Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature.

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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION IS SHORT OF DATA Members Admit It Is Impossible to Obtain Definite Information. <DO NOT KNOW ANSWER [Editor’s Note —This is the first of a series of articles on the operation of the public service commission. 1 * By FELIX F. BRUNER. Perhaps no department of the State government has attracted so much_ attention during the last few years as the public service commission which has charge or the regulation of utility rates and whose activities reach directly nearly every citizen of Indiana. Discovering exactly what the commission has been doing, however, is a difficult matter because of the inadequacy of records and because of the great mass of documents involved. Members of the commission were asked’'concerning the possibility of obtaining definite data as to how many utility rates had been increased, what the approximate percentage of this increase has been, how many utilities have been actually valued by engineers of the commission and how many valuations have been merely estimated, how many temporary orders have been issued, how many utilities have not surrendered their franchises, and so on. INFORMATION NOT AT HAND. To nearly every question the members of the commission answered that they did not know. To the question of how these things could be found out they said it would be practically impossible, j Despite the fact that the public serv- ( Ice commission is a part of the State government and despite the fact that It comes mere closely in contact with the daily lives of the citizens of the State than any other organization, the members admitted that it is in the.r minds virtually impossible to obtain definite information as to what it has been doing. Despite this fact an effort has been made to obtain the answer to all these questions. It was discovered that the , commission has no tabulation of rate j Increases granted by it, and that to de- i termine what rates have been increased It is necessary to go through each individual order. These orders, covering the existence of the commission up to Sept. ! SO. 1920. are contained in bound volumes, j but after that date they are simply con- j tained in files with masses of other paper. Inquiry as to why this is true brought the statement that the orders will all be bound eventually, but no one had ever heard of any tabulation of the j orders. MORE THAN 700 ORDERS ISSUED SINCE JANUARY, 1920. The commission issned. ns a resjjlt of petitions filed between .TalT 1, 1920. and the present date, a total of more than 700 orders. The citizen who desires to know what the commission is doing must , go over all of these orders to get any j comprehensive idea. There is no other way to get at it. About half of these orders concern rates and the other half concern other matters affecting utilities, auch as service and bond issues. In many cases, particularly In cases where utilities still hold franchises, the commission has issued temporary orders, to be effective for a limited period of time. These orders, just like all the othet orders, are Jammed together in crowded files. The commission has no way to tell when a temporary order expires. It keeps no record of these things except tb orders themselves. For Instance, if the Street Railway Company should be granted an increase In rates to cover a jeriod of two months the commission trusts to the company or to some citizens to remind it when the time expires. TRUST TO LUCK POLICY. When the law permitting utility corporations to surrender their franchises went into effect the commission had no way of knowing what companies still held franchises. Repeated requests for a list of concerns which would come under the new law always brought the answer that the commission did not know and was in a way simply trusting to luck. With this state of affairs, the average citizen who wishes to know for what he is paying scores of thousands of dollars each year has about ns much chance as the proverbial snowball. It would take him a month, conservatively estimated. In the next article an effort will be made to show the number of increases granted by the commission during the last year and a half and the amount of the increases.

Unfit County Road Is Boon to ‘Car Jerker’ Farmers, who live on the 38th Street road, east of Shadeland, appeared before the county commissioners today and protested against the condition of toe' highway. They pointed out that mud holes result in automobiles becoming mired there. “We were informed that a certain man was making a good sum of money by Charging from $5 to sl9 In pulling cars out of the mud holes,” Commissioner Carlin Shank stated. The commissioners are planning to either gravel the road at once or improve the entire road.

MURDER OF CHILD BRINGS ROUND-UP

NEW YORK, June 13.—The greatest Black Hand round-up the police have undertaken in this city In many years was nnder way today as a result of the murder of 5-year-old Guiscppe Varotta, whose body was found In the Hudson

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Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 "T*. m.. June 14, 1921: Partially cloudy tonight and Tuesday; not much chauge in temperature. HOrBLY TEMPERATI'KE. 6 a. m 72 7 a. m 74 8 a. m 79 9 a. m 84 10 a. m 86 11 a. m 87 12 (noon) 88 A p. m. .. 90 !2 p. m. 91

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BRIG.-GEN. WILLIAM MITCHELL. MaJ. Gen. Charles T. Menoher, chief ©fthe air service of the United States Army, has asked Secretary of War Weeks for the removal of Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assistant chief of tho air service. Both are officers of courage and distinction, and the differences between them leading up to the action of Gen. Menoher not only caused a sensation when they became known in military and naval circles, but it feared will open another controvert 1 .

DENBY ORDERS COURT-MARTIAL Haiti Editor Accused of Attacks—Denies Martial Law Rule. WASHINGTON, June 13—Reports that martial law has been declared In Haiti were denied today by Secretary of Navy Denby. The secretary said he believed the report may have arisen from the fact that he has given authority for a courtmartial of a native editor who has made constant attacks on the American Administration, but which has never been published because of the civil courts. The Secretary a'so announced today that he has urged American missionary organizations to send missionaries to Haiti, stating that he believes much good can be dons by such emissaries and that the Administration of the marines then will bn under the constant watch of persons of high standing who are disinterested and nre working for the sake of humanity alone. Ask Court to Stop of Garage A petition for an injunction to prevent the erection of a garage on lots No. 27 and 28 In the J. C. Pierson’s North Meridian street addition, today was filed in the Circuit Court by Lafayette A. Jackson and Max Pollack against George Rafert, the city of Indianapolis and Walter It. Stern, city building inspector. The plaintiffs claim that unless Stern and the city be restrained that a building permit will be Issued to Rafert to build a public garage in the addition. The plaintiffs claim that the girage will destroy the “peace, quiet, comfort and health of the community."

River after the parents'had failed to pay $2,500 ransom. Ten men are already under arrest and the police said they expected to make other arrests later in the day. The criminals who killed little G lisseppe because his parents were too poor to pay tne ransom are believed by the police to be Sicilians. According to the police records, this is the first time on record that black hand kidnappers In New York have put a child to death for the non-payment of ransom. The Italian squad of the police department is under orders to run down every member of the gang, for the murder of the Yerotta boy indicates that t’.e black handers are becoming bolder in their efforts to extort rnony through crime. Salvatore Yerotta and his wife, parents of the slain boy, are in a state of collapse. Little Gulseppe disappeared May 24. Physicians who examined the body ■aid that life had been extinct about . two weeks. *

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SELECT LEGION CHIEF TUESDAY Probable One of National Vice Commanders Will Succeed Frederick Galbraith. More than half the department committeemen of the national executive committee of the American Legion are in the city today, awaiting the session to be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, in the Hotel Washington, when a successor to the late rederick IV. Galbraith, former national commander, who was killed her early Thursday in an automobile accident, is to be selected. While there is little talk of whom Galbraith's successor will be, It Is presumed one of the five national vice commanders, elected at the Cleveland national convention, will lie named commander. They are: John G. Emery, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Thomas Goldingay, Newark, N. J.; Claudius G. I’endlll, Racine, Vis.; J. G. Sorughani, Carson City, Xev., and C. Jackson Wlnslett, Birmlughani, Ala. Selection of a commander Is not confined to the vice commanders, however, according to information received at national headquarters. Any man who is a member of the legion, is eligible to the post, although the chances of election of any other than a vice commander are considered slight. Should one of the vice commanders he selected to fill the vacant post, the selection of the fifth vice commander will be left over until the next National convention. to be held in Kansas City, Mo., beginning Oct. 31. The National committeemen who were in the city today, with two of the vice commanders, Mr. Emery and Mr. Goldingay, and Franklin D'Olier, former national commander, were guests at luncheon of the Service Club.

CAN’T AGREE ON CAR CONTRACT Ashby and Company’s Counsel Confer. Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby, following a conference with H. 11. Hornbrook and Ferdinand Winter, attorneys for the Indianapolis Street Railway, to day announced that an agreement upon, legal aspects of the situation following the company’s surrender of its franchise had not been reached. The city is insisting that the company negotiate a contract giving the board of public works all the control over the company it had under the franchise with the exception of the clauses governing rates. The company has not indicated what its reply will be. An effort was made at the meeting today to arrive at some sort of a legal basis upon which contract negotiations might proceed, but the effort was unsuccessful, Mr. Ashby said. Another meeting of company officials and attorneys with members of the city council, the board of public works, Mayor Charles W. Jewett and the corporation counsel may be held in the mayor's office Wednesday morhing for further discussion of the contract controversy, Mr. Ashby said. Unearth Skeleton While excavating for the construction of a house at 3330 Guilford avenue in a lot owned by J. M. Dailey, 3345 Park avenue, workmen today found a skeleton which they believe to be of an Indian, buried years ago. The skeleton, that of a man. was found seven feet under the surface, in a sitting posture, facing the East. The bones, when struck by the air, crumbled. CANNOT REMOVE HORSE. A restraining order has been issued by Judge Arthur R. Robison of Superior Court, Roooin 4, preventing Seth F. Palin front removing Robert Direct, a race horse, from the training stables at the Indiana State fair grounds. Burgess claims he is entitled to possession of the animal.

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INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1921.

WILL COMPLETE SHRIVER AYE. BRIDGE WORK County to Gravel Approaches So Structure Can Be Used. AFTER LONG DELAY After permitting the Shriver avenue bridge over Fall creek to remain closed to traffic for months after the bridge had been completed but rendered useless because the Marion County commissioners have failed to gravel the approaches leading to the bridge, Carlin Shank, president of the Marion County board of commissioners, today announced that the commissioners have yielded to public demand and will proceed at once to gravel the approaches to the bridge. The county commissioners for months have disregarded the Interests of the tsixpayers of tile county and have failed to live up to the terms of an agreement with the Indianapolis Park Board that the commissioners would gravel the approaches, put cement sidewalks across the bridge and place the needed sewer systems. REMAINS UNUSED FILE OF CONCRETE, Because of the failure cf the county commissioners to carefully safeguard the Interest of the taxpayers, whose money they spent, the Shriver avenue bridge, which was built at a cost of $127,000, hag remained an unused pile of concrete since the bridge was completed last November. County Surveyor John J. Griffith has Informed the commissioners that the es tlmated cost of graveling the approaches to the bridge would be about $123. that the sidewalks would cost SOOO and the sewer about $430, making the total about $1,473. For a mere $1,473 the Marion County commissioners have tied up a $127,<X10 investment of the taxpayers, denying them the right of the use of the bridge for months. HELD I P BY LACK OF BUSINESS JUDGMENT. Commissioner Shank admitted today that there was enough money left In the original bond issue to meet the cost of graveling the approaches and tho like. The only thing that has been necessary 1o open tlie bridge to all traffic was some business Judgment on the part of the commissioners, It is pointed out. Commissioner Shank's statement concerning the failure of the commissioners to gravel the approaches. i* as follows: “We have an agreement which was made about two years ago with the park board hv which the commissioners agreed to build the approaches and the like. We have built dirt approaches,’ but gravel must be placed on them. "The park board wanted us to' put tn : pavement. The original contract did not call for the graveling of the approaches, the putting In of the sewer and the sidewalks. PROMISES COMMISSIONERS WILL TAKE ACTION. ‘‘The commissioners will at once take the necessary steps to put this bridge I in commission." County Surveyor Griffith claims that the bridge was completed N'nvem I her. He claims that the park board and the county commissioners could not agree on the proposed extension, which has been given up. of a street car line to go i over this bridge. j Commissioner Shank stated the hoard ; plans to use county trucks for hauling i the gravel to the bridge approaches. ! Commissioner Marry Tutewiler said j that the bridge was started before he beI came a member o)' tho board of county commissioners. | Commissioner Lewis George was not j present when the other members of tho | board discussed the steps to be taken ' today for finishing up tho work on the j bridge.

MELLON NOT FOR SOLDIER BILLS Opposes Compensation During Present Session of Congress. WASHINGTON. June 13 Scere*nry of the Treasury Mellon will oppose the granting of soldier compensation u' this session of Congress, It was learn'd today. Mellon's opposition to the pirn developed after it was announced tt t Senator Penrose nnd other Senate leaders were to confer with him preparatory to taking up the compensation bill Mellon's position is understood to be about the tame as that of Former Secretary Houston who held that the payment of compensation to ex-service men would disarrange the nations finances to a dangerous extent.

Warns Motorists of Reckless Driving

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To put a stop to reckless driving officials at Seattle, Wash., have adopted the method shown in the above photograph, which is indeed one to make one stop and think twice.

Tells Pastors How to Bring Dancing 4 Back to Normalcy 9 CHICAGO, June 13. Chicago’s Episcopal clergymen found out today how to take the wiggle out of the poetry- of motion. The ministers, who met today to deiise means of cleaning up dancing, called in J. Louis Guyon, proprietor of the “Paradise," one of the largest dancing halls in the country. This is what he hold them: "I agree with you that some of the dancing of today is too raw, to put it mildly. "I have seen some of our sons and daughters dancing at church balls, college and society functions in such a way that' they should at least have Mid a marriage license before stepping on the ballroom floor. "We ail know the effect on the morals of the boys and girls who wiggle cheek, to cheek on the ballroom floor. And parents stand by and watch that sort of thing. "Let's cut out jnzz music. People don't dance Indecently to good music. I tried an experiment at my academy by playing jazz music. In sixty seconds the dancers were wiggling and twisting in indecent positions—doing everything but dancing. It had the same effect as five big drinks of whisky.’’ Guyon allows nothing but the oldfashioned dunces in his academy.

Court Calls Halt on Useless Litigation Declaring that he did not like the Idea of having tl.e tax payers of Marlon County pay tlie bills for jury trials when some eases could be settled, Judge Harry Chamberlin today indicated to lawyers and clients that be did not favor useless litigation. Tho court v.as Informed that the case of Bessie Duckwall against Alice Foy in a suit for damages and possession of a house, could be settled out of court if the parties could agree on a coutrotersy over sd. "i will give you Just fifteen minutes to geo if this small difference can be adjusted,” Judge Chamberlin said. In a few minutes, counsel announced that a settlement had been agreed upon. The court dismissed the case and Urn jury called to hear the case. British Forces Now Adequate in Silesia LONDON, June 13. —British reinforcements have arrived In Upper Slloia and the military forces on hand in that district now are adequate to restore order quickly, Austem Chamberlain, official spokesman for the government, announced today In the House of Commons, this afternoon. Mr. Chamberlain described the I'pper Silesian situation as unchanged. Obrcgon Is Without ‘Official U. S. Word’ NEW YORK. June 13 The New York Sun this afternoon published a signed message from President O'oregon of Mexico saying that he has received from tho United States "no document or note that can be considered ns .official. *’ So far, the message adds, only memorandum explaining the two governments' respective points of view have been exchanged. European R. C. Chief Resigns, Is Rumor PARIS, June 13—Col. Robert Olds, European commissioner of the Red Cross, today announced his resignation. Officers cf the American Red Cross in New York sad today they knew nothing of Colonel Olds' r< tlreraent. Democrats in 10th 1 Ward to Start Ball The Tenth Ward Democratic Club will open the city campaign Wednesday evening la the clubrooius at Hoyt and State avenues, E. J. Sexton, secretary of the club, announced today. Tho meeting will he open to the public, Boyd M. Ralston. Democratic candidate for mayor, will be the chief speaker. Talks also wili be made by other candidates for city offices. Entertainment for the meellng Is In charge of -Mrs. W. L. Mot lain, Mrs. W. F. Gulbreath and Mrs. .T, Topmllter.

Will Suit Filed A suit contesting the will of the late John Gramas today was filed In the Marion County Probate Court by John L. Graham and twenty-six other plaintiffs and against Irene M. Yllet, tile trustees of the New Bethel Bapti-t Church, the Crawford Baptist Industrial School at Ztonville, the Indiana Masonic Home at Franklin, and eleven other defendants who received bequests ranging from SK>O to S2OO ly tiie terms of the will. The plaintiffs claim the will as unduly executed.

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SMITH SENT TO GIBSON COUNTY BY GOY. M’CRAY Adjutant General to Sift Trouble Between Residents and Foreigners. MANY LEAVE DISTRICT Adjutant General Harry B. Smith of Indiana was ordered by Governor Warren T. McCray today to go immediately to Gibson county to investigate the situation arising from the action of citizens of that county in compelling foreign labors to leave the district. A committee of mine operators wh j called on the governor told him that all mining operations and all construction workjjad stopped and that a!l of their laborers had left the district under threats of death if they should return. The Governor got into communication with officials at Princeton and demanded that the law be enforced and that the laborers be permitted to return to work. The grand jury lias convened and official promise was given that action would be taken immediately to determine responsibility and to punish those responsible. The mine operators told Governor McCray that all is quiet in the coal fields, but they declared the quietness is due to the fact that all the men against whom violence was threatened have left the district and are afraid to return because of threats against their lives. MIST IMPORT LABOR TO CONTINUE OPERATIONS. The committee members said they cannot obtain sufficient iabor among residents of the community and that if they are not permitted to import labor it will bo Impossible for them to continue with mine operations and railroad construction. It was made clear to the Governor that the affair is not one in which unions j are concerned and they stated that the United Mine Workers are In sympathy with the operators. The committee of operators was com posed of George A. Enos, Cleveland, president of the Enos Mining Company; Fred S. McConnell of Cleveland, vice president of the Enos Mining Company; J. L. Klemeyer, Vincennes, and W. M. Wllmore, Vincennes, directors of the Ayreshire Distrt t Collieries Company, which has mines at Francisco where the trouble started. The Governor saw tho committee Immediately on his return from his home in Kentland and was closeted with them for more than an hour. During the course ! of the conference U. S. Lesh, attorney general, ..and General Smith were called In. The Governor said that as coon as he w.-,s told of the situation he called James Robinson, prosecuting attorney, by tele phone and demanded that he and other officials take cure of the situation. He said the prosecotor told him the grand jury would be convened Immediately and that every possible action would be. taken. STATE EXPECTS LOCAL ACTHORITIES TO ACT. It was Indicated at the Statehouse that the attitude of tho State will be that the companies involved must be allowed to continue operation with whatever labor they please and that this labor must be given adequate protection. It was also indicated that local authorities would be given every chance to act before anything is done qy the State. “There will be no shirking responsibility," Governor McCray declared. "As long as I am Governor of Indiana law and order will he maintained. I atn told that things are quiet in the Princeton district, but if quiet means simply that one side has been whipped and dare* not go back to work something must be done. We will not have that kind of quiet." There was considerable speculation as to the effect the new deputy sheriff law, (Continued on Page Two.)

EASTERN TOWN SWEPT BY FIRE Hotels, Stores and Dwellings Destroyed—Aid Sent From Other Points. WILMINGTON, Dei., June 13.—Several fire companies left here today for Rising Sun, Md., a town twenty miles from here, which is threatened with destruction by fire. I.ate reports were that two hotels, four stores and a row of dwellings have been destroyed. Firemen from Newark. Dela., also have gone to the town’s aid. NORFOLK, Va., June 13.—Fire broke out at the t’nited States Army base near here this afternoon. The destruction of telephone wires made it difficult to seI cure details.

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RIVER DEATH BRINGS DROWNING VICTIMS THIS SEASON TO SIX

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Paul E. McGrath, who was drowned today in White River. He was the sixth victim to he claimed by Marion countywaters since the advent of warm weather.

A. F. L. CLALMS A VICTORY IN ‘OPEN SHOP’WAR ‘They Shall Not Pass’ Is Convention Watchword Against Foes. DENVER, Colo.. June 13.—Organized labor has been victorious in its fight against those who sought to destroy unionism. This was the message sent out to nearly four million trade unionists of the country by the leaders of the American Federation of Labor at the opening of its annual convention here today. The message was contained in the report of the executive committee presented to the convention. It declared that union labor had passed through a year of "unexampled struggle and difficulty.” The council demanded that nnlcn labor take the offensive. It called for a rallying of the forces of unionism and a concerted attack upon "the enemies of human progress.” The report discussed the attacks against unions by the “fictitious ‘open shop'" movement; the difficulties encountered because of the wave of unemployment and the movement for reduction of wages. An optimistic note was sounded when the council declared “the reactionary blight of effort has bitten as deeply as possible," but added, "in the coming year we must make sure beyond all of doubt the stability and supremacy of the democratic ideals of the trade unionism movement.” The conncll urged the building up of union membership as the most effective means of combating its enemies. Although tn report showed a decrease in membership of the American Federation of Labor during the last year, union leaders claimed that there had been an actual increase in all classes of members. Men out of work are not obliged to pay dues and are not counted as pay ing (Continued on Page Seven.)

SECOND SENTENCE UNDER NEW LAW Robber Sent Up for 10 to 20Y'ear Term. Alexander Sharp, 32. charged with robbery, today was sentenced for from ten to twenty years In the Indiana State Prison by Judge James A. Collins. This is the second time Judge Collins has given such sentences under the new robbery law. Tom Doloff, who was found guilty by a jury several days ago, on a charge of operating a blind tiger, was sentenced to serve sixty dnys on the Indiana St.Xte Farm and pay a fine of S2OO by Special Judge Etnsley Johnson. Judge Collins fined James Lawn $9 and costs and sentenced him to ninety days f>a the Indiana State Farm, on an assault charge. The court graciously suspended the days pending good behavior. Earl Duncan, charged with vehicle taking, was found not guilty and was ordered discharged. HALF HOLIDAYS BEGIN SATCRBAY. Beginning Saturday and continuing until September 13 all offices in the Federal building will close at noon on Saturday’s. Elevator service will be discontinued at that; lftuir nnd so far a spossible all employes of the building except those connected with the postoffiee will be given a half holiday.

NEW MURDER CHARGE IN KABER MYSTERY

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 13.—A charge of murder in the first degree was made today against Mrs. Erininia (Emma) Colavito of Cleveland In connection with the murder of Daniel F. Ivaber, wenlthy Lakewood publisher, for whose death, July 18, 1919, his wife, mother-in-law and stepdaughter are already under Indictment and arrest. Mrs. Colavito is the woman arrested in Sandusky last Wednesday and brought back here by Prosecutor Edwatd C. Stanton, Chief of Police Frank AY. Smith and a detective squad. The formal charge which was made by Chief of Police Christensen of Lakewood followed a detailed statement made by the woman, in which she further implicated Mrs. Kaber and her daughter Marian. She declared in, this statement that the assassins visited the Kaber home in Lakewood previous to the actual killing to get the lay of the land and that Marian, in order to keep their visit secret from the invalid publisher, played loudly upon the piano. t

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PAUL M’GRATH LOSES LIFE AT HANSON AVENUE Meantime Authorities Are Still Discussing Plans for Pools. WARNING DISREGARDED Paul E. McGrath, 19, 2113 Lexinffton ovenue, lost his life by drowning in White River near Hanson avenue, today. He is the sixth bather drowned in waters in or near Indian' apolis during the last few weeks. Despite the fact that the streams around Indianapolis have been found to be extremely dangerous for bathers in past seasons, the board of park commissioners is still discuss* ing plans for municipal swimming pools. Even if they speed up now it will be fail before pools they have under consideration can be con* structed. McGrath is believed to have been caught in the whirl pool caused by the intake pipe of the West Washington street power house of tho Indianapolis Street Railway Company for he was whirled around several times in the whirlpool, according to witnesses, and although a strong swimmer, was power* loss to escape . McGrath, who had been married only a few months, was supposed to be in New Orleans, La., with his bride, who is in a hospital there. He was identified by a book found in his clothing and ths body later was identified by relatives. SCENE OF DROWKINGS IN EIGHTEEN YEARS. At the place where McGrath lost his life seven persons have drowned la eighteen years. The N'agley Gravel Company has complied with the orders of Dr. Paul Robinson, coroner, and has posted a number of signs on the bank giving a warning, ‘Danger, deep hole, keep out.” These have not been heeded by swimmers, who have constructed a diving board and have frequented ths place in great numbers recently. McGrath during the war served in the marine corps and was a drill master at Paris Island. In spite of his age he became a sergeant. Big, powerful and known as A good swimmer he stripped ors on the bank of White River this morning plunged in and swam across the river to the flood wall. He turned and started to swim back, but sank after being whirled around several times. At first it was thought he had been taken with cramps, but later, Swimmers fnmilar with the river, said he had been caught in the whirlpool caused "by the intake pipe. FIND POSTCARD ADDRESSED TO WIFE. While Sergeant Burk of the police department searched the clothing left on the bank to find some paper that might identify the man for whose body other police officers were dragging, he drew forth an unmailed postcard addressed to Mrs. P. E. McGrath, Charity Hospital, ward GJ. New Orleans, La. The card read: "Denr Wife—Arrived home at 6:15 p. m., Sunday evening, (Continued on rage Two.)

WILL PREPARE BUDGET FORMS Clerk Farmer to Proceed Under Provisions of New Tax Law. Budget forms for cities, counties, towns ships and other muneipalitles as defined by the State tax law will be prepared Ims mediately by Edward Farmer, newly ap-< pointed State budget clerk, according to information obtained at the office of the board of accounts today. Fnder the tax law enacted at the 1920 special session and re-enacted In the regular session of 1921, the board of ac- i counts must provide forms for the buds 1 gets of every taxing unit and these buds get must be published. According to , officials of the board of accounts, budget forms have been in use of some time, but they are out of date and not complete. ’ In the eases of the city of Indianapolia and of Marion County, the budgets fol- 1 lowed only the general lines of tIM board s forms, but the budgets as com- I pleted were approved by the board, ofs i ficials stated. According to Mr. Farmer, the old budget followed only very general lines, while the new forms probably will require proposed expenditures to be item-, ized in detail. AA’hile no reference was made to the contention of W. A’. Rooker, Indianapolis attorney, that no expenditures can be legally made unless they are provided for in the budget, there were indications that the new forms will set out proposed expenditures sufficiently in detail to make them more or less workable under this provision.

Mrs. Ivaker, according to Mrs. Colavito’s statement, balked at paying the price wanted by the assassins, $5,000 for the crime, unless it could be done in such a manner as to permit her to collect on an accident insurance policy that Kaber carried. The accused also detailed how a pitcher of water was to bo spilled from an upstairs winodw on the night of the mnr- : der as a signal that the coast wa clean. Other developments are the ending o$ the “hunger strike” on the part of Mrs. Kaber and Marion and the making of 4 statement by Mrs. Ethel Berman, volunteer Pinkerton operative, who trailed Mrs. Kaber when she left Cleveland following her husband's murder. STABBED BY WOMAN; IN HOSPITAL Magdellnia Ellis, 1458 North Missouri street, was taken to the city hospital early today to have a stab wound in no* left arm dressed, Sue told the police she was attacked by a woman at 1318 Nor..* Senate avenue, but refused to tell the police what- the trouble was about. ~ ,