Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Fair and somewhat colder tonight with temperature 15 to 20 degrees.

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HOLDS UP WORK AFFECTING U. S. UNTIL MARCH 4 \ League Council Will Wait for Entrance of Harding to Office. DELAY FOR MANDATES PARIS, Feb. 23. —The League of : Nations council today stopped work !' on matters affecting the United States pending inauguration of the new President. Receiving the American protest against awarding of the Mesopotamian mandate to Great Britain, the touncil decided to await a decision by the allied supreme council. The allied council at London already has Indicated it will take no action on American affairs until Harding becomes President. Secretary of State Colby’s protest against the Tap and Mesopotamian mandates was printed in different languages and left with the delegates. Consisting of eight printed pages and including copies of correspondence with Great Britain, It was too long a document to be lead by the secretaries. Members of the council Indicated they can do nothing regarding Yap. the mandate haring been approved last December without a protest from the United States. The only possibility of changing it would be a discovery that the island is not “one of the former German Islands north of the equator. If i the description were faulty the United States might yet be accommodated, they said. Meanwhile the council has decided on a commission which will supervise all mandates. HOPES ARE HIGH FOR ARMISTICE PARIS, Feb. 23.—Hopes for an armistice In Asia Minor were aroused here today by news from London that the rival Turkish delegations to the near East conference either had reached an agreement or were on the point of doing ao. JAPS CANT CAUSE BRITAIN-U. S. WAR LONDON, Feb. 23.—Japan cannot drag Great Britain into war with the United States, Viscount Grey declared in a speech before the National Liberal Club, observe the arbitration treaty." The Tlecount said, however, it was idle to disco**- Angle- American affairs without recognizing that there can be no real cordiality ao long as the Irish question Ij unsettled. He regretted, he said, that Americans Appeared to know all about the AngloJapanese treaty of elllance, but did not seem to recall have tut arbitration ter, he said, provides there shall be a year for consideration of any disagreement before war Is declared. "This treaty was made by their own government and ratified by the Senate." he said. "It is now in full force. Care was taken long ago that there should be (Continued on Page Two.)

PUT WHEAT BACK IN FIRE RANKS Safety Board Members Give No Explanation for ‘Breaking’ Captain. Ben C. Wheat, one of the best known members of the Indianapolis Are department. today was reduced from the rank of captain to private by the board of public safety. The board offered no explanation further than a statement of Georgs W. Williams, executive secretary that it waa “for the good of the department.” Mr. Wheat, when informed by a newspaper man, said no inkling of the intended action had reached him. Wheat has been assigned to duty in Fire Chief John C. Louek’s office. The board ordered him transferred to the fire prevention bureau and Harry Gould, a private in the fire prevention bureau, transferred to the chiefs office. BEGAN SERVICE NOV. 4,190 L Wheat was appointed a private in the department Nov. 4, 1902; made secretary to the chief Jan. 7, 1918; promoted to lieutenant on May 11, 1920. and promoted tc captain Aug. 31, 1920. He has teen active in Republican politics for years, having been a favorite of former Mayor Charles W. Bookwalter, it is said. Warren E. Rice, Pumper Companv No. 9, was retired, having passed 02. He Is the first fireman to be retired at that age since the board fixed that limit. Rice was appointed Dec. 28, 1881, and retired Nov. 18, 1896, but was reinstated Dec. 15, 1897. FORMER LIEUTENANT REINSTATED. Oscar A. Merrill, retired May 9, 1917, because of a nervous breakdown, was reinstated as a patrolman. He had reached the rank of lieutenant before retirement. Benjamin F. Crouch, .Tason C. Baker. Edgar W. Knitteil, Fred J. Meyers. Glen V. Nickols, Martin Richardson. Raymond Rose, Harley B. Sanders and Carl Sims were appointed substitute firemen. Wilkinson Admits Car Theft, Police Say George H. Wilkinson, 24, of Terre Haute, was arrested on charges of vagrancy and of being a fugitive from justice, and Arthur L. Parker, 45, 279 North Linn street, was arrested on the charge of vagrancy by Lieutenant Jones and squad today, after a garage man notified the police that two men had an automobile at 3005 West Washington street that “didn't look good." Wilkinson, police say, admitted he stole the automobile in Terre Haute yesterday and that he met Parker in this city. The automobile, it is said, is the property of the Union Transfer A Storage Company of Terre Haute.

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WILL SMOTHER ROAD TAX LEW Chairman of Committee Says 20-Cent Measure Not to Be Reported. Representative William B. Anderson, Knox and Pike Counties, chairman of the House Committee on Roads, announced I this morning that the bill calling for a 20-eent tax levy for the State highway commission will not be reported out. It has been decided by the administration, it was learned, that no attempt will be made to have the Legislature fix a levy for the commission, but the matter will be left to the State board of tax commissioners, the Governor and the Auditor of State under the provisions of the pending tax law amendment*. The proposed changes in the taxftaffftos will give the power of fixing all State levies to a special board consisting of the Governor, the auditor and the tax board. The decision to smother the proposed levy is in line with suggestions made by Governor Warren T. McCray in recent conferences. He is planning some radical changes in highway administration and believes that the levy for that department should not be fixed until the road needs are thoroughly analyzed. The Governor is understood to favor a 5 or C-ccnt levy as the proper figure to raise the sum needed on highways. This will bring approximately $3,000,000 into the road fund. The highway commission law now prescribes an annual levy of 10 cents and this would automatically come into effect unless the Legislature gives the tax board power to change It. This was the situation when the commission waa created, but the tax board sealed it down to 3 9 cents, under which it has been operating. HOOVER TOYING WITH PORTFOLIO ‘Earnest Consideration’ Is Promised for Offer. NEW YORK. Feb. 23.—ITerbert Hoover, formally tendered the post of Secretary of Commerce in the next Cabinet, gave President-elect Harding, during a telephone conversation last night, assurances the offer would have his earnest consideration, it was learned today. Hoover did not refuse the appointment and President-elect Harding received the impression thpt the former food administrator probably would become one of his Cabinet advisers. Fugitive Head Cut ‘ Off by_ Phone Wire EDINBURGH. 111., Feb. 23.—Death and Justice ran a race to claim Constantine Miona. alias Defaria, wanted in Ohio for billing and officer—and death won. Po- ; lice today identified the body of a men. : decapitat'd l>y a telephone guide wire when a car in which he was riding lc-ft the road, as that of Defaria. Deputy sheriffs from Tnylorvilie had visited the home of Defaria in Kincaid shortly before the accident, but the man they sought had evidently been informed of the visit and departed. ANTI-TRUST SUIT FILED. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 23 —Suit to dig- | solve the Southern Pine Association on j the grounds of alleged violation of the Sherman anti trust law was filed in the ; United States District Court here today j by Attorney Carroll on instructions from the attorney general.

SA YS SID HA TFIELD FIRED FIRST SHOT

WILLIAMSON, W. Va.. Feb. 23.—A mah from whom the threat of the hangman's rope was removed on the second day of the “trigger trial” was placed on the witness stand today to testify against nineteen men in whose midst he sat in “defendants' row" when the case opened five weeks ago. He is Isaac Brewer, a Matewan miner. The murder indictment was dismissed Just before the jury was sworn in. Brewer has since been closely guarded. He is regarded as the State's star of stars. Brewer on the stand told a story damaging to his former co-defenilants, and particularly Sid Hatfield. Brewer w-as not only a witness, but a victim of the Matewan gun battle. He was wounded twice. He declared Sid Hatfield, chief of police

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When Blizzard Hit New York City

Seven persons were killed and scores injured, traffic paralyzed and considerable property damage done by the two blizzards which swept New York City yesterday and Sunduy. It was the worst storm in twenty-one years and rivaled the disastrous blizzard of 1888. Tractorhauled scrapers and plows were used to clear the main thoroughfares of snow. Taxicabs were unable to haul passenger*

LIBERTY BONDS IN TRADE FOR ALLIES’ IS PLAN Scheme Proposed to Pass on Fourteen Billion Debt to American Holders. MAY GO TO CONGRESS WASHINGTON, Feb. 23- Passing on of the allied debt of $14,000,000,000 to holders of Liberty bonds has been sug Rested to Republican members of Congress as a means of collecting the money owed this government by foreign nations. The plan would Involve exchange of Liberty bonds for bonds of the allies The suggestion came from übroad. and It was understood that Lord Chalmers of Great Britain, who was to ha:e come here to discuss the British debt, had something of this kind in mind. Chalmers has not come here, but the suggestion may receive consideration when the Harding Administration takes up the debt question. At present, however, members of the Senate Finance Committee oppose it. The plan briefly Is that the allied goverrumeuts be asked to agree to issue bonds preferred above all their other obligations, for a term of thirty to fifty years and l>earlng 5 pep cent interest, and that these bonds be turned over to the United States Government under an agreement providing for payment of Interest and sltiking fund. The United States in turn would Issue the foreign bonds to holders of American Liberty bonds and retire the Liberty bonds thus converted. If the entire allied debt were treated in this way, upward of $lO 000,000,000 of Liberty bond* could be retired, it is (Continued on Page Two.)

LIGE CARPENTER GETS JAIL TERM Gives Bond for Appeal in Tiger Case. Elijah Carpenter, negro, living eight miles southeast of the city, was found guilty of operating a blind tiger by Special Judge Earl Askren in city court today and was fined SIOO and sentenced to thirty days in the Jail. The case was appealed and a SI,OOO bond tvas provided by Robert Alexander, negro. Carpenter was arrested with William Banner, colored, 1852 South Keystone avenue, Fpb. 7, when traffle officers stopped an automobile in whieh they were riding and found twenty-one quarts of bonded liquor in the machine. The negroes made a desperate effort to get away and Traffic Officer Duffey, who caught hold of the side of the car, was dragged fifty feet. Lieutenants Jones and Woollen and thetr squads said they found twenty quarts of bonded whisky in Carpenter's home. A blind tiger charge against Banner was dismissed by Special Judge Askren on Feb. 17, when Carpenter's case was taken under advisement.

of Matewan and principal defendant, said to him before the battle: “Let's take a bunch of men and go to the hills and kill all of those BaldwinFelts men (mine operators' detectives), as they come out of the houses.” "Sid Hatfield shot Albert Felts with a pistol—l saw him fire the shot,” Brewer ; swore. Sid Hatfield’s shot which hit Felts was the first shot of the entire battle, Brewer ! tsetitied. Under cross-examination, Brewer ad- i mitted he turned Stale's evidence be- I cause •‘somebody" had told him “some- 1 body" would swear he (Brewer) killed Albert Felts. He refused to give the name of ills informant. Sid Hatfield watched Brewer with eyes that expressed nothing but amusement. The rest of the defendants literally hung on Brewer’s wrrds. Their faces were aifllen, grim.

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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1921.

18 INDICTED BY GRAND JURY William Baskard’s Record of Convictions Shown in Report. Eighteen indictments and a numi <*r of discharges were returned by the Marion County grand Jury today. William Basbard, alias William Bar hard, alias William Boshard, dicted on a i barge of burglary and grand liirceny by entering a Imrn belonging to Mrs. Amelia Winter and stealing chickens valued a $44. The indictment relates that Barhard was convicted of horse stealing in La Grange County. Indiana, Sept. 2”, 1911 and was aentueced from three to fifteen years, and that he was convited Jan. 12, 1918, at Kalamazoo. Mich., and there sentenced from two and a half to five years for entering a house. Others who were indicted were: Albert Munden, alias Given*, ells* Mnrdou, robbery and grand lais-eny; Thomas Harvey, Wayne Ilarhofer and Walter Wright, vehicle taking; Samuel Koby, charged with stealing cigarette* and other merchandise valued at $l,lOO from the Jag gers Wholesale Grocery Company; William Mingle, charged with receiving stolen goods, Grace Dean, burglary and grand larceny, it being charged ahe en tered the room of Sarah Tongot and stole a diamond ring valued at $25; William Tompkins, burglary and petit larceny; John Bush, impersonating an officer and grand larceny; Roland Keene and William A. Rhyncarson, to embezzle from the Indianapolis Coal Company; William A Rhynearson, charged with embezzling SOOO from the Indianapolis Coal Company; Willard Troutman, Wayne Marhofer and Louis G. Howard, forgery. The following discharges wero ordered: Matthew Gareth, conspiracy: Cicero Thornton, rape; Lewis Ipartner, assault and battery; Fred Alberts and William Deardorff. CHAMP CLARK IS ILL. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Champ Clark, Missouri. Democratic leuiler of the House, is ill with a complication of a severe cold, grippe, stomach trouble and poor circulation of the blood.

House Acceptance of Movie Changes Advances Measure

Action toward the creation of a board of moving picture censors in Indiana progressed this morning when the House accepted amendments to tho Nelson bill which make It similar to tho Buchanan bill, already favorably received by the Senate. The House amended the original bill introduced by Mrs. Julia D. Nelson, representative from Delaware County, to

Prohibition Is Here , but Prohibiters Ask for More Prqiiibition These piping days of prohibition have seen more prohibition legislation thrown into the hopper of the General Assembly. With agents of tho Federal, State and local governments keeping their weather eyos open nt all times to catch bootleggers and men and women who traffle In Illicit liquor, Representative Calef saw fit to present a bill recently fixing a penalty for a person found to be driving an automobile while Intoxicated. If the driver should Injure any person the first offense would bo punishable with a fine of SSO to SSOO and a jail sentence of thirty days under the Calef Dill. Then Representative Cox came along with a bill to put near beer saloons under control of the city councils. This bill says much in a brief space. It follows: "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana: That the common councils of every city. In addition to other powers now existing under the laws, shall have the power to make the following ordinances: "That the common council Is hereby authorized to license, tax, regulate and restrain all places operated for the purpose of selling, bartering, exchanging or giving away beverage, drink mixture or preparation of any kind whatsoever likely or intended to be used as a beverage containing alcohol in form of less than one-half of 1 per cent in volume.” Besides these two measures, Senator Dunn has a hill pending to make the Indiana prohibition law conform with the Federal statute.

DEMANDS BOOK CONTRACT QUIZ BE MADE PUBLIC Southworth Asks for Results of Senate Committee’s Investigation. CANN PROMISES REPORT * A demand that #he Committee on Rights and Privileges report the results of their investigation into the letting of school book contracts by the State board of education was made in the Senate this morning by Senator Ray Southworth, Lafayette. The committee held several hearings on the contracts, which, it was alleged, would impose SIBO,OOO in excess payments on the school patrons of Indiana. Senator Miles J. Furnas, Lynn, chairman of the committee, said Senators Howard A. Cann, Frankfort, and William A. Swain, Pendleton, had been appointed a sub-committee to write a report, but had not been able to agree. Senator Cann. author of the probe resolution, confirmed the statement, but added that the report would be forthcoming tomorrow morning. The Committee on the Affairs of the City of Indianapolis reported favorably the Benedict bill, which seeks to abolish the fee grab system among Marlon Counitv office holders. Senators English and j Baxter did not sign tl - e report, but no i minority finding was returned. FAVORABLE RETORT ON MOVIE BILL. The bill of Senator James 11. Humphreys, Linton, making unlawful the dis play of immoral motion pictures or films showing violent crime er prize fights and bull fights was reported favorably. According to Senator Humphreys the bill will not conflict with the peediug motion j fdeture censorship measure. A motion made by Senator C. Oliver Holmes. Gary, to recall Senate bill 179 from the House for reconsideration was accepted. The bill provides that liability insurance companies be made party ; defendants In personal Injury -ases. The ! Senator poluted out that if the bill becomes a law It might require insurance companies to pay more than the amounts | of their policies us a result of Judgments. He said this feature would cau.e a large increase in insurance rates. WISHES TO RECONSIDER . SOLDIERS’ HOME ACT. i Senator Alonzo l.lndley, Kingman, introduced n resolution to reconsider the action of the enate In passing the Southworth hill appropriating $225,090 for a hospital and kitchen at the State Sol--1 filers' Homo at La fa yet la. Tne motion 1 will be acted upon tomorrow. Senator J. Fred Masters. Indianapolis, failed in an attempt to kill the bill 11i censing real statute brokers and salesmen. He moved to strike out the enacting clause when it came up for second read--1 Id*. Senator Oscar Rafts, Republican floor leader, Introduced a bill that was favored (Continued on i'uge Too.) KILLS FATHER, CHOKING WIFE Daughter’s Knife Thrust Brings Tragic End to Family Quarrel. PHILADELPHIA, Pn„ Feb. 23.—Terfied by the tig of her father choking her mother during a quarrel, 15-year-olil Elizabeth Lance seized a girl scout knife and plunged it into her father's breast at their home early today. Inflicting a wound from which he died within a few minutes. The dead muu is Edgar M. Lance. 37. Police declare that Lance, who had been drinking, turned on the girl, who was endeavoring to make peace. Mother and daughter were arrested. They refuse to discuss the tragedy.

provide for the appointment of a commission of three to serve on the censorship board. They would be appointed by the Governor and the chairman would receive a Ralary of $3,000 and the other two, $2,500 each. AMENDMENTS added to iiorsE mu,. Mrs. Nelson's first draft would have vested the censorship authority In the State board of education. The amendments, which were first offered In the Senate by Senator Dunn, were attached to the House bill after all but the enacting clause had been stricken out. The bill ns reported out, according to Chairman I.afuze, combines the best features of all the hills Introduced relating to censorship of motion pictures. Deputy commissioners could be appointed by tho commission, to serve without salary, but would receive their expenses. Transportation of films not licensed in Indiana would be prohibited. All scientific films would be exempt from license fees. All obscene, immoral and other films of like nature would be prohibited from exhibition. MEASIRE CARRIES APPROPRIATION. The bill carries an appropriation of $5,000 for defraying the expenses of the commission until it can be self-sustaining. The commission would be given power to pass on advertisements for films, ns well as the films. The commission would not be required to censor current events films. All violations would be punishable by a fine of SSOO. License fees are fixed in the new bill as follows: Two dollars for the first 1,000 feet of film and $1 for each additional 1,000 feet. Duplicates are to be paid for at the rate of $1 for the first 1.000 and 50 cents for each additional 1,000 feet. 300 Maniacs Fight to Get Into Blaze HAMILTON. Out., Feb. 23.—More than 300 maniacs, fighting to hurl themselves into the Name#, were rescued today when lire swept the Orchard House, one of the main building* of th Ontario Hospital for the Insane.

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Three Brothers to Tell How Fourth Killed Fifth

BELLEVILLE. 111., Feb. 23—Three brothers will be called on tonight to give testimony on which the fate of a fourth brother, charged with the killing cf a fifth brother and another man. will probably hinge. They will be heard at an inquest on the deaths of George H. B atty, 35, Mascoutah. 111., and Otto Kllngenfuss, 50, Belleville. Kliugeufuss and Beatty died from pistol mounds received in u light during a

TURNS TO WORK ON SPEECH FOR INAUGURATION President-Elect Expects to Quit Southern Playground First of Week. LABOR BERTH NOT SURE ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla., Feb. 23.—Having the bulk of bis Cabinet worries behind him, temporarily, at least, the President elect' planned today to devote most of his remaining time In Florida to the preparation of his Inaugural address, to be given March 4. Only four real working days remain of the Presi-dent-elect's vacation in the South. He will start north the first of the week, and from then until the inauguration will be so on the move that there will be little time for uninterrupted work. Harding lias masses of data on most of the subjects on which he will touch in his address. These have been left with him by visitors and some cf the advisers with whom he has conferred during his month's sojourn in the South. It is not expected tla Harding will attempt to go deeply into the international situation in his address, but will hav'lbthat to be dealt with st a later time, probably In n ; special message to the Sixty-Seventh Congress, which will assemble early in April. CABINET SITUATION APPEARS CLOSED. So far as surface indications point in St. Augustine the Cabinet situation is closed up. There is one possible exception that of the labor portfolio, for which James J. Davis of Pennsylvania and Illinois is the foremost candidate. It was learned today, however, that friends of Jnmes Duncan of the Granite Cutters, who comes from Massachusetts, have increased their efforts In Ms behalf and If there Is a change between now and March 4 In the Cabinet which Harding tentatively lias selected, it is believed likely in this department. The l.abor Department choice has been contested the most bitterly of the ten. Labor leaders and union heads vied with one another In insisting on the appolntnien of this .tuj that candidate, and many of them have protested again Davis' selection on the ground that Davis has been one of labor executive ranks so long that he can no longer be considered a "labor 3 ppokitnjent." Senator Harding has listened patiently to the*,, arguments and has kept his own counsel here. Herbert Hoover's appointment as Secretary of Commerce is regarded in St. Augustine ns settled, despite denials made by the former food nduiinlstrat ir's friends in the North that he would enter the Cabinet.

DENY THEY TRIED TO INFLUENCE HARDING

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Denying that they hail attempted in any way to Influence President elect Harding in selection Os his Cabinet, Senators Penrose and Knox at Pennsylvania today said they were in the dark concerning Harry Daugherty's reported "fixing'' mission here. Daugherty was expected in Washington this afternoon. It was reported he hurried here from St. Augustine at Harding's request to get Penrose, Knox and Senator Johnson of California to agree to accept Hoover as Secretary of Commerce. FAIR ‘FIRERUG’ GETS HER WISH Craves Excitement Three Blazes Arson Charge. NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Miss Mary J. Hickey, 34, a Brooklyn nurse, craved excitement. She started three separate fires in the dental parlors of Dr. 11. ('. Parker. She is charged with arson. "I don't know what made me do It,” sobbed Miss Hickey, an attractive young woman. "Something flashed through my mind that made me want excitement and—well, I got it.” Miss Hickey succeeded in routing thirty families into the street. Damage was estimated at $5,000. Denby to Confer With Harding About Post DETROIT, Feb. 23.—Edwin Denby, whom it was announced yesterday has been selected tentatively for Secretary of the Navy in the Harding Cabinet, left here at noon today for St. Augustine, Fla., for a conference with the Presidentelect. Although Denby himself would not say whether he would accept the post, close friends say he will.

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meeting of stockholders and directors of the Beatty Coal Company. Dr. James Beatty, 51, a physician, is held for the killings. Roland Beatty, president of the company, and his brothers, John and Nephle, will be the principal witnesses. The victims died wifcout making statements. The shooting resulted from a quarrel over whether stockholders were to pay the same price as other purchasers for coal from the company's mines, it was said.

GRAND JURORS CALL FOR JAIL IMPROVEMENT Bathing Facilities and Steps to Relieve Congestion Among Demands. REPORT MADE TO COURT Extensive Improvements are expected to be made at the Marion County Jail as the result of a report on jail conditions, made today by the Marlon County grand Jury to Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court. The grand Jurors reported that “Improved and sanitary bathing facilities j should be provided at the Jail'' and also that steps should be takeu to relieve congested conditions. The investigation was made on written request of Sheriff George Snider, who objected to the plumbing and sanitary conditions. , JURY’S COMPLETE RFC O-M MEN DAT lONS. The complete report with the jurors’ recommendations is as follows: “Having In mind that the jail shonld be provided with sanitary and safety i measures and not w’lth luxuries and having completed our Investigation, we, the grand Jurors of Marion County, del sire to make the following recommendations for the improvement of the Marion i County Jail: ! “1. Improved and sanitary bathing facilities should be provided at the jail, 1 not only in the cell rooms, but a tub or shower bathroom, separate from the cell rooms, should be provided to care for the dirty, and sometimes filthy, prisoners which are brought to the Jail, in order that they, and their clothing, may he properly fumigated and scrubbed to prevent the spreading of disease and vermin among other prisoners In the cell rooms, and that a change of clothing should be given each of said prisonj ers before leaving such room, j “2. That new lavatories and toilets should bs installed in all cell rooms, and that additional sanitary lavatories and I toilets be installed in the large room on the south aide of the third floor of ! tho J.ill. ! "3. That the screens for the circular top windows on the third floor, south, be repaired or replaced, so that no open i ings will exist as they do at the preent time. j "4. That consideration be given to the : present crowded condition of the quarI ters of the men prisoners, and the grand I Jurors suggest the female prisoners be transferred to another floor, and that the department now used for the female prisoners be used for the male prloners. "5. That some arrangements should be made to care for sick prisoners and segregate them from the others. "Your grand Jurors desire to report further that upon investigation and after their examination of the condition of the Jail, they ascertained that a contract (Continued on Page Two.) BURROUGHS TAKES REST IN HOSPITAL Naturalist Suffers Only Slight Illness, Report. PASADENA, Cal., Feb. 23. —John Burroughs, naturalist and poet, is in the Pasadena Hospital today suffering from a slight Indisposition. Friends of Mr. Burroughs, who will be 84 on April 3 next, were told he will soon be able to return to the mountain cabin where he has been spending the winter. It was stated that Mr. Borroughs desired a complete rest rather than a course of treatment, and that this prompted him to go to the hospital. SUES FOR $3,000 IN STOCK DEAL Motor Corporation Charges Failure to Pay. Judgment for $3,000 was asked in a complaint filed today in Superior Court, room. 1, by the Duesenberg Automobile and Motor Company. Inc., against Walter J. Miller, 1557 Shelby street, alleging Miller has not been paid in fnlt for stock. Mary Smith, In Superior Court, room 4, asks $1,500 from Willis M. Isbell for damages satd to have been sustained in buying stock in the Merchants' Liquidation Company from Isbell. Damages of $1,600 are asked in Superior Court, room 5, in a suit filed by Joseph .T. Wertheimer against the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. I.ouis Railway Company for injuries said to have been sustained in a week near ; Crawfordsvllle, Jan. 31, 1921.

NO. 247.

KILLS ALL HOPE FOR REVIVAL OF GERMAN STUDY House Knocks Out High School Bill After Death of Companion Measure. JUDGES’ PAY TO GO UP All hopes of reinstating the teaching of German in the schools cf Indiana were crushed this morning when the House, by a viva voce vote, adopted the unanimous report of the Committee on Education favoring indefinite postponement of the Dailey bill, which would have lifted the ban against the language in Hoosier high schools. The Bowers bill, a companion measure, was killed in the Senate Tuesday afternoon. The Senate bill would have permitted German to be taught In elementary and parochial schools. The House also killed the Kingsbury b!U providing for a tax levy of six-tenths of a mill on each $1 assessed valuation for the support of needy blind. Ths Committee on County and Township Business had returned a divided report. The majority favored indefinite postponement, while the minority favored passage. The latter was signed by Representatives Jlnnett, Myers. Malott and Leer. The bill would have authorized the appointment In each county of a commission to supervise expenditures. The Llndley bill, providing for payment of $237.22 out of the State hydrophobia fund to reimburse George Lambert of Clinton for money expended foa treatment in Chicago, was killed by adopi tiou of a minority report of the Comi inittee on Claims. It was said Lambert did not follow provisions of the law relative to the payment of claims. Representative Abrams' bill providing for an increase of $1,500 in the salary of the city jndge of Indianapolis was passed, 56 to 36, on motion of Abrams to reconsider action taken several days ago, when the bill was killed. The salary of the city Judge now is $3,500. Two attempts to halt action on the bill were made by Representative Glbbens, Madison County. He first moved to table Representative Abrams’ motion to reconsider, but his motion was lost. Following passage of the bill, he made a motion to reconsider. A motion to table by Mr. Abrams was overruled by the chair.

AIR MAIL RACER : FLIES AT NIGHT New Record Predicted for Flight From Coast to Coast. CHICAGO, Feb. 23 —Completing an al- ! most continuous night flight from i Cheyenne, Wyo., guided by compass readings, Filot John 11. Knight, eastj bound In the trans continental air mail race, landed safely here at 8:40 o’clock ■ this morning. j. With his arrival, air mail officials pre- ' dieted their hopes of establishing a recj ord of thirty-six to forty hours for a ! coast-to-coast flight would he realized. Twenty minutes after Knight's arrival, | the mail from his plane had been transj ferred to another, which left for Cleveland in charge of Pilot Webster. Barring accidents, it was predicted, this plane would arrive at Hazelhurst field, L. 1., late in the afternoon, makI ing the elapsed time for the eoast-to- | coast flight less than thirty-six hours. Pilot D. C. Smith of the first west- | bound plane to pass through Chicago |in the trans-continental race was pre- ‘ paring to hop off from Maywood field ! today. The westbound plane left New York ! at 4:22 a. m. Tuesday, arriving here at | 3:10 in the afternoon. Unfavorable | weather caused a delay here. CONEY DELA YED ON LONG FLIGHT SAN ANGELO, Texas, Feb. 23.—Afte* : twenty-four hours’ delay at Bronte, neaj i here, where he was forced to land Tuesday morning for gasoline, Lieut. W. D, I Coney left today for Dallas on Ms coast to coast trip. Coney flew from San Diego i to Bronte, virtually half the distance from j San Diego to Jacksonville, Fla., in twelvo j hours. The long delay may cause abandonment of the trip at Dallas. PLANE PASSES~ CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 23—Pilot Webster arrived In Cleveland at 12:52 p. m. with his mail plane and eleven minutes later Pilot Allison was en routs for New Y’ork. It Is predicted he will land at Hazelhurst field. Long Island, between 5 and 5:30 p. m. Another place, itF charge of Pilot Hopson, was to leave here for New York at 1:30 p. m. FEDERAL CHARGE CONFRONTS THREE Indiana Men Taken for Motor Law Violation. With the arrest yesterday of Clarence Miller, owner of a garage at Osgood, Clem Webber of Wright's Corner, Dearborn County, and I<eo Robinson, garngo owner of Sunman, on charges of violating tho national motor vehicle law, Federal officials believe they are well on the way to breaking up a carefully worked out plot fur stealing automobiles. The men were arrested by Thomas J. Long, deputy United States marshal, and were brought to Indianapolis on commissioners warrants. They were arraigned before United States Commissioner Charles IV. Moores. Webber's and Miller's bonds were placed at SI,OOO each, and Robinson's at $1,500. They vere taken to Jail, but it Is believed will furnish bond. It is charged by Federal agents that garage men in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio; Indianapolis, Gary, Osgood. Sunman and Delaware. Ind., are implicated in the plot. At Sunman an outfit for altering the motor numbers of stolen cars was found. It is Raid cars stolen at Dayton or Cincinnati would be driven to Sunman, where the motor number would be changed skillfully and then the car would be sent on to one of the distributing pofuts for sale. It Is believed other arrests wiU be made.