Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Unsettled tonight and Thursday with probable showers. Lower temperature.

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MINNEAPOLIS NEARNORMAL IN BUSINESS Federal Reserve Bank Head Looks for Quick ‘Comeback.’ FLOUR MILLS BUSY Retail Business Fairly Good, but Implement Trade Is Slow. / \ Special to Indian* Daily Time.' and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By RICHARD K. SPILLANE. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Sept. 14. At a gathering of bankers, merchants, manufacturers and other prominent citizens of the Flour City held in the Minneapolis Club and called to give to your correspondent a report as to conditions, Joseph Chapman, vice president and general manager of the L. S. Donaldson Company, the biggest department store in the city, summed up the local situation pretty well as follows: “We here in Minneapolis are nearer a normal basis, I believe, than in any other section of America. 11 e have no cause for feeling blue. The times, of course, are unusual. We are living in a period when everybody knows and talks about the state of everybody else s business. “There probably is a lot of talk of profiteering. There ran be no profiteering today. Compe'ltlon is too keen. So far as the department store trade is concerned I can report a large increase In volume of sales. Last December we took our losses, charging off 25 per cent at one time. PROHIBITION' IS AID TO BUSINESS. .-"So far as the country outside Minneapolis is concerned, I think it has a better crop, In money, than for some time back and a better crop in bushels. I*ro hibitlon has proved beneficial. Tou see the people better dressed today than formerly. They retain more of their earnings. The passing of four hundred saloons in Minneapolis has been of great benefit. Roy C. Young of the Federal Reserve Bank raid the purchases by the farru-rs would not be much this fall and winter i bnt he looked for tne Northwest to come back quicker than any other section of: the country. The farmer had economized, had buckled down to his hard task under 1 the changed conditions and nhile the agriculturist needed assistance and must 1 have it that assistance would tie lessened if the crops moved in orderly manner | W. C. Edgar, editor of the Northwestern Miller, said the present wheat crop, while it might be lower in quantity than ! expected, was superior in quality. The milling business early this year was as dull as ever he had seen it. Improvement began In .lun\ Now It was good, indeed even if there was much band-to mouth buying. Some establishments had i sixty to ninety-day orders ahead. Com petition was keen. Exports were poor and he feared the Fordney tariff would restrict the business. An enormous mar kit awaited the American floor mea abroad. The millers were suffering from a financial incenvenience and there had j been few failures. E. J. Fairfield, president of the Civic and Commerce Association and general j manager of Lindsey Bros., dealers in j agricultural implements, said he was not i the least bit discouraged even if his j •.ranch of business was in a bad pocltion. The farmers would buy food and clothes, res, but they would not Dny wagons and gang plows now. Collections, he found < not "so difficult as it was to make sales. That was healthy and promising. F. R Chamberlain, vice president of ; che First National Bank, said country | bank loans were near the top now. HOME BUILDING ON' INCREASE. Thomas Wallace, treasurer of the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank , said deposits reached their top April 12. ; Withdrawals of money since then, he had found, had been for investments, promising large returns or for the building of small homes. Os $(>9,000 withdrawn one day he found that $39,000 was for home building. He, like Mr. Chapman, said prohibition bas been a benefit. Men, women and children were better dressed, lived better than in the days of open sale of liquor. Sewell A. Andrews, of Doerr Andrews & Doerr, drugs and specialties, said his house was doing between 70 and 80 per cant of its 1920 business with expenses the same as last year. Fall prospects were good. There was a fine demand j for staples, but no demand for phono T-rhs. Mr. Andrews is chairman of the jobbers committee of the Commerce As sociation. The reports to this committee, he said, showed collections which had been slow, were getting easier. The hardware business was excellent. think.'' said Mr. Andrews, “we had this slump coming and it's going to be good for us. We used to do nothing at one time but sit still and the ’business came to us. That's not merchandising That conld not last, it got us into n i flabby state mentally and physically. Why we couldn't dodge the orders. Now i we have to hustle. That will be bene- I ficial and it is proving beneficial. Our tales are Increasing becau-.e we are hustling. We are on our way up.” . The Munsingwenr people, employing 3.000 operatives, are running their plant to capacity production. BUYING FORCED BY DEPLETED STOCKS. George C. Partridge of Wyman Partridge & Cos., manufactures of men's and women's ready-to-wear clothes, said the stocks of retailers and Jobbers were low and warehouses practically empty and (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER j Forecast for Indianapolis and ylcinity for the twenty-foor hours ending 7' p. m.. Sept. lf>. 1921: Unsettled weather tonight and Thors day, withwprol.ably showers; somewhat "Miver temperature Thursday. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m *l9 4 7 a. m 70 8 a. m 74 9 a. m 77 10 a. tn 77 11 a. m 78 12 (noon) 80 lp.m. S3 aim <U I

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ARBUCKLE IS SILENT AT INQUEST

Fly Breeding Places Left by State Fair Standholders

r . f. ♦ Detectives are searching for a burgl* believed to be a negro who entered th home of Glen E.. Frey. 557 West Twentj i I — ~,

INSPECTORS OF CITY LOOK INTO FLY NUISANCE Health Department Sends Men to Fairground. City health inspectors were to go to the State fairground today to learn if the men working under the State board of agriculture have taken proper care of the accumulation of garbage and filthy trash left by standholders who drumped all waste in boxes, barrels, cans and on the ground when the fair closed last Saturday night Millions of flies have been feeding upon the filth, to the dismay of residents of the fariground neighborhood, who had hoped that the annual fly nuisance could be avoided this year. JOHNSON STARTS INVESTIGATION. C. Tom Johnson, chief inspector for the city board of public health, started an Investigation Tuesday afternoon to learn who was responsible for the condition. He said ha was told by Lucius B. Swift, chairman of the hoard of sanitary commissioners. that it had been understood that the State board of agriculture was to keep the fairground clean and that the sanitary board was to have nothing to do with it. Before the fair Mr. Swift said he “knew nothing about” the sanitary board cooperating with the State board of agriculture in the removal of garbage from the fairground. Before be was interviewed by Mr. Johnson, Air. fwift had stated that the sanitary board never had been asked to help at the fairground, and that if it had it very likely would have done something. Mr. Johnson also talked with the custodian of the State fairground. He said this official told him the ground was being cleared off yesterday and that the men had worked on the job Sunday. The custodian said, according to Mr. Johnson, that he thought the fairground is In the best possible condition it ever has been after a fair. GET BEYOND CONTROL ON SATURDAY NIGHT. No evidence that anybody had been at work on the trash and garbage over Sunday was discernible Monday afternoon. AVorkmen were found scrubbing out empty garbage cans, but none was removing garbage. The State board of agriculture office said that the regulations requiring standholders to keep garbage in tightly-cov-ered receptr.eles was strictly enforced throughout fair week, but that the cor. • cessionnaires got beyond control Saturday night and dumped refuse promiscuously. The board could not threaten them wiih cancellation of their contracts then, it was stated. During the fair three or four stands were closed because of failure to obey the rules.

Divorce Broken Homes Responsible for Most of City’s Dependent Kiddies

(Editor’s Note—This is the eighth of a series of article* dealing with the divorce evil, its problem and it* remedy a reflected in the official records and opinions of tile local judges.) By WALTER D. HICKMAN. Broken homes caused by divorce produce from one-half to three-fourths of the delinquent and dependent children who appear in the Juvenile court of Marion County. This Is the opinion of Miss Isabelle Sommerville, chief probation officer of the Juvenile court, who has studied for many years the relation of divorce to children who appear before the Juvenle bench. "The other day I read a treatise on divorce which seemed to hii the nail on the head where children are concerned,” Miss Sommerville stated in discussing the relation of the divorce evil to the Juvenile court. “The article stated that the family splits and the ehllf falls through the cracks. 706 DELINQUENTS IN' ONE YEAR. The records of the Juvenile lourt for the year beginning April 1, 1920, and ending March 31. of this year, show that n total of 343 dependant cases of children were heard. Os that number 143 were boya and 198 were girl*. A total at 706 delinquent childmn were brought

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Entered as Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at Postofflpe, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March 3, 1879.

These pictures show the condition in which the State fairground was left when the standholders decamped Saturday night. The ground, littered with garbage and refuse of all descriptions, afforded an ideal breeding and feeding place for millions of flies over the week end and has resulted in the city health inspectors launching an investigation to place responsibility for the affair. These photographs were taken Monday afternoon, •showing that little or no headway had been made by that time in cleaning up the premises.

MANY ‘STAYED’ FINES FOUND LONG OVERDUE ON CRIMINAL DOCKET Prosecutor, Surprised When Informed of Amounts Delinquent, Says Payments Must Be Made. HAAGS’ CASES REVEAL CONDITION The action of Prosecutor William P. Evans In bringtng pressure to bear that resulted in Julius A. and Louis E. Haag, Indianapolis druggists, paying long overdue fineß, has served to call attention to the fact that there are man** delinquent fines recorded on the “stayed'' docket in Criminal Court. The prosecutor’s demand that the Haag brothers pay fines and costs totalling $505.50 each, assessed when they were found guilty of violating the State prohibition laws, resulted In their temporary arrest, but they were released when they paid the fines which had been delinquent since the ninety-day period for staying fines had expired. A survey of the records of the Criminal Court shows that the stay limit has expired in many cases and that fines and costs totalling at least $3,226 are due and unpaid.

Prosecutor Evans was surprised when Informed of the many overdue fines and declared they would all have to be paid. “The fines and costs must be paid In all cases," the prosecutor asserted. "I will insist that this be done. It is up to the clerk of the purt to see that every fine assessed is paid within the legal tlmr” DENNY BrSII OWES BIG SUM. Many of these nnpnld fines and cort s are in liquor violation cases similar to the Haags, but the prosecutor has taken no action which would force the Criminal Court to issue notices to the sheriff to Jail these defendants until the fines and costs are paid, • a According to the records, Dennis J. Bush, Democratic politician, who was found guilty and sentenced to the Indiana State Farm on a charge of assault and battery growing out. of election trouble, has an overdue and unpaid balance of $527.55 out of a total of $1,027.55. The record shows that the State board of pardons remitted SSOO of this total. The

Into court during that period. Os that number 486 were boys and 230 were girls. The records reveal the fact that 112 of the boys appearing in the Juvenile court for that period were 10 years of age ; 139 were 15, 118 were 14, sixty-six were 12, seven were 18 and eighteen were 19 years of age. Forty-four fathers of depondept and delinquent children were In penal institutions and seventeen mothers were in similar Institutions at the time their children appeared In Juvenile court for various offenses. The chief apparent causes of delinquent children appearing In court are listed as follows: Lack of care, 645; bad associates, 4; thoughtlessness, 1; miscellaneous causes, 7; disobedience, 25, and Incorrigible, 4, making the total number 706 children. According to Miss Sommervllle. the broken home caused by divorce is the agency which supplies the Juvenile court with from a half to three-fourths of its Juvenile offenders. 956,366 TOTAL PAID IX JCVEX'ILE CASES. For a twelve months period beginning Jan. 1, 1920, fathers paid into the clerk of the Juvenile court a total of $48,940.71 as support of their children on orders of Judge llr-ink Lahr. Parents paid a (Continued ea Page Three.) *

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1921.

NEGRO BURGLAR ASSAULTS GIRL Take $35 From Poekets of Roomer and Makes His Escape. Detectives are searching for a burglar believed to boa negro who entered the home of Glen E.. Fre.v, 857 AVest TwentySeventh street, early today and when disvovered by Miss Edna Boring, 17, of Heedsville, Ind., a guest, struck her in the face and choked her. The thief took $35 from the pockets of the clothing of Milton Bosher, a roomer. Miss Boring told the police that she saw the man walking in her room carrying a candle. AA’hen he saw she was awake he attacked her. Miss Boring says the burglar walked to her bed and ordered her to keep quiet and when she screamed he struck her and choked her, then ran from the house. The thief is believed to have been the same who ripped the sereen from the door of the home of Homer AA'ilson, 859 AA'osf Thirtieth street early today, entered the house and stole sll.

conviction date as given In the record ts r>ec. H, C'lfl, and Owen Bush, 203 Walcott street, ts listed as replevin ball or surety. Tnc record alao shows that Bush was accommodated by he Lug given an extension of time to June 1, 1921. to settle. Shortly before the noon recess today of the Criminal Court it was onrtjuncod that the balance of $527.55 of the fines au<l costß in the Rush case had “Just been paid.” The clerk of the court stated that "some young man brought the money into court and paid the balance Iu full for Mr. Bush." Prosecutor Evans early today was informed that the Bush balance in fines and costs had not teen settled. "It must ho paid," Mr. Evans stnted. The prosecutor admitted, after the payment was made, that he caused action to be brought to have the payment made. No citation was issued for Bush. REIMAN REED'S FINE UNPAID. Although Reiman Reed was convicted on Sept. 23, 1920, and sentenced to thirty days nnd fined SIOO on a charge of violating the prohibition law, there remains a total of $131.35 in fines and costs which are unpaid, the records show. Edward (Continued on Pago Two.)

JASONVILLE MINERS CHASE BOSSES OUT

LINTON, Ind , Sept. 14.—Vlrgtl Robinson, superintendent of three “Queen" rnlnos, apd his family were expelled from Jasonville; James Gnr.terman, mine boss at Queen Mine No. 3 was chased from his homo and the house reported wrecked, and Reese James, miner, w;->s driven from the community by miners who went on a “rampage" In tho Jasonville district early today.' James, a mine committeeman, came to Linton, saying he had been ordered by recalcitrant miners to leave the district. Gunterman, it was said, fled to Terre Haute. Where Robinson and his family took refuge could not bo learned. Seven of tho twenty men for whom warrants charging riotous conspiracy were issued hnd been arrested at 1 o’clock. All were released under $5,000 bond. Sheriff Wines, accompanied by Prosecuting Attorney Voslota and a score of deputies, rushed to Jasonville whan disorders broke out following a miners’ meeting last night at which grievances over working conditions at Queen mins No. 3 were tired. The sheriff informed Governor MoCray by telephone thin afternoon he has the tifuittijn In hand.

REFUSES DARE TO BARE STORY OF HOTEL ORGY Prosecutor Wins in Fight to Prevent Girls’ Testimony. MAY FACE MURDER Manslaughter Indictment May Be Ignored by Brady. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14 District Attorney Mathew Brady made a determined fight and won in an effort today to prevent Miss Alice Make and Miss Zeh Prevost, two of his star witnesses in the case against Roscoe ‘Fatty - ’ Arbuckle, from testifying at the inquest being conducted by Coroner Leland into the death of Miss Virginia Rappe. He made a demand that Arbuckle be forced to take the stand and tell what he knows of the party at the St. Francis Hotel at which Miss Rappe Is alleged to have received injuries which resulted fatally. At the opening of the inquest Brady challenged the defense to place Arbuckle on the witness stand and the challenge was refused. The district attorney •made the following statement: “The defense has said a g.-eat deal about Justice and getting ail thn facts. They wflnt all the facts ill open court. ONE MAN CAN GIVE AM, FACTS. * “There is one man who can give them all the facts. That is Roscoe Arbuckle. “Let them call Arbuckle to the stand and ak him what happened. Miss Rappe Is dead and the one man who knows everything that took piece in that hotel room is Arbugkle." "This is not tha proper time for Ar buckle to tell his storv," the defense notified Coroner Leland in refusing the district attorney's challenge. Coroner Leland submitted to the jury the question of whether the testimony of Miss Pyvron and Miss Alice Blake would be taken. He said their testimony would not advanre the case further. Tha Jury decided cot to hear Miss Blake and Miss Pyvron. Dr. Shelby Strange, autopsy surgeon of the coroner's office was then called and began testifying ns to the condition of Miss Kappa's body wbea he performed the second autopsy. As Arbuckle left the county Jail to altond tho inquest, a handful of telegrams w&re trust into his hand as ho passed through the office of the Jail. It was said at tho office that eighteen telegrams had teen received over night for the film star, hut their contents were not made public. Mr. Arbuckte, with the permission of two detectives who aro constantly at his side, Yetired to a corner to run hastily through the batch of telegrams. Once or twice a faiut smile was seen to (Continued on Page Seven.)

Judge Collins Sustains City Court Fines! Two Who Take Appeal Make Nothing by Going to Higher Tribunal. I Judge James A. Collins of the Marion j County Criminal Court today sustained ! the sentences Imposed by Judge Walter j Pritchard of tho city court. Fred Stepp, 1415 Roosevelt avenue, who . was fined $lO and sentenced to ten days I In Jail by the city court, was given the ’ same fine and sentence by Judge Collins when the appeal case was tried, j Stepp was charged with keeping a gam- ! ing house. j In the court court, Tony Hughes was ; fined SIOO nnd sentenced to thirty days j on the Indiana State Farm on a charge ;of oporating a blind tiger. Judge Coli lins fixed the fine and sentence the same ns given by Judge Pritchard. John Dickinson, charged with petit larceny, was fined $1 nnd costs and sentenced to a day in jail. The day sentence was suspended by the court. The court forfeited a $25 cash bond which was given in interest of Dorsey Wayne, charged with petit larceny, because Wayne did not upponr for trial.

Queen mines Nos. 2 3 and 4 and the Bon 1 Ayr mine were reported Idle this afternoon. Those arrested are Jesse John- j son, Merritt Myers, Ben Wallace, Buck j Long, John Routt, John Wolford and , Herbert Walters. Governor Warren T. McCray was keep- | itig In touch with the situation iu Greone j County by long distance telephone today. I It was said at the Governor’s office that j reports received there bad indicated that local authorities have the situation well i in band and that there have beep no calls for help. The Governor was told that j a large number of persons had been deputized as sheriffs. It also was reported that the miners employed at the Glendora mine In Sullieon County had agreed to accept tho decision of the arbitration committee and had gone back to work. The committee asked that the mine be not interferred with and that employes be permitted tp work peaceably. The miners employed In the Peerless and .the Star City mines, also in Sullivan County, were reported to have failed thus far to accept the decision and that they are sending representative to tha Governor.

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NEAV YORK, Sept. 14.—Mrs. Roscoe Arbuckle, wife of the film comedian, indicted on a charge of manslaughter in Sari Francisco, left today on the Twentieth Century Limited to go to her husband's aid. She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs, Flora Durfee. Mrs Arbuckle, who said she “was thoroughly convinced" of her husband's Innocence, declared it will be only a short time “tHfiore everything will be cleared up."

‘Fatty’ Views Life With Eye of an Infidel Says if Killed, World Would Talk Today, Go to Ball Game Tomorrow. Bar *Fatty 9 Films , but, Mari! See Girl in *Twilight Baby ’ LOS ANGELES. Cal., Sept. 14. While theaters throughout the country are barring “Fatty" Arbuckle's pictures, a local theater owner is attracting large crowds to his theater with posters reading: "Virginia Rappe iu 'A Twi-Light Baby.'" Heretofore her name had not appeared in the film’s advertisng V J SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12.—"50, what Is in life, after all?" This, according to Miss Zey Prevost. was the query of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuokie in the course of conversation at the party he staged at the St. Francis Hotel ten days ago. He offered to Jump out of the twelfthstoryv window if any one would make the leap with him, she said, according to a transcript of her statement to the police. made public today. "He was talking about jumping out of tho twelfth story window,” the witness said. "He said: ‘Oh, what Is in life after all?’ Really, it did sound funny We were all sitting by the window. He said: ‘What la in life after all?' He said: ‘1 will jump out of this window with anybody who wants to jump out.’ ” “Did anybody volunteer to go with him?” she was asked. “No, nobody. We all looked at him. He said something when he remarked: ‘lf I would Jump out of the twelfth-story window they would talk about me today and tomorrow they would go to see tha ball game. So what Is in life after all?’ " ARBUCKLE LAWYERS KEEP SILENT By FKEDA BLCM. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14.—Meet the silent squad, ladles and gentleman, Mr. Roscoe Arbuckle, Mr. Louis Angor, his screen manager; Counsel Frank Dominguez, Counsel Milton Cohen and Counsel Charles Brennan. Like true soldiers they stand guarding an almost sacred silence. Dominguez, being in charge, has given orders that not a word concerning the (Continued on Page Seven.)

State Works Out Table to Show Where Taxes Go An answer to the old, old question ot where tho taxpayers' money goes was being worked out today by William f. Harrison, secretary of the tax board; Edward Farmer, State budget clerk, and Charles Kettleborough, head of the legislative reference bureau of the State. The plan Is to show for what purpose each SIOO of taxes paid is used, down to small details. It was explained tliat It probably will be some time before tills is compiled. Tho plan apparently le resulting from complaints of State officials that the public believes high taxea are the result of the nigh cost of State government. They contend that the county, township and city governments are responsible. Mr. Kettleborongh has worked out a table to show wliore the $75,619,198.88 collected last year went so far as taxing nnlts axe concerned. It shows the following distribution: State, $lO,704,101.76. or 14.8 per cent; counties, $31,8:i5,050.1)8. or 30 per cent; townships, $35,601,971.61, or 34.3 per cent; cities and towns, $17,181,*74.09, or 22.47 per cent. Mr. Kettleborongh pointed out that out of the funds which go to the State, $3,215,815.37 were turned book to the taxing unite for school* and $114,086.68 was turned hack for vocational work.

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ELECTRIC MERGER PETITION IS DENIED BY SERVICE BOARD Valuation of Properties Held Insufficient for $21,000,000 Issue and Income Not Enough to Pay Interest. BARNARD WRITES OPINION; 3 CONCUR The petition of the Indiana Electric Corporation for permission to purchace the property of seven Indiana utilities and to issue securities amounting to about $21,000,000 for this purpose was denied by the public service commission today. The denial was made on the ground that the valuation of the properties involved is not sufficient to justify the issuance of the securities and on the ground that the income of the various properties is not sufficient to meet the fixed charges on the proposed securities.

TAX BOARD IS TOLD POWERS ARE LIMITED School Commissioners Refuse to Cut Proposed Bond Issue. WORK COSTS MORE Firm adherence to the doctrine that the board of school commissioners has the right to administer school affairs in this city unhampered by interference of State boards, composed of non-residents of Indianapolis, marked the resolution adopted by the school board at its regular meeting last night and ordered sent to the State board of tax commissioners. The resolution was in reply to a letter from the tax board under date of Sept. 7. which stated the proposed bond issue for the remodeling of old buildings and the construction of additions at schools Nos. 16, S6, 38 and 62, would be approved if the school board would reduce the total cost of the proposed buildings from $847,000 to $660,000. The letter thou went on to criticise the business policy of the board and to renew the suggestion, made u month before, that representatives of ontside organizations having no legal status in school affairs, be called into conference in an advisory capacity on school building activities in Indianapolis. First the school board's note takes up the matter of building costs and shows that the most careful re-estimates made by architects and engineers and based on present prices of labor and materials reveal that the buildings would cost about $806.683 80, only $40,316.20 less than the original estimates and more than $146,000 in excess of the maximum allowance proposed by the tax board, it is pointed out that competitive bidding probably would reduce the cost below the estimates, but even then it would be far above the tax board figures. CRITICISES. BUT OFFERS NO AID. The letter then goes on to say that the tax board has failed to make any specific suggestions for changes in the plans and specifications of the buildings, but bad gone into a lengthy criticism of the building program of the school board, all of which bad nothing to do with the question of the four buildings. In conclusion tha resolution calls attention to the fact that the tax board has no legal right to exercise general control or supervision over the school affairs of Indianapolis or any other municipality. The resolution was adopted by a vote of three to one. Mrs. Julia Belle Tutewiler, president of tha board; Bert C. Gadd and Clarence E. Crippin voting in the affirmative, while Charles 1.. Barry voted against it. Mr. Barry made a long talk in which he defended the motives and sincerity of the tax board and expressed himself strongly in favor of (Continued on Page Nine.) Pershing Sails for France to Honor Dead NEW YORK, Sept. 14—Gen. John J. Pershing sailed for Franco today aboard the steamer Paris to decorate the graves of the unidentified French soldier with the congressional medal of honor. He also may visit London to place the medal on the grave of the unidentified British soldier buried In Westminster Abbey, he Said. Pershing declared he Intended to stay in Europe only a few weeks. His sister. Miss Jessie Pershing, and his brother, James, went to the pier with him.

Death in Shame and Misery Is Fate of 3 Beautiful Girls What Leads Them to Men’s Rooms? Why Do They Stay? Asks Woman Writer.

By WINIFRED BLACK. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 14.—Dead, in misery and disgrace. Dead, In shame and humiliation. Dead, in agony and despair. Olive Thomas, In Paris. Billie Carleton, in London. Virginia Rappe, In San Francisco Three young, beautiful girl*, full of life and the joy cf living! And every one of them died In a way that would have made the mother who bore them wish they had strangled In their cradles, if she could have looked ahead and visioned even dimly tne horror that came to them. What does it nil mean? Whore Is It all going to end? ThU girl who died tn San Tratiflsco the other day In hldeou* agohj*--has

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The companies involved are the Merchants Heat and Light Company of In dianapolls. the Elkhart Gas and Fuel Company, the Indiana Railways and Light Company of Kokomo, the Valparaiso Lighting Company, rhe Wabash Valley Electric Company, the Putnam Electric Company and the Cayuga Electric Company. In Its original announcement the Indiana Electric Corporation said the purpose of the" consolidation was to erect and operate a power plant in the coal fields and to supply the State with electricity through high tension transmission lines. In the hearing, however. it was said this project would hava to wait for further capitalization and that the immediate purpose was to combine the properties. THREE OTHERS CONCCR WITH BARNARD. The order of (he commission was written by Commissioner George Barnard and. concurred in by Commissioners John YV.j McCardle, Edgar Biassing and Maurice Douglass. Commissioner Glenn Van Auken was absent. In his order Commissioned Barnard’ saysi . "This petition presents the commission, as the commission views It, two' vital questions and just two: “First, is the value of the property here involved sufficient to warrant tho carrying of burden bearing obligation* in the amount which petitioner insist* will be necessary to consummate the pu ty chase? "Second, will said properties earn enough gross income to pav the fixed charges upon such obligations? “ihe first question relates, of course, s °lely to the valuation to be put upon the properties. Unless tho relation between the value and the funded obligations is such that the purchase of thi securities will have a sound investment, the question must be answerc-d in the negative. And, upon the other hand, if the value is sufficient to give the purchaser a sound Investment, it must b* answered in the affirmative. “in arriving at a fair value ft Is th and the duty of the commission to take into consideration all of tha various estimates, however found, in s far as such estimates are applicable, and from all such estimates arrive at the fair present value of the property. The commission has had before It In this: hearing many able engineers, persons, eminently qualified upon questions of valuation, no two of whom have been able to arrive at the same valuation! for th<*.e properties because their ideas, of making valuations do not agree. In addition to the testimony of such ex- 1 perts, the commission has had before: it comprehensive data, which it ha*, called to its aid in its efforts to arrive at a proper valuation of these properties I "The Supreme Court of the United' States has held that the value to be, placed upon the property of a publlo utility is the fair present value, and In! arriving at that value, it has also saidt that the court should take into ation the original cost plus the better-; Inents and additions, averages over] periods of years during which both pease! and valley prices have prevailed, spot prices and reproduction costs. And tn!* commission in this cause has given very! earnest consideration to all these different, methods of valuing property, giving to each that weight and credit to which i* ! seemed by the commission to be entitled. “The second inquiry invol- es simply the question as to whether or not tho gross l income of these properties will be suffl-i cient to take care of the find charges. j APPROVES PLAN FOR CENTRAL STATION. “The commission is of the opinion that there 1s not enough fair value in th*| properties sought to be purchased the petitioner to warrant the assuming* and the issuing of that amount of so*! purities bearing fixed charges whick) petitioner says are necessary to con-! stimulate the purchase thereof, to say( nothing of other capital obligations, tt, is averred in the petition as a part 05 petitioner's scheme of operation that ltj purposes to build in the coal fields asi the base of the fuel supply a great cen- ! trnl power plant, by whieh it would supply the power for the operation of salqU utilities, if it were allowed to The commission desires to give its ap- 1 proval to this idea, believing that such a plant would enable the petitioner to operate with less expense, which woul<ji reflect itself in reduced rates to the con*, stitner, bnt it is of the opinion, as above' set out. that the project cannot be car-! ried out upon the basis contended for' by the petitioner. "It is therefore the opinion of th] commission that tho prayer of the petitioner should be denied, and it will be so* ordered.” STATEMENT ALSO MADE BY BARNARD. Suppmenting his order, Commissioner Barnard made the following statement: ! “The order speaks for itself. The coma] (Continued on Rage Two.)

never been connected in any way with any scandalous stories of disgraceful! parties before. QUIET GIRL AND MODEST. She was a quiet, well behaved, modest girl, thoy say, intelligent and well enough accumtomed to the ways of the world, to know what "wild parties" meant, How did she happen to go ( to such an orgy and after she got there, when shs found out the sort of "party” It was—* why didn’t she leave the place lm mediately. What was a self-respecting, high hearted girl doing at such a place?. Just exactly what hundreds and per* haps even thousands of other girls ar doing day In and day out, and nigbi, in (Centlr.c: cn rage ■Seven.)