Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1922 — Page 2

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HUNDREDS ENROLL TO AID OLD SANTA AT CHRISTMAS TIME

City, Civic and Fraterna! Organizaitons Prepare Elaborate Festivities for Youngsters of Indianapolis. Santa Claus will begin work earlv and stay on thè job overtime in Indianapolis this year. Community Christmas entertainments, with a tree and with candy and p#sents for all thè ehildren, will be lield at thè thirtyone sire stations in thè eity, according t othe plans of thè city recreation department. At 5:30 p. m. Satnrdav, Mayor and Mrs. Shank will visit tire station No. 26 where thè Christmas tree will be lighted and enter-

tainment provided. At thè sanie time i thè trees in thè other Are stations will be lighted and entertainments started ì whlch will continue throughout next j week. The mayor and his wife will attempi to visit all thè stations during thè evening. Downtown business firms are help- : i/g decorate thè different trees and ; provlde Santa Claus costumes. Will Sing Carols Christmas carols will be sung throughout thè city on Chnatmas eve, and on Christmas morning six groups ot musicians will go through thè streets with trumpets, htralding advent of thè day. Christmas eve earolers will havc a more elaborate program than usuai this year. They will visit public ìnsiltutionp. The park department is jrranging. ; too. for a big Christmas tree. covered with colored liglits and with a large star on thè top, to be erected in thè , center of University Park. Not only will there lje municipal ! Christmas celebrations. but clubs and j organizations are alsa coing to help Santa Claus hring joy lnto thè lives of needy ehildren by providmg them with all sorts of entertainments ancf parties for thè yuletide. 2,00 Are Invited One of thè feature events will be a party Christmas morning erranged by thè Elks at thè Circle Theater. Special Street ears and automobiles will bring about 2.000 orphans and poor ehildren to thè big party, where they will receive gifts of fruit, nuts and candy from Santa Claus. Another party will be held Christmas morning at Keith's for thè kiddies by thè Indiana Dentai College students. The Salvation Army will distribute Sur.day morning from 9 to 12 o'clock at Tomlinson Hall approximately 500 baskets of food for needy families. Arrangement* have also been made for thè organization to be host to ap proximately 3.U00 mothers and children of thè city at a big Christmas j party at Tomlinson Hall. The Voi-1 unteers of America have also made nrrangements for thè distribution of 500 baskets of food, Maj. John O’Xeil announced. The Moose Lodge members have arranged to look aster all thè needy families of their order as well as many other families reported to be destitute. In addition. plans have been arranged for a big Christmas party at Tomlinson Hall Thursday night. Dee. 28. Half a ton of candy have been order ed for thè affair and gifts will be distributed from a gigantic Christmas tree. Masons Will Aid The Masons have arranged to distribute about 800 baskets through thè Christmas clearing house. The Englewood Hustling Hundred, a civic organization ot thè East Side, has planned to distribute baskets to thè needy in thè community, around thè E-glewood Christian Church. Members of thè Optimist Club will give a dinner and banquet for thè orphans at thè Indianapolis Orphans’ Home Friday. Dee. 29. in thè Travertine room at thè Hotel Lincoln. A sift will be presented to each disabled veteran of thè World War by thè Servire Club. More than SSOO will be spent by members of thè Gyro Club in presenting baskets of toys. candy. fruit and food to poor ehildren of thè city. Toys and presenta of various kinds will be given to thè fifty ehildren at thè Indianapolis Day Nursery, Christmas Eve by th Lion's Club members. Many other organizations are planning Christmas celebrations and thè generai spirit seems to be that no one be forgotten during thè Yuletide season. Rotarians Pian Parties Kotarians have not forgotten. Nine Christmas parties for ehildren have been pianned. Children under thè su-

pervision of thè juvenilr- court, in insti tutions and hospitais will be entertained. Twenty children in thè In diana School for thè I>eaf who have no means to reach their homes for Christmas, will receive round trip tickets. Presents will be provided by thè Rotar}' Club for twenty-five children in thè Robert W. Long Hospital, seventy in thè city hospital, 100 that are wards ©f thè Public Health Nursing Association, twenty-six at Sunnyside, thirtythree at thè Detention Home, children in thè Flanner Guild, Colored Weifare Home, Florence Crlttenton Home, Indiana Girla’ School at Clermont and at thè Foreigners’ house. At thè Foreigners’ house, 206 chlldren will be entertained Christmas day. A dinner will be given at thè Indianapolis Orphans’ Home Christmas day. Fifty Christmas baskets containing food, candy and toys will be distributed to flfty worthy ex-service men by eleven auxiliary posts of thè American Legion. Remeinber Newsboys Of course thè newsboys won’t be left out. The Advertising Club will hold a Christmas party l’hursday noon at thè Chamber of Commerce for little newsboys front thè Star. News and Times. Kaeh boy will get a pair of shoes, a box of candy and an orange. Presents will be exchanged by members of thè Indianapolis Boys’ Club Aseociation at two parties, one at thè Lauter Memorial building Wednesday and thè other Friday at thè Butler building. Indianapolis churches and weifare societies are making extensive preparatlons to care for thè needy. BONAR LAW IS ILL Bv l'nitrd Presa . LONDON, Dee. £0. —Premier Bonar QViw is iIL It was announced he was fi 1- ■ jned te his room wlth a cold.

ED OFFICE!! GFTSM Sfinii Mayor Warns New Policemen to Do Duty. Thomas Bledsoe, formerly a sergeant in thè humane dep’&rtment and an officer with experienoe in Juvenile Court work, was appointed today as a sergeant in thè humane department. The appointment carne as a special order from Mayor Shank, who said pressure had been brought as thè result of alleged failure of Humane Society sergeants to niake proper investigatlons. When Mayor Shank took office, Bledsoe was reduced, and has been working on one of thè booze squads. Mayor Shank today interviewed each of thè seventeen newly-ap-pointed patrolmen. He outlined thè history of thè recent suspensions of police and firemen for drinking or failure to do their duty. He made it piain that he was interested in this ìepartment's efficiency in cleaning up liquor law violations. He warned that any officer who was lax in doing his duty and enforcing thè law would not long remain a member of thè police department.

THRFf INJIIIED IN GIS BISSI Pipes Burst in Indiana Coke Plant at Terre Haute. Rv f nitrd Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Dee. 20. Three men were severely injure>l and burned when pipes in the oven room bursted at the Indiana Coke and Gas plant here this morning. The expiosion, due to overpressurc and weak pipes, hurled both ends from the building and sent showers of de bris in all directions. The three men were working near the room at thè time and were injured by falling bricks. The shock of the blast was felt over the whole city. Officials of the Citizens Gas ani Enel Company stated no slow down on the gas supply would be notlced.

MUTUI CMS SOUTHERN COURT Louisiana Troops March luto Mer Rouge at Mayor’s Request. MONROE, La.. Dee. 20.—Public hearing regarding thè mysterious disappearance of two Mer Rouge citizens last June were opened under protection of State militiamen today. The State militia detachment. fully equipped and carrying previsione for a long stay, marched into Mer Rouge before noon and pltched camp. A lnke near Mer Rouge. where thè bodies of Wat Daniels and Thomas Richard are expected to be sound, will be dragged, it was announced. They were victims of thè kidnappings. FIRE HURRIES UP VACATION Itp Timeg Special LA PORTE, Ind., Dee. 20. —Fire believed to have been started by an overheated furnace totally destroyed thè Buck township schoolhouse near here, and drove teachers and pupils from thè building. The loss Is estimated at $6,000.

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Reform in ‘'Sin Flood’ Wears Off Quickly

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

■ S. Army surgeon, shown In Inaet, was arrested at Crown Polnt, Ind., recently, on charges filed by Mrs. Margery Beddoes Pike of Philadelphia, who claims to be his first wife.

King, Heleti Chadwick, Ralph Lewis. Darwin Karr and others. It is a Goldwyn picture. It is a masterpiece in character drawings. At thè Palare all week. -I- -l- -!- The Roys Are Here Last season thè Mime Club of thè University of Michigan presented “Make Tt For Two” at thè Murat To night thè club will present lts latest musical comedy, “In and Out." There are abolii a hundred in thè cast, in eluding B. Stokeeberrv of Indianapolis. The men also play thè female parte. Lionel Ames is leading “lady." It looks llke capaclty at thè Murat tonight. -j. -|. + Also on View Othcr attractions on view today include: "The Indianapolis Follies” at thè Palare, Olsen and Johnson at Keith's. Conti and ITart at thè Kyrie, burlesque at thè Broadway and Park, musical comedy and rnovies a' thè Rialto. “The Man Who Played God” at thè Circle. "Shadows" at thè Apollo. “The Kogitucky Derby” at thè Ohio. “The Gulìoping Kid" at thè lai, "The Great Night" at Mister Smith’s, “Perlis of thè West" at thè ltegent, and "Dlvorce Coupons” at thè Colonlal. T - -IDue Thursday Fred Stono, surtounded by a largo company, will open a three-day engagement Thursday night at Eng lish’s. From all accounts this is a 1 reai show. FIREMEN AND EX-COP FACE LIQUOR CHARCES William Sweeney and Walter Miles Are Suspendod. Two city flremon and an ex-pollce-man faced liquor law violatlon charges today. Sergeant Hudson and squad arrested Firemen William B. Sweeney, 3413 Southeastern Ave, and Walter J. Miles, 839 Union St.. on chargea of drunkenness when sound near 903 Church St., aster a rald there. They were suspended by Fire Chief John .1. O’Brien. Patrick Foran. 46, of 909 S. Missouri St., went to policto headquarters to t.tlk with thè firemen and was arreet ed on a blind tiger charge. Foran was a pollceman for fourteen years, resigning in 1918.

THIEFGETSSZ7S mWIFKT Valuables Are Untouched in i Second Home, When Ralph Forbes and wife, o thè Ballard apartments, 142 E. Oh:.; St., returned home at 11:30 o’clock last night they sound their Hat hai: been ransacked by a burglar. Forbes, who is thè rental agent for thè apartment, told thè police that $275 was missing from his desk. The door of thè fìat had been opened wit! a skeleton key. Mrs. George Kohler, apartment No 7, saw a strange man in thè hallway She thought that thè Forbes werr at home. Jewelry scattered on thè floor, ancì S4O untouched. furnished a strange angle to a burglary case reported to thè police by Clarence Johnston, 709 Dolman St. The burglar broke a kitchen window. Johnston said he tìld not know whether thè burglar took anythlng.

I Spicci Today

Ding! Ding! I saw a Are department truck turn thè corner at Ohio and Meridian Sts. on two wheels and race up to thè water plug in time to beat thè chief and all others to lt. JACOB BERRY. They’re Human, Too While drlvlng south on Illinois St. a pnllceman jay-waiked in front of me causing me to skid to keep from hit tlng him. A FIFTEEN MILER. Decidedly Risque I saw a wornan on a S. Meridian St. Street car stand up preparatory to getting off thè car. Just then her skirt droppe.J off. She plcked It tip and walked away as if nothlr.g had happened. J. K. RUM VESSEL CAPTURED WITH $500,000 CARGO I>ry N'avy Takes Booze Ship Off Three-Mi le limlt. Pv r nitrii Press NEW YORK, Dee. 20—Dcsperate atternpts of thè rum running fleet off (he three mile limit to land liquor In New York for Christmas trade re sulted in thè capture of a ship carrlng $.500,000 worth of whisky during thè night, it was Rnnounced by Probibition Director Appleby today. The ship, making a desperate dash for land with 4,090 cases ahoard. was raught off Sandy Hook by thè Han fon, flagship of thè dry Navy. TWENTY ARRESTED FOR NAVAL THEFTS Ind’et monte ('barge More Than sl,000,000 Worth of (Inods Stoini. By f .'nitrii Preti* NEW YORK, l>ec. 20.—Twenty-two civilian employes of thè Brooklyn naval base were arrested by Department of Justice agents in connection with grand jury indlct menta charging more than $1,000,000 worth of goods havo been stolen from thè base slnce thè war. Twenty-three men were narned in thè indlctments. The arresta were rnade under supervision of William J. Furns, chief of thè department at Washington. FOR mim To get thè besb resulta take “Seventy-seven” at thè flrst feeling of a Cold, “Sewnty-xeven” for Colds •md Grip, Influenza, Catarrh, i’ains and Soreness in Head and t'host, Cough, Sore Throat and General, Prostralion and Fever. I )octoring Book mailed free. l’rics, 30c and JI.OO, at Drug Stores, or t-nt on remittanco or CO.D. Parcel Post, lomphrey'*’ Horaeo. Medicine Company, lóti \\ illiani Street. New York.

Choir of 1,200 Voices in Christmas Cantata

The Gipsy Smith Choir at thè Cadle tabernacle tonight will give a Christmas cantata, “The Carpenter of Nazareth.” CORNISI! The cantata will follow thè organ recital. Joe Overmyer is director of thè choir. The Sterling Ladies' Quartette of thè West Morris St. Christian Church also will sing. No admission will be charged as thè labernacle association

BUILDING INSPECTOR IS HELDON LIQUOR CHARGE Verna Mille*- Arrested When Police Finti lìe-er. Verno Miller, 30. of 1115 S. West St.. deputy city building inepector. is under arrest on a charge of operating a blind tiger. Sergeant Russell and a squad of police who raided Miller's home say they sound forty-four quarts of beer. Miller wa* not at home. When thè police started for healquarters with thè beer, they left a mesaage with Mrs. Aliller to teli her husband to cali at headquarters and siate hlmself He failed to do this, polire said, and was arrested yesterday on a warrant.

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plans to make it a Christmas gift to thè city. The libretto of thè “Carpenter” is bv .Tessie Erown Pounds and thè music by E. K. Heyser. The Gipsy time thè English evangellst .-ntcr -iiound rlayg The c ‘ hoir .iljtS. in iim, rehearsals have been made enjoyable functions. The cantata tonight is one of the biggest undertakings of the choir this year.

CANADIAN SCHOOLS NEED MANY TEACHERS FROM U. S. Officials Appeal to State Superiritendent Here. Canadian school officials have appealed to Benjamin J. Burris, State superintendent of public instruction, to assist in seeuring a large number of teachers for public schools, high t.rhools and cllegep. The salaries offered are eomparable to those paid in the United States, with premiums offered in some instances for a con•inuance of Service over a period of years. Miss Bianche Merry, of the departn ent. asks that interested teachers make Inquiry through her.

DEC. 20, 1922

BLANGHFBUTTS EAINS FREFDQM FORJJISTMSS Muncie Beauty Who Killed Husband Shot in Self-Defense, Is V'erdict. By United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Dee. 20.—Blanch® Butts, who killed her husband and was acquitted of Arst-degree murder late last night, wept in remorse today. The fomier belle of the gas belt, stili beautiful at 35, showed genuine repentance. Mrs. Butts failed to emerge from her mourning even when the jury said she could go scot free —that she had shot in self-defense. The prosecution had asked that she be sent to the electric chair. "I shall never cease to regret the aceident which caused me to point what I thought was an unloaded gun at my husband. but I believe that in time I can prove to the world my regret and perhaps make amends for the part I had in taking Ciem’s lise,” she said. Her head bowed, Mrs. Butts heard Judge Dearth caution spectators against any demonstr&tion when the verdict was read. *‘We, thè jury, And the defendant not guilty,” said the foreman, and Bianche threw herself In the arms of her sister, Mrs. Edith Hines. Quickly regaining her composure, she shook hands with the judge and each member of the jury and Prosecutor Van Ogle. “I feci you did your duty in the prosecution and I wish to thank you for the fair and inipartial way in which my trial was conducted,” she remarked to Van Ogle. The jury cast one ballot.