South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 215, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 August 1920 — Page 1

Morning Edition SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES THE WEATHER Indiana and Michigan: Fair Monday and Tuesday, rising temperature VOL. XXXVII, NO. 215. DAY AND NIGHT FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE SOUTH BEND. INDIANA, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1920. PRICE THREE CENTS A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME WITH ALL THE LOCAL NEWS

STATE ROADS SEEK RATE INCREASE

EX-GOVERNOR HANLY DIES IN ACCIDENT

Former Executive of Indiana and Two Friends Hit By Train. INJURIES PROVE FATAL Body of Mr. Hanly Will Be Shipped to Indianapolis for Burial. By Associated Press: DENNISON, O., Aug. 1 - J. Frank Hanly, former governor of Indiana, and candidate for president on the prohibition ticket in 1916, and Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Baker, of Kilgore, O., were killed six miles from here early Sunday when a Pennsylvania freight train struck the automobile in which the party were driving to Kilgore. All three suffered fractured skulls and crushed bodies and neither recovered consciousness after being brought to a local hospital. Mr. Hanly died at 9 a. m.; Mrs. Baker at 11:30 and her husband at 3:30 p.m. Drive In Front of Train Dr. and Mrs. Baker had met Mr. Hanly in Dennison at 6:45 o'clock Sunday morning and were driving him to their home in Kilgore, 20 miles from here. The Baker automobile drove across the Pennsylvania tracks back of one freight train and directly in front of another. The automobile was struck squarely. All three of the injured were rushed here to the Twin City hospital where former Gov. Hanly and Mrs. Baker died soon afterwards. Mr. Hanly's head was badly crushed while Mrs. Baker sustained fatal injuries to her head and body. Dr. Baker's head was severely injured and he died a short time later. Enroute to Carrolton Mr. Hanly was enroute to Carrolton where he was to have delivered an address Monday. He had intended spending the day with the Bakers at their home in Kilgore. The chief of police here has notified relatives of Mr. Hanly in Indianapolis and it is expected the body will be shipped there. LOSE GREAT LEADER CHICAGO. Aug. 1. The prohibition party lost one of its greatest leaders in the death Sunday at Dennison, Ohio, of J. Frank. Hanly. former governor of Indiana. Virgil G. Hinshaw, chairman of the prohibition national committee, said when informed by the press of the fatal accident. "Mr. Hanly made his first big fight for prohibition sixteen years ago when he was elected governor of Indiana on a county option platform in opposition to Thomas R. Marshal, now vice president" said Mr. Hinshaw. "Mr. Marshall was understood to be opposed to prohibition in that campaign and Hanly's victory marked one of prohibition's first great triumphs. Strong for Prohibition. "Five years previous to his election, however, he came out strongly for prohibition and made an extended speaking tour over the country Later he made many other tours for prohibition and was always looked upon as one of our great leaders. "In 1916 he was the party's candidate for president and drew an unusually large vote." GOV. CANTU CONFIDENT OF ULTIMATE SUCCESS By Associated Press. MEXICLAI. Lower California. Aug. 1. The breach between the Mexican de facto central government as now constituted, and the government of Lower California cannot be closed, declares Jose M. Aguilar, secretary of state for Gov. Esteban Cantu, Sunday. Secretary Aguilar made the declaration in conection with a statement denying a report that Gov. Cantu had sent another message to Adolfo de la Huerta, provisional president, in an effort to prevent the reported planned occupation of the district by federal troops. "Gov. Cantu is confident of ultimate success," said Secretary Aguilar and he is preparing to fight to the end." For a time last night Mexicali for- got the present situation and abandoned itself to its customary Sat- urday revelry. Today, however passed for the first time in months without a bull fight. Every corner held little groups of civilians or of soldiers discussing the prospects for hostilities. ILLINOIS MINERS TO RESUME WORK TODAY SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Aug. 1. - Sev-enty-five per cent of the Illinois striking miners will be back at work Monday according to the opinion expressed Sunday night by Pres't Frank Farrington of the Illinois miners' union. The other twentyfive per cent he said will return by Wednesday. He said he had already received word from 200 locals. This opinion was borne out by the reported action of the locals which met in the Springfield district. District Pres't Freeman Thompson said he knew of no local which voted to refuse to work. The first day of work will be devoted to putting the mines in order after the strike so that actual hoisting of coal will be delayed in nearly all mines until Tuesday.

KILLED IN CRASH

Governor Hanly INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 1. -- Former Gov. J. Frank Hanly of Indiana who was killed in an automobile accident near Dennison, O., Sunday afternoon, was born April 4, 1863, in a log cabin in Champaign county Illinois. He secured his education by working his way through the eastern Illinois normal school at Danville, Ill. He taught school for several years following his graduation from Illinois normal school and studied law during his spare time. In 1889 he was admitted to the Warren county (Indiana) bar and began the practice of law at Wil- liamsport. Ind. A year later he was nominated and elected to the Indiana senate, where he at once took a front rank as a debater and forceful legislator. In 1894 he was nominated by the republicans of the ninth Indiana district for congress and was elected by a majority of more than 5.000. Forms Partnership. In the fall of 1896 he moved to Lafayette. where he formed a partnership in the practice of law with Sen. Will R. Wood. A year later he was a candidate for United States senator on republican ticket against Sen. Albert Beveridge. but lost the nomination in the republican caucus by a few votes. In August, 1903, Mr. Hanly decided to become a candidate for the republican nomination for governor. When the convention met he was nominated unanimously on the second ballot. He was elected in 1904 by almost 85,000 plurality, the largest ever given a gubernatorial candidate by any party in Indiana. When his term of governor expired in 1903 he became an active worker in prohibition and for the following five years toured the country at the head of a body of prohibition lecturers known as the "Flying Squadron." Directed Dry Fight In June 1915, the "Flying Squadron" foundation was incorporated with Mr. Hanly at its head and through it he has since directed the prohibition fight. In 1916 he was the unsuccessful candidate of the prohibition party for president. He was active in the prohibition fight in Ohio and in various parts of the country where attempts were made to have the present prohibition law held unconstitutional.

He was the publisher of two papers in Indianapolis -- the National Enquirer, a weekly prohibton paper, which he founded in 1915 and the Indianapolis Commercial, a

daily paper.

The funeral will be held from his

home here, relatives announced. Represented Drys. He represented the drys before

the United States supreme court in the Ohio cases in which the consti-

tutionality of the national prohibition amendment was sustained as well as the validity of the Volstead act for its enforcement. As president of the Flying Squadron foundation he was preparing to launch a nation-wide fight for the election of dry congressmen to maintain the law -- a campaign to be continued as planned by him. TAKE UP CLOSED SHOP ISSUE. CHICAGO, Aug. 1 -- the Chicago Federation of Labor Sunday authorized its president, John Fitzpatrick, to appoint a committee of fifteen for the announced purpose of "actively going to battle with the United States chamber of commerce on the 'closed shop proposition' and to devise means of preventing open shops."

Pope Benedict Outlines Evil Conditions Confronting World

I'y Af N.l::h! I'rc: ljnMH. July .'i 1 . Kvil condtions cord routing tho world today are (cjtp.no. 1 in a i -.rcu'ar letter issued to th" chur. h lv Po;o Itene.lic. Sun.lay. The purpose of this letter to piovl.ii d throncho'.it tho worhl tli- fiftieth :inni prs irv of Ih.' ,lei re.- l y which St. .Joseph wa r.air.evl patron of tlv universal otniri-h. and In it the pontiff tirpe the ithollc world t cede'. rate for a whole year from December next Hulf inn f u net iori.s i 11 honor of the faint. "Whe-n the end of the war came." s.ty the J. :ior. ' the pain Ih cf n-.en. ld a" tray by ra.littrit p.- ssion. v. ere exaggerated by the length and bitterness of the .ontlict, and a g - gravuled bv lamir.e on ije -nd

REDS WITHIN

MILES OF CAPITAL Soiet Armies Capture Three -More Towns From the Polish Forces. I'y A ? iatc.I Pre; TAUIS. July 1. The lluian ! o iet army now i:i within 75 miles J of Warsaw. It has captured Iimza, i which is Ju.n that distance northeast of the Polish capital, and the towns (f Kolno and Szezucyn near! the (It-rrr.an border in the Iornza region. In spjte of thi and other bolshe vik successes the military experts of the Annlo-Frt nch mission in Poland are reported to be optimistic, because of the remarkable itiffenin in the resistance of the Polish northern army under fieri. Hallcr. Will Kollow Prcin-e. Th chief concern of the expert" is the position of the fourth Polish army, defending Hi est-Litovsk, but 'Polish advices declare the pressure upon that army will be relieved shortly by the Polish touiter offensiv, which is beiriK directed northeastward from the region of Urody. northeast of Lemberg. ; A iarKe number of ships is arrivhip at Danzig daily from French and Priti-h i orts with munitions i which are beinp unloaded rapidly and rushed to the Polish front, ac- : cording to word received lute. An . ... . ...i I i i a it u uj me iiiieu i'Ai" ii. "i ! in puttint; this svstem into effect. ' l'nnch. Hritisn and Polish workers ; are laboring side by side without mterferenee. it is delared. LOFT IS9 GIRL GUEST BEliS'G HELD MERELY HS MATERIAL W'lTKESS i;v ..Mei:ited Plews: I "('Ilit'ACo, Aug 1. Uuth Woods,' j; ears tdd, hotel keeper, who was! the only uest of S.muif 1 T. A. Löflis, on what she terms "a vi!d,j drunken parly" in his apartment j which ended in the millionaire dian nd merchants death Friday night, is hcir.-r held "merely a s a m.it . rial witneys and apparently was in no j i wav rtspimsn.de i: toe ucaui oi .m. Loltis" Chief of Police Canity ile-i (dared Sunday night after a 4j hours investigation during which ; Miss Woods and a score of othtrj persons were repeatedly questioned, j While the questioning of Mis.f ! Woods revealed some contradictions) In her statement, it failed to s-hako j her original story that I.oftis. ".vtaguerirg from liquor" fell striking his head against, a door knob when her1 Marco. Hoy .Shayne, entered the j apartment in lesponse to her tele-' phone t all for hell. J Miss Woods steadfastly denied j that she or any one else had hit; I.oftis with a vhisky bottle, frag- ... r : . ' merits oi wmcn were luunu mar ins body. Police avo making every effort to ( le ir the '-wilvl taicab ride" Miss Woods says she took v hen she fled from the I.ollis apartment, having .-havne with the body. REPATRIATION OF WAR PRISON E RS CONSIDERED BY LEAGUE OFFICIALS, - - - Fridtjof Nanen. recently appointed! arrange for the transfer of these. prisoners was read. Dr. Nansen r oorted the prop. sed exchange hail Kussian soviet been blocked by the gtvernment. Plans providing for the transj ortati.ui of Kussian.s in shii's t Vladivostok were formulated. the scheme beinc that the vessels would bring back lluropeans. including! Czechs and Hungarians, and land them at liest, but they were impossible of execution. Dr. Nansrn s-ai.l. because the soviet government had refused to guarantee that Paissians would bo allowed to pro ceed from Vladivostok to their i homes. The council continued its discussion of the program in private today, reserving announcement of deisions until its Public session next Tuesday ncoun;u!at( il riches in the ham! of a few on the other. The war brought about two other evils th1 diminution cf conjugal fidelity and the diminution of respect for constituted authority. Diet ntious habits ftillowol. tvrn ahior.c youp.4 v.ti'.in and thero :ir.'.o the fatal dorlne of cominur.isp.i. wnii the a'-'so-Idlc il s'rih't'cMi of dutiful relations net ween imtions anil li.Mwt-n f.itliers and children. Tcrrihl-' cop.sequemces e ttsning" have ali e.-dy he en x perlene!." Tip- inter continues hy iKtistraring the e:!i acy of the patranage of St. .losf-pii. "siliro tilt' society of in ri n Kind h I'1 ur.dfd on the family. ar.d anything strengthening Christion loniest;.- organization alto yt rt PKthtr.s human society. "

75

FOE

On

A

r- r. i r n& v

i,k..l.ill.l Ml. - - : :.-v. I 11 il . .gg.1' JW,, ,M r--ir

The five (iornian warships allocated to the United States left Hrest July 13 and soon. The former dreadnought Ostfriesland is proceeding under her own power, Frankfort and the destroyers are being towed by the transport Hancock and three The above shows the lighting gun turrets of the former Herman fighting .ships.

REPUBLICAN PARTY CURBS ACTIVITIES OF INDIANA WOMEN Resignation of Chairman Reveals Studied Hostility to Women. INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 1. Revelations attendant on the resignation of Miss Adah Bush as chairman of the republican state women's committee add another chapter to the studied hostility of the "old guard" leaders to the participation of women in Indiana political affairs. Miss Bush's retirement from the state arena was made voluntarily, according to announcements, in order that she might devote time to the national organization. Coincident with this, however, came uncontradicted reports that Miss Bush's activity in a non-parti san character with the National Women's party at the San Francisco convention was not to the liking of the "old guard" circle. In fact, it is "old guard" circle. In fact, it is charged in many places that she met such opposition on the part of the party chieftains and that her position became so uncomfortable that she was compelled to resign. Causes Friction One thing that is said to have caused friction between the men's and women's departments in the republican state headquarters was the fact that instead of the women being taken into the organization on a fifty-fifty basis, they were obliged to defer at every turn to the men. All orders were issued by the wellknown republican machine manipulators and all the activities of the women's department were forced to go through censored channels before being placed into commission, it is said. The "old guard" tactics in this incident were consistent with their practices in the state convention when they denied women a place on the national delegation. They also followed their illy-advised hostility when they had the republican majority in the special legislature kill a bill designed to give women a right to hold office and to sit on juries in Indiana. FAIL TO APPREHEND SLAYER IN DETROIT TRUNK MYSTERY CASE By Associated Press; DETROIT. Mich., Aug. 1. Telegrams to Saltillo. Mexico, urging the apprehension of Oscar J. Fernandez, have been unanswered by the auth orities there, Edward H. Fox, chief of detectives of Detroit stated Sunday. A photograph of Fernandez was Sunday identified by Patrolman Leo Trumbull as that of "Eugene LeRoy" husband of the woman victim of Detroit's trunk mystery. Chief Fox was uncommunicative as to what further action will be taken in an effort to secure custody of Fernandez. Investigation of reports received Saturday from Mrs. August Strunk of West Brookfield, O. that the murdered woman might have been her daughter, disclosed Sunday that Mrs. Strunk's daughter is living here with her husband, George Vandecar. FRATERNITY CLOSES MEETING AT MUNCIE MUNCIE. Ind. Aug. 1. - The tristate convention of the Kappa Alpha phi fraternity closed here Sunday afternoon with a public reception tendered the fraternity boys by the members of the Delta Sigma and Delta Theta Tau sororities. Delegates were present from nineteen chapters in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. A feature of the meeting was a dance given Saturday evening at Mills Lake near Farmland.

Her Way to America

'MCI - ' ... . . 1 J Boulevardiers In South Bend Are Too Polite Hl'NTINCTON, W . V.. Aug. 1. Tho young people of Huntington are singing tho praises of Judc U ). Newman. Says the Judge: "People can love each other as much as they want in Ititter Park or on the boulevards, und no officer has the right to prevent an automobile from stopping along the boulevards If it is clear of tlie traffic unless the occupants are disorderly." The policeman no longer take no-tb-f of the spooncis ami an open season for lovers is on. LOCAL OFFICER SHOT IN THIGH G unman Fires at Patrolman Aszklar as Former Flees Through Streets. While chasing Frank Kowalski Sunday evening at ll::u o'clock on W. Division st., near Olive St., Patrolman Stephen Aszklar. 4ÖJ Hunham st.. was shot through the thiu'h. Kowalski making his escape. Asz klar was travelinir h:a beat and when he reached Division andUlive sts. he radioed a free-for-all fight in progr.ss. Single handed .the patrolman waded Into the midsi of the fight and had downed one man armed on with a club when some yelled, "look out lor that fellow with a gun." Aszklar released the party with the club and started for Kowalski who was carrying a gun. (iMitlnuos 1 ia.se. Feeing tho patrolman come for him Kowalski started to run east on Division st., shooting at the patrolman as he ran. Aszklar contin ued the chase for several blocks I whe n he felt the blood rushin from his leg and was forced to Mop. He was removed to police heartqua tk by some friends who came to Ins assistance- and hi wound was I dressed by Dr. H. M. Crow. Kovv.alski is taid to live on Kassnacht av. A squad of police othcers ari combing the west bide in search of him but at an early Monday morning their efforts had been futile. IDENTIFY BODY OF LA PORTE SUICIDE Spe cial to The News-Times; LAPOlPTi:, Ind.. Au 1. Tho body of an unknown vounc man a :io was killed by being struck bv a New York Ctntn.l tr tin late Saturdav wa-s today identified as that of Itayn.ond Harmon, son of Jiev. J. N. Harnton. drceasod a form r a xorrvHT r - 9 met hod ist elis opal cter-x-oan. 1 w l.lely know n in Indiana. The ideniii'ia...;.' . . . . i tliication was n.adf bv Harmon's -c.ung wife, a bride of about a. year. I Harn. on was an. overseas soldier and t tdicd an iuportar.t effico position j for the .-tUvance Itumely e;. Thj ! coroner's verdict will Le that of sui-j cute. S0UTH BEND MAN Y UlUVt I U SlUr KLUS WAP. AW. Aur. 1. e ...... ! r u i tect r.mnng former Ctiys.i; K

i - IB J V v 'v.-.-.:.,-

IM v V ' ..- .:.-V -V.V..S

trofper?"- in.s hven inrown in ap.iir'Jihe .vv.'err.or was Iiis own chauffeur the b.ilsheviki in the rir.n of IlntP on a fdty-mllo motor ride Sunday

J-itK uni-r (Jon. Hal.ichowicz. a, r"!ih gcr.(-r;i! who fcrmorlv uas in, i prise- several thousand Kussians . lt. it 1 1 i . 1 n nrm.. ini i nil eoni - lwh) have hun living in rohnd. to - j ir' dh r witli a few I'ohsh troopers. i I'eter IJcj-tiev. itz . f South Be nd, Ind who joinrd Cen. Halle r's forces i ranee darin? the Kreat w: a W. M. A. vorl-:cr jnh.chowic; trw,ps. with Gen

.-'1

are expected In America but the armed cruiser powerful mine sweepers. UNKNOWN RIDER CAUSES SMASHUP ON MISHAWAKA AV Woman Receives Fractured Collar Bone in Sunday Accident. Mrs. Henry Brown three and onehalf miles east of Mishawaka. received a fractured collar-bone Sunday evening at 9:15 o'clock when at the corner of Mishawaka av. and Sixth st., an unknown motorcyclist struck the front wheels of Mrs. Brown's Ford touring car. causing the machine to veer into another Ford touring car standing aside the curbing, wrecking both Ford cars. Mrs. Brown, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Lester Brown and her seven year old son, Walter, were going east on Mishawaka av. The motorcyclist, with a side-car. was also going east and in passing the car driven by Mrs. Brown the motorcyclist crowded too far to the right. the wheel on the side-car knocking the front wheels of the Ford touring car to the right, causing the machine to strike another Ford touring car, belonging to Henry Bultnick, 306 Milbern st. Car Tips Over The impact or the collision threw Mrs Brown s car half way around causing it to fall over on its left side. It also shoved Bultnick's car over the curbing onto the side walk in front of Wilson's Service station. Mrs. Brown was the only one injured as the result of the accident. She was removed to the office of Dr. H. M. Crow, 209 N. Main st., where she received medical attention. At the time of the accident, Bultnick was in the service station paying for the repairs which resulted from an accident he had a short while before. Bultnick was driving east on Mishawaka av. when a Studebaker turned on Mishawaka av. from Sixth st. Bultnick, in stopping his car, skidded and broke off a wheel. He had just put on a new wheel when the second accident occurred, breaking both rear wheels and damaging the motor. The car driven by Mrs. Brown was badly wrecked. The large crowd of motorcyclists on Mishawaka av. caused the police ambulance, in charge of officers Luthcr, Saberniak and Wright, considerable trouble in reaching the scene of the accident. STATE SECRETARY OF MASONIC ORDER DIES By Associated Press: INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Aug. 1 . Calvin W. Prather, grand secretary of the Masonic Order in Indiana died at his home here Sunday night. Mr. Prather had been ill for four weeks. He had been connected with the Masonic order for many years and was known to Masonic throughout the United States because of his varied and official duties.

Governor Cox May Open Speaking Tour at Ohio Capital August 17

By Associated Press. DAYTON, O., Aug. 1 -- A virtually complete rest from political affairs was enjoyed Sunday by Gov. Cox, democratic presidential nominee. After attending church with Mrs. Cox, the governor was his own shauffeur on a sixty-mile motor ride Sunday afternoon, visiting his farm at Jacksonburg and returning home at dark. A number of neighbors called at the farm and extended congratulations to the democratic candidate who spent several hours inspecting new buildings, livestock and other

over prospects for a fine corn crop.

Few visitors are expected here by the governor until the notification

INTERSTATE

NOW ASK AUTHORITY TO ADOPT NEW RATE RAISE

NEW RATE RAISES TO BE EFFECTIVE

EARLY NEXT MONTH

Experts Will Begin Task of Preparing Tariff Schedules Today. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON. Aug. 1. Rate increases granted the railroads by the interstate commerce commission are designed to give the carriers an annual net operating income of $1,134,000,000 or $241,000,000 more than the standard return allowed by the government and based on the average of the three-year period immediately preceding federal control. This sum is $34,000,000 more than the roads made in their record year of 1916, but is $99,000,000 less than the total of $1,233,000,000 net operating income which they sought in presenting their application to the commission. Begin Work Today. Rate experts of the carriers will be set to work Monday on the tremendous task of preparing the new tariff schedules which it is planned to file in time for the increased rates freight, passenger and pullman, to become effective on September 10. On that date the government guar- antee of the standard return of $893,000,000 annually will expire under a provision of the transportation act limiting this guarantee to six months after the carriers were returned to privato control. Experts of the commission and the carriers also will undertake to figure the actual money return which will accrue to the roads from the rate increases granted, which are about 33 per cent on freight rates, 20 per cent on passenger, excess baggage and milk rates and 50 per cent on charges for space in sleeping and parlor cars. Estimate Increase The actual increased amount to be received by the roads as a result of the rate advances has been roughly estimated at $1,500,000,000 but until put into operation the exact amount the new tariffs are worked out and is problematical. With passenger fares increased one-fifth and pullman charges one-half, passenger travel probably will be reduced. Bascd on the present passenger traffic these increases are expected to yield the roads a return of $27,000,000, all of which was sought to help absorb the wage advances to railroad workers which the railroad labor board has informed the commission will work out at $618,000,000 instead of the $600,000,000 first estimated. The carriers have figured the increase at $625,000,000 but for the purposes of the rate case the commission used the board's figures. Operating Income. The estimated net operating in- come of $1,134,000,000 which the roads are to receive as a result of the rate raises represents six per cent of the aggregate value of the railroad properties which was placed by the commission at $15,900,000,000 or $1,140,000,000 less than the carriers estimate. Of the total income received by the roads, one half of one per cent of the aggregate value or $94,000,000 must be set aside annually for additions and betterments. Thus the actual net operating income going into the treasury of the carriers would be $1,040,000,000. From this must be deducted taxes and other fixed expenses not included in operating expenses before the actual net income is determined. Admittedly taxes and most other of such fixed expenses have increased since, the pre-war period on which the standard government return is based. Reserve Fund Should the commission's decision result in producing more than the six- per cent return on the aggregate ---- allowed under the transportation act, one half of the excess would under the terms of the act. be placed in the reserve fund and the other half turned over to the interstate commerce commission to establish a revolving fund to be used for making loans to the carriers or for purchasing equipment to be leased to them. 'oh r, .!'C e Lait ; va r. c e callers. ia r( Vhi'.e. i j i:;!tt H C".e lhur."h'ty or i :.'. (llV'US.I the COVerti'T ;. .C : n T it is 1. lleveit. n a - 1 i Aur.:$t 11 with his proral j t th- Ohio state con vent i-o h'r. i , cv L 1 r. e;.jI u rn ! lH!a!:S l ihC r.OlifiCl! :r. ill be disU.-sf 1 by the with the locai or. an a r:;n c n o M iteorr. lie? V. t i : U T a ndotr." and statOf l i -, ; n - - s which have piled up '.v h ; 1 e he war's''. compietir.s nis rn:i;.':a;;on au . f ! . . 1 . Two extra ?t ers ra nhers hae l.er-n called, frorn th'? state cajdto! to

OFFICIALS

Claim Increase Will Not Add to Total Income Provided For By Commission. Carriers Will Carry Fight to U.S. Board if Requests Are Not Granted. 'WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 -- Advances of intrastate rates -- freight, passenger and Pullman -- to correspond with the interstate rates authorized Saturday by the interstate commerce commission, will be asked of the various state railroad commissions by the carriers, it was stated here Sunday night by Alfred 1 Thom, general counsel for the Association of Railway Executives. Such intrastate rate increases, Mr. Thom said, will not add to the total income provided for by the federal commission's decision, because in submitting their estimate the carriers calculated on a basis of increases of both interstate and intrastate rates. Prepare Applications. Applications to the state commissions are now being prepared by the railroads and it is expected by the railroad executives that the increases will be granted. Should any state commission refuse to authorize them, however, the carriers, Mr. Thom said, will proceed under the transportation act and ask a hearing before the interstate commerce commission to determine whether the existing, intrastate rates are discriminatory or prejudicial to interstate commerce. It was pointed out by Mr. Thom that three representatives of the state commission sat with the federal trade commission during the public hearings on the application of the carriers. They will make reports to the state commissions and Mr. Thorn said it was thought that their opinions would have weight with the state bodies. Ask Corresponding Increase. Since the increases in passenger, pullman, excess baggage and milk rates were made general for the entire country by the federal commission, the railroads will ask for corresponding increases in each state. The percentage of advances in intrastate freight rates which the roads will request, however, will correspond to the percentage- auth orized in the territory in which the state is located. Thus increases requested in eastern states would be 40 percent; in southern states 25 percent; in western states 35 per cent, and in mountain Pacific states 25 percent. Will Hear Case. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 1 -- The pe petition of steam railways operating in Indiana, filed with the public serv ice commission for an increase in intrastate rates previous to the in crease just granted by the interstate commerce commission, will be given a hearing the latter part of this month, E. I. Lewis, chairman of the commission, announced Sunday. It is regarded as probable that the hearing will include a complete in vestigation of the situation and a comparison of Indiana rates with those in effect in other states, al though the railroads are said to have taken for granted that their petition for increased intrastate rates would be granted. The Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company has filed petitions with the interstate com merce commission and the public service commission identical to those of the steam roads, it is said. The electric railway companies are now awaiting action on their petitions for intrastate advances. Eugene V. Debs Wants To Remain in Prision WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 -- Eugene V. Debs. socialist candidate for president, has put his foot down on the movement started by friends to obtain his release from federal prison. Writing from the Atlanta penitentiary, Debs declares that so long as his comrades "are held criminals and convicts" his place was there. The letter, sent to Mrs. Lucy Robins, secretary of the Central Labor bodies conference of New York, and made public here Sunday, said: "Please say to the comrades in New York that while I appreciate fully all that has been done in my behalf, I object emphatically to any further appeal being made for me, only to Pres't Wilson. I wish no special consideration and I wish to fare no better than my comrades. As long as they are held criminals and convicts my place is here. My comrades will therefore understand that they can serve me best by bring their influence to bear in be half of all." MONOPLANES LEAVE By Associated Press: CHICAGO, Aug. 1 -- Three al metal monoplanes a trail blazing trip from New York to San Fran cisco for the air mail service left here Sunday for Omaha on the third leg of the journey. Tr A" ; at'd iTr . CHli'ACe, A'.---. 1. Thro. rrn tal t tri, fr ri.vn f' here- S"U jdane frail rn Nv- Yedk to Frarr the. air mn-d r . 1 ft n lay for Omaha, on the third thf jcurr.ty. !t-cr vC