Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1921 — Page 1

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BILLS TO DROP IN HOPPER IF WAY IS OPENED Governor in Effort to Hold Session to Single Issue. SOLONS TO CAUCUS Reformatory Removal Amendment Distributed. With members of the Legislature gathering in Indianapolis today for the special session which opens Wednesday the question of whether the session can be limited to one day, as Governor Warren T. McCray hopes, was uppermost. There was considerable discussion of bills for everything under the sun which will be introduced "if anybody kicks over the traces." There were none, however, who would admit they were willing to assume the responsibility of "kicking over the traces.” Nearly every man had a program of what we would do should the other fellow cut loose. In order to determine definitely in advance whether it would l>e possible to limit the session caucuses of both the House and the Senate were being planned. A caucus of the Republican members of the Senate had not been anticipated previously, but there seemed to lie considerable desire to "count noses'" to determine just where things stand. I.OOK TO TENTATIVE REAPPORTIONMENT. If somebody does "kick over the traces" there are numerous things that will come up. One of them is a i.tll tentatively providing for congressional renpportionmetn to become effective should Congress provide for such reapportion mcnt. This would do away with the necessity for nno*her special session. There also Is considerable dissatisfaction with the teachers' pension law and there may be an effort to amend it. There way be a soldier bonus bill, a bill to take ■ are of disabled soldiers, a bill to pro vide for the removal of the State School for the Blind In order to provide for t'.e War Memorial and a bill to cut the s.ii:.ry of the Marlon County treasurer even more than it was cut at the last session. These are simply samples of the deluge than can be expected if the Governor is not able to keep the Assembly under con trol. Meanwhile preparations are going forward for the House caucus Tuesday. (Continued on Page Two.) MORSE, BACK IN U. S., HASTENS TO WASHINGTON Shipbuilder Recalled From France, Says He Left 'Openly.* NEW* YORK, IVc. 12.-Charles W*. Morse, who was requested to return from Havre by Attorney General Daugherty, announced today upon arrival here aboard the liner Paris (hat be would return to Washington at onre voluntarily, to answer to any charges the Government may have to lodge against him "at any place or at any time.” Morse stated he hail left for 1.11 rape "openly" and with the knowledge or the I nlted States Shipping Board. lie issued .a statement declaring he would protect the Interests of creditors of the Groton Iron W-rks of New Lon•ion. Conn., and the Virginia Ship Build ing Corporation w itch, he said, are owed millions of dollars by the 1 nlted States Emergency Fleet Co-p >ration, and which be had so far been unable to collect either by arbitration or through civil suits. Morse asserted ho was ready to have the Issues involved settled in a criminal court. If that was the wish of the Emergency Elect Corporation, and the E nlted States Shipping Board. Mr. Morse appeared to lie in the best of health He was met at the pier by his son, Harry. Morse willingly posed for a battery of nhotogniphers, both alone and with his son. Admiral Beatty Has Audience With King LONDON. Dec. 12.- Admiral Earl Beatty, who acted as naval adviser to the British delegation t*> th. Washington confereni-e. had an audience with King George today anil reported on the results of the conference, so far as it lias dealt with naval matters. HARDING NOMINATES OMAN. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—President Harding today sent to the Senate the nomination of George \V. Upton of Ohio, to be a member of the Federal Trade Commission. WEATHER Forecast for lAdianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 p. m., Dec. 13. 1021 : Unsettled weather tonight and Tuesday; probably rain; not much change in temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. rt a. m ;ti> 7 a. m 3.1 A a. m J a. m :;i 10 a. m 38 11 a. 37 12 (noon) 37 1 p. ni 37 2 p. m 36

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‘ART’ WELLING, NOTED BURGLAR, UNDER ARREST San Francisco Police Hold Desperado Who Led 24 Prisoners to Liberty. FINGER PRINTS PROOF Arthur Welling, notorious safe cracker and leader of the jail delivery in which twenty-four meu escaped from the Marlon County jail ou the morning of July 4, 1019, has been arrested in San Francisco, the Indianapolis police were informed today. The police received their information through a letter stating that a Frank Lynch and a Hiram Baker had been ar rested there. Inclosed were pictures and finger prints of the two inen. Those of Lynch corresponded exactly with those of Welling, they declare. The police did not recognize the other man. Welling and Edward Stevens were arrested at the Severin Hotel, after a grip containing nitroglycerin and a kit of burglar's tools were discovered in the check room. They were charged with cracking the safe of the Western Oil Refining Company at Meridian and TwentyFifth streets and taking SSOO. Both were taken to the county jail to await grand jury action. Early on the morning of July 4. 1919, the prisoners in the jail, led by Welling, assaulted a guard, pried a bar from a window and twenty-four escaped. Stevens was too big to get through the hole and remained in the jail. A fast automobile was outside waiting for Welling and he was spirited away. The remainder of the prisoners scattered. St even.i was released later on a $5,000 bond, an! immediately left the State. He was arrested in Illiruds a short time later and i“turned to Indianapolis when he was sentenced to serve two to four teen years in the penitentiary. The information from California does not reveal the charges against Welling alias Lynch, and on these charges depends the action of the India 7 ’polls po lice in bringing hlin back. ERIN-BRITAIN PACT CAUSES WORLDTHRILL Public Opinion Helps io Bring About Agreement. Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By COL. EDWARD M. HOUSE. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12—When it was announced that, those ancient enemies. Great Britain and Ireland, had reached ail agreement, it gave the English-speaking peoples a thrill something akin to that which was felt when the armistice was signed. The antagonism between the British and the Irish reaches back into the centuries so far that it has become as much a part of our consciousness as are the workings of our solar system. It had almost taken its place among those natural phenomena reckoned as immutable. Consequently, it is difficult to grasp the entire significance of the pact which was signed in London last week between the representatives of Great Britain and Ireland. The plan finally adopted is in almost every particular the one which has been advocated, early and late, for the last three years by that modest and eminent Irish statesman. Sir Horace Plunkett. If I.ls counsel had been heeded, the acute anil distressing situation which has disturbed the English speaking world for the last eighteen months could not have occurred. He repeatedly appealed for some such plan of dominion home rule as finally was adopted and he forecast its acceptance by both Great Britain and Ireland. Public opinion has driven both sides to accept a settlement which each has declared many times they would not accept. It proves that difficulties between nations which seemingly are Insoluble can be composed as readily as differences between individuals. The most potent force In this adjustment was the demand in (Continued on Page Three.)

Talk of Quick Finish ‘ Premature ’

BRITISH WRITER FINDS MANY QUESTIONS PENDING

Submarine Issue Will Take Time

By It. WILSON HARRIS, Diplomatic Staff of I-ondon Bally News. WASHINGTON. Dec. 12.—The acceptance of the Pacific treat}' by the disarmament conference means a long step taken on the road the conference has tr travel, but the sudden talk of a quick and easy finish seems a little premature. What comes nest? It is now nine days since Japan’s delegates at Washington submitted to their govern ment their recommendations as to both the Pacific and the naval questions. The answer as to the former has teen received. The answer on the latter can not hang fire much longer. Assume it to be favorable. Then the 5-5-3 problem will be out of the way. But that floes not quite settle the capital ship liuestion for France [

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EAST CHICAGO TIGER KEEPERS TELL OF GRAFT Cops Demanded From SSO to SIOO a Month, Is Report. CHIEF IS NAMED Head and Captain Are Charged With Conspiracy. Revelations of an organized system of graft in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor by which “blinde tiger" operators were given police protection on payment of sums running from SSO to SIOO a month, were made in Federal Court today in the trial of Edward P. O’Donell, chief of police of East Chicago, and Thomas Downey, captain of police. Downey and O’Donnell are charged with conspiracy along with John Stipanovich, Nick Vujnovich and Nick Popovich. The last three entered pleas of guilty when arraigned last spring and took the stand for the Government today. When court adjourned the Government apparently had made a very strung ease and was nut through with the presentation of evidence. SAYS HE PAID POLICE CAPTAIN ¥SO A WEEK. John Stippanovirh testified that lie had paid Captain Downey SSO a wek during the summer of 1920 for protection and that while these pa.vmCntg were kept up by him that he was not only not bothered by the police, but that he was tipped off by Captain Downey when the Federal prohibition agents were iu town. Later when he quit making the payments because "business was rotten.” h> said that be was searched fifteen or twenty times and on one occasion three times iu one day. After be haif appeared before (he Fed ernl grand jury he said that he was “framed” and that on July 11 the police searched his place and found some whisky under some lumber in the bnek yard. He said that at this time he was out of business and that the whisky was put there by the police officers. In the city court he was fined S2OO and costs and given a sentence of sixty days on the (Continued on Page Two.) MORE THAN 25 ARE ENTOMBED BY AVALANCHE Attempted Rescue of Woman and Children Proves Disastrous. SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 12.—At least twenty five firemen and volunteer workers were buried today by a landslide. They were attempting to rescue Mrs. Samuel C. Andrews and her two children. Jack and Tom. who were engulfed by a great slide which buried their West Seattle home Saturday night. The slides were caused by the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in this region, four and a half Inches being recorded during the past thirty-six hours. Hundreds are homeless, railroad service over the Cascade Mountains is tied up and all roads to Tacoma are blocked, due to floods or landslides resulting from tlie unprecedented rainfall . Joseph Moran, hank employe, was crushed to death near here Sunday night, when a landslide wrecked his home at Medina. Hundreds of families are fleeing from their homes In the Rainier valley. It has been necessary to go to the rescue of some of them iu hunts. An attempt is being made to recover the body of Samuel lineman, mail clerk, who is believed to have been ilrawned in Miller River near Kkykomish when a Great Northern Railway mail train plunged into the river, dtle to a washedout bridge. The engine an dflve cars dropped into the river. Wire communication with the scene of ttie wreck has been severed Before the wires went down, word came to Seattle that all had been accounted for except Ililentan.

and Italy then will have to be 1 rought into the picture. It is generally agreed their ratio on the 5-5-3 basis should he two. but French authorities have not been talking as if they accepted that view, and further discussion may be necessary. But assume that finished. Next conies the submarines. Their discussion quite certainly will be needed for while the British arguments In favor of total abolition may not have convinced the American delegation. they clearly have made a certain impression and a compromise likely is to he hammered out. That also will take time. Here again France and Italy have to be considered. and once more evidence of a marked difference of opinion between Great Britain and her nearest neighbor are visible. First word, of eourse,

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HOPE TO END ARMS PARLEY BYNEWYEARS With Biggest Task Done, Delegates Are Eager for Finish. PROGRESS IS RAPID i Settle Yap, Agree to Remove Chinese Postoffices. WASHINGTON. Dec. 12.- Events moved swiftly today to improve the chances of the armaanent conference being out of Vashington by new year's. Notable progress made made at the secret session of tne powers, among which were these overshadowing developments: 1. Secretary of State Hughes announced (he settlement of (lie long controversy with .lapan over the inland of Yap anil other mandated Islands of the Pacific, which removes the sole remaining bar to the actual signing of (tie four-powered part treaty negotiated last week. 2. The powers agreed to remove their foreign poMoflices In ( hlna by Jan. I. Japan's assent to this was made conditional upon Pekio’s confirmation, hut this Is expected. THREE PROBLEM * DEMAND ATTENTION. The prnhletu <>f China, of Siberia and the final adjustment of the naval program laid down by Secretary of State Hughes on the opening day, remain to lie cleared up. With regard to the naval program Toklu's answer was in the hands of Baron Kato, head of the Japanese delegation. and may be presented to the other powers at a secret meeting of the "big three" late today. Toklo’s answer is believed to bo acceptance of the 5-5 ,3 eapltol ship ratio insisted upon by the United Spite**,- enuple'J with a reservation rreserving tin? status quo of fortifications In the Pacific, and a trade of some sort that will permit Japan to retain the Mutsu, her latest and most powerful ilreadn,night. With regards to China the powers believe that most of whn; can be accomplished here already lias been done by the adoption of the four principles enunciated h.v Root and pledge them not to (Continued on Pago Two.) SHANK OFFERS WOMAN POLICE HEAD NEW JOB Suggests That Captain Burnside Accept Position as Detective. John W. .Mtillin. appointee for supervisor of detectives, today was commissioned by Mayor Fleet Snmuol Lewis Shank to consult with Miss Clara Burnside, captain of policewomen, in an of fort tu get her to reconsider her resignation from the police department, effective Jan. 1, and remain in the new administration as a detective sergeant. Mr. Sluing did this after Mr. Mullln asked hi in if he had any objection to his taking six picked women from the present women’s police department, which Mr. Shank intends to abolish, and putting them In the detective department. Mr. Mullln said four of the six women whom he has selected are Captain Burnside, and Policewomen Bertha Duclus, Irene Beyer and Nell W. Hankie. Air. Shank had no objection to this. SHANK PRAISES MISS HI RNSIDE. "I hope Mr. Mullln can induce Miss Burnside to stay in the department. She's a good officer and we want nothing but good officers in our police department.” said Mr. Shank. "Mr. Mullln told me he could use the six women !o good advantage, there being certain kinds of detective work in which women are especially valuable. He asked me if I had any personal preference among the policewomen and I told him that 1 didn’t, that he was at liberty (o go right ahead (Continued on Page Two.)

will lie with America, which having put to Britain and Japan a clearcut schedule of their reductions, may he -expected to take the same course with France and Italy. However that may lie, stiluiarines look like making quite a substantial demand on the conference’s time and when they are solved there Is the naval holiday, which will not he adopted in the form in which it was originally put forward by Mr. Hughes, and the question of naval bases in the Pacific. Even if tlxe ground is partly cleared by the experts and by informal conversations, the delegates themselves are going to have more than enough to fill their time between now and Christmas. — Copyright, 1921, by International News Service.

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Chief of Staff Gives Number Soldiers Needed. 4 COMBAT UNITS Air Service Requires Minimum of 11,500. Washington. Dec. 12.— The United States Army is 50,000 below the minimum strength required for national safety, according to the declaration of the chief of staff in his annual report, made public today. The “irritlucible minimum" strength of the regular army "consistent with public safety,” the chief of staff asserted, is 200,000, exclusive of Philippine scouts. OVERSEA GARRISONS AND COAST DEFENSE. Forty thousand troops are necessary for overseas garrisons, including Porto Rico. Panama. Hawaii, the Philippines, Alaska and China, the chief of staff explained. This docs not Include the forces necessary for manning coast artillery defenses. estimated at 20.000 or twice the number provided under present plans for limiting the Army to 150.000 men. Since the I'nlted States is dependent in time of war on its citizen soldiery, the general staff lays particular emphasis on the necessity of adequate personnel for training the organized national reserves. The number of enlisted men necessary for this duty, the thief of staff places at 14.000. 'l’he air service requires a minimum of 11.500 men, the chief of staff said. SPECIAL AND TECHNICAL UNITS. Pointing out that the World War found the I’nlted States particularly unprerared in special and technical units, the chief of staff insisted that 10.000 men Is the smallest allotment for this service consistent with public safety. The chief of staff pointed out that 140,000 troops are necessary for foreign garrisons, special services anil the overhead of the Army. In addition to these special troops, he asserts, there must tie at least sixty thousand combat troops held in readiness in the United States for any emergency that may arise. "We must have at least four combat divisions in the United States." his report says. “From the standpoint of geography, these divisions should tie located: One oti the Pacific coast, one on the Mexican border, our in the Middle West and one on the Atlantic coast. SHOWS HE DID LEARN TO FIGHT Man, Released to Join Army, Shows His Prowess. Judge James A. Collins some years ago released Leo Arthur, 23, 1010 South Mount street, who was in his court on the charge of vehicle taking, provided he would join the Army. Arthur joined the Army, learned to fight, and today he was in city court charged with drunkenness and assault and battery with intent to kill. It was alleged that he "cleaned out” a poolroom at 2102 West Morris street, hitting Asa Gritton in the eye with a pool ball. The battle occurred Saturday. Arthur pleaded not guilty, but he was bound over to the grand jury on the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Bond was fixed at SI,OOO by Judge Pritchard West Virginian to Be Youngest Envoy WASHINGTON. Dec. 12.—William O’Tool of Gary, W. Va., will be named by President Harding jis ETnited States minister to Paraguay, it was learned at the White House today. O’Tool is only 28 anil probably will be the youngest minister in American diplomatic service. He is prominently identified with the mining interests of the United States Steel Corporation in West Virginia.

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The United States Submarine S-48, sunk while on a trial trip off Penfleld Reef, near Bridgeport, Conn. The forty men aboard escaped through a torpedo tube, indicated in the photo by an arrow. and were taken off by a passing tug. They had beeu trapped in the disabled submersible for more than twelve hours. Officials telleve the accident oc-

Nellie Kiroff, Sentenced for Killing Husband , to Make New Trial Fight

By WALTER D. HICKMAN. MARTINSVILLE. Ind., Dec. 12.—Mrs Nellie Kiroff, the girl wife of Carl Kiroff who was found guilt;. of manslaughter for the murder of her husband by a jury here last week, this afternoon began her tight to secure anew trial. Attorney Paul Wetter, pauper attorney of Marion County, argued that Mrs. Kiroff was entitled to u new trial on the grounds of error. The motion for anew trial sets up that the court erred In not permitting the defendant to relate her early life and to introduce proof that her late husband was a prohibition violator. The court in its instructions to the jury instructed the Jury not to consider evidence rein lie to the alleged "white mule" activities of Kiroff and also not to consider tile fact that Mrs Kiroff is soon to become n mother. , The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter which carries with it a sentence of from two to twenty-one years in prison. Mrs. Kiroff was not sentenced when tlie Jury returned its verdict on request of counsel. If the court should overrule the motion for anew trial, it is

QUIT OTHER JOBS TO HOLD PLACES IN LEGISLATURE Scions Having Appointments Hope to Be Renamed After Session. Senators and Representatives now serving In various capacities in the Statehouse have submitted their resignations to department heads so that they may return for the special session of the Legislature. which Is ot convene Wednesday. All expect to be reappointed after the session adjourns. Representative Ray V. Gibbens, Madison County, an inspector for the public service commission, submitted his resignation to John V. MeCardle, chairman of the commission, today. Representative Chester Davis of .Tay County, said that he would resign ffom his position as attorney for the State Fire Marshal’s office so that lie could resume his seat in the Legislature. Senator Estes Duncan of Clover dale, now employed as secretary of the teachers’ pension fund, is not reqnnred to resign. and will resume his place In the Legislature. Senator Maurice Douglass, Democrat, of Pint rock, and a member of the public service commission, will not return to the Legislature. Mr. Douglass said that he would remain in his place on the commission and would not participate in the session. These scions are following the precedent set by .Tesse E. Eschbaeh, who resigned as chief examiner of the State board of accounts to become speaker of the House during the special session of the Legislature In 19’J0 and who was (hen yeappointed to the board by Governor James 1\ Goodrich. He Didn't Know That the unemployed men who asked him for money for a night’s lodging and food could have been eared for at the Wheeler Rescue Mission because his money paid to the Community (.’best made it possible. East year ,he Mission gave lodging and meals to more than 1,000 such men and furnished material relief to 402 families. 1 J

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curred because someone was careless and failed to fasten properly a deck manhole cover. The inset shows Capt. Eugene Olson of the tug boat Socony, who responded to the signals for help sent out by Peter Dunne, who wriggled through the torpedo tube and who is credited with saving the lives of the imprisoned men.

thought that the court will immediately sentence her. According to information received by M. Wetter, many people of Martinsville have taken the cause of the wife to heart and are planning to raise a purse to finance her fight for anew trial and an .appeal if necessary. Since the verdict of the jury. Interested residents here have sent many bouquets of flowers to the cell which is occupied by Mrs. Kiroff. Kiroff was fatally shot by his wife on the night of July 19. at the Kiroff home •on West Michigan street in Indianapolis. Mrs. Kiroff, on the witness stand, testified that it was an accident, although her legal defense was based on the theory of self defense. Judge Alfred M. Bain refused to instruct on the grounds of self defense, but instructed the jury as to accidental shooting. Kiroff. in his final statement to the police, declared his wife shot him after he had discovered a strange man in her bedroom. This was denied by Mrs. Kiroff.

GARBAGE PLANT BATTLESTARTS Restraining Order Issued to Prevent Use of Sellers Dump Ground. A legal battle of more than thirty property owners near the Sellers farm, which has been used by tbe city of In- i dianapolis as a public dump and garbage reduction plant, to obtain a temporary restraining order preventing tho city of Indianapolis, the board of sanitary ; commissioners and the board of health from continuing to use the farm for such purposes, began today before Judge Arthur R. Robinson of Superior Court, j Room 4. William Rice, who heads the property , owners and residents, asks that the court issue a temporary restraining order and then that a permanent injunction be issued after a hearing. The present hearing is on the request for a temporary restraining order. Eph Inman and Frank Raker are representing the plaintiff property owners and Thomas D. Stevenson of the city legal forces is representing Mayor Jewett and the other defendants. It is alleged in the petition that the ; odors arising from the farm as well as the noise attending the delivery of garbage and the like are not only iinliealthful and annoying, but is detrimental to ! tbs value of surrounding real estate. The city contends that its position is upheld by the statutes and the rules governing the disposal of garbage. Irving W. Lemaux Goes to New York Irving W. Lemaux, Republican eity ohairnian and member of the board of public works, will leave tonight for a week’s stay in New York, attending a session of the executive committee of the American Supply and Machine Mann- i faeturers' Association. He is vice president of the association. Mrs. Lemaux ( will accompany him. N. A. Gladding of the E. (’. Atkins Company, who is presl- ' dent of the association, left for New \ York Sunday. H l(i If COURT TO RECEBR. WASHINGTON. Dee. 12—The Supreme Court of the United States today announced it would take a recess from Dee. 19 until Tuesday, Jan. 3.

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HUGHES TELLS CONFEREES OF ADJUSTMENT Terms Apply to All Mandated Isles in Pacific. NIPPON CONTROLS American Rights Include Landing and Cables. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. The famed controversy over the Island of Yap, which led to the United Sttaes having disputes with Japan and the whole league of nations, has been settled in private negotiations between Japan and the United States. Secretary of State Hughes, who has been the spokesman for the United States in the controversy, made announcement of the settlement at today’s secret session of the powers in the Pan-American building. The terms of settlement, while not officially announced, are known to apply to all the mandated islands of the Pacific in which Japan is concerned. The settlement of the famous controversy will be embraced in a separate treaty between the two countries and does not concern the other conference poTYfr-j* The treaty will be submitted to the Senate for ratification. While the terms of the settlement were not officially announced, it was learned the United States is given certain definite rights in the island and in other islands coming under Japan's mandate, including the right of landing and controlling cables. Another provision is understood to provide for the maintenance of the “open door" and equal economic opportunity in mandated territories. Japan, in consideration of these concessions. is to retain nominal control f the islands.

NO LIMIT SET FOR CROWD AT TABERNACLE Everybody's Party to Be Big Event in Opening of Chest Drive. PROGRAM IS ARRANGED Everybody’s Party, Tonight, 7:30 F. M., at Cadle Tabernacle. 7:15 P. M.—Band concert, 11th United States Infantry Band, Richard K. Dunn, conductor. 7:30 P. M.—Meeting called to order by Chairman Dick Miller. 7:35 P. M. —lnvocation. 7:40 P. M.—Roll call of Community Cheat teams. 8:40 P. M.—Address. 8:50 P. M.—Gypsy Smith choir, Jm Overmyer, director. Quartette. Duct, Mr. OTermjrr. Mis. Howard Cadle. Solo, Mrs. Charles Beese. 9:40 P. sf.—Commnnity sing, led by Mr. Overmyer. 9:55 P. 51.—“ Star-Spangled Banner,” by Gypsy Smith choir and band. One thousand workers for the 1922 Community Chest started today on the first effort to obtain $605,412.92 to finance the relief, welfare and character building institutions of Indianapolis for the coming year. Tonight at Cadle Tabernacle a crowd expected to reach into the thousands will hear the results of the day’s work. In addition to the team captains of the five divisions there will be a report from the Special Gifts Division of which Hugh (Continued on Page Two.)

JAP HELD FOR DEATH THREAT Shijoro Rotate Accused of Plot Against Premier. TOKIO. Dec. 12.—A death threat sent to Premier Tnkahnsh! through the mails, has led to the arrest of a 20-year-old Japanose. and today all members of the government are guarded by the heaviest fores of secret service agents in many years. According to the police, the prisoner, whose name is Shijoro Rotate, is alleged to have said in hs letter that his threat against the premier’s life would be put into effect if Takahashi “should take action similar to that of the late Premier Hnra." Premier Kara was assassinated by a Japanese youth last month. The arrest of Rotate has led to rumors of the existence of a plot against the lives of other members of the cabinet and police precautions of the most ex> traordinary kind are being taken. “SAY IT WITH A 1 TIMES WANT AD” Save your steps to find a home and read the For Rent and For Sale columns in tbs Dally Times—they are the best guide. Don't start house-hnnting until you have made a list of houses where you would prefer to live. Call MAin 3500. Ask for Want Ad Taker. Vr ■■