Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled with probably rain tonight- and Tuesday.

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BUSH PETITION FOR CLEMENCY UP TOMORROW Deery, Counsel for Penal Farm Convict, Has Hearing Date Set. 7 INDIANAPOLIS CASES Hearing on the petition of Dennis J. Bush of Indianapolis for release from the Indiana State Farm will be held by the State board of pardons tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock, it was announced today. The hour of the hearing was set late Saturday by James E. Deery, counsel for Bush. Bush went to the Penal Farm a short time ago to serve a sentence of four months imposed for an assault and battery charge growing out of the 11*14 elections, after having successfully dodged •ervlce for more than six years. The city administration, led by Mayo* Charles W. Jewett and other Republican politicians. Including T'nited States Senator Harry S. New, have Interested themselves in Bush's release.

Mayor Jewett vias so Interested in the release of Bush that he left a typewritten note with former Governor Goodrich showing that “Everything is all right. Should be done if possible,” when he was trying to get the ex-Governor to order the convicted gambler'! release from custody. SEVEN LOCAL CASES ON DOCKET. Seven Indianapolis and Marion County cases were on the docket of the pardon board when It convened. One, that of Joe Grimsley, sentenced hy Judge Frank Lahr In Juvenile court, for contributing to the neglect of a child, was heard by the board at the morning session. Grimsley's sisters appeared before the board. Board members heard their statements and asked for statements from the prosecuting attorney and the presiding jndge, and will pass on the case after hearing fro mthese officials. A touching plea was made to the board by Mrs. Nathan Fisher, Sandyville, Ohio, who came to Indianapolis to appear before the board in behalf of her son, James Fisher, aiias Carrigan, who was convicted in Ft. Wayne on a charge of burglary. Mrs. Fisher had been given the impression that she could take her •on home with her, and when she learned this was impossible she broke down and cried pitifully. The boy was given a sentence of two to fourteen years in the reformatory, and baa served little more than a year of the sentence. The board sent the mother home, and told her they would investigate the case fully, and that in about ten days or more she might hope to see her eon. HEARINGS IN OTHER LOCAL CASES SET. Hearings on other Indianapolis rases have been set as follows: Fred Frosta, convicted on a charge of vehicle taking. 9 o'clock Thursday. Earl K. Blakely, assault and battery with Intent to commit rape, case not set. Orlando Horton, grand larceny, 10 o'clock Friday. James Barker, robbery, 4:30 today. Charles Thompson, violating prohibition law, 9:30 Wednesday. John Shauler, 10 o'clock Wednesday. Maurice Bltewelss, assault and battery, 9 o’clock Saturday. Bleiwelss was convicted In the Marion County Criminal Court many months ago on a charge of assault and battery and sentenced to thirty days in jail. His case Is unique In that he is appearing before the pardon board for clemency before he has served an hour of his sentence.

BASED PLEA OX IMPORTANT BUSINESS. He appealed his case to the Supreme Court, which affirmed the decision of the lower court. He was then given a ninetydey respite by James P. Goodrich, for mer Governor. His plea for a respite was made on the ground that he was preparing to go to New York on an important business trip, but be neglected to state that during the respite an attempt would be made to obtain clemency. The board has 13(1 cases on its docket, which must be disposed of during the week. Several prisoners serving life sentences foi; murder are included in the list. The board heard the case of John Shauler, convicted in the Indianapolis city court, on a charge of child neglect. Members of the police department appeared and opposed clemency for the man, stating that if he were paroled, he soon would be arrested again. An appeal was made on behalf of .Tames Howe, convicted in the Clay Circuit Court on a charge of murder, and given a life sentence in the State Prison. Howe shot two men in his saloon while in a drunken rage. His family is endeavoring to have his sentence reduced to that for manslaughter.

ROADS’ CLAIMS ON U. S. PILE UP Rail Guaranty Demands to Take Fifty Million Dollars This Week. WASHINGTON, March 14—The financial plight of the railroads was reflected today in a veritable jam of demands for money from the Interstate Commerce Commission. carriers have lost no time in presenting claims for partial payments of sums due them under the Federal guaranty. The commission has a large force of experts engaged on accumulated work. The claims are to be certified as speedily as possible, to relieve many of the carriers of financial difficulties. Some roads, unable .to meet their fixed operating charges, count on these payments to relieve their credit strain. During the week the payments certified probably will reach as high as $50,000,000. Officials estimate that by the middle of April total payments, representing partial sums said to be due to the roads, may aggregate $-00,000.000.

WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. in., March 15: I'nsettied weather, with probably rain tonight and Tuesday : not much change in temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m: 4!) 7 a. m 49 8- a. in 50 9 a. m 51 10 a. m 52 11 a. m 55 13 (noon) 57 1 P- m 50 2 P- m 64

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Mrs. Jake L. Hamon, wife of the millionaire Oklahoma politician, for whose death Clara Smith Hamon is on trial in Ardmore, Okla.

Administrator of Hamon Estate Called ‘Accessory 9 Admits on Stand He Gave Clara $5,000 to Aid Flight After Murder.

[BULLETIN] COURT HOUSE, ARDMORE, Okla., March 14.—Jake Hamon’* widow took th Htand today to demand vengeance against the girl who *hot her hunband. She WM led to the stand by her non. Juke llamon, Jr. Mrs. Hamon plainly showed the strain of the ordeal of the trial. The widow wan ghostly white; her cold bine even had loftt their luster, wrinkle?, In her face were deeper. Clara watched the woman, whoso hocband *)>? lived with, walk to the wtufid.

HAIRS IN SLAIN WOMAN’S HAND ‘RIPPER’ CLEW Church Organist Seized on Street at Perth Amboy, N. J., and Murdered. FERTH AMBOY. N. J., March 14.—A suspect was taken Into custody here this afternoon In connection with the brutal of Mrs. Edith Marshall Wilson, pretty church organist. The police refused to give out any definite information about the man arrested. PI3RTB AMBOY, N. J., March 14.—A few blonde hairs clutched in the hands of pretty Mrs. Edith Marshall Wilson, 28. church organist, form the main clew the police are working on today in their search for the slayer of the young woman, whose body was found in a vacant lot near her home Saturday night. Mrs. Wilson was organist in the Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church here. She was seized on the sidewalk within a few paces of her home, just off the main street of Perth Amboy, carried to a vacant lot and there brutally slain. Her body was left so near the sidewalk that the “Ripper” craftily left h<*r open umbrella In such a position that it would hide the white of her face from passersby. “RIPPER” BLAMED

FOR ANOTHER CRIME. This crime Is connected by police with the recent killing of a young woman in West New Brighton, Staten Island, un-* der similar circumstances. The same man is believed responsible for both murders. The place where the outrage occurred was guarded today by police and stared at by a crowd. Mothers kept their daughters indoors. Girls went about in pairs, afraid to venture out alone. Mrs. Wilson had just parted from a girl friend when she was attacked. She and the friend. Miss Sue Franke, had been at a motion picture show. After ward they stood chatting on a corner for a few minutes. It was raining and they were huddled under umbrellas. A woman has informed police she saw the girls part and saw a short, thickset man who looked like a foreigner follow bne of them. Mrs. Wilson turned from the brightly lighted street into the residence street where she lived. Police believe she had taaken only a few steps when the “ripper” knocked her down. RAIN AND WIND DROWN CRIES. _ Detectives declared footprints mud showed the man carried his victim from the sidewalk to the vacant lot. The rain and wind drowned her cries. There was a desperate struggle in the lot, Indicated by the trampled area. The exact cause of death, surgeons say, was heart failure due to fright. The girl’s body was mutilated by the “ripper’s” powerful hands. Two hours later the mother notified neighbors her daughter had not returned. The barking of dogs, which became audible when the rain slackened, led searchers to the body soon after midnight. Mrs. Wilson had been living apart from her husband. HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN SACK BELTON, Texas, March 14.—Nude and decomposed, the headless body of a young woman, tied securely in a sack, is in possession of officers here today and search is being made by posses for the slaver. Fishermen, who found the mutilated body in Little River late Sunday. are dragging the river in an effort to retrieve the head. Both legs had been removed from the body, apparently with a saw. The white, soft hands Inclined officers to believe the woman was unused to work. There were no marks of identification about the body.

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Her fare was expressionless. She was calm. COURTROOM, ARDMORE, Okla., March 14.—The second sensation of the Clara Smith Hamon trial was sprung this morning when Frank L. Ketch, administrator of the Hamon estate and witness for the prosecution, wag branded as un “accessory” after the murder of Jake L. Hamon, by a member of the State's counsel. J. 1.. Hodge, assistant county attorney, ma le the charge. Hodge protested vigorously against “Ketch being granted iin munity” and against admission of his evidence. Hodge announced that his offee had prepared a warrant charging Ketch as an accessory after the fact lu the murder of Hamon. “This warrant will be served whether the accused woman Is convicted or acquitted,” Hodge announced. His protests were overruled oy Trial Judge Thomas W. Champion. The attorney's action, however, was a bombshell to the murder fans. A whispered consultation took place at the State’s counsel table and Ketch then took •be witness stand DECLARES HE GAVE H OMAN ,5.000. The administrator, on the stand, de ciared he had paid |5,000 to the accused woman to aid her on her flight. He did this, he said, nt Hamon's direction. Ketch also declared that Hamon had accused the woman of deliberately ghoo’ing him. but prevailed on the witness to give out a statement that the shooting- was “accidental.”

The county attorney's office at noon announced a warrant charging perju-y bad been sworn out against E. W. Sallls, who was one of the State's chief witnesses. Sullis, who was to have appeared again today, has disappeared, according to Sheriff Buck Garrett. "Sallls testified ha drove Clara Hnmon on her flight through Texas en route to Mexico." Krrett Punlnp, business associate of Hamon, was the first witness of the day Dunlap corroborated previous testimony that Hamon on his deathbed blamed the girl for shooting him. Mrs. Jake Hamon, with her son and other members of her family, arrived shortly before court went into session. Dunlap testified that he saw Hamon in the hospital the second morning after the shooting. “He told me he would never leave the hospital until we boys took him out,” Dunlap sold. “Did you say anything to encourage him?” asked Attorney General Freeling. ”1 told him he had too many big things (Continued on Page Three.)

QUAKE LJCKS TERRE HAUTE Earth Tremor, Lasting Two Minutes, Alarms Residents, Breaks Windows. Special to The Times. TERRE HAT'TE, lnd„ March 14. -Windows in many private dtvellings here were broken when the earth trembled about two minutes shortly after 6 o'clock today. The shock was felt at Clinton, Brazil and other surrounding towns. People rushed into - the streets here, some of them half clad. Guests at the National Hotel ran downstairs -and persons attending early mass at St. Patrick’s Church saw the candles on the altar rock back and forth. The only damage reported was the breaking of windows. No one Mas hurt. CHICAGO, March 14. —Officials in charge of the seismograph at Chicago University said there was no record of an earthquake early today, v hen Informed of reports from the vicinity of Danville, 111., and Terre Haute. Ind., that a heavy I tremor was felt in that section. DANVILLE, 111., March 14.—What is believed to have been an earth tremor. I the most severe ever know-n here, was felt j in Danville and vicinity at 6:10 o’clock j this morning. The tremor lasted ten seconds. Tall* buildings in the city rocked and” bottles and Jars of fruit on shelves were overturned. PARIS, 111., March 14. —A violent earthquake at 6:15 o'clock this morning shook •buildings here, causing occupants to rush into the streets. The tremor lasted two second*.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1921.

G. 0. P. LEADERS SIFT PANACEAS FOR BUSINESS Keeping Revenues Up Is Big Problem at First Council on Congress Program. HEAR TREASURY STAFF WASHINGTON,' March 14.—With Secretary Mellon and a staff of Treasury Department experts “sitting in,” Republican members of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees began work today on a program of tariff and taxation revision which it is hoped will meet the approval of President Harding and the greatly increased Republican majority of Congress. It is conceded hy Republican leaders that if such a program is to be attended by any lasting success they must first accomplish the difficult task of Ironing out the wide divergence of views on tho tariff and domestic taxes prevailing among Republican members of both the Senate and House. Another acute problem which must he solved Is that of effecting practical changes in the existing tariff and Internal revenue laws without depleting the enormous revenue required to finance the Government, increasing the already high cost of living or interfering with the production and export of American goods so essential to tho country's welfare. INVOLVES MANY GRAVE QI'ESTIONS. The relationship of the domestic to the foreign situation, the serious question of readjusting exchange and of stabilizing commerce, of assisting the farmer, the manufacturer and the factory worker, of submerging local or sectional requirements to the needs of the country generally, all enter into the selection of the best methods to be employed to unravel the grave economic anil financial problems Congress must deal with. Today's conference Is only a start. Other conferences will follow. It is the Intention of Republican leaders to devote the short recess before the convening of Congress in extraordinary session next month to consideration of the most practical ways and means of avoiding the legls'atlve breakers ahead. SALES TAX SI BSTITI TE FOR LEVY ON PROFITS. One of the first moves anticipated is the substitution of a sales tax for the excess profits tax. Senator Smoot. Republican, I'tah, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, is engaged on legislation providing for such a substitution. Enactment of an anti dumping bill to shut out foreign products in excessive quantities, passage of an emergency tariff bill and re-enactment of an amended Payne-Aldrich tariff bill are some of ths many panaceas for existing Industrial and business conditions which are being suggested.

ARMOUR PLAN NEW PHASE IN STRIKE CRISIS Cooperative Scheme Is Newest Proposal in Wage Controversy. CHICAGO, March 31.—Declaring that the “s-Keess of any business is measured by its return to the owners and employes and by its service to the public,” Armour A Company, through a statement issued by J. Ogden Armour today, furnished the latest development in the packer-employes strike situation. Armour * Company announced the lnuuguation of a plan of co-operative management whereby employes will share in conducting all of the company’s business, its management “and all mutters of mutual interest.” ‘‘When organization has been perfected," the statement says, "means will be provided for prompt and orderly consideration of all matters of mutual interest, such as wages, hours of labor, working conditions, sanitary and bufety measures, etc." “Any employe who may be selected to serve in any capacity in connection with this plan,” the statement says, “shall be wholly free in performance of his duties as such, and he shall not be discriminated against on account of any action taken by him In good faith, in his representative capacity. The superintendent of the plants and the general superintendent have been designated to see that ftyese instruction* are fully carried out.” PLAN TO BECOME COUNTRY-WIDE. The statement concludes with the an nouncement that full working details of the cooperative management plan will be given to the employes as soon ns organization has been effected and details worked out. Election of a temporary committee to put the plan into effect in other Armour plants throughout the country will proceed immediately, the announcement states. The plan will divide all Armour plans into four main divisions—the beef, pork, production and mechanical divisions, each department tinder these divisions to be divided into voting precincts. Each precinct will elect one committeeman to represent it on a divisional committee. The divisional committee in turn (Continued on Page Two.)

Character Study Featured at Purdue Special to The Times. LAFAYETTE, Ind„ March 14— C'lmribrter analysis of each individual student, anew feature in the eduuatlonai world, has been inaugurated by Dean A. A. Potter of the engineering school of Purdue University. Blanks will he distributed to all students, to be tilled out and returned, and a study of each man's personality will l>e made by more than 100 members of the faculty. At the end of the year results will be supplied to each student and suggestions will be offered as to how he may improve characteristics in which he has been found lacking. This method will be followed for four years and reports will he based on accuracy, application, attitude, cooperative ability, courtesy, efficiency and other qualifications, Including moral and social characteristics. Asa result of these analyses of student character, prospective employers, who write to the university for men, may be supplied with help, the individuality of which will tit the position.

New Comptroller

D. R. Crlssenger of Marlon, Ohio, who ms been nominated by President Harding o succeed John Skelton Williams as 'omptroller of Currency. Mr. Crlssenger s an old friend of the President, having icen one of his neighbors in Marlon.

SAYS PROBLEMS SIMPLIFIED BY CHRIST SCIENCE Bliss Knapp of Mother Church Lecture Board Talks at Murat. ELEVATES STANDARDS Bliss Knapp, C. S. 8., member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., in a lecture at the Murat theater Sunday afternoon, applied the teachings of Christian Science to the solution of present day world problems. Citing particularly tho menace of Bolshevism, whose military encroachment*, In the words of the speaker, are being Opposed by armed hosts, while its mental forces work demoralization in business and society apparently unhindered, Mr. Knapp pointed “a remedy for such hidden evils in the promised Comforter which Jesus described, not as a person, but as the 'Spirit of truth,’ which ‘will guide you Into nil truth-' "When Christian Science brought a re turn of primitive Christian healing. It raised that Standard of Truth, which makes us free In mind and body,” the speaker declared. Mr. Knapp spoke on “Christian Science: the True Standard of Right.” after an introduction by Frederick It. Francke. His lecture In full was as follows: An ex-mayor of New York declared not long ago that “a person who wauts to be honest nowadays must be a crank on honesty.” That Is just a forcible way of describing the present conflict bet ween good and evil, and the extent to which one must go to maintain hts standard of right. Nations and individuals have been aroused us never before to combat a movement commonly known as Bolshevism ; ami while armed forces have gathered to oppose Its military encroachments, its mental forces of demoralization in business and society operate apparently unhindered But there Is a remedy for such hidden evils lti the promised Comforter which .Testis described, not as a person, but ns tho ' Spirit of truth,” which “will guide you into nil truth.” When Christian Science brought a return of primitive Christian healing. It raised that standard of Truth which makes us free In mind r<nd In body. 1 remember, when a child, with what amazement I first discovered that some people do not always speak the truth: and I remember my perplexity as I begged to be told how to detect falsehood in ordinary conversation. My difficulty gradually disappeared as I began to learn In Christian Science that a right sense of honesty, based upon Principle, is a keen detective of dishonest motives. We sometimes speak of that natural discernment as Intuition; for intuition Is the expressed Intelligence of spiritual qualities. This may explain why so many spiritually minded women often go directly and unerringly to the very heart of a problem which seems to baffle the reasoning process of others. That very directness Is sowfttimcH eallcd “ft woman’s reason.” Those who are unwilling to obey un absolute standard of right, generally have a flexible standard which is sometimes called “the law of necessity,” applies to those who are honest In appearance, but who nre quite ready to act dishonestly whenever the rewnrd seems to shift about. Such a variable standard must be policy or deception, and not Principle. In the (Continued on Fuse Nine.)

PLANS QUIZ OF RAIL LEADERS li. S. Labor Board to Look Into Petition for Abrogation of Agreements. CHICAGO, March 14. —Lenders in the Railroad Managers' Association were ordered today to appear before the United States Railroad Labor Board here on Wednesday and submit to examination regarding the petition of the roads for abrogation of some national agreements. The board's action was taken on demand of representatives of railroad unions. Examination of the executives would show that the petition made by railroads for abrogation of the rational agreements was part of the gixat conspiracy to force down wages and break organized labor, the union leaders declared. Frank P. Walsh, attorney for the. unions, addressing the board, declared the packers’ action in cutting wages and abolishing the eight-hour basic day, Mas a part of this conspiracy. Robert S. Binkerd, secretary of the managers association, who was among those ordered to appear, was instructed to place before the board all records and minutes of meetings where the abrogation of national agreements was considered. Others who will be examined include Thotnas DeM-itt Cc.yler, president of the railroad managers' association; W. W. Atferbury. chairman of the labor committee. and Carl Gray, a member of the committee. Others ordered to appear were Hale Holdem. H. C. Markham. H. R. Byram, W. G. Besler. E. E. Loomis, J. 11. Young, J. H. Hustis, IN. D. Maher, W. R. Scott, J. W. Higgins. Charges P. Neill, A. W. Trenholtn and John G. Walbsr.

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GIPSY SMITH HEADLINER AT B. F. KEITH’S Crowd Taxes Capacity of Playhouse at Midday to Hear Evangelist. PROMPT IN* DISMISSAL “It is as religious to get back to work on time as it is to get here,” said Gipsy Smita a few minutes before 1 o’clock today as he closed his noon-day meeting before a crowd that taxed the capacity of the first two floors of B. F. Keith’s theater. The evangelist said, “We are quitting a few minutes before our time is up. Just trust me. I will not make you late in getting back to work.” Tonight at the tabernacle at Alabama and Ohio streets the evangelist will continue his campaign, which he admitted “is the greatest beginning so far this winter.” Speaking from the stage on which some of the highest salaried vaudeville performers of the day have thrilled countless hundreds with drama and comedy, Gipsy Smith, the evangelist, sang a song of faith. "In speaking of spiritual hunger.” the evangelist said, "I am not speaking of the thirst you can satisfy with Ice water or the hunger you can satisfy with beef steak, tine breads aud Ice cream. 1 sin talking about Something deeper. You can go to a restaurant and atop a certain hunger and you can drink from the earthly fountains. I am talking to the deepest things In your heart —the hunger which no earthly fingers can touch. Only God can satisfy that hunger. SAYS TI.VSELL IS Fit AID. "Tinsel Is a fraud. I want something when the fine clothes are worn out, when the fast company fades away, when the crowds ure g<*ne, when the curtain is down I want Jesus when I lay my head down on the pillow. t “If lie puts His finger on a tear lie changes It into a Jewel and He turns a sigh into a song. If He does not take the burden away. He will get under and help carry it. It is only Jesus who can Like the ache out of your heart. “Why do you fiunt things which do not-satisfy? Why spend your money for what is not bread?” In telling the story of a famous English stage clown who made thousands laugh hilt could not find peace and quiet for himself, the evangelist said, "Au actor can be but a man. Only Jesus can satisfy. BORN BEYOND PALE OF CHURCH. "I was born beyond the pale of your churches. You sent no missionaries to me to tell me of Jesus. I didn’t learn it from your churches or your religion as taught and organized. “Love lifted me—the love of Christ. It can lift you, hut you must give It a chance." said Gipsy Smith, as he uttered his first prayer from the stage of Keith’s. He thanked the Keith management for donating the theater free of charge to tho noonday committee. He thanked the staff of the theater. The next noon meeting will be held tomorrow. Preceding the evangelist today. MaJ. Earl Hites of the Volunteers of America spoke for ten minutes. STRAIGHT FRONT HHOI LDF.R TALK. Gipsy Smith talked “straight from the shoulder” as he faced an audience which taxed every inch of space In the big tabernacle. Many persons were turned away and they were directed to near-by churches where overflow meetings were held. Standing alone on the high plntform and In front of a small pine desk, Gipsy (Continued on Page Three.)

ASKS CITY AID TO CONTINUE ON ELEVATION Work on Track Project to Be Halted March 17, Is Advice. Work upon the track elcTntlon project may bp stopped for an indefinite period tunes* the city of Indianapolis meets requests of the Indianapolis Union Railway for a change in lts track elevation contract making funds said to be ou-ed by the city to the company available in the near future, it was learned today. The railM-ay company has issued orders to Its contractor to stop u-ork upon the elevation in and around the Union Station on March 17. City officials conferred today upon the problem and Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby will lay the whole situation before the city council tonight with the request that the council help out by approving at nn early dnte a bond issue with Mhich to pay what the city owes the railroad. Continuation of work upon the M-hnie track elevation project depends upon the Indianapolis Union Railway, it M'as said. According to city officials the city owes the Indianapolis Union Railway $7(54.000 up to Jan. 1. The railroad om-cs the city $309,000 for its share of the cost of constructing the Pogue's Run drain ten years ago and $1(57.000 for other track elevation w-ork done by the city for the railroad company. This leaves the city actually owing the railroad $225,000. The contract of the railroad Mdth the city, hoM’ever, provides that there shall be no settlement until after the track elevation project is entirely completed. Contracts of other railroads involved in the project provide that the city make monthly settlements. Officials of the Indianapolis Union Railway have asked that their contracts b'e modified so that their settlements also may be made (Continued on Page Three.) DR. PETTMOHN IMPROVES. The condition of Dr. O. B. Pettijohn, member of the city council, who has been in the Deaconess hospital for two weeks suffering from uretnie poison, M’as reported improved today.

Good Food , hut Too Many Nuts in Place MARYSVILLE, Cal., March 14. “They gave me good food, servipe and room, but the guests—they Mere ail crazy,” Peter Johnson told the sher. iff, explaining why he escaped from the inline asylum, to which he was committed a month ago.

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NEW RESURFACING LAW ROUSES IRE OF WORKSBOARD HERE Lemaux Says He Can Not Be Forced to Act in Opposition to Wishes of Those He Serves. ACT IS SLIPPED THROUGH ASSEMBLY Discovery that the Legislature passed and the Governor signed a bill amending the street improvement law so that property owners can not remonstrate against resurfacing streets, but can only seek to block such improvements by appeal of 40 per cent of those resident on the street to Circuit Court, led George Lemaux, president of the board of public works, today to declare: “They can have a law passed that way, hut they can’t force me, as long as I am sitting on this board, to cram things down the throats of the people.”

BULL MOOSERS SHARE NOT OF FEDERAL PIE Harding’s Hoosier Appointments Indicate Desire to Slight Bolters. 4 LOYALISTS GET JOBS That the next four years will be lean and hungry ones for the former Bull Moosers of the Hoosier State is indicated plainly by reports of Federal appointments for Indiana to be made by President Harding. The Progressive element will be Just as far away from the political pie counter as it was under the Democratic administration, and all plums will fall into the laps of the stand-pat-ters of the old guard. Incidentally this means that the full power of the national Administration will be thrown behind Senator New In his fight for renomination in 1922 and Albert J. Beveridge and his supporters will find themselves left alone so far as organization support is concerned. News that four Federal appointments have been definitely decided upon bear out this statement. BERT C. MORGAN TO BE "DRY” OFFICER. Today il is announced that Bert C. Morgan, 5461 Julian avenue, will succeed Charles J. Orblson as prohibition enforcement officer for Indiana; that Judge George H. Eberhart of Huntington is slated for the office of t'nited States District Attorney to succeed Frederick Van Xuys, and M. Bert Thurman of New Albany will become collector of Internal revenue succeeding William L. Eider. Only last week it was announced that Lanes Meredith of Richmond would take the place of Mark Storea as United States Marshal. Morgan is a standpatter of the old type. He ts a member of the Republican State committee and chairman of the Fourth district His selection is a grand triumph for the Old Guard. He bad as competitors for the position of prohibition enforcement officer at ieast a dozen other candidates, including Carl Minton, attorney for the Anti-Sa)oon League, but he had the backing of Senators New and Watson. At present Morgan is In charge of the teachers' pension fund of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. REFLECTS APPRECIATION OF STANDPATIBM. M. Bert Thurman Is another New and Watson hand-picked appointee, a personal friend of Senator Watson and third district chairman. Lanes Meredith is also a cirse Watson adherent. For years chuirman of the Sixth district, he stood by the Old Guard loyally through the hard fight against the Progressives when the Bull Moose wave had swept almost the last vestige of standpatism out of Wayne County. Judge F.berhart Is a typical adherent of the State organization forces. He Is judge of the Huntington Circuit Court and has never varied from the straight and narrow paths of regular Republicanism. He stood stanchly by New during the bitter New-Wutson fight of 1910.

Chooses Member for War Finance Board WASHINGTON, March 14.—President Harding Mill send the nomination of a member of the War Finance Corporation to the Senate today, the White House annuouimed. It is understood that the nomination Mill be that of Eugene Meyer, Jr., of New York, a former member of the board. HAYNES QUITS STARBOARD Resignation From Public Service Commission Effective March 31. Paul P. Haynes of Anderson, since Jan. 1, 1918, a member of the public service commission, today tendered his resignation to Governor Warren T. McCray. The resignation is effective March 31. Mr. Haynes is one of the youngest men in the country serving on a public utilities commission, being only 33. Tlie retiring member, after a three months’ business trip in Mexico, as a representative of an American syndicate, Investigating conditions there wdth regard to advisability of making investments. will take up the practice of law in Indianapolis, as a partner of CaTl H. Mote, former secretary of the public service commission. The firm Mill specialize in cases to be tiled M’ith State and Federal trades and utilities commissions. During his service on the commission Mr. Haynes has presided in many important cases, including the reorganizing of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. He was also in charge of the gas standard investigation in Indiana, which resulted in the adoption of standard heating value for gas. The successor to Haynes will not be named until after Governor McCray returns from his vacation. While the Governor would give no intimation as to whom the appointee would be, it Is rumored that George Barnard, an attorney Os Newcastle, is one of the most likely applicants for the place. The Governor returned late Sunday from Jeffersonville, where he was in conference with the board of trustees and u-ardmi of the State Reformatory, regarding the removal of that institution to Putnamville. A representative of (Continued on Faso Vwoj

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The board member, who sometime* has taken the part of property owners who were seeking to be relieved of tbe burden of taxation incident to having streets fronting on their property resurfaced, had his ire aroused first, because the amendment apparently was slipped through the Legislature without any one but the legislators and outside parties interested in it knowing anything about it. and second, because It will remove two steps by which property owners may at present block resurfacing projects which * they deem unwise. PRESENT LAW PROVIDES REMONSTRANCE. Under the present law If 50 per cent or more of the resident property owners remonstrate against a resurfacing project the board of works can not proceed with it unless the city council orders It over the remonstrance. If the council takes such action the property owners then may appeal to Circuit Court. The new law, which will become effective when published, strikes out the right to remonstrate aud to have the matter reviewed by . the city council. Representative Frank Noll of Marion County Introduced the bill, which also includes another amendment to which many property owners will be opposed. The other amendment strikes out the present provision that property owners may remonstrate against the kind of material ordered by the board of public works for resurfacing streets and gives the board of works full power to specify, even before bids are received, the kind of material that must be used. Under the law now the board of works ntnsz receive bids on four kinds of material, wooden block, concrete, brick and asphalt and after receipt of bids must make what Is known as a "preliminary order” for one of the four kinds. The property owners have ten days thereafter in which to file a remonstrance ngainst the kind of material chosen and petition for another. Property owners frequently have availed themselves of this privilege in the past. PROPEBTT OWNERS TO BE GIVEN VOICE. It is pointed out that the second amendment will make impossible for the board of public works tb compel the property owners to accept any kind of pavement it desires to designate. Mr, Lemaux's statement that “they • can’t force me to cram things down the throats of the people,” is taken to Indicate that it will be the policy of the board, as long as he is a member, to unofficially give the property owners some voice in the matter of materials, providing they care to object, but 1 fthe board were so minded the amendment wti, give it tne power to ride right over the wishes of the taxpayers. Representative Noll raid the amendments were designed to prevent tb blocking of resurfacing of downtown streets in Indianapolis in cases where there were only two or three resident (Continued on Page Two.)

NAMING OF NEW JUDGE IS THEME OF POLITICIANS McCray’s Preference for Successor to Vincent Clifford Not Known. Eyes pf political workers in Marion County are turned on Governor Warren T. McCray, who is expected soon to appoint a Judge of Superior Court, room 4, as a successor to Judge Vincent G. Clifford, Mho died last week. The Governor, so far as is known, has given no indications of his preference, but that has not deterred the city hall and county political organization workers from boosting their faithful adherents for the place. The Governor said today he would announce his choice i tomorrow. ARTHUR R. ROBINSON MENTIONED FOR PLACE. Tht.se said to stand the best chances for the appointment are Arthur R. Rob inson, formerly State Senator and formerly a candidate for United States Senator; Maurice E. Tennant, a member of the city board of election commissioners, anil one of the legal advisers attached to the Republican State committee, and James M. Leathers, w’ho aided as judge pro tem. during Judge Clifford's fatal illness, and William R. Higgins, who served in the 89th Division during the World War. .Mr. Robinson stands very close to Governor McCray and there is a well founded belief that he can have the place if he desires it. Mr. Tennant is likewTse close to the Governor and in additiou could summon the support of at least a part of the State organization if he so desired. Neither of the men would be regarded as altogether desirable, however, in the eyes of the Marion County political workers. LEATHERS HAS SUPPORT. Mr. Leathers is said to be favored by many of the “court house crowd,” and it is asserted he has the powerful support of County Treasurer Lemcke. William S. Mat-Masters, a son of Former Judge Mac Masters, is declared to have the backing of some of the Judges. Among others whose chances of ascending the bench are being discussed ars Clinton S. Givans and Omar U. Newman, Marion County representatives in ths . State Legislature; Senator J. Fred Masters, William O. Dunlavy, George H. Batchelor, secretary of the State Bap Association; James E. McDonald and Remster A. Bingham, president of th Marion Club. Bingham is looked on kindly by th city hall forces, but his activity in behalf of Edward C. Toner's gubernatorial race has not placed him in good graces with Governor McCray,