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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
CITY PUTS BAN
ON CARNIVALS
Street Fairs and Other Attrac-
tiOns to Be Kept Out by
Ordinance.

Carnivals and street fairs are prac-
tically prevented from showing in In
dianapolis by an ordinance passed under
suspension Of the rules by the city coun-
ell in special session today and signed
by Mayor Charles W. Jewett immediate
ly thereafter
The ordinance, introduced by Council
man G. G. Schmidt, provided that the
license fee for carnivals and street fairs
be raised from so per day TO 500 per
day, that no license be issued for a long
er period than twenty four hours and
that no license shall be issued unless
the written consent Of so per cent Of all
property owners residing within a radius
of 800 feet of the proposed site OF the
show is fled. Shows which violate the
ordinance are termed public nuisances.
Two weeks ago the council passed an
ordinance prohibiting circuses. me
nageries, street fairs and earniyals from
locating within 500 feet OF any residence
district, made up OF ten or more dwell
ing properties unless 60 per cent OF the
residents give written consent This
ordinance WIS vetoed by Mayor Jewett
because when It got to him an amend
ment including street fairs and carnivals
had been omitted.
Councilman Schmidt said that persons
residing near South Meridian and South
Pennsylvania streets and the Belt rail
road demanded passage Of the street fair
and carnival ordinance because seven
csrnivsls are trying 20 book property in
their neighborhood upon which to oper-
ate this summer.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
Presbyteridns Plan TO
Fight for Blue Lavs-tO
Curb Wide-Open Sunday

1--WE have already warned the leading
ministers of the country that the most
dangerous movement against the Ameri-
can Sunday in fifty years is now in
progress This should stir the blood OF
every American patriot and certainly
every American Christian.
"Close up the movie theater, shut the
gates of the ball park, lock the doors or
many places of business, end this para
mount problem of the churches well on
the way to solution"
PREDICTS BLUE
SUNDAY WILL COME.
DR.. Bowlby expressed the view that the
Blue Sunday would come. He said those
who once predicted prohibition would
never come, now say America will soon
be as dry as sun kissed chip"
There is no doubt but what the report
of Dr. Bowlby, who stands high in the
councils of Presbyterianism Will be
adopted by the 1000 commissioners in the
assembly who represent the million and
a half members Of their denomination.
The 133rd annual assembly opened
with an address by DR.. 5. ). Palmer,
Columbus. Ohio, retiring moderator. he
deplored the ignorance of children OF to-
day regarding the teachings Of the Bible.
DR.. Henry c. Swearingen, st. Paul, and
DR.. John s. Laird, Philadelphia, are the
chief contenders for the post of modera-
tor. The election will be held after
the preliminary organization work.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
TAFT
FOR PLACE OF
CHIEF JUSTICE
Death of Edward D. White
Leaves First Vacancy
in IL Years.
POLITICS MAY BAR WAY

WASHINGTON, May 19.-For the
first time in eleven years, the great
Office of the chief justiceship Of the
United States Supreme Court stood
vacant today.
The death of Edward Douglas
White, the venerable chief who has
presided over the court since 1910,
brought to the surface the undercur-
rent of talk and speculation that has
been going on in Washington for
weeks as to his possible successor
The name most frequently heard in
connection with the succession is that
of William Howard Taft, who, as Presi-
dent in 1910, elevated Justice White TO
the chiefship. Long before the death
OF the venerable jurist it was widely re-
ported that he had intended resigning
in order to pave the way for the ap-
pointment Of Mr.. Taft, who had so Sig
nally honored him in 1910. Whether
these reports were true probably never
will be known.
FRIENDS SAY
TAFT WILLING.
Close friends of the former President
are authority for the statement that,
tired of the game of partisan politics,
and having nothing to look forward to,
Mr.. Taft is now willing to retire to the
quiet dignity Of the bench to view from
that secluded sanctuary the years that
remain to him.
During the Harding cabfnet-picking
days It was generally. reported that
Charles Evans Hughes, now the Seere-
tary Of State, was a candidate for the
Supreme Court bench instead Of the
Cabinet. 1t also was reported widely
that even should Mr.. Hughes accept a
Cabinet post 1t would be with the under
standing that he would relinquish it at
the first Supreme Court vacancy.
This talk however, has almost entire
ly disappeared since Mr.. Hughes entered
the Government service again and be-
came so immersed in the impcrtant
duties Of the State Department. II is
generally believed in Washington that
Secretary Hughes Will continue to han
die the foreign affairs OF the Adminis-
tration.
DEMOCRATIC NUMBER
REDUCED TO THREE.
Since 1916 the Supreme Court has been
composed OF five Republicans and four
Democrats The death Of Chief Justice
White, a Southern Democrat, reduces the
Democratic representation to three, and
this fact is regarded as the most potent
factor against the selection of Mr.. Taft
to fill the vacancy, as his appointment
would give the Republicans two to
one representation.
While political affiliations are forgot
ten when a man steps mp to the dig
nifty Of the Supreme Court bench, the
non partisan character of the court al
ways has been guarded more or less
carefully by balancing, so far as pos
sible, the Democratic and Republican
representation.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
DRY GOODS MEN
TO MEET IN JUNE
Busy Two-Day Session for
State Dealers.

The annual convention Of the Indiana
Retail Dry Goods Association will be
held in this city Tuesday evening and
Wednesday, June II and Is.
smoker viii be held Tuesday eve
ming. at which 2. S. Kinnear of Marion
viii preside. Wednesdays program will
include addresses by men nationally
known in the dry goods and ready to-
wear business, and the subjects will be
of especial interest to members of the
organization. A banquet will be held in
the evening.
The officers Of the association, which
has a membership Of nearly three hun
dred men engaged in the dry goods and
ready -to-wear business, are as follows: ::
President. f. A Turner, Charlottesville !;
vice president, L. c. Stiefel, Angola; sec
retary- treasurer, Lee B. Nusbaum, Rich
mond; members of the board Of direc-
tors-F. NJ. Ayres, indianapolis; r. A.
Andres, Evansville; Myer Heller, New
castle; z. S. Kinnear, Marion; A. l..
Letter, Connersyille; c. NJ. Mills, FIT.
Wayne: Lee B. Nusbaum, Richmond; j..
c. O'Harra Muncie; L. c. Stiefel, Angola !;
F. A. Turner, Charlottesville, and Carl
S. Wise, Logansport
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
TRY S15,O00,000
SUIT TOMORROW
Delayed Nearly Year by Peti-
tiOns and iiOiions.

After almost year of delay due to
Ihe filing OF pleadings OF various kinds
the SIS, 100000 damage suts filed against
Stoughton A. Fletcher and the American
Creosoting Company by Thomas Lowry
and five other heirs of the late Cuthbert
B. Lowry will come to trial before Judge
Ferdinand A. Geiger Of Milwaukee in
Federal Court tomorrow
The heirs claim the defendants have
made Illegal use of certain patents
formerly owned by Cuthbert b. Lowry,
and the title to these patents really
rests in the Lowry heirs and not in the
creosoting company.
Alvin T. Hert Of Louisville Ky, was
named as defendant when the suit was
filed last July, but the suit as to him
was dismissed because Of the fact that
he is a resident of Kentucky. A suit of
a similar character has since been filed
against him in the Federal Court of that
State.
Judge Geiger will remain in Indian
apolis only one day, bat it is expected
be will receive and rule on a number OF
motions In other cases before returning
to Milwaukee. He will be back on May
81 to hear all criminal cases in which
the defendants are now confined in jail
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
DE PALMA PLANS
FOR GRAND PRIX
He and Crew Seek Passports
Here.

Ralph De Palma, the famous automo-
bile race driver and his nephew, Peter
De Paola, who rides with Ralph in all
races as his mechanician, called upon
Noble C. Butler, clerk of the Federal
Court, yesterday to make sure that they
could obtain passports for France,
where De Palma will drive in the Grand
Prix road race in July.
Floyd J. Mattice, assistant United
States district attorney, prepared an
affidavit for young De Paola and as
sured Ralph that he himself would have
no trouble in making the trip as the
passport he now has does not expire un-
til October
De Palma will take his entire crew.
consisting of his two nephews, Peter and
John De PaOla, and Jean Marsenac, an
employe of the Ballot factory in France,
with him for the race. John, who Is In
charge of Ralph's pit service, will
handle the same job in the Grand Prix.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
President Desires
Peace Act Within
Reasonable Time

WASHINGTON. May 19.-President
Harding today informed Representative
Porter, chairman Ct the House Foreign
Relations Committee, that he was deslr-
GUS Of seeing 9 congressional peace reso-
luton passed within reasonable time"
The President also told Representative
Porter that he did not desire to inter
fere with Legislative prerOgatives" and
would not act as arbiter between the
House and Senate over whether the
Knox or Porter resolutions prevail.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
NEW BERNAUER
TRIAL LAGS
Progress Is Slow in Shelby
Vile COurt-Statement
Is Upheld.
Snecinl 70 The Times.

SHELBYVILLE, Ind, May 19--Prog-
ress of the second trial of Carl Bernauer
of Indianapolis, here for the murder Of
Samuel Eaids, an Indianapolis store
keeper, is slow.
Judge Alonzo Blair ruled against the
motion OF the attorneys for the defense
opposing the introduction OF a statement
said to have been made by Bernauer
under duress and the jury to which the
statement was read was recalled to duty.
Detective C. A. Manning was on the
stand most of the day Wednesday, ex-
planning the events that led TO Bernauer' 9
statement alleged to have been made
while under the influence of drugs given
him at the Marion County jail.
The only other witnesses examined
Wednesday were Mrs. Fannie Dunfee,
owner Of a rooming house on South
Illinois street at indianapolis, across the
street from the Eaids place and Sergeant
Johnson. who answered the emergency
call the night OF the Eaids murder. Mrs.
Dunfee told OF hearing the shots fired
and seeing a man running from the place,
and Of his putting something in his
hip pocket.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
Proposes to Light Up
Fire Escapes in City

Stating that 1t is almost impossible to
locate fire escapes at night because most
of them are located in alleys and in dark
recesses between buildings, City Coun-
Gilman Jacob p. Brown today announced
that he will introduce an ordinance com
pelling the installation Of an electric light
Of at least 50-candle power over every
such safety device in the city.
This should have been done long ago"
said Mr.. Brown. ut is a wonder to me
that some serious accident has not re-
suited because the fire escapes are so
dark at night
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
STATE I. @. @. F.
ENDS MEETING
Grand Lodge Officers Are
Nominated - Election
Next Fall.

The semi-annual meeting Of the In
diana Grand Lodge of the I. o. o. f.
closed at noon today, after nomination
of grand lodge officers. The officers
VIII be elected at the semi-annual meet
ing, to be held in indianapolis next fall.
Nominations were as follows Otto
Boyer, South Bend, grand representative !;
George E. Hirshman, Crown Point, grand
master; II. T. Clements, deputy grand
master; grand wardens, Charles o.
Thomas, Bloomington, George L. Woody,
Russiaville, E. E. Harding. New Albany,
Charles Twtname, indianapolis, 2. N.
Curry, Carlisle, F. L. Behymer. Liberty;
W. H. Leedy, Indianapolis, grand secre-
tary; w. A. Morris, Frankfort; grand
treasurer; Philip ZOercher, Indianapolis,
W. E. Deupree Franklin, and John R.
Andrews, Bedford, trustees.
Reports of committees and routine bus
mess, preliminary to the close Of the
session, occupied the remainder Of the
morning session.
The report of the grand secretary OF
the lodge, w. H. Leedy, in which it was
shown that the organization had in
creased 1850 in membership in the six
months closing with May l. and the pa
rade of the members Of the order, with
members of the Rebekahs, featured the
meeting yesterday and last night.
Several bands and o number Of beau
tiful floats, besides hundreds of march
ers, participated In the parade.
The address OF Otto r. Boyer, South
Bend, grand master of the Indiana
lodge, was given preceding the report
of the grand secretary. The 1atter's re-
port, showed there are 725 lodges In the
State, with a membership of 81, ,22S, giving
the past year gain OF All members.
Receipts were, for the term ending April
SO, 1921, $53, ,702.S9, which with the balance
on hand Nov 1, 1920, Of S7,390.26 and
$14467 interest on the Grand lodge fund,
made a total of S61, ,237.S2, handled blythe
treasurer. leaving a balance of ST., ,592. ~,
after expenditures of $4S,645.60 had been
deducted.
Reports also were submitted by the
following officers: G.. P. Bornwasser.
supervisor; George e. Hershmar, deputy
grand master; and John +. WaIIick,
treasurer of the Grand Lodge Hall As
ISOLATION, who reported balance on
hand in his funds, amounting to ST.
505.OS.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
10000 TO EXIT
FROM CANADA
Aggrieved Mennonites VIII Go
to MeXico-Carfare Bill
$1,000.0O0.

ST. PAUL. MINI, May 19.-Between
10000 and 10000 Mennonites win begin
an exodus from Canada to Mexico with
In the next three weeks, railroad officials
here said today. They win spend more
than S1.OOOOOO in railroad fares.
Negotiations for the transportation VIII
be closed probably this week.
The members Of the order, who claim
they have been prosecuted by the Cana
dian government. will seek asylum in
Mexico, their agents said. Passengers,
live stock, farm equipment and household
good will make special trains to cross
the country from North to South.
For several weeks railroad passenger
agents OF various lines have been in
keenest competition for the business.
Just what roads viii benefit from the
caravan has not been announced
Not since the days Of the fight of the
Mormons from NauvoO, H., to Utah,
has there been such a massed movement
Of religious order on the American con.
tinent.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
CONFERENCE ENGAGED
IN HOT DEBNTE.
These BergdoLLs
Slick Customers
MOtheF Gore NOLU

WASHINGTON. May 19.-The
House committee investigating the
escape OF Grover c. Bergdon. draft
dodger, was forced 30 suspend Its
hearings temporarily today as a re-
suit Of the failure to locate Mrs.
BergdOu, mother Of the draft evader,
at her Philadelphia home. Efforts for
the last two days TO serve a sum-
mons on her have failed. She also
has refused TO surrender certain rec
ords showing sums paid to various
counsel, and other data.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
MAYOR BOOSTS
G.. OF C.. DRIVE
Pledges Cooperation in Fire
prevention Campaign.

Cooperation of every city department
in the Chamber of Commerce fire preven-
tion campaign was assured by Mayor
Charles w. Jewett in statement issued
today. He urged every citizen to clean
up his premises, stating that only
through such cooperation can the city
rid itself of the fire and health menace
which annually takes an appalling toll
in money and lives.
The mayor also heartily approved the
formation of the civic council by the
Chamber of Commerce. stating that 'it
furnishes an avenue for the concentration
of the enthusiasm and effort of the live
wire organizations, directed to one civic
purpose."
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
Man Held as Vagrant
Faces Theft Charge

Samuel Graves, 1921 North La Sale
street. who was arrested yesterday by
detectives and held under S. 000 bond on
'vagrancy charges, pending investigation,
was reslated today and is now charged
with being a fugitive from justice. Graves
will be taken 10 Franklin by Sheriff
Vandiver to answer to charges of lar
ceny.
He was arrested yesterday with Elmer
Brummett, 1926 East Twenty Fifth
street, and Leo Tracy, 2310 Station street
Tracy and Brummett were each charged
with being fugitives. They told the de-
tectives Graves was implicated in the
theft of several automobile tires asd ae-
cessoriAs from a garage In WhitAlAnd.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
LANE RITES TO
BE IN CHICAGO
To Strew Cremated Body
Ashes From Top of
Mountain.

CHICAGO. May 19.-The body of
Franklin X. Lane, former Secretary OF
the Interior. who died yesterday at
Rochester. Mimi, arrived in Chicago to-
day. The body was accompanied by Mrs.
Lane, the widow, and George w. Lane,
brother.
In accordance with one OF Mr.. Lanes
last requests. a private service will be
held here and the body cremated. Mr.
Lanes ashes viii be strewn from Mount
El Captain, in Yosemite Park, Cal.
Arrangements for the services here arc
not complete.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19

The city council and the county com
missioners, without a single dissenting
vote, today adopted resolutions declar
ing it to be the intent of the city and
Marion County to carry out the provi-
sions Of the special act of the 1921 Leg
islature authorizing the acquisition
either separately or Jointly by the city
and county Of property upon which the
proposed State war memorial bnilding
is to be located
The bodies met separately.
Under the resolutions adopted by
each body, which are practically identi-
cal, the city and county may either join
N the condemnation and purchase of the
two blocks bounded by Vermont, North,
Meridian and Pennsylvania streets, or
either may 60 ahead separately. How
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
High Costs Blamed
on Freight Charges

High freight rates were blamed by
sand and crushed stone dealers for high
prices Of these materials, at a meeting
with Lawrence Lyons, director of the
State highway commission, today. The
meeting was called to ascertain whetheI
prices could be reduced aud dealers gave
their arguments against such reduction.
No decision was reached at the morn
ing meeting and it was continued this
afternoon.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
French Premier Filings DOwn Gauntlet
10 Great Britain; Holds Strictly to His
Original VieU Regarding Upper Silesia

assembled. ''I intend to hold strictly to
my point of view. There is no other
possible basis for discussion. Further
more France and England can only con-
verse as equals, as Premier Lloyd George
himself will admit when the misunder-
standing appears"
Opinion was advanced in parliamentary
circles that Lloyd George deliberately
put the Franco British alliance in the
balance. believing that Premier BRAND
would not dare risk a complete rupture
believing that the French prime minister
will back down.
Premier BRAND, in his statement,
made 1t plain that there is no possibility
Of a back down on his part. On the
contrary, he set to work on a formal re-
ply to the British premier which he ex-
pected to deliver this afternoon or to-
morrow. 1t was understood that NJ
Briend would assert that he must hold
the national interests Of France to be
supreme to those of the alliance.
BRANDS 1T ANOTHER
CASE OF "BAD HUMOR.''
"That is another case of bad humor,
said the French premier when CORE
spondents showed him dispatch from
London containing the full text of
Lloyd Georges statement.
The Echo De Paris denies the state
ment of the British premier that the
American press unanimously supported
his views on upper Silesia and Germany e
right to defend that territory if the
allies did not do so for Germany.
Violent newspaper attacks against the
British premier were printed by leading
newspapers. All emphasized the gravity
of the present situation in Europe.
The Journal said it has learned that
the British Charge d'affaires has In
sistently demanded of the French for
eign office whether France would occupy
the Ruhr If German troops enter upper
Silesia. The French foreign office re-
piled that it was impossible to answer
such a hypothetical question.
The British representative on the inter-
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19
All Quiet
Along Tug

WILLIAMSON, W. Va, May 19.-Al-
though renewal Of fighting along the Tug
River was expected today, but one small
outbreak has been reported. Several
hundred shots were fired at Rawl, but
there were no casualties. Elsewhere in
the troubled area things were quiet.
Platoons Of State troops have been sent
out for guard duty at Borderland, Chat
taroy. Leckieview. Merriman, Stringtown,
Sprig, Auburn, McCarr and Blackberry
City.
Five hundred citizens have responded
to a call sent out by Sheriff A. c. Pinson
and have been armed for duty II needed
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-19

RACE FOR NEXT
u. 3. SESSIONS
Akron, O., and Columbus, o.,
Also Favored for 1925
Conference.

Buffalo, n. Y, was expressed as the
preference for the 1925 general conference
of the United Brethren Church, in a
vote taken today at the twenty eighth
general conference in session here. The
meeting place will be selected by the
publishing agent and trustees and the
board of bishops, one year prior to the
neyt conference. Akron, o., and Columbus,
O., are second and third choices re-
spettiyely.
The committee which will select the
city will consider hotel accommodations,
travelling expenses, convention hall, and
other matters relating to the conference,
AID will make a decision accordingly. 1t
is not thought likely that a change will
be made in the preference of the con-
ference as expressed today.
Invitations to make their city tho next
conference site were presented to the
conference by Jay NJ Cogan d Akron,
r. S. Showers Of Buffalo and c. F.
Lockhart Of Columbus. Letters from
mayors and chambers of commerce of
the various cities were presented in ef-
forts TO land the conference.
At the opening sesslon today a com
mittee was appointed, representing
each bishopric. which will assign bish-
ops for the coming quadrennium. 1t is
unlikely that any change viii be made
In the district over which Bishop II. II.
Fout Of indianapolis has jurisdiction.
1t was announced that the forty piece
Otterbien College band viii come to
Indianapolis tomorrow from the school,
to conduct a special program at Tomlin-
son hall Friday night. Concerts viii be
given at each newspaper office in the
city Friday afternoon or Saturday morn
ing
CONFERENCE ENGAGED
IN HOT DEBNTE.
One of the hottest debates of the icon-
ference was in progress today, relative
to the partial report Of the church pub
fishing house interests committee. It is
proposed by the committee 10 make a
change regarding the care and financing
of one Of the church's buildings in j =
ton. Ohio.
The church, following the disastrous
hood Of 1913. constructed a large build
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