Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1924 — Page 1

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JAP CITY REPORTS TREMOR V Authority on Earthquakes Predicts More Disturbances — ' Second Shock in Two Days'Causes Much Excitement. \ \ Btr Uhited Pres* v TOKIO, Jan. 16.—Sendai, important market city on tiie bay of Sendai, was shaken at 4 a. iA. today by another violent earthquake. Reports did not enumerate damage. The shake' at Sendai, occurring less than 24 hours after the violent earthquake of Tuesday morning, caused much excitement. Official announcement was made today placing the casualties f yesterday’s tremblor in Tokio and Yokohama at 17 dead and an •known number injured.

i estimates of the injured, how-' were around 200. . ofessor T. Nakamura, one of the •rid’s leading authorities on earthquakes, predicted earthquakes probably of less intensity, will be frequent ■ luring the spring in the Japanese islands. Apparently/the disturbances are of volcanic origin—a continuation o' the eruption of the volcano Oshinia which caused the September earthquake when it exploded and sank into the sea, carrying the island of Oshima with it. . Bombay Is SI taken Ru L nitrd Press BOMBAY, Jan. 16.—A severe earthquake shook the city early today throwing the population into a panic. There was little damage however and apparently no casualties. e SHAW MOVE FOR APPEAL GRANTED Execution Date Delay Considered Certain. yer for appeal to Supreme Court from Criminal Court conviction of John Thomas Shaw, colored, iiv..ily Mrs. Helen Hhger WHatchet murder case, was granted todalyny Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Attorneys Brown and Henry for Shaw were given sixty days In which to file a bill of exceptions. When the exceptions are filed and passed upon by Collins they will be filed in Supreme Court with a prayer for stay of execution. Shaw has ben sentenced to be electroducted April T. The appeal move practically means the date of execution, necessarily will be delayed. T. TAGGART IN HOSPITAL 1> inocratfk Leader Says He Is Merely "Under Omerva^n.” Thomas Taggart, Democratic party leader, is in the Presbyterian Hospital at Chicago. He told the United Press he is there for observation and that he will return to his home at French Lick, Friday or Saturday. Taggart was unable to attend the meeting of the Democratic National > ommlttee at Washington this week. “THIEF’ WAS SAMARITAN ~r Called as Car Is "Being Stolen” Right Before Her Eyes. "Come quick! They are pulling my auto away right before my eyes,” said a voice over the telephone to police. A squad rushed to the home of Mrs. George L. Klick, 423 E. North St., and found that the car was being P tilled by a friend of her husband, attempting to start the machine. MINERS TO STAND~ PAT W ill Not Accept Wage Reduction on Promise of Increased Employment. H<! United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 16. —American mine workers will not be led to accept a wage reduction by the promise it will decrease unemployment in the industry, William Green, international secretary of the United Mine Workers, declared today addressing the State mine workers convention. SNOW IS - PREDICTION (old Wave Coming From Northwest. Says Weather Bureau. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m..••.... 38 10 a. m 37 7 a. m. 38 11 a. in 36 8 a. 38 12 (noon) 35 9 a. m 88 1 p. m.. 35 A cold wave sweeping from the Northwest where it is from 15 to 30 degrees below zero will change the rain to snow tonight, the weather bureau predicted. The mercury may drop to from 5 to 10 degrees above zero here by Thursday morning, the bureau said. Snow tonight probably will not be heavy, if It comes. Search for Body Futile Ru Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 16. —After ,t four-da#k search, n* trace has been found today of the body of Merrßt Nicholson, 16, who Saturday slipped from a bridge over White River her* and was drowned.

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Waifs Slinking along, shivering with cold, more than 100 Homeless dogs have found their way tq the city dog pound, in Pendleton Pike, north of Indianapolis, in the last two weeks. Dr. Elizabeth Conger. city poundmaster, today appealed to kindhearted Indianapolis to make homes for the many "Fidos” and “Princes” and "Queenies.” so that the city will not have to “put them to sleep.”-/ Dr. Conger 'told of one dog who wears a harness on which is engraved “Gaby.” The dog is recovering from Injuries evident ly caused by an automobile. PASTOR’S FUNERAL HELD Body of Rev. Edwin Bmvyer Taken - to Cleveland. The body of the Rev. L. Bowyer, 59. pastor of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, jrho died Monday at his hom.e 1603 Ashland Ave., was to be taken to Cleveland, Ohio, today * for burial following funeral services at the church FIND BODY OF SUICIDE Morgan County Farmer Hangs Self in Bara Ru United Press MARTINSVILLE, ind. Jan. IS.— George Wright, 60, a Morgan County farmer, today- committed suicide by hanging at liits here. Relatives found the body hanging in the barn No motive is known for the act.The widow, three sons and a daughter survive. REAL FELINE ARISTOCRAT Veteran Persian to Be on Exhibit at Indianapolis Cat Show. Among the aristocracy of catdom to be exhibited at the Indianapolis Cat Show next month will be "Red Head,” a 13-yeaj*-old red tabby, perhaps the oldest Persian in the State. She is owned by Mrs. Dora Young. Warren, Ind., and recently was ex hlbited at the Marion, Ind., show. It is said the cat is the mother of twenty-two litters. LEGION AUXILIARY MEETS Executive Committee Opens Two-Day Conference. V % The American Legion and its auxiliary should use their joint influence to procure funds for a building for preservation of war records. John Thomas Taylor, vice chairman o' the Legion’s legislative committee, told the auxiliary’s national executive committee, today, at the opening of a twoday conference at the Cbalfant building. The committee approved appropriation of SSOO to endow a room in the Veterans’ Hospital at Palo Alto, Cal. REALTY VETERAN IS DEAD William Gordon Funeral lo Be Held at 3 p. m. Thursday. Funeral services for William Gordon, 87, one of the oldest real estate men In Indianapolis, in the business for fifty-one years, will be held at the home of the son, William H. Gordon. 2033 N. Alabama St., at 2 p. m. Thursday. will be cremated. Mr. Gordon was born In Scotland and went to Quebec, Canada, when he was During the Civil War he bought materials for the Confederate Army. The son Is the only survivor. ♦ Power Plant Sale Expected Negotiations for the sale of the power plants and transmission lines of the Winona interurban railway were being conducted at the law office of Mote & Goodrich here this afternoon. The property is expected to be purchased by Harry Reid, president of the Interstate Public Service Company; James P. Goodrich and Theodore C. Frazer, a Warsaw attorney. How do Get a Home Shown How the typical American family secures a permaneYit home is depicted in a fljm shown the Indiana Lumber Dealers’ Association at the Claypool today. Speakers at the fortieth convention were pharles Wolfin, Evans ville, president; C. D. Root, Grown Point, secretary; B. M. Forbes, Indianapolis. treasurer; Willis B. Dye, Kokomo; J. H. Cooke, Houston, Texas Charles Surprise, Hammond, Ind

Bert A. Boyd Entices Lady Luck to His Threshhold With Beloved Number 13

Grain Dealer Goes Out of Way to Meet the Jinx * Digit. \V7l HEN you draw coat check. No. 13, or Pullman seat No. * 13. it Isn’t usually an occasion for rejoicing. It it? Witness an iconoclast! He capitalizes upon superstitions. . For years Bert A. Boyd of the Bert A. Boyd Grain Company has doted on “unlucky signs.” Thirteen is his lucky number. Ijor years and years he has received automobile license No. 13. And he hasn't accrued a burieh of tough luck either. * Chaufl'enr No. 13 “First time I got thirteen for my machine, I sent my chauffeur out with my mother-in-law for a drive. She came back safely. Call that what you please,” declared Boyd laughingly. Even his license is thirteen. Western Union Company knows him as “No. 13.” v “All my insurance papers bear my lucky number,” said. Boyd. “When I was *a messenger boy years ago my tjumber was thirteen. It was lucky for me. One day thirty eight years ago, Fred P. Rush, first, president of the Board of Trade, gave me a lift in his buggy. We talked a while, and he offered me a job. I began my career in his office. In 1913 I was elected president of the Board of Trade.” Pullman No. 13 “When I travel 1 always get thirteen as my Pullman number If I can. “Reason for it all Is that I got disgusted with persons who were always afraid of unlucky signs I have adopted the other extreme.” In other words, if Boyd can walk under a ladder, raise an umbrella in the house, induce a black cat to walk In front of him, get. thirteen, bring a spade into tiie house, eat at a tattle with thirteen, coax a bird to sing on his window sill, or sing before breakfast, he-Is feeling pretty safe for the day.

DEMOCRATS FAVOR WOMEN DELEGATES States Allowed to Send Eight Deiegates-at-Large, Ru t ni ted Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Women members of the Democratic national eornmfttec today won a fight for “equal representation" with inen among the delegates at-Jarge to the 1924 convention In New York June 24. After a spirited contest the national committee adopted a resolution providing each State can send four riele-gater-at large for each United States Senator and that two of these be women. This means each State may send eight delegates. The r enolution provides each delegate-at-large should have a vote. At present there are four delegatr*.at-large for each State, each with one vote. OAKLANDON MEN HELD Police ttml Federal Officers .Seize 100 Gallon SHU. Melvin Clasbum, 35, and Harry Thompson, 19, both of Oaklandon. Ind., are held in the city prison today without bond on Federal blind tiger charges. following seizure of a 100 gallon still. SOO gallons of mash and seventy gallons of white mule on Blasburn’s farm, by police \and Federal officers, according to officers. Edward Thomaa, 34, eftiored, and Lettie Wilson, 35, colored, both of 330 Osage St., are held on the same charges. In raids, police arrested thirty men and five women on vagrancy charges. BUSH EYES GOVERNORSHIP s Prospective C andidate Obtains Room for Headquarters. Edgar D. Rush of Salem, former lieutenant Governor, is expected to toss his hat in the ring as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor within a day or two. > Bush has retained a room at the Claypool where he is expected to make his headquarters. Ho was a candidate for the nomination in 1920, but he withdrew before the primary. He will fee the third Republican can didate to announce officially, 'the kjthers being Mayor Shank and Edward C. Toner of Anderson. Ed Jackson, secretary of State, is expected to announce soon.

British Woman Explorer Tells of Her Heroes

Ru United Press rjTTIEW Y’ORK, Jan. 16. —AmeriI can heiresses may marry 1 Austrian counts and others pine for ardent sheiks, but, according to Roslta Forbes—they don't know the half of it. Rosita, sparkling, bobbed-haired British woman explorer, knows. She has slept in the desert under a sand-whipped bit ’of tenting with many a real sheik snoring unconcernedly alongside. She has been places in Arabia and northern Africa no other white person ever has penetrated. Here for a series of lectures on her travels in the Sahara, Rosita Forbes declares herself exhausted oy the rigors of New York’s hos-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16,1924

BERT A. BOYD AND CHAUFFEUR “NO. 13.” '

U. S. CRUISER GOES AGROUND ON REEF Tacoma, Dispatched to Vera Cruz, Sends Out SOS Asking Assistance Be Rushed.

Ru t nitnj Pres < WASHINGTON, Jna. 16.—The United States light cruiser Tacoma, Tuesday dispatched to Vera Cruz, to‘Perfect’ Child? Read This T’ HE "perfect child” fallacy of every’ home has been definitely and conclusively exploded by the State board of health, infants and child hygiene division, Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer, director, declared today. She lias completed a series of examinations In conference, and contests through Indiana. Here are the results, which, she says, are typical of the Hoosier kid: Os 12,692 children examined 11.342 had dental defects. VUlon tests glve.n to B.3o9'Children, 5 to 7, showed 647 with bad and 1.440 with minor defects. Hearing tests to 2,670 youngsters showed fifty-six with defective hearing and 640 with defects of the eaye. Then trwudte’. Os IS 69* children. 6,801 had toruffl defqpts| while 73? had marked overgriSßrth of adenoid tissue. And weight! Os 2,819 children. 27.38 per cent were overweight, only nine of normal weight and * 16 42 per cent 10 per cent or more under weight. SHRINERS COOPERATE X Clubs From Other Cities Join Murat Membership Move. Indiana Shrine clubs from outside of Indianapolis are participating in the movement to obtain a ela-ss of 500 candidates for the March ceremonial. Charles .T. Orbison, potentate of Murat Temple, plans to visit all the Shrine clubs- before the ceremonial. Representatives from a number of clubs conferred with him Tuesday afternoon. , TAX Convention To Consider Ways to Frustrate Robbers. Federal taxation and frustration ot bank robbers will be considered at the annual convention of the Indiana Bankers' Association, at the Claypool. Thursday. Archibald Harris, Federal tax consular for the Illinois and the Indiana Banker Associations, will lead the tax discussion. CITY SEEKS 'CONFERENCE Indianapolis C. of C. to Extend Invitation for Next Year. % Indianapolis business men who attend the first regional conference of the United States Chamber of. Commerce at Chicago Jan. 21-22 will invite next year’s meeting to Indianapolis, Henry L. Dlthmer, president of th* IndianapeUfl chamber, said today. John B. Reynolds, general secretary,\and Dithmer will head the local delegation. Evansville College Drive to Start The $1,000,000 endowment campaign for Evansville College will be opened by Methodist ministers in Indianapolis Sunday. Bishop Fredrick D. Leete, Dr. Harry Andrews King, superintendent of the Indianapolis district, and George S. Cona.nt of Evansville addressed ministers Tuesday.

pitallty—and subways—and pines for a lonesome water hole somewhere In the Sahara. Real Sheik Mostly Dirt After disposing of the sheik fable—a real sheik is for the most part mostly dirt. Miss Forbes says —this extraordinary young who has a/speaking acquaintance with triost of Europe’s famous men, consented to tell whom she considers the greatest men of her experiences. “My heroes? * “General Lyeotey first, the man who did more for Morocco than any one. When he fell 111*and European physicians said he could not recover, the Moslems asked if they might pray for him,-some-

day went aground on RJanquilla Reef, off the harbor of Vera Cruz, The Tacoma sent out an SOS asking assistance be rushed. The cjrulser Richmond was sent to aid the Tacoma. Naval officials were at loss to explain the Tacoma’s going aground near a well charted harbor. Blanquilla reef is marked by a small lighthouse, which in normal times Is always in operation. Naval officials weft notified recently the rebel forces had caused the lights to be extinguished In light houses off Tampico harbor. It was feared the light on Blanquilla reef might have likewise been extinguished, causing the Tacoma to go aground just before dawn. ANDERSON ‘OUT’ ON CITY PETITION Considers Relationship With* Water Attorney. A Federal judge from another State will be asked to pass upon the peti tlon of the city of 1 rtdian&polis to Intervene in the water rate injunction case. This was decided by Judge Albert B. Anderson after hearing more than an hour of argument today. Tb action was taken because Albert Baker of the law* firm of Baker & Daniels, attorneys for the Indianapolis Water Company, is Judge Anderson’s brother-in-law,* after It bad developed that whether the city’s petition was granted was largely discretionary with the court and was not strictly a legal question. The Indianapolis Water Company seeks to prevent the publio service commission from interfering with establishment of higher rates. ‘CHUCK’ WIGGINS SOUGHT 2* Hoxer Fails to Report at Greene ant ie for Prison Trip. Sheriff Snider today said he was Peking for Charles “Chuck" Wiggins. Indianapolis boxer. Wtggins was to have reported in Circuit Court at Oreenrastle.Tuesday to begin serving a sentence of from two to five years at the State Reformatory. He was convicted of attempting to escape from the Indiana State Farm, near Greoncaatle, two years ago. and his appeal denied several days ago by Supreme Court. SOLID FOOD REMAINS State Bakers In <'on vent,lon at Sbterin—Committees Named. Bread and meat retain their place at head of the list of health giving foods, Charles W. Myers, director of trade relations. Armour & Cos., told the Indiana Bakers’ Association, In convention at the Severin today. A. W. Wilkinson, Rushvllle, president, outlined growth of the association. j Committees appointed: Alvin Eads, Evansville; Fred Miller, Paul Brinkley, Hartford City, auditing; Eugene Qulgg, Richmond; Jessie Dietzen, Frankton; Jack Zeller, Shelbyville, nominating; V. C. Vanderbilt, Elmer Cline, both of Indianapolis, John Ruger, Lafayette, resolutions.

thing that had never been done for an infidel In history- They did, and he was cured. And the first thing he did was to go to a Catholic Church. “Gabrlelle D’Annunzio. Once at a dinner In Paris he tajked to me for an hour and a quarter. Suddenly he rose. ’Madame,’ he said, in the best D’Annunzio manner, ‘you must pardon me. I owe myself to the other ladies.’ Lonely Veiled Prophet “Emir Idrissy, . lonely veiled prophet. He talked to me for six hours at midnight in the inky blackness of his home. Every hour tinkling tea cups, redolent with different spices, were pushed toward us by unseen hands.

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U. S. CHARGES . STOCK SLUMP. LOSS $4,000,000

CHARGES OCMED ■HI MM HD HIM IN tn I City Court Case GrowsT)ut of Accident on North Side Nov. 29. Mrs. Louise Wilt, 206:5 N. Meridian St., and George Forkner, Newcastle, -former State Senator, in city court today denied charges growing out of an automobile accident Nov. 29. Mrs. Wilt was charged with operating a car while under the influence of liquor, and Forkner was charged w ith operatThg a blind Mger and with Intoxication. Mrs. Wilt, driving Forkner’s car, struck a car parked at Thirty-Fourth and Meridian St. at 2 a. m., police said. Both were injured, taken To city hospital and tljcn to city prison. Mrs. Wilt testified she had to go to St. Vincent's Hospital to recuperate after the “terrible” night in jail. HIRAM TO OPEN OFFICE Johnson Indiana Campaign Gets I'nder Way. Headquarters for Hiram Johnson, candidate, for the Republican nomination for President, will be opened either at the Claypool or the Severin within two days. Clarence R, Martin, Indiana manager, said! today. Martin has returned from Evansville. where he formed a First district organization. Johnson will open his Indiana campaign at Evansville Saturday night. U. S. PBOTESTS BLOCKADE Consul at Vera <l*U*,to Deliver Note tj De La Huerta. By L nitrd Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—-The American Government has dispatched to Adolfo De lai Huerta,deader of the Mexican revolution, a protest against the blocade declared on the port of Ta inpiro. The protest is being delivered to De I,a Fuerta by John Q. Wood, American consul at Vera Cruz. MUTUAL MARKET SOUGHT Canning Crop Growers Consider Cooperative Arrangement. Cooperative marketing of Indiana canning crops will be sought this year by a group of producers, according to plans announced by the organization committee of the Indiana Canning Crop Growers’ Associatio. William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, was elected chairman of the organization committee: Walter E. McCartney, Shelbyville. secretary and director, and Lewis Taylor, treasurer. COX HEADS SUPPLY MEN Builder*’ Association Closes Conven- -- tlon With Banquet. Warren Cox. Winnimac, is the new president of the Indiana* Builders' Supply Association, which closed its meeetlng here Tuesday nigiit. Charles Monyhan, Connersville; Hersohel Moore, Bedford: A. D. Zuaer, Ft. Wayne, and Fred Stlltz. Indianapolis, were named vice H. A. Rogers, Indianapolis, is treasurer. 4 " Resolutions Were passed urging strengthening of the lien law to protect persons providing materials to contractors, encouragement of home building and Increased use of septic disposal tanks in rural communities. Train Kills Musical Director Ru United Press GARY’, Ind., Jan. 16. —A coroner's jury here today investigated the death of Rudolph Lundberg, director of a Gary musical academy, killed by a train here Tuesday. Stop Missed, Is Charge Following a collision at Vermont St. and Capitol Ave., in which Lewis Sur face, BargersviUe, Ind.. was bruised, Paul Hill, 417 S. New 7 Jersey St., was charged with failing to stop at a boulevard and with assault and battex-y.

“King Feisal. On a balcony at Damascus. He told me of his hopes for Arabia. ‘And what do you think of European statesmen?’ I asked. ‘Like futurist paintings,' he rallied immediately, ‘they are better at a distance.’ "Robert Horne. Self-made man of the conservative government in England. Once he told me why he had never married. ‘I talk so loudly,’ he explained. ‘I have never been able to find a sufficiently private in which to propose.’ “Oh, ys, of course, my husband. He is Arthur McGrath of the British war office. “He must be in, because he overcame all my prejudices against love and marriages.”

Nineteen Officers and Others Connected With Hawkins / \ Mortgage Company Indicted on Con- / spiracy and Fraud Counts. # FEDERAL GRAND JURY ADJOURNS UNTIL FEB. 6 * Arraignment Date Is Set for Feb. 4 —Several Indianapolis Men Understood to Be in List of Defendants. Morton IS. Hawkins, president of the Hawkins Mortgage Company of Portland, lud.; Anthony A. Scheib, viee-’president; Carl B. Anderson, secretary and treasurer, all of Portland, and sixteen other persons connected with financial transactions of the concern were indicted by the Federal grand jury today on charges of using the mails in a scheme to defraud and conspiracy. Operations of the defendants, according to Federal officials, covered at least eight States and resulted in losses to stockholders in various affiliated concerns of the Hawkins Mortgage Company aggregating $4.0004)00 to $6,000,000. Some tlefemlants are said to come I-- -

from various parts of the country including Pennsylvania, Missouri, New York and Indiana. It is understood a number of Indianapolis men are on the list. Names will not be made public until arrests are made. Judge Anderson set Feb. 4 as arraignment day. The indictment ’contained sixteen counts. It was returned to Judge Albert B. Anderson. The grand jury was dismissed until Feb. 6. Anderson said: “I don’t believe it will be a very long session." Misrepresentation Charged It was charged defendants sold shares of the Hawkins Mortgage Com panv at far more than their true value by falsely representing the company was earning sufficient money to pay substantial dividends, when it actually was operating at a lose with a constantly increasing deficit. It was further charged defendants organized “welfare loan societies,” representing them to be “the strongest of their class,” backed the Hawkins Mortgage Company with as sets of $9,000,000. Both of these stateirvpnts were false. Federal officials declared. Jt was alleged of the 102 welfare loan societies organized on\| thirty! eight ever opened their doors for business. and pf these only not operated at a loss. However, it was alleged, dividends of 8 per cent yvoro paid on the stock of all the companies, out of money collected from the sale of stock. Collections “Held Out?” About $700,000 of money 7 collected through these societies was held out by some defendants for payment of “dividends,” It is charged. According to the indictment the assets of the Hawkins Mortgage Company were used principally for tiie purpose of obtaining control of other loan and mortgage companies. Formation of these welfare loan so cietles began in 1918, Federal officials said. Postoffice inspectors and accountants of the Department of Justice have been investigating affairs of these societies, the Hawkins Mortgage Company and affiliated organlza tions since .Tune. About that time bankruptcy pro- j cefdings w 7 ere instituted against the j Cooperative League of America, an affiliated concern and the Hawkins Mortgage Company in Federal Court.

Three I’nder Arrest This was by the arrest of Haw’kins, Scheib and- Andei*son on charges of fraudulently using the mails. They were bound over to die.* grand jury. Welfare societies had been organized in Ft. Wayne. Evansville. Muneie, Richmond, Marion, Logansport, An derson. South Bend, Michigan City. Lafayette. Elkhart. Vincennes, Kokomo and New Albany. Indictments also were returned today against Thomas L. Hildebrand, former cashier of the First National Bank of Columiba City, and Louis A. Ackley. Hildebrand was charged with violation of National banking laws. He Is said to have embezzled about $347,000. Ackley was charged with using the mails In an attempt, to pass a forged check. He whs ari’ested here reeentlv after he was alleged to l&ve tried to pass a forged $3,00(1 check on William FI. 'fhompson of the law firm of Miller, Dailey & Thompson. An indictment against Frank Fuchs, former vice 'president of the Citizens National Bank, Evansville, Ind., charges him with a shortage, said by Federal agents to have been near $83,0000. Fuchs is under $20,000 bond at Evansville. Officials Explain Needs r After a meeting today of the county council called by Auditor Harry Dunn to reappropriate $280;283 of funds unspent In 1923, and which by law reveiled to the general fund.and to appropriate SBO,OOO new funds, the council adjourned until 10 a. m. Thursday without action. County officials explained their needs. Conductor Is Held Edward Burns, 1132 Roache St., a street car conductor, was charged" with assault and battery today after Henry Keeler, 3322 E. St. Clair St., said by police to have .been knocked down and bruised ash tried to. board a car at 4303 W. Michigan St.

Forecast COLD wave tonight with snow and temperatures from 5 to 10 above Thursday morning. Fair Thursday.

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Landis Decries German Carp in U. S. Rivers Ru United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—0f all the * crimes perpetrated against the great outdoors, the greatest was' committed by the man who conceived the idea of populating our streams with German carp, Judge K. M. Landis, arbiter of baseball, said in an address last night before the Isaak YValthn League of America. Landis attacked what he termed the stupid policy toward conservation. “That I may make myself as to how* I feel about this German carp, I want to say that ore of my*greatest desires is to live long though to meet the man wlxp discovered this country's crying need for foreign fish.” DURGAN, KLAN FOE, JOSSES HIS HAT Lafayette Mayor to Announce at Tomlinson Hall, Mayor George R. Durgan of Lafayette enteded the Democratic race for Governor today. He will make formal announcement of his candidacy In an address at Tomlinson Hall at 8 o’clock tonight. Durgan will discuss State issues and the Ku-Klux Elan. He is a bitter opponent of the Klan and backed adoption at Lafayette of the first, antimasking ordinance in the State.

LUTEN HEADS COMMITTEE Dithmer Names Chairman of C. of C. Education 1 Popart merit. Daniel B. Luten has been appointed chairman of the Wucation committee of the Chamber of Commerce, Henry L. Dithmer. president, announced todal. Duten Is president of the Euten Engineering: Company, and been an active member of the civic affairs committee during the last year. Dit'hmer also announced the reappointment of Frank E. Gavin as chairman of the legislative an<T legal affairs committee. BROTHERS MUST PAY UP Receiver for Hoosier Square and Compass Club Files Suits for Dura. “Pay, brothers, pay! You’ll get sued If you don’t." This warning was issued to 2,600 members of the Hoosier Square and Compass Club when Clarence E. Coffin. appointed receiver for the organization June 20, 1923, by Superior Judge Sidney L. Miller, filed suit for delinquent dues agaipst -fifty mem' bars in the court of Edward L. Dietz, Justice of the peace, today. vMore suits will be filed, fifty at a tim^. Congress Today SENATE Routine business. Agriculture Committee continues hearings. Reorganh&tion Committee resumes sessions. HOUSE Gag rule fight continues. Ways and Means Committee continues tax hearings. Free seed -bill hearing before Agricultural Committee. Rice Gets New Trial Ru Timet Special CftAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Jan. 16. —-Judge West will hear second trial of Clayton Rice, charged with robbing the Linnsburg State Bank, May 1. of about SI,BOO, March 17. Jury disagreed In first trial. ;