Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1923 — Page 2
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GRAIN GROWERS IN SOUTHWEST SECTION ON SELLING STRIKE
Scene of Neighborhood Fire and Family Awakened in Burning Home by Relative
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TRliiiii liiiiVEhi IN WHITE RIVER \ Hundreds Watch Draggers Seek Victim of Bridge Floor Collapse, The tody of Paul Keefer, 18. of 2204 Haines Ave., was recovered from White River at 11 a. m. today by ttyee Hr. who dragged from a boat. Keefer was drowned Friday afternoon when a gravel truck be was driving went through the floor of a bridge nine miles southwest of the city neai Shannon's Lake. Coroner Paul F. Robinson will investigate condition of the bridge and whether it had been -condemned. • Th so who rescued the body, about thief feet downstream from the truck: A. D. Gum, 224 E. Pearl Pt.; John Hart. 1007 Tabor St., and H. S. Stevens. 1030 E. Washington St. Hundreds of persons watched the draggers work. Keefer was employed by the Acme Gravel Company. _ Sheriff Snider to-
day took personal charge of recovering the body. The front wheels of the truck were visible about a foot under the water. The stream is ten feet deep at this point.
AH Person* i I have been / f killed In ™ * * a tomobtle accident* in Har 1o n County thl* year.
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Keefer was born in Indianapolis and attended Manual Training High School for a short time. He is survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis W. Keefer; two brothers, Russel and Roydi, and four sisters, Bertha, and Esther Keefer, and Mrs. Fern Curtiss and Mrs. Eva Blake, all of Indianapolis. Mrs. Lucy Johnson of Bloomfield, Ind., suffered a scalp wound when she was cut by glass from a broken windshield in an automobile accident at Ft. Wyne Ave. and St Clair St. today. Drivers Uninjured Mrs. Johnson was riding in an automobile driven by Omer Nichols, 1224 N. Alabama St., who was going southwest on Ft. Wayne Ave. Matt Brown. Rural Route M, box 68, was driving east on St. Clair St. Both cars were wrecked, but the drivers were uninjured. E. B. Hedden, 2063 N. Meridian St., was driving west on Twenty-Sixth St., near Illinois St., when his car collided with an automobile owned by Carl Ratliff, 229 E. Pratt St., parked at the curb. Ratliff's car was knocked into another, owned by Earl Hinton, Duluth, Minn. Pauline Conrad. 8, 3230 Northwestern Ave., is recovering from slight injuries received when a tire is|g the automobile belonging to Harry Allen, 21, colored, 829 W. Twenty-Sixth St., and hit the girl near her home. Allen was arrested on charges of assault and battery', speeding and failure to stop after an accident. Charles Linn, 60, giving his address as 6310 Park Ave., was arrested after his car struck the car of A. L. Claiser, parked in front of his home, 2709 N. Meridian St. Charges of operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor and drunkenness were placed against Linn. Micajah Huls. Fifty-Sixth St. and Allisonville road, was slightly inujred today when his buggy was struck by an automobile driven by William A. Becker of Toledo, Ohio, on the Allisonvflie road near Fifty-Sixth St. Becker’s machine went over an embankment into a field, breaking both front wheels. Becker was charged with assault and battery and speeding. Inmate Escapes William G. Meharry, 38, was reported missing from the Central Hospital for the Insane today. Meharry's hfme is at Westpoint, Ind. / ___________________________ Money Uuder Pillow Taken A. M. King, 609 Tecumseh St., today reported to police that 335 was taken from under hie pillow Friday
ABOVE—RUIN'S AFTER FIRE WHICH SWEPT NEIGHBORHOOD OF 600 AND 700 SPRING ST. TODAY. BELOW —MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH MOORE AND DAUGHTER, RUTH .TANS, 3, AWAKENED IN THEIR BURNING HOME BY MRS. CARRIE GOODMAN, 630 SPRING ST., MOORE’S SISTER.
Bridge Gives Way; Driver Is Drowned V* U PAUL KEEFER Floor of a bridge over White River nine miles southwest of the city, near Shannon's Lake, gave way late Friday letting a truck driven by Paul Keefer, 18, of 2204 Haines Ave., fall into the stream, i Keefer was drowned. PART OF THE JOB, COMMENTS KING Councilman Leaves Meeting After Remark by Woman, “It’s one of the prices of holding public office,’’ said City Councilman John E. King today in commenting on a remark against his integrity said to have been made by Mrs. E. F. Stewart, 1818 Shelby St., at a meeting of the Southeastern Improvement Association at Bradbury and Shelby Sts.; Friday evening. According to persons at the meeting Mrs. Stewart remarked that King "got tips.” The meeting was to consider an effort to get the city to widen as well as resurface Shelby St. Question arose as to why King was there. King left the meeting. A resolution asking the board of works to widen the street was lost by a three to one vote. Property owners would have to pay more if the street were widened. INJURY SUFFERED TWO MONTHS AGO FATAL Mrs. .Margaret Barrett Dies at Home of Daughter. Funeral arrangements of Mrs. Mar I garet Barrett, 75, who died at the | home of her daughter, Mrs. Alexander i Jonas, 4623 Carrollton Ave., as the ; result of breaking her hip in a fall I two months ago, were not completed I today. Mrs. Barrett was born in County I Kerry, Ireland. She came to Montreal, Canada, at 10 years of age. She was married to Edward Barrett and lived In Indianapolis for sixty years. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Jonas and Mrs. Edward Condo of Moline, 111., and a sister, Miss Kate Greaney of Indianapolis. Mrs. Barrett was a member of Ladles' Auxiliary, Division No. 1, Ancient Order of Hibernians. Diamond Cluster Ring Taken Mrs. Nellie Stevens, 3632 W. Michigan St., today told police r. diamond cluster ring valued at $l5O was taken from her home. The ring had seven
MAYOR LAUNCHES WAR AGAINST ALL PEACE DISTURBERS Shank Says Order Must Be Maintained —Two Men Released on Bond, ‘'We're going to preserve order In this town If we have to put on a thousand more policemen to do It. I’m not going to stand for any such rioting or disturbances such tu i occurred at Mlley Ave. and Vermont St., Wednesday evening.” This was the statement of Mayor Shank today concerning an alleged attack oh firemen and policemen when the firemen extinguished a burning “fiery cross” and the police cleared a path for them through a crowd of 5,000 persons. Three firemen were stoned and Police Sergeant Tooley hit by an old paint bucket”, It is said. Police Chief Herman F. Rlkhoff said he had received congratulations from several prominent citizens for his announcement he would seek to inducfe Shank to ba rstroef sales of “The Fiery Cross,” Ku-Klux Klan paper, and “Tolerance,' ’anti-Klan magazine. Charges of inciting a riot against Walt Wise, 42, of 230 N. Miley Ave., and Carl Ferree, 82, of 22 N. Bloomington 3t., will be heard In city court July 27. The two men were released late Friday when SIO,OOO cash was deposited at the office of the city clerk as bond. \ The men were arrested in investigation of the alleged attack. Wise and Ferree denied the charges. They were represented in city court Friday by Ralph E. Updike, attorney, who made a plea to get the bonds reduced from $5,000 each to SSOO, the amount of bond on Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth’s schedule for persons arrested on the charge of Inciting riot. Judge Pro Tern Walter Pritchard refused to reduce the bond. He branded the attack as “anarchy.” John Mullln, inspector of detectives, said he set the bond at $5,000 under orders of William P. Evans, Marion County prosecutor. TIMESBABYPEGGY PICTURESSHIPPED Lyric Theater to Show Winners Here Sunday, Word was received at noon today by A. R. Choinard. of the .RhodesChoinard Film Company, 511 Merchants Bank building, that the completed film showing the three winners of the Indianapolis Times Baby Peggy contest, have been shipped from Chicago. This will make It possible for th 6 Lyric Theater to present these movies Sunday and all next week. The Universal Film Company, which releases the Century Baby Peggy comedies also has furnished several hundred feet of flilm showing the original B*by Peggy. In this way the local patrons of the Lyric can see the good job local judges did in selecting the three winners. The Rhodes-Choinard Film Company took movies of the three winners In University Park Thursday
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Federation Announces Plan to Have Farmers Withdraw 200,000,000 Bushels of Wheat From Market, By United Press CHICAGO, July 21.—Southwestern grain growers have started a “selling strike” I'or higher wheat prices, the American Farm Bureau Federation was informed today. The federation issued a statement saying its plan for farmers to withdraw 200,000,000 bushels of wheat from the market and stora it in farm bins is already being followed in Kansas with the aid of the intermediate credit bank at Wichita.
The Wichita bank Is now lending farmers about SIOO,OOO dally on stored wheat and will soon be lending $2,000,000 daiyl, according to from Milos C. Lasator, president of tho Institution. Simultaneously with reports of this wheat storage, receipts at Kansas City and gulf ports have fallen off, indicat ing that farmers are holding for higher prices, the federation asserted. Exporters at gulf ports, werq forced to pay a premium to satisfy their demand yesterday. The “selling strike" also resulted in a one cent advance in price at these points. The American Farm Bureau Federation’s scheme to withdraw wheat from th emarket resulted from prices dropping below $1 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade. Loans of about $165,000,000 to farmers through the new credit act will be necessary to finance the 200,000,000 bushel pool. VINCENNES MAN HAS NEW HOOSIER SONG Clarence Johnson Writes “Hoosier Girl.” Clarence C. Johnson of Vincennes, Ind., is distributing anew song he has written inscribed to the memory of Paul Dresser, author of "On The Banks of the Wabash." Johnson has titled his song "Hoosier Girl,” “Clover Blossom Time In Indiana.” The new Hoosier song is receiving favorable comment from song critics about the country. The music is by Sheridan Hersee Isaacs.
Hundred Boys and Girls Observe Closing of Vacation Bible School
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More than a hundred little boys and girls of the foreign settlement district surrounding the packing plant of Kingan & Cos., observed the ending of five happy weeks of work and play in the exercises Friday evening which closed the Vacation Bible School of the Foreigners’ House.
FROM FAR AND NEAR
Gouvemeur Morris, novelist, declared his wife had a passion for busl ness, testifying In his suit for divorce at Los Angeles Friday. Gasoline war in Dallas, Texas, has forced retail price down to 11 cents. Third international congress of Bap-
WATER CASE STEP BY STEP June I—lndianapolisl—lndianapolis Water Company at public dinner announced $10,000,000 expansion program. Petition for Increased rates forecast. June 8 Water company petitions public service commission to authorize increase. June 14—Federation of Civif Clubs announces Intention to wage war against Increase. June 18—City Council goes on record as opposed to increase. June 29—Taylor E. Groninger, city corporation counsel, demands detailed report from water company. July B—Mayorß—Mayor Shank brings his political organization Into fight. Begins speaking campaign against Increase. Circulation of petitions against increase begun. July 12—Mayor Shank asks Governor McCray not to permit Edgar M. Blessing to sit In the case because of a visit to Atlantic ■City as guest of president of Indianapolis Water Company, July 16—Blessing withdraws from hearing. July 17—Chamber of Commerce announces It will be represented at hearing by counsel and will cooperate with city to fight Increase. July 18—Hearing opens before four commissioners. Oscar Ratts presiding in the place of Blessing. July 20—City opposes "structural overhead” charges as testified by company engineers. July 20—Company witness testifies profiflts are made. Hearing adjourned until Monday
POINGARE FINDS BRITISH NOTE IS UNSATISFACTORY Several Propositions Unacceptable, But Cons.idered as Basis for Discussion, By United Press PARIS, July 21. —Premier Poincare and his ministers, considering In secret the British note to Germany, already have found several of Its propositions lnacceptable. This leaked out despite orders no Indications of the note’s contents or France's reaction was to be given to the public. It is said the French government will accept the note as a basis of discussion. From authoritative sources it •is learned the British note proposed an International commission to be appointed by those nations expecting reparations, to determine Germany’s capacity for payment. This, as well as other points of the note, were said to be lnacceptable.
The classes in which the children were taught sewing, basket weaving and toy-making, as well as songs and scripture lessons, were under the supervision of Raplh W. Hills, who was assisted by Mrs. Hills, Miss Edith Prentiss, Mrs. J. B. Thompson and Miss Margaret Y’ule.
tist World Alliance opened at Stockholm today United States in attendance. Henry Ward, Tiffin, Ohio, printer, maintains he has a hen which laid three eggs in one day. New “bike” plane with foot power was used successfully at McCook flying field Friday when the machine rose three inches and flew twenty feet. Bootleggers used mustard gas against Federal agents and escaped after exciting chase through Washington, D. C., Friday. British court at Cairo has sentenced five Egyptians to hang after conviction of conspiracy to murder British officials. Finley Peter Dunne, creator of “Mr. Dooley,” is recovering from an operation in New York for acute abdominal complaint. President Cosgrave has named a commission to settle boundary dispute between north and south Ireland. Mayor George Leach, Minneapolis, has filed suit for divorpe on grounds of desertion. Nation-wide search is being conducted for Loyal Males, 19, Lima, Ohio, missing for plx weeks. A. H. Fouts, prohibition agent, is being held In Colun\bus, Ohio ,on a charge of first degree murder. President Millerand, France, Friday pardoned 4,690 minor offenders, serving short jail sentences. INCOME TAX ‘DODGED’ Missouri Firms Evading Payment, Agent Declares. By United Press ST. LOUIS, July sl.—Fifteen hundred Missouri firms have “dodged” their income tax returns for the year 1922, according to John T. Waddill, agent of the State tax commmisslson, checking St. Louis firms. Over $600,000 in delinquent taxes could be uncovered If an kdequate force were available to check up these firms. Waddill declared.
Veteran Turfman and Wife to Observe Golden Wedding
Mr, and Mrs, Andrew Shicketanz Plan Celebration Tuesday,
BACK in the Land of Memory, when Indianapolis was still quite young, a bright-eyed girl and her sweetheart slipped quietly into marriage, via the elopement road. N Calmly, hand in hand, they have gone down the path of life, for fifty jjpars, until they have reached the Golden Year. Tuesday, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Schlcketanz, 1422 Leonard St., will observe their golden wedding anniversary. Their hair is white and time has laid its trace on their faces. But they still face life smilingly, partners ever, Just as in the days when they were playmates and schoolmates. Invitations have been Issued to about sixty friends for the observance Tuesday. Cart Used For Twenty-Tw'o Years “Chick,” or “Andy," as Mr. Schlcketanz, formerly a well-known turfman, Is called by his many friends, is 71. His wife is 69. But both still get up bright and early each morning. “Chick” hitches his horse to the cart he has driven for twenty-two years, and, after eating the breakfast his wife prepares, starts off before 6 o'clock for his blacksmith shop at 12 E. Ray St. He has owned the place eleven years. “Chick” has many stories to tell of horses he trained and rode. He recalls Sadie TANARUS., who was killed accidentally the day before she was to be offered for sale. She was expected to tring between $2,500 and $3,000, a very nice price for horses at that tlmfe, 1888. Then there was Fred Wilkes, sold to an Englishman for $1,200 and taken to Liverpool. Mr. Schntcketanz engaged In various phases of business from the time he was 26 years old until fifteen years ago. He did most of his racing on Indiana tracks. Secret of Success He succeeded so well in handling horses, he says—- “ Because I treated them kindly or beat them at their own game. Some horses are like some people: You can drive them only with kindness.” Proud as he is of the thousands of valuable' horses he has handled. Mr. Sohicketanz and his wife have a still greater pride in their four children, their five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Their children are Edward Schicketanz, Mrs. Fred Hawe and Mrs. John Hunt, and an adopted daughter, Mrs. Leland Fletcher, all of Indianapolis. And this, according to “Chick,” is one Important reason lie and his wife have been happy together for half a century. "We made a rule, when we were married, that whenever one of us had thee floor, he kept it. There was no interference."
VICTIM OF MINE ACCIDENT DIES Twelve Other Workmen Are Injured at Clinton, By Times Special CLINTON, Ind., July 21.—BYank Faraofio, Clinton, died at St. Anthony's hospital at Terre Haute, from injuries received when, with twelve other miners he was dropped to the bottom of a shaft In the mine of the Vermilion Coal Company, southwest of this city, when the cage fell. The men were being lowered to their work, 276 feet below the surface. Emmett Padgett, engineer, suffered from worry and excitement and had to be taken home in an ambulance. The Injured: L. Garretto, Clinton; Grant Fuqua, colored. Terre Haute; Joe Novakovich, Clinton; J. Buratto, Clinton; Nicholas Maccari, Clinton; James McLain, Clinton; Marco Latostich, Terre Haute; George Machoneo, Terre Haute; Charles Cauku, Clinton; Harry Short, colored, Terre Haute; H. Purcell, Terre Haute; Alex Reynolds, Clinton. FOUR SCOUTS HONORED Special Exercises dose Second Camp Near Ft. Harrison. Four Boy Scouts received the honor rank of Minlsino from the Scout Court of Honor at the closing exercises of the second Scout camp at the reservation near BY. Harrison Friday night. They are: Frederick Duesenberg, Troop 46; Arthur Stevenson, Troop 82; Gordon Haggard, Troop 42 and Gordon Ritter, Troop 21. An Indiana pageant, "The Story of Woh,” was presented with Merle Miller, Troop 82, impersonating the young Indian chief. Groups of campers represented Indian tribes. The third camp will open July 30. BUSINESS LEAGUE RALLY A mid-summer rally of north side residents will be held Monday evening under the auspices of the Thirtieth and Illinois Buisnss* League. There will be a band concert on the lawn east of the corner, and community talks by H. B. Pike, attorney, and Charles A. Bookwalter .president of the city park board. An automobile parade Monday afternoon will inaugurate a popularity voting contest. In which the merchants will give prizes of an automobile, S4O In gold, and articles pf merchandise. The contest will Continue for nine weeks. There are thirty-five business and professional men and women in the association. j _
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ANDREW SCHICKETANZ IN CART HE HAS DRIVEN TWENTYTWO YEARS. BELOW: MRS. SCHICKETANZ.
WATER FACTIONS REORGANIZED FOR NEW MOVES Hearing to Be Resumed Monday—Mayor Returns to Take Up Fight, Both sides in the water rate case marked time today waiting for Monday when hearings will be resumed before the public service commission. Mayor Shank, back in the city after almost a week’s absence at Findlay. Ohio, watching his horse, Peter Hall, in the races there, said that he would deliver the petitions against the water rate Increase to the commission Monday. Approximately 7,600 petition blanks have been distributed over the city by police and firemen and other city employes. About 3,000 of these, said to bear more than 60,000 signatures, have been returned to the city hall. John F. Walker, superintendent of street cleaning, in charge of the petition, said he expects to have about 80,000 names by Monday. Some of the property of the Indianapolis Water Qompany is not useful, Leonard Metcalf, engineer for the company admitted at the hearing late Friday. In this category l\e names a tract of land said to be worth $50,000 on Northwestern Ave. and some small structures he said were worth about $61,000. He also testified that a greenhouse and two corncrlbs should be classed as “useful” for utility purposes. The greenhouse was necessary to beautify the company’s grounds, he testified. The company is making sufficient profit to pay dividends and show a surplus, according to an income statement submitted by John Jirgal, company accountant. The statement failed tu show that the company Is making what it has Indicated as a fair return on the Investment. “Book value” of the company May 3 amounted to $12,489,509.45, he said. This did not Include “going value” claimed by the company. Net additions amounting to $335,432 were made to the company’s property between Jan. 1, 1922, and May 31, 1923, the witness said. Family Away—Home Looted Police today found that the home of Samuel Welch, 2702 N. Capitol Ave., had been entered and ransacked. Missing articles could not be ascertained as the family is out of the city. Money Stolen From Trousers A thief took S4O from the trousers pocket of James M. Wallace, 234 E. St. Joseph St., at the Enquirer Publishing Company, 309 E. Ohio St., police were told today. Frank S. Perrette reported the robbery as Wallace was out of the city.
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BOARD VOTES 10 OPENCUFTON ST. Hearing Held on Damage and Benefit Rolls. The board of park commissioners today approved opening of Clifton St. from Thirty-Sixth St. to Northwestern Ave. and Thirty-Eighth St. The street will run In a curve through a comer of the Woodstock golf links. Final hearing on damage and benefit rolls on Pleasant Run Blvd., between Shelby and Prospect Sts., were also brought before the board. About 400 property holders are affected by the damage roll. All but six have been settled. Only one reduction, S7O, was made to any person holding any of the 3,500 pieces of property affected by the benefit roll. No accurate estimate has been made by the board of total valuation. Man Attempts Starvation Bv United Pre ST. LOUIS, July 21.—After abstaining from food for thirty-eight consecutive days, In an attempt to starve himself to death, Newton J. Bishop. 60, was in a serious condition today. Bishop became despondent over ill health.