Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 242, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1924 — Page 1

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VANDERLIP FLAYS U.-S. OFFICIALS Capitalist Declares Libel Suit Brought by Publishers Is Means of Airing Alleged Corruption in Several Branches of Government, By United Pres > NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—“1 welcome these court proceedings,” Frank A. Vanderlip said today, referring to the $600,000 libel suit brought against him by Louis H. Brush and Roy D. Moore, purchasers of the Marion (Ohio) Star. \anderlip is alleged to have ‘‘wickedly and maliciously” eharged the plaintiffs with bribing Warren G. Harding to fail to perform certain of his official duties as President of the United States.

SLEUTH'BURNS IS CALLED BY CHIEF TO FIGHT CRITICS Noted Detective Has Been 'Sitting in' at Hearings —Prepare Statement. By United Press WASHINGTON. ,Feb. 21.—Attorney General Daugherty today called in William J. Burns, head of the Department of Justice secret service, to help him prepare a counter-attack on his tritlcs. Burns and Rush Holland, assistant to Daugherty, who recently has been “sitting in” at hearings of the Senate Teapot Dome committee, spent several lours in Daugherty's apartment. It vas intimated there might be a statenent later replying to the attack on Daugherty by Senator Wheeler, Mon‘ana, author of a restlution for inieetigation of Daugherty’s administration. At the White House it was stated no ievelopments were expected today in connection with the recommendation if Administration Senators that Prescient Coolidge ask Daugherty to resign. Senator Wheeler's resolution will be aken up in the Senate today or Friday, White House officials said. Should Spare Trouble . Since Coolidge, up to now, has let it be known he would not ask for Daugherty's resignation unless specific evidence finding Daughtery culpable in the oil or other scandals were produced, the line of argument directed at Daugherty is he should resign to spare the party unnecessary additional trouble. Unless the President or attorney general acts very soon Administration leaders told the President it will bo impossible to withhold action on the Wheeler resolution condemning Daugherty anu providing for an investigation of his department. > Dodge told the President the resolution would pass by a large majority. But Dodge and other leaders want to avoid its adoption if they can. Will Hurt Party While Coolidge has refused, in the Denby case, to recognize the Senate’s right to dictate to him regarding Cabinet officers, It was pointed out the Administration's standing with the country would hurt by adoption of another resolution condemning a second Cabinet member. Senator Wheeler, author of the Daugherty investigation measure, said he had been promised action some time today. If he does not get it Wheeler will demand the Senate discharge the audit and control committee, which has his resolution, and consider it immediattely. MAC DONALD ENDS NATIONAL STRIKE Dock Workers Agree to Terms —Get increase. fill United Press DONDON, Feb. 21.—The British dock strike was settled today. Settlement was held as a victory for the generalship of Premier Ramsay MacDonald. The nation heaved a sigh of relief when morning papers announced the strike which started Saturday noon was at an end. Work will be resumed when workers* delegates accept terms agreed to by their leaders. Employers agreed to the men’s demand for a two-shilling a day increase. FIVE INJURED IN FALL Elevated Platform Collapses as Men Are, Unloading Pipe. By United Press CHICAGO. Feb. 21.—Five men were injured, three serioiusly, when an ele vated platform on which they were unloading pipe collapsed last nignt. The Injured: Philip Dailey, Charles Mitchell, Michael Walsh, Steve Gib-1 hons and Thomas Hickey, all of Chi-*] ***<>■ - 1

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The banker's complete statement follows: “The courts are an effective means to bring out facts. I therefore welcome this courT" proceeding. I hope that it is the forerunner of other court proceedings. There is nothing this cour.tr>' needs so much at the moment as some court proceedings initiated by grand juries and pressed by incorruptible prosecuting attorneys. No Answer Pressed “Twenty-two months ago, in April, 1921, the Senate, by ultimatum resolution, called for the facts In the Teapot Dome leases. That resolution was so framed the red flag of suspicion was run up. For weeks no answer was received and none was urgently pressed for, and thereafter, until quite recently, the search for the facts was made without vigor. What were newspapers doing for twenty-two months? What was Senator Walsh doing? It looks as if somebody had been asleep at the switch, or perhaps asphyxiated at the switch. At least no court proceedings have yet resulted from the Teapot Dome situation. “Nor have there been, so far as I am aware, any court proceedings Initiated as a result of the criminal mismanagement of the Veterans’ Bureau. Matter of Record “The wholesale dishonesty there is not a matter of rumor, it Is a matter i of official record In the committee proj ceedings and the proceeding of Congress and Mr. Forbes, former director and his friends have as yet encountered no court proceedings. “There have been no court proceedings or even a thorough investigation of the alien property administration. “Congress today is spending Its time solemnly and partisanly debating an income tax measure. It is like discussing the size of a faucet you would rut in a barrel leaking between half the staves. If we can have honest administration of the taxes collected, the rate of income tax will take care of 'itself. Graver Than War “If this country were invaded by an alien foe and I were a young man. I believe I would offer- myself for its defense. Tt has been attacked by something more dangerous than a military invasion by a foreign foe. “Corruption has attacked the Government at its heart. “I believe I am a patriotic citizen and I propose to offer the same service in fighting this danger a young man should offer in fighting foreign invasion. Tam really enlisted in this matter because of profound conviction. My attitude hides no motives of partisanship. I 'have been a lifelong Republican. “I believe the facts are not fully presented to the country and even when presented are not being acted upon. I am prepared to spend quite as much as has been asked for in these court proceedings in an effort to make public some of the news the great newspapers do not see fit to print.’’

OLD BOREAS STILL ON JOB OVERTIME i Cold Weather Will Continue Tonight, HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 16 10 a. m 17 7 a. m 16 11 a. m 20 8 a. 15 12 (noon) ...... 22 9 a. m.• 36. Another cold night is in prospect tonight, with somewhat warmer weather Friday, the official weather report indicated today. The forecast calls for fair weather tonight, with increasing cloudiness Friday. Lowest temperature reported today was 15 degrees at 7 a. m. A similar minimum was forecast for tonight. After 8 a. in. the mercury began to climb slowly. Lower temperatures ar© general east of the Rocky Mountains, with warmer weather In the Northwest, the Weather Bureau reported. GOTHAM SKIDS TO WORK Nine Thousand Men Quit Work Rather Than Face Slush. By United Press ' NEW YORK. Feb. 21.—New York skated to work on icy sidewalks today after the most disagreeable storm of the season, but brilliant sunshine and a favorable Weather forecast cheered the commuters. The street cleaning department made little headway against snow and slush Wednesday. Nine thousand men quit work rather than face the slush and rain. Two deaths were attributed to the storm and more than a score were injured. j

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. 'RE girls better students than boys? Comparison of senior averages at Shortridge High School, shows that threo girls havo perfect records in four years. They are Marylee Orloff, 2042 College Ave.: Mary Emily Starr, 3442 N. Capitol Ave., and Margaret Woessner, 3684 Central Ave. Dorothy Helmer, 2523 Central Ave., scored a perfect record for the ono semester she has been in Shortridge.

SECOND MEETING 10 DISCUSS GUIS IN GAS RALE SET Decrease Nearer as Utility Manager Meets City Consultant, Decrease in Indianapolis gas rates appeared nearer today, following a preliminary conference between Clarence L. Kirk, general manager of the Citizens Gas Company, and Benjamin Perk, utility consultant of the city legal department. Another conference in which Taylor E. Gronlnger, corporation counsel, will participate, is scheduled for Tuesday. Kirk said he placed before Perk certain concrete proposals for rate reductions. He said he would not reveal the nature of the proposals, preferring to wait until an agreement between the city and the company Is reached. - Recently directors of the company authorized reduction of 5 cents for prompt payment of bills and graduated rates, lower than at present, for large users. The present rate is $1.15. Another reduction of at least 5 cents in domestic rates is possible within the next six months. It was said.

WOMAN SLAYER GETS 20 YEARS ‘Poison Widow' Screams She Loved Children, By United Press ELKHORN, Wis.. Feb. 21.—Pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of her husband and attempted poisoning of her four dren, Mrs. Myrtle Shaude, Whitewater "poison widow,” today was under sentence of twenty years in the State Prison. “I didn’t want to kill these chiidren, I love them—l love them. Oh! God, I don’t know why I did ft—l loved them so,” she screamed. The prosecution charged the woman poisoned her husband and attempted to kill her four children to be free to marry a former boarder at her home. INDICTMENT REQUESTED Men benight in Sheriff Slaying, Believed Involved In Postoffice Theft. By Times Special CINCINNATI, Feb. 21—Eugene Webb and Bruton Carter, for whom Gov. McCray of Indiana plans to Issue requisition papers, 1 are facing Federal action here on a charge of robbing the St. Paris, - Ohio, postoffice. The prisoners ar© alleged to have participated in the slaying of Sheriff William Van Camp, BrookviHe, Ind., last summer. Bullets of the design and caliber of those in Van Camp’s body w r ere fdund buried on a farm near Springfield, Ohio, where, it is charged, loot from a bank at Greenville, Ohio, and the St. Paris robbery, also was uncovered. The suspects are serving twenty-five-year sentences for the Greenville robbery-. MUNCIE RUM QUIZ OPENS of Fifty Witnesses Said to Have Appeared Voluntarily. . When the Federal grand jury took up liquor law violations at Muncie today, about :3fty witnesses appeared at the Federal Bldg. It was said many of these -came voluntarily.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEB. 21, 1924

Others on the honor roll: Dorothy Helmer, Virginia Small, Margaret Elrod, Lorinda Cottingham, Dorothy Peterson, Addison Howe, Josephine Henderson, Dorothy Hoy, Edward Chapman, Mary McDonald, Elizabeth Hurd, Elizabeth Anne Miller, Joyce Jackson, Henrietta Jungclaus, Hejen Noble, Fletcher Hodges, Howard Dirks, Dorothea Canfield, Horace Wright, Frederick Hetherington, Augusta Bowerman,

‘Un-American?’ By United Press MADISON, Wis., Feb. 21. Anonymous letters received by all Wisconsin legislators and many State officials today denounce the “Star-Spangled Banner” as the song of the Irish to show hatred for Protestant England. The words of the song were termed "blood thirsty” and the music as “barroom music.” in the letters, which are signed “100 Per Cent American.” The poem is essentially un-American and finds no response except among aliens, the letters ,state.

COUNTY COUNCIL WANTS‘FEASIBLE’ RELIEF PROPOSAL Original Plan 'Has Gone Around in Circles Long Enough'—Hogle, If the city board of health and county commissioners will present, a defi. nlte, feasible plan for removal of persons suspected of insanity tronv the county Jail, the county council will give it “most favorab’e consideration,” councilmen said today at a special meeting. “The proposal to provide other quarters has gone around in circles long enough.” said Cassius Hogle, president. “Something definite should be decided. I think it a crime that such persons are kept in the county jail.” The council will meet again Feb. 29 in case county commissioners and Sol Schloss, president of the city hoard of health, who aro working on a plan whereby a temporary ward can be provided at the city hospital, have something definite to propose. “The main reason for our lack of comment has been that, there is nothing before us,’’ said Hogle. “It is the duty of the commissioners to figure out a plan, and then put it up to us for the money,” RALSTON AFFIRMS SUPPORTOF BONUS Letter to American Legion Post Shows Position, “There is no occasion for any ques lion as to my position in favor o.f adjusted Compensation,” declared Senator Samuel M. Ralston in a’ letter read before Indianapolis Post, American Legion, in the Board of Trade library Wednesday night. "I always have stood for it publicly, plainly and emphatically and there is no probability of my changing my mind in regard to it.” Senator James E. Watson was asked by the post to contirue support of the bill and Representative Merrill Moores was asked to consider the bill thoroughly before further opposing it. DILLON SENTENCE STANDS Twelfth Ward Politician Doses .. Gambling Case Appeal. Supreme Court today affirmed the sentence of. Thomas B. Dillon, Twelfth Ward Republican politician, who was convicted Dec. 22, 1922, in Criminal Court on gamblihg charges. He was sentenced to six months on the Indiana State Farm and fined SSOO,

Mary Cramer, Clarence Larash, Margaret Door, Charles C&rll, William Smith, Russell Hutchinson, Helen Ashmore, Margaret Hackleman, Hattie Krueger, Rosemary Smith, V’illiam Kennedy, Irma Roller, Gladys Hooker, Florence Hadley, Lucinda Smith, Russell Ar buckle, Frances Smith, Ollie Lewis, Martha Wood, Jack Wright, Catherine Gilbert, Dowell Love, Katherine Keenan, Ellen Mac Lean and Owen Roberson.

MARBLE CHAMPION TO SHOW ABILITY IN EXHIBIT GAME | Reaver Will Meet All Aspirants in Times Annual Contest, Here is a chance for marble players of Indianapolis to play with the champion marble shooters cf the city. Ross Beaver, 11, of 157 W. TwentyThird St., last yoar’S champion, will p'ay exhibition gnmea In the toy department on the fifth floor of L. S. Ayres & Cos. from 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. m., Friday and Saturday. Special arrangements have been made by the store for the exhibition and any boy or girl in the city may compare his ability to knack the marbles out of the ring with that of Ross. The Times will conduct again this >ear a city championship marble tournament. The winner will be sent to Atlantic CJty to play in the National tournament, just as Ross made the trip last year. Hundreds of boys and girls are planning to enter the contest this year. They will have an opportunity to play with the champion at Ayres and to ask him about the Atlantic City trip, when Ross had the time of his life. , ALLEGED SLAYER EVADES QUESTIONS Man Accused of Louden Murder Denies Statements, Detectives Thomas and Danders today said they had obtained no further information from Charles Edward Henry, 23, colored, 2405 Paris Ave., whom they charge with the murder of Motor Policeman Jesse Loudon, June 14, 1923, at Sixteenth St. ,and Central Ave. . . The detectives announced Wednesday that they had secured a signed confession from Henry. After he made the confession and was laken to the scene of the crime, the detectives said Henry denied parts of his statements and gave evasive ar swers to further questions. SENATOR GREENE BETTER Solon Wounded by. Stray Bullet "Slightly Improved. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Senator Frank L. Greene, Vermont fighting for life in Emergency hospital was “slightly improved” today. Senator Greene was shot Friday night while returning to his hotel. The shot was P.pcd either by a bootlegger or a prohibition agent in a fight- in an alley near Greene's hotel. BEE DISEASE mIeTING Ohio, Micliigan and Indiana Officials to Confer Friday. Charles A. Reese, Ohio State apiarist, and B. F. Kindig, Michigan State apiarist, will meet with C. O. Yost and Frank N. Wallace, Indiana entomologist, at Auburn, Ind., Friday and Saturday to plan inspection of bees along the Indiana, Ohio and Michigan boundaries. Wallace said drastic steps will be taken to curb the amount of disease among bees. ,Ohio, he said,' has enacted a bee law similar to the Indiana law to prevent disease,

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AUTOIST LOSES HIS LIFE WHEN TRAIN HITS CAR

su urn miIHESS’ n 1 COUNSEL Pomerene and Roberts Depend on Teapot Lessee to Clinch Fraud Charge. Oil Highlights" Daugherty defies critics and declares ho will not resign unless asked by President Coolidge. Senator Dodge and other G. O. P. leaders press Coolidge and Daugherty to create vacancy to save “further trouble.’ Passage of Wheeler resolution, calling for probe of Daugherty’s department forecast unless Attorney General resigns. Daugherty places services of Department of Justice at disposal of Pomerene and Roberts, special Federal oil counsel. Arrangements made to examine books of Harry Payne Whitney, millionaire capitalist and associate of Sinclair. Sinclair refuses statement, but is summoned before committee for questioning Monday. Vanderlip welcomes $600,000 libel suit as chance to air'facts regarding “corruption in Government." By PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Feb. 21—The | Senate Teapot Dome committee was preparing on two lines of hearing when public hearings are resumed Monday. These are: 1. Questioning of Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, concerning the making of that lease with Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Inj terior, and financial transactions with Fall and others growing out of the leasing. 2. Investigation to disclose stock deals by other Government officials besides Davis Elkins, Senator from West Virginia, who admitted market operations in Sinclair Oil, but said he had no tip and made no profit. Sinclair Star Witness Sinclair is now regarded by the committee as its star witness. Upon his testimony also the President's special counsel, Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, are depending for the clinching of their case showing fraud and corruption in connection with leasing of at least one of the oil reserves. Whether Sinclair's testimony also will provide necessary evidence for criminal prosecutions is another question being considered. Recent testimony before the committee has tended to show Fall and Sinclair were negotiating for Teapot Domo even before the reserves had been transferred from the Navy to the interior department and to prevent the negotiations from being upset, Sinclair paid or agreed to pay'more than $2,000,000 In all to other claimants. Senator Lenroot, chairman of the committee, said today he had not been in communication with Sinclair, who landed in New York Wednesday from Europe. Bu‘ Sinclair will be here Monday, Lenroot added.

Will Show Truth The inquiry into stock transactions is expected to disclose, through the testimony of export accountants who have examined brokers’ records, whether reports that Attorney General Daugherty and other officials dealt in Sinclair oil arc true. The committee wants to know whether these dealings, If conducted, were based on advance tips regarding the Teapot Dome lease and if so whether these tips came from. SERUM CONCERN FORMED Thornton Also to Have Dairy Products Farm. Articles of Incorporation for the Thornton Pure Serum Company and the Quality Products Company of Thornton, Ind., were filed today. Each will issue SIO,OOO stock. The serum company will manufacture serums and other • biological products. The products company will handle, animal products, butter ,eggs and similar dairy products . Incorporators and directors are: Fred W. Lightfoot and Murray S. Barker, both of Thornton, and William C. Miller of Jonesboro, Ind. Directors: A. H. Myers, Noblesvllle, Ind.: William 11. Settle, Petroleum, Ind., and Perry Crane, Lebanon, Ind. bombing is Theory Explosion Wrecks Rear of New Apartment Building at South Bend. By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., Feb. 21.—Police were investigating an explosion of what is believed to have been a bomb, that wrecked the rear of a new apartment building belonging to John G. Stratigos. No one was injured. It is believed the explosion was the result of a controversy in a local Greek colony, of .which Stratigos is a leader.

Vehicle Is Dragged 1,200 Feet West of Scene of Accidental Arlington Ave, and Pennsylvania Railroad in Irvington. Woman Living Near Place Says Warning Bell Was Ringing I for Some Time Before Accident —Identification by Ice Creepers, John Cox, 50, of 1845 Arfow Ave., a collector for the Indiana Investment and Securities Company, was killed by a Pennsylvania inbound passenger train at Arlington Ave. crossing, Irvington, shortly before noon today. Cox, according to F. G. Doll, 338 Kej’stone Ave., conductor of the train, was driving a Ford touring car. The automobile, Doll said, was carried about 1,200 feet by the train. The body was taken to the Union Station on the train and then sent to the city morgue.

Body Badly Mangled The body was identified at the morgue by Harry Metzger, 4453 Central Ave., manager of auto sales, for the in vest’lent company. The body was mangled beyond recognition, but Metzger said he recognized some steel ice creepers fastened to Cox's shoes. Metzger said he noticed the creepers when Cox left the office, 208 Guaranty building, this morning to make his oollect'on rounds In Irvington. The train which struck Cox was the first section of the St. Louisan, one of the fastest trains between New York and St. Louis. Warning Bell Ringing Mrs. Lizzie Compton, colored, 141 S. Arlington Ave. said she heard the crossing warning bell ringing some time before the train whistled shrilly for the crossing. She said she heard her daughter scream and exclaim that an automobile had been struck. Ed Ebanigh, 5791 E. Bonna Ave., Rnd Harold Wilson, 6909 Rawles Ave., who helped pull the wrecked auto from the engine, were unable to agree cn whether or not the man was dead when help reached him. Coroner Paul F. Robinson was expected to inquire Into why the train crew moved th© body from the accident scene before the coroner arrived. A State law prohibits this. E. J. Sullivan, Indianapolis, was engineer on the train. It left Indianapolis for St. Louis about fortyfive minutes late. It is an “extra fare” train.

‘GOLDEN CABARET’ IS ORDERED CLOSED Lights Out of Order Follows Gambling Charges. The saxophone which has called the pride and chivalry at night life along the "Avenue" to syncopation in the Golden West Cabaret, 622% Indiana Ave., won't be heard tonight. Old King Jazz flew out the window of the dance resort today as Superior Judge T. J. Moll ordered "lights out” for thirty days under the public nuisance act. Then the owners. Emma F. Sindlinger and Mrs. Bertha E. Deprez. of Shelbyville, Ind., will have the alternative of filing a SI,OOO bond to pledge observance of laws or keeping the place shut. Archie "Jokei*” Young, tinder sentence of six months for operating a gambling house on the premises and another of thirty days/for running a liquor nuisance there, with William Dixon, an employe, are permanently enjoined from ever operating the place again. The upstairs from 622% to 626% was ordered closed. ELECTION POST FILLED Humphrey C. Harrington Named Democratic Board Member. Humphrey C. Harrington, attorney and president of the Ex-Service Voters League, was appointed on the Marion County election board today by Russell J. Ryan, Democratic county chairman. Harrington succeeds Clyde E. Baker, attorney. Other members are Leo K. Fesler, appointed by William H. Freeman, Republican county chairman, and Albert H. Losche, Democrat, county clerk. For the first time In a number of years the Democrats have a majority on the election board. WANT NEW EGG LAWS Poultry Association to Meet Here on March 4. Repeal or enforcement of the egg storage laws will be discussed by Gus Schlosser, Frankfort, Ind., at the Indiana Egg and Poultry Association convention at the Olaypool, March 4. A luncheon for women visitors will be given at the Lincoln March 4 and a banquet and dance at the Claypool that evening. I Vince in New Outfit LONDON, Feb. 21. —Ir the recent Toe H. lamp-lighting ceremony at the city of London guild hall, the Prince of Wales came attired in a blazer, soft collar and gray flannel trousers. He still is regarded as England’® beat dressed man, *

Forecast FAIR and continued cold tonight. Lowest temperature about 15 degrees. Friday increasing cloudiness and rising temperature.

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COUNTY COUNCIL PAYS 1923 BILLS ONOER MANDATE Second Session to Appropriate Additional Funds Set for Feb, 29, The county council, in special session t<May under mandate from Superior Judge James M. Leathers, appropriated funds to pay the following 1923 bills: Rader Coal Company, $4,265.27; F. D. Gardner A Cos., $1,645.79, and C. A. Hockensmith, S3OO. The council agreed to meet again Feb. 29 to appropriate approximately $25,000 to meet similar unpaid bills hold against the county by 200 creditors. Appropriation has been refused previously because of deficit In the 1923 appropriations for suplies. “There was enough money appropriated to meet these bills, but Auditor Leo K. Fesler used the money for other County expenses,” explained the present auditor, Harry Dunn. Dunn told the council that, due to "cutting the tax rate to make a good showing,” the county will lack approximately $135,000 needed for actual expenses for 1924. The county sinking fund will show a deficit of $736,134.65, if an old bon*i issue of $850,000 Is paid, Dunn said. The auditor said, however, that ha probably will refund the bond Issue, as has been done with it before, thereby leaving a surplus of approximately $200,000. In addition, Dunn said. Fester's books show that bond issues totaling $336,313.92 were carried as part of the general fund, whereas they should have been In separate funds. When Fesler's term ended Deo. SI, 1923, he reported a lprge balance in the county general fund. prospectforTax REDUCTION FADES Coolidge Likely to Veto Garner Democratic Bill, By United Press •WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—-Pros-pects <t tax reduction this year were more remote today as the House, after adopting the Garner Democratic substitute for the Mellon plan continued its discussion of the tax bill. A probable veto of Garner bill by, President Coolidge and danger the House and Senate will not be able to agree on a compromise acceptable to the President were the dangers rising in the path of tax reduction. The President publicly condemned the Garner plan In his New York speech Feb. 11 as unworkable and “political.” LEGION HOME DISCUSSED Architects Meet With War Memorial Board. Plans and specifications for th© Utilitarian building to be used as National headquarters for the American I egion were presented to the Indiana World War Memorial board today. The board met with H. E. Weeks and C. W. Stedman, representing talker and Weeks of Cleveland, Ohio, architects. - Hot Astyes Burn Worked By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 21. —When Oscar Churchill, an employe of Electric Light and Power Company, here, wis inspecting one of the fire boxes at the plant he received severe burns about the head and face. A fellow employe pulled a lever lotting the hot ashes fail over the body of ChurcWJ#