Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1922 — Page 1

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MICHIGAN SENATOR, ACCUSED OF BUYING SEAT, PLEADS CASE Learned With ‘Astonishment and Regret’ That Primary Cost §195,000, He Tells Colleagues and Judges. SOLICITED NO MONEY, SPENT NONE WASHINGTON', Jan. 9. —Calling on God to witness his innocence, Senator Truman H. Newberry of Michigan, in the Senate today, defended himself for the first time against the charge that his seat had been “bought and paid for” through extravagant use of campaign funds. “As God is my witness,” said Newberry, “f am not to this day and hour conscious of having done in the primary or the election of 1918 a single act that was or is in anyway unlawful, dishonorable or corrupt, and this I say to the Senate of the United States without reservation or qualification.” As Newberry took the floor to make the speech that probably will determine whether he is to retain his seat, his Democratic and Republican foes were ready to attack him with a cross fire of pointed questions.

His direct defense (o the charge that j he was a party to, and had a part in the | collection and expenditure of a vast sum in the primary campaign that won him the Republican nomination against Henry Ford, was summed lip in these words: “I did not solicit or expend, directly or Indirectly, one single dollar in the campaign for Senator in Michigan in 1918. Nor did I know of the contributions made until afterward. Over and over again throughout his speech, Newberry repeated that “I did not know.” ’“ln fact,” he said, “it was with astonishment and regret that he learned the primary campaign had cost $19.i,000. ’ But the use of this money, he said, was necessary, in the opinion of his friends, who were managing his campaign. ‘‘The amount expended was large, said Newberry, “more than I had any idea was being expended and more than ought to be necessary to spend In any ordtnarv campaign. But this wa not an ordinary campaign. “I shall not dwell at length upon the 'reasons which the committee thought imperatively demanded a campaign of newspaper publicity involving this expenditure of money. 1 can only sav that I regret exceedingly the fact that so large an amount of money was necessarily expended. 1 can further say that in the acquisition of the money, in the use of that money, 1 had nothing whatever to do. I knew nothing whatever about it, not even the amount of it. WISHES "ACTUAL FACTS” TO BECOME KNOWN. “X make this statement, not to escape any responsibility, but in order that the actual facts in the matter as I know them may be presented to the Senate.” Newberry told his colleagues who are also to be his judges that “upon these facts as I then believed them to be, and as I now believe them to be. I shall abide the result with a clear conscience.” At the outset Newberry told the Senate he was impelled to break his long silence by the fear that ids friends misconstrue that silence if he continued it to the end. He asked that he be permitted to make his statement unintertupted and warned those who were pre pared to heckJe and question him that he had nothing to add, no more information to give beyond that contained in his prepared speech. He then reviewed the circumstances leading up to his decision to become a candidate for the Republican nomina- : tion for Senator. He told how, in the early fall of 191 1, he began to receive visits and letters from men in public and political affairs in Michigan to become a candidate. Then Newberry recited details of the appointment of Paul H. King as cam (Continued on Page Two.) CARTER NOT TO BE CANDIDATE Superior Court Judge Says He Will Not Seek to Ketain Bench. Judge Solon J. Carter of Superior Court, room 3, today announced he would j not be a candidate for renomination on the Republican ticket for the judgeship at the coming primary. The positive declaration of Judge Car- j ter comes as a surprise, because tie has been the only one considered for this bench on the Republican ticket. ••I intend to re-enter the general prac- i ticc of law In 1 ndftmapolis, although. 1 have not made any definite plans, nor will | [ until T retire from the bench,” Judge Carter stated. Judge Carter was appointed by former i Governor James I’. Goodrich, following , t h ( . death of the late Ernest 1.. Keith, who ; died while judge of the court. GRAND JURY HEARING WITNESSES. 1 The Marion County grand Jury which was obtained Saturday for the January term of the Criminal Court today began hearing witnesses. A report is not expected until the last of the week.

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HARDING TO ASK VOTE OF CONFIDENCE Selects War Debt Funding- Bill as Test. ‘BONUS’ TAKEN UP Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By ROBERT BARRY. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The President has decided to call for a vote of confidence of his Administration. He has chosen one of the most controversial issues pending In Congress. He will make the test on the allied war debt funding bill. He made known his wishes to a group of Republican leaders at the White House Saturday night. Mr. Harding was said to have indicated to his party councillors there could tie on more clear-cut issue than that offered by the funding bill. If the Republican Congress lacks enough confidence i\ t).* 1 President and his Cabinet to decline to give an Administration commission of five men power to conduct negotiations looking to the funding of the SIO,OOO, 000,000 owing to the United Stales, then Mr. Harding wishes to know it now. The light will lie precipitated at once. The test will come in the Senate. The House passed the funding bill some time ago. It will be the Administration’s purpose to insist on Senate action on the House bill, with the exception that the so-called twenty-five years’ limitation provision will be stricken out by the Finance Committee. Such party managers as Senators Lodge, Brandegee, Watson and Curtis acknowledge no doubts as to the outcome. They are sure the President will win. It has become known that President Harding would not assent at the White House dinner to a plan of action which would have brought much additional strength to bear on the Senate for passage of the funding bill. He disagreed with the view of Senators Lodge, Wat(Contimicd on Pago Five.) Ash Collection Trains Still off Schedule Shank Asks Ogden to Look Up Responsibility Phase of Case. Although Truly Nolan, superintendent of the garbage and ash collection and disposal department under the board of sanitary commissioners told the board last Thursday that iiie accumulation of ashes resulting from the breakdown of the celltction system during the last two weeks of the JJewett administration would be cleaned up by Saturday night the ash trains have not caught up Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank reported today that one of the tilings he noticed on a tour of the northern part of the city Sundaty was the accumulation ol slies in streets and alleys. Ho asked City Atorney James M. Ogden if there were not some way of getting rid of the men responsible, mentioning Lucius 15. Swift, former president of the sanitary board, and Mr. Ogden promised to consult liis law books.

Goes to Chicago Branch of Company 4 C. T. Barnes, who has been in charge of the Indianapolis branch of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company for the last two years, will take charge of the Chicago branch Monday. He will have charge also of the Oldfield tire warehouse and the manufacturing business in Chicago. The name of his successor bore has not been announced. TAKES PROGRESSIVE NAP. CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—An man broke into the borne of Mrs. Mary Akusarkus and fell asleep in an easy chair. Moonshine. Sleeps in jail now. 1

PEPPER NAMED SENATOR FROM PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia Lawyer to Succeed the Late Boies Penrose. PAPERS RUSHED New Member May Cast First Vote in Newberry Contest. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9. —George Wharton Pepper, noted constitutional lawyer of this city, today was appointed by Governor Sproul to the United States Senate as successor to the late Senator Boies Penrose. Strong efforts were made at the last minute by Eastern political leaders to secure the appointment of Lewis S. Sadler, state highway commissioner. The new Senator is extremely popular in Eastern Pennsylvania. He attained national prominence as defense counsel for organized baseball against the defunct Federal League. Mr. Pepper is recognized ns one of the ablest constitutional lawyers in the country. He has not been active politically in Philadelphia, with the exception of being a candidate for national delegate for the 1920 Republican national convention. when he was defeated at the primaries in the Third Congressional district in Philadelphia. He was a menu her of the commission on constitutional, revision and amendment appointed by Governor Sproul, which sat in Harrisburg to revise the constitution during the fall of 1920. Mr. Pepper is 54, having been born in Philadelphia on March 16, 1867. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1887 and later received degrees of doctor of laws from the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, the University of the South. In 1890 he married Charlotte R. Fisher. For a number of years he was a lecturer at Yale University and he is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and of Carnegie Institute. During the World War Mr. Pepper was chairman of the Pennsylvania Council of National Defense and was vice president of the League for the Preservation of American Independence. He was bitterly opposed to the League of Nations and took part in debates in many sections of the country with advocates of the league. Mr. Pepper is the author of a number of legal publications, the most noted of which is likely "Pepper's Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania.” The Governor has ordered papers to be rushed from Harrisburg in time to have the new Senator sworn in to cast his vote in the Newberry contest at Washington. M'CUMBER CHOSEN HEAD OF FINANCE COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, Jan., 9.-Senator McCumber, Republican, North Dakota, to day was formally named chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to succeed the late Senator Penrose by the Republican Committee on Committees. Senator Frelinghuysen, Republican New Jersey, was chosen to till the vacancy created on the committee by the moving up of McCumber to the chairmanship. ARBUCKLE CASE SET WEDNESDAY Actor Enters Plea of Not Guilty as Second Trial Starts. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan.9.-Ros-coe (Fatty) Arbuckle will go on trail again for manslaughter, as a result of the death of Virginia Rappe, on Wednesday. His case was called in Superior Court today and he entered a idea of not guilty to the grand jury indictment, charging him with responsibility for Miss Rappe’s death. District Attorney Brady and Gavin McNab, chief counsel for the film comedian, each asked that the new trial proceed at the earliest possible date and Judge Louderback announed a case now on trial would be completed in time for the case to open Wednesday.

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AMBASSADOR HARVEY IS HURT AS SPEEDER CRASHES INTO AUTO Injured About Head and Badly Shaken Up, but Condition Not Serious, Physicians Say. LONDON EDITOR ALSO IS INJURED CANNES, France, Jan. 9.—George Harvey, American ambassador to England and observer for the United States at the supreme council meeting, was injured in an automobile collision today. The attending physicians said they hoped Mr. Harvey's injuries were not serious, but they ordered him to remain quietly in bed during the balance of the day.

The physicians issued the following bulletin on Mr. Harvey's condition at noon: “There was a contusion of the dorso lumbar region. The patient must remain in bed several days. No serious complications ere anticipated.” The American ambassador accompanied by H. Wickham Steed, editor of London Times, was on his way to the golf links when another car coming up swiftly from behind struck his automobile on the side. Both Mr. Harvey and Mr. Steed were thrown to the pavement. Spectators rushing tip found 'Mr. Harvey unconscious. He was taken immediately to the Carlton Hotel where three physicians, including the personal doctor to Premier Briand of France, were summoned. They found Mr. Harvey suffering from injuries about the head. A careful examination was made alter which they ordered the patient to forego all activities for the time being. Mr. Harvey regained consciousness shortly after the accident. He was badly shaken up and was suffering from the shock when put to bed. As soon ns Premier Briand learned of the accident he hastened to the Carlton to ascertain the extent of Mr. Harvey’s

CODE OF WORLD SIGNIFICANCE TO STOP WARS Hope of Civilization Based on International Law. ‘SUB’ PLAN STEP By COL. EDWARD M. HOUSE. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9—Of the accomplishments of the Washington conference, it may be that history will accord first place to the Roct proposals regarding the limitation of the uses of submarines. The four-power treaty and the reduction of capital battleships are valuable in themselves, though they are of a temporary nature and not different from other treaties and agreements in the past which have served their purposes to lie later displaced by others of similar character. But if we are to have international peace, we must have an international code af laws; and the Root proposals are n good beginning toward restoring that shattered instrument. One of the indictments which justly may be made against our civilization is that we never have been willing to construct and conform to an international code of laws which was in any way comparable in its moral standard to the code we have constructed and found necessary for personal and intrastate control. INTERNATIONAL LAW WORLD NEED. The world had condoned and even applauded acts done in behalf of a State which, if committed by an individual, would have meant public and social ostracism. Deceit has been acclaimed (Continued on Page Four.) REPORTS NOVEMBER THEFT. N. F. Sumner, 3003 North Delaware street, reported to the police today that, a solitaire diamond ring valued at $400 had been stolen from his home at some time since the early part of last November.

injuries and to express his sympathy. Mr. Steed's injuries were described as ‘‘apparently more serious than those sustained by the American diplomat." The chauffeur of the Harvey car and a private detective who was in the automobile were thrown out, but were not hurt. So violent was the impact of the two cars that the rear wheels of Mr. Harvey's automobile were smashed. Another member of the Harvey party was Richard Crane, former American minister to Czecho-Slovia. He was also thrown from the car, but was unhurt After their examination of Mr. Harvey's injuries physicians announced that no bones had been broken. HERRICK WILL SIT IN FOR U. S. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Ambassador Myron T. Herrick probably will take over the duty of representing the United States at the Cannes conference until Ambassador George Harvey recovers from the injuries sustained in an automobile accident, it was said at the Senate Department today.

Colored Barber Begins Working for Uncle Sam Earl Titus Now Special Agent in Local Bureau of Investigation. Earl E. Titus, negro barber, 316 Muskingum street, whose appointment as speccial agent in the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, caused so much adverse comment among the colored population of the city when it be came known several weeks ago, reported for duty today and took his place on the Government pay roll. This is the first time a negro ever has been appointed to a position in the bureau in Indiana. In colored circles of Indianapolis Titus is generally regarded as a Democrat, and opponents to his appointment point out that he first applied for a position in the bureau in 1918, under a Democratic Administration. They say he never took an active part in politics and that the appointment was recommended by Senator Harry S. New on the earnest solicitation of Joseph B. Kealing. Republican National committeeman from Indiana. They say Titus has been Kealing's personal barber and that the latter's appreciation of a high-grade shave and a lot of fine service overcame in his mind any doubts as to the orthodoxy of Titus' Republicanism. It has been the usual custom to assign new appointees in the bureau of investigation to a school conducted by the government at Chicago, and many an agent in the past has been dropped after failing to make good in the school. Titus was not required to take this schooling. CHIEF CONCERN OF HUMANITY IS SALVATION Which, to Most Religious Denominations, Means Saving Souls. Under the auspices of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, the following lecture was delivered Sunday afternoon at the Murat Theater by Charles I. Chrenstein. C. S. B., of Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Chrenstein is a member of the board of lectureship of the Mother Church at Boston, Mass. The lecturer was introduced by Lester F. Lewellen. Salvation is a subject that to a great extent has occupied religious thought. Indeed it may be said that salvation is the chief concern not only of the religionist, but of every individual and of every activity of mankind ; for all want to be saved, and every right human activity is intended to save mankind from something. In a certain sense, however, the religionist, more than others perhaps, has pondered the subject of salvation. He also may be said to be more concerned about it than others are. This is not strange. The Scriptures, of which he has been a student, dwell upon it. Indeed, according to prediction, he whom we call Master, was to save his people, to bring solvation. For this reason his name was to be Jesus-which is identical with Joshua, meaning Saviour—and the Master not only repeatedly proclaimed salvation to be his mission, but his whole activity was intended to and did show the way in which salvation is to be attained. The question, then, which very naturally occur, is. What constitutes salvation? In other words, since the teachings of the Bible concern them(Continued on Page Eight.)

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SHANK ASKS MORE SPEED IN PROGRAM Mayor Gets Behind Board of Works as Driver. TO AID JOBLESS Proposes Emergency Fund as Part of Plan. Municipal improvement projects were moved forward at a rapid rate by the board of public works with Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank as the driving force today. Important moves by the hoard were as follows: 1. Adoption of a resolution asking the city council to transfer $10,000 each from the salaries fund of the unimproved the street cleaning department to anew fund to be known as the emergency relief fund, the $20,000 total to be applied on the hiring of worthy unemployed men in accordance with the scheme worked out by the mayor's committee on unemployment. 2. Adoption of a resolution asking the council to authorize a bond issue of $200.000 with which to purchase the vacant quarter block at Alabama and Ohio street. Just east of the city hall, as a site for an annex to the city hall to house police headquarters, city court and other city departments. 3. Adoption of a resolution asking the council to pass an ordinance transferring the duty of and funds for maintaining and repairing improve dstreets from the (Continued on Page Two.) ESTIMATES 20 PER CENT WILL OUST PHONES

Director of Service Tells of Protests to Rate Boost. MANY COMPLAIN Twenty per cent of the telephone users in Indianapolis will order their telephones taken out if the public service commission orders the rates contemplated by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Carl Wilde, director of service of the public service commission, testified before the commission today. Mr. Wilde said he based his statements on his experience with complaints against the proposed rate increase received by the commission. He testified that 1.584 individuals had complained to him in writing and that he had received complaints from fifteen organizations. He said that in nearly every case the protest was on the ground that rates should not be increased with the prices of material and labor being reduced, and that nearly every objection was accompanied by a threat to have telephones removed. SEVEN STATE MEMBERSHIP Mr. Wilde said seven of the organizations which filed protests stated their membership. They are the Englewood Hustling One Hundred, 300 members; Mapleton Civic League. 500; Indianapolis League of Women Voters. 800; East Side Voters League, 116; Union Congregationalist Church, 125; Original South Side Woman's Club, 85; Woman's Christion Temperance Union, 348. Other organizations which did not state their membership are the Riverside M. E. Church, the Temple Baptist Church, the Warren Township Farmers’ Association, the Hoosier Lodge of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the Perry Township Farmers Association, the North Indianapolis Better Business Bureau, the Marlon County Housewives League and the Indianapolis Typothetae. The protests of the organizations are similar to the protests of individuals, Mr. Wilde testified. He said the protests listed are in addition to complaints made by individuals in person and by telephone. He said that in a number of (Continued on Page Two.)

Former Premier of Japan, Officially Dead, Still Lives TOKIO, Jan. 9., 11 a. m.-Although officially pronounced dead, Marquis Okuma still lives. The former japanese premier, decorated after the announcement of his death with highest honor Japan reserves for her deceased heroes, today was reported by his physician to be “verging on death.” From time to time, as his pulse ceased to beat, members of his family made formal announcement that the marquis had died. This was done last Friday, but three days later the statesman’s heart still beat faintly.

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FOREMAN AT YARDS UNDER JEWETT HAD $200 PUMP AT HOME Lost Equipment Quest Pushed With VigorPolice Chief Asked to Put Two Detectives on Trail. GARAGE WORKER IS QUESTIONED The board of public works today ordered that arrest and prosecution of Alva Day, foreman at the city yards, East New York street and the Belt railroad, during the last year of the Jewett administration, when city detectives reported they had found a pump, the property of the city and valued at approximately $200 at Jay's home in Bridgeport. With Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank at the helm, the board continued to investigate the disappearance of city property and sent a request to Chief of Police Herman F. Rikhoff that he have Supervisor of Detectives John Mullin assign his two best men to the work.

WOMEN SEEK EQUAL STATUS IN POLITICS Voice Sentiment at Jackson Day Luncheon. PASS RESOLUTION A resolution asking that the women of the Democratic party of Indiana be placed upon an equal status with the men of the party and that such provisions be incorporated in the rules governing the party, was adopted this afternoon at the Jackson day luncheon held at the Riley Room of the Claypool hotel, under the auspices of the women members of the Democratic State committee. Preceding the action a series of talks was made by a group of women prominent in political circles, Mrs. Alice Foster McCulloch presiding. The speakers included Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, who talked on Andrew Jackson;” Mrs. Harry McMullen of Aurora, whose topic was "The Future of Democracy in Indiana;” Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke of this city, who discussed “Has the Republican Party Fulfilled Its Campaign Pledges?" and Miss Emma May of Terre Haute, who spoke on "The Value of State-Wide Publicity ” The resolution concerning women's part in party affairs follows; "Whereas. The women of the Democratic party in Indiana desire to be placed upon an equal status with the men in the organization of that party, such as was intended by the adoption of the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States: "Now. therefore, be it resolved. That the Democratic State central committee be and is hereby requested to adopt and incorporate into the rules governing that party, the following provisions: “That women voters shall be declared eligible to all offices and appointments (Continued on Page Two.)

FINES NINE RAIL COMPAINES $100 ON EACH COUNT Judge Anderson Fixes Penalties in Violations of Laws. Fines of $100 and costs were imposed in eleven cases against nine railroad and traction companies by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court today. The cases grew out of violation of the safety appliance law, the law requiring that livestock in transit lie fed not less than once in every twenty-eight hours and the law making it illegal to work railroad employes more than eight hours in any twenty-four. The roads upon which the fines were imposed are: Vandalia Railway Company, Wabash Railroad Company. P., C.. C. & St. L. Railway Company, Pere Marquette Railway Company, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, Monon Railroad Company, Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company, Union Traction Company of Indiana, and the Indianapolis Union Railway Company. Carey Pays Court Visit—That’s All Willie Carey paid his respects, but not his money, to the new city court officials today. He was arrested last night after, it is alleged, he fired two shots at his wife, Mary Carey. When the police arrived at Ohio and Bright streets, where the shooting was said to have taken place, Carey was gone. He was arrested later in the evening and slated for shooting within the city limits and assault with felonious intent. His wife failed to appear in city court, so Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth dismissed the case. Carey has been arrested twenty-eight times since Jan. 1, 1920. 1 Bandit Killed, 1 Wounded; 2 Cops Shot OKMULGEE, Okla., Jan. 9.-One bandit was shot and killed, another wounded, a third captured and Police Captain Homer Spalding and Patrolman L. M. Lamoore were wounded in a gun battle here today. Three bandits escaped.

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John Wills, for six months an employe at the municipal garage under the Jewett administration, was called before the board and told by Mr. Shank he would have to tell the truth if he expected to keep his job. Wills said he knew several of the mechanics employed at the garage during the last six months of 1921 were getting gasoline for their own automobiles and working on their own hers at the municipal garage. He implica the ward politic held pending further investigation. politician's son did not work at the garage, but was in the habit of lling his private gas tank from the city stores, Wills said. :MAY TURN MATTER OVER TO GRAND JURY. Mr. Shank said he is considering the advisability of referring the whole matter of disappearance of city property to the Marion County grand ury. Jay until a year a year ago was superintendent of the Marion County Asylem for the Poor. He was replaced by Charles Lewis. It is said his dismissal was brought about by Commissioner Carlin Shank, brother of the mayor. The Jewett administration then gave him the post at the city yards. Mr. Shank was informed that the pump in question was missing from the city yards that it had been loaded into Jay's automobile by some of his subordinates. One of these subordinates was called before the board of works and questioned about the incident. He declared he had had nothing to do with loading the pump, but knew Jay had taken it. This was about three weeks ago. the employe said. Mr. Shank dispatched two city detectives to Jay's place in Bridgeport. They returned in about two hours and reported to the mayor and the board that the pump was in Jay's possession, but that it had been brought back to the city yards. The detectives said Jay admitted taking it. but explained he thought it was worthless. Upon this report W. H. Freeman. Republican member of the board, moved Jay's arrest and prosecution. Mr. Shank said he would instruct the police department to flic a charge of grand larceny against Jay. MAYOR DIRECTS SHARP CROSS-QUESTIONING. The city yards employe was sharply cross examined by the mayor as to the disappearance of other property. He said there were eleven axes gone and that twelve toot boxes were practically empty. Pressed for information as to who has the missing articles the employe said said he did not know anything beyond that they had been issued to employes and never were brought back. " There must be thousands of dollars' worth of stuff gone from various city departments," said Mr. Shank. "The people work took it had better be bringing it back." SUGGESTION TO KEEP CHECK ON CITY CARS. Emmett J. Hogan, assigned to the municipal garage as a car tracer, who has been trying to locate all of the automobiles and equipment supposed to he there, reported to Mr. Shank that he has not been able to get the records straightened out. but that he has been informed that city cars have been seen as far away from Indianapolis as Chicago and Louisville. He said he had been told they were used on ”joy rides.” To correct this evil Mr. Hogan proposed that every driver of a city car be compelled to register on a permanent record at the garage the hour he takes his machine out and the time he brings it back. There should be a regulation requiring every city car to be kept in the garage at night and not at the homes of employes as he has found some have been in the past, he declared. Pay Car Hold-ups Flee in Motorcar NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 9.-A pay car of the Public Service Railway Company was held up early today, the hold-up men escaping toward Jersey City in an automobile, according to reports to local police. JOHNSON TAKES COLLINS' PLACE In the absence of Judge James A. Collins of the Criminal Court, who is making his annual visit to the Indiana State farm, Emsley W. Johnson, a local attorney. today was presiding as judge pro tern. Grace Nicholson, charged with contributing to delinquency, was found not guilty and discharged.

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