Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 190, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1922 — Page 2

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MAYOR SHANK’S SPEEPING THREATS CHECK GROWING EVIL

PATRCLm RIBES PROVE M REMEDY Recklessness Is Curbed and Executive’s Method Causes WidespreaJ Comment. •NOT BLUFFING,’ SAYS LEW Kansas Residents Send Letters to Mayor Complimenting Him on His Crusade. l'airol wagon rides have "taken thè insanlty out of automobile speeders,'’ accordine to Mayor Shank. “I WLfn't bluffine whcn I threatoned recently to have insanity In questa heìd fot speeders,” Mayor Shank said today. *'But as it turned out it wasn't necessary to spring thè insanity stufi. We have curbed thè .speeders by riding them in thè jiatroi wagon. That insanlty idea wasn't so bad, though. Half a dozen of thè best yhysicians in town told me a bad speeder is mentally unbalanced.” Pedestrians Object The mayor ha received dozens of letters commendlng him for his policy on thè speeding question. The onlv adverse critieism received was in rogarti to his stand against jay-walkers. Several pedestrians insist there is more danger in Crossing downtown streets at intersections, wlth automobiies turning corner, than there is in Crossing in thè middle of blocks. Mayor Shank's drive appaxently attructed considerable attention in Kansas, as a number of letters were received from residents of that State. Among opinion expressed are these: DR. P. C. GRESE, Atchison, Kan.: All speeders are looney and thè best place for them is thè asylum. J. AJIBROSE DUXKEL, pastor Tabernacle Presbyterian Chun'h' I am for you. These speed bird3 should be put in jail and. lose their licenses for two years. Ughts Xext CHARLES O. SHIMER, 230 S. Emerson Ave.: You are doing good work with speedders and jay-walkers. Now go aster thè drivers with glaring iights. QUICK TIRE SERVICE: We approvo your stand. We have cautioned all our drivers not to speed. DR. EDWIN C. BATCHFIELD. 815 Odd Fellow buildlngs: I never reached home before you started your eampaign without giving thanks that I had made thè journey without mishap. Z. T. SWEENEY, Columbus, Ind.: You have done a lot of good things since you became mayor. Thls effort to protect human lise ls thè top-notcher.

SHED IH! ONCE LIO HERE Lieut. Henry G. Boonstra, formerly stationed at thè aviation repair depot at thè Indianapolis Motor Speedway, whose air mali piane was lost In a blizseard in Utah Frlday, is believed to be saie. Press reports say his piane was located half buried in thè snow on Porcupine Ridge about fifty miles from Salt Lake City. His aviatori suit was sound lying on thè piane. It is believed he sought refuge in a deserted eabin about two miles away. Searching parties left Salt Lake City today to battle thelr way through thè twenty feet of snow in an attempt to reach thè cabln. U. S. GRAND JURY COMPLETES WORK The Federai grand jury will report to Judge Albert B. Anderson Friday. ITomer Klliott, United States district attorney. said today. A large nnmber of indictments adii l.e returned, Elliott said. Among thè important eases investigated was thè Gary liquor conspiracy, involving, it is said. Gary and Lake County officiate and former officiate. BOARD OF AGRICULTURE MEETS AT STATEHOUSE Discuss Propoeed Rondine of Fairground. Members of thè State board of agriculture neld a routine meeting at thè Statehouse today, discussing possibili ti es of thè next General Assembly enacting a law by which thè State fairground could be bonded for irnprovement purposes. On Jan. 3 thè board will meet and Governor McCray. in accordance with thè custom. will armoint three members to serve in addition to thè thirteen who represent thè congressional distriets of thè State. Ofhcers for thè year will be elected. 4 HURT IN AUTO MISHAP Bv Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Dee. 19 —Four young persons were injured when thè automobile in which they were riding rolled down an embankment near bere. Miss Flossie Lehr was thè most eeriously injured. The others in thè I car were Miss Ruth Holnes, Herman Retherford and Victor Lewis.

New Heads of Legion Posts Pian to Broaden Influence in Community

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EARL L. FERGUSON ((TT T E ARE going to attempt yy to cut down thè number of posts in Marion Coun ty by consolidation," Karl L. Ferguson, newly elected cpmniandcr of thè Robert E. Kennin£ton Post, No. 34. American Legion, said today. "More can be aeeomplished by preventlng overlapping of purposes and duties.” Other new officers of thè post are: W-'Mlam Deery. vice commander; Joseph O’Brien, second vice commander: Miss Minnie M. Artiiur, adJutant; James F. Dale, chaplaln, and Fred Rakeman, finance otfìcer.

BOARD SUIAMIS SIC® HERDS Explanation of Alleged Short Weight Demanded. Officials of thè Sigmon Coal Company will be called before thè board of school commissionerà next Tuesday night to explain alleged short-welght deliveries to public schools and li braries, thè board decided today. An employe and officer of thè company have been ftned in city court within thè past two months for making two short-weight deliveries on school board orders. Contracts with archltects for eight new school bulldings and additions provlded for In thè building program recenlty adopted, have been entered Into, Walter J. Twiname, business director. reported. Plans for portables or other temporary bulldings at Arsenal Technical High St®bol to relieve overcrowded conditionß will be submitted by tho buildlngs and ground committee on Tuesday. BALLGO. RE-FQRMS WITHTENMILLION Formation of a $10.000.000 concern to take over all thè property and interest of thè Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company of Muncie was revealed today when articles of incorporation were flled at thè office of secretary of State. The new concern will be known as Ball Brothers Company. The Incorporatola are E. Arthur Ball and William H. Ball of Muncie and Arthur W. Brady of Anderson. Brady ls president of thè Indiana Union Traction Company. The stock of thè companv is to have a par value of SIOO a share and will be divided lnto $5,000,000 common and an equa) amount of preferred. The Ball Company gained a natlonal reputation for Its manufaeturo of a self-seallng fruit jars It ls one of thè largest industriai organlzatlons of Indiana. KELSEY TO SPEAK AT ‘Y’ BIBLE CLUB SUPPER Near East Conditions to Be Subject of ReUef Head. Mead Kelsey, State executive secretary of thè Near Kast Relief, will be thè speaker at thè Bible Investigation Club at thè Y. M. C. A. We'dnesday evening. His subject wiil be “Word Pictures of thè Near East.” Kelsey recently returned from a tour of this storni center of thè world, and has made a study of conditions in Armenia. Turkey and other Near East countries. The meeting will open at 6:20 with thè regular supper. The meeting is open to all men.

Blind Tots Will Hold Christmas Celebration

Sightless boys and girls at thè Indiana State School for thè Blind will take part in thè Christmas celebration of thè primary department Friday afternoon. The older studente will give a Christmas cantata, “The Star of Bethlehem.” Wednesday evening. The little boys and girla will give an operetta. “Santa Claus in Mother Goose Land,” about twenty-flve particlpating in costume. Forty-five of thè older studente will take part Wednesday evening, assisted by Frieda Heider, teacher; Jesse Miller, former student: Adolph Schellschmidt and William Shannon. . A miscellaneous program of songs, recitations and a play was given by thè students and pupils of thè School for thè Deaf and Dumb at FortySecond St. and tho Monon Rallroad.

O. R. OLSEN R post is striving to rnake Ila reai community center for Irvington," said O. R. Oisen, 1!<23 commander of thè Irvington l’ost. No. 3S. American Legion. “Our big aim is to help thè needy ex-service men. Last year we helped over twenty-flve families and we expect to continue this work. Our biggest help is our auxiliary post.’* Associate 1923 post officers are: Spencer Askin, senior vice commander: Charles Figg, junior vice commander; W. M. South, adjutant; Russell Martin, flnance ollicer; Chaplln Balllngton, chaplaln, and R. T. Milburn, eergeant-at-arms.

Bible Land Children Ask Food From Santa

A Christmas appeal of 100,000 orphans of thè Bible lands of thè Near East, signed by Governo: Warren T. McCray, honorarv chairman of Near East Relief; Ed Jackson, active chairman. ami Thomas C. Day, treasurer, is belng issued this week from relief head quartetti, 528 People's Bank Bulld mg. The appeal addressed to thè American Santa Claus aaks that thè little folks over sea be remembered agaln this Christmas. The appeal says In part: “Our teach ers teli us that we are to help make these old Bible over — to build, a b thsy say, a new Near

ITER COMPÌ! HEARING OPEHS Preliminari - presentarlo of fart ihut will ho taken into account In thè hearing'on thè valuatlon of th<Indianapolis Water Company before the public service commlssion were set fortn by attornoys ut thè open Ing of thè hearing today. Attornoys for th* company stateri that commlssion had been aakod to mako Its valuatlon because thè company might deaire an appraisal for purposes of establishlng a base for security, sale, condernnation or possible rate analysls. Taylor E. Gronlnger, corporation counsel for thè city of Indianapolis, askcd 'he company to supply thè com mission with a copy of Ita oarnlng sheet for thè Rrst eleven months of 1922. Earl Carter, chlef englneer of thè commlssion, who has conducted tho appraisal on whlch ho and fourteen asslstants have been engaged since .rune. was. tho Rrst witness for thè commisslon. He testified as to thè manner of obtalnlng thè inventory, appraisals and material container! In his estimate, whlch is said to be approximately $2,000,000 less than thè nrpralsal made by water company engineers. EXHAUSTFUMES OVERGOME MAI Breathing thè exhaust discharged by his automobile may cost Herman Pash, 51, of 2110 Webb St., bis llfe. Pash went to his garage to work on his car. He started thè erigine without opening thè doors. Half an hour later Mrs. Pash sound him In an uneonscious condition. Pash was taken to thè Deaconness Hospital, where physicians said his condition is criticai.

Part of thè songs and reeltations were given orally and part by signs. A playlet depicting thè vislt of Santa Claus and his distribution of presenta to thè children of a happy home was given. The school has an enroliment of 325. Practically all thè studente will leave FTiday for their homes. They will be taken to their traina, tagged and placed In charge of thè conductors. who will be responsible for their care until they reach destlnation. The school will recess for thè holiday period, to résumé Jan. 2. HKADACHKS FROM BI.IGHT COI.DS I.axativp BROMO QUININK Tablets reiicTe tho Headaeho by curili*: thè Coìd. A tome laxative and germ destroyor. The box beai : thè signature of E. W. Greve. (Be aure yoi get BROMO.) 30c.—Advertiaeintuì

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MORRIS G. FULLER. Conservatici is thè watchword of Mcllvaine-Kothe Post No. 153, American Le- j j gion. The post has refrain ?d from j hasty adoptlon of resolutions and ! has taken Its stand ttpon patriotlc I questlons aster carefui consideration in thè past and this policy will be contlnued, accordlng to Morris G. Fuller, recently-elected commander. Ford Woods is thè new vice commander ; Roy Sahm, treasurer; O. V. Sholty, eergeant-at-arms Robert C. Winslow, adjutant, and Alien Maxwell, htstorian.

East. This we hope to do and to make everything more Uke America. But lf we do. Santa, you and all thè good people must stand by us ttll we get big enough to take care of ourselves. It takea twelve tons of flour every day Just to make our bread, so you see your pack will have to be heavy. And plea.se, dear Santa. we hope you are not tired of us and will remember us agaln this Christmas.’’ It is announced that Thomas C. Day. treasurer, will recelvo financial glfts for thè orphans and they may be addressed to 628 People's Bank Building, this city.

ANNOUNCES FORMATION OF FILE ASSOCIATION Mrs. E. K. Krounter Sponsor Indimi apolis Body. An Indianapolis Flllng Assoclatlon will ho organized at a meeting at 43 i> S. Meildlan St. Thursday at 8 p m Mrs. E E. Brouster of th<* fihaw Walker Office Fumlshlngs Companv, ls at thè head of tho inovemcnt whlch has for Its purpose eilucation along better business service ilnes. Meeting will ho held on thè Rrst Tuesday of each month All persone lnterested were asked to attend. JURYTO REPORT Oli INSTITUTIONS Condition of thè various county in rtitutions, lncludlng thè jail, poor farri), Julietta, Sunnyslde and deten tion homes, will be reported to Judge James A. Collins, of thè Criminal Court Wednesday by thè county grand Jury. Aster bis rounds of Investigation of thè instltutlons Jackson Carter, deputy prosecutlng attorney attached to thè grand Jury, said that he had sound them all In Rrst class condition, especlally Julietta, thè county Insane hospital. Carter intimated that he would ro-1-ort that thè jury favored thè taking over of Julietta, county home for thè insane, to be used as thè county poor farm, thè Insano, of Marion County to be cared for In Stato institutlons, as are tliose of other counties. postaTlcl is CARI FOR IÌUSH The postonico force ls keoping paco with ti}* Christmas rush. Every piece of mali received yesterday was ready to go out by mldnlght, and all mali received was ready for delivery thhs morning, Robert H. Bryson, postmas ter, said. Saturday, 578,328 pieoes of mail wero handled, as against 401,810 for thè sanie date last year. Postonico oflì cials believe this year’s holiday business will break all record*. ELECT ANNUAL STAFF Sumner Pallardy was elected editor in-chief of thè Indiana Dentai College'* annual publlcatlon, “The Ident,” at a meeting of thè studente. Pallardy's home ls at Clayton, 111. Hobart Ingle is thè edltor-in-chlef’s associate. Other officers elected are: Business manager, Itobert Longman, James E. Williams; associate editore, E. E. Gii lespie, Floyd Harrold, Ross Kennedy, William R. Fulton; advertising manager, Lewis A. Singer, Leo Treuhaft; circulation manager, John Rhonemus, Ho va Brooks, Harold B. Ha vena; sport editor, Fred W. Chase; art edi tors, Joseph E. Buck, Lant Clark, Ar hur Payette: humor editor, Wayne O. Abbott, Russell Boyd; society edi .or, Nathan M. Beery.

G. R. ASHLEY. NAVY and marine corps veterans should pulì together. In tho opinion of G. R. Ashley, new commander of thè Admiral George Dewey post No. 3. “We shall strive to broaden our Inlluence and make us a community aaset," said Ashley. F. J. Pearce ls thè new vice commander; O. G. Kesslng, second vice commander L. W. Schmldt, flnance officer; F. F. Sample, chaplaln; John Paul Jones, sergeant-at-arms, and D. W. MoCord, hlstorian.

Rii PLOWS TO GLEAR HIGHWAYS The State today took preliminari' stop towuid keeping trunk line State hlghways dear of snow durlng thè wlnter. Highway commlssioners mt to coislder thè purchase of larga snow plows to be used with tractors and heavy truck. Plans were dlscussed Informally, but r.o action will be taken before thè commlssion’s tegulsr meeting. It was said. The members had blds, spedii cations and detailod Information concernlng thè operatlon of thè plows. The commission a niaintenance de partment has a number of crudclybullt linprovlsions whlch have served .is plows whero its attached to largo trucks. but tho operatlon. of these makeshlfts have never been ha Uhfactory, Director John D. Williams stated. The plows whlch will be glven rnost conslderatlon are those suitable for attachment to thè tractors in use by thè commlssion. These plows open a furrow eight feet In width and are most desi rublo for usti on lilgh ways where trafflc ls heavy. William .says. Smal! plows, known as biade, for attachment to trucks in use In vruious parta of thè State, also will be glven consideration. HOLIDAY BOOTLEG ■FLOOD'BEGINS Bootleggerr today were making their usuai pre holiday arrangement for supplying Indianapolis with Christmas and New Year’s hooch and (•'(.dorai prohibltlon agents were making their usuai piane to prevent It. Every year just before Christina there ls a deterniined etTort to run large quantltles of liquor into Indianapolis, Bert C. Morgan, Federai prohibltlon director, said. “We always know tlils will happen and lay our plana accordingly," Director Morgan said. “This year is no excptlon to thè ruie. It is just thè sanie old game belng played in thè sanie old way.”

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HOWARD C. BAKER. a a 3 an aid, we have to hand lt to our auxiliary post as belng our biggest asset,’’ said Howard C. Baker, who recently was chosen as commander of Osrlc-Mills-Watklns American Legion ; Post. “In thè coming year we are going to strive for stili closer co-operatlon between thè legion and thè auxtllary.’’ Officers chosen to serve v.-ith Commander Baker are H. H. Martin, vice commander; Warner Seabury, adutant; C. J. Stevens, flnance offl- ! cer; C. T. Meyers, chaplaln, and Han* | ford Vedder, sergeant-at-arms.

FRUIT DEALER ARRESTED AS BLIND TIGER OWNER Franklin Authorities Msk Deten tion Here of .Mike Risesi. Mike Bisesl, 45, fruit dealer, 617 E. Merrill St., was arrested today and held as a fugitlve. It is alleged he is wanted at Franklin, Ind., to answer u charge of operatlng a blind tiger. Police said Bisesi had been convlcted here of operatlng a stili und had pald a fine of $630, thè largest ever lnfllcted In city court. STATE REACHES ! CLIMAX II CASE Hy I nittil J’ra MARION, 111., Dee. 19.—Tho grilling of State's witnesses In thè Rrst j Ilerrin massacre trial today hrought out more of thè morbld detalls of thè ' reign of terror” that enveloped AVi 1 - liatnson County last June. Eyewltness storie., telling how twenty non-unlon coal minerà met their death at thè hands of a mob of 500 angered unlon men formed a recital of horror, brutallty and atroclties. The climax of thè State’s case was I belleved to have been reached when Dr. O. F. Shlpman. an eye. ear. nose | and throat speclalist of Herrin, 111., took thè witness stand. Shipman polnted out two of thè defendants — Leva Mann and Joseph Coniughi—as members of a flring squad that shot down thè last slx survivors of thè day’s riotlng. Howard Hoffman was In this group of victlmS. Shipman, accordlng to his testimony, met thè grim “death march” on Ita fa> from thè mine to Herrin. At that time C. K. McDowell, superlntendent of thè mine, had been led away from thè crowd and had been murdered, fourteen non unlon meni had been shot down in a forest along j thè line of march, and four of thè; men who had eseaped thè massacre in thè woods had been he;uled off and killed on a nearby farm. Several of these who were assau lt ed and left In thè woods to die stole avvVty and recovered from their wounds When Shipman met thè mob. six men, already wounded, were belng forct-d along thè road. They walked with diflìculty, were bareheaded, bleedIng and in their stocking feet, his testirnony indicated.

G(al)osh Flap! Flop! Flap! The girls are flappin’! The cold weather has brought forth thè flappy galosh and many variatlons thereof. A walk down Washington St. reveals many pairs of what used to be calied arctics back on thè faim. Then there are cute little patent leather boots, fitting thè foot, but measuring about ten inclies in diameter at thè top.

GREATCOITRALTO ISACLE TOSIIC Schumann-Heink’s Wonderful Voice Unimpaired by lllness. Hit United Press GARDEN CITY, N. Y„ Dee. 19. Mme. Schumann-Heink’s voice has returned. The great contralto, who for weeks has been suffering freni bronchial pneurnonia and was for a time dangerously ili. sang last night for thè firat tirile since thè beginning of her illness. Frlends had gathered to influire for thè singer’s health. Suddenly there floated through thè house thè clear, rich notes of thè wonedrful contralto voice. Mme. SchumannHelnk was singing agaln. The guests rushed upstalrs with their congratulations. They sound Mme. Schumann-Heink alrnost overcome with happiness to find that her voice had not left her. “I could stand thè suspense no longer,” she said. “I had to know. So I tried to sing and every note ls as before.” BURGLARY CHARGED Aster belng held for several days on a charge of vagrancy, Arthur Parker. 18, farmer, Lawrence, was reslated today on a charge of burglary. The police say they have conneeted Parker with a number of burglaries In thè nelghborhood of Forty-Sixth Stand Arlington Ave.

THE GYPSY SMITH CHOIR of 1,200 Volo Will OiTe thè Sacre d Oralorio, “THE CARPENTER OF NAZARETH” al thè CADLE TABERNACLE—Wed., Dee. 20, at 8 P. M. Mr. Will Hit*, pianini; Mr*. Wm. Duthie, orpiiiiist. SolulAt^—ilr. Taylor, ; Miss Norma Frane®, contralto; >lr. t tuui. Breer®, soprano; Mr. V. L. Cornigli, tenor. FKEE TO THE PUBLIC.

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AUTO VIOLATOR UP SEM TIME Dr. Emmett E. Rose Fined for Breaking Traffic Ruie. Dr. Emmett E. Rose, 42, of 1869 Shelby St., appearod in city court today to answer Charles of traffic law violations for thè se-cond time since I police began their crusade against I speeders. He was fined $25 and costs on a I charge of failure to obey a traffic offlcer’s slgnal. Sentence was indefinitely withheld on charges of speeding and improper driving. Last week Dr. Rose was fined for ; speeding and was jailed for several i hours on a charge of contempt of i court. He had been up frequently before for traffic violations, police said. KLAILEADERS CALL ONHIRDIIG Whether Interview ls Granted la l Not Known—Deny Lawlessness. Hu United Press WASHINGTON, Dee. 19.—Newly elected Jeaders of thè Ku-Klux Klan, as part of a eampaign to counteract ! critieism against their organization, have called at thè White House to inforni President Harding of thè secret order’s purposes and to deny that it is responsive for many recent outbreaks of lawlessness. A Klan delegation now in Washing- ; ton, whlch is headed by H. W. Evans, ! Imperlai Wizard, called at thè White House last night and sought an intei - view with thè President to deny thè charges by Govemor Parker and Alien and other public offieials. Whether thè Klansmen saw thè President lt was not learned.