Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1920 — Page 7

UNION LEADERS AGAINST STRIKE Order for Referendum on Rail Award Urges Acceptance. CHICAGO, July 24.—Recommendation* that the award of the United States railroad labor board handed down Tuesday be accepted by all railroad unions were in the malls today. Union leaders In conference here prepared final instructions to the rank and tile, urging favorable action, in an immediate ballot on the award. The order's tone was against strike artlon. Leaders of the outlaw organization of switchmen which called a nation-wide strike last April voted last night to reject the award. They objected because no pro-rision was made for seniority rights of men who struck at that time. John Grunan, president, was instructed to dicker for settlement without yielding this point. Federal action against the outlaw organization was seen in the issuance of sixty subpoenas for railroad officials and union men to appear before the federal grand Jury here Wednesday. The Jury will consider the outlaw strike situation and the arrest of Grunau and other leaders for alleged violation of the Lever' 5 law. The railway wage board continued bearing demands of railroad expressmen for increased wages. The company has indicated it favors an increase. The board expected to complete bearing* early next week. Hold Two Boys During Sifting of 51,200 Fire Two small boys, one white and one k negro, are held in the detention home today following a fire that destroyed nine buildings near Colnmbta avenue and Seventeenth street at 4 o’ock yesterday afternoon. The police say the boys started the Are. Patrolman Purvis arrested five persons charging them with driving over fire hose. The loss was estimated at $1,200. Mrs. Emma McKee, 1647 Columbia avenue, was the heaviest looser, the fire destroying a barn and a horse. The fire was discovered in the barn of Robert Wilson, 1651 Columbia avenue. A shed in the rear of the home of Clarence Miller, 1648 Martlndale avenue, was destroyed and seventy-five chickens burned. Sheds and garages also were damaged. A one-story frame shed at the Citizens gas plant, Prospect street and the Belt railroad, was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, the loss being SSOO. Frank Gibblin Quits Police Department After thirty-three years as a member of the police department Patrolman Frank Gibblin resigned and was placed on the retired list today. Gibblin was appointed before the metropolitan police force was organized and reappointed In ISUI when the new department came into existence. He served on the force continuously with the exception of five months during 1914. Gibblin was made a sergeant in IS9S and held this rank for six years. in 1909 he became a desk man at substation 4 on Prospect street, where he served until 191S when be was transferred to the Union station. Recently he has been detailed to tbe information desk at headquarters. Gibblin was known for his ability to remember the faces of law violators.

Overtime to Be Paid to DeputyjVssessors Deputy assessors of Anderson township, in Madison county, will receive pay for overtime work, according to an engrossed senate bill which has been passed by the house of representatives. Some opposition was given the bill, but passage was effected by a vote of 65 to 11. Senator Alldredge, who introduc'd the hill, pointed ont that more than SBOO was involved, which was due the deputy as sessors for work done after the specified time limit bad expired. Conditions were such in that township, according to Representative Swain, that work was delayed at tbe outset and that tbe assessor's staff was forced to work beyond the time set for completion of the work. Richmond Folk Look Into Mayor’s Conduct Special to The Times. RICHMOND. Ind.. July 24.—For the purpose of "Inquiring Into the actions and conduct of Mayor W. IV. Zimmerman." the city council held a special session Friday. which lasted from 2 until 7 o’clock In the afternoon. Action was deferred, however, until a citizens’ committee, which was appointed at a meeting of 200 business and professional men, have hid sufficient time to Investigate and unravel some of the mysteries of the badly tangled municipal administration. Asa result of the unrest and confusion in tbe affairs of the city, Harry Gilbert, president of the board of works, and City Attorney Byram Robbins have resigned. Naughty Squire Law Passed by Lower Body Engrossed senate bill No. 404, by Senator Duncan, amending the phraseology of a former act of the legislature regarding the penalty for violations of law by notaries public and other officers in banking institutions and similar organizations, wag passed yesterday by the lower house. The penalty consists of fines ranging from $lO to SI,OOO, and imprisonment of from ten days to sixty days In the county Jan. Negro Politician Found Guilty by Jury Beverly Howard, negro politician, was found guilty of keeping a gambling house, fined $lO and costs and sentenced to serve thirty days at the Indiana state penal farm by a Jury In criminal court. Howard was arrested July 31, 1919, when Lieut. Edwin C. Ball and a police squad raided his dry beer saloon. 1118 East Sixteenth street, and found a "craps game’’ in progress in a rear room. In police court Howard was fined $lO and costd’and sentenced to serve ten days In Jail. Thinks Boy Left City With Horse Traders Police today were asked to search for Gilbert Clark, 14, of 29 West Arizona i Street. Mrs. Olive Clark, mother of the boy, said he left borne yesterday and that she has been told the boy planned to go to Denver with some horse traders. Marie O’Bryant, 17, and Fred O'Bryant, 15, 1229 BeUner street, ran awa/ from home Sunday and the police were told that they probably went to Detroit to visit relatives. Objected to Billy NEW TORK. July 24>—E, Dickson to. j day asked police to aid him In hunting j for Loretto, who left home when Billy; b'nday moved In, Loretto la • parrot with a -staring vocabulary and Sunday j a ban dog. 1

.^SooeTy^ The marriage of Miss Lillian Emelie Leap, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Leap, 646 East Thirtieth street, and Albert Colvin Long, will take place Wednesday night at 8:30. Mrs. Harry B. Nicely, 4269 Carrolton avenue, entertained Wednesday afternoon In honor of Miss Leap with a miscellaneous shower. Masses of garden flowers and baskets of snapdragons tied with tulle were uned In the decorating scheme of pink and white. Mrs. William S. Porter and Mrs. C. T. Nicely, of Crawfordsville, were among the guests. • * • Mrs. 11. M. Johnson and family left today for Lake Tippecanoe, where they will be the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Goldrick, for a fortnight. • * • Mrs. A. W. Fleming and son William have gone to Ivewanee, 111., to visit Mrs. Fleming’s parents. * * • Rev. Joseph H. Stout and son Hiram, 44 East Thirty-third street, have returned from an automobile trip through the east. " / * Mrs. F. O. Wiley, 37 West Thirty-third street, has returned from California, where she attended the democratic convention in San Francisco. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Clark and Dr. and Mrs. George L. Clark, 2950 Washington boulevard, have returned from Lake Tippecanoe, where they nave been spending several weeks. • * * Miss Helen Rosenfeld, 2901 North Capitol aveuue, left yesterday for Vancouver, prior to sailing for China. She expects to remain Indefinitely wltu ter sister, Mrs. I. Herekovitz, who lives in Mukden. • • • Mrs. Herbert R. Duckwall, 3818 Delaware street, has returned from Three Lakes, Wis., where she has been on a fishing trip. m • • Mrs. John H. Talbott, 24M3 North Delaware street, departed yesterday for Chicago and the northern lakes, where sne will spend the remainder of the summer. • • • Dr. and Mrs. James A. Moag, 1515 North New Jersey street, will leave the first of next week for a motor trip north. They will stop at Lake Maxlnkuckee for several days, and then continue on through northern Indiana and Michigan. • • • Ernest R. Churchill and Meredith B. Lowe, 609 West Thirtieth street, left last night for New Orleans, where they will take positions on board ship as radio operators. • * * Mrs. J. Albert Bristow, 351 East Thirtieth street, has gone to Detroit, where she will spend a few days, later going to Walkerville, Canada, to spend the remainder of the summer with her sister, Mrs. Harriet C. Satterwalte. • • Mrs. Edwin O. Moore, 4002 Boulevard place. Is spending several weeks with her mother in .Sebree. Ky. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Lee and son, Hugh, 410 North Audubon road, have gone to Boston, where they will remain a month.

Mrs. Nora Galvin, Buffalo, N. V.. who has been the guest of Mrs. E. F. Barry, 2941 North Talbott avenue, has returned home. • • • Mrs. Walter N. Sharp and sons Murray and John, 46 East Twenty seventh street, have gone to Lake Kezar. Me., where they will spend several months. • • Mrs. Clifford J. Eppert and son Clifford Jr. are the guests of Mrs. H. G. Bradley. 3407 Capitol avenue. • m m Girls of the Delta Sigma sorority entertained this afternoon with a “bunco" party on the lawn of Miss Marjorie Spillman’s hotpe, 3908 Carrollton avenue. The organization has been giving a summer series of parties for the benefit of Its scholarship fund. Miss Florence Schwankhonse Is president of the local chapter Miss Irma Aufdernetde and Mies Lucille Coppock are two new pledges to be Initiated this summer. • • • George M. Henderson, 502 East Eleventh street, will lenre tomorrow for Chautauqua Lakv N. Y., where he will spend three weeks at the summer home of his sister, Mrs. L. T. Gage. * • • Miss Mary Agnes Khowalter of Danville, Ind., Is the house guest of Miss Dorothy Ritter, 1620 North New Jersey street. • 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Milholland of Chicago, came today to spend several days with Mrs. Norman MUlhoUsnd, 3106 Boulevard place. • • * Sir. and Mrs. Joe Rand Beckett ,3062 Washington boulevard, have returned 1 from a motor trip through the Berkshire hills and Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Will Englehardt, 237 East Minnesota street, will depart Sunday for Mt. Vernon, 0., where they will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. V H. Perkins. • • • Mr. and Mrrf. John P. Stewart, 1127 West Thirty-fourth street, and niece, , Miss Martha Palmer of Martinsville, who have been on a motor trip to Wheeling, W. Va., and Columbus and Zanesville, 0., have returned home. Music Notes Mrs. Charlotte Berkley Uhmsn will J present her piano pupils In n closing re- j cltal. In the Presbyterian church of Dan- ! vllle Tuesday night. Miss Marion L. Lentz, soprano, of this j city, will assist Mrs. Lehman. Indianapolis pupils who will appear on 1 the program Include Wllmetta Mitchell, i Hazel Taylor, Neoma Mote. Pauline Mills, Helen Moorman, Pauline Coffin, Dorothy ! Stoll, Nellie and Myrtle Jenkins. A piano recital was given Thursday : night by pupils of Miss Anna Denney and her assistant, Mlsa Genevieve OldLam. Students on the program were Alama and Paulin* Flnkham, Constance Borman. Adella and Marguerite Showalter, Harriett* and Lucille Meyers, Margaret Voyles, Anna Shafer, Florence Grossman, Merle Walker, Frieda and Hilda Ruble, Irene Patterson, Mary Beth Shellds, Audrey Teneyck, Nellie and Magnolia Twenty, Pearl Shilling and Edna Tinder. A group of voice numbers wag given by Miss Elizabeth Smith. Meetings George H. Chapman Woman’s Relief! Corps No, 10 will have a business meet- ! ing next Tuesday afternoon in the G. A. R, hail, 222 East Maryland street, i Eight candidates for membership will be Initiated into the organization. A social hour will follow the ceremony. ; Tbe Women’s Relief Corps of the George H. Thomas post No, 20 will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 in Saks hall, Pennsylvania and Washington streets. A family reunion and basket dinner will be held by the Beeler family tomorrow at Garfield park. This Is an annual affair and all relatives are Invited to attend.

BRANDS MAN WHO ATTACKED WIFE Horsewhipped and Sent Him From State, Is Testimony. VANCOUVER, Wash., July 24. Branding with a redhot iron, administering a horsewhipping and shipping him out of the state, was chosen by Alvin Steigerwald, a well-known Washougal dairyman, as punishment for Walter Groth, an employe, whom he accused of attempting to violate the sanctity of his home, according to a statement made by the former to county officials. According to the information gained by the investigators, Steigerwald returned to his home and found his wife in tears, sobbing out Groth’s name. Stiegerwald claims to have taken his shotgun and hunted Groth. He changed his mind, he said, about killing Groth, and determined to brand and horsewhip him and send him out of the state. Attorney Yates, investigating the affair, stated that Steigerwald told him he paid Groth's fare out of the state and that, realizing that Groth’s wife and 14 day-old baby would be entirely destitute, took them under his protection and provided for them until he found their relatives in Portland. 2 Get Farm Sentences on ‘Tiger’ Charges Jerry Keys, 1221 West Washington street, was convicted yesterday afternoon In the citv court of operating a blind tiger and was fined SIOO and costa and sentenced to serve thirty days on the penal farm. Judge Pritchard fined Frank Anders, negro, SIOO and costs and sentenced him to serve forty days on the penal farm for operating a blind tiger. Anders lives on a farm at Harding street and Eagle creek. William Jones, 6502 Wlnthrop avenue, was arrested yesterday by Sergt. Russell and the morals squad on the charge of operating a blind tiger. The police say they found five cases of bonded whisky in Jones’ barn. Child, Run Over by Delivery Truck, Dies Roy Groseclose, 2, of 831 Chase street, died at the City hospital early today as the result of injuries received yesterday when he was run over by an automobile delivery truck near his home. The child was playing around a pile of logs piled in the street by the Capitol Veneer Company and ran from behind the logs directly into the path of a N<*w York store delivery truck driven by William Pointer, 21, of 909 Coffey street. Dr. W. Hickman of 834 Marlon avenue gave first aid and sent the boy to the hospital. The physician said his skull was fractured. Persons who saw the accident said Pointer was driving slowly.

Get Six Months for Abusing Little Girl Special to The Times. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., July 24.-81(1-ner Ferrnn and his wife. Opal Ferran, were arraigned In circuit court Friday charged with abusing Viola Martin, 9, niece of Mr. Ferrau. The court sentenced Ferran to ■''rvo six months at tho state farm and the woman to serve six months at the woman’s prison, and fined both fWO. Wife Begged Kisses, Now Has Another Man Special to The Time*. EI,WOOD, Ind., July 24. Frank Swluher of this city has filed suit for divorce, alleging that his wife left him last August to fco with another man, and that she U now living at Warren, Ohio. He assert* that he has Just received a letter from her. In which she writes that while she one* had to beg him for kisses she now gets all she wants. MOTION PICTURES. How Many Women Does a Man 'Lpve Before He Finds His Real Mate ?

A Gripping Drama of a Man Without a Race COMMENCING SUNDAY

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Under present arrangements Paramount pictures will remain at English's until Aug. 23, when the stage will bt given over to a stage production of Abe Martin. Harry K. Burton of Indianapolis is financially interested in the venture, and the present plans call for a two weeks’ engagement of the comedy at English's. The Park will open its regular seasoi. on Aug. 9 with “Razzle Dazle,” a girl show* and the house will be completely redecorated by time of the opening of the new season. ~l- -I- -IThe box office drawing power of William Faveraham as a movie actor was well demonstrated the last six days at tho’ Ohio. We think that Favershain did more to establish himself In the love and affections of the theater going public when be gave an all-star stage production of t "Julius Caesar" some years ago. The public has never forgotten his sincerity of purpose at? that time, ana he has carried the same purpose Into the movies. -I- -IA number of people have informed us that they agree with this department In saying that Elizabeth Patterson this week has been giving as Mrs. Bunting, the hyaterical lodging house mistress in "The Lodger’’ the finest characterization of the Walker season so far. Nothing finer has been done In many months on the stage than the work of Mlsr Patterson—that's our opinion and the public as well. ' -V- -|- -|- Aldrlch Bowker, who has been appearing each week with the Stuart Walker players at the Murat since the current season opened, leaves tonight for his farm near Nashua. N. H., where he intends to spend several weeks in complete nest. Mr. Bowker last season was with the “Seventeen" company which made the transcontinental tour. Dixie Illnes of New York (Tty sends us the following theatrical Items from the big city: Nance O'Neil will begin her new season in “The Passion Flower" in Philadelphia on Kept. 5. “Little Miss Charity.” which is such a clever play that the Belmont theater was tendered for a production, will begin there next month. Annie Hughes, the English actress, who has been a conspicuous player in American productions for the past ten years, returned to the United States this week. Iden Tayne will sail from London for bis return to New York next month. He will arrange for the production of two plays from bis pen before departing from London. I.ungdon McCormick, besides Ms thrilling melodrama, “The .Storm,” will have a group of gripping dramas on the boards this year. “Roaring River," "The Night Watch” and "Thunder Mountain" are among them. “A Man of the People,” by Thomas MOTION PICTURES.

! William DeMille’s I Pioduduction oF ■THE PRINCE CHAP I -w.thThomas Meighan I LILA LEE, KATHLYN WILLIAMS, ANN FORREST, THEODORE KOSLOFF AND OTHER NOTABLE PLAYERS. I Starting Sunday I SThe New York Telegraph Says—“lf you don’t like ‘The Prince Chap’ you have lost ra ; all your feeling for romance. For here is something that isn’t found very often on Ss I the screen —a real honest-to-goodness love story that doesn’t need melodrama stunts H ; or violence to make it interesting.” I H CONTINUOUS 1 UNTIL 11 P. M. I

Dixon, opened this week at Stamford. It is a story of Abraham Lincoln and among the players announced for its cast is Booth Ha gin, who recentl y rturned from overseas. Marie de Carlabous, the wife of a noted New York physician, will be freely represented on the stage this year by plays from her pen. “Debts of Soul,” a remarkable drama of reincarnation adapted to modern surroundings and conditions, is one scheduled for production. Mercedes Desmore, who Is to appear this year In “Three Ll.e Ghosts,” has been Invited to appear in a series of Ibsen performances as well. She recently scored a distinct success In “Hedda Gabler” and "The Master Builder,” when they were produced In New York. The concert stage has not lost that

i IOCTN W -SUNDAY!S Monday, Tuesday, JL IZjKP Wednesday Clara Kimball Young —in—“HEARTS IN EXILE” “SIMP AND SATAN” A UNIQUE COMEDY

Ku The House of Thrills SimdaV C "\ MUM !j=j Frank Farnum in ‘Shackles of Fate’ A 'wrongfully accused man fights for his good name Herbert Rawlinson in “The Poppy Trail” Hots: Detective W m. J. Flynn bagged a desperate Opium Gang Snub Pollard Comedy “The Home Stretch”

remarkablei Gypsy singer, Ruano Bogislav, although she will act in the play with Lou Tellegan next season. She will continue the most original series of recitals New York has heard, featuring Gypsy folk songs sung In costume. “The Storm,” one of the most successful plays on Broadway, will be moved to Chicago next month for an engagement at the Olympic theater. Robert Rendel, the English actor, whose personal success has been pronounced, as well as Helen MacKellar, who has won stardom In this play and Edward -Arnold will complete the trilogy of leading players. Bride-Elect Honored With Kitchen Shower Mrs. F. N. Daniels, 35 South Chester avenue, entertained with a kitchen shower last night In honor of Miss Jewel Jacobs, whose marriage to Ray Goodwin will take place next month. Baskets of daisies and garden flowers

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In shades of yellow were used through the parlors and in the dining room. The table appointments and ices were carried out In the same colors. The guests included Miss Ethel Bergman, Miss Mary Busselle, Miss Frieda Ruth, Miss Agfies Brown, Miss Catherine Coval, Miss Mayme Hanna, Miss Gertrude Link, Miss Nora Kortpeter, Miss Sadie Wedewan, Miss Rosena Jacobs, Mrs.

THOMAS H. INCE Preseitts Douglas Uaclean ORIS HiViAY IN ♦ LET’S BE „ j FASHIONABLE It was dawn! The merry party had ended hours before. But hubby, a wreck in torn clothes covered with overalls, had just sneaked back from seeing a pretty woman home! Slowly, surely, his well-planned explanation was wearing down Wife’s wrath when—something happened! If it’s laughter you're after —‘‘Let’s Be Fashionable!” Christy Comedy Fox News Weekly

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AlwaysVortKVhfle ColoniaL All Week Starting Sunday WILLARD MACK'S ''The VALLEY, OF DOUBT* A Romance of the Northern Snowlands The Story of a Girl with a Woman’s Soul. Snub Pollard. Selznick News American Harmonists. 20th Century Quintette.

Ronald Brown, Mrs. Paul Knowles, Mrs. Arthur Weber and Mrs. Roy Ingalls. Mrs. Daniels was assisted ny her mother, Mrs. Harry Goodwin. WOMEN MAY SMOKE. LONDON, .Tnly 24—To expedite bnslness and as an antidote to a badly venj tilated room Eton Rural District Council has decided to permit smoking by women members.

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