Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 131, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1922 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 131

NEWSKDRTRIDGE BOOSTERS DEMAND SCHOOL BOARD ACT l Large Delegation Tells Body They Want Building Program Started Immediately. “Give ’?m the ax.” the old Shortridge battle cry. was the sentiment of the delegation from the Shortridge. Parent-Teacher Association which appeared before the board of school commissioners last night. More than sixty men and women composed the delegation. They made it clear that they want anew Shortridge on the site at Thirty-Fourth a.nd Pennsylvania Sts., and that they intend to get it. Tired of unfulfilled promises of the past they made use of direct methods. They did not ask, beg or request. They demanded. They promised to aid in fights before the State tax board not only for bond Issues for Shortridge. but for schools in other parts of the city as well. They served notice on the Iboard, which during the nine months | "it has been in office has taken no j definite steps toward inaugurating a ; building program, that they were in j the fight until something is done to j improve housing conditions in the j public schools. Tired of Talk James M. Ogden, city attorney, j acted as spokesman for the delega- j t.’on. He did not mince words. He j made no effort to save the feelings j of board members. He frankly stated j that the association was “fed up” j or. talk and wanted action. "Where there is a will there is a. way,” he said. "We have th > will and we intend to find the way. This is the modest and meek spirit in which we approach this situation."! Ogden then read an editorial from the Indianapolis Times demanding an i extension of school facilities. When the reading ended a wave of applause swept over the room. “What paper is that from?" W. D.; Allison, a board member, asked. ; "It is from the Indianapolis Times, ■ which frequently has some of the \ best editorials in the city," Ogden an- j s we red. Money Can Be Raised "We are tolTl that the school city has no money with which to erect buildings.” he continued. “At the lowest estimate there can be issued $2,682.250 forth of budding bonds, ard I personally believe the amount to be $900,000 higher. “We ar.’ not asking the expenditure of $1,000,000 immediately, although a .new high school eventually will cost' kthat much. What we ask Is ihe ereo-! tien of a first unit at a cost of $250,000. j The school can be built unit by unit.! “Every one of us is willing to go to the State tax board and fight for approval of the bond issue. We have been promised plans, specifications and an architect in the past but nothing has been done.” West Side Need Shown At this point Commissioner Dr. Marie Haslep interrupted and quoted from articles appearing in the Indianapolis Times to show that other high schools also were crowded and that there was great need for a high school on the west side of White River. “We will help you get it. We will go to the tax board and fight for that school too,” Ogden answered. “Well if you do that then I am for your plan.” Dr. Haslep said. “I don’t have to tell you about conditions in the schools," Ogden said, “and we must make a start somewhere to remedy them. Twenty years ago our schools were the pride of the country, and I believe they can be restored to their old place. Our public schools are the very basis of our onerican life and they must be maintained at a high standard. “There is only one up-to-date high school In this city. Arsenal Technical, and we only have three. Other cities of the same size often have six or seven. Think of it. seventy-three grade schools In Indianapolis and afifty movies; three high schools and theaters. “Don’t tell us it is impossible to build schools. Nothing is impossible for this board if it buckles down and takes advantage of its opportunities.” .Speakers Demand Program Opinions were asked from members of the board by President Charles L. Barry, but Dr. Haslep. Adolph Emhardt, chairman of the buildings and grounds committee, and Bert S. Gadd sat silent. Commissioners Allison and Barry expressed themselves as favoring immediate action. “I believe that with limited means grade schools should be cared for first, but this does not mean high schools should be neglected,” President Barry said. I am convinced of the necessity of immediate action at Shortridge. We all know that it is impossible for Shortridge to do under present conditions what Shortridge has done in the past.” Committee Meets Tonight A meeting of the buildings and grounds committee will be held tonight. This practically will be the same as a board meeting, as four members of the board are members of the committee and the fifth, Bert 8. Gadd, has been asked to attend. Whether a building program will be inaugurated is problematical. It is well known that Commissioners Barry and Allison are in favor of taking immediate action. However, Adolph Emhardt. chairman of the committee, fceaid last night that he believed matters of policy regarding the employ(ment of engineers and other matters iof this kind should be discussed at ithe meeting. It is believed Dr. Haslep "■'rill introduce a motion favoring the purchase of a west side high school site at Belmont Ave. and W. Washington St. “If no action is taken Wednesday night, we will be back here at the next meeting.” a member of the Shortridge delegation remarked as he left the meeting.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: Congress is threatenHgae&ftßairrf ing to hold an extra session. Your luck may be | gX if bad, but a Florida man j lost his other eye. SIMS The horse that loses the most races is the charley-horse. In Cincinnati, two were injured when a bee sat on an auto driver. Europe’s dove of peace is after the j no-stop flight record. When there are no strikes to j blame high prices on it is .always j easy to substitute a car shortage. Ex-king of Greece warns to come ! over here. There always seems to be room for another Greek case. In Goshen, Ind., a boy could not stop laughing. Perhaps his school teacher broke her neck. Detroit wants an airplane plant. Detroiters say Fords do not bounce high enough for them. In Hammond, Ind.. a man pur- J posely blew himself up with dyna- i r-.ite. Friends say he was rich and had nothing to blow about. LAST9MONTHS BUILDING HERE OVER 1921 IRK Indianapolis Has Living Quarters for 3,069 More Families Than on Jan. 1. There are living quarters for 3.069 j more families in Indianapolis today | than on Jan. 1. This is one phase of anew record j in building activity Indianapolis attained in the first nine months of 1922. In the first nine months of this year permits for $2,000,000 worth more ofj construction have been issued than in all of 1921. Last year had broken all records. The 1921 total was $18,328,965. On! Sept. 30 the total for this year was $20,446,677. It was estimated that another million or more will be added • by the end of 1922. One-half of the twenty million dollars has been spent on homes, valua- J tlon of residences and apartments built being $10,278,962. This is $1,439.320 more than in all 1921, when SB,839.642 was the total. Up to Oct. 1 this year permits were issued for 1,197 one-story single fam ily frame dwellings. 354 two-story single family frame dwellings, ninety-six one-story doubles, 363 two-story ( doubles and thirty apartment houses. Estimating that the apartments hold an average of twenty families each this construction will provide homes : for 3,069 families. Total residence con- - struction in all 1921 accommodated ! 2,862, it was estimated. Active in Every Line In all 1921, 10,135 permiis for all kinds of construction were Issued. : while in the first eight months of 1922 10,592 were granted. The three-quarters of 1922 showed more activity in practically every line than was true of 1921, although some of the last year totals have not i yet been exceeded. To Oct. 1 this | year 5,846 permits for repairs worth j I £2.099.695 were issued as compared j with 5.197 permits valued at $2,317,- | 063 in 1921. Permits for 2,088 stables, sheds, j etc., worth $701,386 were issued in | | 1921 against 1,752 permits valued at j j $666,361 this year. Non-flreproof brick buildings to- ; taled 125 In number and $1,936,700 in • value in 1921 and 91 in number and $1,530,650 in value ti ls year. This year permits were granted for ; 35 fireproof buildings worth $4,306,789, as compared with 31 buildings worth ' $3,728,977 last year. I One hundred and fifty-eight con- | Crete block structures were erected | for $328,600 in P'2l and 162 buildings for $248,596 in the last nine months. Forty-four apartment houses costing $1,630,860 were built last year an.l thirty, worth $1,393,600. this year. Miscellaneous construction was perj mitted in 792 instances in 1921 at cost i of $476,527, against 666 permits and ! $526,624 value to Oct. 1 this year. ARRANGES HEARING State Tax Board to Decide Large Bond Issue Questions. Members of the State tax board will leave next Monday for Bloomfield to conduct a hearing on an $8,500 road bond issue for the Theodore Carmichael road in Greene County. On Tuesday the l>oard will conduct a hearing on a $111,600 road bond issue at Princeton. The board announced today that the date for hearing arguments on the civil and school tax levy at Knox, in Starke County, had been changed from Thursday, Oct. 12, to Oct. 19. -- ■ THE WEATHER Heavy rains have fallen over northeastern Indiana, from the middle Mis sissippi Valley and Lakes district to the middle and northern Atlantic coasts. It is cooler in the middle Atlantic States and warmer from the middle Mississippi Valley to the great plains. The lowest temperature of the season prevailed last night over the northwest. lowest reading being 14 degrees at Swift Current. Saskatchewan. New York reported the maximum j temperature this morning of 70 de qrees. while Bismarck. N. I)., and Helena. Mont., each reported minimum readings of 34 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 5010 a. m 64 7 a. m 60 11 a. m 64 8 a. m 62 12 (noon) 64 9 a. m 63 lp.m. 64

GIRL AND FATHER 1 HER ARREST IN DOUBLE CRIME I Additional Facts Developed in Hall-Mills Murder Investigation. By United Press NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J., Oct. 11. —Two more were in jail today a.; the indirect result of the probe into the murder of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, leader of the choir of the Church of St. John the Evangelist. They are: Pearl Ba'nmer. the 15-year-old moth- j erless girl and the confessed sweetheart of Ray Schneider, on whose; story the charge of first-degree mur j der was lodged against his pal. Clif ford Hayes. Nicholas Bahmer, father of the way- j ward Pearl, who has boasted that he j went “gunning" for young Schneider I with a borrowed .45-caliber automatic i on the night of Sept. 14. when the j millionaire minister and the wife of j his church janitor were slain, supposedly while keeping a tryst under a crabapple tree on the unoccupied Phillips farm. The girl. Pearl, was brought before a judge on a charge of incorrigibility, and after a hearing the case was post poned until next week. Pearl, whom Schneider claims was the target for' the bullets that killed the rector and j choir leader, admitted that she had ! been intimate with both Schneider i and her father within the last year. Thereupon Bahmer. saloon keeper, j who admitted he had “been on a bat” j for two days previous to Sept. 14, when he started out after Schneider, was thrown behind the bars on the daughter’s charge. A “justice” fund has started in New Brunswick for the defense of Hayes. Saturday was chosen as a tag day. > At that time every citizen in the city | will be asked to contribute to the fund. |

JOYFUL OVER CHILD’S RETURN Mother of Kidnaped Phyllis Prosch Tells of Anxiety

Pretty Sirs. Louis Prosch, 1460 Lexington Ave., sat back and smiled at her visitors. “Phyllis?” sfie repeated. “Why, she's back at school —over at No. 28.” Phyllis is the 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Prosch. She disappeared Monday afternoon and returned yesterday. She said a man had taken her riding, had kept her in a hotel at overnight and had put her on a train and sent her home yesterday morning. Mrs. Prosch looked down at a baby she held in her arms. “That's Mary Elizabeth. Phyllis’ three weeks' old sister,” she explained. “Ever since the baby came, Phyllis has always hurried home from school. That’s why I was so worried when she didn't come Monday afternoon.” The mother told of her husband’s return from the Beech Grove railread shops, where he Is a machinist. “He started riding up and down the streets all over this part of town.” Mrs. Prosch said. “By night, the whole neighborhood was search-

POLICE EUAN WITH GIANT STILL Sam Burnett Confesses to Part in Operation of Downtown ‘Tiger,’ Police Say. Sam Burnett, 36. of 1G22 Bellefontaine St., who gave his occupation as contractor, is held in jail under SI,OOO bond, charged with operating a blind j tiger and with complicity in the oper- j ation of the 500-gallon still taken by police at 133 W. Court St. last Satur-1 day. In a confession to police, Bur I nett implicated Albert Finkel, 952 i High St., for whom police were j searching today. Officers under Sergeant Hudson I went to Burnett’s house yesterday upon Information that liooze was being handled there. Sergeant Hudson believed he recognized Burnett as the Sam Swartz whom he had taken into custody in a raid on a blind tiger at 334 S. Pennsylvania St. some months ago. Similarity between the riggings of the two stills led Sergeant Hudson to the belief that the two had been the product of the same handiwork, and questioning which followed revealed that Swartz was the same man who had been fined SIOO and given a thir-ty-day Jail sentence, which was suspended' upon good behavior. \ Officers started to take Burnett to the offices of the I-Comstohk Company, from which the rooms on Court St. had been rented, but the prisoner confessed and was taken to headquarters, where he is held for later hearing. WILL LET CONTRACT Retom-atory Trustee to Make Award on New Power House. Trustees of the Indiana Reformatory will meet at the Statehouse tomorrow afternoon to let the contract for the power house for the new reformatory at Pendleton. Fifty-five bids were submitted to the board Tuesday, but due to the large number of different parts of the power plant on which bids were received, the trustees deemed it advisable to consider each one separately. Bids submitted varied from 1585,000 to $90,000.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, 1922

HIDDEN CHICAGO. Oct. 11.—Philip J. Kiefer, 59, found a key he lost fifty years ago today. It was in his stomach. Surgeons removed it. “My Dad would have licked me if he had known I swallowed it,” Kiefer said.

ARMISTICE TERMS CONCESSIONS TO TURKS'DOIIIDS Document Represents Utmost Allies Willingly Grant in Near East. By United Press MUDANIA, Oct. 11.—The Near Eastern ai-misties was signed by the allies today. The final meeting of the Mudania conference lasted 'but ten minutes. Journalists wore called into the room while the allied generals and Ismet Pash, representative of the Turkish nationalists, fixed their signatures to the protocol. Represents Concessions The armistice terms represented the utmost concessions the western powers would make to the Turks. The essence of the armistice follows: 1. The Greeks must evacuate Thrace. The Hellenic army must be out in two weeks and the civil force shortly afterward. 2. The Turkish gendarmerie may enter Thrace after an allied control of forty-five days. The Turkish force of civil police must not exceed 8,000. 3. The Turks must not advance beyond their present lines In the Ismid neutral zone. 4. In the Chanak neutral zone the Turks must withdraw ten miles from the British positions. The British must not bring in reinforcements in j this area. 6. The Turks guarantee to protect minorities.

Ing. It was raining, but both men and women were out. “The men kept on searching until after midnight. We had notified the police, too. "That was a terrible night. “The next morning Mr. Prosch was making the rounds of the hospitals, i although we had called every one, when Phyllis called me from the staj tlon. I rushed right down there. She was sitting beside the telephono oper- ■ ator, not at all frightened. “She looked up at me. her eyes great big. and said calmly: ’Hello, mother.' ” Mrs. Prosch hugged the baby in her ' arms closer. I “When she got home she rushed in j to see Mary Elizabeth the first thing.” j the mother continued. "Then she told i us how a man had stopped her on j her way to school. She's in the 3-A grade. She was a little bit late, b©- ; cause she had gone to the drug store j to get medicine for the baby, j “He told her he would take her to J school. Then he drove around, right j back past our house, and finally he got | to school after the last bell had rung, i lie said he would take her for a little

100 to 1 By I nited Press LONDON, Oct. It. Light Dragoon came In first today in the Cesarewitch luce', the second of the big autumn handicaps. Villager ran second and Ceylonez third. There wero thirtyone entries. The following odds were paid: Light Dragoon 100 to 1; Villager. 40 to 1; Ceylonez, 10 to 1.

REINSTRATORS RENEW PETIT! Broad Ripple Anti-Annexation-ists Seek to Resume Court Action. Harry Hendrickson, attorney representing the remonstrators fighting the annexation of Broad Ripple to Indianapolis. today filed a motion In Superior Court, Room 2, asking that the remonstrance, which was dismissed at his instigation on Oct. 4, be reinstated. Hendrickson, in his motion before the court, explained that his dismissal of the remonstrance resulted from a conference with a few of the antiannexationists hut that the action brought forth a volley of protests from other remonstrators who had not voiced their opinion. Judge H. O. Chamberlain explained that the remonstrance can be reinstated if sufficient evidence is shown at the hearing which will be held late today. Anti-annexationists are declaring that no benefit can be afforded Broad Ripple citizens by annexation. FIRE LOSS $300,000 Nearly 2,000,000 Feet of Lumber Goes Up in Smoke. By United Press ST. PAUL. Minn., Oct. 11.—Lumber valued at $300,000 was destroyed in a spectacular fire at the Twin City Hardwood. Lumber Company yards today. The fire started In creosoted shingles owned by the Transfer Lumber and Shingle Company of Tonawanda, N. Y., and stored here. Nearly 2.000.000 feet of lumber was destroyed.

TUTEWILER FACES 3 CHARGES

Uncover Clew in Murder Case

iy United prt ** / SOUTHAMPTON. England, Oct. s . f 11. —The White Star liner Homeric Is ••iistomat > sf.ir.-s liquors f-- Bltt!Sßsß*r*' 'tVgxjL. dde the American three-mile limit •t the united States Uoveminent<- jKfc, l fHH to seize (r.ii ic'i tering Its territorial ".il* e- with •‘jl de and then would bring her home. Jm I Lve always warned her not to ‘take S&W ’ with strangers. 'But, Mother, he U”"' is so good to me.’ she kept saying. VHA t W "Phyllis said the man had her call j m ‘Brother Bill.’ He took her to a cream parlors, to a restaurant !

John Bull By United Press SOUTHAMPTON. England. Oct. 11. —The White Star liner Homeric sailed for New York today with its customary stores of liquors for the use of passengers. The arrival of the Homeric inside the American three-mile limit will probably furnish the first test of the United States power to seize foreign vessels entering its territorial waters with liquor aboard.

ride and then would bring her home. “I asked Phyllis why she went —I have always warned her not to ‘take up’ with strangers. ’But, Mother, he was so good to me.’ she kept saying. "Phyllis said the man had her call Mm ’Brother Bill.’ He took her to ice cream parlors, to a restaurant and to a movie, before going back to the hote'. "Phyllis said she cried and said I would worry. The man pretended to telephone to mo and then went back and told Phyllis. “The next morning he bought breakfast, for her. put her on the train and told her her grandmother would meet her at the station. “Os course no one met her: so Phyllis, helped by some people who became Interested in her. called me. "Bhe isn’t a bit frightened—but, oh, I hope we find that man.” The mother said she was going to the school office to see whether Phyllis could not be transferred from School No. 28. six blocks from her ftoine, to school No. 39, one and a half blocks. Police today continued a search for the kidnaper. 3 PORTABLES OOT OF 1! ARE USED School Board Meeting Reveals Contracts Unfilled—No Heat Facilities. Only three of the ten portable school buildings purchased by the board of school commissioners are in use and none of these have heating equipment, it developed at the meeting of the hoard of the school commissioners last night. According to the contract of purchase the buildings were to be erected ready for occupancy In time for the opening of school last month. William Kurman of the Kurman Brick and Equipment Company, from whom the portables were purchased, appeared before the beard last night and asked permission to install furnaces other than those named in the specifications. Under questioning of W. D. Allison, board member, Kurman admitted that only three portables were In use and that only three more would be ready by the end of this week. He blamed the delay on the railroad strikes and “other delays.” School officials said that the past few days the temperature of the unheated portables has been far too low for the comfort of the pupils. INDIAN WILL SPEAK Rev. Cliief Red Fox Will Talk On Indians and Civilization. Rev. Chief Red Fox, of the Northern Blackfoot tribe, will speak Thursday night at the Second Presbyterian Church on "Indian Relation to Civilization.” Besides being an interpreter of American-Indian music and poetry, he is editor of The American Indian Magazine. He is a noted speaker. The Camp Fire Girls Guardians, the Soout masters of the Boy Scouts, public school teachers and others are especially invited. Flight is Delayed SAN DIEGO, Cal.. Oct. 11.—Weather conditions in the Middle West today prevented Lieutenants Macßeady and Kelly from starting their non-stop flight to the Atlantic coast. The men extract to start as soon as the storms abate. f

When New Brunswick. N. J., official exhausted all clews 111 the mysterious murder of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, his choir leader. Charlotte Mills, 16, (above) stirred local officials to action that uncovered fresh details. Raymond Schneider. 22. (below) In a statement Is said to have involved Clifford Hayes. 19, in the slaying of the two people. Hayes lias been arrested.

PAIR INDICTED LOR KIDNAPING Disponett and Locke Are Subjects of Grand Jury Returns. Kidnaping of Charles Bartlett of Beech Grove, an employe of the Big Four Railroad, on the night of Aug. 13 was charged In an indictment returned by the Marion County grand Jury today against Clyde Disponett, 12 S. Third St.; Charles Locke, 133 8. Fourth Ave.. and Fred Henson, 83 S. Fourth Ave. According to’Jackson Carter, prosecutor attached to the grand jury, evidence showed the defendants were members of a party of striking railroad men and sympathizers who forcibly abducted Bartlett. Three auto loads of men carried him a mile and a half into the country, and, forcing him to his knees, made him take an oath to quit his job. William Johnson, who shot and killed Lillian Stevenson Sept. 23 in a downtown store, was indicted for first degree murder. Johnson has been in jail since the killing. Twenty other indictments for lesser crimes were brought down by the jury, including one against William Bell for second degree murder, resulting from the death of Carl Addis caused by injury inflicted with an ice pick.

BABY MINE

Dreams Tomrtiy, When he was 4 years old, awakened the entire household about midnight with shriek after shriek. When we rushed to him to learn the trouble the wee lad confided between sobs that “A moo-tow tissed me, muther.” —E. G. H. Phonetics It was John’s first year in school, and spelling seemed to fascinate him, as lie was very anxious to learn to read. One day he asked the teacher. "How do you spell ‘purtnear?’ ” —L. G. Diseased My two little cousins are very nearly the same age and competition between them is pretty bitter at times. The other night at dinner one of them seemed to have an especially bad run of luck, for he dropped nearly everything he put his hands cn. Finally, In disgust, his brother asked him. "Gee, Bill, have you got the rheuniatickles ?"—H. L. J.

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COMMISSIONER CRASHES AUTO INTO TRUCK WHILE INTOXICATED, POLICE SAT Prominent County Official in Hospital Recovering From Injuries Received in Accident Here Last Night. POLICE SAY LIQUOR FOUND IN CAR Victim of Accident Is Candidate for Reelection to Board on Republican County Ticket.

Denies He Was Drunk; Did Not Possess Booze “I di<i not have even one drink of liquor,” Harry D. Tutewiler, county commissioner, declared today as he lay swathed in bandages at the city hospital. “I most certainly was not intoxicated. “They tell me the police found a bottle partly tilled with liquor in my automobile. It was not mine, and I did not know it was in the car. It must have been left there by a colored man I met at a ward meeting and who rode with me. I did not know his name.”

Harry D. Tutewiler, president of the Marion county board of commissioners, was under arrest at the City Hospital today, where he was recovering from injuries received last night when he drove his automobile into a truck in the 500 block on N. Senate Ave. Tutewiler was charged with operating a blind tiger, driving an automobile while under the influence of liquor and with being drunk. Conflicting stories are told of the* circumstances surrounding the accident. The police took to headquarters a quart bottle half full of whisky which they said they took from Tutewiler. Reports that there was more booze in the ear were denied. According to one man who witnessed the accident, two men who were ridng with Tutewiler jumped from the ear and ran Tutewiler was carried to a nearby store. One of his friends attempted to*take him away before the police arrived, but it was reported his condition was such he refused to move. When Bicycle Policemen Knodle and Lowe arrived he could do little more than tell his name, it was reported.

Face Badly Cut Tutewiler was cut about the face by broken glass and one of his ears was nearly torn off. The truck was owned by J. M. Pressley, 514 N. Benate Ave. The report of the accident was not made public by the police until just before noon. It 1s customary to give out reports from substations before 9 o'clock. The affair created a profound political stir bot hat the Courthouse and at the City Hall. Tutewiler is a candidate for re-election. Informal meetings were held by candidates at the Courthouse discussing the political result of the arrest. At the city hall there was talk of a movement to bring about the resignation of Tutewiler as a candidate. Tutewiler Is a leader in a faction of the Republican party opposed to the city hall faction. Friends of Tutewiler said they believed Tutewiler had been "framed” by his political enemies. Police, however, say they are sure Tutewiler was drunk. Tutewiler’s car, the police said, would be confiscated. The law provides Lr the confiscation of automobiles driven by persons found guilty of bootlegging. Made Rail Executive Bv United Press HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 11.—T. A. Hamilton, vice president and chief operating officer of the Frisco Lines, will become president of the reorganized International & Great Northern Railway. effective Dec. 1, It was announced today. Thief Gets Auto Tire A thief stole a wheel and tire off of an automobile owned by George Cloe, 1204t£ W. Market St., last night. The car was parked In the yard of his home.

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MARSHALL COAL Mission Harding's Fact-Finding Body to Meet in Washington in Ten Day 9. With the appointment of Thomas R. Marshall of Indianapolis, former Vice President of the United States, as one of the seven members of President Harding's fact-finding commission to investigate the twin coal industries, the commission has notified the President that they are ready to report at once. President Harding advised members of the commission to meet in Washington within the next ten days to roganlze. The three most important subjects outlined for consideration by the commission are over-development, the question of too many mines and miners, wage scales and the advisability of placing the coal mines under Government control. Other members of the commission are: John Hays Hammond, inventor and engineer, of Washington: Judga Samuel Alschuler. lawyer, of Chicago; Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution: George Otis Smith, director of the United States geological survey; Dr. Edward T. Devine, professor of sociology. New York City, and Charles P. Neill of Illinois, former commissioner of labor under President Roosevelt.

St min Hartsell had been told that unless he was good every day Santa Claus would overlook him at Christmas. For every day that he was bad the old saint would subtract one gift from his list. Naturally the boy was a model of good behavior, but about three days before the holiday the strain became pretty heavy. ' Mother, he wanted to know,” how many more days do I have to use up before Christmas?” —M. R. H. Grown Up We celebrated our grandson’s fourth birthday last week and in the afternoon I took him to the park. Crossing the road for autos, I took his hand and said, “You can’t cross these roads unless you take hold of grandma's hand.” He said. "Grandma, didn't you l-now I am 4 years old today?”—C. t. r