Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday. Partly cloudy. Little change in temperature.

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FEACHERS COST three Million SALARIES School Board Raises Pay and Gets Highest Type of Instructors. BETTER SCHOOLS RESULT By BLYTHE Q. HENDRICKS. —'For the first time in many years the Indianapolis public schools are In the enviable position of being able to attract high grade teachers from other cities, instead of seeing the very cream of the teaching staff drawn away year after year by other cities willing to pay higher salaries. There is no use trying to dodge the fact, unpleasant as it is, that in the period preceding 1919 the stand ard of our public schools dropped very appreciably. This was due very largely to the fact that the board of school commissioners did not pay salaries of sufficient size to bold its best teachers. Some, through sheer loyalty stuck to their posts, but dozens upon dozens left to take more remunerative positions elsewhere. School boards defended themselves upon the grounds that the revenues of the school city were insufficient to meet the demands put upon them and that until more money was available salaries could not be increased. There were also numerous other reasons assigned. But the fact remains that the salaries were lamentably low. The deplorable condition Into which our schools had fallen by January. 1919. Is shown by a comparison with other cities of the same class. At that time In order to ascertain exactly the condition of the school, a careful tabulation of twenty-five cities of the United States was made. These twentyfive cities, which excluded southern cities where the conditions were entirely different from thoee existing In Indianapolis, were selected from the census tables. The twelve cities ranking Juit above Indianapolis, and the twelve rank lng Just below In point of population being selected for comparative purposes. ONLY OXE CITYPAID LESS. It was found that in the matter of elementary school salaries only one of the twenty-five cities paid a lower minimum and maximum salary than did Indianapolis. This city was Syracuse. N\ V., (Continued on Page Eleven.)

SEEK TO QUASH SHIPPCHARGES Delavan Smith and Other Defendants Ask Case Be Thrown Out. Motions seeking to prevent the coming to trial of a S2OO 000 damage suit which was filed in the Circuit Court Ly Clarence E. Shipp, manufacturer of Indlnnipolts. against the Indianapolis News Publishing Company. Delavan Smith. Louis Howland. Richard Smith, William H.'Blodgett, all of the X’ews; 7rs*e E. Eschbach, Walter J. Twiname of the State board of accounts, and William F. King of the State board of health and the Henke: ''Publishing Company of Brazil, today i filed by the defendants before Judge Harry Chamberlin. Delavan Sn-'th, one of the owners of the News, filed a notion to quash serv'ce of process. He s.*ts up in his motion, which was filed by Attorney Ferdinand Winter, that he now is a r-v, nt of Lake Forest, 111., and “never has teen a resident of the State of Indiana." Lie claim, he hag not been served, but that t copy of the notice was left at “what Is alleged in said return to have been his last and usual place of residence.'' The other defendants filed a motion asking the court to “reject and stnke from the files the complaint filed in this tause.” The motion *tes that “the complain* does not conti a statement of the facts constituting tl - cause of action In plain and concise : nguage, without repetition and In such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is Intended, but Is involved, prolix, verbose and full of unnecessary repetition and impertinent matter, all which Is Intermingled and 1 %rwoven In said complaint, whereby it ls"extended to the length of 149 typewritten pages and the defendants ns well as the court, are prejudiced and embarrassed in ascertaining what. If any, material facts are stated In the complaint and in separating such facts from such irrelevant and impertinent matter. “That said complaint abounds In averments of matters which are not only Immaterial, impertinent and irrelevant, but are Insulting and scandalous to the defendants as weP as to the administration of Justice.” In April Mr. Shipp filed the suit alleging a “conspiracy” for the alleged purpose of “continuing a scheme or plan of publicity to Incite such condition of public mind” and also to create an impression of a trial court in Marion County, as well as with other public officials to shrink from the performance of duty.

PLANES OFF TO REPEL ATTACK Air Fleet Sights Invading Ship lowa. WASHINGTON. June 29.—The bombing of the old battleship lowa by fleets of Army. Navy and Marine Corps flyers got under way today off the Virginia coast, according to a long distance telephone message to the Navy Department at noon. “Contact wa* made with the lowa at lC:4o a. m.,” said a message received. “All the Navy, Marine Corps and Army planes left shore stations at 11:25 a. m. to attack the lowa.”

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Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-fcur hours ending 7 p. in., June 30: Fair tonight; Thursday partly cloudy ; little change in temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m . 72 7 a. m.r 74 8 a. m 77 9 m 80 10 a. m 83 11 a. m 84 12 (noon) 85 1 p. m 83 2 j>. m 80

PtiV,>hid at Indianapolis, Ind„ Dally Except Sunday.

Admirable Type of Community Building

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While not a memorial, the Bt. Paul Auditorium is an excellent example of the large community building. The most interesting feature of tbla auditorium is Its movabl, stage, by means of which the building an be made a thoroughly up-to-date opera house, with all the comforts of the beat theaters in the country, and seating 3,200 people, or tt can bo converted Into a huge arena, accomodating 12,000 persons, and suitable for large industrial exhibit*, conventions, boxing matches, spectacular pageants and circuses. On either side of the movable stage floor and a about the center of the auditorium, are tiers of boxea. When the auditorium is used for other than theatrical performances, these boxes arc swung

$200,000 of Peggy's Gems in Gotham Seized by 11. S. ‘Alimony Queen * Must Wait Till July 8 to Learn Share of Joyce's Estate .

CHICAGO, June 29 Peggy Joyce, alleged lure of makers of nlstory and ir>jn. y. will have 10 wait until July 8 to find out how much money she v ill receive as an "alimony queen.” Judge Sabath, who was to announce today the amount J. Stanley Joy ‘e, Peggy’s htrd millionaire spouse, hud to pay the former Follies star, postponed his decree because of business In the East. Peg g” 1* asktng SIO,OOO a month and SIOO,OOO attorneys’ fees. William H. Clare, collector of port of Chicago, today announced that Uncle Sam had seized $200,000 worth of Jewels Peggy's hiding place In New York.

ASHBY TO FIGHT TELEPHONE HIKE Says Rates Sought More Than Cost of Two Systems. The petition of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company for increases in rates will be meet with determined resistence from the city. Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby said today. For the public service commission to grant the raises would be to corrfpel cirizens to pay more for the unified service of the automatic hoil manual systems combined that Is now paid for the two services separately, he said. It Is not sound economics, Mr. Ashby declared, for the company to maintain that its cost of operating the two syste:N as one is going to be more than it now ig for the separate operation. The price of everything has dropped and still is dropping since the company got its increase of 50 per cent over the Burleson schedules on Feb. 9, 1920 said the corporation counsel. A large number of verbal complaints against the petlcion already have been lodged with to. public scvice commission. in fac* commissioner's telephone system \• ,s kept eonmaratlvely busy with calls from Irate telephone users, most of whom said they would have their telephones removed if the rates are increased.

Haywood to Return and Do His 20 Years CHICAGO, June 29—“ Big Bill” Haywood. leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, will return to the United States to serve twenty years in Leavenworth Prison. District Attorney Charles F. Clyne today received this word from Haywood, who la in Russia.

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back against the walls on hinge*, the stage floor is lowered and the orchestra pit raised by hydraultca, so that the satire main floor of the building Is on the same level. The proseentum arch Is divided In the center, one-half sliding up and the other half sliding down, each being counterbalanced and operated by electricity. There is an ample scene loft which, when not In use, is hidden by a false celling. St. Paul has found tho auditorium to be one of the best advertising features the city has ever undertaken, attracting, as It does, big commercial convention* from all parts of the country, and making It possible for Its citizens to enjoy “eats in the entertainment line not other wise possible.

Clare said the seizure was made followi.ig evidence he gt.ve the Government that Peggy overlooked paying duty on gems she brought here from France. These gems, according to Clare, were seized: Diamond tiara of first water gems, value SSO,OOO. Emerald and diamond bracelet, value $45,000. Rope of Oriental pearls, value SIOO,OOO. Clare said the Government was looking for the remainder of tne $1,000,000 In Jewels that Joyce gave her.

Choir Won't Sing at Celebration; Objects to Dance Despite the fact that the Gipsy Smith Tabernacle choir will not participate in the Fourth of July celebration at the State fairground because dancing is to bo permitted, no changes will be made in the program. Following an announcement last night by E. Howard Cadie, who organized the huge choir for the Gipsy Smith meetings here several weeks ago, that the members of the choir had voted not to appear in the celebration because of dancing. Fred Bates Johnson, general chairman in charge of arrangements for the American I.eglon, said today : “We would like to have litem with us and we are very sorry they cannot because of very technical religious scruples. I believe, however, tliat the possible sin of dancing, if such It be, is not sufficient to overcome the good to be gained from socli a patriotic meeting,” According to the program the choir was to have appeared In the Coliseum in the evening from 7:30 to 8:30 o’clock and at the same time dancing was to be held in the automobile building. Dancing U also ot the program for the afternoon. Harding Neutral in Disarmament Fight WASHINGTON, June 29. President Harding today refused to take sides in the disarmament controversy between the House and Senate. In a leitter to Majority Leader Mondell, which, he will read when the Borah disarmament amendment to the naval appropriation bill Is reached In the House ,be President said that he was “vastly more concerned with the favorable attitude of the Congress on this question than I !un as to the form of expressing this attlc^lde. ,,^

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1921.

Grand opera la given there on a stale equal to New York or Chicago. Caruso gave a concert there before 7.000 people, thought to be the largest audinece ever assembled to hear a single performer. Some years ago a banquet was given on the stage part of the auditorium lu honor of ei-President Taft, at which 2,000 were seated. When the banquet was over the curtain was raised and Mr. Taft addressed an audience of 4.000, whrh had been admltte.d quietly into the theater part of the building. Tbt St. Paul winter carnival would not be possible without the auditorium. The building has perfect acousftcs. both when It is used as a theater nnd when It is converted Into a huge arena

ADDITIONS TO POOR FARM ARE RECOMMENDED Recommendations that a wing be built to the present woman’s building at Julietta and also that a sick ward or hospital'roor-. be added by extending the then's wing of the institution were mada today by the Marlon County grand Jury In Its final report to Judge James A. Colllnr, of 'he Crlmlual Court. Included In the rep >rt were five Indictments, mostly of t. minor nature. Following the final report of the grand Jury, Judge Collins thanked the members for their work for the last six months and then dismissed them. A new grand Jury will report about July 5. Four members of tVe grand Jury, which was discharged today, have served since Jn. 6 last, and two have served for three months. Jucob Jacqnart was foreman. The grand Jurors reported ns follows on the Marlon County Poor Farm: ‘On June 7, 1921, wo the grand jurors, visited the Marion County Poor Farm, and found all of the buildings in a clean and sanitary condition, but wish to report that the conditions for caring for the sick were entire)y unsatisfactory. Neither the building for the men or women has any hospital, or sick room, and this condition should be remedied as soon as possible. The women inmates are compelled to sit in the dining room, or in their own rooms, as they do not have any porch on their building, nor Is (Continued on Pago Two.)

CAR LINES MAY ADD A NEW LOOP Tracks to Reroute Downtown Cars Cost SIO,OOO. Rerouting of street cars downtown to relieve congestion and provide faster and more economical operation of cars Has gone as far as It can without compelling the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to spend approximately SIO,OOO for the installation of tracks turning into North Pennsylvania out of Etst Washington street, city officials disclosed today. The committee of experts, composed of Dirson H. Bynum, representing the city legal department: David Matthews, representing the public service commission and James P. Tretton, superintendent of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, lias practically abandoned Its investigation of the downtown tratfle problem pending a decision as to whether the car company shall be asked to put i;i the costly curve. Rerouting of all cars serving the northeast section of the city hinges upon the curve at Pennsylvania and Washington streets. It Is said. If there were such a connection between the two streets it would be possible to turn the College and Central lines in a loop on Alabama or Delaware streets, Washington and Pennsylvania streets and Massachusetts avenue Instead of over the long route which now leada into the heart of downtown congestion.

FORDNEY BILL ON TARIFF NOW BEFORE HOUSE

President to Seek Reciprocity on Logs From Lumber Exporting Countries. COVERS ALL IMPORTS WASHINGTON, June 29.—The Fordney tariff bill was completed today. It was released by the House Ways and Means Committee for publication tomorrow morning. The committee was in session throughout the day considering elev-enth-hour changes in the bill. The lumber schedule has been rewritten. There will be retained a duty of BO cents a thousand on shingles and the President is given authority to impose duties on logs and dressed lumber when tongued and grooved equal to export duties levied by any country. The President may negotiate for reciprocal treatment between the United States and lumber exporting countries. Every article that has been imported Into the I'nlted tales In the Inst decade will appear In the bill, the total running up into the thousands. Nearly 1,000 articles that have not appeared in pre- ■ vlous tariff laws are Included. More than 75,000 words are used In the bill. : The bill Is highly protective, the rates i being on an average somewhat higher ' than those of the last Republican tariff, the Payne-Aldrlch law of 1909. It Is estimated the new bill will double the present revenues from tariff duties and bring into the treasury between $500,000,000 and $000,000,000.

FINAL ACTION NEAR ON TWO MEASURES | WASHINGTON. June 23.—Pinal action by the House was expected today on two 1 nportant International measures. The first was the Borah amendment to the naval appropriation bill providing for a conference of the I'nlted States, Great Britain and Japan to discuss a reduction of naval building programs The second was the conference report on the peace resolution, the adoption of which by both houses will send the raeas •re to the President. TEXT OF REPUBLICAN PEACE RESOLUTION WASHINGTON, June 29—The text of the conference agreement fo'iows : flection 1. That the state of war declared to exist betwen the imperial Dermal government and the I'nlted State* of America by the Joint resolution of Congress. approved April (1, 1917, is hereby declared nt an end. Sec. 2. That in making thia deelara tlon, and as a part of it. there are expressly reserved to the I'nlted States of America and its nationals any and all rights, privileges, indemnities, reparations or advantages, together with the right to enforce the name to which ■: or they Lave become entitled under the terms of the armistice, signed Nov. 11, 1919. or any extension or modification thereof; or which were arqu red by or are In the possession of the I'nlted States of Amrr(Uontinned on Page Eleven.)

Indiana Taxpayers League Does Not Give Data as to Its Policies

Alfred F. Potts, secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers League, in answering the series of questions propounded by the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Association of Engineers as to the origin, organization and policies of the league falls to replj to what many consider to be the most important query of all. Among the inquiries submitted by the engineers was the following; “Definite data a< to the method used to determine the policies of the 1-tqrue on any Question.” 'tkr answer to this Is not Included In .Mr. Potts' letter. It Is the determination of the policies of the league last hns caused much comment, especially since members of the league took upon tbemnelves the task, of de-

HIDES GREAT FEAR UNDER STOICAL MASK -j. -i- -i- -j- -i- -t- -|- -I- -i- -I- -l- -|- Mrs. Kaber , on Trial for Murder of Husband , Is ‘Afraid of Hell 9

COURTHOUSE, CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 29.—The "stone woman” broke her silence today. Hue fears hell, she said. Mrs. Katherine Eva Kaber, described by the prosecution as a “fiend in human form," is frightened- frightened almost to the verge of collapse. “As bloodless as a stone,” is the common description of this tbin, dark woman, who sits in the courtroom here, on trial for her life. Cold-bloodedly, they say, she fed arsenic to her sick husband, Daniel Kaber, wealthy publisher, until he was weak to the point of exhaustion, and then hired an assassin, who stabbed the helpless man twenty-four times. If the “stone woman” showed bravado before her trial, she displays none now. She sounded pathetically human and tragic when during an exclusive Interview she cried out: “Why can’t they let me alone until they have heard my story ? ( He was the fiend. He sapped my life blood. He drove me crazy. God know! how I have suffered. “Yes, I’m afraid,” she said slowly. "I'm afraid of bell beyond and hell on this earth. He made my life a hell.” SHUTS OUT WORLD AND E IT, INFLUENCES. Sh- 3. in the courtroom with eyes close as 'f asleep and oblivious to everything not because she is cold and indifferent, but “to meditate with God.” “I shut out the world and the evil influences about me,” she said. By one side, she will be pictured to the Jury as a diobolieal murderess- by the other, as a victim of the repulsbe degenerate acts of a man diseased in body and mind. Frenzied by fear and bate of Kaber she sought a “wav out,” according to/her story, first by consulting for-tune-tellers, then by the solace of Chris-

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SCHOOL BOARD PLANS TO BACK ITS BOND ISSUE

Parents Also Will Attend Hearing Before Tax Commissioners.

BITTER FIGHT IN VIEW

Backed by large delegations of citizens from the neighborhoods of schools Nos. 16, 36, 38 and 62 the board of school commissioners, its attorney, Frederick E. Matson, and Ralph W. Douglass, business director, will attend the hearing before the State board of tax commissioners tomorrow morning on the remonstrance filed by ten members of the Taxpayers’ League of Indianapolis against the proposed $847,000 bond issue for the erection of new buildings and remodeling of the old ones at these schools. The board at Its regular meeting last night authorized the business director and Mr. Matson to prepare and present the case of the board at the hearing and in order that there may be no doubt as to any statements made by any one nt the hearing Walter Carpenter, official reporter for the board, was directed to attend and make a full report of the proceedings. Within the past few days citizen* residing in the neighborhood of the achools affected by the suposed bond issue have awakened to the fact that the remonstrators will make a bitter fight iigaiust the approval of the bond Issue by the tax beard, and Indications are that there will be a tremendous outpouring of parents of children who are forced to attend school In the unsanitary nnd unsafe obsolete buildings now in use at thes.e places. DIRECTOR OF Ml SIC NAMED. By unanimous vote the toard, on recommendation of E. U. Graff, superintendent of schoolk. selected Ernest G. Ilesaer, director of music in the public schools of Albany. N. Y'., to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation id Edward B. Birge. Mr. Graff said tfiat Mr. Hesser was the best qualified of all the applicants and expressed the opinion that be would accept the position. The board authorized a salary of $4,000 a year for Mr. Hesser. Mr. Birge was drawing $3,600 when he resigned. According to Superintendent Graff, Mr. Hesser has made a fine record In musical instruction work, and has met with (Continued On Page Eleven.) Lady Churchill Is Dead in London LONDON, June 29. Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill, an American woman, died at her London home today as the result of an infection arising from the amputated foot. Lady Churchill recently Buffered a fall in which her left foot was Injured. An operation was performed, but blood polaonlug developed. The direct cause of death was heart failure, following a hemorrnage. Lady Churchill was the mother of Winston Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State for the colonies in the British Cabinet. Before her marriage to Lord Churchill in 1874, she was Miss Jenny Jerome, daughter of Leonard Jerome of New York. Her first husband died in 1895 and she then married George Cornwallis West, whom she divorced in 1013.

feating a proposed bond issue to cowr the erection of four badly needed schools in Indianapolis. In a letter to Daniel IC Luten. secretary of the American Engineer* Mr. Potts makes the following reply; “In reply (o yotir Inquiries In regard to Tascpayers’ League in letter of June 23 I beg to submit the following : “Question A. Origin and purpose of Taxpayers’ League. “Answer. The purpose of the Taxpayers’ League is to check th-j extravagant expenditures of public money and thus keep down as far ns possible the increasing burdens of taxation. “Question B. Roster of officers, dl(Continued on Page Eleven.)

COURTHOUSE, CLEVELAND, Ohio June 29. —Mrs. Katherine Eva Kaber Is haunted by the fear that women Jnrors will sit in judgment on her. Women arc "without mercy,” she says. The possibility that, more than one woman will he on the jury loomed when, on adjournament of court for noon recess, four women were anion* the seven tentative jurors selected. Each insisted in answer to questions by the defense, that she would give a woman “the same fair trial” as a man.

tian Science and last by the plotting of his death. A horribly sordid case, as lacking in color as the dark woman who Is its central figure. The constitutionality of woman jurors In Ohio may be attacked in the higher court if Mrs. Kaber is convicted. Her attorneys having failed to bar them, will now attempt to eliminate women jurors from her case by the exercise of peremptory challenges. If their efforts fail, they will make the presence of even one woman on the jury the point for an appeal in event of ooeviction. There is a growing prejudice against women jurors in Ohio, accordtng to Francis Poulson, one of Mrs. Ivaber’g attorneys. “They haven’t the experience necessary for Jury service,” he said. “They are relentless in judging their own sex. Nine out of ten women would have Mrs. Kaber electrocuted. Even after hearing all the horrible detail* of her story, thea would have no sympathy for her. Th<j| would not be able to understand jfl causa of their limited experience ia Jjlp

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RALSTON STRIKES AT PUBLIC UTILITIES IN HIS KEYNOTE SPEECH Democratic Candidate for Mayor Promises Franchise Agreements Will Be Kept and Declares for 60-Cent Gas. FOR SWIMMING POOLS, PLAYGROUNDS In what is regarded as his keynote speech Boyd M. Ralston, Democratic candidate for mayor of Indianapolis, today declared for 60-cent gas, for better transportation, an improved city market with a woman assistant market • master, for swimming pools, community houses and pledged himself to see that public utilities subscribe to their franchise agreements with the city. Mr. Ralston’s address, which is a clear exposition of the questions he regards as vital In the campaign and which stands in strong contrast to the colorless platform adopted by the city organization some time ago, was delivered before-the Indiananolis Real Estate Board at a luncheon held at the Chamber of Commerce Building.

“Transportation conditions must be bettered,” he declared. “Official Indianapolis must control the street car system and not the street car system control official Indianapolis.” “I will not engage in destroying utility corporations, but I shall insist on the strict observance of the law by them,” was another of his outstanding declarations. “This rule Bhall apply to utilities the same as to Individuals,” he continued. “They shall not impose upon our people. They must serve us In accordance with the terms of their franchise where the city controls. If the public service commission assumes authority In any question pertaining to any utility we shall see that the city exerts its best efforts In protecting the peoples’ rights. Our party, gave the citizens 60-cent gas. The rates have been raised and I.shall try to restore them. “Increased rates for utility products Is a favored tax for the company and

INDIANA GUARD NOW ORGANIZED Militia Will Consist of Regiment Each of Infantry and Artillery. The organization of the Indiana National Guard will be virtually completed tomorrow, the last day set for its organization under the Federal National Guard act. Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith sold today. The State will have a regiment of infantry and a regiment of artillery besides a number of unattached outfits. The Infantry, which will be known as the 15tat Indiana, consists of nine rifle companies, three machine gun companies, one howitzer company, one regimental headquarters company, one service company, three battalion headquarters companies and one medical detachment. The artillery will be known as the 181st Indiana and consists of five batteries of motorized 153 millimeter artillery, one headquarters battery, one service battery, three battalion headquarters detachments and combat trains and one battery of seventy-five millimeter guns. Besides these there will be a battalion of engineers and a radio signal corps company. Three organizations have not been fully completed, but their formation is being rushed. They are an artillery medical detachment and two ambulance companies. Rosters of the new units will be made public in a few days, General Smith

Two Candidates File for the School Board Onas W. Brooks, druggist, at Ohio and Pennsylvania streets, and Bert S. Gadd, undertaker, today filed petitions as candidates for school commissioner with Controller Robert H. Bryson. Mr. Brooks is understood to be an independent candidate. while Mr. Gadd, a member of the present school board. Is one of the Tute-wller-Crippin-Gadd slate. Five candidates have filed so far. Judge Gets $3,000 Raise in Salary The Marion County commissioners today took action which will Increase the yearly salary of Judge Frink Lahr of the Marion County Juvenile- Court from $4,000 a year to $7,000. Under the statute the county will pay $2,800 of this salary and the State will pay $4,200. Previously the county hns paid the entire salary. Judge Lahr's salary was not raised at the time that the. Circuit. Superior, Probate and Criminal Court Judges were raised to $7,000.

Men, because of their broader experiences, have more sympathy.” In dress, Mrs. Kaber, and Mrs. Cora Burg, the “lady juror," who may be one of the twelve to sit In judgment on her, offer striking contrast. Mrs. Burg, a young and pretty woman, made her debut into the jury box in a lovely charmeuse frock, with a string of pearls around her neck. Mrs. Kaber's dark blue costume—tailored cult and satin hat with feather trimmings—without a touch of color, 19 designed either to render her Inconspicuous >r to offset the claim that she will attempt to secure her freedom through sex appeal. With her black hair and olive complexion she might be taken for a woman of Spanish extraction. The blue of her dress gives an almost sallow appearance to her face with SHE APPEARS TO SHUN NOTORIETY. Unlike most noted women defendants in murder eases, she appears to shun notoriety. The courtroom Is too small to admit more than a handful of spectators, but outside waits a morbid throng of “murder fans” to catch a glimpse of her. Whether entering or leaving the room, sho hurries past them with head bowed. She is more prepossessing than her pictures Indicate. She looks no older than the 39 years she claims. "If I were the fiend they paint me, do you think my girl would love me?” the accused woman asked passionately. She refers to her 19-year-old daughter, Marion, who is Imprisoned in the Wil a few yards distant from the eourtAkz With her 69-year-old grandmother, arrest, Marlon is charged •j) Vnbll T ' 1' '' in Kaber ' s murder. On mother’s case rests the the grandmother.

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falls on the consumer as an extra burden. “The people's Interests must be protected ; their rights must be preserved. “Track elevation must continue as rapidly as the conditions of our finances will permit. “Flood prevention work shall continue wherever needed and Pleasant Run and Bean Creek put in a sanitary condilton. SHOULD INCUR NO NEW DEBTS. “Public improvements, such as sewer*, I streets sidewalks, boulevards and bridges, must keep pace with the city’* ! growth. "Any part of the city should have such public improvements as it desires so long as it has to pay for the same, but special improvements which is a tax upon all should be carefully considered at this time because of financial conditions. No new debts should be Incurred unless the necessity Is undebatable. “We are proud of our park system, and we believe that they should be well cayed for; improved where necessary, and added to when it is practical to do so. "Our city market, I am sure, is not what it should be. It is not up to the requirements of the public. Much criticism is heard as to its management. I am not now qualified to say wherein it* weakness lies, but I shall soon find out if I become mayor, and the wrongs shall be righted. A woman, as an assistant marketmaster, will, in my mind, help to better conditions. The city market shall be removed from criticism, If In my power to do so. “The garbage and ash problems and the city hospital are city matters that give me most concern at this time. That is to say, that my mind is not clear a* to the best manner in which to handle them. "For over thirty years, during everv city campaign, l have heard the city hospital discussed and severely criticised. “ ‘Where there is smoke there is fire' and something must be wrong# or else those who so severely criticise the management of this institution are not fled in their reflections. I am, been trying to gather Information from the* doctors of our city as to how best to have it managed and controlled. 1 feel now, that I have gathered much valuable Information concerning it aDd l assure you that I shall keep on until 1 do know what the trouble Is, then I will right It. If I find there is a wrong there. I shall fearlessly settle it. KEEP TOLICE OIT OF POLITICS. “Our police and fire departments are strong arms of our city government. Wo believe In law and order, and the police department must be the arm that maintains It. It must be efficient. The fire department Is the arm that protects our property from fire. If it is eficlent, and properly equipped our property is better protected, and our Insurance rates are lowered, but if not our property is poorly protected and our insurance rates are increased.. In justice to our people, these forces must be kept out of politics, or in other words, politics must be kept out of them. "Playgrounds are the delight of onr children. In them we develop hardy Americans. We have many such grounds now, and it shall be our purpose to supply more as we feel we are Justified In doing so In keeping with our financial conditions. "Public bathhouses should be established soon, and swimming pools should be maintained nnd added to rapidly. These pools should be safeguarded or else discontinued —I believe in safeguarding and continuing them. “I would like to s°e a community house in each ward in the city. Such a place in my mind would be of great benefit to our people. Any of us can furnish a good nrgumeut in behalf of it. It i* not drawing on the imagination to say that public bath and community houses could be combined in one and placed on or near playgrounds and thus avoid the duplication of expense. “City planning is anew arm of our city government affaids. Much is promised for the city from this source. Our city is beautiful now, but it is to be made more beautiful, the streets more uniform and many wrongs are to M righted when this nrra goes to work. “And, now, last but not least, we the tax problem. This touches your pocketbook likewise your heart. Shall we increase our taxes or shall we lower them? Improvements mean taxes, more improvements more taxes: we want one but wish to avoid the other. How can we do both? High taxes in a measure destroys the pleasure of improvement*. Improvements must go on; taxes must be lowered. lIAS PLAN TO REDUCE TAXES. “We can do this in several ways: “1. Superuflous expenses must be cut out. “2. Require value received for the money expended. 3. "Avoid unnecessary duplication of employes. 4. “More workers, fewer bosses. 5. “Compel Improved streets to b repaired by the contractors before their guaranty expires, so as to avoid doing this work at the city's expense. 6. “An economical administration faithfully administered. “The life of our city is csmmercialixm, Indianapolis Is a great business center. It must he made a greater one. Its future depends upon its commercial activity. "Its volume of business must not be confined to its own inhabitants. To do to is only to make it a local exchange. It must expand. New capital, new Industries, more labor must be brought Into Its life. Our merchants are strong and progressive, and official Indianapolis owes them much.” OIL FEE CASE ARGUED. Oral judgment was held in the Supremo Court today in the cise of tho Standard Oil Company against James R. Henry, a former State oil inspector. Henry obtained a judgment in the Marion County courts for fees alleged to be due him under the old oil inspection law.