Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 57, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1922 — Page 7

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MINES SEIZURE LOOMS BEFORE U.S. GOVERNMENT Great Coal Strike Enters Sixteenth Week of Deadlock. NO SOLUTION IS VISIBLE Reports of Fuel Shortage Pour Into Congress and President. By ROBERT J. BEXDER. United Xrint Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, July 17.—The great coal strike, entering its sixteenth week, finds the Government still tugging with the question of a possible solution but with Federal seizure and operation of the mines becoming increasingly likely. Statistics showing the reserve of both anthracite and bitumin ius coal would be exhausted within two weeks were prepared by experts in the Labor Department. These and other facts were laid before President Harding by Secretary of Labor Davis. Telegrams began to pour into Congress and the White House, warning that many industrial centers, numerous industrial plants and virtually all of the middle northern States were feeling the pinch of the coming coal famine. The possibility of Federal eoal rationing was advanced. Meantime the coal operators reconvening here Sunday night to draft a reply to the President’s arbitration proposal, met a short time and adjourned. In the interim the district representatives will consider both the mine workers’ answer and the President’s supplementary letter, intepretlng phases of the arbitration suggestion. CALORIC WEEK BEGINS Chamber of Commerce Holds Daily Demonstration. Galoric week” opened at the Chamber of Commerce today with the starting of an educational diet and health campaign. Dr. Alfred Henry, chairman of the health committee, was in charge, assisted by the Marion County Tuberculosis Association and the Indianapolis Chapter of the Red Cross. Florence Waltz and June Gray of the tuberculosis association, Edith Reider and Anna C. Brenan explained comparative food values. The Chamber of Commerce menus on the eighth floor also set out the value of all dishes served In the dining room. SUFFERS SEVERE INJURY Miss Ruby Stewart Badly Hurt When Machine Turns Over. Miss Ruby Stewart, 1241 Roosevelt Ave., was in a serious condition at the city hospital today as the result of an accident near Shelbyvile, when an automobile turned over. Miss Ama Burfleld. 629 Archer St., also in the machine, was taken to a Shelbyville hospital. Her leg was fractured. Mrs. Orva Fortner. 619 Archer St., driver of the car. and Miss Bessie Welch. 837 N. Delaware St., escaped with bruises. FILIPINO ATTACKS WOMAN Gouges Out Eye and Cuts Off Hands; Lassooed by American. By United Press MANILA, July 17.—Gouging oat one eye of a native Filipino woman and cutting ofT both her hands, a crazed native armed with a bolo knife today terrorized the American residential hotel district of Manila. An American Army officer finally laseooed the maniac after he had plunged Into the waters of Manila hay. FIRE DAMAGES RESORT Less of $300,000 to Thirty Cottages at Mac Altawa Park. By United Press HOLLAND, Mich.. July 17.- —Loss of $300,000 resulted at Lake Michigan’s most popular summer resort when fire destroyed thirty cottages at Mac Attawa Park. The fire began when an oil stove was turned over. Suffers Minor Injuries Mrs. Mary Hoop. 62, 15 N. Gladstone Ave., today is recovering from cuts and bruises suffered Sunday when am automobile in which she was riding was struck by a machine driven by -Tames O. Custer, 2853 School St. The accident occurred at Highland and MarLorwe Avea. Remarries Former Husband Russell HI day of Anderson was divorced from his wife, Gladys, June 7, 1920. She remarried and obtained a second divorce June 30, 1922. Mrs. Hiday remarried her former husband today. Held On Larceny Charge Fred W. Walton, clerk at the Hotel Broadway, Is under arrest today on a charge of grand larceny. It is alleged he stole clothing and personal property valued at SBOO from a trunk belonging to William Cadoir. Chicago. Love Affair Serious CHICAGO, July 17. —Gordon H. Hoffman, 20, eldest son of Coroner Peter M. Hoffman. Is in a semi-con--Bdou3 condition here today and may not recover following an attempt at suicide over a love affair. Falls Through Grating Walter Powell. 1312 W. Ray St., suffered cuts and bruises about the face today when .a sidewalk grating south es the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company building gave way.

BACKFIRED! NEW YORK, July 17.—Ike Simonson, prohibition agent, asked for whisky in a saloon and was served a glass of kerosene. Simonson arrested the bartender for selling petroleum products without a license.

Challenger for Fisherman’s Cup

The first picture of the schooner Puritan, which was built as Esse>, Mass., to win the International Fisherman's Trophy this fall Under the regulations she has had to engage in bona fide fishing on the Banks all summer. Her owners have high hopes of winning the trophy, which was carried off last year by the Canadian schooner. Blue Nose.

SPRINKLER DEMONSTRATION Manufacturers Invited by Fire Chief O’Brien to Attend. Fire Chief O'Brien has issued a special Invitation to all manufacturers In whose plants sprinkler systems are used to be present or represented at a demonstration to be given In the rear of the public school adjoining fire headquarters at Alabama and New York Sts., tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The demonstration of the sprinkler system will be In charge of Capt. Curren of the salvage corps and John Myers of the Indiana Inspection bureau. WOMAN IS INVOLVED Neighbor of Bouvet Arrested in Attempted Assassination of Millerand. By United Xevs PARIS. July 17.—The possibility that theer is a woman In the case has revived interest In the attempted assassination of President Millerand here on Bastile day. Police, It is learned, have searched the room of Germaine Lintaud, friend of Gustave Bouvet, anarchist, alleged to have planned the attack on Millerand. Mile. Lintaud was arrested nearly a year ago shortly after an attempt was made to assassinate Byron T. Herrick, the American ambassador. PRAY IN SQUARE Americans .Astonished at Demonstration in British Metropolis. By United Press LONDON, July 17.—A crowd of American sightseers stopped in amazement late In Trafalgar Square London. Two thousand i persona were kneeling before the statue of Admiral Nelson, praying. They were the supers of a movie film, “The Christian," in which the principal actors were Richard Dix, American movie star, who acted the part of an aesthetic clergyman and addressed the praying kneelers from the lions surrounding Nelson's monument. NOT~DITsPEAKINGTERMS Shotguns Used by Sullen Citizens With Serious Results. By United Press TAYLOKVTLLE, HL, July 17. TV. R. Thomas. 39, had refused to speak to Louis McConnell, 38, Thomas was milking in a pasture. McConnell strolled down the road. This time they spoke—quite bitterly. It Is said. Each started for his home and returned with a shotgun. Thomas la in a hospital with • load of shot in his abdomen. ’ .Connell is in the county jalL DAUGHTERS HELP DAD Father Charged With Teaching Girls To Throw Away Liquor. Julius Fiveroats, 43, 1039 W. ThirtyNinth St., faces a charge of contributing to delinquency of his two daughters. Policemen who have raided Fivecoats’ home say that at one time a fifteen year old girl and at another a younger child threw out a quantity of Illicit liquor having been instructed by Fivecoats’ to do so. One Killed in Wreck SAVANNAH. Ga., July 17.—One man was killed and several injured when five cars of the Seaboard Air Line’s train No. 3, between Savannah and Jacksonville, turned turtle near Cox. Ga., today. The train struck a broken rail. Replevin Suits Filed Suits to recover replevin bails given by John F. TValker, 'William S. Henry and Charles W. Brown were filed in Superior Court today on behalf of the State of Indiana. Newsboys on Strike DECATUR, 111., July 17.—Newsboys are on strike. Someone issued order they must have clean faces, hands and clothes. The strike vote followed. It was unanimous.

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Dog Race “Bookies” Guarded CHICAGO, July 17. —Bookmakers at the dog races here found slim picking when police guards herded them into the grand stand and kept close watch while races were in progress.

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In the Summer Bargain Event No. 5

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LA FOLLETTE, IN ELOQUENT TALK, UEFENDSHAMLET Wisconsin Senator Opens Campaign at Milwaukee Monday Night. By United Kews MADISON, Wis., July 17.-—Senator Robert M. LaFollette returned to his home town Sunday and heid 5,000 home folks spellbound for two hours as he made an eloquent defense of Hamlet, prince of Denmark. The Senator, who is seeking the Republican renomination for the fourth time, didn't stop to defend his war record or his attacks on the big monopolies, or politics at all. Back in the late nineties, when LaFollette was Governor and held other fctate offices, the speech was famous, and was a big campaign asset in its way. Critics call it one of the best masterpieces or literary criticism ever produced in Wisconsin. Sunday was the first time it had been delivered in eighteen years. LaFollette’s political campaign begins Monday night at Milwaukee. The primary is Sept. 5. FAST CLIP DISASTROUS Auto Turns Over After Skidding Fifty Feet on Bridge. A touring car in which eight persons were riding turned from the boulevard onto the White River bridge in Riverside Park at 1 a. rn. today at a speed estimated at fifty miles an

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I yeah Silver, Lynn,\Mass., who is held by police of New York City to be questioned regarding the 16-months-old baby girl abandoned in a swamp near Coney Island. hour, skidded fifty feet and turned over. Lizzie Robinson, 35, 217 W. Vermont St., was seriously injured. She is at the city hospital. Richard Shaw, 33, 1223 E. Fifteenth St., said to have been the driver, and the others in the car were arrested on a vagrancy charge.

From Street Musician to Artist Is Story of Ward Baker, Violinist By United Press CHICAGO, July 17.—Ward Baker, Chicago’s only licensed street musician, will give his first public indoor recital this year. Baker, a violinist, was arrested twenty years ago for playing on the street. When taken before the chief he asked for a license. The chief was dqubtful about granting the privilege until Baker played for him, when he Immediately granted the request. The musician earned enough from passersby to complete musical studies abroad and will give his first recital before a select audience of highest critics here in October.

BIG BOOZE RING BEING ATTACKED BY PROHI AGENTS Indictments Sought for Corruption of Many U. S. Officials. By United Preee CHICAGO, July 17.- -Internal revenue agents today sought indictment of more than fifty men, including millionaires, a member of Congress and former Federal officials, in connection with an alleged $2,000,000 booze ring, unearthed here. Evidence obtained when Harry Mager, former Collector of internal

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revenue, and Benjamin M. Mitchell, politician, were arrested, will be presented to a Federal grand jury’ to prove wholesale corruption of prohibition officials, agent* said. Two prohibition officers are reported to have been on the payroll of certain brewer.es with salaries of close to SIOO,OOO. Most of the men sought have been out of office for many months. Federal officials declared. LOSES CONTROL OF AUTO YV. T. Cleaver Stops Machine After it , Climbs Terrace. An automobile driven by W. T. Cleaver “kept on turning" when he attempted to round a comer at Twenty-First and Meridian St. Sunday and did not stop until It had climbed a terrace and was against the window of the apartment in St. James Court, occupied by Mrs. Kieffer. No one was Injured and the automobile was towed to the Cleaver home.

FEOERAL COURT AGAIN TO MEET IN HAMMOND 4 Judge Baker Sets Hearing Date for Thursday—Strike Emergency Cause. Francis E. Baker, judge of the CU> cult Court of Appeals, will hold court at Hammond Tuesday, according to word received today by Noble C, But* ler, clerk of the United States Court. Emergency matters connected with the ratlroad strike situation wiU be taken up, it is believed. After that, he will be out of the district until next Monday, when the hearing on temporary Injunctions asked by several railroads against unions involved in the strike and about 2,000 Individuals will be held. It is understood that the Monon Railroad will file a suit similar to those filed last week by the Big Four, Wabash, Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western, and Baltimore & Ohio railroads, tomorrow. Recovers From Injuries Harry Dublin, 6, 1225 Union St., is at the city hospital today recovering from injuries received Saturday when he was struck by an automobile driven by W. T. Johnson of Bridgeport.

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