Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 310, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight—Unsettled with showers Sunday—Moderate.

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‘LOSS’ OF NAVAL PLAN IS GREAT WAR MYSTERY Patriot Carried Only Copy of Secret Document to Grave, Is Theory. TEUTONS DID NOT GET IT’ Tha war plan that "was lost — “Problem solution, Black,” dealing with naval tactics against Germany In Atlantic vanishes —Did Germans steal our secrets or were they good guessers ?—Probable solution of mystery. By JOSEPHUS DANIELS. Former Secretary of Navy—l9l3-21. ARTICLE 23. What became of the lost Black plan is still a mystery. Made out by the general board, guarded with the greatest care, handled by the proper authorities, it was carried into effect and then it vanished utterly. The discovery that one of our secret naval plans was missing came when it was too late to have any effect on the situation. But that did not prevent the newspapers making the most of the sensation, especially such as, for political reasons, had it in for the Navy Department. They would never have heard it was missing, nor would we have known it was missing, had we not looked It up for the purpose of proving to certain clamorous critics that we had not gone to war with-, out plans. Long ago it bad served its purpose as a plan, and, as we supposed, had been filed away with thousands of other documents for purposes of record. But there we were wrong. The plan had not been filed away, nor could any trace of It be found. To this day it has not been found. And It was an important plan—at the time It was used. It was a plan of vital Importance. DEFINITION OF “BLACK FLAN." The Navy for many years has bad a set of plans to cover possible situations which might develop in the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Caribbean Sea or other open waters. These plans originated with the general board, of which Admiral Dewey was chairman until his death in January, 1917, and were kept up-to-date by frequent revision. The plan dealing with possible hostilities in the Atlantic was known as the “Black plan.” In February, 1917, in its revised and np-to-the-minute form, it dealt, of course, with the probability of war with Germany. On Feb. 4, the day after Bernstorff was dismissed, the general board had recommended in detail the principal steps to be taken in case of war with the central power* —mobilization of the fleet, na*al districts and auxiliary vessels; large increase of navy and marine corps personnel; nets and mines to guard ports and home wateirS against submarines, arming of merchant ships, and other measures, and, arrange, as soon as possit \M plans of cooperation with the navri'Krces of the allies for the Joint protectionr of trans-Atlantic e unmerce and fur tensive naval operations against the common enemy.”

FRAMING STRATEGY AND WAR POLICY. The general war plan was comprehensive; special recommendations had been made as to the Tarious steps we should take. Bnt I wanted also a definite statement aa to the strategy and general policy we should pursue upon the declaration of war. These studies are called "problems,” and on Feb. 10 I addressed this letter to the general board; Feb. 10, 1917. To: The General Board, Subject: Solution of Ploblem. 1. The department desires the general board to consider the following problem and submit its solution as soon as practicable: PROBLEM General Situation—Conditions as at present except that war with Germany is declared. Special Situation—The allies do not desire our battleship force at present. Required—Naval estimate of the situation: First, as to the grand strategy demanded by the situations. Second, as to disposition of battleship force. Third, as to the method of assisting in maintaining communications with Europe, including scheme for cooperation with allies. Fourth, as to the methods of driving submarines from the sea. Assume —Mobilization of all naval vessels and possibility of mobilizing merchant vessels as required. JOSEPHUS DANIELS. The board made a careful study of the whole situation, and a week later made a report covering all the matters set forth, and sent it to me, with the following note of transmittal:

DANIELS ADVISED PROBLEM IS SOLVED. General Board. Navy Department, Washington, Feb. 17. 1917. To: Secretary of the Navy, Subject: Solution of Problem, Black. Reference (a) Navy Department Confidential Letter of Feb. 10, 1917. 1. In accordance with reference (a) the general board submits herewith problem and solution based upon the general and special situations described In the Navy Department's instructions. CHARLES J. BADGER. Such care was taken to keep this document from anyone except the secretary and the office of naval operations that even the general board retained no duplicate of It. After being submitted to me for approval, It was turned over to the chief of naval operations; all plans that had been approved were In their custody. They were familiar with their provisions ad drafted the necessary orders for carrying them Into effect. But plans were so carefully safeguarded that only those directly concerned were allowed to see them. And yet. In spite of all our precautions, the document containing the gen(Continurd on Page Five.)

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J. McNamara Passes Out of San Quentin Tuesday Convicted Dynamiter Plans to Start Life Anew May Resume Union Work .

SAN QUENTIN PENITENTIARY, Cal., May 7.—On Tuesday, May 10, John McNamara, convicted of a felony In connection with the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 1, 1910. will check out through the great doors >f the San Quentin prison • for the last time. On that day his sentence will be ompleted. “The first thing I'll do when I get out of here will be to go to San Francisco, gee my friends and make arrangements to go to Ohio to visit the various members of my family who live in Cleveland and Cincinnati,” he stated in an exclusive interview today. “Then comes the problem of readjustment after being out of the world for ten years. WOULD CONTINUE UNION ACTIVITY. “At the time of my trial I was international secretary of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers' Union. I am still a member of the union and in good standing. “That I will continue with that work is quite probable, though that is necessarily dependent on what conditions are as I find them on my release “I have managed to keep more or less abreast of the times during my imprisonment, but I fear I won't know how to act when I step off the ferry in San Francisco. “Though I have been out of the world

JOE CANNON , 85 YEARS ‘YOUNG,’ IS ‘CELEBRATING ’ IT Forgetful of Number Stogies He Has Smoked in Veteran Service. WASHINGTON, May 7—Uncle “Joe Cannon holder of all “marathon” records for congressional service. Is 85 years old today. He la the oldest member of Congress, both in years and point or service. The veteran legislator celebrated his birthday by working with the House appropriations committee on the deficiency bill. Although the House was not In session, scores of friends called at his office to extend congratulations. ‘•Well the calendar says 1 am 85, but you will have to subtract a good many years if you want to knt w how I feel,” he said, as he puffed one of his famous black stogies. “I can still show some of these new members a few tricks.” One of his birthday presents was a box of the famous stogies. “How many stogies have you smoked?” he was asked. “Well, the figure probably would resemble some of these appropriations we have been passing recently,” he replied as he pulled another one from his pocket. i “Got a match?” * DISARMAMENT MOVE PROBABLE U. S., With Representatives on Supreme Council, in Position to Act. WASHINGTON, May I.—President Harding, having accepted the invitation to put representatives on the allied supreme council ambassadors’ conference and reparations commission was in a position today to inaugurate a disarmament movement among the powers. It is believed that Harding is considering a tentative plan for starting such a movement through Ambassador George Harvey, who will sit with the allied supreme council. The other American representative will be Ambassador Herrick at Paris, who will sit with ttje ambassadors’ c<spference. and Roland W. Boyden, who will attend meetings of the reparations commission. The most important immediate tasks confronting the American representatives are: 1. Settlement of the reparations question without prostrating Germany economically. 2. Securing recognition of American rights in disposition of former enemy territories, such as the island of Yap and the Mesopotamian oil fields.

A WONDERFUL BIT OF NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY A relief map of the Canterbury Plains | / nd Banks’ Peninsula in the South Is- | I ieieiie 'V.Lf and of New Zealand, describgti In XV. [j| i. Boyce’s article on page 5 of this edi- |j EaStk jjp/ on of the Times. At the top of the map | | j'XyjJJjv 1 re seen the Southern Alps. Left of the i! ji ' le monarch of New Zealnnd. Mountain j; treams flow from the Southern Alps to j he sea across the Canterbury Plains. It || * ion these plains New Zealand flat farm- | ‘‘Vij \ ig Is seen at its best. At the bottom of | YC? ’ £ XU* _<s*. Jk ae map is the hilly Banks’ Peninsula. ill y The land-lock-ad harbor of Lyttleton, j * mß|pKv* fn J he port of Christchurch, Is seen at the I. a _

A relief map of the Canterbury Plains and Banks’ I’eninsula in the South Island of New Zealand, described In XV. D. Boyce's article on page 5 of this edition of the Times, At the top of the map are seen the Southern Alps. Left of the center Is Mt. Cook, 12,849 feet high, the monarch of New Zealand. Mountain streams flow from the Southern Alps to the sea across the Canterbury Plains. It is on these plains New Zealand flat farming Is seen at its best. At the bottom of the map is the hilly Banks’ Peninsula. The harbor of Lyttleton, the port of Christchurch, Is seen at the

for ten years I think I’m still a man capable of taking care of myself.” There was a pause. “And will you be glad to get out?” he was asked. “That's what has been keeping me alive, thinking of the day when I would again become a free man. able to go my own way,” the man in prison gray replied. “One hears so much —and so little—of what is going on outside that after an active life, a prison term Is almost an intellectual death," he added. “STRIFE IS KEYNOTE OF WORLD REFRAIN.” "We hear so much now of wars and rumors of wars that it is almost appalling to think of facing the age old conflict of man and his brother. “With labor troubles paramount in this country, disputes tearing Europe, strife Is the keynote of the world refrain.” Originally sentenced to a fifteen-year term, the board of prison directors have ordered McNamara released after serving ten years, part In San Quentin and a few mon'hs in the county jail in Los Angeles. Good behavior and strict compliance with all rules earned the respite. His brother, James McNamara, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his connection with the same case. It is possible that he may be paroled at some future date. Union labor leaders In San Francisco who know McNamara are preparing a welcome for him on the day he is released.

GUY WINS POINT FROM RULING ON PATERNITY Evidence Indian Is Father Is Outlawed, but Has Bearing in Divorce. NEW YORK, May 7.—An Important point has been won for Baby Guy Stillman, “the silent principal In the Stillman divorce case,” by a ruling of Referee Daniel J. Gleason, that neither the testimony of Dr. Hugh Russell of Buffalo nor the disputed “Dear Honey” letter alleged to have been written by Fred Beauvais, the alleged corespondent, shall he admitted Into the evidence so far as the controversy over the paternity of the boy is concerned, it was learned today. This ruling was secured by John E. Mack, guardian at law for Guy. The referee assured Mr. Mack that the Russell testimony and the "Deaf Honey” letter will be considered only as affecting the multi-millionaire's plea for a divorce. WIFE MAY NAME ANOTHER WOMAN. Mrs. “Flfl” Peter Stillman made the angry accusation that an attempt had been made to "frame up” the case. Counsel for Mrs. Stillman declared they had learned that one woman, who Is expected to testify for the former banker, formerly had close relations with a band of men and women of shady character who were once suspected off blackinailtng wealthy men and women at Atlantic City. This woman was not Identified, but It was said tha£, she was on good terms with the plaintiff, who bad advanced her money. Mrs. Stillman's lawyers were deeply resentful over the publication of letters, alleged to have been written by Beauvais. They alleged that representatives of “the other side” had violated secret agreements. Asa result of the publication of these letters. It was reported that Mrs. Stillman must file a second amendment to her reply to her husband’s suit. Attorneys for Mrs. Stillman, It was said, might name another woman In addition to the former chorus girl. "Flo” Leeds. According to the gossip, Mrs. Stillman’s lawyers would chargo the ex-banker with maintaining an apartment for the unnamed woman for two yeara. BARK DICTAPHONE PLOT QN MRS. STILLMAN. An alleged attempt to “plant” a dictaphone In the bedroom or writingroom of Mrs. Stillman at Malbanne, the Stillman home at Pocantlco Hills, was revealed today. Another Interesting report from the defense camp was that Mrs. Stillman would undertake to show that the "Dearest Honey” letter was “planted” In her writing desk by a maid whom she (Mrs. Stillman) afterwards discharged from her service. A forme* employe of the Stillman estate has tesu.".-J that she found this letter In the desk.

INDUNAPOUS, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921.

118 INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY BEFORE JUDGE ‘Muncie Ponzi’ and Goshen Furniture Men Among Not Guilty Pleaders. OLD CASES DISPOSED OF One hundred eighteen defendants indicted by the Federal grand jury at its recent session were arraigned before Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger in Federal Court here today. In all cases where pleas of guilty were entered sentence was imposed and the cases disposed of. Judge Geiger also disposed of a number of other cases that have been held in abeyance for several weeks. As was expected all defendants of prominence entered pleas of not guilty and their cases will be set for trial at a later date. This was the ease with Alpha L. Holaday, "Muncie Ponzi," charged with using the malls In a scheme to defraud, and also llenjamiu F. Den ill of Goshen, prominent business man, lawyer and president of the I-X-L Furniture Company of that city; Charles E. Moriee of Peru, formerly sales manager for the company, and William D. Widner of Auburn, formerly an office employe of the company. These men were charged with conspiring to file false Income tax returns for the furniture company for 1918 and 1018 and of defrauding the government out of about $47,000 lu Income taxes. Samuel M. Ralston ami Quincy A. Myers a pea red for Mr. Deabl and filed demurrers to the indictments. OTHERS WHO ENTER NOT GUILTY FLEAS. Pleas of not guilty also were entered by Carl A. lleldt, formerly cashier of a national bank at Evansville; Theodore T. Hull, formerly United States commissioner at that place, and his law partner, Mark B. Ingle. These defendants are charged with having conspired to violate the national banking laws. It is said that Heldt permitted the other two to overdraw their accounts In large sums and that he made false reports to the federal reserve bank at St. Louis. Three East Chicago city officials, Edward P. O’Donnell, chief of police; Thomas Downey, captain of police, and Stanley Beczkowskl entered pleat of not guilty to violating the Federal prohlbi tion lawa. However, John Stipanorlch, Nick, Vujonlvieh and Nick Popovich, satrt to be blind tiger operators, pleaded guilty. In the indictments it 1* charged they paid Chief O’Donnell and Captain Downey sums ranging from SSO to SIOO for protection In the Illicit sale of liquor. Pleas of guilty were entered by six residents of Monon, charged with stealing from interstate freight shipments. These cases are an aftermath of other cases that were tried about two weeks (Continued on Page Two.)

DRIVER OF TRUCK SERIOUSLY HURT Ed Epperson Injured in Collision With Caboose. Ed Epperson, 34 . 463 Blake street, is in a critical condition today at the city hospital as the result of injuries received when an auto truck collided with a caboose of a Big Four freight train, on the Speedway road at 9 o'clock last night. The accident occurcd at the same cross ing where a man and a team of horses were killed a few weeks ago. Epperson was driving a big truck at a high rate of speed, according to Walter Davis. 1537 East Ohio street, braketnan on the train. Davit said the train had passed the crossing except the caboose, in which he was riding. He saidthat the truck struck the side of the caboose so hard that it almost knocked it off of the track. The truck was badly wrecked. Railroad men told the police that there was another man In the truck with Epperson and that heran after the accident arid dropped a bottle that broke. The police found a bottle that they say contained “white mule” whisky sixty feet from the wrecked automobile truck. Leeds and Princess to Wed in London LONDON, May 7.—The Evening News printed a story this evening saying It understands that the wedding of William Leeds, son of Princess Anastasia of Greece and Princess Xenia of Greece will take place this coming summer in tho Greek Church in London.

Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat 6 Years Ago Today NEW YORK, May 7.—Today Is the sixth anniversary of the war’s greatest horror—the sinking of the Lusitania. The great liner was torpedoed off the Irish coast by the German submarine U-39 in the afternoon of May 7, 1915, with the loss of 1,154 lives, 114 of them Americans. The log of the commander of the U-39, giving the personal story of the German who was responsible for this atrocity, was published five years after the sinking.

SLAIN BURGLAR IDENTIFIED AS MARTIN YASIL Shot by Grocer Roused by Attempts to Rofr His Store. LEFT DUMMY IN BED The robber who was shot and killed by James M. Smith, a grocer at 122 Gelsendorff street, last night while fleeing from the store was identified today as Martin Vasil. 975 West Pearl street. The identification was made by Joe Mlskowz, 993 West Washington street, after the police had tried vainly since MtdrWSht to learn the man's identity. Smith sleeps In the rear of the store and he was awakened by somo one trying to open the door between the store and the bedroom. Securing his shotgun. Smith opened a window in the partition and he saw a man Jump behind a countei. SHOT DOWN AS HE FLED. Smith fired the shot gun into the calling. and called for the man to surrender be said. The stranger ran from behlud the counter and started to flee through the front door. Smith fired again aud tha charge of shot struck too burglar In tb* back of the neck. Charles E. Chesser, employed by Smith, who also lives at the Geisendorf street address, notified the police of tha trouble. Sergeant Sheehan found the body lying in the doorway, his feet In the store and his body on the sidewalk. Dr. George Christian, deputy coroner, ordered the body sent to the Royster & Askln funeral parlors, 837 North Illinois street, where an autopsy was performed. HAD TRIED TO ROB NEARBY HOMES. Near the body of Vasil was found a large screw driver, but this was identified by Smith as one that had been In his store. The man evidently had not had time to rob the store, for the only thing (Continued on Page Two.)

POLITICAL ROW; 1 IN HOSPITAL Negro Victim Is Seriously Wounded in Hot -Discussion —Gun Wielder Surrenders. Arthur Reed. 47, 278 North California street, colored, is In a serious condition today as a result of a gun wound inflicted by "Big Bill” Harris. 51, also colored, according to the police, after the two had Imbibed of bootleg whisky and engaged in a political argument. The bullet entered Reed's left hip. Following the shooting, which took place In front of Harris’ home, at the rear of 623 XVest St. Clair street, Harris surrendered to the police and was slated on a charge of shooting with Intent to kill. Ileod apparently had gone to the Harris home to settle a controversy that had arisen earlier in the day between Harris and Reed's brother, when the brother was said to have been assaulted by Harris. The two men began arguing politics, and the shooting resulted. Viola Mates, a Servian, 701 Haugh street, Haughvllle, Is held by the police, charged with the unlawful sale of a pint of liquor to a negro. The arrest was made by Federal Prohibition Agents XX'lnkler* Bundy and Chester. Alec Gnea, 445 XVest XVashlngton street, was arrested last night by Lieutenant XX’lnkler and Sergeant Tooley, charged with a violation of the problbiton laws. The police say Gnea had four quarts of “white mule” whisky in his possession when arrested at XX’est XVashlngton and Missouri streets.

GET 2 TO 14 YEARS FOR $250 THEFT Filling Station Thieves Sentenced by Collins. Aaron Lewis, 27, and Steve Bajt, 25, Indicted on charges of burglary and grand larceny for breaking Into a gasoline filling station at 2350 Speedway avenue April 1 last, today were sentenced from two to fourteen) years in the Indiana Statq Reformatory by Judge Janies A. Collins. XVllllam Einrich Jr., who operates the filling station, testified that Lewis and Bajt obtained tires, oil and other accessories valued at about $250. The evidence showed that at the time Bajt was arrested he had pictures of the former German kaiser and of himself dressed In the uniform of an Austrian soldier. XVUliam Black, 47, charged with burglary and grand larceny, was sentenced to a year on the Indiana State Farm. Two Out of Derby LOUISVILLE, May 7.—Firebrand and Billy Barton were “scratched” from the list of entries in Kentucky Derby this afternoon. This* left a field of thirteen t. L *Lari- ■

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MACHINE STILL SEEKS WAY OF BEATING SHANK Three Schemes Proposed Prove Useless—Support for Democrat Considered. LEMAUX WILL ‘HESITATE’ Whether the Jewett-Roemler-Lemcke Republican machine should lie down and die without further ado, following its crushing defeat at the hands of the organization of Samuel Lewis Shank, or whether it should treat the public to the spectacle of its going through a few death throes is the topic of serious discussion among the leaders of the beaten combine today. A preliminary conference in which the matter was discussed was held in the office of Charles O. Roemler, Seventh district Republican chairman, in the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company late Friday. The request of Mr. Shank that Irving W. Lemaux, Republican city chairman, resign to make way for Dr. E. E. Ilodgin, one of the candidate’s close personal friends and advisers, was the specific subject under discussion, it Is understood. Besides Mr. Roeinler, Mr. Lemaux, Ernest Kingston, Republican city vice chairman; Leonard M. Quill, campaign manager for Thomas C. Howe, defeated candidate for the Republican mayoralty nomination ; Mr. Howe, Harry Hendrickson, Marion County Republican chairman ; Thomas D. Stevenson, Republican chairman of the Fourth ward; Robert H. Bryson, Sty controller; Mayor Charles \V. Jewett, Will 11. Thompson, Emsley W. Johnson and Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby, attended. GROPE FOR PLAN TO BEAT SHANK. Politicians agree that if the NewsJewett outfit could find any way to defeat Shank und at the same time retain a firm hand on Marion County politics it most assuredly would adopt taU course. The difficulty is that no such plan has been discovered and there is little indication that it will be. The News-Jewett combine first thought of Instituting a movement for the commission manager form government after it was established that Mr. Shank was the Republican nominee. The fact that no election on this question could b* held before a year from next June stopped this. Two other suggestions are being considered by those Republicans who oppose Mr. Shank. One is to establish anew party and enter a third candidate in the NuYiyal)£r,jd.t)jUuu aiul the other Is to Join hands with the Democrats and put over Boyd M. Ralston, the Democratic nominee, or request Mr. Ralston to resign and put up a Democrat whom the News-Jewett crowd could rally around. PROSPECTS DIM FOR THIRD CANDIDATE. Upon the proposition of entering a third candidate attorneys disagree. The law passed by the last Legislature providing that independent candidates shall file notice of their intention to enter the November election not later than thirty j (Continued on Page Two.)

ARGUE ON ‘LEAK’ CASES FRIDAY Involve ‘Grapevine’ High Court Decisions—Seek to Quash Indictments. WASHINGTON, May 7.—Argument on the United States Supreme Court "leak” cases, involving the question of whether It is criminal to surreptitiously advance Information on decisions of the highest court and use such Information for speculation purposes, will be held next Friday, It was announced today by District Attorney John E. Laskey. The argument will be on the motion to quash the Indictment wh ch was found against ■Ashton F. Embry, former private secretiry to Associate Justice McKenna; E. M. Mayer, a broker; B. E. Moses, a lawyer, and J. Harwood Grayes, a former attorney in the Department of Justice. The Indictment charges that the defendants conspired to obtain advance information on Supreme Court decisions that they did obtain such information nnd that they used it to speculate In stocks which would be affected by such decisions, to their own financial advantage. Counsel for the Indicted men filed a demurrer to the Indictment, arguing that no existing law was violated. The case was brought to the attention of the government by Marlen E. Pew, editor and general manager of the International News Service, whose investiga tlon of the ‘‘leak” resulted In the Indictments found against the men. Mr. Pew laid the results of his investigation before Chief Justice White of the United States Supreme Court, who, In turn, consulted the Department of Justice. Embry's resignation as private secretary to Justice McKenna and the indictment of the four members of the clique followed.

The Shamrock and the Palm

By O. HENRY

0B NE night tlflre was no breeze, and Coralio seemed closer than ever to the gratings of Avernus, five men were grouped about the door of the photograph establishment of Keough and Clancy. Thus, in all the scorched and exotic places of the earth, Caucasians meet when the day's work is done to preserve the fullness of their heritage by the aspersion of alien things. Johnny Atwood lay stretched upon the grass in the undress uniform of a Carlb, and prated feebly of cool water to be had in the cucumber-wood pumps of Dilesburg. Dr. Gregg, through the prestige of his whiskers and as a bribe against the relation of his imminent professional tales, was conceded the hammock that was swung betw-""' the door Jamb and a cnlabash-tre wogh had moved out upon the grass a little table that held the instrument for burnishing completed photographs. He waa the only busy one of the group. Industriously frnm between the cylinders of the hnr-

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COMPANY’S PETITION GRANTED IN FULL BY PUBLIC SERVICE BODY/ Increased Charge, Effective at Once, Continues Until Dec. 31, or as Long as Emergency Exists. INSISTS ON ‘REQUIRED STANDARD’ A gas rate for Indianapolis of 90 cents a thousand cubic feet was ordered by the public service commission today to be effective immediately and to continue until Dec. 31, 1921, or as long as an emergency continues to exist. The present rate is 60 cents and the order grants in full the request of the Citizens Gas Company for an increase. The order was made under the emergency clause of the public serv* ice commission act. While granting the rates the commission severely criticises the manner in which the company is failing to make an effort to dispose of its' coke to domestic consumers, recognizing that the company’s failure to sell coke is the cause of most of its troubles.

BOY, 15, SHOOTS DOWN PLAYMATE Victim Seriously Wounded— Rumored They Had Been Quarreling. Vanleer Britt, 7, 7fli West Twenty-fifth street, was shot and seriously wounded this morning by William Grubbs, 13, 739 West Twenty-fifth street, while the boys were playing in the basement of the Britt home. Both are colored. Britt was rushed to the city hospital where it is said he is In a sericdis condition with a bullet Irr his abdomen. Edgar Britt, 14, a brother of the wounded boy, told the police there had been a quarrel preceding the shooting. Grubbs denied that he had trouble with his playmates and declared the shooting was accidental. A .22-caliber revolver was used. Grubbs admitted to the police that he had stolen it from the home of Mrs. Rosa Hoskins, 761 West Twenty-Fifth street, about two weeks ago. Mrs. Hoskins, who is colored, was later arrested and charged with the unlawful possession of firearms. Following the shooting the revolver was thrown into the alley, but Grubbs located it on a demand from the police Grubbs was arested charged with assault and battery with felonious intent, aud with grand larceny. The police investigation showed, they said, that Grubbs had ordered Britt out of the cellar and that an argument followed. BID FOR SIB,OOO TO FILLCHEST Community Workers Must Raise This Sum to Reach Goal Monday. With all teams working today and with appeals to be made in the men's Bible classes In each of the city's Sunday schools tomorrow, it is expected that the $ too,ooo mark in the campaign for funds for the Indianapolis community chest will be passed by time for the noon luncheon at the Claypool Hotel Monday. In order to reach this goal It still Is necessary to raise SIB,OOO. Clerks are tusy with cards holding the pledges of citizens who have given SIOO or more in the previous campaign, and workers will be given these cards, in the hope that additional amounts may be received from them. The factory division, headed by George Desautels and Walter Johnson, is expected to have several one hundred per cent factories to report at the next luncheon meeting, and It Is confidently expected that the goal of $,"100,000 for the chest will have been reached by the middle of next week.

‘Death Farm’ Owner Denied New Trial ATLANTA, Ga., May 7.—John S. Williams, Newton and Jasper County farmer, convicted in Newton County on a charge of murder In connection with the death of eleven farm hands on his plantation and sentenced to life imprisonment, today was denied anew trial when his motion was heard In Decatur, Dekalb County, by Judge Hutcheson. 20 Days in Jail for His Apple Appetite X'ernon Saylor. 21, 302 South Illinois street, was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to twenty days in Jail on a charge of petit larceny by Judge W£ iter Pritchard in city court today. Saylor was arrested at Kingan and Company plant by Patrolman Martin yesterday and is charged with stealing seventy-five apples valued at about 5 cents apiece.

nisher rolled the finished deplotments of Coralio’B citizens. Blanchard, the French mining engineer, in his cool linen viewed the smoke of his cigarette through his calm glasses, impervious to the heat. Clancy sat on the steps, smoking bis short pipe. His mood was the gossip’s; the others were reduced, by the humidity, to the state of disability desirable in an audience. Clancy was an American with an Irish diathesis and cosmopolitan proclivities. Many businesses had claimed him, but not for long. The roadster s blood was in his veins. The voice of the tintype was b.ut one of the many callings that had wooed him upon so many roads. Sometimes he could be persuaded to oral construction of his voyages into the in formal and egregious. Tonight there were symptoms of aivulgemeut in him. •* ’Tis elegant weather for filibusterin’.” he volunteered. ‘‘lt reminds ms, of the time I struggled to liberate a nation from the poisonous breath of a tyrant 1 * continued on Page

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The commission has this to say on th coke problem as it affects the domestla consumer: "Petitioner will have a prosperous year in 1921 if it disposes of its coke at a good price and will have a bad year it the coke market is poor for the who)* period. It appears that a very larga amount of coke might be sold on the local market if petitioner would make the attempt. , It seems that petitioner has not been in any wise interested ia the market prospects locally, believing that it will be able to dispose of it* coke in other markets later in the yea* to much better advantage. MUST PUT COKE PRICE DOWN WITHIN REASON. "The evidence shows that the retail price of coke in Indianapolis to the animate consumer has been lately from sl4 to sls per ton. It is hardly to be expect-., ed that the thousands 'of people * who would burn coke if it could readily be purchased at a reasonable price will do much to reduce petitioners coke stock until the price is put down somewhere within reason. The fact is that the local coke business has not been encouraged by the petitioner. It has no facilities for direct selling. It has no yards. Its relations with local coal dealers are not pleasant. All its coke is sold through Domhoff and Joyce Company, its solo selling agents. "The dealer Is not permitted to send his trucks to the petitioners’ yards for coke. The coke must in all cases be loaded in cars at the plant and shipped to the dealers' yards. This involves a loading cost, a freight charge, an unloading cost and some shrinkage and deterioration, and the coke must still be loaded on trucks and delivered to the consumer. "Petitioner’s witnesses testified that the price of coke at the plant had lately been $9 per ton. The retail .price has been above sl4 a ton. Someone is mistaken about prices or else the margin Is too great.” In making the order the commission placed a valuation of $12,000,000 on the property of the gas company. The commission declined to allow the company as an operating charge a shrinkage of $243,000 in its inventories, due to a “juggling” of cose charges.

ACCEPT COMPANY ENGINEER’S VALUATION. The commission arso found that the coke in stock should not be valued as an asset at more than $S a ton. i The company was ordered to make a monthly report to the commission showing the Income account and balanca sheet and an Itemized report of coal and coke. The valuation placed by the commission on the property was that of the commission’s engineering department, which the company agreed to accept without question, according to the order. In reply to the contention of the city of Indianapolis that the law of 1967, fixing the rate to be charged for gas in Indianapolis at 60 cents a thousand cubic feet, is still standing, the commission holds In its order that this law “has been In effect repealed” by the public service commission act. At the same time It points out that under the circumstances the commission must find that an emergency exists and that a higher rate Is necessary In order to avert threatened injury and the continuance of the emergency. The order sets out the British thermal unit tests of gas supplied during the year 1920 and quotes Its requlations that gas shall be supplied at about 570 B. T. U.s and not less than 540, nor more than 000. The figures show that the average for the year at both plants of the Citizens Gas Company to be 55 B. T. Us. POINT OUT COMPANY OWN KATES BOOSTED. In considering the quality of the gas the commission points out that the company Increased its own rates when Its lowered quality of gas from its previous • standards, because It costs less to produce poor gas than good gas. In respect to rates the commission also has the following to say: “The commission does now Insist and will in the future insist that the petitioner maintain the heating value and pressure of its gas to the artificial gas utilities, approved by the commission in cause No. 5,172. There may have been a valid excuse for the failure to maintain the gas service at the required standard during all of the year 1920, on account of the difficulty of securing an adequate supply of high-grade gas coal during the coal emergency. That reason does not now exist and there is no reason, so far as the commission is informed, why the petitioner should not maintain the quality and pressure of Its gas at or above the required standard.” ALSO CITES "REMARKABLE DIFFERENCE” IN SHOWINGS. The commission polnta out that the. edmpany during January showed a deficit of $113,000 and that during the (Continued on Page Three.)

Public Apology for Any Error in Slacker List WASHINGTON, May 7.—The War Department will make publlo apology if the name of any man Is erroneously published in the list of draft evaders now being made public, Secretary of War Weeks anoonced today. The secretary said every effort had been made to check the list, but that It was possible that errors might have crept In.