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HARDING FIRES SHOT INTO CAMP OF HIS CRITICS President Driven to Denial of Impending Disaster in Arms Conference. VARIOUS TALES AFLOAT Specif to Indiana Daily Times and Phi’adelnhia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON. Dec. 24.—President Harding tonight took a vigorous wallop at the prophets of evil who are trying to becloud the conference situation. In a straight-from-the-shoulder statement. Issued personally and verbally by him at the White House, he denied the existence of any semblance of discord between himself and the American delegation. The President affirmed in the most categorical terms that the quadruple treaty on Pacific affairs contemplates no alliance or entanglements of any kind, ne declared his complete satisfaction with the unAmerican delegation, alarmed over the ca’s spokesmen at the conference are achieving. The President's broadside came at the end of a day replete with fresh rumors of turmoil and disaster impend'::.; for the four-power pact. Reports of the wildest sort flew thick and fast through gossip-hungry Washington. One yarn avowed that the treaty was already being “re-written.” Another had it ’hat “reservations" dictated by the President himself were in compilation, designed to remove the mainland of Japan from the provisions of Article 2. Still another tale awtrred that the White House and the American delegation alarmed over the growing wave of hostility in the Senate already were moving with foreign delegations to frame an entirely new pact. HARDING AVO HUGHES STUDY TREATY. Mr. Harding evidently decided the moment had arrived for blowing those fables and conjectures out of the water. His blast received additional force when it became known that he was in consultation at the White House with Secretary Hughes just before the pronunciamento was made. There can be no doubt its text was gone over with and approved by Mr. Hughes before the President himself made it public. The statement was communicated to the same audience before which Mr. Harding three days previous announced his disagreement with the theory that the Pacific treaty applied to the home island of Japan—the corps of Washington and conference correspondents. The President's declaration came as a complete surprise and was delivered with dramatic force. He was manifestly primed for the occasion. PRESIDENT TALKS TO REPORTERS. Sifting through his fingers seven or eight of the written slips upon which questions fired at him by newspapermen now have to be submitted. Mr. Harding remarked they all referred to a question he had not failed to anticipate. Then he read to the crescent of scribes which flanked his desk an announcement, which he emphasized he was anxious should be attributed personally to the President. It was follows:

“The President will offer no comment on the disputes which attempt to magnify the differing constructions on the fourparty treaty. To him these are unimportant. The big things aimed at are understandings for peace and an agreement to meet and discuss the preservation of peace whenever it is threatened. No alliance or entanglement is thonght of. none will be negotiated. It would be better to rejoice over things accomplished than to dwell on differing views which can be of no great coDsequer.ee. •'The President is unwilling that the unjustified charge that the United States delegates are withholding information shall go unchallenged. He has full confidence, else he should not have chosen them. He has full confidence now and Is more than gratified over their efforts because they are working out the greatest contribution to peace ond goodwill which has ever marked the Christmas time in all the Christian era. “It is one thing to talk about the Ideals of peace, but the bigger thing is to seek the actuality. This the conference Is doing. In harmony with an overwhelming American sentiment, and a wold sentiment, too. and in full accord with cherished traditions." It became plain from the President’s statement that he is bent upon bringing three cardinal fact-' home to the country and to the world, to wit: 1. That he stands pat on bis own originally voiced view as to the Implication of Article 2, in so far as It “respects’’ the territorial possessions of Japan. 2. That divergence of views on that score is of little consequence compared to the “bigger” things the American delegation is helping to achieve at the Washington 'conference. 8. That Messrs. Hughes, Lodge. Root and Underwood retain, unimpaired, the confidence the President placed in them when he appointed them. SENATOR. BORAH WANTS RESERVATION. Probably it is expecting too much to believe the President’s thrust at his critic* will splkt their guns. Indeed, about the aame time he was declaring himself at the White Honse would-be makers of the treaty were engaged in foreshadowed drastic handling of the past when it reaches the other end of Pennsylvania avenue. To Senator Borah was attributed the completion of two reservations. One already publicly alluded to by the Idaho Irreconcilable contemplates a provision specifically exempting the mainland of Japan from the conditions of Article 2 The other would set forth that no decisions taken by the four powers, under Article 1, when they come together to discuss controversies, shall be binding upon the United States except nnder express sanction o Congress. To another opponent of the treaty or Versalios—an and Wilson Democrat, Senator Shields of Tennessee—was ascribed a statement that no matter what was done. “dCR-ntown.” Capitol Hill could and would rewrite the whole quadruple If it needed reconstruction. Os more authoritative moment than any of those storm-signals was the announcement from Republican organization leaders particularly close to the White House that President Harding in due course would confer with G. O. P. Senators on the ensuing legislative program. As that program will include the Pacific treaty and other conference agreements requiring Congressional sanction, the announcement indicates the imminence of consultation among Mr. Harding and his political friends on ways and means for piloting conference pacts into harbor. Throughout the tempestuous talk of the last four days men have paused long enough to recall that Warren O. Harding after all Is “no slouch” of a politician. Many are convinced his “break” about the Japanese homeland may have been a calculated Indiscretion. Those who Incline to that view say the President’s purpose is not yet revealed but will be In due course. Meantime. Mr. Harding bas come forward and assured the country that the conference bark, despite the high waves that seem to be rolling around it, is sailing on to Us appointed destination—success. After tho President had said his say concerning rumors of shattered confidence between him and the American big four, he launched into a forceful discussion of conference and world conditions in general. Before he was through Mr. Hardipg was speaking with uncommon eamevr'“ rfl --i* Flr* v — d*juissen with cu j...

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concerning land armaments and the Inability of the administration to do anything regarding revision of the Versailles treaty. NO CONNECTION WITH LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Then the President, in answer to another question affirmed the total disconnection of the League of Nations with any action taken by the Washington conference. It was at that juncture Mr. Harding delved deeply and almost passionately into the program recorded by the pa>t year in the realm of peace and international understanding. He declared he believed with all his heart that progress had been achieved. The United State-s had not made any greater contribution than other nations of like importance and like civilization. He was nevertheless convinced that 1921. with its fuller revelation of the aftermath of the World War had produced anew conviction in the hearts of men. They had come to realize war was the decidedly wrong way of settling disputes and that mankind would be unworthy of its opportunities ana blessings if it did not invent some means of righteous adjustment other than an appeal to slaughter and its attending destruction. PRESIDENT’S BELIEF IN MANKIND. The President is convinsed the Washington conference is the world's expression of a desire for a better order of things. Men are sitting about the conference table looking each other in the eye and coming to agreements without passion. Hitherto nations have made war. destroyed thousands of millions of men, and measureless treasure and th°n gathered around a table to settle their differences and problems. Mr. Harding has a feeling, perhaps, mankind has become wise enough to sit down before a war when there Is a dispute that menaces the peace of the world. Precisely that, in the President's view is the object of ‘he four-power treaty Just concluded in Washington. That is why he attributes no significance'to any disagreement ov<*r construction. If there were a menace to peace In Japan Mr. Harding can conceive no objection to the United States sitting down with its friends in the Orient and seeking a way to avoid conflict. If Austria and Serbia had done that there would have beer, no European war in 1914. The whole object of the Washington conference, the President stressed, is to arrive at some way of compromising differences before resorting to war. He is persuaded that is what is In the American heart, in the British heart, in the Japanese heart, in the French heart, in the Italian heart, and in heart* throughout the world. Mr. Harding’s creed can be epitomized in the statement tbt if present-day civilization Is incapable of taking advantage of the new spirit that prevails, civilization’s future holds little hope.—Copyrght, 1921. by Public Ledger Company.

Taken From Hospital to County Jail Garland Snepp, 30, 419 South Noole 6treet, alleged burglar, was brought In from the city hospital to a cell room at police headquarters today, where he is held under a bond of $2,500 on chnrges of petit larceny and burglary. Snepp has been in the detention ward at the hospital since Dec. 13, recovering from shot wounds said to have been received while he was escaping from a grocery of W. Towley, G2B Fletcher avenue. Homer Montgomery. 622 Fletcher, shot Snepp when the later refused to obey the command to stop. Snepp bas a police record. Arkansas Cyclone Causes Nine Deaths EARLE, Ark., Dec. 24. —Eight negroes and one white man were killed in a cyclone which practically wiped out Clarksdale. Ark., a dispatch received here today stated. Relief workers from surrounding towns are caring for the Injured and searching the ruins for bodies. DIES AT WHEEL. BURNLEY, England, Dec. 24.—Thomas Billington, a merchant, who was driving his own motor truck during a strike, died of heart disease while guiding the truck down a 6teep hill, and fell from the seat. The truck dashed on and killed a man and a woman before it was wrecked.

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HIGH PROFITS CHARGE DENIED BY RETAILERS ■ - Association Makes Reply to Accusation of Attorney General. CHICAGO. Dec. 24.—Aroused by the recent announcement of Attorney General 11. M. Daugherty that “retailers’ profits ate unconscionable” and that “retailers in many parts of the country have organizations which tend to keep prices higher,” the National Association of Retail Clothiers today took sharp issue with the Attorney General. In a leiegram to Mr. Daugherty the association declared the statement that retailers' profits are too high, so far as ; retail clothiers are concerned, “was not I true and any one cognizant of the facts jwill admit its untruth.” Speaking for the association, the telegram continued, “we resent as applied to that organization, your statement that retailers have organizations which tend to keep prices high and that retailers over the country have an understanding. The clear implication is that there Is a conspiracy of retail elothiers, among others. through their trade association. “This statement also is untrue and any person cognizant of the facts will admit its untruth.” The telegram takes the Attorney General to task for not making hi* investigation first and obtaining his press publicity later, rather than attack the problem in the inverse order. ERROR CAUSE OF DELAY IN DEBS RELEASE (Continued From Tage One.) ! said. “But it’s his Christmas dinner, and he will understand.” A pair of soft carpet slippers and a dark bath robe were neatly laid out in Debs’ large library. They were not new. “I just thought I would have them handy for him,” was her comment. The fact that Mrs. Debs lias not received any direct word from her husband | since his release was ordered lust night ■ did not worry her. “What would be the use of a telegram when she knows his heart was in the comfortable frame house in Terre Haute” her gray eyes asked.

Several bunches of flowers—sent to the Debs' house by local business men—were on the dining room table. Also there were some books from all over the country, and a hundred or so Christmas presents. “They always remember Gene,” she said proudly. As Mrs. Debs pottered about the house, rested to conserve her strength and pottered again, it seemed as though every one In Terre Ha'uto had “when” on his Ups. Debs will have a triumphant entry into his home town. Business men, coal diggers, professional men adn others will be at the station-to greet the unfettered Gene and four-time candidate for the presidency. Terre Haute and nvirons have no worry about th charges of violation of th aspior.ag act that sent Debs to Jail during th war. The fact that he Is a Socialist docs not bother them even down here in Indiana where politics are taken seriously. Theirs will be the greeting of one who has taken his place among Indiana’s great, the bosom friend of James Whitcomb Riley, Bill Nye, Colonal Maynard, Eugene Fields and many others.

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DENIAL FAILS TO HALT TALE OF KIDNAPING Chinese Newspapers Discredit Dr. Sun’s Charges of Propaganda. CANTON, China, Dec. 24.—Sensational reports of the kidnaping of Madam Sun j Yat Sen, wife of the president of the re- ! public of South China, persist despite the j denial of I)r. Sun himself, telegraphed | hero from Kweilisig. Dr. Sun said his ! wife, who was on her way to take charge ' of the Red Cross work with the South ! China army, “would reach her destination j safely.” j The Chinese newspapers printed the report of Mgdani Sun's kidnaping as authentic. Eugene Chen, a member of the Canton government, added his denial to that of Dr. Sun, ceclarive the report evidently had been put out by the political foes of the South China administration for propaganda purposes. “The widespread report of the kidnaping evidently was started by the Northern propaganda bureau as a political move to discredit the Southern cause. Dr. Sun is now in the field leading an expedition against the forces of the North. The report of the kidnaping would tend to show that Dr. Sun’s power was so weak he could not even protect his , wife. “I know that the North wishes to prevent Madam Sun from assisting the ; Southern cause through her Red Cross work. We expect that many reports will ; be circulated in the future casting discredit upon the Red Cross. I “Madam Sun was heavily guarded when she set out and I believe her husband | when he says she was safe.”

ASHBY THINKS SALE OF BONDS WRONG ACTION Opposes Indiana Electric Corporation Proposal to Huy Plants. The granting of the petition of the Indiana Electric Corporation for permission to issue $18,490,000 in bonds for the purchase of seven Indiana utility plants would be a step in the wrong direction, Samuel Ashby, corporation counsel for the city of Indianapolis, declared in a brief filed with the public service commission today. Mr. Ashby contends that the securities which the corporation seeks to issue are in excess* of the value of the property which would be back of them. It is amazing, Mr. Ashby declares, that the petitioner should contend that the commission has a right to fixe the property value at $18,496,000. He points out that the total value of the securities now outstanding Is only $1.1(220,500. In discussing the valuations. Mr. Ashby contends that there “is no argument for the contention made by the petitioner in this ease that the commission Is not hound in any way, shape or manner, and will not be bound in the future in establishing valuations for rate making purposes by the valuation it seeks to establish in this matter for the issuance of its stocks and bonds. He argues for tlie consideration of he cost of the i roperty in making valuations. Continuing the discussion of valuations In connection with the issuance of securities, Mr. Ashby quotes the law which requires that no public utility shall issue securities except for money or property. BRIEF HOLDS VALUATIONS ALIKE.

Valuations for rate making purposes and for the issuance of stocks and bonds are the same, the brief contends. A large part of the brief Is taken up with the discussion of this subject. Mr. Ashby then goes into a discussion of wartime prices as a basis for valuations, declaring they are unfair Other sections of the brief discuss the emergency relief which has been granted each of the utilities Involved, the contention that utilities have no right to capitalize appreciation, the contention that actual cost of utility property is the measure of value, the proposed central power plant, the valuations placed on the property by the commission’s engineers, and various other phases of the case. KENTUCKY TROOPS CALLED. NEWPORT, Ky., Pee. 24.—State troops sent here to quell disturbances arising ns a result of a strike of steel workers took charge of the situation today. Four companies of guardsmen arrived in tho city in the eariv forenoon. RESINOL .Soothinq And He&linq .St ops llc hin q STARTS MUCH SICKNESS A clogging mass of undigested food that remains fermenting in the stomach or intestines sends the’ poisons it develops through the entire human body. “Keep the bowels open,” is one rule of health recognized by all schools of medicine. Foley Cathartic Tablets cleanse the bowels, sweeten the stomach and benefit the liver. For indigestion, biliousness, bad breath, bloating, gas or constipation, no remedy is more highly recommended. No grip* ing or nausea. —Advertisement. PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM £3r>andruff RlopsllairFalilng ■SPESr Jefl Restores Color and KT-flßeauty to G”ny and Faded Hair b’A-jMI IMscnt rvi., T.'l-s, Psteliumic. It. TANARUS, KINDERCORNS Remove. corns, callouses, etc., stops all pain, ensures comfort to the feet, makes walking easy. 15c by mail or at druggists. Hlscox Chemical Works. Patohogue, N. Y. —Advertisement.

National Chamber of Commerce Head Sees ‘Gathering Strength’ in Business Situation With Firmer Foundations

By JOSEPH n. DEFREES, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. WASHINGTON Dec. 24.—Men draw different interpretations from the facts that appear in the business situation which has been so uncertain of la e. My own conception of present economic conditions in the United States is “gathering strength.” To my mind, evidence multiplies that the elements of weakness which characterized the situation a year ago have run their course In large degree and that we are now In a period of business rehabilitation with many of the causes of unsoundness eliminated. However unpleasant events have been, they have served to bring the country down to fundamentals and to disclose once more the great basis of economic power we have for a fresh start. In twelve or eighteen months we have sustained with remarkable success tho shock of declines such as no other countries have as yet had to undergo ana we are now in the position of having gone farthest toward wiping out the artificial features of our situation left by the war. All this has been accomplished without resort to emergency palliatives. There has been a demonstration of American courage and of the strength of our economic structure. To any general statement regarding the economic status of the country there must necessarily be individual exceptions. Readjustment In certain fields will undoubtedly continue. In the case of railroad revenues and rates, definitely organized machinery exists to deal with them In other problems, like taxation, a beginning has been made and there is promise of more progress yet to come. Developments in these problems and In processes of readjustment will speed the restoration of economic relationships among raw materials and finished products between producers’ dollars and consumers' dollars. SURER FOUNDATION FOR BUSINESS. A building of business activity bas now become possible upon a surer foundation than has existed for yen*s. As always happens in such periods, raw materials were first to feel the effects of deflation in prices. These effects have been widespread and serious. The compensation will come through response of raw materials to the new conditions. At the middle of December a Joint congressional committee, reporting on the agricultural

FIND ARSENAL OF EXPLOSIVES Sinn Fein Headquarters at Glasgow Raided by Police. GLASGOW, Dec. 24.—Enough explosive to blow up this city was discovered when a heavy force of policemen raided a secret Sinn Fein arsenal today. The arsenal was located in a parochial hall In Fullerton, a suburb. The policemen surrounded the building and then forced an entrance. Thirteen men were taken by surprise. They started to put up a fight but surrendered when the police drew revolvers and threatened to open fire. In addition to n tremendous quantity of gelignite and dynamite, the police found many rifles, revolvers, bayonets and bombs. SPLIT Kill, I VI SES IVRFCK. PITTSBURG, Kan . Dec 24.—Two coaches of a Frisco passenger train were derailed at Daisy 11111. near \Vyjr. today. Several passengers were injured, none seriously. The wreck was caused by a split rail dto to cold weather. OHIO MAN COMES TO LOCAL PLANT Named Directing Engineer of Stephenson Gear Cos. W. C. Starkey, who has been ch!< f engineer of the Ohio Brass Company. Mansfield. Ohio, for a number of years, will become vice president and directing engineer of the Stevenson Gear Company, Indianapolis, Jan. 1. Mr. Starkey is

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American business ha : struclc clear of the depression and is again on the high road to prosperity. This is the cheerful message which Joseph H. Defrees, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States sends to the business men of America today, as the old year wanes and the new year dawns. ’’American business,” he says, “is gathering strength.”

crisis, and its causes, reached conclusions of fact that are reassuring. From its statements ti would follow that agriculture can look forward with much confidence to the future, with an Increasing demand for what it has to sell. Other producers of raw materials seem to have improvement in sight. “Copper producers of raw materials seem to have Improvement In sight. “Copper is finishing the year with a remarkable spurt, one that has already regained mucu of the ground lost earlier In 1921,” according to a leading trade journal. “The great basic industry of steel did not go so far downward as copper, and has shown a good degree of recovery since last July.” COAT, INDUSTRY TO ESCAPE HANDICAPS. The president of tho organization of bituminous coal operators expresses a belief that “the bituminous Industry will emerge from the period of depression without maqy of the handicaps of the past period.” “The flour milling industry,” according to an authority, “has faced periods which were far more severe than any recent occurrences.” Outside of th metals group, our important Industries today have an actual production of goods as great or greater than before the war. Some industries are working at a ratio which reflects the Impulses which are coming from the gathering of strength which is going forward. The production of cement has broken the record for any month. Cotton mills In the South are reported in some instances to be operating with night shifts. Shoe factories in Tarlous districts are said to "continue” extremely busy. Paper mills making newsprint in November prod'uced at “8 per cent of the capacity that attained at the time of the greatest activity, in 1920.

Debs Will Fight to Free His Friends ATLANTA. Ga., Dec. 24.—0n1y Eugene Debs’ desire to hasten with his wife in Torre Haute will keep him from going directly to Washington on his release from the Federal prison and appealing to President Harding for freedom for nil the so called political prisoners, close friends of the Socialist leads)', said today. He will not be reconciled to his own release until nil war offenders nowserving sentences are freed, they declare, and predict that after a short rest In Terre Haute he wil! make a personal plea to the President at Washington.

prominent in engineering circles and an expert on tool equipment and gear cutting devices. The Stevenson Gear Company manufacture* a gear cutting machine, known as the Stevenson multiple process, whereby gears are cut simultaneously rather than one at a time by the standard gear cutting machines. The company can nuke gears for automobile manufacturers and all other companies using gears, such as ensh register concerns and saw manufacturers. Among the directors of the company. In addition to Mr. Starkey, are W. T. Wlngo. president of the Superior Machine and Engineering Company. Detroit, Mich., formerly of Brown A- Sharpe Manufacturing Company: G. E. Stevenson, Inventor of the Stevenson process and president of the company. Indianapolis; Illwood Haynes, president of the Haynes Automobile Company, Kokomo; G. K. Stevenson, S. McQuiston ami T. 1,. Stephenson, Indianapolis.

A woolen manufacture has incerased his employes by 75 per cent over November of last year. A general survey of the lumber Industry In all parts concludes that In 1921 not only the current production was marketed, but much of the stocks; that stock on hand at mills has decreased at least by 40 per cent, and that retailers’ stocks are 30 to 50 per cent under normal. There Is every indication that light stocks are the order of the day for alj industries and merchants. Today stocks are so low that the Impulse from consumption demand can be immediately felt and Industry has greatly improved its ability for efficiency and economy. The president of the Electric Railway Association now tells the members, “as a whole the electric railway industry has survived In a manner that challenges the parallel and Inspires hope and confidence In their future su rcess.”— Whatever adjustments of revenues and rates remain to be made for the steam railways, a deficit from operation last year has been replaced by earnings, possibly $600,000,000 or more, for the twelve months. UN ESI IT.OYMEXT HAS DECREASED. Unemployment has decreased. Somewhere between 1,500,000 and 2,000.000 persons, unemployed four months ago, have been put to work, according to Government authorities. Wholesale prices have the most direct relation to general business conditions. In May, 1920, they were at their peak—--272 per cent of the 1913 level. In November of last year they were 207 and by December had dropped by 18 points. In November of this year they stood at 149. The prospect Is that the tumbling of prices we have seen is at an end and that their further downward course will be brought about largely by process of competition and the laws of supply and demand. 1. e., by processes of our normal economic life. The banking system bas greatly improved during the year. Between November of last year and the end of November, 1921, a little better than half a billion dollars of the national debt was retired and the monthly cost of running the Government was got down from a figure that kept near $400,000,000 to one that bears about the same relation to s3oo.soo,ooo.—Co’pyright, 1921, by International News Service.

ONE QUESTION, DAY’S JOB DONE Attorneys for Arthur C. Burch Plan to Propound Long One. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 24—A question that will take an entire court day to ask will be propounded by Defense Attorney Schenck to the alienists called by both sides in the trial of Arthur C. Burch, charged with the murder of J. Beltou Kennedy, it became known today. It will be the hypothetical question on which the alienists will base their opinions as io Burch's sanity or insanity. It will be all one sentence, punctuated only I with commas and semi-colons and ended j with a question mark. ! In the hypothetical question Schenck i will state all the events in Burch’s life I brought out In the testimony given by witnesses. The law requires that the question state a hypothetical case Instead ! of a statement purporting to be the facts, j The hypothetical question probably will !he read Wednesday, when Shenek 'calls bis first alienist to the stand. The trial will be resumed Tuesday when witnesses to clear up the scattered ends of the defense’s case will testify. Illinois Town in Flames; Wires Down ALTON, 111., Dec. 24.—The business section of Brighton, ten miles north of here Is in flames, according to reports reaching here today. Telephone aud telegraph wires to Brighton are down and no details concerning the conflagration i could be ascertained.

BULLETS SEND NEGRO BURGLAR AWAY LIMPING Four Shots Taken at Man Found on Illinois Street Fire Escape. MANY PLACES ENTERED R. F. Bell. 518 North Illinois street, surprised a negro burglar who had climbed a fire escape ar 3 a. m. today. Bell fired four shots at the negro and tne burglar is believed to have been wounded. Bell was awakened by the sound of the negro attempting to force a window. When he saw the negro on the fire escape he seized his revolver and went out of the house and around to the side of the building. “Don’t move or I will shoot you,” he called. “I will shoot and Kill you if you don’t go on back in the house,” was tne negro’s answer and Bell fired one shot. The prowler dropped from the fire escape and Bell fired three more shots at the negro. The man jumped and ran, but he limped badly and police, believe one of the bullets hit him. THIEVES BREAK INTO SOFT DRINK SALOON. Burglars broke the glass out of the skylight and entered the Krakovltu and Greenbaum soft drink saloon, 146 South Illinois street. The police were told S9O was stolen from a cigar box hidden under the counter. About $lO in change was taken from the cash register. H. C. McLaughlin, 26 the Plaza apartments, arrived home at 1 a. m. to find a burglar had entered and ransacked every room In his apartment. A glass was broken from a window and the burglar reached through tlie broken glass and unlocked the window and entered. Nothing was stolen, McLaughlin told the police. Mrs. Bessie Robinson, 2133 Highland place, reported that a thief broke Into her chicken coop and carried away twelve hens. Claude Hale. 914 North Delaware street, was awakened by the sound of the front door of his home opening. He heard footsteps in the hall and then his door opened. Hale saw a man in the doorway and demanded to know what he wanted. The stranger did not answer, but ran. Later the police arrested a man giving his name as Harry Graves, 329 South East street. Hale identified Graves as the man who had entered his home. Graves was arrested on the charge of entering a house to commit a felony. LOSES PURSE AND TICKET TO FLORIDA. Lewis Goff, the Craig Hotel, 326 East Washington street, yesterday reported to the police that some person robbed him of a purse containing S3B and a round trip ticket to Tampa, Fla. G. G. Long, 2046 North Dearborn street, parked his automobile at Market and Pennsylvania streets yesterday. When he returned he found that a thief had stolen a spare tire and cover from the car. The tire was valued at $25. O. E. Lewis, secretary of the Indianapolis Casket Company, 521 West North street, parked his automobile In front of 1369 Hiatt street yesterday. A thief stole a motor meter valued at $lO from the car.

FLOOD MENACE IN CINCI REGION Excessive Rains Put Many Streams Out of Banks. CINCINNATI, Dee. 24.—As a result of the recent excessive rains Cincinnati and nearby districts are threatened with a flood that promises to bring much suffering and damage. The Ohio River has risen eighteen feet in the past twenty-four hours. Big and Little Miami and Licking River and Mill Creek are all flooded beyond their banks and emptying torrents of muddy water into the Ohio. The flood stage of fifty feet is expected to be reached here within a few hours, according to Weather Forecaster Devereau. ROAD FOR FIREWOOD. ! LONDON, Dec. 24.—Within three day* after Upper North street had been paved with wooden blocks, residents of Poplar | had torn up the pavement and stolen ! 24,000 blocks for firewood. Six men and a woman were arrested, but escaped with | small fines.