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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27

"As they desire to rescipd their
withdrawal from baseball, the re-
leases which the Detroit and Cleve-
land clubs granted at their request,
their designations are cancelled and
the players names are restored to
the reserve lists of those clubs"
Lands statement was shorter
than others he has issued in connec.
ton with baseball scandals. 1t was
handed out in his office to q group
Of waiting newspaper reporters.
The statement in full follows:
"Messrs. Tyrus r. Cobb and iris
Speaker have asked that their base
ball status be defined. This request
is in contemplation of possible fu-
ture service and is in accordance
Crurn TO Page 10
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27

O1I OLAlo oCnO OuO VhdICu Als
Officials of the company are noti-
fed to consult with II. S. McNeely,
chief of the tariff department, in the
drafting OF schedules to be submit
ted.
Own Schedule Written
The commission is also preparing
its own schedules under which the
reduction Of rates will be distributed
among Indianapolis consumers.
The letter to President Perry is a
remainder of the agreement and Of
ficial order made when the Chamber
of Commerce withdrew it's opposi-
ton to the merger under the revised
plans.
When the original application for
the merger was made by Harley
l.. Clarke, Chicago, purchaser of
the two companies, it provided for
the issuance Of $55,OO0,OOO in securi-
ties with which the two old com
pany were to be purchased.
This Was Too Much
The Chamber of Commerce and
other civic bodies entered protest
against such burden OF stock be-
ing placed upon the light companies.
They protested that the valuation
was much too high.
The Chamber of Commerce was
the only body to engage an expert
to assist it in it's protest and it was
upon the recommendation of this ex-
pert. after some testimony had been
presented by the engineers for
Clarke that the Chamber approved
'An agreement to value the light
companies at $40,00o.000 and to per-
nit the merger to be made. That
agreement called for reductions of
per cent on power rates and for the
S3l5,O00 total reduction to domestic
users.
Today's development is one more
step in enforcing the reduction
agreed upon at that time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
CRAVE HONORs

PARIS, Jan. 27.-The women are
planning new offensive on the
French Academy Society and liter
airy women have begun the discus.
sion in the hope of breaking down
the barrier that has prevented their
sex for 900 years entering the ranks
of the Immortal forty" Leaders
by which it is aimed to overthrow
hail the new liberalism as the wedge
prejudice" that dates back to the
days of Cardinal Richelieu."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
BORAH DEPLORES
EMPLOYING FORCE
AGAINST CHINESE
Senator Sympathizes in
StruggIe-WorId Confer
enCe Prospect Remote.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-T The
only thing which may keep China
from protecting foreign lives and
property is the dispatch of fleets and
armies there, Chairman Borah of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee declared in statement today
sympathizing with China 'in. her
great struggle"
Borah did not mention the policy
of the Administration toward China.
but said the action of Great Britain
in sending warships to Chinese ports
may have a very disastrous result"
China, he said, is entitled to equal
treaties, tariff autonomy and elimi,
nation of extra-terlttorial rights,
adding: II venture TO express the
belief that she will achieve these
fthings."
The policy of the United States
should aid China in attaining these
things, he said.
Prospects of an international
Chinese conference, called by the
United States under the League of
Nations auspices, as informally
suggested at Geneva, seem very re-
mote to officials here.
There are constant joint meetings
of representatives of the powers at
PelIin, but no intimation has been
received here of a movement for an.
other formal nine-power conference.
Though a Chinese conference
called either by the league or by the
United States is conceivable, in
formed persons We're puzzled by the
suggestions that the United States
call a league conference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
HOURLY TEMPERATURES
COBB, SPEAKER CLEARED
OF SCANDAL BY LANDS
Baseball Commissioner AbsoWes Both of Throwing
Games and ReinStateS Them. 7

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CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-The names of
Ty Cobb and Iris Speaker, engraved
forever in baseball's hall of fame,
were cleared today of the mud of
scandal by an official exoneration by
Commissioner X. M. Lands.
Lands issued a statement finding
Cobb and Speaker not guilty of the
charges of throwing games, and
thus reinstated them in organized
baseball, as well as in the hearts of
baseball fans.
"These players have not been nor
are they now found guilty of fix
ing ball game" Lands stated.
by no decent system of justice
could such findings be made. There
fore, they We're not placed on the
ineligible list.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
GRAND JURY REPORTS

Marion County grand jury re-
turned tweny seven indictments this
morning before Criminal Judge
James A. Collins. All were routine
jail cases. Two murder charges
were included.
Judge Collins. in his instructions,
made no reference to the jury re-
turning to the probe of graft in In
diana politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
Chaplin Raises Bond
for Releasing Assets
RU United Press

Bu United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-Charles
Chaplin today had> raised 100000
to satisfy the lien under which the
Government has tied up his assets
in New York.
A personal bond of that amount
has been submitted to Frank
Bowers, deputy internal revenue col
lector for the New York district. by
Isaac Siegel Of Chaplin's legal staff.
Tho bond. when posted, will release
the lien against Chaplin, the Chaplin
Film Corporation and the Regent
Film Corporation, with assets total
ing millions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
TO
VISIT CITY
NEXTWEEK
Congress for Mediums Will
Begin Sunday at the
DeniSOn.

Restless spirits will be walking
and talking all over Indianapolis
next week.
The Psychic Research Temple of
the Temple of Occult Science will be-
gin its congress at the Denison Sun
day. The welcome address will be
made by DR.. a.. Wustrow, head of
tho local temple, 1437 Central Ave.
The purpose of the convention is
to unite all occult metaphysical or
ganizations in one body. Delegates
from all over the United States are
registered.
The meetings will be public
Materializations, or the spirit be-
coming visible, will be one of the
principal drawing cards OF the con-
vention, according to Wustrow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
30,540 SOLDIER GRAVES
Death AbOdes of Americans i'm France
Are Announced
'g United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The
number of American soldiers now
buried in cemeteries in France totals
30,54O. y. A. Price, Secretary of the
American Battle Monuments Com
mission,told the House Appropria-
tions committee during consideration
of the Independent Offices supply bill
testimony published now reveals.
In other European countries,
Price said, 130 Americans killed in
the World War are buried. He said
the bodies of 46,214 soldiers had been
returned to this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
GREETS WOMAN OF 102
President Coolidge Sends Message
on Birthday

bH ChIed Press
oNALASkA, Wis, Jan. 81
During 1O2- years of life, one can col
lect a large variety of mementoes,
and Mrs. Oliana Sjolander, who has
Just turned that age has quite a
number
On her birthday, however, she re-
ceited a letter which will occupy a
rather prominent place among her
keepsakes, for it was signed by
Calvin Coolidge President of the
United States, congratulating her on
her age.
Mrs. Sjolander lives with her only
son, G. A. Sjolander here. She has 10
grandchildren, and 81 great grand
children. Although unable to read
or write, she takes keen interest in
everything that happens. Mrs.
Sjolander is in good health.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
BURIED BRIDE BY BITS
Confessed Slayer Believes He Can
Find Various Graves.
BIZ United Press

ON LHtbtU HfGSS
MAUSTON, Wis, Jan. 27.-The
dense underbrush and forest lands
near Plattesville, Wis, will be
searched today by authorities seek
ing the body of Mrs. William Coffey,
following the confession of her hus.
band that he killed the woman with
Il baseball bat and then dismem.
bered the body, burying each section
separately.
Coffey, a bond salesman and part
time evangelist, said in a second con.
fession he thought he would be able
to find the place where he buried the
body.
He insisted, however, in keeping
with n former confession, that he
had killed his Wife accidentally
while the two We're on their honey.
moon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
ANOTHER TAX LIEN
ChapIin's Property Hit by New
Government Claim.

BV United Press
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27.-Busi.
ness affairs of Charlie Chaplin to-
day We're in worse legal snarl even
than his troubles with Lita Grey
Chaplin, his 1S-year-old estranged
wife.
Still another lien was filed by the
internal revenue bureau in Los An
geles Federal Court late yesterday to
collect income taxes alleged to be
owed by the film comedian. The lien,
amounting to 1886, 6,S6O.69, was placed
against the United States Distribut-
ing Company, the firm which han
dies Chaplin's films.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
Public Service Commission Calls on
Merger Company to Fulfill $315,OOO
Cut Promise
PLEDGE TO CHAMBER RECALLED
President Perry Told to File New
Schedules at Once.

The public service commission today demanded that
schedules calling for reductions of $685. year electric
light bills be filed with at by the Indianapolis Power and
Light Company In letter the president Norman Perry the
commission calls attention to the fact that the order made when
permission given to merge the Merchants Heat and Light
Company and Indianapolis Light and Heat Company into the
firm provide dtha there be actual reduction of $685.
600 to light and that this reduction should take effect
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
First Time Admitted

This is the first admission by a
majority of the shipping board that
economical and efficient operation by
the Government is possible.
The board does not suggest to Con-
gress how many new vessels are ne.
cessary to replace old ones and in.
crease service, but does urge a def
mite replacement program in order
that foreign competitors may not di.
vert business from us by creating
the impression our merchant marine
is only temporary institution.
The shipping board still holds 10
Its belief that private ownership of
the merchant marine is desirable
when this can be accomplished, but
rays fatty that a privately owned
'ieet can never be established until
The Government pays it subsidy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
Forecast

Increasing cloudiness to-
night, probably becoming un-
settled Friday; rising tempera-
ture; lowest tonight 20 to rs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
Changes View

Faced with this situation, the
board has receded from it's former
position and now reports:
THE board is convinced that the
United States line with its peculiar
value as an element of national de.
fense and for broadening the scope
of national commercial relations
should be maintained and developed
and that the Government must, un-
der the circumstances, continue its
operation for the present"
Regarding the general policy of
Government operation of a merchant
marine the board says:
This board is convinced that with
appropriations necessary for the con-
tinued operation of approved essen
tial routes and authority for a re-
placement and improvement-con
struction program necessary to meet
subsidized foreign competition this
board can establish an economical
and efficient Government-ow and
operated merchant marine. Without
a definite program of this character
Government operation cannot be
made satisfactory"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-27
SHIPPING BOARD
ABOUT FACES ON
LEASE PROPOSAL
Favors Keeping. U. S. Line
Vessels After Probe
Acts.
Times WASHINGTON Bureau.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The
United States shipping board has
abandoned its plan to lease the Le-
yiathan and other vessels of the
United States lines. 1t announces
this in a report to Congress, for
establishing action contemplated by
that body to prevent the transaction.
The board received proposals for
leasing the vessels and was ready
to accept one of them, it was ru-
mored, when Senator Hiram Johnson
checked this by launching a sena-
torial investigation of the whole
question OF m reliant marine. John
sons committee has clearly indicated
its opposition to disposal of the lines
on the terms offered and is prepar-
Ing to recommend a permanent mer-
chant marine policy to Congress.
Evening star., 1927-03-23

sage of the act the board of county
commissioners is directed to classify
all property in the suburban district
into agricultural, developed or avail
able for development and undevelOped.
Agricultural property is defined as all
property used exclusively for agricul-
turaI purposes for profit: undevelopcd
property as that not subdivided and
determined by the board to be not
ready for development. All other
property shall be classified as devel-
oped or ready for development. Prop
erty classified as agricultural and that
classified as undeveloped shall not be
assessed for tax purposes 50 long as ii
retains these classifcations.
The board is required to give notice
30 days before the next tax levy of its
intention to tax the property and shall
hold al least one public hearing. The
same provision is made as to suisse
quent annual Redistribution. The
bill carries the emergency clause, put
ting it into effect Immediately after
| passage.
Evening star., 1927-03-23

1istrict-wide bonds. The total cost
of street lighting is to be borne from
the general revenues.
The measure provides that before
any construction work or improves
ment is started the board shall by
ordinance designate the location, eX-
tent and kind of Improvement or work
proposed to be done, the kind of ma
terials to be used. the estimated cost
and the real property to be bene-
flied and which it is proposed to
assess, and to fix a time and place
where the owners may be heard, and
to serve notice on them at their places
of abode. In the case of nonresident
owners, service is to be made by news
paper advertising. The bill provides
that if after hearing it is determined
to go on with the work, the board Is
to provide by ordinance for the time
and terms on which payment is to be
and fix the rate of interest on defer
red payments. Such assessments
shall be first liens on the property,
and notice of assessment is to be
served personally on the owners by
the Montgomery County police.
Failure of the property owner to
pay any one installment on the
amount due makes the whole due and
payable and the commissioners may
proceed to SELL
Evening star., 1927-03-23
May Borrow for Streets.

Where an assessment is made on a
corner lot for improvements, the
board may only assess the frontage
and then exempt 100 feet on the other
street if and when it is improved.
Specific authority is given the board
to borrow for street improvement on
certificates of Indebtedness, but the
money is not to be borrowed for
longer period than necessary to col
lect the amount from the property
owners.
The county commissioner in the
district in which the Improvement is
to be made is authorized to conduct
hearings on behalf of the entire board
and to make a recommendation to it,
Property abutting on existing
streets within the proposed district
which had been built from private
funds and which streets the board
may accept by ordinance as improved
for designated period of years shall
be exempted for such period Of
years from that portion of the 30-cent
tax allocated TO the reduction fund
for road construction.
As soon as possible after the pas
Evening star., 1927-03-23
BROWN U. DEAN TALKS.
Alumni, at Dinner. Told of Ath-
letes' Scholarship.

Brown University's scholarship re-
quirements for athletic teams were
emphasized last evening by Dean
Otis i. Randall of the university.
who was a guest of the Brown men
of Washington at a dinner at the
University Club. Dean Randall said
that some Of the Brown athletes had
achieved membership in Phi Beta
Kappa, national scholarship society.
Arthur J. Sundlun. president Of the
local club, acted as toastmaster.
Preceding the dinner, motion pic
lures of the tie game between Brown
and Colgate last Fall We're shown to
the alumni in the projection room of
the Metropolitan Theater.
Evening star., 1927-03-23
STUDENTS TO DEBATE.
Georgetown Law Teams to Compete
for Prize This Evening.

Georgetown Law School students
will hold their third prize debate of
the season this evening at 6 O'Clock
in the Law School auditorium. The
question is, Resolved That the
United States cancel its interallied
war debts
Judges selected for this contest, the
winner of which will participate in
a final debate, are Leo A. Codd, Frank
Easily Smith and James G. Wilkes,
alumni Of the Law School. The two
teams comprise Louis Leo White
stone, William T.. Hagearty and
Henry Hughes, alternate, for the af-
firmative, and Paul L. Mudd. James
T. Finlen and John NJ. McInerney,
alternate, for the negative.
Evening star., 1927-03-23
Assigned to Bureau Post.

An executive order, just issued, au-
thorizes che appointment Of Joseph r.
O'Regan ito a classified position in
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing without compliance with the re-
quirements of the civil service rules"
The order was suggested by the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury, who said that
Mr.. O'Regan is a World War veteran
who has been receiving vocational
training in the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, where his services can
be used permanently in the position
of skilled helper
Evening star., 1927-03-23
Van Orman's Experience.

Van Orman's ballooning experience
includes competition in eight national
balloon races, and he will compete
again this year with the Good.
year-V." BY virtue of his national
race victories he has been an entrant
in the international contests for the
past three years.
Morton, aide to Van Orman, for
more than 20 years has been inter-
ested in free ballooning and has made
more than 800 parachute jumps. He
will fly with Van Orman in the COM
ing national race from Akron.
Evening star., 1927-03-23

have a deputy clerk to be on duty
eight hours of each business day.
For road construction purposes
within the suburban district, the
county commissioners are authorized
to issue bonds in any amount. but
not to exceed at any time, in the ag-
gregate, the amount on which the
interest can be paid and the bonds
retired at maturity from the proceeds
of tax of Is cents on each 500
assessed value of property within the
proposed suburban district. These
bonds shall be in 500 denomination,
not to exceed 5 per cent interest ana
be tax exempt.
From the proceeds of the 30-cent
tax the bill provides that payment
shall be made first on the interest and
on the retirement of bonds and then
on administrative expenses under the
act to be known as the administrative
fund; third, expenses of road main
tainence, to be known as the road
maintainence fund; fourth. expenses
of street lighting, to be known as the
street lighting fund, and last. mis-
cellaneous expenses to be known as
the miscellaneous fund.
Two Get Salary Increased.
The commissioners are to decide
the proportion to be allotted to each
of these funds, but they are directed
to eXpend the money only in the
commissioners district in which the
tax Is collected.
The commissioners of the fourth
and fifth districts are to receive S1,2OO
a year in addition to their present
salaries as county commissioners and
if either of these commissioners or
both give their entire time to the
work he is to receive $500, which is
to include the above salary of $1,000.
The bill provides for the appointment
of an attorney, to receive $1,000 per
annum. All these salaries are to
be charged to the administrative
fund.
When it becomes necessary in the
interest of public health to grade,
construct, reconstruct or pave or inn
prove sidewalks, streets, alleys or pub
lie highways the commissioners are
to provide for it by ordinance. The
total cost of building sidewalks and
cutters is to be assessed as a benefit
charge against the abutting property
owners and one-half of the improve
ment of roads is to be assessed as a
benefit against the abutting owners,
the other half to be paid by district
wide taxation or from the sale of
Evening star., 1927-03-23
Required to Keep Office Hours.

The county commissioners of the
fourth and fifth districts are required
to keep regular office hours during
which they shall be in personal at
tendance at the county buildings es-
tablished by the board. Each of
the county commissioners from the
fourth and fifth districts are to