Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 262, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1922 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Rain and colder tonight. Wednesday, cloudy and colder.

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ELLIOTT IS NEUTRAL AS • TO ASPHALT City Civil Engineer Not for Any Particular Brand. ‘EITHER IS GOOD* Concrete Satisfactory for Light Traffic, Official Says. Although W. H. Freeman and Dr. M. J. Spencer of the board of public works fired questions at him from every angle, City Civil Engineer John L. Elliott refused to be led into saying Trinidad asphalt is a better material for paving Indianapolis struts than several brands of oil asph; K at the Monday afternoon meeting of the board. The engineer was called upon to tell what he knew about asphalt for the enlightenment of the board la making a Qheliminary order for material upon Hnleh contracts would be let for the permanent improvement of sections of Eighteenth street anl Parker avenue. Time after time the i- board members asked him questions apparently designed to elicit the answer Trinidad asphalt would make a better pavement than oil asphalt, but the engineer insisted properly laid, either makes an excellent puvement. Oil asphalt generally is about twentyfive cents a square yard cheaper than Trinidad asphalt. Several days ago Mr. Freeman and Dr. Spencer expressed a preference for Trinidad despite its higher cost on the ground they believed it was so much better than oil asphalt It would be cheaper in the long run. REVERSE STAND FAVORING TRINIDAD. Following almost an hour of conversational fencing between the board members and Mr. Elliott, Mr. Freeman moved and Dr. Spencer seconded preliminary orders for Eighteenth street and Parker avenue be for asphalt, thus revising the stand they previously had taken for Trinidad. Last Friday the boariS started to make the preliminary orders for Trinidad asphalt, but postponed action. It was pointed out this would be the first time in several years a particular brand of asphalt had been mentioned in records originating with the board of works. The city specifications are so framed any good brand of asphalt, whether natural or oil, can be used. Mr. Elliott and the two works board disagreed several weeks ago feter an order of the board eliminating Bjncrete frem the materials upon wh'ch Bids for street improvements were to be Heceived. The engineer contended under night traffic conditions concrete and a "cheap and durable material and should be given its chance. He said apparently his stand for fair treatment of all materials, including concrete. evidently had led somebody to start a story to the effect he was in the employ of the Portland Cement Association. “GREAT ERIEXD OE CONCRETE." “I am just such a friend of concrete,” he said, “right now I am working on epe-ifications to eliminate the use of concrete in bases for asphalt pavements. I (Continued on Page Seven.)

RAIN CAUSES BOTTOM LANDS TO OVERFLOW Heavy Showers in Central Indiana to Have No Serious Results. Hirer bottom land 9 of Central Indiana were inundated today by heavy rains. Continued rain through the day with Ipw temperature tomorrow was forecast by J. 11. Armington, Government weather man here. gk Flood conditions will not become serous generally in the State, Armington said, unless the rainfaU continues more than expected. Between one and two inches of rain have fallen through a narrow strip in the central part of the State during the night and early today. This afTerts White River especially, Mr. Armington said, but it likely will not result in a flood of large proportions. The rain wag general throughout the State, but it was not so heavy in Northern and Southern Indiana, according to reports to the weather bureau. WABASH NEARS FLOOD STAGE TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 14.—The Wabash River was expected to reach flood stage"; sixteen feet, here within twenty-four hours, the weather bureau nnnouced today. Warnings have been sent out to all places along the river south of here. Mexican Troops Defeat Insurrectos MEXICO CITY. March 14.—Rebel troops in the state of Michoacan are becoming more active and news was receivedl here today of several skirmishes and one battle. Insurrectos led by Antonio Juizar ind Francisco Cardenas, after laying siege to several villages, attacked and captured the town of Tacabaro. They were sacking the place when Federal droops came np. A number of rebels feere killed and wounded and the remainder were driven our. They are now being pursued in the hills.

WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis and riclnitv lor the twenty-four hours ending 7 >. m„ March 15. 1922: Rain and coldes tonight; Wednesday tloudy , and colder. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 8 a. m 53 7 a. m. , 63 $ a. m.... 54 9 a. 64 10 a. m 53 11 a. in 50 13 (Boon) - ...„ 47 1 r- m.. 47 if fc. a.—.. 4S

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Couldn’t Bear to Be Alone, Explanation of Confessed Husband of Eleven Wives After Arrest as Bigamist and Embezzler

Merely a platonic desire for companionship was given by Isaiah Moore, 32, confessed husband of at least eleven wires today, ns the reason for his many marriages. He talked from behind the bars at the clry prison, where he is confined charged with bigamy and embez zlement. “It was like hell for me to be alone," he declared. “I longed for companionship and I wanted nothing more. I simply could not stand to be alone. Many times I would cry • rora loneliness. “I know I married at least eleven wives; there may have been more. I didn't get money from more than two or three of them. “After I had been married awhile, I would Just go away. I don t know why. I can’t remember. Then that desire for companionship would come over me again and I would marry again.” APPEARED TO BE UNDER A STRAIN. Moore appeared to be suffering considerably. He shook continuously and would pass his hand over his forehead frequently. On his head is a 6car whien he said he received when was a boy In Kingston. Pa. He said he was hit on the head with l baseball bat and that he has suffered pi.ins in his head frequently since. Moore during his conversation repeatedly insisted that his love for his various wives was merely platonic. He said he came to Indianapolis last summer and that he lived at 207 East North street. He said he remained here until about Christmas he went to Minneapolis. It was wife No. 11 who caused Moore's arrest. She is Harriett Evans of Vincennes, now a high school teacher In a northern Indiana town. According to the most recent Mrs. Moore, Moore left her at the Hotel Edward here last winter •,nd took with him SSO belonging to her.

TWISTER KILLS 12, INJURES MANY IN OKLAHOMA Gowen, Mining Town, in Path of Tornado Causing Greatest Destruction. M'ALESTER. Okla., March 14—Twelve persons were killed; fourteen Injured seriously and more than fifty hurt by tornadoes and wind storms which swept southeasiern Oklahoma late yesetrday according to reports received here today. The greatest less of life was reported at Gowen, a mining town, forty miles east of here, where ten are said to have been killed and more than fifty injured when a twister struck that town about 0 o'clock last night. Two were killed In a tornado that struck Sulphur, a resort near here, late yesterday afternoon. The list of dead at Gowen follows: Christ Wilkinson and baby. George Clambo and two daughters. Mrs. Alamariloes, child, mother and father. Unidentified man. Those killed at Sulphur were: C. V. Hampton, 50. Thomas Watkins, 50. The property damage will amount to approximately SOOO,OOO it was estimated. At Sulphur the courthouse was partially demolished and more than forty homes on the east side of the town were wrecked. The twister that struck Gowen leveled about thirty homes and made about fifty homeless. The majority of those killed at Gowen were rfiiners and their families. Food, clothing and tents are being rushed into the stricken towns by the Ited Cross. The Sulphur unit of the National Guard is patroling the area there and assisting in clearing away the debris. The ruins are being carefully searched for more bodies. At Gowen calls have been sent out for ten more physicians and a number of nurses. jfi.e injured there are behig rushed to Hartshorn and Wilburton, nearby towns. The dead at Gowen have been removed to morgues at Hartshorn. Physiiians at Gowen fear the death toll will Le increased. 1 KILLED LX CYCLONES SWEEPING LOUISIANA NEW ORLEANS. March 14.—West Raton Rouge and Iberville parishes were swept by cyclones today which killed one person, injured eight and destroyed many buildings. One woman was killed and eight persons injured and ten houses demolished in Sunrise, West Baton Rouge parish. At Sunshine, Inerville Parish, the Golden Gate plantation was damaged to the extent of SI,OOO but no one was injured. Injured by Fall From Street Car Mrs. B. L. Eddy, 3311 Broadway, was Injured today when she fell from a College avenue car at Delaware and Ohio streets. According to Claude Suler, conlnctor, he had started the car before closing the doors and Mrs. Eddy to board the moving car. He said Vne fill with her head striking the pavement. She was taken home in an ambulance. Pope Pius Not 111, Word From Vatican ROME, March 14.—Reports Pope Pius XI is ill were denied at the Vatican today. The pontiff received a number of persons In audience Monday. The rumors are believed to have emanated from Milan. MISS HAMILTON RESIGNS. Miss Theodosia Hamilton who for several ye: rs has been in charge of the Government documents in the reference department of the Indianapolis public library has resigned and will return to her home in Indianola, lowa.

Letter Threatens Polish Consulates in U . S. and Canada WASHINGTON, March 14.—D. - structfon of every Polish consulate in the United States and Canada is threatened in a letter received today by Senator Willis. Ohio, Republican. Consulates especially mentioned for demolition includes those at Washington, New /York, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo and Pittsburgh, Winnipeg and Montreal, Canada.

ISAIAH MOORE. She employed the National Detective Bureau and the bureau finally caught Moore ia Minneapolis and brought him back to

SIPE TELLS GRAND JURY HIS STORY Former County Clerk Begins Shortage Recital. Richard V. Sipe, former county clerk, who has admitted shortages of at least $1 10,000 in public funds, today was before the Marion county grand jury for the first time for the purpose of telling his story of how he exhausted the county trust fund entrusted to Ills care. Mr. Sipe was brought from the Jail by Sheriff George Snider. After a brief conference with Prosecutor William P. Evans and Special Investigator Claude M. Worley, Sipe was escorted to the grand Jury room, where he remained the entire morning It is thought Sipe will be before the grand Jury for several days before he has completed his recital. Although the prosecutor has in his possession a long statement of Sipe which was taken by Mr. Worley, the appearance of Sipe before the grand Jury is the brat evidence to be introduced before that body by a witness. STATE READY TO CAM. WITNESSES. The State is prepared to summon many witnesses before the grand Jury as soon as Sipe completes telling his story. Judge James A. Collins of the Criminal Court has specifically instructed the jury to determine in what manner Sipe disposed of county funds; if he was induced, to invest and loan county money on the suggestion of any “person, firm or corporation" and to determine the exact shortage of Mr. Sipe. The court Instructed the jury the representatives of the State board of accounts, who are now investigating Sipe's books, will be aide to produce valuable and authentic data npon which to predicate an investigation. The court also (Continued on Page Seven.) ¥ Seeking Fortune, Franklin Girl, 16, Is Ordered Home

With only 16 cents in her purse, Dorothy Burns, 16. Franklin High School girl, arrived in Indianapolis today to seek her fortune. A message from Sheriff Vandiver oi Franklin County preceded her, however, and she wns met as she arrived in the city by two policemen and taken to headquarters where sue awaited the arrival of relatives. Miss Burns said she ran away "just because I wanted to” and that she expected to get a job in Indianapolis. Third Poisoned Food Victim Dies Special to The Times. KEXDALLVILLE, Ind., March 14. Botulinus poisoning caused from eating canned spinach had taken a toll of three lives today at Lakeside Hospital here. The latest victim, Mrs. Cecil Hoseinger, 32. died late last night. Nine persons, including several nurses, were taken seriously 111 from eating the spinach. Frances Helinar, a nurse, and Els worth Newman, a patient, were in critical condition. The others probably will recover. Antitoxin with which to fight the poisoning was received today from the laboratory of Illinois University at Urbana. A. B. Swoitzer of Chicago, representing the United States Bureau of Chemistry, as here conducting a rigid examination. Shriner Head Dies of Heart Trouble TACOMA, Wash., March 14.—Ellis Lewis Garretson, Imperial potentate of the Shriners of North America in 1920 and IS'2I. (lied at bis home at Steilaeoom Lake suddenly today of heart disease. INVESTMENT DEALERS FAIL,. NT'W YORK, March 14.—Alleging liabilities of $20,000 against assets of between $5,000 and $7,000, an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in the Unjted States District Court by creditors today against Gerard & Cos., dealers in investment securities.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1922.

Indianapolis, ''oore says he married Miss Evans iu Bicknell. Moore does not remember the names of two of his wives and he says there may be more than eleven of them. He lists them 88 follows: No. 1, Flora Dolf, Wyoming, Fa. No. 2, Amelia Werner, Detroit. No. 3, Sue Harris, Houma, La. No. 1, Bexsio Wilson, N. C. No. 5, Gertrude ——, Findlay, Ohio. No. 0, Laura BhJe and, Spokane, Wash. No. 7, Florence Johnson, David City, Neb. No. 8. Helen nnrdgraves, Augusta, Ran. No. 9. Irene Hale, Chicago. No. 10. Laura Hertzberg, Teoria, 111. No. 11. Harriet Evans, Vincennes, Ind. Moore said all his marriages have taken place within the last fivts years. He said so far as he knows he has never had any children, except possibly by his first wife. lie said he was not sure about that. LTSED MANY NAMES IN HIS ADVENTURES. Moore has used various names in connection with his ♦arioua marriages. Among them are Howard Wilson and J. H. Vaughn. Moore's marriage to Irene Hale of Chicago was arranged through a matrimonial publication, according to detectives. He is said to have inserted an advertisement for a wife in such a publication and it attracted the attention of Miss Hale, who lived In a southern State. Miss Hale went to Chicago and married him. Moore is said to have obtained $1,500 of her money. Moore waived examination in cltv court on charges of bigamy, embezzlement ami grand larceny, and was bound over to the grand Jury under a $5,000 bond by Judge Delbert O. Wilmetb. The bond in the (Continued on Pago Seven.)

LEWIS CONFERS WITH DAVIS ON COAL SITUATION Government Takes Steps to Protect Consumer in Event of Strike. WASHINGTON, March 14 —John T.ewis president of the United Mine Workers, conferred with Secretary hf Labor Dav'.s today or. the coal strike threatened for April 1. Davis and T.ewis held a two hour conference at the Labor Department and then continued it at a nearby hotel during lunch. Possibilities of negotiating a national conference with the bituminous operators Is said to have been discussed. Davis is continuing his efforts to promote a conference, but there was “nothing to be said at this time,” be declared. Lewis will attend the New York anthracite conference there tomorrow. The hope wns expressed that a harmonious anthracite meeting might, have a beneficial effect on the bituminous situation. Observers of the Labor Department will attend unofficially the conference of anthracite operators and miners which opens In New York tomorrow. Although Government officials hope to keep in direct. touch with the developments In the anthracite meeting, high hopes are held that if a settlement Is reached in tho anthracite group It will open the way for the same action in the bUiuminoua tangle. Extreme steps will in* taken by the Government to protect the public against profiteering in the event of a strike, It was stated here. This statement was made In answer to reports reaching here operators would demand higher prh vs for the 65.000,000 tons which it is estimated will lie above the ground when the miners walk out the first of next month. ijjiie nonunion mine production also will bo held at the price now accepted, it is said. The country ts in excellent condition to withstand a severance of the coal supply, experts of tho Government, who have studied the coal situation, said. The steel Industries have enough fuel to run them fifty days after April 1. The public utilities are said to have stored a supply which would last for fortytwo days and other consnnimers are estimated to have on hand enough to run thirty-four days. The mines of the nation are estimated now to be turning out 3,000.000 more tons a week than can he consumed. All this ia being stormed by the basic Industries. Lloyd George Turns to Simple Life CRIUIETH Wales, March 14.—Premier I.lyod George, secure from the turmoil of politics, has turned to the simple life to regln his health, i’art of the time today the Premier helped to plant potatoes. Dressed In an old golf suit, his hands soiled with dirt, the premier worked in the fields and enjoyed himself immensely. He said lie wns feeling line. Mrs. Lloyd George helps her husband. Held as ‘Tiger’ A fifteen-gallon still and one and onehalf gallons of “white mule” were found in the home of John F. Morgan, 29, 3241 West Washington street, by tile police today. Morgan was charged with operating a blind tiger.

Diva’s Chauffeur-Husband Back on His Old Job, and Says He’s ‘Back to Stay’

DELMONTE, Cal., March 14.—“ I’m back to stay.” This was the emphatic declaration today of Floyd Olotzbach in answer to reports that Mine. Matzenauer, world-fa-mous opera singer, liud sent for his mother to come to New York in order that she might picture the opportunities from which her chauffeur-husband ran away when he left New York several months ago and came to Dehnonte to resume his old job at a local garage. He says he has no quarrel with his wife, but sitting around and allowing someone else to drive your car has no charm for Floyd, a red-haired gjant, whose marriage to the famous diva was a sensation here a year ago. Glotzbucli was assigned to drive Mine. Matsenauer one day. Thereafter he drove her every day and soon the romance developed between the temperamental young prima donna and tho matter-of-fact chauffeur. l

HOGUE ASKS MONEY LEAK BE STOPPED Controller Warns City Faces Serious Financial Crisis LOAD INHERITED Municipal Predicament Declared Result of Scheme. Members of the finance committee of the city council and heads of all city departments today are charged with the task of stopping the everlasting flow of money out of the city treasury. If the present rate of expenditure is kept up the city will be penniless by Nov. 1 or earlier, according to City Controller Joseph L. Hogue. This stark fact was brought to the attention of department heads and members of the city council in Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank's monthly cabinet meeting Monday afternoon. Practically every department of the municipal government is faced with revenues cut below comfortable operating figures by the Jewett administration. * The city health department, for instance, has $200,000 less revenue and has to take eare of 100 more patients a day at the city hospital than in 1921. PAVE 'EM ALT,, SUGGEST MAYOR. The cabinet meeting was further marked by the mayor launching a movement to pave every unimproved street In the city, a warm bit of retaliation by the board of public safely for the city controller’s exasperation over the fact they bought three badges costing sss for themselves, a denial by the mayor to questions by city counoilmen as to whether or not ho had said city employes must be union men or lose their Jobs, an argument over the emergency relief fund for the unemployed, and a statement by It. Walter Jarvis, super((ontlnued on Page Three.) LABOR REVOLT CRISIS ENDED. SAYS REPORT Rebel Forces in Parts of Rind Mine Fields Deing Rounded Up. JOHANNESBURG, Union of Routb Africa. March 14.—The backbone of the labor revolution has been broken, according to ail Indications today. The rebel forces In tho eastern end western parts of the Rand mine fields are being surrounded. Fordsburg wa* still in the hands of the revolutionaries at last reports but tho stronghold was under attack with tho government ■ forces using both artillery and airplanei. The main line of the Pretorla-Germins-ton railway was still clear, but the reheH had dynamited tbo Dover Junction, where an engine was derailed. There were casualties. Colonel Nussey 1s lending an attack against the rebels in the northern hills where the revolutionaries occupy strong positions. This city has returned to normal conditions. About 2,500 rebels have been captured. General Smuts, premier of the Union of South Africa, who has been directing military operations against the rebels, is entirely satisfied, with the situation. He expects to return to Capetown soon. It is believed when nil the casualties are checked it will be found the dead and wounded will reach nearly two. thou, sar.d. A grand assault on the rebol works defending Fordburg was undertaken at 11 o'clock. It was reported that the government commander sent word to the rebels to remove all women and children from Fordsburg as the place was to be bombarded and put under siege. The rebels pressed civilians into labor squads to strengthen the defenses. Defeated on all fronts, the rebels were making their last stand at Fordsburg with every prospect that even this position would be lost; within forty-eight hours. SIR LAMING IV. EVANS NEW INDIA SECRETARY ‘ LONDON, March 14.—Sir Laming Worthington Evans, secretary of state for war and member of the British delegation at the Washington conference, today became acting secretary for India. Sir Laming fills the position made vacant by the enforced resignation of E. S. Montagu Inst week. It is understood the two chief causes that led to Mr. Montagu’s resignation were his prornoslem policy and his action In publishing the demands of the Indian moßlems without consulting the cabinet. These demands were in behalf of the Turkish nioslems.

After an European honeymoon, the couple returned to New York, where the famous diva continued her operatic career. lint Floyd longed for the open. “It would drive any man crazy,” he explained to friends here, “to sit back among Jhe cushions and squirm every time I felt a hack lash of the transmission, when all it needed' was a little grease.” But grease and overalls were not a part of Mme. Matzenauer’s scheme of things. Likewise ham and eggs were passe. “In its place,” the chauffeur husband explained, “you lap a cup of coffee and munch toast, both of which left the stove an hour before. And the nights were worse. Imagine sitting night after night through the mad scene of ‘Lucia,' when the only music to your eyea can heard is the hum of a well-tuned motor oa a long stretch of California t^>ad.”

Hnhirrtntton Ratos: I By Carrle r, Week, Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, 12c. B-inscription Ratos. J By Mftl , 500 Per Month . , 5 . 0 0 Per Year.

Income Tax Receipts to Be Lowest in Five Years Experts Declare Payments for 1922 Will Discount Last Year $900,000,000.

WASHINGTON, March 14.—Income taxes reported to the Government this year will be the smallest in five years, Treasury officials estimated today—“the eleventh hour” for filing 1921 returns. The total of income and profits taxes, which will be reported by midnight tomorrow will approximate only $1,000,000,000 tar experts believed. This is nearly $2,000,000,000 under the amount reported two years ago and $900,000,000 under the amount last year. At the peak of the war-profits period, the Government received In excess of $4*000,000,000 a year from these tuxes. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon estimates the initial payments of Federal taxes, which must acocmpany the filing of returns, will net the Government not more than sloo,ooo,ooo—the smallest amount since 1917. The slump In taxes is attributed to the depression which hit the country with full force last year. Secondary causes are increased exemptions allowed this year. With returns filed this year, the excess profits lay goes out of existence, it having been repeated as of Jan. 1, 1922. Approximately one-eighth of the income tax payments will come from 1,08.8 wealthy individuals, the Treasury estimates. This year, these persons whose Income Is in excess of $200,000 a year, will have a combined Income of approximately $125,600,000 of which the Government wiil take approximately half in return taxes. No return Is available as to the number of returns that will be filed, but it is believed it will not exceed 3.500,000. All persons with incomes of SI,OOO or more mush file returns. During the war period the total was in excess of 5,000,000.

HARDING WILL VETO SOLDIER ‘BONUS,’ REPORT President Said to Stand Pat on Demand for Sales Tax. HOUSE WILL PROCEED WASHINGTON, March 14.—Subjected to a severe grilling which at times become pointedly sharp, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon admitted to the House Ways and Means Committee this a.ftcrnunit that his estimates of tho cost of a soldier ‘ bonus’’ were “largely speculative” and that Ids principal objection to the bill was the “indefinite knowledge” which anyone bad of the actual i amount which the Government would i have Up pey If the pending bill became law. PALM BEACH, Fl*„ March 14—President Harding bus informed members of his vacation party that If Congress goes ahead and pusses the soldier ’bonus” ! measuro as at present constituted he will veto the measure. This message came ashore today from ! the presidential houseboat, as members iof the party started on a fishing trip. It was reported, buot not confirmed, | that the President has sent a telegram to Chairman Fordney of the House Ways and Means Committee at Wash- | ington apprising him of his decision. ! “A SALEH TAX OR NOTHING." So far as the President is concerned, it was stated by his confidants, it is a sales tax or nothing. It is not doubted that tho House is going ahead and pass the measure, but none of the Administration officials accompanying the President believe the House can pass it over his veto, and even if this were accomplished, it is believed certain the measure would strlki a snag in the Senate. The houseboat anchored last night nea. Jupiter ami the President planned an all duy fishing trip. Tomorrow the President strikes northward again, tarrying a few days at St. Augustine before going on to Washington. DRY ENFORCEMENT CHANGES IMMINENT. There is a decision imminent on Attorney General Daugherty's plan for reorganizing the prohibition bureau, i Daugherty, during the houseboat journey, has completed his plan which, briefly, comprehends: l L Placing at the head of prohibition | enforcement a trained prosecutor and experienced lawyer who would take the place of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Haynes, however, would be retained in an important executive department of the new work. 2. The new enforcement chief would be given office as a special assistant attorney general responsible only to Mr. Daugherty and free from any influence, either for or against the prohibition law. Members of the party feel prohibition enforcement should be directed soiely by the Government and not by so-called outside organizations. ASK MELLON AND OTHERS TO RESTATE OHJECTIONS WASHINGTON, March 14.—Another temporary delay on the soldier “bonus” legislation w T as forced today by Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee. At the insistence of Representative Garner, Democrat, Texas, the committee which met intending to report out the bill, decided to extend an invitation to Secretary of Treasury Mellon, Comptroller of Currency D. It. Crissinger, and Governor W. P. G. Harding of the Federal Reserve Board, to appear before the committee in open session this afttAnoon i to restate their opposition to the present bill. A message from President Harding giving his exact position on the ‘Tonus” bill which House Republicans long have sought was rumored today to be on its way here from the President’s vacation ' way here from Florida. According to reliable information the latest word from the President is being sent to Chairman Fordney of the nouse Ways and Means Committee and is in response to appeals of Administration leaders in the House for a definite word from tho executive as to whether he would veto the latest efforts of the bonus bill framers. Fordney declared, however, he had taeeived no communication and his full committee was going ahead to report out the measure. The House, however,,4s going to pass ; the bill, its leaders say. What happens to It In the Senate or at the President’s veto desk is a matter about which the , “bonusers” are not troubling themselves at the moment.

The annual flood of money alreadj has started into the Treasury, but officials believe “the eleventh rio’ur” rush over the country will be comparatively as greet as ever. No preliminary reports have been received. The “eleventh hour” has brought some interesting “feature stories" regarding Read and Heed Income tax returns must be filed not >at<-r that Wednesday if the taxpayer wishes to avoid the payment of a penalty, M. Dert Thurman, collector of internal revenue, warned today. Collector Thurman also said that the public seems to have become acquainted with the workings of tbo Income tax far better tiian lu former years as it has not been necessary to make extra provisions for handling the last minute crowds which thronged through the Federal building in the first years the law was in effect. Owing to general business conditions receipts from the income tax this year are expected to foil below those of last year. this year’s payment. One is that Henry Ford will be this year's largest tax payer with a payment of $27,000,000. This would be an income in excess of $50,000,000. Another is that King George of England and Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany are paying Income tax here annually on Investments. The tax is said to be taken out of their dividends, by their representatives here before the money is sent to them. All these stories lack verification because of the extreme confidential nature of income tax returns.

SENATE URGED NOT TO UNDO PARLEY WORK Lenroot Heads Administration Fight for Ratification. DANGLES WAR PERIL

YES, WHERE IS IT? WASHINGTON. March 11.—By demanding to know whut had become of tbo “Association of Nations” advocated by IT-esident Harding during his Presidential campaign. Senator McCumber, Republican, of North Dakota, dropped a verbal bombshell in the Administration ranks while debate was raging In the Senate today •boat the four-power Pacific treaty.

WASHINGTON, March 14.—dministration Senalors rallied to tie suptort of liie four-power treaty in the Seua'.e this afternoon and in a series of speeches urged the Senate “not to nullify” the works of the armament conference by rejecting the Pacific pact. Senator Lenroot, Republican, Wisconsin. led off for the treaty supporters. He declared rejection of the four-power treaty would wreck the conference,” and bring the United States Inevitably closer to the menace of war. Rejection of the first proposal to amend the fonr-power Pacific treaty textually was expected to give its supporters their first victory, but not to reveal conclusively the probable line-up on ratification. Only a majority vote is required by tno Senate rules to reject either an amendment or a reservation proposed to a treaty; a two-thirds vote is necessary to ratify. Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, commanded, as the battle over the treaty was renewed, an ample majority to insure the defeat of the pending amendment which was sponsored by Senator Robinson, Democrat, of Arkansas. As modified by Robinson, the amendment would include China, Siberia and the rest of the Asiatic mainland within the terms of the treaty and would provide not only for a conference between the four powers signatory to it whenever a dispute arose between them, but of other nations having territorial or other interests In the Pacific and the Far East. The amendment would -apply the i Lengue of Nations plan to the Pacific and the Orient and would, in the judgment -f Senator Lodge, destroy the purpose and effect of the treaty. An almost solid phalanx of Republican vote? was expected to be mustered against ‘he amendment, with whatever Democratic support Senator Underwood, the Democratic leader would be able to oemmand. Negress Cuts Cheek °f Lanky Spouse Besste Strouthers, negress, five feet, two inches tall, was fined $2 in Criminal Court today and sentenced to serve two days in jail for assault and battery with intent io murder her husband, Herman Strouthers, negro, six feet, five inches tall. The court explained that in as much as Bessie made it necessary for a doctor to take two stitches in her husband’s cheek, she would be given a day and a dollar for each stitch. Judge Collins asked her after the trial if she slipped up on her husband to cut him while he was lying down or If she used a step-ladder. Charles Smith, charged with petit larceny, received a sentence of one to eight years in the State prison. Publishers Ask Cut in War Postal Rates WASHINGTON, March 14 —The American Publishers’ Conference, representing 20.000 newspapers and magazines, today appealed to Congress x for relief from excessive burdens imposed by high postal rates in the war revenue bill of 1917. The publishers contended that the existing rates were intended ns a war emergency and that the failure to repeal them is “highly discriminatory and unjust”' to the reading public. He Chases in Vain When Patrolman Frank Densley, iri plain clothes, questioned a man carrying four chickens last night, a guilty conscience smote his suspect who dropped the chickens and ran. Densley followed In hot pursuit. The suspect boarded a Brookside car. Tile conductor closed the doors shutting Densley out. The pntrhlman chased the car six blocks ),£- fore being forged to give up tha chare.

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RHINE CLAIM EXCHANGES TO BE VIGOROUS U. S. Officials Chafe Over Division of German Marks. SLAP FOR SENATE * European View Not Tenable in Eyes of Administration. WASHINGTON, March 14. —A new series of diplomatic exchanges that will speak the American attitude toward European affairs with more vigor than anything that has gone before, is about to open up as a result of the allied governments splitting a billion gold marks among themselves and ignoring America’s claim for reimbursement for the American Army of Occupation. High Administration officias stated today that “strong representations" will ho made In the matter if the official report from Roland W. Boyden, the American representative on the reparations committee, confirms the attitude of the allies that has been reported in press dispatches. This attitude apaprently is, officials said, that “America can wait,” or if not caring to wait, can proceeed to collect from Germany direct. SLAP AT SENATE’S FAILURE TO RATIFY. It is the evident intention of the allied governments, as seen by officials here, to deny that the United States has any rights at all under the treaty of Versailles, because the Senate failed to ratify the pact. ’iihis position is untenable, according to officials, because Europe already tacitly has admitted American rights under the treaty in the case of the mandated islands. It was American Insistence upon these rights that resulted in the recognition of the American claim on the Island of Yap, subsequently resulting in the Yap treaty. While Administration officials frequently have been “riled” over European affairs in the last year, nothing has so aroused their ire as the perfunctory turn, down accorded the American demand for a share of Germany's Indemnity to meet the Rhiije costs. UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND DISFUTED CLAI3I. The priority of the American occupation claim Is so well established under the terms of the Armistice, the Treaty of Versailles and the separate treaty between the L'nited States and Germany, that officials here declare they are unable to understand the legal or moral background for the allies disputing it. The impression prevails in some quarters that allied pique over the summary refusal of the United States to engage in the Genoa economic conference is in some measure responsible for the rebuff to the American claim. SEARCH BOOKS AS BASIS FOR GAS RATE CUT

Expert’s Report May Result in Filing Petition, Says Groninger. If experts of the pubic service commission who are Investigating the books of the Citizens Gas Company “strike pay dirt,” the city will file a petition for the reduction of the gas rate, Taylor E. Groninger, t corporation counsel, announced today. Mr. Groninger commended the commission for starting the probe into the gas company's affairs. He said further that he hoped the city will get more of a cut in residence and power users’ electric rates than the commission granted last week, but that he was much pleased with the simplification in rates. "We are going to go after two or three other utilities for rate cuts before long,” the counsel added. UNIONISTS TO KEEP ORDER New Powers Granted Ulsterites, King’s Speech Shows. BELFAST, March 14.—Additional powers have been granted to the Unionist government of Ulster province for putting down disorders, it was revealed today when King George’s speech was read opening the northern parliament. Tho King expressed hope that the violence, which has been occurring with distressing frequency, will cease. The speech from the throne was well received. Where Peace Reigns RICHMOND, Ohio, March 14—While the crime wave rolls by this little Jefferson country town sits high and dry. Salem Township, in which this hamlet Is situated, Is entitled to three Justices of the peace. It seldom elects more than one, however. S. P. Pyle Is the present Incumbent. His last civil case was heard April 15, 1920, and later had a criminal case on abandonment.

“SAY IT WITH A TIMES WANT AD” Bare in the right way—When advertising something for sale you practice extravagance by the sparing use of necessary words to tell a complete story. To advertise judiciously don’t try to convey a message which requires eight lines and contain it in four. IT’S A WASTEFUL PRACTICE. Don’t choke the life out of your sale proposition. If it’s worth adverlising it's worth telling completely. MAIn 3500. Classified Adr. Dept.

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