Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1921 — Page 3

SHANK MAKES 7 TALKS TO 8,000 Says He’s Certain of Going Over—Task Now to Keep Crooks Down. Speaking: before seven meetings, aggregating more than eight thousand in attendance, Samuel Lewis Shank, ex-mayor of Indianapolis, declared repeatedly last night that the combined opinions of experienced politicians conceded to him a plurality of between 8.000 and 10,000 votes in the coming mayoralty primary. “So the big task left to us,” he said, “is to get our votes cast in the face of unscrupulous opposition and then to get them counted fairly. Warned by our experiences four years ago, we are taking every precaution conceivable to prevent fraud. “The first man who makes a crooked move on election day will find himself serving as a horrible example to other election crooks. Charlie Jewett has said Shank forces stole votes from him. Charlie Jewett knows that is a palpable , lie. No man ever before accused me of a dishonest act and I have been in public life for twenty years. “The truth is hardly to be expected of a man who preaches temperance in Indianapolis and then runs to Louisville. Chicago and Cleveland to get howling drunk. I dare Charlie to deny that he does that little thing. 1' will produce his bartender in five minutes.” Mr. Shank declared that the present administration notwithstanding its extravagance has let the streets of the city go to ruin, that the present board of public works has served the interests of the corporations and has ever been dear to the pleas of common citizens. "They have been planning to take the kink out of Last Michigan street at Highland avenue,” he said. “They want to assess the cost against the property owners. It would cost property owners cs high as S3O each and it would benefit no one but the street car company. Kails spread at such curves and the company wants the street straightened. When opposition to this movement got too hot to handle the other day the action was postponed until May 11—after the primary. I have been advocating playgrounds in my campaign. So the other day the park board announced that it was going to establish eight of them. “When I am down there in the city hall the doors will swing both ways and citizens will always have the right to air their grievances and make requests.” The largest Shank meeting was held at State and Washington streets. Councilman Peake presided. The big Shank meeting tonight will be a Fourth Ward rally at Thirty-Fourth street and Capitol avenue in the Fourth Ward Shank Club. Other meetings will be held at 314 East Fortieth street, ISO 4 West Tenth street, 1417 Roosevelt avenue, engine house at Sixteenth and Ashland. Washington and Capitol and Thirteenth and Illinois streets. Shank workers will march by wards under ward standards at the big meeting at Fountain Square next Saturday right when Mr. Shank will close his campaign. Women workers will ride In automobiles. Bands, a ealiope and prominent speakers will serve as attractions.

G. O. P. PRIMARY BRINGS REBUKE Taggart Club Officials Say Fight Degrading. Under the auspices of the Taggart Club, a meeting is to be held in the large dining room of the Denison Hotel, tomorrow evening, in the Interests bf the candidacy of Boyd M. Ralston. Dem - cratic candidate for the mayoralty nomination. Mr. Ralston and other prominent Democrats will speak. Letters of Invitation have been sent by the committee in charge, to practically every Democrat in the city. The committee is composed of Jerry C. Foley, president of the club; John F. Barrett, Michael J. Duffey, Woodburn Masson and James E. Berry. The invitation closes with the following paragraph in regard to the campaign of the two major parties In the city primary: “The eat-and-dog fight in progress among Republican candidates Is a disgraceful and degrading exhibition of political rapacity and selfishness. it clearly manifests that the participants place the welfare of themselves and their party, above that of the city. In contrast with their methods, we should feel proud of the dignified canvass being made by our candidates. The lack of noise in our campaign indicates no lack of interest, but rather an earnestness that will result in the selection and election of a satisfa-tory Democratic ticket.” Girls Sell Bricks to Raise Church Funds Special to The Times. COLUMBUS, Ind., April 26.—The girls of the United Brethren Church are selling bricks at 10 cents apiece in order to help raise the fund for the building of a new United Brethren Church here. The new church, which will be started this summer, will cost $35,000 and will be known as the Wertz Memorial in honor of Samuel Wertz, one of the founders of the United Brethren Church here, and for forty years principal of Columbus High School. Chita Observation Not Recognition WASHINGTON, April 26. —Two American observers, sent from the American embassy at Tokio, to Chita, in the Far Eastern republic on April 22. cannot be considered a mission and it Is not to be inferred that this is a step preliminary to recognition of the new republic, the State Department announced today. The two observers are MaJ. William J. Davis and Dr. James F. Abbott, and they will observe military, political and economic conditions in the republic. HOOSIER DEATHS GREEXSBURG Funeral services of Sherman 11. Patton, who met his death in Belgium, Aug. 6. 1918, was held in this city Monday. Patton was the first married man from Decatur County to be killed in action and his body is the third of the county's dead heroes to arrive home within two weeks Mrs. Georgts Broughton, 75, is dead at the I. O. O. F. Home here, following a lingering illness of a complication of diseases. She came to the home from Indianapolis. SHELRYVILLE—Thomas J. Miller, 6S, is dead at his home In Morristown, following a stroke of paralysis. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Anna Brown Miller; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Brooks of near Greenfield, and three sons. Howard, Paul and Max, all of Morristown. KOKOMO—Mrs. Elsie Alice Harness, 68. widow of George Harness, one of the wealthiest land owners of the county, is dead of paralysis. HARTFORD ClTY’—Mrs. Joseph I. Wilson, 47, wife of a former Mrfntpelier oil operator, is dead at Tulsa. Okla. Mayor McAtee of this city is a brother. Randolph Beucy, 84, for many years a prominent resident of Blackford County, la dead at his home aoutn of thia city.

Noblesville Stock Sale Totals SIB,OOO Special to The Times. NOBLESYTLLE, Ind., April 2fr—The sale of pure bred shorthorn cattle on the O. C. Lower farm, south of this city, Monday, was one of the largest held in central Indiana for several months. Buyers were present from most of the Central States. The sale total was SIB,OOO and the average per head slightly more than $478, whirl) is regarded good in view of the declining prices of all thoroughbred stock. The highest priced animal was a cow, which sold for $1,500. The second highest priced animal brought SI,OOO. CITY PROLONGS CLEAN-UP WORK Continues Collection of Trash and Junk Collection of trash and junk placed in the alleys in proper receptacles will be continued by the city ash hauling department this week, Thomas A. Riley, mem ber of the board of public works, announced today. He said that the city will continue to cooperate with the Boy Scouts in the collection of salable junk i for the benefit of the Scouts' memorial | fountain fufid as it did during the clean - ! up campaign last week, i Thomas Walters, assistant street su- | perlntendent in charge of ash collection i and street cleaning announced that the I ash department hauled more than 4,000 I cubic yards of trash out of the alleys last week. Persons whose trash was missed should telephone a complaint to Drexel 9421, he said.

PHYSICIAN SAYS HOSPITAL BARS HIS ACTIVITIES (Continued From Page One.) leged. have combined to prevent the successful practice of surgery by others than those whom they have arbitrary elected to support. Dr. Ridgeway alleges that the de- | fendants to his suit, "in furtherance of | said unlawful combination and conspirj acy, refused to allow a patient desiring j the plaintiff’s services the accommodai tions of said hospital unless and until ! said patient was willing to accept the ; services of one of said conspirators instead of the plaintiff. That said defendants informed- plaintiff’s said patient that he could have said hospital accommodations. but that plaintiff would not be permitted to render professional servj ices to him in said hospital and that if said patient persisted in his demand for plaintiff's services, that he, said patient, coulu not have hospital accommodations and attention in said St. Vincent's Hospital. "That said St. Vincent's Hospital is organized ns a charitable institution and that plaintiff and his patient hereinabove referred to were, each contributors to the establishment and maintenance of said hospital. "That said conspiracy and combinations of defendants is prejudicial to the right of plaintiff to practice his profession, and is unlawful in this: That said combination and agreement to prevent plaintiff j from attending persons in the practice of his profession in said St. Vincent's Hospital is a combination in restraint of trade, and is against public policy. That said combination and agreement is n hindrance end restraint and a violation of the rule of law, that every person has a right to employ his talents, industry and capital, free from the dictation of others, and no one is authorize! to unlawfully destroy or hinder the lawful business of another for the purpose of helping him self. SAYS DOCTORS DESIRE 1N J CRY TO PRACTICE. “Plaintiff further says that defendants, ; and each of them, entered into said cumI binatlon and agreement with the malicious intent and purpose of interfering with, hindering and destroying plaintiff's practice of his profession, and for the unlawful purpose of preventing plaintiff from practicing his profession in the city of Indianapolis, and for the unlawful purpose of destroying plaintiff hb a competitor, in the practice of medicine and surgery, with defendants. “Plaintiff further says that he in informed and believes, and from such In formation charges us a fact, that Ipe dofondants Cunningham, Oliver, I'fnff, Noble, Brennan and Edwards, have threatjened the defendant hospital and St. Vin- ■ cent's Infirmary that unless said defendant, St. Vincent's Hospital and St. Vincent's Infirmary, withdrew its hospital accommodations from plaintiff s patients and withdrew from plaintiff the right to operate in the surgery of said hospital, that they would withdraw from said hospital and refuse to bring their patients to said hospital. “That the defendant. Sister Mary Joseph, whose true name is unknown to the plaintiff, is the acting head of said hospital and is in charge thereof, for and on behalf of said defendant St. Vincent’s Hospital, and by reason of intimidation and coercion by her co defendants unlawfully entered Into said agreement with her co-defendants." CONDITIONS SAID TO BE STATEWIDE. The suit is the first public protest against a practice which is reported by a number of physicians to prevail in the hospitals of the State of Indiana and a large number of Instances have been In- j vestigated with a view of tile presents- j tion of evidence to support charges that it is the practice of hospital staffs to hinder and prevent physicians who are not members of the staff from performing surgical operations by preventing them from having access to the hospital accomodations that are given to physicians and surgeons 'who have become allied with the hospital staffs. The influencing of patients toward one of several surgeons who have established connections with the hospital is said to he an almost general prnctlce in the profession and to be applied to practically all the hospitals of the State to a more or less degree. In Indianapolis j there are in the neighborhood of 9x> ! practicing physicians and it is asserted j that of this number surgery with un- j trammelled hospital accomodations can ! only be done by about 10 per cent. It is this condition which Dr. Ridgeway says has prompted him to enter the | suit for the purpose of establishing a conspiracy In restraint of surgery and contrary to public policy. Britain Acts Against German War Culprits LONDON, April 26.—The first decisive steps in England toward the punishmeut of German war culprits were taken here today. 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ROBBEkY STORY UPSET BY WIFE Brothauer’s Version of Black Eye and Skinned Face Held Faulty. Had Fred Brethauer’s wife remained in hiding it is just possible that his story of being held up and robbed of $l2O at 2 o'clock this morning might have been believed by the police. However, Mrs. Brethsuer appeared at a most inopportune moment and not only declared that her husband never had so much money, but also told the police how he received the black eye and skinned face. When the police arrived at the Brethauer home, 133 North New Jersey street, Brethauer said he had been out on a drinking party with James Adams, who lives at his home, and that while he tvas lying in bed Adams slapped him on the side of the head with a bottle and relieved him of $l2O. The police found Adams in a hallway of a house at 118 North New Jersey street, and he was so saturated with liquor that he could not talk, the police said. They then returned to Brethauer's home and while Sergeant Johnson and Lieutenant Woollen were questioning him Mrs. Brethauer appeared. She had been hiding in the celler. She explained to the police that her husband came home by himself and that Adams was not with him. He entered the house, the police were told, by breaking a window, and then he accused his wife of having a man In the house and hit her In the face, breaking ler glasses, she said. Mrs. Brethauer ran from the house pursued by her husband, who continued the chase until he collided with a wire stretched around a lawn at New Jersey and Wabash streets. The wire caused him to stand on his head, giving him a black eye and a skinned face. Mrs. Brethauer said she circled around and hid in the cellar until she was sure the police were in the house. She declared her husband never had $l2O and seldom had more than sl2. The police arrested Brethauer on the charges of assault and battery and drunkenness and also arrested Adams ou the charge of drunkenness. GIVE SCARE TO TRADE BOARDS Proposed Restrictions on Market Futures Mean Destruction. WASHINGTON, April 26.—Such rigid restrictions on contracts for sales in futures of gruin and food products were proposed today to the House Agriculture Committee by Representative Tlnoher, Kansas, and Dickinson, lowa, that the total destruction of Boards of Trade and Produce Exchanges is threatened, should such restrictions be adopted, according to traders of these exchanges. Among the restrictions proposed are an excise tax of 10 per cent of the total consideration in any contract or sale of any grain for future delivery wherein warehouse receipts or other evidence of ownership showing actual delivery and transfer of the grain from the seller to the buyers are not produ-eil in settlement and delivery shall not be effected by means of set off or ring settlements, not cancelled by settling of differences, but only by the actual transfer of the specific commodity mentioned in the contract. Another makes it unlawful for any person to make a contract to give to himself or another the option to sell or buy at n future time any grain when it is, at the time of the making of such contract, intended by both parties that the option, whenever exercised, or the contract resulting from it, shall be settled by the payment of differences in price of the grain and not by the receipt or delivery of the grain. It is made unlawful to make contracts covering the delivery or non-delivery of grain, all contracts being understood to cull for the delivery of grain.

Gov’t to Ferret Out Georgia ‘Death Farms’ ATLANTA, Ga., April 2(l—The Federal Government stands ready to send fifty operatives to Georgia to aid In Investigating negro peonage in this State, Vincent Hughes, chief of the United States Bureau of Investigation here, said today. The grand Jury today started Its Inquiry. It was reported many cases of peonage would he brought to light by the probe. Jllg “death farms,” where .negroes were reduced to virtual slavery ami killed by overseers If they tried to escape, arc said, to exist. Governor Hugh Dorsey Issued ft statement calling upon every solicitor general In Georgia to immediately prosecute all cases of mob violence and cruelty to negroes. Mastodon Tusk Found Near Russiaville Special to The Times. KOKOMO, Ind., April 2d—A tusk appearing to have belonged to the mastodon family was unearthed by George Stevens while plowing on his father’s farm, near Russlavllle. The land familiarly known as the dVrlght farm hag yielded a largo number of arrow heads and Indian relics In times past The tusk was well preserved but broken In three or four pieces. Driver of Death Car Will Be Prosecuted Rporlal to The Times. RICHMOND, Ind., April 2(l.—Prosecutor Paul Beckett today was to file a charge of Involuntary manslaughter against James Dorman, Connersville, driver of the automobile which tumbled into a creek near I'ennville, Sunday, resulting In the death of William Gerrin, 55 years old. Gerrin was pinned under the auto and drowned In one foot of water. Lorman, Paul Cahnugh and Frank Worlane, all of Connersville, were held here on a charge' of drunkenness. Sheriff Carl Wndsmnn said he found a small bottle of whiskj' In the automobile and this is said to have led to preparation of the manslaughter charge. Dorman said ho was forced Into the ditch by another car which did not stop to see what damage it had done. Passengers Jolted Fassengors on a Riverside Park street car received a severe shaking up at Indiana avenue and Michigan street at 5:45 a. m. today. An engine and a freight car had Just passed the crossing and stopped south of Indiana avenue. The gates were raised and a street car inspector signaled the motorman to start. The street car, loaded with early workers, had about cleared the railroad tracks when the engine sent the freight car crashing Into the rear platform of the street car. Showers of splintered glass struck the passengers. No one was seriously Injured. TWO-YEAR SEARCH FAILS. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., April 26—A search of two years for Miss Esther Carpenter, 21, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Carpenter of this city, has failed to disclose her whereabouts and has been abandoned. The parents have advertised extensively. After the girl left here two letters were received from her from Canada. The parents believe she has met foul plas

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Many to Attend Purdue ‘Round-up’ Special to The Times. COLUMBUS, Ind., April 28.—The Bartholomew County boys and girls are making big preparations to attend the annual “Round Up” to be held at I’urdue University next week. At least thirtyfive pupils from the county schools are expected to make the trip and a meeting will be held in the county agent’s office next Saturday for the purpose of practicing yells arid making final ar-. rangements for the trip. The County Fair Association awarded a trip to the university to the boy and girl in each township having the highest standing In club work. PLAN TO SPEED UP DEBT POLICY U. S. Enters Into Negotiations With Britain Soon. WASHINGTON, April 26 Funding of the British debt of $5,000,000,000 due the United States will not wait upon settlement of German reparations, nor any other foreign or domestic fiscal problems. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon declared today. The State Department soon will notify Great Britain that this Government Is ready to proceed with the~negotlations, to convert the demand notes held by the treasury Into long time obligations. This Government is ready to begin the discussion, Secretary Mellon said, and speed them to a conclusion. Lord- Chalmers probably will sail at an early date from London and handle the question for England, probably with the assistance of the British ambassador, Sir Auckland Geddes. Great Britain, it now develops, has for tome time been eager to press the debt question to a settlement, but lias been compelled to wait pending the formulation of a_ definite policy on the debts of Europe by the President and his Cabinet. Secretary Mellon’s discussion of the debt question today left no doubt that this Government’s policy has been (le termlned, although no official disclosure was made either of the plan which the Treasury may offer, or of the mode of procedure which probably will he followed. FRANCE PLANS OCCUPATION IF PAYMENT LAGS (Continued From Page One.) stern stand toward Germany upon the question of reparations. LONDON PLEASED WITH SUMMARY LONDON, April 26. —Belief was expressed in foreign office circles that the latest German Indemnity proposals which were sent front Berlin to Washington are sufficiently acceptable to warrant the fullest consideration when the lnferAllled Supreme Council meets here Saturday. This belief was apparently based upon a brief summary of the indemnity note received In London from Berlin. How the summary came and its detailed nature were not revealed.

HARDING HEARS LETTER TEXT WASHINGTON, April 26—The complete text ot the reparation* note has been received, the State Department announced today. Secretary of State Hughes took the communication under immediate consideration. it Is assumed that Hughes brought the note to the attention of President Harding and the Cabinet, which inet soou after receipt of the communication. The note started coming In late last night In fragments. When It will be made public officials could not say. Ask for Receiver to Lafayette Service Cos. Appointment of a receiver for the Lafayette Service Company of Lafayette, Ind., and the forecioaure of a mortgage on the property of the company 1a asked in a suit filed by the Real Estate Trust Compnny o f Philadelphia, Pa . In Fed oral Court yesterday. Ttic complaint allogcs that (he defendant has failed to meet the Interest coupons on Its bonded indebtedness due June 1 and Dec. 1, 1919 and 1920. The complaint also names Clarence P. White, the board of commlsslonera of Tippecanoe County, and Edward M. Watson and Frank Scott ns receivers of (ho Lafayetto Street Railway Company as defendants. 253 Petitioning for Citizenship Papers The hearing of 253 petitions for flnnl naturalization papers will begin tomorrow morning before Judge W. W. Thornton of Superior Court, Room 1. The list of applicants Is so heavy that It has ben necessary to divide the hearings in'o a three day period. This Is the largest number of applicants ever before the court at one time. Bad Wiring Cause of $3,000 Midnight Fire Defective wiring started a fire In the ,T. J. Beckrldge feed store, 1213 East Twenty-Second street, Inst midnight. Four tons of hay and 200 bushels of corn and oats were destroyed. The flames spread to the National Motor Vehicle Company's plant. Beckridge’s loss exceeded $2,500. The damage done to the National Motor Vehicle Company's building la estimated at about SSOO. In Mr. Beckrldge's building was an automobile truck valued at S3OO, which was destroyed. Mr. Beckrldge also owns a grocery in a building adjoining the feed store and slight damage was done there, PHONE DIRECTORS MEET. A meeting, preceded by a luncheon, was he!(] by the board of directors of the Indiana Telephone Association, this afternoon at the Claypool Hotel. It was stated that routine matters pertaining to the work of the association wore to be brought up at the meeting.

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TO DEDICATE JOINT SCHOOL New Palestine Ceremony Will Mark End of Two-Y T ear Fight. A two-year fight centered about the construction of a modern consolidated schoolhouse at New Palestine, in which the township trustee and school board of that community were the brunt of a continued attack by newspapers, the State board of tax commissioners. State board of health and former Governor James P. Goodrich, will end Friday night, when the building is dedicated. Construction work on the building started two years ago, following cessation of activities on account of the war, and the first term of school opened Sept. 20 in the new- building. The school, which is the first in the county to have an accredited six-year high . school course, and the twentieth, in the State, provides for pupils who are transported from five school districts by motor buses. Action toward the construction of the building was begun in the first term of Scott Brandenburgh as trustee. Mr. Brandenburgb was opposed by a group of citizens who carried their opposition to Indianapolis newspapers, and to State officials, with such succass that several suits wer'e brought in the courts before the affair finally was settled. The case was carried to the State board of tax commissioners, which body ruled against the school officials. Theso men then petitioned for a special ejection on the matter of a bond issue, and at this action opposition to the construction of the building was Withdrawn. The building is a fifteen-room brick structure, accommodating 200 pupils, and was erected at a cost of $71,000. H. L. Hollenbach is principal of the school, and nine teachers form the staff of instructors. Manual training, physical training, domestic science, in addition to a regular high school curriculum, are taught. An elaborate program is being prepared for the dedicatory exercises. Prominent speakers will be obtained to make addresses. It is expected that citizens from surrounding counties, where interest in the construction of the building, due to the long fight, has been aroused, will attend the dedicatory exercises. The exercises will be held In the school auditorium which will seat 3UO persons. Commencement exercises will be held for the graduating class of the high school, May 6. Five seniors will receive diplomas. Jonathan Higdon, president of Central Normal College. Danville, will deliver the commencement address. GUARANTEE WORK DURING 40 WEEKS Ladies' Garment Manufacturers Accept Arbitral Award. CLEVELAND. Ohio, April 26.—A guarantee of forty weeks' wArk each year to all regular employes Is one of the features of the arbitral award made in the wage contest between the Cleveland Ladies' Garment Manufacturers and their employes. Manufacturers are required to establish a fund from which regular employes temporarily out of work shall be paid two-thirds of their weekly wage and given one week's vacation each year with full pay. The award was at once accepted by the garment manufacturers and its acceptance next Tuesday by the garment workers' union is predicted by union leaders. Wage reductions of from OV4 to 131* per cent were accepted.

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Group Meetings of Bankers Announced Preceding the convention of the Indiana Bankers’ Association at the Clay-* pool hotel, June 22 and 23, group meetings of the association will be held as follows: Group 8, Friday, May 13 at Evansville; group 7, Tuesday, May 17, Jeffersonville; group 6, Thursday, May 19, Cambridge City; group 5, Tuesday, May 24, Lafayette; group 4, Thursday, May 26, Franklin; group 3, Thursday, June 2, Muncle; group 2, Tuesday, June 7, Winamac; group 1, Wednesday, June 8, Auburn. The program committee is now working out plans for the State meeting that will be held in this city. FINES ‘BAD MAN’ WITH CAP GUN Negro Who Shot Joker and Victim in Court. Frank Steel, negro, 3525 Prospect street, was fined SIOO and costs by Judge Walter Pritchard in city court today on charges of carrying concealed weapons. Charges of assault and battery with, felonious intent were dismissed. Charles Walt, negro, 1220 Madeira street, arrested with Steel, was freed of charges of assault and battery with felonious intent, but wag fined $1 and costs on charge's of vagrancy after he told Judge Pritchard he “had learned a lesson” from being shot in the leg by Steel while he was wearing women's clothing. Patrolman Owens, who made the arrest, stated that on April 3 at about midnight he found Walt with a bullet In his left leg in front of a dry drink place at 3402 Prospect street. He said that Walt told him that a man had shot him when he came out of an alley near the dry drink place and gave the man's name as Steel. Steel, who was inside the place, admitted the shooting and said j the reason was that when ho was ! crossing the alley a person stepped out in front of him dressed in women's clothes and drew- a gun. Steel said he took no chances and stepped aside and shot the would-be hpid-up in the leg. Walt was in the hospital for two j weeks. Walt said the reason for his actions was "that he Just wanted a little fun” and that the gun which ho had was a cap gun. PICK SUCCESSOR FOR STILLMAN Rumored Directors to Accept Resignation. NEW YORK, April 26.—1 t was reliably reported In Wall street today that (’. V. Rich, executive manager of the National City Bank, practically has been decided upon by the directors of that Institution to succeed tho muitt millionaire, James A. Stillman, as president. A meeting of the directors was scheduled for today, but it Is not known that action will bo taken this week on either Stillman's resignation or Rich's ejection. Rich long has been with the National City Bank and eujoys the confidence of file directors and various executive officers.

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HOPE TO AVERT A COAL CRISIS Solons Propose Seasonal Differentials to Keep Mine Product Moving. WASHINGTON, April 26—Action during the present session of Congress toward averting another national coal crisis by the, regulation of railroad rates through a system of seasonal differentials appeared today to be likely as the outcome of hearings now in progress before the Senate Interstate ‘Commerce Committe on the Frellnghuysen bil. This measure proposes the reduction of freight rates in the summer months as a means of inducing the buying public to purchase more coal at that time, it being the contention of coal operators that coal famines have been the result of lack of transportation in winter months rather than by shortage at the mines. The introduction of the bill in the present Congress marked the continuation of work which the Interstate Commerce Commission has directed for nearly two years in the hope of devising a method for relieving the coal situation. Although members of the committee have not yet arrived at conclusion as to the exact nature of the rate regulation proposals as they will be reported to the Senate, it was Indicated that definite action looking to a solution of the problem was to be expected within a few days. The majority of the members of the committee have expressed themselves as convinced that the principle set forth in the rate-regulation bill was sound, but there has been some disagreement and objection from Senator Cummins, chairman of the committee, and other members as to the propriety of the fixing ox the differentials by Congress. They have been Inclined to contend that the establishment of the seasonal differentials should be delegated to the Interstate Commerce Commission, which body is charged in the bill with carrying out Its provisions. Slain by Partner, Who Shoots Self Special to The Times. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., April 28 Norman Hobson, 48, former Hartford City man, word of whose death at Campbellsville, Ky., was received last Friday, was murdered by his business partner, John R. Durham, according to word sent here by his brother, Claude Hobson, of this city, who went to Kentucky Saturday. The communication sent here by Hobson did not state the cause of the murder. Durham turned the gun upon himself and committed suicide. Fail to Connect Wall St. Suspect NEW YORK, April 26.—The Federal authorities have failed to obtain sufficient evidence to charge Tito Ligt with any connection with the Wall street bomb explosion, but will continue their investigation of him, William J. Flynn, chief of the Bureau of Investigation, said today.

HOWE OPPOSED TO CONTRACTING Says Business Head in Mayor’s Office Should Save Taxpayers. Mr. Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler College and News-Jewett candidate for mayor, told the employes of the Prest-O-Lite plant in a speech at noon today that he is “irrevocably opposed to going back to the old contract method of patching streets and collecting garbage and ashes,” and declared that a “business’ head in the mayor’s office should be able to operate these city services at a saving ■ to the taxpayers by city management, if a private contractor can do the work at a profit to himself.” Mr. Howe told the meeting that the good citizens who are interested in efficient government must go to the polls and help select the man who is going to run the public busines the next four years. “If you do not go to the polls and vote on the 3d day of May you have forfeited any right to complain if you do not get good government,” he said. Being mayor of Indianapolis is a man., size Job, Mr. Howe said, and should ba undertaken only with the desire to ren-, der a public service. It is no Job to be lightly approached nor loosely dealt with, and the voters should exercise the greatest discrimination in making their choice of an agent, the candidate asserted. “The mayor of Indianapolis is the chief servant of the people,” he continued. “As such he must be able to count upon the help and advice of every citizen.” t City government is a matter that most Intimately and vitally concerns every resident of Indianapolis, said the speaker, and should be directed in an efficient, economical, business-like way and without attempting to try out any fada or fancies. Howe meetings scheduled for Tuesday follow: At 3 o'clock Mr. Howe and Mis* Eleanor Barker, 1929 North Alabama street; 3:30 o'clock, Mrs. Wolf Sussman and Mrs. C. B. Foster, 835 Union street; 4:30 o'clock, 215 North Mount street; 8 o'clock, 533 North Temple avenue, Mr. Howe; 8 o’clock, 1202 Nordyke avenue, Mr. Howe, Mayor Jewett, Judge James A, Collins; 9 o'clock. Thirtieth and Illinois streets. Miss Barker, Mr. Howe, Mayor Jewett and William P. Evans; 8:30 o’clock, North and West streets, Mr. Howe, Mayor Jewett, Edward Gaillard, Claris Adams and William P. Evans. Irving W. Lemaux Succeeds Father Irving W. Lemaux was elected a member of the board of directors of the Socurity Trust Company at a special meeting of the board this afternoon. Mr, Lemaux will fill the vacancy created by the death of his father, George Lemaux. 20 I.W. W. Check in at Federal Prison LEAVENWORTH, Kan., April 2& Twenty of the I. W. W. members seirtenced to serve time in the LeavenworxH( prison had "checked in” today. Twen-ty-seven others were expected to arrivs within a few hours.

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