Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1923 — Page 2
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G. 0. P. DEFECTIONS MAY GIVE DEMOCRATS REINS OF HOUSE
WIFE HD MR WOMAN’ FACE TO FACE !N COURT Both Are Mothers of Wealthy Coal Man’s Children—Life Is Admitted. By United Pres* CHICAGO. Jan. 6. —Two mothers of the children of John S. Curtain, wealthy coal man, faced each other in court here today. One was his legal wife—the mother of his 21-year-old son. The other was “the other woman" —the mother of five sons and! daughters. Mrs. Kathleen Morrell, the “other woman,” was arrested, charged with being the mother of Curtain's children, on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Curtain, who said she had known of her husband's love affair for five years. Mrs Morrell freely admitted that Curtain was the father of her children, police said. “We lived together as man and i wife for nearly twelve years," she said. “I have been a good mother to the children." The children were taken to the Juvenile Protective Home when their mother was taken to jail. They played together in ignorance of the domestic tangle. They are Kathleen, 10; Stanley, 8; Jeanette, 6; Alice, 4, and Rose, 2. Curtain was alleged to have offered his wife all of his wealth and his interests in the coal company in exonange for a divorce. Authorities had not located him today. morales to FACE FBI* ESS Dry Officers Attempt to Oust Texas Distillers—Two Killed. By United Pres* CORSICANA, Texas, Jan. 6. —War against entrenched moonshiners in which the most modern implements of battle will be used, was planned here today by prohibition officers. Upon his return from Dallas where j he announced he had gained permission to use poison gas to drive Illicit distillers from their stronghold in the Porter's Bluff vicinity, George 8. Webb, head officer in this section started the attack. Eight raids in which two liquor run ners were killed and several wounded failed to drive the hooch manufacturers from their stronghold, situated in a dense swamp near Porter’s Bluff. ; Word recently reached Webb, that the narrow paths through dense un- I dergrowth to the hidden stilis had ' been planted in explosives to be set off at a signal.
BILL OH NORMALS MITBEWFERED Danville President Favors State Taking Over School. A bill proposing certain changes in the present Normal school system of Indiana may be introduced in the present session of the Indiana Legislature. Jonathan Higdon, president of Central Normal College at Danville, will support a bill asking the State to take over the school at that place and place the schools at Muncie, Terre Haute and Danville on the same basis. He also advocated Normal schools for northern and southern Indiana. Under the administration of Governor Goodrich, a bill passed both Houses of the Assembly authorizing the State to take over the Danville Normal and pay part of the tuition of students. The bill was vetoed by the Governor. The Danville school would be given to the State if the support of the institution was guaranteed. Dr. Higdon indicated. The question of additional normal schools for teachers' training has been a problem in Indiana for some time. WOMAN’S HOME RAIDED Fannie Bodgan of 15 S. Fleming St. was charged today with operating a t yA irer when she appeared in city Lieutenant McGee and a squad •TVgfcey found a fifteen-gallon whisky and a half gallons of mash oil stove at her home.
W “Loaded” ■ Unlike the little Indians of ■irsery rhyme fame, who some Kay kept mysteriously disappearing, the number of little brown, red and white bottles of booze at the board of health office keep growing larger and larger. For there's no one to test the booze since J. R. Dunwoodv. chemist for the board of health, has been sick. And there's no way to stop the liquor from coming in from police headquarters. The ice chest is full, the tables are loaded and the board of health is almost considering giving litiuor away to get rid of it. Bmt in the meantime cases in Kourt that are waiting for the *1; uor to be tested will continue jrfLjting.
Rowbottom Is Thorn in Side of G. O. P.
He mted to be chairman of the con ! - ••** on employment of the pie. rr_ Indiana Legislature and because he did not receive the chairmanship lie refused to serve on the committee. The man in question is Representative Harry Rowbottom of Evansville. His action may be the entering wedge of a serious spit in the Republican ranks in the HouseWHAT EUROPE MUST LEARN TO SAVE SELF (Continued Front Page 1) more words and signatures to restrain the irresitible impetus of organized force. A statistical survey of European armies today is calculated to cause alarm. Europe has not learned the lesson of war. It has rather drawn ■a wrong inference from that calamity. There are more men under arms in Europe today than there were in 19131914, with none of the justification or excuse which could be pleaded in those days. In pre-war days the statesmen of each country could make a parliamentary case for their military budgets by calling attention to the menace of prodigious armies across their frontiers. Germany and Austria built up great armaments because their fron- , tiers were open to attack by two ! great military powers who had engaged to pool their resources in’ the event of war. France and Russia raised huge armies because Germany possessed the most formidable armies in the world ar.d could rely, in case of war, upon the assistance of the not ( Inconsiderable forces of the Austrian Empire. And both Austria and France had always the uncertain factor of Italy with her army of three millions : to reckon with. But since the war these mutual excuses no longer exist. The two great military empires of Central Europe have disappeared. Germany, which before the w r had a peace establishment of 800,000 men and reserves running into millions, has today a total army of 100,000 men—about one-third the size of the Polish army. The formidable German equipment, which for j four years pounded the cities and villages of Northern France to dust, is either destroyed or scattered for display amongst the towns and villages of the victors. Tiny Force of 30,000 The Austrian army, which had in 1913-1914 a peace establishment of 420,000 men and a reserve of two or three millions of trained men, has to- 1 day been reduced to a tiny force of 30,000 men. In spite of this fact, France has still an army of 736.000 men now under anus, with a trained reserve of 2.000,000 or 3.000,000 more. She is strengthening and developing her air force as if she feared or contemplated immediate invasion. In 1914 France had an air force cf 400 aeroplanes. Today she has 1.162. But numbers signify little. The size, power and purpose of machines signify much. Amongst the 1,152 air machines of today will he found bombers of a destructiveness such as was not dreamt of in 1914. Should human folly drift cnee more Into war these preparations are full of evil omen as to th" character of that conflict. A single bomb dropped from one of the new bombers contains more explosive material tsjan 100 of those carried by the old type. Anil the size of the machine and of its bombs are growing year by year. WIIERK IS IT TO STOP? AM) WHAT IS IT ALL FOR? WHERE IS THE ENEMY? WHERE IS THE MENACE WHICH DEMANDS SI CII C.lC.ANTIC MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS? Not one of the neighbors of France has today a force which reaches onefourth the figures of her formidable army. Germany no longer affords a
: decent pretext. The population of Germany is equal j to the aggregate populations of PoI land. Roumar.ia, Jugo-Slavia and ! Czecho Slavakia. but her army barely i numbers one-seventh of the aggregate force of these four countries. Itou- j i mania alone, with a population of I 16,000.000. has an army twice the size j of that allowed by the treaty of Ver-, ! sallies to Germany with her populaI tion of 60,000,000. Her young men I are no longer permitted to train in : the use of arms. Her military equlpI ment is destroyed and her arsenals and workshops are closely inspected by allied officers lest fresh equipment should be clandestinely produced. An aimy of 700.000 is therefore not necessary in order to keep Germany within bounds. The only other formidable army in Europe is the Russian army. It is difficult to gather any reliable facts about Russia. Mists that arise from 1 the unhealthy political and economic swamp obscure and distort ail vision. Statistics concerning her army vary according to the point of view of the j person who cites them. The latest j figure given by the Russians themj selves Is 800/00. On paper that indicates as formidable a force as that possessed hv the French. But the events of the past few years show , clearly that the Russian army is | powerful only for defense, and that it | is valueless for purposes of invasion. It has neither transport that glv*y
Dissension Over Committee Appointments and Absences Threaten Slim Margin of Republican State Administration. As Republican leaders continued their efforts today to arrange satisfactory committee appointments indications that the Democrats will seize control of the Indiana House of RepresentativesMvere increasing. The Republicans appeared to be victims of fate as well as of disaffection in their own ranks. Two of the Republican members are absent because of illness and may be absent for some time. This leaves the Republicans a majority of only two. One Repub-
lican voting with the Democrats would tie the vote. Democratic Harmony The Democratic members appear lo re in perfect health and right on the job. The soreness among Republicans i resulting from committee appoint- ' ments appeared to be intensified rather than diminished. Speaker Raymond C. Morgan conferred with Governor McCray and with representatives of the Republican State committee. The committei on roads, patronage and education are the stumbling blocks of the new speaker. Representative Harry Rowbottom is still feel-
Leading Figure in Organization Row
Th*- gentleman from Lake, J. Glenn Harris, has served for several sessions in tin 1 House and is back in the present assembly. He was a candidate for the speakership. One of the present difficulties confronting the majority members of the present House is the opposition to Harris as chairman of the committee on education, a position on which he is said to have his eyes. mobility nor artillery that makes an army redoubtable in attack. Polish Invasion Comedy | i comedy, and as soon as the Pol-s offered the slightest resistance the Bolsheviks ran back to their fastness without waiting to strike a parthian blow at their pursuers. The state of the Russian arsenals and factories under Bolshevism is such that any attempt to reequip these armies must fail. The Russian army, therefore, affords no justification for keeping up armaments in Europe on the preseant inflated scale. The fact is that Europe is thoroughly frightened by its recent experience, and like, all frightened tilings, does not readily listen to reason and is apt to resort to ex pedients which aggravate the evils which have terrified it. Militarism has reduced it to its present plight, and to save itself from a similar disaster in future it has become more militaristic than ever. Every little State bristles with guns to scare off Invaders. Meanwhile no country in Europe pays its way except Britain, with her leduced army and navy. But by means of loans and inflated currencies they all, even the smallest of them, contrive to maintain larger armies than Frederick the Great or the Grand Monarque ever commanded in their most triumphant years. And the cost of armaments today has grown vastly out of proportion to the numbers of units that compose them. France- —in many ways flic richest country in Europe—displays a gaping and growing rent in her national finance which has to be patched up by paper. The deficit grows in spite of the fact that a largo part of her army is quartered on Germany to the detriment of reparations, and that German contribution conceals much of the cost of a large army. A good deal of borrowing is attributable to the cost of repairing her devastated area, but the burden of maintaining so huge an army is responsible for a considerable share of the deficiency. The economic recovery of Europe is seriously retarded by the cost of the r.ew militarism. The old continent is with both hands throwing to the flogs of war the bread that should feed its children. One day those dogs will in their arrogant savagery turn upon the children and rend them.
RESIDENTS OF RANSACKED HOUSE REMAIN MYSTERY A glass was smashed with a brick at. a residence at 2738 N. Talbott Avp„ Friday afternoon, according to police today. Police found no one at home. An envelope bearing an address was found by the police, but no one in the neighborhood knew who lived at the house. The residence had been ransacked by the thief, but the police were unable to learn what was stolen. SLEUTHS SEEK FORGER OF DRUG PRESCRIPTION Detectives today were searching for a man who bought morphine on a forged prescription and paid for it with a forged check. The man visited the Wilson Brothers drug store, Senate Ave. and Sixteenth St. THIEF IN APARTMENT A sneak thief entered the apartment of Mrs. L. Vinson, No. 34 Lexington Flats, on N. Capitol Ave. He took n’ii' a
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ing badly because h. was not named chairman of tiie patronage committee. Representative..' uke W. Duffey, who was named chairman of the patronage committee, wanted the chairmanship of the roads committee instead. Representative J. Glenn Harris wanted to ! lie chairman of the committee on education and probably will not be. None i of those Involved hesitates to tell his friends all about It. Meanwhile the speaker turned his attention to the committee on the affairs of the city of Indianapolis. There usually is not much dispute about tills committee, as it is composed of the Indianapolis delegation. Woman Chairman Representative Elizabeth Rainey the only woman member of the House, will be chairman of the committee. The other members will be Representative John N. Hurty, Ralph E. Updike, Clarence C. AVysong, Luke \V. Duffey, Asa J. Smith, Frank E. | Cline and Homer L. Traub, Repub. Leans, and Edgar A. I’erkins, Louis C. j Schwartz. George O. Stelhorn and Clifford Townsend, Democrats. There has been little activity among members of the Senate. The Repub- j lican majority is large in tin- Upper j House. Committee appointments will be announced by Lieutenant Governor: Branch Monday, when both Houses re- j convene. COP QUITSAFTEH TRIANGLE FRACAS Volderauer’s Wife and Other Woman Alleged to Have Mixed. Howard Yolderauer, 552 Coffey St.,is no longer a city patrolman. Ho turned in his badge to Inspector U hite, iate Friday, after Mi . Volderauer had found him in an automobile wit'n another woman, according to police. The automobile slowed down at Illinois and Maryland Sts., and Mrs. Volderauer jumped upon the running Iwiard and tor--- off the ride curtains, uncording to officers. Then hair pulling started, police sold. Mrs. Volderuuer attacked the “other woman,” it was alleged. Ti.tffie Officer Probst took the Volderauer’s and the “other woman" to police headquarters. She said she was Miss Fae ! Roberts. Plaza Hotel. She said she had been in Indianapolis a short time and that her home is at Toledo, Ohio. Inspector White said Mrs. Volderauer told him her husband had not been home for a week and that slie started out to search for him. Volderauer did not discuss the affair. GOVERNOR ASKS STATE ATTORNEY TO HELP HIM Mc( ray Follows Flan of Culling Number of Employes. Governor McCray has asked U. 3. Lesh. State Attorney General, to assist him in legal problems arising from affairs of the Legislature. Previous Governors have employed a number of attorneys for this purpose. but two years ago Governor MoCray inaugurated the system of using tlie office of the Attorney General for this purpose. METALLURGY SUBJECT 'l'he first meeting of the class imheat treating and metallurgy under the auspices of tiie Indianapolis chapter if the American Society for steel treat lug. will la' held in the old auditorium of Manual Training High School Monday at 7:30 p. in. Glasses will be held every Monday night for fifteen weeks.
Civic Affairs Chief of Commerce Chamber
WILLIAM B. FORTUNE Appointment of William B. For tune as chairman of the civic affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce for 1923 is announced by Felix McWhirter, president. Fortune is president of the Indianapolis Telephone Company. Fortune organized the- first Commercial Club in Indianapolis in 1892, and was its first secretary.
New Protectors Bar Aatoists From Safety Zones
■•Now ahead and trv to run over tii-m ; ;
Because reckless motorists persisted In cutting over safety zones and endangering the lives of folk standing in the zone. Mayor Shank ordered protectors, lika the one shown herewith, erected at Alabama and Washington Sts., and said: “Now jus: go ahead and try to run over them." “I don’t think there Is much danger of any one trying such a stunt." j said Otis Tyner, traffic man on duty | when the protectors were erected. I "They cannot cut into tiie safety zone |
HOOVER DECLINES FALL'S PORTFOLIO Harding Offers Job. but Secretary Will Stay in Fresent Post. It j I II itnl Pn • * WASHINGTON, Jan. C —Secretary of Commerce Hoover today declined an offer of President Harding to be come secretary of the Interior, sue 1 reeding Albert U. Fall, who will retire March L. Secretary Hoover in a conference at th-* White House today Informed the President that he desired to remain in ; His present, position, in order to com plete the work which he had mapped out on a large scale when ho entered | office at the beginning of the Harding Adminlst r atlon. Hoover has been forming an organization in the Department of Cum- | merce which he hopes will be instru- • mental in greatly extending America's i ci iinmerce.
118-PfllFlllLE' FOUND IN RAID Police Discover Seventy-Five Gallon Whisky Still. A seventy-live gallon whisky still, found in 1 1 to attic of tin; house of : George Harris Sl2 Church St., Friday. :s f- i!,-| In the police to have produced whisky of 180 proof. Harris was arrested on a charge of operating a blind tiger. The police snid that after the still had been placed in the attic, the opening was closed and plastered over. Then part of the ceiling was removed in n closet in another room and by tising a ladder it was possible to reach the attic. The police say they found 400 gallons of mash at Harris’ lonic. FUNERAL OF C. E. COUGH SET FOR MONDAY AT 2 P. M. I Funeral services for Charles E. ! Gough. 57, 4041 N. Senate Ave., who | died suddenly yesterday from a stroke of apoplexy, will he held at 2 p. m. I Monday at the residence. 1 Mr. Gough who was a salesman for l the Kothe, Wells and Bauer Cos., i was in a grocery' owned by A. C. Franks. 1317 Churchman Ave., when lie suddenly became ill. He died botore medical assistance could he given. ; Coroner Paul Robinson investigated. lie was horn at Lewisville, Ind., in 1869. Mr. Gough has been a resij dent, of Indianapolis for about twenty years. lie is survived by the widow. Mrs. Olive Gough, one son, Warren Gough, and his mother, Mrs. Olive Gough of Greenfield. Burial will be at Crown Hill. SEVEN APRONS TAKEN Police today were looking for a ! colored man who walked into the Northwestern Dry Goods Store. 2743 Northwestern Ave., seized seven aprons and ran. The aprons were valued at 810. REVIVAL PLANNED Revival services in charge of the Rev. I>. W. Mcßtirney, will begin at the Friendswood M. E. Church Sunday evening. An invitation to everybody to attend the meetings has been given.
Doe Rescued John Doe’s life was saved by Patrolman F. Fleming, at 12:30 a. m. today when the policeman found Mr. Doe lying with his face in a puddle of water at Arizona and Meridian Stse. “He almost was drowned,” declared Fleming. John I toe was taken to police headquarters in a patrol wagon, carried to the cell room on a stretcher, and charged with drunkenness. When John Doe awoke today he gave his name as Carl Supper, 28, of 313 Orange St.
ami I believe the guards will really make tiie safety zone ‘safe.’” Tiie guards are made of cast steel and weigh approximately 1,500 pounds.
The European Crisis Viewed From Capitals
By l nited Sews PARIS, lari. 6.—lmmediate march of the French urrny into the Ruhr valley Is urged by General Maginot, aide to Marshal Foch, it has become known. Maginot, who has been serving with the army of occupation in the Rhineland, wiil present his views to Premier Poincare's cabinet. At least one minister stands back of the general in his proposal to hasten the invasion of Germany. The general's belief that reparations should be collected at once is apparently shared by Marshal Foch because it is decidedly unlikely that subordinate would air views which run counter to those of his chief. BERLIN HOFES FOR PEACE WITH FRANCE By t mted S'ries BERLIN, Jan 6.*—Franco and Germany will negotiaf* a separate reparations agreement despite lh<- break up of the allied premiers' conference in Baris, according to the w4l informed who are close to the government of Chancellor Cuno. Subsequently. It is predicted, similar negotiations will lie carried on between Germany and the other fillies. In event that Germany and Franco fail to agrees, q js hoped that America wIP intervene. BRITAIN MAY WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM RHINE Ity I nited Sews LiiNIXi.N. Jan. —Great Britain, it is anticipated, will announce her withdrawal from reparations entanglements with France upon the return of Premier Bonar Law from Paris. The pYimo minister, it has become
CHURCHMAN SEES GOSPEL REVIVAL Rev. Cohn Addresses County Sunday School Conference. Dflaring that the young people of today arv showing a marked tendency | to consider the Bible thoughtfully not j only as literature but to discover its i truths. Rev. C. C. Gohn, pastor of the | First United Brethren Church, today' addressed the several hundred delegates attending the fourth annual sessions of the Marion County Young I ■People’s Sunday School Conference at the First. United Brethren Church. Dr. Gohn declared that "young people are showing a deep interest in tile doctrinal truth of the Bible” and Ghat the tendency of the day "is to re turn to the Bible.” He will lecture again Sunday afternoon prior to the close of the threeday- session of the young people. His subject Sunday will be “How to Read the,Bible.” Tonight the annual banquet will he held at the church. Miss Lucile Jones will preside. A number or unique “stunts” have been planned. The conference opened Friday night with C. G. Jacquart, head of the Young People's Sunday School Council, presiding. Wayne G. Miller, the Rev. Lawrence W. Schultz of North Manchester, Ind., and Charles Rhoads wore among the speakers last night. The confei-ence will close late Sunday.
WOODRUFF PLACE WILL HAVE NEW APARTMENT Construction of a modern $125,000 j two-story apartment building at the j northeast corner of West drive of j Woodruff Place and Michigan St. will bo begun immediately by the Woodruff Place Realty Company. The company was incorporated yesterday. Plans for the building have been j drawn by McGuire & Shook, architects. The realty company is being financed by the Meyer-Kiser Bank, j which has bought $65,000 of 6 per cent j preferred stock. BOY’S WAGON STOLEN A boy’s wagon was parked on the I front porch of the home of H. J. Buchanan, 3506 N. Illinois St. Today j he reported that the wagon was miss- [ ing.
Mayor .Shank said if they proved successful the protectors would be erected at all downtown Washington St. intersections.
known, will call a meeting of the British Cabinet on Saturday, at which time these two topics will be discussed: 1. ’l'he withdrawal of British troops from the Rhineland, where they have been serving as part of the allied army of occupation. 2. The resignation of Sir John Bradbury from the allied reparations commission. There is much sentiment among officials for the recall of all the British troops from Germany in view of tiie fact that France lias decided to go it alone and exact reparations from Germany oy invasion of the Ruhr valley. U. S. MAY RETURN TO SHELL OF ISOLATION WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.—Only a plea for help from !he allies wiil deter this Government from returning at once into its shell of isolation. If the allies want the United States to use its good offices at this critical time, they will have to come out and f.sk It. Pessimism hung heavy over the \\ hite House and the State Department as cables from Europe came in painting piece-meal tiie hopeless state of affairs there Officials here are frankly discouraged at the refusal of European governments to consider proposals holding of hope of settleI ment. With French soldiers filling up tiieir cartridge belts for a march | into the Ruhr Valley, this Government sees little hope of France pausing to consider any deliberate and calm method of adjustment. At the White House it was said that matters have gone so far in Europe that the reparations commission is helpless.
WIFE IS HELD FOB KILLING SPOUSE Alleged Sweetheart of Woman Also Charged With Crime. ]lu I nitrd I’rrg.i HENDERSON. Ky„ Jan. 6.—The mystery of the murder, early last Sunday'. at the door of his garage of Gus B. Noffsinger. Southland Coal Company' manager, had been solved today, detectives said. Mrs. Noffsinger. the murdered man's wife, was held under guard in a place known only to police, and Ollie Gibbons, 32. miner. Mrs. Noffsinger’s alleged sweetheart, was being heavily guarded at Owensboro, charged with the crime. Noffsinger, who was said to have $20,000 life insurance, was struck in the back of his head twice with a heavy mine hammer. FRATERNITY ELECTS At the first annual election and banquet of the Alpha chapter of the Omega Phi Kappa fratei-nity', held at the Hotel Severin, Clarence Kingston was elected president. It was de cidcd to open clubrooms and to give an end of the season dance in May.
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TWO HD CHIEFS TAKE TURN ABOUT IN SINGLE OFFICE Rumford and Burks in Comedy of Alternation at County Highway Office. Marion County today had two county officials where one ought to be. Warren C. Rumford and George i Burks, both appointed county superintendents o£ roads by the board of | county commissioners, took turns ocj eupying the sanctum assigned to that | official in tiie Courthouse and directing the work of the thirty-three assistant superintendents. While one answered the telephone and talked to callers, the other cooled his heels outside. As soon as the possessor of the office had to leave for a few moments the other rushed in. The comedy went on all day Friday. Rumford refused to resign Jan. 1 in favor of Burks, who was appointed by County Commissioners Albert Hoffman, Republican, and John Kitley, Democrat, over the protest of | Harry D, Tutewiler, Republican and third member of the board, it was said. Rumford holds a four-year contract which does not expire until Dec. 31, 1D25, given him by Tutewiler and Carlin Shank, Republicans. Shank, a brother of the mayor, was succeeded by Kitley the first of this year. Rumford has declared his intention of keeping the office. To date he has a slight advantage over the new appointee, as he holds the key to the county automobile furnished the office. Both men are Republicans. The board of commissioners refused to state what action they expected to take in settling the controversy, and observers around the courthouse thought the case would resolve itself into a matter of perseverance between the contestants.
SERMON PART GF THEATER PROGRAM Evangelist Appears With Musicians on Keith’s Bill. An evangelist and vaudeville concert artists appeared on the same program today. The artists were Huston Ray, noted pianist and composer, who is on the current bill at Keith's: Marie Dawson Morrell, a violinist, who has played vaudeville engagements, and Harlowe Senn Dean, barytone. The evangelist was Dr. George Wood Anderson, who is conducting a revival at the Roberts Park M. E. Church. The place was B. F. Keith's at noon today. The concert began shortly before noon and lasted an hour. Dr. Anderson was in the audience and heard the entire concei t. At the close of the concert the stage was turned over to him and lie preached a noon day sermon under the auspices of the Indianapolis Church Federation. Those who were present for the concert remained for the sermon. Dr. Anderson drew lessons from the splendid music of the three artists and made a plea for beauty and harmony in the lives of all people. Ray rendered solo numbers and played a duet with himself assisted by tiie Duo-Art reproducing piano. # Dr. Anderson will resume his noon day meetings at Keith's next week, beginning Tuesday noon. The concert was made possihle by Mr. E. F. Albee, of the Keith circuit. Roltare Eggleston. manager of Keith's, and the I Pearson Piano Company, of this city. R. H. HILL SEES WHEAT RISE IN EUROPEAN NEWS Senator Rowland H. Hill of Carthage, in addition to his duties as a legislator, is interested in grain brokerage firm he heads in his home town. Some friends were chatting with Hill, whose interest in the conversation suddenly had subsided, when the subject of the possible occupation of the Ruhr valley by France was mentioned. Senator Hill’s interest took new life and. buttoning his overcoat at the chin, slapping his fist in his palm, he said: “I've got to be going over to the Board of Trade to buy some wheat.” RESTAURANT RAIDED Lights were suddenly turned out. The doors were locked. Lieutenant Johnosn and his squad of booze raiders said they had trouble getting into the restaurant of Walter Maish, 935 N. Senate Ave., last night. Colored “mule’’ whisky, found in soft drink bottles, resulted in Maish being charged with operating a blind tiger.