Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1921 — Page 1
THE WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Wednesday Continued warm.
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PARK SERVICE CHIEF AGENCY IN SAVING TREES City-Wide Effort Need in Combating Oyster Shell Scale Menace. LAWN space problems * By VOLNEY B. FOWLER. In the general plan of the board of park commissioners for the beautification of Indianapolis the improvement of the appearance of streets ad grounds around homes has a Aery important part. Although the scheme was worked out several years ago it has only been with--1 In the last two or three years that this particular phase has been given organized attention. Improvement of the appearance of streets and lawns has been undertaken by J the special service of the park depart- , raent. The special service enforces or j dinances relating to the removal of dead , and dangerous trees and limbs, the injury of trees by the wires of public utility corporations and gives free advice anti j assistance to citizens upon the laying out and planting of their grounds, as weCl as preventing and controlling plant diseases. George E. Morgan, a graduate of Purdue University, has been at the head of , this service for the past two years. He answers hundreds of calls from citizens who wish to know everything from ’ whether they have bought the right kind ■ of shrubbery to when they should set , out pansy plants. The information is free and every week use of the service f grows. Valuable service has been ren-j dered in protecting the public from quack tree doctors, and in issuing bul- j letins upon spraying, pruning and plant- ! ing HAMPERED BY STREET PROBLEM. While It Is possible for the depart- • ment to do much through the special : service it has developed that as it now is organized it is not functioning so as /to take care of the street problem as well as is desired. The present law, giving the park de partment some control over the planting and care of shade trees on public lawns, : Is based upon the fact that the city only has #n easement sidewalk and street lawn space, the property owner (Continued on Page Pour.)
RECESS FIGHT ON IN SENATE Lodge Resolution Calls for Vacation From Thursday to July 2S. WASHINGTON. July s.—Senator Lodp today introduced a resolution in the Senate for a recess from Thursday of ♦Ms week until July 2*. This was the signal for tbe agricultural bloc to open Its fight to keep tbe Senate sitting until the agriculture program has been enacted. Lodge and other Senate leaders intend to force the recess upon the farmer group. If possible, It was stated. Immediately Senator Norris, Nebraska, urged consideration of his bill creating a corporation for tt-' exportation of farm products. He declared the •‘people" of many European countries are starving for our surplus supplies.*’ Senator Borah said a recess of three weeks would be of no benefit to Senators living west of the Mississippi river. They would hardly reach home than they would have to return, he said. Action on the anti-medicinal beer bill before recess was urged by Senator Ster ling. Borah declared it was of such importance that he was of tbe opinion that it could not be passed before Thursday. Truck Driver Drove Off After Accident George Dirktnnn. 21. 2854 Brookslde avenue, was arrested today on a charge of falling to stop after an accident. Dickman's arrest followed an accident at North and Meridian street, where an antomobile truck said to be hare been driven by him. collided with a touring car driven by James Isaac, 417 Darnell street. Isaac's ear was badly damaged. Isaac ‘old Motor Policemen Miillln and Reilly that the truck driver refused to give his name and drove away Immediately following '.lie accident. It was learned through the records of the Secretary of State thnt the truck license was Issued to the L. H. Bain Coal Company, sl2 North Pine street. It was at the jfflee of this company that Dickman was arrested. Youth Charged With Theft of Automobile Ernest Gibersnn. alias Charles Jaekson. 21. 520 East MeCarty street, was arrested on the charge of vagrancy yesterday am! reslated .today on the charge of vehicle linking. Detectives allege Giberson stole In automobile belonging to Lewis Secsr, COCO North Alabama street, June 29, from ■tear the Federal building. On the following day the car was found stripped (in the northeast part of the city. The (thieves had removed the tires, battery and other accessories. City Garbage and Ash Dept. Men Two employes of the city garbage collection and one of the ash-collection departments were suspended by the board of sanitary commissioners today for infractions of minor rules. Ed Sunday was given two days off without pay for failure to replace lids on garbage cans, and .Tesse Ewing was indefinitely suspended for failing to report to the board to answer to charges of failure to re-cover garbage cans. Earl Gossard was given a two-day payless vacation for careless driving which resulted in damage to an ash truck. . : WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity "or the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. in'. Inly 6: Generally fair tonight and A'edneedav: continued warm. FOCBLY TEMPERATURE. a. m bO 7 a. m 82 8 a. m B*i # a. m 91 10 a. m 92 11 a. m 94 12 tnoonl 95 1 p. m. 95 * 2 p. m 94
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Air Mail Delivers Fight Pictures to Frisco in 48 Hours SAN FRANCISCO, July 5.—-The race across the continent with the first pictures of the Dempsey-Carpentler fight, resulted in a three-hour victory for the U. S. air mail. Local papers published in editions late yesterday pictures of the sight—less than forty-eight hours after the knockout. The air mall delivered the pictures here in 44*4 hours, a record for transcontinental transportation. Pictures for the coast were dispatched by three newspaper picture services by air mall and also by private airplanes, reinforced by special trains.
GENERAL SMUTS BUSY IN IRISH PEACE PARLEY Belief Expressed Both Sides Will Release Prisoners and Quit Fighting. NEGOTIATIONS PROCEED DUBLIN, July 5. —reace negotiations are proceeeding favorably, according to all indications this evening. General Smuts, premier of South Africa, who slipped into Dublin unobserved, lost no time *a getting Into action. He cpnferred during the afternoon with prominent Republican officials. It is believed that both sides will release their prisoners and that fighting will ceae this week. Owing to the difficulty In communicating with groups of the Irish Republican army in isolated districts, hostilities may be slow in stopping in such places. It is expected that the Earl of Bandon, the aged nobleman who was captured by the Republicans a week ago, soon will be liberated. Premier Smuts' secret entrance to Dublin was explained this afternoon. He said that, for the purpose of avoiding newspaper reporters and photographers he had remained In his cabin on the Holyhead Dublin packet until all other passengers had debarked, giving the impression that he was uot aboard. In the mbantlme Lord Mayor O'Neill and the other officials who were at the pier to extend formal greetings, not seeing General Smuts, concluded that he had postponed hia visit and departed. Later in the day General Smuts called upon I/ord Mayor O’Neill and explained the circumstances.
IRISH TO EXERCISE SELF DETERM IX AT lON LONDON. July s.— lreland will decide her own fate through the principle of self determination. -• **' Eamon De Valera, "president of the Irish republic,” lussted upon that principle in his conference with Unionist leaders in Dublin yesterday. The Brit ish government. was stated authoritatively, is perfectly willing to adopt that solution of the Irish situation theoretically I>e Valera will be asked to come to London to confer with Lloyd George and the Dominion’s premiers and listen to the government's proposal. This he will submit to the Irish people for acceptance or rejection, thus actually permitting them to exercise the right of plebiscite. The Irish office Insists that the time limit on this offer expires July 12, after which "the Iron heel of military action will be applied." , In yesterday's conference De Viler* was accompanied bv Arthur Griffith. Ulster was represented by Arthur Jnme>on, Sir Maurice Dockereli, Sir Itolert Woods and Earl Middleton. The meeting ccrurred In the Mansion house, which was decorated with United f-'tates flags In common with other Dublin buildings in honor of American Independence Day. The conference began at noon and continued for four hours without interruption. During the prayers were said in the Catholic and Protestant churches for success of the deliberations. While .Sir James Craig, Premier of Ulster, who refused Lloyd Geo.ge s original roposnl for a joint conference with De Valera in London, was not present, it (Continued on Page Eleven.)
Citizens Fight Dump as Well as City Barns Grievances Against Jewett Administration to Be Discussed at Mass Meeting Tonight .
While the citizens of West Indianapolis are at it they are going to try to make a clean sweep of all the grievances they have held against city administrations. particularly that of Mayor Charles W. Jewett, leaders in the movement to disannex the territory hounded by White river on the east, the Big FoiA Railroad on the north and the western corporation line on the west, stated today. In addition to fighting the location of the proposed municipal yards at Kentucky avenue and White river, squarely between the two main entrances to West Indianapolis, the are going to enlarge their program to Include elimination of the unbearable dumps and the City •garbage reduction plant at Sollers' farm, barely a mile or so south of the residence section. HOLD PROTEST MEETING TONIGHT. Another in hgnatlon mee ':.-g of the league is to be held in Assumption Hall, 110f> Blaine avenue, at 8 o’clock tonight. The new phases of the "clean-up" campaign and progress in the circulation of diaannexation petitions will be liscussed. Leaders promised that th-re would be more oratorical fireworks. The residents have two methods in mind of getting rid of the dump and garbage reduction plant. If the disannexation proceedings are successful it will be a simple matter, they say, to order the city of Indianapolis to move what the west aiders call its “stink factory" elsewhere, because Sellers farm falls within the limits of the territory seeking to secede. West ludinnupolls, then being a city by Itself, need not tolerate the tilth of its neighbor, Indianapolis. the leaders contend. If this plan falls through there is another move.- A committee of 000 citizens, who are willing to put both time and money into the movement, is being quietly formed for the purpose of bringing suit against the city of Indianapolis for damages to private property because of
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NEW REROUTING PLAN CALLS FOR HEAVY OUTLAY I Provides for Series of Loops i and Through Operation of Some Lines. CORNERS 808 UP AGAIN Plans for anew downtown street car routing system, the chief feature of which are the turning of some avenue lines, the running of others around the Ohio, Illinois, Washington and' Pennsylvania street loops and the operation of straight north and south and east and west lines directly through the business district on Washington, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois streets, w P re made at a meeting of the city council committee on street car re-routing with the sub committee of experts today. The plan, like others that have been proposed, can not be carried out until track changes are made at several downtown corners, necessitating the expenditure of from $50,000 to $60,000 by the street railway company. The company repeatedly has said that it has no money. According to Gustav G. Schmidt, chairman of the council committee, it is proponed to have five loops. The cars which now come into the business district over the four avenues, would, in general, use loops one block square, which would have one corner resting at the point where the avenue end's. For instance, cars coming In over Indiana avenue would loop through Capitol avenue. Ohio street, Illinois and New York streets. Virginia avenue cars probably would turn oyer Maryland. Pennsylvania, Washington and Delaware streets. HOW THEY I*ROrOSE TO HANDLE TRANSFERS. In order to pet transfer passengers from one terminus loop to another .1 few of the avenue cars would be to ited aronnd the big loop as outlined above. The straight north and south nn-1 east and west line .such as Illinois. Pennsylvania. South Meridian, East Washington and West Washington probably would lie arranged so as to go straight through the business district. Home might be joined so as to make through croastown lines. It was considered particularly probable that ome Last and West Washington cars would run from livington to Mt. Jackson under such a system. Charles L. Henry, president of the Indlunapoiia & Cincinnati Traction Company, was called before the committee to explain why h!s interurbans are not belt ontinued on Puge Two.) CANDY MAKERS TO STAGE WEEK’ Lay Plans at Meeting Here and in Cincinnati. A meeting of the Central Club, com- : posed of confection manufacturers and Jobbers of Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, was to be held at the Hotel Severln thla i afternoon and at Cincinnati tomorrow, to I make tentative plans for a "Candy Week" thrnnghont the country during the week of Oct. 3. The various clubs of the zones represented In the national organization will conduct these campaigns in their own zones, and the general plan is to 1 educate the public in the healthful qualities of candy and the value of candy as a food. The meeting of members representing the three States in the Central Club in Cincinnati is to obtain the experiences of members of the club iu Cincinnati, where a "candy week" was held about two years ago. It Is thought considerable valuable information may be gained by the Cincinnati trip on which to plgo the campaign in this and other zones. ,T. A Cox, vice president of Hilling & Cos. of Indianapolis, is president of the Central Club and a member of the hoard of directors of the National Confectioners' Association of the United States.
proximity of Sellers farm The residents contend that the city should dispose of its waste materials at a point so far from the city limits that 25,000 people woiMd not find it almost unbearable to live in their homes when the wind blows in a northerly direction. Five hundred men and women arc circulating the disannexation petitions. according to officials of tUe Civic League and it is thought that these eitizens will form the backbone of the committee which may bring the suit. INSULT ADDED TO INJURY. Residents of West Indianapolis have been bitter against Mayor Jewett ever since his board of sanitary commissioners consummated the purclinse of the garbage plant from the Indiana Reduction Company at a figure more than ten times greater than its appraised valuation for taxation purposes. They did not care to have the plant located practically in their back yard under private ownership but when the city came along and bought it and stnrteifin not only to enlarge u and improve it, but also to establish n sewage disposal plant near it. insult was heaped upon injury, according to (heir statements. Objection to the establishment of the municipal yards at Kentucky avenue and White River is based upon the belief that with city mules, horses and garbage wagons housed there, it will constitute a further nuisance. The board of park commissioners originally intended to make tho river front at this point into a part of the White River parkway. City official.* say the municipal yards vtill be so beautified and operated in so sanitary a manner that it will in reality Improve the looks cf the section. An unsightly dump now occupies the plot of ground in question. The West Indianapolis people. however, say they can not by any stretch of imagination see how a mule barn where garbage wagons are to be kept can be made into a spot beautiful either to the sight or smell.
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1921.
Weed Women Out of Jury to Iry Mrs. Eva Kaber on Charge of Slaying Mate
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A courtroom scene in Cleveland during the opening of the trial of Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber. She Is on trial for the murder of her husband. With Mrs. Kaber Is one of her attorneys, Francis W Paulson. Over the emphatic protests of her lawyers, four women have been pla-eci on the Jury.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, July 5. Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber's lawyers today put into action the campaign to keep women Tom passing Judgment on her. Mrs. Kaber is charged with the murder of her husband. Daniel F. Kaber, wealthy Lakewood (Ohio) publisher. Twice the Jury box was filled and the State was ready to go to trial with the jury as it stood. Mrs. Kaber’s lawyers each time used their peremptory challenges to remove women from the jury. One woman still remains In the list of the eleven tentatively accepted Jurors. But Mrs. Kaber's law v< rs still have eleven peremptory challenges Names of ten women are on the list of persons waiting to he examined for Jury duty. v Mrs. Kaber's lawyers said that if tiiey were compelled to go to trial with even one woxnau on the Jury and Mrs. Kaber is convicted they will appeal to the United-. States Supreme Court If possible. The basis of their appeal will he a claim that women are ineligible for Jury duty In the United States. Mrs Anna Hist, mother of five children, was the only woman among eight examined since the trial began who expressed to capital punishment. The case proceeded with some speed and th -re was [ rospect of obtaining a Jury before the day ended. The trial was resumed wl*h detectiry *. king the "nun of mystery” it. the ca'se. "Society 1s crucifying me. Womens lies have got me into this." wails the woman desi rtbed by Edward C Stanton, county prosecutor, as an "arch murderess Cos in para hie to Lady Mscßeth and I.ucretla Borgia," nnd according to the in dtetnient of the State, “arch conaplrators in a piured plot that savors of a medieval crime with its ’black magic’ and hired assassins " Who Is the colleg. professor who turned "care man" to woo the "murder
* Women Not Too Cruel for Jury, ’ Says One of ’Em
NEW YORK, July 5. A good woman is as good as a man whether it's on the Jury or feeding the baby. Miss Lucille Pugh, woman lawyer, declared that you can put. that down in your little red book and knoxv It's true She denied the contentions of attorneys for Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber. on trial for murder in Cleveland, thnt women Jurors are cruel and merciless. "Mere citizens aren’t we?" she inquired. "H'e are going to serve on Juries and xve're going to be just as good as men All that stuff about women being cruel and merciless In the Jury room is bosh. "I'll admit that the baby vamp- and the oogey-eyed girls don’t knoxv much shout Jury duty. But then there arc lots of men in the same fix. , "Right now there is no difference anyway you take It—between the progressive woman and a nan. Women must be given a chance to develop. YVe can't grow political muscle bv sitting at home darning sox. It's Just the same as the slavery question. Loti of people said they never were any food. What do you want to give them heir freedom sor 0
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The Franklin County war memorial building at Columbus w r as erected in 1018 to commemorate the services of so'diers, sailors, marines and pioneers of the country. It comprises an auditorium seating 4,000 people, and several smaller assembly and exhibition and is the heaquarters of more than thirty war and pioneer organizations of the country.
i queen.” gave her temporary solace In her unhappy married life with Daniel Kaber, wealthy publisher, and made her forget the love she retained for her first husband, Thomas McArdle, wealthy Chicago business man? He is the "man of mystery." The state seeks his identity to learn whether Mrs. Kaber confided to him plans for getting j rid of her husband. Kaber. [ He is. or wus, a member of the faculty I of Smith College, famous educational in - j stitution for women, according to Mrs. j Mary Wade, a fortune teller, who will j swear on the stand that Mrs. Kaber asked | her to use, "payebie vibrations" to kill | Kaber, confessed to her that she never j lost her love for McArdle and to her ears I confided the affair with the college professor. j Marian McArdle, Mrs. Kaber's 19-year-I old daughter and Indicted with her, attended Smith College for a year. "It's a lie," the accused woman half shrieked when questioned about her -alleged professor lover. She quit the nervous pacing of her cell 'ong enough to exclaim with bitterness: "Society is crucifying me. Lies. lies, i every one lies nheut me. I never had a lover while I lived with Dan Katier 1 was true to him though he made me suffer the tortures of hell.” The "trial of •women,'' the celebrated case has become known in Cleveland. The four women in the p.ot which resulted in l Kaber's death and ti dieted for first de- ! gree murder; most of the witnesses on whose testimony the i'tatp r"!les to convict th “murder queen," are women four women are on the tentative Jury and ten more on the new venire whose examination S began today. When court opened after n five-day recess. Mrs Kaber's attorneys resumed their fight to se-ttre a “womanles* Jury." County Prosecutor Stanton predicted a Jury would be had In a day or two.
That's the way some men argued—what do you want to give women their freedom for. thev never were any good as citizens anyway? "M'oinen right now are closer students of politics than men. They know- they have to learn and they are studying things out "Give women a chance. The country can’t havo on" part of its citizenry strong and the other weak—and we are citizens. “We Just got out of the cage—gtve us a chance to fly." Gree!,* Army Halted; Supplies Destroyed LONDON, July s—Tbe5 —Tbe Greek Army in Asia Minor may be compelled to suspend operations against the Turkish nationalists as the result of the destruction of the main Greek ammunition depot at Smyrna, said a Central News despatch from .Smyrna today. The city was damaged and many persons killed and wounded by the explosion.
The exterior of the building is tinished in light grey pressed block, with Bedford stone trimmings. The approach consists of a series of stone steps, leading past six stone columns into the loggia. and from there into a marble decorated vestibule and rotunda. Opening off of this large rotunda are spacious lodgerooms, anterooms and cloakrooms. The auditorium, which ia In the rear por-
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9 KILLED, MANY HURT IN BLAST OF REFINERIES Death Toll at Whiting Expected to Reach Twenty When Debris Is Cleared. DAMAGE, TWO MILLIONS WHITING, Ind., July s.—Casualties in the explosion that partly destroyed the Standard Oil Company's refinery here, were expected to increase during the day, either from deaths of injured or by the finding of additional bodies. Nine are known to have died and forty-two are injured, ten so seriously that their recovery is doubtful. Two of the huge steel stills used for the production of gasoline exploded and other stills in the plant caught tire. Burning oil and gas covered an area of several hundred square yards. Property damage resulting from the blast is estimated at $2,000,000. Officials have begun an investigation into the cause of the explosion. The theories that a small leak of gas became ignited accidentally and tbe probability that excessive high pressure in one of the stills may have been the cause are being investigated. MORGAN CHIEF OF DRY AGENTS
New Official Directly in Charge of All Stale Work. Farther details of the reorganization plans for Federal prohibition enforcement In this State were received .today by B'-rt Morgan, Federal prohibition officer for Indiana, from Roy A. Haynes, prohibition commissioner at Washington. Tile letter confirmed the news received two weeks ago that ail prohibition agents now working under the department of internal revenue will be under the dire-’tlon or Mr. Morgan. This will mean that U. 11. Abel, group chief of agents in this territory, will work under Mr. Morgan, instead of being responsible to the division chief at Chicago. A supervisor will be sent out from Washington to see that the new system gets under way ns rapidly ns possible and his arrivnl is expected at any time. No appointments for positions in the department will be made at this time. Mr. Morgan said. Friends of Albert J Beveridge are watching for these appointments with more than usual Interest, for they believe that when made it will be found that the prohibition enforcement department for Indiana is being used ns the foundation for a big "New for Senator" pollib-nl machine to be used in the Senatorial primary campaign next year. $2,m,000 Cut off Pro hi Law Funds by General Dawes WASHINGTON. July s.—Budget Director Dawes' pruning knife will save the treasury about $2,h00,000 in cutting down funds allowed by Congress for "dry” law enforcement, it was stated. This saving become certain today as officials boiled down the Volstead law machine's wants to actual needs. The slashes In funds now under way are not expected to make any perceptibly change for the worse lu prohibition j enforcement efficiency. Montreal’s New Heat Record 100.5 Degrees
MONTREAL, Quebec, July 5.—A new heat record was established here today, when the thermometer registered 100.3 degrees. Attempts Theft to See Fight; Sees Jail NEHV YORK. July s.—Abe Chairden, 20. got three months In Jail today for trying to see the Deinpsey-Cnrpentier fight. Chairden admitted he tried to steal an automobile to raise the price of a ticket. Logansport Blind Man Tries to End Life Special to The Time*. LOOANSPORT, Ind., July s.—Henry Harvey Berton, 47, and blind, attempted to commit suicide today in the lobby of the Colonial Hotel by slashlug his throat with a razor. Despondency over ill health and domest.c troubles is believed to have driven him to commit the deed. It is believed he will recover.
tion of the building may lie entered from this vestibule. On the second floor are Ihe various rooms for accommodation of patriotic and other organizations which have headquarters there. The cost of the building and ground was $230,000. The money was raised by a bond issue and the memorial was built by a commission of five, appointed by the Governor.
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Company to ‘Fire’ Bobbed Hair Girls HARTFORD. Conn., July s—The Aetna Insnrance Company employs more than six thousand young women in its offices throughout the United States, but hereafter none of them will wear bobbed hair if they wish to keep their jobs. Frank K. Daniels, employment director, says no more young women with bobbed hair will be employed and that young women with bobbed hair already on the pay roll will be gradually eliminated. "We want workers in our offices, and not circus riders," he says.
RAILWAY LABOR SENDS WARNING TO MANAGEMENT Wage Cut Will Be Accepted, but Another Will Mean Fight. SAME WORKING RULES CHICAGO, July 5. —Organized rail labor today bared its teeth to the railroad managements. A curt warning—an ultimatum, in fact —to the railroads that no further encroachments will be tolerated ou wages and working conditions was being drawn up here by the beads of the "big four" brotherhoods and fourteen other rail organizations. This warning, couched in unmistukable language, will be presented to the railroad managements within the next few days. The decision to send an ultimatum to the railroads was reached after a torty-eight-hour conference of union leaders. The "big four” leaders counselled a peaceful attitude while the belligerents were led by the shop craft workers. The "ultimatum" was in effect a compromise. The warning, however, it was indicated, will include acceptance of the 12 per cent wage reductions ordered by the rallxvny labor board and effective July 1. The "Big Four” have voted to accept the wage reduction, but agreed to oppose any further cuts. The shop crafts workers x'oted to reject the wage cuts and sought support among other unions in making a stand at this time The "Big Four,” it is understood succeeded in winning a majority of the sixteen affiliations to their viewpoint. The demand for some definite policy in regard to acceptance of further reductions, led to the “ultimatum." This document, it was indicated, will accept the 12 per cent out ordered by the Labor Board, but will present a united stand of all railroad unions in rejecting any changes iu working condtions or further cuts in wages.
No Relief From Heat Wave as Red Line Soars Mercury Within 1 Degree of Sunday’s Mark at 1 O’clock Today. Overcast skies and a refreshing breeze saved Indianapolis from a record-brenk- | ing temperature this afternoon. At 1 | o'clock the thermometer in the Goveraj ment observatory registered 95 degrees, I one below the record hung up Sunday, j Then the change came and at 2 o'clock the j mercury had dropped one degree and indications were that it would gradually j subside as the day advanced, j The reading of the temperatures today : showed a steady increase as the sun j mounted in the skies. At 6 o'clock in the | morning the red line stood at 80 and from then on it increased until at noon it registered ninety-five, where it hovered for ! the next hour. ! Along with the climbing mercury came the announcement that the Government j observers hold forth little hope for relief within the next twenty-four hours. The prediction Is generally fair tonight and Wednesday and continued warm. The torrid wave was given somewhat of a setback yesterday, rains iD and near Indianapolis cooling the atmosphere perceptibly, but tbe sun seemingly came out with redoubled vigor this morning and is evidently beut on making up for the time it was forced to remain behind cloud banks yesterdav. COOLER WEATHER IN SOME STATES WASHINGTON, July 5. —-Cooler weather is due for parts of the middle Atlantic j States but continued hot xx-eather is in [ store for the western half of the terri- j tory east of the Mississippi, the weather j bureau stated today. The heat wave Is already broken in the j north Atlantic States, the bureau stated. 1 A groat mass of super heated air is banging over the Ulterior States nnd there is no immediate prospect for relief, the weather forcaster said. Cooler air is fanning the northern and eastern part of the territory. This air is coming from the northeast nnd will keep the heat wave in subjection for some time, the forecaster said. In sex-eral cities of the west the tem- j perature exceeded 100 degrees reports showed.
200 Mountaineers on Trial as Moonshiners ‘Convict Us, They’ll Have to Put Most Everybody in County in Jail,’ Says Gld Kentucky Hill Billy,
SANDY HOOK, Ky., July s.—Sandy Hook became the "moonshiners’ meeca" today ns gaunt bill billies patiently plodded to town to be tried for practicing their age-old custom of distilling. The quaint, grizzled men. 200 of whom will be tried before Circuit Judge A. N. Frisco tomorrow, charged with operating illicit stills, considered the interruption only one of the little irritations of modern civilization. ‘‘lf they start by convicting us they'll have to put most everybody in this county in jail," said one of the early arrivals among the accused. "Makin’ likker around here is about as old as these hills."
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VENUE CHANGE SOUGHT IN ICE COMBINE CASE Judge Thornton Gives Defendants Until 2 O’clock to Agree on Judge. MOTION BY WYCKQFF Motion for a change of venue from Judge W. W. Thornton of Superior Court, room 1, was filed today by Charles W. Miller, attorney for Stanly Wyckoff, a defendant in the suit brought by Attorney General U. S. Lesh, charging that Indianapolis ice dealers are members of a combinatio nin restraint of trade. While the motion was filed in behalf of Mr. Wyckoff, it will be. granted as to all the defendants, Judge Thornton said. The motion alleged that the defendant could not obtain a fair and impartial trial before the court. Judge Thornton instructed the parties to the suit to attempt to reach an agreement as to who should try the case and to return at 2 o’clock this afternoon, at which time a judge would be appointed. SUIT AGAINST 14 FILED JUNE 23. Appearances were made in the case by James Noel, representing the Indiana Refrigerating Company, and Mr. Miller, representing most of the other defendants. The suit against the ice dealers was filed by Attorney General Lesh, June 23, naming fourteen defendants. It charged the fourteen defendants had formed a combination for the purpose of fixing prices at which ice should be sold and for the purpose of dividing their tesfitory in such a way that each dealer would have complete control of a designated territory. The complaint charged further that Stanley Wyckoff, former Federal food administrator for Marion County, and now secretary of the Indiana Ice Dealers' Association, had distributed the prices fixed in Indianapolis to dealers throughout the State, asking them to charge the same prices. The suit tuked for an injunction to stop these alleged practices and ceivers be appointed to wind up the of™ fairs of all corporations involved and that their charters be revoked. DEFENDANTS * NAMED IN (SUIT The defendants named in the suit are: The Polar Ice and Fuel Company, the Zero Ice and Fuel Company, the Irvington Tee Company, the Holt lee and Cold Storage Company, the Artificial lee and Cold Storage Company. Coonse & Cavlor lee Company, Merchants lee Company, United Ice Company. Service Ice and Cold Storage Company. Indiana Refrigerating Company, Atlas Coal and Ice Company, James S. Kittle, doing business under th ename of the City Ice and Cold Storage Company; Henry L. Dithmer, doing business under the name of the West Side lee and Coal Company; Henry L. Dithmer, doing business tinder the name of the South Side lee and Coal Company; Stanley Wyckoff, individually, and Stanley Wyckoff, as secretary of the Indiana Ice Dealers Association.
HARDING BACK AT WHITE HOUSE Begins Work on Problems Brought Up by Signing of Peace Resolution. RARITAN. X. J., July 5 Greatly refreshed by his few days outing here. President Harding, accompanied by Mrs. Harding and his official party, returned to Washington today. Although he put in a strenuous day yesterday, the President waas up early and declared he felt line. The return trip to the capital was made in tlie same way the party came here —aboard an ordinary Pullman coaei'. attached to a regular train. It was announced before the party left that there would be no cabinet meeting until Friday. The one scheduled for today was called off because several members of tlie Cabinet will not be back from their hoilday trips. President Harding is expected to lumpright in on problems that will face him as a result of the signing of the peace resolution when he roaches the White Uouse. 2 FIREMEN HURT RESCUING SEVEN Women and Girls Trapped in Tenement Blaze. CHICAGO, July s.—Five women and two young girls were rescued by firemen today when a blaze trapped them on the top floor of a xvest side tenement. They xvere carried down extension ladders. Two firemen were injured during the rescues. The blaze did $5,000 damage to a butcher shop on the first floor. Bank Call June 30\ WASHINGTON. July s.—The Comptroller of Currency today issued a call for a statement of the condition of national banks as of June 30.
State troopers equipped with carbines and service revolvers paced the village’! train thoroughfare. Sentries were established around the little courtroom Troopers intended to assure that th, mountaineers offered no protest against questioning the operation of hidden stills. A detachment of thirty-five Kentucky guardsmen under command of Lieutenant See surprised the natives when they detrained here early yesterday. They immediately began their pacing. The troopers were ready to pry into the hill section for additional stills or to seek out any of the accused who hesitate t{ stand triad.