Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1923 — Page 2

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CIVIC GLUS JOINS BATTLE TO SAVE SPEEDWAY RACE Southeastern Improvement Association Elects New Officers, The Southeastern Civic Improvement Club was on record today as opposing the Memorial day bill which would prohibit the Speedway race and other sport# on Memorial day. Action was taken Thursday night at McKinley school. State and Lexington Aves. Edward J. Sexton, in introducing the resolution, declared the proposed law was a violation of personal liberty. "The bill, if passed, will take away the greatest advertisement Indianapolis ever had." declared Charles Duvall. Others who spoke against the bill were John F. White, Earl C. Heller and A. J. Kelly. White was re-elected president: Earl C. Heller, vice president; Sexton secretary; Otto Ray, treasurer; Charles G. Duvall, Robert L. Miller, Joseph E. Burk, A J. Kelly and A. J. Clem, directors. A. J. Kelly and E. C. Heller were appointed & committee to ask city authorities to prevent pollution of .Pleasant Run.

MITER GOES TO RGMEMEETING Two hundred American business men. including Felix M. McWhirter, president of the Indianajwlis Chamber cf Commerce, will attend the second general meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce in Rome, March 18-24. , * Reparations and allied debt# have prominent places on the program, as announced by the American section of the International Chamber. The general question of financial measures necessary for the restoration of international trade also will come up. Between forty and fifty American business men sailed from New York on the Caronia as part of a delega tion of 200 which will represent the United States. The other delegates will sail later on various ships. The Caronia party was headed by Julius H. Barnes, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and included a number of directors of the United States Chamber. McWhirter

GDVERNDR PLEABS AS BILLS MR (Continued From Page One.) inheritance tax fees to the general fund. Auto Funds Cut The Senate amended the Appropriations bill to provide $300,000 of auto theft fund money should remain in the auto theft fund, instead of go;ng into the general fund as the Governor had requested. Members of the House interested in the proposed gasoline tax admitted •he bill “did not have a chance in the world to pass.” The administration had depended on the automobile license and the gasoline tax bills to finance the highway commission. The license bill would have raised nearly $4,000,000. As amended the bill will not raise more than $3,000,000. half of this going to the counties and the administration costs coming out of the other half before it is turned over to rhe highway department. The gasoline tax was expected to raise about $3,000,000. The bill was amended to give the counties $500,000 of this and now it appear# that none of it will be provided. On the other hand, the House has voted to leave approximately $750,000 from inheritance taxes in the highway fund. While this also tends to upset the Governor’s program, it helps the highway commission slightly. Lose Fffleral Aid Asa result of the action of the Legislature, the highway department probably will receive about $2,000,000 annually, instead of the expected $6,000,000 to $9,000,000. Unless some change comes about, this will mean' almost the complete stopping of road work, the comparatively meager funds going to maintenance. This will mean, friends of the highway department estimate, that the State will lose $6,000,000 in Federal aid road money during the next two years.

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MRS. CLYDE TAYLOR Mrs. Clyde Taylor of Middelport, Ohio, believed she was Catherine Winters of Newcastle, Ind., whose abduction in 1912 created a nation-wldg sensation. This latest bubble burst when the superintendent of an orphans' school near Springfield, Ohio, said Mrs. Taylor was in the school from 1908 to 1911.

SPEED CDPS NAB YOUTHFDE DRIVERS Eleven Are Arrested for Fast Driving, Watch your step and don't "step on it," for the speed cops will get you If you don't watch out. Eleven alleged speeders were arrested during the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. today. Five were under 20 years. Those charged with speeding were Paul Trout. 27. of the Marion Club; James McKee. 38, of 518 S. State Ave.; D. L. Rogge, 33, of 1121 Finley Ave.; Ray Brown. 29. of Ben Davis; Russell Breeding, 17, of 1229 St. Peter St.: Biilie Brown. 30, of 1319 Terrace Ave.; Clair Golay, 16, of 1306 Ketcham St.: j Robert Richart, 45, of Ben Davis: ! Vincent Shea, 16. of 1942 N. Alabama | St., and Rufus Bradshaw, 19, of 631 : Hudson St. Edward Callahan. 19, of I 728 N. Missouri St., was charged with speeding, having no chauffeur’s 11- | cense and having no mirror on auto- ; mobile. Permit Fund Shifts An administration measure permit | ting the State board of finance to ! make temporary loans from State funds other than the educational and highway funds passed the Senate to I day with party lines tightly drawn 1 TJi© vote was 30 to 19. Senator I.am i bert deserted the Republicans and ! joined Democrats In opposition.

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BOY DISAPPEARS; COMPANIONED ‘Bumming' Party Member Fails to Return, With the arrest early today of Roy Ednayne, 18, of 927% Virginia Ave., on a vagrancy charge, it became known that the police are investigating the disappea'rance of Raymond McGuire, 16, of 2538 English Ave. McGuire has been missing since Jan. 8. Patrolman Simmons today sold that Ednayne and McGuire, accompanied by Ralph William Wilkerson. 15, of 916 E. Georgia St., had started on a "bumming” trip Jan. 8. and that the two boys returned about two weeks later without McGuire. Ednayne admitted he was wearing McGuire’s coat when he police said. Ednayne today said the three went to Louisville, Ky., and from there to Nashville, Tenn.. and then to Memphis, Tenn In Memphis Ednayne asserted he last saw McGuire standing under a bridge in the rain, according to police. Two days later, he said, Wilkerson “slipped" him and he changed his plans of going West and returned to Indianapolis, police said. He arrived two days before Wilkerson, but McGuire never returned. McGuire is the son of Ralph McGuire.

REAGAN SURVIVED BY SIX CHILDREN Funeral services of David J. Ilea gan. 85, who died at his home, 2345 Bellefontaine St. Thursday night, will be held at 3 p. m., Satui at the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Reagan was an early settler of Indiana. He was born In Miami County, Ohio, in 1838. In 1839 the family moved to the old Indian re serve, near Logansport. He spent his boyhood helping to clear the land and spent three months of each year in school. Later h© attended the Bloomlngdale Academy. He married Miss Virginia Ellis in -New London. Ind., in 1859. He was a member of the Robert Anderson Post, G. A R., the Tribe of Ben Hur, and of the United Commercial Travelers of America. Six children, Mrs. C. B. Purseil of Ligansport: Joseph E. Reagan, Miss Daisy Reagan and Robert R. Reagan, of Indianapolis: Mrs. Orville Billings of Detroit and Mrs. Ben B. Nelson of Indianapolis, survive. SUICIDE ATTEMPT FAILS William Turner. 51, no address, was recovering today from poison taken Thursday night, at the home of Anna Roache, 411 Douglass St. Turner, police say, was despondent because his wire recently obtained a divorce. Mrs. Elizabeth DeMoss and Mrs. Mary Noland, 220 Blake St., said they saw Turner tip a bottle to his lips Both women grabbed him and the bottle and saved him, save a few burns to his hands and face.

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Hint of Suicide Is Contained in Marcino’s Letter to Father-in-Law Confessing Com plicity in (Sank Failures. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—Further details of the amazing career of Joseph B. Marcino, alleged bank wrecker, whose shortages were reported in excess of $500,000, were revealed today as Federal authorities questioned relatives and friends here. In a ten-page letter to his father-in-law, Abraham Goldman, the 26-year-old financier admitted his complicity in the failures of several banks and hinted that he would commit suicide. Twelve years ago Marcino came to the United States as ah

immigrant from Italy. He became a barber in the old Lombard Hotel here and from his customers learned the rudiments of high finance. Barber fn Early Days While still in his teens Marcino left the barber trade and became first an insurance solicitor and then a banker. Four years ago he eloped and married Goldman’s daughter. Cecilia. Marcino’s real name is Baiata, nut he used his middle name—Marcino—for several years. His parents run a bakery here. They cannot speak English and were confused when an attempt to explain their son's predicament was made to them. The alleged shortages against the young “Ponzi” are: The Niagara Insurance Company of Buffalo, SIOO,OOO. The First National Bank of Warren, Mass.. $213,000. The Mechanics and Merchants Bank, Philadelphia, $130,000. Bought Indiana Bank , Goldman told Federal agents that lie advanced the money to save his son-in-law after alleged operations In California got hint into difficulty. During this period Marcino was active in hanks In San Pedro, Beaumont, Venice and Itahhing and Paris, Cal. He later bought banks in Fairmont, Ind.;

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Cedar Point, 111., and Weyaumega, Wis. In the Cedar Point venture he was an associate of John W. Worthington, “the wolf of Wall Street,” who yesterday waa sentenced to the Federal penitentiary for alleged irregular financial operations. “The only thing that remains for me to do is to disappear from the face of the earth. I only hope within a few years, through the proceeds of my insurance ($100,000) to repay my creditors." CONFERENCE ON BIBLE Vacation School Is Subject at Meeting Here. A conference on the Daily Vacation Bible School was held today at the First Baptist Church. Rev. A. H. Gage of Chicago, director of reilgious education, and Rev. Charles Peters of Philadelphia are among the important speakers. The conference will close tonight with talks by Rev. F. A. Hayward of Indianapolis find Rev. Gage. PREVENT INFLUENZA / The Tonic and Laxative Effect of Laxative QUININE Tablets will keep the system in a healthy con dition and thus ward off ail attacks of Colds, Grip or Influenza. 30c.—Advertisement.

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BUILDING SETS OUT TO BREAK RECORDS Indianapolis Takes Lead in Gain in Permits —Escapes Usual Seasonal Decline,

A record-breaking building program here in 1923 is indicated in figures Issued today, showing that building permits for January, 1923, totaled $2,021,138, as compared to $508,706 for January, 1922. Permits Issued in December, 1922, amounted to $1,729,503. Although in other parts of the country the total of permits issued in January show a general seasonal dc line, Indianapolis showed a gain. The decrease for 200 cities was only $38,144,891, unusually small, which would tend to verify the

SPEEDWAY FIGHT COMPROMISE IS UP A possible settlement of the Memorial day Speedway dispute loomed in the Senate today. f A bill introduced by Senators English and Miller jointly, giving the mayor of Indianapolis authority to designate a legal holiday, was ready for third reading. Authors of the bill hoped the mayor would designate “Speedway day” and allow residents of rndianapolis a holiday other than Memorial day. The measure passed second reading late Thursday without amendment. The bill prohibiting the Speedway

prediction of many authorities that the building record for the entire country’ would\ exceed the record of 1922. Ten cities in the country made increases of more than $2,000,000 and seven cities mado increases of more than $1,000,000 in totals for January, 1923, over January, 1922. Indianapolis leads the latter class with an increase of $1,512,432. "Although Newark, N. J., Pittsburgh and St. Louis have larger populations than Indianapolfs, the gains in their building records were not so large.

race and other commercial sports on Memorial day may be called down for final passage in the House soon. MULLEN BUTLER’S ORATOR To represent Butler University in the State intercollegiate oratorical contest tonight, Doyle Mullen of Sheridan, sophomore, went to Crawfordsville today. His subject will be “The Return of the Turk.” The winner tonight will enter an interstate contest at Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. Other colleges competing tonight are Notre Dame, Purdue, Earlham, Manchester, Evansville, Franklin and Wabash. Provide Waterway Study The House today, by a vote of 73 to 14, passed the Love bill providing for an appropriation of $12,000 and appoifitment by the Governor of a commission to study the Great LakesSt. Lawrence deep waterway project.

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P. 0- AIDES LAUDED The local postoffice force is the best metropolitan force In the country, Robert H. Bryson, postmaster, said at the annual Honor day meeting of local No. 130, National Federation of Postoffice Clerks. Talks also were made by Thomas H. Flaherty of Washington, D. C.; K. L. Stimson, president of the local; A. W. Hamilton and J. W. Nutt.

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