Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 58, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1923 — Page 2

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MINNESOTA’S FARMER SENATOR DOES THINKING IN COW SHED

TWO MOTORISTS ARRESTED, POLICE SEEK ANOTHER iDriver Speeds Away After . Striking 60-Year-Old Man, Police today were searching for a colored driver of a large automobile that knocked down William Harris, 60. of 3306 Prospect St., near his home 'Wednesday night. Harris is in the city hospital, but not seriously injured. The driver did not stop until some distance from the scene of the accident. Then he - let R o s c o e

Brown and Fendall Hall, 1123 Maderia St, out of the car. These men are employed at a garage where the driver of the automobile had stopped and asked them to ride with him that they might hear a “knock” in the motor.

AA P • r sens /Is have been /IJ killed In an tomoblle accidents in Marion Connty this year. AAp Have been U'lklDjnred /.| in traffic WfaWa c eideots. It is yonr duty to make the street* safe.

They told the man after the acident he should have stopped. As he drove away the two men said they saw there was no license plate on the rear of the car. Louis J. Elkins, 2525 Graydon St., was arrested on charges of assault and battery and failing to stop after an accident. Elkins was captured Wednesday night. Neighbors of Harold C. Hiner, 261 Leeds Ave., chased Elkins, police said. Hiner was cranking his automobile when, it is said. Graydon's car crashed into the rear j off Hiner's automobile. Hiner was knocked down. Thomas McHugh, 231 N. Gray St., | was charged with improper driving. His automobile Is in a repair shop. McHugh’s automobile bumped into a safety 'zone guard at Illinois and Ohio Sts. Four Autos Damaged Four autos were slightly damaged in an accident in front of lObt N. Meridian St. today. Motor Police Heller and Pettit investigated. Here’s how it happened, according to police: C. R. Brown, 2811 N. Delaware St., was driving north on Meridian St., when a car driven by Miss Margaret Bosman, 601 Beecher St., attempted ' to passlilm. Ed Boteler, 2826 N. New Jersey St., started to pass Miss Bos- * man's car. His car side-swiped Miss ** Bosman's, which in turn side-swiped ■ Brown's auto. Brown’s car hit a parked machine belonging to W. A. *■ Beacham, 1635 Central Ave. Xn One Was Injured > A city asphalt truck and trailer, - driven by Blande Ludington. 31-. of - 332 Trowbridge St., w-as struck by a | coupe driven by Mrs. Florence Watson. 23. of 1038 W. Thirty-First St., ,'at Eighteenth St. and Capitpl Ave. tof day. Slight damage was done to both f vehicles. Mrs. "Watson suffered slight i bruises. PARKED AUTOMOBILES ROBBED OF ACCESORiES 'Tires, Motometers and License Plates Taken. Owen Mitchell, 2451 Columbia Ave., . reported to police today that four V tires and a rim were taken from his - car. parked in his yard. J Ulmer Vahle, 2406 Coyner Ave.; Ora t Grammas, 1104 S. Pennsylvania St., and W. C. Brown, 821 E. New York i St., reported tires stolen. Albert Linkselt, 1443 Holliday St, said a tire, tube and coils were taken from his car, parked near his garage. F. W. Bonlster, 1524 W. TwentySixth St., parked his car at the Twenty-Sixth St bathing beach. A thief took his motometer. George MeEtee, 1021 W. Vermont St., saftl a thief took his license plate, No. 481160.

ASKS $15,012,750 FOR LOSS OF RIGHT EAR Damage Suit Filed at St. Louis Against Loudon Financier. By United Press ST. LOUIS, July 19.—515,012,750 is price set by James L. C. Huber, said to be a New York st<yck promoter, on his looks and his right ear. Huber filed a damage suit today for that amount against M. C. Martin, alleged London financier, claiming in a fight in London last August Martin permanently disfigured him and ’ cut off his right ear. PIONEER RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Maria Rieder Will Be Buried Saturday Afternoon. - Funeral services of Mrs. Maria RieI- der, 78, who died at her home, 630 ; E Morris St., Wednesday afternoon, t will be held at the home at 1:30 p. m. > Saturday and at Immanuel Reformed t Church, Prospect and New Jersey Sts., „ at 2 p. m. Mrs. Rieder was born in Bavaria and came to the United States with : her husband in 1881. They settled in Indianapolis in 1882. Her husband • died seventeen years ago. Surviving are six children, Mrs. Carl Merz, Mrs. Mary Biedenmeister, John, Anthony J. and Emma M. Rieder of Indianapolis and George Rieder of Southport. Swimmer’s Suits Stolen Mrs. Benjamin Watkins, 1714 W. Market St., today told detectives a burgjar broke a rear window of her horns and ransacked every room. Nothing .was stolen. O. T. McHahaf, 2001 Broadway, told police a thief took a S4O suit of clothes from his automobile, parked at the Twenty-Sixth

Local V. F. W. Degree Team Given National Honor

TOP ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT. R. L. EDWARDS, CLAY RYMAN, GUY E. THOMPSON, THOMAS J. RALSTON AND R. J. BYROAD. LOWE R, JAMES A. MIKE DOMATi, JOSEPH B. BANKS, MYRON J. FESSLER AND J. P. RICHARDS. yj

The degree team of Hoosier Post, No. 624, Veterans of Foreign Wars, with headquarters at 430 N. Pennsylvania St., has been given the hqnor of selection to exemplify the ritual at the national encampment of V. F.

HUSBAND’S DENIAL HE ATTACKED GIRL BELIEVEDBY WIFE Two Held on Story Told by Motor Party—Road Robbery Reported, Belief in her husband's insistent assertions that he is innocent of charges of impersonating an officer and attacking a young woman on Arlington Ave., north of the city Wednesday night, was sobbed out today by Mrs. George E. Parker, 5146 E. St. Clair St., when she cams to police headquarters to see him. They talked of their four children, ranging In age from 3 months to 6 years. Parker, 26, and Orel Hanson. 22. of 5146 E. Walnut St., were arrested late Wednesday after three men and three young women came to police headquarters and charged that Parker and Hanson held them up on Arlington Ave. and took the girls into a woods and attacked them. Probe Second Hold-Up Police also are investigating the robbery of another automobile party of six persons on the Michigan road near Stop 13, Shelbyville lnterurban line. Police say that John Sapp, 328 Bernard Ave.; Roy and Ray Haynes, 132 E. Twenty-Sixth St., drove to headquarters with Mis* Madeline Anderson, Miss Florence Davis and Miss Minnie Barwick, all of 4053 Cornelius Ave., and declared that the two men in an automobile stopped them at Arlington Ave. and Sixteenth St. They said, acording to police, that Parker had a flash light and Hanson a tin star badge and that, representing themselves to be officers they forced Miss Anderson and Miss Davis to one side of the road and attacked them. See Parked Car Hanson and Parker both say they saw the automobile parked at the side of the road and stopped to pSay a prank. “There was one man and one woman in the car," said Parker. “We found the others In the woods- I did not attack any one.” Police say Hohson admits attacking one of the girls. Sergeant Hett and squad arrested Parker and Hanson at Emerson Ave. and Tenth St., recognizing their automobile. Robbers Get $2.63 The six persons held up and robbed on the Michigan Rd. by two bandits were: George Krauss, 2401 Bellefontalne St., robbed of $1.10: Earl A. Young, 2512 Bellefontalne St., robbed of 53 cents; Hugh Schoettle. 2404 Central Ave., robbed of $1; Miss Ethel Worland, 2308 College Ave.; Miss Bessie Strong, 2435 College Ave., and Miss Dorris Gill, 2308 College Ave. While only two bandits, both masked, committed the hold-up, Krauss said he believed there was a third man in the car, which was of the "flivver” type. WEALTHY ST. LOUISIAN DISAPPEARS FROM SHIP Wife Believes He May Have .Jumped Overboard Into Atlantic. By United Press NEW YORK, July 19.—Rudolph P. Grotain, wealthy German *of St. Louis, was missing from the steamer Saydelitz, when the ship arrived from Bremen today. His wife said he had become despondent after viewing the poverty of his native Germany, and it is believed he may have jumped overboard. BUTLER'S ADVICE ASKED Amos W. Butler, secretary of the State board of charities, has accepted an invitation of the Association of Directors of the Poor, and of Charities and Correction of Pennsylvania to address a meeting at Williamsport, Pa., Oct. 17-19. Butler has been asked to act in an advisory' capacity to the Pennsylvania authorities charged with the administration of official poor relief. Man Sentenced; Woman Freed James Pedigo, 2124 W. Michigan St., was fined $250 and sentenced to serve sixty days on the Indiana State Farm for violation of the liquor law, by special Judge James D. Ermston In Criminal Court today. The case of Ethel Pedigo, arrested with Pedigo on -y.a nhimra wan

W., at Norfolk, Va., Aug. 26-30, it was announced today. Members of the team are shown above. The honor comes upon recommendation of the national adjutant general who saw the team perform

WHAT ARE FARMERS 4 TO DO WITH WHEAT? Problem of Disposal of Grain Is Age-Old So Far as Growers Are Concerned.

By R. WEBB SPARKS (Financial Editor of The Times) Private messages received by Thomson & McKinnon, local brokers from H. L. Winters, member of the Arm at its Chicago office, tell of an intended drive to get 100,000 people to buy I, bushels of wheat each and an effort to get Henry Ford to buy from 25,000,000 to 50,000,000 bushels of wheat for future delivery so farmers with a large wheat crop may not face financial failure because of loss at present prices. Winters speaks of the proposed plan as very commendable, but asks who Is to buy the millions of bushels of wheat when the ultimate delivery date rolls around. Also, he asks how Ford would escape the clutches of the Capper-Ttpcner law which the producer insisted upon as a means of preventing that overspeculation which he is now trying to encourage. Wheat Is “Hopeless” For this year at .least, or until substitution and waste have reduced sup plies, the position of wheat la hopeless. Winters asserts. He advises speculators or holders to unload their wheat on any little raljy and take the buying side of December corn, which does not depend upon Europe for Its market and which is 25 cents under the prevailing cash price. Governor McCray recently said, he expected to sell his wheat at the machine, take whatever prices millers would offer and invest the revenue In .w r heat for December delivery on the theory that the price would Advance. Mr. McCray Is a business man and farmer of long experience and sound Judgment, but at least two or three prominent Indianapolis bankers, when asked what means the farmer had of saving himself In this crisis, declined to advise this meant: of recouping losses, holding to the theory that if overproduction is as

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Government statistics show retail cost of food has Increased 3 per cent for -year ending June 15. Judgment of $37,315 was entered at New York Wednesday against Herman Kohlsaat, former publisher, Chicago, In favor of the Massachusetts Mutual Llge Insurance Company. Primitive remains of Aeria, ancient Roman city, have been found on the banks of Rhone River, in France. Mrs. Arthur Mauzey, Shreveport, Marriage Licenses Walker H. Swalls, 41, 1033 S. State Ave.: Ruth M. Cook, 28, Acton. William H. Jones. I*4, 836 Hudson St.: Pearl Overton, 33. 630 Hudson St. Eueene GUI, 39, 408 W. Vermont St.; Jamie Johnson, 41, 408 W. Vermont St. Glen Van Ausdall, 42, 1102 Bterlingr Bt.; Vera Neudlgate. 22. 2170 Dexter St. Eugene M. Hollis. 37, 5451 University Court: Prances Harting, 41. 358 8. Audubon Rd. Frank Simmons. 22, 2702 Columbia Ave.; Nellie Caldwell. 22, 2528 Columbia Ave. Emanuel Hart. 44. 3400 Carson Ave.; Nellie Phillips, 35, 2830 Deitz St. Births Girls Frank and Mary Gerbeck. 753 N. Holmes, Harold and Helen Wilson, 5909 Rawle j. Buren and Lela McCoy. 931% N. Alabama. Joseph and Rolyn Block, St. Vincent Hospital. Patrick and Agnes Harity, St. Vincent Hospital Carl and Esther Manthei, 1015 Churchman y Moses and Bertha Elliott, 415 Toledo. Goeth and Clara Brown, 1224 Hiatt. John and Sasle Popa, 607% W. Washington. Boys James and Anna: Glpe, Clark Blakeslee Hospital. Walter and Marie Burrows, St. Vincent Hospital. Michael and Florence Sullivan, St. Vincent Hospital. Leo and Ethel McNamara, St. Vincent Hospital. George and Mamie White, 1001 S. Tremont. Herman and Amy Angr ck. 1145% S. West. Deaths James A. Weeks. 59, city hospital, chronic interstitial nephritis. Mary Louise Peek. 3, 215 Harris, gastro enteritis. Wright Marble, 50, Pennsylvanai and Washington, cerebral apoplexy. Infant Miller, 2 hours, 2330 Sheldon, inanition. Carrie G. Zoleggi, 08. St. Vincent's Hospital, intestinal obstruction. Betty Jean Spry, 7 days, 1210 W. Eighteenth. premature birth. Andrew HaU, 69. city hospital, hypostatic pneumonia. Frank Seehofer, 91, 487 Virginia, arterla sclerosis. Jesse C. Cox. 44, 906 Villa, acute dilatation of heart. Katharine Smith, 7, 513 HufQoa, typhoid fever. { Cgrl Byr am 'Weddle, fe. PeacoaSst Hospl-

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at the State convention at South Bend recently. Besides the degree team the local post wall send Its drum corps and a delegation of fifty to the national meeting. They will leave Aug. 25 by special train.

great as is generally reported, no substantial recovery in prices could be expected until sucp time as bankrupt Europe is able to buy American sur pluses—and Russia, Is reported to be moving large quantities toward the seaboard for exportation, and this means large reduction in American exportations to European nations able tc buy grain. Problem Is Age-Old The problem of disposal of wheat at thrashing time Is age-old so far as the farmer Is concerned. Its present acuteness may be somewhat accentuated by unusual production but the situation can scarcely be said to differ from others In years gone by. Wheat always has been—--except during the time of guaranteed prices In war-time* —cheaper at thrashing time, due to the unchangeable law of supply and demand, milling Interests purchasing at low prices from farmers obliged to liquidate their grain hold ings to meet seasonal obligations. Fanners by the thousands have sold their grain at the machine for 80 or 90 cents only to see the price advance to $1 or $1.25 before the following spring and those who could financially afford to do so have held their stocks until spring only to reap the reward of their forethought and providenoe. However, this carryover is not Without Its hazards as grainaries leak nnd grain deteriorates—losses that must be reckoned In the final settlement. What shall the farmer do? Where in lies his salvation? Will grain be higher or lower next spring? Should the farmer sell his grain and cast his lot in speculation In future deliveries? Shall he store his grain In a warehouse and borrow on his warehouse receipt which calls for Interest and storage charges? Who is to guide the way?

La., Wednesday told police her husband traded their 14-months old son for a horse, and then sold the horse for S2O. Eleanora Duse, Italian ••Bernhardt,” will return to the stage for a ten weeks engagement In New York. J. A.' Martin, Charleston. S. C., roused from his sleep during a storm, saw a shadowy form at his bedroom window. He fired three shots into the body of his wife. French have lost 2,000 men in campaign against Moors In northern Aft-lca. Cork mats donated traffic cops at Peoria, 111., to save their feet from hot pavement, were stolen by a meanest thief. Lessons in camouflage learned during the war were utilized by George Zegorean, near Hammond, in hiding his illicit still. Officers found it, however. According to statement made in London Parliament Wednesday there are a million idle men and women in Britain. A probability Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. arch draft evader, may voluntarily return to the United States to save his property, is seen by Fedral officials. Prof. Herman Gollanez, Jewish rabbi, has been knighted by King George. He is the first rabbi to receive such honor. William A. Sadler, Pewaukee, 111., admitted ti Chicago police Wednesday he headed a whisky ring to remove SIOO,OOO worth of liquor from Louisville to Chicago. STATE LAW IN DISPUTE Statefe Affecting Real Estate Men May Go to Supreme Court. Decision of Federal/Judge Thomas of Connecticut that the 1921 Indiana law requiring the licensing of real estate dealers from other States to do business In Indiana Is unconstitutional wljl have no effect on enforcement of the law, Attorney General U. S. Lesh said today. He said the law would continue effective unless the decision is upheld In the United ■StatM Surir.mw I .ill I

FARM IMPLEMENT COMPANY DENIES FEDERALCHARGE International Harvester Local Manager Explains Petition, Denial that the International Harvester Company was responsible for conditions in the farm implement business complained of in a petition filed by the Government in Federal Court at St. Paul, Minn., was made by J. A. Brookbank, local branch manager, today. “This petition Is a continuation of the suit brought against us eleven years ago,” Brookbank said. “Upon the hearing of that case, held more than nine years ago, the Harvester Company was acquitted, both by the findings of the court and by the attorney general’s admission, •of any wrongful dealings or unfair practices, but, to Insure the fullest competition, a decree was entered in 1918 requiring the company to sell to competitors certain complete lines of harvesting machinery, and to limit its sales representation to a single dealer in any one town. “As we understand it, the sole Issue raised by the present-petition relates to competitive conditions with respect to harvest! n g machines only. It does not charge he company with unduly raising the price of harvesting machinery to the grave injury of the American farmer, as was charged in 1912, but It does charge that the company has been unduly depressing the price of harvesting machinery, particularly since 1920, to the injury of its competitors.” Confidence that the hearing on the present petition will clearly show that the harvester company is not in any way responsible for complained of conditions in the industry was expressed. DR. OLIVER GARD SUCCUMBS HERE Rites for Former Mayor of Frankfort Friday, Dr. Oliver Gard, 81. former mayor j of Frankfort and a “Ttlrty-Second de- | gree Mason, died at the Methodist | Hospital at 11 o’clock Wednesday j night. The body was taken to Frank- | fort this morning for funeral service* !to be held at the Frankfort Methj odist Church Friday afternoon. Dr. Gard was a lifelong resident of j Clinton County and had practiced | medicine there for many years. He I was discharged from the Union Army I in 1864 because of physical disability, and Bpent several years on a ranch In Texas to regain his health. Dr. Gurd served as clerk of Clinton County for two years. State Senator two terms and mayor of Frankfort for four years. His only survivor Is a son. Russell T. Card. 2442 N. IlU- | nols St., assistant superintendent of the Methodist Hospital.

DOG AND PONY SHOWS PLAY HERE NEXT WEEK Gentry Brothers to Bring Animals to Indianapolis for Two Days. Circus lovers, here's good news: Gentry Brothers Dog and Pony Shows will be In Indianapolis next Monday and Tuesday, giving two performances dally. The Gentry organization, more than thirty-five years old, has its home in Bloomington, Ind. This year it is combining with the Patterson Trained Wild Animal Circus, making it much larger than ever before. Dogs, ponies, monkeys, horses and wild animals vie with human performers. While in this city the show will pitch its tented city at Washington and Belmont Aves. MAN HELD’ IN ROBBERY Articles Valued at $177 Stolen From 126 W. Walnut St. George McClintock', 126 W. Walnut St., told police a thief stole a traveling bag, a suit of clothes, silk shirts, silk socks, other clothes and a camera from his room Wednesday. The articles were valued at. $177. Police arrested Charles Switzer, who roomed at the Walnut St. address, charging him with grand larceny and vagrancy. Police allege Switzer Is an escaped convict from Ohio. Harold Brown was arrested on a charge of Interfering with an officer. Wounded Man Arrested George Goddy, 31, colored, giving his address as 700 Lafayette St., early today appeared at the city hospital, where doctors took nine stitches to close a knife wound In his neck. Goddy said a colored man stopped him at Golton and Lock Sts., and cut him. He could not describe his assailant. The police ordered Goddy held In the detention ward on a vagrancy charge, under $3,000 bond. Workman Crushed to Death By Timet Bpeoinl VINCENNES, Ind., July 19.—Edward Bush.v 28, Washington, was crushed to death when a three-ton producing pan fell. Bush was working at the Blackford window glass plant being erected here. The body was taken to Washington for burial. Garage Lock Broken Frank Brown, 16 S. Addison f<t., reports tie lock broken off his garage door foY the second time in a few

Magnus Johnson Sits on Stool and Tells Life Story While Milking Brindle Cosw —Family Takes Care of Farm, By United Press KIMBALL, Minn., July 19. —Magnus Johnson “dirt farmer” Senator-elect from Minnesota, revealed today that he does much of his thinking on a three-legged stool in his cow shed. He sat on the same three-legged stool, milked a brindle cow and told his philosophy of life to the United Press correspondent.

Hard work is his solution of successful living. He likes to work and every other member of his family works. But he is so busy thinking that every other stream of milk misses the bucket. That’s the chief reason, he admitted, why he wears red gum boots in the cow shed so as not to splatter milk on his trousers. Forgets Milking Contest Johnson did so much thinking during the interview that he forgot about the milking contest he talked to his wife about yesterday when she declared she could milk the most cows Mrs. Johnson milked seven cows while the Interview was going on and Johnson milked only three. The boys—Victor 21, Francis 19 and Magnus Jr. 14—takes care of the farming. Mrs. Johnsoi) supervises everything and runs the gardens. Lillian, 23, takes care of the housework, and Agnes and Florence,. 11 and 10, go to school. The Senator himself likes to do the chores. But it took him five min-

Wounded Vets ‘Hike’ From Maine to Indiana in Sixty-Seven Hours

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LIONEL MARTELLE (LEFT) AND GEORGE WILSON

Carrying letters of identification from the mayor of Portsmouth, Me., George Wilson, 31, and Lionel Martelle, 29. hikers, left Kittely, Me. Sunday, July 8, at 9:30 a. m. They arrived afoot at the home of Wilson's sister, Mrs. Agnes Simmons, 238 N. Pine St., at 4:30 a. m. Wednesday after having hiked nearly half the distance. No rides were solicited, but the men took advantage of a "lift”

‘WOBBLER’ ARMY ON WAY TO TEXAS CITY I. W, W.s Protest Beating of Members and Move on Texas Town.

NEW' YORK. July 19.—A vast army of unemployed descending upon Port Arthur, Texas, will attempt to eat the town Into bankruptcy, officials of the Industrial Workers of the World said here today. v The advance was ordered in retaliation for beating administered to three members of the organization and the plan of campaign calls for a policy of passive resistance someewhat on the order of the German policy in the Ruhr. “Thousands of men will fill the jails and eat Port Arthur out of house and home,” John Shuskie, secretary of the marine transport workers, said here today. PARTY GETS ROUGH Sweetheart Resents It When Attorney Spanks Her. By United Netcs CHICAGO, July 19.—Clarence W. Shaver, an attorney, spanked his sweetheart, Miss Margaret Newman, when he said she went out riding with a married man and a quart of liquor. He was arrested, released on bond, and rearrested when he went back to finish the spanking neighbors had interrupted. "I’m through with him now,” Miss Newman declared. Judge Lupz isn’t. He wants Shaver * n nr.r -Tnl-g 2A

utes to find a halter, and nearly as long to locate a pitchfork. “You see, I’ve been out campaigning for six weeks.” he explained, "and I don’t know much about what’s going on out here. The boys take care of everything, anyway. “What do I like better than farming? Well, legislative work," the Senator-elect answered. “I’m crazy about It. That’s what I like to do. “But I don’t want a job where I’d be tied down all the time. I have always been able to go and come as I please, and do as I please. I couldn’t stand to be tied down anywhere. I wouldn’t sit in an office all day; I couldn’t do it. In the Senate, of course, I’ll have to be on the job when there’s something going on. But at that, I can get off if I want to.” The milking was done. The Senator had milked three cows, Mrs. Johnson seven, Francis and Magnus, Jr., five each, and Victor, who came In late from the rye field, four.

whenever it was offered. Both are ex-soldiers and Wilson formerly lived in Hazelton, Ind. Martell* was gassed in France and Wilson was lightly wounded. They reported a "tough” trip over the Alleghenies, but outside of that walking was fun they said. Their sleeping quarters included everything from a bed under the skies to one with a farmer.

“They are descending upon the town from all quarters. “They will not carry a weapon nor will they argue tho merit* of the case. “They wyi just eat and sleep there without fund* —probably in jail, and force the town to recognize the I. W. W. or go into bankruptcy trying to feed It.” Shuskie estimated 20,000 “wobblies” are on their way to Port Arthur now, “riding the blind," bumming automobile rides, walking and aboard ships. He claimed 400 had left New York and 200 had gone from Boston. These two crowds left on oil tankers, he said. The order for the descent was Issued by offiiclala in San Francisco about a week ago, and the first vanguard of the army should reach Port Arthur today or tomorrow.

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THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1923

JANITORS OUT OF JOBS AS RESULT OF COUNCIL’S ACT Ordinance Providing for Replacement of Four Men Prepared, Four janitors at city hall were without jobs today as a result of an ordinance passed over Mayor Shank's veto by city council Monday night, cutting the Janitor force from ten to six. The men are Lewis B. Harris, 634 W. Eleventh St.; William Jones, 636 Blake St.; Andrew Johnson, 872 W. Twenty-Fifth St., and Rojer McCamm, 2329 Shaidon St. Members of the board of works said an ordinance providing for the appointment of four to make up the loss will be presented to the council at the next meeting, as six janitors could not do the work. The ordinance passed Monday night. It raised the wages of several employee of the board of works at the same tlme'cutting the number of, janitors. < Permanent improvement resolutions were adopted as follows: Twenty-Eighth St. from Illinois St. to Capitol Ave. and from Northwestern Ave. to Clifford St.: Lansing St. from New York to Michigan Sts.: Twenty-Eighth St. from Capitol Ave. to Northwestern Ave.: North St., between Noble and Pine Sts ; first alley east of Parker Ave.. between Tenth and Thirteenth Sts.: Chester Ave. from Walnut St. to Tenth St.: Graceland Ave. from TwentyFifth St. to first alley north: Graceland Ave. from first alley north of TwentyFifth St. to Thirtieth St. Woodlawn Ave. between Shelby and Olive Sts.: first alley east of De Quincy St., between Michigan ant Walnut Sta.. and Nevada St., between Arrow Ave. and the C., C„ C. & St L. Railroad.

HARDING POLICY FOR ALASKA IS O.K. WITH NATIVES Citizens Make Few Complaints Against Government of Territory, By LAWRENCE MARTIN Copyright, 1923. by United Press SEWARD. Alaska, July 19.—The. Alaskan policy of the Harding Ad-I ministration suits the Alaskans, Judging from expressions at the hearings given citizens from various points by Secretaries Hoover, Work and Wallace. The hearings were held ip view of complaints received in Washington against the administration of Alaskan affairs. The Cabinet officers expected a great flood of grievances from the people at Fairbanks. Anchorage and Seward, but there was hardly a complaint made against the Government. The cief complaints made were those against canneries, steamship companies and other interests. There wer ealso some against those who make money in Alaska, and then take it away. Wasting of resources, such as fisheries, was also blamed on the canneries. But the Alaskans themselves, Judging from their expressions to the president and cabinet members are satisfied with the treatment accorded by tho government. They are not united among themselves. Various sections of the country pulled against other sections. The Alaskans as a whole think they must have larger revenues and a closer local control of the canneries and similar Industries. The transport Henderson sailed early today for Valdez, whence It will go to Cordova. FARM HANDS SUPPLIED Fifty Men Sent Out by State Tempo- 1 rary “Clearing House.” Through the temporary State "ejearing house” for harvest laborers more than fifty men have found positions in various parts of the State, Prof. Walter Q. Fitch of Purdue University, who has charge, said today. Marion County applications for laborers have been practically filled, he said. Men have been sent to Benton and Porter Counties, where the demand still exists. The bureau probably will be open Monday, Wednesday and Friday of next week, Professor Fitch said. Marks Hit New Low By United Press LONDON, July IS.—On the ere of the British reparations note to Germany, marks fell to a record low of 1,425,000 to the pound sterling. This was approximately 300,000 to the dollar. Later the mark fell to 1,550,000 to the pound. K. of 0. to Hear McWhirter Felix McWhirter, president of the Peoples State Bank and president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. will address the Knights of Columbus Luncheon Club Friday, noon at the Spink-Arms on “Our Interest in the Ruhr.”