Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1922 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Increasing cloudiness, snow tonight and Wednesday; somewhat warmer tonight.

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COAL MINING QUESTION UP IN U. S. SENATE Senator Kenyon Has Plan to Quiet Disputes. PROPOSES BOARD Tri-Partite System Is Provided for in Measure. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Control of the coal mining industry in the United States by a tri-partite Federal board aud establishment of an industrial code as a basis for the adjustment of disputes between operators and miners, were proposed in a bill introduced today in the Senate by Senator Kenyon (Rep.), lowa. Sponsors of the measure hope its passage can be effected within a few weeks to prevent a Nation-wide mine strike in April. The board proposed by Kenyon would be known ns the “National Coal Mining Board” and would have nine members, the public, labor and employers being represented equally. The province of the board would Be, to avert disruption of operations In mine fields through disputes between managements and labor, to adjust such disputes, and to stabilize production. Basic principles, recently set forth by Senator Kenyon, In his speech on West Virginia mining eondtions, are embodied in the bill and the board is enjoined to make all decisions upon this basis. They include, first, that coal Is a public necessity, and that in its production and distribution public interest is predominant, It is under this principle that the board would be created. “Human standard should be the constraining Influence in fixing wages and working conditions for the mine workers," It is provided in the bill. Capital Is also protected in a clause recognizing Its rights to an “adequate return.” The bill affirms the right of labor to organize without Interference or discrimination, from operators or employers and reasserts the right of operators and miners to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. BIGHTS OF UNORGANIZED MINERS. Unorganized miners are cited as having the right to work unharrassed by fellow workmen belonging to unions, while union men are allowed to enter nonunion fields for organization jiurposes, if they do so in an orderly manner. The right of workers to earn a living and the right of women on an equal pay basis with men also Is reaffirmed. Senator Kenyon also provides that children under 18 years old, shall be prohibited from mine employment. The work week Is set at six days of eight hours each. Punitive overtime Is ordered paid for all hours in excess of the standard day. WORK SHOVED GO ON DURING DISPUTE. “It shrill be the duty of both operators and employes to exert every reasonable effort and adopt every available means to avoid Interruption of operation of any coal mine during disputes,” the bill provides. “All disputes shall be coneidered and decided, if possible, in conference between representatives authortzd to so confer by the employers and employes directly concerned. Any dispute not decided in such conference shall be referred to the labor board.” Members of the board, the bill provides, shall each receive SIO,OOO a year. Throe will represent operators, three labor arid three the public. Ail would be appointed by the President, subject to confirmation by the Senate. Regulations for governing hearings would be similar to those affecting the United States railway labor board. A fund of SIOO,OOO is asked to establish the board. FT. WAYNE MAN HELD IN FLORIDA

Charged With Robbing Woman of $25,000 in Bonds and Currency. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 14. Facing cahrges of attacking and robbing Mrs. Martha Shordon, a wealthy resident of Fort Wayne, Ind., the night of Nov. 21, 1921, and obtaining nearly $25,000 In negotiable bonds and currency, Charles B. Worrell, S2, of Fort Wayne, la ander arrest here today, after having been trailed through a score of States by a secret service operative. According to W. FT. Collins, a State eeeret service operative of Indiana, Worrell has made a complete confession, implicating two other men, who are now being sought by the police. None of the securities stolen has been recovered. GOVERNOR McCRAT ILL. Governor Warren T. McCray, who has been confined to his home with a cold for several days, did not appear at his office today as he had planned. His condition was reported to be greatly improved, however. WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., 1922: Increasing c!ondi%ess t followed by snow late tonight and Wednesday; somewhat warmer tonight. Lowest temperature about 25 degrees, HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 17 7 a. m 18 8 a. m 21 9 a. m 22 10 a. m 24 11 a. m 20 12 (noon) 29 1 p. m 31 2 p. m S3

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Weather Shop Promises Snow by Tomorrow Government Forecaster, However, Predicts Fall Will Be Mild One. When Indianapolis gets out of bed Wednesday morning it is very likely to find the ground covered with snow, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist at the United States weather bureau. The official dispenser of good, bad and Indifferent weather says there is every Indication of snowfall tonight, but not In record breaking quantity. With this snowfall, however, will come warmer weather and the temperature probably will rise as high as 25 degrees above zero during the night, and still higher tomorrow. The sharp drop predicted yesterday did not materialize, the lowest temperature having been recorded at 6 o'clock this morning when the mercury stood at 17 degrees. From this it took upward turn and at 9 o’clock the official thermometer recorded 2 degrees. According to Information at the weather bureau, temperatures all over Indiana are considerably higher than they were yesterday.

THINK TAYLOR GAVE LIFE TO SHIELD WOMAN Blackmail Theory Again Advanced by Crime Investigators. PROGRESS IS SECRET DENVER, Feb. 14.—Wllllnm I). Taylor, slain movie director, was not an IrUh lord, an he styled himself, but just the son “of a good, old-fashioned Kansas farmer,” according to Mrs. Elizabeth Petroff of Denver. Mrs. Petroff profrwes to be a second cousin of the dead director, “His father was Oscar Tanner, who came to Kansas from Ireland,” Mrs. Petroff said. “He settled In Kausae because his cousin, Joseph, my father, was living In Topeka.’’ Taylor married Ethel May Harrison In New York City In IDOI, according to Mrs. Petroff. BOS ANGELES, Feb. 34. —A report gained circulation here tea.y that District Attorney Woolwlna aud his aids, while declaring they are “up against a blank wall,” In their Investigation of the mysterious murder of William Desmond Taylor, film director, have been working for days on evidence which needs only additional corroboration to place them in a position to unravel the case. The report the director of the inquiry, working under cover and with great secrecy, had developed a definite theory of the slaying, was coupled with the report the Investigators have received Information suggesting Taylor was slain by blackmailers when he fought to protect (Continued on Pago Two.) PAIR ESCAPES TERM ON FARM IN ‘TIGER’ CASE Dan Kinhin and Lorenz Leppert Discharged by Special Judge. Dan Kinhin and Borenz Beppert, who were convtoted in city court and sentenced to the Indiana State Farm, today escaped serving their sentences when both were discharged by Judge Protem. Frank S. Roby in Criminal Court, in the absence of Judge .Tumes A. Collins who Is in Seymour on business. Kinhin, vho was fined SIOO and Renter red to sixty days on the Indiana State Farm on a charge of operating a “blind tiger," was discharged on a motion of the defendants counsel which argued no search warrant was used and the evidence therefore was 'mproper. The iStn’e asked for ninety days to file a bill of exceptions for the purpose of appealing the case to the Indiana State Supreme Court. In tbo case of Beppert, who was fined $250 and sentenced t onlnety days on Die Indiana State Farm, a finding for the defendant also was entered.

Harding Puts Another Kink Into Already Badly Tangled 'Bonus' Plans

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Despite the desire of Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee to discard the House plan for raising revenue for a soldier “bonus" through direct taxation and to substitute a bond issue, President Harding and Secretary of Treasury Mellon have decided the bond issue plan is not feasible, it was stated officially at the White House this afternoon. It was learned officially that President Harding is “unalterably opposed” to the special taxes which the House Ways and Moans Committee proposes to levy to raise $350,000,000 to pity tlio “bonus." The President Is expected to communicate his views to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee within a short time. It was understood, however, that the President still favors tho general sales tax as a method of obtaining the necessary funds for the “bonus.” It had been the plan of those iii Congress who opposed the eight-point “bonus” tax plan of tho House Ways and Means Committee to obtain the consent of the Administration to authorize an issue of short term treasury certificates to raise $350,000,000 or $401,000,000

COONTZ SET AGAINST BIG NAVY SLASH Admiral Opposes Further Reduction in Program. PLANS ALL UPSET 4Chief Tells House Committee of Parley Inroad. WASHINGTON, Feb, 14.—The United States Navy would be costing $600,000,000 annually in the course of the next two years if the Washington conference had not reached an agreement for cutting down the big naval establishments of the world, Admiral Robert E. Coontz, chief of naval operations, today told the House naval affairs committee. Coontz, who appeared to fight against a further reduction of $100,000,000 In the Navy’s estimated cash requirement for the next fiscal year, said the Navy now would be hcx.l on its war footing and the 1918 building program would be under way bad it not been for tho action of the conference. CONVINCED NAV V •’FIGHTING FOB LIFE." Coavinced the N’avq is "fighting for Its life," Admiral Coontz and Rear Admiral Washington appeared today before the House Naval Affairs Committee to voice vigorous opposition to a further clash of SIOO,000,090 In the $33"',000,000 appropriation requested of Congress by Secretary of the Navy Denby. Original estimates of the needs of the Navy for the coming year totaled $478,000.000, but this was before the armament conference had agreed upon a ten-yekr naval holiday and ordered the scrapping of a number of capital ships. Secretary Denby now proposes to slice $128,900.0<W from this figure by cutting the enlisted personnel from 101.000 to 90,000 and by laying up a large number of small craft. He believes if further cuts are attempted the Navy will be “unfit for battle," and it was thl . •rjtumeut that Cot n’z ar J . WashlUgfoj were to present to the committee. • Rcpr"?eUtafl re Butler of Pennsylvania committee '..chairman, asked Admiral Coontz if bo, anticipated that the United States was going to maintain tho Navy at its war strength. “There is no such thing as a penes and a war basis woth the Navy," said (Continued on Page Eleven.) HARTMAN CASE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT MONDAY Deposed Nominee for City Judge to Be Tried in Criminal Court. More than twenty witnesses have been summoned by the State to apear in the case against J. Herbert Hartman, deposed Republican nominee for the city Judgshlp at the last city election, charged with receiving stolen goods. Tho case Is scheduled to begin next Monday morning in the Criminal court hero beforo Special Judge A. M. Bain of Martinsville, as the defendant took a change of venue from Judge James A. Collins. A special venire of seventy-five men has been ordered drawn by the court from which it is hoped that a Jury will be obtained. Frank Francis, alias Moore, who appeared before tho grand Jury last fall, and gave sensational testimony which resulted in numerous indictments being returned against Hartman, will appear ns one of the witnesses for the State, Prosecutor William P. Evans stated today. Mr. Hartman, who has entered a plea of not guilty, Is represented by Holmes & McAllister and Eph Inman. It is expected that the Hartman case will bo one of the hardest fought legal battles staged in the Criminal Court in years.

WASHINGTON, Feb. It.—The first break in the Senate on the House eightfold tax plan for financing the sollder “bonus’’ was made today by Senator Watson, Democrat, of Georgia, in assorting that the exservice man Is being "treated as a tolerated outcast by the Government for whom he fought." Watson declared that the eight-point tax proposals would not only “heap additional taxation upon an already overtaxed people, but would compel the exservice men to pay back Into the Treasury whatever money he received as a ‘bonus’ for the heroic self-sacrifices they made In tha M orld liar, during the first year that the "bonus” would have to be paid. The opinion of the Adminstratlon was asked because of the often expressed opposition of the Secretary of the Treasury. “If that Is President Harding’s position, It leaves ns mighty near without any “bonus,” said Senator Jim Watson, Indiana, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, when informed of tho White House attitude. Announcement of Harding’s position threw the “bonus” situation into complete chaos with Senators and House members gathering for hasty and excited conferences. Nothing will be done, however, p.ntll word has been received officially Som the President.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1922.

NORTHERN PACIFIC BEFORE SHE TOOK DEATH PLUNGE

A remarkable scene from one of the rescue ships showing the Northern Pacific afire at sea, with the smoke and flames pouring from her decks and portholes as the big boat began to list. She burned to the water’s edge and sauk. Os the crew of twenty-four twenty were saved at once and four adrift in a long lifeboat were rescued hours later. A forty-mile gale fanned the blaze and added to the peril of the rescues. It is suspected tha t a firebug aboard the vessel, probably before she left Brooklyn, was responsible for the blaze. The ship, which sank off Cape May, N. J., wag of 8,250 tons and was one of the fastest American merchantmen.

HOWAT INFLUENCE SEEN IN HALTING OF MINE CONFERENCE Workers’ Delegates Vote to Suspend All Deliberations Until Wage Scale Copies Presented. PROGRAM PROVIDES PRESENT SCALE The .tftfl'aen'ao >f Plus Howat, dopos tfl chieftain of tho Kftoaae "rbe!" miners, was injected into the convention, of the United Mine Workers at Tomlinson Hail today when delegates friendly to the fiery Kansan succeeded in blocking the convention's progress by obtaining passage of a motion to suspend all deliberations until copies of the wago scale committee's recommendation that the miners stand pat on the present schedule Instead of demanding increases have been presented to each delegate. This forced the convention to halt until tomorrow. Just what motive lay behind this move was not apparent to observers.

The expected fight over the status of Howat failed to materialize fhen the Administration's “provisionel government" delegates from the Kansas district were seated. Howat and some hundred odd of his followers were not permitted to take seats on the convention floor, but no protest was made. That today's session ended without a clash was not considered by union officials, however, as ending the probability of fireworks. PROGRAM CALLS FOR PRESENT BASIS. Executing an about-face on their demand for Increased wages for bituminous and miners of the country, officials of the United Mine Workers, through the union scale committee, presented to tha miners' convention a program lusistlug that the present basic wage schedule be continued and setting forth certain working conditions to bo demanded. The seals committee’s report, provides that “any scale negotiated must be submitted to a referendum vote of tha membership affected for approval before It Is finally accepted.” It also provides that In event no agreement Is reached prior to April 11, when tha present agreement expires In both the anthracite and bituminous coal fields, “we declare In favor of a general suspension of mining operations, such action being subject to a referendum vote of the membersshlp of the United Mine Workers, such referendum to be held prior to March 31.” Tho referendum is anew phase of the situation, the convention heretofore having exercised supreme authority both as to wages and strikes. The present standard of miners' wages la inadequate, the committee declared, expressing the belief that "we do not believe the public nsks that Its fuel needs supplied at tho expense of a degraded citizenship, accompanied by human misery, starvation and want.” “We, therefore,” reads the report, "declare in the most emphatic manner our opposition to any reduction in mining prices and insist that the present basic wage schedules bo maintained.” rROVIDRB FOR ADJUSTMENTS. The committee recommended that Inequitable differentials within and between districts, unfair working conditions and internal differences wherever existing, be adjusted upon a fair and satisfactory basis and the Joint conferences In the respective districts be empowered to make such adjustments. Besides these conditions, the committee recommended: “That all new agreements be based upon the eight-hour day underground, because of mining hazards.” That overtime be paid at the rat# of time and one-half with double time on Sundays and holidays. That “best efforts” be made to obtain weekly pay. That the automatic penalty clauses be eliminated from wage agreements. That the convention ratify the anthracite miners’ wage demands and pledgp “our power and influence in aiding them to the fullfillment of their demands." That the next wage scale cover a period of two years. No mention is made of the check-off system, because renewal of the present contract carries with it this method of collecting miners’ union dues. Miners’ leaders explain their reversal of position, which, if the convention backs them up. Is expected to go far toward dissipating the strike clouds which now loom ominously, with the assertion that they "certainly do not want to offend the public.” They confess the growing conviction that the miners ultimately would find I (Continued on Pago T o.)

CONVENTION OF CLOTHIERS NOW HOLDING HERE Fifth Annual Meeting of Organization Gathers at Claypool. “The day of living within ourselves is past; tint demands of the public for speed, store service and outside calls on every one's time make it imperative that we gather the beat thought from each other; that we may give utmost service at the minimum price,” declared Carl P. Steele of Huntington, president of the Indiana Retail Clothiers and Furnishers’ Association, In his address at the opening business session of the fifth, annual convention this organization, in the assembly room of the Claypool Hotel today. Ha also atressed the high cost of the finished product saying “wo know that cun profits are nil or next to it, but wc who have studied it cannot help but sea tiie discrepancy between tho cost of the raw materials, labor costs and consumer’s prices. DUTY TO THE PUBLIC. “Our duty to the buying public la clear and defined. We should throw our strength as an organization, throughout national officers, Into this fight and let the shoe pinch where it will. “There is a speculation between the producer and consumer that demands the (Continued on Page Eleven.) ‘IJLIND TIGER’ DAY OBSERVED IN CITY COURT Four Alleged Owners of Liquor Are Fined by Judge Wilmeth. Blind tigers had their day in court today and four alleged operators were fined SSO and costs each by Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth. Leonard Settles, colored, 2018 North Capitol avenue, was fined after officers had testified they had confiscated a quart of “white mule” in his home. Harry Linehan, 519 East Twenty-Sec-ond street, was fined for having twentyfour bottles of beer in his home. Some question ns to the legality of tho search warrant was raised by attorneys for the defendant, but the court ruled if the name was not spelled correctly and the address was right, the premises could be searched and the liquor confiscated. Ford Bazil, 1118 East Nineteenth street, pleaded guilty to a charge of operating a blind tiger and was fined. Clarence Wiley, arrested in the home of Settles, was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of aiding a prisoner to escape. He Is alleged to have assisted one of the persons in Settles’ home in making a getaway. Roy Presser, 1118 Blaine avenue, was fined after officers testified they confiscated a half pint of “mul£” which ho had in h's pocket.

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GREATHOUSE TO BE DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN, HINT Indianapolis Man Slated for National Post, Says Advance Tip. IN RECEPTIVE MOOD Charles A. Grewrhouse of Indianapolis may be named national committeeman from Indiana at the mwt’oig Os tho Democratic State cortuuin.ee Thursday. The committee will be called on to name a successor to Edw-.ird G. Hobrnfin of Ft. Wayne, committeeman from Indiana and secretary of the national committee, who has announced he will resign, although Mr. Greathouse has not announced his candidacy, It is understood ha is “receptive.” Mr. Greathouse formerly was Democratic State phalnnnn and was State superintendent of public Instruction for four years. He has been active In Democratic politics for many years. Discussion of a possible State chairman to succeed Benjamin Bossc. who also has announced he will resign probably will lake place In connection with llio meeting. The State chairman will bo named by tho new State committee after the primary election May 2. There has boon considerable speculation as to who the chairman may bo, many In the party insisting he should be a tnan who has not before been a party boss and a man who can put enthusiasm into tho organization of tho campaign. KOKOMO MAN IS MENTIONED. In this connection J. F. Fredericks, president of the Kokomo Steel and V ire Company, Is being prominently mentioned. Mr. Fredericks has not been very active in politics outside his own district, but stands high in the regard of many leading Democrats. Another question which probably will bo discussed at the meeting is the naming of a woman member of the national committee to succeed Miss Julia E. Banders of Indianapolis, who resigned. It is understood tho woman will not be named a,t the meeting, but the State chairman will bo usked to make the appointemnt. Three women aro looked 'upon as possible contenders for the appointment: Mrs. James K. Riggs, Sullivan. Second District chairman; Mrs. J. I. Gwlnn, Itennsselaer. Tenth District chairman, and Mrs. Isaac Born, Indianapolis, formerly Seventh District chairman. WILD HOLD BANQUET THURSDAY NIGHT. Preparations for the banquet of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association at the Claypool Hotel Thursday night are ulmoßt complete. About four hundred reservations have been made. Cordoll Hull, Democratic national chairman, will be tho principal speaker. Mr. Hull also will attend the meeting of tho State committee In the afternoon. Interest at tho editorial meeting la expected to center largely on the race for the Democratic nomination for tho Senate. It Is understood Samuel M. Ralston, former Governor, will boa candidate. His announcement la expected to be forthcoming within a few days, but it is understood he ia watting nntil after tho announcement of Albert J. Beveridge as a Republican candidate for tho nomina- ; tlon Thursday afternoon. Candidates for the nomination for the United States Senate must file their applications to have their names printed on the ballots before March 2.

Congress to Get Ship Subsidy Plan WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—President Harding probably will lay the plan of the Shipping Board for a Government ship subsidy before Congress next week, it was learned officially at tho White House this afternoon. Committees of both the Senate and House are awaiting recommendations from the President before framing legislation for the support of the merchant marine. Vote to Extend Law of Limited Immigration WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The House Immigration Committee today voted to extend the present ”3 per cent” restrictive Immigration law for another year to June 30. 1923. The law unless continued, would expire June 30, this year. The action Indicates the committee has been’ unable to reach a decision on a permanent Immigration policy.

DEATHS IN BELFAST FIGHTING TOTAL 17 IN LAST 48 HOURS Members of Dublin Government Plan Extreme Measure to C heck Activities of Extremist Republicans. BRITISH STOP TROOP WITHDRAWAL .

LONDON, Feb. 14.—The Roman Catholic bishop of Belfast lias sent a message to I’render Lloyd George asking that the British military authorities take control of the situation Gi Ulster, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Belfost this evening. BELFAST, Feb. 14.—Two person* were killed In street f ghting here today, bringing the dead In this city and the suburbs np to seventeen In the past forty-eight hours. A woman and four children were among the victims of clashes between Orangemen and Stnn Feiners. Bomb explosions and rifle fusillades rattled through tho streets during most of the night. The Ulster border has been “Bealed” to civilian traffic, according to Information from Monahan. r LONDON, Fob. 14.—Members of the Irish provisional government at Dublin are taking vigorous measures today to avert a threatened revolutionary outbreak by extremist republicans. It has b"en learned that foes of the Dublin government are plotting its overthrow and

Asks Grand Jury Investigation of His Own Conduct Assistant U. S. Attorney Asks Sift of Reputed Liquor Graft Case. CHICAGO, Feb. 1”.—Col John V. Cllnnln, assistant U .ited States district attorney, today caused a sensation In the court of Federal Judge Kenesaw M. Landis when he filed a petition asking for Investigation by a special grand Jury, not ooly of his own conduct in the Walter Flower "grist" case, but of the conduct of the entire office ia liquor enforcement. Colonel Clinnin was recently summoned before Judge Landis and questioned regarding the case of Flower, a Pullman porter, who alleged he had paid $1,300 to a ward political boss, to eslaps prosecution for violation of the prohibition act. The petition filed today by Clinnin caused u brush between the district attorney and Judge Landis, who demanded specific facts. Tha Judge finally announced that he would take the matter under advisement and intimated he did not believe In a grand Jury inquiry. Col. Clinnin’s demand was sweeping and was accompanied by charges that liquor raids were “tipped off” to offenders by someone on the Inside, and that that the offenders, if they were raided, were given time to prepare bondsmen.

INDIANAPOLIS IS HARDER HIT THAN ANY CITY Epidemic of Influenza Makes Mortality Rate Soar. Influenza and pneumonia has hit Indianapolis harder than any large city in j the United States, figures made public today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secre- [ tary of the board of public health, ! showed. There Is no sign or abatement of the epidemic, he said. A report of tho United States Public Health Service for the week ending Feb. 4, showed that Indianapolis had the ; highest death rate In the country with j 25.8 per thousand, computed on an annual basis. The next highest rate was 23.4, that of Richmond, Va. The general rate for the Nation was 15.7. The rate for the year of 1921 In Indianapolis was only 13. L This report includes from all causes, but Dr. Morgan said that Influenza is a contributing factor In many casualties attributed In reports to other causes. The rate represents the number of deaths per thousand population a year. Practically every establishment hiring any number of employees, Is working with a reduced force. The street railway company is short more than 100 conductors and motormti. because of Influenza. Eighty-five teachers in the public schools were off duty yesterday and seventy-five today. Forty were out today for the first time. Hundreds of school children are confined to their homes while school nurseß, whose duty ( It Is to trace each absence and tabulate the reason therefore, are swamped with work. G. O. P. LEADERS TO BE ASKED TO CALL Armitage Announces Plans of County League. William H. Armltage, chairman of the executive committee of the Marlon County Republlca i League, si.ld today officers of the organization wilt start Inviting Repullean precinct committeemen to call at headquarters, 222-225 Indiana Trust Building, In a few days. The league was formed for the purpose of cementing control of the county organization for the forces of Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank. Tha committeemen will be asked to come in by wards, Armltage said. The executive committee will meet Wednesday evening.

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!* r conspiring to get control of tho Irish. i republican army. Hostility against the Arthur Griffith* i Michael Collins faction of the Sinn Fein j has been simmering since the Angloj Irish peace treaty was ratified by Dail I Eireaun. It was brought to a head by ! fighting on the Ulster frontier which fol- ' lowed raids and the forcible aeizuro oi republicans and Ulsterites British government officials are watch- ' !ng tho Irtish situation with anxiety. I There are two momentous possibilities: 1. Revolution within the Free State. 2. Civil war between tho Free State and Ulster. The cabinet Is hopeful that both wCI be averted and that cool, calm Judgment will result in a tranquil settlement satisfactory to all. The news that the British government had cancelled orders for the evacuation of British troops from South Ireland aroused consternation at Dublin. Two heavily armed forces, one of republicans and the other of Ulsterites are lined up facing each other along the Ulster-Free State line. No shots have been exchanged, but the soldiers are refusing to allow civilians to use the highways crossing the boundary. Michael Collias, minister of finance In ■ the Dublin government and known as the I “power behind" the provisional admlnj istration, is expected In London late to- | day to confer with Premier Lloyd George, | Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill ; and other members of the cabinet, j Collins wishes to know what the Brij tish government’s plans are In the event ! ot further disturbances in Ireland. ! Some of the steamship sailings from i Dublin were car'-elled. The only rift In the gathering storm clouds was a dispatch from Dublin saying the Irish republican troops had begun to release kidnaped Orangemen. The Dublin dispatch quoted from the following Irish army communique: “Two Ulsterites captured at Faledon have been released. Others will be released shortly.” TELLS WHY TROOPS MOVEMENT HALTED LONDON, Feb. 14. —The evacuation of British troops from Ireland was suspended by the government for the protection of the country and In the Interests of peace. Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill announced in the House of Commons this afternoon. ACTUAL VALUES OF PROPERTIES TO BE FIGURED Public Service Commission Will Not Depend on Guess Work. Actual valuations of utility property will be made by the public service commission whenever a petition for a rate adjustment Is filed, John W. McCardle, chairman of the commission, announced i today. Heretofore It has been customary in most cases for the commission merely to estimate valuations on which to base rates. This practice has resulted in a great many difficulties arising from disputes over valuations and consequently the proper return. In many cases numbers of experts have been called in to give estimates of valuations and usually no two have come near the same figure. In making actual valuations Inventories will be made and the actual value of each Item of property obtatned. In this way a definite valuation will be found and a fair rate of return can be fixed definitely. Should the question of rates again arise in the same case the valuation would still be useful, It merely being necessary to add to It additions made to the property. Mr. McCardle said It probably will be necessary to add a number of engineers to the commission staff in order to make the valuations. He said no valuations except those in rate cases probably will be attempted at this time. Tha public service commission act requires that all utility property be valued. but provision has never been carried out. Mr. Cardie said this haa never been done because of the expense Involved, It being impossible to charge the expense of valuations to the utilities except in rate cases. Scan Seas for Lone Sailor Adrift in Boat NEW YORK. Feb. 14.—Trans-Atlantic vessels were scanning the seas today for John Brlckner, seaman of the American freighter Gaffney, who is thought to be adrift in a life boat 600 miles off Sandy Hook. i Five days ago while he was replacing V Hue in the life boat during a had the boat was swept away with him as a passenger. Desperate efforts were made to reach the boat, but night settled and It was lost.

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