The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis [Ind.])
December 14, 1922

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Home Edotioim FULL services of United Press, United News. United Finan eial. NKA and Scripps Alliance VOLUME 35—NUMBER 186 DUAL CUE CLEWS LEAQ iiiTOJpCIE Newcastle Prosecutor Seeks 4 Persons Who Abandoned Shaeffer Car. BROOKSHIRE HAS ALIBI Bodies of Hatc'net Victims Are Sent to Former Homes for Burial. Times Staff Correspond) nt NEWCASTLE, lud., Dee. 14. —Prosecutor Jefferies went to Muneie today, where he expect ed to follow new clews which may lead to the arrest of two men and two women in connec tion with the slaying of William G. Shaeffer and his wife, Susie, whose hatchet-hacked bodies were found on their farm three miles north of Middletown Tuesday. Jeffries intimated his information concerned two men and women who abandoned a Ford sedan stolen from the Shaeffer home the night of the murder. A coroner’s jury has been called for 9:30 a. m. Friday to investigate the murders. Bodies Sent Away The bodies of Shaeffer and his wife 1 passed through Indianapolis at noon I today. Shaeffer's body was sent to Danville. 111., the home of his father. Mrs. Shaeffer’s body was sent to her former home at Meridan, Miss. Investigation of the alibi presented by Ben Brookshire, held at Newcastle jail, was continued, although there is j no charge against him. BilUe Huffstickler. 3, who was in the house with the body of Mrs. Sha-ff fer six days and six nights, was re ported to be recovering from the ill effects of exposure, hunger and thirst. Brookshire's account of his move ments in the past eight days has been found to be true in the main, au thorities are convinced. He claims he pass«d his time in Newcastle, Muneie ar.d Indianapolis. The miffdor Is Re lieved to have been committed the night of Dec. 8. Saw Persons in Car In addition to Mrs. Kngle Baird, who said she saw four persons leave Shaeffer’s ear before her home on Church St., Mr. and Mrs. Will Tern plen, who live across the street from Mrs. Laird, said they saw' the occu pants. They examined the aban doned car just after daylight, they said, and found nothing in the car except some overshoes and blan kets. The name plate was tom off, Tc-mplen said. "The Shaeffers were like a father and mother to me for four years. 1 wouldn’ t have touched a hair on their heads,” Brookshire said. "The baby, Billy, stayed out there as much as I did. I played with hint sometimes. Any one who knows me will tell you that I couldn’t go off and leave a little fellow like that with out water or food for six days. “I have nothing else to say. I have said that I am innocent.” Was Farm Hand Brookshire, a farm hand and for mer taxi driver, is 23 years old. He is rather deaf and has an impediment in his speech. He has been subject to periods of “downheartedness” since the time he had scarlet fever when little, neighbors said. Brooksnlre said he accompanied the Shaeffers to Muneie Tuesday, Dec. 5, and brought Billy home for a visit. Will Huffstickler, the child's father, and brother of/Mrs. Schaeffer, in his statement to the coroner said the date was Wednesday. MOTHER CDLB MIT Rain and Snow on Program for Two Days. Drizzle and sleet were served by the weather man early today, but he was figuring strongly on changing the dish to r k’ p and snow in the next forty eight >urs. Anc ir cold wave was reported due I ay night from the northwest by J 1. Armington, Government meteorologist. Unsettled weather will continue to day and tomorrow. Armington said, an area of low pressure swinging in from the west causing snow and rain over the entire Mississippi valley east ward. The temperature hovered around 29 degrees through the morning, but was expected to drop to between 20 and 25 later. THE WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vi cinity is snow or rain tonight and Fri day. Somewhat warmer tonight, with lowest temperature 32 to 35 degrees. Colder Fri.lay afternoon or night. 6 a. m 29 10 a. m 29 7 a. m 29 11 a. m 31 8 a. m 28 12 (noon) 32 9 a. m. 29 1 p. m 32 The Indianapolis Times Don’t Be Last Minute Shopper, Is Plea of Indianapolis Salesgirls V' Here is an Indianapolis shop girl, who knows the throb of an aching head and the burning of tired feet, after days of trying to please late Christmas shoppers. That is why she urges: “Do your Christmas shopping at once —or at :east before the last minute.” The girl, who works in a downtown EVIDENCE WANTED IN DAUGHERTY CASE LOST By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 14.—Secret files wanted by the prosecution in the Daugherty impeachment proceed ings have mysteriously disappeared from the Department of Justice, it developed today in the hearings before the House Judiciary Committee. The missing papers contained charges by A. P. MacAuley of New York and Toronto, against William J. Burns, chief of the secret service. They were sent to Daugherty in 1921 in an attempt to keep him from ap pointing Burns. "When demand for the files was re newed today by counsel for Represent ative Keller, author of the impeach ment resolution. Attorney Howland, representing Daugherty, stated the documents had disappeared. He had previously admitted the existence of the MacAuley papers and had said he would produce them. “When the proceedings were started SETSWOODRUFF PROTECTION BATE Shank Would Charge $2OO for Fire and $5O for Police Runs. A $2OO charge for each firo run and i $5O for each police run to Woodruff Place will be suggested by Mayor Shank at the conference next week between the hoard of public works, the board of public safety. Mayor Shank and the town board of Wood ruff Place. The conference probably will be held Wednesday afternoon. The mayor was out when Woodruff Place officials called at the city hall Wednesday. ”F. Neal Thurston, towrn hoard at torney, told the board of works yes teiday 1 could play checkers and the races. Well I will show them I can play something else too,” the mayor said in stating his schedule of fees for fire and police protection for Woodruff Place. The mayor chased speeders for about two hours this morning. He caught none. NORDYKE AND MARMON SUED FOR $2 JUDGMENT I Suit in Federal Court Is for Smallest Amount Ever Asked Here. I Judgment of $2 was asked against Nordvke Marmon. automobile manu facturers, by the Pennsylvania Rail real Company in Federal Court today. This Is one of the smallest cases, from a monetary standpoint, ever filed in the local Federal Court. The case grow out of a shipment of automobile parts In 1917. Septimus V. Palin, horse trainer, of Indianapolis, shipped a horse and a trunk to Columbus, Ohio, and failed to pay freight charges amounting to $20.56, a complaint filed against him today by the P.. C., C. St. L. Rail road stated. 1923 LICENSE ORDER Holders of city' licenses must take out their 1923 licenses before Jan. 10. Police will be instructed to arrest de linquents after that date, Mayor Shank and Joseph L. Hogue, city con troller, decided today. $40,000 FIRE AT TIPPECANOE By United Press WARSAW, Ind.. Dec. 14.—Fire de stroyed seven business buildings in Tippecanoe, today with a loss of $40,000. Among the buildings was the town postoffice. The blaze started from a defective flue. department store, asked that her name bo withheld. “Let me be just one of the army of shop girls,” she said. “I Just want to remind the shoppers that many clerks cannot enjoy Christmas if they are completely worn out be muse of the last minute rush. I know Indianapolis folk will help us by shopping now." a search was made, but we were un able to find them.” Rowland said. "Well, there were such tiles,” said Jackson Ralston, attorney for Keller, “and we will insist that they be brought in.” If the Chicago Railroad In junction matter is taken up Don ald H. Richberg of Chicago, the attorney fought the injunction on behalf of labor, will testify. He faces a chilly reception at the hands of Re publican committeemen, practically all of whom already have committed themselves informally to the opinion that Daugherty’s action in the injunc tion proceedings could not possibly constitute an Impeachable offense. Mrs. Mabel W. Willabrandt today took a place as an adviser in the ranks of the attorneys representing the attorney general. She is a spe cial assistant attorney general. NIGHT COURT OPENING ADVANCED ONE HOUR City Judge Acts to Keep Hearings From Fxteiiding to Sunday. Because the first night session of city court last Saturday extended into Sunday morning. Judge Delbert O. j Wilmeth today advanced the hour for opening from 11} to 9 p. m., effective next Saturday. Four cases were tried after midnight last Saturday. Attorneys said this might invalidate the findings. WOMAN, IN ILL-HEALTH. ENDS LIFE WITH POISON Mrs. Christina Backer Commits Suicide at Home. Mrs. Christina Backer, 52, wife of George Backer, farmer living just west of Micklieville on the Morris St. road, died as a result of drinking poison today. Mrs. Backer had been in ill health for two years, her husband said. A physician was summoned immediately, but the victim died ns he arrived. Dr. Paul Robinson, coroner. Investigated. America’s Best BILLY EVANS HAS ITI THE national football honor roll special is no one-man choice. It’s the cream of selections made by 200 sport writers thp country over and compiled by Billy Evans. It's in the Indianapolis Times today on SPORT PAGE INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1922 ASSERTS APPEAL OF CLEMENCEAU MMILIi Bishop Nuelsen, Stationed in Switzerland, Addresses Fed eral Church Council. STRESSES COOPERATION Declares Noted Frenchman Represents Old School of European Diplomacy.

Stating that he did not believe that the response to Georges Clemen ceau’s appeal will be very hearty in the minds of that crowd which will control the offices of today and to morrow,” Bishop John L. Nuelsen, Methodist Episcopal Bishop stationed at Zurich, Switzerland, voiced Ills opinion of the results of the ex-pre mler's tour of this country, in an In terview today. Bishop Nuelsen, after addressing the executive committee of the Fed eral Council of Churches of Christ In America, now in sesssion at the First Baptist Church, left this afternoon for New York, where ha will sail Satur day for France to resume his church duties in Europe. Comes of Old School "Clemenceau represents typically the old school of statesmanship that ran Europe Into th>* mess it is now.” Bishop Nuelsen stated in his inter view. 'There is a great number of people in all countries of Europe, among the younger people and among those who fought In the war as well as among the church people, who did not want to hark hack to those days but who want a real re-dedication, of the nations. “Clemenceau has been the Tiger of France for years. He sees the needs of France. I do not think that he has an appreciation of the new feel ing of the various countries. Not a wishy-washy appreciation, but an ap preciation of the fact that Europe is in an economic and political unity,” Sees Cooi>eration In his address before the council, the Bishop declared that there is a spirit of cooperation prevailing now in Europe. He declared that the Protestant Churches in the countries at war were weakened during the war. He pictured Europe as stagger ing under war Indebtedness. He dis cussed the status of the Churches in countries where new governments have been established. The remainder of the morning was devoted toward the hearing of reports and discussions regarding the practical work of the Council of Churches. Rev. F. E. Taylor of Indianapolis and President W. O. Thompson, president of the Ohio State Federation of Churches, led the discussion. The afternoon session was devoted to the duty of the churMies regarding prohibition and law enforcement. Er nest H. Cherringlon, general secretary of the World League Against Alco holism. was scheduled to bo one of the principal speakers. Late this afternoon the council was to discuss methods to bo used in co operating to secure better relations j between the races. The theme at to night's meeting will bo The Enlarg ing Social Program of the Church.” Numerous church leaders will speak. TRUST COMPANY RAISES DNIDEID Fletcher Directors Increase Sur plus $500,000. A 4 per cent semi-annual dividend has been declared by the board of di rectors of the Fletcher Savings Trust Company. This is at the annual rate of S per cent, instead of C per cent, as in the past. The board has Increased the surplus of the company to $500,000 making Its capital and surplus $2,000,000. t UNIT PLAN RECOMMENDED FOR BUTLER BUILDINGS General Committee Would Abandon Present System. A report recommending that the new buildings of Butler College in Fu.irvSew he built on the group plan rather than in single units, was made today by Dr. Henry Jameson, chair man of the general plan committee at a meeting of the college board of di rectors at the Union Trust Building. The report was signed by Dr. Jameson, J. W. Atherton and Emsley N. Johnson. A preliminary report of the endow ment committee was made by William G. Irwin of Columbus, and Arthur V. Brown, chairman of the buildings and ground committee. G. W. Atherton, chairman fit the general plans com mittee, also gave a preliminary re port on the purchase of Fair-view Park. EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED 111/ United Press WEST BEND, Wis., Deo. 14.—Her man 1/00 mans, fireman was instantly killed today when the “milk express,” train No. 125, Chicago North western, jumped the tracks. The engine plunged down a ten foot em bankment, followed by four of the ight coaches. Tragedy Robs Baby of Parent Here is Ralph W. Trout, Jr., age —linn— mu mi ii 'mparjfiriiniiflf 7 months, who was In the arms of his mother, Mrs. Inez Trout, when she was accldentaly shot to death The bullet whizzed past the baby’s The mother died in the city hos pital, where the baby was tho -JB Inset is a photograph of Mrs.

BONUS BILL IS DRAWN BY FOREIGN VETERANS A bill providing payment of com pensation to certain world war service men and women was officially drawn today by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, for presentation to the legis lature. The bill provides for the payment of $lO per month to every Indiana sol dier. sailor, marine and nurse who served in the war from April 6. 1917. Such payments are not to exceed #250. Those eligible must have served at least two months. The liufjl-and or wife, if -not re married. children, mother, father, sis ter or brother, in order named, shall receive the amount due a dead bene ficiary. Those who are not entitled to the bonus Include those discharge.} with- Look, Sheiks! By r>i ts erf Press CHICAGO, Dec. 14.—1f you kiss —kiss hard enough to blister the lips or the kiss Is not san itary, Professor Levis of the Northwestern University, de clared here today. "This theory that the kiss is escartion enough to sterilize the lips Is buncom,” he said. "A kiss to sterilize would have to generate enough to blister the lips.” NEED PIES PIPER ATCOURTHOUSE f Stenographer Shows Marks manship by Shooting Wali. Bird shot scattered in the wall only three foot above and to the left of a rat hole In Juvenile Court attests the rnarkrnanship of the Court's latest drive against nuisances. Miss Ruth Risitiger, stenographer to Judge Frank J. Lahr, made the holes when sho fired a twenty-two caliber rifle at a huge gray rat. Con sidering that she was ten feet away, the other court attaches concede that her aim was good for'the first at tempt. Miss Risinger was provided with the rifle and shot when sho complained to Officers Charles Downey about the huge rats that inhabit the basement of the courthouse, erected in 1874, and which often caused hji adjournment from tho typewriter to tho top) of a desk. Officer Downey now has the rifle, and Miss Risinger has been provided with a barrel stave, the curve of which is expected by Downey to correct any deflects in aim when a rodent appears. BELL TELEPHONE RATE CASE RESUMES FRIDAY Resumption of the hearing of the consolidated rate cases of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company before the public service commission, which was scheduled for 10 o’clock today was postponed until 1 o’clock tomorrow afternoon because the commission had several other important matters to hear. Munson D. Atwater of Bloomington, witness for the commission, was on the stand when the hearing was ad journed on Dec. 6 and will resume the stand tomorrow. His testimony is practically completed, but the com mission has a number of other wit nesses to call to the stand before the Bell company introduce its witnesses. Here is Ralph W. Trout, Jr., age 7 months, who was In the arms of his mother, Mrs. Inez Trout, when she was accldentaly shot to death by a former neighbor. The bullet whizzed past the baby’s body. The mother died in the city hos pital, where the baby was the favorite of nurses today. Inset is a photograph of Mrs. Trout I out honor, those who did civilian work in service and those who have re ceived a bonus from some other State. For the payment of the bonus, the bill provides for establishment of a service recognition board to consist of the Governor. State auditor and adju tant general. After all payments have been made, any money remaining in the soldiers’ j compensation fund in the State treas ury may be expended by the ’board for any form of relief work for vet jer um or their families. The total amount to be determined shall t>e raised by the levying of a tax on each $lOO of valuation of taxes and shall he distributed over a period of three years, beginning in 1925. HOS EMPLOYE GETS SILL FINE Jacob Simpson Found Guilty of Shortweighing Schools. Minimum fine of $lO and costs was given Jacob Simpson, 1212 E. Wash ington St., weighmaster for tho Sig i mon Coal Company. 955 W. New York j St., by Judge Delbert o. Wilmeth in city court today. He appealed. Simpson was oh >1 with respon sibility for a 160 jh r,i shortage Clar once Stewart, deputy city weights and j measures inspector, detected in a load of coal consigned to the McCarty St. i branch library, for the board of school commissioners. Simpson pleaded he had only made S a mistake. A shadow obscured figures I on the scale, he claimed. Tho Sigmon Company is involved in another case of alleged shortweighing lof coal for the school board, pending in Criminal Court. CORRECTIVE WORK FOR CRIPPLES BEGINS SOON 1,183 Patients Visited by Public Health Nurses Tliis Month. Corrective work for crippled chil dren w'ili begin Jan. 1, according to Mrs. Ethel Clark in a report for the bureau of nursing service at the regu lar monthly meeting of the Public Health Nursing Association. Mrs. Edna Hamilton, superintendent of nurses, reported that 1.185 patients had been visited by the nurses and a total of 4.450 visits made. Y our Treat DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, former pre mier of Great Britain, who has become Your London Correspondent, is writing an unprecedented series of ar ticles which give a remarkable insight into world events and affairs. The first article, printed last week, was his answer to the utterances in America of Georges Clemen ceau, the “Tiger of France.” The second article, released Saturday, which will apear in Indianapolis ONLY IN Entered ae Second-class .Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Published Dally Except Sunday. SHOT NILS GIRL MOTHER 110 GRAZES IiIFIT SOU SHE HOIBS 111 HER ARMS Paul Lutane, Examining Revolver, Fatally Wounds Mrs. Inez Trout With Pistol She Carried for Protection. .DEATH NEWS IS KEPT FROM HUSBAND Manslaughter Charge Placed Against Prisoner, Who Did Not Know Bullet Was in Gun Chamber. Ralph Trout, Jr., age 7 months, clapped his hands and smiled gleefully at nurses who surrounded him at the City hospital today. lo his baby mind his visit to the hospital was just anothefj vaguely exciting event in a life full of new happenings. He did not know, as the nurses did, that his mother, Mrs. Inez Trout, 18, of 1152 S. Sherman Drive, lay dead, the victim of a bullet which also had nearly snuffed out the life of Ralph, who had been sitting in his mother's lap. i Nor could he know that Paul Lu i tune, 2738 Southeastern Ave., the j friendly man who had tossed Ralph in Ills arms many times, sat in a cell at the city prison, sobbing as lie retold the story of the tragedy he had un wittingly caused. Mrs. Trout was shot last night with her own revolver as Lutane stood be side her examing the weapon. The bullet grazed the baby’s abdomen and j struck the mother in the abdomen. “Our Very Best Friends” “The Trouts were our very best I friends,” Lutane sobbed this morning when he was told of Mrs. Trout’s death. “Won't they let me go to the hospital? I want to see her.” He is held under $5,000 bond on a charge of manslaughter. Mrs. Trout's husband. Ralph W. j Trout Sr., went to a union meeting last night. Mrs. Trout, with the baby, walked with her husband several i blocks on her way to the Tiome of Lutane and his wife former neighbors. The Trouts parted when a friend in |an automobile picked up Mrs. Trout j and the baby and took them to their destination. When she reached the Lutane i household Mrs. Trout said she had i brought her pistol, as she feared she would have to pass several dark places. She told Lutane a chamber of the pi.-.tol had ben sticking. Lutane picked iup the revolver. He pulled the trig ger. Mrs. Trout was shot. Believed Chamber Empty Lutane believed the chamber was j empty. The dead woman s husband reached I the Lutane home at 11 p. m. to ac j company his wife home. He was told |of the accident. He called the hos pitdl. where he was informed his wife was “resting easy” and it was not thought the wound would prove fatal, he said today. Still uneasy, he started for the hospital. He learned of his wife’s death. Trout planned to take the baby j home today. The child was weaned last night, j i Nurses told today how well little j Ralph behaved. BILL INTRODUCED TO ABOLISH LABOR BOARD Replaces Section Three of Esch-Cum mins Law. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—A move j to abolish the railroad labor board was 1 I made in Congress today. Representative McGreggor, Repub- llican, New York introduced a bill re- J I pealling all of section three of the j I Esch-Cummins law. This section created the railroad labor board. j HURTY SPEAKS Dr, J. N. Hurty, former secretary of the State board of health discussed '"Health Problems” before tfie Indiana State Association of Towiiship Trus tees at the Claypool Hotel today. Dr. Hurty was followed by Mrs. Vivian Wheatcraft of Whiteland, Ind., in an address on “Fire Prevention.” The convention closed today with a regular business session and a report of committees. Great Britain’s war premier will have an other special article in the Times Saturday. Forecast SNOW or rain tonight and Friday. Somewhat warmer tonight. Colder Friday after noon. PHEPABES REPORT ON GASPETITION Master in Chancery Will Submit Findings in Ten Days. A tentative report in the gas rata I case will be made within ten days, William P. Kappes, master in chan j eery, said today. The master's report will be submitted to attorneys of th* Citizens Gas Company and the pub to 1 service commission of Indiana. 1 n J case they are able to show the master I where he has been at fault he then will hear additional argument. If not the report will be submitted to Judge Albert B. Anderson. The’‘cast- arose last spring when the gas company filed a petition in Fed eral Court ashing an Injunction to prevent the public service commission from interfering with an increase in gas rates from 90 cents to $1.25. A rate of $1.20 was granted, pending j final hearing. INJIBYEATALTI VETERAN JUDGE- i John Wellborn of Princeton Dies Here. Judge John Wellborn, 81, of Prince ton, Ind., died at the Methodist Hos pital this afternoon. I He held the State record for length of service on the bench, having been judge of Circuit Court at Princeton continuously forty years, from 1873 to 1913. Judge Wellborn suffered a broken hip and leg in Indianapolis Tuesday when two women humped into him on a downtown sidewalk, throwing him over the curb. $250,000 FIRE LOSS IN PENNSYLVANIA TOWN Flames Rage in Business District fer Five Hours. By United Press ALTOONA. Pa.. Dec. 14— Flames raging unchecked for five hours did damage estimated at a quarter of a million dollars in the business sec tion of the town of Juniata, near here, today. With no city water, the Pennsyl vania Railroad opened up its Tipton reservoir and the fire was quickly brought under control. HOTEL KEEPERS TO MEET An important meeting of the In diana Hotel Keepers’ Association will be held in the assembly room et the Hotei Washington at 10 a. m. Friday. Lloyd George THE TIMES, will be llie Welsh statesman’s answer to Premier Poneaire, of France, who has denied there is an annexation party in France and asserts Lloyd George has been “charging at a windmill.” Lloyd George will be a REGULAR CON TRIBUTOR to the Times. You don’t want to miss any of his articles. If you are not a regular subscriber to the Times— CALL MAIN 3500, Circulation Department, and £ave the paper delivered to yon. TWO CENTS

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2 FOUR SLEEPING CHILDREN RESCUED FROM FLAMES WHICH SWEEP ,HOME 111 PONS IN NIGHT DRESS TG FIRESTATIBII Miss Nellie Nelson Vainly At tempts to Call Assistance by Making Telephone Call. ESTIMATED LOSS $l,OOO i Man Seizes Money From Burn ing Bed—Children Carried to Homes of Neighbors. Snow flakes drifted down today on the charred frame of a house at 2201 E. Michigan St. Could those charred boards have told of the night’s events, they wc*ild have had a story of a rescue of four small children, a hurried trip of a woman through the cold to a lire sta tion, a vain attempt to get through a telephone to the station and the saving of $l5 from the flames. It was about 1 a, m. today that Thomas Cummings, sign painter and decorator, living upstairs with his wife and their four children, awakened to find smoke drifting into the room from the kitchen. Rushing back, he found the whole back port of the house in flames. He awakened his family and Mrs. Emma Nelson, 61, and her daughter, Miss Nellie, who lived downstairs. Slipping a wrap over her night clothes, Miss Nelson hurried to Are station No. 20, two blocks away, where she notified the firemen. In the meantime, the Cummings tried to reach the station by telephone. It was ten minutes before they got Central, according to their story to day. The Cummings children were carried to neighbors' homes. The children are William, 12; Edgar, 10; Chester, 5, and Milton, 2. Cummings, while waiting for the arrival of the fire company, suddenly remembered that he had $l5 under the pillow on his bed. He hurried back into the house and upstairs, where he found the bed clothing on fire, throwing it aside, he pulled the money from the flames. Firemen estimated the total damage at $l,OOO. The house was owned by A. B. Keeport, of the Carlson Lamb Land Company. 'ALLIES KM CfIUSHGEIM' By United Press LONDON, Dec. 14. —The standard of living for a generation wouid be lowered if England cancelled repara tions and allied debts due her and simultaneously paid the United States, Premier Bonar Law declared in the House of Commons today. In a statement to the house of rep arations, the premier declared Ger many is near complete collapse and that the allies must be careful that their demands do not precipitate a crash. Bonar Law urged caution as far as occupation of the Ruhr was con cerned. “We cannot look with equanimity on any action, the effect of which will not produce reparations but make it more difficult, even impossible, to ob tain them,’’ he said. He declared there was no hope of solution unless France and England acted together. The premier declared it was impos sible for England to pay the United States if reparations and allied debts to Great Britain were to be cancelled. ‘Y. W.’ CLUB JOINS FIGHT ON SMOKE EVIL HERE Miriam Bible .Members ation in Movement. Cooperation with Mayor Shank’s smoke nuisance abatement committee was pleaded by the Miriam Bible Club of the Y. \V. C. A. in resolutions. Here is what the club thinks of smoke: “This heavy smoke is a serious menace to the health and life of our citizens because of the damage done to lungs, throat and nose; makes our city unsightly and dirty; kills trees, shrubbery and grass; shortens the lives of buildings; causes excessive laundry bills; makes cleaning of wall paper and other decorations a more frequent necessity; increases electric lighting and gas bills because of the darkness; causing with the actual loss in fuel value (amounting to approxi mately 21 per cent of the coal used) a financial loss to the citizens of Indi anapolis estimated to be $4,000,000 each year, or about $2l a year for each man, woman and child within our city limits.” CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of manslaughter against Cecil O. Cochran, 27, motorman, 1213 Lafayette St.. Columbus, Ind., was dismissed in city court today on recommendation ofXoroner Paul Rob inson. He was arrested Nov. 14 after his Greenwood interurban struck a Ford coupe a mile north of Edge wood, killing John F. Flood, 28, 2234 N. Ashland Ave. BRAZIL NOW HAS A MAYOR By United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Dec. 14. The dead lock in the selection of a mayor to succeed the late William M. Suobel. who died Sept. 25, was broken last night by the election of James Q. Layne, Democratic councilman. The election gives the Republicans con trol of the city council. Dead Leader MRS. ESTHER CASLER s. a. mourns for LOCMHIER Evangeline Booth Sends Mes sage on Death of Mrs. Casler. Telegrams expressing sorrow over the death Tuesday night of Brigadier Esther Casler, wife of Brigadier George F. Casler, commandant of the Salvation Army in Indiana, have been pouring into local headquarters from all parts of the country. Among them was one from Com mander Evangeline Booth, who was a personal friend of Mrs. Casler. The funeral wiii be held at the resi dence, 822 hiaymun Ave., at 2 p. tn. Friday. Commander William Peart, Chicago, will preach. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Mrs. Casler had been in Salvation Army work with her husband for thirty years, her leadership and moth erly influence having a marked effect upon the corps in thirty-three Indiana cities under jurisdiction of herself and ner husband. STATE WILL BUSH HEfifiINEVIDEHCE By United Press MARION. 111., Dec. 14—Attorneys for the prosecution In the first ”Herrin massacre” trial, served notice today to a crowded courtroom that examin ing of State's witnesses will be run off in rapid succession. Two "star” witnesses were grilled during the first hour of today’s ses sion before a brief adjournment was ordered by Judge I). T. Hartwell on request of counsel for defense. Minnie Dudenbostel took the stand as court opened at 9:50 a. m. Miss Dudenbostel, a nurse at the Herrin Hospital, testified that she cared for Howard Hoffman, victim of the al leged murderers, from the time he was rushed to the Herrin Hospital until he died two days later. The decision of Jydge D. T. Hart well in ruling that Frank Farring ton, president of the Illinois United Mine Workers would not be allowed to “tell the history of the gunmen who shot down union miners," as suggested by Defense Counsel A. W. Kerr in his opening statement, was icceived by the spectators as a strong blow to the defense’s case. Indiana Man Witness Charles Hoffman, 68, Huntington, Ind., father of Howard Hoffman, was the second witness for the prosecu tion. Hoffman, after answering sev eral preliminary questions was asked to identify a picture' of Ills son. The picture was entered by the State as “Exhibit No. 1.” Over vigorous ob jections by counsel for the defense, Judge Hartwell allowed the entrance cf the picture. “This is a photograph of Howard Hoffman, my son, whose lifeless body was shipped to me at my home in Huntington, Ind.,” the witness de clared. Adjournment granted by the court after Hoffman was temporarily dis missed. BAPTISTS WILL DECIDE ON CHURCH BELIEFS By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 14.—Bap tists prepared today to choose be tween “radical" and old-time religion. The decision will be made late today when the board of William Jewell Col lege decides whether to oust Dr. A Wakefield Staten, who has terme parts of the Bible “Jewish folk tales,’ and is an unbeliever in demons, mir acles and Satan. Wise Pigeons Hold Life Dearer Than Comfort Pigeoqns are game, but they know when they are licked. This is the opinion of William Camden, watchman and chief pigeon sharp shooter at the Federal building. Camden Is just winding up a successful campaign against hun dreds of pigeons which, in con stantly increasing numbers, have made the Federal buildinf roof, cornices and statues parking places for months. Recently the birds become so abundant as to become a nuisance. Camden got out his 22-caliber rifle and opened hostilities. “At first after I shot into them, GGMiRSIAKE HP PROHIBITION AICIFERENCE Some Executives Resent Action of Harding in ‘Passing Buck' on Question. By United Press WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. W. Va., Dec. 1 4.—Immediate action on prohibition enforcement was proposed by Governor Parker of Louisiana as Governors of the States gathered for a three-day conference. Anticipating a proposed parley in January, when President Harding will discuss with them the question of en forcement, many Governors backed Parker in his stand thatethe question might as well be brought up at once. A definite program, as a result, may be drawn up and submitted to Mi-. Harding. -j—* Many Governors tgpr .y were critical of the President’s pl am for a meeting of i heads of State with ’jK Federal executives l fc&ryjD on the question off fesslng to see an 4 attempt to “pass the buck” as one “If the President re" jp? calls a conference |l to pass this Fed- S eral baby over to f t the and V asks them to care pov. JOHN M. for it, the States PARKER, will most likely lay Louisiana.' the baby back on his door step,” one Governor declared. The Governors were unwilling In advance of conferences with their as sociates to state their individual views for publication, but there was a strong current of resentment among them. Declaring prohibition as now ad ministered a farce, Parke has a con crete program, the main points which are understood to be: 1. Amendment of the Volstead act to permit beer and light wines. 2. Heavy penitentiary sentences for persons who violate the eighteenth amendment or the Volstead law with respect to hard liquor. Present System Futile He is of the opinion that the pres ent system of fining bootleggers and others arrested for prohibition F violation is futile; that public senti- J ment does not It a support prohibl- U'<i 3*4 tion enforcement ML V as now edminiv ten and and that tha M States should not T wait until Janu ary. when many Governors will ho k «i sis' occupied with sea slons of their Log islatures, to for mulate their pro V gram of coopei a. at ion with the GOV. ALBERT Federal Govern- C. RITCHIE, ment. Maryland In addition to discussing prohi bition. the Governors may ask Presi dent Harding to help in a fight on the so-called cement trust through the elastic provisions of the new tariff law Governor McCray, Indiana, is leading this movement and will have the support of Parker and others. Parker will suggest as one means of reducing price of cement to States de siring it for road building that Hard ing take off the duty temporarily under his authority conferred by tariff law of that he let the the States Im port cement duty free. FRATERNAL INSURANCE ORDERS HOLD MEETING Delegates Represent State Member ship of 750,000. Delegates from all the fratemr in surance societies in Indiana met at the Hotel Sererln in the annual con vention of the Indiana Fraternal Congress. Plans for the promotion of the fra ternal socities represented were con sidered. The society represents or ders which have 750,000 menibc-rs in Indiana. Harry Weed of Indianapolis, presi dent of the congress, announced that the National Fraternal Council of America will hold its next annual con vention at French Lick Springs some time next August. The afternoon session was devoted business matters and the election of officers. PRESENTS PICTURE A portrait of the late Quincy A. Myers/ formerly a Judge of the Indi ira Supreme Court, was presented to ■he court by Mrs. Myers today. The u-esentatlon speech was made by Senator-elect Samuel M. Ralston. the survivors would do nothing more than fly away, circle the building a couple of times and then return to their favorite loaf ing spots,” Camden said. “But after a few days they seemed to list their casualties and decide the building was no good as a health resort. Asa result now they leave the place alone.” It probably will be many months, perhaps a year, before the pigeons forget their fear of the building and begin to take up quarters there again, Camden said. THE rN'DTANAPOIJS TIMES Raid Nets ‘Complete Booze Plant' iib,! mi mihiumihw -smimmwmn-ms* i mutmmsmmnt Here is part of a “complete” liquor plant. Complete is the word. The alleged owner, Anthony Costa, even had his own corn field to produce the base of his mash, Sheriff Snider changes. Officers shown standing around the container, coil and heating apparatus, who participated in a raid on Costa’s FREIGHT CUTTO REIIEROADCDST Commerce Commission Favors State Brick Manufacturers. The favorable decision reached yes terday by the interstate commerce commission on the freight rates of bricks in Indiana will save millions ot dollars in the building and road building program during 1923, George H Mosser, general managing director of the Indiana State Chamber of Com meree, said today. Tha State chain her conducted the fight for equalized freight rates for Indiana. A saving of 15 to 30 cents a ton on bricks shipped to Indianapolis from the Indiana clay belt was gained. Pre viouslv Indiana manufacturers were handicapped in competition Vith out side manufacturers. A recent decision opened up the West and Northwest territory to Indiana manufacturers, ami the decision made yesterday makes Indiana brick manufacturers cn a parity with outside manufactur ers. Mosser sold The cut in freight rates makes pos sible a saving of $240 on one mile of country road. Mr. Mosser said. In In dianapolis, where thirty foot streets are constructed the freight cuts would make a savings of $4BO a mile. The public service commission Is sued an order perscribing anew basis on briok rates from Crawfordsville, Attica, Terre Haute. Brazil and rela tive points to Indiana destinations. The new rates, effective immediate’/, are $l.BO from Wabash Valley points to Ft. /Wayne a reduction of 30 cents on the ton. TEAGLE JUSTIFIES HUGEJIIEffi By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. —Defense of the big melon cutting by the Stand ard Oil Company ot New Jersey was made by the Senate Committee investi gating gasoline prices by William Teagle, president of the company. Teagle justified the declaration of huge dividends on three separate con tentions. 1. An equalization of the outstand ing stock, witii the net value of the company, was necessary because Standard Oil "always has been under japltallzed.” 2. It was practical to effect a wider distribution of the common stock while the market value of the shares was high. 3. An increase in the outstanding stock was necessary to enable the company to complete further financ ing Teagle said these were the “sole considerations" which prompted the move. I Spied Today That’s Tltirteen Folks who ride in Jitneys surely are not at all superstitious. I watched one of the busses unload the other day. Twelve adults swarmed out of It at the end of the trip. The driver kept his place, probably too crushed to move.—J. M. N. Cause and Effect A small town paper in Indiana re ports the fact that a couple is seeking divorce after having been married only three months. The reason given is incompatibility. The name of the couple is Quarrel. —K. 3. A. Equal Rights For Women Christmas shopping days are in teresting times to study human na ture. R. T. H. reports that while “on a shopping tour in the Five and Ten- Cent Stores I ran across a man and woman also doing their Christmas buying. She was smatt-and rather in dined to be portly. He was tall and strong looking. She was well laden with packages of various sizes and weights. He was carrying her pocket book.” ARREST EVANGELIST’S SON By Times Special WARSAW, Ind., Dec. 14.—Paul Sunday, 15, son of Evangelist Billy Sunday, was the first alleged speeder arrested here yesterday after Mayor John A. Sloane had ordered the police to stop reckless driving. Young Sun day is a studefc at the Warsaw High School. Ills hf he is at Winona Lake. j.laco, three miles south of Five Points, are, from left to right: Sergt. David Cummings, Sheriff Snider, Patrolman Alex Dunwoody, Chief Jailer Omar Hawkins and Deputy Sheriff Roland Snider. Capacity of the still was 300 gallons. The offlcors captured a large store of supplies and booze business ac cessories, they say. X» ias Trees Plentiful The evergreen tree, to which poets write odes but which we ordinally folk forget until about this time of the year, has come into its own again. Christmas trees whose burdens will delight the hearts of Mr. and Mrs. Indiana polls' children, are plentiful this year, according to men on commission row. They are being brought in trucks from southern Indiana. The price is about the same as last year, 75 cents to $1.25. HESSLER CANCELS STRIKEOFMiNERS TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Dee. 14. The Eleventh District coal mine strike Is off. John Hessler, president of tha min ers, Thursday announced that the strike call recently issued would be automatically cancelled, through tho action of the Indiana Bituminous Oper ators Association late Wednesday in agreeing to make the $4 check-off de manded by the miners. Asa result of the operators' voto, which rescinds tho attitude they adopted a week ago, the special assess ment to re imburse international offi cers for money borrowed to finance the strike of last summer will ot checked-off the same as other dues are. The fact that many of tho ope!-ato r s already had collected the assessment, through mis understanding, was given by Phil H. Penna, secretary of the op erators, as one of the reasons for the mino owners yielding the point to the miners. The operators were further ac tuated, he said, by the fact that the miners had called a district striko effective Dec. 16. BRAZIL POLICE THINK AUTO RING IS BROKEN Confession by Youth Is Said to Im plicate Three Men. By United Press BRAZIL. Ind., Dec. 14—Officials here believed today they had broken an automobile theft ring with arrest of Elmer and Myron Myers of Pat ricksburg and Zeklal Padgett of near Terre Haute. The three men were, arrested six weeks ago and releasd on $4,000 bond each. Tito case against the three men was about to be dropped for lack of evidence when officevs are said to have a confession from. Samuel Holmes, 15, a nephew of Padgett, which enabled them to unearth two automobile engines burled on a farm near St. Marys. The engines were said to belong to Elza Light and Rose Leaehman of near Clay City, stolen some time ago. FOINrSItI GFYBUTH' IS FOUtIQ SY SMCE European Discovery, Easily Used at Home, Restore* Vigor Quicker Than Gland Treatment*. Those who suffer from nerve weakness and lack of vigor will be interested in a European discovery which restores full physical power quicker than gland opera tions. It is a simple home treatment in tablet form, absolutely harmless and yet the most powerful invlgorator known. Acting directly and exclusively on lower spinal nerve centers and certain blood vessels, it often produces amazing bene *its In 24 to 36 hours and gratifying re mits within a week. 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Fourteen Die and Twenty-Three Are Seriously Burned in Texas Wreck. By United Press HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 14.—Four teen persons were scalded to death or died of burns today as a result of a collision of a passenger train and switch engine on the Houston East and West Texas Railroad near Humble. The dead included two un identified white men and nine negroes. Twenty-three persons were in hos pitals here and at Humble, seriously burned, and additional fatalities were expected. The deaths were caused when a steam pipe from one of the engines in the wreck was broken and forced through a window in one of the cars. One compartment was occupied by negroes and the other served as a smoker. Stifling clouds of scorching vapor filled the coach and frantic passengers were unable to escape. Doors were jammed tight by the col lision. By United Press THORP, Wls., Dec. 14.—One man was killed and two others seriously injured when a fast passenger train on the Soo Line crashed headlong into a double freight train near here today. John Hariing met Instant death. PRESIDENTASKS FARMERS' HELP By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—Coopera tive marketing among farmers promises “more help for the present relief and the permanent settlement of agricultural conditions,” than any other single movement before the country, President Harding declared today in a message read before the Na" tional Council of Fanners Coopera tive Marketing Associations in session here. The President stated he had a sincere conviction to do everything j ossible to aid agriculture, but said the farmers themselves should co operate to make tho Government's effo'-ts “doubly efficacious.” “Whoever has cared to read my re cent message to the Congress will un derstand the depth of my convictions about the necessity to do anything possible to help the farmer through his present era of depression,” the President said. ”1 am anxious that the Government do everything within reason and sound procedure: and I am still more anxious that the farmers shall them selves cooperate to make the Govern ment efforts doubly efficacious. In the long run, Government aid cannot be made effective unless the farmers shall bo organized and alive to their own responsibility.” STRIKE LEADER ACQUITTED By i t tries Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 14.—Owen J. Farnan. general chairman of the striking railway employes in this city, was acquitted in city court here qf a charge of drawing a deadly wedpon on Leonard Pranger, patrolman for the Pennsylvania Railroad and a deputy sheriff of Alien County. Evi dence brought out in the cane was contradictory throughout. REALTY FIRM FORMED The Haylow Realty Company of In dianapolis today filed articles of Incor poration with the secretary of State, showing a capital stock of $5,000. Wil liam Kelley, Paul G. Davis and Leo J. Moolory of 1404 Fletcher Trust Com pany are the directors. FREE LECTURES APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY CHARACTER ANALYSIS How to Read People at Sight America’s Greatest Orator HEALTH WEALTH f A v HAPPINESS Wk'.J|L DR. DAVID V. BUSH Author of “Will Power on<l Success” Dec. 15th to Jan. 4th Watch Paper* for Excluded Dates 000 FELLOW AIiQiTQM Washington and Pennsylvania Sts. Enter on Pennsylvania St. Evening* at 8:15 SUBJECTS Friday, Dec. 15—The Subconscious Mind. Different degrees in animal and man. Its many functions and how it works. Saturday, Dec. I(s—Psychological Law of Suggestion. All people use sug gestion, whether consciously or un consciously for atccess or failure, efficiency or lim ation, health or sickness. How are you using suggestion for your advancement or to your detri ment? Monday. Dec. 18—All ts Good, rising your mistakes, reverses, failures, sorrows and misfortunes as stepping stones for success, health and hap piness. Tuesday, Dee. 19.—What ts Love? How to keep it. How to change your position. Ilow to overcome failure and environment. Dr. Bush will give four free test character readings of strangers from the audience. FREE TO TOR PUB DIG Has Alibi BEN BROOKSHIRE Held in jail without any charge against him, Ben Brookshire reit erated today at Newcastle he knows nothing of the killing of William G. Shaeffer and his wife on their farm neat that city. Brookshire has proved an alibi, according to advices from that city. EMERSON WILL CONDUCT CHURCH COUNCIL LUNCH Meeting to Be Held in Interest of Oriental Colleges Drive Dr. Charles P. Emerson, dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, will preside at the luncheon meeting at the Claypool Hotel Fri day noon to be addressed by Dr. Rob ert E. Speer, New York City, presi dent of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Oriental women’s colleges will be dis cussed, the meeting being under the auspices of the Indiana committee to raise money for seven union Christian colleges for women in the Orient. A SIN 13 LEI Wk HAIR FALL GUT CM 35-cent “Danderine” will Save S-vvYriv Any Man or Woman’s Hair r/'//ui)' ‘A\ See Dandruff Go! 'p Hurry! It’s your duty! Each day you see a little more hair coming out and you are making no effort to avoid baldness. What a pity. Falling hair nieans your hair is weak, sick. —pos- sibly dandruff is strangling it. or the hair-root pores in the scalp are not firm and tight, thus wasting the halr growing oils. 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Hearing on the petition of the In terstate Public Service Company for authority to acquire the rights, franchises and properties of seven utilities operating .n and througn more than forty cities and towns in Indiana, was held before John Me- Cardle, chairman of the public service commission today. The companies which the Interstate wished to consolidate are the Hydro- Electric Light and Power Company of Connersville, the Hawkes Electric Company of Goshen, the Middlebury Electric Company of Middlebury. the Indianapolis Louisville Railway Company's property, between Sey mour and Sellersburg. the Electrical Transmission Company of Northern Indiana, the Winona Electric Light and Power Company, and the South ern Indiana Power Company. 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