Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1922 — Page 2

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FOUR SLEEPING CHILDREN RESCUED FROM FLAMES WHICH SWEEP .ROME

wmm IN NIGHT ORESS TU FISTITI Miss Neilie Nelson Vainly Attempts to Cali Assistance by Making Telephone Cali. ESTIMATED LOSS SI,OOO i Man Seizes Money From Burning Bed—Children Carried to Homes of "fòeighbors. Snovv flakes drifted down today on thè charred trame of a house at 2201 E. Michigan St. Could those charred boards bave told of thè night’s events, they wc*ild bave had a story of a rescue of four amali children. a hurrìed trip of a woman through thè cold to a tire station, a valn attempt to get through a telephone to thè station and thè saving of sls from thè flames. It was about 1 a. m. today that Thomas Cummlngs, sign pointer and decorator, living upstalrs with his wife and their four children, awakened to flnd smoke drifting into thè room from thè kitchen. Rushing back, he sound thè whole back port of thè house In flames. He awakened his family and Mrs. Emma Nelson, 61, and her daughter, Miss Neilie, who lived downstairs. Slipping a wrap over her night clothes, Miss Nelson hurried to Aro station No. 20, two blocks away, where she notifted thè flremen. In thè meantùne, thè Cummines tri ed to reach thè station by telephony. It was ten minutes before they got Central, according to their story today. The Cummings children were carried to neighbors' homes. The children are William, 12; Edgar, 10; Chester, 5, and Milton, 2. Cummings, while waiting for thè arrivai of thè sire company, suddenly remembered that he had sls under thè pillow on his bed. He hurried back into thè house and upstairs, where he sound thè bed clothing on sire. thqowing it aaide, he pulled thè money from thè flames. Fi rem er, estimated thè total damage at SI,OOO. The house was owned by A. B. Keeport, of thè Carison Lamb Land Company.

‘IILIES MUST HOT CRMIM' By United Press LONDON, Dee. 14. —The standard of living for a generation wouid be lowered if England cancelled reparations and allied debts due her and simultaneously paid thè Cnited States, Premier Bonar Law declared in thè House of Commons today. In a statement to thè house of reparations, thè premier declared Gerrnany is near complete collapse and that thè allies must be careful that their demanda do not precipitate a crash. Bonar Law urged caution as far as occupation of thè Ruhr was concemed. “We cannot look with equanimity on any action, thè effect of which will not produce reparations but make it more difficult. even impossible. to obtain them,” he saìd. He declared there was no hope of solution tmless France and England acted together. The premier declared it was impossible for England to pay thè United States if reparations and allied debts to Great Britain were to be cancelled. ‘Y. W.’ CLUB JOINS FIGHT ON SMOKE EVIL HERE Miriam Bible Members ation in Movement. Cooperation with Mayor Shank’s smoke nuisance abatement committee was pleadetl by thè Miriam Bible Club of thè Y. \V. C. A. in resolutions. Here is what thè club thinks of smoke: “This heavy smoke is a serious monade to thè health and lise of our citìzens becr.use of thè damage done to lungs, throat and nose; makes our city unsightlv and dirty; kills trees, shrubbery and grass; shortens tlie lives of bulldings; causes eccessive laundry bills; makes cleanlng of wall paper and other decoratlons a more frequent necessity; increases electric lightìng and gas bills because of thè darkness; causing with thè actual loss in fuel value (amounting to approximately 21 per cent of thè coal used) a financial loss to thè citìzens of Indianapolis estimated to be $4,000,000 each year, or about s2l a year for each man. woman and chlld within our city limita.” CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of manslaughter against Cecil O. Cochran, 27, motorman, 1213 Lafayette St.. Columbus, Ind., was dismissed in city court today on recommendation ofXoroner Paul Robinson. He was arrested Nov. 14 aster his Greenwood interurban struck a Ford coupé a mile north of Edgewood, killing John F. Flood, 28, 2234 N. Ashland Ave. BRAZIL NOW HAS A MAYOR By United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Dèe. 14. —The deadlock In thè selection of a mayor to succeed thè late William M. Suobel. who dled Sept. 25, was broken last night by thè election of James Q. Layne, Dem ocra tic councilman. The election gives thè Republicans control of thè city counclL

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MRS. ESTHER CASLER

silurali LGCALBRIGADIER Evangeline Booth Sends Message on Death of Mrs. Casler. Telegrams expressing sorrow over thè death Tuesday night of Brigadier Esther Casler, wife of Brigadier George F. Casler, commandant of thè Salvation Array in Indiana, have been pouring into locai headquarters from all parts of thè country. Among them was one from Commander Evangeline Booth. who was a personal friend of Mrs. Casler. The funeral wiii be held at thè residence, 822 liayman Ave., at 2 p. tn. Friday. Commander William Peart, Chicago, will preach. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Mrs. Casler had been in Salvation Armv work with her husband for thirty years. her leadership and motherly influence having a marked effect upon thè corps in thirty-three Indiana cities under jurisdiction of herself and ner husband.

STATE HILL BUSH HERBINEVIBENCE Ey United Press MARION, Ili., Dee. 14—Attorneys for thè prosecutlon In thè flrst "Herrln massacre” trial, served notlce today to a crowded courtroom that examinIng of State's witnesses will be run off in rapid succession. Two "star” witnesses were grilled during thè flrst hour of today’s session before a btief adjournment was ordered by Judge I). T. Hartwell on request of counsel for defense. Minnle Dudenbostel took thè stand as court opened at 9:50 a. in. Miss Dudenbostel, a nurse at thè Herrin Hospital, testified that she cared for Howard Hoffman, vlctim of thè al’.eged murderers, from thè time he was rushed to thè Herrln Hospital until he died two days later. The decision of Jydge D. T. Hartwell in ruiing that Frank Farrington, president of thè lUin&ìs United Mine Workers wouid not be allowed to "teli thè history of tlie gunrnen who shot down union mlners," as suggested by Defense Counsel A. W. Kerr in his openlng statement, was • eceived by thè spectators as a strong blow to thè defense's case. Indiana Man Witness Charles Hoffman, 68, Huntington, Ind., father of Howard Hoffman, was thè second witness for thè prosecution. Hoffman. aster answering severa.! preliminari' questions was asked to identify a picture' of his son. The picture was entered by thè State as “Exhibit No. 1.” Over vigorous ohjections by counsel for thè defense, Judge Hartwell allowed thè entrance cf thè picture. "This is a photograph of Howard Hoffman, my son, whose lifeless body was shipped to me at my home in Huntington, Ind.,” thè witness declared. Adjournment granted by thè court aster Hoffman was temporarìlv dismtssed. BAPTISTS WILL DECIDE ON CHURCH BELIEFS By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo„ Dee. 14.—Bau tists prepared today to choose between “radicai" and old-time rellgion. The decision will be maile late today when thè board of William Jewell Col lege decides whether to oust Dr. A Wakefleld Staten, who has terme parts of thè Bible “Jewlsh folk tales,’ and is an unbeliever in demons, mir acles and Satan.

Wise Pigeons Hold Lise Dearer Than Comfort

Pigeoqns are game, but they know when they are lieked. This is thè opinion of William Camden. watchman and chief pigeon sharpshooter at thè Federai building. Camden ls just winding up a successful campaign against hundreds of pigeons which, in constantly increasing numbers. have made thè Federai buildinf root, cornices and statues parking places for months. Recently thè blrds become so abundant as to become a nuisance. Camden got out his 22-caliber rifle and opened hostilities. "At flrst aster I shot into them,

MEMSIKE UP PROHIBITION AT'COKFEREICE Some Executives Resenì Action of Harding in ‘Passing Buck' on Question. By United Press WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. W. Va., Dee. 1 4.—Immediate action on prohibition enforcement was proposed by Governor Parker of Louisiana as Governors of thè States gathered for a three-day conference. Anticipating a proposed parley in January, when President Harding will discuss with them thè question of enforcement, many Governors backed Parker in his stand thatiwthe question might as well be brought up at once. A definite program, as a result, may be drawn up and submitted to Mi-, Harding. Many Governors .y - were criticai of thè Presidente pl am ìfctó for a meeting of I ■ heads of State with | ' > ’t. Federai executives l on thè question of f fesstng to see an *JM attempt to “pass fÉpIpShÉHHjM thè buck” as one “If thè President re" ''•viaggi/' fra calla a conference |l to pass this Fed- f ' eral baby over to f thè and V asks them to care pov. JOHN M. for it, thè States PARKER, will most likely lay Louisiana.' thè baby back on his door step,” one Governor declared. The Governors were unwilling In advance of conferences with their associate. to state their Individuai views for publication, but there was a strong current of resentment among them. Declaving prohibition as now administered a farce, Parke has a concrete program, thè main points which are understood to be: 1. Amendment of thè Volstoad act to permit beer and light wincs. 2. Heavy penitenti&ry sentences for persona who violate thè eighteenth amendment or thè Volstead law with respect to hard liquor. Preseli! System Futile He is of thè opinion that t’ne present system of fining bootleggc-rs and others arr3ted Ìggy 1 for prohibition P | y viola', ion is futile; 'tj that puhlio sentiJ ment dota not Ir s*,/ . a support prohibir tion enforcement L - sB as now ctlminltered fimi that tha N . '******iu should not T "'il walt uniti Januarv. when many Governors will be k g i occupied with seaslons of their Logislatures, to formutate their prò V \ grani of coopeiation with thè GOV. ALBERT Federa! GovernC. RITCHIE, ment. Maryland In addltlon to dlscussing prohibition, thè Governors may ask President Harding to help in \ flght on thè so-called ceraent trust through thè elastic provisions of thè new tariff law Governor McCray, Indiana, is ltading this muvenmnt and will have thè support of Parker and others. Parker will suggest as one means of reduclng prlce of cement to States desiring it for road building that Hard ing take off thè duty temi orarily under his authorlty conferrcd by tariff law of that he let thè thè States Import cement duty free.

FRATERNAL INSURANCE ORDERS HOLD MEETING Delegate Itepresent State Memborsliip of 750,000. Delegate from all thè fraterni , .'asurance societies in Indiana met at thè Hotel Se'-erln in thè annual convention of thè Indiana Fraterna! Congrega. Plans for thè promotion of thè fraternal socities represented ivo re consldered. The society represents orders which have 750,000 menlbc-rs In Indiana. Harry Weed of Indianapolis, president of thè congress, announced that thè National Fraternal Councll of America will hold its next annual convention at French Lick Springs some time next August. The afternoon sossion was devoted c business matters and thè election •if offieers. PRE3ENTS PICTURE A pdrtralt of thè late Qulncy A. Myers/ formerly a Judge of thè Indiira Supreme Court, was presented to ■he court by Mrs. Myers today. The u-esentatlon speecli was made by Sonator-elect Samuel M. Ralston.

thè survivors wculd do nothlng more than fly away, circi© thè building a couple of times and then return to their favorite loafIng spots,” Camden salii. "But aster a few days they ueemed to list their casualties and decide thè building was no good as a health resort. As a result now they leave thè piace alone.” It probablv will be many months. perhaps a year, before thè pigeons forget their fear of thè building and begin to take up quarters there agaln, Camden said.

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Raid Nets ‘Complete Booze Plant'

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Here Is part of a "complete” liquor plant. Complete is thè word. The alleged owner, Anthony Costa, even had his own corn field to produce thè base of his mash, Sheriff Snlder chafges. Offieers shown standing around thè container, coll and heating apparatus, who participated in a raid on Costa'a

FREiGHTCUTTO REDUGERQAD GOST Commerce Commis3Ìon Favors State Brick Manufacturers. The favorable decision reached yes terday by thè Interstate commerce commission on thè freight ratea of bticks in Indiana will save mlllions ot dollars in thè building and road building program during 1923, George H Mosser, generai managing director of thè Indiana State Chambe.- of Com merce, said today. Tha State cham ber conducted thè flght for equailzed freight ratea for Indiana. A saving of 15 to 30 cents a ton on brick shipped to Indianapolis from thè Indiana clay belt was galned. Pre viously Indiana manufacturers were handicapped in eompetition Vith outslde manufacturers. A recent decision ot>cned up thè West and Northwest territory to Indiana manufacturers. ami thè decision made yesterday makes Indiana brick manufacturers cn a parlly with outside manufacturers. Mosser snid The cut in freight rates makes posslble a saving of $240 on one mile of country road. Mr. Mosser salti. In In dlanapolis, where thirty foot streeis are constructed thè freight cuts wouid moke a savings of S4BO a mile. The public Service commission Is aued an order perscribing a new basis on briok rates from Crawfordaville, Attica, Terre Haute. Brazll and relative points to Indiana dostlnations. The new rates, effective immedìate’y, are SI.BO from Wahaah Vaìley points to Ft. # Wayne a reductlon of 30 cents on thè ton.

TEAGLE JUSTIFIES HUGEJIIEffi By United Press WASHINGTON. Dee. 14. —Defense of thè big melon cutting by thè Standard Oli Company ot New Jersey was made by thè Senato Committee investigatimi gasoline prlceu by William Teagle, president of thè company. Teagie justifled tlie declaiation of huge dlridends on three separate contentions. 1. An equalization of tho outstanding stock, witii thè net value of thè company, was necessary because Standard Oli "always has been under yipltallzed.” 2. It was practical to effect a wliler .llstributlon of thè common stock while thè market value of thè shares was high. 3. An increase in thè outstanding stock was necessary to enable thè company to completo further fìnancing. Teagle said these were thè “sole considerations” which promiitod thè move.

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Tliat’s Tlùrteen Folks who ride in Jltneys surely are not at all superstitlous. I watched one of thè busses unload thè other day. Twelve adulte swarmed out of lt at thè end of thè trip. The driver kept his place, probably too crushed to move.—J. M. N. Cause and Effect A small town paper in Indiana reports thè fact that a couple is seeking dlvorce aster having been married only three months. The reason given is incompatibility. The name of thè coupie is Quarrel. —K. S. A. Equa! Rights For Women Christmas shopping days are interesting times to study human nature. R. T. H. reports that while "on a shopping tour in thè Five and TenCent Stores I ran across a man and woman also doing their Christmas buying. She was smàlUand rathor in clined to be portly. He was tali and strong looking. She was well laden with packages of varlous sizes ami weights. He was carrying her pocketbook.” ARREST EVANGELISTA SON By Times Special WARSAW, Ind., Dee. 14.—Paul Sur.day, 15, son of Evangelist Billy Surday, was thè flrst alleged speedetarrested here yesterday aster Mayor John A. Sloane had ordered thè police to stop reekless drivi ng. Young Sun day is a studefc at thè Warsaw High School. His ìif iie is at Winona Lake.

placo, threo miles south of Flve Points, are, from ieft to right: Sergt. David Cummings, Sheriff Snider, l’atrolman Alex Dunwoody, Chlef Jailer Omar Hawking and Deputy Sheriff Roland Snlder. Capacity of thè stili was 300 gallone. The officors captured a large store of supplica and booze business accessories, they say.

Xiì ias Trees Pienti fui The evergreen tre©, to which poets write odes but which we ordinally folk forget until about this time of thè year, has come into ita own agaln. Christmas trees whose burdens will dellght thè hearts of Mr. and Mrs. Indiala polis - children, are plentlful this year, according to men on commission row. They are being brought in trucks from southern Indiana. The price is about thè same as last year, 75 cents to $1.25.

HESSLER GUGELS STRIKEOFMiNERS TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Dee. 14. The Eleventh District coal mine strike Ih off. John Hessler, president of tha miners, Thursday announced that thè atriko cali recently Issued wouid be automaticaliy cancelled, through tho action of thè Indiana Bituminomi Operatore Associatlon late Wednesday in agreeing to make thè $4 check-off demanùe.l by thè minerà. as a result of thè operatore - voto, which rescinda tho attitude they adopted a woek ago, tlie special assassine ut to re imburse intoni itional officers for money bortowed to fina nei thè strike of last summer will ne ciiocked off thè sanie as other dues are. The fa et that many of tho operatore already had coiiected thè asseaament. through mis understanding, was given by Phil li. Penna, secretary of thè operators, as one of thè reasons for thè mino ownera yielding tho point to thè minora. Tho operatore were further ac tuated, he said, by thè fact that thè minera had ealled a district striko effective Dee. 16. BRAZiL POUCE THINK AUTO RING IS BROKEN Confession by Youfh Is Said to Implicai o Threo Meu. By United Press BRAZIL. Ind., Dee. 14—Officiala bere believed today they had broken nn automobile theft ring vvdth arrost of Elmcr and Myron Myers of Patricksburg and Zeklal Padgett of near Terre Haute. The threo men were, arrested six wcok.s ago and rcleasd on $4,000 bond oach. Tiio case against tho threo men was about to he dvopped for look of 'vidence when officevs are said to have a confession from. Samuel Ilolmes, 15, a nephew of Padgett, which enabied them to unearth two automobile engines burled on a fami near St. Marvs. The engines were said to belong to Elza Light and Rose Leachman of near Clay City, stolen some time ago. foìotoTyoutF IS FOUND BY SCIENCE

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STEAM SCftLOS PASSEdGERS US TRAINS COLLIDE E FourEeen Die and Twenty-Three Are Seriousiy Burned in Texas Wreck. By United Press HOUSTON, Texas, Dee. 14.—Fourteen persons were scalded to death or dled of burns today as a result of a collision of a passenger train and Bwitch engine on thè Houston East and West Texas Raiiroad near Humble. The dead included two unidentifled white men and nine negroes. Twenty-three persons were in hospitals here and at Humble, seriousiy bumed, and additional fatallties were expected. The deaths were caused when a steam pipe from one of thè engines in thè wreck was broken and forced through a window in one of thè cara. One compartment was occupied by negroes and thè other served as a smoker. Stifling clouds of scorching vapor fllled thè coach and frantic pa-reengers were unable to cscape. Doprs were jamraed tight by thè collision. By United Press THORF, Wis., Dee. 14.—One man waa kilied and two others seriousiy injured when a fast passenger train on thè Soo Line c ragli ed headlong into a doublé freight train near here today. John Hariing met Instant death. PRESIDENTASKS FARMERS' HELP

By United Press WASHINGTON, Dee. 14—Cooperativi marketing among farmers pi imiises “more help for thè present rolief and thè pemianent settlement of agricultural conditions,” than any other single movement before thè country, President Harding declared today in a message read before thè Na‘ 1 tonai Councll of Farmers Cooperative Marketing Assoclations in sessioti here. The President stated he had a sincere convietion to do everything ! ossible to nid agrlculture, but said thè farmers thernselves should cooperate to make tho Government’s effo'-ts "douMy efficacious.” "Whoever has cared to read reco ri t message to thè Congrega will ur.derstand thè depth of my convictlons about thè necessity to do anythlng posslble to help thè farmer through his present era of depreaaion," thè President said. ”1 ani anxlous that thè Government do everything within reason and sound procedure: and I am stili moro anxlous that thè farmers shall themselves cooperate to make thè Government efforts doubly offlcacious. In thè long run, Govomment aid cannot he made effective uniess thè farmers shai! bo organized and alive to their own reaponsibllity.” STRIKE LEADER ACQUÌ7TED By i tmr* Special FT. WAI’iNE, Ind., Dee. 14.—Owen J. Farnan. generai ohalrmstn of thè striking rallway employes in this city, was ttcquitted in city court here qf a charge of drawirtg a deadly weffpon on Léonard Franger, patrolman for thè Pennsylvania Raiiroad and a deputy sheriff of Ailen County. Evidence brought out in thè case was centra,'iictory throughoilt. REALTY FIRM FORMED The Haylow Realty Company of Indianapolls today filed ailicles of lncorporation with thè secretary of State, showlng a capitai stock of $5,000. William Reiley, Paul G. Davis and Leo J. Moolory of 1404 Fletcher Trust Company are thè dlrectors.

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