New York held an extended conference with Senntor Harding and is believed to have touched on political organization and Cabinet make-up. Among other visitors during the day were John 11. Wenver of Huntington, Ind.; Myer Bloomfield, publisher of Boston, Mass., and Sidney Spitzer of Toledo, Ohio. Senator Harding, it may be stated on the highest authority, Is doing far more worrying over tho postmen than over postmasters. He can get plenty of postmasters. ' Senator Harding, however, is determined to strengthen both the force and the morule of the postal employes and is pledged to revision of their salaries upward. He is giving deep thought, it is said, to the reorganization of the l’ostofHce Department and to the elimination of abuses which are alleged now to exist.

TOO ‘VULOAR;’ J-HOP BARRED Michigan Committee Explains Han on Dance. LANSING, Mich., Jan. 15—The University of Michigan's most brilliant social event, the annual J-hop has been cast into oblivion. Tlie Senate Committee on student affairs characterized the affair in past seasons as "vulgar" and in a statement just issued banished forever the event which for so many seasons has attracted society buds from all .'arts of Michigan and the Central States. The committee earlier in the week announced there would be no J-hop this winter and for several days the students were kept guessing why the discontinuance had been decided upon. Several Indignation meetings were held on the campus, with threats to carry the matter to the Legislature being heard. In addition to describing the past hops as "vulgar,” the following are a few of the committee’s reasons for the ban: Avery general smoking of cigarettes and consumption of liquor In booths surrounding too dancing floor. Wilful and flagrant disregard on the part of many fraternities of the Senate’s rules governing house parties ami dances given In connection with the hop. Too muefi individual caddishness, selfish recklessness and time wasted on frivolities. The statement was signed by Prof. Louis A. Strauss, chairman. Thieves Start Fire to Cover Work, Belief The police are making an Investigation of the fire that started in the commission house of Joseph Himes Sons, Hi South Alabama street, last night. A week ntro the place was entered and seventy-five sacks of potatoes, valued at $225, were stolen. Last night it was discovered that four sacks of rice had bee# stolen and It is believed that thieves started the tire in the commission house to cover up the theft. The police found that coal oil had been sprinkled on a barrel and over the hood of an automobile truck, and that some rags were burning. The smoke from the burning rags attracted the attention of police officers. S The locks on the front and doors were not disturbed last night./The-ime was true a week ago when Jfie potiloes were stolen. f j

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An order for one-half pint of whisky for “investigation work” was issued by Mr. Orbison in favor of R. H. Abel, on March 12. 1920. Another order for one-half pint of whisky “to he used in his investigation work” was issued to Charles J. Hoover on the same date. Abel is a former private detective who was mixed up in several unsavory affairs in Indianapolis and elsewhere within the last few years, and was employed by the local street car company as an “investigator” working in connection with it* legal and claims department. He is understood to have had a soft berth in tha prohibition enforcement department more recently. Hoover is another of the “boozehounds” who have been "Investigating” the liquor situation in Indiana. His name has been frequently mentioned in connection with an affair at Riehmoml, which has been under investigation by the agents of the Department of Justice. On July 23, Hoover received a "Dear Jerry” order from Mr. Orbison for one quart of whisky “for his mother-in-law.” This was in addition to the whisky received “for investigation work.’f The discovery by Mr. Orbison of additional “Dear Jerry” orders ia his office, which, it Is explained, were misplaced, followed the grouping together at the police station of all the orders recelted by the police for the disposition of booze, and a conference held yesterday between Chief Kinney and Mr. Orbison ut which the prohibition director was informed that the police would no longer honor his orders for gifts of confiscated whisky. These additional “Dear Jerry” orders disposed ot twenty quarts, four pints and two half-pints of whisky. No physician's prescription it attached to any of them. Included in this list is an order for another pint of liquor for Ralph Finegold, the prohibition enforcement agent who also obtained liquor for the use of his sister. This order is for whisky for the use of his mother. One quart of this liquor is ordered delivered to Bert Hendren, who was the acting head of the Democratic speakers’ bureau during the last campaign. Tha order Is dated Aug. 31, and says that Mr. Hendren was suffering from hay fever and was prevented from “going away because of Li* official duties, Lence Tsdtigbt to have the whisky." Hendren appears to have been the most prominent of the Democratic politicians for whom Mr. Orbison prescribed whisky during the campaign and it is recalled that Orbison was assigned to several political meetings as a speaker at about that time. The Times protested against the prohibition officer taking an active part In the campaign and Mr. Orbison replied that he was thereby obtaining an opportunity to spread propaganda .against fee use of liquor. Tho discovery of (his additional file of “Dear .Terry” letters raises the total of (Continued on Page Eight.)

DEATH FOLLOWS DRINKING BOUT Coroner Investigates Case ot Big Four Conductor. Grover Brown, 33, a conductor on the Big Four Railroad, was found dead In bed this morning at a rooming house at 616 North East street, following what police say was a drinking bout. According to John M. Bunch, another railroad employe, who was with Brown at the rooming house and reported the death to the police, he met Brown last night coming in from his run with a quart of bottled-in-bond whisky and, after taking several drinks, they went lo the North East street address to spend the night. Bunch said he found Brown dead when he awakened about 10:30 o’clock this morning. Motor Policemen McClure and Dalton referred the case to Coroner Robinson, who ordered the body removed to the city morgue for a post-mortem examination. Brown’s home was at 3505 Roosevelt avenue and Bunch gave his address as 4206 Gale street. EATON PIONEER IS DEAD. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. 15. Mrs. William Love, 70, Is dead at her home in Eaton. Three children and the husband survive. - , V = An Eye Test for Children There are five million children in the United States who have imperfect eyesight. At least two out of every ten pupils who start to school have something the matter with their eyes. Is your child one of these? You will admit that you should lose no time in finding out. Write today to our WASHINGTON INFORMATION BUREAU for the little booklet, “The School Child’s Health.” This publication contains a table for an eye te-t in the home, ranging in distance from twenty to sixty feet. If your child cannot pass the simplo tests given on page 9 of this Red Cross booklet, an oculist should be consulted at once. * A copy will be sent to any one who sends 2 cents in stamps for return postage.

Frederic J. Haskln, Director, The Indiana Daily Times Information Bureau, WASHINGTON, D. C. I T 1 I enclose herewith 2 cents in stamps for return postage on a free copy of "The School Child’s Health." Name Street City State