Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 82, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1922 — Page 2

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SOUTHERN ROAD WORKERS LEU joßsjpm Maintenance of Way Crew Leaders Announce New National Strike. By United Frets PRINCETON, Ind.. Aug. 15. Twenty-eight maintenance of way men on the Southern Railway left their Jobe today In what they claimed was a Nation-wide strike. The strikers Included the ash pit men, fire knockers and hostler helpers. Leaders said orders had been received from national union officers directing them to quit work as part of a general movement. At the same time, VV. B. Bunn, master mechanic, made public an ultimatum to the strikers from President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern, declaring the railroad will be run in spite of the strike and calling on the public to aid. Abandons Conciliation The ultimatum announced the Southern had abandoned its concillatory attitude outlined In its single acceptance of President Harding's proposal for ending the strike. “If it means war to run the Southern Railway, then let us have it now, not later,” Harrison's telegram to Bunn said. It directed Bunn to employ men to replace the strikers as quickly as possible. WILL INSPECT PURDUE Marion County Farmers to Visit Agricultural School. Marion County farmers and gardeners under the guidance of Royal W. H. McClean, county agricultural agent, will leave the courthouse at 7 a, m. Thursday for an inspection of Purdue University. The poultry, horticulture and dairy departments of the Agricultural School will be given particular attention. OBJECTS TO HABITS Divorce Complainant Says Wife Slept Too Late. Tendencies of some modern wives don’t suit Roscoe West, 221 W. Vermont St., who applied for a divorce from Lucile, his wife. Roscoe alleged, in the complaint, that Mrs. West, who Is a professional dancer, habitually remained in bed until the middle of the morning and also smoked cigarettes continually, throwing the stubs over the apartment. TOSSED OUT ON HEAD Butcher at Bedford Dies of Injuries Suffered in Accident. By United Press BEDFORD, Ind., Aug. 15.—Walter Fare, 45, a Bedford butcher died in the hospital here today aa a result of an automobile accident, four miles south of here late last night. A front wheel of the automobile which he was driving came off, pitching Fare out on his head. TRACTION FARES CUT Announcement of Rate Reduction Made at Noblesville. By Times Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. Aug. 15. Due to bus line competition, the Union Traction Company has reduced fares, that from here to Indianapolis being cut to from $1.44 to 90 cents, and the round trip between Carmel and Indianapolis cut from 90 to 50 cents. KILLS PET DOG Man Shoots at Brother-in-Law, but Bullet Is Wild. By Times Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 15.—A quarrel over a quart of buttr. milk caused the arrest of William Kistner, 61, on charge of shooting at his brother-in-law, William White, 56. One of the shots killed Kistner’s pet dog. FIGHT OVER MELON Two Men in Row and Five Ballets Are Fired. By Times Special PRINCETON, Ind., Aug. 15.-That Clarence Davidson, 50, farmer, tired five times at his automobile lrcaue>6 of a quarrel over watermelons is charged by Joe Hill, 50, oil worker. One bullet passed through top of the car. Hill claims. MOTHER IS PAROLED Mrs. Payne’s Fine Suspended on Conviction for Still Operation. By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Aug. 15.—Mrs. Mattie Payne, arrested recently on charge of operating a still and who pleaded that she violated the law to support her fourteen children, received a suspended fine of SIOO in court here. SWIMMER DROWNS Youth Goes to His Death in Clay Pit Swimming Hole. By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 15.—While swimming in a clay pit at Bernice, near here, Seymour Guwens, 22, was drowned. SCHOOL BIDS OPENED Evansville Board to Sell Bonds to Amount of $360,000. By Timet Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 15.—Bids were received today by the school board on $360,000 worth of school bonds to pay for erection of a stadium and additions to four school buildings. Wesleyan Conference Opens MARION, Ind., Aug. 15.—The Rev. J. J. Coleman, pastor of Fairmount Wee ley an Church, gave the opening sermon at the seventy-fourth annual Indiana conference of the Wesleyan Mqfhodlst Church hers last night. Th>o conference will last until Sunday.

BURNS FATAL i 's l %..< f JANET CONNELLY Janet Connelly, 13-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Connelly, 110 N. Miley Ave., died at the city hospital late Monday from burns received Sunday while playing with matches. HOLDOFFSTRIKE PEIDipiR Big Four Telegraphers 'VIII Meet With Labor Board Before Walkout. Edward Whalen, general chairman of the Big Four division of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, announced today that the voted strike of the Big Four telegraphers would be postponed until a committee can confer with the railroad labor board in Chicago on Aug. 21. The committee consists of Whalen, chairman; George Levengood, Alexandria, and E. B. Jenkins, Muncie. The railway labor board directed the road to abolish its “split trick" rule, through which many of the men say they are serving twelve hours for eight hours’ pay, pending the hearing. One question before the board is whether the men shall have a full week's vacation each year with pay. The vacation was abolished when the Government had charge of the roads. Whalen stated that before the Government took over the roads the union had aocepted a raise of $9.75 per month and seven days' vacation. Instead of a sl6 raise and no vacation. VERTEBRAE REMOVED Traction Motorman Undergoes Operation at Anderson. By Timtt Special ANDERSON .Ind., Aug. 15.—An operation was performed upon Raymond Carpenter, traction motorman, in a hospital here for removal of two vertebrae from his backbone. He was Injured several weeks ago when he fell from the roof of a traction car and was paralyzed from the waist down. SELECT NOMINEE Republicans at Huntington Will Pick Candidate's Successor. HUNTINGTON, Ind., Aug. 15.—A meeting of the Republican central committee will be held soon to select a nomine© for the Judgeship of the Huntington Circuit Court to succeed George Everhardt, resigned. County Chairman Claude Cline has announced. EXPECT BIG SHOW Exhibit of Draft Horses at Fair Arouses Interest. A record-breaking exhibit of draft horses is predicted by officials of the Indiana State fair at Indianapolis, Sept. 4 to 3, because of the interest which has been aroused in the show. Premiums totaling $17,000 are offered by the fair for draft horses of leading breeds. Entries to the show will close on Aug. 21. Curling Irons Stolen. While the family of Manson Darrah, 1103 W. Vermont St., was away last night the house was entered. Police were notified that twelve electric curling irons and $1.20 were taken.

PRESIDENT IS AROUSED BY MAROONING OF TRAINS

By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—The Federal Government will not countenance abandonment of trains and their passengers by train crews, according to a telegram dispatched by President Harding to Governor Campbell of Arizona. Harding said that he had been informed that several trains were marooned at junction points on the Santa Fe in Arizona, and that if the State

“MLLE.” MISTINGUETTE AND HER SON v. .>- v> jr Mademoiselle Mistinguette, “the girl with the million-dollar legs,” recenUy visited America. Staid matrons were amused at the flapper who wore herlakirts so high. And the flappers were jealous. And here’s Mistinguetiw with her son! She's 68!

IT FIRED FOR MILITIA SERVICE - Clerk of Law Firm Discharged for Good Reason, Member Asserts. A member of the law firm of Ralston, Gates, Lairy, Van Nuys and Barnard today defended the action of the firm's office manager in discharging George P. Shippey, bookkeeper, who is with the State Militia at Staunton. Shippey, the firm member said, told j stenographers in the office he expected j to leave the firm’s employ as soon as ; he was given his vacation with pay. “No thought of discharging the I young man because he was Inducted j into National Guard service ever oc-1 curred to any partner," the Ann declares. The information which Shippey was forwarding to General Smith by mail had not reached the General. State officials have threatened legal action against the firm for discharging Shippey. AUTO IN MOVIE STUNT Women And Children Escape Injury in Harrowing Experience. By United Press HENDERSON, Ky., Aug. 15.—Two women and two children, in a sedan, were uninjured when their car rolled backward down the levee here and turned over in a foot of water on the shore of the Ohio River. The women, according to a police report today, were Mrs. George O. | Worland, and Mrs. Norman Harding | of Evansville, Ind. NINE CARS LOADED Seventy Men Now Employed in State Controlled Strip. : By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Aug. 15. I Nine car loads of coal were dug and j loaded at strip mine No. 9 of Rowland j Powers Company’s mines at Staunton, [ now under State control, yesterday. ! They were moved to the main tracks | of the Pennsylvania Railroad at See- | iyville, to be hauled from there to points designated by the public service commission. There are now seventy men employed at the two mines. MILES OF CROPS SEEN Motorist Tells of Signs of Coming Prosperity In Nation. NEW YORK.—H. G. Bittleston of Los Angeles, who has motored to New York by way of the Santa Fe Trail, declared that the West should be very prosperous this season If the splendid ; crops all along the way are any ini dication. “The miles and miles of wheat bend- ! ing under the weight of its own tops seemed to me to be one of the best indications of coming prosperity forl our country- Farmers say that this Is one of the best crops the country has had in years and It will take a great number of men to harvest It.” GUARDSMAN DIES John Phillips Is Victim of Illness at Camp Knox. ] By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. Aug. 15. i The body of John Phillips, 16, son of O. E Phillips, city councilman, has arrived here from Camp Knox, Ky., for burial. His death occurred at the camp after an operation for appen- ! dicitls. DIES FROM FALL Albert Williams Topples Off Barn Roof to Death. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Aug. 15. —When he fell twenty feet from a barn, Albert Williams, 68, was killed. Asks Receiver Elso Keller, 553 N. Temple Ave., vice president of the Houppert-Strack Company, has asked the Superior Court to appoint a receiver for the company. He charged the company I Is insolvent and has no funds to pay j him SDO salary. The company deals In automobiles.

could not rescue the travelers from the desert, the Federal Government would. Just how this would be done was not revealed. “It Is obligatory of the Government to relieve the people who are thus shamefully subjected to hardships,” the telegram stated In part. “If you have not the facilities for the relief which I know you will gladly bestow, then any forces at the command of the Federal Government will be promptly ordered to your assistance.”

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Newsies Play ‘Skellies’ After Editions; Beats Golf or Croquet

When the last sporting “Pink” has been sold and the arc lights begin to gleam boys of the downtown comers will be boys and exercise their preogative to play. They can’t play marbles or tops because cement sidewalks and paved ways forbid such. So the urchins who scream “paper” all day have Invented a brand new game, “Skellies.” Four small boys playing the game the other evening at the corner of Massachusetts Ave. and Pennsylvania St., init.ated the reporter into the mysteries of a game such as he had never seen. The game contains elements of marbles, croquet and golf and shows the adaptability of the American boy to environment. REFUSES TO II I ” SEIGEPROJECT Sanitary Board Will Not Lend Equipment to Contractor. Proposal to sell material and lend equipment for driving piling to prevent the new sewage siphon from slipping into White River at Sellers farm, made by the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company today, was turned down by the sanitary board. The board proposed the contractor drive the piling for $12,500 in addition to payment due on original contract. The contractor suggested the city do it. Charles H. Hurd, consulting engineer, advised the board not to install the piling because primarily intended to “correct poor construction on the part of the contractor.” He advised using the 20 per cent of the contract price withheld until the work Is accepted. FIRE LOSS DECREASES Report Shows Number of Conflagrations Large, However. Fire loss for the period ending Aug. I, 1922, was less this year than for a similar period last year, although the number of fires was larger, according to a report submitted today to Frank C. Jordan, chairman of the fire prevention committee, by Capt. William Curren of the Salvage Corps. A loss of $567,525 from 2,430 fires this year was shown, as against 544,- | 113 from 1,891 fires In 1921. Shingle fires amounted to $219,000 for the first seven months of last year, while this year they caused damage of $140,000. There were 628 fires caused by sparks f ■ hat period this year and 744 la; u\ FAVOR COW TESTS Farmers and Dairymen Reply to! Questionnaire. Affirmative replies by Marion County dairymen and fanners have been received by the county agent. Royal H. W. McClain, on prospective tests for tubercular cows. The State | veterinarian or the United States Bureau of Animal Husbandry’ will make the tests. A herd found unaffected by disease after two Inspections will be put in the accredited list. Infected cattle will be killed. Testing will be free of charge. LEADS DISTRICT Evansville First in Sale of United States Certificates. By Timet Speciat EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 15.—Reports from the Eighth district Federal Reserve Bank for July shows this city leads in sale of United States certificates with a total of $52,650, or 92 cents per capita. Louisville was second, with 43 centd per capital, and 3t. Louis third, with 30 cents. BOND HEARINGS SET Tax Commissioners Fix Dates for Three Counties. Dates for hearing on bond issues In Lagrange, Grant and Shelby Counties, have been set by the State board of ta xcomm ssioners. A $20,000 road Issue will be discussed in Lagrange County. Aug. 29; Grant County will get a hearing on a $15,400 issue Aug. 30 at Marion: Shelbyrtlle will be the place of hearing on an $5,960 issue Aug. 19. ROYSE APPOINTED Will Succeed James H. Fry© as Collector of Customs. John A. Royse of Indianapolis will succeed James H. Frye as collector of | customs at the Federal building to- | morrow. It was announced today. The i appointment of Royse was confirmed by the United States Senate some time ago. Nephew Is Missing Mrs. Lucy A. Bailey, 2615 E. Pearl St., today asked police to assist her In locating her nephew, Alton Sanders, 14, for whom she is guardian.

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Ten separated squares are chalked out on the wide paving and numbered. Each player has a pop bottle top which he flips along the pavement from No. 1 to 10, and then back. In that it resembles golf. There are traps, too, two squares on each side of No. 10, and if a top stops there the unlucky player must beg n all over. The death holes are called "Skellies,” and it .s part of the game to knock opponents into them. ’’Roundsums” and hitting another bottle top for another shot showed that the inventor had played marbles. After making the 20-hole course successfully, a player shoots into “Skellies" and becomes a free rover and any one he hits is out for good. Tony, Junior, Phil and Able, the four youths in this particular game, said “Some south side guys” made it up.

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PIANO TUNERS TO RANOUETTUGHT Convention Closes Wednesday —Gathering Addressed by William E. Medcalf. William E. Medcalf, of Indianapolis addressed the thirteenth annual convention of the National Association of Piano Tuners, in session at the Hotel Severin. Mr. Medcalf rated personality above skill, saying any normal person Is able to recognize good personality, while those who discover skill are In a small minority. Establishment of piano tuning service bureaus in large cities was recommended by W. F. McClellan, sec-retary-treasurer of the association. 1

Other addresses were made by Charles Deutschmann of Chicago, Charles D. Allen, C. R. Gulbranson, William B. White and W. E. Medcalf. A banquet will be held this evening. The convention will adjourn Wednesday afternoon. DIES DURING VISIT Aged Mule Dealer Goes to Chicago Where Death Occurs. By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 15. Death of Leopold Scholem, 75, local dealer In mules, occurred at Chicago ; where he was visiting, according to word received here. The body will be returned here for burial. Shell Shock Victim bound KOKOMO. Ind., Aug. 15.—Missing from his home in Greencastle for ten days, Marshall Snyder, war veteran and a victim of shell shock, has been found here. His parents have been 1 notified.

AUG. 15, 1922

ALLIED PREMIERS RETIIRNTDHDMES Further Conferences on man Reparations Postponed. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 15.—Allied premier* split over the German reparation* question, went home today. The allied conference broke up because of Lloyd George’s opposition to Poincare’s program of taking over German forests and mines as a reparations guarantee. Sentiment was to postpone further conferences until after the allied debt funding commission returns from Washington later in the year.