Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Cloudy. Probably rain and colder tonight and Sunday.

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EXERCISES OLD POWER IN NEW PARDON CHECK Assembly Invokes Provision of Constitution in Limiting Wholesale Clemency. RECALL GOODRICH MARK For the first time in the history of Indiana the State Senate has seen fit to take advantage of that section of Constitution which gives it to create a board of State officers without whose consent the Governor cannot issue pardons in certain cases. The fact that former Governor James P. Goodrich paroled or pardoned 1,845 persons during his administration influenced many of the Senators in their determination to place strings on the exercise of wholesale clemency. The rising tide / of criminality in the State was another dominating factor. The measure, which now goes to the House, will prevent the Governor from pardoning a person convieted of vehicle theft without the consent of a board composed of the secretary of State, auditor of State and treasurer of State. The bill passed the Senate yesterday by a vote of 4 to 1. Oscar Ratts of Paoli, Republican floor leader, casting the only vote against it. Senator Rates explained that he did not believe the constitution meant that the pardoning power should be limited in specific offenses, but that any action taken should be general. The Senator made It clear that he was not against the merits of the bill. LEAVES CHAMBER BEFORE VOTING. Senator J. Monroe Pitch of Muncle, the first Senator to question the constitutionality of this section of the bill, left hia seat and walked out of the Senate chamber just before the vote. He returned after the vote was announced. The bill, which was Introduced by Senator Lee J. Hartxell of Ft. Wayne, provides a penalty of three to five years for first offenses and five to ten years for second offenses on charges of vehicle taking. It also provides a fine of SIOO to $5,000. Another factor that Influenced the Senate in its decision is the part of Judges deal leniently with criminals by sns ■bdlng sentences. This is particularly in Marion County,* where re vela - Kit by the Dally Times of favors grantHl by Judge James A. Collins in Criminal vourt have shocked the community. Conditions saeta as exist in Marion County and in other courts of the State will be remedied if the bill becomes a law, because a person convicted of vehicle taking cannot obtain a suspension of sentence from the trial judge. APPROVED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL When Senator Fitch objected that the ■ectlon limiting the pardoning and paroling power of the Governor was unconstitutional Senator Hartzell read a communication from Attorney General U. S. Tesh to the effect that such a provision" was constitutional. “We should create a feeling that when punishment is meted out the criminal (Contlnned on P*ge Two.)

U. S. MAY SEND ALIENS HOME State Department Considers Deportation of All WithC/ out Passports. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—The State (partnoent Is now •considering the question of deportAtion of all aliens in the United States without passports. Acting Secretary of State Davis tod y. No policy hns been arrived at the Secretary said, but the order for the surrender of Donald O'Caliaghan to resMp tor a foreign soil, has brought up the queetloa of what attitude should be pursued with regard to other aliens who are here without passports. The case of Harry Boland, secretary to Eamonn de Valera, who is understood to have entered the United States wiihout a passport. Is under consideration, Secretary Davis admitted. Elihu Root Opposes Disarmament Move WASHINGTON. .Tan. 22.—Elihu Hoot, former Secretary of State, is opposed to action by Congress at this time on disanneraent. it was disclosed In a letter to Chairman Thomas 11. Butler of the House Naval Affairs Committee, received today. Root advised that questions involving disarmament be left to Presi-dent-elect Harding. . TODAY/ CONGRESS SENATE. Manufactures Committee continues hearings on Calder coal bill. Appropriations Committee works on sundry civil bill. Various committees consider nominations sent in by President Wilson. ’Senate continues discussion of minimum wage bill and hears more speeches on packer bill. HOUSE. Continues consideration of agricultural appropriation bill. Waya and Means Committee continues hearings on agricultural tariffs. Foreign Affairs Committee considers bills to purchase embassies and extension of wartime passport control. Military Affairs Subcommittees continue hearings on War Department real estate holdings. Appropriation Subcommittees consider Army. Navy, deficiency, diplomatic and consular appropriation bil/s. Judiciary Committee considers bill to Incorporate firms engaged In Chinese trade. WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Jan. 23: Cloudy and somewhat colder, probably ruin tonight and Sunday. IT HOI KEY TEMPER AT IRE. f 6 a . m rg | 7 a. m 60 , 8 a. m 60 9 a. m 51 : 10 a. m 51 L- 11 g. m 51 I 12 (noon).-..... 51 1 p. m... 52 3 p. m 53

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$1,000,000 Goes to Starving Children From Rockefeller NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—The work of raising the $33,000,000 Herbert Hoover asks for the relief of staTing children in Europe went forward with renewed vigor today, following the announcement that John D. Rockefeller had made a personal contribution of $1,000,000. The announcement was made at a dinner of Rockefeller's Bible class and the young financier received a rousing ovation from the diners which seemed to embarrass him greatly. “1 envy my father only one thing,” Rockefeller said, in a brief speech. “I do not envy him his mother, although she was a wonderful woman, because I had a wonderful mother. I do not envy him his wire, my mother, because 1 have the beat wife in the world. I do not envy him his children, three daughters to say nothing of a son. because 1 bare the six best children in the world. But I do envy him the necessity he had to make his way in the world. I have never known what that was.”

SOLONS VISIT LAKE COUNTY Industrial Center of State Objective in Junketing Trip of Assemblymen. By FELIX F. BRUNER. Times Staff Correspondent. HAMMOND, Ind., Jan. 22.—Greeted by city and county officials and scores of citizens, most of the members of the Indiana General Assembly, many accompanied by their wives, spent today on their second Junket of the session. The trip Included a tour of the Industrial centers of the Calumet region. The rarty left Indianapolis last night Id a special train, consisting of eleven Pullman cars, paid for by business men of Lake County. They were met at the train by a large reception committee with automobiles ar.a esooited to the L.vndora Hotel, which was built just outside the confines of the Standard Steel Car Companies when that concern wag turned over to the Government for war work. At breakfast the legislators were welcomed by Mayor Daniel Brown of Hammond, Mayor Leo McCormick of East Chicago, and Mayor Waiter Seharge of Whiting. Following breakfast the visitors explored Hammond, visiting its prineipil Industries, then going to Whtting. East Chicago, Indiana Harbor, and Gary. They were to return to Hammond for dinner this evening. The visitors entered East Chicago from Whiting, first going to the Mark subdivision. where they Inspected the modern housing project of the Steel and Tube Company of Four years ago ie site of this company's plant was a lake. Nxt the visitors viewed the fleet of the Standard Oil Company, docked in the Indiana Harbor ship canal. From there they to the plant of the fUnriair Os Company "find the plants of numerous Steel concerns. Following this inspection the solons visited the Bnfflngton Cement plant, which residents of Lake County say is the largest in the world. During the entire visit citizens and newspapers were loud in their protestations that they are asking nothing of the Assembly, but that they merely wish the members to be familiar with this part of the Stale. Members of the Assembly were plainly labeled with badges and an attempt was made to enforce a strict rule against lobbying.

SUBPOENA ROW CAUSES THREAT Judge Moll Warns Deputies to Report on Delivery. Warning was issued to the sheriff's office by Judge T. J. Moll today that the sheriff’s return on the service of subpoenas must state the truth concerning whether service was obtained by delivering a copy or by reading the subpoena over the telephone. The Judge said violations of the order would be referred to the grand Jury. Judge Moll Issued bis warning after he Lad summoned George Cofer for contempt of court In failing to obey a summons. The evidence showed that Cofer was not served with a personal copy of the summons Dec. 7, although the sheriff’s return showed that a copy bad been left at Cofer’s home at Stop 5. Indianapolis Heights. The evidence showed that the *heril?' offbie attempted to give notice by telephone that Cofer was re quired ini court. "* Cofer declared he did not answer the telephone. The return of the deputy sheriff shows that total costs of this service was fixed at $4.40. Os that amount $1 was listed as mileage, although the evidence showed that a telephone was used. Cofer was sued for a divorce and the decree was granted to Mrs. Cofer. "If an occurrence of this nature concerning the sheriff’s costs Is again called to my attention, the court will refer it to the grand Jury,” said Judge Moll in instructing a deputy sheriff to so inform the sheriff’s office. Tbe subpoena in question was served when Robert Miller was sheriff. It was explained that tho sheriff does not get those costs as personal fees, but that the county gets the benefit of the costs of service. Cofer was found not guilty of contempt and was ordered discharged.

BRITISH STRESS AIR PLANS, DENY RUMORS

LONDON, Jan. 22.—Great strides are being made In the science of aeronautics in Great Britain, It was learned" today at the air ministry. But officials denied that Britain Is contemplating seizing control of the air, as stated by General Mitchell of the American aviation service in an Interview. "Britain has not the slightest inclination or intention of entering the race for aeriAl supremacy,” an officer of the ministry declared. "Great strides are being made in the science of aeronautics, but lain not aware of any official desire to concentrate on gaining control of the air.” It was pointed out that the financial estimates of the air ministry, up to the end of 1923, do not call for an increase in expenditures in connection with the building, of service squadrons. Also the material which has been ordered is barely sufficient to keep the air force up to normal size. However. European nations are known to be conducting Important experiments

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PAROLE ADVICE, M’CRAY’S PLAN Governor Considers Acting Only on Recommendation of Trustees. Governor Warren T. McCray has under consideration a plan whereby releases from detention would come only on recommendation of tho boards of tho various State Institutions. Jf this method is placed in prnetice It would check tho “personal parole” system said to have boon practiced by former Governor James P. Goodrich and the use of which earned the former chief executive the title of the "Pardoning Governor." Under the plan which Governor McCray bna under consideration paroles, except those which go regularly before the State board of pardons, would be referred to the board of trustees of the institution in which the applicant Is detained. Tbe Governor then would act on the recommendations of the board. By this means an effective check wonld be placed on the practice of interested friends and relatives appealing directly to the Governor for favors The Governor cannot become acquainted with the detail* of every case presented, and It was this fact that brought about what is generally termed an abuse of the paroling power in the past. Governor McCray has let It be known that he is not endavoring to escape responsibility for his acts, but feeds that questions affecting the liberty of convicted persons should be Investigated corefuUy before action is taken and not at the solicitation of political or business friends. Sees British Hand in Russ Trade Ban WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 British influence has done much to mold the present antagonistic policy of the Uhlted States against soviet Russia, It was charged on the floor of the Ronate by Senator France, representative of Maryland. The purpose, he said, was to prevent tbe United States from establishing trade relations with Russia.

, with aircraft. Their sir ministries believe the next war will be fought largely above the clouds and that the air navies j may render fleets and fortifications obso- ; lete as means of national defense. I Experiments are being conducted with huge planes capable of carrying largo | numbers of soldiers, as well as enormous ; bombs with enough high explosives to ' sink a battleship or blow a small town * to atoms in one blast. ' With the League of Nations in existence and much talk of disarmament in ■ Europe and America, these experiments : are being conducted on a small scale anil !in many instances by private concerns i with which the government has no direct 1 connection. They are being kept In the background. If disarmament fails, however, and anew war looms, Europe is likely to engage In an air-navy building competition that will throw all previous armament races In the shade and fill the skies with fleets at maneuvers and battle praetlM.

TAX MEASURE TO BE FEATURE OF BUSY WEEK McCray Offering Leads Important Problems to Be Taken Up After Trip. PRIMARY CLASH IS NEAR When the General Assembly reconvenes at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon, after an adjournment since Friday nfternoon, during which the members were guests of the Calumet district business men, they will settle down to Important work. Next week probably will see definite action on several important matters. The lawmakers are not unmindful of the fact that a fourth of the session has gone and as yet they have done little, if anything, on some of the major problems. The administration tax law amendments. which ere expected to assume au Importance equal to that taken by the attempt to repeal the primary law, are expected to appear in the House of Representatives early in the week. Representative Murray S. Barker of Boone County has been selected to pilot the ad ministration tax bill through the House and if it is in shape it is understood he will Introduce it Monday. The bill, which has been drafted in the Attorney General's office, has been In the hands of Governor Warren T. McCray and his advisers for several days. The Governor has bad It considered by several interested parties, among them members of the State board of tax commissioners and representatives of the Farmers’ Federation, and it is said that all of the essential points have been decided on DEPARTS FROM RECOMMENDATIONS. The draft as it now stands Is said to depart from the Governor's recommendations to the Legislature In that It allows ten taxpayers to appeal to the State board of tax commissioners from local bond issues and levies, Instead of the fifty specified by the Governor. This feature will repeal the provisions of the Johnson home rule measure passed by the special scasion last summer and vesting appellate Jurisdiction in the county councils. The legislators seem to be In accord that the Johnson bill was a makeshift affair designed to bridge the Republican party over the election. The McCray tax bill will give the State board power to order horizontal increases in counties only after the boards of re view have failed to act. The State board also will have authority to exempt cer lain classification* of property from increases when It Is convinced that they have been assessed at their true value. The Institutional appropriation bill, calling for approximately $0,000,000, also will be reported out of the Ways and Means Committee, probably by Tuesday, according to Otto G. Fifteld. chairman. Inasmuch as the bill carries an unprecedented amount It Is expected that it will be scaled down by the committee and undoubtedly it will come In for a paring on the floor of the House. The administration proposal to repeal the primary law, as evidenced in the bfii introduced by Senator A. H. Beardsley, and the attempt to strengthen the present measure on the part of Senator John 8. AJldredge, are still tbs oufktand ing developments on the Senate side Although two public hearing* have been (Continued on Page Two.)

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22,1921.

Two-Million-Dollar Fire Scenes

A score or more of business buildings. Including the seven story Knowles block, and twenty tenements were destroyed In a tire which caused $2,000,000 damage In Worcester, Mass, The fire started in the Knowles building, located on a corner.

OCCUPATION BY JAPS ‘CRIMINAL’ Kato’s Attack on Siberian Policy Starts Fight to Unseat Ministry. TOKIO, Japan. Jan. 22.—Japan's occupation of Siberia was characterized as “criminal” In a statement Issued today by Viscount Kato, flaying the Mara ministry. The statement. Issued just before the reassembling of the Dtat, was the first attack of a campaign that will be waged agatnst the Ilara ministry by the opposition, of which Viscount Kato is the leader. Opinion in Tcklo, however. Is to the effect that Ilara and his associates are flrmly Intrenched. “Japan's occupation of Siberia is criminal rutlier than mistaken," declared the Kato statement. "Japan's trouble in Korea is due to maladministration and not to foreign influence." Two Homes, 1 OOiee Visited by Robbers Robberies at two residences and a business office were reported to the polio* today. G. W. Swain, 30 North Hamilton avenue. said hls house had been entered and three ring*, a bracelet, wrist watch and other small articles of Jewelry taken. Among the articles wus a diamond ring valued ut about $.lO. A house owned by Dr. E. H. Catterhenry, 010 West Forty Second street, w s entered and ransacked, the robbery being reported by Robert Hoseldine, caretaker. Coseldine was unable to tell the police what had been tnken. Seventy-five cents was taken from a cash drawer at the office of the Indianapolis Casting Company, 131 South Harding street.

DENIES GRAFT RULED ON SHIPPING BOARD

WASHINGTON, Tan. 22.—Vigorous denial that Charles M. Schwab bad ever presented any voucher for personal expenses while connected with the Emergency Fleet Corporation was made today by Charles Flea, former director of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, testifying before the Walsh committee investigating the shipping board. He also denied charges of waste. Dies submitted to the Investigators a mass of data bearing on finances and construction, which he “believed would absolutely refute any false and irresponsible statements of some of your principal witnesses.” "The building of American shipping,” Piez said, was "a war assignment, not a peace undertaking. We had to build ships faster than submarines could sink them. That was our Job, a Job performed

HOLD-UP COSTS PEDESTRIAN $lB Two Men Stage Robbery on Massachusetts Avenue. Walter C. Hendrickson, 1546 Holliday street, was robbed last night by two white men at Massachusetts avenue and Newman street. One of the robbers covered Hendrickson with a revolver and the other took $lB from his pockets. Miss Maxine L. Elliott, 1740 North Capitol avenue, was halted by a man as she was on her way home, but escaped by running into a residence, nearby. Tile man escaped. A hotel thief escaped last night by climbing n fire escape at the Oneida Hotel after C. L. Myrick saw a man looking through his window. Roy Davis, 510 Holley avenue, was arrested by Patrolman Martin O'Connor on a vagrancy charge, after he had claimed some bundles found at Kentucky avenue and Mlsaourl street, containing bed (Confirmed s tics Two.)

and quickly Jumped both streets, de * troy log other blocks. Almost simultaneously a blaze broke out in a lumber yard six block* away. Fire apparatus from Boston snd otlnir cltle* were called to help fight the conflagration.

HEAVY TAX CUT IN FIRST YEAR NOT PROBABLE New Administration Can Not Hope for Drastic Reductions, Leaders Say. WASHINGTON Jan. 22.—Drasti- tax reductions will be impossible during the first year of the Incoming Administration leading members of the House be lleved Xodav. The reason la that, with the big deficit hanging over the treasury, appropriation bills for the fiscal tear beginning July 1, thus far reported from the House Appropriations Committee, show an increase over those of (he present rear. The total appropriations, permanent and annual for the next year cannot be cut to less than $3.000,000, Republican Loader Mondell and Representative Good of lowa, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, agreed. Even should there be some unexpected economy to take expenditures below this, hope for taxation reduction la slight be cause the present business depression probably will decrease tax receipts. SEVEN NEW BILLS SHOD INCREASES. Thus far, seven bills have been reported from the Appropriation# Committee. Compared with the similar appropriations for the present year, they show a net increase of $13,500,000. Mondell and Good, however, are confident that the total appropriations will show a decrease, but admit. It will be only "a few hundred million." Os the measures reported the postoffice bill shows the largest Increase, $09,000,000. Tho agricultural bill is about $2,000,000 mere than for the current year (Continued on Page Two.)

against heavy Jobs, under lutense pressure. “The submarine sinkings were matched each month against the output of English and American yards, and public Impatience grew to fever heat at the appalling difference. Two successive administrations in conco nstructlon succumbed to public clamor before the end of 1017. "The war was costing us thousands of precious lives and $.">0,000,000 a day. It was a time when ship output alone counted and when the refinements of accounting details and record-keeping had to be subordinated to the main purpose. “The Department of Justice had a large force of investigate,-a at Hog Island for yeveii months and not a single criminal charge resulted. Yet the general existence of graft at Hog Island la accepted by many people as ascertained and acknowledged fact.”

CALLS COUNCIL IN TRUCK FIGHT President Arranges Meeting to Ratify Purchase. i A special meeting of the city council was called todav for Monday evening to consider the ordinance ratifying a contract between the board of public works and the Losey-Nash Company for the purchase of two Titan tractor trucks for use in the ash hauling department. President Russell Willson Issued the call at the request of Mayor Jewett.. The board awnrded thp contract Jan. 14. but a fight between Its members and Purchasing Agent Dwight S. Ritter, who favored the purchase of another kind of trucks, delayed presentation of the ratification ordinance to the council. George Lemaux, president of the board of works, threatened to resign before Mayor Jewett finally consented to support the board Instead of the purchasing agent. It is thought by city offfolals that the council will ratify the con-fact without doing.

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View of burned seven-story Knowles building In Worcester, In background a* left, with other Are ruins In -rout of it, and, above, part of the fire-swept section, in Main street, looking toward the postoffice and t|ic Sawyer building. Note the Ice coating on the buildings at the extreme right. NEW CHIEF PUT ON RUM RAIDS Federal Group Leaders Changed, hut Drive on Hotels Will Continue. Continuation of the raids on’liotels and rooming houses which wore started last night by Federal prohibition enforcement agents was promised by Lee A Kidder, who arrived In Indianapolis today to take up his duties as group chief of the Southern Indiana division. Mr. Kidder will supplant R. H. Abel, who has been acting chief for the past two weeks. The new chief has been agent In charge of the southern division of Illinois. "I am folly In sympathy with the raids that were made by Mr. Abel," Mr. Kidder said today, "and l intend to see that the policy is carried out. There will be no discrimination. The large hotel of big reputation will stand In exactly the same light as smaller hotels; the rich violator of the prohibition laws can not look for leniency that Is denied to the poor offender. TRI NK-CHECKING GAME TO GO. "I am particularly determined to break up this trunk-checking liquor game that has been worked so successfully all over the country, and I understand thst it has boon worked here by men of prominence. This business of chocking trunk loads of whisky and other liquor on a railroad ticket that Is never used and then having the check mallei to the person for whom the liquor Is Intended must stop." When Mr. Kidder was told that It was rumored that some members of the Legislature. had generous quantities of liquor in their hotel rooms for the entertainment of friends he said: “They stand In exactly the same light as any other violator of the law and If found out will be treated exactly tho same us any one else.” NAMES OK HOTELS NOT DIVULGED. Federal prohibition ireement officials refused any information as to the hotels aid rooming houses that were raided, saying no arrests had been made, and that giving out names of the hotels might interfere with Investigations now under way. Four trunks and two suitcases full of liquor were seized, according to Mr. Abel. In some Instances he believed the owners of the places have been imposed upon and In others that they have had knowledge of the traffic carried on under their roofs and have connived at It. Pinched as Vagrant, Says He Is Minister Ernest. Vincent, negro, who said he was a Baptist miuister, appeared in city court today on the charge of vagrancy. He wns arrested by Patrolman George Strieker at 2 o'clock this morning in the vicinity of a railroad .varus. Vincent was traveling light, the officer testified, be having two bars of soap and 38 cents in his pockets when arrested. Vincent explained to the court that he lived in Grand Rapids, Mich., that he went to Terre Haute to see a sick brother and remained there only oue night. The last place bo could remember having preached a sermon wns "some place In Illinois." Judge Pritchard continued tho case indefinitely when Vincent promised to get out of In dlanapolls immediately. Submarine With 56 Goes Down in Channel LONDON, Jan. 22.—Five officers and fifty-one men were lost when the British j submarine K 5 was lost in the channel ! Thursday, the admiralty announced today. The submersible was commanded I by Lieutenant Commander John Gaines. 1

SPECULATION RIFE ON ARMENIAN NOTE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Official Washington today was Indulging In much speculation ns to the contents of President Wilson’s latest note on Armenian mediation, which the State Department has announced probably will be made public today or tomorrow. The communication, which was forwarded. several days ago, is understood to have been addressed the President Taul Hymans of the League of Nations, and many officials who have been watching developments In the situation closely believe It will bring matters to a "showdown.” It is pointed out that although many weeks have elapsed since President Wilson appointed former Ambassador Henry Morgenthuu ns his personal representative in the proposed mediation and asked the league for advice as to how Morgenthau should proceed, no reply has been forthcoming. In view at this silence, and inasmuch

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CITY PLANNING SCHEMES GIVEN TO COMMITTEE Bills to Set Up Advisory Commissions Outlined at Chamber of Commerce. EXPLAIN WORK IN EAST Provisions of the proposed bills to legalize city planning for Indiana municipalities were outlined at a meeting of the Committee of One Hundred at the Chamber of Commerce at noon today by James H. Lowry, chairman, and J. Clyde Hoffman, attorney for the board of park commissioners. Mr. Lowry and Mr. Hoffman recently returned from a trip to Eastern cities, where thoy conferred with city planning experts and studied city planning commissions now in operation. The report read at the meeting was not a draft of the proposed bills, but merely suggestions of provisions to be embodied In the final bill to be presented to the Assembly. Two bills are proposed, one for the erear.ion of planning commissions and defining their powers and the other granting city councils the power to pass zoning ordinances. NINE MEMBERS FOR COMMISSION. i The bills would give to city council* the right to create commissions, five to be citizens appointed by the mayor, who also should name one member of the board of works, a member of the park board, a councilman and the j city engineer. Two of the members ; appointed by tbe mayor would servo two years, two for three years, oue for lour I years and thereafter all for four years, j The commission would have direct conj rr<d only over plaiting in the city and within five miles of the city limits. It i would be empowered to employ expert .engineers, architects and landscape gardeners to make surveys and outline plan* which it beiieved necessary. The city i council would put its orders and plan* | into effect. j The proposed bill would provide for a tax levy of not less than three nor ! more than five mills on the hundred dollars to cover expenses of the commission. Tho money would go into the general fund, to avoid the creation of another special taxing unit. ADVISORY DUTIES v ARE PRESCRIBED. Advisory supervision of the erection of all bridges, memorials, work* of sit and public buildings would be given to the commission by a section providing that the board contemplating *uch a project submit Its pinna to tbe commission before the contract is let. Tbe '■omniisgion would lie empowered to make recommendations upon these plans, but the originating board would not ba compelled to follow them. The general purpose of the bill is to give the commission only advisory power and let the existing branches of municipal government carry out its plans until it is thoroughly at work, after which, its backers believe, its power might he extended „ , , , The Committee of One Hundred decided to call a State-wide conference to meet in fedtnnapolis Friday of next neck Every city in Indiana Interested in city planning will be asked to send a representative. The hour and place of the meeting will be announced later. City planning experts will be asked to attend the conference. At the request of Mr. Lowry he was granted permission to postpone the appointing of an executive committee until after the official city planning commission is named. In the meantime the full Committee of One Hundred will continue to act.

BIGAMY CHARGE IS JURY REPORT Indictments Include Case Against E. O. Rome Engene O. Romev alias Eugene O. Englefeather, today was indicted by the Marion County grand jury on a charge of bigamy. Rome is alleged to have married I’ar6etta Home Aug. 12, 1918, and on Sept. 8, 1920, married Nora Pullman, before being legally separated from his first wife. The grand Jury returned twenty-six indictments and recommended that William Shanks, charged with grand larceny, and Sam Jones, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, be discharged. Burglary and larceny Indictments were returned against Clarence Duckworth, Glover Farmer, and Charles Kessler, 1542 South Shepherd street. Clint Wagner was indicted on a robbery charge. Maurice Conley and Frank Croley were Indicted on charges of robbery and in another indictment on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill. Four Indictments were returned against John Hungate because of hls alleged relations with a young girl. Emery Burton and Arthur Griffin were indicted on charges of entering a house to commit a felony. Others were indirteS as follows: Walter Douglas. Ray Hall, Charles Watson, Edward Harwich and Roy Fitzgerald, grand larceny; James Hoskins, burglary and grand larceny; Frank Sherlock, burglary; Raymond Berge, Rubert Baker, robbery; Albert Wood, Ralph Chavers and Emmett Iledgepatb, grand larceny. OPPOSE ALIEN COUNT. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—A constitutional amendment, proposing that In the reapportionment of Congressional districts aliens shall not be counted, was introduced In the House today by Representative Hill, New York.

ns the President made It perfectly plain that he accepted the league's Invitation on condition that the allies cooperate with him in the effort to bring about peace between Armenia and the Turks, many observers here believe President Wilson would be warranted in declining to have anything further to do with the matter. On the other hand some persons take the view that President Wilson Is interested too deeply in the fate of Armenia to abandon the matter until he has exhausted every effort and they express the conviction that the new note merely will urge on the league members the advisability of furnishing additional Information ns soon as possible la order that negotiations may proceed. •LEW SHANK IN RACE. Samuel Lewis Shank, former mayor of Indianapolis, has announoed that hf will bs a candidate for mayor at thty primary election to be held May 3.

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NEW STRUGGLE OVER WAGE CUT FACES BRITAIN Capital Says Reduction Is Required to Compete Industrially. WORKERS PROTEST MOVE LONDON, Jan. 22. —Great Britain is on the verge of anew struggle between capital and labor The Initial skirmishing already is under way over the question of reducing wages Labor is attempting to maintain the high war-time wage. Capital is contending that a start mnst be made toward pre-war wages on the ground that prices are falling and that Great Britain will be unable to compete industrially with countries where wages are lower. Opinions were obtained today from leaders of both sides. "A world-wide fall in wages is Inevitable," declared Lord Asquith, tbe fore- [ most British authority on industrial conditions.

"Prices are falling and will continue to fail. It is obvious that wages, which were raised as a result of the increased j cost of living, must fall simultaneously, as wages are a factor In the cost of pro- ■ ductlon. Their fail will further depress prices and lower the cost of living. “Some of our industries, like those of railway and government employes, ara arranged on a sliding scale. They must bs among the first to go down. Others will have to be reduced either by agreement or otherwise.” 1 John Clynes, labor member of Parliament, had this to say: "I have no hesitation in saying that labor will reject this proposal for a general reduction in wages with the object lof lowering prices. There is much to be said for a Joint movement to reduce profits and wages simultaneously, but | the laborites will refuse to make the first | move.” j Sir Peter Rylands, president of the j Federation of British Industries, declared ! that it will be Impossible for Great i Britain to compete with Germany and j Belgium, where wages are only half what they are here, or with the United State, where wages are already decreasing. "I regarded reduced wages as inevitable,” he said. "We are not planning any attack upon wages, but they must come down if Industry Is to be continued. I "The new standard of comfort for the workers, which is considerably above that j which existed before the war, must be- ; come fixed before any one talks of re- . ducing wages," said John Ward, another ] labor member of Parliament. “Otherwise, there would be serious industrial trouble.” ENGL AN ITS OUT-OF- WORK ARMY LARGER BY 250,000 '' DERBY, England, Jan. 22.—J. H. : Thomas, member of Parliament aud secretary of the National Union of Railway | Men, declared today that the number of j unemployed in England has been underestimated by at least a quarter of a million. . ! The last estimate was one million men 1 out of work. The only remedy for the economic sitj untion, be said, is re-establishment of I the credit of continental Europe by a system of barter. He also advocated eanj epilation of 811 debts to the allies, providing the United States takes similar i action on all debts due her. | "Just as in 1870, Germany sowed tbe seeds of the late war, so are the allies, dominated by tbe spirit of conquest, sowing the seeds of future wars by crushing Germany and making it impoßsible j for her to pay,” Thomas said.

NEGRO BANDIT KILLED; RIOT Motorman Who Shot Thug 13 Made Target for Shots. MUSKOGEE, Okla- Jan. 22—Race fueling prevailed at high tension here today following a night of disorders between whites and blacks. An attack was mad* on a street car driven by William N. Lynn, who shot and killed a negro bandit the previous night. Five shot* *tw fired at Lynn’s car. The entire city police force, augmented by twenty deputy sheriffs, patrolled in pairs during the night while all street cars carried armed guards. The trouble started when Lynn’s ear, held up earlier in the night, was sent over the same route as a “trap.” With two detectives in the car, a negro entered and, police said, tried to draw a gun. Lynn shot him down. Hogan Draws Triple Sentence by Appeal The fine and days of Tommie Hogan, convicted in city court of keeping a blind tiger, were tripled by the findings of a Jury In Criminal Court, to which he took an appeal. In the Criminal Court he was fined S3OO aud sentenced to 180 days. In city court the fine was SIOO and the days thirty. Hogan was convicted of peddling "white mule" from a furnished room rented by his sister, who lived over a poolroom at 42£>i* West Washington street, owned by Ell Stanlou.

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