Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1923 — Page 2

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LEGISLATORS ARE TO AID PRIMARY AS ANSWER TO VOTERS

SURPRISE BALLOT PUTS DR. HASLEP AT SCHOOL UELA! Board Officers and Attorney Named Over Head of Charles Barry. Dr. Marie Hasiep is president of the board of school commissioners for the present year. She was elected last night. Bert S. Gadd was named vice president and Frank P. Ross was elected attorney for the board. All elections were made by a vote of three to one, Adolph Emhardt, Gadd and Dr. Hasiep voting for the successful nominees. Charles L. Barry, retiring president, voted for W. D. Allison, who is in California for several months, for president and vice president and for Albert P.aker for attorney. Baker had been attorney for the board for more than fifteen years, with the exception of one year. Election Is Surprise The election of Dr. Hasiep came as a surprise. It generally was believed that Gadd or Emhardt would be selected. Emhardt will retain the chairmanship of the important buildings and grounds committee. Dr. Hasiep said. She said she would announce the complete list of committee appointments at the next meeting, Jan. 30. Temporary loans amounting to $1,000,000 to meet teachers’ pay rolls and other expenses must be made befere April 2. the finance committee reported. Less Crowding Now Bids on a bond issue of SIIO,OOO will be received Feb. 20. for the erection of a temporary class room at Arsenal Technical High School to relieve crowded conditions and for anew shop building for the building and grounds department. Adolph Emhardt submitted a lengthy report on the housing situation and the building program. At the beginning of 1922. he said, 6,000 pupils were improperly housed and sixty-six classes were on half-day time. At the end of the year the number of half-day classes had been cut to thirty-eight. Direct Taxation. In order to take care of the rapid Increase in high school enrollment, the report said, it will be necessary to erect anew home for Shortridge. anew high school on the west side, complete the work begun some time ago at Emmerich Manual Training and provide additional facilities at Arsenal Technical. Approximately $3,500,000 will be required to provide first units, it was stated. It was proposed to raise this amount by a bond issue of $2,100,000, and a direct tax levy of $1,400,000. If this plan is carried out it will be the first time in many years the board has resorted to direct taxation to erect school buildings.

CM OIL PUT IN mj SOD?. Because an Indianapolis ship ol matrimony -went on the rooks, Chicago “sheiks” were having worries all their own today, according to a dispatch from the Windy City. Thelma Reed, bride of the unhappy romance and soda jerker in one of the most popular "cake-eater” drug stores in Chicago, was the cause of the “flippers’ “ troubles. Thelma got “revenge” for her disillusionment after ter marriage by dosing one “sheik's” soda with a lusty dash of castor oil, the dispatch said. Married Here It all happened because Thelma married Joseph Gates in Indianapolis. she told Chicago police. Gates, the girl declared, "oiled” his hair, carried a book with a long list of girls' names and addresses and, ■worst of all, “suggested that I get a job on our wedding night.” Thelma did get a job. but she didn’t let Gates know about it, she said.

Runs Away She ran away to Chicago, where she set out to get “revenge.” Tuesday night detectives appeared at the drug store and took Thelma into custody. The girl thought the police had learned of her castor oil antics, so she told them the whole storyThe police, however, had not been told of Thelma’s “revenge,” but said they got her after they received a telegram from Thelma’s sister in Tipton, Ind., asking that the girl be held until the sister’s arrival in Chicago. There is no record in Indianapolis of Thelma Reed’s marriage. Juvenile court authorities here said they have had Thelma, age 16, under their supervision since last October, when charges were filed against three men for contributing to her delinquency at Ravenswood. She recently was released from the county detention home on bond. Juvenile authorities said she went to her home in Tipton. Today the court received a letter from a local woman stating that Thelma had gone to Chicago with another girl under an assumed name. The report stated that she had written to local high school girls in an effort to have them join her in Chicago. PHOTOGRAPHIC PLEA An affidavit for Walter Hixon, 28, of 610 S. Missouri St., stated that a “picture” of white mule was found in his possession. A picture of mule was not sufficient evidence upon which to copvict a man cf operating a blind tiger, Henry Winkler, attorney for the defense, asserted in city court today. In spite of this fact Hixon was fined SIOO and costs on a charge of operating a blind tiger.

Only Woman in State Assembly Is Indianapolis Representative

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Meet the lady from Indianapolis. Indianapolis has the distinction of having the only woman Representative in the Indiana Legislature. She is expected to make her influence felt. The only woman Representative is Miss Elizabeth Rainey, who sits on the Republican side of the House. Legal affairs are not new

Adventures of Bygone Days Recalled As Old Fire Station Is Nailed Shut

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LEFT TO RIGHT: PIPEMAN CARL SIMS, EDGAR KNITTEL AND WILLIAM MILLER; CHAUFFEUR EDWARD M’GINNIS AND CAPT. D. .1. LYONS OF PUMPER CO. NO. 31. UPPER LEFT: FIRE CHIEF JOHN J. O’BRIEN. UPPER RIGHT CAPT. D. J. LYONS.

By ARLOW R. TIFER Night cops on the beat will have to find another place to loaf, checker tournaments will have to be postponed and yarns will have to be told in other fire stations. For today the doors of fire house No. 31, on Maryland St., between Pennsylvania and Meridian Sts., were nailed up and only the empty shell was left of one of the oldest stations in the city to tell the tales of heroism and adventure that only a fire station knows. Shortly after the station was ordered closed by the board of public safety, John J. O'Brien, chief of the fire department, came to talk with the men. Chief Saddened. “Boys, I hate to see the old place go,” he told them. "Here's where I worked from Jan. 1, 1899, until Feb. 26, 1912, and spent thirteen of the happiest years of my life as well as

Boom in Midnight Oil Starts As Finals Loom

"Finals” are here. To the high school student, that means that fuzzy bobbed heads and slick-haired imitations of Rodolph Valentino are being crammed with knowledge that should have been acquired bit by bit. On the college campus, it means that black coffee is being consumed in large quantities and the flickering candle bums far into the night. And at the Indianapolis center of the Indiana University Extension Division, it means that 987 students are prodding their brains to find answers to innumerable questions, after they have been working all day in office or store. From gray-haired men and women to youths and girls just out of high school, for sixteen weeks they have given at least one evening a week, and sometimes two or three evenings, to education. They have mastered the intricacies of bookkeeping, auditing and accounting. They have stuttered through imprompt talks which they have been thinking up for weeks ahead.

to her, because in private life she si office manager for a law firm. One of the most importan measuies before the Assembly is a bill making it more difficult to obtain a license to marry and more difncult to obtain a divorce. Miss Rainey sponsors this bill, which is a part cf a Nation wide movement to bring about marriage reform.

some of the hardest.” Tears came to the eyes of the chief as memories of those days and his firemen buddies came back to him. "I know you hate to leave,” he continued, “but we've always had honor companies here who don’t fail in an emergency. I ask you now to take your orders as tney are given.” The chief turned away. The station was built in 1874 and its companies always, were the first out on every fire In the downtown district. Its men have helped fight many big fires, such as the FahnleyMcCrea fire, the terrible surgical institute disaster in 1902 and the Colfax fire, where six lives were lost. Had First Pole It is a tradition of the Indianapolis fire department that the first fire pole in the country was Installed in the old station.

Under the guidance of Prof. J. W. Piercy, head of the journalism department at Indiana University, and later with Ernest Cohn, secretary of the Homer McKee Advertising Company, they have learned how best to give an impression of dignity in advertising stained glass windows, or, on the other hand, what type will set off such frivolities as face powder or rouge. They have delved into the culture subjects, too. Dr. Harry D. Kitson has led them far into the realm of psychology. Philosophy, contemporary literature, the languages, sociology, history all have been mastered, or at least, studied intently. Even Benjamin J. Burris, State superintendent of education, has entered the class in education. And now these students are taking the tests. At the end of the week they will breathe a sigh of relief and throw their books aside—to take them up again Monday to begin the second emester.

Tiiih i.MJiAISAPOLiS TIMES

'STATESMANSHIP OF CHRIST CAN REDEEM EUROPE' Only Human Brotherhood Will Solve Chaos, Sheldon Declares. BY REV. CHARLES M. SHELDON (Author of "In His Steps" and Editor of trie Christian Herald.) (Copyright. 1923. by United News.) NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Suppose our “observer,” Mr. Child, at Lausanne, should rise at his place some day this week and speak as follows: “Gentlemen, I am thoroughly convinced that the great issues discussed at this conference will never be settled by diplomacy or treaties. The only vital thing we need is good will toward one another. In other words, we need to apply the statesmanship of Jesus Christ to the problems of Europe and the world. We will never arrive at any solution of these questions until we have the right attitude cf inner feeling. It is not a question of territorial or national rights, or boundaries or reparations or finances, but it is a question of human brotherhood. Diplomacy cannot save Europe, Jesus Christ's statesmanship can.” Imagine Mr. Child saying this! What would be the result? His utterance would go around the world. It would be called visionary and impractical. What would Jesus do in the year 1923? Why have we no statesmen big enough to say it? We are still using the old discredited methods of diplo macy and national greed and getting nowhere. The only thing that will work for the welfare of mankind is an ideal, and wo are so stupid that we will not apply the only remedy that will cure the sickness of civilization.

Later Chief O’Brien talked of the ilays when he was captain at the station, then No. 13 engine house. "The place seems like home to me.” he said. “For nine months I never left the place except for meals. One of the boys was injured and we were! working extra turn so he would draw full pay." “Remember the collapse of the Stewajft building?” asked the chief. "That’s one time I remember that even the horses were so scared they refused to take the harness. The alarm came in at midnight. When we opened the doors the street was tilled with dirt and smoke, but after a little coaxing the horses went to their places and we got to the fire.” Men Transferred The station was closed under Mayor Shank’s previous administration, used as headquarters by the salvage corps for two years and opened again under Mayor Bell. With stations situated at no great distance from it on both sides In the downtown district, the station is not needed, Chief O’Brien said. The national board of fire underwriters recommended that it be closed. The men will be transferred and the apparatus moved to other stations. D. J. Lyons, captain at the station since June 9, 1921, will be sent to Station No. 19. Captain Lyons has spent eighteen years as fireman in the downtown district. FARMER KILLS SELF By Timm Special MORRISTOWN, Ind., Jan. 10.— Richard Bell, 46, farmer, killed himself at his home near here yesterday by cutting his throat with a razor. The widow, from whom he was separated, lives in Okalhoma. MAN HELD AS FUGITIVE Ed J. Hiatt, 27, of Maywood, Ind., was arrested early today on a charge of being a fugitive from justice. The police said he is wanted in Marion, Ind., but did not know with what Hiatt is charged. TO CUKE A COLI) IN ONE DAY Take Laxative BROMO QUININE tablets. The box bears the signature of E. W. Grove. (Be sure you get BROMO). 30c.—Advertisement.

Trend Turns Against Repeal • Measures When “Folks Back Home” Make Known Their Wishes. As members of the Legislature began to hear from home today, the trend in the Assembly turned decidedly against the passage of bills introduced Tuesday for the purpose of virtually repealing* the primary election law. Plans to rush the measures through both houses ivere quickly abandoned when those hack of the hills leanied the “lay of the land.” Although it has been charged efforts were made to “stack” the election committees with members opposed to the primary,

Democratic Leader Has Real Work This Year

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Ladies and gentlemen, meet Representative Thurman A. Gottschalk of Berne, Democratic floor leader in the House. In recent years there has not been much for the minority leader to lead, but this time he lias forty-seven, besides himself, to keep in line.

THRASHERS DAI TRUCK TOLL DILL Brotherhood Ready to Fight Other iVleasures. The Indiana Brotherhood of Thrash errnen will support legislation to compel trucking companies and bus lines using the State highways to pay taxes commensurate with road usage, according to W. E. McCreery, secretary treasurer of the association, which is holding its thirteenth annual co.iven tion in Tomlinson Hall. Legislation working a hardship on thrashorrnen, such .as laws competing the removal of cleats and rims from thrashing machinery, will be opposed. There now is no legislation in Indiana working hardships on thrashermen, but as similar laws are in effect in other States, the v htrashermen stand ready to oppose such legislation here, officials said. McCreery pointed out that the thrashing craws use the roads not more than twenty-two days throughout the year, while trucking companies use them continually. It is no more than fair to the general public to tax the companies, he asserted. Earl Crawford, Crawfordsville, a member of the State highway commission spoke at the meeting Tuesdayevening. E. E. Parkinson, Madison, Wis.. advertising manager of the American Thrasherman, and Arthur Moore, treasurer of the Central Rubber and Supply Company spoke today.

POLICEMAN TELLS OE HIS NARROWEST ESCAPE

The fruits of life are enjoyed in a more thankful manner by Detective John Mullln than by most men. For Mullin was the subject of a circumstance which placed him nearer the everlasting than is really comfortable. Mullin related, in an unconcerned way, how, back in 1908, on a balmy day in October, while pumping a bicycle for all the speed that could be got out of it over on the west side on a burglary call, he saw two men standing between two houses. Just as Mullin put on the handbrake the robbers opened fire at him. Although a ligament In his knee was torn loose as he fell, he started firing and brought down one of the men. The second made a temporary escape, but only until he was sighted by Mullin again, some six blocks away. He stopped with four bullet holes through him. Mullin says he was mad. He must have Deen, to lie and stand there, a target for the two men, at a distance of thirty feet, ind,

SOCIETY WOMAN CLUBBED AND ROBBED OF SIO,OOO Two Youthful Bandits Sought by Chicago Police. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 10. —Police today were searching for two youthful bandits who clubbed and robbed Mrs. John Schmidt, society woman, of SIO,OOO in money and jewels as she entered her home here. Two months ago burglars entered the Schmidt home and obtained $8,004 loot. SERVICES FOR MRS. RIEBE* Funeral services for Mrs. Conrad Iliebe, who died Monday at her home, 1432 Bellefontaine St., will bo held at 8:30 a. m. Thursday at the residence. She is survived by the husband, two sisters and three brothers. Burial will be at Columbus, Ind.

the committee in neither house could agree upon a. unanimous report favoring the bills. Asa result, it was believed no report would be made before Friday and possibly not before next week. It is possible that the measure may nevei be reported out. in the Senate, but allowed to go to a vote in the House. Headquarters Established Among those opposing a favorable report was Senator Clem Richards, of Terre Haute, Republican caucus chairman. Representatives of the Republican State committee, which is fighting the primary, were active last night in attempting to line up their forces. They were in evidence among members of the Assembly in the hotel lobbies.

Friends of the primary organized their forces rapidly and were prepared to put up a hard fight against the bills. Edward C. Toner of Anderson, one of the most active of the friends of the primary, established headquarters at the Claypool Hotel and his room was the rallying point for those who favor retaining the primary system. Friends Hopeful Toner said he did not believe the Re- j publican organization could force'trie, passage of the bill. "The men who came to this Legis- ; lature came because they were j selected at primaries,” Toner said. It is reasonable to believe they will bite the hands that fed them? "If the enemies of the primary can ! emasculate it now by taking away the State wide feature, the next step would be to make it an optional j matter with parties and in varying i units—party control —and that would I be the end of primaries. The women ■ of the State would be disfranchised, j many men would practically be dis- ; franchised, and the whole game would j go back to the politicians."

RICH WOMEN HAVE LAUNDRY ROMANCE

Hi/ Cnitirt \cirn ARKANSAS CITY, Kan., Jan. 10.— i Three women who rose from the soap- j suds and ironing-boards of the Empire steam laundry to honor, fame and riches were pointed to with pride Tuesday by C. N. Hunt, proprietor of the plant. One is a star on Broadway, another the wife of a newly elected Governor and the third an Oklahoma “Oil queen.” Asa child, Sara Warmbrodt. daughter of Sam S Warmbrodt. for thirty years engineer at the Empire, played! about on the laundry floor. Now Sara has risen to fame as the little lame girl in Channing Bollock's Broadway success, “The Fool:" her name appears on the program as Sara Sot hern. The Warmbrodt family is living in anew bungalow Just outside Los Angeles, purchased with Sara’s earnings. When the new Governor of Arizona stepped forward Monday and took the oath of office, watching him with shining eyes was his bride, formerly

JOHN MULLIN shoot until he had captured both, But such is the life of a policeman.

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Farmer Is “Boss” of 100 Members of State House

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This important-looking individual on the rostrum is Speaker Raymond C. Morgan in the State House. It is Speaker Morgan’s job to preside over the 100 persons who make up the lower House of the Legislature. He agrees that it is some job. The House directory gives his occupation as a farmer.

SHINGLE ROOF ON WANE, FIRE REPORT INDICATES Campaign for Fire-proof Roofs Meeting Success. In an address at the first 1923 meeting of the fire prevention committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce at noon today in the Chamber # i of Commerce building, Frank C. Jor- | dan, chairman, cited the large decrease in fire losses in the last two years. Only four heavy loss fires oc- ! curred last year, he said. Jacob E. Riedel, chief of the division of fire prevention of the fire department, reported that 3,572 permits for re-roofing had been issued in 1922, and Fire Chief John O'Brien urged that the campaign to substitute I fire-proof roofs for wood shingles be continued. Seven thousand wood shingle roofs remain in the city, he said. Other speakers were Mrs. Vivian Tracy Wheateraft, deputy State fire marshal, Frank Blackledge and J. J. | Fitzgerald.

Miss Elsie AVoddle. years ago an ironer at the Empire steam laundry, according to Hunt. Mrs. Charles Alton was forewoman in the laundry for years. She married Charles Endieott and moved to a farm near Tonkawa, Okla. Today Mrs. Endieott and her husband each own 360 acres in the center of the Tonkawa oil field and have Individual incomes of more than $5,000 a day. "There’s romance in the Empire steam laundry,” claimed its proprietcr, as he went into the back room to see how many bundles the new man had brought in. “They all started with me—and look where they are row!”

“Pape’s Cold Compound” Breaks a Cold in Few Hours

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WHEN IS MADMAN MAD?ATTORNEYS . TOTMURSE Clinical Psychiater to Lecture Lawyers and Ministers on Insanity. When a woman kills a man she pleads self-defense, wears her most becoming gown and a wistful look and plays full-force on the sympathies of the jury. When a man is the slayer, and cannot deny it, he looks blank and pleads insanity. At times so fine is the line between the insane and the sane that, not even the man’s atorneys can tell whether or not the insanity is feigned or real. Asa result, frequently lawyers are led to defend a prisoner on an insanity plea, when the defendant actually is as sane as the attorney himself. To aid attorneys and others in determining such cases, a course of clinical lectures in forensic psychiatry will begin at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane. The course will consist of eight weekly two-hour lectures, in connection with a course in medical jurisprudence given by Dr. Edward A. Willis at the Indiana Law School. Dr. Max A. Bahr, clinical psychiater at the insane hospital, will give the lectures. They are designed to inform lawyers, law students and ministers of the relation of the law to cases of insanity. Dr. George F. Edenharter, superintendent of me hospital, evolved the idea of the course many years ago. Patients at the hospital will be used in the clinical work. The first lecture will be on “Hallucinations.” Dr. Willis, in announcing the course today, recalled case in which persons seemingly were sane, until touched on one particular subject. He remarked that an act of seeming insanity can be told to a juty in such a way as to give the impression that the person actually is insane. Dr. Willis stressed the point that lawyers should be able to distinguish between what he cailed factitious, or actual, insanity, and fictitious, or feigned, insanity.

INDIANA BAKERS HEAR REPORTS CF OFFICERS Four Hundred Expected to Register at Claypool. The Indiana Bakers’ Association met at the Claypool Hotel today in its nineteenth annual convention. Four hundred bakers and supply men were expected to register during the twoday meeting. Reports were made by the officers, who are: Eugene K. Quigg, Richmond, president: C. P. Ehlers, Indianapolis, secretary, and J. A. Dietzen, Frank, ton, treasurer. A. Wegner of Syracuse. N. Y., spoke on “The Increasing Importance of Milk to Bread." New officers were to be elected later and addresses made by William Walmsley, Chicago; Dick Miller, Indianapolis; Dr. H. E. Barnard, American Bakers Association, Chicago, and D. P. Chindblom, Chicago.

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