Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1921 — Page 2

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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION WANTS TO KNOW Relationship of Two Phone Systems Operating in Indiana. CASE BEGAN AT MUNCIE Demands that the Indiana Bell Telephone Company give the public service commission detailed Information as to Its relationship with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company were made at a hearing before the public service commission today. The telephone company replied that the Information asked for Is not material but that It will endeavor to give the commission any Information which the commission hold to be material. The demand was made by ths city of Muncie, but the result of the bearing Is expected to apply as well to petitions for increased rates in Indianapolis and other cities in Indiana. The question of the relationship between the two companies has always entered into telephone rate cases. In a*general way the American company is practically the owner of the Indiana company. ATTORNEY JOHNSON ASKS QI'ESTION' S. Fred Bates Johnson, attorney for the city of Muncie, In opening his argument' set out the following questions which the city wishes answered: 'X. The exact capitalization of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. 2. What properties It owns. 8. What Us operating expenses are. 4. What sources of revenue it has. 5. Whether too much or too little Is paid for overhead revenues. 6. Whether too muen or too little is paid for toll revenues. He said that the city already knows the following facts about the relationship of the two corporations: That the American Telephone and Telegraph Company at Muncie Is still exacting 4 per cent of gross revenues from Muncie despite an order of the commission; that the salaries of local engineer, Auditors, etc., are still being paid as operating expenses at Muncie; that the amount credited to a local exchange such as Muncie is Just the bare cost of the service, without any profits to the very unit which originates the business contrary to the order of the commission; that the Indiana Bell persists in accruing depreciation both on a higher value and at a higher percentage than that allowed by tbe commission; that the parent company is highly prosperous and the subsidiary not making operating expenses. CLAIMS TWO COM PA NITS HATE STRANGE RELATIONSHIP. Mr. Johnson made much of the latter statement. He declared that the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is paying 9 per cent on $450,000,0(H) of capital stock while the subsidiary company cannot pay operating expenses. He pointed out that the subsidiary company Is paying the parent company per cent of Us gross revenues. He said he did not know that there Is anything improper in the relationship between the two companies but that he desired information. In replying in behalf of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. R. F. Davidson, attorney for the company, took up Mr. Johnson's questions point by point. He said that the Muncie exchange pays no money for tolls or toll service to the parent company but merely acts as a collection agency between the public and the parent company. TELEPHONE ATTORNEY EXPLAINS. The per cent of gross receipts, which has met with so much objection Is paid, he said, for the use of transmitters and receivers, for rights under all the A. T. & T. patents, for the right to use new and improved apparatus, for relief from the payment of royalties, for engineering and accounting, for research work; for advice and assistance in financing, for cooperation for the benefit of employes and for other things. “The commission,” he said, “is without jurisdiction to hold the contract under which this payment is made illegal or to inquire' into the cost of the service.” He said the number of shares of A. T. & T. stock, their par value and dividends paid is not material, but If found to be so can be found in tbe annual report of the A. T. & T. He added that it is a matter of common knowledge that a 9 per cent dividend is being paid. He declared that Indiana is one of two States not paying revenue to the owners of A. T. & T. stock. “W hat the A T. & T. is making outside of Indiana is of no concern to the city of Muncie.” he said. Continuing, he said, the question of whether the A. T. & T. is a holding or an operating company has no bearing on tbe case but that it can be found In tbi annual report of the company. He referred in tbe same manner to an analysis of operating expenses and revenues and to the question of what cbmpanies outside of Indiana pay to the A. T. & T. In closing his argument Mr. Davidson pointed out that there has been a long delay in hearing the petitions for increased rates and asked that an early date for hearing be set Immediately. He that the Indiana company is running up a deficit of 5817,000 a year, while the hearings are delayed. He pointed out that the petition for an increase was filed last May.

Seek Stranger and $3,000 in Diamonds JOLIET, 111., Oct. 10, —A general police alarm was sent out today for a “wall dressed stranger,” who robbed the firatth & McGuire jewelry store of $3,000 in Jewelry. The stranger walked into the store just after It was opened, priced some jewels and walked away. After his departure, a tray full of diamonds was missed. JOLIET, 111., Oct. 19.—Police today solved a score of mysterious robberies with the arrest of a band of “baby burglars.” Two brothers, Michael and Percy Raglan, 16 and 19, confessed, police sav, to committing fourteen robberies in the last two mouths. The boys used skeleton keys and jimmies* Identify Articles From Hartman Home Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Smalley, 3029 Park avenue, last night ldentiflea" a comfort, seven napkins and a table scarf as articles stolen from their home Jan. 27. 1921. The articles Identified are part of those brought to police headquarters by J. Herbert Hartman, who said the articles were lets at his borne by Frank Ftancls, the “talkative burglar.” Autoist Blameless Charges of lnvolnntary manslaughter i against Bryscn Weaver, 412 Bernard Street, were dismissed by Judge Walter /Pritchard in city court today, upon Coroner Paul R. Robinson's recommendation. The coroner said his investigation showed that Weaver was not at fault for the accident in which an automobile truck driven by -him struck and killed Jacob Franklin Blackwell, Jr., 6, 4949 Cornelius avenue, Sept. 21. The accident occurred near Weaver's horns when the Blackwell boy, who was riding in a small wagon, was pushed in front of the truck by Charles Blchaei, 8, 4034 North Senate ftenne.

MOSES SAYS GRADUAL TAX, MARX ADAPTION

WASHINGTON,, Oct. 19.—Adoption of the sales tax plan, proposed by Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah, as a substitute for both the pending tax bill and the majority compromise proposal which If to replace It, was urged on the Senato today by Senator Moses, Republican, New Hampshire, in a speech in which he at tacked what he termed the “vicious principle of gradual taxation” as a modern legislative adaption of the communistic doctrine of Carl Marx. Moses declared the tax legislation pro posed “Is plainly drawn under the inspiration, or the inspiring slogan, ‘Soak the rich.’ ” He described the group of Republican Senators who brought about the tax compromise as the “Ken-Kap-Klan.” ‘‘l hold no brief for the rich,” Moses

CLUB WOMEN OF STATE GATHER IN CONVENTION Muncie Entertains Thirtysecond Annual Session of Federated Clubs. Special *o The Times. MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. 19. —Four hundred clubwomen, representing practically every city and (twn in the State, gathered here today for the thirty-second annual convention of the Federated Woman's Clubs of Indiana. Tbe three days’ program opened with a reception for the visitors and a business meeting at the First Methodist Church. Among the prominent speakers during the session will be Mrs. Thomas G. Winters of Minneapolis, president of the national federation; Mrs. Percy Pennypacker of Texas, pr.st national president ; Mrs. Rose S. berry, national chairman of fine arts, a.id Hrs. Mary Obendorfer, national chairman of music. The race for the presidency for a term of two years, which is always a heated one, promises to be between Mrs. Eila Bagot Kehrer of Anderson and Mrs. O. M. Pitfenger of Indianapolis. It Is Indicated that several others might enter the race. The election will be Friday morning and will be by the Australian ballot system. Mrs. E. C. Rumpler of Indianapolis is presiding at tbe meetings. DELEGATE PLAN BEFORE TEACHERS Interest in Association Session Centers in Proposal. Chief interest in the" sixty-eighth annual convention of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association, which will begin Thursday in this city, will center around the proposed amendment to the constitution which would allow all business of the organization to be transacted by delegates instead of by all members The amendment was submitted to the members of the association by a referendum sijme time ago and was ratified by sev-enty-eight county units, four more than is required for adoption. However, It is reported that the teachers are almost equally divided over the proposition, those living near Indianapolis being in favor of the old method of carrying on the business, while those from the outlying parts ot Indiana favor the delegate plan. Donald DuShane, president of the association, is leading the fight for the retention of the old system. Three candidates are mentioned for the presidency for the coming year—W. A Wert, superintendent of the Gary publi; schools; Edgar Hasklrft, superintendent at Vincennes, and Miss Emma Colbert, head of the faculty of the Teachers' College at Indianapolis. One of the most Interesting events on the program will be a paper entitled "Capitalism of the Future,” by Will Irwin, well-known war correspondent and author.

Mnrricige Licenses Edward nitzeman, 414 N. Gray st 32 Daisy Hachler, 1907 E. Ohio st 22 Charles Schutte, Gl7'A N. Illinois 5t.... 13 Zilpha Brown, 1017 E. Washington st.. 44 Paul Bland, Brownsburg, Ind 23 Esther Ferguson, Speedway City 22 ! John Johnston, 311 N. West st 27 j Kathleen Stevenson, 1027 W. Michigan 26 i Ernest BonnelL 901 N. New Jersey st.. 26 , Mary Broderick, Davlon Apts 33 Patrick J. Burke, 1941 Ashland av... 36 ! Bridget A. Kelly, Indianapolis 26 L. F. Friddle, 1416 Martlndale av 86 : Eva Munden, 2035 Hovey st 22 | Samuel Smith, 2933 N. Meridian st 47 Mable Gasaway, 113 N. Delaware st... 23 l S. Theodore Johnson, Mars Hill 45 [Joe Bilby, Indianapolis 37 i Arthur Oliver, Toledo, 0 25 i Clara Moran, 221 Hendricks PI 25 1 Ralph Wood, Princeton, Ind 27 Beatrice York, Detroit, Mich 22 John Pollard, Pittsfield, 111 20 Bernadine Lindsay, 738 Wallace st 28 Births f. Virgil and Neva Stoner, Deaconess Hospital, boy. David and Margaret Curran, 1437 Spann, boy. Frederick and Nona Sonnefeld, 623 Spring, boy. Martin and Magdalena Miller, 928 E. Minnesota, boy. George and Mary Miller, 1543 Garfield place, boy. Byron and Elisabeth Russell, 537 S. East, boy. Gustav and Irma Lichtslnn, 1256 Bright, girl. Paul and Anna Stamavaedes, Deaconess Hospital, boy. Paul and Mary Pearsey, 1333 N. Haugh, toy. Jim and Edna Dostin, city hospital, boy. William and Ruth Bernauer, 1050 E. Vermont, girl. Hyland and Anna Hill, 1218 E. Sixteenth, girl. William and Mary Black, 2111 N. Arsenal, girl. Lacy and Pearl Majors, 2361 Cushing, girl. Albert and Celia Keers, 422 Bright, boy. Samuel and Bessie Nisenbatui, Deaconess Hospital, boy. Dewey and Mary Weaver, 5349 Winthrop, boy. Augustus and Ossie Pressel, 6320 Broadway, boy. Raymond and Ellen Jenkins, Deaconess Hospital, boy. Frank and Edna PerciTal, St. Vincent’s Hospital, boy. Carl and Jane Fisher, St. Vincent’s Hospital, boy. Frank and Ettalee Ehrmantraut, 769 Fletcher, boy. Arthur and Mabel Normlngton, 550 Tomlinson, boy. Glenn and Ruth Smith, 3547 E. Sixteenth, boy. Russell and Elizabeth Hammer, 645 N. Rural, boy. Deaths Louisa Cummings, 74, 323 N. Sherman Drive, cerebral hemorrhage. Belle Welling, 71, 1960 Broadway, chronic interstitial nephritis. Henry W. Vita, 59, 1354 N. Tuxedo, carcinoma. Ellen Johnson, 71, 400 Prospect, general arterlo sclerosis. John L. Bottnrff, 73, 2202 Keawood, mitral Insufficiency. Alexander Sinclair, 53, city hospital, interstitial nephritis. Leo Parker Bunghman. 29, Teatfc and Meridian, acute parenchymatous nephritis. Emily Hannah Rasmnssen, 80, 3208 N. New Jersey, acute dilatation of heart. , Michael Lehmann, 73, 3115 E. Iww Yerk, chrenlo myocarditis

continued. “Neither I nor any of my kin have' ever stood within their circle, but the rich already tave begun to learn much from buffeting. Capital has gone on strike. It Is said that whatever tax law we now enact at the solicitude of the agricultural bloc will be only a temporary measure. “It may be that this statement will prove true In a manner which some of us will little wish, for I am convinced that the dominant party, although swept into power less than a year by a majority of 7,000.000, cannot hope again to ride the flood of popular approval if wo continue I to cling to the fragments of a taxation i system which even those who sponsored ! it three years ago, now declare to be outI worn and unsuitable and under wljleh the ! entejrlse of the country must remain j paralyzed and stifled.”

SHANK DELVES INTO OLD CASES OF CITY COURT Gets Material to Answer Charge Made by Democrat. Samuel Lewis Shank, Republican nominee ’’Sir mayor, delved into city court records today and got material for a speech which he made to the employes of the Udell Ladder Works at noon. He said he had looked up the record of John W. Friday, real estate dealer, and Democratic chairman of tbe Third ward. Mr. Friday has been quoted as haring urged J. Herbert Hartman, Republican nominee for city judge, in the presence of severa’ Republican politicians to stay on the Republican ticket. It Is said Mr. Friday made the remark to Hartman, “You’re .as good as Shank.” “I wouldn't tell what I know about this man Friday if he had not made that remark,” said Mr. Shank. “Bug when he said that, I thought to myself, 'Why thut bird was arrested during my administration.’ I went down and looked up the records at city court and fc/und that J. \V. Friday was arrested Sept. 22, 1913, by Harry Frr nkiin on a charge of loitering. He was tried before Judge Collins in city court Sept. 23, 1913, and discharged. Then I remembered that Friday was arrested in a wine room, drinking beer with two women at the time when I had issued orders that women should be kept out of wine rooms. “X also remembered that at the time Friday made the excuse that one of the women had fainted and he had her up there in that wineroom putting water on her head.” Mr. Shank will speak tonight at 809 Highland avenue. 2201 Fountain street, Rural and Tenth streets, Twenty-Fifth and Oxford streets, 934 Massachusetts avenue and 822 West Eleventh street. R. M. Ralston, Democratic nominee for mayor, will speak tonight at McCarty and Meridian streets, Troy avenue and Shelby street, Beville avenue and East Michigan street and in. the Jewell Theater, at 1000 South West street. E. J. Sexton, chairman of the Tenth ward, announced that the Troy nveuue and Shelby street meeting will be in the old McClainsviile schoolhouse, and that workers from the Tenth, Twelfth and Thirteenth precincts will have a parade from Southern avenue and Shelby street at 7 o'clock.

FOUR PARTIES ON CITY BALLOT Board Gives Socialist-Labor Candidates a Place. i I A decision to place the names of candij dates of the Socialist-Labor party on the j ballot for the city campaign was reached | by the board of election commissioners i today after some discussion. The candidates of this party are: Mayor, Charles Ginsberg. H 057 Cooper street; city Judge, Oscar G. Buses, 1963 Hazel street; city clerk, August Stehr, 242 South Senate avenue; councilman First district, Charles E. Sanders. 3236 Roosevelt avenue; councilman Second district, Burton C. Wampler, 946 North Sheffield avenue; councilman Third district, Gal Durler, 1429 English avenue. I The addition of the new list to the ballot gives representation to four parties, . the Republican, the Democratic and th' | Socialist and the Socialist-Labor, j The commissioners decided to receive ! bids for the moving of voting machines ! for practice and for election day, up to j Friday noun. Bids are to be submitted at | the office of the city clerk. Wasn’t Selling Booze; He Was Drinking It | “Judge, I wasn’t selling whisky. I wanted to drink it all myself,” explained Harry C. Allen, foreman of a railroad construction gang, who appeared in city court today to answer two charges of drunkenness and one of operating blind tiger. He pleaded guilty to the drunk charges and not guilty to the tiger charge. He had been arrested twice In two days on the charge of drunkenness. “I was rolled for .S6OO during the drunk, and haven't much money left,” continued Allen. Judge Pritchard dismissed the blind tiger charge and he was fined $6 and costs on each of the drunkenness charges. Held to Grand Jury on Manslaughter Charge Upon the recommendation of Dr. Paul R. Robinson, county coroner, William Bennet was bound over to the Marion County grand jury today by Judge Walter Pritchard on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. He was released on 5300 bond. . Bennet is charged with having struck and killed Harry L. Ewing, 110 Bloomington street, in September, when the two engaged in a fight at the Central Plating Company's plant. Ewing, it is said, was intoxicated and refused to leave the building when ordered out by Bennet, who is foreman of the plant.

Prince of Wales in Automobile Smash LONDON, Oct. 19.—The Prince of Wales with his brother Prince Henry was in a motor crash Saturday and had a narrow escape, it was announced today. ’the princes were motoring near Cambridge, when their car collided with a motorcycle. Elevate Commanders of the Scottish Rite WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—More than one hundred knight commanders of the Court of Honor from every part of the United States were elevated by the supreme council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern jurisdiction in session here today. FALLING DOOR CATCHES BOY. Ralph O'Brien, 10. 124 North New Jersey street, was seriously injured today when he was pinned under a large barn door which fell as he was passing 328 East Wabash street. He suffered a broken leg, Injuries about the head and possible internal Injuries. He was taken to the city hospital. The barn Is owned by Harvey Hooker, 280 South Meridian street,

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER n>, rsn.

AUTO TOURISTS ATTACKED BY THREE BANDITS Travelers Save Jewels, but Lose Airedale Dog of Great Value. ALARMED BY NEIGHBORS Three bandits, driving a Cadillac roadster pursued a tourist car driven by Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Johnson of St. Louis down the Brookville road last night and after firing seven shots at them forced the Johnson car Into a ditch and started to hold up the couple when they were forced to flee by persons attracted by the firing. Although Mrs. Johnson managed to save several valuable diamonds by hiding them an Airedale dog, which Mr. Johnson said recently was appraised at $1,500, is missing and he believes the bandits made off with It. , The police were notified promptly according to Mrs. R. E. Woodruff, whose home sheltered the Johnsons after their car was wrecked, but they failed to respond and finally told the St. Louis couple to report at headquarters and give a description of the bandits. No officers were sent to the scene of the hold-up. According to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson the bandit car passed them about a mile east of Emerson avenue on the Brookvilie road about 10 o’clock last night and called to them to stop. Mr. Johnson did not comply and near Ritter avenue he encountered the car, which had stopped near a bridge. He shot past and then the Cadillac gave chase. The robbers fired seven shots, Mr. Johnson said, and tie car this morning plainly showed that it had been the target for bullets. At utler avenue the bandits forced Mr. Ji nson's car into the ditch, damaging ; severely. The robbers brought thiir car to a stop a few yards down the road, and came back to the stranded couple. “You take the man and I'll search th* woman," said one who was evidently the leader ot the gang. A thir# man stood guard while one of the others shored a revolver into Mrs. Johnson’s side. At this Juncture residents of the neighborhood. alarmed by the fusillade of shots and the crash of the automobile, came pouring out of their homes and the bandits shouted for them to remain indoors Failing to heed the order, the residents kept coming nearer the scene of the holdup and the trio ro|i to their waiting car, Jumped in and disappeared in the direction of Indianapolis. The dog, which had been in Mr. Johnson's car, disappeared and, while Mr. Johnson is not positive it was stolen, he believes it was taken during the general confusion that attended the hoid-up. The Johnsons said they thought he bandit ear bore a Kentucky license and a Covington (Ky.) name plate. This gave rise to the belief that the bandits’ motive might have been theft of the valuable dog, because the Johnsons had been in Covington a few days ago, where the alredale was appraised’ by a well-known fancier and where he attracted much attention. MINISTERMAY ADDRESS COURT Interest High in Preacher’s Murder Trial.

BIRMINGHAM, Als., Oct. 10.—Defense and prosecution attorneys drew lines today for what Is expected to be the most Important skirmish in the battle to free the Rev. Edwin R. Stemphenson, Methodist minister, charged with the murder of Father James E. Coyle, Catholic priest. Crowds gathered in the corridors of the courthouse long before the courtroom opened, speculated upon whether the accused minister would take the stand in his own defense. The sensational element which the followers of the case have awaited In vain, was expected to be uncovered should Stephenson speak to tho court. Tostiraony by the minister’s wife was | also expected. She Is expected to testify that Stephenson was mentally unbalanced at the time of the killing, in an effort to support his plea of insanity. Hearing of character witnesses was resumed when court opened. VIRS. PARKER TRIES TO SAVE FORTUNE Financial Break With Wizard Hubby m Prospect. CHICAGO. Oct. 19.—A financial break between Harrison M. Parker, the financial wizard, and his wife, Mrs. Edith S. Parker, loomed today, according to attorneys for Mrs Parker. The financier's wife, it was indlested, would attempt to %ave her personal fortune from the ruins of her husband's alleged business collapses. Mrs Parker, it was also said, will take the witness stand at the Federal probe Into the affairs of the Cooperative Society of -America. Her attorneys said today Mrs. Parker would become a creditor against the cooperative concern for $350,000 If a dissolution of the couple’s business affairs was affected. Investigators had sought her in the hope of obtaining information relative to the funds she held as trea. urer of the Great Western Securities •‘'ompany, one of the cooperative’s subsidiaries. She also is believed to have been custodian of bonds sought by the receivers. Belgium Accepts WASHINGTON, Oct 19. -Belgium officially notified the United States today she accepted with "thanks and appreciation” the Invitation to participate In the November armament and Far Eastern conference. Belgium’s acceptance was communicated to the State Department by Ambassador Whitlock and it completed the list of acceptances from the nine nations Invited.

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INDORSERS PLAN ENTERTAINMENT Parent-Teachers and Others to Be Guests. Members of the State board of the Indiana indorsers of photoplays will entertain In the Y W. C. A. tonight at a get-to-gether and discussion dinner the Parent-Teachers' Association of the State, together with groups from other visiting delegations here tor tbe State teachers’ meetings tomorrow, Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Hence Orme is-chairman of the State organization of ParentTeachers. and Mrs. David Ross is president of the board of indorsers. The program will include five-minute talks by various representatives of affiliated clubs over the State and will be as follows: “Suggestions for Efficiency,” Mrs. George Cooper of Greenfield; “Promoting Good Pictures in Club'Work,’’ Mrs. John Downing Johnson of Evansville; “Sensational Pictures Demanded by Public,” Mrs. Fred Lauebsteln of Evansville; “What Personal Work With the Exhibitor Has Accomplished,” Mrs. Thomas Hardy of Pendleton; “Community Motion Pictures,” Dr. Edna Hatfield Edmundsen of Bloomington ; "Circulation of Good Pictures,” Mrs. Fred Lucas of Greancastle; “What Has Been the Result of Boosting Good Pictures,” Mrs. Maude A. Twining of Ft. Wayne. Greetings from the Parent-teachers' Association will be extended to the hostesses by Mrs. Hence Orme and a talk on “Visual Education” is to be made by Miss Julia Landers, who recently has been appointed director of visual education in the public schools of the city. Mrs. Ross will preside and Mrs. T. W. Demmerly is in charge of general arrangements. This afternoon a business session of the indorsers' State board was to be held, plans for the coming year were to be discussed and routing business carried through.

PRELIMINARY SESSION HELD Managers of Parent-Teacher Association Meet. Preliminary to the State convention of the Parent-Teacher Association of Indians, tomorrow and Friday is the meeting of the State board of managers of the association being held this afternoon In the Giaypool Hotel. The board includes State officers, county chairmen and district vice chairmen. Tonight the conference will be continued. Tbe first general business session of the convention will be opened at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning in the Palm Room of the Claypool Hotel, Mrs. Ileuce Orme. State chairman, presiding, and will bt continued in the afternoon. In the evening a meeting will be held in the Assembly Room of the Claypool. Friday, business sessions will be held morning and afternoon, and a formal banquet in the Riley Room Friday evening will close the convention. The mating* will ail be open to the public with the exception of the Friday morning session when the constitution is to be revised, necessitating closed doors. Other officers of the organization include Mrs I.ouise C. Shatter of Valparaiso vice president at large; Mrs. Roland Cheney of New Albany, recording secretary; Mrs. Georg* Srheer of Jeffersonville, auditor; Mrs. W. O. Granger of Ft. Wayne, treasurer, and Dr. Edna Hatfield Edmondson of Bloomington, executive secretary. The State organization is representative of approximately 30,000 people over the State There are 225 clubs affiliated and it Is expected that over 130 delegates will attend the convention. P. M. ASPIRANTS ON ANXIOUS SEAT Inspector and Special Agent Quizzing Them. Sixteen candidates for appointment as postmaster of Indianapolis were on the anxious seat today following the appearance of Postofflre Inspector Otto of the Chicago division and a special agent of the Civil Service Commission, who was here to Investigate their applications and records. Under a presidential order the postmaster is to bo selected from the men receiving the three highest ratings by the inspector and the special agent. Several candidates who now are employes of the postofflee have been interviewed, It is understood. Appointments have been made with others. The inspectors hate headquarters at the Federal building. After personally interviewing the applicants it is understood the inspectors will seek information regarding the candidates from business people.

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SEVEN NURSES NEAR DEATH BY EATING CANDY Package of Sweets Sent Through Mails Contained Quantity of Poison. * POLICE INVESTIGATING CHICAGO, Oct. 19.—Physicians are fighting today to save the lives of seven nurses of the West End Hospital, who were made critically ill by eating homemade candy. Impregnated with cyanine of potassium, which was received by one of the young women through the mail. Police and detectives meanwhile are making a rigid investigation to learn who sent the candy and what the motive was. The candy was received by Miss Helen Rosenfeld, a student nurse. It was sent anonymously. Miss Rosenfeld herself partook of it and gave some to Miss Theresa Ihfe, Miss Grace Breakstone, Miss AJma Don ifeld, Miss Helen Leslie, Miss Anna Ruhle and Miss Daisy Casey, who chanced to be with her in the recreation room of the hospital when the candy was received. Attending physicians said the stricken nurses have a chance for recovery, although their condition is critical. Analysis of the candy showed, according to chemists, that the box of candy contained enough of the poison to have killed scores of persons. Several men who are known to have been acquaintances of Mis* Rosenfeld are under"surveillance by the police. Several have been questioned. Among these are William Zimmerman and Benjamin Zimmerman, brothers, and acknowledged rivals for the affections of the nurse. According to the story told by the Zimmerman brothers and by their sister, Mrs. Clara Kraus. Miss Rosenfeld had received the attentions of both of them and each claimed her as his fiancee. Neither wonld admit any knowledge of the poisoned candy. An attendant at the hospital who reported that a man had endeavored to reach Miss Rosenfeld by telephone Monday night, and who declared he believed he could name the man sent the candy, la to be questioned. His name was withheld. The theory that a disgruntled patient at the hospital may have sent the deadly confection also is being investigated. A note which accompanied the box, said: “From a patient who was an ardent admirer, this candy was faithfully made." Almost immediately after eating the candy, the young women 'became desperately ill. They fell to the floor and ■creamed in agony. Their screams brought other employes of the hospital and physicians Immediately resorted to use of the stomach pump and emetics. Postal inspectors have Joined with the police in endeavoring to trace the source of the candy. ITALIAN DELEGATES SAIL OCT. 20. ROME, Oct. 19—The Italian delegation to the Washington conference plans to sail from Cherbourg on the liner Olympic Oct. 26, It was announced today.

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Unemployment Very Serious in England LONDON, Oct. 19.—“ England is la the grip of the worst unemployment situation of the century,” Premier Lloyd George declaredMn Commons today. Derangement of trade and fluctuations of exchanges, caused by the war, were to blame, he said. The credit area will be extended from the empire to foreign countries, the Premier said. In special cases, credits of five and six years duration wIU be allowed. Special trading facilities abroad will be provided where credit Is ample without government guarantees. To foster construction, the government guarantees Interest on new capital Invested in public utilities enterprises. GREAT COUNCIL OF IMP. 0. R. M. CLOSEDTODAY Sachem Named Appointive Officers and Electives W ere Installed. The announcement of the appointment of appointive officers and committee members by T. C. O’Connor, the new great sachem of the great council of Indiana Improved Order of Red /Men; the Installation of the officers eiacted yesterday and the transaction o.? routine business occupied the closing session today of the annual meeting of the great council of Indiana In Tomlinson bail. The appointive officers and committeemen announced were as follows: Great sannap, James Kilfoy, New Albany; great guard of wigwam, Harry Cane, Harmony; great guard of forest, John McClellan. Terre Haute; great mishewana, Thomas Isbell, Bloomington; member of the board of appeals, Clarence Frey, Brazil; member of the finance committee, Russell Evans. Spencer; member of the orphans' board. Pearl Lawson, Staunton; member of the by-laws committe, Oscar Sherman Indianapolis: committee for the reception of the next great incohonee of the national body, John E. Sedwick, of Martinsville In J., John S. Coffman, Muncie; David Koster, Indianapolis, and Thomas Evans. Rushvlile. In addition to the advancement of T. C. O Conner of Jalonville. from the position of great senior sagamore to the position of great sachem, and the advancement of James K. Stockdale of New Albany, from the position of great junior sagamore to the position of great senior sagamore, the following officers were elected at yesterday afternoon's session of the annual meeting of the great council of Indiana, Improved Order of Red Men, at Tomlinson Hall; Great Junior sagamore. Fred Hines; Noblesvllle: great prophet, F. E. Mabee, Connersville; great chief of records, Arch H. Hobbs, Indianapolis (re-elected): great keeper of wampum, Ralph S. Faker. Sheridan: great trustees. E. C. Seabrook. New Albany, for three years, and Gus C. Krach, Evansville, one year. A resolution was adopted extending an Invitation to the great council of the 1 United States to meet in Indianapolis in 1923, the meeting of the national body ! being In Buffalo in 1922.

Trial Date Fixed for Church Murde* CHICAGO Oct. 19.—Harvey Churtfe, charged with the murder of Carl O. An n-g mns and J. P. Daugherty, Packard Motors Car Compaur salesmen, will bo tried CO Nov. 28, it was decided today. The State alleges that Church lured the salesmen to his home and killed them single-handed in order to obtain possession of a motor car. Church, according to the police, has repudiated his alleged confession.

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