Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1923 — Page 2

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ENTRIES ARE COMING IN FOR TIMES MARBLE TOURNAMENT

Every School in City Expected to Be Represented in Championship Games—Announcement of Plans Is to Be Made Soon,

Marble Players, Attention! Fill mu this coupon NOW and mail it to the Marble Editor of The Indianapolis Times. I want to enter The Times Cli impionship Marble 'Contest. Name \ge Address 1 attend School • Write the name or number of your school in the blank space). Girls as well as boys are eligible.

.Marble contest plans were rapidly going forward today, but ■were not quite complete enough to make definite announcement of the date when every boy and girl in Indianapolis will be given an opportunity to compete for the championship of the city. I uder present plans, the city champion will take part in a district contest and the district champion will be sent with one of his or Iter parents to Atlantic City to take part in the National tournament. Maybe an Indianapolis boy or girl will make that trip. All

expenses will be paid by The Times, of course. But you will not have an opportunity to make the trip if you do not register. It is necessary that you iiil out the accompanying blank and mail it to the Marble Editor of The Times today. Or write him a letter, giving your name, age, address and the school you attend. The Times wants a whole lot of boys and girls entered from each school. Tell your school mates about it and have them enter the tournament. Age Is Important Be sure and tell the marble editor your age and the school which you attend. These things are important. If you will be 15 before June 15 you cannot enter. But if you are under 15 and will not be 15 before that date, you may join the other boys and girls of Indiarrapolis in the marble shooting game for the championship. You want to get into this thing yourself and you want your school to be represented, don't you? Then mail that blank today. There are no string? tied to this contest. You don’t have any work to do. The Times is putting on a marble tournament because it believes every boy and girl in Indianapolis is interested in marbles; because it wants to know who is the best marble shooter in Indianapolis, and because it believes Indianapolis has the best marble shooters in the United States. Let's prove it. Some Entries Here are some of the boys and girls wno registered today. School No. 67—C. B. Urbans, 9, of 456 Berwick Ave. School No. 70—Harold Gubin. 9. of 4314 Park Ave. St. Philip's School —Dan Mooney, 12, of 518 X. Bevllle Ave. Benjamin Harrison School—Albert Greenberg, 12, of 930 Broadway; William Greenberg. 14, of 930 Broadway. School No. 13 —Norman Fentress, 11. of 1032 S. East St. Augusta Grinston. 311 Douglass St., sent in her name, but she didn't give her age or the number of her school. She will be entered, however, unless she is over 15. William G. Wulzen, 13. of 1352 W. Twenty-Sixth st., got his entry in early before instructions on how to enter were given. He will have an opnoturnity to show how good a marble shooter he is. SUES ON DRYER PATENT Chicago Firm Asks Damages From Xordyke & Marmon Cos. Suit charging infringing of a patented process for drying paint and varnishes was filed against the Nordyke & Marmon Cos., of this city by the Wenborne-Karpen Dryer Company of Chicago, in Federal Court today. The defendant was charged with using a dry kiln violating patents owned by the plaintiff. An injunction, accounting and triple damages were asked. MAN DIES SUDDENLY Reed Smith Succumbs at Home at 1 A. 1L Today. Reed Smith, 45, 712 Douglass St., died suddenly at 1 a. m. today. Mrs. Blanch Smith, his wife, said he was in the habit of sitting up until midnight reading. She went to bed and at 1 a. m. discovered that he had not gone to bed. She went downstairs and found him lying on the floor. She telephoned for a physician but Smith was dead. Coroner Robinson is investigating. HUNGRY BURGLARS WORK I-ggs, Hams and Butter Among Grocery Loot. Hungry burglars entered the grocery store of Melvin Eithens, 1002 S. Sheffield Ave. sometime during the week-end. police were told today. A case of eggs, three smoked hams, $lO worth of butter, sls worth of cigarettes, and three boxes of cigars were taken. Entrance was gained by using a key. BOLD BURGLAR WORKS Rear Door Forced While Family Sits in Dining Room. While J. L. Campbell and his family. 2047 Bellefontaine St., were sitting in the dining room of their home SunIday night they heard a crash at the back door. A burglar had forced the door. Campbell looked around the yard, but failed to see the prowler. FORMER RESIDENT DIES Word was received Sunday from i New York City of the death of Mrs. F. W. Baugher, formerly of Indianapolis. She is survived by two sons, residing in New York City, and a L H W S~n-

FOSTER !S FIRST ALLEGED RADICAL TO FACE TRIAL R'j Vnitcd Press ST. JOSEPH, Mich.. March 12— Communism went on trial here today. The most drastic anti-radical statute in the United States—the Michigan anti-symlieat list law —was ; lit to the test. First of the “red raid'’ trials growing out of the alleged communist convention at Brfdgeman. last fall, got under way in Berrien County Circuit Court. William Z. Foster, editor of the Labor Herald and leader of the 1919 steei strike, was th first of thirty two m<r. and women seized following a spectacular raid on the convention, to face a jury. He was selected because of his prominence in radical circles. Selection of the jury will take at 1 ast three days, opposing counsel agreed. The trial will last several weeks. Radical leaders crowded into St. Joseph from all parts of the country, to he on hand for the taking of testimony.

South Bend Girls Helped Here on 1,200-Mile Trip to Texas

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MINNIE BERMAN (LEFT) AND GUSSIE BERMAN.

‘‘Let’s hike to Texas,” said Mike to Pat. ‘‘You're on,” said Pat to Mike. So, lired with spring wanderlust, they are on their way. They left their home in South Bend last | Wednesday. I*at had 87 cents; | Mike. 40. Pat really is Gussie Berman, 17. Mika is her stepsister, Minnie, 18. Saturday, after traversing 150 miles of their 1,200-mile journey, they reached Indianapolis. With only 40 cents of their capital left, they decided they had better arrange some way to make expenses. So they applied at the city hall to William T. Bailey, assistant attorney. “I’m just Mike." said Minnie. "I'm just Pat,” gpvld Gussie. And it was some time before they could he pursuaded to identify themselves further. a Bailev saw that /£/.* hikers had . food And a bed Sa 4?AAnight,_ He

OOZY MUD AND DARK STREETS IN OAK HILL MAKE LIFE JUST ONE INCONVENIENCE AFTER ANOTHER

'' 1 | '; • . ;'' , ns an 7 , - A l ' $ , W* " < WITH HIS FATHER, JOHN P WADING ACROSS SCOFIEU \ ’ * , one tie !<• A-Tlf When.). T. Zimmerman. <: • -f the pion-• r? in the light g.-t im ♦*' provernents for <ak Hill, died l.ist January. an untlf-r’aker r* fu ■ed to ,t- V • ••%.**•* ■■■*£,. -w - tempt to hold a fun< ml In !h<- ad a . -rdii.g to r>< . :bb< , . It would *4K V' V ’ t.o ImjH sil 1., to K-t cars througn th mud. he said The fmimal was ' ‘ " c held downtown. f •> .'•''t, ■ •- T'& r* j..- "ipgf Jf?"**'.- ,■ "*■, People who buy their coal by the ton are frequently forced t< go " v/ ' “ —'u-a...,. ■f< * Ls -j-" •’ ' . , • to the coal yards with a w > <•■ 10.-irr v to bring irr their wir.ter's f.• i. — ' ® , Johi Han 854 Sco 1 . Av< Coal wagon drivers refuse to try to plow through the muddy streets. t

Residents Ask City Counci' for Sidewalks and Lights,

’PHONE GIRLS STiCK ON JOB DESPITE FiRE

7J u l nited Press CHICAGO. March 12. —Hundreds of telephone operators stuck to their posts when the Illinois Bell Telephone building was threatened by fire early today. Two top floors of the Times building, adjoining the telephone company offices were swept by a spectacular blaze. A high wind, carrying smoko and burning embers, swirled around offices

party and gave them a letter of introduction to Mayor Houston Quinn of Louisville. When the girls arrived hern Mike was 3 cents in debt, but had plenty of courage. “Go bar k home?” she asked scornfi ily. “I should say not. We may not even stop at Texas, out hike all over the Southwest.” She stuck her hands in the pockets of her khaki trousers, crossed her legs, encased in heavy leather boots, and tipped her mannerishlooking hat at a ntore daring angle. As for the men — Someone at city hall jokingly remarked that the adventurers would find handsome ranchots in Texas and never would come back “Men?” repealed Pat indignantly. “They’re the least of our worries. Why, I’m the founder of the Old Maids’ Club of South Bend.” And she lightly jingled the 40 cents in her pockets aa she and

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ABO VI£—INTERSECTION of TWENTY-NIXTH ST.. AXI* SCOFIELiu \VR LOWER LEFT-VICTOR HARRIS, 5, OK 2854 SCOFIELD AVK., WITH HIS FATHER, JOHN I*. HARRIS, WADING ACROSS SCOFIELD AVK. DOWER RIGHT—MRS. It. H. TOWNSDEV, 2824 SCOFIELD AYE., AND MRS. CLAUDE GARRITY, 2801 SCOFIELD AYE., (RIGHT) PICK ING THEIR WAY ACROSS SCOFIELD AVK. .Mud? Miles of it. Yellow, oozy, sticky. clingy mud. For 'jiore than ton years citizens of i lie oak Hill addition have been fighting for sidewalks and street ini provements. Hut. no action has been taken 1 y city officials Oak Hill is the district from Tw< nty-F.ighfh St. to Thirtieth St., and Ralston Ave. to Rural St. It was laid out shortly after the Civil War. New homes are being huiP. Ninety per cent of tiie resiiients own their own property. Yet there are no sidewalks, no street lights, no street improvements. Flappers may wear their galoshes; but the residents of Oak Hill go them one better. Gum boots are the fad there. Children wear boots t<> and from school. They park them in the cloak room. When J. T. Zimmerman, cm of tlie pionet rs in the fight to get im provernents for Oak Hill, died last January, an undertaker refused to attempt to hold a funeral In the addition, according to neighbors. It would ho Impossible to get cars througn the mud, he said. The funeral was held downtown. people who buy their coal by the ton are frequently forced t<: go to the coal yards with a wheelbarrow to bring in their winters fuel, according to John Harris. 2854 Sco' <ld Ave. Coal wagon drivers refuse to try to plow through the muddy streets.

where th A phone girls were working. Firemen, handicapped by a revere storm, were able through heroic efforts to confine the blaze to the , imes building, occupied principally by stores and small xnanufac ...log plants. The loss was SIOO,OOO. TO BE BURIED IN OHIO Mm. Mary E. fihrnherger, 68, Survived by Due Daughter. Following the funeral of Mrs. Mary K. Shenberger, 68, at 3 p. m. today, at the homo of tier daughter, Mrs. Walter Ewing. 6539 E. Washington St., the body was to b>; shipped t<> Ashland. Ohio, for burial. Mrs. Shon herger died Sunday at her daughter's home after a short illness. She was a member of the Hayesville. Ohio. Methodist Church. Mrs. Ewing is the j only survivor. |

MRE ON BIG WIND HERE (Continued From I’tige I)

The lierht. building rocked like Noah’s Ark on a breezy day and after the window panes started to blow away the pupils were sent home. Many window lights were broken in schoolhouses all over the city.

Tho heaviest money damage was 1 suffered by utility companies. Wires were blown down and poles snapped off in all parts of the city. Telephone, electric light nnd street car service wore crippled seriously. At Twenty-Third St. and North western Ave. poles and vires were down for a distance of three blocks. In the downtown district plate glass windows were smashed anil signs blown into the streets. McFarland, one of the injured persons. was; passing the Fox Film Corporation. 232 N. Illinois St., when a large metal sign fell on him. He suf sered a fractured leg and severe bruises. Window Crashes. Mrs. Bachmann was cut by broken glass falling from a large window in the store of D. Sommers &. Cos.. Washington St. and Capitol Ave. She* was taken home in an automobile. Mrs. Johnson and Winstead were passing the new Riley Memorial Hospi!nl last night when the rain storm caught them. Mrs. Johnson stepped into an open elevator shaft and fell sixteen feet. Winstead, seeking in tho darkness to assist, her, also fell into the shaft. Roy Cron, 28, 1012 W. N'-\v York St., night watchman at the hospital, called the police and Motorpolico Hehultze and Weddle stint both victims to tho city hospital. Ambulances Are Stuck Mrs. Johnson refused to remain at the city hospital. The ambulance in which she was being taken home was stuck in the mud. A relief ambulance was sent and she was taken hack to the hospitaj. Winstead was at first taken home and then an ambulance was sent to get him. It became stuck in tho mud on the way. to the hospital and a relief ambulance was sent to complete the trip. Mrs. O’Sullivan and her daughter were in an automobile driven b> George O'Sullivan. He was blinded bv the rain and his car struck tho elevated track abutment at 18. Washington St. and tho Belt Railroad. Ralston was struck by a truck driven by Isidor Farfoer, quartermaster corps at Ft. Harrison. The accident occurred tit Massachusetts Ave. and East St. Farber was unable to stop because of the wet street, police said. Shopley, address unknown, was severely bruised when a shanty being

Doctors refuse to emne to the com munity except Tn t.i• ■ • • •’! urgent cases, because of the difficulty of yetting there. The few wagons and trucks that brave the muddy streets frequently are forced to drive on the space set apart for sidewalks Back in 1929 residents put a cinder walk along Twenty Ninth St. The streets went from bad to worse. Wagons ivore forced to drive on the walk. Today there is not a trace of the walk Nothing but mud. Petilions In On one occasion delivery men were forced to carry boxes of groceries several squares to the grocery of George W. Wilson. Twenty-Eighth and Songster Sts., according to Mrs. Wilson. Five petitions for improvements nrc now before tho board of public works They demand streets and sidewalks for HcoPeld Ave. from Twenty-Eighth bt to Thirtieth St.: for Manlove St. fiom Twenty Ninth to Thirtieth Sts: street lights on Twenty-Eighth and '['went’ Ninth Sts. from Scofield Ave. to Baltimore St.: a fire plug at Thirtieth and Keystone, and a water main on Twenty-Ninth St. from Keystone to Baltimore St.

Washington Sts’. Shopley left the city hospital unaided. Intcrurhan service in various parts "f the state was demoralized because of broken poles and wires being down. Service on tho Indianapolis ,8t'incinnati Traction Company line was probably crippled the worst. Holes were reported out between Indianapolis and Groenshurg ami service was almost at a standstill, according to reports at the tfrminal station. A string of trolley poles laid fiat along Northwestern Ave. cut off all traffic on the traction line to Lafayetto. Traction service to Shelbyville was also nulled. Poles were down on the Terre Haute line. The onjy service on the Interstate line to Louisville was to Greenwood. Fifty telephone poles were laid flat across the track and the power was off. The Indianapolis Dayton line was also tied tip. Tickets wore sold only as far as Greenfield. Twenty five polos were down on the Tipton division and traffic was impeded. In some sections of the city telephones were reported to he out of ■commission and lights were out. Telephone and light companies were restoring service. Street car service was crippled in some places. "Windows were broken in the stores of I). Sommers & Cos., the Tdeal Furniture Company, the Kresge 5 find 10 Cent Store and L. S. Ayres * Cos. Many Wires Down Wires or poles were reported down at these places: New York and Wallace Sts., 139 IV. Washington St., State and Woodlawn Aves., 743 Harrison St.. Twenty-Third St. and Northwestern Ave.. Fifteenth and Missouri Sts., Eleventh and New Jersey Sts., 2510 James St., 331 N. Noble St., 325 Fulton St., Fall Creek and Central Ave., 1022 N. Arsenal Ave., 1102 W. St. Clair St.. 343 W. Thirteenth St., 1232 S. Belmont Ave., Adison Ave. and Big Four Railroad. 133 Greeley St., 1536 W. Washington St., 3205 Speedway Ave., 916 E. St. Clair St., 1451 S. Meridian St.. Twenty-Fourth and New Jersey Sts.. 1226 Edison St.. 1520 N. Illinois St., Miller and Shop To ( tire a Cold in One Day Take Laxative P.ROMO QUININE Tablets. By promptly checking a Cold when you feel the first symptoms you will prevent Grip nnd Influenza. The

j herd Sts \mgress 'V' p and Clifton St.. 1300 E \ - St., IS2 | Wilcox St., I 1 •'■7 W. Twenty Seventh I St.. 4210 Cornelius Ave. Telegraph service suffered severe!} I officials of the W'-stern Union Teh graph Company said. Not less than fifty poles have been reported down in Indianapolis and the number mu;, run higher, they said Conditions up had throughout Indiana, they said The high wind was n>>t limited to any particular section and service hgs been interfered with in many parts of the State. F. A. Montrose, genera! superin fendent of plant, for the Indiana Bel! Telephone Company, reported 1.000 Pell poles down in the State.. Most were on long distance lines, it being impossible to reach Vincennes and Kokomo from Indianapolis and necessary to reach many other points in a round-about way. More than 400 men were working on Bell lines in the State. As fast as reports of wires down came to In- ! diannpolis, Montrose dispatched emergenev gangs. The Indiana Bell long distance rervice was crippled about 66 per cent imniediately after the peak of the gale and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company service aobut 75 per cent, according to one report. The fire department assisted in clearing away wreckage where it proved dangerous. Igirge billboards hanging in menacing positions were removed by firemen at 1514 N. IHi nois S‘.: 302 W. Washington Ru. and 802 E. Washington St. Storm doors were broken off the Alabama St., entrance of the courthouse and the glass broken out of an inner door. Firemen removed a large metal sign at the C. B. Howard Company, 14-14 E. Washington St., after it had been blown from its fastenings. Lightning Sunday night caused the high feed wires of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company serving Zionsville to he put out of commission at Thirty-Eighth St. and Northwestern Ave. Reports of trees blown down continued to pour into the city park and street cornmisioners' departments all morning. Trees blocked traffic at some points and city employes were busy clearing them away. Southern Indiana Hit Southern Indiana suffered much damage. All buildings were demolished on four farms in Harrison Township, Knox County. The Loogootee electric light plant smoke stack was wrecked. The roof of the City Drug Store at Mitchell was badly damaged. At Oolitic the water tank of the Indiana Quarries Company was damaged. The roof of a large dwelling at Rockford was torn away and hurled onto a road. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad service was hampered when many poles earring telephone and telegraph wires went down near Mitchell. Temporary dispatchers’ offices were set up at Seymour, communication with Washington, Ind.. where the regular office is located, virtually being cut off. Reports from many towns told of broken windows, uprooted trees, rail traffic and wire communication demoralized and roofs torn off. The roof of the parcel post substation on S. Tilinois St. was torn off. It. was of a composition paper material. West doors of the Federal building were locked today when it was found that the wind rushing through the entire length of the corrodors interfered with business transactions in the postoffice corridors. Schoolboy Is Killed [ill Vnited PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, March 12. James Dennis Boggs, 9. was killed and five companions injured today when wind blew off the roof of a school house. The boys, playing marbles, were buried beneath the wreckage. Prize Poultry Pilfered Police here and in other cities will he watching poultry shows from now on. Twenty-seven prize chickens valued at S2OO was reported to the . po-

Even Grocers, Doctors and Undertakers Avoid Visits,

80-Mile Wind Hits Central States Region * I’U f nitre! Prrsn CIUUAGo, March 12. —A gale which reached eighty miles an hour, accompanied by rain, sleet and snow, : w,-m up the Mississippi Valley and across the Great Lakes region during 'he night causing heavy damage. Many cities were isolated. Hundreds of miles of vires were down. Railroad traffic was demoralized. Twenty were injured in Chicago alone in acidents due to the storm. Thousands of people spending Sunday evening at downtown theaters and cases, were caught by the storm end unubft? to reach their homes. Street car and elevated line traffic was tied up by a heavy snow fall. Autos were stalled alone all drives, unable to buck the high wind ap.d snow d-ifts. With hote's crowded. late revelers cpeiit the remainder of the night in restaurants; iobbies, or sitting in stall, and cars. The sudden fall of wet snow and rain, clogged drains, flooding cellars. The snow continued today, although forecasts were for fair and colder weather tonight. SNOW COVERS SOUTHWEST Fall Is A allied at Millions to Winter Wheat Crops. Hu Vnitcd Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 12.—A million dollar blanket of snow covered the Southwest today. Rain followed by snow, covering the country Southward from Missouri to Texas was of untold value to the winter wheat crop. The storm, paralyzed wire communications and seriously interferred with railroad traffic. KENTUCKY STORM FATAL Father and Two Children Killed When House Collapses. RICHMOND. Ky , March 12.—A wind storm taking form of a tornado swept over this county last night, causing the death of William Hall ar.d two of his children outright and seriously Injuring his wife and seven other members of his family, when th? home was blown several hundred yards and demolished. Damage in the town and country is estimated at $30,000.

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MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1923

PARISH ABANDONS HOPE GE FINDING MISSING PRIEST Mystery of Disappearance of Father Vrainiak Still Unsolved, Bu Vnitcd Press ST. LOUIS. March 12—The mystery of Father Vrainiak, the “lost priest of Egypt." was still unsolved today. While members of the parish of the Slovak Catholic. Church at Virden. 111., abandoned hope of finding their pastor in the vicinity of his home and church, police nets were extended throughout three States in an effort to find the young clergyman who has been missing for a week. The priest, who was last seen in St. Louis on last Monday, was being sought in Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky. Authorities lacked clews as to tha cause of his disappearance and admittedly were baffled after a three days’ search. Rev. Vrainiak, for six years pastor of the Slovak Catholic Church at Virden, drove his automobile to St. Louis last Monday to purchase merchandise for a church bazaar. While in the city he called on the Rev. W. V. IJnek. pastor of the Holt Trinity Church here, but finding Father LLnek away, he left a note and apparently started his return trip to V ir* den. The priest's automobile was found in a side street here the following day, j and. despite reports indicating ha had been seen driving his automobile toward Virden late Monday afternoon, police were inclined to believe the young pastor did not leave St. Louis,

BUSINESS IS IMPROVING French Banker. Visiting in City, Is Pleased With Conditions. Business conditions in France have Improved steadily within the past few months, according to M. Christian Lazard, partner in the banking firm iof Fre res of Pans. M. Lazard was the guest Sunday of Lemuel Holies, national adjutant of the American Legion. The two served together during the war at headquarters of the 41st Division in France. Burglars Lost Cape Burglars entered the Detroit restaurant, 111 X. Alabama St., early today, police were told, taking a pay telephone estimated to contain about $5. tobacco and then helped themselves to some food. Entrance was gained bv forcing a rear window. CHEW 6 FEW I “ END INDIGESTION, EASE STOMACH Ate T oo Much! Stomach Upset! Lera’s Instant Relief So pleaMd and so harmless! Tlis moment “Pape's Diapepsin" reaches the stomach ail distress goes. Lumps of indigestion, gases, heartburn, souri ness, bloating, flatulence, palpitation, vanish. Ease your stomach now! Correct digestion and acidity for a few cents. Druggists sell millions of packages.—Advertisement.

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