Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Increasing cloudiness. Warmer tonight. Saturday unsettled.

VOL. XXXIV.

WORKS BOARD IN ADJOURNED SESSION NOW

Ready to Sign Pacts Up to Midnight Saturday. BOND ISSUE READY Expect $450,000 Left After Buying Plaza. The board of public works decided at its regular mating today to remain in adjourned session until midnight Saturday night in order to be in position to sign contracts for the purchase of property in the block the city intends to acquire for war memorial plaza purposes. Tin board can start signing the contracts as soon as attorneys approve the sl,600,000 bond issue and the successful bidders go through the sale. The bond issue will be cleaned up tomorrow, it is thought. If the bond sale should not be concluded by midnight Saturday the board of works has another regular meeting Monday morning at which t - transfer of i the property could be arranged. The city is cueing the block bounded by North, Michigan. Meridian and Pennsylvania streets. Its total appraised value is sl,-10,317. With the premium of SX.O(W offered by the bidders on the 51,ti00.t00 bond issue the city will have a surplus of about sbK>,ooo after its property is paid for. (OrXTY'S SHAKE OF PERCH AS E. The county commissioner- are buying the block bounded by Miehigin. \ rrnont, Pennsylvania and Meridian streets, excepting two churches. Its appraised value is 51.215.3d0. The commissioners have Informally authorized a $9W,000 bond issue. The fact that ts proposed issue Is J 300.000 less than too appraised value of the property to be acquired gave rise today to discussion of whether or not It would be advisable tor the city to use its $430,000 surplus in the acquisition of property in the block the county Intends to buy so that It won' not be necessary for the eomnits.sk..ers to authorize more than SOOO,OOO worth of bends. PLAN TO USE SURPLUS. City officials said that they would be willing to cooperate wi-h the county in this way if the commissioners ile- r 1. Ihe ordinance authorizing the city l or. I issue provides that the city can s ep over into the county's block la this way If there Is a surplus. County Auditor Leo K. Fesler said that he did not believe the comrnDs'-ener* would desire this to be done s'.n -e the county has obligated itself to purchase the south block and would like to go through with it. The commissioners can authorize enough bonds to take -are of the entire valuation without legal difficulty, it wa- said. If the city does not use Its $450,000 surplus In the acquisition of more property the entire excess goes into the fund for the retirement of and interest on the bond issue. OPERATORS TO HOLD ALOOF Members in Central Coal Field Will Avoid Early Wage Discussion. PITTSBURGH, I*a., Bee. 20.—Operators lo the central competitive coal field will refuse to meet with John L. Lewis in Pittsburgh. .Tan. C. pending the result of the national convent the miners' union in Indianapolis, Feb. It. it was indicated here today. New wage proposals covering the field will be drafted at the convention and operators are believed here to have decided to await the result of that convention before entering Into a preliminary disens - ion as suggested by President Lewie. Two S^ate3 —Ohio and Western Penn-.-ylvar.la—have already declined to meet with Lewis. Indiana and Illinois remain to be heard from and it was believed here they will refuse.

Theft Victim Asks Clemency for Thief Walter Heinz, 323 West Walnut street, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to serve 100 days on the State Farm In city court this morulng on a rbirge of grand larceny. The days were suspended I'j* Judge Walter Pritchard on a request for clemency from Mrs. 15 K. lirunson, VT* North Tali.oft street, from whom Heinz 'ook a diamond ring valued at $75. The ring was taken while Heinz was doing some plumbing work for Mrs. Brunson.

Hovis Retains Place on Pardons Board The Rev. Frank L. Hovis of Indiannpo* Its was reappointed a member of the State board of pardons yesterday by Governor Warren T. McCray. The Rev. Mr. Hovis was appointed to till the place of I. Newt Brown who resigned from the hoard to become secretary of the State board of agriculture. Theodore Bailey of Portland, v.as reappointed to the board of trustee's for the Knstern Hospital for the Insane at Richmond. WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 p. in.. Dee. 31. 10_‘l : Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight; lowest temperature about 30 to 3.7 degrees. Saturday unsettled, probably light rain; colder Saturday night HOURLY TEMPERATURE. da. m 21 7 a. in 2.-, S a. ill 21 it a. m 20 10 a. m ;;i 1! a. m ;r. 12 (noon) ;5 1 p. m. 2 p. m 37

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Mss 1922 Won't Need Her Overshoes HOWEVER, GENERAL GOOD TIME WILE BE HAD Hotels Plan Many Noise-Making Parties

BY MABEL WHEELER. Great and glorious festivities are he;ng aranged for the debut of Miss 1922, who after almost two thousand years of preparation (and then some) will make her formal bow to the world at large along about '2:01 Sunday morning. In spite of the dry laws, the b'.ue laws and the prevalent dry atmosphere, which, according to some authorities, spell “dust to dust" for real honest-to -goodness New Year celebrations, hotels and clubs of the city are planning elaborate programs for the evening and calls for reservations are reported as coming thick and fast. A brilliant program of entertainment is scheduled for the Hotel Lincoln, under the direction of Mrs. S. K. Kuick, Miss Ituth Sterling, soprano, will sing a group, including "Sing On” (Luigi Denza), "Song of the Open” (Frank La Forge), Til Weave a Song for You” (Geoffrey O'Hara'. "Shadow Song,” tiom "Dinorah” (Meyerbeer), and a costums song from "Greenwich Village Follies." “Snowflake.’* Miss Helen Moore and Miss Leone Myers, diminutive danseuse, from Miue. Howes' baby ballet, will present several numbers, and a New Year's specialty.

U. S. MAY ASK FRANCE TO PAY AS SUBTERFUGE Expects Demand Will Cause Weakening in U-Boat Proposal. WASHINGTON. Dec. 50. —America may demand that France immediately pay her debt to this country as a means of forcing her to abandon her big submarine fleet policy. Amendments to the foreign debt refunding bill arc being prepared. One of these, to be presented to the Senate, will direct that a demand be made on France for r-'yraent of intere-t and principal of the debt. This debt amounts to between $2,000,000,000 and $2,000,000,000. France of course, could not pay It off if the United States demanded It. The idea back of the proposal Is that Its adoption would serve notice on France that American public and official opinion, h-re*of ire extremely friendly to France, had undergone a chilling because of the French attitude. AM MV DMENTS Vssi'ME FORM. Other amendments to the Mil, similar it import. Lave begun to take form at the Capitol. They are to carry the idea that if France has money to spend on a huge navy and army, she ought to have some to pay off her war debts. Along with the new kindled resentment toward the French, the developments of recent days in the arms conference have Intensified the hostility, always strong In Congress, against nny sort of American coalition, entente or with foreign nations. There is no question that the Strapping of t!i na val holiday program and the lifting of the lid on submarine and aircraft com petition has strengthened the opposition to the four power Pacific treaty. It has also strengthened the little group of "big Navy” men in both Houses. They will be heard from In the achate which promises to break out -non after the reassembling of Congress next Friday. They will demand the United States outbuild the world on submarines, aircraft and cruisers. MAKES r. S. POSITION DIFFICULT. France also has made difficult Congressional approval of American participation in nu European economic conference. The French de-sire kip h a conference and want this Government in it. Harding a "Association of Nations” scheme has suffered also. In general it would be difficult to get Congressional assent now to any sort of American cooperation with foreign nations, in view of what this conference has shown may be expected. Works Board Acts Under Court Order The Indianapolis board of works today was operating under a temporary injunction Issued by Judge T. J. Moll or Superior Court. Itoom 5, preventing the board from completing the opening or a new street from Dorman street to Highland avenue. William C. Freund, a property owner along the proposed street, filed suit claiming the board In tends to complete the proposed improvement in face of a remonstrance filed by proj erty owner*.

Chicago Girls Hurl in Auto Crash Special to The HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. .'!•). —Two attractive 20 vear-old girls, Edna Krlneh and Ethel Dawson, both of Chicago, were seriously injured early today when an automobile in which they were riding with Dean Hartarode of Hammond and A. Clark of Whiting skidded and overturned. The machine, said to have been traveling at a high rate of speed, was driven by Clark. Both men were questioned by the police and released.

Senator Tom Watson Stacks Evidence Higher and Higher to Support Hanging Charges

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Charges that soldiers were illegally hanged, shot by officers, and brutally treated during the war, continued to pile up today before the Senate committee which Is Investigating senator Tom Watsou’s sensational charges. Every mail brings Watson letters and telegrams from war veterans In alt parts of the country who declare they have evidence to prove his charges. He Is turning them over to the commlttM and asking that the men be summoned George D. Glazebrook, an enlisted man in the Navy aboard the U. S. S. Merrlne at San Diego, Cali., wrote Wat ion today that he witnessed the illegal hanging of two negro soldiers at Bazooehes, 1- ranee. In the spring of lDltt and asked a chance ‘‘to bring the guilty ones to justice.” ‘T can say with a true heart and 1 clear conscience that these two negroes

> “Cupid and the Butterfly,” will be a fea(ture of the evening. A special dinner is I to be served and supper will be served : until midnight. The musical jjrograin will | continue from the dinner hour throughj out the entire evening. J Sahara Grotto prophets are telebrating ■ tomorrow evening with their annual j "Cupid's ball” in the ltiley Itoom of the I Claypoo! Hotel, preceded by the dinner in the Florentine room, in honor of the members who have been married during the year. A program of "stunts" has been arranged, with a huge wedding | cake, bearing the names of the honor guests as the feature of the dinner party. It will be cut by the various brides and vaudeville entertainers will present acts between dances. The Claypool lintel will have special orchestras tomorrow evening and the lobby is to be latticed off for dancing. A special dinner will be served in the dining room and Aunis Burke, who is >n charge of general festivities says "noisemaking devices without mufflers” are to t>e furnished to the merrymakers by the hotel, together with caps and serpentine confetti. He says they are planning a real rollicking New Year's revel, with

Wife's Conversation | Has Influence, but Not on Judge; SSO! Driving nn automobile wlilk nndfr flic Influence of the wife's conversation cc Mux Sollna.v, 3A, 1903 North Capitol avenue, S3O anil cost** in city j court today. This offense, the first to . be recorded in the history of Indiana Jurisprudence, came before- Judge Walter Pritchard for adjudication. Technically the charge lodged uguinst Soil way was that he had drLen his automobile past a street car w hich was discharging passengers at Northwestern avenue and Twenty-First Mrcct. The defendant admitted h* . guilt, but sought to excuse Ids action on the ground that at the time lie was under the hypnotic Influence of u scries of Interesting remarks which were being made ly Ids wife, and that as a result his nil.id xi as not on Ids drixltig. \ithough a married man, .fudge Pritchard was adamant and as the fine was imposed, the decision was greeted with smiles and laughter by the unmarried portion of the audience, while from the ranks of the mere males wearing the fetters of matrimony, there issued sighs of understanding uud deep sympathy. . ARBUCKLE TO BE TRIED AGAIN Attorneys for Both Sides Already Making Big Preparations. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 30. Rescue (Fatty) Arliuckie will be tried a second time for manslaughter growing out of the death of Virginia ltapp* unless something entirely unforeseen happen- within the next few flays to alter this determination. Both District Attorney Mathew Brady and Gavin M< Nab, chief of Arbucklo s defense, agreed on that statement today. Not only did they agree that the trial would proceed, but both were making elaborate preparations for It. 1 “We InsNt that Arbiickle be retried without delay and will oppose any attempt to postpone the ease,", M-Nib declared. speaking for the defense. "We will l.e ready and anxious to go ahead Jan. 9." was the statement from the district attorney. Tutewiler to Head Count y Commi ssi o n Harry Tutewiler will succeed Carlin Shank as president of the Marion County commissioners. It beeame known today. It is the custom of the commissioners to pass th- presidency of the board to the next member oldest in point of service. Mr. Tutewiler has been on the board one year and Albert Hoffman begins his first term next Monday. Commissioners Shank, Tutewiler and Hoffman will meet Monday morning to reorganize the board. Commissioner Lewis George retires as commissioner at that time. As Is the until custom, a barrel of apples will be opened.

Accept Resignation of City Engineer The resignation of Frank <’. Eingcnfelter as city civil engineer, was ordered spread upon the records by the boaro of public works today. Mr. Lingenfeltcr will leave office at noon Jan. 2 when the new administration begins. He will be succeeded by ,lobn L, Elliott, his present senior assistant. GOVERNOR RETAINS RICH. Walter E. Rich of Indianapolis was reappointed a member of the board of Irustees for the Indiana School for the Blind today by Governor Warren T. McCray. Ills term is four years.

were hanged without trial and with the uniform of the United States Army on,” said Glazebrook. ‘‘l talked to both of them and they told me they were going to be banged the nest morning. Up to the time I talked to them I knew they were not guilty.” Glazebrook said he eould not remember the exact date of (he hangings, but gave the names of “Lieutenant Lazelle of Montana and Dr. Perkins, a captain, M. C. U. S. A.,” as two officers who were present. Charges against Maj. H. L. Opie of .SI ana ton, Va., who has been accused of snooting men of his command, continued to ooiue in. Levi p. Bell of Pureellvllle, Va., a former private in Company I, ldCth Infantry, wrote that Ilenry L. Scott, Akron, Ohio, who made the original charges against Ople, ‘‘absolutely told the truth."

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1921.

eating as a substitute for former drinking. Daneing lu the ballroom, with interpolated mnslcal numbers, will be the contribution of the lloosier Athletic Club toward the reception of the New Year with a surprise feature as a grand finale. .Mrs. Clarence Scales, vocalist, will sing at Intervals miring the evening and trio numbers by Mrs. Scales, Edward Clemens and Harry Ryan will be a part of the program. The "big show’’ Is billed as the “Skaters" waltz and ’(ls rumored that fur topped sox, white fur caps and dashing ballet frocks combined with clever dancing nr to be the outstanding features of the act. Raper Couimandery will entertain with a supper-dance In the temple, for all the members and their families. There la to be special music and also cards and the ballroom wn ibe decorated gaily tot the oceasron. At the Hotel Severin, there is to be a New Year's eve dinner served between I! anti 9 o'clock, with an entertaining l. usical program arranged for the occasion. The Spink Arms Hotel will offer a special dinner dance between <5 and S o’clock with appropriate musical numbers.

HARTMAN WILL BE TRIED SOON. EVANS ASSERTS Prosecutor Returns From Interview With Confessing Burglar. 1 .T. Herbert Hartman, local attorney who was nominated on the Republican ticket for city Judge at the last city primary and who was found to bo inolllgtbie as a candidate by Judge T. J Moil of Superior Court, room 5, will be tried in the Marion County Criminal Court the la-t week in January or the first week in February on an Indictment charging him with receiving stolen goods, l’ro-eeutor William I' Evans announced today on his return from Louisville, where he conferred with k i ram is. th > "<onfi -sing burglar." Francis Involved Hartman In his confession. Mr Evans -aid Francis and Ids wife nro willing to come to Indianapolis to testify for the >:ute In the Hartman trial.’ "Francis was sentenced several days ago to -.-rye five years In the Kentucky .-MV prison hut ho has appealed tus cm. to the Kentucky Supreme t'ourt and will remain in Joii at Louisville until the Supreme Court decides th question," Mr. Evans said. , The prosecutor indicated that the S'sv would have no diff! uliy in bringing Francis aid ids wife to Indianapolis as witnesses. Mr Evans conferred with Judge James A. Collins relative to the trial date. Following the conference, Mr, Evans anuouiii cd the probable data.

Mrs. McCormick Gets Lake Forest Estate CllK\\o<*, I (,'c. ."!0 .Mrs Edith Rocke f**Uer M.-Oorail'-k will n quire tin' country estate nf Lake Fnn-st, in addition to the town mansion in Chicago's Lake .‘•hnr<* drive, in th financial settlement ennnutiifcl today, following her (llvore ol.ta ill'd Wednesday from H ind i I’ MrCormUk, j>r<nt of the lub-ruatlonal Harvester Company. Uncle Sam to Help Farmers Over Hump WASHINGTON, Dec. 30, An agricultural conference, 1.1 h'dp that Industry out of its swore financial slump, la tindor consideration b.v the Administration. It was 1.-arncd today. The tentative pUn calls for n if. rencc of representative farmers, railroads, financial Institutions and agricultural implement makers. Hodgin Would Raze Part of City Hospital Or. 13. H. Hodgin, appointee for president of the hoard of public health, has suggested to Samuel I.ewls Shank, mavor elect that the center structure of the three building's at the city hospital, front - lug on I.tieke xtro.-t he razed jinil replaced with a modern fireproof unit. Tli e building now is used in part as quarters for internes and Is regarded by Hr. Hodgin ns little more than a fire trap. It was constructed It. lsTl. Commission Agrees to Rate Reduction The State public service commission today authorized four Indianapolis . archouse companies to reduce their i aiding rates idI.* 1 .* per cent, John IV. Met'a-die, chairman of the commission, announced. Through their representative, Frank Powell, the Central Public Warehouse, the Henry Coburn Warehouse Company, the Tripp Warehouse Company and the Indianapolis Warehouse Company asked that the rates lie reduced on hauling and crating to stimulate business. Storage rates were not changed. FIRE I.OSS PLACED AT 5100,000 I)KS MOINES, lowa, Dee. 30. —Damage estimated al $400,000 resulted from n fire that destroyed the establishment of Davidson Brothers’ wholesale fruit dealers, here today.

<■ ~ N Poincare Say $ A.rms Conference Oratory Good; Results , Nil PARIS, Dec. 30.—Former President Raymond Poincare of tlie Freni h republic, writing *n tlie Petit Bleu, today, expressed tlie opinion that the At uslilugtoil conference Ims been a failure. “At Washington,” said M. Poincare, “after wonderful oratory in the plenary sessions, the commissions got to work and then n terrible emptiness revealed itself. Tlie speeches were excellent, but tlie results were nil. “Our friends at AYusliington and London unhappily seem to forget the rapid reawakening of the detestable German instincts. Illusions, myths and the fumes of vague Idealism still obscure the realities which before long will become dangerous.” t-

PLANE IN AIR FOR 26 HOURS, 20 MINUTES New Endurance Mark Set at Roosevelt Flying Field. | TWO IN MACHINE Eddie Stinson, Lloyd Bertaud Battle Elements. MINEOUV, N. Y.. Dec. 30.—The American-built J. L.-6 monoplane, j piloted by Eddie Stinson and Lloyd | IJertapd, landed at Roosevelt flying field at 11:17:50 a. in. today, establishing anew world's record for an endurance flight. The unofficial flying time was twenty-six hours, nineteen minutes and fifty seconds. Officials, newspaper men and a few spectators ran out to the machine as it landed. Stinson and Bertaud climbed out. their I fares and the fronts of th.-ir flying suits covered with oil. I PILOTS NIMBLY j FROZEN VITEK TKII*. "Fin nearly frozen." said Stinson, "but it's good to be aide to walk again." ‘ Three ringers of Stinsons left hand ■ and one finger of his right hand were frozen. It was ill 0r..-r -d. '1 his occurred when he had to remove his gloves to make an emergency connection between the oil tank and an auxiliary tank at 2 o'clock this morning. The pump go' out of order and refused to function. That accident a Into -t cost Stinson and B rtaud their new n I. Ingenuity won for them. They punched a hole in the main oil tank and used a rubber tube to syphon fuel front the inn In tank to the auxiliary tank Pm-i was f.- i to the motor that way for the last nine hours of tiie flight. VV ITIIOI T Ollll si.ELI*, gn tint it~. Stinson and Bertaud neither s>p? nor ate during the 2d hour grind. They drank the contents of or..- hot le of , .ffee. Th ( temper ture >-f the driver,* pit was at zero or lower during th“ tire flight It wn probably me -h 1 wr for th, thermometer t ml 1 register only to zero. The cabin, where pass-:-nrs any be carried, was heated by nn ntta turn tit to tti,, exhaust pipe but the drivers pit was unhi iti .1 "I am going home to bed as soon as 1 can." nail! Stinson "I fee, as th gl I never would goa warm again."

norii reluctant I<> TAI.K 111- i y. AT. Both pilots were reluctant to talk about their a Movement. Because of the long time to which th-lr ears were .subjected to the roar of -the motors, both were s ar > |y a’ le to hear. BerfatJd could not understand questions put to him. * Enough gasoline and oil remained in the machine to permit further flight of seven hours. It was estimated. The aviators said they ram*' down because they knew they had broken the world's roe ord and they were having difficulty in getting the oil fr-un the auxiliary luuk to the main tank. John M. Larsen, builder of the plane, estimated that It few miles in breaking the re. ord. "The machine could have crossed tlie Atlantic Ocean without difficulty," he said, AMERICAN FLIERS SET FOUR NEW RECORDS j | JEW YORK, Dee. 30 With the world's nonstop (light record broken by Pilots Eddie Stinson and Lloyd Bertaml today, American flyers have set four world's records this year, the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce announced. The other three records were made as follows: Sept. 28 Lieut. J. A. Maeßeady, of the Army, drove an airplane to the height of 37.500 feet, breaking the previous record of 33.111 feet established by MnJ. Rudolph Schroder. Nov. 30 Bert Acosta drove a Curtiss Navy racer to a speed record in competition In n closed course in the Pulitzer trophy race, going 150 miles at the rate of 17(1.7 miles an hour. The previous record of 173 miles an hour was made Oct. I by Georges Kirsch at Ltampes, Fra nee. Aug. Ift A Loening monoplane flying boat rose 17,550 feet with four persons at Ft. Washington, N. A’., establishing an efficiency and passenger carrying record f‘>r such a machine. Dave MeCullocli was pilot. Balfour Plans to Sail for Home on .Jan. 14 WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—A .T, Balfour, head of the British armament delegation, has made steamer reservations for Jan. It, and unless unforseen contingencies arise, will sail for home on that date, it was learned today. The British military advisers sail tomorrow.

John Barleycorn Weak and Wavering

STAGGERS FROM CRUSHING BLOWS OF 1921

Agents Net $12,000,000 During Year

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The ghost of John Barleycorn enters the New Year wavering tinder a series of staggering blows struck by prohibllion agents during 1921, according to internal revenue reports made available today. The Government forces confiscated 0,000.000 gallons of alcohol beverage during 1921, the reports showed, while 40,000 persons were arrested for alleged violations. The confiscations, it was pointed out, were thirty times as large as in the preceding year. The dry agents swept into their net property and liquors valued at $12,000,000 In the last, twelve months. SIX STATES LEAD IN VIOLATIONS. The most flagrant violations, the report showed, occurred in New York, Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Delaware, with only fifty-three gallons of liquor seized and fourteen persons

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"The Ghost," a publication of the students at George Washington University, Washington. I>. which lias shocked the only I’resident Howard L. Hodgkins and noted women club leaders at the capital, lias been banned by the college head, but not before its) copies of the p:i|>er had f’cen sold. The president was amazed when he r.-celwil his copy ami glanced over it. <Ui the cover was a drawing of a young lady who was anything but modest But on the inside such pictures as Modern Egypt and the Feeling of the Bell - made the president gasp for breath. However the board of spirits wbi.-h edits the publication are indignant over the president s ban, and they say The Ghot Is no snappier than Froth, the I'unehtiowl and other college publication* ’! he above photographs show til/, ever of The Ghost, to which oxioption was taken, and below is Miss

21-Year-Old Wife, Who Shot Husband, Refuses to Go and View His Body

“No! Nr. : I don’t want to see him," rx- : claimed Mrs. Florence Simmons from her i cell In , ho <• utity Jail today when Sheriff Georg-* Snider a ked her if she cared to view the ho ly of her husband, James K. s: nu.ons. before B is shipped to his former home in ltowilng Green, Ky., this afternoon for burial. The 31 y >ar old girl, who Is held on a charge of llr-r degree murder for shooting and killing In r husband early Wednesday morning, recoiled from the bars at the sheriff’s question. "I don't care anything about him,” she said. "I am not sorry for anything i have done. My heart is as cienr as a child's. I never want to see my husband again either in heaven or any other [dace. "It Is a relief to feel that I can sleep , hero at night without being tormented by my husband." Mrs. Sltmni ns had asked the police for , permissh-n to view the body of her hus- ■ liand. and it was in pursuance of that r quest that the sheriff decided to take h r to the undertaking establishment if she cured to go. There was r,o bitterness in her words i when she declined to view the body—- ! only a sort of horror that she might he forced again to look upon the face i of the man whom she says treated her so brutally nmi whom she declares she shot as she was attempting to attack her. I ATIIEIt STILL ALIVE BUT VERY LOW. Word from Louisville was to the effect that Thomas Rowley. Mrs. Simmons' i father, is still alive and had rallied somewhat during the night, lie is still In a semi conscious condition with chances ; for his recovery slight. A message that he was dying was ; coming over the long distance telephone when .Mrs. Simmons poured four shots from tin automatic revolver Into the body of her husband, marking the culmination of a night of quarreling. George anil Fred Bewley, brothers of Mrs Simmons, are at tlie bedside of their father. Mr. Bewley has not been to'd of the tragedy. George Bewley, in a statement to Louisville reporters, said he had called his sister tlie night before the murder and that slit* seemed excited. "i went to the house, then.” he said, "and James and Florence were quarreling. He had been drinking and Florence's ear was bloody. Kite said lie had struck her. “I remained there a while trying to mini him and when he seemed quieter 1 left. When I saw Florence in the jail tlie next morning she bore a lot more bruises and marks than she did the night before.” The body was scheduled to leave Indianapolis for Bowling Green, Ivy., at 3:40 p. in. No funeral services were to,

arrested, was the best behaved, while long-dry Kansas was a close second. Nevada and Vermont also showed marked tendency for peaceful enforcement of the low. Bootleggers plying in beer fared the worst at the hands of dry agents. The Government's beer confiscations totaled 5,000,000 gallons, with 400,000 gallons of wine and 440,000 gallons of distilled spirits also seized. FLORIDA LEADS IN BIG SEIZURES. The most valuable property was seized in Florida, where $2,250,000 worth of “booze" anil paraphernalia (including distilleries) fell into otlie Government’s hands. New York ran a close second with $1,450,000 worth jf property seized. Ohio led in the number of citizens arrested. Approximately 3,800 Ohioans were arrested during the year while 3.300 were arrested in New York. Illinois ranked third in arrests with 2,300, with Massachusetts fourth with 2,200 and Texas next

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1 ■ held in Indianapolis. Burial will b n from the home of a sister in Bowling Green. Mrs. Levon Jerkins, who was a visitor at the Simmons home the night before the shooting, was to testify before Coro ner Paul F. Robinson at 4 o’clock. She has made a statement to the police in which she sail Simmons knocked his wife out of the front door the night before the killing and that she had also ! been knocked dowt and her face bruised EURTON HANDS RESIGNATION TO SCHOOL BOARD Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds to Quit Job Early in Year. Carl W. Eurton, superintendent of buildings and grounds for the Indianapolis board of school commissioners, submitted his resignation today to take effect Jan. 15. The action did not come as a great surprise for it has been understood that, regardless of the fact that Mr. Eurton generally Is regarded as the best superintendent of buildings and grounds (he school city has had in years, the incoming board intended to disregard hia record and appoint anew man In his place. Mr Eurton was appointed to the position In July, 1920, and when he took charge of the department affairs were in a chaotic condition, with a $300,000 repair and rehabilitation program to bo put through before the schools opened In September. He not only carried out this program successfully, but reorganized the entire department and put it on a splendid basis of efficiency. Last summer he carried out another program of repairing old buildings in which about $200,000 was spent. As in the first instance he made a splendid record in the work. These two repair programs are -nth! to be the most extensive ever undertaken by a local school board. Mr. Eurton said he will leave for Florida In a few weeks to he gone until May 4. lie is not ready at this time to announce his plans for the future. REVIVAL DRAWS CROWD. A large crowd attended the Salvation Army revival meeting In the Citadel last night. Pol. J. V’. Adjlle, evangelist, preached a sermon from the text. "I Have Somewhat Against Thee.” Tonight he will talk on “The Upline to Heaven and the Downline to Hell.”

j with 2,000. California and Missouri foli lowed each with about 1,200 arrests. The most beer was seized in Georgia, "’here agents confiscated 1.450.000 gallons. North Carolina was second and Virginia third. NEW YORK HEADS IN DISTILLED goods. New York was the “wettest" State in distilled liquors. Dry agents there seized approximately 09,700 gallons of distilled spirits during the year. California was second in this respect, with 65,000 gallons seized. California, however, led ell other States in the amount of wine and cider which fell into Federal hands. These confiscations totaled 100,000 gallons. Virginia, with 00,000 gallons seized, was second and Minnesota third, with 40,000 gallons. In the number of distilleries and stills seized North Carolina was the worst violator. She led in both violations by big majorities, with Virginia second in both instances.

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POWERSAGREE ON AUXILIARY VESSEL LIMIT Fix Ten Thousand Tons as Lawful Quota. FRENCH HESITATE Delegates Qualify Informal Acceptance, WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—The five big naval powers today agreed to limit the size of their auxiliary naval ships to 10,000 tons, thus preventing the construction of capital ships under the guise of auxiliary vessels. No limitation was placed or wiL be placed on the number of auxiliary vessels any nation may have, the agreement covering only the size of the vessels. The limitation was proposed by the American delegates and formally accepted by Great Britain, Japan and Italy. The French delegation accepted informally, stating that formal acceptance would have to come later from Paris. Accompanying the agreement was also an agreement to limit the size of guns that may be mounted on auxiliary craft to eight inches. BKITIMII WILL PROTECT MARINE. So Jong as submarines —the assassins of the sea—are permitted to form an integral part of the world’s navies, Great Britain's naval strength will be measured by her great fleet of merchant vessels. An official spokesman for the British delegation indicated this determined policy of Great Britain l>y stating that Britain would never send her merchant ships to sea unarmed in war time, regardless of the restrictions which the Washington conference places on the uses of submarines in warfare. While Great Britain wishes to see the submarine legally outlawed by the Washington conference and her delegates went info today’s session to wage a determined fight for it. she nevertheless, would not be prepared to risk her merchant vessels on any agreement which the powers may • volve ANY WEAPON IN TIME OF NEED. PaUt experience in the World War taught the lesson, it was stated, that nations are liable to fight with any weapon they possess in any way they can. international law or no International law, when they get their backs to the wall. Discussions over the submarine restrictions and a possible ratio of airplane carriers xvere taken up when the powers met again in secret session at 11 o’clock. An informal ratio of 5-5-3-2-2 has been Proposed in airplane carriers, but the French are not prepared to accept this without reference to Paris again, and It was considered doubtful whether the proposal would be pressed. Indications were today that the principal work of the conference will be completed within the next two weeks. A. -T. Balfour, head of the British delegation, will sail for home .Tan. 14. and has booked reservations on that date. While it is not expected that all of the details of the conference will be cleared by that time, what will be left will be of minor importance and can be attended to by the ambassadors in Washington.

BALFOUR EAGER TO GO HOME. It is understood that Mr. Balfofl? wishes to be home in plenty of time to\ prepare for the economic and financial ' | conference In Europe, which is to follow ; the meeting of the allied supreme council in Cannes next week. LITTLE orrosiTiox IS OFFERED. Little difficulty was experienced in obtaining sanction of the 10,000-ton limti tation and the greater part of the session this morning was taken up with , the controversial submarine question. I The dehate hinged on the second part i of the Root submarine resolution, which would make it au act of piracy and punishable as such, for submarines to sink merchant ships. Again, as yesterday, the American and British delegations : urged immediate acceptance of the reso- | lutlon, and again the Japanese, French and Italian delegates opposed it, saying they would have to refer the matter to their home governments, DISCI SSION AT TIMES HEATED. The discussion at times was extremely ; heated—particularly between Lord Leo of the British admiralty and Admiral DeBon, the French naval adviser. Lord Lee read an article by a French naval officer in which the submarine strategy of Germany in the war was uplitld. The article declared snn.io'r tactics could be employed by France against England in the event of war. When Lord Lee finished the article. Admiral De Bon was on his feet with an angry denial that it reflected, necessarily, the official views of the French ministry of marine, or that It was other than the personal opinion of the author. It was unfair, he Indicated, to assume any other attitude. Confronted with the prospect of a considerable delay while the French, Japanese and Italians consult their governments about submarine restrictions, the conference adjourned at 1 o'clock to meet again at 3 o’clock when the matter of aircraft carriers will he taken up. ROBBERS TAKE SAFE. DENVER, Colo., Dec. 30.—Robbers today carried away a six-hundred pound safe containing several hundred dollars from a grocery in East Thirteenth avenue.' The heavy safe was rolled across the sidewalk and loaded on a motor truck. This is the second safe stolen from the same place this month. C( “SAY IT WITH A TIMES WANT AD” l-ut say, have yon got the habit; are you reading your Want Ad lesson every day? Want Ads sell, buy. find jobs and everything. Have you learned their value? Start today. Read a want ad every day and you’ll soon find out. MAin 3500. Ask for Want Ad Taker. >J