Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1922 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Saturday. Not much change in temperature.

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SKIP SYSTEM SCHEDULE TO BEGIN SUNDAY Signs in Street Cars Announce Time of Change. CITY TAKES HAND Erect Loading Platforms in Middle of Blocks. Signs announcing the skip-stop system will go into effect Sunday morning were carried in all cars of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company today. President Robert I. Todd said middle-of-the-block loading in the congested district will be started simultaneously. The changes were ordered by the board of public works Wednesday. James P. Tretton, superintendent of the street railway company, was called before the board of public works today and told the board does not intend that it shall be an ironclad rule cars stop every other block in the residential district. The board prefers, on the inbound track, stops be arranged so as to fall on corners where there are drug stores or other convenient points for passengers to wait for cars. Mr. Tretton said be concurred with the board in this, but ’t will be necessary to establish the stops generally at the points where they were in the war period in order to get the skip-stop plan into immediate operation. Beginning next week, he said, many changes in stops will have to be made and the wishes of the board will be followed therein. The board arranged to go over all routes with Mr. Tretton Monday afternoon and pick changes they believe necessary. Car crews will be instructed not to pass anybody on Sunday and Monday, even though they are waiting at a nonstop corner. On Tuesday they will adhere rigidly to the skipstop rule, Mr. Tretton said. The board approved this. The street railway . company has seven crews of sign painters marking poles at the streets where cars will stop. In genial, these are at the same places as durthe war period, when the skip-stop Krstem was used, Mr. Todd said. ' Because of the faster running time possible under the changes it will be necessary to change the schedule of everv line. Mr. Todd said this is being worked out as rapidly as possible, but it is likely some can not be completed until after the change is made. Bines will be speeded up thereafter as fast as the new running cards are finished. The city is responsible for marking the new middle-of-the-block loading platforms. These will be located in the center of alternate blocks on each track within a district roughly bounded by Alabama, New York, Georgia streets and Senate avenue. Cars may not be boarded at points other than the loading stations. These will be enclosed with standards and chains at the start, according to plans of the city engineering department. Passengers must enter by one gate and leave by another.

INDIANA BILL FOR 2 FEDERAL COURTS IS O.K.D House Judiciary Committee Reports Favorably on Hickey Measure. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. —The House Judiciary Committee today reported favorably a bill by Representative Hickey of Indiana, establishing two Federal judicial districts in Indiana. Movements to establish another Federal judicial district in Indiana have arisen from time to time for a number of years past, but always have been [killed in committee. Agitation for a separate court is particularly strong in northern Indiana, around Gary, East Chicago and South Bend. This anxiety for a separate judicial district is attributable, many persons believe, not so much to any feeling that there is a real need for a new court, but from a strong desire on the part of powerful political elements in northern Indiana to get out from under the strong hand of Judge Albert B. Anderson, and from a desire on the part of politicians to create anew district •with all the jobs and patronage that would go with it. Asa matter of fact Judge Anderson could easily handle far more business than he does, according to Frederick Van Nuys, former United States district attorney, who said recently twice as much business could be handled. Despite the fact that the prohibition law and national motor vehicle act have turned Federal Court into a police court and that hundreds of cases of this character are handled annually, the Federal Court calendar never is crowde' and there are days at a time when practically no business is transacted by the court.

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L Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity fcir the twenty-four hours ending at 7 K. m., Ja n . 28, 1922: f Generally fair tonight and Saturday, not much change in temperature; lowest tonight 15 to 20 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. • 6 a. m 16 7 a. m 16 ,/ 8 a. m 16 9 a. 18 10 a. 23 11 a. m 27 12 (noon) 30 jt p. 31

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Third Degree Fills N. Y. Underworld With Dread Alarm NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—The dread third degree, whispers of which strike terror in the underworld, is being used today all over New York City, Magistrate Joseph Corrigan of Essex Market Court, charges. Brutality in the police department, denied specifically by commissioners and inspectors, exists and “police department officials know it, and decent citizens know it,” Corrigan declared.

SEEKS MEANS OF BLOCKING BIG JERGER Present and Former Corporation Counsel in Conference. CONSIDER ACTION Means of further opposition to the Indiana Electric Corporation merger were discussed today at a conference of Taylor E. Groninger, corporation counsel; Samuel Ashby, former corporation counsel, and Fred Bates Johnson, who represented a number of northern Indiana cities in opposition to the corporation’s petition before the public service commission. The commission granted the corporation’s petition to issue $17,496,000 in securities for the purchase of seven Indiana electric power plants late yesterday. As corporation counsel in the Jewett administration, Mr. Ashby fought the merger position with great vigor, contending with other counsel arrayed against the utility interests that the capitalization sought is far in excess of the actual value of the plants to be bought. Corporation Counsel Groninger said that no decision was reached at the conference as to what action will be taken, but that “there will most probably be step* taken.” He said that William B. Taylor, attorney for large users of the power of the companies involved in the mt/ger, would join Mr. Ashby, Mr. Johnson and himself in another meeting this afternoon. The city has sixty days in which to file a petition for rehearing of the merger petition before the public service commission and thirty days after a ruling is made on'the petition for rehearing to appeal to the courts, Mr. Groninger said. It is understood that the attorneys are seeking some more direct way of striking at the commission’s order approving the merger. The plants to be purchased by the corporation are the Merchants Heat and Bight Company of Indianapolis, the Elkhart Gas and Fuel Company, the Valparaiso Bighting Company, the Indiana (Continued on Page Sixteen.)

SHANK TO ASK PARK BOARD FOR LAND PURCHASE Would Add ‘Golden HilP to Recent Investment Adjoining. NEAR RIVERSIDE PARK Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank today announced that be would request the park board to take up with the D. M. Parry heirs the purchase of the property known as the Golden Hill estate adjoining the land recently purchased by the city ans now used by the Woodstock club. The mayor has been investigating the desirability of adding this land to the holdings of the park board for some time and in negotiations with representatives of the estate has been assured that it can be obtained at a price much lower than it has heretofore been offered to private buyers. There are approximately forty-four acres of land in the tract which lies along the canal and w r ill eventually prove a necessary link between Crown Hill cemetery and Riverside Park. It Is the home of the Parry family and la noted for its beauty and adaptability to park purposes. Parts of the tract have been open to the public for a long time and the fact that a large number of children have been using it recently as a skating grounds and have frequented it In the summer is one of the reasons that it interested the mayor. LOUIS CHEVROLET REPORTED HURT Suffers Painful Injuries in Auto Collision. CHICAGO, Jan. 27.—Louis Chevrolet, veteran automobile “speed demon,” unscathed survivor of hundreds of deathattended motor races, received bis first serious injury today in a taxicab collision. Chevrolet was riding In a cab In Michigan boulevard when it was struck squarely by another cr.b. Chevrolet’s right leg was painfully bruised and twisted. He was taken to his hotel. He bad arrived from Indianapolis thjs morning to attend the Chicago Automobile Show. “This is irony,” was his only comment. His wife and son in Indianapolis were notified. MEXICO PROFITS BY OIL TAX. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 27.—1n the past forty-eight hours twenty-six oil companies doing business In the Mexican fields have paid into the government treasury 6,429,668 pesos for production taxes. The taxes fell due in December,

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SANCTION FOR NEW MINING CODE SOUGHT

Tri-partite Plan Is Sponsored by Senator Kenyon. INCLUDES PUBLIC Twelve Principles Set Forth for Industrial Relations. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Sanction by Congress of an industrial code applicable to coal mining and the creation of a tripartite Federal board to adjust differences between coal operators and miners “in that there may be peace in the coal industry,” were recommended to the Senate today by Senator Kenyon, Republican, lowa. Kenyon’s recommendations were a xesult of a study of the mining industry, in connection with an investigation by the Senate Committee on Education and Babor, of trouble between operators and union miners in West Virginia. The tripartite meditation board proposed by Kenyon would be. composed of th#ee representatives of the employes, three of the employers and three of the public, all to be appointed by the President. The new agency, according to Kenyon’s plan would be operated much in the same manner of the United States Railway Babor Board, no penalties being provided for violation of the board's orders. * Among the basic principles which should be established as an industrial code for the guidance of such an arbitration board, Kenyon suggested the following : 1. Coal is a public utility and in its production and distribution, the public interest is predominant. . 2. Human standards should be the constraining influence in fixing the wages and working conditions of mine workers. 3. Capital prudently and honestly invested In the coal industry should have an adequate return sufficient to stimulate and regulate the production of this essential commodity. 4. The right of operators and miners to organize is recognized and affirmed. 5. The right of operators and miners to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing is recognized and affirmed. 6. The miners who are not members of a union have the right to work without interference by fellow workmen who may belong to the union. The men who belong to a union have • the right to work without being harassed by operators who do not believe In unionism. 7. The right of all skilled or common laborers to earn an adequate living wage sufficient to maintain the worker and his family in health and reasonable comfort, and to afford an (Continued on Page Eight.)

FEMININE NEW ADVOCATES GET REAL SURPRISE Beveridge Supporters Walk Out With Committee Under Arms. Women supporters of Senator Harry S. New for renomination were rubbing their eyes today to discover just what happened to them in the meeting of the Indianapolis Republican Club, the G. O. P., woman’s organization, at the Marion Club yesterday afternoon. Supporters of Albert J. Beveridge to succeed Senator New were said to have stalked into the meeting, lulled the New women into profound slumber and walked out with the committee, which is to nominate women for election to the club offices at the February meeting. The members of the committee, who were named out of a list of a dozen or more put before the meeting by majorities of as high as fifty votes, are Mrs. Martha Stubbs, Mrs. Oliver Hobbs, Mrs. Earl Townsend, Mrs. Allen T. Fleming and Mrs. Dora Cooper. Members of the committee disclaimed all knowledge of any effort to advance the cause of Mr. Beveridge. ELECT MEIGHAN TO PARLIAMENT. MONTREAL, Jan. 27.—Former Premier Meighan has been elected to Parliament in the Granville County byeelection, defeating the Progressive candidate, A. K. Patterson, said a dispatch from Prescott, Ontario, today.

Believes Earthquakes May Be Predicted NOTED ASTRONOMER OFFERS EXPLANATION Asserts Sun Spots Give Advance Hint

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY, Cal., Jan. 27. —The theory recently announced by Prof. A. C. Lawson of the University of Collfornla > that earthquakes can be predicted In much the same manner weather conditions are forecast was indorsed by Rev; J. S. Rickard, director of the University of Santa Clara observatory as “magnificently and thoroughly scientific.” Father Rickard, a noted astronomer and seismologist, said in the long run the theory doubtless will prove a success. ‘"lt will be a long, hard process,” said the Padre of the rains. “It is a question of how much change In latitude in required for an earth- ,

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1922.

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS REACH CITY

Above—Vice President Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge. Below, Left to Right—Governor Warren T. McCray, Senator Harry S. New, Vice President Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. New. Calvin Coolidge'. Vice President of the United States, was warmly greeted today on his first visit to Indiana since he became Vice President. He smiled broadly as he and Mrs. Coolidge with Governor McCray and Senator and Mrs. New lined up at the Union Station to oblige the camera raen. Governor McCray accompanied them from Washington. After the pictures were taken the party was taken in automobiles to the home of Senator New. That Mrs. Coolidge was delighted at the reception Is evidenced by her smile.

FARM PARLEY DEFEATS WAGE CUT PROPOSAL Declines to Demand Reduction for Rail Workers, Miners. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—At the end of a heated debate in which farmer, delegates and labor representatives strived to make themselves heard above the uproar, President Harding’s National Agriculture Conference today rejected a proposal to have it go on record as demanding reduction of wages of railroad workers and miners to pre-war levels as a means of stabilizing the farming industry. The vote was 83 to 64. Plain warning that the American farmers intend to dabble in politics on an intensive scale was openly conveyed to the Tiountry by delegates attending the national agricultural conference. The farmer has no intention of organizing a large third major party, but he I does opine that he will make his vote felt. His attitude, according to the farmer delegates, is flue largely to the failure to remedy his condition and the belief that the panacea for his ills is still far in the shrouded future. “DIRT FARMERS” THREATEN HOUSE CLEANING. Not all the delegates here are satisfied that the conference will make the farming industry more remunerative and I attractive. Claim has been made publicly that the real “dirt farmer” hasn’t had a chance to make his needs known. These are the men responsible for the warning given. They promise that the farmer vote will “clean house” in Congress and that the electoral vote of the man behind the plow will be felt in every legislative hall in the country. The “limited few who hare so largely controlled the policies of both major parties for the benefit of special Interests have much to fear from the uprising of the people being led by the farmers,” (Continued on Page Sixteen.)

quake and how much experience can be depended on for an exact date. I am greatly pleased with the announcement of Professor Lawson that geologists are coming to the front and meeting the astronomers on the halfway line, where I hope there will be no needless friction. The astronomers who barely know the ground on which their feet rest long ago announced ah experience supporting their views, saying earthquakes occur when snn spots are astride the central meridian.” Father Rickard, who is a warm supporter of the sun spot theory, believes the little holes in the sun will have something to do with the fore-

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CHILD, FATALLY BURNED, DIES IN HOSPITAL Burial of Wilbur Nichols to Be Held Saturday at Crown Hill. • Wilbur Nichols, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde S. Nichols, Massachusetts avenue, died at St. Vincent’s Hospital today of burns. Dr. Paul F. Robinson, coroner, investigated. The boy was watching his mother make toast in a gas oven yesterday, and while his mother was not looking the child walked to the oven and reached in and attempted to reach a piece of toast. His clothing caught fire from the burning gas. Hearing the boy scream, Mrs. Nichols ran to him and wrapped him in a rug putting out the flames, but not before the child had t-uffered fatal burns. The body was taken to the funeral parlors of William O. Beck, 125 South Capitol avenue, and the funeral will be held at that place tomorrow afternoon. Burial will be at Crown Hill cemetery. There’s a Limit DES MOINES, lowa, .Jan. *7.—The first twenty-one times his store was robbed, F. J. Punkle, merchant of Berwick, n suburb, stood for it. When a bandit entered the store early today and attempted the twenty-second robbery, Dunkle rebelled, however, and shot and killed the Intruder. The slain man has not been Identified.

casting of earth disturbances. “Professor Lawson’s theory is full of scientific anticipation,” he ‘said. “By measuring the creep of the earth (the Lawson method) it is possible to announce where a sun spot will, as it were, fire its gun and bring about at a certain date a seismic disturbance. It would take a long time of experimentation to tell when it would occur. It happens dally, some place, just as sun spots will pass the meridian every day of the year. “The officer in charge of a central observing station might say next May 15 there will be an earthquake in Guatemala or Asia or Alaska, but a few years will elapse before any normal observation can place.”

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Market Men Give Relief to Needy of City Under Direction of Mrs . Shank

Owners of stalls in the city market have come voluntarily to the aid of the city's poor and needy during the depression that is now being experienced and will help feed the needy for the next ten weeks at least. Every stall In the market house has joined in the movement and each morning will donate to aid the cause and the food will be distributed free of charge to the poor under the direction of Mrs. Samuel Lewis Shank, wife of Indianapolis’ mayor. The plan originated several days ago in the mind of Will T. Cook, who first disenssed the matter with his brother Joe Cook, the two operating a stall in the meat section of the market. They took the matter up with other stall owners in the meat market and each one offered to donate from their counters each day that the market is open. S. M. Johnson, another of the meat men, offered to supervise the collection of the donations, and Smith & Smith donated a room at 242 Wabash street, directly in the rear of the market, in which the donations may be stored and from which deliveries will be made under the supervision of Mrs. Shank and Mr. Johnson. The news of the movement soon spread to all sections of the market house and each section asked to be allowed to Join in the movement. The vegetable men, the grocers, the market men, the florists, and, in fact, every branch of the market, joined in the work. Soon a big committee was formed, with Will T. Cook as the general chairman, and the committee is now composed of Mr. Cook and William Uhl, representing the meat men; A1 Beard, Charles Tacoma and Jacob Zier, as the representatives of the vegetable men; J. M. Williams, Frank BilMnger and C. Mahoney, representing the midway section, and J. W. Gibson and others the marketers. In order to reach only the really needy with this free food, the policemen of the city will be asked to report on the needy families in their districts. Orly those who are in actual need and who are not habitually on other charity lists will he cared for in this manner, according to Mrs. Shank. “The market men came to me themselves and made the proposition,” said Mrs. Shank. “Mr. Cook explained they had more meat each day than they could use and they were only too glad to give it to the poor during these hard times. They asked me to head the movement and I consented to do so. The police department Joined in and will aid us and ve hope to relieve much of the suffering in this manner. I think the market men

COOLIDGE ATTENDS MIDWINTER SESSION OF G. O. P. EDITORS Wife of Nation’s Second Executive Accompanies Husband to Meeting and Is Entertained by Mrs. McCray. SENATOR WATSON FAILS TO APPEAR Vice President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge were the guests of the Republicans of Indiana today. They arrived in Indianapolis from Washington shortly after 11 o'clock. With them came Governor Warren T. McCray, who has been in Washington attendirg the agricultural conference. The Vice President came to Indianapolis for the purpose of addreseing the Republican State Editorial Association at its annual banquet tonight. Senator James E. Watson, who had been invited to address the banquent, did not come, an important Senate hearing having detained him in Washington.

At the Union Station the Vice-Presi-dent and Mrs. Coolidge and Governor McCray were met by Senator Harry S. New, Mrs, New, Edmund M. Wasmuth, Republlca nState chai-man; Joseph B. Kealing, national committeeman from Indiana ; Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of the Repulican State committee; E. J. Hancock, president of the' Repub-

deserve much commendation for their movement ” “There will be on use in anyone coming to the room that has been donated to us and seeking to obtain food there,” said Mr. Cook. “We are seeking only to aid the real needy and there is no one who knows them as do the police. In this way we hope to reach tho ones In real need, not men who : b/e to come after what we have to give out, but men, women and children who cannot come after these supplies. We are going to provide the food, collect it ourselves and make the deliveries through the aid of Mrs. Shank and Mr. Johnson and all at no cost to anyone, and I wish to state that all the stallmen in the market and in each departments gladly have joined in the movement.”

* War Neurosis ’ Figures in Watson Charges , Belief Advanced in A. E. F. Probe

■WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—“ War neurosis” probably will figure in the testimony being taken by the special Senate committee on charges of Senator Watson, Democrat, of Georgia, that soldiers were executed illegally in France, according to announcement made today. Senator Brandegee. Republican, Connecticut, the committee chairman, said he was considering calling several psychriatrists to pass on the validity of the statements of a number of v : <.ness who gave startling and much disputed testimony. Among those would probably be some of the witnesses who declared that MaJ. K. L. Opie of Staunton, Ya., shot his own men in battle and others who swore they saw from three to twelve hangings at Is-Sur-Tille, whPe the preponderance of evidence seems to indicate there were only two executions there. The committee has received a letter from E. J. Swift, professor of psychology and education at Washington University, St. Louis. Mo., who said that after read lng the testimony of some of the witnesses he was certain a number of them were suffering from “war neurosis.” Extreme shock to the nervous system, in some cases due to gassing, or shell shock, or in others to the strain, tension and excitement due to the participation in battle, is described as “bringing on condition of mind by which the sufferer is subject to hallucinations and lußesrtly

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lican State Editorial Association, and other members of the association. TAKEN TO HO ALE OF SENATOR NEW. The Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge immediately on their arrival were taken to the home of Senator New, 1142 North Pennsylvania street, where they remained for a short time. The Vice President then went to the Marion Club where he was given a reception and from there to the Columbia Club where another reception was held. Following the two receptions he went to the University Club where he was a guest at luncheon of William G. Irwin of Columbus, Ind. The lobbies of both the Columbia Club and the Marion Club were crowded for the reception for the Vice President. Included in the reception line were Senator New. Governor McCray and James P. Goodrich. At the Marion Club the Vice President made a brief talk expressing bis appreciation of the reception and defending party organization. He declared that party organizations should not be condemned, as they are necessary to progress. He said he is an organization man and that he believes in organizatio. He said bad been everything from precinct committeeman to Governor in his State. ’The Vice President mentioned no names in connection with his defense of strong organizations. MRS. C’OOBIIGE HONOR GUEST. Mrs. Coolidge waa the luncheon guest of Mrs. Hervey Bates, Jr., 1221 North Pennsylvania street This afternoon she was the honor guest at a reception given by Mrs. Warren T. McCray at the Governor's mansion, Pennsylvania \nd Twen-ty-Seventh streets. Besides the Vice President, the speakers at the banquet will be Senator Harry S. New, Governor Warren T. McCray and Mrs. Daisy Douglass Barr. Senator James E. Watson had been Invited to attend the banquet, but he will not be present. The sessions of the editorial association continued at the Hotel Severin with the discussion of technical questions of interest to newspaper men. The program for today included talks on “Developing Bocal Advertising,” by George James of the Brazil Times; “Advertising Agencies and Foreign Representatives,” by Charles N. Neff of the Anderson Herald; “Job Printing in Connection With a Newspaper,” by A. A. Bibler of the Crown Point Register; “The Woman’s Page,” by Florence Webster I ->ag of the Indianapolis News; “Government Affidavit of Sworn Circulation Statements," by John Edward, solicitor-general of the Postoffice Department; and “The Editorial Page,” by Thomas H. Adams of the Vincennes Commercial, PIERCE BIKEBI TO, BE ELECTED. The business meetings were to dose with the election of officers this afternoon. J. W. Pierce of the Clinton Clintonian was expected to be elected president to succeed E. J. Hancock of the Greensburg Daily News. Will O. Feudner of the Rushville Republican was expected to be elected secretary. There was nothing definite on the offices of treasurer and vice president. The question of the relationship of women voters to the party organization was discussed at length by the Republican State committee, which was In session until 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The discussion ended with the adoption of a resolution inviting women to participate in party affairs, but at the Bame time it was decided the exact part women are to play should be decided by the (Continued on Page Nine.)

imagines things as true whic'.x, In fact, never transpired.” Professor Swift mentioned Dr. Sidney Schwab, St. Louis, as an alienist who had become thoroughly familiar with this new war disease and suggested the committee call him. “We have not yet decided who we will call, but we will almost certainly seek expert testimony along this line from several competent alienists,” said Senator Brandegee.

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