Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1922 — Page 1

FOR THE KIDDIES Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy in the Times every day.

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BAPTISTS IN SUPPORT OF WORLDPEACE Resolutions Adopted Lauding Efforts of Harding. SESSIONS CLOSE Home Mission Society in Charge of Last Program. Expressing “profound appreciation of j the efforts of the President of the United 1 States and the Secretary of State to se- I cure a limitation of armament'’ and rec j ogniztng the “responsibility of the j churches to educate the people in the | evils of war and to promote a federation j of all peoples." the Northern Baptist | u-'legates. In final morning session of i the convention today at the Cadle Tabernacle. adopted the report of the social service committee. Action on the report was unanimous. The recommendations follow: *'l. We commend to our churches the principles of humane work as it applies , to protection of children, helpfulness to [the aged and infirm ami kindness to ani■tmls; we favor humane education in the lie schools and public institutions Kfarally. in the prin ip’.es of kimlr*>ss rest urns; we commend the work In \riMjf of humane education and conduct by the Am* r:- in IDr.ii.in. i S jPf'iation. and we commend the organyjjgc ,1 of a band of mercy in each SBX bo autlo*rlze*l t< vc Mi and the other a gene ion in ogiyr ng human- -i s- r . dis.-mimr t s“...xx of ;.r> h:l wo upholding th - nii'l of the eighteenth amendment. V N VA U FA [7 INDUSTRY. values are involved In Industry and the Industrial question is a moral and re- j llglous question, we strongly urge our : pastors and people to make a careful study of the issues unsolved, to encotir age classes to study these questions, and to use such literature as is available In reaching a right understanding of the Issues at stake; and to promote conferences of employers and employes for the J consideration of industrial questions and the adjustment of human relations. “4. We urge upon the Christian heart of j America sympathy and responsibility for the suffering childhood of the world ; that our people loyally support the established recognized relief agencies, such ns the Near East Relief. Russian, and European relief organizations. The hungry' and destitute child Is America's challenge to < serve Christ. “5. We record onr profound approcia- 1 tion of the efforts of the President and (Continued on Page Two.) SCHOOL PAINT IS SUBJECT OF CONTROVERSY Two Distinct Views Taken by Representatives of SupplyHouses. Specifications for paint to be used by the school city were characterized as “an insult to Indianapolis” by one delegation of paint dealers and manufacturers, and as “thoroughly satisfactory and fair" by another at a meeting of the board of school commissioners today. The controversy developed into open hostilities between members and nonmembers of the Indianapolis Paint, Oil and Varnish Association, although members of the association denied the organization was anything more than a so- j elal body. When the board met the room was filled with members of the two groups. HOSTILITIES OPENED BY ADVANCE AGENT. Hostilities were opened by TANARUS, .1. Kelley of the Advance Pair.t Company, who presented a protest against specifications | prepared under the direction of Walter J. Twlname, business director of the school city. The protesto was signed by the Advance Paint Company, the A. Bttrdsal Compary, Lilly Varnish Company. Indianapolis Paint and Color Company and the Sargent-Gerke Company. Mr. Kelley said that the specifications were so drawn that the standards of outside firms were adopted, while Indianapolis firms were ignored. Mr. Tvyiname said the products of three local concerns, the Indianapolis Varnish > Company, J. 11. Baumann A Sons and the ’ Indianapolis Chemical Company were; named In the specifications. It then do- i veloped that these concerns were not' members of the local association. Mr. Twlname insisted that when he drew the specifications he knew of no associations and did not learn of one until yesterday. The result of the argument was that a special committee composed of Adolph Emhardt and Bert S. Gadd, board members. Business Director Twiname and George W. Ricketts, superintendent of buildings and grounds, was named to go over the specifications and report to the i board. The list of employes of the Indianapo- ' lis public library system, presented by Charles E. Rush, librarian, was approved : without argument. With minor changes the contract be- ! tween the board and the park board for the use of certain school playgrounds, as public playgrounds, during the summer months was approved. ' ; WEATHER | Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity I ' for the twenty-four hours ending at 7' p. tn., Weiln-sday, .Tune 21; General y fair tonight and Wednesday: tot much change in temperature HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. in Cl 7 a. m Cs 8 a. m 75 0 a. m 7fi 10 a. m 76 11 a. m 78 12 (noon) 80 1 p. m 81 2 p. m S3

Rat Holds Up Traffic While He Eats Lunch A big gray rat strolled Into the car tracks on South Illinois street, near Maryland, about noon yesterday, and for several minutes entertained a crowd. The rodent, apparently rendered fearless by hunger, busied Itself with some popcorn i that was scattered along between the street car rails. As the crowd grew to nearly one hundred persons, several men walked close to the greedy rat. He paid no attention to them, even when one young man kicked him. So intent was the rat on his feeding that he failed to see an approaching au- j tomobtle. The front wheel of the car 1 struck his head. The crowd watched him die and pedestrian traffic was resumed. IIK.NKY FOWLS PLANT OFFER ‘GROSS FRAUD’ WASHINGTON, June 20. Henry Ford’s offer for the Muscle Shoals, Alabama nitrate and power project is called a “fraud" and “an outright attempt to rob the Governmeut” in a report filed with the House today' by five meinbers of the House Military Affairs Committee. The report denounces the Ford bid In the strongest and bitterest terms and urges Congress to authorize the Secretary of War to call for new offers. The substance of the complaint in the f report is that “the Government loses all J ! an ; gains nothing." under the Ford offer, j i which, the report declared, “has been ' j misrepresented to the country by one of j ilie most insidious propagandas the ; Nation stias ever seen." The report, written by Representative j Kearns, Republican, of Ohio, was one of i | the most scathing denunciations of a na- j j tional project ever submitted to either j branch of Congress. It. branded the; Ford offer as a “subsidy" and “fraud," 1 as a “hollow promise” and a “bribe of! sympathy from the farmers.” , Kearns and his fellow members urged | Congress to reject the proposal "In the ! j name of future generations.’’ It par- j Ocularly denounced Ford’s alleged “in- j i sidlous propaganda," which It termed 1 i “false, unfair and unreliable." A majority report prveiously submit- [ j ted by the committee urged acceptance, i of Ford's offer with the Gorgas steam ■ plant eliminated, while another minority report urged its acceptance “in full." Tn the Kearns report, which was also signed by Representatives Frothlngham. Republican, of Massachusetts; Crowtt.er, : Republican, of New York, and Morin and Craigo, Republicans, of Pennsylvania, ; particular attention was railed to the “frenzied finance” in Ford’s proposal to pay off the cost of the project. The report declared the Government was asked to sell 555.457.000 worth of property for i 55.000.000 In cash, rent a $07,000,000 project for a hundred years for a “mere $4,674,000,” and lose $015,000 a year on an upkeep provision Insisted upon by Ford. CALL OF KANSAS HARVEST FIELD IS FATAL TO 7 j Five Seated on Santa Fe Railroad Tracks Fall Asleep, Injured Survivor Says. KANSAS CITY. Mo., June 20—The call of the Kansas harvest took seven lives - today. The men, all harvest hands on their way to points near Wichita and Newton, were killed in accidents on the Sante Fe Railroad. An eighth man was possibly fatally ; | injured, i The dead; ! Charles Jackson. St. Louis: Stanley Carr, St. Louis; Clyde Perryman, Buffalo; | Lloyd Keith, Buffalo; Mosie Claude j i Perryman, Buffalo, two unidentified men. ! I Seriously injured: Jeff Bryant, address unknown. The five who were sitting on the San- j te Fe tracks to rest, fell asloe.p, according | to the story told by Bryant. The mangled bodies ot the four killed were found scattered along the tracks for j three miles. JUDGE ACTS QUICKLY ON GUILTY PLEA Ax Slayer Goes to State Prison for Life for Killing Welfare Worker. JACKSON, Mich., June 20.- George! j Straub was sentenced to Marquette j ; prison for life today for murdering Miss ■ 1 Alice Mnllett, local welfare worker. [ Straub pleaded guilty when arraigned j before Judge Benjamin Williams. Special details of State police and local i officials guarded the confessed prisoner as he was led Into the courtroom. Hun- j ilnds of people jammed the courtroom. ! “Words cannot express my opinion as > to the monstrosity of this crime," said Judge Williams, iu passing sentence. Miss Mallett was killed with an ax, I her body mutilated anil left In a yard in Jackson nearly two weeks ago. Fire Causes Alarm at City Hospital Fire behind a radiator near the main ! [entrance to the surgery building at the I city hospital caused considerable excite- ; ruent, but slight loss, at 1 o’clock this ! afternoon. Chemicals easily extinguished j the blaze, which Is thought to have been started by a carelessly discarded match or cigarette. Dr. Richard A. Poole, superintendent, said hospital rules prohibit smoking. Men in the heating plan, 100 feet away, discovered the fire. Smoke from the floor backed through a 'heating pip tunnel from the surgery building. BICYCLIST INJURED. George lyer, 18, 2251 Central avenue, suffered a broken log last night when his bicycle collided with an automobile driven by George McElroy. The accident occurred at Vermont and Sciota streets.

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POWERS WILL ASK RUSSIA TO THE HAGUE Communication Goes Out With Decisions of Conference. AVOIDS FORMULA British Diplomacy Is Triumphant Over France. THE HAGUE, June 20.—Russia today will be invited to send representatives to the conference at The Hague. Representatives of the powers gathered here today and drafted a communication to the soviet government, informing it of the preliminary decisions of the conference, the personnel of the various commissions that have been set up, and asking it to send its spokesmen here June 20 to solve the Russian problem. However, this communication does not contain any formula or basis of discussion, first, because the allies have not yet agreed on these matters themselves, and, second, because the British objected to any set terms such as the French desired. The British feared Russia would regard such terms as an ultimatum and assume a defiant attitude. RENEW EFFORT TO SECURE CITY MARKET REFORM Federation of Civic Clubs Take Up Question Through Resolution to Council. j Efforts to have the city market house j remodeled were revived today. ] The Indianapolis Federation of ComI munity Civic Clubs sent resolutions to the city council calling for ressurectlon . of the recommendations of the market ! survey committee appointed by Mayor j Charles W. Jewett In 11)19. It asks this : survey be made the basis for another in- ! restlgatlon of present needs. Mayor Shank i asked to actively promote the work and the council is asked to use Its best efforts to accomplish r market reform. : The 1919 survey was made by Stanley Wyckoff, Mrs. Rowland Evans, John F. White, and I'. J. O’Muhoney. They sub- j mitteri elaborate recommendations for ! new buildings, costing around $300,000, , and for changes in market methods. The Jewett administration, asked council to appropriate $123,000 for remodeling the present buildings, but never secured it. PLUCKY WOMAN ! PROTECTS AUTO FROM THIEVES Frightens Two From Attempt to Start Neighbor’s Automobile. A plucky women prevented two thieves from stealing an automobile from the garage of William J. Lyons, t>is North ; Beville avenue at i :40 o'clock this niorn- ; ing. Mrs. Jessie Knight, 368 North Keystone avenue, heard some person break- ; ; ing the door of the garage open. She 1 ; went to the rear of the yard to Invest!j gate and saw two men in Lyons’ garage ! trying to start his automobile. They ; saw her and ran to another big automo j bile they had parked in an alley near the ! garage. ! Mrs. Charles Tyner, 564 North Keystone [ avenue, also was attracted to the scene! • anil the two women saw the would-be | [automobile thieves drive away at a high! i rote of speed. The alley led to a school; ; yard where the thieves turned the auto- \ : mobile around and drove through a ; hedge to Keystone avenue, escaping before the police arrived. OLDGUARD IN MINNESOTA IS LEADING RACE Kellog Piles Up Votes to Succeed Himself in I Senate. j ST. PAUL, Minn., June 20. —Senator [ Frank B. Kellogg, Republican candidate i (o succeed himself, piled up a heavy lead j j over two opponents In early returns from j j Monday's Minnesota primary. I Returns from 245 precincts out of 3,438 l gave: ! Kellogg, 10,275; Ernest Lundeen, 7,747; [ Richard Titus, 1,762. ’ Anna I). Olesen, Democratic candidate i for United States senatorial nomination, I gained a slight lead over Thomas .T. j Moighen in the first scattering returns, j The vote in 148 precincts: Mrs. Olesen, 1,611; Melghen, 1,453. Edward Indreheus had a slight lend j over K. Merle Birmingham in tne contest ! for Democratic nomination for Governor. Mrs. Logan Leaves Estate to Sisters The will of Mrs. Anna M. Logan, the first police matron in Indianapolis, who died a few days ago, was probated today tefore Judge Mahlon E. Bash. Mrs. Logan left her estate of $3,500, personal property and real estate valued at $2,000, to her sisters, Caroline Imel of Fairland, who was appointed administratrix; Mary M. Detmars and Catherine C. Matiier. The latter two are of Indianapolis. Venard Alias Cook Fined SIOO and Costs Or 1 Venard, 19-7 Columbia avenue, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to thirty days in Jail by Judge Delbert O. I Wllmeth in city court today for violating J the prohibition law.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 20,1922.

Traffic Cops Swelter Under Uniform Coats

flow would you like to be a corner cop 7 j He -rands in the burning snn all day, wearing a heavy uniform coat. lie is not permitted to shed the coat because regulations say he must wear it Many of the traffic policemen arc ob- ! jecting so this regulation. They are also : asking what has become of the utn- | hrellas of firmer years, with "Go" and j “Stop" printed on them In large letters, i The consensus of opinion among the traffic policemen according to Interviews with thirteen of them, facers the use of sunshades, similar to those used last 1 year. Many of the men also expressed a 1 desire to discard their coats. KHAKI SHIRT IS IN FAVOR. { If a shirt and no coat were worn, j tightness around the neck and excessive | perspiring would be eliminated, those in | favor of shirts suggested. A tan or khaki shirts with black four-in-liand he ■ seemed to be In favor. One traffic man, who has roamed the , world from Nome to Nagasaki and back again, said he was against the eltinin- [ tion of the blouse. 1 "The first thing a tourist sees when he hits a town is the policemen,” the supporter of the continuance of the wearing of the coat said. “We have a great ! many travelers coming through Inillan- ; polls and we want to keep up the reputation which we have established. It looks 'sloppy' to see policemen hitched to ' a pole in their shirt sleeves.” I Another officer raised the question as 1 to where the side arms could he kept. He J objected, be said, to looking liflo a "seci ond Tom Mix.” A veteran traffic man, who has stood on a corner for many years, said that a WATSON TABLES MOTION TO PUT BONUS IN LEAD Indiana Senator Moves to Postpone Proposed Action on Soldiers’ Bill. WASHINGTON, June 20—By a vote I of 51 to 22 the Senate this afiarnonn rej jeetod a motion by Senator Walsh, | Democrat, of Massachusetts, to take up the soldiers' bonus bill immediately, displacing the tariff. The record vote was obtained on a motion by Senator Watson. Republican of Indiana, to lay Walsh's motion on ! the table. 1 Forty-three Republicans and eight j Democrats voted for Watson's motion. ! Twenty Democrats and two* Republicans j voted against it. BULLETS HIT CRAIG’S HOUSE BELFAST, June 20.—Several bullets lost night struck the building where Sir James Craig, Ulster premier and his wife were sleeping, it was reported here today. Details of the attack were lacking. SERVICE The Rev. M. B. Sloan of Pittsburgh, j Pa., who today is observing his eighty-fifth birthday, was introduced to the Northern Baptist convention , delegates who gave him an ovation when attention was called to the birthday, by the president of the Baptists. The ltev. Mr. Sloan was baptised seventy-five years ago and j has been active in the Baptist Church for more than Bixty years. He is a [ delegate to this convention. v J

shirt without the use of a sunshade . would be much worse than to continue tto wear a blouse. lie said the sun beat i through the shirt and made one hotter than wontlil the coat. Wearing only a shirt made nf "mosquito liar" would not keep one cool, another officer contended, when it was necessary to stand In the hot sun for several hours at a time. Several traffic policemen remarked that business men had asked them why It was they were forced to wear a blouse, tightly fastened about the neck, lit summer. The policemen wear stiff collars now. | It is said that the custodian of the j station house st.il! has tlie sunshades used under the last administration. The board of safety has discussed the advisability of permitting the policemen to remove their coats and of adopting a uniform blue shirt. KIKHOFF SAYS COATS BTAY ON. j t hies of Police Herman F. Rikboff ilej dared the'policemen will not he allowed ■to remove their coats. He said each Is ! equipped with a large revolver and a club, jand'that he does not believe this tquipj moot should be exposed, j Tlie chief did say, however, that there | would be no objection to their opening J their e&ats or to their attaching tin ir t collars to their coats and wearing no shirts. On the subject, of sunshades, the chief said some device will he adopted but that It will not bo an umbrella. Traffic Captain Michael Glenn pointed out that under the present arrangement traffic policemen are on continuous duty only thirty minutes at a time and that he does not believe it. is a hardship tor them to stand in the sun for such pej riods. | STRIKERS MAKE THREAT'S WHILE 39 ARE IN JAIL David Jones, Leader of Union Group, Persuades Enraged Men Against Violence. BRAZIL, Inti., June 20.—Six hundred striking miners threatened to storm the joil\ where thirty-nine mlnerß were held charged with inciting riot in closing mlqes at Staunton last Wednesday. Only on the plea of David Jones, executive board member of District 11, | who persuaded the leaders to delay their | action until the men had been given j n chance to give bond, did the rioters dtsj perse. Boys Leave for Waverly in Row Boat Ilttck Finn had nothing on two Indianapolis boys. Robert Lalee, 10, 19 West | Arizona street, and Gilbert Clark, 10, 29 • West Arizona street, left this city at noon Sunday in a fiat bottom rowboat. They were en route to Waverly, Ind., but today the father of the Clark boy .notified the police, as he fears the boat [ is somewhere on the bottom of White j River and that his son has been drowned. I Awaked by Burglar Ransacking Drawer i When Mrs. John Mullery, 3308 New- i (bn street, awakened at 8 a. ii. today I she saw a inan in her room, ransacking j a dresser drawer. She screnmed and the ! man ran. The police found the burglar ' bad forced a lock, but nothing was stolen.

LABOR ALLIES PREPARED TO MEET ATTACK Conference of Unions Will Plan Joint Action. MUTUAL DEFENSE Prosecution Expected , in Case of Big Walkout. CINCINNATI, June 20. Railroad workers and their allies, the striking miners, "will be prepared to meet any kind of attack" that may be launched against them, in the event of a rail strike and Joint ac(lon thereafter by the i l railroad men and tnim-rs. leaders said j today, on the eve of tne conference for i "common defense." As the miners' representatives prepared ! to take up formally with the railroad : unions tonight, the latter's proposal fur cooperative action. It was Intimated that court action or intervention by the Government to block the rail strike would not surprise the allied bailers. "We are prepared for anything; I am not going to tip off our plans, but I'll say we are going to be ready for whatever comes." said a railroad uuion executive today. The first formal conference of (lie railroad anil mine groups will be attended ‘by counsel for both ut them, It was ciJ pected. j KILLS FATHER; SON RELATES CRIME STORY Asa Miller Calmly Tells Sheriff How He Murdered Parent. PETERSBURG, Ind.. June 20,-Asa ■ Miller, 31, sitting on a cot In the county Jail here Tuesday, calmly told Sheriff Wayne Bryant why he killed his father, George Miller. 74, the sheriff said today. The father's body was found late yes- • terday by Charlie Vaughn, a farmer, ltt j the front yard t the Miller home, a mile west of Velpen. The victim's head hail ■ been battered with a fence picket, ac- I : cording to the coroner. The man had , been dead since Friday. "It uII happened over some mules," , j Sheriff Bryant said Miller fold him. "My ; father refused to let me sell the mules, which I knew I partly owned. We had j an argument and he ran out of the house i ; with n corn knife. He was almost upon me when I picked up the picket. , "Yes. I hit him. I'm not sorry of it, ' either." Unshaven, dressed In overalls, wearing a straw hat and gum boots. Miller slept soundly at the jail last night. : It is believed the attack took plaefe some | distance from the spot where the body was fiAind. and that it was dragged to | beneath the tree. The son Is alleged to ! have served n prison sentence in the West | for murder, returning only a short time j ago to his father's house. He is said [ ' to have made a trip to Washington reI cently, where after an unsuccessful attempt to "see" President Harding, he i was placed in Jail, only to be released | with notice to leave the Capital. Doubt ! exists hero as to his mental responsibility. ! Relatives say the son made a vicious attack on his father eight years ago, after which he disappeared and was gone for mouths. , The coroner's verdict was that the elder Miller died at least two days before the i body was discovered, a result of blows I on his head, from some blunt Instrument. | TAKE STEP TO ENFORCE BLUE LAW’ IN RESORT Arrest Dance Hall Owner for Opening Place on Sunday. KF.NDALVILLE, Ind., June 20.-First steps in the enforcement of Sunday "blue ! laws" In Rome City, a summer resort | town seven miles west of here, were tak- j en today In the arrest of Frank Lisle, dance hall proprietor of the resort, ami ! three of his employes. [ Lisle, It Is charged, opened his dance j hall last Sunday, openly defying the | threat of Noble County clergy that he ! would be arrested if he did so. | The ministers claim they will close the | town up tight on Sundays, banish booze j there at all times and remedy alleged im--1 proper coliditlons. . Woman Finds , Neighbor Is Her Mother Special to The Times. KOKOMO, Ind., June 20.—Mrs. Frank Redmond and her daughter, Mrs. Blanche I Lewis, have been neighbors here for j years. Almost dally they have met each other on the street. Yet they did not know of their relationship. Thirteen years ago Mrs. Redmond's first ! • husband, Charles Bitner, died, leaving her with four children. Blanche was placed In an orphanage, and was later adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Bnoch Sinks of Idavllle, Ind. At the age of 16. Blanche was married j to Ora Lane Lewis and the couple lived in various Indiana cities, including MonI tieello. Goodland, Chalmers and finally ) Kokomo. | Recently Mrs. Lewis went to the office I j of I)r. W. B. Huron in Tipton, 1n search ! of her iiirth certificate. Asa result Mrs. j I Lewis found an uncle, Elmer Bitler. near | Goldsmith. The uncle gave her the ad- j dress of her mother. Mrs. Lewis returned to Kokomo, went! to the home of her neighbor, Mrs. Red- I mond, and announced their relationship. |

Mars Displays Preference to South America LICK OBSERVATORY, MOUNT HAMILTON, Cal., June 20.—Mars has displayed rank discrimination against the astronomers of North America. While It - is nearer to the earth now than any time in recent history, It is visible so low on the horizon in North ! America that observations can be made only by looking through, fc.r long distances, the atmosphere of the earth. But id South America, the planet has smiled on observers and is almost in the I zenith. Asa result. North America astronomers | have been forced to confine much of their | work to spectroscopic examinations of the ! atmosphere surrounding the planet. | Dr. W. W. Campbell, noted chief of the j I Lick observatory here, explained the situation In discussing Mars and its visit today. - TWO ARRANGE NEAT PLAN OF PETTY GRAFT j A system of petty graft whereby two city employes set out to enrich themselves by spreading city oil on country roads and personally collecting from t property owners was disclosed today by j Martin J. Hyland, street commissioner. Hyland said he thought he had broken up the scheme in its incipiency, by filing affidavits against William Penrod, 820 North East street, operator of a city oiler and William Bait,aka, 758 North Holmes avenue, Penrod's helper. Penrod was ar- ] I rested Saturday night. Police have a' ! warrant for Bainaka. Hyland said. Both j are charged with petit larceny. They , were discharged Saturday when he got! evidence implicating them, Hyland said, j Both have confessed, according to the i street commissioner. The men were assigned to oil Tibbs 1 avenue and West Morris street inside the 1 ; city limits. Their reports showed more | oil used than the street requirements J called for, Hylnnil said. He personally In- j ; vestigated anil found Saturday that on i i Friday they went West of the city limits ; j on the two streets. Bainaka went ahead and solicited the i | property owners, Hyland said. If the 1 property owner would not pay $5 the solicitor got whatever he could, then Penrod came along with the oiler, loaded ! i with city oil and oiled the street wher- ! ever the property owner had contributed. ■ according to the street commissioner. One man paid $4 and the oil was spread, ; Hyland said. The citizen complained the j oil was not thick enough so the city 1 employes said they would go over it again for s_'. he said. The $2 was paid ! : and another layer of oil put on, Hyland j was informed. Evidence that the scheme was worked ! ;on six or seven citizens on the two streets, outside the city limits, was obtained. Hyland said. They split the proceedg, he said, one getting about S2O : and the other approximately sl6. When i ! he confronted them with the statements i of property owners they said they had ; | merely taken tips, he said. ; Penrod drew 55 cents an hour from the j [ city and Bainaka 40 cents, pay rolls j show. Last week Penrod's wages were I over $37 and Banaka's more than $27, j according to the pay roll. | Hyland said the men will be tried in ( city court Friday afternoon. APPLEGATE IN ADMISSION OF ONEFALSEHOOD Former Corydon Banker on Trial for Embezzlement of $6,500. ■ | The case of Ben 8. Applegate of Cory- [ don. vice president of the defunct Corydon National Bank, who is on trial in [ Federal Court charged with misapplies- 1 tion of $0.51K) of the bank's funds, reached . the jury this afternoon. Applegate was charged by the Govern- ! tnent with taking $6,500 from the inter- j I est account of Leander Bottles, a Harri- > son County farmer, and applying it to j his own use. Applegate contended that ! the money was loaned to him by Bottles | and that the entire transaction was a private one in which the bank did not figure. Bottles was the star witness for the Government and testified that he never loaned the tnoliey to Applegate. Applegate admitted he had made a | false affidavit ns to the condition of his [ bank when elected a director the last time. The defense put up a bitter fight I against the admission of this evidence. Snow White Moths Swarm at Gem Fire The moths, which at night have been i seen in Indianapolis in such swarms as ; to obscure the vision, are the snow-white [ I linden moths, Frank N. Wallace, State: I entomologist, said today. Mr. Wallace j I said Marion, Madison, Hancock and 11amj iiton Counties are experiencing a great i infestation of moths. I The uiothes were particularly thick at j ! the Gem laundry fire last night, and around Illuminated sigu boards. Mr. Wal- 1 I Inee said the great flight of moths last ! I night may have been caused by the fire. [ | He sail tlie flight of the moths recurs j at Intervals of several yhars. 28 Millions for Refund of Taxes WASHINGTON, June 20. —A deficiency I appropriation bill, carrying a total of ! ! $39,987,823, was reported favorably to the j House today by the appropriations committee. The largest item In the bill Is $2.8,122.500, for refund of taxes collected through error by the internal revenue bureau in 1921. Auto Accident Case Continued by Judge I The case of Cevll Williams, 111 Ken- j ! tucky avenue, proprietor of the Williams j Auto Livery, charged with assault and i I battery, growing out of the accident in | : which his machine struck and severely i I injured Charline Richardson, 6, of W i North Ritter avenue, at Ritter and Ea.r j Washington street, was taken under ad- j vlsement until July 1 in city court today. I

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BROAD RIPPLE OPPOSED TO ANNEXATION |Cit>; Council Passes Bill Making Change. BATTLE PROMISED Body Passes Bill to Provide Funds for for Nurses’ Home. A “pitched battle" and a “battle royal” to prevent annexation of Broad Rippla by the city of Indianapolis was promised today by Fred Rauscher, Sixty-Third and Bellefontaine streets, one of the leaders in the opposition faction. The city council last night passed an ordinance annexing the town by a vote of live to four. Rauscher said several members of the council promised the anti-faction the measure would be de-i layed until next month. “We knew they would slip It over on ; j us, although they faithfully promised us there would be a delay. So we’ve got it all arranged to go Into Circuit Court with a remonstrance,” said ltauscher. “It's going to be a hammer and tong affair. You can say its "going to be a pitched battle, a battle royal to the finish.” I A meeting, the location and character of which Is secret, will be held tonight i to definitely outline plans for goiug to i court, it was said. Meanwhile Broad Ripple was a house divided against itself. So intense was the feeling pro and con that business men declined to be ! quoted. They had their personal views, they said, but they did uot want to get ! mixed up in the controversy. In general the opposition was based upon belief that Broad Ripple now Is I getting sidewalks, anew fire house, ] electric lights and other improvements I at a reasonable swift rate and it would have to wait a long time before it got any improvements from the city If I annexed. Fred Brown, town clerk, said it has ; been the experience of' all annexed | territory that it was allowed to lie ! neglected for a long time. “We're giving : the people Improvements about as fast as they ask for them now," lie said. ! Assertion of Councilman Ira L. Bramblett In the council meeting last night that Broad Ripple would benefit by au- • noxation because its tax rate is 4 cents | higher than that of Indianapolis was j criticised by tlie clerk. He said Broad | Ripple's rate is 4 cents lower than the ; city rate. In a burst of activity unparalleled since they came into office Jan. 2 councilj men annexed Broad Ripple, authorized the board of public health to issue $425,000 worth of bonds xvith which | to build a nurses home and adininistra- ; tion building and remodel some wards at i the city hospital, had introduced an ordinance to prohibit dancing in the public parks, struck from the files a number of | measures which have been pending for 1 weeks, passed others and indulged In some criticism of the Shank administra-i tion. Ordinances authorizing temporary loans of $175,000 for the board of public health and $500,000 for the city general fund were introduced. • The ordinance annexing Broad Ripple | was introduced several weeks ago, Tho ' town board opposed annexation because I several improvement projects were under way, YVhen John L. Elliott, city civil ! engineer told the council opposition to annexation now rests only xvith some old i settlers who “don't care xvhether their streets are paved or xvhether they have i sexvers or not,” and that he “xvas bold [ enough to say the town board noxv xx-as i in favor of coming into Indianapolis,” the [ ordinance xvas passed by a vote of five | to four. I Councilman King declared Broad Ripple would get water, gas and electric i lights immediately, while some sections j on the sou<h side less than threo miloi (Continued on I’age Fixe.) CIVILIANS GET SMALLER BONUS OF UNCLE SAM Allowance of $240 in Addition to Pay Reduced to SIBO by House Measure. WASHINGTON, June 20.—Additional compensation for civilian employes of the Government in the form of a bonus of SISO Is provided In a bill favorably reported today from the House Appropriations Committee. The bnnu3 for last ! year was $240, and it was reduced for | the present year because of the reduced . i cost of living. ]wiia’ D’y See? E. V. W. saw a drunk man stagger along tho road between Broad Rippla and Ravcnswood. He dodged several automobiles, but finally bumped into a taxicab. M. M. saw a fat man on West YVashington street drop a bundle as he ran. The bundle burst and several cans of malt and a sack of hops rolled over the sidexvalk. C. 11. B. saw a contractor attempt to hire for 40 cents an iiour uine negro loafers who clutter the courthouse curb. The ninth.one accepted the position. E. P. S. saw a man xx-alk np to the counter of a dairy lunch, ask for a glass of water, pick up a toothpick and xvalij out. D. M. M. saw a flapper halt, reach down and fumble with the clastic of her bloomers, pul! out a small bag of candy and xx-alk on doxvn the street eating the candy. VACATION ' Y'our vacation xvill not be complete unless you keep In touch xvith the home nexvs through the Times. Gix-e your vaaction address to your carrier or Main 3500 and advise 1 us when yen want your paper started. V

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