Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1922 — Page 1

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IiLEMENGEAU UNDER HEAVY POLICEGUARD Drastic Precautions Taken as Letters Threatening Lise Are Received. TIGER IS UNCONCERNED St. Louis Hails Frenchman With Uproarious Welcome, Despite Concern. B>i United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dee. 2. .borate preeautions to prntect fonner Premier Georges Clemeneeau of Franee nere taken throughout St. Louis today as thè city hailed thè Tiger. More than a thousand police and troops patrolled streets along thè route of thè parade which escorted thè French statesman, from thè Pulitzer home at Clayton to thè Odeon, where he delivered his fourth formai American address. Uproarious welcome, restrained throughout thè first day of Clemenceau's visit because he requested a day off, was turned loose with ali of thè city’s traditional enthusiasm behind it, despite threats against thè Tiger. More Threatening Lettere More threatening letters, one giving thè impression it carne from an organIzatlon resembling an attack on thè late Theodore Roosevelt, caused thè committee of welcome to take thè most drastic steps of precaution. All night long patrols of police, armed with sawed-off shotguns, paced thè lawns beneath thè Tiger’s window. Early today, as preparations for thè long parade which escorted Clemenceau to thè Odeon got under way, every one who approaehed thè Pulitzer residence was closely questioned.. An escori of mounted police arrived before dawn. All this made little differente to thè Tiger. Having postponed prepara- . ns of what he feels may prove hie (. st important address untll thè last ! moment, he wrote his notes and piamoci thè last pica for world peace ; and Franee he will malte this week.

FIRE WIPES QUI IEGROSEGTIOI North Carolina Town Swept by Million-Dollar Blaze. bu United Press NEWBERN, N. C„ Dee. 2.—Four liundred families here were homeless today as authorities started an investigation of thè tire which yesterday caused damage estimated at more than a million dollars. Tl.e sire started in thè lumber mill of thè John L. Roper Lumber Company and spread rapidly, fanned by high winds. Practically thè entire negro section of thè city was wiped out and more than a hundred white families were also made homeless by thè conflagration. AGAIN QUESTION WOMAN IN ALERT HOLD-UP CASE | Detective Seek Whereabouts of §20,000 in Bonds. Detectives today again questioned Mrs. Mamie Isley, held in connection with thè operations of a gang of alleged bandits. The police were seeking to determino what had been done with $20,000 in bonds stolen from thè Alert State Bank. Detectives Mullin, McMurtry and McGlenn and F. J. Miller of thè Pinkerton Detective Agency will go to Oreensburg Monday to testifv before thè grand jury concerning thè Alert hank robbery. AUTO STRIKES MAN W&yne Starks, 1324 E. Minnesota St., suffered cuts and bruises about thè legs and body today when an automobile beside which he was standing while putting air in a tire, was struck by a car driven by Mrs. Bessie Earhart, 3369 X. Illinois St. No arresta were made.

THE WEATHER

Colder weather centers on thè Great Lakes region and thè Mississippi Valley. while higher temperatures are advancing from ihe Canadian Northwest southward to thè middle Roeky Mountains. Rains and snows have fallen over { eh of thè region west of thè divide arM rains in a belt from Arkansas tc thè Alleghenies and thence northeastward to New England. The lowest temperature this morning was 24 degrees. reported at Bis mnrek. X. D.; Dodge City. Kan., and St. Paul. Minn. The maximum temperature was 70 degrees at San Antonio. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 35 10 a. m.. 39 7 a. m. 36 11 a. m 41 8 a. m........ 36 12 (noon) 46 • a. m.... 38 1 p. in........ 48

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Millionaire 111 JOHN WANAMAKER Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, Dee. 2.—“There was no perceptible change in thè condition of John Wanamaker durthe night,” his physicians announced early today in a bulletin from thè aged merchant’s bedside. Wanamaker was taken ili about two months ago while staying at his summer estate near Jenkintown and was brought to his home here to be nearer medicai attention. Though his malady is diagnosed as a cold, his advanced age and its long duration made his illness serious. U7S. TfIIfILSSET FOR HEXT MONTH Federai Grand Jury Will Make Report Before Christmas. Trial of criminal cases in Federai Court will begin about thè middle ot January, Homer Elliott, United States district attorney, said today. The grand jury, which has been in session since Nov. 8, will make its report to Judge Albert B. Anderson a few days before Christmas, he said. Investigation of liquor law violations in Lake County will occupy thè attention of thè grand Jury aster Dee. 8. Federai officiala said that about 150 residente of Gary and vicinity have been subpoenaed and it is believed that it will take a week or more to examine them.

UT POSTPONE BAUEHERTYCASE Impeachment Proceedings to Have Started Monday. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dee. 2.—Hearings in thè impeachment proceedings brought against Attorney General Daugherty by Representative Kellar, Minnesota. Republican. may no postponed indeflnitely, it was indleated today by chairman Volstead, Minnesota, of thè House Judiciary Committee. The hearings were to have started Monday, but Kellar in a communication making fourteen charges against thè Attorney General, has informed thè committee he needs more rime to prepare his case. These fourteen counts presented by Keller include: 1. Daugherty's alleged failure to prosecute war frauds. 2. His appointment of William J. Burns as chief of thè United States Bureau of Investigation. 3. His "continuing submiesion to thè influence of corporations and individuals of great wealth and power in thè administration of justice and thè deliberate conniving at thè looting of thè Tcapot Dome oil leases in Wyoming.” 4 The issuance of thè Chicago injunction against thè striking railroad shopmen. 5. The alleged failure to prosecute twenty-three anti-trust cases urged by thè Federai trade commlssion. Other counts include thè dlsmissal of MaJ. O. O. Watts, who had been engaged in investigatir.g war fraud cases; alleged failure to enforce thè safety laws. and alleged illegai acts In connection with thè Charles E. Morse case.

Censorship Job Easy for Cops As relays of cops visiting thè Broadway Theater as censors have sound nothing objectionable except thè occasionai use of "hell” and ‘ - damn," Mayor Shank today said he was not going to pay any further attention to complaints of thè, church federation that thè burlesque shows are immorsi unless federatlon officiate will file affidavits. “If they’ll do that we'U make arrests. Otherwise we won’t,” said Shank. PONZI NOT GUILTY OF LARCENY CHARGE “Bushel Basket Mlllionaire” Acts as Own Counsd at Trial. Bji United Press BOSTON, Dee. 2.—Charles Ponzi, “bushel basket mlllionaire,” was sound not guilty in Superlor Court here last midnight of charges of larceny and conspiracy to steal. Ten indietments charging larceny stili stand against thè dapper little man who acted as his own counsel In thè trial just ended. Attorney Gen eial Weston refused to say whether thè counts will be pressed. Reports Tires Stolen The Noble vulcanizing shop. 1340 X. Capitol Ave., was entered through a rear window last night and tires valued at $75 taken, Fred Isenhower, manager, told thè police today.

BOARO PROCEEDS WITH PLANS FDR NEMILDIS School Commissioners Order Contracts Made With Architects. Auditoriums Provided High School for Colored Pupils Again Discussed. Architects will be instructed to proceed with plans for new buildings and addltions at eight public schools at thè meeting of thè board of school commissioners Tuesday. This was made certain last night wnen thè board, meeting as a committee on buildings and grounds, decided to recommend that Walter J. Twiname, business director be instructed to enter into contracts with thè architects at thè next meeting of thè board. The action marked another step toward relieving thè serious overcrowding now existing in thè city schools. In addition to thè eight buildings, thè board also decided to recommend thè construction of a new shop building and thè Installation of a satisfactory hearing System at School No. 36. To carry out this program will require $1,788,000, according to estlmates submitled by Jacob H. Hilkene, lnspector of construction. It was decided to provide an auditorium in eaeh building, at a total cost of SIBO,OOO. This action was opposed by Charles L. Barry, president of thè board, on thè ground that thè flnancial condition of thè school city was not such as to Justify thè expenditure. Legai Rigiri Indicatlons are that thè colored Tiigh school will be built on thè old Marion County workhouse site. Northwestern Ave. and Twenty-First St. The possibillty of converting School No. 17, West and Eleventh Sts., Into a colored high school was considered, but E. U. Oraff, superinlendent of schools. said thè school was nceded for Its present purposes. Schools for which architects will be instructed to draw plans at thè next meeting of thè board are: No. 58, Winter and Bioyd Ave., eight rooms: No. 30, College Ave. and TwentyFirst St., ten rooms; No. 76, College Ave. and Thirtieth St., sixteen rooms: No. 70, Central Ave. and Forty-Sixth St., eight rooms; No. 75, Beile Vieti PI. and Fourteenth St.. twelve rooms; No. 62, Wallace and E. Tenth St., ten rooms; No. 67, Rochester and Walnut Sts., ten rooms. and No. 23, Missouri and Thirteenth Sts., four rooms.

50 REPORTED KILLED IN SMYRNA RIOTS Turks and Greeks Staging Violcnt Demonstrations. By United Press . PARIS, Dee. 2. —Fifty persona have been killed in rioting in Smyma following expulsion of Greeks, Intraslgeant declared today. Previoius dispatches from Athens declared that Turks and Greeks alike were staging violent demonstratlons in favor of return of thè Greek exiles. DEMOCRATS SPEND $114,344.55 IN ELECTION Final Kvpenso Report Filed in (’ongress Today. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dee. 2.—-Total expenditure.s of thè Democratic ustionai committee in thè recent politicai campaign amounted only $114,344.56, according to a final report filed today with thè clerk in thè House. The committee listed contributions totalling $120,074.88 showing a baiance of nearly SIO,OOO aster thè campaign was over. PENAL FARM SALES FOR NOVEMBER ARE $7,261.10 Report Also Shows 7,666 Yisit MonuMeni Here. Industriai sales at thè State penai farm during November amounted to $7,261.10, according to a report filed wlt hthe State Auditor today. The manufacturing trade school of thè Indiana Reformatory during thè month past totaled $4,610.47. Farm earnings at this institutlon were $134.89. T total of 7,666 persons visiting thè Soldeirs' and Sailors' Monument during November, pald admlssions amounting to $2,067.15. FEDERAL AUTHORITIES KOLD EX-KLAN CHIEF Emmett Chesser, Newspaper Man, Arrested With \Vonusn. By United Press HOUSTON, Texas, Dee. 2.—Emmett Chesser, former assistant for an officiai of thè Ku-Klux KJan at New Orleans, and a woman said to be thè wlfe of thè officiai, were held here today for lnvestigation by Federai authorities. Chesser, a newspaper man, has been missing from New Orleans some time, officiate here said.

Watching Governor McCray is watching thè development of thè State soldier bonus bill with interest, he announeed today, but refused to express hlmself until he learns deflnitely for what thè bill calte.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DEC. 2, 1922

UTILITIES BLAMED FOR HOLDING UP STREET WORK DURINO WINTER

Los Angeles Decides Jail Sentence Is Only Cure for Reckless Auto Speeders

Declare War A prison term for persons who operate motor vchicles while under thè Influence of liquor. Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth of city court, in a conforence with Chief of Police Herman F. Rikhoff and Mayor Shank, declared he favored a law providlng such a penalty. New Jersey, New York and Michigan have such laws, and they have a good effect, Wilmeth said. The three olflcials declared war on speeders, Riknoff announclng aster thè conference that police will arrest persons driving over twenty-five miles an hour hereaftor. Arresta bave not been made until thirty miles an hour was observed heretofore.

BY JACK JUNGMEYER NEA Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Dee. 2.—Moral suasion is futile in taming thè terrorist on tires. Jail alone will check increasing motor mortality. With this conviction and this remedy, Los Angeles, first of large American clties in traffic deaths per 100.000 populstion, has initiated a eampaign of imprisonment for speeding and careless drivers. Penalties rnnge from one to 100 days, and women violatore have been placed on a par with men. During thè first week thè jail was jammed, with a corresponding decrease in thè aisregard for llfe and property. OiTicials, at thè end or patience with “don’t-glve a dam" autoists, are determined to keep up drastic action until fear shall have accorr plished what pleadlng falled to do. Auto accidents have mounted ularmingly i- I>o3 Angeles, congested, by al most ono-third of Callfornla’s machines and thousands of tourlsts' autos. Fariillties, more than onetxilrd greater than last year, tbreatened during thè approachlng hollday season to number at least one a day. Tho total number of accidents surpassed last year's by more than 10,000. The conslstent monthly increate was prue ti cali y calculable. Accident Ca ises Factore In thè problem here are: Narrow down-town streets and corri paratlvely few radiai boulevards to thè residentiai dlstrlcts; more pedes-

PLANIRENORTH PIRE PROTECTIOUf Chief Seeks Additional Money for Men and Equipment. Improved sire protectlon for thè distrlct north of Thlrty-Elghth St., including newly annexed Broad Ripple and for Brightwood, is planned by thè board of publlc safety aster Jan. 1, Fire Chief John J. O'Brien said today. O’Brien is seeking a $36,000 additlonal appropriutlon from tho city council early In January so he can add tvventy men to thè sire force. With these men thè temporary company of eight men at Brightwood will be increased to sixtoen and thè Brightwood company will be augmented with four more men. Kelly laddei trucks, now held In reserve, will he assigned to these two stations when thè now men are available. “Ladder trucks aro noeded In both these sectlons. Tn Brightwood there are a nurnlmr of factories, schools and largo buildings which ought to have better ladder protectlon, while in Broad Ripple serious loss of fifa inlght result in a sire at, thè school building with present sire tlghting fncilities. The nearest ladder truck ls at. TwentyFourth St. There ought to be a ladder truck In Broad Ripple, not oniy for protectlon of thè dchool building, but ateo all tho territory north of Thirty-Eighth St.," O’Brien said. WOMAN ATTEMPTS LIFE By United Xeics NEW YORK, Dee. 2.—-Olivia M. P. Stone, who was acquitted of thè murder of Elite G. Kincaid. wealthy clubman of Cincinnati, made an unsuccessful attempt to take her lise in her hotel room here Frlday.

CITY GAI NINO IN ITS FIGHT IN DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIE

While seven more cases of dlphtheria were reported to thè city heafth department In thè first eleven months of 1922 than in thè same perlod of 1921, flfteen less people died, record showed today. Health officers said they thought thè vigorous fight against thè epidemie with an auginented school nurse and doctor staff was in a great degree responsive for saving thè flfteen lives. Meanwhile thè epidemie contlnued to be serious. In November there were 397 new cases and twenty deaths as compared with 232 cases and 18 deaths in thè same month last year. Officiala pointed out that while there were more cases and deaths last

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A VICTIM OF THE CARELESS DRIVER

trians passing metropolitan key cornerà than In any city in thè world; 175,000 machines in thè main business district per day, ajid impatience at rime lost due to all these complica tlona. “Adomlnishlng and fining thè violato r is thè bunk,” declaces Capt. James McDowell, head of thè police traffic bureau. "The only thiug he respeets is thè speed cop and a yawning celi.” l'ian Stringent In addition to immediate drastic measures, and thè employment of

Reason By I nitrii Press WASHINGTON. Dee. 2—The reaaon for so many automobile accldents is that people have never adjusted themselves to thè auto age, in thè opinion of President Harding. He wltnessed a safety week parade, which passed thè Whito House Just aster he read in thè newspapere that there were sixteen accidents here Thanksgiv ing day—a record for thè year. His eonclusion ls that thè automobile has transforined city trafile and created a new monace which people have not yet adapt ed themselves to.

Mayor Dernands Auto Labeling "They’re going to paint that word ‘lndianapolis’ on those cars if I have to go over to that garage with a crowbar and make ’em,” declared Mayor Shank today. The mayor said he discovered severa) city cars have been repai nted and thè city marking left off of them. Early in thè year he decreed “Indi anapolis” should.be painted aerosa thè back of every city automobile, except those ueed by thè police, In letters four lnches high. “I’m going over to thè garage and put a lock and chaln on every daggone one of those cars and not let ’em out until they’re marked. and I don’t care who It is drives ’em.’’ The mayor compelled marking of thè cars to break up joy riding In them. RING IS STOLEN A thief entered thè home of Mrs. C. McDowell, No. 204 Spink apartments, Illinois and Twenty-Flrst Sta., yesterday. A silver ring and a purse containing $5 was missing.

month than in November, 1921, thè ratio of deaths to cases was far less. The diseaso ateo was hittlng an older and more vulnerable class this year, it was said. In thè first eleven months of 1922 there were 1,121 cases and fifty-six deaths, while In thè same portion of 1921 there were 1,114 cases and seventy-one deaths. The Health department has eight more school nurses in thè fieli! this year than last. School doctors were put on a full-time baste and a new department of child hygiene, with six nursee working chiefly aixiong children of p re-school age, established. The department has spent moni than SIO,OOO to admlnister antl-toxin

more traffic officers, Los Angeles will go to thè next State Legislature demanding, in conformlty with thè National Traffic Officers' Association program: 1. L'nlvereal traffic regulations for , all States, lack of which la now held ' accountable for a good many accidents j by tourlsts. 2. The sarne laws and penalties for i all intruda te communities. 3. Adequate and standard examina- : tion of drivers. 4. No driver's license issued to any i one under 21.

OEfITH COMES TO IGEO PfIJCEMII Retired Veteran, Aged 90, Noted for Long Beard. Michael Raftery, Sr., 90, of SOS Prospect St., thè oldest retired member of thè Indianapolis police departrnent, died suddenly at his home last night as a result of an attaek of heart trouble. Raftery had been in good Health unt 1 two days before his death. Mr. Raftery was born in Gaiway County, Ireland. When about 35 years old he went to Canada. He later carne to Indianapolis and was employed at thè old Woodbum-Sorven Wheel Works on S. Illinois St. On May 10, 1874, Raftery was appolnted a member of thè Indianapolis police department and served until Jan. 3, 1912. During thè thlrty-seven years of servlce as a patrolman he was assigned to W. Washington St. and to thè distrlct near thè Union Depot. He was famous beeause of his long beard. Atone time thè board of r-afety gave an order that no member of thè police department could wear a beard, but they made on exception of Raftery. Raftery te survived by two sons, Michael Jf., and Thomas A. Raftery, both of Indianapolis; two daughters, Miss Mayme I. Raftery and Mrs. Victor Desso, both of this city. He is ateo survived by eleven grand chlldren. Funeral arrangements havel not been completed. Smaìlpox Under Control Smallpox, which, for thè past week has been taklng a hold on thè vicinlty of Portland, is under control, according to word received by thè State board of health.

and thè toxln-anti-toxin immunization to approximately 5,000 school children. The law requires thè city to furntsh anti-toxln in case parente are unable to pay for it, while *the toxin-anti-toxln immunization has been administered free wherever thè department could gain consent of parents. Children are given thè Schick test, which discloses whether they are subject to diphtherla. If they are, tiie toxin-anti-toxin injection renderà them safe from thè infection without any danger of harm to tho child from thè process, health officers say. Beeause of thè wtdespreail immunization, dozens of children will live through future epidemica who otherwise would have died, thè city Joctora say.

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Some Thoroughfares Will Be Blocked Until Next Spring' Because of Failure to Lay Gas and Water Mains. COLD WEATHER STOPS PAVING WORK City Engineer Says Gas Company Failed to Employ Sufficient Number of Men— Asserts City Is Helpless. Streets under eontract for permanent improvenient is several parts of thè city may be toni up all winter because gas and water mains have not been laid, City Engineer Joiip L. Elliott said today, The city engineering department Las had trouble with thè Citizens Gas Company throughout thè paving season, thè company fading to use enough men to speed up thè work, according to thè engineer. Atone time thè company was holding up twenty-five contracts. Main gangs have cleaned up much of this ac-

Gas Quality Is Lower —Elliott

While thè Citlzens Gas Company is trying in Federai Court to get a permanent rate of $1.20 or $1.25 for gas. thè quality af gas produeed is steadily dropping, City Civil Engineer John L. Eliiott reported today. "As long as we had summer weather thè gas tested from 680 to 600 British thermal unlts,” said Elliott, “but as soon as it got a little cool, down It goes.” The city tests, taken regulariy in thè city hall Chemical laboratory, show gas produeed by thè Langsdale plani on Nov. 29 tested 573 and by thè Prosperi plant, 576. Friday thè Lang-dale gas showed 565 and Prosperi, 566. ufollettelges GHIE I WORK Declares Progressive Plans Must Move Slowly. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dee. 2.—The progressive movement must work slowly and carefuliy if it is to succeed, Senator La Follette, Wisconsin, warned today in opening a conference of progressive men and women here from all parts of thè country. Each step taken must be based on thorough investigation and research so that thè progressive movement shall sufEer no set-backs, La Follette declared. The progressives gathered under thè auspices of thè peoples legislative Service, an organization created by a handful of men in Congress two years ago. Samuel Gompers, head of thè American Fedenttion of Labor; Victor Murdock, member of thè Federai Trado Commìssion: Warren S. Stone, head of thè Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; Herbert Quiek, editor; Amos Pinchot, brother of thè Gover-nor-elect of Pennsylvania; Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, suffruge leader; Miss Elizabeth Hauser of thè League of Women Voters; Mrs. Florence Kelley, Oonsuniers’ League; thè Rev. F. Ernest Johnson of thè committee on church and social Service of thè Federai Council of Clhurehes and .onner Governor Record of New Jersey will be present.

BOMB EXPLOSION THREATENS LABORERS Polire ITobe It'.'ist in St. I jOuìs Railroad Siiops. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo„ Dee. 2.—Police today were probing thè bomb explosion which last night threatened thè lives of 550 workmen in thè shops of thè Missouri Pacific Railroad here, shattered Windows throughout thè building, and resulted In serious injury to Clarence Billington, blacksmith. The bomb, which exploded just as employes were laying down their tools for thè day, shook thè entire group of buildings in thè yards. POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS SHOW LARGE INOREASE Business Men Get Credit for Jnmp in Use of Pai-cete Post. The largest increate in postoffice receipts for any month in thè present year over a corresponding month of 1921 was recorde,! for November, 1922, according to Robert H. Bryson, postmaster. Mr. Bryson said he believed this was due to thè efforts of business men in getting an increasing number of email orders which effected an increase in thè arnount of parcels post sent through thè mails. The total receipts for thè month were $286,433.76, as compared with $238,338.71 for November. 1921. This showed an iticrease • e $48.095.05, amounting to 20.17 per cent. MAN DI3APPEARS Luke Robert, 60, of 215 S. Davidson St., was reported io-.lay as missing from his home since early yesterday. Roberta Is live feet Ave inches in heighi and weighs 125 pounds. When he left home he wore a blue suit and a black soft hat.

Forecast Partly cloudy and unsettled tonight and probably Sunday.

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cumulation, but thè delay has been so long in some cases it will be impossìble for contractors to lay concrete due to cold weather, he said. With thè water compàny there is not so much compiaint, Elliott said, because it has laid more mains than its contrari with thè city called for. Delays in sewer construction are holding up severa] alleys. Streets AJTeeted Arncng streets and alleys which Elliott fears will be left tom up until next spring and thè reasons glven by fcim are thè following: Comelius Ave., Forty-Second St. to Berkeley Rd., delayed on grading contrari; Bosart Ave., Michigan to Tenth Sts., gas mains and connections not in; Forty-Fourth St., Boulevard PI. to Sunset Ave., water maina not in; Fortieth St., Capitol Ave. to Boulevard PI., water mains not in; Raymond St., Shelby St. to State Ave., gap mains not in; first alley east of Oxford St., North St. to thè first alley north, walting on sewer; first alley cast of Parker Ave., North St. to peint 783 seri north, wairing on sewer. Fearing they would be left torn up through thè winter. Elliott ordered contractors not to start work on several improvements until spring. Among these were: Le Grand Ave., Maple to Draper Sts., Fortieth St., Boulevard Place to Conser Ave., Cedar St., Fletcher Ave. to Shelby St., first alley west of Illinois St., from first alley north of Thirtieth St., to Thirty-Third St., Fifteenth St., Columbia to Arsenal Aves., Wright St.. Prosperi to Sanders Sta., Newton Ave., Rural to La Saile Sta., and Spruce St., English Ave. to Prosperi St.

FARMBLOCREIO DEFENDSTARIFF Representative Dickinson Says Country Is Benefited. “We contend that thè efforts of thè friends of agriculture are already bringing about some economical reforms,” declared Congressman L. J. Dickinson. of lowa, leader of thè Farm Bloc in thè House of Representatives, in a speech before thè Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations this afternoon at thè Claypool Hotel. Mr. Dickinson defended thè protective tariff. “Our markets are clarified of many manipulators under thè Grain Futures and Packer Control Acta, our Federai Reserve Board has shown more consideratlon for your Interest, our Farm Land Bank has been suffieiently successful to warrant thè continuance of its existence,” he declared. “If such accomplishments warrant our efforts in behalf of farming interests in thè past, thè future is even more promising for our continued efforts.’ “We are contending for a public warehouse act, which will give ampie Storage facilities for gi*alns, so thè s&lling season can be spread over thè entire year,” Mr. Dickinson said. Reports of activities of thè various branches of farmers’ organizations were given today. The report of C. R. George, director of thè dairy and produce marketing bureau, showed that thè cooperation of farmers in Muncie, where thè bureau has been tried out. has saved thè producers $2,000 in thè past month. New officers elected are William IL Settle. Petroleum, presldent; Scott Meik, Shelbyville, first vice pi-esident; Ray L. Bradley, Ladoga, second vice presldent: J. J. Brown, Monon, and William Senior, Brookville, directors. They will be forxnally installed Jan. 1.

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