Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Fjiir tonight and probably Saturday, Continued warm.

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DANIELS SAYS CRITICS WERE HIS ‘FRIENDS’ ‘Anvil Chorus’ Served as Pointers and Gave Him Benefits. ‘NEVER TOUCHED ME* Which help* mest, your critics of your friends? —Daniels renews some of his experiences with critics—Says he can qualify as an expert, having had experience as one on the Inside looking out and one on the outside looking In— Gives thanks to the help given by honest critics. By JOSEPHUS DANIELS, Former Secretary of the Navy—--1913 to 1921. ARTICLE 34.

Every man can qualify as an expert on one thing. I think it will be admitted that T can qualify on critics and criticism. Foi more years than I confess to, as writer and editor, I have had my crack at public officials from the lowest to the highest And since March 4, 1921, I am doing business in the old way at the old stand. If you doubt it subscribe to the Raleigh News and Observer and see if my pen has lost its critical faculties. For eight years as Secretary of the Navy X had the opportunity In public office to try many of the doses I had as editor compounded for office-holders. Almost from that day after my name was on the pay roll at Washington I was the target at which much criticism was directed. I have qualified on criticism, therefore, from the outside looking in and from the Inside looking out. I hold that to be an expert one mow have both points of view. If you have only been an editor you can be tin expert if you practice long enough in pointing out the errors of public offieiaals. And if you are a good editor yon must comment upon and criticize the big things that are going on. Sometimes you must commend. Sometimes you must condemn. I have never yet known a public official who made no mistakes. And I have never known one who was not helped by constructive criticism. Now, by constructive criticism I do not mean approval. It is as much the duty of an editor to point out and condemn error as it is to point out and commend right. BELIEVES RESULTS ANSWER CRITICS. “Why don't you answer your critics, since yotf have such a complete answer?” was often asked by my friends. From the fifth of March, 1913, until March f, 1921, I never stopped to return railing for. railing or to make anv answer to the deluge of criticisms which at times was directed at n.e. There is but one effective answer a pnblic offlclal-can make to criticism of his policies, and that is the answer of results. If in the testing time what he has done proves good, his answer Is so convincing that he need make no statement; If results do not attest the worth of his policies, nothing he can say will change the estimate of the public. As to abuse, which some persons showered at me (observe I say “at” and not “upon” me, for none of it ever touched me), I have learned In a somewhat varied experience that bitter attacks In the long run react upon their authors and help, rather than hurt, a man in public office. Os course that reflection gives no comfort to a short-winded man. •STARBOARD AND PORT’ IS CRITICS CIE. My first official experience with criticism and ridicule came when I issued an order that after a certain date the words “starboard” and “port” should give way to the terms “right” and “left.” Immediately the paragrzohers and cartoonists began to have fuc at the expense of a Secretary of the Navy, a country editor, who had such littie reverence for naval tradition and naval terms as to put those national words “starboard" and “port” in the discard. It was an evidence they thought, of a provincial mind, lack of knowledge of seafaring ways, and all kinds of a blunder. If not a crime. At least it furnished acceptable copy to so represent it. Asked about It my only reply was that the order spoke for itself; that young men coming into the Navy instinctively knew which was right and which was left, but were confused by “port” and "starboard,” and the same thing was true of civilians. And I let it go at that. One day a newspaper friend came Into the department and said to me: “I have Just learned the history of your ‘port and starboard’ order about which you have been criticized and ridiculed so much. It's a beastly shame and I am going to print the true story so that the people will see you are not responsible for that order.” BOARD IS FOR CHANGE. “But I am responsible for It.” I replied. “The truth is, as you have learned, but not from me, that the order was first considered by the general board before I became Secretary of the Navy, and after a time they reached the conclusion only one member doubting and registering no dissent, that 'right' and ‘left’ were better terms to be employed. At the time they made their decision 1 had never so much as heard that the question was under discussion. After their decision the order was drafted In the customary way and was presented to mS In the regular course for signature. “YY hat Is this” I asked of the admiral who brought It in with a batch of mail. He explained it and Its history. I deliberately placed It in a private drawer of my desk, told the admiral that I hated to see old naval traditions and lingo discarded without a good reason; that I would not sign It then, but would think about It. He believed it was a good order and could do no harm. A few days afterward I was talking with Admiral Dewey and brought the matter (Continued on Page Two.)

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Woman Denied Equal Rights in Church Affairs Scriptures Assigning Her Silent Membership Quoted at Presbyterian Assembly. Special to the Times. WINONA LAKE, Ind., May 20—Women must keep their seats in the “Amen corners” and remain without a voice In church government. The hand that rocks the cradle may rule the temporal world, but the authority in the spiritual world must remain with the men. , Agitation for jvomen’s rights, which has placed them In the executive halls and allowed them to don the black robes of the Judiciary, has failed failed thus far to make an Impression in the conduct of ecclesiastical affairs. Returns from the plebiscite taken among the million and a half members of the Presbyterian Church and reported to the general assembly here today showed that the movement to allow the women to sit as commissioners in the assembly was beaten decisively. QUOTE SCRIPTURES TO BACK STAND. Dr. S. Hall Young, revered Presbyterian minister of New York, has given a lifetime In battling for the right of women to sit In church councils, but his campaign has been futile. Many Scriptural passages are quoted by those who look upon leadership of women with disfavor. This one, cited from the eleventh chapter of Timothy, is cited whenever the question was discussed here: “Let the women learn In silence with all subjection, but I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over men, but be In silence.” - Another passage from the fourteenth chapter of Corinthians frequently turned to; “Let yonr women keep silence In the churches, for It Is not permitted nnto them to spin, hut they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.” ARGUMENTS ANTIQUATED, MORE PROGRESSIVE SAT. Proponents of women's activities In church affairs answer that these arguments are antiquated; that they do not apply to the women of today. Dr. Henry C. Sweringen of St. Paul took the chair as moderator at the opening of the second assembly. A second race developed between Hugh B. McCaulley of Paterson, N .J., and Dr. Benjamin Gemmill of Philadelphia for the post of stated clerk, the highest executive office in the Presbytery. The commissioners, however, are putting the election ofl, but friends of the two contenders are trying to stampede their candidate through. Attempts will be made to make the position for five years instead of three.

COPS RAID HOTEL IN BANDIT STYLE Rip Out Alarm System to Nab 2S in Chicago. CHICAGO. May 20.—A police vice squad, posing as bandits, surprised an extensive bell alarm system In 4 fa* fuehiew.-b'e Boulevard notel, on Michigan boulevard, early today and arrested twenty-eight persons In a sensational raid. Three previous raids on the uostelry bad failed when “guests” were <*rc*tseJ by the bell alarms. Detectives, garbed In plain clothes, rushed the hotel in bandit formation. They ripped out the alarm system while a surprised clerk was guarding the cash register. Then they’ went through the hotel making arrests.

Gram of Radium Presented to Mme. Curie by President

WASHINGTON, May 20—The American people paid official tribute to Mme. Curie today. The gray-haired little French woman who has been hailed the “Queen of Scientists,” arrived In Washington this morning. She was met at the Union Station by a distinguished group of women, headed by Mrs. Nicholas W. Longworth, Mrs. James Wadsworth. Jr., wife of Senator Wadsworth of New York, and MrfT. Marshall Field. Mme. Curie went immediately to the home of Robert Woods Bliss, third assistant Secretary of State, where she rested until she went to the White House to receive from President Harding the gram of radium to bo presented as a gift from the American people. The presentation took place in the presence of officials of the United States

Entered as Second Class Matter. July 25, 1914, at Posiofflce, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March S, 1879.

U. B. DELEGATES DEAL BLOW TO J. BARLEYCORN Recommend Congress Be Urged to Provide Dry Enforcement Funds. ‘TAKE FLAG FROM ‘WETS” Strict enforcement of the Volstead act, and appropriation of sufficient funds by Congress, to carry out the provisions of the Eighteenth amendment, and withdrawal of the United States flag from over those nations or United States possessions "where the demon rum is destroying humanity,” are asked in a report of the committed on temperance, adopted by the twenty-eighth quadrennial general conference of the United Brethren Church, in session here today. The committee report devoted much space to complimenting Indiana on Its prohibition laws, and its efforts to curtail the liquor traffic. It called attention to the fact that Indiana was the twenty-fifth State to vote dry and the twenty-fifth to ratify the Eighteenth amendment Also, Indiana, according to the report, passed the dry law on Friday, the Governor signed the law on Friday, it was on a Friday that the Supreme Court held the law constitutional, and it was Friday when the Legislature ratified the eighteenth amendment 0 Clinton OFFICERS ARE RE-ELECTED. Nine church officers were re-electsd and one new church officer named In the elections held at the morning session. The new officer Is S. G. Zelgier, Hagerstown, Md., who was named secretary of the foreign mission board. Those reelected were: The Rev. J. YT. Owen and Dr. YV. O. Frees, editors of Sunday school literature ; C. W. Brewbaker, Sunday school secretary; A. C. Slidell, secretary of the church erection board; L. O. Miller, general church treasurer; YV. E. Schell, secretary of the board of education; O. S. Deever, secretary of young people's work; J. E. Fout, manager of Bcnebrake Semlna~y. All of these men are from Dayton Ohio. NA .IE ROBERT COYVDEX, SECRETARY EMERITUS. R< bert Cowden, who is one of the foremost Sunday school workers of the church, was, by motion from the floor, named secretary emeritus of the Sunday school board. The report of the temperance committee, called attention to the fact that only three out of the forty-eight States in the (Continued on Page Ten.) MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED West Virginia Troops Will Enforce Law in Mingo County ‘War.’ CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 20 Governor E. F. Morgan of West Virginia proclaimed martial law today In Mingo County, scene of recent fighting In the mine struggle between union aud nonunion miners. State troops will enforce the law. Civil authorities are instructed by the Governor to continue their duties and civil courts are Instructed to try all cases of infraction of civil law.

Government, foreign diplomats and other distinguished persons. Mrs. Harding and a notable group of women, Including Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, wife of the Secretary of and Princess Lubomirski, wife of the Polish minister, assisted in the presentation. The gram of radium, which cost SIOO,000, is the smallest gift ever presented to a nation’s guest. Tonight at a meeting to be held at the National Museum, Charles D. Walcott and other noted scientists will pay tribute to the famous French woman. The French embassy will entertain in Mme. Curie's honor tomorrow and Sunday night she will be the guest of the Polish legation. Mme. Curie is accompanied by her two daughters, Irene and Eve, and Mrs. William Brown Melons/ of New Xerk.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921.

W. D. Boyce Home From 6 Months in the Antipodes

Says People of Pacific Lands Look to U. S. for Protection From Japan. CHICAGO, May 20.—" Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and all Islands of the South Seas are looking to the United States to save them from being gobbled up by Japan,” W. D. Boyce, publisher and globe-trotter, declared hero today on his return from a six months' trip through the Pacific. “Japan has frankly admitted to her own people that she secured the Marshall and Gilbert Islands for strategic purposes and not for expansion of population,” said Mr. Boyce. The publisher’s son, Ben Boyce, has led an expedition Into New Guinea. CANAL DRAGGED FOR THE BODY OF CARL VON HAKE Former County Treasurer, Despondent, Believed to Have Drowned Self. CLOTHING LEFT ON BANK Carl von Hake. 65, 5737 Central avenue, former treasurer of Marlon County, is believed to have been drowned In the canal near Central avenue early today. It Is thought he committed suicide as the result of Illness. Late this afternoon the police who are dragging the canal had been unable to locate the body. A man who-said his name was Guyon, 1821 Astor street, called police headquarters at 5:35 a. m. and said be was calling from College avenue and Sixty-Third street. He said that at 3:30 a. m. he was passing Central avenue aud the canal and that he saw a man take his clothes off and go into the water. Guyon said he thought the man was Just going in swimming, but that he passed that way later and that the clothing was still on the bank of the canal and be failed to see the man. Motor Policemen Heller and Hague v.ere sent to the canal and found a bath robe, a suit of underwear and a night gown on the south bank of the canal, east of the bridge. They started to drag the canal, and after working an hour and failing to find the body, notified police headquarters. A boat and more drag lines were set. and Capt. Ed Ball and Lieut. Y’letor Houston went to the scene. DAUGHTER IDENTIFIES TUN HAKE’S CLOTHING. Dr. M. B. Light, the family physician of the von Hakes, was among the first to reach the scene. Mtb. William Birk, a daughter of von Hake, also arrived and positively identified the clothing found near the canal as that of her father. lr. Light stated that Mr. von Hake had been in 111 health fur a year •ud a half, but w nit ponflned to hi* bed. He had taken an automobile trip to California last fall and had spent the winter In the West, returning to Indianapolis about two months ago. llis health failed to Improve, Dr. Light stated, and Mr. von Hake became despondent. ”1 don’t know why, but last night I had a presentment,” declared Mrs. Birk. “Father was very nervous. I did hot miss him until 5 o’clock this morning. I think ho must have suffered a nervous breakdown as the result of ill health.” Charles Maxwell, well known swimming expert, dived lu an effort to find the body. Mrs. vqn Hake and two daughters, Mrs. C. YV. Minesinger and Mrs. YVilliam Birk, live In Indianapolis, and Mrs, George Koche, another daughter, lives in Los Angeles. There are four graud children, Carlesta Minesinger, Sara Elise Birk and Norma Jane Koche.

SERVED IN TYVO COl NTY OFFICES. Mr. von Hake was prominent in Democratic politics. He was elected county commissioner and served in that office three years starting about 1908. lie was elected treasurer of Marlon County while still serving as county commissioner, and served two terms of two years each as treasurer. His ill health utarted while he was county treasurer and he suffered a slight stroke, but seemed to recover. Later he went to Rochester, Minn., for treatment and made a number of trips to California. Mr. von Hake, according to his friends, was born In Canada, but came to tho United States when a small boy. He worked as a gardener on a farm In YY'ayne Township, Marlon County. lie came to Indianapolis more than forty years ago. Mr. von Hake went to Germany and remained there a few years while his grandfather's estate was adjusted. He purchased a farm of more than 300 acres near Anderson, Ind., and lived there for a time, hut sold the farm and returned to Indianapolis. He owned considerable real estate In this city.

ARGUE TO QUASH $15,000,000 SUIT Litigation Centers on Cuthbert X I3. Lowry Estate. Arguments 'On the motion of the defendants to dismiss the $15,000,000 seit filed by Thomas Lowry and five other heirs of the late Cuthbert B. Lowry against Stoughton A. Fletcher and tne American Creosoting Company, were heard before Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger In Federal Court today. The heirs claim that certain patents owned by Lowry covering processes used in creosoting railroad ties etc., have been used illegally by the defendants and that the title to them was obtained by the defendants from the rightful owners by improper means. The defense bases its motion for dismissal largely upon the statute of limitations of six years which it claims has run against the heirs, and upon laches or failures to prevent within a reasonable time. Charles G. Middleton and Alex P. Humphrey of Louisville presented the argument for the American Creosoting Company; Judge Quincy A. Myers made a brief statement for Mr. Fletcher while Join} Becker of this city and Jay Harlan of IJanville, Ky., presented the case for the Lowry heirs.

Stores to Close on Decoration Day Stores represented in the Merchants Association will be closed all day Decoration day, it was announced today. The closing order will affect 1 clothing stores as well as the other lines represented in the association.

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PLAN TO WIDEN 14TH STREET UP Noyv Only 20-Foot Roadway Between Meridian and Illinois. Plans for the opening and widening of Fourteenth street from Illinois to Meridian streets were ordered by the board of public works today. The street now Is only twenty feet wide. Enough ground will be taken along the south side of the present thoroughfare to make the width correspond to that of Fourteenth street east of Meridian street. The board confirmed resolutions for the vacation of the first alley north of St. Clair street from a point 120 feet east of Healing avenue to the first alley west of Kealing avenue, the vacaTion of the first alloy east of the Belt railroad from St. Clair street to Healing avenue, vacation of Kealing avenue from Pratt street to a point 179 feet south, vacation of the first alley cast of 01ney street from Pratt street to a point 187 feet south, vacation of Ewing street from Pratt street to a point 184 feet south, vacation of the first alley east of Ewing street from I’ratt street to a point 181 feet south, extension and opening of Lawton street from State avenue to the first alley east, and for a local sewer In Hiatt street from main sewer In Miller street to a point 470 feet south. Spinal action upon resolutions for the vacation of the second alley north of North street from Tempi* avenue to Rural street and for vacation of a seventeen foot atrip on the east side of Senate avenue from South to Merrill street* was postponed to May 27. Fl.tns were ordered for the permament Improvement of the first alley west of Tacoma avenue from the first alley north of Brookslde Parkway to Sixteenth street

MASTER BOMBER AND 8 NABBED Chicago Police Say Kerr’s Confession Reveals Extensive ‘Terrorist Plot.* CIIICAOO. May 20.—ITrre are the prices for bombings and -loggings, according to the confession here today of Andrew Kerr, Chicago's “master mind”: Slugging*, (25 to (50. Bombing, with two sticks of dynamite, (200. Bombing, with four sticks of dynamite, (800. *’l always went along too see the union wasn’t cheated,” Kerr said In his confession, according to police. CHICAGO, May 20.—Chicago’s “master bomber,” charged by police with haring dealt death and destruction In a hundred labor disputes, was arrestee hero this afternoon. The prisouer, Andrew Kerr, member of the engineers’ union, is said to have made a complete confession, involving eight alleged confederates. All eight suspects were arrested. Police declared Kerr revealed a list of fourteen laundries which were to be bombed In tho next fortnight and additional list of nine laundries which were to he wrecked and their nonunion engineers “slugged.” Tho confession, police said, reyenled the most deliberate “terrorist plot” in the crime annals of tbe Middle YY’est. Detectives, scouring "terrorist" haunts, following Kerr’s confession, arrested Albert Peterson, business agent for the engineers' union; Joe' liangara, an alleged “killer"; Thomas J. Corcoran, treasurer of the Internatlonad Joint Labor Board; Sam Gibson, former I. YY'. YV.; “Joe” Bush, an explosive expert; Charles Berrigan, an alleged “slugger”; James Sweeney, a gunman, nnd Harry “Soup” Bartlett, a dynamite expert. In Ills confession, police said, Kerr named Peterson and Corcoran as instigators and directors of the bombings and slugging!*. He 'also charged Peterson “issued and ordered all payments” to the bomb squads and “killers.” The money, Kerr charged, was actually handled by Corcoran, treasurer of the International Joint Labor Board. The confession, detectives said, was a dramatic story of “hired assassination" and “bought terror.” Frequent reference was made to the I. Y\ r . YY r . and to notorious anarchist characters.

10 TO 20 YEARS FOR BURGLARY Fred Brock Gets Stiff Sentence Today. , Fred Brock, indicted on a charge of breaking into the store of Leo Ettinger, at 408 Indiana avenue and stealing goods valued at S3OO, today was sentenced from ten to twenty years at the Indiana State Prison by Judge James A. Collins. Leslie Logan was lined $1 and costs and sentenced to a, year on the Indiana State Farm on a charge of burglary and grand larceny. Peyton Moore, alleged accomplice, was found not guilty. William Robertson was found not guilty of a charge of receiving stolen goods. Purvis Johnson, who was charged wfth fals> pretense, was discharged when the court sustained his motion to Quash the ladictueat.

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EXPECT SENATE VOTE TODAY ON DISARMAMENT Predict Speedy Success on Measure to Cut Down • Powers’ Navies. MOVE IS MET FAVORABLY The United States was expected today to take the first step toward naval disarmament A vote was scheduled on Senator Borah's proposal empowering President Hirding to Invite Great Britain and Japan to confer with this Government on a five-year program of naval building reduction. Indications were that the Senate would adopt the measure and that favorable action would later be taken by the House. YY'ell-informed observers believed that Japan would welcome a “naval holiday" providing it were Initiated by either the Unletd States or Great Britain. A similar attitude by Great Britain was reported in United Press dispatches from London.

BORAH BILL IS IN UNANIMOUS FAVOR WASHINGTON, May 20.—Adoption of Senator Borah's proposal for a three power conference on naval disarmament as an assistant to the Navy appropriation bill Is expected late today in the Senate. The roll call Is expected to show the Senate almost unanimously In favor of Borah’s plan, which simply empowers the President to invite conference with this Government and the governments of Great Britain and Japan, the purpose being to discuss a plan for a five year program of naval armament reduction. Japan feels the Initiation of a disarmament movement should rest with Great Britain or with the United States aud her government will not take Lie lead in such a step. It was learned from a well-informed source here. The Japanese government, It was said, Is determined to have a navy strong enough to cope with the force which any enemy might eoneen rate in the far east. This Is declared to be the Mikado's attitude toward the agitation for.a naval agreement among the three principal naval powers—Great Britain, the United States and Japan. To carry out this policy, the present government of Japan is understood to feel that their navy must be constantly increased to keep abreast of the other two major naval powers. BRITAIN APPROVES DISARMAMENT PLAN LONDON, May 20 —Great Britain today watched with keenest interest the progress of Senator Borah’s disarmament proposal through Congress surrounded on ail side* by possibilities of war. Britain found It impossible to take the lead In reducing armaments although the official view is unqualifiedly In favor of the project. Senator Borah's plan authorizing the President to call a conference of British, Japanese and American Interests interested Britain because the latter two are the only nations planning extensive additions to their armament.

H. C. CUTSINGER QUITS CITY JOB Resigns as Inspector in Purchasing Office. narry C. Cutsinger, 3369 North Pennsylvania street, today tendered his resignatibn as inspector in the city purchasing department to Mayor Charles YV. Jewett. It is effective June 1. Mr. Cutsinger leaves the city’s employ to enter the sales department of the Frank Hatfield Company. He has held ttie office of purchasing Inspector since Mayor Jewett took office, in January, 1917. Before he was an insurance salesman. It is understood that Seth YVard, now an inspector In. the city civil engineerring department, will be appointed In iMr. Cutsingeris place. Mr. YY’ard was president of the Howe First Y'oters’ Club during the recent primary campaign. BANDITS GET 70 CENTS. Two bandits armed with revolvers held-up nnd robbed Ross E. Perrlne, 640 Coffey street, at 9 o’clock last night while he was walking on Oliver aveniie near the Greenlawn cemetery. The bandits obtained 79 cents, Perrlne told the police.

TEN CONTRACTORS ON ROAD WORK TOLD TO GET NEW BONDS

Ten contractors who have contracts totaling $2,225,198 for the construction of State highways have been ordered by the highway commission to obtain new bonds because their present bonds are with companies which are either insolvent or are not deemed by the commission to be financially responsible, Lawrence Lyons, director of the commission, announced today. The bonding companies involved are the Lion Bonding and Surety Company of Omaha, Neb.*, the Chicago Bonding and Insurance Company of Chicago, and the American .Bonding and Casualty Company of Sioux, City, lowa. PERMITTED TO CONTINUE BY DIRECTOR WRIGHT. The contractors were permitted by L. H. Wright, who recently resigned as director of the commission, to continue to build roads under their worthless bands giving the State no protection whatever. Furthermore, Mr. Wright authorized the payment to these contractors of SO per cent of the price of the roads as sections were completed. The companies affected already have been paid a total of $650,585. Had any one of these contractors failed to carry out his obligations the State would have had no possible way of recovering and could have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The attention of attaches of the highway commission was called to this sltua tion by the May 10. The following (lay Mr. Wright was supplanted by Mr. Lyons, who took IUo situation up with the commission. AUDITOR “DIDN’T KNOW OK CONDITION.” At the time the condition was called to the attention of the commission Mrs. Helen Norton-Freeman, who was then auditor, and who waa supplanted b/

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BOARD OF SAFETY RETURNS FINDINGS ON SUNDAY’S I IRE —4 Lack of Normal Water Pressure and (Unnecessary Delay in Connecting Pumpers' Held Partially Responsible , ACTS TO MINIMIZE FUTURE DANGER Lack of normal water pressure and “unnecessray delay in connecting up the pumpers” were reported as causes contributing to the disastrous fire at Twelfth and New Jersey streets, which spread to houses in Central avenue between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets last Sunday aftrnoon, in a statement issued by the board of public safety today, following conclusion of an investigation. Eighteen houses were damaged to an extent of betiveen $50,000 and $75,000. The board’s statement indicated thaf it has come to the conclusion that seven minutes elapsed between the time the first telephonic report of the fire was sent t oheadquarters by a citizen and the time a fire alarm box was pulled, thereby notifying the Indianapolis Water Company that fire pressure waff needed.

Maybe She's Right DRAKE, X. D„ May 20.—Home decorations are primarily responsible for peace or strife in the home. Miss Bertha Palmer told the Federation of Women's Clubs at a district convention here that: "The red decorated dining room Is responsible for the increase In divorces, “Interior decorations, not ancestors, are responsible for most grouchy children. "Tans and grays are best to live with. "Blue depresses, red excites and stimnlates, yellow soothes.” Miss Palmer is assistant State superintendent of pnblic Instruction and chairman of the Fine Arts department, State Federation of YVornen * Clubs.

BERNAUER CASE NEARING CLOSE Prediction Made That Jury Will Retire Late Today. Special to The Times. SHELBTVILLE. Ind., May 20.—1 tis the opinion here that the case of Carl Bernauer, on trial tor the second time • for the murder of Samuel Ealds, an Indianapolis storekeeper, on the night of Oct. 22, will go to the jury late today. In a statement made Thursday by Ira Holmes, Indianapolis attorney for Bernauer, the attorney declared that the defense would show that Bernauer was not near the place where the murder occurred or anywhere in the vicinity; that the defendant spent the greater part of the evening with Mae Marshall at her room at the Broadway Hotel, after which he went to a room In the same hotel occupied by himself and Jack Marshall. Attorney Holmes indicated that an attempt would be made to fasten the murder of Ealds on Charles Jones, who Is held In the Marion County jail, charged Jointly with Bernauer, and on Bob N'ewgeut. Mr. Holmes stated that Jones had a ,45-ealtber revolver on the night of the murder and that he and Newgent had first made the suggestion of robbing the Ealds place. Attorneys for the State were successful in having the testimony of John Meyers, a nightwatch, given at the first trial of Bernauer, read to the jury Thursday afternoon.- Dr. T. N. Keene of Indianapolis testified that Meyers Is in such a critical physical condition at Indianapolis that it was Impossible for him to testify. The court overruled the objections of the defense to the introduction of the evidence given at the first trial and it was read.* Meyers was standing on the opposite corner from the Ealds place when the shooting took place and testified at the first trial to seeing two men run from the place.

And Mercury’s 88! Dewey Jarbo, colored, 728 Indiana avenue, took advantage of the fact that tlie mounting mercury had mused “Doc” llrackus, colored, 701 California street, to discard his overcoat and as a result is in jail charged with grand larceny. Jarbo is aoensed of stealing the coat, valued at $45.

John W. Williams, declared she knew nothing of the condition of the companies which were on the bonds of contractors. The auditor of the commission has possession of the bonds of all the contractors and is supposed to see that they are what they are represented to be. The Lion Bonding and Surety Company has been out of business for some time and it is understood that under the old administration the commission required some contractors who had bonds with this company to give new bonds while it did not require new bonds of others. The Chicago Bonding and Insurance Company went out of business in December, 1919, according to the State Insurance department. This company was taken over by the American Bonding and Casualty Company which later failed, the department records show. AMOUNTS PAID ARE SET OUT. The construction companies, the amount of their contracts and the amounts they have been paid are as follows: Riath & Riley Construction Company, $248,000, paid $134,653; Marion County Construction Company, $283,000, paid $180,000; Carpenter Construction Company, $265,000, paid $92,000; George T. Miller, $179,000, paid $48,000; Becker & Enyart, $274,000, paid $38,000; Wabash Construction Company, $444,300, paid $69,000; E. C. Wright, $9,979, paid $5,439; National Concrete Company, $57.334,“paid $22,057, and on another contract, $91,885, paid $34,669, and the Federal Paving Company, $373,000. paid $.72,147. The Federal Paving Company, the Riath & Riley Construction Company already have provided new bonds and the other companies have notified Mr. Lyons that they will furnish new securities at

Reports of Assistant Fire chief 3. O. Hoyle, battalion chiefs, captains and lieutenants on duty at the fire show there was considerable confusion among the firemen and that the first company on duty, Pumper Company No. 16, did not Immediately attach the pumper, but strung a line of hose direct from the fire plug, depending upon the ordinary pressure In the mains. In several of the reports it is stated that this pressure was Inadequate. One officer reported that he could throw a stream of water only to the gutters of the roof of one house. It was annonuced that Fire Chief John C. Loucks will take steps to discipline the men who were guilty of bad judgi nient. STETS TO INSURE ADEQUATE PRESSURE. Co-Incident with the report of the investigation the board announced that hereafter when a telephone alarm is received at the Gamewell firm alarm headquarters. unless the person giving the ulann specifically states that the fire is so small that it can be extinguished with°“t, that the Gamewell operator will immediately “strike the box” located nearest the scene of the fire. This will gne the YY ater Coir-:"ny immediate notice that fire pressure is needed. Fire pressure is ninety pounds to the square -nch, and normal pressure Is around fifty pounds ro the square Inch. \ff n 1 o rder of Fire Chief Loucks, Issued -lay 19, requiring the first company at a Ure to lay a line of hose direct to the . fire from the hydrant, get water on the re through this and then to immediately proceed to the next plug and connect * pumper so as to have a line with high pressure available, was made public with the board's announcement. BOARD'S STATEMENT IS TIVE.Y IN FULL. The statement of the board of public safety In full is as follows: norPrff H° ar o hl ' B ,received a detailed report or tli fire which occurred on North* las 7 Snn'T?’ 81 T\, and Central avenue iruriJ? ‘lk an< - 1 hati made an invest!-' of < hfi circumstances connected with those fires, so that changes may be made in order that a recurrence of such i robaTle similar Conditions will be im”YVe believe that the handling of alarms tbe telephone should be changed from so-called still alarms to aiarm K has been thu custom fee nulnber of years on each alarm ror the operator to ascertain, if possible, len wu 611 !*, 0 * the flre and immediately tbree unrest pieces 'of .ppara('n the arrival of the apparatus, L the br appears to be cf a serious nature, the commanding officer of the first company reaching the lire will order a addith^D k 'fi 0n the Btrikin s or a box. additional fire companies respond, and J B ./ 3 ?, company gives Increased pressure. This method of handling the fires 7 aS th E r 7n? bly the beßt method so long as tne water company was givimr a comparatively high pressure normally. Howofe7hs°Lat OlUe K tim9 the norm al ‘pressure of the water has not been adequate to combat fires of any consequence. ..-I* bas ’ , the rofore, been decided that alarms received over the telephone, unless explained to be fires of a trivial nature in addition to having the nearest companies immediately sent will cause the turning in of a box number from headquarters the same as though a citizeu had sent the alarm from n street fire alarm box. This will automatically cause the YYater Company to increa/j their pressure. In response to such alarm there will be at least two comblnation pumper and hose apparatus and a service ladder truck dispatched. The first pumper there will connect Immediately with the fire plug and run a hose to the fire, giving such service a* the normal wafer pressure will permit. This first pumper will then continue to the next nearest water plug connecting up for pump service so that as tho second pumper arrives it can run its Una of hose from the pump to the fire and pumping immediately begun and tba second pumper may then move to tha nearest plug and proceed in a similar manner. Under this new order, we believe time will be saved in obtaining sf satisfactory stream of water for tha fire. POLICE TOLD TO REPORT TO FIREMEN IN CHARGE. “Instructions have been given to th’ police department on runs to fires for th* 1 commanding officer of the police squad' to renorjt immediately to the commanaijUL officer of the fire, so that the policing (0 the fires will be to the best advantage' of fi-e fighting. One of the serious difficul' s the tire department experiences iu fij .ting fires is the crowding of sightseers, both in automobiles and on foot. Automobiles should be kept at least twa blocks from any fire, for otherwise they Interfere with the work of the firemen.' the movement of their apparatus and the working of the public service companies, and the salvage corps. “Last Sunday the service of the citizens In preventing the further spread ofl this fire was very valuable, and but fo* the work of the volunteers, the tire would have been far more extensive. People with homes In the neighborhood of the fires should remember that they often spread and Instead of leaving their homes unprotected to get a close view of tha fire, they should remain at home and guard their own property, seeing that the windows are closed and that their own hose is ready for use on their own property. - | “YY'e believe tjiere was unnecessary delay In connecting up the pumpers at tha, fire last Sunday due to lack of Judgment of the first officers arriving. YVhen tha 1 (Continued on Tage Ten.)

Hope for Homeless WASHINGTON, May 20.—Hope was given the cabin-less today In an announcement by Secretary of Commerce Hoover that the housing problem soon would be solved. Hoover said the seven engineering experts called to the aid of the Department of Commerce had already worked out a program which has for its ultimate object the supplying of homes for our race, before it Is forced to a nomadic or tent existence*,

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