Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1921 — Page 1

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CHARGES INDIANAPOLIS ICE COMBINE

RURAL ROADS TO CITY BROKEN BY ROUGH STREETS Few Country Highways Can Be Reached by Good Routes. ALL SHOULD BE TIED UP By VOLNEY B. FOWLER. Country highways are feelers and feeders. With them Indianapolis reaches out after the products and the good will of surrounding territory and sends out what she has to offer to meet the needs of her neighbors. With the growth of the use of motor trucks as freight haulers the motor routes into and out of the city have become more and more important. Had the original intention of the bunders of the city to have the four diagonal avenues and a number of direct and south and east west streets running to the city limits been followed the transportation of freight by motor truck would be greatly expedited today. As it is only three highways may be said to have been developed as originally planned. Wash-, ington street runs straight through and connects with main reads on either end. Massachusetts avenue, excepting the dangerous condition at the East Tenth street subway goes to, the northeastern limits and runs on Into the Pendleton pike. Kentucky avenue jogs some but finally gets to a country road leading southwest. With profitable territory lying to the southeast Virginia avenue could have been made a quick route in that direction, but it ends against Prospect and Shelby street, both of which go on to connect with country highways, but both of which have very poor pavements. Indiana avenue, as a rc-te to the outside, is good only to the west end of the Fall Cret- bridge, where must leave It and wind around Speedway avenue to get to the Crawfordsvllle road, unless one, does not mind driving over the unpaTed section of the avenue between Montcalm and Sixteenth streets. ME KID lAN STREET BAD AT ENDS. Meridian street might be a fine route to the country highways leading north and sonth and is heavily used as such, but it ends In the almost imp assable canal road on the north and has block after block of chuck-holed pavements at the south end. This condition of South Meridian street is doubly bad for motorists with business out of town, be-cause-U feeds both the Bluff road and the Three Notch road. Asa route to the east. East Washington itreet can be improved upon only by lettering the pavement in several itretches, and this the board of public irorks has announced it intends to do. West Washington street in reality is not rompletely connected with the National road because of the unpaved section from 560 feet west of Harris avenue to the Big Four railroad subway at the Maywood rosd. A number of good country roads, important because they lead somewhere, end either at or inside the city llmlt3 on streets which are unpaved, narrow or have pavement in bad condition. Sevral, which have unpaved sections between them and the city pavement are to be improved by the county commissioners and board of public works under I new law If the announced intention of the city board is carried out. Among the country roads which do not connect with main city highways are the Brookville road, to reach which it is necessary to Jog through' Irvington: Bethel avenue, leading to Beech Grove; Churchman avenue, going southwest: the (Continued on Page Six.)

GET WARRANTS FOR BOOZE RING Gang Also Blamed for Auto Thefts and Banditry in Three States. FARGO, N. D., June 23.—Warrants have been Issued for “several" men Involved In a big whisky-smuggling, auto-mobile-stealing bandit ring operating in Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Canadian towns, areording to Cnited States District Attorney Hildreth here today. He said arrests would be made before Ho declined to name any member* of the alleged gang.

LARGEST BODY OF COAL ON FIRE Explosion, Which Kills Two in Pennsylvania Mine, Starts Blaze. POTTSVILT-E, Pa., Juno 23—Two miners, both foreigners, are d=>ad and three others are not expected to live today as a result of burns received late yesterday during a terrific explosion at the Knickerbocker colliery of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company at Shenandoah, pa. State mine Inspectors are convinced the explosion was caused when the loosening of eoal released a pocket of gas. The biggest body of coal in the world is afire as a result of the flames which were started by the explosion. The mine is a vast Inferno with flames leaping fifty feet from one level to another.

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Who are the eleven men, New York Is asking, whose ardent suits have won Miss Virginia Lee's “Yes” and who expect on her returr. from abroad to become her husband? L'nduiant, slender hewed Miss Lee, whom Howard Chandler Christy enthused over as “the ideal Christy girl,'' has confessed to friends in Paris that she is afraid to return “because I’ve got eleven fiances, and they’ll ail be waiting at the pier.” But none of her friends can list the entire eleven. Ami perhaps their names will remain a mystery until her vessel docks. Miss Lee was born in Mexico City and educated In New Orleans. She is 21 years old.

‘MISQUOTED BY PRESS,’ IS SIMS’ PLEA TO DENBY Admiral’s Interview With Secretary Lasts Only 2 Minutes WASHINGTON, June 23 —lt took Hear Admiral William S. Sims just two minute*- by the clock today to “explain'' to Secretary of the Navy Denby his famous! “Jackass'* speech In London which resulted In his leave being canceled and his being peremptorily ordered to return to the United States. Admiral Sims Informed the Secretary in one of the shorten Interviews on record, that he had been misquoted by the press in the reports of his speeches cabled to this country whereupon secretary Denby asked him to rtduee his explanation to writing and that ended the “carpet session," from a personal standpoint, at least. Secretary Denby would git# no hint as to the nature of his future action in the Sims case, and he would add nothing to the brief statement made at the dose of the interview. It was understood, however, there will be no more action in the case until Admiral Sims has forwarded his statement to the secretary in writing, pointing out the differences, if there are any, in what he actually said and what he Is reported In press dispatches to have said concerning some American “Jackasses.” Admiral Sims chatted with reporters while he posed for a swarm of photographers. Then he strolled into the secretary's office. Almost before the photographers had closed up their shutters he was out again. Admiral Kims spent an hour in Admiral Coontz's office, at the end of which he emerged with a statement which he had written out in long band for Secretary Denby. The Admiral himself carried the document to the Secretary's office and left it with him. “I have given the Secretary my statement,” said the Admiral. “If there's anything further to be said on this s',ory Secretary Denby will si,y It.” He then returned to his hotel.

Garbage Plant Due to Suffer Extra Losses Troubles at the garbage plant never cease, might be the headlina over the latest difficulties which the board of sanitary commissioners aro facing In their attempts to make the cltr's $175,000 garbage plant live up to the boast that it would pay for itself which Mayor Charles W. Jewett was making a year or so ago. The garbage plant would make money through the production of grease and tankage and would make It so fast that the city would never notice that $175,000 it let go of for the plant which was appraised for taxation purposes at $15,000, it was said. Then the bottom began to drop out of the grease market and last year the sanitary board had to report a deficit of around $30,000 In the operation of the plant. Now the tankage market Is about to completely disappear, according to Lucius B. Swift, chairman of the board. The contract under which Rauh & Son having been buying tankage the pnst year has enabled the city to dispose of It at around sl4 per ton. The contract expires Ju'y 1 After that there is no market In sight and It will be necessary to dump the product on the ground outside the reduction plant, Mr. Swift said. With grease bringing only 2.1 cents per pound, whereas the normal figure Is around 6 and 7 cents and very little opportunity to sell it at all the outlook for a prosperous year af the garbage plant Is not bright, city officials admit. No. 25 for Babe BOSTON. June 28.—Babe Ruth, home run king, drove out his twentv-flfth circuit lilt of tlie season here today In the Notv Yo-k-Boston game. The drive came in the fifth inning with one man on base. TU-rmoblen was pitching for the Red Sox at the time. The home run put the Yankee team in the lead. On tliia date last season Ruth had twenty home runs to hit credit.

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Things Happen at Capital With Dawes’ Arrival Banker and Former A. E. F. Officer Takes Up Duties of U. S. Budget Director. WASHINGTON, June 23. —General Cbarle* O. Dawes, of "Hell and Maria” fame came to Washington today to take charge of the National budget system and immediately tnings began to happen. Within a few hours after his arrival, Generul Dawes had held a long conference with the President, selected the four men he Is allowed as assistants, criticized Congress and announced that he wns going to “conscript” about thirty to forty American business men to get tho budgetary system started on a sound basis. General Dawee declared that he accepted the Job as budget director in this “business emergency" solely because he would have regarded himself as a “pusillanimous" quitter for the rest of his life had he not. "It Is evident," he said, “that If this, the greatest business crisis which our government has ever confronted, is to be properly met, chief reliance will have to be placed upon something else than the pitiful machinery provided by law. "I am, therefore, accepting the position of director of the budget only with the idea that the patriotism of bureau chiefs and the country ss a whole can be so aroused In this emergency that it will be met as was the emergency of war lmr years ago. Dawes is giving up a prosperous banking ouslness In Chicago to take his task. His life here, according to all forecasts, is certain to be one long fight with bureau chiefs who want large appropriations and Congressmen who want to keep their friends in easy Government Jobs. Dawes will be given full authority by President Harding to wield the knife mercilessly in the hope of putting affairs here on an economic basis. Dawes is one of a sizeable group of big business men President Harding has persuaded to come to Washington at great monetary sacrifice to assist In putting more business in Government.

$60,000 MORE GO TO GARBAGE POT Huge Sum Will Be Spent on Automobiles. Specifications 'were adopted and bids -ordered advertised for equipment with which to complete the motorization of the city garbage and ash collection departments by the board of sanitary commissioners today. The cost will be around $6.),000 which. Is to be met with a bond Issue, legal preliminaries to which are to proceed simultaneously with the taking of bids on the equipment. Three truck tractors, eighteen trailers, similar In type to those which have been in use in the ash collection department for two years, two extra trucks for hauling garbage from hotels and downtown eating houses and two tractors with graders attached aro to be bought. The truck tractors and trailers will form three new collection units. The tractors are to be used on the ash dumps haul trailers from paved streets onto the ash piles go as to save the truck tractors from the strain of being driven over the soft, uneven surfaces and the graders will be used to smooth the slumps. The tractor trucks and trailers may be used in either ash or garbage collection, It being the plan of the board to nse most of the equipment on garbage in the summer and ashes in the winter. The bids will be received July 19. Advertising was ordered on June 30, Juiy 1 and 8.

Italian Foreign Affairs Head Quits ROME, June 23.—Count Sforza, Italian minister of foreign affairs, has resigned from the cabinet. Premier Giolletti, whose cabinet is under attack and which Is believed certain to fare a crisis shortly, requested his foreign minister to retain his office until debiuV In parliament has ended and decisive aritlon taken.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1921.

SAYS CAR FARE HIKE DOES NOT CUT REVENUES Boston Engineer Discusses Street Railway and Other Utility Problems. PATRONAGE COMES BACK The theory that increasing the rates of street railway companies decreases the number ot passengers to such an extent that the total receipts are less than under the smaller fare, is being proved false in a number of cities where the cost of car rides was made greater during and since the war period, according to Leonard Metcalf of Boston, noted as one of the country's best utility engineers, who is in the city inspecting the properties of the Indianapolis Water Company. Indianapolis heard much to the effect that increasing fares decreases total receipts from the city administration during the recent Juggling of rates of the Indianapolis Street Hallway Company. Even officials of th company appeared, after the 6 cent fare had failed to bring In what they expected in the way of increased revenues, to agree with Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby. The city's chief attorney has contended lor more than a year that every place where fares were advanced has suffered because the did not go up accordingly. ’says desertion ONLY TEMPORARY. The latter statement. Mr. Metcalf said, Is turning out to be contrary to the facts. People at first refused to ride the cars when they bad to pay the higher fares, but they gradually have been coming back to uso the transportation utilities until today the patronage Is about back to normal. "This is exactly what has happened in my home city of Boston," said Mr. Metcalf. Boston has been pointed out by those who agree with Corporation Counsel Ashby's theory, os the horrible example for many months. Street car fares in the Massachusetts city wore advanced from 5 to 7, then 8, 9 and 10 cents, where they now stand. “It was said that these increase* would defeat their own end. that there would be smaller end smaller use of the cars, but people today are riding again. NVTiile patrons desert the lines temporarily, it usually turns out that they come right back in a short while. “Becnuae of rate Increases. which will are rags from 30 to 40 p*r cent the Nation over, a better feeling between utilities. State and e'ty regulatory boiles and the public, and the fact that It hM been possible for many service corporations to start marketing securities to local private capital, if not to banking interests, once more the general utility situation throughout the United Sta'es i much brighter than a year ago," Mr. Metcslf said. UTILITIES* SECURITIES. "Utilities still are having difficulty in selling securities, excepting where they can find a local demand. Some of the corporations have been successful tu peddling out thetr stocks and bonds to local parties who know of their situation when it was impossible to lntorost the banking fraternity.” He said the traction and the electric lighting companies probably have been the most favored in the matter of rate Increases. Although water companies have been, the last on the list to secure relief from Inadequate rates their general nation-wide condition 1* better than it was a year ago. “Public service cocmlesdons in general have recognized that voter works have (Continued on F:.ge Four.)

COLGATE WILL SEEGOVERNOR Head of Soap Company to Discuss Purchase of Indiana Reformatory. Fpprlal to Th NEW YORK, Jnno 23.—Henry A. Colgate, of Colgate & Cos., may go to Indianapolis within the next few days to confer with Governor Warren T. McCray regarding the Governor's second request for abrogation of the contract in which tha company agreed to buy the site of the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffersonville. It was learned at the offices of Colgate & Cos., here that Mr. Colgate may before the end of tha week discuss with the Indiana Governor the company's refusal to accede to the first'request. Although executive officers of the company refused to make a definite statement, It seemed to be their Intention to hold their position outlined In their first refusal and await action by the Indiana legislature. Colgate & Cos., It was said, has deposited $105,000 with the State government as Initial payment on the reformatory. COMPANY HAS NO WRITTEN CONTRACT Governor McCray recently sent a second letter to Colgate & Cos. asking them to relinquish thelv agreement to buy the State reformatory site. The legislature provided that the reformatory' should be removed from Jeffersonville to Putnam County, but the removal commission held the law unworkable after tlie present site had been cold to Colgate & Cos. Gov-, ernor McCray says there is no signed contract between the State and ths company and that he is re imsting that Col-, gate A Cos. not take possession of tile site Oct. 31, 1922, the stated date for tha transferral. ..The Governor said he did not expect Mr. Colgate before the first of next week.

Personal Welfare Is Public WASHINGTON, June 23.—Secretary Wallace made public todsry the resignation of George Livingston, chief of the bureau of markets. Livingston gave as his renson for leaving the post he has held since July 1, 1919, that he “must give due consideration to my personal welfare."

Wartime Laborers Flayed in Senate in ‘Bonus* Fighi WASHINGTON, June 23. Flaying wartime laborers as “stay-at-home-slackers,” and cost plus contractors as “profiteering .pirates,” Senator McCumber, North Dakota, today urged the Senate to pass promptly the soldier adjusted compensation bill. Conscription of labor In wartime—the patriotic duty as between soldier and civilian being concurrent and equal, wi.s the principle upon which McCumber based his savage attack on “war profiteers of all classes.” “If ever there Is another great war.” he asserted, “that principle will be invoked.” “The blood of the patriotic soldier must have boiled with indignation to feel that while his Government estimated his services, in. eluding his board and clothing at about $3 a day, with all the risks and hardships,” he continued, “any man who could saw a rough board or drive a nail qualified as a carpenter anil received his $lO a day, whether he was 50 per cent or 5 per cent efficient. “Leaving out of the computa; tlon every vestige of sentiment every element of gratitude, and applying only the rigid rule of mathematics we cannot deny that by allowing the man who fought for his country, who placed his life in pawn, the increase In his compensation provided in this bill. We are still giving him for his services, with all their risks and hardships a compensation much below that which the common laborer In the United States received during his absence."

WOMEN TO OPEN HEADQUARTERS Democrats Will Make Appeal to New Veters to Defeat Shank for Mayor. Mrs. Grace Bodenralller, director of oiganlantlon frr women for the Democratlc city committee, today took up her work in tho committee headquarters, 205 Peoples' State Bank building, and from now on until the close of the campaign ahe will devote her entire time to the success of the ticket. She has selected as her assistant Mrs. Mary Steenbergen. who was connected with the Democratic State committee last summer and fall “I am going to stop this propaganda that 'Shank will be elected,' " said Mrs. Bodonmiller. “That cry Is being circulated about the city by over confident Republicans and I am going to convince the voters that it Is our ticket, and not Mr. Shank's, that is going to be chosen this fall.” Mrs. Rodenm'l'rr Is a veteran In political experience and is counted as one of the best organizers in the party. She waa connected with the State committee In 1908 a"d 1010 and was secretary in Governor Samuel M. Ralston's office during hl administration. She was also secretary i nthe fish and game department. Last year she waa in charge of the office for the State committe.

‘Vanishing Ship ’ Mystery May Remain Unexplained Unless Due to Bolshevists

WASHINGTON. June 23.—The fate of the “vanishing ships" today threatened to go down in history as one of the unexplained mysteries of the sea. Officials of the Department of Commerce admitted that the search for a twentieth cenfury pirate, undertaken afler all other theories to explain the disappearance of half a dozen boats off Cape Hatteras failed, so far had produced no results. "I’ve heard many tell yarns of the sea," said Eugene T. Chamberlain, commissioner of navigation. “But In this case the facts are there. The Carroll A. Deering and the Hewitt met some strange fate beyond that of ordinary vessels coming to grief.” The Deering was the schooner that Railed on the shoals, abandoned apparently In calm seas and with the ship and cargo in good condition. The Hewitt and her crew dropped completely out of sight about tlie same time. “Os course we don't say flatly that these ships were victims of piracy, but we have and are Investigating that angle,” Chamberlain said. That American navigators are not the only ones to admit piracy as an explana-

Who Wonders Why Woman Is Wonder? Won f t Waste Words WASHINGTON, June 23.—A woman who has every opportunity to talk and does not believe In doing It, has been found. She Is Miss Alice Robertson, Congresswoman from Oklahoma. Mlns Robertson says that she proposes to talk as little as possible In Congress, and nrges all other members to cut out unnecessary words as n means of reducing the expense of publishing the Congressional Record. "I am not going to talk very main for silence Is truly golden now,” said Miss Robertson, "I real te that every extra, word we speak In Congress means that much more expense to the Cnited States Government. Some of' u In Congress might begin—as I shall begin right no-|t save money by stopping useless ta&lng.”

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WYCKOFF SAYS COUNT AGAINST HIM NOT TRUE No Basis for Statements in Conspiracy Charge, He Declares. ‘BUSY WITH ROUTINE’ ‘'There la no basis for the statement that I have anything to do with fixing ice prices in Indianapolis or in any place in Indiana,” Stanley Wyckoff, former Federal food administrator for Marion County artd now secretary of the Indiana Ice Dealers’ Association, declared when informed that he had been named a defendant in the suit brought by Attorney General U. S. Lesh, charging a combination In restraint of trade among the ice dealers. "Thera Ts not a worfi of truth In tho statement made In the complaint of the attorney general that I have transmitted ice prices to dealers In the State. There is no foundation for such charges. Nothing of that kind has ever been done in this office. “All we do In this office la take care of the distribution of ice where there is a shortage as there is at South Bend now. The dealers quote their own prices.” Mr. Wycoff said the price in most Indiana cities is higher than that in Indiana oolis, with the exception of Evansville, where the price ts lower. Ho said he had Just received the list of prices of ice la 300 cities in the United States and that most of them are higher than in Indianapolis. He said prices lower than those in Indianapolis run only 5 per cent or 10 per cent lower.

STOP DUMPING ON BOULEVARD Proposed New Ordinance Would Require Permits for Using Parks for Refuse. Dumping of trash of any kind within 500 feet of any boulevard dr park property without a permit from the city park department would be prohibited by an ordinance which the board of park commissioners today Instructed its attorney, J. Clyde Hoffman, to prepare. The beauty of a-number of parkwar* is being marred by the promiscuous and unregulated dumping of refuse, said Superintendent of Parks James E. Lowry. Under the proposed ordinance, dumping in order to fill in low places would not be stopped because the park department, with certain regulations, would permit it. he said. Resolutions for the acquisition of the Lauter Memorial property at Market and Bloomington streets and of the playground site at Fall Creek I’arkway, south drive, and Central aveaue were confirmed. A resolution for a bridge over Pleasant Run where Pleasant Run Parkway, south drive, crosses Just eaat of Ritter avenue, to replace an antiquated and dangerous wooden span was adopted. The new bridge will ha of concrete and forty-five feet long. A dangerous approach to the bridge will be eliminated by changing the | location of tho jbrldge and part of the drive, using a plot of ground 26 by 70 feet which Walter Jenny has agreed to donate. The National Refining Company was refused permission to place a sign board In front of their fljllng station at Fall Creek Parkway, south drlre and Meridian street. Lights and toilets wero ordered installed In the Claypool rark.%

tlon of the vanishing ships was revealed by William Lyttle, chief clerk of the Bureau of Navigation. “The Hewitt was insured In London,” said Lyttle. "British Investigators looked Into her disappearance. At first they were Inclined to believe that the Hewitt and the Carroll A. Deering collided and that the Deerlng's crew was taken aboard the Hewitt, the latter then sinking with nil hands aboard, but an examination of the Deerlng's hulk revealed that no such collision had taken place.” POLICE BELIEVE RUSSIA RESPONSIBLE NEW YORK. Juno 23.—Support of the theory that at least a portion of the “vanished fleet” of a score of merchant vessels had been seized by agents of the Russian soviet government was offered today by the New York police department. The police “bomb" squad was said to have discovered a plot more than a year ago to start mutinies among the crews of merchantmen to seize the ships and taka them to Bolshevist ports. This information, it was stated, was turned over to the department of justice at the time. Much of the Information was alleged to have been obtained in a raid In which 300 men and women were arrested. Many of these have since been deported. These are still In their possession, police said. The plan, outlined in the documents, was to ship enough men on the vessels to be seized to overpower the rest of the crew at sea. The Russians then were to take charge of the vessels and to direct them to soviet ports. The headquarters of thj Cnited Russian Workers was at 133 East Fifteenth street, when the raid was made, but it since bus moved. The documf .its were found in a secret compartment In the hendquarters office. They showed that prior to the raid a meeting of the principal heads of the unions of the Cnited Russian Workers was conducted at which resolutions were adopted instructing all members of ‘he organization, who were out of work, and particularly those who were seamen, to meet secrettly and receive Instructions as to the ways, means and time for seizing the vessels. •

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ATTORNEY GENERAL NAMES 15 FIRMS AND INDIVIDUALS IN SUIT Asks for Injunction to Dissilve Alleged Monopoly, Revocation of Charters and Appointment of Receivers. ACTION BROUGHT IN SUPERIOR COURT Charging a combination in restraint of trade, U. S. Lesh, Indiana attorney general, acting for the State, today filed suit in the Marion County Superior Court, Room 1, against fifteen Indianapolis firms and individuals engaged in the ice business, asking that the alleged combination be dissolved by injunction, that the charters of the corporations be revoked and that receivers be appointed for all the defendants to wind up therr business. All the defendants, according to the complaint, manufacture and deal' in ice in and about Indianapolis. The defendants are:

M’CRAY NAMES PURDUE BOARD MEMBERS TODAY Teachers* Retirement Body Also Announced by State’s Chief Executive.

Governor Warren T. McCray today announced the appointment of the board of trustees of Purdue University and the teachers retirement board, both of which were reorganized by an enactment of the 192 t Legislature. The members of the Purdue board are C. M. Hobbs of Bridgeport, and Henry W. Lawrence, Lafayette, representing agricultural Interests; John Hillenbrandt of Bateavtlle, and Joseph D. Oliver of Sonth Bend, representing manufacturing interests, and Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, West Lafayette, and James Noel, Indianapolis, meeting the requirement that two other citizens of standing be appointed on the board Mr. Hobbs and Mrs. Meredith will serve for one year, Mr. Noel and Mr. Hillenbrandt., two years, and Mr. Oliver and Mr. Marshall, three years. Ail the appointees, except Mrs. Meredith, are on the present board. The board will hold Its rst meeting at Purdue University July 1. The members of the teachers’ retirement board and the terms for which they were appointed are; Miss Florence Case, Marlon, president of the Indiana Teachers' Federation, and Eben H. Wolcott, Indianapolis banker, four years; Donaid DuSbane, Columbus, president of the Indiana Teachers' Federation, three years; James M. Larimore, Anderson, banker, two years, and Thomas Carr Howe, former president of Butler College, and defeated candidate for the Republi can nomination for mayor of Indianapolis, one year. The Governor aUo announced the appointment of Walter E. Ridge, Democrat, Indianapolis, to succeed Dr. Owen D. Odell, who recently resigned as a member of the board of trustees of the State School for the Blind.

MAN, 65, KILLED BY FAST TRAIN Fred Wolf Walks*in Front of Pennsy Flyer Near Ben Davis. Pennsylvania passenger train No. 806, Inbound from St. Louis, today struck and killed Fred Wolf, 65, who lived with his son-in-law, John W. Gregg. 236 South Lyons avenue, while he was crossing the tracks near Ben Davis. The man was decapitated ajid every bone In his body was crushed. The body was taken to the city morgue by order of Dr. Paul F. Robinson, coroner. Motor Policemen Mueller and Finney investigated. They were unable to determine If it was a case of suicide or If Wolf thought he could get across the tracks ahead of the train. The train, m charge of Henry Sacks of Terre Haute, engineer, was traveling at a high rate of speed. Wolf walked from the north on ft. road that crosses toth the luterurban and railroad tracks at Stop 3. and walked directly in front of the railroad train.

CARBIDE CANNON ALSO UNDER BAN Police Fourth of July Regulations Exacting. Several boys and girls who have bought or had their parents buy for them a type of toy cannon which is discharged with carbide gas Instead of powder, in the belief that they would get by the police ourth of July regulations, are doomed to disappointment, according to George W. Williams, executive secretary of the board of public sufety. A sporting goods house has been selling the cannons for $3.50 each and telling the purchasers that since they did not shoot powder they do not come under the fireworks ban. The board of public safety, however, absolutely prohibits the use of toy cannons or firearms of any sort, Mr. Williams said, and persons who have applied for permits for use of this kind of noise maker will be denied. Some citizens, according to Information reaching the board of safety, have been buying an assortment of fireworks put up in a cut rate package by a Cincinnati firm, which advertises that all the articles In the lot will pass regulations everywhere. Most of the Items, however, can not be used in Indianapolis, Mr .Williams said. Harding Cracks Whip to Speed Up Congress WASHINGTON, June 23—President Harding acted today to speed up tariff and revenue legislation In Congress. He summoned Chairman Fordney of the House Ways and Means Com&ittee to the White House and suggested that all possible delays be eliminated.

NO. 36.

Polar Ice and Feel Company, a corpo* ration. Zero Ice and Fuel Company, a corpora* tlon. Irvington Ice Company, a corporation. Holt Ice and Cold Storage Company, a corporation. Artificial Ice and Cold Storage Com* pany, a corporation. Coonse A (ay lor Ice Company, a cor* porati on. Merchants Ice Company, a corporation. I nlted Ice Company, a corporation. Service Ice and Cold Storage Company, H corporation. Indiana Refrigerating Company, a cor* poration. Atlas Coal and Ico Company, a cor* poration. John S. Kittle, doing business under the name of the City Ice and Cold Stor* age Company. Henry I„ Dithmer, doing business un* drr the name of the West Side Ice and Coal Company. Henry L. Dithmer, doing business under the name of the South Side Ice and Coni Company. Stanley Wyckoff. individually. Stanley Wyckoff as executive secretarj of the Indiana Ice Dealers’ Association, CHARGES WYCKOFF KEEPS STATE IN LINE. The complaint charges that the alleged combination not only exists in Indianapolis. but that its effect is State wide, and that it is made so thorough Stanley Wyckoff, former Federal food administrator for Marion County and now executive secretary of the Indiana Ic Dealers’ Association. The attorney general charges that prices are fixed ty the Indianapolis dealers. the present trice being i.K) cents a hundred pounds, and that they are transmitted by Mr. Wyckoff to dealer! throughout the State. The complaint charges that besides fixing prices to be charged by both wholesalers and retailers, the members of the alleged combination have apportioned territory among themselves and that peddlers and small dealers in each territory must buy from the dealer controlling the territory and must charge the prices fixed. It is further charged that the alleged combination has an agreement whereby It refuses to manufacture ice in some seasons of the year, thereby paving the way for an ice famine and consequent higher prices. STATE LEGAL BOARD MADE INVESTIGATION. ! The complaint was filed as a result of intensive investigation by the legal /department of the State of the alleged formation of trusts to control the necessities of life. Recently the Housewives League complained to the attorney general that such a condition existed among the Ice dealers. In his complaint Mr. Lesh charges that the “defendants have been continuously for more than five years last past in their several respective- individual, corporate and co-partnership capacities as indicated in the title of this complaint,' engaged in the business of making, buying, selling, shipping and dealing in ico in the city of Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, and the country surrounding the city.” The complaint declares that the product dealt In is a necessity of life and that trade In Ice runs Into several millions of dollars annually. In making direct charges against th* defendants the complaint says :

“Your relator Informs the court that sometime prior to Jan. 1, IP2O, the exact date of which Is unknown to the informant, said defendants in their several respective capacities, wwongfully and unlawfully entered Into an agreement, combination, conspiracy, scheme, understanding and design in the form of a trust, among themselves and others, to continuously thereafter monopolize, and attempt to monopolize, all the trade and commerce In ice within said city of Indianapolis, and to limit and control the manufacture of all of said Ice In said territory, and control the price thereof by Increasing and reducing the price thereof at will without regard to the laws of supply apd demand or the cost of manufacture ,thereof; and to limit, hamper and destroy competition in said business of manufacturing and dealing in ice by controlling and fixing the price that said ice should be sold for and selling only to such persons, firms or corporations as would resell it or retail It at the price fixed by these defendants and fheir agents and at no other price. CHARGES SET OUT IN DETAIL. “That pursuant to said agreement, combination, conspiracy, scheme, understanding And design and in performance of the terms thereof and for the purpose of carrying the same out defendants are now and have been continuously ever since said date engaged in performing and carrying out the terms thereof and accomplishing the objects and purposes thereof in the manner following, to wit: “By wrongfully and unlawfully apportioning among themselves said territory in such a manner as to allow each of said defendants certain exclusive portions thereof in which t sell its said Ice to exclusion of othef dealers and by agreeing upon and promulgating the price for which all said ice should he sold within said territory whereby competition among defendants Is wrongfully, unlawfully and completely destroyed. “By wrongfully and unlawfully combining against all other manufacturers and dealers in ice who attempt to engage in said bnslness 'in (Contlnned on Page Two.)