Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1923 — Page 2

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GERMANY WILL MAKE NEW REPARATION OFFER TO FRANCE

LOWLANDS UNDER WATER AS RAINS SWELL sms Washout North of Broad Ripple Delays Traction Line Traffic, Swollen streams threatened lowlands in and about Indianapolis today. Immediate danger in many points passed when the rain stopped. The only serious damage reported was a washout on the Union Traction line north of Broad Ripple. Passengers were being transferred from cai' to car at that place. Cars on the Anderson and Muncie division of the Union Traction lines were running late. Lowlands about the city usually flooded during heavy rains were un dc-r water, but no serious damage was reported. Reports from over the State indicated streams were swelling. Lairing the twenty-four hours ending this morning 1.9 Inches of rain had fallen. The forecast is for showers and cooler weather tonight and clearing and cooler Wednesday. White River probably will reach flood stage or above at Blllston. Anderson and Noblesville, the weather bureau reported. There Is no danger In Indianapolis, it was said. Smaller streams along the west fork were reported out of their banks. Over the east fork of White River the rainfall was not quite so heavy. Heavy rainfall, the weather bureau reported, was general over Oklahoma, southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. PHYSICIAN IS DROWNED Flood and Wind Damage at Terre Haute Reported Heavy. By Tufted Pres TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 15. Dr. Thomas A. Drake. Prairietown physician, is dead and property damage Is heavy as a result of a heavy rain and wind which swept the Wabash valley near here last night The physician was drowned when a bridge collapsed with his automobile near Hutton, fifteen miles from here. The local weather bureau reported rainfall of 2.85 inches this morning. The Wabash was expected to reach the fifteen-foot stage or higher. A huge tent in which revival services were being held by E. J. Bulgin, e\angelist, was blown down. * Many bridges were washed out in the county. HEAVY RAINS REPORTED Fear of Flood Expressed in SouthWestern Indiana By United Press VINCENNES, Ind.. May 15.—Heavy rains during last night's storm were reported from all points in southwestern Indiana today. The rainfall here was more than two and three fourths inches, and the Wabash River rose three feet during the night. Fear is held that the rivr will reach a flood stage if there Is additional rain within the next fortyeight hours. At Princeton two inches of rain fell within a few hours. Little damage was reported In this section of the State.

BUTLER STUDENTS WILL OPEN DRIVE i College to Observe Loyalty Day Wednesday, Butler University will observe Boyalty day on Wednesday when a student endowment campaign will be opened. Although no definite goal has been set, an effort will be made to secure a pledge of SIOO, to be paid within five years, from each of the 908 students, campaign leaders said today. A meeting for all students will be held at 10 a. m. in the gymnasium. Dr. Jabez Hall will offer a prayer. Dr. Robert J. Aley. president ct the university, will speak, followed by Prof. Howard E. Jensen, representing the faculty; Russell Richardson and Henry Goett. representing the students. and Ensley Johnson, representing the alumni. Following a dinner for the 125 campaign workers at noon at the Downey Avenue Christian Church active canvassing among the students will begin. The workers met today when Frank Brown, graduate of 1897, talked. LIBERTY BONDS ARE BAIL Anton Costa Appeals to Supreme Court After Being Sentenced to Farm. Liberty bonds amounting to $2,500 today were accepted as appeal bond when Anton Costa of Staunton, 111., appealed a sentence of ninety' days on the penal farm and two fines of S3OO and SIOO from Criminal Court to Supreme Court. He was sentenced in Criminal Court by Special Judge Frank a Symmes late Monday on charges of operating a I blind tiger and operating a stiil ille- 1 gaily. He was fined S3OO and costs on the first count, and SIOO and costs on I the second. Costa was arrested December 13. 1922, on a farm south of Indianapolis ; with his brother and sister-in-law. j Dominic and Antonia Costa, who were found not guilty. Gasoline Up 2 Cents By United Press KANSAS CITY, May 15.—Gasoline was advanced 2 cento to 17 tfc cents i a gallon by several leading oil com i pfinieo here today following confer- j

Women Prominent in Unitarian Conference

LEADERS ATTENDING THE SEVENTY-FIRST ANNUAL WESTERN UNITARIAN CONFERENCE HERE ARE (LEFT TO RIGHT). L. LESTER TEEGUARDEN. EDITOR OF THE ALL SOULS BULLETIN; MRS. CORA BROCKWAY, IN CHARGE OF CONVENTION MUSIC; THE REV. CLARA COOK HELVIE, PASTOR OF THE MOLINE. ILL., UNITARIAN CHURCH; THE REV. MINNA BUDLONG, PASTOR OF THE UNITARIAN CHURCH AT KALAMAZOO, MICH., AND DR. FRANK S. C. WICKS. PASTOR OF ALL SOULS CHURCH OF INDIAN AFOLIS HOST OF THE CONVENTION.

DISCIPLES REVIEW YEAR’S PROGRESS AT ANNUAL MEET C, W, Cauble Outlines Success of County Conferences in Indiana, By Times Special FRANKFORT, Ind., May 15.—Importance of county conventions In furthering work of the church was emphasized today by C. W. Cauble, Indianapolis, who for ten years has been general secretary of the Disciples of Christ, at the annual State convention of the church. He pointed out that conferences had been attended during the past year by from 15 to 20 per cent more workers than in past years. The county, he said, is the natural and logical division for Christian work. Reports showed that 515.038.51 had been collected through various mediums Disbursements for the year totaled 817,830.83. C. E. Tomes, Gary, president, made the annual address. "There are 717 churches of the Disciples of Christ In Indiana." he said. "The membership is 140.000. The convention represents those churches. The spirit of the convention may be taken as the spirit of the churches in general.” The report of the Christian Endeavor Society showed that the number of societies is greater than ever before.

ASKS REVISION OF FREIGHT SCHEDULE Chamber of Commerce Appears Against Railroads, Appreciable saving in freight rates on coal shipped in Indiana could be made through revision of schedules on basis of actual distance between distributing points and destinations declared H. A. Holopeter, assistant traffic manager of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, in the chamber's case against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and twentv-eight other railroads before the public service commission today. R. B. Coapstick, traffic manager for the chamber, charged rates on coal shipments of more than thirty miles were relatively higher than intrastate rates in Illinois and Ohio, and likewise higher than interstate rates between the same States and Indiana. Holopeter presented charts compiled for the chamber and R. E. Teverbaugh showed specifically where reroutings c >uld be made.

POLICE INVESTIGATE WAVE OF PETTY CRIME IN CITY When employes of the Adam Roger Company, Ray' and Dover Sts., reported for work this morning they found the company’s flivver resting on the front springs. The front wheels and tires, valued at S2OO, had been removed. A SSO fur w'as stolen from the apartment occupied by Lucille McCollough, 1509 E. Washington St. A purse containing $26 was stolen from the homi of Mrs. William 11. Eunderknecht. 2009 Ringgold Ave. THREE CARLOADS OF I. W. W. UNDER ARREST By United Xetcs LOS ANGELES, May 15.—A determined drive to rid Los Angeles and the San Pedro harbor district of their T. W. W. element, began Monday when asserted radicals whom they arrested police loaded four trolley cars with on streets of San Pedro. One hundred and forty cops, under the supervision of Captain Clyde L. Plummer of San Pedro and Chief of Police Louis D. Oaks, began the task of "restoring peace and order" in the harbor district. Action on Road Bonds The State tax board today approved a $30,000 bond :sue for the Albert H Johnson road in Pike County and a $39,000 issue for the William Pyle toad. It refused a $63,000 Issue for the H. G. Draper road In Gibson County. Capital Is SIS<WIOO The Bedford Quarry Company today filed articles ol^^orporation. Capital stock, jfOrators, Ralph Reod,

STATE EMPLOYES GO UP LeKoy F. Wertz Becomes Assistant Maintenance Engineer. Leßoy F. Wertz, for the last year j chief clerk of the State highway commission and for two years connected ! with that body, today became assistant maintenance engineer of the. commission. His promotion gave room for the appointment of L. C. Johnson, clerk in the office of the State auditor, as ids successor. LEAGUE QUESTION IS DISCUSSED AT UNITARIAN MEET Education Topic for Addresses at Session This Evening, Question of participation by the United States in the League of Nations would be submitted to a national ref erendum under an a.-t of Congress if a ; resolution, which was introduced t .and iy at the seventy-first annual session of the Western Unitarian Conferem e at ( AH Souls Church, was followed by j Congress. The resolution was presented by ! Dr. Augustus Reccord of Detroit, Mich., and will be acted upon late to day or Wednesday. Dr. Reccord declares that “war be tween nations should be abcdlshed and peaceful methods of settling disputes substituted for war and this vital need cannot t,e brought about in any way except by cooperation <>f all principal nations of the world." Dr. Reccord asks that the convention favor a complete divorcement of the issue from politics and tha* a national referendum be held under an act of Congress to determine If the United States shall join the League of I Nations. Among Important addresses were, those by Rev. Robert S. Iv.ring of Mil- j waukee, Sidney S. Robins of Ann Ar- ! bor and Dr. George R. Dodson of St. | Louis. Tonight a platform discussion \ of education will bo held. , Principal addresses tonight will be i by Prof. Arthur E. Morgan of Antioch College and United States Senator W. N. Ferris of Big Rapids, Mich. The convention closes Wednesday. Woman’s Rings Stolen A thief carried away two rings, valued at $75, from the apartment of Mrs. Edna Hall, 212 W. Twenty-First St., she told police today.

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(WYCOMBE GIVES STIFF SENTENCES IN LIQUOR CASES Six Men and One Woman Convicted - Two Discharged in City Court, Six men and one woman were convicted and two men were discharged on blind tiger charges by Judge Pro Tern. Lloyd Claycombe In city court today. Those discharged were Mike. Doscon, 201 Bertha St., and Earl Tincher, 1558% N. Illinois SU While his wife, with a three-month-old baby in her arms and u 3-yoar-old boy clinging to her skirts, watched proceedings. Kappa Wltkovlch, 4100 Speedway Ave„ whs fined S2OO and costs and sentenced to sixty days on the Indiana State farm. An investigator testified he purchased white mule from Wltkovlch for $1.25 a half pint. Frank M. Trotter, Apartment J. 3380 N Meridian St., was fined S2OO and costs and sentenced to sixty days on the farm. Mrs. Arfina Bizzey. 508 N. Jk-nare Ave., who admitted her husband Is in the county Jail, serving a sentence imposed in Federal Court for violation of liquor laws, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to thirty days In the woman’s prison. Charles Knox, 234 E. Pratt St., was fined $.V' and costa, Lee Shelton, 410 N. Minkner St., and Alex Veschusky, 1010 Wilcox St., were lined S2OO and costs each and sentenc'd to thirty days In jail. Charles Hill, city re ceived a sentence of sixty days on the farm and a fine of S2OO and costs. WIDOW OF LATE SENATOR TOM WATSON IS DEAD Death Comes Suddenly From Acute Attack of Diabetes. By United Press THOMSON, Ga„ May 15. —Funeral services for Mrs. Watson, widow of the late Senator Torn Watson, who died at her home will he held tomorrow. Mrs. Watson, who had been ill for several days, became suddenly worse last night and died from an acute attack of diabetes. Fight Promoter 111 By I'nitrd Press MUNCIE, rnd., May 15.—Fred Mann, fight, promoter and manager of Mickey O’Dowd, Monday suffered an attack of brain congestion. The attack is the second in a week Mann’s condition la critical.

ELECTRICIAN IS BURNED I j Presence of Mind of Fellow Worker Saves His life. EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 15.—Mar- ] shall King, 40, lineman of the South- | orn Indiana Gas and Electric Com- | pany, was seriously burned today I when a short circuit formed between I wires on which he was working. The .presence of mind of a fellow worker,! t who cut King’s safety belt and allowed i him to fall twenty feet to the ground : probably saved King's life. Electric power In the city was tied I up on account of the accident. FGRD HAS MORE THAN‘EVEN BREAK’! FOR NOMINATION Strength of Manufacturer in South and West Is Considerable. By United Prese WASHINGTON. Mav 15.—Henry Ford has more than en chance for capturing th Democr. ’lo nomination for President In 1934. If Ford goes in it will he Ford! against the field and Ford will h.< o; more popular hfi"klng than any one j candidate could show today. II" will be bitterly fought by most of the Democratic professional politJ-i clans, who do not like him because ho j is not a professional* politician. He Is not a party man at all In the sense i that to him the party Is the thing and ; the politicians hate him for that. But they aro confronted with the' fact that Ford not only could carry! the Democratic South, but that ho would poll a big popular vote In the ; Middle West and Fur West. His ' strength In the industrial East among ! the workingmen would bo considerable, the politicians admit, though ■ they say h.> could not carry any northern State cast of the Allegheny* Senator Pat Harrison, one of the | shrewdest political observers th<> 5 Democrats have, has just come back I to Washington from a tour that carHad him South and West. Ho say* Ford’s strength isn’t siiHpecter by most, of the politicians. "If Henry l ord goes Into the prl-j murles he wil} undoubtedly sweep the South and West.” Harrison said today "t am not inflating a boom for him. ! nor urn I committed to him or to any’ other Democrat. But the fact is ho Is tremendously strong among the! voters.”

‘BOYS IN BLUE’ ARE UNDAUNTED BY BAD WEATHER Evansville and Bluffton Vets Seek 1924 Encampment for Home Cities. By United Press MUNCIE, Ind., May 15.—" We’re not afraid of a little rain," was the word on lips of veterans as they ! began pouring in this morning for the | annual Grand Army Statq encamp- | ment. | As the sun peeped out shortly be- ; fore noon, the guests, many wearing j uniforms of blue, formed line and | marched to the Union Station to greet j State Commander William E. Kelsey and his staff. At noon the Evansville delegation arrived on a special car and while they were staging a demonstration the Bluffton delegation, also seeking I the 1924 gathering, arrived. The rivals paraded side-by-side. Hotels are crowded and hundreds of homes are open to guests. Boy Scouts are acting as escorts. Janies Burns, 73, of Terre Haute, is recognized as the youngest veteran present. He enlisted in service at tlie age of 13. Parks as Resting Places Benches from the three city parks were along the streets as resting places for the veterans and thousands of automobiles bear on ' uelr windshields invitations to ride. Old buddies met with warm hand- ! clasps: tales of bygone days and word of comrades who will not again 1 take part in encampments, went round as the Boys in Blue, assembled. The encampment opened officially with the arrival of the headquarters train from Indianapolis. A tour of the city was made t! is afternoon. Following the tour, the veterans participated in unveiling a mem, rial tablet in honor of Delaware County sold'era of the Civil. .Spanlsh-American and World Wars. Everson Is Speaker Brig. Gen. TVilllani G. Everson of this city will he speaker at a ban qu*t this evening. At 8:39 State ; officers will be given a reception The Women's Relief Corps devoted the day largely t busln* ss. They participated In tree planting In the : courthouse yard in honor of Clara Barton, Army nurs<\ and Mrs John A. Logan They also presented flags J to Boy and Girl Scouts.

SEEKS LIBERTY ON LIQUOR DECISION Woman in Prison Says Supreme Court Ruling Permits Release, Whether the recent Indiana Supreme Court ruling that mere possession of liquor is riot, illegal will suffice to release prisoners now serving sentence fur posssession, was to be decided in a case this afternoon before Superior Judge Clinton A. Givan. Frank J. Liston, attorney, representing Daisy Deane, colored, of Munch), Ind., held she was committed illegally last December to the Indiana Woman's Prison by the Delaware Circuit Court. She sought release on habeas corpus. "The indictment in the Delaware Circuit Court charges this plaintiff with possession of liquor, nothing more," said Liston's brief. “1 am making a collateral attack on a decision because tlio court had no jurisdiction. We will carry It to the United States Court If denied,’ because she is deprived of liberty without due process of law.”

LOCAL CAFiTAL IN PLANT PURCHASE Alexandria Factory Transfer Involves $250,000, Acquisition of the Ziegler Manufacturing Company, Alexandria, Ind., by a group of Terre Haute and Indianapolis men was announced today by Ancil T. Brown and Fred Kleinsmith, president and secretary treasurer of the Brown Efficiency Bureau, who negotiated the deal. Capital of approximately $250,000 is involved. The plant makes automatic machine screw products and metal stampings. Expansion is planned. Henry K. Dalzell, Terre Haute, is president; Andrew' Nelson, Terre Haute, general manager and Fred MllLis, Indianapolis, Is secretary- treasurer of the new concern. Other directors are W. J. Freeman and A. W. Pauli. TAXI DRIVER IS FINED Convicted of Failure to Stop After Accident. George O. Bloom, 523 Patterson St., taxi driver, was fined $25 and costs in Criminal Court today when found guilty of failure to stop after an accident. Walter Brooks, 17, of 1530 Le Grand Ave., testified that Bloom ran through a safety zone and struck him while he was riding a bicycle at Massachusetts Ave. and Walnut St. on Feb. 27. Other witnesses testified that Bloom was speeding. 8100 msaid he W’as going ten miles an hour and the y Todeln front of him. *

Berlin Will Follow Advice of Britain, Following 'Rebuke/ By United News BERLIN, May 15. —Germany will follow the advice of Great Britain and , make anew reparations offer to France. Chancellor Cuno and his cabinet ! ministers, who conferred on Britain's j answer to the Ihirty billion gold marks reparations offer, are inclined to be displeased with the tone of the note, which is regarded in governmental ' circles as an "unwarranted rebuke” to Germany. j Despite this, the Berlin government 1 apparently realizes the soundness of the advice of Britain and has ordered I experts to start the draft of anew reparations offer. It is anticipated it. will be some weeks before the new proposal Is drafted, as the government is placed in the embarrassing position of having to increase her offer despite ! the fact that it has gone on record as declaring that thirty billion mark.-, is the limit of Germany’s capacity to pay. Cuno, it is understood, is keenly disappointed at the reception of the suggestion that an international commission of experts be appointed to examine Into Germany's ability to pay. The government was confident that this idea, which was first suggested In the New Haven speech of Secretary of State Hughes, would be warmly received. RUSSIA WANTS BRITISH PEACE Note Expresses Desire to Continue Relations With England. By United News MOSCOW, May 15.—Russia wants peace with Britain. The communist government, in a note addressed to Great Britain Monday, expressed its desire to continue relations and suggested the points in dispute bet's een the two countries be thrashed out in a conference. The Russian communication was the answer to Great Britain’s ultimatum which st' .e'i the Latter would break off t ie Rnd semidiplomatlc relations ■ Russia refused to discontinue anti-British propaganda in Egypt, India and other British Colonies and apologize for the dispat' h of certain notes and the commission of acts which Britain considers unfriendly. Russia admits she sent certain sums of money to her agents in the East, bm denied that the money was used for anti British propaganda. RABBI'S TWO SONS ONCER INDICTMENT Violation of Liquor Laws Is Charged. An indictment charging Samuel and Isidore Hartman, sons of Rabbi Jacob Hartman, 53 E. McCarty St., with violating liquor laws Avas returned by the county' grand jury today. The two were arrested April 28, when 700 gallons of “sacramental wine" and twelve cases of champagne were found at the rabbi's home in a raid made by county and Federal officers, who said they were led by Ku-Klux Xian investigators. The indictment charges that liquor Avas sold to Max Klein. The raiding party said the wine was sold at $2.75 a quart. The Hartmans said the wine was intended for use in the Hungarian Hebrew Congregation. 433 E. Market St. Others Indicted for violating liquor laws were: William Ray. R. R. O.; Harry Kelley, 1446 Roosevelt Ay'e., all charged with running a still, and Walter Faust. R. R. O. and Earl Bolden, 1435 N. Senate Ave., selling. Seven others were indicted on minor charges.

NEW COLD WAVE, SAYS WEATHERMAN Spell to Be of ‘Marked In- | tensity,' Says Washington, ; By United Press WASHINGTON, May 15.—Another cold wave of marked intensity is sweeping down on the country out of i the northwest, trailing in its wake j snow and freezing temperatures, the weather bureau announced today. By otnight the Ohio valley States i will be in its grip and tomorrow night the Atlantic coast will shiver from low if not freezing temperature. SHOOTING AFFAIR ENDS WITH WOMAN'S DEATH Mrs. Lola Fades Shot by Man Who Killed Self. Bu United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind.. May 15.—The death Monday night of Mrs. Lola Eades climaxed a double shooting here Sunday. William S. Crowe, said to have bean infatuated with the woman, entered 1 her rooming house Snuday afternoon and shot and killed himself after fatally wounding Mrs. Eades. Mrs. Crowe, wife of the dead man, says she attributed the tragedy to Crowe’s despondency over separation from her. POISON PLOT IS CHARGED Alleging that May 6 her husband, on a pretext, got her to leave an unfinished dinner a moment and then put poison In the food, Mrs. Roxanna J. Curry, 35 E. Thirty-Fifth St. ,to day filed suit in Superior Court for j divorce from Alonzo Curry. Mrs. j Curry charges that her husband and j his mother conspired to get possession of her property. Curry denies the j charges. j

TUESDAY, MAY 15,1923

VETERAN SLEEPS 4 IN LAST REST AS COMRADES MEET William H, Dicks, 83, Dies Here on Eighty-Third Birthday. AVhile his comrades gathered at Muncie for the State G. A. R. encampment William H. Dicks. 83, Civil War veteran, today slept his last sleep at the home of his son, Gifford Dicks, 2221 Cushing St. He died Monday on his eighty-third birthday'. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a. m. Wednesday' at the son’s residence. The body' will be taken to Lebanon, Ind., where services will be held In the afternoon at the Methodist Episcopal Church. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery. Wounded at Chattanooga Mr. Dicks was born in Greencastle, Ind., May 14, 1840. He enlisted in the Union Army* during the CiA'il War. He was a member of Gen. Wilder's mounted infantry. During the '. it M of Chattanooga he was wounded. After his discharge from the army, Mr. Dicks engaged in farming in Illinois and near Ivebanon, Ind. Mr. Dicks lived for five years In Martinsville, Ind. He had lived with his son here since October. Twelve Grandchildren He was a member of the George 11. Chapman post, G. A R. Surviving Mr. Dicks are three sons, Gifford and Lee O. Dicks, of Indianapolis, and Wilbur Dicks, of Lebanon: one daughter, Mrs. Mary Welch, of Lebanon, twelve grandchildren and three great-grand-children. GLENN REQUESTS AUDITION OF 15 TRAFFIC POLICE Board of Public Safety Names Six Substitute Firemen — Money Sought. An ordinance to appropriate for salaries of fifteen additional traffic policemen was ordered by the board of public safety- today'. The order followed receipt of a letter from Traffic Captain Gleen stating his department was short fourteen men, and that additional help was needed to enforce new traffic ordinance. There are about seventy men in the traffic department now. Glenn, in the letter, said the day shift was short at Meridian and South, Kentucky and Maryland, New Jersey and Washington, and other street intersections. He said the night shift needed men at Meridian and Washington, Pennsylvania and Ohio, Sixteenth and Meridian, Thirtieth and Clifton, Meridian and Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington, Twenty-Fifth and Meridian and Thirtieth and Meridian Sts. The board appointed as substitute firemen: Ralph O. Aldrich, F. E. Potter, Olen H. Hilt. Edward Weber, John S. McHugh and Fay E. Rugh. Salaries of the new men are covered In an appropriation made by the city council last week. Four more are to be appointed. Fire Chief John J. O'Brien said cuts would be made soon in some of the companies in order to form a truck company for Broad Riple. He recommended charges he made for all runs of the fire department outside the city.

COUNTY REDUCES • COALBILL $10,(00 Contract Let Shows Big Saving Over Last Year, A saving of SIO,OOO over purchases of coal last year was announced today by county commissioners as they let a contract to furnish the county 200 cars of the fuel. The Rader Coal Company was awarded the contract on the lowest of ten bids, $3.34 a ton for Indiana mine run, No. 4 vein, delivered to the Poor Farm, and $3.78 a ton for that delivered to Julietta and Sunnvslde. The price at the mine is $2.20 a ton, railroad freight rates being $1.14 and $1.58 a ton, respectively. Bids on coke for the jail and other institutions ranged from $12.15 to sl4 a ton, and those on No. 4 mine run coal from $5.55 to $5.75. These contracts have not been let. Contract for 4,000 tons of coal'with an option on 6,000 tons additional, was awarded to the Rader Coal Company by the board of sanitary commissioners today, on a bid nf $2.50 a ion, F. O. B. mines. Freight will amount to $1.14 a ton. The coal will be used at the garbage reduction plant at Sellers Farm. Fountain Peris Gone A fountain pen mystery was presented to the' police today. Six fountain pens were reported missing from the McElwaine Pharmacy, Boulevard PI., and Forty-Second St. Watch for Flipped Chicks Indianapolis police were asked todp.y to look for a flock of chickens with their tails clipped. Charles RatIjff. Linton, telephoned chickens answering this description and worth $34 were stolen from his coop last night.