Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1921 — Page 1

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TYPHUS SPURS SENATE FIGHT TO BAR ALIENS Group Renews Effort for More Drastic Curb Than Dillingham Bill. NO MORE LABOR NEEDED WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Immigration at this time is harmful to both the health and the industry of the country, Senators declared today in opposing the new immigration measures now before the Senate. The typhus menace stirred foes of immigration to new efforts to shut off the human flood from Europe. This groop, led by Senators Harrison. Mississippi; Johnson, California, and Harris, Georgia, nrged complete exclusion of immigration for a year or at least more drastic legislation than that represented by the Dillingham measure. This bill would permit entrance of 5 per cent of the number of foreigners of any nationality now resident in the United States. c Historic Plagues 767 B. C.—First recorded general plague in all parts of civilized world. 746-747 A. D. —Constantinople, 2U0,000 deaths. 1664—London, 100,000 deaths. 1792 Egypt, 800.000 deaths. 189? —India, 600,000 deaths. 1903—India, 730,000 deaths. 1913-1916 Serbia. 400.000 deaths. 1915-1917 —Austria-Hungary, 300,000 deaths. 1919-1921—Russia, 6,000,000 deaths. J “Present economic conditions in the •United States,” Harrison said, “demand that we suspend immigration for at least a year and take stock of ourselves. NO JOBS NOW FOR FOREIGNERS. “There are no jobs in this country now for all the American population, let alone the new influx of allied laborers. These foreigners not only add to the Industrial unrest, but they bring with them an assortment of politiealisms which have no place in this country today. “Jn addition, the recent appearance of typhus should warn us that a lower class of immigration is dangerous to the health of the country." halt immigrajUtm we adjust •uraelves at 'home Harrison said" he would first urge the passage of the Johnson bill, passed by the House. This bill stops Immigration for one year. If he falls in this he will press his two amendments to the Senate bill, one reducing the basis for reckoning the number of entrants from f> to 1 per cent and the other providing that this percentage be calculated according to the number of foreigners who have became nutural(ContinneJ on Page To.) BANDIT VICTIM LIKELY TO DIE Terre Haute Bread Wagon Driver Shot in Hold-up Attempt. Special to The Times. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 19. Charles Swlger, driver of a broad wagon, was shot and probably fatally wounded by hold-up men at 5 o’clock this morning while be was making a delivery to a grocery on North Sixteenth street. Coming out of the store he was met by two men, who ordered him to put up his hands. Swiger refused. The robbers fired and ran. Swiger's money was not taken. Swlger was taken to a hospital in an unconscious state. An examination disclosed that the bullet had lodged In his liver. Doctors say he cannot live. He has a wife and two children. GUIFFREY CASE PUT TO SLEEP Blind Tiger Charge Continued Indefinitely. Blind tiger charges against Joseph Guiffrey, 418 East Minnesota street, were continued indefinitely by Judge Walter Pritchard in city court today. Gulf Trey is in the State prison serving a sentence of two to fourteen years for receiving stolen goods, a suspension of sentence by Jiplge Collins having been revoked after he was arrested on the blind tiger charge. Mike Guiffrey, a brother of Joe, was arrested about three weeks ago, charged with operating a blind tiger, after the finding of whisky in his automobile when it was wrecked in an accident at Alabama and Washington streets. Mike testified hie car had been stolen and he knew nothing about the liquor. Charges were dismissed. The police then arrested Joe Gnlffrey on a blind tiger charge. He has long been Considered an important cog of the “good government political machine." 801-LING IS EXONERATED. WASHINGTON. Feb. 19—R W. Bolling. President Wilson's brother-in-law and treasurer of the T’nited States Shipping Board, was exonerated today before Walsh Investigating comminittee of charges that he was paid for using his Influence to secure shipping board contracts for supply companies. WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hoars ending 7 p. m., Feb. 20: Probably light snow, followed by clear and cold weather tonight; Sunday fair and colder, with temperature in the morning about 15 degrees. HOI RLY TEMPEKATIRE. 6 a. m 2S 7 a. m 28 8 a. m 2.8 9 a. m 29 10 'a. m 29 11 a. m 30 12 tnoon) 32 1 p. m 32 2 p. m 32

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Hughes Is First Named by Harding ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla., Feb. 19.—Appointment of Charles E. Hughes as Secretary of State in the Harding Cabinet was officially announced here today. Announcement of Hughes' appointment followed his conference with Harding here today. llardiug first tendered the office to Hughes shortly after election, but his acceptance was delayed while he considered the matter. COP KILLS MAN IN GUN BATTLE Crawfordsville Officer Returns Stranger’s Fire With Fatal Effect. Special to The 7 lmes. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 19. A man believed to be Charles A. Shane of Indianapolis was killed here early today in a running gun battle with Cyrus Rogers, a member of the Crawfordsville police force. Rogers had gone to the east part of the city to get a suitcase. When he neared the Vandalla and Big Four junction a man stepped out of a pumping station. Considering his appearance auspicious, Rogers told him to come along dov n to the police station. The man pulled a revolver and fired once at Rogers, saying: “There, I guess you won't bother me now.” Tbe bullet struck Rogers in the arm. Rogers then drew his revolver and fired at the man, who started to run away. <r6EH^ Mtnfom went wild, trut the second lodged above the man's heart and he died almost Instantly. Another man, presumably a companion of the first, then emerged from the pumping house and ran away. A posse was immediately organised and started scouring the countryside for him. It is thought the men came Into town on a freight train ami got off at the outskirts of the city. The pumper didn't know anything about them, saying they had just come In a few minutes before the shooting. A .44-caliber revolver and a full cartridge belt were found on the dead man. Charles A. Shane, 22, 1559 Draper street, Indianapolis, reported shot and killed by Silas Rogers, police officer at Crawfordsville today, is believed to be the man who held up and robbed Dale Beach, 1838 Sugar Grove avenue, conductor on a Shelby street car, last Sunday evening. A watch taken from Beach is reported to have been found in the dead man's pocket. A man and boy robbed Beach, according to the report made to the police, and tbe fact that a boy, who, Crawfordßville police say, gave the name of Beyrl Stacy, 14, 921 Arbor avenue, Indianapolis, was with Shane at the time he was killed, lends strength to the theory that they staged the street car robbery here. According to police reports from Crawfordsville, Shane and the boy left Indianapolis last night, arriving at Crawfordsville aobut 10 o'clock. Shane has been staying at the home of his cousin, Mrs. Carl Halberg, at the Draper street address. He left there at noon yesterday, presumably to visit his mother, Mrs. Alvia Shane, at McLean, 111. His mother is said to be seriously ill. . Shane, according to persons who knew him, had an excellent reputation. He was born in Indianapolis and lived here all his life. He lived at 426 Leeds avenue ar.d later at 1034 North Tremort. He has an aunt, Lilly Canuing, at Crawfordsville, where she owns a garage. The Stacy boy makes his home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stacy, at the Arbor avenue address. Shane Is said to have had a w;elding shop on Pratt street, where, Mrs. Stacy said, her son was employed when he wag not in school. The boy stayed with Shane the night the streeX car conductor was held up. Beyrl left home at 5 o’clock yesterday and telephoned his mother .at 7 o’clock last night. He has never been in trouble before. His brother Rex is serving a prison sentence for stealing automobiles, police say. MAM’S 2 WIVES MEET IN COURT Eaglefeather Held Guilty of Bigamy. Wife No. 1 and wife No. 2 of Eugene O. Rome, alias Eugene O. Eaglefeather, faced eath other in the Criminal Court today. Eaglefeather was charged with bigamy. The evidence showed he married Nora Pullman of this city on Sept. 8, 1920, and that he was married to Parsetta Rome on Aug. 13, 1918. Eaglefeather produced a letter which he claims was left by messenger at 220 West New York street, stating that his first wife was dead. He said he married his second wife ten months after he receive dthe letter. ”1 will tell you what I think of this letter," said Judge Collins. "I think, Eaglefeather, that you wrote It or caused* it to be written, but there Is no such proof.” The court held Eaglefeather guilty of bigamy and withheld judgment on the condition that he pay all costs of wife No. - In obtaining a divorce. Eaglefeather claimM he was injured in France after sixteen months’ service there and has never recovered. The court .referred to Eaglefeather as chief.

M’CRAY’S KNIFE FIRST TO FALL ON ROAD CHIEF Statehouse Crowd Expects Post-Session Shake-up to Oust Wright. OTHERS LIKELY TO GO With the State Legislature due to adjourn sine die two weeks from Monday, the attention of the huge crowd of political lobbyists who have thronged the Statehouse halls ever since the new administration took office is turning to the probable shakeup Governor Warren T. McCray will cause in his official family. The Governor has never left any doubt that he would ask for many resignations, but he has held up his appointments until after the Legislature adjourned. With the startling revelations of the State board of accounts against the highway commission fresh in the minds of the officials, it is common belief that the administrative ax will fall first on L. H. Wright, director of the commission. It is commonly reported that Lawrence Lyons of Brook, the Governor's campaign manager, can have the place if he desires it. Whether the change will be made before the end of tlte session Is not known, although a number of the assemblymen are of the opinion that Governor McUray should not perpetuate a condition which he knows to be unwholesome for the best Interests of his administration. Indications are that the Governor will take a personal hand In straightening up the muddled affairs of the highway commission. He has Insisted that the report of the board of accounts has dealt with a defect In administration and can (Continued on I’ajce Two.) THIEF SHOOTS STOREKEEPER TO SLIP TRAP Man Wounded in Attempt to Bar Escape of Masked Bandit. Harry Gold. 38. proprietor of a dry goods store. 1601 Columbia avenue, is in a serious condition at the Methodist Hospital, the result of an attempt to capture a hold-up mar. who robbed the cash drawer in his store last night. A bnllet passed through Gold's right arm and entered his abdomen. The thief obtained SIOO. The police appear to be baffled and the confused descriptions of the bandit given by witnesses of the bold crime give the officers only a slender clew. The hold-up occurred at about 8 o’clock. Mrs. Gold was In the store and her husband was In tbe rear room eating supper. A masked man entered and Mrs Gold screamed. The bandit walked to the cash register antj toos SIOO from the drawer. Gold, hearing his wife’s scream, ran into the store and hurled a milk bottle at the thief. The bandit drew a revolver and fired one shot, which missed. Gold ran from the store, closed the front door and attempted to hold it shut, yelling for help. The bandit broke the glass of the door and Jumped through, ne then fired another shot, which struck the merchant. The bandit ran as Gold fell. Dr. C. E. Toles gave first aid. Gold was taken to the hospital in an ambulance and Sergeant. Sheehan ana Detectives White and Reilly started a search for the bandit. Many person* were in the neighborhood when the shooting occurred. One man told the police that a watcher stood o'its‘de the store. When the robber fired tbe first shot it was said the watcher walked away and at the second shot he took to his heels. Gold told the police he believed the hold-up was a negro who had been in his (Continued on Page Two.) Fools! To Judge 200 Beauties With 1,000 on Hand to Fight NEW YORK, Feb. 19—If it's true that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” how about a thousand of them ? Promoters of a fashion show advertised for 200 models and about 1,200 responded lust night. They made the tactical error of trying to do the accepting and rejecting in the presence of the others. Employes of the Hotel Pennsylvania, where the riot took place, were still engaged today in gathering up hairpins, shreds of clothing, wisps of hair and bits of complexion from the wreckage in the roof garden. Woman Denies Being Paid for Testimony WILLIAMSON, W. v Va . Feb. 19.—Marjorie Washington, negress. who testified Monday, was recalled by the defense when court opened today In the Matewan killing trial. She was questioned regarding her statement that she was forced to return her from Bristol, Tenn., to testify. The witness denied she had been paid or offered any inducement to testify. Thomas Chafin. relative of three of the defendants, testified as to of the shooting. ‘T saw* a dead man carried away from there,” Chafin said. He identified Nathan Atwood, Will Bowman, Fred Burgruff and Doug Mounts ns members of the crowd and told of see- \ lng Ed Chamber* take papers out of one ; dead man's po< ■Wet. Drys Move on The Hut CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—Thirty prohibition agents were sent to Terre Haute, Ind., today by Prohibition Enforcement Officer Richardson. Reports of illegal manufacture and sale of liquor In the Terre Hause mining district will be investigated by the agents.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1921.

City Leaders Intercede to Save County Fee Grab

The Republican leaders of Indianapolis went to the front last night for the Marion County office holders in an effort to perpetuate the fee grab system in the courthouse. Ralph Lerncke, county treasurer; Mayor Charles W. Jewett ami Charles O. Koemler, Seventh district Republican chairman, told the Senate Committee on the Affairs of the City of Indianapolis they wanted an adverse report on the Benedict bill. This measure, which already has passed the House, would place the courthouse employes on a straight salary basis and would eliminate the foe grab policy which, under the present system, swells

VOTE TO FREE OFFICIALS OF SURETY COST Senators Pass Bill Expected to Cost State More Than SIOO,OOO. ONLY 7 IN NEGATIVE I The Senate passed, 27 to 7, a bill proj vlding that public officials required to ! give bond may obtain the surety at pubj lie expense. It has been estimated the I bill will cost the State more than SIOO,- : 000. It was Introduced by Senator C. Oliver Holmes. Objection was raised by Senator William A. McCullough of Rockport, who pointed out that the present Assembly Is going to be known as the ‘'520,000,000 : Legislature.” A bill giving the Grant County Superior Court Jurisdiction in probate matters I was passed by a vote of 34 to 0. Senator J. Monroe Fitch's bill providing that the course of study In the Indlaua Boys’ School shall be the same as iu the public schools was passed. 37 to 0. Eight bills were introduced at the moTnlng session, as follows : Douglas, repealing an act concerning j the organization of insurance companies by tbe assessment plan. Insurance, j Steeie, t. permit commissioners of La I Forte County to issue bonds for the parj chase of land at Michigan City for anew j brauch of the State Normal School. Ilartzeil. providing for appointment i of commission to codify drainage laws, i .Swamp Lands and Drains! llolmea. providing for a Si;ate board iof certified accountants and nuiendiug present laws Judiciary A. Halts, amending an act -onoernlng proceedings In civil cases. Judiary B. Ratts. authorizing Judges of Circuit ! Courts to fix terms of court. I tion of Courts. • Holmes, emending an act concerning ; banks. I’anks. j The Senate passed a bill amending the ! law providing for examination of miners, giving the boards of examination the (Continued on I’age Two.) GIVES MINGLE LONG STRETCH Judj;e Collins Sentences Burglar to Prison. One of the heaviest sentences given by Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court and not suspended was received today by Vinton Mingle, 40. who police j claim is responsible for many of the re- ; cent burglaries here. , Mingle was sentenced to from ten to twenty years In prison for burglary and from one to fourteen years for grund in rceny. James Mays, 24, charged with robbery, was sentenced to from one to fourteen years at the reformatory. Louis Nernun, cahrged with burglary and grand larceny, was sentenced to I from two to fourteen years. J Clint Wagoner, negro, of Irvington, j charged w’ith robbing two women In ! Irvington, was granted n continuance unj til next Saturday after part of the testlj ninny was heard. | The court criticised the way In which j the detectives handle dthe case by not j obtaining corroborating testimony. HOLDS GEORGE IS NOT IN CONTEMPT Judge Carter Orders Discharge on Answer. Holding that Monroe George had purged himself of the charge of Indirect contempt, Judge Solon Carter ordered the discharge of Mr. George on his written answer to the contempt charges. Prosecutor William P. Evans stated that he would present the George matter to the grand Jury to determine if George had com milted perjury in his verified answer to the contempt charge. No evidence was heard today, as George stood on his verified answer and the court held it was sufficient to purge him of the contempt charge. The contempt charge grew out of a hearing several weeks ago of the injunction suit against the Federal Hotel. The prosecutor charged that George attempted to" influence Mrs. W. G. Wanser, a witness for the State. Two Charged With Tiger Operations Joe Pustar, 2815 West Tenth street, was arrested last night at his home and is charged with operating a blind tiger. The police say they found a four-gallon still In operation and obtained three gallons of “white mule” whisky, fifty gallons of mash and fourteen empty quart botteles as evidence. William Donoghue, 22, 28 North Senate avenue, was arrested by Captain Ball and Lieutenant Houston today on the charge of operating a blind tiger. | Donoghue, the police any, was one of j a party of four men having a “Joy ride” ! in a taxicab In which there was a ease | of beer, which beer, the police charge. | has a “kick.” Donoghue claimed ownership of the beer and was arrested, while the other men were ordered to appear In conrt as wlinestea.

their annual dividends to huge proportions. Only quiet objection was made by the organization leaders when the bill came up in the House, for there was a general belief that it could not be passed. Now, however, its advancement has created no little alarm and the Republican bosses are bringing all the pressure at their command to bear on the Senate in an effort to strangle the bill. Many of the Indianapolis Senators are determined to see the fee grnb system iu this county abolished and will resist the effort of the party ring leaders to dictate legislation.

SOLONS URGED TO SPEED UP IN FINAL EFFORT McCray Passes Leaders Word to Avoid Jam at Close of Session. INAUGURATION IN VIEW When the Legislature adjourned ! this afternoon until Monday mornI ing at 10 o’clock it was under an ! executive Injunction to speed up j legislation next week in order that a ; last minute jam on Important bills may be avoided. Governor Warren T. McCray has Informed the leaders ! of both Houses that he wishes them | to steer clear of congestion and he emphasized the fact that there is no ; reason why an early adjournment can not be brought about. Many of the Senators and Rep reset) ta- [ fives, as well as the Governor, hope to be able to attend the inauguration eerei monies in Washington on March 4 Ini nsmuch as the session of the Assembly ! will automatically expire at midnight of f Monday, March 7, it would menu that adjournment would have to be taken March 2 in order to allow the members to witness the inaugural exercises. ENGINEER’* BILL FAILS. Representative M. T. Calefs bill to regulat* the practice of professional engli:eertnji and laud surveying and prof for tt) registration of engineers. failed to pass through lack of a const!- | tuttonal majority. The vote was 37 to 33 against the hill. It will be taken up again Monday. The author is a civil engineer and Contractor in South Bend. Opponents of the measure charged that It would create an engineers’ trust and would simply mean an added commission to absorb State expenses. The j bill provides for the appointment of a hoard of registration consisting of five members, ft would also prevent the (Continued on I’age Two.) Effort to Name Feeney Doubled by Jewett, News Democrats Interested in Party Welfare Wish to See Mceker Chairman. The efforts of the Jewctt-News Republicans to elect William Feeney chairman of the Democratic city organization couj ttnne unabated and are now receiving the ! cordial support of the entire Republican ] press of Indianapolis, j In the meanwhile Democrats who have | other ambitions for their party than the i desire to see themselves In minority ad- : ministration Jobs are working hard for ! Thomas Meeker and express themselves as satisfied that the city organization will not bo dellevered to the Republican city administration this campaign. The selection of the city chairman will jbe made at a meeting of the precinct committeemen at the Democratic Club j Monday. A vice chairman, treasurer and ! secretary also will be named, i FI LL LIST | ANNOUNCED. | The supporters of Mr. Meeker have ex- | pressed their desire to elect Meeker chalr- ! man, Mrs. John W. Kern vice chairman, ! Evans Woollen, Jr., treasurer, and Joel ■ Baker secretary. j The Feeney faction has not yet made public the names of the orners whom the ! Republicans wish elected to Democratic i organization offices. The feeling that on this election Monj day depends the fato of the Democratic ; party In the city campaign is ge/ieral. j Samuel Lewis Shank, candidate for the i Republican nomination for mayor, says | that the effort of Ralph I.emcke and other Republican bosses to elect a Democratic I chairman Is preliminary to the “stackling" of the primary election boards j against him. He has been assured by I Mr. Meeker and his followers that m | event the Democratic organization falls into their hands every effort will be made ! by them to plnce Democratic reprosentn- | fives on the election boards who will net I tolerate any of the crookedness that | marked the primary in which Fhajik was | counted out four years ago. SHANK DEAL EXPLAINED. Thomas C. Riley, inenroer of Jewett's board of works, who is supporting Feeney, is circulating the report that the Meeker faction has' entered Into a deal with the Shank supporters. There is unquestionably truth In the assertion that n “de.il" lias been made between Shank supporters and the Meeker supporters and the provisions of the ‘‘deal" are simply that the Meeker faction will undertake to guarantee that none of Us election board appointees will be of the class that has heretofore always sold out to the Republican machine. In return for this pledge of honesty the Shank followers have agreed to watch the administration forces In their efforts to- corral the Democratic organization and report to the Meeker supporters any and all efforts to tamper with the Democratic organization. Meeker supporters assert " that they have pledges and proxies sufficient to insure the defeat of the Repuollcan effort to effect the Democratic organization. Mr. Baker was indorsed for city chairman by members of the Fourteenth Ward Democratic Club meeting at 1701 West Morris street last sight 4

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HAAGS PRESENT SORRY PICTURE AT STATE FARM Drudgery Is Toll for Advice of Tricksters Hired to ‘Get Them By.’ ARROGANCE IS BROKEN By STAFF CORRESPONDENT. PUTNAMVILLE, Ind., Feb. 19.—1 t isn’t a particularly pleasant sight to behold men who have been used to fine clothes, to authority and independence, dressed in the blue overalls and cotton shirts of the Indiana Penal Farm, going here and there at the direction of farm attaches and otherwise yielding to the discipline of a State institution. And when one beholds examples of this kind and reflects that the examples are prisoners simply because of misplaced confidence reposed in men who are maintaining their “respectability” and popularity with the money they took from the examples for advice that resulted in the imprisonment of the examples the scene Is likely to cause reflections that are not pleasant. Louis and Julius Haag, Indianapolis druggists, are at the State Renal Farra serving a sentence imposed on them for operating a blind tiger in their Pennsylvania street drug store. The writer founa them in No. 3 Barracks, sorting seed beans and reflecting on the futility of trying to escape the penalties that alwnya eventually overtake the lawbreakers. They are different men from the two prosperous, somewhat arrogant and always belligerent drug store operators who were so familiar to the Imlianpolls public two years ago. GREAT CHANGE IN APPEAR AN CE. Julius Is thin, tired looking and ap-. pears much older. I.ouls is almost haggard in appearance ar.d there is missing that peculiar look of cunning that marked his appearance behind a battery of "legal lights" in the courts in Indianapolis. Both men have Ii it their swagger, their braggart attitude, and there is alsout them now much of the same atmosphere that marks the small boy who has learned by bitter experience that there are certain rules !n the school which It is best to obey even If tbe said rules are irksome and interfere with personal ambitions or desires. Whether or not the Haags were confined at the Federal Prison ns long as they should have been kept there Is a question on which men may differ, but it is uot one that Is so easily settled when the Haags of toiViy are considered. Imprisonment at Atlanta and imprisonment at the penal farm have taught the Haags some things th.y will never fob (Continued on I’nge Two.) DRAINAGE BODY NAMED BY M’CRAY Commission to Meet at Statehouse Monday. Governor Warren T. McCray today announced the appointment of tbe Kankakee drainage commission under the authority of a bill recently passed by the Legislature. The members are Charles W. Manly of Hennsselaer, former Judge of the Newton-Jasper Circuit Court; William Darroch, au attorney of Kentland, and Tom Grant of Lowell, former State Senator and now president of the State board of agriculture. The commission will meet at the Statehouse Monday to perfect its organization. Under the terms of the law which authorized the creation of the body it will confer with a similar commission from Illinois on the drainage problem In the Kankakee district. A report will be made at the next session of the Legislature. Governor McCray has also appointed W. A. Guthrie and C. 11. Comstock, both of Indianapolis, and Curtis D. Meeker of Montlcelto as the Indiana representatives on tbe Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tide Water Association. Tills organization is furthering the program for a deep waterway connecting the lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. Webster Postoffice Y r eggs Leave No Clew Special to The Times. RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 19.—N0 trace has been found of the bandits who looted tho postoffice at Webster Thursday. Tbe postoffice was in the general store of Howard Harris. He said he was unable to estimate the loss. The thieves smashed a small safe. Residents of Webster believe the men escaped in an automobile. 2*5 Hurt in Car Fire DETROIT, Feb. 19. —Twenty-five persons were injured in a panic that followed a fire which broke out in a street car at St. Aubin and Adams streets today. Eight persons are in receiving hospital In a serious condition.

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SUM NEARLY EQUAL TO COST OF ENTIRE STATE GOVERNMENT Operation of Jewett’s ‘Economical Administration’ Takes $8,622,718.33, Increase of $3,354,372 Over 1919. COOL MILLION OUT OF GENERAL FUND The staggering fact that the administration of Mayor Charles W. Jewett spent the huge sum of $3,354,372.80 more in 1920 than in 1919 to operate the municipal government of Indianapolis is disclosed in the annual report of City Controller Robert H. Bryson. This is an increase of 68.8 per cent. Total expenditures of all city departments in 1920 were $8,622,718.33, as compared with $5,268,345.53 in 1919. This in the face of pre-election pledges of Mr. Jewett that he was going to give the city an economical, business administration and his constant boast since election that he was doing this.

Easy to Spend Indianapolis paid 58,622,718.53 to be governed by the administration of Mayor Charles W. .Jewett In 1920. This is $3,354,372.30, or 08.8 per cent more than the administration spent during 1919, when the total expenditures were $5,268,345.53. More money was spent out of every principal fund with the exception of one than in 1919. The board of public safety's expenditures were greater than In 1919 by $256,135.09. The 1920 figure Is $1,553,748.89 and the 1919 $1,207,613.80. The board of publio works spent $78,670.80 more In 1920, while the department of finance got rid of 51.954.947.33, os compared with $1,224,300.85 in 1919. In the fiu'e of Increased taxation the city had to borrow $1,695,000 In temporary loans during the year to meet the tremendous drain on the treasury. During 1919, $1,470,000 was borrowed temporarily. !\ J SAYS OFFERING OF CITY LIBRARY IS INCOMPLETE Librarian Declares Many Are Unable to Obtain Books Asked For. Bv CHARLES E. KUSH. LIBRARIAN. | When one of the best friends of the ; city library arrives at the conclusion i that "It’s Just no use, for I can never J find tbe book I wish there,” Isn’t it j time that Indianapolis should tfffie some I drastic steps to remedy the situation 7 j Has any one fully realized yet what It i means to the book collection at the llj brary to have the number of home readi ers increase 30 per cent within the last ! three years, while at the same time I library book funds have been necessarily j reduced and the price of books has so j increased that the library has been buy- | lng at times actually less than 40 per I cent as many books as it did four years I ago? ) It is hard, too, for people, to realize that books wear out. The books in our own private libraries never wear out. We read them and pass them v on to a friend or two, then they come back to sit in their neat jackets ns a real ornament to our bookshelves. We do not consider that the life of a book, when it is a good book that people really love, is something like that of a butterfly. POPULAR BOOKS USELESS FIRST. The library patrons wear out the books they like most to read. Asa consequence a great many of our old book friends which we were accustomed to meet in ; the library four or five years ago are not j there any longer. They have gone to the land of worn-out books and the li- | brary has not had money enough to buy new copies to replace them. Moreover, because library book funds have been so tow and a great part of tho money has had to go into the replacing of wornout books we have not been able to buy more than the smallest percentage of new books, of which so many excellent ones have been written I within the last few years. That is the reason why our old friends sigh when they think of the library and go down j to rent a book from some pay collection or perhaps go down into their own pockets and buy some book which they cannot do without. Everybody who uses or knows anything about books on engineering, mechanics, chemistry or electricity is well I aware that they must be up-to-date or they are useless. He knows, too, that they are usually rather expensive and he will understand why the library, with a very flat purse, has had to watch with great dismay Us collection of technical books get shabbier and shabbier and more and more out of date. Every citizen in the city, when he reflects a moment upon our being a great (Continued on Pago Two.)

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Mr. Bryson made public his annual report today. It will be presented to the" city council Monday evening, be said. It cost the city about as much in 1926 to be governed by the Jewett regime as it cost to operate the entire government of the State of Indiana. ALL BUT ONE BRANCH [BOOSTS EXPENDITURES, j More money was spent in 1920 than In 1919 out of all but one of the eleven funds included in the controller's recaplt- | ulation table. The only fund from which j less was expended was the improvement sinking fund. In 1919, 527.C80.23 was spent out of this, and in 1920, $23,344.98. The recapitulation shows that there was j in the treasury to the credit of all departments Jan. 1, 1920, a balance of $1,451,141.49. Receipts during the year ; totaled $9,142,188.43, making a total of $10,593,332.92 available. The expenditure of $5,622,718.33 during the year left a j balance of $1,970,614.5? on Dec. 31, 1920. A cool million dollars more was used I out of the general fund In 1920 than in 1919, the expenditures in 1920 being $4,927.843.86 and in 1919, $3,815,851.50. The | city general fund contained a balance Jan. 1, 1920, of $79,260.34. During the year $5,017,869.56 was received, making a total available of $5,097,129.90. The expenditures left a balance of $169,286.04 on Dec. 31. EQUIPMENT NOT INCLUDED. It should be remembered that the city general fund Is that from which tbe ordinary operating expenses of the city, such ne the maintenance of the streets, garbage and ash collection and the--po-llce and fire departments are paid. Some equipment is purchased out of it, but |n the cage of any important buy, such as the motor equipment for the fire department, bonds are Issued and the sura does not come out of the general fund. So the increase of more than a million dollars in expenditures from the city general fund actually represents more money spent for carrying on the ordinary functions of city government. Issuance of $400,000 worth of bonds for the purchase of motor equipment for the fire department Increased the bond (Continued on l’age Two.) FREES BRYDON ON RESTITUTION Collins Sees No Crime, but Orders Money Repaid to Woman. Because Judge James A. Collins could see that “no crime had been committed” and because the face value of a draft for $178.93 had been made good to Mrs. Amelia Miller, the court today found Ray M. Brydon not guilty of grand larceny and ordered his discharge. This case has been on the docked for nearly a year, as well as two other cases in which Brydon was charged with false pretense and failure to pay wages. Brydon was in court and made good the face value of the draft, which Mrs, ! Miller had glve.n to him. In discussing the grand larceny charge : Judge Collins said : “I can’t see for the life of me that there was any crime committed. The second Indictment for false pretense Is a matter growing out of a mutual understanding and there is nothing to warrant a finding of guilty.” The court stated to Mrs. Miller that he l felt she was entitled to recover her money ; and that Brydon was ordered back Into court for that purpose. “I knew that h was civil proof,” said Judge Collins, “but I felt that you were entitled to recover the money.” Mysterious Move Is Made jnjCarey Case Another mysterious continuance was granted for the case of Willie Carey, well known west side police character, by Judge Walter Pritchard late Friday. Carey was arrested by Lieutenant Woollen and squad a week ago after William McSpadden, negro, 317 Indiana avenue, told the pcilloe that he bought a gallon of “white mule” whisky from Carey for $lB. McSpaddcn was arrested on Feb. 13 and his case was continued to Feb. 26, a day after tho Carey case was set. N. Y.-to-Bahama Air Service Is Started KEYPORT, N. J., Feb. 19—The first direct flight between the New York district and the Bahama Islands was begun todny when the eleven-passenger flying boat Fonce Do Leon left for Nassau. It was planned to make the first stop at Satello, N. C., where Mr. and Mrs. Howard Coffin of Detroit will bo taken on board. 32 Fire Calls Put in During Last 24 Hours In the twenty-four-hour period ended at 7 o’clock this morning the fire department answered thirty-two fire call*. The twenty-four hours p-ecedlng that the department answered fiftv-three calls, which set anew record for the city. From 7 to 10 o’clock today the firemen answsred four calls, but the loss in all was small. The fires in almost every case have been caused by sparks oil tho roofs of residences.