Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled weather tonight and Tuesday, with probably snow turning into rain.

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CONGRESS IN HOME STRETCH IN HARD DRIVE Important Legislation Pending Threatened by Lack of Time. NAVY BL DGET IN DANGER k WASHINGTON. Feb. 21. —Conngress turned in to the hoipe stretch today in a neck and neck race against time. With but ten legislative days remaining before the present session ends, there was every indication that some of the important legislation now on the books will never reach completion. In the Senate the big task Is the passing of appropriation bills, which already have been passed by the House. There are rumblings which forbode ill for some of these appropriation bills, particularly the navnl appropriation bill. Senator Borah of Idaho has announced his Intention to continue the fight to force a conference on disarmament and has given notice that he will discuss the naval appropriation bill at length. This may lead to a Senate row which will endanger the passage of the bill at this session. ARMY RILL DEBATE TO DELAY PROCEDURE. The army appropriation bill, providing for reduced military forces, will also he the subject of considerable debate and will retard any rapid progress by the upper body in disposing of the jam of legislation now steadily mounting. Senator Penrose, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, intends to have the soldier bonus bill reported to the Senate this week and hopes to get action on It before the close of the session, but Inasmuch, as this bill has been the subject of some frays, there is little hope of its rapid passage and if it finally comes to a vote it is not likely to get out of conference during the present session. HEARING OF LANDIS CASE OPENS IN HOUSE WASHINGTON, Feb. 21— Investigation of the impeachment charges brought against Judge K. XI. Landis, of Chicago, Representative Welty of Ohio, started Before the House Judiciary Committee today. Welty told the committee that Landis should be removed from office because he holds the office of Federal Judge and arbitrator of organized baseball. He charged that bribery was the motive of baseball magnates in employing the judge and that his holding both offices tends to nullify prosecution of Chicago players for throwing world series' games and the $240.00v Judgment obtained bv the defunct Federal League against the American and National Leagues In antitrust proceedings. The only witness to be beard today was XVelty.

HOUSTON GIVES M’ADOO LOAN RESPONSIBILITY WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Full responsibility for loans, credits and advances made by the Treasury Department to European governments was placed on (Continued on Page Two.) MARSHALL ON PURDUE BOARD Publisher Succeeds W. V. Stuart, Who Resigned Because of 111 Health. Governor Warren T. McCray announced today that Henry W. Marshall, publisher of the Lafayette Courier-Journal, had been appointed to the board of trustees of Purdue University. Mr. Marshall will succeed W. V. Stuart, also a resident of Lafayette, who was obliged to resign because of ill health. The Governor intends to make only emergency appointments until after the Legislature adjourns and the n it is expected ha will announce the make-up of his new official family in a group. In line with this plan it is considered doubtful that a change will be made In the highway commission, which came under Are last week in a report Issued by the State board of accounts, until all of the appointments are announced. There Is no doubt, however, according to those close to Governor McCray thlt Ti. H. Wright, director of the commission, will be asked to resign. Man, 81, Struck by L eg Broken John Roddman, 81, 2223 North Pennsylvanl astreet, suffered a broken leg this afternoon when he was struck at Vermont and Delaware streets by an automobile driven by J. F.. Judd. 32 Monument Circle. Mr. Roddman was walking across Vermont street and Mr. Judd was approachlg from the east. Mr.' Judd said he attempted to avoid striking the pedestrian, who apparently became confused. Mr. Roddman was knocked to the pavement, his left leg being broken Just above the ankle. He was setn to the city hospital in the ambulance. Admits Killing Man in Detroit Last May * Alvin Johnson, 34, negro, 719 West Walnut street, today confessed to Detectives Sneed and Trabue that he murdered a man In a fight o\er a poker game at Detroit, Mich., May 7, 1920. Tin said the man’s name was Chmby, and that he Rtabbed Camby. He said he went to Canada after the murder and then came to Indianapolis, having been here eight months. The local department telegraphed Detroit to learn If Johnson's statement were true. Fire Destroys Hotel LANCASTER, Pa., Feb. 21.—The Hotel Co*allco at Ephrata, said to be the finest country hotel in Pennsylvania, burned early today. Most of the guests lost everything except the clothes they wore. The loss is $150,000.

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SHELBY STREET HEARING UPSET BY HOT CHARGES South Siders Make Open Assertion That Interests Block Opening. ACTION AGAIN DELAYED After south side citizens favoring j the opening of Shelby street from | Washington to Maryland street and representatives of corporations claiming they would be damaged thereby bad engaged in a bitter word battle the Board of Public Works today postponed final action on the resolution for the Improvement until March 13. It was the fourth time final action has been postponed. Xlayor Charles W. Jewett sat with the board at the hearing and took up the gauntlet flung down by south side citizens. who charged that h 2 has not given their section fair representation in his appointment of members of the various boards. Charges that “special Interests’’ were behind the movement to block the opening of Shelby street and to open and widen Cruse street instead were flung by the south siders. They named the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Frank XI. Dell Coal Company and the Standard Oil Company as being among these “special interests.” Representatives of these corporations denied the charges. J. B. Downey, Thomas Callahan and Hugh D. O'Connell, a committee appointed at a mass meeting of residents of the southeastern section of the city several weeks ago, filed a written statement in which the Shelby street plan was favored. This statement was in plain language and provoked most of the bitter discussion which followed Its reading by Xlr. Downey. DECLARE COST MISREPRESENTED. The statement set out that opponents of the Shelby street opening have obtained signatures to a remonstrance against it by representing that the Improvement would cost each property owner within the district to be assessesd for it as much as $250. The committee denied this, asserting the entire cost of obtaining the ground necessary for the street would be not more than $5,000 or SB,OOO, which would be apportioned among a thousand or more property owners. Frank A. Davidson, attorney for the Pennsylvania Railroad, made a long speech in which he declared the cornmltj tee was in error on Its estimate of the (Continued on Pago Nine.)

Accounts Board Report Is Demanded in Senate

BULETIX. Senator Cravens* motion was killed when the Senate reconvened tills afternoon on motion to table It by Senator Oscar Ratts. A demand that tWe State board of accounts make public immediately Ita report on the office of auditor of State was made in the Senate today by Senator Joseph XL Cravens of Xladison. The demand wag made in the form of a motion which was not acted on because a motion to adjourn for noon interfered. The report covers the last year of the term of Otto L. Klauss as auditor and is understood so show a number of irregularities. It is known that the report has been In the hands of officials of the State board of accounts for some time, hut for some unexplained reason has not baen released. Copies of the report now are said to be In the hands of Jess* E. Each bach, chief examiner of the board, and Governor Warren T. McCray. Mr. Esehbacb is out of the city and will not return until tomorrow or Wednesday.

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LEMCKE TO COP $10,500 SLICE IN POLL TAX DRIVE Treasurers Share and Added Charges Nearly Equal Principal Amount. MAY SEIZE FURNITURE Agents of County Treasurer Ralph A. Lemcke are attempting to collect fees totaling approximately $10,500 from nearly 21,000 male voters of Marion County who are said to be delinquent in paying their 1919 poll tax. Under the system used by Mr. Lemcke In collecting approximately $42,000 In delinquent poll taxes for 1919, the costs and fees nearly equal the $2 in each case of delinquency. The delinquent's cost and penalty is figured as follows: Tax—s 2.32, which Include* Interest. Costs—so cents demand fee, which belongs to the treasurer; 10 cents for constable fee and 10 cents a mile. COI NTV TREASURER GETS HIS SLICE. For example, a voter living in the 1500 block on Samoa street who is delinquent wUi receive a notice made up as follows : Tax, $2.32 and costs $1.75; total, $4.07. In this case the costs are made up as follows: Fifty cents demand fee. which goes to : the treasurer; 85 cents for mileage and 40 cents for constable fees, according to an Interpretation made of a delinquent tax notice to a voter living on Samoa street. If the total amount of delinquency Is collected by the agents of Xlr. Lemcke ! the treasurer will receive the snug total of approximately $10,500 as his bit. He Is entitled, according to the State board of accounts, to receive a 50-ccnt demand fee. Following Inquiries from cttlzens who could not understand how the fees and costs in many cases totaled more than the $2 poll tax, a copy of a notice to a poll tax delinquent living In the 1500 block on Samoa street was taken to the State board of accounts. It was explained at the board of accounts office that the treasurer was entitled to a 50-cent demand fee and 10 cents a mile for the person serving the demand; and the treasurer has added a 40 cent constable ree, which the statutes permit. It was stated at the Treasurer's office that the delinquent Is being charged (Continued on Page Two.)

1 It was explained last week that the report was being delayed because examiners of the board had been unable to get In touch with Xlr. Klauss. The law requires that a copy of the report shall he turned over to the person examined before It Is made public. It was stated that Xlr. Klauss was out of the city and would return last Saturday. The situation is similar to the one that brought forth the belated report on® the highway commission last week. Governor Warren T. XlcCray had held up the findings of the hoard until threat ’f a legislative resolution asking its pubication forced him to act. Governor XlcCray admitted he had revived a copy of the report several days ago. He said he bad not had time to look it over and that he believed Xlr. Klauss had not yet seen It. He Slid Xlr. Klauss returned to Indianapolis Saturday night and that he would receive an opportunity to go over the report before it is released. He said he did not know how eoon It would be made public because this depended on when Mr. Klauss would go Otar it.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1921.

INJUNCTION IS ISSUED IN RAIL RATE QUESTION Federal Judges Forbid State Interference in Roads’ Operations. SUPREME TEST AWAITED An interlocutory injunction forbidding the Public Service Commission from interfering in any way with the interstate carriers in putting fhto effect the schedule of freight and passenger rates for intrastate traffic in Indiana authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission last week, was granted in Federal Court today by Judges Franqis E. Baker and George T. Page of the Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and Judge Albert B. Anderson of the Indiana District Court. The order In question raised intrastate rate* In Indiana to u level with interstate rates for the same classes of traffic. FORTY-THREE ROADS AFFECTED. Forty-three railroads in the State are affected by the order, although only twenty-six of them have filed bills to date. The case was tried solely on the complaint of the Baltimore A- Ohio Rail road, but by a stipulation agreed to by attorneys for the State and railroads It was agreed that the finding in the one case should apply to all. It also was stipulated that the suit for injunction filed last week by the public service commission against the Interstate commerce commission should lie In abeyance until determination by the United States Supreme Court of the Illinois case, where exactly the same statement of facts existed when an Injunction was Issued. The proceedings were wholly of a formal nature, Xlorrlson R. Waite, general solicitor for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, merely presenting in evidence all bills filed by ttlo railroads, together with findings in similar cases in Ohio and Wisconsin. 17. S. Lesh, attorney general, filed a counter showing and reserved all exceptions. EXPLAINS THEORY OF INJUNCTION. Judge Baker explained the theory on which the injunction was granted, and gave it ns his opinion that under the Each-Cummins law' the Interstate Commerce Commission had a right to fix purely intrastate for interstate carriers, on the ground that a lower rate for lutra(Contlnued on Page Two.) BLIZZARD COSTS GOTHAM $1,000,000 Ten Deaths Reported in New England in Storm. NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—Burled under a twelve-inch blanket of snow. New X'ork struggled ,to carry on business ns usual today, although traffic was partly blocked and much suffering was caused by the storm. No less than ten deaths, scores of accidents, delayed trains and belated commuters were the net result. The storm, it is estimated, will cost the city about a million dollars. Thanks to the holiday tomorrow— Washington's birthday—'an army of. more than 12.000 snow shovelers will have leeway to dispose of the heavy snowfall, which set a record for the speed with which it smothered the metropolis. The storm also caused difficulties to shipping. Three freight vessels, outward bound, were reported in trouble. WORST STORM IN 22 YEARS BOSTON, Feb. 21. —New England's worst blizzard In twenty-two years had swept out to sea today, leaving In Us wake a toll of several scores of craft piled up on the coast, railroad and street car traffic demoralized, and a mass of tangled telegraph wires and snowclogged roads.

COURT TO DEAL WITH DOMESTIC AFFAIRS ASKED Senate Measure Provides for Separate Tribunal in Family Litigation. MASTERS FATHERS BILL Marion County would have a court of domestic relations if the Legislature should pass a bill introduced in the Senate today by Senator J. Fred Masters, Indianapolis. The court would have one judge who would be elected every four years and who would receive the same salary as the judge of the Circuit Court. The county sheriff would be the sheriff of the court and the county clerk xvould be the clerk of the court. The court would have Jurisdiction over cases of divorce, annullment, desertion, support of Illegitimate children and alimony. The bill provides that till cases pending when the court is established shall be transferred. ARSENAL TECH PROTEST ECHO. An echo of the protest of teaehers of the Arsenal Technical schools against removal of teachers without explanations is contained in a bill Introduced Iri the Senate by Senator Robert L. Moorhead, Indianapolis. The bill provides -hat after a teacher has served three year? in the Indianapolis schools he or she can be removed by the school board only for cause and after being granted a hearing, i Anew commission to be known s.s the State Real Estate Commission is provided for In a bill Introduced by Senator Claude Steele of Knox. The duty of the commission would be to license all real estate brokers and salesmen. It would be composed of three members who would each receive a per diem of sls. Licenses would be issued to brokers at a cost of $lO for the first year and $5 for each additional year and to salesmen at a cost of $2 the first year and $1 for each year thereafter. The bill would require all dealers, brokers or agents to have licenses but would not apply to owners. MORE SALARY VOTED BANKING HEAD. While the House was voting to kill the bill providing for the abolishment of the State banking department a separate department, the Senate voted to Increase the salary of the head of the department from to $5,000 a year and to permit him to employ two more examiners. The vote on the bill was taken after very little debate and stood 32 to 9 The bill was Introduced by Senator Charles 8. Nichols of Howe. The vote on the bill follows: Ayes -Adams. Arnold. Balnuni, Beardsley, Behtner, Bowers, Brown, Buchanan, Cann, Decker, Douglass, Duncann, Dunn. English. Herder, Hill. Hngston, Holmes. Leonard, Maler, Xlasters. Xbeker Miller, Moorhead. Nejdl. Nichols, Richards, Kouthworth, Strode, Swain. Tague. Noes Cravens, Fitch, Hartzell. Henley, Humphreys, Kline, Lindlcy, XlcConaha McCullough. Have Wrangle on Purchasing Agent’s Power Mayor and Hoard of Works Said to Have Opposed Ritter in Confab. Conflicting reports of conclusions reached at a conference In the board of public works private office attended by the board. Xlayor Charles W. Jewett, RusBell Willson, president of the city council. and Dwight S. Ritter, city purchasing agent, were afloat today. The reports agreed In only ouo particular, that the question discussed was the relation of the city purchasing department to the board of public works and the city council hi the matter ol Important purchases of equipment. The purchase of several thousand dollarsworth of street repair oquipment Is now under way, and It was to get a clear understanding of procedure that the conference was called ,lt Is said. FEAR ANOTHER CONTROVERSY. Xlr. Ritter and the board of works engaged In a long and heated controversy recently over the type qf, motor trucks to be purchased for the city nsh hauling department. Foreseeing difficulty of the same nature In the coming equipment purchase, the officials sought to irou out the differences In advance. According to one account of what took place In the meeting, the board of works and the mayor took sides against Xlr. Ritter and attempted to make him see that the board does not consider him in the light of a “rubber stamp clerk,” as he had been quoted as having said, hut the board believes, however, It has the final authority to decide on equipment contracts under the law, the purchasing agent's power extending only so far as to render expert advice. This report also had It that the purchasing agent was told he can not hope to run the city purchasing department like that of a private business. MAYOR DESIRED BUSINESS METHODS. It frequently has been said that Hr. Ritter was told by Xlayor Jewett be was appointed purchasing agent for the express purpose that It was desired the city purchasing department he operated as nearly like that of a big business con cern as possible. From another source It was reported that after three-quarters of an hour of argument the board of works finally admitted that the purchasing ugent, be-e-use f his expert knowledge and greater opportunities of obtaining information about products offered for sale *to the city, was In position to have more or less right to say what should he bought. It was understood the purchasing agent did not recede from his contention that, not being a politician, lie should act as a check on the boards, which nre composed of men picked for political roasons, to the end that favoritism might not enter into any city purchase. Four Believed Dead as Collapse Result CLEVELAND. Ohio, Feb. 21.--At’ least four men were believed crushed to death when the walls of the third floor of th<? Masonle temple bulMng collapsed today. The four men were In an office on the lower floor of the structure which Is being raed. Workers said that more men have been caught by the falling debjls.

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STATE SCHOOL CONTROL BILL MOVES AHEAD Centralization for Three Institutions Goes to Second Reading. HOUSE HASTENS WORK Advancement to second reading of the bill introduced by Representative Barker, Boone County, providing Bjr centralization of control of the State's three higher educational institutions; indefinite postponement of the Willis bill, providing for repeal of the primary election law; passing to second reading, of a bill which extends the time of public utilities to surrender their franchises to the Public Service Commission, and killing of the bill to abolish the banking and insurance departments of the State, occupied the morning session of the House of Representatives today. Discussion of majority and minority report on the bill to permit a township trustee to issue transfers to pupils to attend private schools in the same or another township resulted lu a heated clash between Representatives Oscar A. Ahlgren, Lake County, and George XV. Sims, Vigo County. Representative Sims charged that for the last two weeks lobbyists from Fairrnonnt Academy, In an effort to have the i lilll passed, were sitting in the seats of Representatives during sessions of the House. CHARGES SIMS LACKS “BACKBONE.” Representative Ahlgren -harged Sims with lacking “backbone” 'Ugh to stan l ! on his own convictions and work for j what was right. It was necessary for the Speaker to call j the two Representtalves to order. Passage of the Knapp bill extending j the time for public utilities to surrender j their franchises to the public service com- j mission until July 1, 1923. would affect j the Indianapolis Sfreet Railway Com- j psny. Representative Henry Abrams, Marion j County, opposed passage of the bill, de j daring the city officials and people of j Indianapolis do not wish the street car ; company to surrender Its franchise. He j declared the people desire to regulate j the street car company themselves. If j the franchise is surrendered, he said, it j will mean Increased rates and the loss of i much revenue to the city. 1 Representative Claude A. Smith de ! dared there is no Justice In mak>g the j utilities of some counties come under j provisions of the public service eommis j slon act and leaving a large corporation j of Indianapolis to operate under a city | franchise. Xlr Smith was asked by Mr. Abrams j If It was wrong to have other companies j under the commission, If It would not be wrong to place the Indianapolis j Street Railway Company under the com | mission. “Two wrongs never made a right," ! said Xlr. Abratns. “Well,” replied Smith, “if they do wrong to us I want them to do wrong j to you people also.” COMPANY GREAT POLITICAL ASSET. v Representative Frank J. Noll, Xlarlon I County, di- hired that forvears'the street railway company in Indianapolis has been a groat political asset. Each can dldHte for public office, he said. Is faced with the question of what he would do with the street car company. He charged (Continued on Cage Nine.) FINES ARE PAID IN HAAG CASE Check for $21,902.52 Is Received by U. S. Marshal Mark Storen. Xlark Storen. United States marshal, this morning received a check for $21.992.52 representing the balance in full of the Government's claims against Julius A. and Louis E. Haag. Indianapolis druggists convicted of violating the liquor laws. When the Haag brothers were convicted and sentenced by Federal Judge A. B. : Anderson, they were sentenced to eight - j een months each In the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., anud fined SIO,BOO each, | with the costs. The money paid Xlr. j Storen represents these two fines, with ! I costs and accrued interest. The linage recently were parolled from the Atlanta j prison after serving six months of their sentence. The check was signed by the Haag i Drug Company, per C. XV. Xleridenhall. Caruso Much Better NICXV YORK, Feh. 21.—Enrico Caruso, now convalescent in his relapse of pleurisy,, was so much improved today that | hl§ physicians decided to issue no further statements. APPOINTED JUSTICE OF PEACE. J. H. Xlohr today was appointed justice of the pence of XVashington Township by the county commissioners to succeed Edward XI. R. Howe, who resigned.

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1920 RUNNING COST OF COUNTY $371,815 MORE THAN IN 1919 Total of $2,019,548 Reported by Fesler Includes Enormous Expenditure of $96,253.68 for County’s Courts. COLLINS’ TRIBUNAL IS BIG DRAIN The total cost of running Marlon County in 1920 xvas $2,019,548, as against $1,647,733 in 1919. It cost $371,815 more to run the county in 1920 than it did in 1919, the official report of County Auditor Leo K. Fesler for last year shows. Included In the total for 1920 is the enormous expense of the local county courts of $96,253.68, of which $25,835.36 was expended by the Marion County Criminal Court, which is presided over by Judge James A. Colima. These figures do not include the 1920 expenditures under the townships for three-mile roads of a total of $1,095,099, which is made up as follows: Three-mile roads built, $687,358, and three-mile bonds aggregating $407,211. Mr. Feeler does not figure the road expenses in on the total county expenses for 1920.

DENNY BUSH IS AT PENAL FARM, NOT BY CHOICE Regrets He Is Unable to Play Accustomed Part in City Primaries. OLD FRIENDS VISIT HIM By STAFF CORRESPONDENT. PUTNAMVILLE, Ind., Feb. 21. The rumor that Dennis J. Bush, former street commissioner of Indianapolis, Is not at the penal farm to which he was sent recently, but Is sojourning in Terre Haute, may be set down safely as a mere rumor not based on facts. Dennis still Is “playing the horses,'’ but the horses are not the blooded kind that romp around the race track. They are the stolid type that pull wagons loaded with bricks and other products of the convict operated industries at the State farm. Dennis is a handy man about the farm stables, and if there Is any credence to be placed in the penal farm authorities and a lot of the other prisoners, Denny has not been romping around Terre Haute recently. Bush, it will be remembered, was sent to the penal farm for participation In a bit of election slugging that took place while Samuel Ralston was governor of Indiana. For about six years Denny delayed his incarceration and achieved for himself the distinction of being “above the law." Finally, alter he bad received favor after favor from official after official, he landed at the farm, from which now he is looking out with longing eyes and expecting a parole shortly after the end of this mouth. Rumor has it that Denny has good reason to believe certain officials In the capital will "spring" him along about that time. BELIEVES HE y CAN “GET BY.” Penal farm incarceration has not shaken Bush's idea that he can “get by." It has not altered his view of the law as a thing to be circumvented. He has faith still In the ability of certain politclans "to take care” of him and still feels that It will be best for these same politicians to “take care" of him before he gets too tired of the farm. The report, carefully circulated before Denny eventually went to the farm, to (Continued on Page Six.) Beating Given Girl Raymond Stucky, 20, 14J4 Central ave mte, proprietor of a cigar stand In the Atlas Hotel, South Xlertdian street and ; the Union tracks, was fined $1 on a charge of assault and battery by Judge Walter Pritchard in city court today. Stuck was arrested by Motorpollceraen Harris and Xloriarity after they were called to the hotel on a complaint that a man was beating a woman. Mildred Clark. 1015% North Illinois street, told them Stucky, her employer, owed her some money and when sbe asked bin, for it lie struck her. This was not denied, bust Stucky said the cash register was short about sl2 and gave that as his reason for not paying her. Xliss Clark testified Stucky struck her about five times and the “black eye” which she carried was given by him. Judge Collins Off to Evansville Today Judge .Tames A. Collins of the Criminal j Court left at non today for Evansville to spend XX'nsjjMngton’s birthday. He will return to the bench ednesday.

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The total expenditures for county business totaling $2,019,54S for 1920, is mad* up as follows: Count fund, $1,150,059. Sinking fund, $451,-785. lioad repairs, $'.34,425. Sunnyside, $183,279. In 1919 the total of these Items waa $1,647, 733, made up as follows: County fund, $1,036,700. Sinking fund, $248,127. Road repairs, $270,012. ’ Sunnyside, $92,394. RECEIPTS ALSO SHOW INCREASE. total of receipts for 1920 wa* $1,362, 1 06 and in 1919 the receipts totaled $1,241,677, according to Mr. Fesler’s report. The enormous total of $96,253.68 represent* the expenses of the courts of Marlon County. Mr. Fesler's report shows the following court expenditures for 1920; Circuit Court $ 8.672.9S Superior, No. 1 7 109 64 Superior, No. 2 6,452.40 Superior, No. 3 6,435.98 Superior. No. 4 6.596.53 Superior, No. 5 7.531 30 Criminal 25,835.58 Probate 11,461.60 Juvenile 16,157.71 These figures show that It coat a total of $34,125.83 for operating the five Superior Courts, which handle a great amount of the civil business of ilarion County, Including hundreds of divorce cases. These figures Fhow that the expenses of running Judge James A. Collins' court for 1920 would nearly pay the total expenses of four of the Superior Courts. ASSESSOR'S OFFICE PROVES COSTLY. Another enormous expense is the office of the assessor of Center Townsh. , which totaled $61,923 for-1920. Auditor Fesler shows Rw the taxpay- ' ers' money was distributed to the va~ ns (Continued on Page Nine.) MIDDAUGH TO RUNGAUNTLET Appeals Case to Supreme Court After He Is Sentenced on Tiger Verdict. Charles iflddnugh, after being formally sentenced to serve six months and pay a fine of SSOO by Special Judge Harry Chamberlin in Criminal Court on a blind tiger charge, immediately prayed an appeal to the Supreme Court. The court fixed his bond at $2,500. Thomas Shroyer, Harry Schofield and Pandell Shnneff signed the appeal bond, which was approved by the trial court. ' Xliddaugh was found guilty by a Jury last week on a charge of operating a blind tiger on an appeal from the city court. It appears that Xliddangh intends to run the gauntlet of the courts before he permits institutional doors to close on him. Xlrs. Seeman Cook, who was fined SIOO and sentenced to thirty days In jail on a charge of operating a blind tiger, also filed notice in Criminal Court of her Intentions to appeal. She was released from jail on an appeal bond of $1,500, w hich was signed by her brother, Charles Cook, as surety. Paul J. Crosby was fined SIOO on a charge of issuing a fraudulent check. Edwin C. Horton. 16, and Charles A. Horton, 2"'., pleaded guilty to charges of vehicle taking. George Taylor, 20, and Fred Caldwell, 2S, charged with assault and battery, pleaded guilty. Fred lleede, 17, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of burglary. Jjl'he following entered pleas of not guilty: Carl XYhite and Robert Saun. ders, burglary and grand larceny; George Mills, rape; Orville Xlunn, assault and battery with intent to rob; Ralph Chavers and Emmett Hedgepath, grand larceny, and Sallie Davis, alias Sallie Brown, assault and battery. Courthouse to Mark of George XYashington’s birthday tomorrow will be observed at the courthouse by all courts and most of the offices. The graDd jury will hold sessions, as about tweuty witnesses have been summoned to appear tomorrow. Think Thief Killed by Nitro Explosion BRADFORD, Pa.. Feb. 21—An explosion of nitroglycerin early today wrecked the plant of the Pringle Powder Company at Harrisburg R\in, Pa., shaking houses here and at Olean. No one was killed, It is believed. The cause of the explosion is unknown, bijU the belief was expressed that someone bent on theft entered the plant. If this was true tlie intruder was blown to bits.

Indianapolis Schools Closed Tomorrow Indianapolis public schools will be closed tomorrow in honor of Washington’s birthday. The public library will be closed, except the main reading room, which will be open from 2 to 6 o’clock. Merchants and citizens in general or* urged to display the American flag by tlie v American Legion committee for securing the display of appropriate decoration* for Washington’* birthday.