Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1922 — Page 1

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IAW !S SELECTED LUDEICP PARTY; CALLSONGEORGE New Premier's Next Step Wili Be to Suggest End of Parliament. EARLY TEST OF STRENGTH Plans Made for Ratification of Irish Treaty Shortly Aster Eiection. By United Press LONDON. Oct. 23.—Bonar Uw was unanlmously elected leader of thè Unionista at a meeting of that party in thè Cec.l Hotel t>vlay. Immediatelv Sonar Dan- is expacted to cali upon King George. Hls majesty will be formally notified by Bonar Law that he is in thè pofition to forni a government. Bonar Uw will then announce to thè King fthe names of thè cabinet members are to succeed thè coaliti* emment of Lloyd George. To Dissolve Parliament The next stop of thè incoming head of thè British government is to advise thè King to dissolve Parliament. It is believed that thè generili elee tions —wbich will be thè reai test of strength between Lloyd George and Bonar Law —will he held on Nov. 15. This would permit thè organization of a new Parliament by Dee. 6. thè date for thè ratitìcation of thè Irish Free State treaty. The iniention of Lloyd George to stump thè country in defense of hls policies and agalnst thè new government was seen today in thè announeement that he will start a speaking trip extending from South Wales to Scotlana next week-end.

LEAVES DOWNÌNG ST. Retiring Premier Will Recmiunend CoDeagues for Honors. By Uniteli Pret LONDON. Oct. £3.—Mrs. Lloyd George went house huntlng today as her husband was packing up at 10 Downing St., where they have lived for thè last six years. It was antiounced that thè furtnor premier wiii lease a furn.shed town house for three months. This is taken to indicate that Lloyd George expeets to be back “home" In Downing St. by that timo. In keeyìDg with traditioc, thè re- . tirtng premier has made up a llst of Istatesmen he will ask thè Crown to ~ honor. It ls understood that Lloyd George will recommend an earldom for Lord Blrkenhead and a dukedom for Lord Curzon. two of thè most promlnent In thè outgolng cabinet.

SOBMUHE LESI; FEftRSFORCREW Trace of French Vesse! With Twenty-Three on Board Missing Since Friday. Bw Unltr4 Pre*s PARIS, Oct. 23. —Grave fears were expressed today for thè safety of thè French submarine boat, Roland Morillet, 270 tons, carrying a crew of twenty-three. The submarine, returning from thè Xear Kast, was last seen off Brest Friday. It was feared that thè Morillet may have been wrecked or foreed out on thè high sena by a storni. DETOUR ADVISED | Kentucky Ave. Rnute t .Mariin>ville " Block ed at Kagle Creek. Motorista headed for Mooresville and Martin ville or points south on State road 22 are advised by thè Hoosler Motor Club to avoid going out thè usuai Kentucky Ave. routa. on account of construetlon work that tdooks thè road at thè Eagle Creek bridge. The motor club etates that by going out W. Washington St. to thè forks of thè National and Rockville roads, tuming under thè rallroad elevation and swinglng sharply to thè left. a fine road wlll he sound leadlng òirectly south into Maywoml, where thè Kentucky Ave. road joins up. Tncomlng motorlsts are advised to come direetly north from Maywood lnto Washington St. DEFERS OWL CASE Service Commlssion Wlll llear Car Co. Petitlon Tuesday. The hearing before thè public Service commlssion in thè case of thè In* dianapolis Street Railwav Company, asking for authoritv to Increase its fare on ovvi car from 5 cents to 10 ceats, has been postponed from Tuesday until Wednesday, it was announced today.

THE WEATHER

Raln has fallen In a broad belt from k thè Great Lakes to thè West Gulf ¥ States since Sunclay morning. Moderate temperature prevali in Eastern States, but colder vveather this morning cover thè reginn from thè Great Lakes southwestward. New Orleans reported thf maximum temperature of 7" degrees while thè minimum of 32 degrees was recorded at Dodge City, Kans. HOUKLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 47 10 a. m 47 T a. m 48 11 a. m 48 • a. m 47 12 (noon) ...... 49 b a. m*....... 47 1 p. m........ 61

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TOM BIMS SA V 8: | Our advice to Thanksgiving turkeys is, “Cali a hunger strike.” Beveridge says he is ' ' outspoken. We can’t EÌ {z? imagine who did it. P The head of many a SIMS house is less than ten years old. You often see two men calling each other ìlars and both of them telling thè truth. We can’t imagine where thè exkaiser will go for his honeymoon. “How will men look in thè future?” asks a writer. It pii depends on how thè women dress. The frost is on thè pumpkin and thè fodder’s in thè shock and thè corn is in thè jug. A little loving now and then is lelished by thè best of men. Grasshopper glands might be a great help to football players. Our objection to seeing a woman kiss a dog ls we llke dogs. Girls who wear what they choose eeldom choose enough. In Maine. a bride of three weeks wants a divorce. She claims she had been hugging a deluslon. Chorus girl? get $50,000 for broken hearts and an Ohio man only got SSOO for a broken leg. Leading a doublé lise gets you tlirough just twioe as quick. Horseshoe pitching is returnlng because it is cheap. All you need is two -noes and a few chews.

COIIRTUPHOLDS OAUGHERTYRULE AGAINST LIQUOR Federai Judge Denies Foreign Ship Owners’ Plea, for Injunction. NEW YORK, Oct. 23—Federai Judge Learned Hand today handed down a decision in which he upheld ilio Daugherty arder agalnst liquor carrylng by ships enterlng American ports. The court dismissed thè pet'tion of steamship companies which sought an injunction. Judge Hand, however. did issue an injunction against Federai interference with carrying of liquor supplies for rationing among thè crews. Btmd for Bonze Kations He stated that thè owners of ships must give $25,000 bond to guarantee that liquor rations on castbound voyages are not used for any other purpose. The steamship companies announced they would appeal thè case to thè United States Supreme Court. BECOMES EFFECTIVE Proliibition Bureau Says Daugherty Onici Will Be Enforced. P.y Unitili Per** WASHINGTON. Oct. 23. The Daugherty rullng banning liquor from American ships throughout thè world and preventlng foreign ships from bringing it into American terrltory. now will be put into “full force and effect,” it was announced at thè prohibition bureau today upon receipt of word from New York that Judge Learned Hand had denied thè request of steamship companies for a permar.ent injunction.

GREAT CON-TEST DUD Pistol, Rubles, Even Ivan, Flivver

The unfortunate episode of thè er-apped garter which has reinoved Adam Phalk from thè fleld of hls CON-test endeavors, accompanled by Miss Abigail Applesauce and thè rubber bungalow, is only one of a series of tragedie which have suddenly occurred to mar ari enterprise so auspiciously begun. Ivan thè Terriblo automobile, who was to have been thè other capitai prize now appears to have rattled his death rattle. Ile explred without thè solicitude of any sympathetlc friend cr fond CON-testant because thè rattle had long been his characteristic manner of speech and nothing unusual was suspected as he dled. It was thè great race which he lost to Henry Direct, Lew Shank’s raceas told in Friday'a CON-test sto'-y, which cost Ivan his lise. Taken back to thè junk yard in a Back, he could not he put togetlier again today. There were a bushel of parts left over aster he w'hs ussembled. The medianica shook iiim vigorously all <iay long, but tliey listened In vain for thè merry tick-tick-tick which for r.early twenty years had been thè signal of Ivan’s vltallty. We have removed thè rake from thè corpse—thè rake which gave hlm that raklsh effect as it projected from thè apare tires at thè stern. I*istol Boomerang The automatic pistol for thè children also has played us false. Messrs. Lowd and Noyes, thè clrculation snatchera who framed thls CON-test, tried out thè pistol thls morning, they being famous sharp-shooters of journalism. What was their dismay when thè automatic pistol, thè chiidren’s capitai prize, W’as sound to he a boomerang pistol, niade for exportation to Australia where thè native of Adelaide and Brisbane have becomo modemized and are no longer content with hand boomerang with which to hunt thè elusive frijole. that man-

MASOISWILLLAY CGRNERSTONEOF imm gì Parade of All Members of thè Order in Bartholomew County to Precede Ceremonies. By Timr Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Oct. 23.—A1l thè Masonic lodges in Bartholomew County will take part In thè ceremonies attending thè laying of thè cornerstone of thè new Columbus High School gymnasium on Armistice Day. Robert W. Phillips of Richmond, Grand Master of thè Grand Lodge of Indiana, will conduct thè corner storie laying. A parade will precede tlie ceremonies, it will be headed by thè band from thè Indiana Masonic Home at Franklin. Students will represent various activities In connection with thè Columbus schools. A copper box will be sealed in thè corner stono which will contali* coples of current newspapers, thè names of all Masons in Bartholomew Coupty, thè names of all teachers and students of tlie schools and colns dated 1522.

BORAR PREDICTS VICTORY 111 FIGHT FOR PRINRIRY LAW Idaho Senator May Turn Tables on Republicans Who Said He Would Be Ousted. Copyrifjht. 1922. by United Preti WASHINGTON. Oc t 23.—Vlctory over thè organlzed opposition of Republican party “regulars” wis predlcted today by Senator Borah, Idaho, who is in his home State flghting for restoratlon of primary, knockeil out by thè G. O. P. organization aster Borah s last eiection to thè Senate. Instead of being foi-ced out of thè Republican party by thè hostility of thè regu’.ar organization in Idaho. fiorali (tee- red in a telegram to thè United Press, sent from his home In Boise, that “thè forcing out will be thè other way.” That la. lf any one Ss ousted from Republican ranks, it -.vili be thè State commltteemen who are flghting Borah. WOLVES! Reai Live Ones? By United Prete WARSAW, Ind., Oct. 23.—T.-rror-izi-d by appt-arance of a pack of wolves. drlven from a swamp near hero by Are early today, farmers kept their childron indoors. while others, hearing loaded ribes and sholguns, accompanled their youngsters to school. Drlvers of school liacks also were ! armed with shotguns. When Boy T- .-plc went to a fleld at ! thè edgo of thè swamp to dig potatoes, a large hound accompanying him was kilU-d bv six wolves. Catti, sheep and hogs recently have heen attncked by wolves. FamlUes wero organlzlng for a wolf hunt. In which several hundred persona will partici paté. Go to Brownstown Members of thè public servico commission loft today for Brownstown to !> argomenta of thè Brownstown Water and Light Company for authorlty to increate its ratea.

eating Australian bird which ahvays fiies sldeways and thrives by picking thè pockets of thè rnother kangaroos. The flrst shot from thè pistol looped out around thè fairground and returned down Meridian at., disregarding trafile signal, made several lefthand turns and plumped lnto thè hip pocket of Mr. Hall R. Lowd with serious consequences to certain property contained thereln at that tirile. As for thè washing machine, we aro afrald that this devlce also has sound defects. Our CON-test managers used it last Saturday night in connection with certain week-end rites and they reported that thè vegetatile fibre is sprouting. Produce Coma "I do not know what klnd of vegetable this vegetable fibre Is made from,” Mr. Hall R. Lowd sald. “But I have a strong suspicion. At any rate, since I upplied it to my back I have sprouted several corna.” Thls wouid seem to eliminate thè wasliing machine also. As to thè rubles we are in a dreadful predicament whicii wlll arouse thè sympathies of our CON-test salesmen. For since we purchased these nix million rubles to he given as prizes they have dropped in value so swiftly that we were compelled to burn them last night to avoid going in debt. Our aocountant said that if we did not destroy thè rubles or otherwise get them off our hands at once we wouid soon owe ourselvos money. So onda thè gTeat Times Clrculation CON-test. Adam Phaik and Abigail Applesauce are gone. The rubber bungalow has snapped off. The pistol shoots curvcs, thè vegetable fiber washing machine grows corna where it liadnit ought to, and thè rubles treacherously tried to ruin us financially. This is thè end. But one word more. The Times will not falter in its obligation to keep faith with thè miliions of hardworking CpN-testants. Their chances to wln are thè same as always.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, OCT. 23, 1922

Elemental By United Prese NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Augustus Thomas, playwrìglit, turned on a cold water faucet last night to get .he flrst ingredient for a high ball, “he water was hot. Investigation. 'ire in thè basement.

OFFICERS PROBE FIFE HOLD-UPS OVER WEEK-END Bandits Use Similar Tactics in Robberies—Booty Obtained ls Striali. Ilold-up men were busy in thè vlcinlty of Indianapolis last night, according to reports of police today. The bandits used similar tactics In three robberies. Louis Weedling, 3121 N. California St., and George Kemp, 1250 W. Twenty Slxth St.. were held up while driving towaid thè city over thè Rockvllle Road by Ave young men. All thè bandits brandished reyolvers. Aster searehirig their victims. thè voung sters departed wlthout having ohtnined anything. They overlooked sl3 in Weedllng’s pocket. Raymond Drake, 1234 N. Illinois St., was held up on thè Noblesvilìe Road and relieved of $8 In cash, a raincoat valued at $25 and a pocket knife. Miss Nellie Hubbard, who was with him, was robbed of two rlngs and a watch. A man who declino*! to give hls nome told Police Cnptain Itoy Pope that three men held him up on thè Speedway Uoaii Satunlay night and toolt $22.

DEMOCRATSOPEN FDRENSIC FIRE 01WIBF FRONT Marion County Speakers Ho ( d Series of Noon Meetings at Indianapolis Factories. Contracy to an announcement ear lier in thè eampaign that there would be few public meeting, Demoirats of Marion County swung into ti brisk, wirtespn ad barrage today. Joseph P. Tmk, nomine for Congres;, spoke at Kingan & Co.; Jack son and Ifowc Lunders at thè United Stnt'-s Caustlc Tile Works - Srnlley Ghambers and W. D. Hedricl; al thè Diamond Chain factory; Euri Cox ut thè Zenit Metal Company plant and James Ennston and Richard Coleman at thè Ford Motor plant. A big rally will be held in Willard Park Tuesday night, with Senator T. H. Cara way of Arkansas. Turk and Hedrick as speakers. Other meetings will be held at Bates and Shelby Sts., with George T. Davis of Kentucky, Chambeis ami Gld* on Binine ns speakers, and in Cumberland with Frederick Yan Nuys, Richard Coleman, Clarone R. Weir and Miss Hazel Fes ler on thè program. Wednesday night there will ho rallies at Seventoenth St., and Roosevelt Ave., Miley Ave., and New York St., and at tho school house in Clermont. Samuel M. Ralston, nomine for United States Senator, will make hls only speech In Marion County at Tomlinson Hall, Saturday evening. James M. Cox, nomine for President in 1020 also will peak. Thomas Taggart will be temporary chairman and Merodlth Nicholson permane nt chairman. Several delegatlons from outlying distrlcts will parado to thè hall. Negros Will Meet Negro Republican voters will hold tl.cir prlncipal rally of tho eampaign at thè Indiana Theater next Monday righi. , Henry Lincoln Johnson, IteI>ublican national committeeman of Georgia, thè Rev. Charles Sumner Williams and Judge Arthur R. Robinson wili speak. Johnson will he taken on a motor tour of thè city in thè aftemoon. A banquet for tho speakers and all negro Republican precinct commuto* women and commltteemen will be given at tho 1 Liminomi restaurant, Michigan St. and Indiana Avo., bofcro tho night meeting. Clinton H. Givan made a Republican speech at thè Kahn Talloring Company at noon today. Itosallnd English Parsons spoke at thè Progress Laundry and Mrs. M. B. Spellrnan at thè Fame laundry. Congressman Merrill Moores will peak at thè Twelfth Word Republican Club, 923 H. Merldlan St., tonight. With him will appear Judge Sidney S. Miller, Walter Prltchard and Mrs. Parsons. Judge Jame A. Collins, William P, Evans, Mrs. Spol’man and tho Rev. H. P. Parker will talk af Fird ward Republican headquarters, Rural St. and Itoosovelt Avo., this evening. Tuesday evening there will he Ropublican meetings as follows: P'ranklin McCray, to employes of thè Malleable Casting and Link Belt Companies; Miller and Collins, at Kingan & Co., and Thomas M. Daily, at thè Van Camp Hardware Company.

Suspect By Vnitnl Prosit NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—A man who said he was thè “torch maniac,” who set lire to a Lexington Ave. apartment house nad caused forni- n deaths early Sunday, was under arrest at Bayonne, N. J., today. New York police were inforni ed. Aster thè “confession” thè man. who described himself as an “Albert F. Molnar,” changed his mimi and denied he had any knowledge of thè origin of thè Are.

STREET CARS CRASH; 9 HURT

Eiglit-Year-Old Is Mental Prodigy

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By MBA Service LOS ANGELES. Oct. 23 —Elizabeth Benson, aged 8 years by family birth register, 18 by accn dited meritai Usta smolhered h>-r : hort sklrt and m>'.ld<-d hes hc-ud gravely. “I agree with I’i-of Lothroj) Stod-dai-d." she i- plied to a questton “Parentage has everything to do with thè offsprlng's montai cnliber Environ ment has little to do with it. The cnvironmentaliats have been proved wrong" Elizabeth is ilio daughter of Willie Rciim,.' Benson former editor of a Ft. Worth, Texas, newspaper Her mother writ-s under thè mime of

COMRADES MEET Recognizes Voice Aster 22 Years

Twenty-tvvn years ayo in South Africa Alfred E Evans, 4407 E Washington St. and Gapt. “Jack" Applcby fcvght th** Boer together in thè Lancashlra Fuslliers, thè regi ment ivblch hai* won more decoration than any unlt of tho British army. That was thè last Captaln Jack over saw of Evans, but not tho last timo ho heard liis voice. Sun Jay Evans was a momber of thè reception committeo of thè State department of thè American Leglon which went to Green* asti*- to meet th special train of delegate from tiio convention of tho Federatlon International (!>■ Anolene Goinbatants at New Orleans on their way to in(Munapolis. On thè train was Captain Jack, a rnember of thè British Fida*: delegatimi. Not tho old Cantalo Jack. Not tho dashin’, fightin’ Captain Jack, but a new Captain Jack, whose tlghtlng day are gono forever. For Captain Jack can not see. He was blinde*! in thè* seeond battio of Ypres in th< World War. Blinde*! and wounded twenty-soven timós liy Gcrman ma chine gun bullets.

Rifili TO CHECK REGISTRATI!) Walker Says He Does Not Anticipate Any Frautl. The check of registratimi in negro ; precincts, nonnally heavily Repub- | llcan, to determin If there is evidence of fraud, was to he started this after* noon if County Auditor Leo IC. Fesler wouid pormtt scrutlny of reglstration appllcatlons, Democ.ratlo County Chuirman Russell J. Ryan announced. Ryan trlod to see tlio appllcatlons last week but Fesler refused to let him have accesa to them, according to Ryan. “We'ra not going to check up on Democrats,” said Joim F. Walker, in charge of reglstration for thè Republlcan county committee. “We don’t anticipate that anybody has tried or will attempt fraud. 'Them days are gone forever.’ ” “We have, however, carefully analyzed thè reglstration for a basis upon which to work tlie rest of thè campaign. HOLDS UP REPORT Servare Body Expects More Data on Williamsport \Vrack. j The report of thè public Service ■ commlssion on thè recent Williams- ! port traiti wreck in which three perI sona were killed, will not he made ì public until thè commlssion reeoives \ some data from thè superintendent of tlie Wabash road, it was said today. Members of thè railway inspection department of thè commission who viewed thè wreck, said today that thè engine was 106 feet where it left thè rails.

! Anne Austin. Elizabeth aspires to | write, too. The child sees no re-i son to lie vai in sfarting to school at 4, fimi th*-n skipplng two grades. “Study simply conies easy.” she explains “I ready enjoy arlthmetic. 1 Mike Fieneh. I love to read.” Elizab-th l'eads Edgar Alluri Poe with *••• -h but th<re ls nothlng morbi c* nbout he: - She is jolly and plump. Just a student? Elizabeth is proud sha .-li. is <is good a cook and housewife as she is a sgholar She boasts ! of her muffins with tho pardonable prilli- of any good housewlfe. | And as to doli — “They ha ven i Interested in* since i I was 3 years old,” aver EHzubMh.

But Capt. Jack stili has ear, and when he heard tho voice of his comrado Evans greeting him on tlie train at Oreencastle ho instantly recognized it. In tho flood of explanation which followed thè veterana discovered they had fought in Tour of tiio sanie major engagemerits of thè lato war, some time only a few miles distant from each other. Captain Jack’s daughter. a beautiful girl of 20, is traveilng with him. In tho delegation of twenty-four lidac notables. Capt. Jack was thè outstanding lier*>. He had been in thè British Army contiliuously from 1904, when he re-enlisted, until totally *’';- alile* 1 at Ypres. Ho had fought under thè British flag on thè Turkish frontior in 1905 and 190 Rat Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt and India. He was thè tìrst offlcer to organizer snlpers on thè British front in thè last war and cut dally casualties in his dlvislon from 300 to €O. He was promoted to captain on thè fleld for conspicuous sei-vice. Since thè war he has done notuhle work in orgamzing British ex Service men.

FIRE! Letters Burned i Some unknowlng guest at thè | Hotel Sevorin last night walked to ! thè elevator, pressed thè button and | stepped back to watt for thè car. | Ilavlng finlshed smoking a cigarette I thè visitor began to look about for a j proper repository. Cuspldors are noe | provided but - large urn-llke contriv- ! ance filled with fine sand are substìtuted. The guest, undoubtedly unfamiliar with modern hotels, cast his eye in thè direction of thè rnail chute and deelded it was an incinerator and deposlted thè stub in it. A few minutes later thè cali of lire was heard in thè lobby and a postonico employe was caJ'.ed to open thè mali box from which smoke was issuing. Six letters were practically destroyed. CUT BY GLASS Broken Transom Fall on Head of Harry Wolislfer. Harry Wolisifer, 34, of 2118% E. Tenth St.. a truck driver for thè Indianapolis Hido and Leather Company, 227 S. Meridian St., suffered severe lnjuries abou* thè head today v/hen glass from a broken transom soli upon him.

Expenses By I nitrii Prosit NEW DURHAM. N. J„ Oct. 23. —Anna Feitzen. 14, dressed in boy’s clothes, was arrested yesterday in a ìaid on a craps game here. Slie told thè police slie played every Sunday and usually “made expenses.”

Kutefeq as Seeond class Mattel ai l’ostoftice. Icdianapolia Publtshed Daily Kxcept Sunday

ILLiiIS il tismn CORNER COLLISION SCENE' IT MIN! KH TIME . West Washington Car Plows Into Rear End of West Tenth Carrier in thè Center of City. DEFECTIVE BRAKES GIVEN AS CAUSE Wreck Makes Bloekade, Disrupting Trafile Movement Toward Downtown District —Passengers Piled Up in Aisles. Nine persons were injured wlien a West Westington Street car era.shed into thè rear of a West Tenth Street car at Washington and Illinois Sts. at 6:30 o’clock o’clock this morning. The cars were partly demolished. Passengers were hurled from their seats and piled up in thè aisles. The injured : llomer Dunlap, 40, of 2411 Corner Ave., leg sprained and bruised, head cut by broken glass. Taken home in ambulante. Frank Roberts, 1102 N. Warman Ave., hands cut. Miss Yina ('rocker, 575 N. Lynn St., left ankle badly sprained and nervous shock. Taken home in ambulance. John Noe, 2710 W. Tenth St., back and head injured. Luther Robinson, 527 E. Xorth St., head cut and bruised. Andy Permoary, 53, of 568 W. Michigan St., left side injured. Taken home in ambulance. Albert Roberts, 527 W. North St., head bruised and cut. Ilarry Johnson, 1135 W. Washington St., hip and knee injured. \\ iilium Gilluni, 30 of 1209 Finley Ave., conductor on thè West Tenth Street car, bruised. Says Erakes Failed Lowell MeMullen, 727 Arnola Ave., motorman of thè West Washington Street car. said thè car was not going more than five miJes an hour and that thè brakes failed to work. Some of thè passengers on that car said MeMullen did not apply thè brakes. I h*' registers showed seventy-eight passengers paid fares on thè Washington St. car and seventy-two paid fares on thè Tenth St. car. Many of these passengers Avere standing in thè aisles and were throivn to thè fioor. Ilio lenth St. car was standing stili and passengers were getting off when thè other car crashed into it. Both cars were east hound on Washington St. The wreck for a time caused a bloekade of Street cars when many persons were attempting to reach thè downtoAvn district to go to work.

SHAI PROPOSE!! TO CUT DOWN ON ABRESTS IN CITY Too Many Persons Being Held for Minor Offenses, Mayor Cla-ims. Too many persons are being arrested in Indianapolis and too many poor citizens taken into custody for minor misdemeanors are having to lie all night in jail or pay $25 to SSO to a professional bondsman, declared Mayor Shank today. As a remedy thè mayor said he was thinlring of having a police captain assigned to headquarters to intervJew all prisoners and thè police who arrest them to thè end that those who are charged with unimportant offenses and aro of good reputation may be released on thei rown reeognizance to report in police court thè next day. “I don’t know what our jurìsdictlon it. My pian might confiict with thè 1 ower of thè city judge,” said thè mayor. “I'm going to have thè corporation counsel give me an opinion on that. “If there’s any way I can do it I'm going to stop this business of malting so many arresta. Why, we’ll have arrested 25.000 people before thè year is out if we keep this up. I’vo looked up record of other cities and we’re 25 per cent ahead of them on numfoer of arresta. If this keeps on there is going to bo a big howl for another police court, hat will mean $15,000 or $20,000 more taxes far thè people to pay. Besides I have a faint recoilection that in almost every speech I made before thè electlon last year I promised there wouid not be so many arrests made.” One of thè mayor’s pre-election promises was that he wouid give a medal to thè policeman who kept hls district thè cleanest, but made thè fewest arrests. WILL WED NOV. 1 The marriage of Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith to Emma Elizabeth Roth, a clerk in thè general’s office at thè Statehouse, will take placo at thè First Baptist Church at 3 p. m. Nov. 1, it was annouced today. * * Agcnts Appointed Tlie appointments of Bernard Kuba! and Eugene Parenti, both of East Chicago, as warehouse agents at thè p’.ant of thè Hammond Distilling Company, Hammond, were announced today by M. Bert Thurman, collii or of internai revenue. *

Forecast Fair and colder tonight and Tuesday. Probably frost.

TWO CEXTS

Caby Mine t iTdTdn’t get MY~ FAULTSH FPOM POP 'CAUSE MAW fSAYS ME SULL HAS EH S 3 - -— _ ■ ■—■ *>- —— Ut rourge *our baby has gaid or don* •omething just uà Irver aa thoae rrportrd io th.s rolumn. Writc it on a contenni and send It to thè Baby Mine Editor of The Times and sbare Tour chuckiee with thè reat. Politing Jean passed her piate with a xnoat respectful request at a timo when thè relative politeness of son and daughter had been thè table discussion. "Don’t you bear me politing, daddy?” she asked. —F. B. M. Chickens or Childrell Mary Catherine takes a gravt Interest in all our neighbors. Recently a newly married couple moved into a bungalow near us and a few days later Mary Catherine carne running into thè house and said: "Oh, rnother, tlie Johnspns are eitjher going to bave chickens or children. Mr. Johnson is building a fence all around their new house.” —M. C. He Ivnotvs Himself Dale was sent by his rnother to a nearby grocery store. Aster making his purchase he loitered about thè store. Upon being questioned why he did not depart, he replied that a policeman was standing outside thè store. “Weìi,” said thè storekeeper, ”policemen do not harm good little bc ys.” To which Dale replied: “H’m, that’a just thè trouble.”—A. M. S. Papa’s Extravagant Donald, with his tw r o small brothers and father and rnother, attended church for thè flrst time, his previous attendance having been at Sunday school only. He was dutifully attentive. When thè collection was taken father placed thè family s weekly offri ing in thè piate. The pew was a short one and no other contribution was received from it. Evidently thls aroused Donald's CUriosity, who whispered: “Pa, did you have to pay for thè whole rowlj’— M. F. •