Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1922 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Fair and somewhat warmer tonight and Sunday.

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NEW TRAFFIC PLANS INCLUDE .TOWER SYSTEM Municipal Garages Also Recommended by Committee. RELIEF IS SOUGHT 16 Points to Be Covered in Ordinance Under Preparation. An ordinance designed to put into effect the recommendations of the committee appointed to study traffic problems in Indianapolis will be prepared by the city legal department and presented to the city council, according to Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank. The recomgmendations of the committee were presented to the mayor late yesterday. The call for a tower system of regulating traffic similar to that In uso In New York, They suggest the erection of four municipal garages, In which cars may be parked for a nominal fee, and they go Into detail In making suggestions llor other parking and traffic regulations. JSIJTE TOWERS IN CONGESTED AREA. The committee made the following sixteen recommendations: "1. That a signal system by which traffic may be moved on the same 6treet simultaneously, throughout the congested area, be Installed, with towers at the following Intersections: Washington and Alabama streets, Washington and Delaware streets, Washington and Pennsylvania streets, Washington and Illinois streets, Washington street and Capitol avenue, Ohio street and Capitol avenue, Alabama and Ohio streets. Maryland and Alabarfa streets, Capitol avenue and Maryland streets, and at other points which may prove necessary. The minor details and plans for working this system should be developed and solved by the police department. “2. That four municipal garages be established at as early a time as It is possible. The said garages to be located at the following places, or as near thereto as possible: Capitol avenue and Ohio street, Maryland street and Capitol avenue, Maryland and Alabama streets, Delaware and Ohio streets, establishnig these garages cannot be done at once, but at least one of them should be established In the very near future at the most convenient and available point, FIAT CURB TARRING WITH EXCEPTIONS. *‘3, That only fiat curb parking be allowed, with exceptions as acted below, In the following territory: Beginning with Georgia street on the south, to, and Including, New York street on the north; 'from Capitol avenue on the west, to and including, Alabama street on the east; on Capitol avenue from New York to Walnut street. The exceptions to flat curb parking we recommend, are that on Washington street 43 degree angle parking be allowed on account of the extra width of the street, and on the Circle, straight head-in parking be allowed. “4. That there be no parking whatever allowed In the following places; The east side of Illinois street from Washington street to Pearl street; the west side of Illinois street from Washington street to Court street; the east side of Meridian street from Washington street to Pearl street; the west side of Pennsylvania street from Washington street ot Pearl street. “5. That there be no parking whatsoever allowed between the hours of 4:30 p. m. and 6:30 p. m. on Meridian street, from Maryland street to Fall Creek boulevard, “6. That, where it Is possible, vehicles be permitted to turn to the right at street Intersections, falling in line with traffic moving in that direction. TO ENFORCE PARKING REMIT. “7: That the present parking limit of one and one-half hours be continued and rigidly enforced, subject, however, to the additional restrictions as contained in recommendations four and five. “8. That vehicles be permittede to turn (Continued on Tage Ten.)

DRY CHIEFTAIN ARRIVES SAFELY Facing Threats, Haynes Lands in Chicago. CHICAGO, Jan. 7.—Surrounded by a cordon of secret service men, assigned to protect the dry chief as a result of threatening letters received by him upon announcement of intentions of coming to Chicago to ‘‘speed up dry law enforcement,” Prohibition Commissioner Haynes arrived at Chicago this morning. Mr. Haynes Immediately went into conference with Federal Prohibition Director Charles A. Gregory of Chicago at the LaSalle Hotel to discuss the Chicago and Illinois enforcement situation. Mr. Haynes Issued a statement in which he said he intended to "wage war to the utmost against illegal criminal traffic In booze,” and that "the full machinery of the government will be used where collusion is found In violation of the liquor laws, regardless of the station in lifj held by the participants.” Bokhara Treaty Gives SovietsJlail Control RIGA, Jan. 7.—Soviet Russia has signed a treaty with the new’ Republic of Bokhara, giving Moscow control of all the railways In Bokhara and Central Asia, said a dispatch from Moscow today. The Soviet has imposed heavy new taxes and will use the revenue for the relief of the famine sufferers. WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 p. tn., Jan. 8. 1922; Fair and somewhat warmer tonight and Sunday; lowest temperature tonight about £S degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 24 7 a. m 24 8 a. m 24 9a. m ] ’ 27 10 a. m si 11 a. m 33 12 (noon) 38 1 P. m 38 2 .

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German Vice-Counsul Mr. Eric Keiehel has just arrived in the United States to take up his new duties as German vice consul iu New York City. HOPEFORMSH PACT TO PASS ON FIRST VOTE Adherents See Gain as Time for Ballot Approaches. DE VALERA LOSING DUBLIN, Jan. 7.—The strength of the opponents of the Irish peace treaty waned this afternoon, increasing the hope of the supporters that the pact would be ratified on the first ballot tonight. The mayor of Wexford, who had been opposing the treaty, swung around to Its support. The mayor of Clonmel, another “anti,” resigned his seat Thus two votes were lost to Ramona De Valera, leader of the opposition. One cf De Valera's lieutenants gummed up the case of the opposition as follows: “De Valera does not want a renewal of warfare. He wants peace with England. If the treaty is ratified it would have to pass thjough the imperial parliament at London again in the shape of a bill establishing the Irish Free State. What would there be to prevent a reactionary- government In future years from wiping the bill from the statute books? If the president’s tactics are followed, no such eventuality could arise.” DE VALERA'S RESIGNATION RILED OCT OF ORDER. Dull Kireann today ruled that the resignation of Eamonn De Valera as president of the Irish republic was out of order. It had been tendered during the meeting of Dali E'reana Friday afrernoon after the members had failed to reach a compromise on the Irish peace treaty. When Dali met It was with the Intention of bringing the long fight over ratification of the treaty to a definite close. It was planned to take a vote some time before midnight. Supporters of De Valera believed the position cf the treaty opponents had been strengthened by the "president's” sensational resignation speech, but they admitted rejection of the treaty was not absolutely certain owning to the vascillations of four or five members. Friends of De Valera said he would retire immediately from office if the treaty were ratified, but would stand for re-election later in the year. Harry Boland, who acted as secretary to De Valera during the latter's American (Continued on Tage Two.)

‘BOOK OF LIFE' AGAIN IN HANDS OF MA YOR SHANK Punch Clock and 4 P. M. City Hall Closing Saturdays New Regime Features. The “Lambs Book of Life,” wherein the list of faithful has been kept by Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank and his lieutenants these many months, was in the mayor’s possession again today after having beer, lost since last Monday afternoon. Absence of the precious list lias proved very embarrassing to the mayor lit passing out appointments and he has hunted high and low for it. Dr. E. E. Hodgin. president of the board of public health, came into the mayor's private office bearing the all powerful data. He said that Mr. Shank had left it In the board of health oftices last Monday. The mayor pounced upon it as if he were welcoming a long lost brother and put a paper weight on top of it to keep it from vanishing again. City hall employes got further evidence that the mayor meant business when he sakl that al! public servants are going to spend more time upon the jo* than heretofore. The mayor ordered that the city ball shall be kept open until 4 o’clock on Saturday afternoon instead of closed at noon at has been the custom. The mayor gave the employes a further rude shock when he announced that the board of public health has bought a time clock for persons employed at the city hospital to punch and that he Is going to have the board of public works buy two more, one for the city hall and one for the city yards in East New York street.

“SAY IT WiiTi A TIMES WANT AD” WHEN FRANKLIN SAID "A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED,” he had just exchanged a pedestal bust of Columbus fur a vlctrola and some Hula Hula records through an AJ in The Times Classified Columns. MA in 3500, Classified Adv. Dept.

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BAN USE OF POISON GAS INWARFARE Root Resolution Is Passed by Five Great Powers. INHUMAN WEAPON Conference Will Discuss Use of Airplanes Monday. By GEORGE R. HOLMES. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Poison gas was banned today by the five great powers of the world as an inhuman and indefensible weapon of warfare. The resolution, fathered by Elihu Root, condemning the use of gas in warfare and pledging the powers here not to utilize it, was passed with the full approbation of all the powers in today's secret session in the PanAmerican Building. The signatory powers not only bound themselves to abolish the use of gas but they also agreed "to invite all other civilized nations to agree thereto,” to the end that the ban may ultimately be Incorporated into othe international law. ADOPTED AS PROPOSED. There was some discussion before the resolution was passed, but In the end it was adopted unanimously as proposed by Root yesterday, without modification or amendment. After the gas resolution was adopted, the powers began consideration of “humanizing” still another implement of modern warfare—the airplane. CONSIDER AIRPLANE WARFARE MONDAY. The subcommittee appointed to examamine into this matter rendered a lengthy report, but no action was taken on it, and consideration went over until next Monday. No formal resolution was presented, placing restrictions upon the bombing of unfortified cities and noncombatant populations, out the belief prevailed that at Monday's meeting such a resolution will be proposed, following, the general line of action that has been taken on submarines and gas. In placing a ban on the use of gas the statesemen of the five powers are riding over the advice of tho various experts, who contend that enforcement of the ban on gas is nearly impossible so long as the great manufacturing nations go ahead making dyes and other chemical products. However, the advice of the experts has been disregarded many times in the course of the conference. A. J. Balfour, the veteran leader of the British delegation, said: “Experts are all right in their places, but they should not be nllowed to direct the policies of statesmen.” There is some opposition to the aholitlon of gas, but it is expected to melt (Continued on Page Two.)

BELIEVE U. S. WILL JOIN IN CONFERENCE ■ " Cannes Delegates Await Answers to Invitation to Enter Economy Parley. CANNES. Franoe, Jan. 7.—At the meeting of allied experts today In connection with the supreme council conference the British offered to sacrifice Britain’s 1903 share of German indemnity on condition tile allies agree to decrease tile 1922 cash demands upon Germany. Britain was to receive 22 per cent of the 1932 indemnity. CANNES, France. Jan. 7.—Belgium’s priority rights to Gorman Indemnity, which are being opposed by France, were discussed by the allied experts today In an effort to work out a compromise plan that would satisfy ail sides. Under a ! previous arrangementn tho allies had 1 agreed that Belgium would come first in i the distribution of the first 1.500,000,000 ! gold marks received from Germany. | At noon the experts had not reached an agreement. They adjourned to iheet again at 3 p. m. The allies expect a quick answer from Washington to the invitation of the | United States to participate in the allied international econom’c conference In | March. ! As the invitation w; e extended through I George Harvey, the .American observer, it is expected that the reply will come : through the same channel. The allied [ delegates believed that America will consent to participate actively in the meeting on condition that the question of cancellation of allied war debts is not raised. Germany probably will be represented at Genoa by Walter Rathenau, the economic expert who Is row at Mentone, near Cannes, and Russia by Nicolai Lenin or George Tchitcherln, the commissar for foreign affairs at Moscow.

BRITAIN’S PROPOSAL TO REMIT DEBT SCHEDULED LONDON, Jan. 7.—The supreme council on Monday is expected to discuss a proposal that Great Britain remit the C 00,000,000 pounds sterling debt owed to her by France on condition that France remit a similar amount ol’ German indemnity owing to her by Germany, according to a report telegraphed from Cannes by the Central News today. Building Trade Strike Renewed CHICAGO, Jan. 7. —Renewals of Chicago's building trades strike was ordered today to start next Tuesday. All unions except the bricklayers finally voted to reject the wage award made by Judge K. M. Landis. The strike again will tie up all Chicago's building, which was at a standstill for nearly a year. Union leaders let it be known that the strike call was intended as taking up the open shop gauntlet thrown down by the "citizen’s committee” fronted ostensibly to enforce the Landis wage award. The committee is merely a cloak for the open shop, campaign, union heads i claimed. I ~\

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1922.

Emma Goldman Says ( U . S. the Only Country After All’ STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7.—“ The United States Is the only country, after all,” said Emma Goldman, notorioun woman anarchist, today. Miss Goldman has arrived here from Reval, accompanied by Alexander Berkman and Alexander Shapiro. All had been deported from America for their anarchistic activities. Miss Goldman said that all of them wished to get jback to America and would do so at the first opportunity. foreTtarget OF NEWBERRY DEFENSE GUN Townsend Assails Flivver King in Hot Speech. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—An attack on Henry Ford signalized the opening of the defense of Senator Truman H. Newberry of Michigan by his supporters in the Senate today. Senator Townsend of Michigan, Newberry's Republican colleague, criticised Ford as a "widely advertised pacifist, who was drafted as a senatorial candidate by former President Wilson.” Townsend pictured Newberry as one who from "purely patriotic motives,” had reluctantly consented to oppose Ford In the Michigan primaries of 1918, "because of the hostile feeling existing ut the time to Ford’s pacifism.” ANIMOSITY AND HATRED SHOWN. “I had no idea that any spirit of animosity and hatred could go so far n that displayed by some Senators in their abuse of Senator Newberry,’’ Townsend continued. Townsend registered a vigorous denial of Ford’s charges that Newberry personally was responsible for the expenditure of nearly $200,000 to secure his nomination. “Among the things which created eon siderable feeling against Mr. Ford In Michigan was his advocacy of the Versailles treaty,” Townsend “said. “But the Versailles treaty had not even been heard of in 11U8, when Senator Newberry became a candidate for the Senate," interposed Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massachusetts. "Wo were still at war then.” "Weil. I’m merely citing Mr. Ford's subsequent advocacy of the treaty In Michigan,” Townsend answered. “I cannot see what application tho Versailles treaty has to the Michigan primary campaign of ISIS,” Walsfi remarked. Senator Cura way. Democrat Ajkansas, Bought to ask Townsetul a question. "I will yield for a question, but not for an .argument by the Senator from Arkansas," Townsend said. “1 have listened in patient silence thus far to the vinification with which certain Senators on the other side have sought to traduce Senator Newberry, and I don't propose too be interrupted by them now.” “The Senator from Arkansas will not press his question If the Senator from Michigan se. ks to impose any conditions on him,” Caraway shot back.

GUARDS BODIES OF COMPANIONS Moonshiner, With High Power Gun, Keeps Watch Over Dead. HARLAN, Ky., Jan. 7.—A mountaineer moonshiner, armed with a high-powered rifle, sat on a lofty mountain perch ns guard today over the bodies of Can Fee and Enos Ice, alleged moonshiners, killed in a battle with a posse near here. John Wilson, prohibition agent, and Sheriff J. H. Blair reported they approached a still in the mountains and found tin* two men operating it. The officers said they called on the men to surrender. A volley was the answer. Returning the fire the posse killed both mountaineers. The lookout on the mountain kept up his sniping while officers destroyed a still. His shots have prevented removal of the bodies. Gov. Sproul Confers With Senator Crowe PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 7.—Governor Sproul conferred with Senator William E. Crowe at Mercy Hospital here today on the appointee to the Senate seat left vucant by the death of Boles Penroso.

‘Hot Dog’ Sandwiches and Vaudeville NEWSBOYS OF CITY GUESTS OF DAILY TIMES Shank Says, ‘Be Good to Your Mothers ’

More than 600 newsboys and girls attended the pnrty given by the Daily Times at Tomlinson Hall. A speech by Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank, eight acts of vaudeville, and all the sandwiches and coffee the youngsters could hold were features of the event. Gathering at the Daily Times building long before tho time the party was scheduled to begin, the newsies, headed by the Daily Times drum corps marched to Tomlinson Hall. The drum corps played bugle calls while the youngsters filed into the flag draped auditorium. Mayor Shank marched out on the stage amidst cheers from the guests. He called for Ben S. Boyce, general manager of the Daily Times to come to the stage, and Introduced him as the “friend of all the youngsters In town.” Assertion of the mayor that he was going to put playgrounds and swimming pools In every neighborhood just as fast as money is available brought forth enthusiastic shouts. SOME OF THE BOYS MAY BE MAYOR. . "You are living in the greatest citv in the United States and one day one of you boys more than likely is going to be mayor,” he said. "I want you to go through life loving Indianapolis as Indianapolis loves you kids and as I love

CITY TO GET BACK PART OF JUNK PROFIT Investigation Shows Cohen Keen Business Man. ALIBI IS OFFERED Former City Employe Thinks He Had Just Claim. After an Investigation in which city officials said it was disclosed j that Aaron Cohen, known also as 1 “Harry” and “Red,” had received rar ' more junk from the city than he had I paid for a few days before the close | of the Jewett administration, Mayor | Samuel Lewis Shank announced today that Dwight S. Ritter, former city purchasing agent, had agreed to arrange for the repayment of $40,0 to the city. James M. Ogden, city attorney, who presided at the investigation in hl3 office at the city hall, said he was convinced by the evidence that Mr. Ritter had been imposed upon by Cohen. Cohen was a city employe for a while In the Jewett administration but he was cut off of one of the Inspectors’ pay rolls a few weeks before the close of 1921. lie Is said to have been an ardent worker for Thomas C. Howe lu the primary last spring. Mayor Shank said Cohen told him he thought he had something coming from the Jewett administration because be had worked h(ird for it la a political way. The mayor said he told Cullen he was not going to get anything from the present administration. SHANK MAKES DISCOVERY. The Investigation grew out of the dls- : covery by Mr. Shank that the Junk iu ! question had been sold by the previous | administration before the appraisement ! had been approved by the mayor and city council. The Junk consisted of thirty tons of scrap iron and 4,780 pounds of worn out copper wire line. .Mr. Shank made tho discovery when Harold H. Hunter, one of the appraisers appointed by the Circuit Court, came to deliver the appraisals to the mayor's office for ! Mr. Shank’s signature and told the mayor | he understood part of the stuff already had been sold. There were two appraisements, one of obsolete property which the old board of public safety had decided to sell, and another of property which the former board of public works desired to sell. The Junk was listed on the board of w<wks' appraisement nnd the wire on tha* of the board <>f safety property. Mr. Ritter admitted the Junk and wire hail been sold to Cohen,'but said be under- ! stood each appraisement totalled less than S2OO and that Mayor Charles W. Jewett had signed them. Under the law (< ont limed on I’ujr* Two.)

BRITAIN WILL AGREE TO JAP RESERVATION Action Removes Anot 1 r Obstacle From Path i Ratification. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Great Britain will accept cn 'American Senate reservation on the four-power I’aeifle treaty excluding the homeland of Japan from the protective scope of the pact, It wns learned today on high British authority. This decision on the part of Britain will make possible a prompt ratification of the treaty by tho Senate, many observers here believe. Great Britain’s action, which Is most significant because the British were responsible for the delegates placing on the treaty the interpretation that it Klcluded the main island of Japan, assures that none of the signatory powers would object to a Senate reservation to meet virtually the only vital objection raised in the Senate to the new pact—framed to scrap the Anglo-Japanese alliance and preserve the peace of the I’aciflo. Japan already in informal negotiations between Hughes nnd Ambassador Shldehura has approved exclusion of Japan proper from the protective features of the treaty. In fact, this interpretation aroused almost as much opposition lu Japan as In the Senate. The United States, of conrse, is willing to accept tho new interpretation and France is said not to bo concerned either way.

Indianapolis and you. I’m for you all and during the four years that I’m mayor I want you to know that you can come to me for help if you need it. Don’t be afraid. Come right up to the mayor’s office and tell my secretary, Mr. Knodle, that you sell the Daily Times and he’ll see that you get to see me. "I want you boys always to be honest. Always be honest with the people you sell your papers to. If a man gives you a nickel, gee that he gets his three cents change back. He won’t always want it back, but he’lj appreciate the fact that you’re honest 'enough to offer it to him. And don’t you think that gaining a reputation for honesty won’t help you later in life. You’ll find it one of the finest things you can have. BOYS, BE GOOD TO YOUR MOTHER. “Always be kind and courteous to yotiv mother. It don't matter so much about your dad. You’re kind of scared of him and are bound to be courteous to him, I always was afraid of that gaol my da* used to use on me. But my mother. I wasn’t afraid of her. I knew she couldn’t hurt me. That’s just the reason why you boys want to do what she tells you. She’ll never tell you to do anything that Isn't for the best, and boys, you can live 900 years, but you’ll never have but one mother. Be proud of her kind to her

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U. S. Will Save Billion Dollars in Ten Years by Hughes Naval Plan

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—More than a billion dollars will be saved to the American people during the next ten years under the Hughes naval limitation plan, according to estimates by naval experts. These figures are based upon proposed reductions in expenditures already authorized or contemplated and take no account of other billions which would have been spent for new warships and naval bases if the competition in armaments had not been curtailed by *he Washington conference. Conservative estimates place this latter sum at approximately a billion dollars, thus bringing the grand total of saving into the neighborhood of two billion dollars. The average cost of maintaining a modern capital sMp In commission Is three million dollars a year, according to statistics of the Navy Department. U. 8. TO SCRAP THIRTY SHIPS. Under the Hughes plan the United States scraps thirty capital ships, thus eliminating an expense of some S96O,<XK),000 annually for maintenance. Inasmuch as some of these ships destined for the scrap-heap are of older types and consequently not so expensive to maintain, this figure at first glance, appears large, but there are certain “general overhead charges” which, naval experts dt-clare, would offset the differences. Extended over a period of ten years, this maintenance charge would total approximately $900,000,000. Tba total cost, when completed, of the

DOUBLE PHONE SYSTEM COSTS MORE, ISPLEA Engineer for Bell Concern Gives Testimony on Unification. USERS HAVE PROXY The operation of the combined automatic nnd manual system will cost more than would tho operation of u single system with as many subscribers, according to testimony presented before the public service commission in the Indiana Bell Telephono Company rate Increase hearing today. The cost of operating the new system was brought up by T. Ernest Maholm. attorney for a number of telephone users. He asked Frank A. Montrose, chief engineer and general superintendent of maintenance of the company, whether it would not have been less expensive to Install a complete manual syst-m then to combine the two systems. Mr. Montrose replied that the unification was the less expensive, i u reply to a second question, ho said the operating expenses would be Increased through the unification of service. ASSERTS COSTS MILL INCREASE, Tho witness also testified that as the use of the automatic telephone continues tho unficatiou costs will continue to some exteut iu addition to Increased operation costs. B. G. Halstead, engineer of the telephone company, was put on the stand and testified as to operation costs. He said there has been little change In the prices of materials used in operation and also slight changes In prices of material going into additions. The testimony went Into detail as to the cost of telephone Instruments for the purpose of fixing a Just figure for the rental of tho Instruments from the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Mr. Halstead fixed $6,729 as a fair rental value for ehch set of instruments. COMPANY FEELS POVERTY PINCH. Scarcity of materials and labor before the United States entered the war, and the poor financial condition of the Indiana Telephone Cjimnany have prevented many necessary Improvements from being made on the system, Frank Wampler vice president and geueral manager of the company, said In testifying before the public service commission yesterday. There has been no general reduction of in the employes of the company, Mr. Wampler said. The salaries of new operators, and laborers have been cut slightly, however, be said. All supplies used by the telephone company ,he said, are purchased from the Western Electric Company, which is owned by th American Telephone and Telegraph Company. It was found several years ago, according to Mr. Wampler, the company could purchase its supplies much cheaper from this company than from an outalde organization. DECLARES SERVICE MUST SUFFER. A genera] deterioration of telephone service in Indianapolis, which would be a calamity so far as the city Is concerned, would result should the books of the local company continue to show a (Continued on Page Two.)

and make her happy and you’ll be lots happier yourselves. “And say, I want to see every one of you get ahead In this world. There's only one way to do it. Get out and hustle. Do more today than you did yesterday. If you sold ten papers yesterday’, sell eleven today. "Be good. Come and see Lew Shank when you need help and remember always that I’m for you.” Henry K. Burton was the announcer for the vaudeville which followed. C. Itoltare Eggleston, manager of Keith’s Theater, hauled one of his tricks out of the magic bag with which he used to delight thousands when he was an actor himself, and had the youngsters in an uproar. He made a bunch of rings perform mystifying stunts while walking np and down the aisles. Kenny & Hollis, one of the acts upon the regular bill at Keith’s this week, gave an entertaining number. The vaudeville performanace over, the guests were formed in a line and sent past stands laden with coffee and sandwiches. When the line had passed once It went around again. Some of the guests went past the stands three or four times, eating until they were forced to drop out from sheer lack of capacity.

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thirteen new capital ships which America agrees to scrap under the Hughes proposal is estimated at $520,000,000. Os this amount $332,000,000 already has been expended, making a difference of $138,000,000, which represents the amount saved by the United States in refraining from completing the ressels. COAST DEFENSE IS COSTLY. Under the normal rate of American naval expansion, expenditures for socalled naval shore establishments increase approximately S10,K)0.000 each year, experts assert. With tho live great raval powers In agreement as to their capital ship ratios, the expense for shore establishments will remain practically stationary. Figured over a period of ten years, the duration of the proposed naval holiday, the saving effected totals SIOO,000,000. The estimates of additional saving of a billion dollars during the ten-year period are based on the supposition that, without the Hughes agreement, competition In naval armament would have continued and that the United States, In order to maintain the position demanded by her size, wealth and political importance, would have been compelled to build at least two capital ships a year. Figuring the cost of a modern super-dreadnaught at approximately $40,000,000, and taking Into consideration the auxiliary craft regarded as necessary for the operation of such vessels In fleet formation, it Is seen the estimate of a billion dollars Is not too high.

Arbuckle and Trial Judge Get Threats Conference Held to Plan for Retrial of Famous Film Actor. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 7 A death threat to Judge Harold Louderback and the defendant marked the preparations today for the retrial of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle on a manslaughter charge as a result of the death of Virginia Rappe after a party given by the famous film comedian. "Judge—Arbuckle or you will not live six months if he is freed," read the note printed roughlv and signed with the words “BEAST” and “DEAD." A conference betrfen attorneys for the defense and the district attorney's office failed to settle the day on which the trial will open. A case now in progress before Judge Louderback will not be completed before Tuesday. The Arbuckle trial will go on Wednesday or be continued uutil tho following Monday.

HARDING CALLS CONFERENCE ON G. 0. P. OUTLOOK Proposes Political Canvass to Be Held at White House Tonight. WASHINGTON, .Tan. 7.—One of the most important gatherings of Republican legislative and political chieftains In weeks will take place at the White House tonight for a general canvass of the Republican situation. The leaders will be guests of President Harding at dinner and it is understood there will he a full discussion of the party’s legislative and political program. The Cabinet will be represented by Attorney General Daugherty and Secretary of War Weeks, the President's two closest advisers on political matters. The Republican national committee will be represented by its chairman. John T. Adams. Leading figures of the Senate and House also will be present. It Is probable the soldier "bonus" legislation will come In for a full discussion. Senator McCumber of North Dakota, who Is slated to succeed the late Senator Penrose as chairman of the allpowerful Finance Committee, an ardent advocate of the "bonuM,” will be there, as well as Representative Sanders of Indiana, who has consistently pushed the “bonus” proposition. The meeting was generally described as being "for the good of tho party.” Other gueats will be Senator Lodge, the majority leader; Senator Curtis, Kansas, the Republican Whip; Senator Watson, Indiana; Senator Brandegree, Connecticut; Speaker, Ulllett; Representative Mondell, Representative Anderson, Minnesota; Representative Barrow, Pennsylvania; Representative Fordney, Michigan, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Representative Madden, Illinois, chairman of the Appropriations Committee.

Ft. Wayne Company Insures Eyesight Special to The Times. | FT. WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 7. —Yon can In- ' sure yourself against loss of eyesight now—except by alcoholism. I A group of Ft. Wayne men organized | the Mutual Eye Indemnity Company and I for $17.50 agree to Insure a person's sight for a lifetime. Loss of one eye gets the Insured $1,000; both eyes, $5,000. Taking into consideration the blinding effect of wood alcohol in poisoned liquor. | the company refuses to insure against blindness from that source. 10 Arrested in Plot to Dynamite Packers KANSAS CITY, Jan. 7.—Ten men were jailed here today when police began maki ing arrests In connection with what they . declared was a plot to dynamite the Mor- ! rls & Cos. packing plant, where union employes are on strike, Monday night. Andrew Oreska and Tony Waselvickh, said by police to be Imported •‘dynamite men” from Chicago, were among those held in default of bord pending trial 1 Jan. 18. SIOO,OOO Inheritance Tax on Malott Estate Announcement was made today that the estate of the late Voluey T. Malott, for years prominent In banking and financial circles of the city, has been appraised at $4,619,G35.50, of which $3,375,015.71 is in personal property and $1,244,619.64 in real estate. The inheritance tax on the estate has been fixed at $106,849.90, according to Judge Mahlon T. Bash o&the Marion County Probata Court. " l 1 4

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OPPOSITION DEVELOPS TO R. H. BRYSON Politicians Say P. O. Candidate Quick to Change. HOLDS TOP RATING However, Qualifications of Others Boosted. Determined opposition to the appointment of Robert H. Bryson as postmaster was evidenced in some quarters today following the announcement from Washington that he had been given the highest rating of the three candidates certified by the civil service commission to the Postoffice Department Those opposed to the Bryson appointment based their antagonism mainly on two grounds; first they say, he is a political chameleon and Is always for the winning side, and second that better qualified men were overlooked entirely in making the recommendations. f The sentiments of the anti-Bryson element of the Republican party was summed up by Luke W. Duffey and William F. Cleary, one of the defeated aspirants, to Washington officials. Mr. Duffey sent the following telegram *9 Senator Harry S. New today: \ "As one who appreciates good American business ballot you tramMl in year representative capacity. doubtful of the wisdom you have by indirectly approving with your silcmH the appointment of Robert Bryson a postmaster. VI “To many of ns Mr. Bryson appears as one of our most power-mad political autocrats—with a two-way gear shift —and one who has had his head in tho public crib for a sufficient length ot time, for you to appreciate, as was indicated at the last election, that anew deal and new blood la expected. “Believing that nothing short of bitter political responsibilities will follow his appointment, I am yours, with all good wishes. LUKE W. DUFFEY.” Mr. Cleary clerk of the board of public works under the Jewett administration, and for twenty-two years in the postoffice service, sent tbe following telegram to Will H. Hays, postmaster general today when he received word the alignment. 9 "Have arranged for noted alienists to give me the once over and decide whether I am really feeble minded or only half wltted. After spending twenty-two years In the postal service, during seven of which I daily held schools of Instruction for postmasters and after seven additional years requiring daily public contact and then being unable to pass in examination In which 80 per cent la allowed for experience and training, has persuaded me that either my mentality is limited or the examination Is worse than a farce.'• Charges that the original 'recommendations of the postofflce Inspectors who examined into the qualifications of tho candidates and reported to the civil serv. ice commission, were ignored or “doc. tored.” are openly made. For some time a story has been current In Indianapolis that the Repnbllcan Administration at Washington had been placed In a very embarrassing position by the fact that the three candidates given the highest grades by the postoffice Inspectors did not Include the name of either Bryso® or Frederick C. Schortemeier. secretary of the Republican State central committee, and the story even went so fa t as to say that all three were Democrats. This is said to have been the cause of the long delay In announcing the list certified to the civil service commission. It Is said that finally things were jockeyed around to the extent of getting Bry--8( n a high rating and dropping ths names of two politically urleslrabls candidates from the list. In support of this etory the anti-Bry sonltes point to the Dayton (Ohio) tsn* gle, where a postmaster was finally named whose name was not among the (Continued on Page Two.)

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