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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-"War neu-
rosis" probably will figure in the testi-
mony being taken by the special Senate
Democrat, of Georgia, that soldiers were
executed Illegally in France. according
to announcement made today.
Senator Brandegee, Republican, Con-
necticut, the committee chairman, said
he was considering calling several psy-
chriatrists to pass on the validity of
the statements of a number Of v ;Cness
who gave startling and much disputed
testimony.
Among those would probably be some
of the witnesses who declared that Maj.
Il. L. Opie of Staunton, Va, shot his
own men in battle and others who swore
they saw from three to twelve hangings
at Is-Sur-Tille, while the prepoadersnce
of evidence seems to indicate there were
only two executions there.
The committee has received letter
from E. j. Swift, professor of psychology
and education at Washington University,
st. Louis Mo-, who said that after read
ing the testimony of some of the wit
nesses he was certain a number of them
were suffering from war neurosis."
Extreme shock to the nervous system,
in some cases due to gassing, or shell
shock, or in others to the strain, tension
and excitement due to the participation
in battle, is described as bringing On &
condition of mind by which the sHferer
is subject to Authorizations and hdIestly
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
SKIP SYSTEM
SCHEDULE TO
BEGIN SUNDAY
Signs in Street Cars
Announce Time of
Change.
CITY TAKES HAND
Erect Loading Plat
forms in Middle
of Blocks.

Signs announcing the skip-stop
system will go into effect Sunday
morning were carried in all cars OF
the Indianapolis Street Railway
Company today. President Robert l.
Todd said middle-of-the-block load
ing in the congested district will be
started simultaneously. The changes
were ordered by the board Of public
works Wednesday.
James P. Tretton, superintendent OF
the street railway company, was called
before the board of public works today
and told the board does not intend that
it shall be an ironclad rule cars stop
every other block in the residential DIS
trict. The board prefers, on the inbound
track, stops be arranged so as to fall on
corners where there are drug stores or
other convenient points for passenger
to wait for cars. Mr.. Tretton said ne
concurred with the board in this, but
it will be necessary to establish the stops
generally at the points where they were
in the war period in order to get the
skip stop plan into immediate operation.
Beginning next week, he said, many
changes in stops will have to be made
and the wishes of the board will be fol-
lowed therein. The board arranged to
go over all routes with Mr.. Tretton Mon
day afternoon and pick changes they be-
lieve necessary.
Car crews will be instructed not to
pass anybody on Sunday and Monday,
even though they are waiting at non
stop corner. On Tuesday they will ad-
here rigidly to the skipstop rule, MIR.
Tretton said. The board approved this.
The street railway company has seven
crews of sign painters marking poles at
the streets where cars will stop. In gen
.eral, these are at the same places as dur
~ the war period. when the sk1p-stop
vsrstem was used, Mr.. Todd said.
Z Because of the faster running time
possible under the changes 1t will be
necessary to change the schedule OF
every line Mr.. Todd said this is being
worked out as rapidly as possible, but
it is likely some can not be completed
until after the change is made. Lines
will be speeded up thereafter as fast as
the new running cards are finished.
The city is responsible for marking
the new middle of the-block loading
platforms. These will be located in the
center of alternate blocks on each track
within a district roughly bounded by
Alabama, New York, Georgia streets and
Senate avenue. Cars may not be boarded
at points other than the loading stations.
These will be enclosed with standards
and chains at the start, according TO
plans of the city engineering department.
Passengers must enter by one gate and
leave by another.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
SEEKS MEANS
OF BLOCKING
BIG MERGER
Present and Former
Corporation Counsel
i'm Conference.
CONSIDER ACTION

Means of further opposition to the
Indiana Electric Corporation merger
were discussed today at a conference
of Taylor E. Groninger, corporation
counsel; Samuel Ashby, former cor
poration counsel, and Fred Bates
Johnson, who represented number
of northern Indiana cities in oppo-
sition to the corporations petition
before the public service commits
sion. The commission granted the
corporations petition to issue ST.
100000 in securities for the pur-
chase of seven Indiana electric
power plants late yesterday.
As corporation counsel in the Jewett
administration, Mr.. Ashby fought the
merger position with great vigor, con-
tending with other counsel arrayed
against the utility interests that the
capitalization sought is far in excess of
the actual value of the plants to be
bought.
Corporation Counsel Groninger said
that no decision was reached at the con-
ference as to what action will be taken,
but that there will most probably be
steps taken" He said that William L..
Taylor, attorney for large users of the
power OF the companies Involved in the
merger, would join Mr.. Ashby, Mr.. John
son and himself in another meeting this
afternoon.
The city has sixty days in which to
file petition for rehearing of the merger
petition before the public service COM
mission and thirty days after ruling
is made ons the petition for rehearing to
appeal to the courts, Mr.. Groninger said.
It is understood that the attorneys are
seeking some more direct way of striking
at the commissions order approving the
merger.
The plants to be purchased by the
corporation are the Merchants Heat and
Light Company of Indianapolis, the Elk
hart Gas and Fuel Company, the Val
paraiso Lighting Company, the Indiana
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CHILD, FATALLY
BURNED, DIES
IN HOSPITAL
Burial of Wilbur Nichols TO
Be Held Saturday at
Crown Hill.

Wilbur Nichols, 2, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clyde S. Nichols, 63515 Massachusetts
avenue, died at st. Vincent's Hospital to-
day of burns. DR.. Paul r. Robinson,
coroner, Investigated. The boy was
watching his mother make toast in a gas
oven yesterday, and while his mother was
not looking the child walked to the oven
and reached in and attempted to reach
piece of toast. His clothing caught
fire from the burning gas.
Hearing the boy scream, Mrs. Nichols
ran to him and wrapped him in a rug
putting out the flames, but not before
the child had suffered fatal burns.
The body was taken to the funeral
parlors Of William o. Beck, 125 South
Capitol avenue, and the funeral will be
held at that place tomorrow afternoon.
Burial will be at Crown Hill cemetery
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
SANCTION FOR
NEW MINING
CODE SOUGHT
Tri-partite Plan Is
Sponsored by Sen
ator Kenyon.
INCLUDES PUBLIC
Twelve Principles Set
Forth for Industrial
Relations.
INCLUDES PUBLIC

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Sanc-
ton by Congress of an industrial
code applicable to coal mining and
the creation of a tripartite Federal
board to adjust differences between
coal operators and miners "in that
there may be peace in the coal In
dustry," were recommended to the
Senate today by Senator Kenyon,
Republican, Iowa.
Kenyon's recommendations were a 1e-
suit of a study of the mining industry,
in connection with an investigation by
the Senate Committee on Education and
Labor, of trouble between operators and
union miners in West Virginia.
The tripartite meditation board pro-
posed by Kenyon would be composed
of three representatives of the employees,
three of the employers and three of the
public, all to be appointed by the Prest-
dent. The new agency, according to
Kenyon's plan would be operated much
in the same manner of the United States
Railway Labor Board, no penalties be-
ing provided for violation of the boards
orders.
Among the basic principles which
should be esta blished as an industrial
code for the guidance of such an arbitra-
ton board, Kenyon suggested the fol-
lowing:
1. Coal is a public utility and in
its production and distribution, the
public interest is predominant.
2. Human standards should be the
constrainiHg influence in fixing the
wages and working conditions of
mine workers.
3. Capital prudently and honestly
invested in the coal industry should
have an adequate return sufficient to
stimulate and regulate the produc-
ton of this essential commodity.
4. The right of operators and
miners to organize is recognized and
affirmed
.. The right of operators and
miners to bargain collectively through
representatives Of their own choos-
ing is recognized and affirmed
6. The miners who are not members
of union have the right to work
without interference by fellow work.
men who may belong to the union.
The men who belong to union have
the right to work without being
harassed by operators who do not
believe in unionism.
Z. The right of all skilled or COM
mon laborers to earn an adequate liv-
ing wage sufficient to maintain the
worker and his family in health and
reasonable comfort. and to afford an
Continued on Page Eighty
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
Market Men Give Relief
to Needy of City Under
Direction of Mrs. Shank

Owners of stalls in the city market
have come voluntarily to the aid OF the
city's poor and needy during the depres-
sion that is now being experienced and
will help feed the needy for the next ten
weeks at least.
Every stall in the market house has
Joined in the movement and each morr-
ing will donate to aid the cause and the
food will be distributed free of charge to
the poor under the direction of Mrs.
Samuel Lewis Shank, wife Of Indianapo-
lis mayor.
The plan originated several days ago in
the mind Of Will T. Cook, who first dis
cussed the matter with his brother Joe
Cook, the two operating stall in the
meat section Of the market. They took
the matter up with other stall owners in
the meat market and each one offered to
donate from their counters each day that
the market is open.
s. M. johnson, another Of the meat
men, offered to supervise the collection
of the donations, and Smith & Smith
donated a room at 242 Wabash street,
directly in the rear Of the market, in
which the donations may be stored and
from which deliveries will be made I'M
der the supervision Of Mrs. Shank and
Mr.. johnson.
The news of the movement soon spread
to all sections Of the market house and
each section asked to be allowed to join
in the movement. The vegetable men,
the grocers, the market men, the florists,
and, in fact, every branch of the mar
ket Joined in the work. Soon a big COM
mittee was formed, with VIII T. Cook
as the general chairman, and the COM
mittee is now composed of Mr.. Cook and
William Uhl, representing the meat men !;
Al Beard, Charles Tacoma and Jacob
table men; J. NJ. Williams, Frank Bill
hnger and c. Mahoney, representing the
midway section, and J. W. Gibson and
others the marketers.
In order to reach only the really needy
with this free food, the policemen of the
city will be asked 70 report on the needy
families in their districts. Only those
who are In actual need and who are not
habitually on other charity lists will be
cared for in this manner, according to
Mrs. Shank.
1.-THE market men came to me them
selves and made the proposition" said
Mrs Shank. 'Mr. Cook explained they
had more meat each day than they could
use and they were only too glad to give
it to the poor during these hard times.
They asked me to head the movement and
1 consented to DO so. The police depart
ment joined in and will aid us and We
hope to relieve much of the suffering in
this manner. I think the market men
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
INDIANA BILL
FOR FEDERAL
COURTS $50. KID
House Judiciary Committee
Reports FavOrably on
Hickey Measure.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The House
Judiciary Committee today reported IA
yorably a bill by Representative Hickey
of Indiana, establishing two Federal jul
dicial districts in Indiana.
Movements to establish another Fed
eraI judicial district in Indiana have
arisen from time to time for numter
of years past, but always have been
killed in committee. Agitation for sepa-
rate court is particularly strong in north
am Indiana, around Gary, East Chicago
and South Bend. This' anxiety for a
separate judicial district is attributable,
MANY persons believe, not SO much to any
feeling that there is real need for a
new court, but from a strong desire on
the part of powerful political elements in
northern Indiana to get out from I'M
der the strong hand Of Judge Albert B.
Anderson, and from a desire on the part
of politicians to create a new district
with all the jobs and patronage that
would go with it.
As a matter of fact Judge Anderson
could easily handle far more business
than he does, according to Frederick Van
Nuys, former United States district at
torney, who said recently twice as much
business could be handled. Despite the
fact that the prohibition law and nation
al motor vehicle act have turned Federal
Court into a police court and that hun
dreds of cases of this character are
handled annually, the Federal Court
calendar never is crowde and there are
days at time when practically no bust
ness is transacted by the court.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
SHANK TO ASK
PARK BOARDFOR
LANDPURCHASE
Would Add Golden HIP to
Recent Investment Ad-
joining.
NEAR RIVERSIDE PARK

Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank today an
nounced that he would request the park
board to take up with the D. M. Parry
heirs the purchase Of the property known
as the Golden Hill estate adjoining the
land recently purchased by the city ana
now used By the Woodstock club.
The mayor has been Investigating the
desirability Of adding this land to the
holdings Of the park board for some time
and in negotiations with representatives
of the estate has been assured that it
can be obtained at a price much lower
than it has heretofore been offered to
private buyers.
There are approximately forty-four
acres Of land in the tract which lies along
the canal and will eventually prove a
necessary link between Crown Hill ceme-
terry and Riverside Park 1t is the home
Of the Parry family and is noted for its
beauty and adaptability to park PR
POSES. Parts of the tract have been open
to the public for a long time and the
fact that large number of children have
been using it recently as skating
grounds and have frequente6 1t in the
summer is one of the reasons that 1t in
terested the mayor.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
FEMININE NEW
ADVOCATES GET
REAL SURPRISE
Beveridge Supporters Walk
Out With Committee
Under Arms.

Women supporters Of Senator Harry s.
New for denomination were rubbing
their eyes today to discover just what
happened to them in the meeting Of the
Indianapolis Republican Club, the G. o.
P, woman's organization, at the Marion
Club yesterday afternoon. Supporters of
Albert J. Beveridge to succeed Senator
New were said to have stalked into the
meeting, lulled the New women into pro-
found slumber and walked out with the
committee, which is to nominate women
for election to the club Offices at the
February meeting.
The members of the committee, who
were named out of a list of dozen or
more put before the meeting by major
tiles of as high as fifty votes, are Mrs.
Martha Stubs, Mrs. Oliver Hobbs, Mrs.
Earl Townsend, Mrs. Allen 7. Fleming
and Mrs. Dora Cooper
Members of the committee disclaimed
all knowledge of any effort to advance
the cause of Mr.. Beveridge.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
FARM FARLEY
WAGE
CUT PROPOSAL
Declines to Demand
Reduction for Rail
Workers, Miners.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-At the
end of a heated debate in which
farmer, delegates and labor represen-
tatives strived to make themselves
heard above the uproar, President
Harding's National Agriculture Con.
ference today rejected a proposal to
have it go on record as demanding
reduction of wages of railroad work
ers and miners to pre-war levels as
a means of stabilizing the farming in
dustry. The vote was S3 to "a.
Plain warning that the American farm
ers intend to dabble in politics on an in
tensive scale was openly conveyed to the
-uountry by delegates attending the ma
tional agricultural conference.
The farmer has no intention Of organ
izing a large third major party, but he
does opine that he will make his vote felt.
His attitude, according to the farmer
delegates, is due largely 30 the failure
to remedy his condition and the belief
that the panacea for his ills is still far
in the shrOuded future.
DIRT FARMERS" THREATEN
HOUSE CLEANING.
Not all the delegates here are salts
fed that the conference will make the
farming industry more remunerative and
attractive. Claim has been made pub
licly that the real dirt farmer" hasn't
had a chance to make his needs known.
These are the men responsible for the
warning given. They promise that the
farmer vote will "clean house, in Con-
gress and that the electoral vote Of the
man behind the pillow will be felt in every
legislative hall in the country.
The "limited few who have SO largely
controlled the policies Of both major
parties for the benefit Of special inter-
ests have much to fear from the uprising
of the people being led by the farmers, y
CONTINUED on Page Sixteen.)
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deserve much commentator for their
movement"
There will be on use in anyone COM
ing to the room that has been donated
to us ana seeking TO obtain food there
said Mr.. Cook. 1--WE are seeking only to
aid the real needy and there is no one
who knows them as do the police. In
this way we hope to reach the ones in
real need, not men who arc stle to come
after what we have to give out, but men,
women and children who cannot come
after these supplies. We are going to
provide the food, collect it ourselves and
make the deliveries through the aid of
Mrs. Shank and Mr.. johnson and all at
no cost to anyone, and 1 wish to state
that all the stallmen in the market and
in each departments gladly have Joined
in the movement"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY,
Cal, Jan. 27.-The theory recently
announced by Prof. A. C. Lawson Of
the University of California that
earthquakes can be predicted in much
the same manner weather conditions
are forecast was Endorsed by Rev. ].
S. Richard, director Of the University
Of Santa Clara observatory as mag
nificently and thoroughly scientific"
Father Richard, a noted astronomer
and seismologist, said in the long
run the theory doubtless will prove
a success.
1T will be long, hard process"
said the Padre Of the rains. "It is
! question of how much change II
latitude = la required for an earth
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27

quake and how much experience can
be depended on for an exact date. 1
am greatly pleased with the an
nouncement of Professor Lawson
that biologists are coming to the
front and meeting the astronomers on
the halfway line, where l hope there
will be no needless friction. The
astronomers who barely know the
ground on which their feet rest long
ago announced an experience sup
porting their views, saying earth
quakes occur when sun spots are
astride the central meridian"
Father Richard, who is warm sup
porter of the sun spot theory, be-
lieves the little holes in the sun will
have something to do with the fore
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
Believes Earthquakes May Be Predicted
NOTED ASTRONOMER OFFERS EXPLANATION
Asserts Sun Spots Giue Advance Hint

casting of earth disturbances.
Professor Lawson's theory is full
of scientific anticipation" he said.
by measuring the creep Of the earth
(the Lawson method) it is possible to
announce where sun spot will, as it
were, fire its gun and bring about at
a certain date a seismic disturbance.
1t would take a long time of expert
mentation to tell when it would oc-
cur. 1t happens daily, some place,
just as sun spots will pass the meri-
dian every day of the year.
1.-The officer in charge of a central
observing station might say next May
15 there will be an earthquake in
Guatemala or Asia or Alaska, but a
few years will elapse before any nor
NAL observation can taEe place."
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
There's a Limit

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 27.-The first
twenty-one times his store was robbed,
r. j. Dunkle, merchant of Berwick, a
suburb, stood for it. When a bandit en-
tered the store early today and attempted
the twepty-second robbery, DunlIe re-
beiled, however, and shot and killed the
intruder. The slain man has not been
identified.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
War Neur0sis' Figures
In Watson Charges, Belief
Advanced In 4. E.. r. Probe

never TRANSFERRED"
Professor Swift mentioned DR.. Sidney
Schwab, St Louis, as an alienist who
had become thoroughly familiar with
this new war disease and suggested the
committee call him.
1--WE have not yet decided who we win
call, but we will almost certainly seek
expert testimony along this line from
several competent anenists,'' said Sen
ator Brandegee.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
COOLIDGE ATTENDS
MIDWINTER SESSION
OF G.. 0. p. EDITORS
Wife of Nations Second Executive Accom-
panies Husband to Meeting and Is Enter
tanned by Mrs McCray.


President Calvin o
ngon shortly after II o'clock With them
ence
President
tonight
hearing having detained
in
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VICE PRESIDENT GUEST OF STATE C. O. P.
Third Degree Fills
". Y. Underworld
With Dread Alarm

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-The dread
third degree. whispers of which strike
terror in the underworld, is being
used today all over New York City,
Magistrate Joseph Corrigan of Essex
Market Court, charges.
Brutality in the police department,
denied specifically by commissioners
and inspectors, exists and "police de-
partment officials know it, and decent
citizens know it," Corrigan declared.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27

ELECT MEIGHAN TO PARLIAMENT
MONTREAL, Jan. E7.-Former Pre-,
mier Meighan has been elected to Par.
lament in the Granville County bye
election, defeating the Progressive candi
date A. X. Patterson, said a dispatch
from Prescott, Ontario, today.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27

At the Union Station the Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge and Governor
New, Mrs. New, Edmund NJ. Wasmuth,
Republica nState chairman; Joseph B.
Healing, national committeeman from In
diana Frederick E. Schortemeier, sec
rotary of the Republican State committee
e. J. Hancock, president of the Repub-
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
LOUIS CHEVROLET
REPORTED HURT
Suffers Painful Injuries in
Auto Collision.

CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-Louis Chevrolet,
veteran automobile speed Demon" IN
scathed survivor Of hundreds Of death
attended motor races, received his first Sc
rious injury today in a taxicab collision.
Chevrolet was riding In a cab in Mich
igan boulevard when 1t was struck
squarely by another cob. Chevrolet's right
leg was painfully bruised and twisted. He
was taken to his hotel. He had arrived
from indianapolis this morning to attend
the Chicago Automobile Show.
This is irony" WIS his only COM
ment. His wife and son in Indian
apolis were notified.
MEXICO FRONTS. BY OIL TAX.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. PIN the past
forty eight hours t'xenty-six oil compan-
les doing business in the Mexican fields
have paid into the government treasury
6, 429, 66S pesos for production taxes. The
taxes fell due in December.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27
WEATHER

\ Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
Aor the twenty-four hours ending at Z
~ M, Jan. 28 1922:
Generally fair tonight and Saturday /;
not much change in temperature lowest
tonight 10 to 20 degrees.
HOURI,Y TEMPER ATTIRE