Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1921 — Page 9
U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE READY TO MEET Sound Demand for More Business in National Government SEC. HOOVER WILL TALK ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. April 26. With the general theme “in the public interest —more business methods in the Government, less Government management of business,” as the basis of the annual meeting of the Chamber of of the United States will betomorrow and continue for V > -1 be t President ll.irding wiii send to the conference bearing on P!ul topics. General sessions of the conference will be held each morning and night and group meetings to discuss such topics ss civic development, domestic distribution, fabricated production, finance, foreign commerce, insurance, natural resources, production and transportation and communication, will take place each afternoon of the three days scheduled for the meeting. Leaders in the world ’of trade, finance and transportation will participate in the discussions, while various members of the Administration, including Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, will address the various meetings. Mr. Hoover will speak at the opening Session tomorrow. KAILROAD PROBLEMS TO COME ip, Proposed plans for reducing the cost and increasing the efficiency of railroad transportation in the United States will be discussed at the railroad group meeting to be held tomorrow. The speakers will include a prominent railroad executive, a large shipper, a leading banker and an eminent engineer. In addition, there will be a general discussion of the whole railroad question. By means of this discussion the national chamber hopes to bring about a greater degree of cooperation and understanding between the different groups, und thus aid in the development of a plan looking to a solution of the railroad problem. WORLD TRADE ISSUES. World trade problems will be discussed by the America section. The purpose will be to bring out the American viewpoint on economic problems In the fields of | finance, production, distribution, ocean and land transportation, communications and the restoration of devastated areas Two insurance group meetings will ' kbe held, among the topics being private Initiative versus State monopoly, insurance as a credit factor and governi meet and marine Insurance. TAX AND TARIFF DEBATE. The session of Thursday will be featured by discussions on taxation and tariff policy. The purpose is primarily educational and it is aimed to secure a frank and open discussion of the questions involved. The delegates will vote is to whether there should be an increase in the income tax; should there be a sales tax; should there be a resort to loans; should the tariff be framed with due regard to export as well as to the protection of manufacturing In the United States; should the tariff offer trading or bargaining possibilities for international commercial treaties to encourage export trade, and other matters bearing on taxation and tariff policies, i The vote taken will In no way commit the chamber, but will be considered a3 counsel and advice to the board of directors in any action it may take with respetc to admitting the questions involved to a referendum vote. FUTURE OF SHIPPING BOARD. An entire group meeting has been set aside for a discussion of maritime subjects. Representative shipping men from the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts will the problems that are now pressing for solution in the shipping world. The future of the shipping board will be one of the three main topics to be discussed. International finance Is another of the Important subjects that will be discussed. With the United States now a creditor nation, and with the Treasury's revenue requirements in excess of five times those of 1914, aid with the Government facing a debt of almost eight billion, dollars due to be retired or refunded in the next three years, discussion of the Government's financial policy, an important place in the program has been assigned to the finance group sessions. Leading figures in the financial world will participate in the discussions. DISTRIBUTION TO BE DISCUSSED. Methods to bring about more economical distribution of merchandise will also be discussed in considerable detail. Os all the distribution problems the one that has an immediate interest to every distributor in the probable trend of prices, and this feature will receive special attention. Better marketing facilities is a phase of distribution that will also be given considerable attention.
FLEMING PUTS 10 QUESTIONS UP TO JEWETT (Continued From Page One.) ■ certain floor and give them large aums of money to carry out your instructions and at the same time were you not county chairman, and is it not true that the money, to whom it was given and for what purposes, was not listed in the campaign expenses? > “3. Do you remember, Mr. Jewett, In ■#ol7. that there was a Republican primary in which you were nominated and that you were elected in the fall of the same year? ■ “4. Do you dare tell the public that fraud was not committed In that primary and that certain county officials were not at the head of tbe conspiracy? "5. Did you not know at that time that the Shank people committed fraud on the south side so that it was a question
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Cabinet Possibility ——— ■ gdrVTfc' Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton of Ohio, who, according to rumors in Washington. will be offered the post of secretary of public welfare If Congress consents to create that Cabinet post.. This would be the first time in history that a woman has held a Cabinet post. Mrs. Upton was vice chairman of President Harding's campaign committee and has the President's confidence to a degree. She has long been active in the suffrage movement and Ohio politics.
of which organization could steal the most votes? “6. Why did yon not at that time take up with the grand Jury the question of fraud ? “7. Do you dare tell the public that if you had known any fraud was com. *- ted you would have turned the men c tr to the grand Jury? “8. May I ask you, Mr. Jewett, in all fairness, why you did not turn over to the grand jury the sheriff, the county sealer, two deputy sheriffs, a police sergeant, an ex-lieutenant of police, an exslreet commissioner of the Democratic party and the chief deputy sheriff and another very high official who is a close personal friend of yours ? *'9. Do you not know, Mr. Jewett, that the same conspiratory or strategy board are now seated In the Howe headquarters directing the forces of Mr. Howe? ASKS ABOUT HUG AND KISS. 16. Did you not embrace, throw your arms around, hug and kiss Henry Fleming when he came in with the returns of his preelnct and tell him that he had saved the day and that he could have anything he wanted under your administration ?” "Mr. Jewett told yon in 1917,'* said Fleming, addressing his remarks to bis negro audience again, “that when he got Into office all those sluggers would go out. We all had a vivid picture of Pope and Sanders and the others going to prison. And yet, three of them quit and one died and the rest of them are still In the police department and every one of them has been promoted. Sergeant McGee, for instance, is getting more money now than he ever did under the Bell administration. Ton remember the mayor made a speech down on Indiana avenue the other evening and he said a lot about negroes being careful about the return of the old slugging days. Yet at that very time all the old sluggers were standing about still In uniform.” CHARGES JEWETT'S ACTS INCITE RACE FEELING. The speaker said that Mayor Jewett has done more to injure the colored race through acts which incited race feeling than any other mayor Indianapolis ever had. He said that he personally knows of three instances of negroes being beaten up by policemen within the last few weeks. “Sergeant Dean about two weeks ago beat up on a colored boy In a certain place and dared anybody to tell on him. That very night Mayor Jewett spoke in that same place." Warning his listeners not to accept instructions Inside the polls on election day but to know how to vote before going inside and then to refuse to leave until the inspector places the ballot in the box Fleming declared: “That Is the only way to beat a machine.” Although he has held numerous poItllcal Jobs in Indianapolis since the days when he came here from an orphans’
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home. Fleming will not become a city employe if Robison is elected, he said. “I am working for a man, a big man, who has merely loaned me "for several weeks to help elect Mr. Robison." Thomas M. Dexter, negro, an organizer for the cement finishers' union, who was chairman of the meeting, said that he has observed tangible evidence that hundreds of men have been refused city jobs in the present times of unemployment because they “had manhood enough to stand uron their right to pick the man whom they wanted to vote for for mayor." "I have had reports from all over town that men were told they could go to work for the city If they were for Mr. Howe,” he said. BOOKWALTER, IN EXPOSE, GOES EVEN FURTHER (Continued From I’age One.) committee of five on a recent Sunday afternoon. Now it has become well known that he has been an independent voter for at least a dozen years past. He in no true sense fills the requirements of the election laws, as a Republican candidate, and ought to be considered disqualified by the members of that party. “This leaves Edward J. Robison as the only real Republican contestant at the primary to be held next week. He should therefore receive the votes of all Republicans who go to the polls. RODIKON WELL WORTHY OF SUPPORT. “Mr. Robison is a man of good scholarly attainments, unimpeachable integrity, splendid business ability, and in every sense worthy of support. He is a loyal American, believing in our Ideals of government, untainted by any socialistic tendencies. He did a great service to this city when he unselfishly saved to the taxpayers a large sum of money that he might have pocketed, as other county treasurers before him had been allowed to do, because of faulty legislation. These defects he and his attorney, Merrill Moores, caused to be corrected, by preparing and having enacted the present depository law. He never received a penny of interest during his term ol office. The taxpayers got It all." Mr. Hall told his audience that the question before the people of Indianapolis now is not one of national issues. That was settled last fall, he said, when the News candidate for the presidency was defeated. It is not a question of | States issues, he averred, because, he added, that also was settled last spring when the News candidate for Governor was defeated. "The business before ns today Is the defeating of the News-Jewett candidate for mayor of Indianapolis," he declared. Mr. Hall repeated his story of the life of Professor Howe, telling how he had received bis education in Butler College and the universities of Germany, and how he hud become thoroughly versed In the language and "kultur" of the German nation. WAS PROF, HOWE ASKED TO RESIGN? “I’d like Frofessor Howe to tell why he resigned from the presidency of Butler College. I'd like him to tell whether he was asked to resign. And whether he resigned to save the colge from financial ruin under his administration. His administration was not a success there. “Did I say that with the proper spirit of gentility? “If Shank took to the tall timbers in an extremely exciting period, it's safe to assume that the News-Jewett crowd would not let him do likewise, but he j might go home and go to bed. They tell what a great staunch Republican he is. He never fought the battles of the Republican party at the side of Mr. Bookwaiter and myself. He voted for John Holtzman for mayor against Mr. Bookwaiter. “If Professor Howe couldn't vote for William Howard Taft in 1912; If he couldn't vote for Jim Watson or for Charley Bookwalfcr, then be shouldn't
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1921.
May Be Shipping Head James A. Farrell, president of the* United States Steel Corporation, who is ' expected by high officials in Washington to be named as chairman of the United : States Shipping Board. Mr. Farrell, tt i is said, is again considering the post after twice declining the appointment.
come before the people now as a Republican candidate. HAND PICKED BY COMMITTEE OF FIVE. "The self appointed committee of five selected him ou a recant Sunday ufternoon, because he knew that before he could run, he would have to permit himself to be bound by that machine." Mr. Robison, who came to the meeting late and who was given a rousing cheer as he entered the ball, lnuti' bed into an attack on Professor Howe, in regard to his party affiliations. “There was never a time after the party’s candidate had been declared that I have not been in full accord," said Mr. j Robison. "Call me anything you like, but don't call me anything but a Republican." REFUTES HOWE ON GAS QUESTION. The candidate told of the interest which the mayor should hold in the settlement of the gas question, and refuted clearly the statements of Profess >r Howe that the mayor has nothing to do with the ; settlement of the gas controversy. "You should investigate the adaptabll- ! itiea of each candidate., then go and vote j without being coerced by any one." The candidate continued the lead given by previous speakers and vigorously at tacked the News-Je.wett combination, which has set out to defeat him. He warned the voters of the catch of the News now in declaring that a vote for Robison is a vote for Shank. He warned. | also, as he. has in other addresses, against the stealing of votes by the Ilowe or | ganiratlon. He pledged himself. If elected, to serve four whole years, and declared he would not attempt to coerce any one to carry out his desires at a primary or general election. “I think too much of the sovereignty of the peoplo to do this,” he said. ROBISON MEETINGS SET FOR TONIGHT. Mr. Robison will have five meetings tonight. At 8 o’clock he will be at the South Side Turner hall; at 8:r,0 p. m. at the Irvington Theater; at 9 p. m at Twelfth and West streets, and then later
go to meetings at Forty-Second street and College avenue, and Thirtieth street and Central avenue. Archibald M. Hall wdll also speak at the latter two meetings prior to the arrival of Mr. Robison. Ex-Mayor Charles A. Bookwalter, Dr. Amelia R. Keller, R. Harry Miller and Tom Greenlee will be speakers at these meetings in addition to the candidate. Seventh ward Republicans will gather tomorrow at the Indianapolis Glove Company, Michigan and Liberty streets, for a big ward mass meeting. Joseph R. Morgan will be In charge of the speakers, who will be, in addition to Mr. Robison, ex-Mayor Bookwalter, Dr. Keller, William H. Jackson, Mrs. R. Harry Miller and ex-State Senator Franklin McCray. Corruptness of the present city organization was scored by Tom Greenlee, excity employe, in a meeting last night at 227 South Noble street. "The engineers of the present city administration are very much interested in refilling these offices in the city hall with their friends," Mr. Greenlee charged.
NAVY TRAINING COVERED UP BY SECRECY VEIL (Continued From Page One.) and prefer the theory that Mayo's mind or Benson's beat the wireless, and sent its suggestion to the mind of the other without using any mechanical medium. Whatever the explanation the fact Is that Admiral Mayo sent a dispatch to Washington at 3:59 on the afternoon of Feb. 1, 1917, which was crossed by a dispatch from Admiral William S. Benson, in the Navy Department, to Admiral Mayo. And the two dispatches proposed the shifting of the fleet to u new and secret rendezvous-and named the same rendezvous. Here is th message sent by Admiral Mayo from the flagship Pennsylvania at Guantanamo: "Unless Instructions are received to the contrary, propose to shift fleet base to Gulf of Guacanayabo, after spotlng practice Feb. 5; then proceed with schedule of all gunnery exercises." The message from Admiral Benson to Admiral Mayo, which was dispatched from Washington a few minutes later than that from flagship, but before Us arrival, road as follows: "Position of fleet well known to everybody. If considered advisable on ac count of submarines, shift base to Gulf of Guacanayabo or elsewhere at discretion. Inform department confidentially.'’ WHERE IS GUACANAYABO? Ask the average man where or what Guacanayabo Is and you wilt have him guessing. Tnke a large scale map of Cuba and look at the southern coast of the Island. Between Santa Cruz del Stir and Cape Crus you will find a sizeable body of water, exteudtng in a sort of semicircle for some seventy miles, it la about fifteen miles across at ila widest part. This is the Gulf of Guacanayabo. Long before it had been thoroughly surveyed by our own hydrographic office, and the survey had ascertained that there was ample depth of water for the biggest ships. The main channel had been carefully sounded and marked out by buoys. We had used It for years for special maneuvers. We knew- how to get in, and how to get out again when we wanted to; but the great consideration
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was that once In we could close the door, and nobody else could get in without running extraordinary dangers. Across the mouth of the gulf are many small islands and perilous shoals. When the main channel was closed against intruders, only a navigator, thoroughly familiar with the Intricate turnings and varying depths of the other channels, couid afford to venture an attempt to enter. The chances were heavily against any U-boat coming through while submerged—and a U-boat that failed to submerge we couid take care of. Aeroplanes made a complete reconnaissance of the gulf and adjacent waters twice every day, while picket boats guarded all waters outside the gulf from Cape Cruz to I.avissa bank. SAFE AS JEWELS IN A VAULT. When Admiral Mayo had placed his ships in this land-locked harbor, had shut the door and turned the key, they were as safe as my lady’s Jewels in a safety deposit vault. There the fleet continued its work, going out to sea for battle practice and long range gunnery in the daytime, and returning at night to conduct night firing with secondary batteries, torpedo attack and other exercises. There was even room in the gulf to carry on torpedo firing and defense at 10,000 yards’ distance. Guacanayabo was safe enough, but in case of hostilities we wanted our fleet nearer home, eo a few days before war we concealed It In a home base even more inaccessible to the enemy. Before this final base was determined for the Atlantic fleet, however, it was moved from Guacanayabo to Hampton Roads. The order to steam north was given March 21, 1917. READY lOK SI lIMAKINF.B. Tito possibility of submarine attack on this voyage was dearly recognized, and instructions were given that for the greater safety of the fleet the larger battleships and destroyers should proceed at maximum speed via (tacos channel, while the train, mine force and old battleships- all slower vessels should go in company via the (’rooked Dland passage. The dreadnoughts und destroyers reached Hampton Roads at 9:30 o’clock on the morning of March 27. The slower ships arlved three days later. Hampton Roads was a most convenient and desirable base In many ways, but it was too well known 'and too much exposed. We brought Admiral Mayo to Washington, and the whole matter was discussed. Charts were examined and a new base selected, to which t.ho admiral was given orders to shift the fleet. O i tin* very day on which President Wil on delivered his war message to Congo ,s the fleet sailed from Hampton Roads for its new rendezvous. Tills was "Base 2.” Throughout the war It was never culled anything/ else. In conversation and dispatches it remained thus mysteriously designated. The newspapers were requested if they should by chance discover d-here the Meet was sequestered to keep It as profound a secret as the Navy Department had tried to make It. KEEP NAVY'S SKt RET. Necessarily persons residing In the neighborhood of the base became aware of the presence of the battleships, but for the most part, like good Americans, they held their tongues. It wag months before there was any general knowledge of where the fleet spent Its days during those early weeks of the war. "Base 2” was one of the most historlc spots in America—Yorktown, Va.
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Harding Appointee W ' w George W. Aldridge of Rochester, N. TANARUS„ has been appointed by President Harding to be collector of customs of the Tenth district, New Y'ork, according to a report from Washington. Mr. Aldridge liua for the last thirty years been a leader in politics. He was a member of the New York delegation to the Chicago convention and was a Ann supporter of President Jlurdlng for the nomination.
Throughout the war our battleships were almost in sight of the place where Cornwallis surrendered to Ge-orgo Washington. The York River affords a wonderful harbor, with water deep enough for the largest battleships and spacious enough for a whole fleet to ride at anchor. With defenses at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay and nets and putrols across York River, no atibmnrlne could ever hope to penetrate this safe haven. NOT THERE TO HIDE. It should not be supposed that the fleet went into the York River either to rest or to hide. Far from It. During the entire war there were few busier places in tho United States than this base. Every ship was carrying on intensive training day and night—-training gunners, engineers, firemen, deck officers and crews, armed guards for merchant vessels, men of every rank and rating to man transports, destroyers, patrol craft and all the many vessels put Into European and trans-Atlantic service. In addition to new men in their own crews, the battleships trained more than 45,000 officers and men for service in other vessels. Every man from Admiral Mayo to the stokers wanted to get Into action. Not a man in the Navy but knew in his heart it would be all over with the Germans if only they would give the Atlantic fleet a chance. The Germans, probably, knew it, too, for the chance was never given. Admiral
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Beatty expressed the feeling when, In his farewell address to Admiral Rodman on the departure of our battleships from the grand fleet, he said: “I know quite well that you, as well as all of your British comrades, were bitterly dlsap- . pointed at not being able to give effect to the efficiency that you have so well maintained.” Both countries pursued what naval officers considered the best possible course under the circumstances. Unquestionably the existence of these two great fleets, and the French and Italian forces, held the German fleet in check and compelled Its eventful surrender. But personally I have little patience with the policy of depending on a "fleet in being.” The policy of watching and waiting irks men of the navies that produce Nelsons and Farraguts, John Paul Joneses and Deweys. I neither blame the British admiralty, nor excuse our own, but in my soul I believe that if commanders like Beatty, Mayo, Rodman and Wilson could have Joined In a general assault by the forces of all the allies, we would have found some way to smash through and destroy the German fleet—ln spite of hall and Helgoland. (Another article by former Secretary Daniels will be printed tomorrow.) MASONS SELECT NAME FOR CLUB ‘Hoosier Square and Compass Club’ Is Christened. From a list of fifteen name submitted' by the members and the name committee, the Hoosier Square and Compass Club was selected as the title for the new Master Masons’ club of Indianapolis at a meeting last night at the Chamber of Commerce building. Officers and members of the board of governors are to be elected May 16. Constitution nnd by-laws were adopted and a committee of Incorporation was appointed, consisting of Judge Arthur Robinson, Lloyd Claycombe, A. W. Hamilton, Cnrl Lenz and F. Scldenstlcker. One hundred and forty-two new petitions for membership were balloted upon and all applicants were elected. It was decided thst a committee should be appointed to select a location where suitable drill rooms, cafeteria and social rooms can be provided. Shelbyville to Hold Americanization Day Special to The Times. SFTFLBYYILLE, Ind., April 26—AH chnrebes of the city will observe Americanization Day here next Sunday under the auspices of Victory Post, American Legion, of this city. In the afternoon a mass meeting of ex-service men will be held at the city hall where a number of prominent speakers will make addresses. The leglonalre sare urging every member of the poet to attend church in the morning and the patriotic meeting in the afternoon. HOME BURNS: INSURANCE OUT. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., April 28. Fire did $3,000 damage last night when the farm residence of George Peck, south of the city, was destroyed. The cause of the fire is not knoxvn. Peck had permitted his Insurance on the dwelling to lapse April 11 and the loss is total.
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