Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 217, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1923 — Page 14

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HOMICIDESHGWS LARGE DEGREASE FROMJ3I7PEAK L'ast Year Had Lowest Record in Indianapolis Since 1910, WAR CAUSED HIGH RATE Deaths From Tuberculosis Locally Also Take Decided Drop, Homicide caused fewer deaths in Indianapolis in the past year than in any year since 1910, according to records given out today. The rate for 1922 was 7.2 per 100.000 population. The rate in 1910 was 9.S and showed a steady increase up to 1917, the peak year of the twelve-year period. According to experts, this phenomena accompanied the war and the rate has been failing off gradually since that period. No remarkable difference was shown until 1921. with twenty-five deaths, a rate of 7.6. The rate for 1320 was 12.9, a total of forty deaths, only slightly lower than the figures of 1917. Last year the records show there were no homicides in February or July and that June, with five, was the high month. The total number of homicides for 1922 was twenty-four, a larger number than occurred in London. The number of deaths in the city in the past year from tuberculosis was 100 less than for 1921. They numbered 306, a rate of 92.1, compared with 406 deaths, a rate of 127.7, in 1921. 80TH IN POSTAL SAVINGS Indianapolis Trails Cities With Large Foreign Population. Indianapolis ranked eightieth among the cities of the country in postal savings funds in December, according to a report received today by Robert H. Bryson, postmaster. The amount on deposit Dec. 31 was $141,130. Cities with a large foreign Industrial population led the list. CLUB HEARS SCHOOL HEAD E. IT. Graff, superintendent of city schools, addressed the Exchange Club p.t Its regular meeting today at the Lincoln Hotel. William Chestnut of the Frank Hatfield company, Arthur Vonnegut of the Vonnegut Hardware company, and Kenneth P. Fry of the Washington company, were admitted to the club.

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Opponents of the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant (above) of New York have demanded a heresy trial because of his statement in a recent sermon in the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension. MRS. LORA STODGHILL, 29, DIES IN FLORIDA Local Woman to Be Buried at Lexington, Ind. Mrs. Lora Stodghill, 29, wife of Tracy Stodghill, 39 W. Pratt St., died Tnursday at Jamesville, Fla., while on a tour of the South. Burial will be In Lexington, Scott County, but other funeral arrangements have not been made. Mrs. Stodghill was bom in Scott County. Surviving are her husband, a daughter, Mildred; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. 11. Close, 334 N. Forrest Ave., and four sisters, Mrs. W. C. Teagarden, Mrs. Ernest Dodson. Mrs. Cera Noel, all of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Mabel Tihillity of Lexington, Ind. INDIANAPOLIS MEN NAMED Warsaw Doctor Elected President of State Academy. Two Indianapolis men were elected officers of the Indiana Academy of Ophthamology and Oto-laryngology, at the closing session of the annual meeting of the academy, held in the University building. They were Dr. G. S. Marshall, first vice president, and Dr. B. J. Larkin, re-elected secretary treasurer. Others elected were Dr. C. Norman Howard, Warsaw, president, and Dr. D. W. Cochran, Madison, second vice president. TECH SENIORS ENTERTAIN The January seniors of the Technical high school had their class party in the lunch room Thursday afternoon. Dancing took up the larger part of the time. The only visitors were members of the faculty.

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THEATER MERGER GROWS IN SCOPE New Corporation Will Be Backed by Banking Interests, Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—The proposed Shubert-Erlanger theater merger will be extended to include the Selwyns, Sam Harris, A. H. Woods, Charles B. Dillingham and possibly other theaters, according to plans disclosed today by Edhard W. Selwyn. The consolidation, unlike any thing ever undertaken in the amusement world, would be controlled by a SIOO,000,000 corporation backed by J. P. Morgan & Cos., the First National Bank of New York, the Commonwealth Trust Company and the Illinois Trust Company of Chicago, Selwyn said. Some reports said that the project which would practically eliminate independent owners as an Important factor in the American theatrical business had virtually been completed.

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HOFFMAN FINDS WINDY CITY ALSO HAS SMOKE But Indianapolis Odors Win Ribbon, He Admits. Tales of the “big city" regale Harry Tutewiler and John Xitley, county commissioners, who remained home while Albert Hoffman, board president, attended the good roads conference at Chicago this week. Hoffman was back at his desk today. Hoffman told the other members that while Chicago “might equal us in the thickness of her black smoke,” he didn’t believe the city could "hold a candle to certain sections of Indianapolis in the matter of bad odors, the stockyard smell notwithstanding." AUTO DRIVER IS SLATED Charles Horan. 50, colored, 4 N. Dearborn St., was arrested on charges of speeding and improper display of license plates by Sergeant Harris and a squad of police.

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LIQUOR RAIDERS TELL OF TELEPHONE WARNING Police Assert “Relay!” Flashed News Down Line. The bells were ringing “Tra, la, la,” but not “For me and my gal.” Lieutenant Corrigan and Sergeant Nageleison, searching houses in Vinton St., for suspected liquor caches, said they heard telephone bells ringing, ringing, ringing as they slowly worked their way from house to bouse and they understood the residents were flashing the news on down the line. In some cases the phones would ring while the police were in the house, they said. EX-FREIGHT AGENT DEAD John H. Boodro, ex-traveling freight agent for the Illinois Central Railroad, died in Jackson, Mich., Wednesday, according to word received here Thursday. The body was to arrive in Indianapolis today. Burial will be in the Holy Cross Cemetery.

MOTORIST ELUDES BANDIT A masked man with a large blue steel revolver attempted to stop George Carbell, 2245 N. Delaware St., at 11 p. m. Thursday as Carbell drove into an alley in the rear of his home. Carbell saw the man and Increased the speed of his automobile. The masked man ran south to Twen-ty-Second St., and turned west. Sergeant Dean and a squad of police failed to find him. FUNERAL RITES SATURDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Elenora Westover, 65, wife of William H. Westover, will be held at the residence, 2532 Madison Ave., at 2 p. m. Saturday. Burial will be at Crown Hill. Mrs. Westover died Thursday.

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PORK ROAST . . . 15c. 18c Boiling Meat 7$ Frankfurters ..12%^ (2 lbs. for 25tf) Hamburger 10^1 Pure Pork Sausage 15S

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