Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1923 — Page 2

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BURGLARS VISIT MANY HOMES-WATCHDOG AMONG LOOT

Eccentric Caller Enters Woodruff Place Residences, An eccentric burglar entering two homes in Woodruff Place early todaj not only robbed sleeping residents, but stole Jerry, an Irish terrier watch dog. took suspenders from a pair oi pants and then escaped as Mr: Margaret Kenny, 960 W. Drive, gave the alarm. Activity of burglars was reported t< police from all parts of the city. Mrs. Kenny said a flash of light, awakened her at 2:30 a. m. “When I saw the light a second lime, I knew it was a burglar,” she said. “ ‘Get out of here,’ I ordered. “He ran downstairs. The burglar had ransacked rooms in the lower part of the house. Change amounting to $1.50, and a watch valued at $35 were missing from some clothing. Makes Another Call That the burglar who entered the home of Mrs. Kenney also visited the residence of Walter Carpenter, 926 W. Drive, was not known until later. Entrance was gained to the Carpenter home on a ladder being used by painters. Carpenter discovered his -trousers looted and $5 missing. A watch -in his vest pocket was overlooked. The burglar thoughtfully laid keys and oth 7 -r objects not wanted on the window sill. Burglars entered the Carton and Doyle grocery store, 343 E, South St. v by breaking a.glass from the side door early today. The thieves obtained $6 and a supply of cigarettes, chewing 1 gum and candy valued at $5. While the family of Thomas Schram, 910 E. Maple Rd. was away Monday night, a burglar ransacked every room. The thief took $lO, a SSO opal ring, a S3O tortoise ring and a $l5O : sapphire ring. A thief used a skeleton key to un- ! lock the door of the home of Emma J Hiatt, SOStj Wi Merrill St., Monday! while she was away. The burglar, carried a wag two watches, a gold locket, a Sacred Heart pin, a diamond tie pin and four or five other articles of jewelry. Skeleton Key Used Mrs. Nellie Farr. 919 Massachusetts Ave., today told police she left home Saturday and returned Monday night, j While she was gone a thief used a j skeleton key to enter her flat, doth- j ing valued at S4O was missing. Thieves obtained a supply of gro-1 ceries by forcing a window in the i warehouse of the Grocers Supply Com- j pany, 214 W. McCarty St. The loot j Included seventy-five pounds of coffee, seventy-two cakes of soap, two dozen j boxes of matches and two dozen cans ! of milk. A. 11. Disler discovered the i robbery. A burglar took a $25 suit of clothes, Herbert Shope, 2405 Northwestern Ave., told police today, while the family was away Monday. H. O. Hoffman, 452 N. Gray St., left S6O in the pocket when he sent a coat to a cleaner. The money was missing when the coat came lack. Detectives are investigating disappearance of a $450 ring owned by Mrs. Arthur Volin. 4420 Central Ave. Volin told the police the ring was either lost or stolen while hts wife was in a downtown lunchroom Monday. The ring had two one-half karat diamonds and two long blue sapphires. D. K. Springer, who has offices at the Union Stockyards, today told detectives a thief took two tires, valued at S6O. from his car. parked at the stockyards. While an automobile owned by Albert Schillinger, R. R. P. box 303, was parked on S. Pennsylvania St., near the elevation, a thief took a tire valued at $25. While an automobile owned by Jack Simpson, 2139 Talbott Ave.. was parked at Meridian St. and the elevated tracks, a thief took a tire valued at sls. OIL SHALE RICH INHOOSIERDOM Six Counties in Southern Part of State Abound in Deposit, By Timet Special WASHINGTON, June 12.—Some day is going to experience a ‘rush’ to the oil fields situated between North Vernon and New Albany. Four hundred and fifty billion gallons of oil are awaiting the prospector in the oil shale lying exposed at the surface, and available for mining operations in Jennings. Jefferson. Jackson. Scott, Floyd and Clark Counties, according to the Interior department report report today. The shale is in a strip fro mfive to ten miles wide and fifty miles long. Much other oi! shale lies beneath rocks and is mineable only by underground operations, the report says. The Indiana shale can be mined at much lower cost than the shale in Scotland or western United States.

GRAND JURY RETURNS ELEVEN INDICTMENTS Man Charged With Booze Law Viola, tion and Drawing Weapon. Eleven indictments returned today by the Marion County grand jury included one charging violation of liquor laws against Henry and Mary Slick, R. R. E. Box 220. Another charged Slick with drawing deadly weapons on Lieut. William Cox, chief of a raiding squad. May 27. Elmore and Minor Bryant, R. R. X. Box 40, were indicted .on liquor charges. Roy Steward and Arthur Cranz were charged with petit larceny: Joseph H. Bering, failure to stop after an accident, and Harrison Gray, Roy Williams and Preston Wilson with grand larceny. Two Indictments were against fugitives. Radio Set Stolen A radio set valued at sl6 has been * **_£*/>■.£* 'iSjrPR& r 7i 30

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MRS. ROGERS HORNSBY FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE Wife of St, Cardinals' Second Sacker Alleges General Indignities in Her Complaint,

By United Frets ST. LOUIS, June 12.—Mrs. Sarah E. Hornsby, wife of Rogers Hornsby, star second-sacker of the St. Louis Cardinals, late yesterday flied suit for divorce in the Circuit Court here, charging general Indignities. Mrs. Hornsby, in her petition, states she was married to Hornsby In Philadelphia. Sept. 23, 1918. and separated from him in St. Louis, Dec. 27. 1922. She also charges her husband was quarrelsome and refused to take her to places of amusement and was Indifferent to her. She asks alimony in a lump sum and the custody of their son, Rogers Hornsby, Jr., 2s£ years old. Hornsby 7 entered a general denial. Mrs. Hornsby went to California five months ago. immediately after she had “learned what was going on," she said in a recent interview At the time she intimated her divorce action would be closely 7 associated with the hearing on the divorce case of Mrs. Jeannette Pennington Hine. in which Hornsby’s name was mentioned as the author of a love note to Mrs. Hine. Shortly after the note was made public, Hornsby 7 denied all knowledge of it. He asserted he had nothing

FIRE LOSS SHOWS LARGE DECREASE UNDER LAST YEAR Patrolman Fisher Resigns-Be-cause Pay Is Too Small, Fire losses in Indianapolis for May amounted to $48,142. as compared with $68,834 for the same month of last year, according to a report submitted today by Fire Chief John J. O’Brien to the board of safety. Although the loss showed a dei crease of $22,692, there were 296 fires j this year against 169 for May. 1922. Traffic Congestion Complaints concerning congested traffic conditions at the traction freight terminal, Capitol Ave. on Seventeenth St., between Park and Central Aves, and on Bird St., — between New York and Vermont Sts., were received. The complaints will be taken up with Michael Glenn, captain of traffic, and the city council traffic committee. The resignation of Patrolman E. E. | Fisher was accepted. He said pay I was insufficient. I Greenwood Gets Bill Francis F. Hamilton, building com missioner. reported an order issued j to Ronald A. Foster to wreck a buildI ing at 606 E. Ohio St. Oscar E. Wise, secretary 7, reported !he had sent a bill to the town of i Greenwood, for $137.50, for a run ! made by the fire department June 8. i This is the first charge made under | the new ruling of the board that $25 j an hour would be charged for runs j outside the city. * REPUBLICAN POLITICS BUBBLE AT MUNCIE Eighth District Leadens Plan for Coming Campaign. By United Frets MUNCIE, Ind., June 12.-—Politics of the Republican variety, bubbled in | Muncie today as party leaders from I the Eighth district gathered for the i meeting where plans for the coming campaign were to be threshed out. Guests at the dinner were Senator James E. Watson and Edward Toner, Anderson. All were speakers on the jirogram at the luncheon and spoke during the afternoon. Governor McCray was unable to attend the meeting. STOCK SALE AUTHORIZED Power Company Gets Permission to Issue Securities. The Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company, operating in a score of northern Indiana cities, was authorized by the public service commission today to issue and sell $4,000,000 in betterment securities. The sale will include $1,000,000 in common capital stock and $3,000,000 of the company’s Class "A” 7 per cent preferred stock. Among cities in which the utility operates are Ft. Wayne, Hammond. Crawfordsville, Lafayette. Plymouth, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. Grain Company Incorporates The McCardle-Black Company, wellknown grain dealrs, filed articles of .Incorporation today, listing capital stock at SIO,OOO and directors as John W. McCardle, chairman of the public service commission; Bert K. Black and XffY J. McCardle.

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to say in regard to the note, but he would defend himself when the matter was brought, up again. The note, which contained endearing terms, and was signed “Koge,” was alleged to have been posted at Bradentov/n, Fla., the spring training camp of the Cardinals.

Explosion Victim Is Expected to Recover

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WILLIAM JOHNSON

PICTURE OPERATORS MAY PICKET SHOWS

Labor Union Denounces Sunday Amusements —Defiance of Ordinance Threatened,

Members of the Motion Picture Operators Union today threatened defiance of the anti-picketing ordinance. Arthur Lyday, organizer for the Union, following passage of a resolution denouncing Sunday amusements by the Central Labor Union Monday evening, declared the expression was directed against non union movie houses. The union recently caused the arrest of managers and employes of several non union theaters on eharges of violating the Sunday law. “Picketing is against the law 7 ,” said Lyday, “We aim, however to use pickets Sunday. The men probably will be arrested, but it will look quee* 7 to see men arrested for violation of the law in picketing and the owners of the houses not to be arrested for operating their houses on Sunday.” The Central Labor Union voted to

FROM FAR AND NEAR

William Weatherford. Bloomington. 111., patrolman, was beaten severely when he attempted to arrest his two brothers on a bootlegging charge. Governor Blaine. Wisconsin, has signed an anti-daylight savings bill. Robbers locked C. S. Robison, cashier of the Missoula, Mont., Farmers State Bank, in a vault and escaped with $4,000 cash. Missing for more than a year and believed dead, George M. Rogers, telephoned to relatives at Cordele, Ga., Monday night he was coming home. Mrs. Malinda Collinoi, Chicago widow, was praised by a coroner’s jury because she shot and killed Richard Condi, 52, a friend, who attempted to enter her bedroom. Three men were injured in a gas explosion in the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre coal mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa. A bill to repeal the Georgia bone dry law will be. introduced in the next Legislature, Atlanta wet leaders say. French cabinet officials announce United States will be invited to a general conference of the powers on reparations. Many persons are reported drowned in floods in the province of Berm in Russia. J. L. Jacobs, Cook County, 111., purchasing agent, has prescribed time clocks for Jurists and other county employes as an economy oteasure. Peggy Marsh announced her engage-

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Charles Davis, foreman in a local newspaper mailing room for nineteen years will move late this month to California. Although Davis has been a member of the mailers' union for over thirty years, he says he will take up some other line of work. In past years he has planned the

YOUTH IN SERIOUS CONDITION AFTER SEWER GAS BLAST William Johnson Burned in Accident at Filling Station, William Johnson, 19, of ISO 6 Ash land Ave., was in a serious condi tion today as the result of burns received in an explosion of sewer gas in the basement of the Silver Flash filling station. Meridian and TwentyFifth Sts., Monday night. Harry J. Bolder, 18, of 4245 Sunset Ave , was gassed. Clarence Johnson. William Johnson and Harry Bolder were changing their clothes In the basement. William Johnson was said to have lighted a match. The basement was full of sewer gas Men had been working on the sewer during the day. Flames filled the room of the basement In which the stairway was located. William Johnson ran up the stairway. His working clothes wore saturated with oil. Flames instantly enveloped Ills body. Neighbors rushed to the filling sta tion and fire extinguishers put out the flames on Johnson's clothing A woman is said to have wrapped an ex pensive cape around the Injured man. He Wits taken to St. Vincent s Ilos pital. Bolder recovered quickly from the gas fumes. Several thousand gallons of gasoline in large tanks under ground at the filling station were not threatened by the explosion.

send twenty-five boys to the Riley Hospital benefit game this afternoon. The proposed action of the county commissioners in lowering the salary of Dr. Harold S. Hatch, head of Sunny- ; side Tuberculosis SanitoHum, was condemned by the labor body. Work of 1 Dr. Hatch was praised by members of the organization. Several union men jhuve been taken care of at the institution. they pointed out. Dissatisfaction was expressed on the j difficulty of getting patients into the i institution by John Smith of the stage i hands. Resulting from his discussion a committee was appointed to interview county commission on The proper way to gain admittance to the sanitorlum. The committee: Henry Frßcdman, chairman; Frank McKamey, John E. Smith, Milton N. McCord, L. A. Barth, secretary of the Central Labor Union.

ment in Paris Monday to Thomas B. Wells, Minneapolis, son of the publisher of Harper’s magazine. Appointment of a “dictator” for Wall Street to restore confidence among investigators is being considered in Eastern financial circles. The Farmers’ National Stabilization committee says more stringent control of meat packers will be asked of the next Congress. Monarchists gained seats while the Socialists lost in the Spanish Parliament, according to Monday’s election returns. The Wisconsin Senate will be asked this week to publicly probe reports of "drinking bouts” by legislators. BOND CLUB GOLF MEET ENDS AT RIVERSIDE TODAY Banquet at Highland Tops Off First Day of Tourney. Members of the Indianapolis Bond Men’s Club banqueted at the Highland Golf and Country Club Monday night, following the first day of the annual club golf tourney concluded at the Riverside golf links late today. Charles W. Jewett, former maycr, presided at the dinner and conducted the handicap auction on today’s players. The cup was awarded to Sol Meyer last year and Indications at the close of Monday’s tourney were that Ferd S. Meyer Jr. would carry today's honor and win*the award.

mailers' annual picnic. This year the picnic was arranged “over his head” and was held Sunday, several days ahead of time. More than 125 members of Mailer’s Union No. 10 from local newspapers and job offices and their families were present at Idlewold Park, near Pendleton. Dads was presented with a watch by members of the union.

PIONEER RESIDENT OF CITY ANSWERS DEATH SUMMONS Mrs, Sarah M, Caplinger Had Lived He-re 73 Years — Funeral Wednesday, The Rev. W. E. Cissna will officiate at funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Mildred Caplinger, 90. who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William It. Johnson, 57 S. Holmes Ave.. Monday. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 at the Johnson residence, with burial in Mt. Jackson Cemetery. Mrs. Caplinger was born In Carl County, Ky. When 17 she moved to Indianapolis, which had been iter home since. Mrs. Caplinger was the mother of ten children, four of whom are liv ing. They are: John Caplinger, Friendswood. Ind ; Mrs. W. R. Johnson. Mrs Saliie McClain and Mrs. Edgar Halslup, all of Indianapolis. Twenty one grandchildren. 25 greatgrandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Bernard Cheek, Somerset, Ky., also survive Mrs. Caplinger was the widow 7 of Paul Caplinger, who saw service in the Mexican war. She was a mem her of the first church organized in Mt. Jackson.

CAN YOU QUALIFY ON STANDARDS OF UNIVERSITY CO-EDS MILWAUKEE, Wis„ June 12.—A man tall, with either blue, gray o: brown eyes, ambitious, a home lover, good talker, mixer and dancer and must have a college education, having good looks and wealth no essential, but must be of moderate means, and a man of his word, with the nbillty to concentrate his love and the methods of a caveman—this is what Marque: e University co eds think an ideal man should he and posses. In a questionnaire sent to twentyfive Marquette University co-eds here thr above requirements nr© a general idea of what they expect of their fin tine husband. T t the questionnaire sent to the coeds was asked the question "What sor of a man do you wish for your husband? The Qualifications The following qualities were thought necessary by the number of girls mentioned: Dark complexion, fourteen: light, seven; tall, twenty; blue eyes, twelve; brown eves, eight; gray eyes, three; wealthy, two; moderate means or good salary, twenty; college education, seventeen; sense of humor, twenty; home lover, fifteen; good talker and dancer, fifteen; athletically inclined, five; experienced lover, eight; honest and truthful, fourteen: ambitious and energetic, twenty; striking personality, seven; caveman, ten; jealous of wife, fourteen; kind and thoughtful, seven: lover of children, six; chivalrous, fifteen; neat, six; good natured, eight; high ideals, four; must love wife, twenty-five; serious-minded, two; musician, five; real man, twenty; lover of art, one: not goody-goody nor the other extreme, one. Os all the qualities expected of their future husbands these twenty-five girls were unanimous on only one point—that their husband must love his wife. MAN FORGETS HIS WIFE Petersburg Citizen Starts With Spouse, Arrives Alone. By Timm Specie 1 COLUMBUS, Tnd., June 12.—Abel Wheeler, Petersburg, has done the old saw about, a man forgetting what his wife asks him to bring from uptown one better. He and his wife started to Beck’s Grove to attend a homecoming. On the way he had trouble with his car and was forced to “get out and get under.” The work finished he clambered back into the car and proceeded to his destination. Arriving there he found that Mrs. Wheeler was not in the car. A short time later she arrived. She had got tout of the car while he was repairing It. Watch Stolen W. L. Jones, 1462 E. Eleventh St., reports to police the theft of a S3O watch from his home.

POLITICAL WRITER PAIRS RALSTON AND AL SMITH Harding and Roosevelt Placed on Republican Ticket With Reed and Christensen as Farmer-Labor Candidates,

By ROBERT J. BENDER NEW YORK, June 12.—Political events are rapidly shaping now to place these three presidential tickets before the public a year hence: Republican ticket: Warren G. Harding and Theodore Roosevelt. Democratic ticket: Senator Samuel Ralston and Governor A1 Smith.

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INDIANA GROCERS TO SEND SPECIAL CARS TO MEETING State Association Opens Convention Today at Claypool, At the sixth annual convention of the Indians stall Grocers Association today at ,r Claypool. Charles W. Meyers announced that Indiana would send three special cars of delegates to the national retail grocers’ convention at St. Paul June 25 28. A banquet in the Claypool is scheduled for 5:30 tonight, after inspection of the Taggart Baking Company pLant. Wednesday morning will be closed business session At 11:30 there will be a trip to the Van Camp Packing Company, where lunch will be served. In the afternoon a closed meeting will be held. John L. Ulmer, past president of the national association, spoke today. S C. Hadden of the Allied Motors Commerce. poke on "Motor Transportation.” Meyer spoke on “Why the Retail Grocer Advertise,” and John S. Miller. Springfield Ohio, on "Cooperative Advertising.” George E. Green will be toastmaster at the banquet. Charles Watkins and D. K. Stewart will speak.

DISCUSS DOCTOR'S SALARY THURSDAY Commissioner Says Hatch Meeting Will Be ‘Warm, 1 The meeting requested by the board of Sunnyside Sanatorium managers to discuss the status of Dr. H. S. Hatch, superintendent whose salary was ordered cut out to $3,000 a year from $4,200, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2, the county commissioners announced today. “I don’t know what they will say to us or we to them”, said John Kitley, commissioner, “but 1 have an Idea it will be a warm session." The commission today decided to buy five Jersey cows to add to the Julietta insane hospital herd, which also supplies the milk for Sunnyside, on complaint of Sunnyside authorities that the milk was not rich enough. Holstein cows furnish the milk now. Woman Foils Escape By Times Special JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind„ June 12. —Edawrd Cook, I®, held in the Clark County jail, today #wes his captivity to Mrs. Claudia Baird, wife of the sheriff. Hearing a noise, she called her husband. Cook had tom up a part of the flooring in an attempt to escape. Auto Driver Sought Police are searching for a driver of an automobile which ran into the rear of a car driven by E. G. Evans, owner of the Perfection Windshield Company. The accident occurred on S. Capitol Ave. The driver is wanted on charges of failing to stop after an accident and driving under Influence of liquor.

Farmer-Labor: Senator James Reed and Perley Christensen. Henry Ford will not be a candidate for the presidentiau n<jmination of any of these tickets; and, because he knows that writing in his name on ballots will not elect him without a powe’-ful organization behind him, he will ot He a candidate on any Independent ticket. Opinion of Politicians In suggesting the above tickets as possible of confirmation within the next ten months, the writer is influenced by the opinion of political leaders of proved experience. President Harding of course will be renominated as standard bearer of the G. O. P. because, as Senator Jim Watson recently explained, no one else can run on the Harding Administration record. Because Vice President Coolidge is regarded b yparty spokesmen as lacking a personality to arouse the electorate, it is freely predicted that Coolidge will not run, but will give way to someone from the progressive wing of the party—probably Asistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt. Ralston Is Logical Despite all the clamor raised over Governor A1 Smith's action in signing the State prohibition enforcement law repealer, he will not be the Democratic nominee or even a powerful contender for the nomination as party standard next year. Rather, because of his personal popularity, it is more likely he will be In second place on a ticket, headed by some compromise candidate between the several factions within the party—and such a compromise now would strongly favor Senator Ralston of Indiana. Ralston and Smith would constitute a team with a positive progressive flavor, with an appeal to farmer and worker, respectively, and with thafc conservative record, too. that would command a confidence in the business world such as perhaps no other combination of candidates could muster within the Democratic party.

PRISONER-ARTIST ; POTS PICTURE Or CHRISTJN WALL 1 Russian Convict in V U, S, Prison Hopes to Gain Freedom by Work, ATLANTA, Ga„ June 12—On the | wall of the chape! at the United | States penitentiary here is a magnifiI cent painting of Jesus Christ, the work of Max Sasanoff, a Russian ! convicted of forgery in New York City, and now serving his term of imprisonment. Sasanoff now hopes to gain a pardon through his remarkable artistic achievement. The painting, which has just been completed, after nearly six months of intensive effort, has evoked the praise of art critics of Atlanta and the South, many of them declaring that it compares favorably with the mural decorations in some of the most famous churches of Europe. It depicts the Savior on the steps of the temple, while all about him are gathered the sick, the lame and sightless and the weary. Above, in the clouds, are cherubim, symbolic, as Max says, of the angels of mercy. Prisoners were posed for Max for various figures while the idea was given to him by Father Hayden, rector of the chapel and a man universally loved by all the prisoners. Max has dedicated the painting to Father Hayden as a memorial and further, as he says, “to show how much a man appreciates kindness.” Max first came into local prominence by his singing at a radio station here, and investigation by Lambdin Kay, director of the station, disclosed that he not only had been a grand opera star of considerable magnitude, but was an artist of some note. He told Kay of painting and promised him that when It was completed he would be the first to see it. Accordingly, Kay and a group of Atlanta artists were invited to the prison and the painting was unveiled. So pleased were they with the work they immediately started the ball rolling to get Max a Tjardon. Kay has taken up the movement and initiated negotiations with Washington officials seeking to get Max released. Officials of the prison say Max has been a model prisoner during his stay, while Father Hayden says his investigation of the forgery case convinced him that Max was but the tool of a gang of New Yorkers. Sasanoff himself says he didn’t know what he was doing and that when he found out what the forgery wfis for he tried to stop, but that his gang made him go on with the work under the penalty of death and that fee was forced to finish the work.

TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1923

SHORTRIDGE HIGH ' GRADUATES HOLD CLASS EXERCISES Commencement Week Program Starts —Alumni Will Meet Friday, Class day exercises of Shortridge High School were observed today at Caleb Mills Hall. Presentation of the Osrio Mills Watkins medal preceded the program. The class poem w 7 as read by Dorothy Crosby. Martha Zoercher was class historian and Jean Mander class prophet. Addison Dowding read the will. Arthur Long, senior president presented the famous axe to Edward Chapman, junior president. Le Grand Chapman, “glftorian,” preceded the girls’ stunt, which w 7 as followed by the boys’ stunt. Graduation exercises will be held Wednesday night at the Cadle Tabernacle. Dr. Nathaniel Butler of Chicago University will speak. will bo furnished by the Shortridge( Orchestra, under the direction of C. E. Palmer. The annual reunion of the Shortridge Alumni will be held Friday night. A two-reel comedy furnished by Ralph Lie'oer of the Circle Theater and dance music by the Black Cat Entertainers will be the features.

COURT HOLDS U.S. AS ADVISORY BODY Judge Moil Denies Monon Employes Have Right to Increase Ordered A ruling that the United States Railroad Labor Board is an advisory body only was given this morning by Judge TANARUS, J. Moll, of Superior Court, Room 5. Judge Moll today sustained demurrers by the Moron Railroad to law suits brought by four employes, to collect back pay totaling claimed by them is due under an of the board July 20, 1920, and whiclu the Monon refused to pay, according to the complaint. “It (the labor board) has no power to fix wages, except indirectly and in a temporary emergency, under its power of regulating Interstate commerce.” ruled Judge MolL “If there were a statute in existence authorizing the board to fix the wages of the employes of the Monon, it would be in conflict with the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, in that it would take property of the railroad without due process of law.” the demurrer upheld by the judge, stated. Plaintiffs were William Motley, a boiler washer, ar.d Frank Darby, William Jackson and Grover Goodman, stationary firemen, who insisted that the railroad refused to put into effect increases of 9 to 14 cents an hour ordered for them by the board. "I was informed that approximately 1,000 more Monon employes have similar actions against the railroad if these, which probably will be appealed to the Supreme Court, are successful,” said Judge MolL

TWO ARE NAMED RECTOR SCHOLARS < Winners of De Pauw Honor at Shortridge Picked, James Bailey. 1815 N. Delaware St., and Le Grande Cannon. 5630 College Ave., of the senior class at Short* 1 ridge High School, were awarded Rec- | tor scholarships to De Pauw University today. Cannon has been editor of the Shortridge Daily Echo and staff adjutant In the military department. Both are members of the Senior Honor Roll and the National High School Honor Society. Excellency in all lines of school activity won the awards. Edna JJae Thomas was awarded the scholarship to Brenan Collge. She ranked eleventh on the honor roll with an average of 93.260. MUSEUM GUN State Given Firearm Once Owned by Benjamin Harrison. The latest acquisition to the State museum, according to William H. Hershman, curator, is a doublebarreled muzzle-loading shotgun which once was the property of President Benjamin Harrison. The gun was bought of Harrison in 1853 for William H. Ermentraut by the latter’s father. It weighs slightly less than fourteeen pounds with the powder horn. Considering its extreme size and the fact that it is eight-gauge, twog sizes larger than the ordinary shoo! gun. it probably shot In two directions, Hershman said. It is the gift of Mrs. Lulu Ermentraut, a descendant of the original owner. Ex-Bartender Arrested George Biddle, 44. ex-bartender, 830 E. Maryland St., was arrested today by Lieutenant Hudson, Federal Officer King and his squad on a charge of operating a blind tiger. Three quarts and three half pints of whisky were found In Biddle's possession, police said.