Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 229, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1921 — Page 4

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BECKETT FOUND GUILTY BY JURY Manslaughter Is Degree of Killing Set in Stabbing Case. Ia the George Blekett case, a negro charged with the murder of I> Roy Baker, negro, the Jury found Bickett guilty of manslaughter and Judge James Collins of Criminal Court sentenced him to from two to twenty-one years at the India rs State Reformatory. The court stated that It had been found Biekett’s age was 29 and that a request would be made to transfer the prisoner to the Indiana State Prison, Thes verdict was read In eonrt this morning after the jury had returned sealed verdict following forty minutes’ deliberation. The speed with which Bickett was tried sets anew record In th* local courts. A Jury was obtained and all evidence beard yesterday morning. Final arguments began at 2 o'clock In the afternoon and at 5:25 o'clock the Jury returned a sealed verdict. Bickett was Indicted on the charge of the murder of Baker, following a fight In which Baker was fatally stabbed in the heart by Bickett, the State claimed. The fight happened during a craps game, which was staged in the rear of S7C Massachusetts avenue Oct. 16, 1920. Bickett took the stand in his own behalf and pleaded self defense. The fatal fight was started over an argument over a half dollar, the evidence showed. Prosecutor William P. Evans conducted the case for the State and former Prose utor Alvah J. Rucker represented Bickett. The State did not ask for capital punishment. Most of Missing From Boston Found BOSTON, Feb. 2. —Boston is the port of ‘‘missing” people, who nearly all come back A report on missing persons by Captain Patrick F. King, of police headquarters. has just been tendered to Commissioner Curtis. The report shows by cold figures for the police statistt al year. Dec. 1, 1919, to Nov. 30. 1920, that, while Boston residents may run away, at times, they generally come back home again. The total number of missing persons for the year named was 692. Os these 611 were found.

rpWENTY years ago, when A the famous Spindle Top pusher was brought in, a great volume of petroleum was perijm I; <*tm*&*% mitted to spout from the disf ' , ;“ ? covery well and flow to waste WsisxM' j n the Gulf of Mexico, only the ¥pio feeblest effort being made to m WA9 conserve it. w Today, such a practice would be con sidered so wasteful as to be criminal. ® a The modern viewpoint does not tolerate rr? Qa * waste in any phase of the oil industry. Qg For many years the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has been in the lead of © * Afl those forces which sought conservation, economy and maximum efficiency in This Company was convinced that resinFa ing methods were susceptible of continr 3 uous improvement; it believed that with gIES every year of experience, more gasoline might be produced from the crude oil. tin furtherance of this idea of continually increasing efficiency, the Company installed the best laboratory equipment EDSI r$ pj. 4 obtainable, and employed the most expert petroleum chemists. From these rh m M laboratories, has come among other t’j _ n notable improvements, the famous Bur--11 pt}, A TANARUS! W xljr ton P rocess * to increase the yield of gasZ'Jm tL’l^~ jy oline from the crude, without sacrifice of quality. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is so organized that it is responsive to new ideas, both social and industrial. Its policy is flexible. It does not operate by rule of thumb. The very foundation of its ability to be of such fundamental service to society, lies in its recognition of the value of a close alliance between industry and science. It has developed an organization which fits smoothly into the machinery of social progress. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is guided by men who represent in their points of view the aspirations and determinations of the new world in which we live. These men. Directors of the Company, conceive their task to be that of guiding the industry in accordance with modern ideas of fairness and * justice. These men possess both the experience derived from long intimacy with petroleum problems, and the foresight to anticipate the future with its constantly changing industrial values and economic needs. Standard Oil Company ( Indiana ) 910 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111.

NEW CARDINAL RAPS ‘SHIMMEY’ ‘lmmoral Sins’ Decried by Paris Archbishop. PARIS, Feb. I.—The Bhimmev, the tango, the fox trot are finding even less favor ■with Cardinal Dubois, the new Archbishop of Paris, then they did with the late Cardinal Amette. While the latter severely admonished his Sock as regards dress in dance halls, , Cardinal Dubois goes further In con- | demning both dress and dances. He * terms these dances as ‘‘immoral sins.” Addressing a huge congregation from the : pulpit of Notre Dame Cathedral, Car- | dinal Dubois told his listeners that he had that day sent out a letter to all his clergy in which he said In part: ‘‘We entreat our diocesans to react against fashions which are opposed to Christian deeeny. We recall that conscientiously Christian woman and girls cannot, under any pretext, take part In the unseemly dances, most of which have an exotic origin and name. We remind the confessors that, on these points as | on all others they ought to apply the j rules of moral theology.” But even the Cardinal's severe words j cannot keep Parlsiennes out of dancing halls which today are as ever crowded.

Advertising Club to Hear Wholesaler Brlant Sando, advertising manager of Hibben-Hollweg and Company, will speak on ‘ How to Advertise the Wholesaler” at the weekly luncheon of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis at the Chamber of Commerce building tomorrow, and a ten-minute talk on “As Others See Us” will he given by Frank Chance. Tries to Kill Prisoner KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 2.—A nearriot was caused in the Circuit Court room here Tuesday when an unidentified woman attempted to shoot W. V, Spencer, on trial for tho killing of Elmer Porlettl. The woman leveled a revolver at Spencer, but the gun jammed and court attaches immediately overpowered and disarmed her. Protect the Children Healthy Blood and a Healthy System is a Child's best protection against Colds, Grip and Influenza. Give them GROVE'S IRON TONIC SYRUP. 75c.—Advertisement.

M. E. LEADERS OPENSESSIONS Bishop Leete Among Figures at National Meetings in Chicago. ! CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—Eminent ministers i and laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church in all sections of the country are in attendance at two meetings that opened here today. The annual meeting of the hoard of Sunday schools convened in the morning. Three sessions will be held dally until Friday. Bishop Thomas Nicholson, Chicago; Bishop Homer C. Stunts, Omaha, and IMshop Frederick D. Leete, Indianapolis, I are attending. Annual reports of officials of the board will be submitted. A conference of deans, managers and life work secretaries of the Epworth League also Is being held here.

Bedford Man Settles Embezzlement Case Special to The Times. BEDFORD, Ind.. 1/Vb. 2.—Charges of embezzlement against John 11. Underwood in the Lawrence Circuit Court have been dismissed on motion of the prosecutor, the defendant having inado provision to reimburse the injured parties. Underwood was charged with collecting Insurance money in Michigan and failing to turn the funds over to the State agent. The amount involved is said to be $1,400. Local authorities have given way to allow Michigan officers to prosecute if they desire. Underwood was once a lending attorney In Bedford and served several years as prosecuting attorney. State Body Planned by Humane Society Plans for organization of a State humane society are being made by the Indianapolis Humane Society. The organization will give particular attention to the manner in which animals are shipped to stockyards. At a meeting of the local organization at the Chamber of Commerce last night a report showed 2 cases bandied during January. A total of $2,103 In fines was collected during the month.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1921.

PANAMA TRAFFIC RECORDS BROKEN Ships Passing Through Canal Number 2,814. Traffic through tlie Panama Canal during the calendar year 1920 broke all previous records, both as to tonnage and toll receipts, according to the Panama (‘anal Record, official publication of the Panama Canal. The Record snys: “The commercial ships passing through the canal during the twelve months numbered 2,814, as compared with 2,478 during the fiscal year ending June 80, 1920, and 2,134 during the calendar year 1919. The gain was 13.56 per cent In ships over the fiscal year 1920 and 31.87 per cent over the calendar year 1919. There were 336 more vessels making the transit in commercial service in the calendar year 1920 than in the fiscal year, and 680 more than in the calendar year 1919. The fiscal year ending June 80, 1920, was the previous record period of twelve months of operation. “The Panama Canal net tonnage of the commercial vessels In the calendar | year 1920 aggregated 10.378,265 tons, as compared with 8,540,044 net tons in the fiscal year 1920 and 0,919,149 net tons in the calendar year 1919. The gain was 1,832.221 tons, or 21 44 per cent, over the fiscal year; and 3,459,116 tons, or 49 99

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—practically 50—per cent over the calendar year 1919. “The tolla levied during the year aggregated $10,295,392.96, as compared with $8,513,933.15 In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and $6,992,218 39 in the calendar year 1919. This was a gain of $1,781,459.81, or 20.92 per cent, over the fiscal year 1020, and $3,303,174.57, or 47.24 per cent, over the calendar year 1919. ‘‘The cargo carried through the canal by the commercial vessels aggregated 11,236,119 tons of 2,240 pounds. The cargo In the fiscal year 1920 was 9,374,499 tons, and in the calendar year 1919 It wag 7,468,167 tons. The gain was 1,861,620 ton*, or 19.86 per cent, over the fiscal year 1920, and 3,767,952 tons, or 50.47 per cent, over the calendar year 1919. ‘‘ln summary, the gain over the fiscalyear ending June 30, 1920, was? Over the calendar year 1919 the gain was: Vesgels, 31.9; net tonnage, 50; tolls, 47.2, and cargo, 50.5 per cent.” Carrying- One Quart Costs Joe Carr SSO Joe Carr, 321 North Capitol avenue, arrested recently hy Lieutenant Jones and squad on a charge of operating a blind tiger, pleaded guilty and was fined SSO by Judge Walter Pritchard in city court yesterday. The police said they found a quart of bonded whisky in Carr’s possession.

Why Is Ihe Business Ur Goal Mining So Vastly Different? If there is a single business where tlie phrase “vastly different” logically fits in, it is coal mining. Take here in the city of Indianapolis for example. Most everyone knows someone who is employed in one of the various departments of almost every sizable manufacturing plant in the city. Personal contact through this acquaintanceship gives Mr. Average Citizen a fair idea of operating methods, wages paid, steadiness of running time, geography of markets, profits, etc. Then, too, Mr. Average Citizen has an opportunity to peep into the plant itself as a passer-by, or wliat’s better visit the plant at some time or another and see first-hand the various operations necessaiy to complete its product. How many coal mines in operation have you walked by ? How many mines have you ever entered? Even In The Case Os Shutdowns There’s a Vast Difference. A factory manufacturing boots, machinery or automobiles can close down and cut off all maintenance expenses save that of watchmen. When a mine closes down, engineers, firemen, pumpmen, fire bosses and general maintenance help must be retained. They work both day and night, it costs thousands of dollars in monthly wages to maintain a large mine in idleness. Everyone who reckons with costs can readily understand how mining costs will mount under this paramount mining condition when mines are forced to half-time operation. Knox county coal operators sell very little domestic coal. Railroad and steam contracts practically consume tlie entire output of the Knox county field. Knox county operators in contracting their outputs figure on a basis of 200 days running time per year. During 1020, although the demand was greatest in the history of the nation, Knox county mines, due to strikes and car shortages, worked only 156 days, an average of three days per week. ’Thus while the contract price f<>r Knox county coal was made on the basis of 200 working days, Knox county mines operated but 78 per cent, of the unit time, (200 days) upon which the sales price was predicated. During tlie war engineers of tlie Fuel Administration made an exhaustive study of the increased cost of producing coal due to the lack of railroad cars and lack of markets. Study The Chart And Get The Results. , , - _. > The total loss in running time out of 307 possible working days by Knox county minds amounted to 4!) per cent. The loss in running tune on tlie basis of 200 working days, upon which Knox county sales were based, amounted to 22 per cent. According to the chart you have just read, prepared by engineers of tlie fuel administration, this loss of 22 per cent, of two-thirds potential running time in 1920 increased Knox county costs 20 per cent. Influence of running time on costs is just one of the many various phases that makes flic business of coal mining the most hazardous for capital in the category of business enterprise. Do You Know Another Business Where Continuity Os Running Time Means As Much? Knox County Coal Operators’ Association “Organized to Build Markets for Indiana Coal” jX

Give Lively Program at Rotary Luncheon Governor Warren T. McCray, G. B. McClelland of Dayton, Ohio, welfare worker for the National Cash Register Company; George Behan, character actor anil producer now appearing at the Circle Theater, and Walter Woolf of the Florodora Company were guests at the weekly luncheon of the Rotary Club at the Claypool Hotel yesterday. Governor McCray spoke briefly of his “new Job.” He introduced Mr. Bcbaa, who urged public cooperation in improving the film industry and gave an Italian impersonation. Mr. Woolf sang several songs and Mr. McClelland, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. MeClelland, led the Rotarians in singing a number of songs that were illustrated by streopticon views. Advertised Boots for One-Legged Men PARIS, Feb. 2.—Tired of working for others and eager to have a shop all on his own account, Marcel Lostlc, a young man of 24, without any money, conceived the idea of first burglaring sliops belonging to others and then up his own business. ' He thought selling boots at reduced prices would assure a good

income. He thereupon robbed a boot shop. Unluckily, he stole odd boots and those be grabbed happened to be boots for the right foot only. Undismayed, Lostic opened a shop

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where be advertised the sale of boots for one-legged men. This brought about his downfall and now he mediates on tho sort of shop he will open when he quit* hlg narrow cell In the Sante prison.