Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 296, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1922 — Page 1

NEWS of CHURCHES Important Religious Activities Are Noted in ths Daily Times.

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►SHANK URGES CITY TO BUY ALL UTILITIES Mayor Joins Hylan and Thompson in Policy. HITS BIG PROFITS Amendment to Slate Constitution Proposed. A movement on the part of tha city to buy the gas. electric and water utilities, was announced today by Mayor Shank. The plan is contingent on the State constitution being amended to increase the bonding limit of the eity. The mayor instructed Corporation Counsel Taylor E. Groninger to attend if possible a hearing on a bill to prohibit utilities from going to Federal Court, while the Issues on rate cases •pire pending before State public service commissions. The meeting is in Washington next Tuesday. The Citizens Gas Company whose rate increased petition has been denied by the public service commission plans to go to Federal Court for relief. .IOIXS HYI.AX' AND THOMPSON. In his attempt to influence Congress the mayor is joining forces with Mayor John F. Hylan of New York and Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago. “Gas, light and water are God given, asserted the mayor, "and no person, lirtu or corporation has a right to make any profit off of them.'' The mayor said he intends immediately ot call upon all candidates for Republican nominations for State Representative or Senator to say whether they will back his municipal ownership scheme, and he will attempt to get the Republican State convention to put a plank in its platform pledging the party to work for this idea. The present bonding limit is 2 per cent of the total assessed valuation of taxable property. This is fixed by the State Constitution. The mayor’s scheme is to amend the Constitution to permit outstanding bond issues to 10 per cent of the valuation, the excess over 2 per cent to be spent only in acquisition or construction of utility plants. Indianapolis has a bonding limit of over $11,000,000. The bonded Indebtedness now is more than $6,000,000. Favorable action at two consecutive sess'ons of the Legislature and a majority vote by the citizens of the State is necessary to amend the Constitution. PROFITS SHOILD GO TO PEOPLE. • “It's my opinion,’’ said the mayor, ’’that every one of these utilities could b run by the people on half of what they now are, if their stock hid not been watered and the money taken out by promoters. If there is a profit in the business, it ought to go back to the people. Maybe we could run the government without any taxes at all.” The mayor Instructed Mr. Groninger to go to the Washington hearing after he had received a telegram from Mayor Hylan. Mayor nylan said New York is vitally interested in the House Bill 10212, known as the Baeharaeh bill to proven■. utilities from “jumping” to Federal Court when things are going against them before public service commission', because the “telephone trust" did so when the eity was about to get a big reduction in rates. JUDGE’S IRE AROUSED BY SHOE FIRM Keeeiver Ordered to Stop Advertising Which Is Fraudulent. Judge Albert R. Anderson, in Federal Court, today sent for Albert Asehe, receiver of Mover’s, a department store, 111 139 West Washint!#n street, and in structed Asehe to tell representatives of A1 A. Rosenbuseh & Cos., of Baltimore, operating a shoe departfent in the store, y had the choice of discontinuing ceradvertising or going to jail for contempt of court. The shoe department.is not in receivership. Representatives of the Better Business Bureau complained that the company was advertising a receiver's sale of shoes. This aroused the wrath of the court. Asehe told Judge Anderson he had objected to the advertisement, but no attention bad been paid. To Accommodate Absent Voters Citizens of Indianapolis who will not -be In the city at the time of the primary election May 2 may vote in person at Room 34. the courthouse, between Monday and Saturday of next week, it was announced today by t'arl B. Nimal, who Is in charge. The work of sending out absent voters' ballots was begun today About 130 applications. 841 per cent of which were from Washington, have been received by the county clerk. Landlady Causes Arrest of Boarder Arthur Rose, optician. 157 North Illinois street, room 203. wa- a rested today on a warrant filed by May Bankert, 4117 East Washington street, charging issuance of a fradulent check. According to ihe affidavit. Rose gave Mrs. Bankert a bad check on the Banker's Trust Company for s2l in payment f>r his room and board. £ WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty four hours ending 7 p. m., April 23. 1322: Fair tonight: Sunday increasing cloudiness. becoming unsettled at night: rising temperature: possible fro<t totilehf. HOT KEY TEMPERATI'RF. 6 a. in .39 7 a. m 39 8 a. m 41 9 a. m 43 10 a. m 45 11 a. m 46 12 (noon) 4S 1 p. m 48 2 p. m 48

Beware, Smokers, inspector Beek ENGINES MUST PUT OUT THEIR PIPES

Is Making Indianapolis Smokeless

Miss Indianapolis will be saved the annoyance of finding a dab of coal soot on the end of her dainty nose If the efforts of Smoke Inspector Fred S. Beck prove fruitful. The Shank administration Is attempting to enforce the antismoke ordinance for the first time since the Beil administration. Mr. Beck has been on the job since early In February. Mr. Beck --aid he has been devoting his time during February, March and April to a survey of the smoke situation in factories. Beginning May 1 he wtll start campaign against nuisance smoke from locomotives, requiring railroads first to equip their switch engines which operaie almost entirely within the city limits with smoke consumers. Then he will require anti-smoke equipment on passenger and freight engines passing through the city, he said. Enforcement of the ordinance was not attempted by the Jewett administration, the explanation offered, being that the war quality of coal was such that it was impossible to prevent smoke. The position of smoke inspector was not filled in four years. During the two months he has been on the job Mr. Beck has inspected 240 heat and power plants, investigated sixty five complaints, ordered smoke consumers installed at twenty-one places, ordered iwo mechanical stokers and one stack and boiler installed. The Job is made difficult because few owners and operators of smoke producing equipment understand the provisions of the ordinance, which declares a public nuisance, “the emission of dense black or gray smoke from any smokestack or chimney used in connection with any stationary steam boiler, locomotive or furnace of any description

Surely He Did Not Seek Cash From Russians! GENOA. April 22. —A Russian who was arrested while attempting to force his way into the headquarter* of the Russians at Rapallo. was today identified as Boris Savinkoff, who was Kerenski’s war minister for a brief period. He had given his name, when arrested, as Golene. \ SECOND CALL IN 3 WEEKS NETS HIM $5 Burglar Pays Return Visit to Keystone Filling Station. A burglar early today broke the glass from the office window of the Keystone gasoline filling station, Massachusetts avenue and East street, and carried away a pay telephone containing about $5. This is the second time within three weeks a burglar bad broken into the place and carried away the pay telephone. Sidney Shaffer. 2738 North I-asalle street, mana ger of the filling station, discovered the robbery. Detective* are investigating the robbery at the home of Joe You oh, 917 Ketcham street. A thief used a key to enter the house and Vouch said S2O was stolen. Frank Stringer, living at Shelby and Kephart streets, reported his touring car stolen from Kentucky avenue and Capitol avenue. John Steffy, 2132 Woodlawn avenue, asked detectives to Investigate the disappearance of his watch. Steffy is planning to move to 2422 Kenwood avenue, and he was at that house painting. He left his trousers in the pantry and put on overalls. Later when he started to change clothes he found his watch had been stolen from his trousers pocket. Fred Quinn, 2808 East Twenty-Fifth street, reported a negro had attempted to “jimmy” the window of his chicken house. The burglar was frightened away before he got the window open. RAIRDAN HELD TOGRAND JURY Said to Have Stabbed Negro Who Talked to White Girl. Alvin Rairdan. 12*8 Nordyke avenue, foreman at the I’iel Bros. Starch Works, was bound over to the grand jury today on ihe charge of assault and battery with intent to kill Rairdan stabbed Tom Smith, negro, after hii argument. The negro Is alleged to have talked to a white girl in violation of the factorv rules. Brannon Held for Assault on Child Bert Brannon, 30, was bound over to the grand jury today by City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth, on charge of assaulting on a 10-year-old girl. To Open Riley’s Homejo Public The homestead of James Whitcomb Riley on Lockerbie street, which has been dedicated as a shrine to the poet’s memory, will be open from 2 to 4 o’clock next Sunday afternoon. A large number of visitors has been received at the Riley homestead each day since it was formally opened. An admission fee of 25 cents is being charged to cover expenses and this fee will be charged Sunday. Children will be admitted free when accompanied by pareuts. Name Smith for Welfare Council Charles F. Smith, foreman of clerks at the postoffiee. has been named as representative of the supervisor’ officials on the welfare council of postoffice employes, j to succeed A. B. Mondelle, who resigned because of his appointment as superintendent of mails. At the next monthly meeting officers of j the association for the coming year and 1 delegates to the national convention of i the association at Denver this summer will be elected. The annual luncheon held in the carrier’s library Friday night was attended by about forty membtn of the organization.

within the corporate limits of the city of Indianapolis, in any apartment house, office building, hotel, theater, place of amusement, school building, institution, locomotive, or any other structure in the city of Indianapolis, or in any building used as a factory, or for any purpose of trade, or for any other purpose whatever, except as a private residence.” To permit such smoke to go into the air is an offense punishable with a fine of from $lO to SIOO for each day such violation is continued. If the line is not paid the defendant may be imprisoned until it is paid, not to exceed ninety days, the ordinance provides. The same penalty applies to violation of any other section of the smoke ordinance. The ordinance gives the smoke Inspector authority “to Inspect, supervise and require all steam boilers of furrmces, either stationary or locomotives, and all other furnaces within the corporate limits of the City of Indianapolis, to be constructed, or if already constructed, to be so altered or have attached thereto such efficient smoke preventives as to prevent the production and emission of such deuse black and gray smoke therefrom, and he shall further have authority to supervise the igniting, stoking, feeding and attending such steam boiler or other furnace fires, and he, or his duly appointed assistant, if any, shall have authority In the office of the deputy of the Commissioner of Buildings to enter any steam boiler or engine room’, or any building not occupied exclusively as a private residence, and auy person or persons hindering or obstructing him in the performance of such duty shall be deemed guilty of violating the provisions of this ordinance.”

FUND LACKS $1,200,000 OF PAYING DEBTS State Officials Fix Amount of Deficit and Tell How It Happens. MINUTE BOOK DELAYED The actual deficit of the State general fund is $1,200,000, it became known today when an examination of the records was made, and not $1,000,000 as figured previously, and made public through the press. The difference arises through the ; authorization of a loau of $500,000, which, j it was understood, was not all borrowed. The authorization for the last loan was ! given by the State board of finance March 29 and since the money has been bor rowed to the full extent of $500,000. On March 31. 5.300,000 of this sum was borrowed and on April 13, $200,000, the rec ords show. Within the past few months. $1,350,000 has been borrow, and by the S? e f, r the general fund. Os this sum $’.'.0,900 was paid back. The State is paying interest at the rate of $6,000 per month on the outstanding Indebtedness. Some confusion as to the condition of tile State's finances has resulted because transactions were not made public until j some time after the last meeting of the | state board of flnnn <■ Member- of the board seemed to have different ideas as to the extent of the State's obligations. The matter was cleared up by Wihlan G. Oliver, auditor of State, whose official record shows that the State has actually borrowed $1,200,000. He says be does not understand why any confusion should have existed in minds of others, on this point. Official* of the treasurer of State's office gay that Information concerning the State's debt should come from the audit tor’s office as the treasurer cannot borrow any money except upon order of the auditor, although the linuace board an thorlzes the loans State officials claim that they are not to blame for the enormous shortage in the general fund, but pass the re-pons! bllity to the Legislature for expenditures which were too '‘liberal.” they say. One of the deputies said today that in ; his opinion the hoard of finance had j made a mistake in not making public its ; transactions, which, he said, would have caused less comment, if done promptly There was a delay of several weeks in making up the permanent record in the minutes book of the board of finance. LABOR BOARD LOSES FIGHT Federal Court Refuses to Dismiss In junction Granted Railroad. CHICAGO. April 22.—The t'nited States Railway Labor Board lost its fight to day to obtain dismissal of the Injunction 1 suit brought against. It by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Judge Page. In Fed- j eral Court, upheld the injunction granted the Pennsylvania. The Pennslyvanla obtained a temporary injunction restraining the labor hoard from interfering in its methods of con ducting negotiations with its employes 1 regardng wages and working conditions. The raod charg and that the board was j operating virtual y as a compulsory ar- j hitration body and denied its authority so : to act. • ! Murderer Drunk, Hence Guilty’ CHICAGO, April 22 —“A man intoxl- j cated and therefore not criminally re j sponsible for murder” was set free by a ; coroner's Jury here. Fritz Meinshausen admitted killing Mrs. Anna Peters while he was drunk. The jurors declared that since he was Intoxicated, he should be given his liberty. SAVED CHICAGO, April 22.—There was q “one man run" on the first garbage bank of Chicago today. Billy Tweet, clerk in a butchershop did the running. Billy didn’t believe much In banks, so each night he secreted the store’s cash in a neighboring garbage can. This morning he came to work bright, and errly, walked past the garbage can aid forgot to take the money • out. T ,Vhen he remembered he found found the garbage man had been around The run was fast and furious while it lasted. Billy finally overtook the garbage wagon and unearthed ills $126 under two feet of refuse, v J

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1922.

PUT ARMIES TO WORK ON CIVIL JOBS Suggestion to League of Nations by Britisher. REBUILD EUROPE Step Toward Ultimate Reduction of Costs. and Philadelphia. Publlo Ledger. Special to Indiana Dally Times BY KICHAKD SPILLANE. PHILADELPHIA, April 22.—While the diplomatists and economists gathered at Genoa have been struggling with the Eu ropean problem and, apparently, getting more involved, a Britisher with experinee in the World War, has laid before the League of Nations a novel plan for the rehabilitation of the distressed continent. Appreciating the deep rooted prejudice against reduction of armies, as Imperiling national security, ho suggests each j tiatien retain Its present army, if it so desires, but reduce the cost of maintenance by putting troops at work, on projects productive of national wealth. The traditions are all against soldiers being employed "to work," he admits, but the World War was an engineer's war and 80 per cent of the time, of the various armies, was spent on engineering construction work. In the latter years of the struggle the crack regiments, even the ! cavalry, proved they could work just as well a s they could tight The urgency for i •‘winning the peace” is as great now as j the winning of battles was in the war period. HIGH SKILL IS AVAILABLE. I In the engineering corps of each army there 1* high skill. Tills Is not utilized in times of peace for human progress and betterment. He suggests that tlse League of Nations utilize its International i finance corporation to enter into contracts with each of the European states to develop their resources such as railways, canals, harbors, mines, fore ts, hydroelectric enterprises and various dormant industries, the finance corporation to issue bonds, secured on the various public works and guaranteed by the states. The army engineers and the troops of the States should carry out the work. It should rest with the International finance corporation to determine whether any particular project was practical from r.n economic viewpoint, and the corporation would have supervisory powers from start to finish with itc own staff of engineers drawn from the boat talent of G:cat Britain, France and the I'nlted St. tes and other lands. The British gentleman would reward troops, through larger food allowances than now they receive, together with weekly cash bonus based on their ability But their greatest reward, he points out, would be in fitting them for excellent jobs, when their service in the army i ruled. Some of them, he believes, would get a technical training of vast benefit. At present their period of army life, Is of little value to them ay ole from disciplinary training, NO OTHER H AY TO DO BIG JOB. One argument he advances Is thnt in no other way can such a gigantic amount work be done in Europe *o expeditiously and economically as under this arrangement It wou'd not be conducive to unemployment, but quite the contrary. For llie material required in many of the undertakings heavy drafts would Lav# to be made on outside industries, which would strengthen the whole structure of business. The net resnlt, he declares, would be lower budgets, lower taxes, improved exchanges, increased production, transportation throughout the continent, CHOW GENOA, Apri 122.—The Russian soviet delegate* taking part in committee meeting* today asked that the morning session he postponed as tlie.v wished to meet the King of Italy, who had Invited them to luncheon. v not only restored to a pre-war basis, lint improved and extended, improved Interior waterways and harbor facilities, and gradual return to peace and prosperity. Finally he ventures the suggestion that the exhibition of a material and worthy use of armies, rather Ilian n destructive and costly use of them, as has been the practice for centuries, would he so impressive a lesson to the world that it is probable that it would lead to mutual confidence to a degree that within three years the various European states would do voluntarily, what now they hesitate to risk. Thnt is, reduce their standing armies a third and probably as much again at the end of five years which would leave each nation with army sufficient for police purposes. The author of this idea is A. D. Watts. Whether the. League of Nations adopts his plan or not remains to lie seen. One fact that is beyond contravention is that diplomacy has failed utterly. Another is that if the European nations persist in maintaining huge standing armies they will go bankrupt. Huge armies and huge navies inevitably lead to war. Huge navies are to go. Huge armies should go, or go to work. Tornado Delivers Postal Card From Indiana to Ohio ELWOOD, Ind, April 22 —When the home of Mrs. Bessie Porter in Orestes, seven miles east of here, was destroyed by a tornado last Monday night, a picture post card was picked up from the ruins and carried with the tornado. This postcard has been returned to the postmaster at Orestes, Charles It. Davis, coming in a letter from J. O. Kinstle of Mt. Cory, Ohio. In this letter Kinstle stated a tornado had struck a short distance south of his home on the morning of April 18, and he had found the card dying on the ground while on his way to work. The card, which showed a view in Hartford City, was torp on one corner, but otherwise was in good shape. Mrs Porter said that it was one of several which she had in an album at her home.

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SOVIETS ON PROBATION AS TO DEBTS France Unwilling to Take Anything for Granted in Russia. GENOA, April 22.—France offered conditional recognition to the Russian Bolshevik government today. Louis Barthou, chief of the French delegation to the Gepoa economic conference announced willingness to extend this recognition provided Russia carries out its promises made in its reply to the allied demands. But first he said, Russia must be put on probation. Recognition was one of the counter demands made by Russia in lie reply to the allied note. The soviet government agreed to acknowledge Us debts provided recognition was granted. Rarthou’s statement was made after a long conference with his colleagues, and after he had communicated with I'remier I'oincarp in Paris. Germany’s reply to the allies regarding the Russo Gorman treaty was inadequate. it Is dei lared in a letter which M. Barthou sent to Premier Facta of Italy, president of the conference. The French leader declared that the treaty violated the Cannes program. He demanded that the nine powers which signed the note addressed to Chancellor Wlrth, 'catling Germany to account for signing the treaty, be asked to consider the German reply again.

LEADERS OF RUSSIAN DELEGATES Tchitcherin, left, and Litulnoff, his chief aid. In conference in thpir apartment at ttie Hotel Esplanade, Genoa, Just before Tchitcherin sigued the separate Ireafy with Germany.

Latin-American Women Hold Center of Stage

But Are Delightfully Submissive to Their Northern Sisters. BALTIMORE, April 22.—Women of the other Americas, still rather shy an<l not at aIL sure of themselves, again held the center of the stage, while women of the United States withdrew to the wings as much as possible at the second day’s sessions of the Pan-American conference here. “Women of the United States'” That seems to be the only thing we can call ourselves at this conference, where the existence of other Americans is In evidence. What, on earth can we call ourselves? It is enough to gay Peruvians, Mexicans. Brazilians or Canadians, but can we say United Station? Here in this conference, as it seems altogether too boastful to call ourselves Americans, we are very much in need of a simple term that would express the meaning of being a citizen of the United States. However, let no one assume that onr sisters of the Western hemisphere, with the possible exception of our Canadian neighbors, of whom there is a powerful delegation of twenty, are anything but delightfully submissive to their strong, self-confident s.sters of the north. Only once or twice was a note struck that the United States may not lie so perfect after all. There was a gasp of embarrassed horror when Madame He Vcyra, wife of the Philippine commissioner to the United States and official delegate to the conference, was called upon for the afteruon topic. It was "Prevention of Traffic in Women." She said that before the American soldiers came, Manila had three saloons. A short time after there were three hundred. Be-

Mayor Shank Things i PRAISES ACTION OF BODY IN REFUSING GAS RATE PLEA. Mayor Shank, who. a few weeks ago, led an “army” of nearly 10,000 persons on the Statehouse in protest against the public sendee commission, congratulated that same commission today. The occasion was the denial by the commission of the petition of the Citizens Gas Company for an increase in rates. The mayor’s letter follows: “I read your finding against the gas company's petition with a marked degree of pleasure. Your Judgment in this case will meet with the approval of a large majority of the citizens of Indianapolis. Further your finding will be hailed throughout the State of Indiana as a step In the right direction, “I congratulate you upon this derision and hope that in future cases you will look after the people's Interest as you have certainly done in this case.”

Woman Reports $240 Stolen Froni Trunk Mrs. Mary Mitchell, 646 Arbor avenue, reported to the police today that sometime since April 12, $240 had been stolen from her home. The money was in a trunk, she said. Mrs. Lima Steffln, 402 East Washington street, told the police while attending the Pure Food Show in Tomlinson Mall, a bar pin, valued at SSO, was stolen from her. COUNCIL CALLS OFF PROPOSED EXTRA MEETING Special Session Called to Cut Walker’s Salary Will Not Be Held. President Theodore J. Bernd of the city council announced today there will be no speeial meeting to pass the ordinance cutting the salary of John F. Walker, superintendent of street cleaning from $2,500 to $1,500. The action is postpone 1 until the regular meeting, May 1. He had previously stated there might be a special meeting Monday evening. April 24. The special meeting was abandoned because some council members desire to pass the daylight saving ordinance over Mayor Shank’s veto, he said, and to do this, it ts necessary to take tlie action at the next regular or special meeting after the mayor disapproves. If the meeting had been held Monday evening it would have been necessary to vote on daylight saving and the council wishes to give the public more time to express itself on the matter, Mr. Bernd said.

fore their arrival Manila had three houses of prostitution with twenty inmates; shortly after ogie ship arrived with three hundred and fifty women. However, the audience had a chance to draw a sigh of relief when the speaker acknowledged that the situation might be otherwise now. All day long, glimpses into (he different psychology and conditions In the twenty-two Americas were unfolded. The, topic this morning was “Women in Industry,” led by Mary Anderson, chief of the women's bureau, United States Department of Labor. This afternoon It was “Prevention of Traffic in Women,” led by Dr. Valeria H. Parker, executive secretary of the United States Inter-De-partmental Social Hygiene Board. Just as yesterday, the lustrous-eyed, black-haired senoras and senorltas were each asked to get up and speak for five minutes, both morning and afternoon. Most of them did, and in the morning we were reminded from where onr Pan ama hats, our Philippine lingerie, our Porto Rican blouses, and, last but not least, our most excellent cigars come from. Naturally women are largely occupied In ali those industries, but they seemed fairly well satisfied with their lot. In fact, In some of those lazy, tropi cal countries life is so easy that when the woman goes out to work the man stays at home, and no one complains of the arrangement. In the PhU ppines the man does the earning and the wife the spending. In fact, according to Mine. Ds Veyra, it is customary for the husband to hand ' his pay to his wife, tvho then gives him his allowance. Yet she claims there are | (Continued on Page Two.)

Says Nice o Commission CORPORATION COUNSEL GRONINGER ISSUES STATEMENT. Taylor E. Groninger, city corporation counsel, was m’tich pleased with the action of the public service commission in denying an Increase in rates to the Citizens Gas Company. In a public statement he said in part: "The public service commission of Ini diana by its prompt and speedy denial of the gas company’s petition for a raise i in rates has rendered a service to the ; people of Indianapolis for which they are i very grateful. \ “Since Jan. 4, I have represented the j city before the commission in three utll- ; ity rate cases —the telephone, electric and gas. It is my observation that in each | of these cases the commission was mindful of the interests of the people as well as of the utility. “In this connection I want to commend Mayor Shank for his stand in behalf of the people against the rapacity and greed of utility corporations.”

MORALS SQUADS MAKE RAIDS ON BOOZE MAKERS Seize Stills and Liquor and Arrest Alleged Dry Law Violators. I MANY CAUGHT IN NET A series of raids was made by the police morals squads last night and as a result numerous persons are under arrest today on charge of operating blind tigers and statutory offenses. A 17-year-old boy was among those arrested in a raid on an alleged resort at 313 West Ohio street. Lee Knsley, 38, was charged with keeping the resort and associating. He has been arrested a number of times before on the same charge at the West Ohio street house. Besides Ensley the police arrested John Anderson, 29, Oneida Hotel; John Hall, 27, 352 East McCarty street, and Hftrland Howard, 17, 435 South Delaware street. Lucille Gaddis, 24, 313 West Ohio street. Is charged with a statutory offense. Sergeant Hudson halted an automobile ! driven out of a shed in the rear of 313 West Ohio street, and found part of a whisky still in the car. The part was sent to police headquarters. HOME-MADE BEER CONTAINED ALCOHOL. Walter Deploy, 30, 11 Wisconsin street, was arrested on the charge of operating a blind tiger. The police allege they found seventy-two quarts of home-made beer at his residence. The beer is said to have contained mora alcohol than allowed by law. i A whisky still in operation was found at 3038 North Gale street. Richard Miller, 24. was arrested on a charge of operating a blind tiger. The police say that Miller admitted ownership of the still, one hundred gallons of corn mash and two gallons of "white mule” whisky. Jai k May. 45, 3034 j East Ohio street, was arrested on a charge of operating a blind tiger. May, the police allege, attempted to dump the contents of a pitcher Into a drain, but the police were too fast for him. The pitcher contained one quart of white mule whisky, it Is said. FOUND WHITE MULE IN MIGUEL'S ROCKET. Ell Miguel, 232 West Maryland street, was arrested when police found a halfpint of "white mule" in his pocket. Martin Patrick, 802 South Capitol avenue. was given a slxty-dRy sentence on the State Penal Farm, imposed by Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth in city court, after he was found guilty of a second violation of the prohibition law. A fine ot S2OO and costs was also assessed against Patrick Charles Stevens, 2831 West Tenth street, and Ivan Stephanoff, 961 Haugh street, who were arrested after two stills, 400 gallons of mash and a quantity of “white mule" was found In Stephanoff’s home. Each was found guilty and fined SIOO and costs. Jatnes O'Connor. 250 North East street, was fined SSO and costs on a charge of violating the liquor law. INJURY SAVES SMITH FROM GOING TO JAIL Grand Jury Indictment for Conspiracy Hearing Is Delayed. William D. Smith, 134 West Arizona streeit, indicted by the Federal grand jury for alleged connection with the Clinton liquor conspiracy cases, was arrested by Frank S. Ream, deputy T'nited Stntqs marshal, today. Smith’s bond was set at 3LOOO, but Judge Anderson permitted him to go on his own recognizance when informed Smith had been seriously injured iu an automobile accident and was in no condition to go to jail. Spink Mill Burns, Causinjrj>4o,oGo Loss WASHINGTON, Ind., April 22 —Fire | destroyed, the Spink Milling Company’s: property here, causing a loss of $40,000. the origin of the fire is unknown. Al Herman to Aid Shriners’ Minstrel A1 Herman, blackface comedian, who is one of the features at B. F. Keith’s this week, will find time tonight to land on the stage at Murat Theater during the Shriner’s minstrel show. Herman will crack some new ones and will aid the Shriners in making tho Saturday t night performance a whopper of a show. The flnai performance of the minstrel show begins at 8:15 o’clock tonight. The bazaar in the- 'basement of the Murat temple U ie£i to the public all day. closing shortly before midnight. RAILJfiOAD LOAN DENIED. WASHINGTON, April 22.—The appli- | cation of the Chicago & Western Indi- j ana Railroad Company for a Government loan of $2,000,000 for additions and betterments was denied today by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

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INCREASE OF GAS RATE TO U. S. COURT Citizens Company Is Denied Another Hearing. $925,000 IN BONDS Authorized by Board Which Refused Boost. The Citizens Gas Company was ex* pected to take its case before th# Federal Court late today following a denial of its petition for a rehearing by the Indiana Public Service Commission. Authority for a bond Issue of $925,000 was granted. A move to have a receiver appointed Is before the Marion County Superior Court. Doubt in the good faith of the receivership suit'was expressed by attorneys of the company appearing before the commission when they said that it had been learned that the purchase of six shares of stock in the gas company had been made the day before the receivership suit was filed. The bond issue is to meet due bank loans and taxes and will not increase tha amount of’ outstanding indebtedness, it was said. BASIS OF ACTION IN CONSTITUTION. Basis of action before the Federal Court will be on the ground that maintenance of the present rates for gas in Indianapolis is contrary to the United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment which is designed to prevent confiscation of property. Contemplated action on the part of the gas company is similar to that of the Ft. Wayne Telephone Company which recently obtained an increase in rates greater than that allowed by the commission and obtained protection from intereference and Jurisdiction to regulate its business by the commission on an order of th* Federal Court. The case of the Ft. Wayne Company is the first in the State to undertake to supercede the ruling of the commission in that manner. Several reasons were set forth in the order denying the gas company the increase of 35 cents a thousand cubic feet, asked In its petition. Principal among these reasons was that a larger decrease In consumption of gas, than estimated by the company, would offset the benefit gained by a higher rate, economies of operation suggested by the commission have not been put iu effect, useless expenditure of money in refitting a building which 1* not owned, have teen made, and that an improvement of the coke market may improve the situation of the company. WOULD PI T BURDEN ON GAS COMPANY. It is doubtful, according to the order set forth by the commission, whether “tha 90-cent rate will be sufficient, but under all the circumstances surrounding this company in this proceeding, the commission is of the opinion the doubt should be resolved against the company and not the consumers.” The purchase of prodigious qunntitici of coal and oil at high prices, in the face of rapidly falling prices, and failure of the company to dispose of 118,000 tons of coke, which have been allowed to accumulate, are cited as reasons for the present serious financial condition of the company. A possibility, if not a probability that the gas company can get by is seen by the commission if rigid economy is practiced and efficient management exercised. An improvement of the coal market and the continuation of the present low prices for coal and oil with prospective reduction in freight rates, the orders says, .may make it possible for the company to operate In a fairly satisfactory manner. The public relations of the company are subject for criticism on the part of the public service commission. Referring to a previous hearing of the company for an Increase, the order says: “The commission indicated to the petitioner that radical changes should be made in its management and policies in order that economies of operation might be effected, and more particularly in order that the relations of the company with the city and its consumers might bo placed on a more proper and desirable basis. These changes of policy and management so indicated have not been made and tho public relations of the petitioner have not been improved.” The increase in rate from 60 cents to 90 cents granted May 4. 1921. resulted In a decrease of 12 per cent in the amount of gas consumed, and the commission expresses the belief in its order that the increase asked of 35 cents would result in a decrease greater than 12 per cent in the gas consumed. Mitchell Girl Wins Discussion Contest BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 22 Georgia Carpenter of the Mitchell High School won tho discussion contest in a field of thirteen here last night. Arthur Crabtree of Stewnrtsville, was second, and Harold Rlsasser of Mishawaka third. Goodrich to Make Third Russian Trip WINCHESTER, Ind.. April 22.—Jamei r. Goodrich, former Governor of Indiana. who has Just returned from Russia, will make a third trip to the la4 of the soviets, starting May 17, it is stated here. Mr. Goodrich is In Winchester to attend the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Mary J. Semans. Policeman Killed in Fighting Bandit ST. LOUIS, April 22.—One policeman is dead, one dying and a third seriously wounded as the result of a revolver duel wi'h two bandits who held up the paymaster of the Morris & Cos. packing plant today. The highwaymen escaped. Michael O'Connor was shot through the head and died a few minutes later. Patrolman Barney Mengel was shot in the head and is dying. “*\ ‘3o’ WASHINGTON, April 22.—A sentence of thirty years in jai! was Imposed today on Howard Leslie Holt, 40, dancing master, convicted on a charge of misconduct with one of his young pupils. Chief Justice McCoy Imposing sentence, said some of the jurors favored the death penalty. v J

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