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Palladium, With Sun - BRITISH DEBT PROPOSAL IS AWAITED HERE Will Bring Vacation to Congress Dr MARK Sl'LLITAX WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan, 24. If the British make an offer on their debt to us, such as our officials feel hev can recommend to congress, it will then be possible to see the end of the present session of congress well rounded up. and to see ahead of that a vacation of such length as Washington has not known for a good many years. As to the . remainder of the program of the present congress, it is pretty well known what will happen to it. Once we hear from the British, there will be practically nothing left in doubt. It is true that the difference between the British and the Amer icans is perhaps a little more consid erable than is commonly realized. A portion of the distance between the two is accounted for by a difference in terminology. - The British are accustomed to looking at a thing of this kind in-terms of an annuity, a fixed annual payment over a series of years America on the other hand, is accus tomed to looking at it in terms of prin cipal and interest. Of course, America has neven made a proposal. It is not their place to make a proposal but to pass upon such proposals as the British may make. But it has undoubtedly been made known to the British that our congress is the final arbiter and that what congress will look upon as satisfactory, is a payment of the principal of the debt, spread over as many annual installments as i.-s convenient to the British, plus a certain rate of interest. Estimate is Difficult What this rate should be i3 not easy to arrive at. It is recognized that it would not be fair to charge the British over a long series of future years as high a rate as is now current. It Is difficult to estimate what the average current rate of interest will be over a period of fifty future years. One basi3 to go on is the rate w hich the United States had to pay for its borrowings over a period of 50 years following the Civil war. In that case the rate occasionally went as low as two per cent, but it is recognized that this was abnormal and was due to the fact that governments commanded a premium to serve as the basis for currency issues by national banks. Probablv a fair estimate of the in terest in the case of the British debt would be somewhere between 3 and per cent. 4 Business Proposition

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jne wiioie purpube i.um me mC.-,able j- can point of view is to do the businesslike ihing. Anything short of busi - ness-like would be in the nature of a

gift, and to make it a gift would de stroy the moral value of the whole transaction. It is hoped that if Great Britain can see her way clear to making a proposal satisfactory to our congress within a reasonably short time after the British debt commission returns to London, then congress can pass the necessary legislation, and this matter can be fixed and put out of the way. It is believed that the settlement of this matter between Great Britain and the United States would be a most impressive contribution to the stability of the world, would stiffen the morale of private and public obligations everywhere, and would serve as an example to some other nations which do not seem to have recovered from the shell-shock of the recent war us much as Great Britain has. Moral Value Consideration Thoughtful persons here say that the amount of money Great Britain may be called upon to pay is immaterial compared to the moral value of settling the transaction and establishing her credit forever. It is held thai a? toon as international trade attains normal proportions the annual payments from Great Britain will ca'se her little embarrassment. For example, if we should refuse to pass the ehi subsidy bill, and refuse to set up competition to Great Britain in mercantile shipping, that action alone, wou'd he, in effect, a contribution to Briti h trade not far from equal to one of th annual installments on her dbt to us.. It also is pointed out that jf Great Britain would, as she readily could, raise the price of the rubber she anually sells America, enough to make an additional profit of 10 or 20 cents a pound, that again would be not far from enough to pay the annual installments on the debt. This British dfbt is the one uncertain factor in the program of congress for the remaining 32 days. Aside from this, it is fairly clear that all the roDronriation bills will be passed, that the farmers will get their rural credit legislation, and that as to the ship subidy bill, the insurgent Republicans probably will be able to filhbuster long enough to prevent it from corning to a vote. WARRANTS SERVED ON 100 CITIZENS OF GARY 'By fniteil Press) GARY. Ind., Jan. 24. Gary returned to normalcy today. I - ,. 3 1 i- . .

.w V'" ",v;,v been in session here about a week than 100 warrants on Gary citizens for!after transfer of the parley from cw.

alleged participation in a huge liquor conspiracy, returned to Indianapolis. Those arrested and pleaded under bond included every type of citizen from owners of soft drink stands to city and county officials. Thirty additional warrants were received and served just before the federal agents left. Seventy five arrests were made on the original indictment. Mayor R. C. Johnson reiterated his statement today that the arrests were a "frame up" and the result of political rivalry.

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Perfect Beauty Miss Hazel Daly. Indiana Gyberson, noted woman art ist, recently selected Miss Hazel Daly, North Dakota miss, as the perfect type of American beauty. Miss Daly is athletic and at the same time interested in art, music and literature. Beat Uncle Sam By Sending Mail From Germany (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 24. If it costs two American cents to mail a letter to a next-door neighbor in New York City, how much does it cost to send the letter 3,500 miles from Berlin to New York? The answer, one-fourth of a cent, is given by a New York business house which has taken advantage of the depreciation of Germany currency. An advertising circular received in New York today from the New York concern, sent via Berlin, printed apparently on cheap German paper, stamped with a German 50-mark stamp, cost at today's exchange rate of 20,000 marks to the dollar, one-eighth of what it would have cost to send it directly. Officers of the company which has discovered how to utilize the vagaries of foreign exchange to make two postoffice departments work for a fraction of the wages of one, today refused to discuss their system. The idea is not new, it was learned from postoffice officials. Some years ago when American currency was depreciated Germans sent their mail through Austria. , About .two years ago when foreign exchange had begun to drop, American postoffice officials complained to foreign postofflces that international stamp money w ""XT Z1 w . 1 1 v ik i. i i . x1 itriit-u iui v Lf-.il r in. i laic was 25 centimes and the American five cents, it was possible to buy an international stamp order, exchangein New York for five centSi for 3Q centimes in Paris. The American 1 poKtoffice lost approximately three cents on eacQ international stamp thus exchanged. TWO KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED IN ACCIDENT WEST OF VINCENNES (By Associated Press) VINCENNES, Jan. 24. Two men were killed and another seriously injured near here today when an automobile in which they were riding on the Lawrenceville road, five miles west of here, turned over. The dead are: Preston ixley, 24, and Norton Herrin, both of West Salem, 111. William Meyers, 32 years old, of Laurenceville, was seriously injured. The car was said to have been traveling at a high rate of speed, and in attempting to make a sharp turn left the road and crashed into a tree. The fkulls of the two who were killed were badly ciushed. MINE UNION OFFICERS AND OPERATORS SIGN AGREEMENT ON WAGES (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Bituminous coal operators and officials of the United Mine'' Workers of America today signed a new wage agreement running for one year and covering the tri-state competitive field of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. This agreement will be used as a .standard for fixing wages and working conditions throughout the rest of the ; bituminous territory. The new agreement it was announced, was virtually the same as that which expirese April 1 based on the federal fuel administr tion's findings in 1920. . Copies were ordered sent immediately to President Harding. Attorney Gen eral Daugherty and John Hays Ham mond, chairman of the United States coal commission.' Signatures Formality Agreement on the new contract was reached yesterday by a joint sub-committee of 17 and submitted this morn ing to the whole .conference which had 11 o cago. The tri-state field produces about 36 per cent of the nation's 500,000.000 annual bituminous tonnage. Signing up of the rest of the territory was regarded as a mere formality. The conferees fixed Jan. 8, 1924, as the date for reconvening to draw up an agreement to cover the year be ginning April 1, 1924. The agreement calls for $7.30 for eight hours day work and $1.08 a ton for contract miners. The contract is for one year instead of two as the union had sought.

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MARTIAL LAW. WILL FOLLOW KLANTHREATS Louisiana Leaders to be Warned BASTROP, La., Jan. 24. Governor Parker will declare martial law in Morehouse parish if threats of any kind are made against any of the state's witnesses between adjournment of the Morehouse open hearing and trial of persons to be indicted as al leged participants in outrages by hooded men in the parish, it was learned today on good authority. Attorney-General Toombs of the Louisiana National Guard was en route i here today from Baton Rouge with in- j structions from Governor Parker, it was understood, to impart this infor-j mation to leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and parish officials, including Captain J. K. Skipworth, exalted cyclops of the Klan, and Sheriff Fred Carpenter. It was declared that the governor is determined every state witness shall be protected. This development is taken to indicate that the troops on duty here may be retained in Bastrop. Hearing Nears End With not more than a half dozen names on the prospective witness list the state today was prepared to end the hearing into black hooded band activities which culminated in the death of Watt Daniel and T. F. Richard on Aug. 24, according to an announcement by A. V. Coco, attorney general. The hearing which convened here Jan. 5, will be concluded after a star witness takes the stand late this afternoon. The testimony expected from this witness has been heralded as a "smashing surprise". However, there was no intimation from the Attorney General's staff as to what this evidence would be. It was rumored that an important identification might be made. , ' Orders for the calvary troops ana other militia units stationed here to move to their home stations after the departure of the attorney general and his staff were expected to reach here sometime today from Adjutant General Toombs. 1 Coco Non-Committal. Mr. Coco would not issue an official statement today relative to the prcceedure to be taken by the state in presenting its evidence gathered at the open hearing to the grand jury. It was, however, intimated that as soon as the testimony could be briefed and other preparations made the state would make a formal request that the matter be submitted to the Morehouse parish grand jury. It was estimated that from three to five weeks would elapse before the state would be ready to take such a step. Should no indictments be returned it is understood that the attorney gen eral is vested with the authority to draw up bills of information. Charges of various offenses from assault to manslaughter can be preferred against a person but a charge of mur der cannot. It has been rumored that at the close of this hearing at least 25 persons would be taken into custody. Victim to Testify Tom Robertson, who is said to have been flogged by a blackhooded band taken from this parish and ordered to cross into Arkansas and remain there, was one of the witnesses summoned to testify today. Jim Norsworthy, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, testified as to the flogging of Robertson during the early days of the hearing. Another Important witness will be the general manager of the Southern Carbon company at Spyker. He has been ordered to appear today with the company's time books and pay rolls. T. Jeff Burnett, now being held under bond of $5,000 on an affidavit charging murder, was employed at the carbon plant on Aug. 24. Burnett has been identified by several witnesses as having been a member of the hooded band that kidnapped Daniel. Richard and others. There will be three or four unimportant witnesses who will occupy the stand only a few moments each, it was stated. Agents of the department of justice probably will continue their search for the missing witness, Harold Teegerstrom. who disappeared on Dec." 29, it was indicated. Teggerstrom was employed as timekeeper at the Southern Carbon company and was supposed to have been prepared to testify that Burnett was at work on the night of Aug. 24. The state does not believe that he has met with foul play. The large number of newspaper men and photographers assigned to the case for more than a month were preparing to leave here early .tonight. ATTEMPT TO STOP "EMBASSY" LIQUOR SUPPLY EXPECTED WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Action by the prohibition enforcement bureau through state department channels to cut off an alleged source of supply of the "embassy" liquors said to be finding their way into the bootleg traffic here was expected today by the Washington police. The alleged source was reported to the bureau, the police authorities announced last night on information contained In affidavits obtained from John L. Lynch, who was arrested in a raid on his apartment the night before. Lynch, whose account books were said to have revealed an extensive traffic in high grade liquors over a period of a year, told the police they said, that he obtained much of his supply from a diplomat's butler. All of his dealings to this end, he is said to have admitted, were .either with the butler or an officer & the legation.

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Gets Political Plum Philip Elting Latest photogaph of Philip Elting, intc hose hands one of the political plums of the country has fallen. His appointment as collector of the port of New York by President Harding is assured. Reward is Cause of Man's Prison Term, Says Wife (By United Press) CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 24. Roy McKinney, serving a life sentence in Ohio penitentiary for the murder of a Wilmington -policeman, was secrif iced for a $3,000 reward, his wife charged today; "I knew he was innocent from the first," Mrs. Meiva MeKinney said. "If he is released from prison and returned to me I know it. will be in answer to my prayers." Mrs. McKinney declared she had faith the alleged confession of Walter Bangham, under arrest at Wilmington, that the policeman was shot during a hardware robbery in which he participated will fully exonerate her husband. "I am waiting for' them to send him back to me," she gaid, "just as I would have waited 'for him until my. eyes closed for the last time." Mrs. McKinney said she had worked hard ever since her husband's arrest, to get enough money to send him luxuries. CALDWELL IS GIVEN FULL EXONERATION OF ATTACK CHARGE Paul Caldwell' "was exonerated Wednesday by Prosecutor Frank Strayer of all connection with the visitation to the home of James Long, laundryman. Following a statement by Mrs. Long, that she had been chloroformed by a strange man who had entered her home in the absence of her husband, Paul Caldwell was arrested Tuesday on suspicion, inasmuch as Mr. Long had seen him passing the house at different times. Mr. Long consulted Prosecutor Strayer, it is said, and Caldwell was named. It was learned later that Mr. Caldwell merely passed the Long home on his way to a factory to obtain employment. Cleared of Suspicion The alleged visitation to the Long home, took place. on last Saturday, according to Mrs. Long, and this fact alone clears Caldwell of any suspicion inasmuch" as his physician proved that Caldwell had been in bed ill with the grippe and with an injured foot. When Mrs. Long was brought to po lice headquarters to identify her alleged assailant, she stated that Caldwell was not the man who had broken into her home and that she could not give a definite description of the man. Further investigation will be made by the police' department in an effort to clear up the mystery. Thus far there has been no clue to lead to further arrests. Weather Forecast Partly cloudy tonight. Thursday mostly fair; decidedly colder tonight. Brisk northwest winds tonight The gulf storm which is centered over the southeastern states now, will pass away sometime during the next 24 hours. It will be considerably below freezing tonight, due to the cold wave over southern Canada. Temperatures Yesterday Maximum 3-1 Minimum ..20 Today Noon .. 30 Weather Conditions Rain, snow and sleet were general over Indiana during the past 24 hours, due to the Gulf storm. There were heavy rains over the southern states. A cold wave is centered over the northwest with temperatures below zero in southern Canada. A storm of considerable energy is overspreading the Rocky Mountains. For Indiana, by the United States Weather, Bureau: Generally fair tonight and Thursday. Much colder tonight. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 12,179

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TROOPS LEAVE AS OLD GLORY HAULED DOWN Watch of American Soldiers Ends (By Associated Press) EHRENBREISTEIN, Jan. 24. The American troops were withdrawn from the Rhine today ending American military participation In the oc cupational area. The withdrawal was signalized by the hauling down at noon of the Stars and Stripes from the castle of Ehren breitstein, which has been the military headquarters since the beginning of the occupation. Meanwhile the first trains with members of the expedi tionary forces were leaving Coblenti for Antwerp to board the transport St Mihiel,, which will take them back to the United States. ' The flag came floating gently down from the staf and the picturesque castle wall overlooking the Rhine as the signal was given striking the colors. Not a shot was fired in salute, for it was not a martial occasion. There were many moist eyes, among the Americans who watched the spectacle and their long time associates among the allied forces in the region. Commissioners Absent The British and Belgian high commissioners for the Rhineland kept their word and remained away because they could not bear to witness the lowering of the flag that meant the breaking of so many close ties. Inside the court at the :same time there was taken from the whitewashed walls the portrait of Washington the Americans had hung there on their coming. Today the final "Fall in!" meant home the place where, as many a private put it, a dollar is one hundred cents and not several thousand marks. It was a day of simple ceremony. Four sergeants picked from among the veterans of the Seventh machine gun battalion. Third division, who fought at the last battle of the'Marne, were accorded the honor of assisting MajorGeneral Henry T. Allen in lowering the colors. These non-commissioned officers were Sergeants Dewey Kitner, Lester Kelbaugh, Charles Long and Frank Ehley. Together with their comrades of Companies D and M, the veteran sergeants waited with full pack, beside, the halyards for te moment when the flag should flutter down the staff over ancient Ehrentreitstein and the tri-color of France take its place. For the latter part of the ceremony two, details of French soldiers, numbering 100 men, and a French band, were present. After completion' of the flag ceremony the order of the day called for the formation of the troops into a column of squads which passed in review before Major-General Allen and marched through the postern gate of the fortress. Descending the hill the garrison joined the remainder of the Eighth and the regiment, crossing the Rhine into Coblenz passed through the city to the railroad station and en trained. COBLENZ. Jan. 24. Major General Henry T. Allen received last evening a brief letter from Chancellor Cuno cdbveying the compliment of the German government on the occasion of the departure of the American forces in Germany and asserting that their conduct has been exemplary. In reply to a letter from General DeGoutte, Major General Allen said that he would formally turn the Ameri can zone over to the French on Jan 27 or any day thereafter. "It is with deep regret," he wrote, "that I must bring to an end the delightful official relations which have existed harmoniously between us and terminate the services the Ameican troops commenced in the war and con tinued on the Rhine." Lord Kilmarnock, the British Rhineland commissioner, and Baron Jac queny, the Belgian representative. called personally upon Major General Allen and begged to be excused from attending the ceremony at Ehren breitstein. They said they were too saddened over the American depar ture to be present at the lowering of the colors, but that they would be at the railroad station when the troops departed. BATTLE FOR MONEY FOR STATE OBSCURES ALL OTHER MATTERS (By United Prfss) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 24 An impending battle for dollars obscured other issues in the legislature today as members took up three distinct sets of recommendations for appropriating money to cpeiate the state government. Governor McCray requested ?13,934,731.27 to maintain governmental departments and institutions, in addition to $2,000,000 to complete the newreformatory at Pendleton. Chairman Jesse Eschbach and the Republican members of the budget committee recommended $13,734,031.27 and were silent on the reformatory project. The Democratic minority" of the budget committee recommededed even further reduction and suggested an appropriation of $750,000 for completing the reformatory. Opinion Widely Differs. With the budget committee divided within itself -and the two units at variance with Governor McCray, it was quite apparent that the 50 senators and 100 representatives would have at least 50 different opinions concerning how much should be mad available.

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?1 Roland W. Boyden. Demand by the "splendid isolation' senators that Roland W. Boyden, American "unofficial observer" on the reparations commission, be recalled is expected to cause a political explosion in the senate within the next few days. Anti-administration senators assert that the desire of State Secretary Hughes to keep Boyden at that post in Europe has caused differences be tween Hughes and the president. These rumors are denied by adminis tration spokesmen. Abuses Threaten To Cause Civilized Races To Be Blind (By United Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 24. The civilized race will be blind in 200 years unless the spread of defective vision is check ed, Dr. Harry C. Paul, member of the state board of optometry declared here today. ''More than 60 percent of the people in the United States suffer from poor eyes," Paul said. "A third of the in sanity in, the country is due to eye trouble. "Bootleg liquor, narcotics, excessive smoking and artificial light are the principal causes of defective vision. "Eye specialists have warned of a blind race within two centuries and the text we may expect is greatly lessened visual powers." Paul declared that the dope fiend offer the most puzzling to the optometrist as they invariably become indignant when told the cause of their trouble. "Excessive smoking causes partial blindness bootleg liquor total loss of sight," Paul warned. 18 PERSONS KILLED IN CRASH OF BERLIN NEWSPAPER OFFICE (By United Press) BERLIN, Jan. 24. Ten of 18 employes of the Berliner Tageblatt were killed today when tons of steel material crashed down through four stories of the building, according to announcement by the management. The dead included several women. Sixteen persons were seriously Injured and scores slightly. Earlier estimates by police placed the death roll from 15 to 50. A huge crane, swinging the heavy blocks of stone for construction work on two new stories atop the Tageblatt building broke. Great stones and the heavy metal parts of crane went smashing down through the depart ments where many employes were busily at work. Police Guard Building. Four lines of police were thrown around the building. The streets were filled with clanging ambulances. Scores of rescue workers went into the tangled ruins of the editorial and mechanical departments of the paper in search of victims buried beneath tons of wreckage. Screams of relatives in the streets outside, held back by police, shrilling whistles; shouts of those directing the rescue work; these followed the roar of the collapse and drew thousands to the scene. - Mass of Wreckage. The ground floor of the Tageblatt building was a mass of plaster, steel and stone, through which sweating workers dug with difficulty, dragging forth victims, some alive, others crush ed beyond recognition. Reports as to the cause of the crash were conflicting at first. Some blani ed defective material; others, the top heaviness of the building, upon which two new stones were to be placed. A chief of the laborers who were at work on the new stories said none of them had been injured. Casualties were confined to clerical, editorial and mechanical employes. Look Into Private' Lives Of Prohibition Agents (Bv Associated Press) NEW YORK. Jan. 24 Department of Justice agents have begun an investigation of the private lives of prohibition enforcement officers to determine whether they are spending more money than their government salaries. The inquiry, directed by Assistant United States District Attorney John Holley Clark, jr., is one result of the discovery recently of a "shake down ring" which since October has fleeced hundreds of saloon men out of thousands of dollars for promised protection.

GERMAN COAL KINGS TO GET MILD PENALTY Stimulus is Feared in Severe Sentence

(By Associated Tress) Interest in the Ruhr valley's venture of the French centerB in the trial at Mayence today of Fritz Thyssen and his fellow German lndustrialites, accused of disobeying Franco-Belgian orders for coal deliveries. It is thought tie magnate would be let off with a fine, jucgme from the prosecutors' mention of this method of punishment in hia Summing up. The Germans were said to be ready to utilize to the utmost a severe sentence by the Mayence court as a stimulus to the workers to make the rail strike effective and thus shortly tie tip the mines. A milder sentence would not modify the policy of stubborn resistance it was declared. Not more than 70,000 out of the 550,000 Ruy- workers were out at noon today, according to Ruhr valley reports. Berlin announced the , Stinnea and Thyssen property strikers after a protest strike of 24 hours had returned to work to produce coal for unoccupied Germany. BERLIN. Jam 24. After a 24-hour protest strike the workers in the Thyssen and Stinnes mines in. the Ruhr resumed work today "in order to continue the production of coal for unoccupied Germany," it was announced. (By" Associated Press) " MUENSTER, ' Jan. : 24. Recent erroneous reports that the German army was being enlarged caused hundreds, probably thousands of laborers to quit their work and come here to enlist in the Reichswehr says an official statement issued here. The statement adds that the Reichs wehr ha3 no intention of adding a single inan to the strength permitted by the peace treaty. OBERHAUSEN, Jan. 24. The strike of railway workers at the station here ended late yesterday. MOSCOW, Jan. 24. Reports from Germany indicating mobilization of Polish troops along the German frontier have heen received here. The government has adopted a policy of watchful waiting pending actual de velopments. It is understood that Russia is tak ing all measures necessary to guard her Polish frontier against attack. BERLIN, Jan. 24. Renunciation of the policy of sanctions and pledges by Germany's creditors is essential to any successful reparations negotia tions, in the opinion of the German government, as set forth in a semiofficial statement Germany 6hould also be allowed to develop freely her own plans for solving the problems and should be permitted to discuss them on an equal footing with her op ponents, the statement asserts. Taking note of what are termed va rious external attempts to end the Ruhr occupation, the statement declares that Germany, as ever, is ready to negotiate for a reasonable solution of the reparations question, and adds that for technical reasons such negotiations are impossible while French and Belgian troops have such a foothold in the Ruhr. ESSEN, Jan. 24. It was stated here today that the number of industrial workers and miners now on strike approximated 200,000 in addition to the personnel at the railroad stations which are occupied by troops. If the French court-martial passes sentence on Fritz Thyssen and other mine directors it is declared that 550,000 miners will consider strike action. The workers who have already left their jobs include, it is said, 100,000 miners from the Stinnes pits and 65,: 000 steel workers from the Thyssen plants. The mines owned by the Thyssen Interests, employing 50.000 men, have not yet ceased to operate. All the state mines are working as well. The French authorities have given an Essen priest fifteen million marks with which to buy food for poor children. It is announced that 500 cases of food, valued at 75,000,000 marks, are being shipped here from the central relief committee in New York. The Ruhr Echo, published In Essen, has been suspended for three weeks by the Berlin government because of a recent article declaring that the Cuna cabinet "had recourse to sabotage and provocation in order to shield its incompetency and incapacity." The Ruhr coal miners today received a wage Increase of about SO per cent over the January scale .effective Feb. 1. The extra allowance for the Increased cost of living will be almost doubled. . . . METZGER BREAKS LEG IN LOCAL ACCIDENT Carl Metzger sustained a broken leg early Wednesday morning at Twentieth and Main streets when run over by the wheel of a school hack driven by William Henson. Metzger wa3 driving a milk delivery wagon belonging to Himes brothers when the hack struck the wagon. The impact threw Mr. Metzger from the wagon into the path of the hack. Mr. Metzger's leg was broken just below the knee. - The left front fender and headlight of the truck were demolished in the accident. Little damage was done to the milk wagon. Whensummoned to police headquarters Wednesday to explain the accident. Mr. Henson declared that he wa3 not driving fast and that he failed 'to observe the milk truck ahead of him.