Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1922 — Page 4

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sntota Sato Sftrneo INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . , (New York, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising offices {Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Oc WHAT would the Senate do without George Harvey to furnish it something to criticise! ' TRUTHFUL OR NOT, Harry Fields is telling a very interesting story about the murder of William Desmond Taylor. MAYOR SHANK will confer a favor on the community by naming the persons he says he was informed sought to throw the street car company Into the hands of a receiver. 0 PERHAPS that strange visitor at the Governor’s office was suffering from the effects of any effort to find out just what the highway commission expects to do about the use of cement this year! The Whisperers For more than two weeks a certain crowd of would-be “wise men" have been spreading whispered propaganda in Indianapolis to the effect that there is a ring of gamblers operating public poker games in this city with the knowledge of members of the Shank organization and administration. They whisper that a poker game was recently held up and the players robbed of money and jewelryv that the backers of the game reimbursed tbe losers and started the game elsewhere; that police investigation of the affair was diverted by powerful politicians; that money was spread to suppress the publication of the facts in the newspapers. The propaganda is as virulent as that which the government fought during the war with a series of advertisements under the caption, “They say, they lie.” 'And it contains just about as much truth as these stories of the Red Cross sweater, the invalided nurses and the execution of Tumulty. There may have been a poker game held up in Indianapolis, but each of the supposed victims of the hold-ups has proved an alibi. There may have been restitution made to certain men by backers of a poker game, but even the most Intimate of the friends and associates of the men named as the backers by the whispereis are unable to gather any evidence that would corroborate the insinuations. There may have been influence brought on the police department to divert this investigation, but if there was it was powerful enough to corrupt a dozen or more policemen whose reputation for honesty and ability have never before been questioned and also powerful enough to overcome a determined effort by members of the board of safety to probe this rumor. There is no ring of gamblerseeking to exercise poker privileges in the Shank administration. On the other hand, there are members of that ad'Sfiinistration who are determined that no such ring shall be permitted to must And lastly, there is no influence in the world equal to the task of coriupting all the newspaper men who would hare to be corrupted to bring about the suppression of the facts in an affair of this kind. Not one particle of evidence has yet been produced to show that there ever was a poker game held up as the whisperers say. A great many bits of circumstantial evidence have been found that tend to show that the whisperers are whispering of what they would like to see rather than of what actually exists. The police and the newspapers of Indianapolis would be exceedingly glad to interview and to protect any person or persons who can produce evidence that this story ofxa poker game that was held up is not a pure fabrication. And no one knows that any better than the whisperers themselves.

Poor Financing The full significance of the plaza bond deal, consummated in the last days of the Jewett administration, is now becoming apparent to the people of Indianapolis who were, only a few weeks ago, led to believe that all opposition to it was based on unpatriotic or ungrateful motives. The city issued $1,600,000 of bonds and applied the‘proceeds to the purchase of property which may, some day, be used for the war memorial. Before plans for this memorial are formulated and consummated the city must pay SIOB,OOO in interest on these bonds. In the meanwhile, the property acquired by the city may be rented for approximately $40,000 a year, but that $40,000 must be added to the war memorial funds and cannot be directed toward the payment of the interest for which the Jewett regime failed to make any provisions. A business man who intended to erect a building at some time in the future and agreed to pay SIOB,OOO annually for the control of a prospective site from which he could realize only $40,000 a year would be regarded as a rarity by his associates. Probably none could be found who would deliberately set about the purchase of the land without having evolved a plan for its use or without knowing when it could be used. But, that is the course Indianapolis has pursued. Long before any definite plans for a war memorial have been formulated, long before the land can possibly be put to the purpose for which it was purchased, the city has obligated itself to pay SIOB,OOO annual interest on bonds issued to pay for land from which it can obtain no revenue for Its treasury. This piece of poor financing might be forgiven if it in any way went to the benefit of the ex-soldiers for whom the war memorial is to be erected. But they will get none of the SIOB,OOO annual interest?* That goes to the patriots who purchase the bonds as an investment. In the meanwhile, the city of Indianapolis must hold and administer several blocks of land without realizing anything on the holdings. In i addition to this burden it must pay SIOB,OOO annual interest charges. And, the present indications are, it must obtain this SIOB,OOO by curtailing the funds necessary to the proper operation of its other activities! Where Is the Terminal? The capture of five automobile loads of whisky on one road in Putnam County Saturday proves conclusively that there is a fairly well organized system for the transportation of liquor to Indianapolis from the southern part of the State, where it Is either manufactured or stored. There would be no transportation system if there were no markets for this liquor. The fact that it was consigned to Indianapolis shows that there is a tremendous sale of the stuff in this city. It must be conceded that the task of the prohibition enforcement agents is a difficult one and that their resources are limited, but it is also difficult to understand they are not able to unearth traces of an illicit market for liquor in this city when that market can absorb ten auto loads of liquor in one day. Os course, there are many routes of entrance to Indianapolis and it would be practically impossible to establish a liquor blockade about the city, but there will be no real enforcement of the liquor laws in this community as long as liquor runners are able to dispose of their wares here in as large lots as they can transport in five automobiles. The way to stop the liquor runners is to combat them at their terminals. Does any one believe it Impossible to discover where the drivers of five auto loads of whisky expected to unload their wares? Another Theory Punctured! The city administration has authorized the street car company to abandon the so-called crosstown line between Mt. Jackson and Irvington, in Washington street, on a showing that the average number of passengers handled was thirty a day. Thus is another fallacy of the street car problem shown up in a manner that ought eventually to impress some well-meaning theorists with their lack of knowledge of the subject they discuss. For a number of years there has been an insistent demand that street cars be operated all the way across street and the fact that three times as many people ride east as west from Meridian street has never been considered by the advocates of this through route. Now, it has been demonstrated that the demand for this through service is not sufficient to justify I further attention to It. Incidentally, it is noticeable that the only two of the many experiments in street car routing that have survived are those which were reci ommended by the mayor’s committee on rerouting. This fact ought to be to indicate to the administration the advisability of adopting the considered recommendation| of this committee.

KING ARTHUR USED A SAFETY RAZOR IJSOO YEARS AGO ‘Over the Hill’ at the Isis—‘Four Horsemen’ in Third Week at Ohio

Old King Arthur was a merry old soul after a Connecticut Yankee arrived at his court. This Yankee, who was dressed in a modern tuxedo outfit, taught the old king and his court many strange things In the year 528. The king's knights were dressed in armor. These kntglus didn’t need a valet —they needed a can-opener when they changed costumes ■> ■ before the Yankee ; 1 arrived. This Yank also introduced the Yank put the tricks Hi si " Merlin,. the King Arthur and William Y. Mong. his round table. This is Just my way of telling you that I spent two of the happiest hours of my life yesterday afternoon seeing the Fox production of “A Connecticut Y'ankee in King Arthur's Court.” The late Mark Twain wrote this satire or burlesque on 'the divine rights of kings. Many have laughed long and often while reading the story, and I assure you that the movie producer has kept most of the charm of Twain’s burlesque. When pictures such as these are put on the screen, the movie producers are functioning as they should. Here is a great yarn transferred to the screen successfully. The Jazzed-up subtitles will convulse you. This Twain story makes dantly movie diet. For example—an armored knight meets the Connecticut Yankee asleep under a tree. The knight tickles the Y'ank with his spear. The Yank rubs liis eyes and wakes up. “Wilt thou tilt with me?” asked the knight. “Do you know where to get it without a prescription?” asks the Yankee. “Thou does crack a dry Joke,” responded the armor-covered knight of the year 528. These Jazzed-up subtitles are a scream from the first to the last and the titles blend right Into the story. This burlesque on King Arthur Is the funniest movie I have ever seen. I am perfectly rational and calm when I type these words. Nothing funnier has ever been done by Chajilin. The story is so familiar that It Is not necessary to repeat It here. Whether you have read Mark Twain's story, you will easily catcJi the delicious humor of It all at Loew's this week. The Fox management has assembled a splendid cast to make tbe world laugh The cast for “A Connecticut Yankee” Is as follows: The Yankee Harry C. Myers Sandy Pauline Starke Queen Morgan le Fay... .Rosemary Theby King Arthur Charles Clary Merlin, the Magician William V. Mong Sir Sagramore George Siegmann The Page, Clarence Charles Gordon Mary Twain Karl Formes Mr. Cavendish Herbert Fortier Mrs Cavendish Adele Farrington Sir LsuncelOt Wilfred McDonald I am shire you will howl with laughter when the knights shed their armor for cowboy costumes after the Yankee gives ’em a taste of cowboy life. This movie will give you anew lease on life. It will make you laugh and some of you will scream with Joy. This movie will tickle your funny bon® as it never has been tickled before. In connection with this movie, Loew's theater Is observing “Jazz Week.” The music Is jazz and even the comedy reflects the modern craze for jazz. At Loew's State all week. —W. D. H.

I To Reach Unsaved; to Train and Equip Christian Workers, Is Aim of Cadle Tabernacle

Editor, The Times Great movements are not Initiated and carried to success in a day. Nor, are any of them ever brought to their goal without blundering and mistakes. It Is the easiest thing in the world to stand “on the side lines” and tell the man who is trying to carry a great idea to victory just where he is mistaken in method. The Cadle Tabernacle is a big thing. Friend and foe alike must agree upon that. It will either be a big blunder or a big triumph; and, no one can deny that under the right leadership and conducted under the right program nothing in the city can be a greater factor for the good of every church interest In Indianapolis. Many people in our capital city do not yet understand the alms of its builder and leaders. The entire cost of the structure, some $315,000, was met by E. Howard Cadle. The work now carried on in the building tinder the dljectlon of the Tabernacle Evangelistic Association is entirely supported by the gifts of people who believe in the thing that is being done. Not one cent of admission is charged at any service or meeting in the building. “The poor have the Gospel preached to them.” If there is any place in the city where the man without one cent to give is welcome (and there are many-) it certainly is this tabernacle. Those who have money can find no better place to invest it in constructive work for the Kingdom of- God; but, the lowliest and poorest man in Indianapolis may come here, assured that his soul and not his money is sought. Does the Tabernacle desire to tear down or interfere with the work of any church? Far from it! It would then be an agency for harm rather than for good. With all their confessed imperfections, our churches are the sources of all splendid Christian impulses, and civilization would be in a sorry plight without them. The man or group who sneers a the churches or scorns their activities and

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1922.

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Here Is anew picture of our freckled faced friend, Wesley Barry, as a “bad man.” Thought we would " run this picture to remind you that Wesley Is not one bit ashamed of his freckles. This

JAP ACTOR APPEARS IN ALHAMBRA MOVIE. “The Swamp” Is a human little story. A young mother, deserted by her society husband, finally drifts to a oneroom “flat” In a tenement district. Her little boy sells papers to help make the living. He Is Imposed upon by the other boys of the neighborhood but wins the friendship of a Chinese vegetable peddler, whose only pal is a horse—a remarkable horse at that. In defending Buster (the boy), he gets a black eye. He tells Buster, “Weather very strange, never see before stars In daytime." The little lad leads him to his mother, who bandages his eye. This wins the lasting friendship of the vegetable peddler and when he learns that their rent Is overdue, he borrows enough money to pay the rent by pawning hi3 horse. He loses the horso and starts In business, with the assistance of Buster, as a Chinese fortune teller. One day a society girl visits the place. Buster gets under the table and takes some letters from her purse. This Is done to aid the fortune teller in telling fortunes. She thinks the fortune teller very clever and Invites him to her home to entertain her guests. Buster’s mother sees the letter and tells the fortune teller that It was written bv her husband, who intendes to marry

minimizes the incalculable value of their service, is not a friend to any good thing. But, lost men and women need to be saved. Backslidden Christians need to be recovered to the Christ and to the Church. Saved men and women need to be trained in various lines of Christian service. All of us need a deeper experience of the Grace of God, and more equipment of a sane type for His service. The Gipsy Smith Choir is not an organization to advertise the Tabernacle. It is. should be, and will be yet more and more, a place in which young men and women shall be taught Gospel singly:, so that they shall go back to their cmirches where they properly belong, not “weaned away from" but better equipped for service in them. Great classes for Bible study, patterned on no narrow lines but true in every detail to the teaching of God’s word, can be so managed as to send back to the Sunday schools teachers ot power. Men and women will be prepared to intelligently handle any problem that may arise, and to teach the Bible effectively. Briefly, these are the aims. The sketch is imperfect, but it accurately interprets the hopes of the present lenders. To reach the unsaved more and more with the Gospel, and to train and sanely equip Christian workers. Paul Rader of Chicago, begins a revival campaign in the Tabernacle on May 21. Every Christian in the city is invited to help. Pastors and people alike are wanted—aDd with no self-seeking though. Each Sunday at 2:30 and 7:30 p. m. services are held. The Cadle Tabernacle is a big building. The movement is a big thing. We can make it a greater channel of service than it is now is. Eel's do it. BY A FRIEND. SAWDUST AND RUGS. Sawdust sprinkled on the front walk when it is slippery is not nearly as detrimental to the parlor rug as the customery ashes or salt.

Wesley Barry.

week this famous “kid” actor is frolicking on the screen of Mister Smith’s in Booth Tarkington’s “Penrod-” TarkIngton and Barry make some team. We say so.

the society girl. The Chinese seer takes matters in his own hands and goes to the party. There he informs the intended bridegroom that he is a married man. Buster’s mother has anew rent collector who turns out to be her former sweetheart. The Chinese peddler or seer receives a letter from his sweetheart in China. Everybody is happy. So is the ending. Sessue Hayakawa plays the role of the Chinese peddler. Bessie Love is the mother and Frankie Lee makes a cute Buster. At the Alhambra all week. -I- -I- -1THE BEST MOTHER ACTRESS NOW AT ISIS. The best portrayer of mother roles is Mary Carr. We give her that title without reservation. She has won it by her work as Ma Ben .trrw ton In "Over the picture has been reviewed previously in this department. The cast, to refresh your mem- Mary Carr, ory, Is as follows; Ma Benton Mary Carr Dad Benton William Welsh Isaac, the first born (as a boy) Sheridan Tansey Isaac, (twenty years later) Thomas, their second son (as a boy) Stephen Carr Thomas, (twenty years later) John Dwyer John, the Black Sheep (as a boy) Jerry Devino John, (twenty years later) John Walker Charles, the youngest son (as a boy) James Sheldon Charles, (twenty years later) .... Wallace Ray Rebecca, tbelr eldest daughter (as a child) Rosemary Carr Rebecca (twenty years later) Phyllis Differ Susan, their youngest daughter (as i> child) May Beth Carr Susan, (twenty years later) Louella Carr Isabella Strong, John’s sweetheart Vivienne Osborn Agulutla, Isaac's wife .. Dorothy Allen Lucy, Charles’ wife Edna Murphy One can not afford to that he hasn’t seen Mary Carr as Ma Benton in “Over the Hill.” At the Isis all week.—W. D. H. -I- -I- -ITHIKD WEEK OF ’4 HORSEMEN’ AT OHIO. “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” is now in its third continuous week at the Ohio. It is seldom that a movie theater retains a picture for three weeks, but it appears that the Ohio is winning with this one. The Ohio is offering the movie at popular prices. This department has discussed the merits of this picture many times previously, and it is not necessary to go into detail now. Rudolph Valentino plays the leading role. - -I- -I- -IANITA SURE DID MAKE A MAD BIRGAIN. The title is right. She sure did make a mad bargain. That is our opinion of the bargain

that Gnlta Stewart as the heroine makes In the movie, "Her Mad Bargain.” Miss Steyart is cast os one of those society girls who loses her fortune and the poor dear doesn't know what to do. She tries to make an honest living, but the men In the busy world can see only her beauty. The men go mad over her and the poor dear thought she would be ! safer posing with bare shoulders for an i artist. This artist person turns out to be a “bad egg,” and Anita runs from the studio to escape from his mad love making. She rushes into another studio and meets a real chap, who, by the way, ! is an artist. Anita wants to kill herself, but Artist No. 2 enters into a bargain with her to the effect that he will give her $50,000 to spend in a year’s time. She believes that money will buy happiness. (Not anew Idea.) At the end of thh year she Is to kill herself. The artist also tells her that he will Insure her life for $25,000 and he will get the insurance. Os course it turns out just .as you have guessed. Anita marries the nice artist person and don’t kill herself at all. That’s the story of "Her Mad Bargain,” anew Anita Stewart picture, now on view at the Circle. The picture is theatrical—lt must be so to relate a story of this nature. The Interest is fairly well sustained." The bill also includes a Charlie Chaplin reissue, called “A Dog's Life.” At the Circle all week. —W. D. H. -I- -!- -I----ON THE STAGE. Margaret Anglin in “The Woman of Bronze,” a drama of today, opens a three-day engagement at the Murat tonight. Thurston, a magician, opens at. English's tonight for a week’s stay. Eddie Leonard is the headliner at B. F. Keith's this week. The Choy Ling Hee Troupe are the chief entertainers at the Lyric. The Park Is presenting, “London Belles,” a Columbia YVheel show, this week. SAHARA GROTTO - TO GIVE PARTY Veiled Prophets Plan Fifth Theater Frolic. Sahara Grotto, Mystic Order Veiled Phophets of the Enchanted Realm will give its fifth theater party of the season, Monday evening, March 6, at English’s. the attraction to be John Drink- ; water's “Abraham Lincoln.” Thomas Garvin has been named chairman of the entertainment committee for the evening and has announced that immediately on the fall of the final curi tain following the performance a tab- | lean, “America” will be staged and souvenirs emblematic of the spirit of American patriotism will be given to those attending the performance. The theater that evening will be open to all Masons and their friends. The inaugural ball of the Grotto will be held the evening of March 13 In honor of the new officers of the organization. The Travertine Room of the Hotel Lln--1 coin has been selected for this event. At. the same time there will be a card, party i In the Lincoln Room. ! Clarence Martin has been appointed chairman of the card committee, Clarence H. Green, reception committee and Earl McFerren, floor committee. The Grotto will celebrate Its second anniversary by a ceremonial April 7 at the Athaueaum.

Ye TOWNS GOSSIP Copyright, 1923, by Star Company. By k. C. B ON A great long road. * * * I tVAS bowling along. • * AND UP ahead. • • • I SAW 'two men. • • * HOLD UP their hands * * FOR JIB to Stop. * * AND JIT wife was sure. * * • WE WERE beld up. * • • BY ROBBERS bold. * • • AND SO was I. * * * UNTIL I saw. • • * THAT EACH man wore. • • • A GLITTERING badge. • • • AND SO I stopped. * * AND THE men were rough. * * * AND WANTED to know. ♦ * * IF I'D been across. * • • THE MEXICAN line. • • * AND I said I hadn't * * t AND THEN they asked. * • • IF I had any whisky. * * • AND I said I hadn’t. '* • * AND THEY didn’t believe me. • • • AND WE had to get out ♦ * • AND THEY searched our car. * * * THEN BARKED at US. * * * THAT WE could pro on. ♦ * * AND THERE was I. * 0 * A rEACEFCX citizen. 0 0 0 JEST PAYING taxes. 0 0 0 TO PAY those guys. 000 AND I’M getting so. •• • I HATE 'em aIL 0 0 0 AND ONE of theise days. 0 0 0 I’M GOING to reach ont * * * AND REAP somebody's f*e*\ • * * AND STEP on the gas. * * * AND GET shot in the back. * * * AND IT’S going to be worth It. 0 0 0 I THANK yon.

By GEORGE McMANUS.

Would Rather See Flapper in Short Skirts, He Admits CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—The reformer, not the flapper, is the peril of public schools according to Prof. Frank M. Hnnter, who attending the meeting of the superintendents department of the National Education Association her. “Parents should not forget the redblooded days of their youth and attempt to force adult ideas on young people.” he said. “There are worse things than the modern dance, rolled hose, short dresses and galoshes. “I would rather see the girl garbed In flapper styles than in accordance with prudish Ideas of radical reformers.’* Hunter said cigarette smoking by girls should be discouraged, but “many girls can go right into their mothers' boudoir and find several cigarette stubs.”

GOMPERS ASKS THAT MEXICO BE RECOGNIZED ; Labor Leader Makes Appeal for Favorable Action by United State^. STANDS S WITH HEARST Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Samuel Gompers, president of the Ycserican Federation of Labor, has added ills voice to the demand being made In certain quarters for recognition o#Mexico. The only per i sons who can derive advantage from the i withholding of resognition, Mr. Gomperg asserted, are “certain American bankers who hope to drive better bargains.” Mr. Gompers’ appeal for affirmative action of the United States on the Mexican question, which will appear in the March number of the American Federationist, was made simultaneously with an official White House announcement of the Administration’s “unalterable” attli tude on Mexico. President Harding let It be known that the United States was eager to resume full relations with the Obregon government, but only with the understanding that Mexico give satisfactory guarantees regarding American life and property south of the Rio Grande, j STAND OF MEXICAN | GOVERNMENT. The Mexican government, It was said at the White House, Is fully acquainted with the policy of the United States, and has only to give evidence of a willingness to meet the terms which have been laid down. Mr. Gompers regards the Government's terms as “ridiculous” and expresses the belief that the Obregon government has had all the better of Its argument with the United States. Curiously enough, Mr. Gompers seem 9 to align himself with William Randolph Hearst In the latter’s attack of the national association for the protection of American rights In Mexico. “The United States Government, through the State Department,” said Mr. 1 Gompers, “ba6 asked the government of Mexico to enter into a treaty prior to the extending of recognition. Upon this score the Mexican government has the better of the argument. "It has set forth that it cannot in honor enter into an agreement which would compel it to do things which It intends to do and is doing. This post tion commands the respect of those who are not in downright opposition to every- ! thing Mexican. | SOMETHING AT WORK BESIDES DIPLOMACY, j “Americans who are not prejudiced by ; a desire to get possession of Mexican reI sources upon the most favorable terms | and conditions are coming to the con ! elusion that there is something more than | diplomacy at work in the relations be | tween the two countries. It is a fact ; beyond dispute that American capitalists I have sought to shape the policy of the I United States in such a manner as to | bring to American investors the largest ; possible return. It evidently is tbeii conviction that by attempting to retard I the granting of recognition they could wring larger concessions and more favorable investment terms from the Mexican government.” The National Association for the Protection of American Rights In Mexico is characterized by Mr. Gompers as “the principal organized exponent of American Imperialism in Mexico and th® principal organized appetite for Mexican oil and other natural wealth, “he congratulates Mr. Hea,rst for the latter’s “expose” of alleged plot of the association to oust President Obregon In favor of Gen. Pablo Gonzales, but wants to know why Mr. Hearst was silent so long. SENATE INVESTIGATION. Mr. Gompers charges the Mexican investigation conducted by the Senate more than a year ago which brought out what Is known as the Fall report because its author was Albert B. Fall. Secretary of the Interior, but then a member of the Senate, was dominated by the national association and witnesses chosen by the association packed the hearings of the Senate committee. At this point Mr. Gompers asks why Mr. Hearst publishes with “evident relish” the testimony of the Fall committee and failed to attack the association. “Asa matter of fact,” said Mr. Gompers, “the oil Interests can be In- j jured but little bj- an exposition now of what they were doing a year and a half ago.—Copyright, 1922,by Public Ledger Company. ELECTED COMMANDER. Claude W. Miller was elected commander of the Indianapolis Post, National Disabled Soldiers' League, at a meeting Inst night. Other officers elected are Anthony Sanarges, vice commander; Raymond Judson, adjutant, and James Curry, treasurer.

x fxi Dry Agents W. Along All anti< Check FIREMEN HELP OUT Special to Indiana Daily} Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Prohibition enforcement officials are preparing to concentrate their best forces along the Atlantic coast in a drive to block rum running. With leakages from bonded warehouses effectually stopped, they have concluded the best part of the liquor now entering illicit channels either is being smuggled into the country or made at home. Reports from all parts of the Atlantic coast indicate the smuggling of booze lias reached a point where a concerted drive must be organized to break up what in some places evidently has assumed proportions of an organized business. Only today Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynes was informed by Prohibition Director Potter of Massachusetts more than seven thousand cases of w'hisky and gin had been seized en route from the West Indies. AIM AT FLORIDA RUM RUNNERS. The present plan is to strike at the rum : unners from Florida where officials sa : I they soon would concentrate half of their general agents. The smuggling of booze over the Canadian border has been checked, they believe and the Southeastern coast, running up as far as New Jersey, are believed to be the centers of rum running. A now problem has arisen through illegal importations of Scotch whisky along the Facific Coast according to official.. They said some of the Japanese vessels reachingf San Francisco had brought from Japan considerable quantities oi Scotch whisky which found Its way onto the mainland. Some officials said a novel method had been conceived to “get the goods” on the illicit distillers of whisky in the home. According to their description, the sebern* works like this; FIREMEN HELP OUT IN' SEARCH. Local firemen inspect the home* of suspicious persons for the ostensible purpose of investigating the dangers of fire around the premises. In the course of their inspection they take a good look at the kitchen and other likely locations for stills. If a still is discovered, they report to the prohibition enforcement agents who then have sufficient grounds for obtaining a warrant to engage in some activity on their part. The scheme is said to have been successfully worked out In Indiana and Pennsylvania.—Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.

ELECTRIC RAIL HEADS TO MEET HERE TUESDAY Trackless Transportation Will Be Feature of Discussions. How trackless transportation—either 1 bus, truck or trackles# carriers run on i trolley wires—may be coordinated with regular electric railway service, be discussed thoroughly at the meeting of | the American Electric Railway Associa- ; tion at the Claypool Hotel tomorrow. Representatives of more than eight hundred electric railways will participate. The occasion is the regular mid-year-meeting ; of the association. The discussion of trackless transportation follows an extended investigation j by leaders in the electric railway in- ! dustry. C. D. Emmons, president of the United Railways & Electric Company of Baltimore, who will lead the djscusslon has both studied the question at home and abroad and made practical experli ments with buses to supplement his elecf trie car service. Mr. Emmons recently | returned from England where he went i into bus service thoroughly. Whether trackless transportation can ; be coordinated with interurbans will be discussed by Harry Reid of Indianapolis, president of the Interstate Public Service j Company. Mr. Reid has used buses in some instances as feeders to his Internr- ! ban line. Paul Shoup, president of the j Pacific Electric Lines, will discuss the I trackless transportation situation in ! California. Bus and truck service in [ California has been developed as far as possible as it has in any section of the country. E. B. Whitman, a public service commissioner of Maryland, also will discuss the subject of coordination. Public relations, safety work and taxation will be other subjects at the meeting. Samual Insull of Chicago, will discuss public relations. Fielder Sanders, street railway commissioner of Cleveland, will discuss unfair tax burdens that sass on street car riders, and Britton I. Budd, president of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway of Chicago, will discuss safety. J. W. McCardle, chairman of the Indiana public service commission, ami Robert I. Todd, president of the association, also will talk. Anew feature this year will be an address by a woman. Mrs. Antionette Funk of Washington will answer the question “Do Women Get Off Street Cars Backwards?” LEGS BROKEN BUT UNHUBT. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 27.—Richard Dowling of No. 66 Twenty-Seventh street, admits he is a cripple. While walking along Penn avenue he fell and broke both legs. Along came a cop who found Dowling in no pain. The cop turned this report in at the Twenty-Sixth street police station. ‘ “Richard Dowling, two legs broken, uninjured. Accident. Taken home.” Dowling's legs are both wooden.

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