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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-18
Business News

WASHINGTON. April 1S.-T1seaso0ahlr
cold weather. and rains 10 the cotton belt
have retarded spring planting ard Develop
meDt Ol crops airsaOv iu the ground accord
ing 70 the Department Of Agriculture report
Ar<alsss Southern Georgia and South Caro-
lima than the remainder of the cotton belt
Corn planting east of the Mississippi vas
very slow but better IN the central great
plains. Arkansas and Texas fields.
MISUNDERSTANDING was granted
the Western Pacific Railway 10 assume OBJ
legations for s. .000. 600 trust certificate to
De sold al 1926. At the same time. the I.
C. c withdrew previous authority granted
to the road to issue =. 500 600 first mort
gage bonds. Action was taken on sppllcs-
tiOn of the Western Pacific
DULUTH-Mining companies still feel the
labor shortage. hut the wage adv ance has
brought some additional men to The mines
Operators are loading ore cars and hope to
begin steamer loadings by Nay l.
WASHINGTON-Th Oregon Short Line
has asked the I. G. g. for permission to con
Etruct twenty-seven miles OF new road from
Orchard to Perkins. Idaho.
WiIlys-O Overland Company in Toledo. Nav g.
issue of $4,000 coo of bonds bearing inter
est not to exceed per cent. Part Of the
money Il 10 be used fer retiring $40. 600. p
600 Of outstanding short time notes matur-
ing Dec /
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Dressed Beef Prices

Wholessle selling prices OF dressed beef,
Swift & Co: Ribs-No. 2. 18c; No. g, lac.
No. 2, 10: No g. lac. Chuclls-No. Q,
1ec: No. 8. Los. P1Ates-Ho. 2. &c; No. 3, 10.
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Local Bank CIearinQS

Iudiauapo ,, bauk clearuSs Wednesday
GOO
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First Hour

Price movements in the first hour
showed the greatest desree Of strength
since the elimination of last weeks
break. Industrials gathered increas-
ing momentum as the forward move
progressed and the volume Of deal
ings expanded well above a million
share rate. Equipments showed spec
ial strength under the leadership OF
American Locomotive which made
neyr high on the recovery
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CH1CAGo. April 1s-Rntter-ReceInts
In the Cotton Market
Rn United Financial

BIZ United Financial
NEW YORK. April 18.-Cotton opened
higher. May. 1870 UP IT; July. 1916
up Is; October. 251e. I'D TO- December.
24.52, I'D 4.
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Local HaN Market
Local WAGON Wheat
CIoVerSeed Market
P0duCe Markets

TNDTANAPOLIS, April 1s-Fresh eggs
25c: packing stock butter, soc springs \
to 2 lbs 45c. fowls, straight. pc, leshoTn
poultry 25 per cent discount; cocks &c;
young tom turks. 10 lbs. up. 2Sc; young
hen turks. lbs up. csc; old tom on IT. turks
lie: squads II lbs. TO doz., 50: Indianapolis
creameries are paying SOC ID. for butter fat
CLEVELAND April 1s-Butter-Extra
in tubs. so q SIC: prints. 5ld 53c. firsts, AZ
n Soc. packing stock 33 n Boo. Eggs
Fresh gathered northern extras, 81 y Q; Ohio
frsts este western irsts. new cases. CSC
duck eggs. 30 q 35c. POultry-Live fowls
26G 27c fancy fat fowls. q @ 2sc: ROSTERS
II q lSc smooth springeTs, 20 Q2Sc; tur-
keys, ZIG CSC capOns, 32 q Doc: light
fowls. 20 q 24c; geese, COG 22c ducks. 90
q SOC; stays. 20 a 22c. Potatoes-Mich
izan. 50 .40fl 2-65 per $50 pounds; New
York $50 per $50 lbs, early Ohio, S2.00lf
go per 100 pounds; Idaho russets. $3.50 q
3 Der cwt.
NEW YORK. April 1s.-FIour. dull and
unchanged; pork, steady; mess, 527: 90 a q
lard duh middle west spot, IL a IL 10c;
sugar. raw. firm; centrifugal. 90 test, 7.76c;
granulated. 80 a 9.60c: coffee. Rio. No.
spot, II Is q II u c; tallow. quiet special to
extra S2s q ac city. &c: dressed. poultry
quiet; turkeys Is a 3Sc: chickens, s q +oc
fowls. 166 Bic: ducks, 20 u Soc: live pOul-
try quiet: geese, II G15c; ducks. 81 a a0c;
fowls. IS a 29c; turkeys. % q 45c; ro0sters
l7c. chickens, % n Csc: broilers. 40 u zoe;
cheese, weak; state whole milk. common 10
specials, 20 re 29c. state, SKINS, common 10
specials, 1OGl 1Sc; butter, quiet receipts,
S163: creamery extra, ACC; special market,
49, N 47c. state dairy tubs, 40 4 n a. y Q;
eggs. firm. receipts. "a 01s nearby whites,
fancy. - q 40l4; nearby state whites. 20 n
3Sc; fresh firsts to extras, 300 33c; Pacific
coast 30 13814c; western white, 26Q 3S;
nearby browns, 80 n 35c.
CHICAGO, April Butter-Receipts,
5.843; creamery extra. &c: standards, IA \ c;
firsts. 42I3c. seconds 400 41c. EgRs-Re-
ceipts, p $50; ordinary firsts, "a p q 23c;
frsts G6a4c Cheese-Twins. 81 ,. a 81 u 9:
Young Americas. 22c Poultry-Receipts. ;
care: fowls, 95c: ducks 25c; geese, BE;
springs soc: turkeys. 25c; roosters. lie.
Potstoes-Receipts 344 cars Wisconsin
round white sacked. $50 a 1.55; bulk.
81 so: Minnesota white varieties sacked.
81 3Odl IS; Red River Ohios 81 goa 1 30
Idaho russets, So Is a : 40. Wyoming rus
sets S1.S5; North Dakota white varieties
81 80; Wisconsin and Minnesota bliss
triumphe. 81 42.25.
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Chicago Grain Table

CHICAGO. April 1s-Car lot receipts
Wheat. %: corn. 1O5. oats, 40, rye. IL:
barley. 10.
CHICAGO. April 1S--Primsry receipts
wheat 74G 600 bushels against 56i 900
bushels Corn sos 900 bushels against
52 600 bushels Oats e5sO00 bu-hsls
against $4,000 bushels shipments
wheat. 53I 600 bushels against 50i 600
bushels Corn. 584 600 bushels against
3~2 600 bushels. Oats 6&9. 900 bushels
,gsiust $4,000 bushels
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100000
Citizens Gas Company
OF INDIANAPOLIS
20
General and Refu1ding Mortgage Gold Bonds
,ding Mortgage Gold Bonds
Total Authorized and Issued, 100000
Dated May /, 1922.

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On addition general and Tnng bonds of $1,000
o. the items Ga
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CAPITALIZATION
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We commend these bondsa a high OF nvestme
INTEREST, YIELDING 67O6
Fletcher American Company Gavin |. Payne & Co..
Bank Bldg 126 E. Market Street
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EARNINGS OF THE COMPANY
Fletcher Anne iican Company

Fletcher Am ir1CSn Bank Bldg.
All statements herein re Official or based on informI
antee them. they the data upon which
New Britain herald., 1923-09-10
BOXING,

An amateur boxing tournament
was held in this city Friday evening
for the benefit of the local military
company mess fund. Ten bouts were
staged. No brief is held here for or
against professional fighting. That is
"a matter upon which there are argu-
ments on both sides. as, of course,
there are arguments on both sides of
any question. The comments here
made have to do entirely with anna
teur boxing matches as shown at the
State Armory last week.
As civilization progresses we get
farther and farther away from the
animal. The animal represents phys
ical strength AS races have lost
physical pdNer. giving all their
thoughts to cultivation of pleasure or
to the gentle arts.s they have lost
their high places in the world. There
is limit beyond which culture must
not be carried Al the expense OF
health. There are admitted faults
found in the younger men OF today.
They drive their cars: they love"
New Britain herald., 1923-09-10
MUSSOLJNI BACKS DOWN.

just how the League of Nations
will come out of the trouble between
Greece and Italy, in the estimation of
the people of all countries, is not Ger
tain yet. The opponents of the
League idea will undoubtedly seek to
find weakness and even worthlessncss
in if. Many bitter "stand-patters"
and "isolationists" will refuse or will
cry out that if the League had any
power at all il would have Jumped in
Immediately with quick Judgment
and would have given orders regard
less Of any attempt at settlement
from sources not connected with it.
This sort of action would have
given these same bitter opponents of
the League reason for condemning.
As the man accused of murder is
found at home asleep. his accusers
swesr he is pretending sleep. II ne
is found wide awake they insist that
such Hakefnlness shows anxiety. ter
ror Nothing he might do would be
construed By his accusers as a sign
e Innocence. so pe4aing the League
New Britain herald., 1923-09-10

casts. Also water began TO grow ex-
eeedlngly scarce and soon II was beins
ratloned out by the kettle full.
In the midst OF the holocaust there
seemingly was little disorder. The
authorities shocked and stunned as
they were. Immediately took things
In hand and In n short while soldiers
augmented the police In patrolling the
stricken districts.
While the prosperous and the upper
classes suffered alike with those Of
lower social strata down In the district
of HOMO there was enacted a trag-
edy which has few equals. HOMO is
a district OF Toxic so poor and pow
erty stricken that there are few to be
with 1t in any metropolis Of
the world. IT is hemmed in by Toxic
bay on one side and by the Summida
river and canals on the other.
The little finder box houses of
HOMO that escaped the earthquake
took fire anu burned
with such rapidity that the majority
of the jewellers were unable to escape.
Crowded into the small buildings the
thousands Of unfortunates gasped and
died In the leaping flames.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-10
THOUSANDS BURNED
WITNESS DECLARES
Story Of Toxic Stampede Is One
Of Horror
BY The Associated press.

Osaka, Sept. 1o.--Thirty thousand
Japanese who had taken refuge In the
ten acre enclosure of the Hongo mill
tarY clothing depot In Toxic perish.
ed I'm the flames that swept the area,
according to a man named Kawash-
ina one OF the few who escaped.
tThere have been varying reports ~
to the number Of refugees who met
death in this fire, but thisfs the larg-
est estimate.
After the first shock on Saturday,
said Kawashima, II ran for my life
together with thousands of others to
the large open space OF the military
depot which was enclosed by brick
walls In the afternoon terrific east
wind swept the fires of Toxic toward
our refuge place.
Thousands rushed for the eastern
part of the enclosure and many per-
ished in the stampede. The flames,
converging from all sides, continued
to take awful toll.
II ran to pool of water In which
spent the night with a cushion over
my head, on all sides the groans of
the dying could be heard and as the
fires licked the brick walls the en-
closure was transformed into an oven
in which thousands we're roasted. In
the morning when the fire burned out,
troops came and rescued 80 of us
from the pool The compound was
covered with half burned corpses."
New Britain herald., 1923-09-10
rs Years Ago Today
lTaEen irom Herald % lhal dalel

A door mat in the upper floor OF
Steele and Damon's block caught IRE
last evening and was thrown ont a
window, As the request of inmates of
the building ofiieer Shelton rang In an
alarm and a large number OF people
gathered 10 witness the response OF
the department The city paid for the
entertainment.
Charles II, Stanley has gone on a
fishing trip 20 the Maine woods,
Charles T.. Anderson and Miss Inga
Mary Anderson. both OF New Britain.
were granted marriage license at the
town clerks once yesterday,
All the active Turner's Of New Brit
ain who wish TO attend the Hartford
outing on their wheels are requested
TO meet at II o'clock sharp tomorrow
morning.
The water department payroll for
the week was s242.47.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-10

/ mishl 40 o. mlshl have deas ~eals
es interpreted a. gise aelien hy thess
Aho insist, generally foF their esin
reasons that the League Is pessEless
10 DO good, dangerous 10 eeasem-
plate,
the Council Of Ambassadors has
rendered a decision 10 which beth
Italy and Greece agree, IL Is net
altogether in accord with ilaly's de-
msnds as broadcast by Mussallnl
Why does he eaAseAts II anyone
doubts bat that he has backed down
in some degree from his first stand
and that he has 50 acted because Of
the existence Of the League Of Ma
tions and the fear Of war perhaps
against all other nations OF Europe,
end fear Of an economic heyeeit as
provided for in the League agree
ments. such person does not loop
deeply into the workings OF the mind
Of the premier OF member nation,
Aussslini altered his apparently uns
ehangeshle position because Of the
League OF Nations II is possible
that the council Of Ambassadors will
submit its decision 10 the League,
having il presented formally through |
IL. thus acknowledging the power OF
the League. II Is possible that such
action will not be taken.
But. even though the League does
not stand up on the stage and assert
Itself and It's power. II may he seen
hat. like the wise man who does not
Interfere where there Is a possibility
,f settlement without such interfef-
snce. but who keeps his hands OFF.
TO seek glory whore peace
s In sight. the influence OF the League
n Nations has tended TO further the
lmicable arrangement between Greece
md Italy
New Britain herald., 1923-09-10
Boston Man. 2 Legs Broken,
Hero of Japanese Disaster

London, Sept. 10.-The bravery of
Captain Swain of Boston believed
to be in the service Of the Canadian
Pacific who despite two broken legs,
directed the rescue work at the Bluff
hotel, Yokohama, is related in a
Shanghai dispatch to the Daily Tele-
graph quoting Mrs. H. X. Dimelow of
Keokuk, Ia. Miss Katherine Elder,
sister of Mrs. Dimelow, was in a
Yokohama street car when the first
shocks occurred. The car was derail-
ed but she, with her sisters baby,
miraculously escaped. AS the car
burst into flames she jumped into a
canal, avoiding the showers of red hot
cinders and ashes that filled the air
as the buildings in the vicinity top
Piled. Miss Elder, stayed In the water
until o'clock in the evening.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-10
DISASTER DID NOT
give ANY Warming
Jap Earthquake Came as Bolt
From Clear Sky
BY Tho Associated Press.

BY Tho Associated Press.
Toxic. Sept. 10.-Japan's greatest
disaster came like n bolt from a clear
sky There was no warning. no pre-
liminary rumblings OF the earth. A
tremendous shock. crashes of brick
and mortar and wood--screams and
cries of the dying and fear stricken.
To add to the instantaneous suffer-
ing and misery that struck the Jap
anese nation to the heart, great fires
burst from the quivering ruins. as
though lighted by magic finder.
Many Die In Flames.
Frightened thousands who had es-
capped death and injury in the collapse
of buildings crowded to S.ie open
place and into structures that ap-
parently were earth shock proof.
Many of them died in the flames that
quickly hemmed them in.
Yokohama, the great Japanese port,
received the bruht of the shock and
rapidly spreading fires completed its
ruin in a comparatively brief space
of time. There the buildings were of
such construction that they offered no
resistance whatever to the flames.
Fire Spreads Rapidly
In Toxic, the collapse of the build
ings and spreading fires bore striking
evidence Of the immensely of the dis
aster But the real horror of the situ-
alton was not realized until night
when thousands Of refugees wandered
through the darkness, homeless and
hungry
To add to the terror numerous
minor earthquake shocks came dur
ng the afternoon and evening. With
he fast spreading flames menacing
he city. thousands of families began
!, hurried exodus from their homes. |
Many of the refugees, who moved |
heir household goods to the street,
we're unable to transport them farther
md were forced to flee to save their
ives. Their most treasured posses /
ions burned on the pavements being
et alight by myriads of flying sparks.
Await As Stoics
All the parks of the city quickly
illed with refugees, who camped out
n the open and waited, with typical
oriental stoicism for what dire events
night next transpire. Food at first
eemed to be plentiful. But in only
few hours the hunger terror came
o add to the sufferings of the out
New Britain herald., 1923-09-10

asnsinsi lhsg taFA w sAelE aesss
many Of them, at snylhlng Esails
roaEh-th0se who are net intsnsels
Interested Ia athletics sRa vac lsks
part In them FoOiball Is recognised
as al right because IL Is the proper
game 20 play BoKinE as shown
here, is not considered proper, =
Those who participated in that tour
namenl probably were not cultured, 1"
They were Young mea who had no
chance, for the most part. 10 plsY On
college football teams because they
had no chance 70 so 10 college,
Twenty young men entered the tour
Aament- An except one came asay
from the armory with no marks to
show he had been IN a conflict That
one had swollen eye, ana another
had nosebleed, One was 50 tired
out that he had 10 steni he had
eSerted himself too strenuously.
But IL those twenty men had been
engaged in a football struggle. put.
tine as much courage ana dash into
their playing as they did in their
boxing II Is more than probable
there would have been broken arms
At least and possibly some trouble
with the covering OF the heads, Yet
this is no denunciation OF football.
II is merely repetition OF the old
statement that boxing, by boys that
are trained for It. Is not as dangerous
as football.
When the youth OF this country
was examined for the army the poor
condition was appalling. Few were
absolutely NJ; poor hoy and rich hoy
were not strong except in the strength
Of their courage. The way 10 decide
whether n thing Is good or bad In to
imagine the thing carried on and
made universal. Suppose. therefore.
that amateur boxing tournaments
were to become popular with all
classes. Suppose the lad who was a
bit bunch shouldered from con-
slant study were to be matched occa-
,ionafly with another hollow chested
over OF books-and II must be re-
that the boys who box In ,
hese tournaments are matched fairly /
~ weight. Would II not make the
weak students better students?
There might be outcry against
tagging bouts in this city between i
nen who really fought for the money s
hat would come to them If they won. =
IS long as amateur tournaments. we'll
onducted, without disorder. are held +
ere there will be little chance for S
he professional gadiators who seldom
urnish better exhibitions than do
he amateurs. And looking at the
latter in a broad way 1t would seem
nat the possibility of strengthening
he young men of today, morally and
hysically, by amateur boxing tour.
is not to be sighted.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-10
Dissertations on
The Weather

For Connecticut: Fair tonight anG
Tuesday; cooler tonight; moderate
northwest winds.
Conditions: The areas of high and
low pressure are moving rapidly
along the northern border and caus-
ing frequent changes In the weather
in the northern districts. Only light,
scattered showers have occurred in
any sections east of the Rocky Noun
tains during the last "a hours.
Conditions favor for this vicinity
fair weather with cool nights and
sunny days.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-10
NOT NECESSARY EVILS"

II was the old belle. that children
had to have certain diseases, and par
ents sometimes welcomed them be-
cause they were necessary evils"
Such is not the case. Other old be-
liefs have been dlspclled similarly by
the coming Of knowledge or progress.
But in regard to certain diseases.
to which children are especially sus-
ceptible the health superintendent
made a statement In his article con-
cerning the seriousness of measles
published in this newspaper on Sat
urday, which emphasizes the point
made what do you know about
measles?" he asks. I'm the first
place do you consider it one of the
diseases that all kids have got to
have and 1t is best to get it over with
while they're young?' This view is
wrong" his statement continues. De-
tailed description of the disease and
the way to keep children or adults
safe from it are given, and are GER
tainy worth studying by parents.
But the point to be made in con-
nection with this statement covers a
wider field. 1t is wrong to believe
that what has been done always"
will always be done, as 1t is to be-
lieve that because people have
thought measles was disease chill
dren must have they must always
think so. The disease may be kept |
away from a child just as inventions
and deeper thought have shown that
the mere fact a thing has been done
since time immemorial" does not
make it something that must always
be done. Men are thinking differ
emily than they used to think; they
are recognizing the utter folly of talk
ng for granted the preconceived
IDEAS of tradition.
Men and women remember, with
'everence, their grandmothers. They
'cmember the tales told of their
treat -grandmothers. Then they look
bout them and sigh mournfully at
he younger generation. Well some
# our grandmothers smoked clay
ipes, God bless them. The other
ay there was proudly shown to the
writer an old snuff box, an exquisite
ntique, used by the dainty little lady
Tho has the mother of the possessor's
lother.
What would the people who insist
pom clnging to old thoughts say If ]
le "nappers' of today were to smoke {
lay pipes or use snuff? The use of
, or the smoking of pipes is not i,
,tended to be lauded. 1t is men c
oned merely by way of emphasizing c
lie fact that things we used to think
ere necessary evils are not all
now. IT is mentioned +
so to emphasize the practical fact
lat so-caled "childrcp's diseases"
e not all necessary-you can keep
,ur child from having the possibly 4
rious disease of measles If you are
treful