Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1922 — Page 1

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STATE MAY OPEN LIMITED NUMBER OF COAL MINES Drastic Step in Case of Railroads Also Planned if Necessary. WILL PROTECT INSTITUTIONS Group of Mines Near Terre Haute Considered as First to Be Operated.

FOREIGN COAL By United yews Washington, July 20.—The Emergency Fleet Corporation can land millions of tone of foreign coal monthly at American ports. Vice President J. Barstow Smull declared in an interview with the United News. Smull said: “We have more than 600 ships which, for coal-carrying purposes, cculd bring in 2,500,000 tons monthly.”

Stats operation of a limited number of coal mines and possibly railroads In the present Industrial crisis was considered by Governor McCray today. Such drastic action would result In eome sections being placed under martial law, according to State officials. Last Resort Only It was said these steps would be taken, only es a last resort. State Institutions have sufficient coal in their bins or in transit to carry them through until Aug. 15. After that time the inmates will suffer unless relief is furnished. Fred B. Robinson, secretary of the State purchasing committee, was in the coal Helds investigating the situation. The first mines to be taken over, it was said, would be a group around Terrer Haute now operating under a receivership created by Federal Judge A. B. Anderson. These mines comprise the group owned by the Rowland-Power Consoli dated Collieries Company of Terre Haute, and are in Owen, Greene. Vigo, Sullivan and Clay Counties. James A. Cooper of Terre Haute was named receiver for the company by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Fed eral Court April 22. The mines were In operation until the strike. Offer Strikers Jobs First The plan as outlined Ha id the striking miners were to be offered Jobs in the mines at the old wage scale pending negotiation of anew agreement. If they do not take them, others would be employed and would be protected by State troops. Full plans for operation of the railroads have not yet been formed. But it probably would be necessary for the State government to move the coal it had mined if the rail strike becomes more effective. M*'ne owners will meet here tomorrow to decide whether to accept McCray's offer of State protection to any shaft desiring to resume operations on an open shop basis during the strike. GUARDS ABOUT MINES Preparations for Coal Production Proceed in Pennsylvania. By United yews WASHINGTON. Pa., July 20. Guards surrounded two mines of the Pittsburgh Coal Company and mounted State police were held in readiness today as preparations were made to resume operations under the plan of President Harding. TALK OF AGREEMENT Illinois Officials Meet With Head of Union Miners on Production. By United Press SPRINGFIELD. 111., July 20.—Acting Governor Fred E. Sterling declared it may be necessary for the State to open one or two mines to replenish the supply of fuel for State institutions. MICHIGAN MINES READY Governor Says He Will Ask Union Men to Return to Places in Pits. by United Press LANSING. Mich., July 20.—Governor Groesbeck has made a personal survey of the coal mines in Michigan and said today they are ready for immediate operation. He said production is imperative to meet the fuel requirements of State institutions. WAR FRAUD ADVISORS Daugherty Names Assistants in Government Prosecution of Grafters. B, United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.—Appointment of an advisory council to assist the Attorney General in his investigation and prosecution of war fraud cases was announced today. Judge C. M. Bigger of Columbus, Ohio, former Senator Charles S. Thomas of Colorado, and Judge Charles Kerr will comprise the council which will advise with the Attorney General upon the handling of all war fraud cases. FAIR WEATHER AHEAD Continued fair weather was promised by the weather man again today. He also said there would be little change in temperature. The general weather report says , it Is somewhat warmer in the Mis- j siasippi and Ohio valleys, but cooler j in the Hast and West. The hottest spots were Jacksonville, Tampa and New Orleans', where the thermometer was 78 when the official report was made at 7 o’clock. ROMburc, Ore., was again tha coolest pit* H.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: Sometimes a man starts out to show his wife who is boss and kK. Zr “Drop Fatal” —head--7 S line. Sounds like more J\ bootleg stuff. SIMS One day last week a train was late when a man wanted it to be. Working yourself to death is hard Loafing yourself to death is easier and much quicker. Sure, flappers are liberty belles. And it looks like their motto is, "Peel off, wild belles." In Berlin, a man accused of killing twenty people hanged himself. He got the right man at last. The Japs want an army cut. The strange part is they want the Jap j army cut. Boys leave the farm because they hate to plow through life. i New York woman named Moon asks divorce because hubby stayed out | at night, and that’s the truth. Florida man who started out for the time of his life is in jail for the time of his life. A Tillage is where the police and fire departments are the same man. "Prices Advance in Shoes”—head- : line. They usually sneak up barefooted. Los Angeles woman killed herself after writing a poem. That isn’t such a bad habit. TWO ARE ROBBED Passengers in Pullman are Relieved of Valuables. Two passengers in the pullman sleeper Arklow, were robbed early today while the car was on the track of the Union Railway Company near Capitol Ave. Mrs. E. B. Gregory, Helena. Mont., saw the thief run through the car, but was unable to tell if he was white or black. Mrs. Gregory said the thief took her traveling bag worth $65. C. E. Chandle, Yazoe City, Miss., said he lost two watches, a chain and silver belt buckle. THREE FOUND GMLTY Store Employes Convicted on Grand Larceny Charges. Three employes of the HavensGeddes Company were found guilty of gran*larceny in Criminal Court today. Sentence of one to fourteen years in State prison and fines of SIOO and costs were suspended during good behavior. They were charged with stealing merchandise worth S3O. They are William H. Stines, 2819 Reeder Ave., Ivy C. Murray, 1224 N. Holmes Ave., and Charles F.'Johnston, 8514 E. Tenth St. BOOTLEGGER FINED Lawson Weese Found Guilty of Running a Blind Tiger. Lawson Weese, 36, of 1631 S. Meridian St., pleaded guilty to running a blind tiger and was fined $l5O and costs in city court today. The case of Harry Black, negro, 405 W. North St., charged with operating a blind tiger, was taken under advisement. Two other charges are pending against him. BLIND TIGER CAGED Two Men Are Held Charged With Harboring Beast. Russell Hatfield, 22, and James La Rosa, 52, of 909 S. New Jersey St., were arrested today on blind tiger charges. A complete 100-gallon still and twenty barrels of mash were found in the bam and twenty-five gallons of wine in basement of the house. MAYOR USES AX Shank Continues to Cut Estimates in City Budget. Mayor Shank continued today to use his ax on financial estimates for 1923. Francis L. Hamilton, building com missioner, tried to argue the mayor out of cutting his $29,070 estimate to $18,545, the figure for this year, but the mayor refused. City Engineer John L. Elliott has an esitmate of $685,000 for the en gineering department, $175,000 more than 1922. An. SBO,OOO surcharge on electric current, new equipment and expected increase in amount of work to be done on streets makes the increase necessary, Elliott said. The mayor has not decided upon this item COAL SHORTAGE CERTAIN Attorney General Issues Warning Regarding Nation’s Fuel Supply. By United Pres* WASHINGTON. July 20.—A coal shortage this winter is inescapable, even if coal production could be resumed at once at full capacity. Attorney General Daugherty declared today. Other officials indicated that a coal rationing system will have to be put into effect when cold weather comes and that priority orders will have to be issued to the railroads to protect such communities as New England and the Northwest, where the shortage is expected to be acute. THE HAGUE PARLEY OFF Attitude of Russia Toward Allied Pro-! posal Cause* Halt. By United Press THE HAGUE, July 20. —The Hague economic conference ended at 4 o'clock today. The attitude of the Russians toward the allied proposals caused the abrupt end of the parley.

BILLIONS MAY BE LOST TO PEOPLE BY FORD’S OFFER Senate Committee Protests Against Acceptance of Shoals Plan. GUARANTEES ARE OMITTED Nothing Said About Cost of Fertilizer, Ob : ec:ors Declare. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.—1f Congress accepts Henry Ford's offer for the power and nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., taxpayers of the Nation will lose, in a 100-year lease period, $14,500,000,000 or more than half America’s cost of the World War. Senator Norris, Nebraska, charged in a minority report of the Senate Agricultural Committee, recommending operation of the projects under a Federal commission, submitted to the Senate today. The Norris report is signed by Senators Norris, Gooding, McNary, Norbeck and McKinley. It deals with what is termed the ''unreasonableness of the Ford proposition.” It says: Makes No Guarantee “The country has been given to understand that Ford has agreed to reduce the cost of fertilizer by one-half He has done nothing of the kind." He has made no guarantee of any kind on fertilizer costs, it is added. PARK HEARING DELAYED Injunction Case Postponed Until Sept. 11. Hearing on the injunction to prevent enforcement of the anti-park theater ordinance was postponed until Sept. 11 today In Superior Court, room 4. by consent of parties to the suit. The temporary injunction re mains ir. effect. Mayor Shank, opponent of the measure; Chief of Police Herman F. Rikhoff, Ed Sourbier and City Councilman Claycombe were in the courtroom. Mr. Claycombe is attorney for the park board, against whom the ac tion was brought. Granting of the continuance nflowed the theaters to operate all summer. PUBLISHER DEFIES COURT Holds Order Against Signs Infamous Infraction of His Rights. By United Press EMPORIA, Has.. July 20 —William Alien White, noted publisher, today defied the Kansas Industrial Court. White posted in the window of his Emporia Gazette a placard expressing sympathy for the railroad strikers. White declared the court’s order against the signs "an infamous infraction of the right of free speech and free press." PLEA IS NOT GUILTY Mrs. Clara Phillips Will Be Tried for Murder Sept. 18. By United Press LOS ANGELES, July 20.—Mrs. Clara Phillips, accused of beating to death with a hammer Mrs. Alberta Meadows, her friend, today denied her guilt in a formal plea at her arraignment before the Superior Court. The trial was set by Judge Houser, who was presiding, for Sept. 18, after Mrs. Phillips had waived her legal right to a delay of sixty days.

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Battling West Virginia Miners Made Prisoners

A part of the prisoners captured by deputy sheriffs after the “Battle of Cliftonville.’’ These men, mine strike sympathizers, were to the jail at Wheeling, W. Va., after the Brooke County jail, nearest to the scene of the battle, had been filled. The arrow points to the man who is alleged to have fired the shot that killed Sheriff H. H. DuvaL On the right is shown Deputy Sheriff Ed Ratcliffe.

NATION FACING FULL FORCE OF STRIKEJRISIS Scores of Industries Idle or on Part Time Due to Conditions.

REACTION By United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.—A powerful political reaction will come against a governmental policy of “repression by force and military dictatorship" in the rail and cool strikes, President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor warned today. The labor leader directed a bitter attack against ’’old guard leaders.”

By United Press CHICAGO, July 20.—The industrial situation hourly grew more critical in the Middle West today. Scores of plants are threatened with a complete shut-down. Hundreds of men are be ing laid off. Industries are going on a part time basis. Added to the real strike peril was the menace of diminishing coal sup piles. Gravity Is Apparent With a clash of union and open shop interests in twenty-eight States, the country for the first time today faced the full gravity of its industrial crisis. The two great strikes, coal in Its 111th day and the railroad walkout in its twentieth, were welded together in i a strangling grip upon the Nation’s I transportation systems and Industries i Approximately a million men are j striking. 127,000 Troops Are Ready Governors have at their disposal today approximately 127,000 militia men to enforce the safety of open shop mining. Prayers for settlement of the industrial erlses were offered today in Trin lty Church, New York. British collieries have begun exports to the United States, according to an nouncements in trade journals. Plans have heen formulated for strikes in allied industries. The metal trades and machinists’ unions already have pulled their men out. MARSHAL RESCUED State Troops on Horseback Interfere in Mistake of Crowd. SAGINAW, Mich., July 20.—State troops on horseback came to the rescue of United States Marshal Frank T. Newton and thirteen deputies here when they were threatened by a crowd of 500 strikers and sympathizers, who mistook them for strikebreakers. FORMER MAYOR ILL Charles Heilman Suffering from Effects of Operation. By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 20.—Former Mayor Charles Heilman, proml nent. in Republican politics, was critl eally ill today, following an operation yesterday. OFFERS CUPPINGS Senator Bansdell Charges British Would Defeat Ship Subsidy Bill. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.—Assailing British shipping interests, Senator Ransdell, Louisiana, in a speech to the Senate today, charged the British are trying to dictate American sea policy by killing the Administration’s ship subsidy bill. He submitted clippings from British newspapers urging the subsidy bill be opposed by all British subjects, through whatever influence they have iu America. TERRIFIC BATTLE RAGES Casualties Reported at 20 Killed and 40 Wounded in Irish Warfare. By United Press DUBLIN, July 20.—A terrific battle raged today between Irish rebels and Free State troops. Casualties were reported at twenty killed and forty wounded. Dispatches stated the Free State troops were closing in on insurgents at Limerick. At Waterford, loyal troops were pouring artillery fire on the rebels. Admits Auto Theft James Woods, 21, arrested yesterday following a traffic jam, admitted to the police today that he had stolen an automobile belonging to C. N. Reagan of Huntington, and that his home is in St. Louis, Mo. He was in the Navy until July 13, polico were told.

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This is the courthouse and jail at Wellsburg, W. Va. Many of the prisoners captured after the battle are now housed in this jail. All will be tried in this cousthousa.

Life Guards Make Ideal Mates Declares Wife of Chicago Hero By United Press (~s(IlICAGO, July 20. —Girls! Marry a lifeguard. There are five reasons why the beach Adoniß makes the perfeet husband, according to Mrs. Victoria Lauer, wife of Capt. Fred Lauer of the Oak Street beach. They are: Twelve hours a day on duty No darning of socks. No blond stenographers with resulting nights at the office. No pockets in bathing suits to conceal love letters. No clothes to press.

ALLIES GIVEN OVERSIGHT OF GERMAN MONEY Official Announcement of New Fiscal Policy by Government. BULLETIN By United Press PAHJ|a. July 20.—Frenoh occupation of German territory will not end until the German war guilty are tried in the courts of France, and if convicted delivered up to the government. Premier Poincare told a delegation of the League of Nations today. By United Press BERLIN, July 20. —Germany Is willing to accept the guarantee’s committee's proposal of allied supervision of German finances, it was officially announced today. The German financial situation resulted in great excitement during trading on the Bourse, marks dropping to an exchange value of 535 to one American dollar. Conditions attached to the German acquieeence provided for guarantees against any invasion of German sovereignty, and the protection of "taxpayers’ secrets.” AIRPLANES ON GUARD Seven Flyers Watch for Forest Fires in Oregon Country. By United Press WASHINGTON. July 20.—Seven Army airplanes were assigned by tha War Department today to a sixty-day patrol of the Oregon forests as a defense against forest fires. AUTOMOBILES READY Strike Impends oil Surface Car Lines In City of Chicago. By United Press CHICAGO, July 20.—Two hundred thousand automobiles were primed today for the impending strike of 19,000 surface and elevated employes here. Decision on whether a strike will be called was expected today.

MINERS CONFIDENT PLAN OF PRODUCTION WILL FAIL

By United Press PRINCETON. Ind., July 20.—Miners here pushed their hands deeper into their pockets today and awaited the next move of President Harding. They smiled at reports that he Invited coal operators to open the mines, assuring protection of property and employes by State or Federal troops. "It’s a big joke,” said Frank Bolin, former mine local secretary. “In fact, it is impossible—just another scheme of the operators to cause dissatisfaction in the rank and file of miners. i "Under State laws a miner must

COST OF LIVING HOLDS Prices Steadily Above 1914, Government Figures Show. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.—The cost of living is hold.ng steadily at about 60 per cent above the 1914 level, slight j changes of from 1.4 per cent decrease I to 1.6 per cent having occurred between March and June of this year, according to statistics published today by the Department of Labor. Figures for Indianapolis show an I advance of 3 per cent. BROTHER CHARLEY LEADS Bryan Has Slight Advantage Over Butler In Nebraska State Vote. By United Press LINCOLN, Neb., July 20.— C. W. Bryan, brother of the Commoner, was leading today in the race for the Democratic nomination for Governor, according to returns from 1.C76 precincts out of 1,793 in Nebraska’s primary. Bryan had 26,129 votes to j 22,987 for Butler. R. B. Howell, Republican, will op- • pose Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat, for United States Senator next fall. BEE CAUSE OF INJURIES Mrs. Moore, Frightened, looses Control of Car at Insects Buzzing. By United Press MUNCIE, Ind., July 20.—Mrs. Will Moore was frightened by a bumble bee that buzzed around In her sedan, which she was driving, and she lost control of her car. The automobile turned over into a ditch and injured Mrs. Moore and Mrs. C. L. Bock, who was riding with her to the extent of fractured ribs and severe cuts. Two infants in the cai were uninjured. MEXICO IN NO HURRY ! State Department Officials Blame Neighbors for Uncertain Relations. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.—Responsibility for the impasse between Mexico and the United States was placed squarely at the door of Mexico by Administration leaders today. For the last eighteen months the United States has been waiting for Mexico to move toward meeting American objections to her treatment of foreign investors, but Mexico has pursued as “do nothing policy,” high officials said.

have a license or permit to work in the mines. The operators know this as well as the miners. "If It comes to a showdown they wouldn’t hire strikebreakers. “The number of men killed and hurt would damage them more than the value of coal inexperienced men could produce. “There are 1,200 miners on strike in this county. None would go back.” G. Appreghas, manager of* the Deep Vein Coal Company, said: “I don’t think it would be possible for the mines to tperate without skilled men.”

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PEACE EFFORTS HALT IN RAILROAD STRIKE ON SENIORITY ISSUE Conferences Abandoned Following Failure of Executives and Union Leaders to Agree on One Point. SETTLEMENT HELD IMPOSSIBLE Employers Insist on Standing by Loyal Men Who Declined to Take Part in Recent Walkout. By United Press CHICAGO, July 20.—With railroad executives and union leaders dead-locked on the question of seniority rights, hope of terminating the railroad strike was abandoned, on the eve of an agreement on all other disputed points. Chairman Ben W. Hooper of the railroad labor board declared a settlement was “impossible.” Bail executives said, “It’is a fight to the finish. ** Union leaders were silent. Conferences Are Ended Conferences, held daily for the last three weeks, appear ended today. Railroad executives claimed return of seniority rights to the strikers would be unfair to hundreds of loyal employes who re* fused to walk out and to thousands of newly employed men. Union leaders would listen to no peace plan which did not guarantee the standing of their men.

COAL RESERVES DWINDLING, SAY UTILITY HEADS Companies Have Fuel Enough to Last Fifty or Sixty Days. Indianapolis will be minus services of public utility companies in fifty or sixty days, unless more coal is forthcoming. according to statements of company officials. The Merchants Heat and Light Company's supply will last until about Sept. 10 or 15, an official of the company said. No coal is obtainable now except at prohibitive prices. Plants May Shut l)ouu "If industries are forced to chut down because of a lack of coal it will help us, and we could furnish current longer,” he said. "I know of two or three concerns that may be forced to stop production next week.” The Citizens Gas Company has a supply that will last sixty -day, an official declared. No effort is being made to get coal, due to attendant difficulties. Street cars will be able to run for sixty days, officials of the company said, with the coal on hand. Some fuel is being received from Kentucky fields In small lots. No Water Famine There will be no water famine in Indianapolis for two months, even if no more coal is obtainable, officials of the Indianapolis Water Company asserted. The company is still receiving some shipments. The Indiana Light and Heat Company is fortified with enough coal to last two months, officials declared. SOUTHLAND IN WRECK Eight Reported Injured In Derailment of Georgia Flyer. By United Press ALBANY, Ga., July 20. —Eight persons were injured when the Southland, flyer on the Central of Georgia Railroad from Detroit, Chicago and Indianapolis to Jacksonville, Fla., was wrecked near Smithville, Ga., early today, according to reports. Mrs. Mary L. Mitchell, Martinsville. Ind., was among the Injured. She suffered bruises to her left hip and her breast bone was err.,bed. WOULD REINSTATE SOME—Monon Head Mak's Statement Concerning Strikers. "Any of our employes now on strike car flia applies-ions for re-employ-ment, and upon this being done, most of them would be re-instated in our service,” ssd part of a statement by H. R. Ku.'rie, president of the Monon Railroad today. At offices of the Big Four and Pennsylvania railroads it was said heads of these systems have given instructions no strikers are to be taken back except as new men. The C. I. & W., is sticking to the same principle, it was stated. SEVENTH SUIT FILED Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Asks / Injunction. A petition for injunction against unions and union officials connected ! with the railroad strike was filed in j Federal Court today by the Indiana i Harbor Belt Railroad. It was the seventh filed in the last week Loses Purse and SIOO Mrs. Eugene Foley reported to the po ice today theft of a purse containing SIOO. A maid whom she emiMoyed Wednesday disappeared.

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Scores of Trains Off Scores of trains have been discontinued. Others are running anywhere from a few minutes to several hours late. | Business houses report that freight j shipments which before the strike j took four or five days now take from | eight to ten days. Plans were being completed to or--1 panize a “dry land” fleet. Thousands | of motor trucks have been listed and i will be rushed into service if further j curtailment of train service results. Airplanes will carry the mails. Statement by Hooper Chairman Hooper declared that the I railroads were willing to have wage | controversies reopened, agreed to stop contracting-out work and grant reconsideration of working rule questions, and to dismiss all lawsuits growing out of the strike. President Bert M. Jewell of the shoperafts federation said that the strike would proceed “to the finish.” This development, it Is believed, absolutely dispels all hope of immediate settlement of the strike, unless a joint conference is called by President Harding. EXECUTIVES IN SESSION Railroad Officials Seeking Program for Emergency in Eastern Conference. By United Press NEW YORK, July 20.—Forty executives of eastern carriers met here today to discuss problems and decide issues growing out of the rail strike. It was unofficially said that eastern roads were prepared for a long drawnout struggle, but were of the mind that the strike would end With the disintegration of the strikers’ forces. CLERKS WALK OUT Hundreds Join March to Mass Meeting at City Auditorium. By United Press RICHMOND, Va.. July 20.—Several hundred of 800 Chesapeake & Ohio clerks employed here walked out today. Striking shopmen marched with them to a city auditorium mass meeting. CHALLENGE IS SEEN Michigan Governor Urges Harding to Take Over All Coal Property. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.—The present coal mine situation was characterized by Governor Alex J. Groesbeck of Michigan today in a second message to President Harding as a challenge to governmental authority and power. HELD FOR DELAYING MAILS Six Men Under Arrest Following Attack on Rail Workers. By United Press AUGUSTA, Ga.. July 20.—Six men were arrested here today charged with delaying mail trains. The men were taken by police following disturbances at the Union Station when rail workers were attacked and two trains carrying mail ware delayed. WHAT DID YOU SEE? H. E. C. saw a sign which read, “Mrs. Smith, the lady cleaner and dyer.” E. A. K. saw an automobile stuck in the mud in "Good Ave.” C. W. saw some boys bailing water out of a boat and pouring it into another boat alongside. C. S. J. saw a man change his meat order to canned salmon when the meat cutter scratched his head. O. L. A. saw a couple on a street car counting the freckles on arm.