Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1923 — Page 2

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SECRETARY WALLACE OPENS FIGHT ON BIG PACKER MERGER

Complaint Filed Against Proposed Armour-Morris Deal. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Secretary of Agriculture Wallace today took drastic steps to prevent the consum mation of the merger of the big packing interests of Armour & Cos. and Morris & Cos. Acting under the packer control law. the secretary served a formal complaint against the two packing interests, declaring the combine is a violation of this law. The two packing companies will be given an opportunity to present their case in a hearing before the Secretary of Agriculture on April 2. From this decision the packers may appeal to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and then the case may be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. Expedition of the legal proceedings Is provided for by the law and heavy penalties for violation of the “cease and desist” order may be imposed by the court. Would Injure Farmer The main basis of Secretary Wallace's complaint against the proposed combine is that it would lessen competition, particularly in the buying of livestock, anti this would injure the American farmer, whose rights the control law protects. Wallace reveals that early in De cember he told G. Ogden Armour and S. Edson White. T.ew president of Armour & C-0., that Federal Government would be compelled to act against the merge*- if plans for its consummation were continued. At that time Wallace urged the merger be dropped Despite this information received by the department showed that plans for the combine were being continued, and recently Armour & Cos., by long distance telephone, admitted that a tentative agreement for the merger hac been reached. That “J. Ogden Armour, acting for himself and the Armour corporation, contracted with Morris & Cos. end the Morris family* to acquire all of the assets of Morris & Cos., including its business, patents and good will, and its interests in its subsidiary and allied companies engaged in the meat packing and related business, that Morris & Cos. is to receive approximately $30,000,000. to be paid approximately* one-third in cash, one-third in preferred stock and one-third in common stock of Armour & Cos., either of Illinois or Delaware, the purchaser to assume the outstanding liabilities, and that the transfer is to take place cn or before Feb. 28. 1923. "It is charged that* this transaction provides for the entire elimination of Morris & Cos. from the meat packing field and constitutes a violation of Title II of the packers and stock yards act of 1921. in that it is a restraint of interstate commerce and creates or tends to create a monopoly in many sections and communities of the United States and foreign countries in the purchase and sale of live stock and the sale of livestock products. “On Jan. 29,” said Secretary- Wallace, "I heard that some sort of agreement had been signed by J. Ogden Armour and by the stock holders of Morris & Cos. I called Armour & Cos. at Chicago and asked whether such an agree ment had been signed and was told that it had been, but that its terms had not yet been put in effect. I told representatives of Arn.our & Cos. and Morris & Cos. that formal proceedings would be instituted as I had previously stated to them, and our attorneys at once began to prepare the complaint which was now being issued. “Above all, there is a vital principle involved which cannot be ignored. It will eliminate one of the five largest packers in the United States, and in my opinion it may result in materially- lessening competition among the buyers of livestock at the various markets.

BOTH ‘WISE AND LEGAL’ Write Answers Charge of Secretary Wallace. Py United Prraa CHICAGO. Heb. 26. —F. Kdson White, president of Armour & Cos., packers, today declared the proposed purchase of Morris & Cos. is “wise as well as legal.” Answering an attack by Secretary o' Agriculture Wallace on the combine. White said: “"When the whole matter of the purchase of Morris & Cos. was put up to the Government, we gained the Impression that while the Government could see no legal objection, never-the-less, the secretary would make a test case under the packers and stockyards act. “The great war was primarily responsible for conditions which made it necessary for us to re-organize and re-finance our business. Wind in Recital Monday section of the Woman’s Department Club composed of sightless women, assisted by Charles Hansen, organist, and pupils at the School for the Blind, will give a recital this evening at the clubhouse. The proceeds will go toward social welfare work among the blind, in which this section, under the direction of Mrs. Lewis N. Poyser. is interested. The program is as follows: “Snow at Sunset" .........Coerne Monday Section sextet. "Sunset" (vocal) Dudley Buck Donald Dowey '•Serenade" (violin and flute* . ...LIU Miss Mary Buttock. Donald Dowey. Beading—" Old Man and Jim' Biley Misa Norah Henderson. “A Birthday' ’ (vocali W oodman Miss Louise Stafford. "To Sprint'’ (piano ( Grieg “A Love Son g" Neeoiand Charles Hansen "Lullaby” Taylor Monday Section sextet.

Massage, Sir? One thief here was prepared to start a barber shop today. Over the week-end he used a skeleton key to enter the barber shop of Harry B. Skirvin, 1524 N. Alabama St., and got away with an electric hair drier, an electric massage machine, four pairs of scissors and four razors belonging to Skirvin and two razors and two pairs of scissors belonging to Frank M. Perrlne, an atnploye.

Graves of City’s Founders May Be Terminal Site

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UPPER LEFT—EDWIN R. NOWLA XI) STANDING AT HEAD OF HIS ANCESTOR'S DESECRATED GRAVE. UPPER RIGHT-MARKER <>F THE GRAVES OF CHILDREN OF THE HESENER FAMILY. EARLY SET TLERS IN INDIANAPOLIS. LOWED -SHOWING HOW GREENLAW X HAS BECOME A PUBLIC DUMPING GROUND. CIRCLE —RICHARD 1: YURY. 10 YEAR-OLD BOY WHO CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY TJIE OLD CEMETERY IS BEING TORN AWAY.

FRENCH OPPOSE ROHR MEDIATION Dy United Press PARIS, Feb. 26. —The French today said “hands off the Ruhr'' to all nations considering mediation, and proceeded to acquisition of further territory and a lively “strafing" of mutinous German towns. A semi-official statement said Franco would not accept intervention, whether by Britain, Holland or the United States. Pushing forward over a considerable area east of the Rhine, French troops today closed gaps between Bridgehead Arch, provided for by the Versailles treaty, and In doing so almost completely cut off the British in their little sector at Cologne. French troops now hold wide strips of territory on both sides of the British. Montabauer, In territory that was once allotted to America for occupation hut never taken, was seized by the French today. Historian Is Chosen as Ralstons Aide

JACOB P. DUNN Senator-Elect Samuel M. Ralston lias chosen for his secretary a writing man, Jacob P. Dunn, historian. and secretary of the Indiana Historical Society. Ralston and Dunn will leave for Washington soon, Dunn was graduated from Earlham College and the University of Michigan. He is the author of a number of historical works and is recognized as an authority on the hlstor:£ of Indian tribes In this State.

Will the rattle and roar of a modem freight terminal station disturb the saered rest of the founders of Indianapolis in their long sleep In historic old Greenlawn cemetery? That question is causing Edwin TL \ Xowland, 1120 W. Washington St., ! much worry and consternation. Nowj land is the grandson of Mathias R. I Xowland. one of the pioneers of In--1 dianapolls. His ancestor is burled In I the old cemetery. "I'm the, last member of the Nowland family, and I certainly do regret 1 to see the memory of m;,•ancestor and the other pioneer citizens of In;dan a polls desecrated In this way.” | said Xowland, standing at the side of the grave of his tincestor in the ; cemetery today. Vandals Destroy Markers The marker at the head of the elder i Nowland's grav-e is broken—the work of vandals. Overgrown with weeds, cluttered with junk, ashes and the city’s refuse, the graves of pioneers receive no attention front the citizens of the city which these men and women founded. And now it is proposed to take over the site to use as a freight terminal for traction companies. “I'll fight this thing and use my last nickel if necessary.” said Nowland. "It Is an outrage. The people should make this a beauty spot. It should be taken care of and fireserved. Here are burled many of the people who made Indianapolis a great ' city. Their memory should be respected, if we think anything of the city, or our dead.” "Alexander Ralston, the man who laid out tiie plans for our city- and Its wonderful streets is buried here.” Xowland pointed to a spot overgrown with weeds. The marker has been torn down. Not even a chip of stone is left to mark the resting place of the man who planned Monument Circle, and the avenues and streets of this city. Names of many families prominent in Indianapolis’ early history appear on the broken slabs and markers. Hannah Gorden, members of the Kesoner family, .T. Phillip Enners, F. A. Willenburg, rest In the dilapidated cemetery. The shouts of children playing in the old cemete.-y resound over the fallen stones and lost graves. It is a favorite rendezvous of boys. Uncles’ Graves Unmarked ■ "Why are they tearing up the old graveyard?” asked Richard Barry, 10, of 436 Virginia Ave. “That's what I’d like to know, son,” Xowland answered. “I've got two uncles buried here.” the lad continued. "Rut T don’t know where they are. I don’t even know their names. They died long before I was born.’’ Xowland plans to use every means at his command to resist the proposed Senate bill, which provides for the confiscation of the cemetery to be used for the site of a terminal for the traction companies. “I shall enlist the services of Senator English, if T can, to help me,” Xowland said. “Ts the city does decide finally to make it a beauty spot. I am going to enclose the grave of my grandfather in a little iron fence | and make it as attractive as poss’ble.” j Mother and Baby Die Rit I nit ref Press NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—A mother and her eleven months old child, were killed and four others were injured when fire swept through an apartment house on Tenth Ave., early today.

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PLOT BY THREE CHARGED Government Completes (ruse in Bankruptcy ( barges. The Government today completed Its Federal Court case against Oscar H. Bloom. It.iyner Bloom and Harry Rabinow:tz. charged with conspiracy to viola, tin; bankruptcy law. Oscar 11. Bloom formerly v. as proprietor of the Central Meat Market and Bloom's Loan Office. Government witnesses testified that when Bloom became a bankrupt, in Bi2'i removed merchandise from the neat market and loan shop and nine ih and it. Preference of creditors also was charged. IliHtsicr Vets to Initiate A targe class will be initiated by Hoosiet- Post No. 624. Veterans of Foreign Wars, at its monthly meet irig at the Board of Trade building Wednesday night.

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VICTIM IN STUPOR AFTER ATTACK BY TWO WHO ESCAPE No Clew Found to Mysterious Assailants of C, C, Hendricks, Asa result of a brutal attack by two men Charles C. Hendricks, 33. of 1140 Trowbridge St., was in a critical condition at the city hospital today. Physicians said his skull probably was fractured. Hendricks was at Beecher and Hast Sts. at 10:45 p. m. Sunday. Henry C. Andrews, 141 E. Palmer St., said three men were arguing and ;he largest hit Hendricks with his fist. A smaller man knocked Hendricks down with a blackjack. Andrews said. Money Not Touched Police say Hendricks was not robbed. In his pocket was $2. A Masonic ring was on his finger. The object of the attack is a mystery. Hendricks bad not regained consciousness early today. Sergeant O’Connor and the emergency squad investigated. One of the assailants was described as five feet nine inches in height and weighing 160 pounds. He wore a dark soft hat and no overcoat. The other was five fer-t seven inches in height and weighed 155 pounds. He wore a I giav cap and dark overcoat. On Way to Brother’s Mrs. F. E. Carr. Hendricks’ mo*her. j today declared she believed the men j planned to rob her son. She sai l he j bad visited friends at 36 Pleasant Run j Parkway and had left there at 10 I

TIE wm BLOCK C? V— ■' - - - ■ ——^ Again We Lead With the Mewesl ii lilierj Our buyer has just returned with hats purchased at the Fashion Show held in New York only last week. —The kind they are wearing - on Fifth Avenue. Exclusive styles—one and two of a kind. Purchased at unusual concessions. Offered at savings just as unusual. '-Tf u i ‘ An Unusual (i fi ft % Line of $1 If M!U Smart Millinery || B| Style and Value at \LJr Among the new arrivals are the very latest in materials and trimmings, including Horse nair Hats, Canton Crepe combined with Tagal, Milan and Timbo combined with Canton Crepe. They are shown in by far the leading shapes, such as the small Pokes—which is the shape of the minute—with a sprinkling of large Hats. The leading colors are Kind and Brown —with Purple still popular. The softer snades of Pearl gray and Rose also find their place in this assortment. We assure you everything up-to-date in Millinery, because of our frequent trips to the New York market. —FOURTH FLOOR.

Condition Critical Following Attack

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CHARLES C. HENDRICKS.

p. m. She believed he had planned to stop at his brother's home on Barth Ave. Hendricks was divorced two years ago. His mother said no domestic trouble caused the attack. She also said as far as she ksew he had no enemy. Hendricks has been employed as a metal polisher by the Zenite Metal Company. Sad News Awaits Man Police today were trying to locate a man whose name and address were given in a telegram as Charles Abernathy, 433 X. Lane. The name does not appear in the city directory. The telegram, sent by Walter Lemmt t, Cherokee, Kan., stated Abernathy's sister was dead.

MONDAY, FEB. 26,1923

HARD COAL PRICE UNWARRANTED, IS MINERS' CHARGE Union Officials Present Statistics to Federal Coal Commission, Present high price of anthracite coal is not warranted by wages paid the miners or by total cost of production, according to statistics sent the United States coal commission by officials of the United Mine Workers of America from headquarters here today. Net income of six representative coal companies increased 363 per cent from 1912 to 1920, while production increased only .09 per cent for the same period, the figures show. The surplus of four companies increased approximately 739 per cent in the same eight years, according to the union. Ihe statistics show: Cost summary of eight items In production resulted in actual cost of $5.20 a gross commercial ton. At present trices, the margin on each tan is $1,609. Labor cost in the anthracite industry on the basis of an eight-hour day ranges fro $4.20 to $5.42. The working time at the mines does not exceed 272 days a year, or less than $1,500 annual income to the miner. This gives an apparent net income of $103,600,000 on a commercial production of 70.000,000 tons annually for the operators.