Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER; Cloudy. Much colder tonight.. Sunday fair and cold.

VOL. XXXIV.

$300,000 CHRISTMAS GIFT TO CITY

SENATE WILL RATIFY PACT, LEADERS SAY Claim Support for 4Power Pacific Treaty. MAY CHANGE IT Radicals’ Demands to Clarify Will Get Attention. By J. BART CAMPBELL. WASHINGTON. Dec. 24. —With or without reservations, the four-power Pacific treaty is certain of ratification hy a substantial two-thirds majority of the Senate, it was stated emphatically today by Republican Senators closely associated with the Administration. They were not in the le'st perturbed by the demand for reservations by senators other than the "lrreconcllables," they added, and If a majority of the Senate considered some reservations necessary to dispel all doubt as to the meaning and purpose of the treaty they did not think there would be any serious objection to them. PEACE FIRST IN CONSIDERATION. Senator McLean, Republican, Connecticut, chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, said he did not think the question of reservations “mattered at all" when considered In its relation to the basic purpose or the treaty—"the preservation of peace." “I was for ratification of the League of Nations covenant with the Lodge reservations,” Senator McLean pointed cut. “Many other Republican Senators besides my elf voted for them, including the President himself. “I know ct no necessity for reservations other than the two already agreed to by the four powers being attached to the present treaty, but if others are desirable I shall have no objection to them as long as they are not intended to destroy ths treaty.” SAYS ONLY OPPOSITION IN WASHINGTON. “I find no serious opposition to the treaty anywhere except in Washington.” said Senator Gooding. Republican. Idaho. Senator Borah's colleague. “In fact, when I returned home recently I found everybody everywhere as I traveled strong for it The people want the conference to succeed; they want its decision to bring lasting peace and good will. The lips of every mother breathes a prayer for its success. The treaty will unquestionable be ratified.” The general opinion among Senators is that the treaty probably will be ratified with some reservations, although Senator Lodge is said to he opposed to them, and the British delegates Are understood to be set against them.

STEAMER SENDS DISTRESS CALL BOSTON, Pec. 24.—Th° United States Shipping Board steamer Mount Evans is in distress Gf>o miles east of Boston, it was reported in wireless messages picked up here today. The vessel is without fuel oil. the radios said. Charlestown navy yard officials expressed the belief that the \ ssel has already been taken in tow. b::t had received no word to that effect. The Mpunt Evans was bound from Antwerp to New York with a ea’-go of valuable freight. She carries a crew of fifty officers and men.

American Red Cross Will Play Santa Claus to 29,000 Wounded World War Men

NEW YORK, Pec. 24. —From Plymouth Rock to the Golden Gate, the American Red Cross today was preparing to spread Christmas cheer among 29,000 wounded veterans of the World War. America’s “angel of mercy” will play Santa Claus to the youths in many hospitals spread across the country from toast to coast. She will carry in her Christmas bags a series of entertainments, gift packages. Christmas trees and “big eats” for soldiers stricken on the field of duty. But above even this, she will carry Christmas cheer and companionship. The Red Cross has planned these celebrations for a month. Some will be staged in big Government or public health hospitals where upward of a thousand soldiers must spend Christinas day in bed. Some will be carried into almost forgotten hamlets where stricken heroes total less than a score. Across the seas, along the Rhine, the army of occupation will not be forgotten. The Red Cross headquarters in Paris has

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Agitation Caused by News of Negro Barber Getting Federal Appointment

News that Earl E. Titus, negro barber, 316 Muskingum street, has been appointed an agent of the bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, the first member of his race to be assigned to this work in Indiana, has created no end of comment in Indianapolis, especially among the negro population of the city, where the appointment is received with hosUlity and disapporval by the polticaliy powerful. The charge is openly made that Titus Is a Democrat, and that by virtue of his position of barber to Joseph It. Kealing. Indiana national Republican committeeman, that te had obtained through the efforts of Harry S New, United States Senator, a position that rightfully belongs to a Republican whose loyalty is above the shadow of a doubt. The bureau of investigation made a great name for Itself during the war and since then it has played an important part in almost every criminal case of any importance that has been

BANDITS GET $25,000 IN CHICAGO HOLD-UP; BATTLE N. Y. POLICE

TWO ARE SLAIN AS N. Y. POLICE FIGHT OUTLAWS Saloonkeeper Is Shot to Death by Robbers as He Flees. MOTORIST IS SLUGGED NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—A Christmas crime wave struck New York during the night. Two men were killed and two wounded in gun battles between police, bandits and their victims. Nelson Levy was killed in the Bronx a companion, he took possession of the store and waited on customers. Two detectives were wounded by shots when they entered the store and tried to arrest the bandits. Levy's confederate escapted. Leon Sottifi. a saloon keeper of the after having held up a cigar store. With Err nx, was shot and killed by bandits when he tried to run out the bs k door of bis barroom as the hold up men enterd | by the front. Philip S. Honeywood, nephew of the Earl of Devon, was held up by a man who asked him for a lift as he drove his car on a lonely road near WoodcLff, N. J. Honeywood was blackjacked and left bound and gagged. Four thousand dollars in jewels was obtained by robbers who held up a restaurant In the Bowery district. One of the diners had the Jewels in a small box. Henry Edson opened lire c>n two bandits who tried to aold up his father's Jewelry store on the Bowery, driving them away. Three masked thugs held up a Bronx drug store at midnight and escaped with S2OO, leaving the proprietor gagged and bound to a radiator.

STORES CLOSE MONDAY Indianapolis stores that arc members of the Merchants’ Association will observe Christmas by remaining closed Monday. Mew Year's day also will be observed in the same manner a week from Monday.

arranged for 'big Christmas doings." among the lanks who still are “over there." At each hospital, whether government, public health/ army, navy or contract, and In each soldier’., b..ine local Red Cross organizations will have charge of Christmas day programs. They will be aided by the Junior Red Cross, veteran organizations, fraternal and civic bodies. Programs, in which the boys will join, have been planned for each on Christmas But to the soldier, the dinners with turkey, pumpkin pie and special boxes of candy, fruit and cigarettes, probably will make the biggest “hit.” Local organizations, wherever possible, will erect Christmas trees. Santa Claus, in the flesh, will be played by a doctor. Red Cross worker, of perhaps even a patient. None of the 13.000 Yanks in the sixtyseven public service hospitals, the 6,000 in Army and Navk institutions and the 1 10.000 In contract hospitals will be forgotten. For each, too, *here will be the gifts “from home." The Red Cross Is helping to see that these packages are delivered on time.

WEATHER

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 ; p. m , Dec. 25, 1921; I Cloudy and much colder tonight, with a cold wave, temperature 5 to 10 deIgress; Sunday fair and cold. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. in 31 7 a. m 31 8 a. m 31 9 r. 30 10 a. m 30 11 a. m. 29 12 (noon) 29 1 p. in 28 2 p. m 27

tried before Judge Albert B. Anderson. So effective has been its work, that less than two w-eks ago Frederick Van Nuys, United States district attorney. In open court spoke of the splendid work that had been done by agents of the bureau of Investigation as against the relatively ineffective work of the Federal prohibition department in this State. In the past agents of the bureau of investigation have in most instances been men of special qualifications for investigation work an dmany of them have had excellent legal training. Therefore when the news of the appointment of Titus leaked out, for it has not been announced officially even yet, the question as to his qualifications for a position of this importance naturally arose. According to Titus himself he formerly was a member of the city police force, but was let out during the last administration of Thomas Taggart because he was not a Democrat. lie gives the date (Continued oil Tage Twelve.)

TWO RICH MEN ARE ABDUCTED BY HIGHWAYMEN I Wealthy Des Moines Inventor I Chained to Machine After Robbery. WOMAN HIDES JEWELS CHICAGO, Dee. 24.—A night of Christmas crime which Included a revolver duel at Chicago's busiest corner, State and Madison street, ami a $23,000 hold-up was climaxed early today by two bold kidnapping-, of wealthy motorists. Arthur C. Buth, a wealthy Inventor and manufacturer of Des Moines, lowa, who wag visiting relatives here, was kid- > napped, slugged and robbed and left j chained to his automobile on a bleak i blizzard-swept prairie on the outskirts of , the city. He was taken to the German Deaconess hospital, where he recovered consciousness long enough to establish his identity and again lapsed into unconsciousness. Ills condition Is critical. He went out In bis automobile early In the eveir.g. Apparently he had been held up downtown and forced to drive to the outsktrts of the city where he was beaten over the head with butts of revolvers. John A. Mcßae, a Detroit manufacturer, his wife and John G. Alien, Mcßae's representative in Chicago, were the known victims of the second kidnaping. A fourth man who has not been found and whose Identity has not been established was the other victim with the Mcßae party. Mcßae and his wife left a downtown hotel about 10 p. m. and met Allen and a companion a few minutes later. While driving on the south side, they were held up by five bandits. Mrs. Mcßae nnd the stranger were forced into the bandit car. A robber demanded Mrs. Mcßae's rings. She had hidden them ou her person. “I left them in the safe at the hotel," she told the robber. The bandit told her she was a “liar" and forced her to take off her shoes. The bandit searched her and subjected her to insults, but she gamely refused to give up the gems. They took about j SSOO of her money and finally dumped ! her from the automobile near her hotel, j In the meantime bandits had taken i charge of her husband's car and robbed ; him and Allen of all their money 'and ! valuables and they allowed them to leave i their automobile near the hotel. An alleged shop lifter shot and wound- I ed Robert Fitzgerald, a detective for tho j Carson, Pierie & Scott Company, one of I Chicago's largest stores. The detective I accosted the man as he was leaving the store. The alleged thief shot while hundreds of shoppers were 'milling around the entrance to the store. Hu was caught after a chase. A wagon delivering Christmas purchases from Blum’s shop, one of Chicago’s most exclusive stores, was held up and $23,000 worth of furs were taken.

Mayor Gives Newsies Xmas Party

WRITES PERSONAL LETTER TO EACH GUEST

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Two hundred little fellows who trudge rbout the downtown streets In fair weather and foul to earn an honest living seeing to it that the public gets its newspapers hot off the press morning, noon and night, were the honored guests of Mayor Charles IV. Jewett at his third annual Christinas party for newsies at the city hall today. No child surrounded by ail the luxuries of a wealthy home will have any'more elaborate and beautiful yuletide entertainment than did the happy-go-lucky little guests of his honor. Ever since the mayor gave his first party the day before Christmas. 1919, the downtown newsboys have looked forward to the next one for twelve full months They.were not disappointed this year, for the mayor and the city recreation department have been preparing to make the last party of Mr. Jewett’s administration eclipse all the others. FESTIVITIES KEEP BOVS’ EVES POPPING. Staged among elaborate decorations, the chief piecp of which was a Christmas tree, as grand as any in Ipdlanapo11s, the was sufficient to keep the youngsters' eyes popping

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1921.

ERROR CAUSE OF DELAY IN DEBS RELEASE Sentence of Famous Prisoner Now at End. WILL HURRY HOME Expects to Appeal for Release of Others. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Actual ‘ orders for the release of Eugene V. I Debs and the other political prisoners whose sentences were commuted by President Harding were dispatched from the Department of Justice to 1 day to the wardens of the various prisons concerned. Attorney General Daugherty said he regretted that conflicting statements regarding when the prisoners would be released which were made in the ofriciai statement announcing the communtatlons of sentences caused many friends of the prisoners to believe they would be able to spend Christmas at their homes. It was because of these errors that the conference between the l’rcsldnt and attorney general was held last night. In one place the official statement said I iehs’ sentence was commuted to expire "at once" and In another it was the commutation would be effective Christmas day. The President is said to have favored releasing Debs so he could reach his home at Terre Haute on Christmas day. MRS. DEBS PLANS FOR HOME-COMING TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 24.—Mrs. Eugene V. Debs put u holly wreath in the window today—and waited. The enduring wife of ‘•Gene" who was granted amnesty as a Christmas present from President Harding mustered all her strongtli so (hat “Gena won't know that I’ve been 111.” "I'm sorry Gene will not be hero for Christmas," Mrs. Debs said when told her husband would not be released from Atlanta prison until Christmas day and could not reach her until Monday. "But what Is a day or two days more when I've waited over two years,” she said with a patient, sad smile. Gene’s "Kate” had no complaint. Riie didn’t even complain when the Government stopped tho weekly letters that passed between her and the Socialist leader. Mrs. Deba, however, mint have believed that perhaps, by some means or other, Gene would arrive before Monday. It may Just have been her strong desire to see her husband. In the oven Mrs. Debs was roasting—very slowly—a gooso for Gene's Chris- ( mas dinner. "I may have to cut it down cold," she I (Continued on Page Two.)

Lights Blinded Auto Driver; Two Injured; 1 Had Times Policy Injuries from nn automobile accident a few miles out of the city on Dec. 1 caused Mrs. I'earl Collins, 422 Bradley street, to be confined to lier home for two weeks. Today she received a check for S2O from the Daily Times as compensation for her Injuries. Mrs. Collins states she was riding with a friend on the Keystone pike when n car coming from the opposite direction failed to dim Its lights. The bYight glare blinded the driver of the car she was in, and he ran Into a telephone pole, partially wrecking the car and injuring both of them. The other occupant of the automobile bad no insurance with the Times, but Mrs. Collins, through her forethought in taking out a policy, was able to collect at the rate of $lO a week for the time she was laid up. This is the second claim the Times has paid within the present week, and the fifth within a period of three weeks. Several other claims are pending nnd will he paid as fast as final proofs are filed.

throughout the hour and a half it lasted. The crowning event of the program, as usual, was the distribution of candy and a personal letter from the mayoi, which he took the trouble to sign with ills own hand, to every newsie present. Santa Claus relieved the mayor of the happy task of passing out the gifts, in order to give the mayor opportunity for full enjoyment of watching the youngsters receive them and some of them get In line for a second turn. Such was the spirit of (he occasion, however, that Such a breach of etiquette was viewed by the mayor as only an evidence of commendable enterprise. The mayor described the s’diiugsters who did this as “go-getters.” PERSONAL LETTER EXTENDS GREETING. The letter which each of the boys received was as follows: “My Dear Friend: “It has been a great pleasure to have as my guests the dow’ntown newsboys at Christmas time during the past three years. I appreciate very much your friendship. “May I extend to you my personal good

ALPHONSE P. PETTIS FROM FRANCE SENDS DONATION TO INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION

He’s Real Santa Claus

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Alphonse P. Pettis, who was one of the earliest owners of the New Torlc store, today played Santa Claus to Indianapolis by donating $300,000 to the Indianapolis Foundation. This picture, taken at Mr, Pettis’ home in Nice, France, shows him holding a cake that was presented to him on his ninetyfirst birthday.

Woollen Praises Pettis for Generous Yuletide Offering to Foundation

Evans Woollen, president of the Indianapolis Charity Organization Society, who, according to members of the board of trustees of the Indianapolis Foundation, was responsible to a greater degree than any otner person for the creation of the Foundation, was enthusiastic In commenting on Alphonse P. Pettis' gift, when told of it today. “This Christmas gift of Mr. Pettis to the future welfare of our city is perhaps the most outstanding thing that has happened in the charitable life of Indianapolis. Coming Just at I his time, It makes a peculiar appeal and suggests many things. I wish the word of the gift and an appreciation of Its significance might roach every citizen of our good city. To fully realize Its possibilities, the broad underlying principles behind the idea of the Indianapolis Foundation should be clearly stated. STATES POLICY OF FOUNDATION. The Foundation stands on this platform. Community gifts, preserved from dissipation of principal by entrusting them to strong financial Institutions, which are charged with the duty of investment and preservation of the principal, are dedicated through the Indianapolis Foundation to the welfare of tne community by permitting the income from the fund to be expended at the direction of public spirited citizens for the charitable needs of the community. “Without being tied down to spectne objects or compelled to support unworthy, poorly-managed or outgrown Institutions or causes, the Income always 1r available to meet today's needs, to minister to the immediate situation and thus adapt itself to life as it exists from year to year without the contral of the dead hand of the past.

wishes for a very happy Christmas time. One of the most pleasant remembrances I will take with me from the mayors office, When I have finished my term on Jan. 2, will be our happy Christmas parties in the city hall. “Mrs. Jewett joins me in extending to you a merry Christmas ami a happy New Year. “Yours very truly, “CHARLES W. JEWETT, Mayor.” The boys gathered at the building of the Indianapolis Star at 9:30 o’clock and formed a parade, heuiled by police, the Daily Times Drum Corps and the Boy Scout band. Then, led by Scout Executive F. O. Belzer, they marched to Meridian street in New York street, in Meridian street to the Circle, around to Meridian and into Washington, where they turned east to Pennsylvania street, north to Ohio street and thence to the city hall. MAYOR AWAITS GUESTS WITH SMILE. The mayor was waiting for his guests with the smile that has won him many friends both in and politics and a (Continued on Fttge Three.)

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“As has been well said, the foundation Is essentially of a revolving fund, ever up to date, and shifting Itself to the needs of our changing life. 'DECLARES GIFT REVEALS INSIGHT. “Mr. Pettis has given expression to a remarkable insight into this community project nnd its opportunity of usefulness. Instead of building up some institution to bear his name, and which might for all time stand as a monument to his generosity, he has caught the vision of something deeper and better. He has laid aside all thought of ; erecting a building or endowing an ln- , stitutlon to visthly commemorate hlm- ; self and instead has made this great I gift for tlie broad purpose of bettering | the life of the community, leaving it to (Continued oil Page Ten.) May Be Snow, But Odds Are to Contrary Federal Weather Observer Offers Little Hope of White Yuletide. Cold and clear weather Is promised for Christmas by the United States Weather Bureau. If there is to be any snow it will have to fall today, according to J. 11. Arinlngton, meteorologist, for tonight a cold wave will accompany our old friend, Mr. S. Claus on his visit to Indianapolis and by Christmas morning the thermometer will register between and five and ten degrees above zero, which j will be entirely too cold for a snowfall. However, there is still a chance, Mr. Armington says, that there will be some snow flurries before nightfall, but these chances are growing more slender every hour. The cold wave which is due to arrive lonight extends over the western part of the Mississippi Valley, from Canada to Texas, the temperatures ranging at 7 o’clock this morning from 22 degrees | below zero at Moorebead, Minn., to 31 ; degrees above at Indianapolis. The zero | weather west of the Mississippi extends as far south as southwestern Kansas, and even Texas is feeling the effects of the cold wave. But better things are in prospect. In the far Northwest, although the mercury is still hovering around the zefo mark, j the temperatur ranges from 20 to 30 degrees warmer than yesterday. This “softening” will make itself felt in Indiana in a few days. While the north half of the State shivered In the grip of a cold wave which rapidly moved southward, southern counties were menaced by rapidly rising waters in small streams, swollen by twentyfour hours of almost continuous rainfall. From Seymour it was reported more than a mile of Pennsylvania railroad tracks near Marshfield were washed out by the flood waters of Stucker creek. Service on the Interstate Traction lines nearby, was suspended becausq the tracks were under several feet of water. At Ft. Ritner, in Lawrence County, traffic on the Baltimore & Ohio was delayed by a landslide caused by excessive rains.

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RESIDENT AND OWNER OF NEW YORK STORE HERE 30 YEARS AGO ‘Santa’ From Overseas Now Past 91 and Living in Retirement at Nice—Built For- _ tune in Hoosier Capital. POSSIBLE TO DEVELOP IDEA AT ONCE Santa Claus swept across the ocean ‘today to leave the city’s most wonderful Christmas gift on the doorstep of Indianapolis. Alphonse P. Pettis, a resident of Nice, France, one of the earliest owners of the New York store, has Just given to the trustees of the Indianapolis Foundation securities totaling more than $300,000, income from which is to be used in perpetuity for charitable purposes by the foundation. The 6ize of the gift has startled the trustees of the foundation, who knew that many wills of rich persons in the community had provided for bequests of large sums to the foundation, but who had not expected a booster of Indianapolis to come forward during life with such a gift Mr. Pettis, who took the role of Santa Claus, is 91 and has not lived in Indianapolis for more than thirty years. His gift Is in the form of securities, left in the custody of the Indiana Trust Company, one of the three trust companies which adopted the resolution creating the Indianapolis Foundation in 1916. The fullest powers of investment and change of investment are given the trust company, under Mr. Pettis' gift, and the income from tho securities i3 given in tho broadest possible terms to the trustees of the Indianapolis Foundation, to be disbursed by them for the purposes set out in the foundation resolution. BOARD NONPOLITICAL AND OF CONTINUING CHARACTER. Under the terms of the resolution creating the foundation, the^income from funds left to it are to "be disbursed * * * on the written order of a board of trustees for such charitable uses as will in its Judgment promote the welfare of persons now or hereafter residing in Indianapolis, Ind.,” and provision Is made that the board of control always shall be nonpolitical and of a continuing character. Members of the present board of the foundation include J. K. Lilly, chairman; Henry H. Hornbrook, secretary; G. A. Efroymson, Mgr- Francis H. Gavlsk, Henry W. Bennett and Louis H. Levey. Members of the board said the gift would enable the foundation to begin functioning at once, whereas actual development of the ideas under which it was created has been far in the future heretofore.

(While it has been known for some time that several wills that have been prepared by wealthy citizens of Indianapolis ha~e provided for large gifts to the foundation, the Pettis gift is the first tangible property that has passed Into jits hands. jAT LEAST MILLION TO BE READY EVENTUALLY, j A trustee of the Foundation 'said that at least $1,000,000 in gifts to the Foundation Is known to be provided in various wills of living persons. These same eventually will be merged into a common fund for the betterment of living conditions in Indianapolis, under the terms of tho Foundation resolution. In 1916 the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, the Union Trust Company and the Indiana Trust Company adopted n resolution, under which it was made possible for a continuing board of trustees to administer Income from gifts and bej quests for charitable purposes in the city ■of Indianapolis. More than thirty American cities have, within the past few years, adopted similar plans and the gift announced frorq Mr. Pettis opens the way for the Indianapolis Foundation to step to the front in developing this new means of community helpfulness along with ' such organizations ns the foundations in Cleveland, Chicago and New York City. Friends of Mr. Tettis in Indianapolis j have known for some years that he intended making a substantial gift to the city In which he had amassed much of j his personal fortune. George A. Gay, president of the Pettis j Dry Goods Company, said Mr. Pettis often had expressed to him the desire to; leave something In his will to the city \ for which he cared so much. Eventually, after Mr. Gay had explained to him the purposes of the Indianapolis Foundation, ; Mr. Pettis was moved to increase his gift as originally planned and leave it ' to the Foundation, to expend in future j years for the upbuilding of things needed by the citizens of coming years. ! INDIANAPOLIS HELD DEAR IN HIS MEMORY, “Mr. Pettis always seemed to have a keen sense of the obligation he owed to the city in which he had accumulated much of his property,” Mr. Gay said. “He often mentioned Indianapolis, in his letters, as a ‘fine city,’ nnd he continued to have a deep interest in its future. Some time ago I suggested to him that the Indianapolis Foundation perhaps fitted In with his requirements of j a receptacle in which he might place his j

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j gift to the city with assurance that it would function to the greatest good for all the citizens through many years. He readily agreed that the foundation suit-* ed his purposes splendidly, and he was particularly Impressed with the type of men who had been appointed as the first board of trustees of the Foundation. Eventually, he decided to make the gift during his- lifetime.” Mr. Gay said Mr. Pettis’ original idea was to leave SIOO,OOO to the city in some such way that political might have no effect on its benefits to the citizenship. Trustees of the Foundation pointed to the fact the Mr. Pettis' gift would make possible operations of the Foundation probably to a point that would encourage others of small and large means alike to study the purposes of the Foundation and eventually make bequests for the benefit of the people of the city through its agency. They said no definite program of administration of the income from the Petti gift has been determined. TETTIS NATIVE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Alphonse P. Tettis was born Ang. IC, 1836, in Montgomery, Mass., arcording to relatives, who live here. He was married late in life in Paris. France, to Marie Guilled Gentil, a native of Switzerland, Mrs. Pettis died in Paris June 15, 1909. No children were born to the couple. Several nephews and nieces of Mr. Pettis live In Missouri and in New England States. Mrs. F. L. Pettis, 2614 Sutherland avenue. Indianapolis, is the vidow of F. L. Tettis, who died here Nov 19, 1921. F. L. Pettis was a nephew of Alphonse P. Tettis. The donor of the Christmas gift to tho city, sold the controlling interest in the Pettis Dry Goods Company many years ago. At one time in the history of the store, all of the municipal offices of Indianapolis were located in the store building and a fire-tower, one of the earliest the city had, was located on top of the building. ■William and Hugh Glenn established the earliest business ancestor of the present New York Store. They oipened a dry goods store in the old Bates House, at the corner of Illinois and Washington streets, in 1853. According to Charles Maguire, now an employe of the New York Store, who also worked for the earlier owners, the Glenns made enough money in the location at the (Continued on Page Ten.)