Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 242, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1923 — Page 2

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POLICE POWERS ARE SOUGHT FOR 15,000 MEN IN INDIANA

FARM PLEASURE TO BE SHOWN AT STATE EXPOSITION Experts to Discuss Agriculture for Members of "^deration. rtemelriber that song, "How You iloln’ to Keep ’Em Down on the Farm?’’ Well, you can find the answer at the State Fairground in the manufacturers’ building next week, beginning Monday evening. The occasion is the Indiana Farmers’ Exposition under the auspices of the State board of agriculture and the Indiana Federation of Farmers' Associations. If you think farm life consists only of plowing, currying the horses, milking the cows, gathering the eg;* and taking the milk to town in a flivver, you are wrong, ali wrong. One of the subjects for discussioli will be "The Farm Beautiful.” Miniature landscape scenes of farm homes will be shown. Booths will be fitted out to show various rooms. The more material side of farming also will be given a place. Each forenoon will be devoted to inspection of exhibits and informal discussion by exhibitors. Purdue University repre sentative% county agents and others. Each afternoon members of the agricultural extension department of Purdue will deliver lectures. For women at rangements have been made to fervr. tea each afternoon, and an orchestra will play during the day and evenings.

FIRE RON TOTAL FOR COLO WAVE MOUNTS TO 120 Thirty Alarms in Last Twen-ty-Four Hours Day’s Loss Reaches $7,883. More than thirty fires during the past twenty-four hours brought the total in Indiapapolis during the cold wave up to approximately 120 today. The damage during the last twentyfour hours, $7,383. Most of the fires were small ones, caused by sparks on roofs and burning soot in chimneys. Employes of Allerdice & Cos., whose warehouse at 226 Kentucky Ave. was damaged by fire late Friday, were checking over water soaked stock and preparing for resumption of business Monday. Damages to the building were estimated at $2,000 by August F. Guedelhoefer, owner. Damage to the stock was not estimated. Firemen said the blaze was caused by an overheated stove. Among other fires: Home of E. Craig, 54 X. Tremont Ave., $1,500. Business building at 1114-16 E. Nineteenth St., occupied by W. Allen furniture store, $2,000. Home of H L. Chamber, 1515 N. Meridian St., $1,200 Home of A. A. Barnes. 2339 Pearson Ave., $2,000. fighTonsubsidy BILUSRESOMEO Friends of Measure Get Back on Floor of Senate. By United Pres* WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The Administration ship subsidy bill today was again occupying the floor of the Senate’s stage after a sharp struggle in which its friends were able to marshal their forces better than its opponents. The bill was restored to its position as the unfinished business of the Senate, following its vote on the British settlement bill last night. Senator Robinson moved to adjourn, but was beaten and the Senate then approved a request by Senator Jones, Washington, that the subsidy come up.

The fight to displace it, or to keep it from progressing any nearer a hnar vote will be resumed today or Monday when motions will be made to take up other business. FLOWER UP TO GOVERNOR Measure to Change State Blossom Passes Senate. Whether the Indiana State flower shall be that of the tulip tree Is up to Governor McCray. v The measure introduced by Representative Elizabeth Rainey passed the Senate late Friday, 33-10. after repeated roll calls for absentees brought a constitutional majority. During discussion of -the measure, Representative Rainey was an interested spectator. When her bill had passed 6he returned to the House with a smile. The scientific name of the proposed flower is “liriodendron tulipifere.” THIEF SMASHES~WINDOW Patrolman Hague reported he found a window at the Pure Oil filling sta, tion, Blake and W. Michigan Sts., broken in. A robber had reached through the window and stolen the

High School Girls Make Costumes to Show Styles Varying From Period of Grecian Dame to Flapper

CURTAILMENT OF CAR SERVICE IS PROTESTED | Stockyards Transportation Stopped at 10:30 p. in. Daily. I Asa result of suspension of street car service to the stockyards after 10:30 p. m., a special committee of | commission merchants, headed _by , I Horace H. Fletcher, secretary and ! traffic manager of the stockyards, was : I ready today to protest to street rail- j I way officials. After 10:30 stockyards cars go only ! to Stock St., six blocks from the yards. I Commission men complain this causes ! great inconvenience to buyers who desire to reach hotels during the night, j Street railway officials said today j that service was discontinued because of tie-ups- at the Belt Railroad, making it impossible to maintain regular schedules. TRIALS IN ALERT THEFTCONTINUED I ' Two Accused in Bank Robbery Ask for Trial of seven persons accused by J the State of complicity in the robbery j of $60,000 worth of registered bonds from the Alert State Bank, Aiert, Ind., August, 1922, was continued until March 5 in Criminal Court today. The delay was caused by request | of Mamie and Alfred Isley, accused of having $40,000 of the bonds burled on their farm near Julietta, for jury j trials 6n charges of conspiracy. Prosecutor Evans asked that the • State delay the trial of the other five suspected, some of whom have been ! In jail six months, until after the i ! trials. j All are held under SIO,OOO bonds, | I which Judge Collins refused to lower j ! on request of Evans. COP FIRES BULLET AT SPEEDING CAR After a chase Traffic Officer Moorman, riding in a sedan commandeered from a passing motorist, fired one shot, Barney Vallosia, 25, and his wife, Ruth, 19, of 1422 Broadway, were arrested today. They were , fined in city court by Judge Wilmeth. i Moorman said he ordered Vallosia, driving his wife's automobile, to stop at Caftttol Ave. and Washington St. Vallosia speeded up. The chase led to White River Blvd., where the shot halted the Vallosia car. Vallosia was fined sls and costs for I speeding and $3 and costs for disobey- | ing an officer's signal. Costs were suspended on the second charge. Mrs. Vallosia was fined $1 for lacking a license. MOTORCYCLIST IS INJURED Mark H. Webb, 26. of 605 N. Pine St. is in the Methodist Hospital with ( a broken leg as a result of a fall from his motorcycle early today at Brookside and Commerce Aves. Webb was pn his way to work at | Ft. Harrison when bis motorcycle apparently skidded on the ice. Two Held After Crash. Eugene White, 38, colored. 852 W. Tenth St., is held at the cKy hospital on a charge of intoxication, suffering from severe bruises on the right arm, and James Williams, colored, 31, of 713 S. Senate Ave., is in the city jail charged with operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor. I as a result of an automobile accident. Jolui \V. B&les I)end John W. Bales, 62, of 812 Chadwick , St., deputy prosecutor in Superior Court, Room 1, died at the city hospital today. Surviving are the widow and, a granddaughter who lived with

LEFT, MISS RUTH LEEK: RIGHT, MISS HILDA KREFT.

How milady has dressed from ancient to modern times is shown on the walls of a corridor of the main building at Arsenal Technical High School. Girls of the clothing classes made and fitted the costumes on cardboard puppets. Miss Ruth Leek, 4257 Winthrop Ave., designed a colonial dress, while Miss Hilda

MAN INJURED IN FREIGHT WRECK Engine Dragging Derailed Car Hits Handcar, Clem Roome, 37, a section hand, firing near the Monon station at Broad Ripnla, suffered painful lacerations and bruises at 7:30 a. m. when a southbound Monon freight train dragging a freight car struck a hand-car by which Roome was standing and threw him to the ground. Roome’s injuries were attended by Dr. G. F. Hesler, 6310 Bellefontaine St., and he was sent to his home Four other section hands who were with Rooine said the train had dragged a freight car about a quarter of a mile with the trucks outside of the tracks. They were standing beside a handcar shanty, with the handcar on tracks at right angles to the main track ready to place it on the main track as soon as the train passed. The dragging trucks of the freight car demolished the tracks to the stianty, throwing Roome M) the ground. A square south the car jumped the track and fell to one side, causing another car to leave the track and fall to the other side. MILLER'S ABSENCE PUZZLE TO WIFE (Continued From Page 1) of work he has been 'doing,” said Dr. Stalker. "At times he appeared worried over the great amount of work he had to do.” Dr. Stalker, a close friend of Miller, said his financial condition was excellent. Wife Scouts Sudden Call. "Miller’s work was such that, he might he called away to any part of the country,” said Dr. Stalker. “He has previously been called away, but each time left word. Mrs. Miller did not believe it possible that her husband could have gone and left a message which she did not receive. Milier entered the practice of law at Goshen and became prominent in Republican politics. He served v one term as Attorney General of Indiana, and In 1908 was candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. After a hard fight he was defeated b> Janies E. Watson. Appointed by Taft President Taft appointed him United States district attorney in 1909, which office he held 1910-1914. It v r as as district attorney that Miller made a great reputation by his successful prosecution of the famous dynamite cases which resulted after a long trial in the conviction of many officers and members of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers of America. For a time he was a partner of Judge Francis E. Baker, now a mem ber of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. Appeared Preoccupied For a number of years he has been a member of the firm of Miller & Dowling, 1109 Fletcher Trust build ing. Friends said today that foi; several months Miller has not seemed himself. He had a preocupied manner and the cheerful friendliness for which he was well known had de-

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Kreft, 326 Fulton St., chose to depict the flapper. They are shown above. About seventy-fivp ♦ninlature costumes wore made. The show was sponsored by the art department. Misses Roberta Warren, Sara Bard, Julia Roberts, Ruth Stebbins, and Elizabeth Jasper, teachers, were in charge.

BOARD ONCE MORE DELAYS REROUTING t Tretton Ordered to Postpone Riverside Change, Just after James P. Tretton, superintendent of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, had prepared to put the order to route Riverside cpr* over Indiana Ave., Instead of Blake, New York, West and Washington Sts., effective Sunday, he received an order to day from the board of public works to postpone the rerouting a week. The board had ordered the change Sunday at the FT-lday afternoon meeting. William H. Freeman, member of the board of public works, said the change was delayed "as a special privilege to certain people.” PIMPLE IS CAUSE OF DAMAGE SUIT Woman Asks $6,000 From Insurance Firm, Does the opening of a pimple under a customer’s chin by a barber, which results in blood poison and death fall under the classification of an external, Violent injury? A Jury in the Marion County Circuit Court will have to decide. Mrs. Edna J. James, North Vernon, Ir.d., a student at Hanover College, today filed a suit, through Miller, Dailey & Thompson, local law firm, for $6,000 damages claimed under the accident clause of the SIO,OOO fife insurance policy of her husband against the State Life Insurance Company here. Perry C. James, 25. North Vernon merchant, died Nov. 24, 1922, sho charges, after a barber in Ivcxlngton, Ind., opened such a pimple, resulting in streptocic infection. The insurance company paid the regular policy of SIO,OOO to Mrs James as beneficiary, but refused to pay the extra $5,000 claimed under the “extra Indemnity” clause for protection against death by violence. SCHOOL CHANGE BLOCKED Amendments Recommended to Bill to Take Power From Board. Changes in the present procedure of the Indianapolis school board to make four members of the board, in stead of three, necessary to override the authority of the business director were blocked by the Senate Committee on Education in considering bills of Representative Rainey and Senator Miller. Amendments recommended by the committee wifi leave the hill practically the same as the provisions of the present law.

Devastation Four lead pencils. One box of matches. One lunch. So read the burglary record at police headquarters today. The articles mentioned were taken from the office of Sam Hurrah, coal dealer, 1450 Kentucky Ave., by a burglar who pried open a window. The lunch was one Hurrah neglected to eat yesterday.

MINISTER BEFORE COURT Judge Takes Blind Tiger Case Under Advisement. The case of the Rev. Lee Puraiey, colored, living in the rear of the Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, 811 S. Senate Ave., charged with operating a blind tiger, was taken under ad visoment by City Judge Wilmeth. A box containing thirteen half pint bottles full of "white mule" whisky and thirteen empty bottles were found in a shed In the rear of his home, police paid. Many prominent colored mlnllsers and laymen appeared in court to testify to th> sobriety and integrity of the Rev. Purslay. He asserted in court that the box of whose contents h was Ignorant was l*-ft in ills shed by. one of his parishioners. WARRANT ISSUED FOR A. L BAIUN Former Detective Refuses to Tell of Work for Ford, CHICAGO, Fob. 17.—The arrest of Albert J. Baffin, whose testimony in the Michigan deposition hearing implicated Burns and Thiel detective agencies, failed to materialize early today. Authorities declared a warrant was Issued for Baffin, but refused to state on what grounds it was issued. Following refusal of Baffin to answer questions relating to his alleged activity in collecting antlJewish information for Henry Ford's newspaper, the Dearborn Independent. assistant attorney general of Miehigun, \V. L. Smith was undecided whether to continue cross-examina-tion of the witness. PARK CONCESSION CONTRACTS LET Privileges Are Awarded by Board, Contracts for concession privileges at the city parks and resorts were let by the park board today. Contracts let: For privilege of renting canoes at the Riverside Canoe Club, to Harry Nicoll at SI,OOO for one year: park concessions at South Qrove Park, to Thomas H. Hoacock at SI,OOO for one year; Riverside Shelter House, to Roscoe CristJ.it $4,200 for th-ee years: restaurant privileges at Riverside Canoe Club, to Mark It. Gray for one year at $210: Twenty-Sixth St. bathing beach, to James Angelo at SIOO for one year. Brookside Park, to Thomas H. Beall at $3,900 for three years; Garfield Park Shelter House, to Mrs. Sarah O’Brien, $1,500, one year; Willard Park, to Charles McGinnis, one year, S4OO. For the privilege of selling balloons at any park; Thomas H. Ross paid $1,200 for three years. He was the only bidder. v. REORGANIZATION IS SET Reorganization of the vocational department of the''State department of public instruction will start March 15 when the resignation E. A. Wreidt as director takes effect. Wreidt was asked by Benjamin J. Bums, State school superintendent, to resign. Z. M. Smith. State supervisor of agricultural education, wifi take his place. CORK THROAT ' _ J Gargle with warm salt water .— then apply over throat — VICKS Vapoßub

POLL SHOWS TAX ON GASOLINE HAS MANY OPPONENTS j No Funds Provided for Road Commission if Bill Should Fail. With the appropriation bill well on Us way, the State administration has found the gasoline tax bill anew subject for worry. A poll of the two houses shows the measure can not pass unless many members change their minds. The bill provides for a tax of 2 [ cents on each gallon of gasoline, the I proceed to go to the highway commission. Asa result of plans to pass this bill, no provision was made for ! the highway commission in the approS priatoin bill. The poll shows that not sufficient | Republicans to make the bill a law and no Democrats are for it. It is understood the Senate poll showed | only fourteen of the thirty-two Republican members favored, the bill. Twen-ty-six votes are required for passage. The principal objection is fear that the bill wifi go into effect without lowering the property tax now levied to produce money for the highway commission. Some observers contend that the proposed increases in automobile license fees should take care of the commission. Still others fear it would be impossible to collect the tax. MAYOR DECLARES HE’S NOT RUNNING FORANYOFFICES Declines, to Enlarge Upon Statement He’d Like to Be Senator, If political wiseacres were wondering today whether Mayor Shank's statement before the Senate Friday that he Would like to become a Senator meant that It had dimmed his aspirations for governorship, it meant nothing in the fife of the mayor. Shank denied ho had any Intention to run for am- office. "Just how much of that statement did you mean?” the mayor was asked. "Sav. I'm not a candidate for Senator and didn’t mean that I would 1f,." the mayor replied. "But I do think it is an outrage for a terror to come down here for $6 a day., Why, they can't llva on that; I know I couldn’t. "But these city judges—why, 1 could ydre. 10(1 lawyers in Indianapolis for SIOO. a month, and they’d be grad to get It. and I’m not in favor of raiding the pay for them. The police court D a better place to get an education than a college. ’’ "But, mayor, did you mean that you might be a .candidate for Senator In ' place of for Governor?" "Say,” the mayor not running for anything at present, and it don't ntako any difference who else runs. “Oh, yes. 1 forgot to tell you that I’m leaving for Miami Beach, Fla,, Sunday night and will be gone for three weeks.” The mayor and Mrs. Shank wifi spend a week at Miami Beach and then go to Hot Springs, Ark., vyhere they will be joined by Joseph L. Hogue, city controller. ESTATE IS HEAVILY TAXED Illinois Gets $309,531 of Fortune by Delavan Smith. The estate of Dela Van Smith, for mer publisher of the Indianapolis News, has been assessed $309,531.54 inheritance tax in Illinois, it became known today. Mr. Smith lived at Lake Forest, 111. Inheritance tax appraisers held that the residue of the eq£ito, which went to the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company of Indianapolis, was taxable because ultimately it will go to Indiana charitable institutions. Under the Illinois law, bequests to charitable institutions outside the State are subject to tax. Girl Is Missing Ofiza Walker, 14, colored, of 134 W. Tenth St., was reported missing today. She Is described as being fight, weighing 113 pounds, five feet tall. She wore a white hat trimmed in red, and a sport, coat.

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Horse Thief Detective Want Right to Make Arrests and Carry Arms, Fifteen thousand men would be authorized to carry arms, make arrests and hold prisoners until warrants could be obtained, and to act otherwise as peace officers under the provisidns of a bill pending in the House of Representatives. The bill, introduced by Earl M. Myers of Kingman, late Friday, provides that county commissioners shall be compelled to designate as constable members of horse thief detective associations, whose names are submitted by such associations. Under the present law commissioners may make such designations if they see fit. - C. F. Lowe of Covington, who says he is grand State organizer for the National Horse Thief Association of Indiana, asserts the association has 15,000 active members. Law Passed in 1865 The formation of horse thie* detective associations was authoirzed by law in 1865 and amended in 1801 and 1907. For years these organizations flourished in the State. Then they almost died out. They have been revived, for the most part, within the last year. The original purpose of the associations, according to Lowe, who was in the House when the bill was introduced, was to apprehend horse thieves who operate!! following the Civil War and again about 1900. “You know this bunch of men that has been trying to take care of some sects down In southern Indiana, in Vanderburgh County and in Bloomington,” Lowe said. “Well, we are trying to get a?ter officials who will not enforce the law and have men there who will.” Bloomington Case Lowe said the captain of each company (ten or more members) has authority under the State laws to deputize as many members as he chooses in an emergency. told of a case in Bloomington in which four men were deputized so they could go after a negro who had attacked a girl in a sorority house. The Horse Thief Detective Association is not connected with any other group or society, he said. Lowe said the organization has no State headquarters. He said State officers are D. A. Pence of Swayzee, president; George Stilwell of Ladoga, secretai*'. and H. B. Hostetter. He said John B. Carter of Indianapolis is chairman of the legislative committee.

INTRUDER THROWS VEST AT WOMAN Man Tells Cops He Entered Wrong House, When Mrs. Bertha Kocherof, Apt. 1, 316 E. North St., heard a noise early today near he." bed, she turned on the light. A flying object struck her In the face. It was a vest, she told police. I The owner of the vest, Albert Max- ; well l-iovell, 24, living in the 1000 block on N. Meridian St., was standing before her, she said, according to police. The emergency squad found Lovell asleep in a chair, police said. Ho ex plained he got into the wrong house. I according to the officers. He was charged with intoxication, trespass and vagrancy. PRISONER LEARNS VALUE OF SILENCE Just Few Words Bring Heavier Sentence, Silence is golden, Henry Johnson, 25, colored, found in Criminal Court today. Speech will cost him one to, five years in the State prison. When Henry was found guilty by JTudge Collins of issuing a fraudulent check, he gave his age as 25. “Humph! Tou are a fine specimen to send down to the reformatory among 17-year-old boys,” said Judge Collins. “Mr. Clerk, let the record show a fine of $365. That will keep Henry on the farm one year.” Henry smiled. “Please, Judge, if I pay the fine can I get out?” “Mr. Clerk, this will be the record: A fine of SIOO and costs and one to five years in the reformatory, with recommendation that he be transferred to the Statue prison.” As Henry resumed his seat he remarked: “Guess I done talked too much." Worthington Found Guilty. CHICAGO, Feb. 17. —John W. Worthingtoo, alleged head of a $5,000,000 swindle ring, was found guilty of using the mails to defraud by a jury In Federal Court here today.

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PURDUE ENGINEER GIVES US TIPS ON SMOKE PROBLEM Improper Firing of Furnaces Given Part of Blame for Trouble, A hint for Indianapolis in its effort to drive away the ever-present smoke screen overhanging the city is dropped by Prof. R. W. Noland, head of the heating and ventilating department in the school of mechanical engineers. Purdue University. Not only needless smoke but useless waste of fuel results from improper firing, says Noland. His suggestions: “In the ordinary hot air furnace. let the fire burn down to a bed of coals. Rake the coals until they are. level with the fire door and slant to the rear. Shovel in fresh coal, filling the rear deep and tapering down until only a small strip of fire is exposed next to the door. The coal will burn gradually from front to rear for six to eight hours. Then repeat the per formano<i_ “In mild weather let ashes collect under the fire to'deaden the draft and check combustion. Keep furnace clear of soot. “Too much draft is as bad as too little. Experiment. “A temperature of 70 degrees is best. Hang a thermometer in each room away from register. Avoid guess work.” NEIGHBORS LEARN TO KNOW LIBRARY Community Meetings Held at Prospect Branch, Following a commiKilty entertainment at the Prospect St. branch library Friday night it was announced tocay that others wifi be held. The effort, started by Miss Frieda New man, librarian, to get the neighborhood acquainted with the library, resulted In a crowd of 250 children, many of them accompanied by their parents. Movies of the Near East and a com edy picture were furnished free by the Driesendorfer Educational Film Company.- The Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays donated the use of a machine. Conditions in the eftr East were described by Mrs. H. Lee Osborn, 1717 Prospect St., who returned ftom there recently. Harry Shapiro, 2102 N. Meridian, who assisted the librarian, said the series would be continued as a matter of Americanization and education. Loosen Up That Cold With Musterols Have Musterole handy when a cold starts. It has all of the advantages of grandmother's mustard plaster WITHOUT the blister. You just apply it with the fingers. First you feel a warm tingle as the healing ointment penetrates the pores, then comes a soothing,, cooling sensation and quick relief. Made of pure off of mustard and ether simple ingredients. Musterole is recommended by many nurses and doctors. Try Musterole for bronchitis sore throat, stiff neck, pleurisy, rheumatism. lumbago, croup, asthma, neu ralgia. congestion, pains and aches of the back. or joints, sore muscles, sprains, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of the chest.- It may prevent pneumonia and “flu.” 35c end 65c, jars and tubes. —Advertisement. Better than a mustard plaster —Advertisement. TO EXPECTANT ESTHERS A Letter from Mrs. Ward Tells How Lydia E. Piakham’s Vegetable Compound Helped Har

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