Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37 —NUMBER 305

SAYS 1,800 S. H. S. PLAN IS MISTAKE Shortridge Principal Opposes Proposal for School With Less Capacity. FORESEES CONGESTION Would Have 2,500 Pupils as Now, He Says. Erection of anew Shortridge High School to accommodate 1.800 pupils at Thirty-Fourth and Meridian Sts., as proposed by the school board and some Shortridge patrons would l>e a mistake, George Buck, Shortridge principal, said today. Probably 2,500 or more pupils Would attend the new school and the situation would be identical with the one now prevailing at the school at Pennsylvania and Michigan Sts., Buck stated. This school has a capacity of 1.800, hut for the past live years has been overcrowded and now about 2,700 children attend school there in Jammed quarters. Not Antagonistic “I do not want to take an antagonistic stand against the propoBiiion, but. I do believe erection of a school for 1,800 pupils would be a mistake," he said. Buck declared the only solution for the problem was construction of a building for 2.500 pupils. He said if the new building is erected, teachers and persons in touch with handling the children will have to wage another battle against overcrowding. Buck stated that the junior high school program which the board has in mind to support the smaller high school, "is in the experimental stage.” lie said he was not against the junior high school program, but believed that with it in such status, the larger school should be ereo.tSdi, No Official Action • The principal further declared that construction of the Washington and Crlspus Attucks High Schools, for Negroes and west side pupils, wdll not take enough children from Shortridge to aid conditions. The board has taken no official action on the question of putting Shortridge at Thirty-Fourth St. or on the type of building to be erected, but It has announced it favors putting this typo of structure on the site and supporting the school with junior high schools in Broad Ripple, Irvington and possibly on the south side. It is the general feeling among Indianapolis Public School Welfare Association members that erection of the 1,800 capacity school at ThirtyFourth St. immediately will solve the problem. This association took court action to prevent the board from selling this site and buying another on Forty-Sixth St., between Central Ave. and Washington Blvd.

HOUR OF LEE’S ARRIVAL SECRET Alleged Murderer. Believed on Way Here. If officials knew the hour Ralph I.ee, Indianapolis desperado, alleged slayer, bank bandit, highway robber and escaped convict, was due to arrive from Buffalo, N. Y., they kept it secret. It was believed officials were guarding against a demonstration when the prisoner is brought back by Prosecutor Relay's detectives, Jess McMurtry and Harry McGlenn. A small crowd gathered around Union Station gates Thursday night to glimpse the criminal following announcement by Remy that Lee was en route here. Subsequent telegrams to Remy from the detectives, however, the information their trip had been delayed and that they •would start back today. Lee faces a trial for-his life. He is charged with murdering Abner Peek, Speedway City grocer, in a holo-up July o, 1924. After the slaying he escaped jail, fled to Tennessee’, 'was convicted of highway robbery and sent to prison. He engineered a daring prison break April 9 for flfteeen prisoners. They robbed a bank and be fled tp Buffalo, where Indiana's claim won for his custody. DAWES BANK MERGER? Combination Would Be Fourth largest in Chicago. By United Press CHICAGO, April 23.—The bank founded by Vice President Charles G. Hawes, the Central Trust Company of Illinois is to be merged with another downtown Chicago bank to form the city’s fourth largest banking concern, according to reports in the financial district. The 'merged hanks would have deposits of about $140,000,000. HOI RLY TEMPERATURE 0 a. m 54 10 a. in 60 • 7 n. m 55 11 a. m fil 8 a. m 65 12 (noon) .... 62 9 a. 1)5 68 1 p. m....... 64

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Sergt. Thomas White, Battery A. 3d Meld Artillery. Ft. Benjamin Harrison, demonstrating new electric vauuuiu machine for grooming the Army’s horses and mules.

Necessity was the mother—sand father, too—of the Invention of Capt. A. C. Fitzhugh, commandant Battery A. 3d Field Artillery, stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, for grooming and massaging the Army's horses and mules. The animals suffered from lack of care, it Is said, when the Army personnel was reduced.

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■I SEE.’ SAID BLIND MAN Beggar Arrested When He Picks Up . Dollar BiU. Bit 'limes Special KANSAS CITY - , Mo., April 23. Emil Porter, a “blind" beggar, was arrested here when he picked up a dollar bill dropped by a detective. STORK HAS TWIN HABIT . Brings Five Pairs to Oakland Hospital in Two Weelis. flu Times Special OAKLAND, Cal., April 23.—The stork is developing a twin complex In this section. At the Fabiola Maternity Hospital five pairs of twins have arrived in two weeks. The average of twin births at the institution has been twelve a year. SOLDIERS GUARD TRIAL Bayonets Ring in ■ (Vmrihmise as Three Face Attack Charges. Rii United Press MADISONVILLE. K.v„ April 23. —Bayonets of 300 soldiers ringed the Hopkins County courthouse today as Columbus Hollis, Nathan Bard and Bunyan Fleming, alleged Negro bandits, wept on trial for the criminal attack on Miss Nell Briethaup, 16-year-old white girl. T. R. FOR MODIFICATION Young Roosevelt Believes It Will Check Murder, Crime. Hu United Press WASHINGTON. April 23.—Medication or repeal of the Volstead act Is necessary to check the murder and other crimes that have followed in its wake. Theodore Roosevelt said at the annual dinner of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association here. CHURCH HAS_CONTEST Temperance Will Be Topic of Young People Tonight. Young people of First Friends Church, Thirteenth and Alabama Sts., will have a temperance contest tonight. Miss Martha E. Bennett, religious education director, said the winner of the contest will represent the church at the yearly meeting of Friends at Plainfield in August. Walter Johnson, Robert Taylor, Donald Wright, Ann Carson, Elma Hohkett and Robert Jennings will participate. BIG USED CAR SHOW Will Be Held at Riverside Park, June 5 to 13. Indianapolis will have a sejected used car show with special sales features at Park, June 5 to 13, it was announced today by Marvin Thorton and Mark F. Rhodes of Riverside Park. Automobile dealers are cooperating in the affair. The show will be ushered in by a parade of cars through the downtown streets. Lew Shank, former mayor, will be in charge of the s[eciai sales. Each dealer will have five cars at the show. REPORT TWO MISSING Girl. 16, Falls to Return Home— City Searched. Police searched the city for two missing persons today. * Dorothy Meyers. 16, left her home at 1427 S. Illinois St., and failed to return. She was wearing a gray coat and red bat. She has brown eyes and hair. Cincinnati (Ohio) police asked a search be made tor Donald Doelker, 11, who ran away from home. He has a gray suit and cap, tan. shoes and carried a tan hand bag.

The machine, closely related to tho household vacuum cleaner, cleans two horses in the same timft a man can do the work on one. It is strapped to the groom, either in knapsack fashion or suspended from the shoulders to his side. • The animals on which the machine has been used are said to be pleased with its operation.

She Sought a Real Baby for a Dolly and Almost Got One.

Bu Times Sperinl NEW YORK. April 23.—Many a youthful miss of 9 or 10 has longed for a tf'reaT, live baby," instead of the china doll whose painted eyes close and open In the same old way. But as far as is known. 10-year-old Muriel Hausner is the first girl of her years to perpetrate a naive and nearly successful plot to obtain one. The Department of Public Welfare, which has charge of abandoned orphaned infants suitable for adoption, was thrown into some confusion by a letter, typewritten, signed: “Mrs. Muriel Hausner, 540 Van Cortland Park Ave." In the letter the writer claimed as her own an intent which had been 'found abandoned in a subway station some months ago. She Mislaid It "Mrs. Hausner” explained that she had mislaid the baby, “along with some other bundles.” The department heads, who already had arranged for the infant's adoption, inquired of one another how it happened that the waif should be assigned to foster parents when the real mother was alive and anxious to recover her offspring. "Dear Sir:” the letter began. “That’s my baby you found on 34th St., station of Ave.' subway. I am sorry to say that I was careless but it will never happen again I had so many bundles my arms were tired so I laid down my bundles in my hurry to get the train 1 forgot the best bundle fc hope you won’t charge me more than $5 because t spent all my money for hkn when I bought him I wpuld have notified you sooner, but I had the grip. Police Get Slam "r would like you to send him as soon as posable I will pay the nurse her fare please don’t have a policeman bring him as its a shame to have such a young baby connected with the police please make this as quiet as possible because I don’t want anybody to know if you cant send him 111 call for him and if I cant 111 send my little sister after him Itll be all right because she is very careful don’t say a word to her just give it to her because it will be a surprise for her if you want her to call for him just drop a card to come to your hospital to have tonsils cut by order of Dr, Wolfe. ‘‘Then someone will take her down town I think 111 have to send her as I am a school teacher and my husband Is away and I caiit come after school because I teach dancing then my sister will soon he ten so you can see she will be able to bring him home safely onley dont bother her with to many questions. . < Don’t “Fede" IJjm "I trust her so you can trust her to let me know as soon as possible and don’t fede him to much so he wont get so fat my sister will be able to carry him home she will blng $5 for his bord please send me back the picture because it is so cut® of him I want to keep it. *‘Ho|>ping I will get my baby back. “YoUrs truly, “MURIEL HAUSNER.” SHO W E RSA RE PRO BA BL E Rainfall to Date Exceeds Normal for April. With rainfall of thirty’-seven hundredths of an Inch Thursday, total precipitation for the month reached 3.61 inches, the . United States Weather Bureau announced today. This exceeds the normal rainfall of 3.47 inches for Mil of April. Further showers are probable tonight and Saturday, Meteorologist J. Ji. Armington said. Saturday night should be cooler, he st^pd.

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CZAR URGES TIGHTENING OF DNV LAW Andrews Says Congress Must Pass Unit Organization Bill. BEFORE SENATE INQUIRY Little Chance Seen for Any Change—Dever Heard. By Uniird Press WASHINGTON, April 23.—Reappearing as a witness, this time on the dry side, Lincoln C. Andrews, | Federal dry czar, told the Senate prohibition investigation committee today that Congress must enact the prohibition unit reorganization bill before adjournment if the law is to be enforced efficiently. Andrews said the coast guard had made rum running unprofitable and he hopes to do the same for illicit manufacture if Congress authorizes the reorganization he has planned for July 1. Reviews Record Andrews reviewed his work, showing he had stopped issuance of alcoholic permits and diversion of sacramental wines. Little hope is held for passage of the bill, or any measure tightening or modifying the Volstead act. Such measures have no places oft the ■ program of either House. The wets command a minority In the Senate j which they believe can stop the I Andrews’ bill. Mayor Ileardji Mayor Dever of Chicago was I another witness today. Resuming his testimony of Thursday he said bootlegge.s and beer makers besiege the city Cri'm suburban rendezvous. He said the - e were no public vice resorts in the city itself. Dever criticized some judges, who he said, “interfere with our work, because they do not believe in prohibition law and refuse to think the people pelleve in it.” HAYNES DEFENDS LAW Tells Dry Rally Attacks Only Show Prohibition Is Effective. By United Press DETROIT, April 23.—Public opinion passed the Eighteenth Amendment and is maintaining the law and the bitter attacks on prohibition only -go to show that prohibition is effective, Roy Haynes, Federal prohibition commissioner, told the Michigan Anti-Saloon Leagae today. “A law that is a dead letter challenges no opposi’tlon from its foes,” Haynes said. He declared enforcement Is tightening, pointing to the increased personnel, Increased equipment of the coast guard and efforts of friendly foreign powers to stamp out liquor smuggling. He scoffed that prohibition had Increased crime. SQUARE r SLAIn7 REPORT Police Hear Wrestler Killed Because He Would Not “Throw" Bout. By United Press CHICAGO, April 23. —Reports that Andrew Anderson, prize fighter and wrestler, was murdered for failure to comply with the demands of gamblers tthat he “throw” a bout with W ayne (Big) Munn, were placed before authorities today for Investigation. Anderson was shot down and killed in a Cicero (111.) saloon nearly two months ago. Police at the time followed a theory that Anderson had j been involved in a beer war. ENGLISH GEJS SUMMONS Ordered to Answer Impeachment on May 3. , By United Press WASHINGTON, April 23.—Federal Judge George W. English of the eastern district of Illinois was summoned today by the Senate to appear May 3 In answer to impeachment proceedings instituted against him by the House of Representatives for misuse of his judicial position. An order making the official summons was proposed by Chairman Cummips of the Judiciary Committee and adopted without objection. WATSON FOR FARM AID Says Senate Must Consider Relief Before Adjournment. Bn Times Special • WASHINGTON. April 23.—Senator Watson of Indiana has told the Senate that it will consider agriculture relief legislation before adjournemtn “if I have anything to do with it.” Senate program includes the Elliott Public Buildings bill, the Wat/ son-Parker railroad labor peace bill, the McFadden banking bill and the farm relief. TO VOTE AT COURTHOUSE Those Who |L?annot Go to PoCIs May Give Ballots to Clerk. Starting Saturday morning an;l continuing until next Saturday persons w'ho cannot vote at th# pri-" mary, May 4, may vote in person on the third floor of the courthouse. Albert H. Losche, county cleik, said today. Losche said about 1.000 .p?rsons have applied for fcailots with " T hlch to vote by umA

BELL OF 76 OVER RADIO SA VES SHIP Epic Battle With Seas Told by Skipper After 130Day Voyage. > Bu Times Special SAN PEDRO. Cal., April 23.—“ We had given ourselves up for lost on Christmas day and were waiting for our fate when we decided to play a game of pinochle so we could forget our troubles, l turned on the radio and the sounding of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia came clear and strong. ’We can’t give up now boys,’ 1 said and we broke up the game and got to work.” So runs the wild tale of Skipper Allan Rosendal, who brought hi3 four masted lumber schooner Irene into port Thursday after a maddening 130-day voyage. On Dec. 14. the Irene left Grays Harbor. Wash., bound for Miami in a race with another ship. Woman a Jinx • The crew of seven at the start feared a Jinx, because the wife of the skipper was aboard. They never knew of any good luck attending a sailing ship that carried a woman. First, heavy winds drove the ship lnfndreds of miles off her course, far out to sea. From then on. it Was a tale of head winds, doldrums and freaks of weather that held the chip helpless. The Irene was blown as far south as the equator apd at times was wallowing in the seas 2,000 miles off the North American coast. Once she was about to put into Tahiti when the wind changed. Near Honolulu Then she was near Honolulu and there* wstf rejoicing, but winds raced her back toward the American coast. Food had long ago given out. The crew caught dolphin, honita and many sharks which followed the helpless ship, hopeful it would break apart. The steady diet of fish weakened the crew. Rainwater was caught in the ship's spread of canvas and doled out in small portions by jfrs. Rosendal. “Our radio was the thing that kept us from going crazy," said Mrs. Rosendal.

TAXES IN INDIA WOOD MORE Estimate on Increase in Year Made by Auditor. Nearly $3,000,000 more taxes are being collected in Indiana this year than last, State Auditor L. S. Bowman, reported today after completing his tax for the 1926 yearbook. I.ast jear the various divisions of State, county and township, Governments collected $126,969,353 based on 1924 valuations. This year a total of $129,734,145 is being collected on the same basis. Marion County, with an appraised valuation of $741,638,770 is to pay $20,117,162. The total State valuation last year ■was $5,271,576,485 of # which $1,487,360,785 was in lands. Forty-two per cent of the total State taxes went to schools, 18 per cent to roads and 12 per cent t(ftthe State, Bowman estimated. PLAN CONTEMPT TRIAL Gilliom and I>egal Aids ■ Confer in Shumaker Case. Plans for trying contempt charges against Superintendent Edward S. Shumaker of the Anti-Saloon league and two of his associates before the State Supreme Court May 11 were laid today at a conference between Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom and his co-counsels, Solon J. Carter and Will H. Thompson. Gilliom later was to file additional information against Shumaker and Ethan A. Miles and Jesa E. Martin, league attorneys, to prove that the League's 1925 report criticising the Supreme Court’s attitude was Intended for general distribution. The new data includes copies of the Indiana edition of the American Issue, organ of the League. SEVEN PERISH IN FIRE Philadelphia Tenement Bums—Six Suffocated. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. April 23. Seven Negroes ;fre dead as the result of a fire that coursed through a four-story brick store and tenement here today. Six of the victims were suffocated and the other was killed by jumping to the pavement from the fourth floor.

School Boy Fights Way Back From Death for Third Time

Rousing from stupor at Methodist Hospital today, Donald Spicer,'7, of 1234 King Ave., appeared to be winning his third encounter with death in a year. * Donald walked into the path of an automobile driven by Clayton Swift, Thirty-First St. and Lafayette Rd., last Friday afternoon in front of School 75, at Fourteenth St. and Belle Vieu PI. The lad had disobeyed a schoolboy traffic officer's signal. They picked him up—one of the year s auto victim’s—a first grade schoolboy. Brain con

FRIENDS OF NI’CRAY TO GET ASSETS Tentative Report of Master in Chancery Favors Goodrich Pool. EXPECTED TO BE FILED Trustee Sought General Distribution to Creditors. Business, men headed by former I Governor James P. Goodrich, who loaned $350,000 to former Governor Warren T. McCray just befo.re he went bankrupt, will be allowed to retain the best assets of McCray turned over to them by McCray, Solon J. Carter, special mastery in chcuncery. indicated today. Carter has prepared a tentative report on the matter, lie disclosed holding that McCray viloated the Federal bankruptcy act In soliciting the loan. Peters, trustee In bankruptcy for McCray, endeavored to obtain these assets to liquidate many of McCray’s debts. It was indicated that the report, to be filed in Federal Court, will hold McCray guilty of “hindering, delaying and defrauding creditors.” ' The men who placed money in the i Goodrich pool, however, are not held responsible, it is said, because they were, at the time, miaware of McCray's financial condition and contributed to the fund in good faith. This was learned following an informal hearing before Carter with legal counsel for Peters and the Aetna Trust and Savings Company, trustees of the fund. McCray is serving a ten-year sentence at Atlanta penitentiary for using the mails tq defraud. Subject of his release, because of his failing health has been nationally discussed recently. CONVENTION ADJOURNED Police Hold Assembly of Bootleggers at- Chicago. j By I nilrd Pres CHICAGO. April 23.—“ Convention is adjourned,’ announced Chairman Joe Sa’.tis. when police invaded the spring meeting of Chicago bootleggers. The delegates are now in jail. ASK TO SELL STOCK h Tier Company Seeks Issuance of $404,300 Preferred. The Indianapolis Water Company asked the public service commission today for authority to issue and sell $404,300 preferred stock to reimburse its treasury for money spent on additions and betterments. The issue is to consist of 4,043 shares, worth SIOO each. BREAK IN ON GAME Tf.il Narrow, ArreMert by Potice in Early Morning Raid. Sergt. Orel Chitwood and squad raided a house at 326 Osage St. early today and interrupted an alleged poker game. The officers had been informed that the game would not start until after midnight. Robert Harris, 22, Negro, of that address was charged with keeping a gamihg house. Nine Negroes were charged with visiting a gaming house and one of them, William Findley, ?2, of 242 W. Vermont St., j was charged with carrying concealed weapons. Police said they found a revolver in his pocket. FLOODS TAKE 8 LIVES Streams in Texas on Rampage Following Torrential Rains. By Uniird Press DALLAS, Texas. April 23. — Flood conditions existed today in virtually all streams of southeastern Texas as tl\e result of torrential rains. Eight persons have died from drowning or lightning in the last I few days. WHEAT CROP IS SAVED Rains Rreak Drouth of Many Weeks in Nebraska. By United Press OMAHA, Neb.. April 23.—Rains ip many sections of the State today broke a drouth of many weeks and probably will save the Nebraska wheat crop.

cussion. a sflcull fracture, high fever, superinduced by his nervousness, and a threat of meningitis was a pretty heavy load for an undersized convalescent. Just a few weeks before—when school resumed after spring vacation—Donald had gone back to school after a siege of pneumonia. Before he had the pneumonia, Donald had the measles. He has been at sehcfcl about one month since September. His chief concern as he became was when he could go back to school.

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TROLLEY, TRAIN CRASH Lives of Sixty-Six Passengers Endangered in Collision. By United Press GARY, Ind., April 23.—Seven persons were hurt, none seriously, when a street car crashed onto a Pennsylvania passenger train today. Loss of life was prevented by the motorman, who stuck with his control. Sixty-six passengers were on the car. CONDUCTOR FOUND DEAD . Big Four Employe Succumbs at Hotel—Heart Disease Blamed. O. T. Hyer, about 50, Columbus, Ohio, Big Four passenger conductor, was found drfid at 12:30 p. m. today j in his room at the Sherman House. G. L. Fry, who lives in an adjoining room, reported that he heard violent noises in Hyer’s room. When entrance was gained to the room, Hyer was dead. Fry said he believed heart disease caused the death. Coroner Paul F. Robinson was summoned. The widow survives. * $11,925 LOOT IS NIGHTS WORK OF THIEVES IN CITY Thirteen Autos, Cigarets and Rings Taken —Safe Is Robbed. Thieves took loot valued at $11,925 during the right, police records showed today. Robbery of a. safe netted yeggs $l5O. Burglars broke into a cigar dealers’ warehouse and made off with 190,000 cigarets valued at $1,400. Auto bandits 'stole thirteen autos and a motorcycle of total value of at least SIO,OOO. John Grubb, 114 N. Senate Ave., an employe at the Otto Schaaf barber shop, 120 S. Illinois St., opened the shop this morning and found the safe moved to the dressing room. Schaaf said the combination had either been wofked or the safe was not locked when the shop was closed. A rear window had beon broken open and $l5O was missing. Rob Cigar Company i Burglars broke the locks on the rear doors at the Meyer Cigar Company, 401 S. Illinois St., and bored a hole through an inner partition large enough for a man to crawl through, police said. Doors then were opened an 190,000 cigarets valued at $1,400 carted away. Report of a diamond ring theft boosted the value of loot obtained in’ north side jewelry robberies in tho last six weeks to nea- SIO,OOO. Mrs. Minnis Anthony, 1226 N. Illinois Si., reported her wedding ring and a diamond ring, total value $250, had been stolen. She last saw them Monday. Drug Store Entered Burglars entered the C. M. Jesse drug store, 2204 Madison Ave., by forcing a side window. A baseball glove, candy, tobacco, a pay phone and a small amount of change, total $65 was taken, Jesse told Motorpolicemen Mueller and Giles. Mrs. Anna Crawford, 4526 Washington Blvd., told police she washed her hands at the Guarantee Cafeteria and left her diamond ring, value $65., When she returned it was gone. O. F. Mann, 5678 N Meridian St., reported 1,000 yellow brick, valued at $25, stolen from a box car at Euclid Ave. and Thirty-Seventh Sts. C. G. Allen, 509 Massachusetts Ave., reported a Harley Davidson motorcycle, worth $350, stolen from 1000 N. Harding St.

EQUALIZATION FEE GOES OUT ‘Tax’ on Haugen Farm Relief Bill Postponed. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 23.—The equalization fee provision of the Haugen farm relief bill was elimi inated today by the House Agriculture Committeo in executive session. The committee voted to eliminate collection of such a fee until two years after passage. Haugen announced tliht he Intended to increase the proposed revolving fund in his bill from $250,000,000 to $350,000,000. Just what is the equalization fee? As written into the bill first proposd by.the farm organizations, it is a charge to be made to the producer on each bushel or other measure of a major food crop. In the farmers’ original bill, wheat, cattle and swine were the products to be so taxed. This charge, which might be 5 to 10 cents per bushel on wheat, for example, would create a fund which could be used to defray losses which would be sustained in dumping the surplus crop abroad and selling it at the world price. The idea is that by takisg the surplus off the domestic market the home price will go up enough to recompense the farmer three dr four times over for the charge per bushel or per pound that he pays. DROPS DEAD IN PARK John Allen, 70, Negro, 1003 E. Seventeenth St., for twenty-eight years a city flremap, recently an employe of the park department, dropped dead while at work in Douglass Park today.

Forecast Unsettled tonight and Saturday; probably showers; cooler • Saturday night.

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NEW OFFER ON FRENCH DEBT MADE $25,000,000 Annually for First Five Years, Says Ambassador. $120,000,000 LATER Drops Seecurity Clause for ‘Geentleman’s Pact.’ By United Press WASHINGTON, April 23. —France today made a newoffer to settle its $4,277,000,000 debt to America. The terms presented to the American Debt Commimssion by French Ambassador Berenger, it was learned, were: 1. Annua! payments of $25,000,000 for the first five years. 2. Payments of $60,000,000 to SBO,000,000 per year for the next five years. 3. Payments Os $120,000,000 pelyear fey- a period of tifty-two years. 4. France dropped a previous defor insertion of a "security clause” in the agreement after having been assured that her paying capacity would be taken into consideration should it be seriously impaired during the period of refunding the debt. IT is understood that France seeks, however, assurance that she could, In case of extreme need, have a two-yea? period of grace or reduced term —the difference to be , made up in following years. The session lasted less than thirty minutes, but the conferees will meet again tomorrow. Some American commissioners indicated they would not be satisfied with the $25,000,000 initial figure since it represented only about $5,000,000 more than the French are now paying as interest. IMMINENT. SAYS BRIAND Will Resign If Cabinet Fails to Approve Accord. By Unit;l Press PARIS, April 23. —Premier Briand today told the Chamber of Deputies’ committee on foreign affairs that signature of the Mellon-Berenger French debt funding agreement was imminent in Washington. He said he would resign if the chamber refused to ratify the ..accord, provided it is approved by the American debt funding commission. CITY NAMED IN SUIT Architects Ask $12,775 Judgment in Complaint. The city of Indianapolis Was named defendant in a suit filed in Superior Court Two today by Preston C. Rubush and Edgar O. Hunter, architects, for drawings and specifications said to have been provided the park commissioners at a cost of $13,775. The architects seek to collect $12,775, judgment. Suit alleges plans and specifications were made for a recreation building and swimming pool for Rhodius Park for $4,275, and bathing pavilion and pool for Brookside Park for $9,500. Complaint charges the plaintiffs received SSOO on each of these claims.

COFFIN DENIES PART G. O. P. Boss Ridicules Report on i Ordinances, George V. Coffin. Republican city chairman, today denied heinstigated' city councilman to Introduce ordinances, abolishing the office of traffic inspector, authorizing an investigation at police headquarter and other innovations. Coffin ridiculed a report that he sought removal of Police Chief Claude F. Johnson. . "Why, Claude is a good friend of mine,” he said. City Clerk William A. Boyce Jr., had received no request to call a special council meeting tonight, as was contemplated by the Boynton J. Moore council faction. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS

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