Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1922 — Page 2

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DEMOCRATS WILL DEMAND WHOLESALE SAVING BY STATE

Republican Aid Expected in Attemptto Cut Yearly Expenditure of Indiana Govern ment From $35,000,000 to $26,000,000. Wholesale retrénchment in thè operation ot* thè State government will be demanded by Deraoerats in thè coming session of thè Legislature. In tliis they expeet to be assisted by a number of Republieans. Some measures along this line alreadv have been drafted and others were discussed informally by members of thè committee of assemblymen who rrtet yesterday to eonsider details of carrying out platform pledgcs.

One legislator who has spent years studving thè State povc-rnment expressed thè opinion that through judicious reami ngement and curtailment of State affairs *10,000,000 of thè approximately $36.000.000 spent annually by thè State could be saved. He pointeu ont that State expenses have increased frora $14.000,000 annually since before thè war. List of Pro posala Some of thè proposala which have been discusseti informally include: Abolition of thè conservation cottimission, going back to thè old System of separate departments wlTh thè addition of*:!. department of public parks and thè limitation of thè number of emplcyes in each department. Abolition of thè oil inspection departraent and thè placing of oil inspection duties in thè hands of high wav department distiict superintendents. Placing thè Insurance and hanking departments under thè direction of thè Auditor of State. Limiting thè expenditures of numerous other departments. The department of conservation was created under thè Goodrich adn.-inis-tration. Since that time it biis grown considerata}-. The 1931 year hook gives its expenditures for that year as $219,447.44 and its receipts. $172,£52.27, The receipts given are esclusive of appropriations. The department inc’udes thè divisione of entomologi-, geology, fish and game and engineering. The hanking and Insurance departments were origir.ally a part of thè auditor’s office but were made separate departments under thè Goodrich administration, The oil inspection department has long been an eyesorc to legislatore bent on reform, but it has also been a politicai power. Many have argued that such a department is unnecessary. In Strìking Distance The Democrats at thè next session will find themselves in a more powerful position than previously because of increased numbers and thus wiii be better able to attempt to carry out their plans than in previous yeare. Although they have not gone on record officiali}*, many Democratic members have expressed opposition to thè proposed tax on gasoline. Some have argued that thè collection of thè tax would cost so much as to moke it unprotìtable. •*. The outrìght repeaj of thè State tax law and thè enaetment of an entirelv new law probably wiii not be nttempted. It is certain, however, that an effort will be made to shear thè tax board of some tf its powere. One of thè questione which has been discussed is that of whether thè board s.hould he allowed to retain its appellate powere over botid issues or whether power over fcond issues shouid lie entirely with officials of taxing uni l s affected. It is almost certain that an effort will be mane to take away from thè board thè power to fix anv tax levies. In considering road k-gislaticn. thè committee drafting bilia has eonsidered thè repeal either of thè threemiie road law or thè county umt road law. Both are not needed, tt Is he’d. ami ths expense of operating both is too great. M'OIOTTE MAY BEDPPDSED V The proposai of Governor McCray t\at thè Legislature appropriate 8J.000.00u toward thè construction of thè new reformatory at Pendleton may mett with oppo.dtfon from some members of thè assenni!y. The Governor announced some time ago that he would ask for an appropriatlon of cnly $1,000,000, but upon investigatici! he doubled bis figure. The measure to remove thè reformatory from Jeffereonville when It was presented at thè 1921 session met with considerable opposition. although it was enacted. At that time thè statement was made as coming from administration sources that ■with thè amount appropriated then and thè sale {Vice, amoOnting to some $900,000 in all, thè institution could be built. If thè appropriatlon bill shouid i not he enacted thè State might flnd j itself in a position of havlng a large i.urnber of prisonera to keep and no j to keep them. The State Is | under contract to dellver thè old re- ! formatory propertv to Colgate and Company, to which it already has been sold. Without ndditional money thè new plant could not he finished. BAD MAN IS TAKEN AFTER DESPERATE BATTLE Home Ts Bomharded With Machine Gun by SherilTs Posse. By Vnitrd Press WELLSBURG. W. Va.. Dee. 28. Follansbee’s “bad man” was safely fcehind thè bare in thè Brooke County jaìl here today. Joe Jones, who waged a desperate battle with a sheriff’s posse In thè nills near Follansbee in which his house was bomharded with machine gun Are, was finally captured with £. bullet in his log. HELD AS FUGiTIVE Charles F. Wheeler, 29, of 2162 X. Pennsylvania St., charged with being a fugitive from justlce, is wanted in Xlontezuma, 111., to answer a charge in voi ring a check transaction, delectives say.

bbSSpiul Directors Meet to Declare Stock Dividend. The capitai stock of thè Standard Gii Company of Indiana has been increased from $140,000,000 to $250,000,000. according to notice filed in thè office of thè secretar}- of State bere teday. The shares have a par value of $25 each. Directore of thè company were expected to meet at Chicago today for thè purpose of declaring a 100 per cent stock dividend. Of thè $140,000.000 authorized stock only $109,000,000 is outstanding, making possible such a dividend. It has been announced that thè surplus of thè company as of Sept. 30 was ?178.060,000. About two yeare ago thè capltalization of thè company was increased from $100,000.000 to $140,000,000.

SPECIAL M IS CALLED AT GAHY Lake County and Federai Booies Will Probe Liquor Traffic. Hit * nitrii Premè GARA", Ind.. Dee. 2S.—A special grand jury' for thè investigation of Lake County liquor vioiations has been ordered, Judge Martin Smith of thè Criminal Court announced today. Smith said thè investigation would be more thorough than any yet tin(lertaken. The Federai gnind jury at Indianapolis has proposed a special investigation of liquor conspirai y case in Lake County ai.,o. The special grand jury will begin its investigation Jan 3.

Mary Wants to Play in Kitcken and Give Parties

By United Presti LOS ANGELES, Dee. 28.—Mary Miles Minter, youthful screen beauty, has written a declaration of independence, cut the maternal apron strings which bound her and has moved into a house of her own, where sh can “do funny little things.” And, “have a kitchen to play with.” Mary has left her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, and is now to be sound all alone in a big house on the side of Hollywood hi 11. “I just wanted a place of my owm, where 1 can do funny little things and have a kitchen and bathroom to play with and give parties and pian dinnere.” said Mary, w-hose name Is really Juliette O’Reilly.

Disappearing Davenport Has Another Journey

Once again thè magnificent tan lt-nlher couch is missing from thè office cf thè auditor of State. Just before William G. Oliver took office as auditor two years ago thè ocuch disappeared. He demanded it back and it was sound in a basement office. When Robert Bracken succeeded Holiday Bride ' —Bretzman Photo. MRS WILLIAM H. CALLISS Mr. and Mrs. William H. Calliss are visitir.g in thè East and will be at liome aster Jan. 15 in Buffalo, X. Y. Before her marriage, which took place yesterday, Mrs. Calliss was Miss Marjorle Mercer. She is a daugnter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Mercer of N. Pennsylvania St. f

Tale of Pathos and Misery Is Being Written in Thracìan Modem ‘Evangeline’

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Hunters ’ Stories Tire Gun Clerks —TheyKnow

Boom! Barn! Squawk! A duck falls splashing into thè water of a lake. Repetition of above disturbance. r > A rabbit tumbles head over heels. Silence.. A few long puffs on a pipe. “Yesslr, that's thè way I did lt. Thirty dueks in one hour and a half. Pretty good, eh?” Scene of above is laid in any locai sporti ng goods sto re. Dramatis personae—a group of locai ‘•Bennies,” dolled up in elaborate huntlng suits. This little drama is enacted so frequenti' in sporting goods storca that

M ON DiRTY UCEHPUIES Police Will Begin Arrests of Drivers on Jan. 1. Orders to start arresting motorists who have dlrty tali lights and liccnse platee thè night of Jan. 1 were Issued to Traffic Captain Michael J. Gk-nn today by Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff. The department has been warnlng thè public to comply with thè State law requlring llcense plates to be vistale at a distance of 100 feet at night for days. “Due consicleratlon will be given persons who have thè lights and plates clean, even lf thè figure are not visible 100 feet away,” sald Rikhoff, “and special attentìon will he given those with dirty equipment." “We are aster thè bootleggers and bandita who keep thetr lights dim and license plates dlrty so polire can not get their numbers.”

Oliver a few days ago the couch was gone again. A complaint was made and another and inferlor couch appeared in Its place. Rumor had it that the much sought couch was In the office of the treasurer of State. Ora G. Davies, treasurer, smilingly confirmed the story end asked w'hat was to be done about it. ROBISON FUNERAL SET FOR FRIDAY AFTERNOON Funerei Services for Edward J. Rohison, 2336 Bioadway, who died Tuesday evening as a result of an accidental diseharge of his shotgun whlle on a hunting trip in Brown County, will be held Friday at 2 p. m. at the Central Christian Church. The Rev. Allan B. Phllputt, pastor of the church, will preach the sermon. Burial will be at Crown Hill.

Auan r-iuipuii, pastor oi tne church, will preach the sermon. Burial will be at Crown Hill. PENNIES AND HAM LOOT A penny and ham thief broke into the grocery store of Richard Pollock, 325 Toledo St., early today and took 100 pennies, four Canadian quarto and half a ham. The ham was valued at $2.

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, clerks have long since lost taterest in | thè repetition of thè" above drama. In | fact, one gun clerk confessed today that he didn’t even liste to thè talea of thè locai hunters. “We sold 35,000 shells on thè day ! bofore Christmas,” he sald. “There ought to he a few less rabbits than before thè holiilays. But not more than one out of slx could shoot thè side of a brick barn if he was inside i and had all thè doors shut.” : I Yarns are many. Actual game i caught Is very little. The Bennies go out of town, have a good time, buy a rabbit from some farmer boy, and 1 come honie with a huge appetite and u good line of yarns, according to one ;of thè salesmt n.

STREET CLEARING CDSTOECREA3ES City Departments Prepare Annua! Reports. Street. were cleaned in 1922 at a i lower cost a mlle ilinn thè cost m any j other year In thè hlstory of thè city ! Street cleamng department. according to announcemont today by John Wulker, superintendent. 'l’ho cost in 1922 was $399.80 a tnile, as compared with $597.60 in 1921, ho sald. Reports from other departments showing thè work (lene in the paat year are being propared. The generai fund received 884,777 less in thè past year than In 1921, and $275,01i will be k-ft in thè fund at thè end of thè year, according to Taylor Gronlnger, city corporation counsel, who la prepnring the reports. Property losa from fìre in 1922 was less by $405,307 in 1922 than in 1921, althought there were 768 more llres reported. Due to the fact that firemen have been making their own repairs on the engino houses and also on thè fire-flghting apparatua, the hi bor bill was cut. In the List year 32.4 Jniles of paved at retta and alleyo have been added to the Street System of Indianapolis,! Money spent in repairing the Street amounted to $120.568 as compared with $17,386 spent in j 1921. Xo accurato report on the exj tent of the repalra lias been made as 1 yet. The total spent by the depart- | inent was $806,498.84. Due to a one-cent difTerence in the ; tax levy for the city health departI ment, the department received only approximately' half as much money in , 1922 as in 1921. It was announced j that all bilia would ho paid at the end i cf the year and onough money left in ! thè fund for operating expenses untll | tho last. of January. BI BOMB BUSI Ity Teliteli /'it! MARSH FIELD, Wis., Dee. 28. Mrs. James R. Chapman died today' as result of in.iurles received when a j bomb wrapped as a Christmas pres- ! ent, exploded. Ilei- husband is not expected to live due to Injuries from the blast. • Chapman, chalrman of the town of j Cameron, and head of the Wood j County board, received the package 1 late YV'ednesday.

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Million Bollar Business Is Turned Over to Employes

By Vnitrd Sete NEW YORK, Dee. 28.—1 n twcnty seven years of hard work Henry A. Dix built up a business here with four pianta and 400 employes with an annual turnover of $1,000,000. The business was turned over to the employes Wednesday, to run for their own proflt, Dix r taining control and remainlng. without any remuneration, as the advisory head in order that thè employes might proflt by bis business abillty.

BAH IS REFUSED LOUISIANA MAN BALTIMORE. Dee. 2S.—Release on hall today was (lenied Dr. B. M. MeKoeln, former mayor of Mor Rouge, arrested and lield on thè charge of Governor John M. Parker of Ivouislana, that he liad part in thè inurder T raps Light ...IiMIiBBMMHL. . h j >-> -jm w, y'' / 4 ‘ '’\4tir ' ' , ' On thè crags of thè San Bernardino Mountains Prof. Albert A. Michelson (inset) has set up "bis tower —to catch light. He's trying io determine light’s speed so it may be utilized in man’s conquest of universal enorgies.

The Christian population of this Turk ridden country is being ruthlessly drlven out. FamlUes are being separated. Lover ones are lost In the haste and sccamble as the epic of Longfellow’s “Evangeline” is re-enacted in modern tlmes. Under the Mudania armistice the Christians must qult the country.

Slx of the most experienced and capatile employes were given active control of the firm’s affaire and about 115 of thè. worke-rs who have tieen with the concern three years or more were given part of the stock. The rest will he given shares as they complete their three year’s servire. M. H. Dix, a son of the philanthropist, and his associate in the business, said the father had recently turned down three opportunities to sell. The company manufactures dr ossea and tiniforms.

of two men bv a masked mob at Mer Rouge last August. A telegram from Governor Parker to States Attornov Robert F. Leach, today asked that such action be taken. / By United Press ' MER ROUGE. I*.. Dee. 28.—With ! two lives sacrifìced on thè aitar of | terrorisrn, a feud between reformers and lawless elements in Moorehouse | parish attracted natlonal attention toI day. The fatai feud has centered about Dr. B. M. McKoin. former mayor under arresi In Baltimore, charged with thè murders, Federai agents declared. Ku-Klux Klan menibers bave aligned theineelves with thè reform element, swoeping down in full regalia on underworld characters to stop illegai practices. STIfFSENTÉK IN LIQUOR CASE John Powell, arrested at Raymond St. and White River, Nov. 9, when police sound a largo stili and a quantity of “white mule," was flned $250 and costs and sentenced to 120 days on tho penai farai today in city court by Harry Yockey. judge prò tem. Poweh was arrested with Louis Staneu, who was released on SI,OOO bond. Staneu disappeared and Judge Yockey declared thè bond forfetted today. Staneu had put up a SI,OOO Liberty bond as surety. It was learned that Stacu was an escaped prisoner from tho State penai farm, where he had beeri servine a sentence for operating a blind tlgor. According to police here they had not been notified of thè escape of Staneu before bis release on bond. RICHMOND HOTEL CLERK HELD AT MILWAUKEE By United Press MILWAUKEE. Dee. 28.—Guy L. Barnes, 29, wante£ by Richmond (Ind.) police on a charge of embezzlement in connection with thè disappearance of SI,OOO from thè hotel safe, where Barnes was employed as clerk, is being held by locai police. CURINE HHR O COHEN O'.j. it. 500. at Druggleta. Aqanta vantaci. Manufaoturad by The Apollo Tollei Concerti, P. 0. Box, 192. I\}/ANAPOUS

Their personal effeets are loaded Into ox carts and pltiful scenes of sufferlng are enacted along the trail to the fronUer. Box care are being used ror homes and the American Red Cross is doing all in its power to alleviate the suffering. These scenes are typical along the route of the evicted Thracians.

CDUNJY FAiIERS DISCUSSBILLS Proposed Legislation Affects Rural Residents. Representative farmers of Marion County met at the Chamber of Commerce today to discuss proposed legislation. such as the county unit school System, the gasoline tax. interborough bus rogulation and limitation of the weight of motor trueks. The meeting was ealled by Royal L. XV. McClain. county agricultural agent, :tnd William Bosson, chairman of the Marion County Farm Bureau. Interest in the bureau was to be aroused by the gathering. Invitations were sent to 150 rural citizens. BOY AUTOIST HELD John Dithmer, 16, of 2130 N. Capitol Ave., was arrested last night on a charge of speeding. Tho arrest was made by Sergt. Harris and a squad of nightriders. FIRE LOSS IS $75,000 Bv l'nitrii Presi* ELIE. Pa„ Dee. 28. —A theater and two adjncent builrtings were destroyed by tire today with a loss of $75,000.

FRIDA Y —will be your MORNING last diarree to Doors Open at 8 o’Clock t<TÌvO of a final cleanup price on Walk-Over Boots" r\ “ lot b J includes $8 to ?12 qualities, and 4 youTl find military and Cuban heels, as s‘'<.Bs well as kid or calf leathers, in black or TP i t brown. Come Eai ly. __ Correcfli;e Shoes Not /nc / a^e< / fikék~&ifep 28 N. Pennsylvania St.

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DEIdTSU pura FEfiST Annua! Editoria! Banquet to Be Held Feb. 8. The annual mid-winter banquet of the Indiana Democratic Editoria! Absoclation will he held at the Riley room of the Claypool Hotel the night of Feb. 8. The following speakers w< re selec.ted by the executive eommittee, which mct at thè Hotel Densor* today: Samuel M. Ralston, United States Sena'.or-elect; Thomas Taggart. Mrs. John W. Kerr. and Meredith Xieholson. John Heller of Ft. Wayno, president of the associatimi, will act ns toastmaster. Two committees were named with instructions to report at the business session the morning of Feb. 9. The committee on resolutions was composed of Lew Ellingham, Ft. Wayne; Oscar Cravens, Bloomington, and Thomas McCulìough, Anderson. Dale Ciittenherger, Anderson; Oden Baker. Noblesville, and M. M. McStoops, Petersburg, were named on the nominating committee. BQARDTQ BAR PROBUGESTANDS Commissioners Determine to Beautify Courthouse. Of thè ninety stands in the courthouse yard supposed to be operateti by county' produeers, only two ever were run by famiers, and all will have to go Jan. 1. County Commissioners Harry Tutewiler and Albert Hoffman sali again today. The edict was broughc in response to the clamor raised by the peddlers of bananas and other warehouse goods who have been enjoying a lucrative trade on practi- ! cally rerit-free sites, said John Carlisle, chief deputy for tlie board, who instigated the fight to keep the yard free from stands aster Jan. 1. “This is a county courthouse, birt you might never guess it by the gabbling and yeliing going on out there,” said Carlisle. “Why, it’s got so that people cannot find a place to parie their care when they come down to pay taxes or get a marriage license or attend court.” JTerchants Compia)n The dccisìon of the commissioners. made yesterday in spite of the stand merchants’ threats to line up their “politicai influence” against the commissioners, was final, said Tutewiler “Most of them arcn’t naturarized ard they cannot vote, so what's the differenc#” said one of the commissioners. “Just look at that lawn, there," said Leo K. Fesler, county auditor, aa he surveyetl the wreekage left by Christmas tree vendere. “We paid S7OO to improve that lawn last suramer, and a man watered It all the time. Xow it is tramped in the mud with banana peelir.gs, broken boxes and paper.” The commissioners and Fesler expressed their determination to beautify the place, in spite of the peddlers’ belief that it couldn’t be true. “City’s Disgrace” "What'll we do with our business?” indignantty demanded one of the stand merchants. “What’s that to us?” cotmtered Tutewiler. “You might rent a store and go tato business where you could pay a fetv taxes and a little rent towards thè support of the community, wras one suggestion made thè peddler. “Here we are. with the National Road passing thè building and thousands of outsiders viewing the city’s disgrace each year.” sald Carlisle. “It looks like a hog pen. and we are going to inake a park of it if the people of the city and county want it done.” CAR THIEF BOLD Nellie Starett, 822 Beville Ave., parkecl her automobilt in front of the police headquarters las* night. A thief stole the car.