Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 74, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Generally fair and cooler tonight and Sunday.

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AMENDMENT WON’T HELP SCHOOLSPLAN Election of State SuperintendI ent Held Best, Declares Jacob P. Dunn. METHOD WORKS WELL States With Appointive Official Show No Advantages Over Indiana. [EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the seventh of a aeries of articles on the constitutional amendments which will be published in the Daily Times with a view to giving readers information and opinions such as will assist them in determining how to vote Sept. 6. i By JACOB P. DUNN The ninth amendment on the ballot will be that making the State superintendent of public instruction appointive instead of elective. It Is stated by the advocates of this that it is "the intention" to have the State superintendent appointed by the State board of education, but that is not what the amendment provides. It puts the entire control of the appointment in the hands of the Legislature; and that is noteworthy, as it is claimed that it is desired to “take the office out of politics.” This sudden desire to change the management of the most important public interest of the State, and the department that has been satisfactorily managed is certainly worthy of close scrutiny. All of the States have this office, and in all but fourteen it is elective. In six State- Maine. Massachusetts. New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee the superintendent is appointed by 'he Governor. In eight—Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland. Minnesota. New Hampshire, New York. Rhode Island and Ver--eant —the superintendent D appointed by the State board of education. It will be noted that the only States west of the Alleghenies that do not e;ect are Ohio. Minnesota and Tennessee. Appointment is not a progressive idea. It is merely an ancient custom that the older Slates have not yet outgrown. I have never seen a claim from any source that the school system >f any one of th<-se appointive States is more satisfactory than that of Indiana. rouTirs not KEPT OCT. The appointive system has certainly not had the effect of taking tho office out of politics. In fact that was tbe first reason of Caleb Mills for opposing ak--creation of the-office Hr" ft.“message” he says: "Will the 'n and filling of tho office of Stub- > rlntendent meet the exigencies of the ca-e and supply the grand deslderatirm in our educational system? l.et ns look at (rentinneri on race Three.) U. S. TO DEMAND THE OPEN DOOR

Harding to Ask Conference for Protection of China— • Keep Japs From Siberia. WASHINGTON. Ang. 6—The T'nitr 1 States Government today apparently was basing its program for the Pacific discussions in the coming Washington disarmament conference on three cardinal principles. These are: 1. The recognition and firm establishment of the "open iloor" in the Pacific and the Far East. 2. The protection and maintenance of the integrity, political and territorial, of China. 3. The safeguarding of the integrity of Russia, which principally Involves Siberia. The date for the opening of the conference. Nov. 11, practically has been igreed upon. The State Department has announced It had received word from France acrepting that date for the opening of the conference. This had been expected. Formal replies as to the date are now awaited from Italy, Japan and China. DEATH DRIVER’S HEARING AUG. 13 Coroner Investigates Accident With Mayor’s Car. Manslaughter charges against Roy Howell, board of public works elfanffeur assigned to Mayor Charjes W. Jewett for his personal use, were continued in city court today until A"g. 12. Howell called at the office of the prosecutor before court opened and left the police beadquarters without going to the courtroom. The continuance was made in order that Dr. Paul F. Robinson, coroner, 'might complete bis investigation into the killing of Woanota Franke, fi. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Franke, Emerson avenue and Thirty-Seventh street, yesterday morning. The child was run down and killed by the board of works touring car driven by Howell on Thirty-Eighth street. The automobile was returning from the mayor's "hog feun.-’ nor'hent of the city. •Uai was not being used for official city business. The nr, witnesses sa'd. was Cking at a high rate of speed when tt •truck the little Franke girl. Mayor Jewett was at his “bog farm" at the time of the tragedy. Woaneta Franke's death was witnessed by her sister. Thelma Franke. 11, and Helen Ricks, 13, a neighbor. Two men In another car also saw the fatal aecldent. All are expected to testify at the coroner's hearing.

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Published at Indianapolis. Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at Ind.. Daily Except Sunday. Postofllce. Indianapolis. Ind.. under act March 3, 1879.

G. O. P . CAN'T SEE WA Y TO REDEEM LOWER TAX PLEDGES UNTIL 1922

r U ASHIXGTOX, Aug. 6.—Xo taxes ran Im> repealed before Jan. 1, 1922, Republican member* of the House Way* and Means Committee tentatively derided today. If this plan is finally enacted it would mean business and wealthy individuals during: the calendar year of 192! would have to pay the excess profits and higrh surtaxes on the profit tax of 1921. Previously It was planned to repeal the profit* anrr reduce the surtaxes as of Jan. 1, 1921. thus lifting; the*-e let ies after corporations and individuals had made provision to meet them. The main reason for the change is the great need for revenue, as shown by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's outline of tlie Government

TAX ON CARS IN INDIANA WOULD COST 4 MILLIONS Iloosier Motorists May Be Called on to Pay Sum to Government. The proposal of the national Republican Administration to impose a flat tax of $lO on every automobile In tho I lilted States will cost Hoosier autoists approximately $3.750.000 yearly. In the shifting of the taxation burden, which is occupying equal attention with the tariff question, the Ilarding Administration. through Secretary of Treasury Mellon, has envolved a system whereby more than four billion dollars must be raised for next year ana some way must l>e found to eliminate burdensome mips, such as the surtax on big incomes and the excess profits tax. but to do this • tber and additional impositions mils be made in order to make up what mig otherwise be a deficit. The great number of automobiles pointed to n way and it has been decided to make their owners pay $lO to the Federal Government for the privilege of owning them. That this tax will prove about as popular us the soft drink tax is a foregone conclusion and already official Washington is said to he “hearing from back home." HARDING THINKS MOTORIST SHOI I.D PAT. President Harding, however, is said to be back of the proposal and takes the stand that if autoists desire the Federal Government to assist in the good roads campaign they must “kick In.” According to figures in the secretary of State's office there are approximately <f on! 1 nilcd on Page Three.) ARSENAL TECH FIRE LOSS $3,500 Records of Students Saved t tjjt-fcen Administrative Os- * fice Burns. d|re which swept the administrative off®* of Arsenal Technical high school iaj|r night resulted in a loss of about $ t.JfiO and a used a lot of excite me ut arfVmg Tech students. Somehow or other a rumor to the effect that ali Individual records of students had been de j stroved got Into circulation and all dny long the telephone at the board of school commissioners' office were kept busy with an endless string of calls from excited and downhearted Tech students. Although the flrtj was costly the safe In which the records were stored with stood the h*af and not a single record was lost or even so much as damaged. No great inconvenience will be caused by'uhe fire as the administrative offb-e was to have been moved within the next few weeks to the new first unit building whl 'h has Just been compltted. The cause of the fire has not tieen de- , fermlned.

$7,000 DAMAGES IN 2 NEW SUITS Petition for Receivership Also Among Actions. A number of damage suits and a petifton for the appointment of a receiver were filed in lo< a! county courts today. William E. Sanders in a suit asked that a receiver he appointed for the Standard Automotive Corporation, with offices in this city, anti a rebuilding factory in the town of Mooresville. He also asks fer judgment of $1,500. The suit was filed In Superior Court, room ■. Damages of $2,000 is asked in a suit filed In Superior Court, room 1. by Emma j Hendricks againt the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. The plaintiff claims she was injured in a fall from a street ! ,-ar when the car suddenly started. Judgment of $5,000 was asked In inj forest of 11. Forbes Antrim by his next friend, Harold Antrim, against The E. G. Spink Company in Superior Court. Room ;2. It is alleged H. Forbes Antrim, who :s a minor, fell through an opening Into a basement at 2445 Pierson avenue, resulting in serious Injury.

A RULER OF MEN

By O. HENRY

1 WALKED the streets of the (Tty of thirsting for the sight or a springer face. For the city is desert of familiar types as thick and alike as the grains in a sandstorm; any vou grow to hate them as yon do a friend who is always by you. or one cf your own kin. And my desire was granted, for T saw near a corner of Broadway cud Twenty Ninth street, a little flaxenhaired man with a face like a scatybark hickory-nut. selling to a fast-gather-ing crowd a tool that omnlgeneously proclaimed itself a can-opener, a screwdriver. a button-hook, a nail file, a shoehorn. a watch-guard, a potato-peeler and ar. ornament to any gentleman's keyring. And then a stall-fed con shoved himself through the congregation of customers. The vender, plainly used to having his seasons of trade thus abruptly curtailed, closed hi? satchel and slipped like a weasel through the opposite -egrnent of the cif. ie. The crowd scurried aimlessly away like ants from a disturbed crumb. The coo. suddenly becoming oblivious of the earth and Its Inhabitants, stood still, swelling his bulk and putting his club through an Intricate (THU of twirls I hurried after Kansas Bill Bowers, and caught him by an arm. Without his looking at me or slowing his pace, I found a flve-dollar bill ci ..lbled neatly into my hand. ‘T wriwjdwW rsv-e tbeue’ht. Ksnses FHVt "

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fiscal situation. If the taxes aro not repealed until next January, more than $500,000,000 can be obtained from these levies. The previous plan was to make the 5 per rent increase in the fiat corporation income tax also retroactive to Jan. 1, of this jear, but under the new program this tax may never be enacted. Republican Leader Mondell believes If no taxes are repealed until Jan. 1 next, the Government fiscal situation will have improved so that no new taxes will be necessary to make up the loss through the repeal of the excess profits and soda water taxes, the reduction of the surtax rates and the halving of transportation tax.

ALFONSO, WITH TROOPS BEATEN, CALLS COUNCIL Army in Discord, With Mutinies Among Men Sent to Fight Moors. PARIS, Aug. o.—Alfonso, King of Spain, realizing the gravity of the sltua tiou in Morocco, where his troops have Just suffered a crushing defeat, was scheduled to hold an important conference w ith his leading statesmen today. The King, mindful of tho Republican movement which has received powerful Impetus by the Spanish reverses in Morocco, has called what virtually amounts to a crown council . Meanwhile, according to the latest news from Madrid, the Spanish government and the various imtnicip.il authorities are fearing disturbances as the national sen timent is aroused greatly by the latest development In Morocco. GRAVE FIELDS TO TAKE I P ARMS. The war news from Morocco Is becoming steadily morn serious. The Insurgent forces are increasing daily. They have been augmented by thousands of Moroccans who had been engaged in bar vesting work In Algeria when the itistir reetion broke out and who promptly re turned to their tint ice land to help In the long agitated "war of liberation " The chief reason for the rebellion given by spokesmen of the insurgents is the charge that "Moroccans have . been treated badly by Spain." TROOPS DO NOT WANT TO FIGHT. There are well grounded reports that Spain is encountering trouble among her own troops who are showing increasing unwillingness to fight the Moroccans. Several mutinies are reported to have occurred among troops being sent to fight Ruisuirs forces. One ship carrying Moroccnn expedition ary troops was forced to call fi r assist ance of the destroyers. Since then the Spaulsh war ministry has ordered that he troop, be sent secretly at night. To prevent Jie postfhiiity jJ interna tienal "iu-ilfafs,'! sUse eat of France has ordered FjjHco Spanish border closed. WILSON HARKED AS ATTORNEYIN SUIT ON CLAIMS Ex-Officers of Gore) nment Not Permitted to Contest Coses Within Two Years. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -The legal frnterntly of Washington, which' numbers such luminaries as Woodrow Wilson, Bainhrldge Colby. Robert Lansing. A Miccheil Palmer, Joseph P. Tumulty and a flock of lesser lights like ex Senators and Government bureau chiefs, was handed a terrible waliop today. Announcement was made that an old statute of 1873, is to he enforced which prohibits officers of the Government from prosecuting claims against the Government, or an ex-officer from doing so for two years if tbe claim arose duping his tenure of office. This old statute is to he reinforced by anew law sponsored by the Depart ment of Justice, which would increase the time limit to Three years a;d tack on a tine of SIO,OOO and two years' Imprison ment for violations. Many officers of the Wilson Administration have set up law offices here since March 4. Claims against the Government—war and otherwise—are esttmuted to total $1,000,000,000. , . NO CLAIM"VALID FOR POOR LABOR I. C. C. Rules Against Railroads for Compensation. WASHINGTON, Aug. C—Tbe Interstate Commerce Commission* today denied the railroad claims that ttye Government should compensate them for tbe less of efficiency of railroad labor, which they alleged resulted from Government control. *

I said, “that you’d hold an old friend that cheap." Then lie turned his head, ami the hickory nut cracked into a wlde-smilet "Give back the money.” Ba i.l he, “or I'll have the cop after you fur false pretenses. I thought you was the cop " "I want to talk to you. Bill." t said “When did you leave Oklahoma? Where is Reddy McGill now? Why arc you selling those impossible contraptions on he street? How did your Itig Horn goldmine pan out? How did voYi get so badly sunburned? What ' will vou drink?" J “A year ago,” answered Kansas Bin systen.niically. "Putting up windmills in Arizona. For pin money, '.* buy etceteras with. Salted. Been' (hrfc-i) j n the tropics. Beer.” We foregathered in a propitious glace and became Elijahs, while a waifc-r of dark plumage played the raven to perfection. Reminiscence needs must be had before I could steer Bill into bis epic mood. "Yes,” said he, "I mind the time Tininteo's rope broke on that cow's horns while the calf was chasing you. Vou aud that cow' I'd never forget it." “The tropics," said I. “are a broad territory. V.'hat part of Cancer of Capricorn hn- you been honoring with a visit ?” ‘‘Down China or Pero—or maybe t r ***•+* TVf4~< f rt- Pp Fn*r \

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1921.

DRY ORDER SCREWS LID ON WHISKY Wholesale Dealers Hit Hard by Drastic Ruling Affecting Sales. DRUG PERMITS SLASHED Commissioner Announces Purpose to Cut Consumption 5,000,000 Gallons.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—Prohibition officials struck another blow at illegal whisky today. They screwed the lid tighter on bonded liquors for drug purposes. They began slashing into the permits of thousands of wholesale druggists. The prediction was made that hundreds of druggists would be cut off from whisky supplies. The permits of wholesalers who fall outside of a new test established will he revoked. Asa result total withdrawals this year will be reduced by five million gallons, including distilled liquors of all kinds MIST HOLD DOWN SALES. Commissioner Haym-s said wholesale druggists, under the limitations how Imposed by new regulations effective today, will be compelled to confine their sales of non beverage or ntediciral whisk v to 10 per cent of their total sales Haynes called in his staff of inspectors and ar ranged for an Immediate check on the business of wholesalers for the last three months, to determine their legitimate requirements All prohibition directors today were Instructed to make an Immediate Inventory of stocks and sales cf wholesalers and to supervise carefully the withdrawals in future for medicinal or other purposes. Many large wholesaler*, by the new ruling, have been forced to r<dure their requirements by To per cent on the basis of their business as shown by their hook*. 1.000 DRi GGISTN TO LOSE TERM ITS. More than one thousand wholesale druggists will lose their licenses to with draw and sell liquor to the retail trade by today's orders. They are more than three thousand wholesalers' permits out standing. Tlie prohibition commissioner will cut the list about on third. A curb over whisky manufacturers aivo was placed by Mr Haynes' order. Here uft*r whisky manufacturers will not be permitted to produce In a volume beyond reasonable demands of the retail trade. Their whisky stocks, i ouiuiit*-toner Haynes directs, must be confined in a limited number of storage phnus. under careful guard

AURORA MAN FIELD CHIEF Two Men Get Places Under Federal Proßi Enforcement Officer. The appointments of W. O. Holman of Aurora, Did., as chief of the field division of Federal prohibition agents and of James il. Hodges ns head executive of the office, ana niinoutn-o<l today by Bert Morgan, prohibition officer for Indiana Both Mr. Holman and M - . Hodges have been filling the offices to v 'aich they are appointed for sometime lint Mr Morgan has been withholding official announcement although it has been generally known that the selections had been made. It Is understood that both appointments received the o. k. of Senator Harry S. New before being made. Mr. Hodges lias been chief clerk in the prohibition office for a long time, having held Mils office under Charles .1, Orldson, when the Democrats were in power. He lias been in Federal service for fourteen years during which time lie worked in tin; internal revenue department aud in the narcotic division. MURDER CHARGE FOLLOWS DEATH Result of Fiffht at North Liberty Street Home. Charges of murder against Ed Flannery. 3!). a huckster. 115 North liberty street, were continued in city court today. Flannery is charged with the murder of Jonn Shanon, it, 83SC, East Washington street, who died in the city hospital Thursday. The autopsy ordered by Dr, Paul F. Robinson, coroner, showed Shnnon's death was due to internal injuries suffered as a result of a kick Flannery rih! Shanon hud n fight at the home of Lucille Henry, 113 North Liberty street, Sunday afternoon. Both were arrested on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill. Shanon was thought not to be badly injured and was sent to police headquarters, but was removed later to the eity hospital. He underwent an operation. The Henry woman said the fight was the result of jealousy between the two men over her. The police have information that the men were jealous of another woman who also was at the North Liberty street ad dress, but she has not been found.

WORTHINGTON’S FUNDS ENJOINED Alleged Brains of Mail Robbery Had $461,000 Abroad. CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—Wealth amounting to $481,000 stored In six European banks to the credit of John W. Worthington, cannot be removed as a result of a restraining order granted today by Sidney C. Eastman, referee in bankruptcy sitting in Federal Court in r he absence of Judge K. M. Landis - The order enjoins Worthlnctnn from drawing out the money and the banks from paying. Since the banks are located outside the jurisldiction of the court, the order is considered in the nature of a request. Worthington is under arrest here as the alleged brains of a “mail robbery trust.” and a round-up of more than a score of alleged confederates indicted M„ I- „ r .

Red Tape Prevents Removal of Dead Birds; Lowry Acts Tlie pile* of dead birds that laid in the vicinity of tlie playground* In St. Clair Park following the storm Monday night were removed at 4:30 p. m. yesterday, approximately an hour aft‘r public attention was culled to the stencil they were creating. James Lowry, executive secretary' of the park board, personally removed the nuisance, thereby demonstrating that although he i* one of the busiest of the employes of the city and by no means under compuleio lito do manual labor in order to earn hi* salary, he is not above doing that which is necessary to the comfort and health of the children for whom the playgrounds is maintained. Mr. Lowry’s breaking of tlie red tape that permitted three departments of the city government to neglect a public nuisance for three days has won him the gratitude of tlie children who frequent the park, at least.

SMALL BEARDS MESTER IN DEN Governor Says He Will Go to Springfield Tuesday— Showdown Expected. CHICAGO, Aug. B.—Governor I.cn Small of Illinois, under indictment for alleged embezzlement of Slate interest funds, will return to Springfield, where warrants fur his arrest are in tlie hands of the sheriff of Sangamon County, on Tuesday morning. Governor Small issued the following statement here today. "So that my tradueers shall not he permitted. through t heir news] a per mouthpieces. to misrepresent my official course in performing my duties ys Governor. 1 shall not resume my good roads program until Friday of next week. "I expect to liuitdi my State business lore on Saturday I today t and shall be In Springfield Tuesday morning." Governor Small's statement gave no indication of what his plans might he with regard to any attempt to arrest him, and he declined to elaborate upon it. The announcement of the Governor that ho would he in Springfield on Tuesday, however, was considered tantamount to a declaration that h ■ intended to call for a showdown in the situation that has existed since his indictment by the Sangamon County grand jury. Sheriff Most, r at Springfield has re peatedly declared he will endeavor to Serve warrants upon Governor Small as soon as the chief executive returns to the State capital. The Governor is expected to return to Kankakee late today and spend Sunday with Isis family. BOTH SONS MAY FACE CHARGE OF KILLING MOTHER

Coroner and Prosecutor Press DefTendoll Murder at Boonville. SpjrUl to Tha Times. ROOXVH.Lfc, Did . Aug. 6 ITosecuttc.g Attorney Nat Youngblood this afternoon expected in place a formal charge of murder against either Defile Doffendoll or his brother Willie. Both, ho Intimated, tuny bo charged with the murder of their 70 year old widow and ; mother. ■*- Coroner Krlekliaus meanwhile pressed ills Investigation Into the slaying y>f Laura Deffenduil. whox* decapitated body, with a haggard unkempt hound dog belonging to th family standing guard, was found in a wood near the I Deffe! doll farmhouse. The ilog had j fought off carrion birds two weeks from ■ tlie time of tDo woman's disappearance | until the discovery of tho body when ho fought savagely and tried to prevent the coroner's examination of the headless ! form. 1 That one or both of the brothers took the mother to the woods and there end- and her life with n shotgun, Prosecutor Youngblood is confident. | Despite tho continued Insistence of Wi'lle Detr.-ndoll, 17 year old son of the . slain woman, that Ills older brother Dollle had confessed he “killed the old j woman” to get her furniture for his ['sweetheart, authorities lean to the be- | Hos that AA'illle may have committed the crime lone, intending in a spirit of vengeance, to point an accusing, linger at Dollie. The older brother denied he had ever discussed marriage with tin* 15-year-old girl named by Willie and his denial is corroborated by the girl and her father, Botli youths nro of low mentality, county officials are agreed. Information gathered by the Investigators indicates I their mother also was subnormal men- | tally and quarreled violently with her sons. EXPRESS CLERK, SHORT, SUICIDES Shelbyville Man Drinks Poison After Examiner’s Grilling. Special to The Times. SIIELBVA'ILLE. Did., Aug. ti Edward Moufort, 40, clerk in tho office of the American Railway Express Company here, committed suicide today by drinking acid in tho washroom of the Hotel i Shelby. He had gone to tho room (luring j a conference with two special agents of Hie express company in which hp was I being questioned concerning a shortage I of more than SSOO in his accounts. Monfort died several minutes after being found by tiio company examiners, who began a search when he did not return to the conference. Monfort also is said to imve teen despondent over the loss of his only child Inst Tnonth. lie returned hero from Dayton Friday, where he nttoinpted to obtain funds to overcome the shortage and was expected to | make settlement today. Ills widow lias collapsed as a result of illness following the death of her baby and her husband's suicide. Monfort was born in Indianapolis, but. has lived here many years. He is survived by the widow, a mniher. three brothers and three sisters! AMENDS GRAIN BILL. WASHINGTON, Aug. ti—The Senate Agriculture Committee voted today to amend the Capper Tincher anti grain gambling bill so that no restrictions will be placed on the use of. mrlvate wires to 'buckotshops" and braghes of boards

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HARDING TO FACE SHARP TAX REVISION Congress and Treasury Department Deadlocked Over Program for 1922. EXECUTIVE MUST ACT Borah Again to Front With Proposal for Further Cut in Army. WASHINGTON, Aug. President Harding is coming home from his vacation to find another conflict in progress between the executive and legislative branch of the Government.

It appeared certain today that only Presidential intervention can straighten out the tangle over the 1922 taxes and end the dispute between Congress and the Treasury Department over how much is necessary to keep the wheels of the Government turning for another year. Secretary of Treasury Mellon and'his advisers, with sn eye to the spending needs of the Government, estimate the Government will need $4.550.0*0,0000 and they have put up to Congress the job of proving it. DEADLOCK A SHARP ONE. Members of Congress, with an eye to tbe coming congressional elections, on which their political lives depend, es Litnate that these figures can tie trimmed by at least SSOO/100,000. perhaps more. So far they have refused to figure on a national spending bill of more titan four and a half billion of dollars. And there the deadlock exists. Both sides are standing pat, apparently waiting for some word from on high. The political difficulty is a difference lu policy between the Treasury and Congress. The Treasury favors a "pay us you ci. ter" policy with current hills paid on the spot from current revenues. Many leaders in Congress contend tills U unnecessary, that it is putting 100 heavy a burden on tho public this year to expect the already weary taxpayer to take up the wartime slack iu a single year. mm All AGAIN' TO FRONT. Meanwhile the controversy already had provided some embarrassments. Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, who success fully brought about the reduction of tne Army from 220.000 to 150.000 men in t tie r.-oe of strong Administration Opposition, is again on the economy warpath. This time he wants the Army still far'h-r re duced to 100,000 men and has Introduced a resolution to this effect. Tlie sentiment In Congress for bringing home the 14.000 American troops on the Rhine which has been lying dormant sluce the change In Administration, is jgaiu being worked up in view of the demand for economy. This, too, ts liKrly to provide embarrassments for the Administration In its foreign policy.

HARDLXGS TO START HOME LANCASTER, N. H„ Aug. 6 President and Mrs. Harding left here today by | motor for Portland, Maine, w here they will board the yacht Mayflower tonight fi.r the return trip to Washington. They planned to stop for lunch at Po- ! land Springs. The President, who started out to en- * joy a quiet, restful vacation, concluded his trip by setting as strenuoSs a pace as he ever did in his campaigning days. He covered 200 miles of twisting moun- ; tain road on his last day, setting out at 0 a. in. and returning after S p. in. He played eight hobs of golf on the hardest j course in the White Mountains, made four speeches and held a public reeep- ; tlou. COMPOSERS FILE TWO MORE SUITS Injunction Asked Against Use of Compositions. I Suits asking that Wllmot's Dancing Academy and Social Club and the Un---j busch Amusement Company, which is i operating the Gem motion picture the j uter, be enjoined from making use of I musical compositions belonging to mem,bers of tho American Society of Com ■ I posers. Authors Hnd Publishers was tiled jln Federal Court today. Jerome H. Rem ick & Cos. are plaintiffs in the suit against (he dancing academy while ti. Kleordi & if,,. U re plaintiffs against the Rombusch i Amusement Company. Both plaintiffs afiQ ; musical publishing houses, i Several suits of a similar character i have been filed against Indianapolis ! amusement houses and restaurants recently and it is understood that a large number of suits will be filed against picture shows, hotels and restaurants in other Indiana cities and towns. The suits are the result of a drive which was started by the society about six months ago. Practically every wellknown composer of popular music is a member of the society, which Insists that ail persons and concerns making use of music for commercial purposes shall pay a license for such use. Collins Does ‘Best’ as He Said He Would Judge .Tamos A. Collins of the Criminal Court today kept his promise to “do the host he could" for Charles Thompson, who is'under indictment with Charles Trues on a charge of attempting to burglarize a store. Thompson was released from Jail on his own recognizance. lie was not required to give a cent’s worth of bond. When Thompson and Trucx appeared last week for trial, their wives put up a “hard luck" story saying both men wore fathers of big families. The court showed signs of being lenient and both men promised to “never do it again " The court appears to have taken | Thompson at his word. 39 for Ruth NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—Babe Ruth, home run king, today drove out his thirty-ninth home run of the season in the game with Detroit. One year ago today Ruth drove out, two home runs in a game against the saw . cli'.t. Two men were on base toay wlet for the el^

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Amnesty for Bail Eireann, Is Declared DCBLIX, Aug. 6.—With the single exception of one man who has been convicted of murder, all members of the I)ail Eireann (Sinn Fein) who are interned or imprisoned will be released forthwith so that they will be abje to attend the parliament's meeting on Aug. 16. An official statement to this effect was made here this evening. Illinois Woman Dies After 53 Days’ Fast CIIBANA, 111., Aug. 6.—Mrs. .T. M. Chase died here today of cancer of the stomach. She had gone fifty-three days without partaking of food. GRAB *6.000 LOOT FROM JEWELER. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 6. —Two bandits today held up Herman Stone, jeweler, and escaped with $6,000 worth of diamonds and watches.

WISH CAR LINE SERVICE AGAIN Des Moines Business Men and City Seek Plan to End Tie-up. DES MOINES. lowa. Aug. o.—Efforts to end the tip-up of street car service here which began when Judge Wade, in the Federal Court, granted the Des Moines Street Railway Company permission to suspend operations, were being continued today. City officials and various business organizations are endeavoring to work out a plan that will permit the street cars to resume. It. Chambers, receiver of the Street Railway Company, contends the cars could resume service if busses were denied permission to use car line streets. He asserts If this were ordered, the street railways would reduce fares from 8 to 7 cents after a few months. Representatives of the Chamber of Commerce aro said to favor resumption of street car service at a 5-cent fare with the understanding that bus competition be entirely removed. The buses, meantime, continue to operate to a capacity business. Bus owners are endeavoring to induce the City Coun- ■ il to guarantee them uninterrupted use of the city's afreets for one year. 'They declare they will put 100 busses, enough to care for the traffic, in operation immediately if this concession i* granted. Marshall Miller, superintendent of city streets, said he favored an ultimatum to the Harris Trust Company of Chicago, principal bond holder of the railway company, demanding that tho company resume operations or remove Us tracks from the streets. Mayor If. H. Barton declared an attempt would be made to speed up foreclosure. sale of tho stro t car system in order that new interests may acquire and operate it. POSSES SEEK MISSING PRIEST

Kidnaped Clergyman Believed to Be Held in Big Basin Forest. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Heavily armed posses today swept through Hie big basin district, in a lonely forest of giant redwoods, hunting Father Patrick Hesltn. who is hold by kidnaper*. Guards along one rs tho reads leading out of San Francisco reported during the night that an automobile driven at terrific speed had flashed through I.os Gatos, sixty tulles away, headed for the Big Basin. In it crouched four men and the guard said iho glimpse he got of them convinced him one was the missing priest. Police Chief O'Brien believed that If tho kiilnapors and their victim were in Big Busin, escape for them would be impossible. Other posses, however, wore raiding shacks in the mountains ami in the wiid sea-coast district of San Mateo County, running down ovorv clow. Archbishop Edward Hanna today received a telephone message declaring that the Rev. Father Heslin, kidnaped priest, might be found "in a cave back of the McDonough ranch in the I’ortola hills." Such a cave is known to exist. It is located in the hills some thirty miles from San Francisco. The man who telephoned the archbishop refused to give his uame and efforts to trace the call thus far have failed. M’CRAY INVITED TO GIVE ADDRESS May Speak Before American Prison Congress. Governor Warren T. McCray probably will lie one of the speakers at the annual meeting of Iho American Prison Congress, to be held In Jacksonville, Fla.. Oct. 2S to Nov. 3. In reply to an Invitation from O. F. Lewie. New Y'ork, general secretary of the Congress, Governor McCray stated he would attend, and speak Sunday, (>ct. 30. if at. all possible. In his reply to Mr. Lewis. Governor MrsCray named the Indiana delegates to the meeting, ns follows: E. J. Fogarty, Michigan City, warden of the Indiana State Prison: George A. n. Shideier, Jeffersonville, general superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory: Ralph Howard. Putnamvllle. acting supenlntendent of the Indiana State Farm; John L. Moorman, Knox, member of the board of trustees of the Indiana State Prison: Joseph L. Hennings. Anderson, member of the beard of trustees of the reformatory; C. C. Hetlstis, Greencastle, member of the board of trustees of the Indiana State Farm, and Adolph Seldenstickcr, secretary of the State board of pardon*.

Obregon to Demand FT. S. Recognition MEXICO .CITY’, Aug. B.—tt was persistenly reported in official quarters here today that new proposals presented by George Summerlin. American charge d’affaires, for signing a treaty between the t'nited States and Mexico will lie accepted. It Is emphasized 'in the same quarters, however, that if such a pact is signed it will be done on Mexico's part without abandoning tho principle established by President Obregon of not compromising Mexico without first securing official recognition of the Obregon a government Jiy the t’nited States. Th& belief further is expressed that this'rec-

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PARCEL POST MUST PAY ITS UPKEEP-HAYS Postmaster General Says Rates Will Go Up if Loss Is Due to Service. SYSTEM IS COMMERCIAL Year’s Deficit in Postal Receipts to Approximate $84,000,000. WASHINGTON Aug. 6.—Parcel ! post rates must \>e increased if an Investigation shows that this service is responsible for an expected deficit of $70,000,000 in the postal revenue this year,- Postmaster General Will H. Hays said today. Accountants and postoffice engineers are checking through the entire country to learn if the parcel post is, as suspected, one of the two i big losing ventures of the depart--1 ment. Until 1320 postal revenues exceeded expenditures for several years, but now deficits are showing, due to business de- . pression, Increased wages and increased compensation to railroads for carrying I mail. 8 BOULT) BE MADE SELF SUPPORTING. "The parcel post system Is a commercial venture pure ami simple." said Hays. "There is every reason, therefore, why i should be made ai least self-support-ing. This does not hold true of some other services rendered by the postoffice which necessarily must be accomplished I at a loss.” Hays explained why a deficit is expected this year and gave an itemized statement showing where and how the department plans to reduce opeerating costs by nearly $15,000,060. "For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920. says Hays, "the deficit was $17,1 000,000." “For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, the deficit will be found to be approximately $84,000,000 when tbe reports are all available. Os this about $73,000,000 was due to increased compensation or- : tiered by Congress to employes and j $11,000,000 was additional pay to railroads under interstate commerce de- : cisions. FALLING OFF SINCE APRIL 1. "Since April 1 there has been a serious falling off of the business of the Post- ; office Depart ment, and in consequent re--1 ceipis, but economies have been insti--1 wli h prevent any deficit o*l)“V ban that from increased wages and rail- ; road rates. "in the fiscal year beginning July 1. 1921. and ending June 30, 1922. tho Treasury Department lias estimated the defiictt at $70,000,000. Tills estimate Is based on a probable lighter amount of business done as in tlie last fiscal year and a probable game expenditure, sare only such savings as the Postofflee De- ! part ment has estimated it can maka which amounts to nearly $15,000,000.”

BOOZE CAR HITS CURB; WRECKED Occupants Run, Leaving Whit* Mule—Owner Says Auto Stolen. Half an hour after a wrecked “booze car" had been brought to police headquarters this morning a man who said he was .T. V. Thomas, living on a rural route out of Indianapolis, telephoned the police and reported the automobile stolen. The automobile was run into the curb at Maryland .Greet and Senate avenue at 6:30 o'clock, and after the accident two men jumped from the car and ran east in Maryland street. In the automobile the police found two jugs containing five gallons of “white mule” whisky and also two empty one- 1 gallon Jugs. One of the bootleggers forgot his coat and it wns taken to police headquarters. Sergeant Hudson and Motorpolice Englebright and Bastln investigated. They obtained the names of a number of witnesses to the accident who can positively identify the men who were In the booze car. One wheel of the automobile was. broken. Jacob Joel Is Dead at Crawfordsville Special to The Times. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. Aug. 6 Jacob Joel. 74, for many years a cloth tnff merchant of this city. Is dead following an operation. Mr. Joel was well know* in Indiana Republican politics, having twice made the race for the nomination, for State Treasurer. I-'or a few years he had lived retired. He was a member of tlie Elks, Knights of Pythias, lted Men and Masonic lodges. He is survived by two sons, one brother and three sisters.

Magic Spectacles Needed to See Car Said to Have Run After an exhaustive investigation extending over a week and including both employes aud passengers, J. P. Tretton, superintendent of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, declares himself In a position to refute absolutely the statement which appeared in the Times last Monday to tho effect that the company failed to operate a car over the Forty-Sixth street College avenue line between S a. m. and S:5l) a. m. on Saturday, July 30. As conclusive proof of his assertion that he left the Forty-Sixth street terminal at 8.15 o’clock, Joe Smith, conductor, lias submitted the names of seven passengers who declare they rode on his car. The complaint was predicated on (he statements of three persons, one a member of the Times staff, who sought to board a car at Fortieth street In the interval described. These are now pondering on how they could possibly have allowed this car to pass them as the of the evidence proves It did.