Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1922 — Page 14

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We Will Help You to Save Safely yirtttjrr anu Crust Company BOY, 6, SHOOTS HIMSELF WHILE PLAYING ACTOR Child Ignores Warning and Older Brother Hears Fatal Shot. Charles Reinert, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Reinert, 2474 Bond street, fatally shot himself with a shotgun, which he had procured in the ab'(■nce of his parents Sunday morning. The little boy, according to the story of his brother Harold, 8, took the gun from behind a bed. where it was kept, md loaded it, remarking he was going to play actor. Uis brother warned him to leave the gun alone, but the warning was unheeded. Charles dragged the gun behind him and walked out of the room and Harold beard a shot. He entered the next room in time to see hia brother drop the gun and stagger to the front porch. Some of the shot had entered the boy's back and left side. The boy died before a physician could be summoned. The part of the charge ~f the gun. which did not enter the boy's body, tore a hoie one and one-half inches n diameter through the froiit door.

DOCTOR DIES FROM POISON Took Bichloride of Mercury by Mistake. WHITING, Ind., April IT.—lnquest Into the death of Dr. Edward K. Newton, who fought a twelve-day fight against the effects of two grains of bichloride of mercury, taken by mistake, was to le held today. Dr. Newton personally directed the fight for his life. A few days ago he realized his life could not be -aved and began to put his affairs in order. Moore Not Husband, but Nichols Is Man She Seeks, Girl Says Brougnt to India.tapolis from Minneapolis by the hope that Isaiah Moore, who is now serving a term in Michigan City for bigamy and who is the confessed husband of thlite- i n wives, might be the man who married her. lived with her for two days and then deserted her. Miss Elda Swense of Minneapolis came to Indianapolis. When shown pictures of Moore, she said he was not her husband. , She told detectives her husband had passed under the name of Fred Nichols. Detectives learned there was a Fred Mchois living at the Buckingham apart - 4 pnts. 3101 North Meridian street. In c mipany of two officers. Miss Swense sent to that address She identified Nichols as the man who deserted her. Nichols was arrested on a bigamy mrge. Miss Swense has a marriage certificate saving she was married to a Frtd Nichols in Minneapolis. Nichols, who is married and has a 12-year-01-l daughter and a 10 year-olil son, admi*s he knew Miss Swense and corresponded with her but insists he never married her. To Open Hearing of Gas Petition Hearing of the petition of the Citizens Gag Company for an increase in rates will I >c*gin Tuesday before the Indiana public rvi-e commission. Prior to the tiling of th- petition accountants of the enmmissior had been at work making an audit of the books of the gas company and this will not delay the hearing it is said. Several protests have been received by he public service commission against the petition. One of these from the East Side Civic League says that organization i> unanimously opposed to the granting of an fincrease to the gas company. The Better Business League of North Indianapolis also has filed a protest against the increase asked. H. G. Gaylord, a phygician, has written to the commission, asking that the bO pent minimum chaige be abolished, because of hardships, he alleges, that are worked upon thousands of small consumers. Political Club to Hold Open House All Democratic candidates for nominations in the primary have been invited to attend an open meeting of the Mapleton Democratic Club at 3418 North Illinois street tonight. The club opened new quarters recently. Reginald Sullivan, county chairman’; John Logan, county secretary: Rolland E. Friedman. Fourth Ward chairman, and Court Blue, Washington township chairman, are officers The membership includes Democrats of the Fourth Ward and Washington township.

CHEERIO Adherents of old "rain on Easter, rain for seven successive Sundays" theory breathed a sigh of relief when it was announced officially no rain fell yesterday. After one of the most beautiful Easter days in the history of Indianapolis, rain clouds put in appearance late in the afternoon and at times it seemed rain bef..re midnight was inevitable. But no rain actually fell until shortly after midnight.

Is Your Child Saving? It is reasonable to assume that the child who SPENDS all its pennies will become the improvident man or woman. The sooner you start to teach your child the principles of saving, the stronger the habit will grow. A bank account is the best teacher. $1 is all you need to start your little boy or girl. We Pay 4^2% Sowings MEYER-KISER BANK 136 East Washington Street. Get them one of our Little Home Bank*

MANY HURT IN WIDE VARIETY OF ACCIDENTS Four Persons, Caught Between Automobile and Street Car, Bruised. COUPLE IN A RUNAWAY The week end toll of thirteen accidents reported to the police, included dog-bite, arm fractured from cranking automobile, a woman flung from wagon drawn by runaway horse, four persons injured when caught between a street car and a a automobile, and other more ordinary acc.dents. Frur pedestrians were bruised and shaken yesterday when, at Illinois and Washington streets, they were caught between an automobile driven by James N. Mohr, 560 Eastern avenue, and a street car, the motorman of which was William Franzman, 319 Douglas street. Mohr and Franzman were arrested on charges of assault and battery and later released on their own recognizance. The Injured were, David Walk, 1213 Woodlawn avenue; Grace and Mabel Borhnehn, 1310 Lexington avenue, and George Bolander. 126 South Delaware street. Walk was knocked under the street car and the others were pinned between the side of the car and the front of the automobile. Leon Carney, 3, 60S East Georgia street, was bitten by a large dog as he was playing near bis home yesterday. A policeman killed the dog. Mary Meister, 14, 3821 East Washing ton street, was injured slightly about the left side when she was struck at Washington avenue and Sherman Drive by a motorcycle rlden by Hubert Wagner, of Kokomo, Ind. Witnesses said that the girl stepped from behind a street car. Into the path of the motorcycle. Mrs. Nora Stoner of Greenwood, Ind., was Injured Saturday when a horse driven by her husgand, Charles Stoner, became frightened and ran away. A wheel came off the wagon, but the horse continued to run for about two squares. Mrs. Stones was seriously bruised about the body. Donald Sherman, 4, 3312 East New York street, was cut about the head when he was hit and knocked down by an automobile. Mrs. Edward Watson, rural route H. box 4, received a deep cut on the hand yesterday when an automobile driven by her husband collided with another machine. Charles E. Jennings, 2240 Martindale avenue, suffered a fractured right arm when an automobiie which he was crank ing back-fired. The arm was broken near the krist. Joseph Patterson, 13. 1417 South Illinois street, was injured about the body when s bicycle he was riding was struck by an automobile, and he was thrown to the ground. Thomas Mullins. 151 Rembrandt street, was cut on the chin by an unidentified negro last night at Indiana avenue and St. Clair street. Robert Williams. 14. 1426 Bellefontaine street, was bruised badly when he was struck by an automobile driven by M. R. Hunter. 1426 East South street. The boy was pulling a wagon loaded with papers at the time of the accldei t. Hunter was arrested on an assault and battery charge. SUNSHINE SOCIETY MEETS. LAFAYETTE. Ind., April 17.—High school girls of Indiana, forming the Sunshine Society, will hold their annual convention here April 28-29. The organization, which was founded by Miss Anna Wilson of Crawfordsvllle for the promotion of "a sisterly interest" between the members is open to all high school girls in the State. GARDEN. The best gardens are those without weeds. Keep your garden weeded. When stray plants are allowed to grow they take up the moisture and thus rob vegetable or flower plants of it.

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DOG HILL PARAGRAFS Dock Hocks, our enterprising blacksmith, has added a sharp razor to his barber department In the southeast corner of the shop, and a little later will get a bigger pair of pliers for his dental chair. Luke Mathewsla says there are so many different kinds of diseases in the world some persons have to have two of them at once in order to get them all. • * • On his last trip In, this week, the Mai! Carrier traveled so fast, he stripped the gear on one of the wheels of his watch. Negro Is Slain by His Stepfather Robert Chambers, negro, 34S West Twenty-Sixth street, was shot and killed by his stepfather, Rufus Johnson, at the home of the former, after a family quarrel. The two men had an altercation over a grip Johnson had left In the house. Johnson, picking up a rifle which lay on a table, shot Chambers twice In the bead. Johnson was captured near Fourteenth street and Central avenue by a nightriding squad and arrested for murder. The ride was found. After Johnson killed his stepson, he engaged in a duel with William Chambers, brother of tlie dead man, who had seized a revolver and chased Johnson a short distance.

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COAL STRIKE SHOW DOWN IN NEXT 30 DAYS Both Sides Prepare for Crucial Stage Within Month. \ The nation-wide coal strike now in Its third week will enter a crucial stage within thirty days, union chiefs declared here today. With all chance apparently gone for immediate Government intervention, the tide of battle will be determined definitely in another month. It was said. Miners will know then whether they have succeeded in hampering non-union production sufficiently to assure them victory. Mine owners will know whether they are winning In their fight for abandonment of the central competitive field as a basis of wage negotiations.

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Warren H. Simmons’ BurialJn Crown Hill Funeral services for Warren. H. Simmons, 65, manager of the Indianapolis branch of the Beinis Bag Company, and third vice president of the company, who died Saturday at his home, 3932 Washington Boulevard, was held this morning at 10 o’clock. Burial was in Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Simmons came to Indianapolis, in 1900, from Webster, Mo., to open the local branch of the Bends Company. He has been connected vwlth the company forty five years. * He was a member of the Scottish Rite, the Shrine, the Columbia Club, the Marion Club, the Woodstock Club, the University Club and the Connery Club. He was a member of the board of governors of the Board of Trade, and an elder iu the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, and a member of the board ot directors of the Y. M. C. A., an*the Y. W. C. A. Mr. Simmons was born in Yonkers, N. Y. He is survived by the widow, a son, Warren H. Simmons, and a daughter, Miss Ruth Simmons. \

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