Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1921 — Page 1

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FAVORS JOINT COMMITTEE TO GUARD PRIMARY Robinson Camp Asks Watch by 75 Representing Three G. 0. P. Factions. MOVE IS UP TO LEMAUX Men working for the nomination of Edward J. Robison as Republican 1 candidate for mayor were talking today of launching a movement for the formation of a committee composed of Beventy-Sve well-known and respected citizens to guarantee that Indianapolis has a clean primary election May 3. The Robison supporters say such a committee should be composed of twenty-five men and women representing eaeE of the three candidates for the Republican mayoralty nomination. If such a committee is formed, the Robison men said, they would Jike to see a demand from Irving W. Lemaux, Republican city chairman, that each candidate have a member on every election board in the city. Mr. Lemaux appoints the Republican members of the boards. With the three candidates represented on the boards by substantial, trustworthy persons, Mr. Robison’s workers said, it would be impossible for any candidate to steal the nomination. If such a safeguard is thrown up, they said, they felt confident Mr. Robison would be the nominee, declaring he is gaining strength every day. Supporters of Samuel Lewis Shank have declared ever since he announced his candidacy that if there is a fair primary their man will be nominated. HOWE MEN HAVE LITTLE TO SAY. The camp of Mr. Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler College aud Newg-Jewett candidate, has little to say on the subject, since It is recognized that it is theoretically In control of the Republican city organization. Friends of Mr. Lemaux Insist he is not favoring the Howe crowd and that the men he puts on the election boards will be pledged to do the right thing by every candidate. The Robison and Shank backers, however, insist they have seen no indication that this Is the city chairman's attitude, but on the other band .have seen things which convince them they will have to take some kind of action themselves in order to get a square deal. The Robison camp continued to circulate words of cheer to its workers, denying each rumor that the candidate was going to withdraw. The workers were particularly cheered by the fact that last Monday, just before Mr. Robison filed his declaration of candidacy with the city clerk, he had had a long conference with United States Senator Harry S. New. The splendid attendance which Mr. Robison has had at all his precinct meetings also encourages his followers. In some places Mr. Robison's workers claim he has had even greater enthusiasm than has been aroused by Mr. Shank ROBISON MEETINGS WELL ATTENDED. Mr. Robison spoke to well attended ] gatherings at 231 Indiana avenue, 909 Fayette street, the Gift shoe store, in the 800 block on Massachusetts avenue, and 718 Ogden avenue last night. He will speak at 927 North West street and at Walnut and Locke streets tonight. Economic administration of city affairs and stricter regulation of public utilities In their obligations to the people were promised by Mr. Shank in speeches at 2540 West Michigan street and 234 North Pershing avenue last night. 0 The candidate continued comparison of his administration with that of Mayor (Continued on Page Eleven.)

ORDER CONCRETE IN FIRE STATIONS Wooden Floors Too Frail for Motor Apparatus. Wooden floor* In nine Are station* will be replaced with concrete, the hoard of public works announced today, following fteclpt of a request from the board of public safety that this be done. The wooden floors will not withstand the weight of the new motor Are apparatus, the board of safety said. The stations to he refloored are Xos. 2. 3, 4. 5,6, 14, IS, 10 and 23. The work will be done by private contractors, bids to be received at a date to be announced later. Contracts were awarded as follows: Sidewalks and graded lawns in Dewey avenue, from Arlington avenue to a point 335 feet east, Tood & Reid, $1.85 per lineal foot; total, $1,139.60. Sidewalks and graded lawns in Berkeley road, from Boulevard place to Sunset avenue, Frank Lawson, $3.05 per lineal foot; total, $7,192.49. Sidewalks In Forty-Eighth street from Washington Boulevard to Central avenue, John Arnold A- Company. $1.60 per lineal foot, total, $1,921.05. Preliminary orders for two-course concrete in the permanent improvement of the first alley east of Ruckle street from Forty-Sixth to Forty-Second street, were made. A resolution for a sewer In Rawls avenue from Audubon road to a point 344 feet west of Arlington avenue was adopted. Plans for clean-up week, beginning April 10. wlli be made at a conference of the board with Mayor Charles W. Jewett, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the board of public health: James H. Lowry, superintendent of parks: and representatives of the Boy Scouts and Junior Chamber of Commerce. to be held in the mayor's office tomorrow afternoon. Negro Leaves Girl Prone After Robbery CHICAGO, March 23.—Police are today searching for the negro assailant of Miss Nina Jones, 19, who was found unconscious in a vacant lot on Cottage Grove avenue. She had been beaten, robbed of her Jewelry and money and gagged with her own gloves. The girl is still delirious.

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CARDINAL GIBBONS. BALTIMORE, Md., March 23. —Cardinal Gibbons is critically 111 and hlB death may come at any time, It was said at his residence today. It waa said there had been no change in his condition overnight. The Cardinal’s condition became alarming Sunday night and since that time constant watch has been kept at his bedside. Prayers for the Cardinal have been asked in all churches of the archdioceses for next Sunday. Cardinal Gibbons was stricken at Havre De Grace, Dec. 12, last, and late in 1920 and early In 1921 grave fears were entertained for his recovery'. He rallied, however, and during the past six weeks had been able to take automobile rides.

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Men Buried Under Hot Bricks and Heated Metal at Steel Plant. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 23—Three laborers were killed and three were seriously burned when a furnace at the Steelton plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation collapsed today. The men were buried under huge masses of hot bricks and heated metal. Their bodies were so badly burned that identification was almost impossible. One man is still missing. he cause of the collapse is unknown. Year on State Farm for Stealing 3 Cows On a charge .of stealing three cows, Clifford Tate, 19, today was sentenced to a year on the Indiana State Fnrra by Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court. Albert Anderson, charged with bigamy, was released on his own recognizance after the evidence was heard by the court. Anderson claimed he had not heard for years from his first wife and married his second wife, who is now trying to get a dlovrce from him, after he understood his first wife was dead. Harry Fritz, charged with assault and battery, was fined $23 and costs. ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson Going JHind, Report NEW YORK. March 23. — William (Pussyfoot) Johnson, famous prohibition worker. Is going blind, according to a statement issued here today by Miss Anna Gordon, head of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Mr. Johnson lost the sight of one eye when he was attacked during a dry speech in London and now he is losing the sight of the other eye. According to Miss Gordon, Mr. Johnson is under treatment in a sanitarium In South Carolina, but specialists hold out no hope of saving his sight.

Americans Draw Terms in German Prisons for Trying to Nab Bergdoll

MOSBACH. Germany, March 23.—Two American detectives connected with the United States military forces were sentenced today to serve terms in a German prison. They were convicted in a German court on the evidence of German witnesses of attempting to kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, American slacker. Carl Xeaf and Fran* Zimmer, the detectives, were charged with illegally assuming the power of police officers. Xeaf was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment on the additional charge that he shot and wounded a German girl iu Bergdoll s car. Zimmer received a sentence of six months. The men were defended by lawyers hired by the American Legion. Bergdoll himself was a witness. He told a halting story and so clearly contradicted himself that the presiding judge finally warned him of the strictness of the German perjury laws. While the American and aft dodger was on the stand the hostility of the crowd toward the two detectives was shown by Its remarks. "Schweiuhundeir," and other characteristic remarks were heard. A policeman who called one of the defense lawyers “a dirty dog,” was mildly rebuked by tbe judge.

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Court Rules Decision for Wife Will lie Based on Child’s Legitimacy. WHITE PLAINS. V. Y„ March 23. Alleging that Mrs. James A. Stillman had taken as her lover an Indian guide who became the father of her infant, Guy, Delaneey Nicoll, chief of counsel for Stillman, millionaire banker, in hi* divorce suit, made a sensational fight in the Supreme Court here today against the wife's demand for $120,000 alimony annually and $23,000 counsel fees. Counsel for the president of the National (Tty Bank of New York City, presented figures to show that his income last year wns $336,000, not sufficient to meet bis wife's demands The hearing was brief and the expectation of sensational revelations was not realized. When the case was ended at 10:35 o’clock. Justice Morschauser re Served decision on Mrs. Stillman's alimony motion. COMMENTS ON GDI I.D CASE. A plea that Mrs. Stillman be granted but $20,001) yearly alimony and $3,000 counsel fees Instead of the larger sum she sought, was made by Attorney Nicoll. The attorney argued that this sura was granted In the famous Gould divorce, which then new high record. He said he did not believe It should be surpassed In the present case. Justice Morschauser ruled that the whole question was affected by the leglti macy of Guy, the 30 inouths-old Infant of Mrs Stillman, and gave the lawyer until Saturday to file additional papers bearing upon this Issue. “We have tendered a stipulation to the effect that the plaintiff Is able to pay any reasonable sum to the defendant that your honor might allow,” said Nicoll. "Rut It shoaid. be explained that there wore several deductions from Stillman's gross Income, including Federal tax, which left the amount about $530 000. “In considering the question before you, your honor has these facts for your guidance. Mr. Stillman believes, and the (Continued on Page Two.)

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Hisses were frequent and officers of the court made little effort to quell the demonstrations. Several Americans from the army of occupation who appeared as witnesses met the same hostility as the two prisoners. I’-ergdoll was mercilessly arraigned by lawyers for the detectives. "Even Germans regard a slacker ns despicable.” they declared. Four Germans who assisted the two Americans in their attempt to arrest tbe draft dodger were sentenced to from six to eleven months' imprisonment. DEMANDS BERGDOLL AND DETECTIVES WASHINGTON', March 23—The United States has demanded of Germany the surrender of Grover Celvelaud Bergdoll. wealthy Philadelphia draft dodger, and the release from prison of two Americans who recently attempted to eapture Bergdoll, it was learned today on official authority. The surrender has been asked In representations made through the State Department and through Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, commander of the American Army of occupation In Germany.

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PENN RAILWAY GIVES NOTICE OF WAGE CUT General Managers and Employes to Decide Upon Reductions, Is Plan. CONCILIATORY, BUT FIRM CHICAGO, March 28.—Employes of the Pennsylvania lines today were served notice that their wages must be slashed, While W. W. Atterbury, vice president of the Pennsylvania, was urging before the United States Railroad Labor Board that national shop agreements be abro- j gated. President Samuel Rea served the wage out ultimatum on employes. Rea's notice was conciliatory In tone, but expressed determination of the com pany to cut wages. No percentage of decrease was named. The notice said that 70 cents out of every dollar taken In by the road was paid out in wages, which created a deficit when other expenses were met. It is expected that other roads will follow the leadership of the Pennsylvania. Railroad unionists were not yet prepared to state what action they will take. Employes, however, are confronted with this situation : The United States Railroad Labor Board, which was established during the war to arbitrate differences between rail management and employes, is powerless to prevent wage reductions because the law creating the board has no teeth in it. All the board can do, according to the transportation act, is to "make public its findings." REA STATEMENT OFFERS EXPLANATION "Wa have come to the necessity of reducing salaries and wages," says Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, In a statement issued to officers and employes of the company In Indianapolis. “Drastic economies have been made In every other way possible," he continued. "Working forces Lave been reduced more than 70,000 men, With leas business to handle and wages taking the abnormal sum of nearly 70 cents out of every dolI liar the railroad earns, the remaining 30 cents is not sufficient to buy fuel aud (Continued on Page Two.)

Orders $5,000,000 Lot of Structural Steel NEW YORK, March 23.—The American Woolen Company has p'ared an order for approximately $5,000,000 of structural steel material with the United States Steel Corporation, according to reports in steel circles today. The American Woolen Company, it la said, has let contracts for new buildings that will re quire this amount of steel. Sue for Possession of Dancing Pavilion A suit for Possession of a darning pavilion at the Riverside Canoe Club and damages of SI,OOO for alleged violation of a lease was filed today by Albert Lleher and J. Clyde Power against Michael J. Glenn In Superior Court, room 2, The plaintiffs claim Glenn has failed to pay his rent. Hammond Man Gives Bond in Rum Charge

Abrnbmn E. Cutler, alias Sam Levine, of Hammond, who ha* been In the Marlon County Jail for several weeks In default of bond of $3,000 Awaiting the action of the Federal grand Jury on a charge of violating the national prohihl tlon laws, was released today on bond signed by the lowa Bonding Company of De* Moines, lowa. Cutler wns arrested at Hammond and waived bearing when taken before the United States commissioner at that place. FINED (100 FOR CARRYING KN'CCKS, Uansome McVee, Beech Grove, was fined SIOO and costs on charges of carry lng conceuled weapons by Henry Abrams, Judge pro tem., in city court today. Charges of petit larceny were continued indefinitely against him. McVee was arrested by Fletcher and Johnson, Blg Four railroad detectives, in the Cleveland Grain and Milling Company's plant when they found a pair of brass knacks and several tools on him. The detectives say they caught McVee steal ing some brass fixtures. FIXED $1 FOB SPEEDING. Charles Murello, 541 Must Merrll street, was fined SI and costs on charges of speeding today by Henry Abrams, Judge pro tem. lu city court.

SH! THE SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS—--I- -I- -I- -I- -I- -I- -I- -I- -1- -i- -|- -|- -i- -|- Receive Accountant's Report and File It!

Strict secrecy, barred door*, guarded portals, war correspondents crouching expectantly as close as possible to the battlefront, marked the long heralded secret session of the board of school commissioners last night, called to consider the report of 11. A. Roney, public accountant, on the business administration of the board, of which George C. Hitt is business director. Minute after minute passed and no sign* of battle issued from behind the closed dcors, the long expected fight failed to materialize, and after forty-five minutes the doors opened, the five members of the board came out. smiling, intact, unruffled, as did Walter Carpenter, official reporter and the only outsider permitted in the room during the meeting. It was announced that the report had been received and ordered filed aud that the party was over. The volcano had turned out to be nothing more than an imitation firecracker, the bomb only a “dud.” So for the time being the report reposes in the files of the school board, and how long It will remain there before further action is taken no man knoweth. It is generally understood that what happened is substantially as follows: When the meeting opened Mrs. Julia Belle Tutewiler, president of the board, read a lengthy communication from Charles ,T. Orbison, attorney, of "Dear Jerry” fame, in which he expressed highest approval of the Roney report and of its legal contents, which had been largely prepared by himself. The stage now being set for battle, Clarence E. Crippin moved that the report be received and filed, an 1 Bert S. Gadd promptly seconded the motion. The motion waa carried with

LIFE, NOT TALK, COUNTS, SAYS GIPSY SMITH Appeal for Old-Time Religion Made by Evangelist at Noon Meeting. ATTACKS DRINK EVIL

Home Run Drives by Gipsy Smith "If Jesus has not come to your home, It’s becunse you don’t want Illm. If He is not In your heart It’s because you have not made room for lllm." “Some men say there Is no devil, but I’ve been in town long enough to know there is a lot of devillshnes* here.” "If I had my way I’d burn every distillery of whisky. I would tolerate no man who fattens off the ruination of other men’s souls.” "If a man gets drunk, every family on the street knows It, but a churchgoer can wreck Ills home and mistreat his wife and family, with the blinds pulled down, and tire world will Ig none the wiser.” “You can’t say ’sin’ without hissing like a snake.” “Most people In this country are ready to jump off at everything but the right tiling.” "If you want to beat the devil you have to tight him In the cradle.” “You may bo o pauper splrtuivily hi,e you are riding about iu an expensive automobile." “The concerns of eternity demand more than five minutes death-bed at-

"Some of you people are so good that you should never leave the communion table, and when you get away from It ou're so bad you never want to go back," Gipsy Smith told his Keith theuter audience at tho noon meeting today. "We can make big speeches, but are we leading big lives? It's the life that tells. "Are you seeking to make every moment of your life a monument to Him?" ' Jesus doesn't want your patronage. It's your worship, your obedience to His will that He demands. Are you for Him lri your business, In your home. In your social clrele?” Gipsy Smith made an appeal for that old certainty of religion that was evident in the days of "our fathers and mothers." as he expressed it. Good Friday to him, he said, expressed hope for the world and religious certainty, and religious certainty, he said, is certainty of religion. “Where Is vmir certainty?" he shouted. I SK.H M OHOB OF CHRIST \S TEXT. The evangelist used the words of Christ, "He that Is not with Me Is aaglnst Me." for h s tin me, and declared that the words still hold true. "Christ won’t be brushed aside," he said, "die's the stone upon which if you fall. Toil'll b broken But (here's mercy for you. And if it falls on you. you re lost," The ten inintite sermon was given by the Rev. F. tt Dawson, pastor of the Z.lon Evangelical Church. "Prink Is still about and m> Christians should ferret It out." said Gipsy (Continued on Page Two.) Youths Plead Guilty of Train Robbery Fnelal to The Times. PORTLAND. Ind.. March 23. -Chris Cornell, 23, and John Hines, 22. arrested last Friday chnrged withh robbing a Lake Erie & Western train near here on March 10. pleaded guilty In Circuit Court here today. Sentence was withheld for a short time in the belief the ..outlie would give further confirmation regarding the brains of a gang they de clure they were working with. Seek ‘Missing Link’ RAN FRANCISCO, Mar h 23.- To make preparations for one of the most exten she and elaborate scientific expeditions ever organized to Investigate the hlstory of man. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chapman Andrews are en route today to Pekin, China. From there the expedition will go to Mongolia the cradle of mankind—aud conduct a search for the "missing link.” WATER KATE ORDER HELD UP. The order by which the public service commission will authorize an increase in water rates will be held up until the latter part of the week Commissioner Glenn Van Auken, who has charge of the case, said today. The delay was occasioned by the request of Samuel Ashby, uttorney for tho city of Indianapolis, to file a brief.

one dissenting vote, that of Charles L. Barry. At this point W. P. Allison broke Into the discussion with the question : "If this is what we are going to do. why was this meeting called at all?” Mr. Crippin and Jcr. Gadd took the stand that the members hud not had sufficient time to study the report carefully, but Mr. Allison thought that then was the time to take the matter up, particularly as all members of the board have had before them the itemized report for fully two weeks and the supplemental report for some time longer. But Mr. Crippin and Mr. Gadd are said to have been very firm in their stand that the board members needed more time to study the matter before discussing it. Mrs. Tutewiler Is said to have agreed with Messrs. Gadd and Crippin. So the board adjourned without setting any definite time to take n the report for discussion or ncti< , and the secret session came to an u - eventful conclusion. The State board of accounts may not approve the expense* incurred by Mr. Roney in making the investigation, it was Indicated at the Statehouse today. According to Lawrence Orr, a deputy examiner of the board of accounts. the Indianapolis school board law, enacted in 1599. provides that the board shall employ an accountant to go over its affairs. According to Mr. Orr, similar laws were enacted concerning other corporations previous to the enactment of the board of accounts law and in every case of this kind the accounts board has held that the latter law repealed this provision of the former.

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COURT ADMITS STATEMENT OF CARLBERNAUER Hard Fight Fails to Block Description to Police of Eaids Shooting. ‘DOPED/ PRISONER SAYS Special to The Tiroes. SIIELBYVILLE, Ind.. March 23.—0 b jections of the defense to introduction of a statement said to have been made by Carl Bernauer of Indianapolis, who la being tried in the Shelby Circuit Court for the murder of Samutt Eaids. an Indianapolis confectioner, were overruled by Judge Alonzo Blair and the statement was submitted to the jury. The jurors had been excluded from the courtroom the greater part of the second day of the trial while evidence I on admissibility of the statement was i heard. 1 The statement was said to have been ! made by Bet nailer on Jan. 31, 1921, at the office of Lieutenant Fletcher at In- j 1 dianapolls, in the presence of Detectives j Manning and Reynolds. According to Bernauer, who was placed on the stand, j the statement was obtained from him under duress and while he was In a weak physical condition as the result of receiving doped candy, cigarettes and cigar*. In the statement Bernauer is said to j j have admitted going to the store owned : by Eaids on the night of Oct. 22. 1920, \ with the intention of robbing the place. He Is quoted os sayiny Eaids Interrupted I him in tbs act of taking money from the i cash drawer; that he drew a revolver ; and In a scuffle the gun was knocked 'from bis hand: that Charles Jones, who Bernaner is said to have claimed wjis with him on the Job, entered the plow i picked up the revolver and shot three times, one of the bullets striking Eaids. The statement is said to have been read to Jones In the presence of Ber- ; nauer and Jones denied the charges. maintaining that Bernauer shot the ; Syrian storekeeper. ADMITS VIOLATING POLICE RI LES. Direct examination of Detective Manning was resumed after the reading of the statement. During the cross-exami-nation Ira Holmes, attorney for the defendant. Introduced a book of rules adopted by the hoard of safety of Indians polls for the police department and. . referring to page 40, asked Manning : whether he had not violated the rules | there when, hi taking the statement of Hernsuer. he had told him that all he said would he brought out at the trial. Manning admitted he had not conformed to the ru'e which says that should a prisoner desire to make a confession ! the officers are not to coerce or compel any statement to be made. Manning j said that Bernauer at that time stated he (Continued on Page Eleven.) W OMAN TO FACE CHARGES HERE Accused of Embezzlement in Handling Stock Funds. Pretty, clever and a wearer of fashionable clothing, a woman some months ago obtained a position to sell stock In the American Mortgage Company, bankers, 1202 State Savings and Trust building. : She came to that company highly recommended as a saleswoman. | Today Detective George E. Stewart left j Indianapolis for Gary to bring back the woman, who Is Miss Neva AVelty, 26, | charged with embezzlement of S3OO by the | mortgage company. The arrest was made on a warrant sworn to by the treasurer of the company, Charles A. Butler. The arrest was the climax of a pursuit that led to Kansas City and Chicago aud ended In Gary. Miss Welty’s parents live at Young America. When In this city she was the guest at some of the most fashionable hotels. She was employed, according to Mr. Butler, by a man. who had a contract to sell the stock for the mortgage company and she sold the stock In various Indiana cities. However, she Is alleged to have collected S3OO from a man | at Dayton, Ohio, to whom she sold stock [and this money, the affidavit charges. ! was never turned over to the company. That was In October. Later Mr. Butler says he learned that many of the fashionable gowns worn were not paid for and the company from which they were obtained Is said to have attached the woman's baggage. She obtained the baggage hut used the money collected for the stock in paying for the fashionable clothing, it Is said. Then she disappeared and the detectives started the search that ended with her arrest.

Army of Job Hunters, Not One Cuspidor, Found in Governor’s Outer Room

An army of job hunters, friends of Job hunters and would-be executive advisers without a single cuspidor. That is a condition that exists at the Statehouse as a direct result of suffrage. When Governor Warren T. McCray “manned” his office with women, the cuspidors in the big waiting room d‘.s appeared. Now the Governor’s waiting room is filled with job hunters, friends of job hunters and would-lie advisers. There is an abundance of thick black cigars, long lean stogies, a scattering of cigarettes and some “eating tobacco.” The air Is blue with smoke curling upward to the high ceiling but, as noted before, there Is not a cuspidor in the place. Ashes are dropped Indiscriminately on the thick, soft carpet. Occasionally the situation becomes unbearable and some job hunter or friend of a job hunter or would-be adviser is faced with the necessity either disposing of his chew or of swallowing it or of disposing of a particularly soggy “butt.” PROTECTS PRIORITY BY' HOLDING DOOR KNOB. It Is then that the outer door of the waiting room, leading to the lobby of the building, opens and a masculine form partly emerges. While holding the door knob with one hand, so that nobody

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Stings Grocers on Checks , but Gives Purchases to Poor DENVER, March 28.—Abram Zetter, youthful philanthropist, played the good Samaritan to a dozen or more needy families here while he accumulated a substantial bank account through forged checks. Police arrested Zerter today on a charge of forgery, alleging that he tendered forged $lO and sls checks in payment for $2 and *3 worth of groceries, rereiving the balance in cash. Zetter deposited the groceries on the doorstep of some poor family after he had Investigated their circumstances.

Urges Nation to Get ReadyJ'or Election LONDON, March 23.—Premier Lloyd George today urged the nations to get ready for a general election “at no distant date." Ills warning was uttered in a speech to new coalition members of parliament at a luncheon. 1 5 Days in Jail for $1.50 Coal Theft Garnett Pempleton, negro, 121S Mediera street, was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to fire days in jail on a charge of petit larceny by Henry Abrams, Judge pro tern, In city court today. He was arrested by Big Four railroad detectives, who said they caught Pempleton stealing coal valued at $1.50. , Government Hopeful of Packer Settlement WASHINGTON, March 23—Despite delays In reaching an agreement. Government officials said today they were still ; hopeful of securing a settlement of the dispute between the packers and their employes. Conferences were continued S between a Cabinet commission composed ! of Secretaries Davis, Hoover and Wallace and representatives of the packers aud employes. Food Prices Lower in Bids to State The cost of living really has descended, Maurice C. Shelton, head of the State ; Joint purchasing committee, decided toi day after interviewing salesmen of food i products preliminary to letting contracts for about $130,000 worth of goods for ' State Institutions. ’ lie said he estimated the prices at j which contracts will be let at 50 per , ceut less than last year's prices. Harding- Sympathetic on Disarmament Plea WASHINGTON, March 23 President Harding today expressed sympathy toward disarmament proposals during a j conference with a committee of the Society of Friends of Philadelphia. The President, however, made no specific suggestion. it was said, and was emphatic In Ills belief that no disarmament move : should he agreed to which would leave | the I'nltexl States Navy at a disadvantage. Street Railway Rate Hearing Opens Friday j Hearing on the petition of the Indianj a polls Street Railway Company for a r.-eent rate of fare and for a 2-cent transfer charge will be started at 10 o'clock Friday morning, E. I. Lewis, chairman of the public service commission, announced today. The time for the hearing was fixed by agreement between attorneys for the city of Indianapolis, who are expecting to oppose the grant, and attorneys for the company. Zeller Gives Bond in Coal Trust Case William M. Zeller of Brazil, Ind., one of the coal operators In-dieted by the Federal grand Jury last month for ali ieged violation of tho Sherman antii trust law, appeared at the office of Mark | Storen. United States marshal, today and gave bond for SIO,OOO, signed by John ! F. Brown and Thomas H. McCrea of Brazil. ! Zeller is president of the Brazil Block | Coal Producers' Association of Indiana, | president of the American Coal Mining Company, and treasurer of the Brazil Collieries Company. He will he arraigned i May 3 before Judge Albert Anderson.

can get in ahead of him. he or throws the chew or butt, as the ease may be, in the general direction of a cuspidor and then disappears to continue waiting his turn. Crowds around the executive chambers are growing thicker and thicker. There Is a regular process which must be gone through. First, the person who desires admission must gain entrance at the outer door, past Louis, the Governor's messenger. Once Inside he sits down, if he is lucky enough to find an empty chair, and he waits, and waits and waits. If he is an ordinary Individual he probably waits indefinitely, or until he becomes exhausted and gives it up. If he has a particularly pleasing political record, or if he is a person of prominence, or if he knew the Governor when he was a mere raiser of live stock, or if he is just naturally lucky, he may succeed in gaining admission through another door to the office of Miss Adah Bush, the Governor's secretary. WAITING TIME UNCERTAIN. How long ne Is compelled to wait there is uncertain, for the ordinary observer is unable to penetrate that far. If he is especially lucky, the Job hunter, or friend of a Job hunter, or would-be ad(Continued on Page Two.)

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OLDER WOMAN FINDS BODY IN DRESSING ROOM Banker’s Wife 111 Recently, but Apparently Had Recovered. HUSBAND IN CHICAGO BULLETIN. Dr. Paul F. Robinson, Marion County coroner, announced this afternoon that he would return a verdict of double suicide in the deaths of Mrs. Stoughton A. Fletcher and her mother, Mrs. Eva L. Hanley. He said that his theory was that Mrs. Fletcher, weakened by a long illness, drank prussic acid from a glass and that when her mother discovered the body, she also swallowed some of the same poison. Mrs. Stoughton A. Fletcher, wife of the president of the Fletcher American National Bank, died suddenly at 9:30 o’clock this morning, and about one hour later her mother, Mrs. Eva L. Henley, who had found ! the body of her daughter, succumbed as a result, it is believed, of the ! shock. Mrs. Fletcher had been ill for sevi eral weeks, but had apparently re- ; covered several days ago. Her body was found In her dressing room, at the Fletcher home, known as Laurel Hall, northeast of Indianapolis, 1 near Mlllersville, by her mother, who had been making her home there. CORONER ROBINSON starts Investigation. Dr. Paul F. Robinson, county coroner, started an investigation shortly after , being notified of the death. Information reaching Elmer W. Stout J of the Fletcher American National Bank and dose business associate of Mr. Fletcher, was thnt a verdict of suicide might be returned on Mrs. Fletcher's death. | lie said thnt Information from the Laurel Hall home was to the effect that prussic acid had been found in the room . in which Mrs. Fletcher died and that the j coroner was proceeding on the theory that it might have been Instrumental lu causing the death. "Mrs. Fletcher has been in very poor health for several months,” said Mr. Stout, "and In the absence of more definite Information It is not surprisntg that suicide should be advanced as aa { explanation of her death. It is impossible immediately to say whether the suicide theory Is tenable or not.” DAI GHTEIi OF LATE WIILIAM HENLEY. Before her marriage to' Mr. Fletcher Mrs. Fletcher was Miss May Henley. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Henley. Her father died several years ago. Mrs. Fletcher leaves two children— Stoughton J. Fletcher, Jr., and Louisa Fletcher, and a sister, Mrs. Jaquelln Holliday of this city. Mrs. Ilenley is survived by her daugh- | ter. Mrs. Jaquelln Holliday. Mr. Fletcher was not at homo at tho i time of the tragedy, having gone to Chl- | cago last night on a business trip. He returned this evening at 5 o’clock, having started home immediately on receiving word of his vi lfe s death. Mayor Jewett, a personal friend of Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, was notified at hi* office of the death of Mrs. Fletcher, and Immediately went to the Fletcher home.

SAYS TERMS COST ROADS Atterbury Holds National Agreements Boost Pay Roll to Extend of 8300,000,000. CHICAGO, March 23. —National agreements between railroads and their employes forced the roads to carry 176,882 “unnecessary” ''employes in 1920, W. W. Atterbury, vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad, charged before the United States railroad labor board today. The roads were forced to pay out over three hundred million dollars last year on an excess pay roll, due to the national agreements, Attei ry claimed. Bert M. Jewell, president of the railroad labor department of the American Federation of Labor, attacked the accuracy of Atterbury’s figures. Atterbury made a formal statement to the board, in which he quoted Federal statistics to show the total railroad pay roll for 1920 was $4,000,000,000. “In classes of employment covered by the national agreement 1.206,520 men were employed in 1917,” he said. “In llpM there was an increase of 229.968 men." Atterbury said the increase was to the eight-hour day, decrease In duction per man and increased buslnSSik “In 1917 the earnings of employes wet* $1,010,590,751. or $837.01 per man,” the witness continued. "In 1920 earnings amounted to $2,144,748.441, or $1,701.20 per man, "Increase in ton miles was 4.4 per cent in 1920 over 1917. “Assuming that the increase in number of employes is directly proportionate to the increase in business, which is an assumption in the employe's favor, It would require 53,080 additional men, leaving 170.882 men in excess in 1920 compared with 1917. These excess men at the average earning of $1,701.20 per man show an excess expenditure of $300,911,658.40. “It Is fair to state that in the $1,701.20 are many payments due to the agreements and working conditions like checking in and out, reclassification of employes and overtime rates. If these payments could be segregated for the 1.200,520 employes, it would greatly increase the $300,000,000.” Frank P. Walsh, labor attorney brought out this statement because of previous claim by Atterbury that national agreements cannot be made economically applicable to all railroads. Walsh pointed out a rule of general application is applied by the railroads themselves. Atterbury's testimony was concluded. Jewell will make a formal statement to the board tomorrow in defense of the national agreements.