Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1921 — Page 7

HOLD-UPS AND THIEVES ACTIVE Nocturnal Visitor Carries Off Canary and Cage Valued at $100. John Crow, 1325 Union street, was walking in East Court street last night when he was seized by two negroes and dragged in between some buildings, where he was relieved of $l0. William Barnett, 550 Wilkins street, was awakened this morning by a noise. He investigated and found that a burglar had lifted his trousers through the window. There was $35 in the pockets. Henry Lohman, 1020 North Jefferson avenue, was awakened at 1 a. m. today when some person took a screen out of a window in his home. He investigated and a burglar ran out of a rear door. Nothing was stolen. Two visitors to the Speedway race reported that their traveling bags were stolen from their automobiles parked near the Claypool Hotel. The victims, E. B. Beaver, of Detroit and James Jesson, of Detroit, said the contents or their bags were valued at about S300. Nona Martin of Portland, Ind., reported to the police that her purse was stolen while she was in the Traction Terminal station. The purse contained $l0. J. S. Lynn, 18 East St. Clair street, told the police that a thief stole a brass bird cage and a canary from his front porch last night. The cage and bird was valued at $100 . George Smith, 2614 Oxford street, told the police he was swindled out of $180 by two negroes yesterday. The police say it was the old pocket book game in which the purses were switched when Smith was not watching.

COKE $lO TON ON SIDEWALK IN ST. LOUIS (Continued From Page One.) housed in a booth and consists of samples of coke made from the various grades of coal used by the gas company. The prices are plainly set out. There, is one grade that sells for $9.75, but the Warren company, which has offices in the gas building, is making its campaign on the $l0 coke. Coke and coal as fuels are compared in statistical tables, with the odds in favor of the former for heating value and cleanliness, and there is a man in attendance to answer questions. The St. Louis gas situation is similar to that in Indianapolis, only more so. A hike in rates recently was authorized by the Missouri public service commission, but what that rate is seems more or less of a mystery to the general public. Not one of half a dozen persons asked at random on the street was able to tell the rate. The reply to the question, “What is the gas rate in St. Louis?" was practically the same in each case: “Well, 1 don't know exactly, but I’m a consumer, and you can bet it's high enough." A general office employe of the company said the rate was $1.05 “net." SAYS INCREASE SAVED THE DAY. G. B. Davis, general manager of the Laclede Gas Company, volunteered the information that if the commission had not granted the increase when it did that the company would now be in the hands of a receiver. Mr. Davis also indicated that the coke market largely was to blame for the present difficulties of so many gas companies. “During the war," he said, “when production was booming, coke was in great demand. In fact, we couldn't produce enough to keep up with the calls. The result was that the small consumer was squeezed out and the prices of coke soared to unprecedented figures. Then along came the lull and coke became a drug on the market. When we went out to try to sell it, we were laughed at. We couldn’t give it away. But there was one advantage to this war use of coke, according to Mr. Davis. He says it kept the gas rates from being hiked before they were. He also says that the higher the price of coke, the cheaper the rate for gas. , 'But what good." he asked, “is a coke pile of so many hundred thousand tons at $l0 or $l2 or $15 a ton if you can't get rid of it? Just as bad as none at all, isn't it? We are trying to get around that condition by asking less for our coke and getting it moved, even though It means a loss to the company.’’ Mr. Davis would not discuss costs, saying that was a matter that he preferred leaving to the Warren company, “which handles all our coke business the same as the Domhoff & Joyce Company handles the Indianapolis Gas Company's business.” Just what the Warren company pays for its coke was not learned. BOTH FAMILIAR WITH HOOSIER SITUATION. Both Mr. Davis and Mr. Woods seemed familiar with the Indianapolis situation, especially Mr. Woods, who was one of the outside experts called in the Indiana public service commission and questioned as to the value of coke when the petition of the Citizens Gas Company for a hike in rates first came before the commissioners several months ago. Mr. Woods registered a lively interest in the value of $8 a ton set on Indianapolis coke by the service board and said that if he were to testify now he probably would not name a figure as

Loew’s State CONTINUOUS 1 TO 11 P. M. NOW“DECEPTION” What is beyond doubt the finest picture of its kind ever shown In Indianapolis Not to see “Deception” is to miss not only a fine production, but also the stimulation that only so imaginative a piece of work can give. —The Indianapolis Star, May 30. To me “Deception” is a marvelously produced movie drama, rich in detail, wonderful in imagination and wealthy in character acting. —W. D. H., Indiana Daily Times, May 30. Aft. 15c and 25c '‘ Except Sun. and Hol. Eve. 30c and 40c

DOUBLE FEATURE WEEK HAROLD LLOYD in “Among Those Present" Also a Paramount Picture, “THE CALL OF YOUTH''

DANCING EVERY NIGHT Except Sunday SEVERIN HOTEL Music by Coolidge Miami Beach _ ... „ „ _ Orchestra. Grill Room — 20 Degrees Cooler.

high as the one he did when he was in Indianapolis. His valuation was in the neighborhood of $7.50 a ton, and he contended that that price was approximately correct at the time. The St. Louis coke market promises to become more interesting before long. The Laclede Gas Company has been for a long time practically the only producer of coke and still leads in production, but there is a concern known as the St. Louis Coke and Chemical at Granite City, just across the river, which will bear watching. School Notes SHORTRIDGE. The awards were made Thursday in the auditorium exercises, to the students who have come to the front in the athletic contests of the year. Eleven boys of the football team received the Shortridge “S” and four boys were given a reserve letter for playing as “subs.'’ The five boys of the basket-ball team of which Valorous McLeay is captain, and the six “subs,” received the “S," and reserve letters respectively. Of the track team Lynn Lotick and David Kilgore received medals: Charles Henderson, a ribbon, and five others, monograms. Cooke Coen was given a monogram for winning the S. H. S. golf championship and eight boys of the bowling team were rewarded likewise. Of the girl athletes nine of the hockey team received monograms, ten for “interclass" basket-ball, eight for volley-ball and three awards were made to girl tennis players. Of the girls “All-Stars” basket ball team, nine girls received an Old English ”S.” Charles Mitchell, captain of last vear’s football team received the Orsric Mills Watkins’ medal for athletic prowess and scholarship. The election of the athletic board was held at the auditorium exercises Thursday. The nominees were: Miss Ely, Miss Bowser, Mr. Watson, Mr. Roache, Mr. Tatlock, Mr. Julius, Mr. Weinburger aud Mr. Rouch. all of the faculty. Each student voted for two men and one woman. The results have not been announced. At the last senior meeting each senior wrote on a slip of paper the name of the college he expected to attend. Butler led with thirty-seven votes. Indiana came second with fourteen, and De Pauw, third, with nine. Following is the list of colleges and elections: Butler—Christine Housman, Eleanor Mueller. Dorothy Day, Mary Riley, Lois Whishard, Ellen Coulson, Elizabeth Bertermann, Meta Morris, Helen Gwartney, Bernice Ratcliff, Helen Bedell. Margaret Wingfield, Harriet Stewart, Mary Barnes. Josephine Turney, Katharine Hanna. Ruth Thomas, Maurine Jacquith. Walter Forsell, Rebecca Daugherty, Katherine Lennox, Harriet Hester, Hester Barker, Evelyn Carpenter, Grace Taylor, Titus Everett, Florence Hooper, Edna Graves, Florence Geisler, Forrest Hindsley, Claudia Weyant, Constance Forsyth, Albert Ewbank, George Schumacher and Blanche Bernstein. Indiana—Esther Yauncey, Dolph Blasdel, Aletha Gray, Helen Keehn, William Miles, Dorothy Hatfield, Katherine Neullis, Dorris Walsh., Rachel Leopold, Byron Rust, Margaret Stroud, Jack Street, Dorothy Davis and Kenneth Church. De Pauw—Robert Conder, Herman Carrington, Roland Hockett, John Little, Melba Donaldson, Dorotyh Powell, Melba Donaldson. Dorothy Powell, Oren Fifer, Josephine Likely and Alex Dowling. Purdue—Steele Churchman, Paul Knight, Charles Henderson, Fordon Fiscus, Margaret Marthens, Lynne Lotick and Beatrice Meyer. City Normal —Lillian Moore, Ruth Rankin, Hazel Traubue, Rosamond Israel, Emma Allison and Edith Washington. Illinois—Henry Dithmer. Helen Murphy, Fred Carter and Joe Cash. Wabash—Albert Deluse, George Clark and Cooke Coens. Pennsylvania— Harold Harley and Louis Rainier. Franklin —Esther Mary Ball and Mary Covert. Mrs. Blaker's Teachers' College —Mildred Benedict and Loretta Sweet. Northwestern, Catherine Bassett: Centre College. Ky., Homer Woods; Hanover, Betty Lee: Colorado School of Mines. William Henderson: Earlham, Thomas Evans; Oberlin, Ella Pope; Chicago, Henry J. Richardson: Elmhurst (preparatory). Lindabelle Thompson; Sanderson Business College, Wilma Albersmeier; Cincinnati, Beatrice Jeffers; National Park Seminary, Georgia Osborn;

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MOTION PICTURES.

Sweet Briar, Eleanor Gerrard; Vassar, D. McCullough. Over three hundred grade school pupils have signed up to enter Shortridge in the fall. Of this number one hundred and ten are boys and one hundred and ninety-four are girls. School No. 60 sends the most pupils, forty; No. 17 sends thirty-five; Nos. 2 and 45, twentyfive, and No. 82, twenty-four. At the last meeting of the Therapon Club an election of officers was held. Mary Byram was elected president; Dorothy Sutherland, vice president; Lorene Whitham, secretary, and Justine Holliday, treasurer. The annual picnic of high school teachers was held in Ellenberger Park Friday. William Otto of the faculty is president of the association, and Mrs. Robert Craig, secretary. Mr. Gorton, Shortridge physical instructor, had charge of the games at the picnic. Lunch was served cafeteria style. Following the program the annual business meeting was held and officers were elected.

SAYS CITY PLOTS TO SEIZE LAND Squatter Will Make Finish Fight, However. The fight between the sanitary board of Indianapolis and John S. Miller, who claims squatter's right to a part of Sellers farm on which the city reduction plant is located, has not yet been ended. Miller was reported to have promised that he would vacate the farm following his arrest on a charge of trespass a few days ago, but he now declares that he made no such promise to any one and he has no intention of quitting. A judgment of $5 and costs against him in the city court has been appealed to the Criminal Court. In the meanwhile, Miller declares, the city authorities are taking advantage of every opportunity to force him out of the fight. He says policemen were armed with riot guns when they arrested him a few days ago and that following his arrest his clothes, household goods and other possessions disappeared and he has not yet been able to locate them. Ha charges that recently an attempt was made to decoy him into a violation of the prohibition laws In order that he might be arrested and imprisoned while the city took possession of the little part of the farm on which he located years ago and which he claims by right of adverse possession.

AMUSEMENTS.

KEITH’S HOLIDAY WEEK SPECIAL FIRST FILM SHOWING JACK DEMPSEY Training for His Bout With CARPENTIER 5 BREEZY ACTS 5 VAUDEVILLE FUN FOTO FILMS- PATHE NEWS- DIGEST TOPICS SUMMER PRICES

LYRIC CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE ALL THE TIME-1 UNTIL 11 P.M. “CHEYENNE DAYS” A MINIATURE RODEO. CIIARNOFF’S GYPSIES Harry Fisher &- Co., Parish & Peru, Grove & Henderson, Hudson & Jones, Rosa, the Royces, Monte Bank’s Film Farce, “The Bride and Groom.” Dancing In the Lyric ballroom afternoon and evening.

MURAT TONIGHT AT 8:30 AND ALL WEEK Matinees, tomorrow, Thurs., Sat. The Stuart Walker Company presents Jane Cowl's Triumph “SMILIN’ THROUGH” A Romantic Comedy with an Incomparable cast, including Blanche Yurka, McKay Morris, George Gaul Regina Wallace. Next Week: “The World and His Wife”

ENGLISH’S TONITE AND ALL WEEK Mats. Wed., Thur;., Sat. The GREGORY KELLY STOCK CO, In A Truly American Comedy “ADAM and EVA”

MOTION PICTURES.

CHARLES RAY in “Scrap Iron”

FIRST HALF THIS WEEK CORINNE GRIFFITH IN What’s Your Reputation Worth? HEAR THE MIAMI SIX

ISIS ENTIRE WEEK Rosco (Fatty) Arbuckle —IN—“The Traveling Salesman’ * TADE DOLAN’S ENTERTAINERS

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1921.

Cooperative Grocery Co. Elects Officers Special to The Times. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., May 31. Oicers for the Working Men’s Cooperative Company, which conducts a grocery here, were elected at a meeting of the stockholders as follows: Charles Hill, president; Martin Gucker, vice president; Charles McConnell, secretary and treasurer; Byron Lewis, Jack Crissman, Earl Smith, Roy Casterline, William Price, Oscar Brockway, Bert Pownall, directors. Senator New Speaks on Legion Program Special to The Times. PLYMOUTH, Ind., May 31.—The work of the American Legion in Indiana was highly commended by United States Senator Harry S. New, in a speech made here yesterday at the Marshall County American Legion day ceremonies. Senator New's speech was one of the features of the day. A crowd of about 4,500 people heard the address and later witnessed military drills and maneuvers by the cadets of Culver Military Academy.

A Clean Sweep Tire History of 1921 continued Monday, at Indianapolis, to repeat the unbroken series of Oldfield Tire demonstrations which featured 1920. In this, the world’s greatest motoring spectacle, and famous for many years as “The Battle of the Tires,” the race pilots of America and Europe showed so overwhelming a preference for Oldfields as to warrant the statement that Oldfield Tires have swept all competition off the Speedway. Led by the victor, every one of the money winners crossed the finish one C^umda^ e V oickhS X tt^. on OLDFIELD TIRES. A record of combined speed and endurance Trouble freedom! new to Tire History. That is the merit they seek, and To the student of motoring such broad, practical facts stand out in bold no otber consideration counts. relief from any background of mere sporting result. For tire trouble means the loss of For every motorist buys tires. perhaps bodily injury; freedom from it means And the wiser he is, the more he appreciates expert guidance in a tire success and safety. market filled with so bewildering an array of brands, grades and styles. I developed Oldfield Tires to Forget, for a moment the spectacular side of this great race, and view reduce my own dangers of delay it in its practical light, as a huge, million-dollar tire test, conducted for and accident . your sole benefit. They did the job. And today they ‘ are doing it for others—hundreds i What is its message? of thousands of them. They will “For trouble-freedom, standardize on Oldfields!” do it for you. You know me, a Expert endorsement —public proof—you have them both. Make them the basis of your tire purchases henceforward. THE OLDFIELD TIRE CO. AKRON, O.

TIRES WIN AGAIN We Can Recommend Oldfield Tires to Our Best Friends — May We Not Count You Among Them? STANDARD PAPER COMPANY WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS 440 SOUTH ILLINOIS STREET INDIANAPOLIS Some Good Territory Still Open for Dealers

CATHOLICS PLAN COMMENCEMENT Senator Walsh (Mass.) to Give Address. Special to The Times. NOTRE DAME, Ind.. May 31.—The commencement address at Notre Dame University this year will be delivered by United States Senator David I. Walsh, Massachusetts, the evening of June 13. Saturday evening, June 11, the bachelors will deliver their orations in Washington hall. Sunday morning pontifical high mass will be celebrated in Sacred Heart Church. Bishop H. J. Alerdlng, Ft. Wayne, will be celebrant. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by the Rev. John Cavanaugh, C. S. C., former president of Notre Dame. The Rev. James S. Burns, president of the university, will bless a flag which will be raised by the senior class with appropriate ceremonies. The alumni banquet will be held at 6:30 o’clock Sunday evening, June 12. The program for commencement day, June 13, includes solemn requiem high mass for deceased alumni at 9:30 a. m„ a baseball game at 3 p. m. on Cartier field and commencement exercises at 8 p. m. in Washington hall.

Threaten Embargo on Oil Company Holdings MEXICO CITY, May 31.—The Governor of the State of Vera Cruz Is threatening to put an embargo on the properties of the Eagle Oil Company, a subsidiary of the great Royal Dutch Company, a British corporation, for non-payment of $3,000,000 local taxes. An appeal was made today to President Obregon to hold up the embargo pending a decision on the tax dispute by the Mexican Supreme Court, Trip to Florida May ‘Cure' Jealousy William E. English was called to police headquarters late last night to assist the police in adjusting an affair which had taken place at the end of an automobile ride taken by two of Mr. English's employes. As a result Mr. and Mrs. L. John Mathie, 19 North Oriental street, will get a trip to Florida. Mrs. Mathie is said to have attempted to shoot herself while in the office of a garage at 328 East Market street, after a quarrel with her husband, who is chauffeur for Mr. English. The

police were told that Mrs. Mathie was jealous of Miss Jeanette Singer, 1221 East Washington street. The three had been automobile riding. Mrs. Mathie picked up a revolver that was on the desk in the garage office and her husband grabbed her. There was a scuffle and the revolver was fired. The police were called and the couple was taken to police headquarters. Both told the same story of the shooting and then Mr. English was sent for. He told the police he would send both Mr. and Mrs. Mathie to his home In Florida to give them a chance to forget the Singer woman. Irish Relief Fund Now Totals $70,000 More than $70,000 has now been raised in Indiana in the campaign for the relief of suffering and distress in Ireland it was announced today at the Indiana State headquarters of the American Committee for Relief in Ireland. Many counties in the State have not started their campaign as yet and it is hoped that a far larger sum of money will have been raised before the campaign is completed. Os the total amount already raised in

the campaign more than $16,000 has been contributed in Indianapolis; Ft. Wayne has raised more than $7,000; Muncie more than $6,000; Kokomo nearly $4,000; and Lake County more than $5,000. BRITAIN TO SEND REINFORCEMENTS Cabinet Discusses Situation in Ireland. LONDON, May 31.—Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, chief of the imperial general staff, attended a full meeting of the British Cabinet today at which the Irish situation was discussed. It was understood a scheme for sending troop reinforcements to Ireland was approved. Despite the renewed violence in Ireland it was learned from a well informed source that the negotiations between Eamonn De Valera, leader of the Sinn Fein, and Sir James Craig, leader of the Ulster Unionists, have not been broken off. Indirect conversations between the leaders of the two hostile Irish factions were known to be continuing but both sides are avoiding publicity.

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