Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 63

BUOGET TO BE STUDIED BY G.OF C. Plan to Look Over City Figures Regardless of N Mayor Shank, ATTITUDE IS HELPFUL William Fortune Says Only Desire Is to Aid in Saving, The civic affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce will investigate the 1924 city budget whether Mayor Shank desires it to or not, William Fortune, chairman of the committee, declared ioday. Shank, stating thought the Chamber of Commerce unfriendly to him, said he would submit the budget to a general citizens' committee rather than the chamber. Fortune's statement: *** “The attitude of Mayor Shank shows that he Is evidently under a mistaken impression. The civic affairs committee for years past has studied the city budget with but one idea In mind —that of being helpful to the city officials in bringing about a wise expenditure of city funds. City’s Money Saved "This committee has given a great deal of study to the budget and has exercised care in making only such

recommendations as were beneficial to the people of the city. In the years past, as a result of the recommendations of the Chamber of Commerce committee, great savings of city money have been accomplished. We desire, along with all other citizens, the most careful consideration as to what it may be possible to properly save this year. We assume that the mayor himself has the same aim. “The city budget is not a private 1 matter. It is as public as anything can be. It is of interest to every citizen who pays taxes. "The chamber of Commerce occupies a public position. It has many public duties, and assistance to city officials in determining a wise course In the disbursement of public money is one of Its functions. Not Antagonistic ‘The civic affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce has no motives' of antagonism toward the present city administration. We wish only to be helpful in accomplishing the same thing that we suppose Mayor Shank is attempting to bring about. The committee has not yet been appointed but its members will be chosen because of their fitness to advise on subjects of expending public funds. “If Mayor Shank wants impartial assistance In accomplishing hfs announced intention of seeing the funds of Indianapolis properly administered, we stand ready to be helpful ‘to him arid his administration. as in the past we have been instrumental in bringing about material savings cf the public’s money, but the committee will make its investigation even if the mayor does not give his cooperation fti its work." mi FLOODS ■ ISOLATE WYOMING Property Damage Is Placed at Million, , v Bu United Press CASPER, Wyo„ July 25.—Northwestefn Wyoming is entirely isolated from the remainder of the country, with railroads, telephone and telegraph lines out of as the result of fioods. Torrents of water from two heavy cloud bursts Monday night have washed out two railroad bridges on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad and five on the Burlington. Highways have been torn out for miles and several miles of railroad beds undermined by the roaring Big Horn and Bad Water rivers. Property damage may total $1,000,000. ‘BORROWED’ AUTO; HELD Men Say Friend Loaned Their Car; “Friend” Reports Theft. Charles Cummings, 23* of 1022 Hosbrook St., and William Roach, 24, of 156 Blackford St., charged with driving a car while Intoxicated, are being held during investigation. The car they were driving is the property of the Warren Auto Livery Company, 127 E. Wabash St., according to the .polifte. The men claimed the car was loaned to them by a man named Hanley, who, it developed, had rented the car from the Warren Auto Livery Company Saturday. Police say Hanley reported the car ’stolen. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m. 67 10 a. tn 75 7 a. m 68 11 a. m 76 8 al*ta. 7012 (noon) ...... 77 8 a. m. 78 1 p. m 78

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BUY WATER PLANT? CIVIC CLUB -HEADS FAVOR MAYOR’S PLANS \ CVTC club leaders favor municipal ownership of the Indianapolis water utility. Launching by Mayor Shank of a city movement to buy property of the Indianapolis Water Company called for these statements from civic club officers: JOHN F. WHITE. 1545 Lexington Ave., president Southeastern Improvement Club: I am very decidedly of the opinion that the solution of the public utility problem is public ownership. Regulation already very largely has been a failure and will continue to be a failure because of the constant controversy that arises and will continue to arise, all of which is an expense to the consumer. •WILLIAM T. QUILLIN, 22 N. Temple Ave., president of Englewood Hustling Hundred: For the last four or five years the Englewood Hustling Hundred has advocated municipal ownership. My idea is it should be taken out of politics. A commission of six should be eelcted as we do onr school board. This board should employe a manager who is a water expert to oper ate the utility. C. G. BAKER, 201 N. Addison St., president Hawthorne Community Association: My inclination is to be in favor of municipal ownership. Whether it would be possible or nor in Indianapolis, I do not know. Investigation should be made to see what it would mean to property owners. EDWARD O. SNETHEN, 233 W. Maple Rd., president Federation of Community Civic Clubs: I believe that for all concerned it would be better for the city to own its water plant. As long as it is owned privately it is expected to pay dividends. Municipal ownership would make it serve the people without making any profit. I wouldn’t favor taking over the Indianapolis Water Company at the figure they value it at now. C. H. BIRD. 415 IV. Twenty-Ninth St., president Capitol Boulevard and North Park Civic League: It seems to me that municipal ownership is the thing that will have to come. If the present rates are increased it will only hasten It.

LONGSHOREMEN GO BAGKTO JOBS Strike Ineffective; No Serious Tie-up Accomplished, By United Press NEW YORK, July 25.—About half the 1,500 longshoremen of the Hoboken water front who were on strike today voted to to work, while the ranks of the remainder, who were declared to be under the influence of I W. ,W. leaders, were augmented by other recruits who joined the wajkout. The situation was improved and no serious tie-up of shipping was accomplished. STEVEDORES WALK OUT San Francisco Water Front Workers on Unauthorized Strike. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. July 25.—Decanding an increase from 80 cents to j> 1 an hour, two hundred stevedores and warehouse men loading grain on three steamers at Port Oosta Island creek are on strike today. Stevedore union officials said the walkout was unauthorized. Walter Petersen, head of the water front employers’ association, said I. W. W. agitators were back of the strike. WORLD COURT IS SUBJECT Hiram Johnson Speaks on Foreign Relations Tonight. By United Press NEW YORK. July 25.—1n the seclusion of his suite at the Ritz, Hiram Johnson, Progressive Senator from California, today put the finishing touches on his speech, to be delivered at a dinner of the Johnson welcome home committee tonight. / Johnson says he will frankly discuss international relations, the world court and the League of Nations.

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I. IVIIROFF IS FOUND MCAGO Clothing Merchant, Missing Since July 16, at His Daughter’s Home, SON RECEIVES MESSAGE Local Clew Being Followed When Word of Safety Comes, Isadore Miroff, 62, a clothing jobber, who has been missing from his home, 17 W. Ray St., since July 16, is at the.home of his daughter, Mrs. Ida Nathenson, Chicago. This information was contained in a telegram received today by Arthur Miroff, manager of the Public Insurance Company, son of the missing man, from Mrs. Nathenson. 'The younger Miroff also received a telephone cal, from a woman giving her name as Mrs. Lenett and her telephone number, who said the elder Miroff was at her home Monday The son is trying to locate Mrs. Lenett. The elder Miroff left home July 16, presumably to collect some Mils, and had not been heard from until the telegram from Chicago was received.

INVESTORS UNITE; WILL SAFEGUARD THEIKJJERESTS Salesmen of R, L, Dollings Company Pledge Selves to Protect Clients. Investors in the R. L. Dollings Company were uniting at Columbus, Ohio, to further protect their Investments, dispatches from that city salcW While Judge Dickinson in United States District Court at Columbus granted the petition of three stockholders of the Dollings Company of Pennsylvania for receiver, former salesmen of the company pledged themselves to protect Interests of those to whom they sold stock. Meanwhile Bert A. Mcßride, president of the Continental National Bank here, and receiver for the Indiana Dollings Company, was investigating financial conditions. The Company of Ohio, of Pennsylvania and the International Note and Mortgage Company, which owns their common stock, and five subsidiary companies all lr. Ohio are now in hands of receivers, appointed at, Columbus, Ohio. Stockholders claim the Dollings Company had been paying dividends on its subsidiary companies from capital stock, instead of earned profits, according to dispatches. REAR-ADMIRAL NIBLACK RETIRES FROM SERVICE Indiana's Senior Naval Officer in Navy Forty-Three Years. Bu Times Speciai VINCENNES. Ind., July 25.—Indi ana’s senior naval officer, Rear Admiral Parker Niblack of this city, was retired today after forty-three years’ service with the Navy. He was born in Vincennes July 25, 1859, and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1880. In the World War he was first ordered to command division No. 1 and later squadron No. 1, battleship force, Atlantic fleet. Dancer Injured in Crash By United Press CHICAGO. July 25. —Miss Conchita Piquer, who dances a leading role in "The Dancing Girl,” and ten other persons were Injured when a crowded motor bus and an automobile collided today.

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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1923

Summer Camp for Sick Children Needs. More Toys and Women to Tell Stories

Will You Help? WllO will he the first to help ? Fairview settlenlent, summer camp for sick children, needs toys for the sixty little patients. Women to tell stories for an hour or two • day, also are needed. Persons who desire to aid may volunteer for story telling or leave toys with the city editor of The Times, at the offices-of the family Welfare Society in the Baldwin Blk., *or the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, 1126 K. of P. Bldg. The toys must not be of a nature conducive to rough play as restful recreation is prescribed for the patients.

LEASE EXTENDED * ON MEIER PLANT Overall Company Signs for Twenty-Five Years, Officials of Lewis Meier A Cos., manufacturers of overalls and working men’s clothing, today announced a twenty-flve-year extension of their lease on their site, northwest corner of Tenth St. and Central Ave. The lease includes an adjoining house and lot. The property was leased from James H. Hooker at a total rental of $150,000. to be made in SSOO monthly payments. It Is expected that the dwelling adjoining the plant will be used as a rest resort for employes. CLARA PHILLIPS GETS FAT AT SAN QUENTIN Yes, We Have No Hunger Strikes, Declares Pen Official. By United A’etc* SAN QUENTIN PENITENTIARY, Cal., July 25. —Clara Phillips, serving a life sentence here for the murder of Alberta Meadows in Los Angeles, is putting on flesh. The, report went abroad in California Tuesday that Clara was on a hunger strike. “Yes. we have no hunger strikes*” said pen officials when queried. “Mrp. Phillips is eating most heartily and is even beginning to get fat.” MAYOR WATCHES HORSE / Shank Goes to Columbus lo Attend Race Meet. Mayor Shank left today for Columbus. Ohio, to attend a race meet. His horse, Peter Hall, will be entered In the races. Shank will return Friday.

to participate in European wars, if any there may be. Tho plan may be based on the Covenant of the League of Nations or something totally different. It must not be in the form of a bill, a resolution, or a treaty such as presented in Congress. . It may include not only the plan itself but an argument for the plan. Every plan should' include a summary not to exceed 500 words. The plan, exclusive of the summary, should not exceed 5,000 words. Only .4>ne plan may be submitted by each contestant.

ABOVE—GIRL PATIENTS AT FAIRVIEW SETTLEMENT BELOW—PHILLIP KRAMER AND WALLACE JOHNSTON, BOY PATIENTS AT THE SETTLEMENT FIVE dollies, two balls, a drum and a horn. llow can their use be divided among sixty children and keep everybody happy ? It can’t be done. So Mrs. Vivian Greene, in charge of Fairview Settlement, summer camp for sick children, operated by the Family Welfare Society and the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, today iw>ued an appeal for more toys. The camp is smith of Fairview Park. Hundreds of more fortunate Indianapolis children will be willing to part with cast-off toys, Mrs. Greene feels certain. “As recreatfon in the eamp must not be strenuous, donors must send toys which will provide quiet, restful play,” she said. “As great as the need for toys is that for women to tell stories an hour or two a day. Here’s an opportunity {or women to do real public service.”

METHODISTS VOTE FOR UNIFICATION North and South Branches Will Combine in 1925. By United Press CLEVELAND July 25.—The "administration of the northern and southern branches of tho Methodist Episcopal Church will be united in 1925. The unification was effected by a joint commission of the two sections, concluding their conference today.

Manusoripts must be typewritten and on one side of paper They mustnot be rolled, but sent flat. They should not be accompanied by letters. Nor any postage, because manuscripts will not be returned. They must NOT bear the name of the author, nor anything by which the author might b identified. BUT a plain sealed envelope containing name and address should accompany the manuscript so this may be numbered on receipt to correspond with the manuscript. THE CONTEST CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT, NOV. 15, 1923.

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5-Cent Bread s By United Press CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa,, July 25.—With wheat prices at record lows, the retail cost of bread dropped from 10 to 5 cents a loaf today.

LOOK OUT, MOTORISTS! Patrol Wagon’ll Get You If You Don’t Stop. If motorists do not obey the ordinance requiring them to come to a stop before crossing boulevards better within the next week than they have In the past few days, police will start hauling offenders to headquarters in the patrol, Capt. Michael J. Glenn said today.

ADDRESS; AMERICAN PEACE AWARD, 342 MADISON AVE.. NEW YORK CITY. A Jury wifi decide the award. As soon as a decision is made, a first award of $50,000 will be made the successful contestant. Then, as soon as the United States Senate shall have approved the plan, or Its substance, or the Jury shall decide an adequate degree of popular support has been given the plan, the second $50,000 will be paid. Four subsidiary awards of $5,000 each may be made if the Jury decides on a composite plan—that is, a main plan plus pax.* taken from other plans—these awards to be made in the same manner as describe'l above.

THEORIES MUDDLE ' HEARING Water Coiupany Engineer Adrits Opinions and Not Actual Calculations Are Basis for Figures IncludeC in Valuation Statement, BELIEVES ‘GOING VALUE’ SHOULD BE $2,000,000 Admits His Estimate of $500,000 for Supply Rights'ls Not Based Upon Consideration of What Utility Paid for Them, Theories and opinions, and not actual calculations, are the basis for many of the figures going into the valuation statement of the Indianapolis ’Water Company and on which the company is asking consumers to pay an 8 per cent return, ’William J. Hagenah, engineer and expert witness for the company, admitted in the rate hearing before the public sendee commission today.

Hagenah testified the “going value” of the company’s property Is $2,000,000. On cross-examination by Taylor E. Gronlnger, counsel for the city, he admitted .that this was his personal opinion .and that It was not based on the history of the company. This is ono of the values on which the company Is asking rates and is included by Gronlnger in the list of "fanciful figures” Involved in the case. Not Based on Costs Another one of these "fanciful figures” is $500,000 Included In the valuation for water rights. Hagenah testified -that in his opinion the water supply rights possessed by the company are worth that much. He ad- j mltted he had not taken into consid- • eration the actual cost, if any, of these rights. “This figure is not based on costs,” j he said. When questioned he replied the figure is based on his personal opinion. Still another of the so-called "fanciful figures” is $235,000 charged to working capital. On cross-examina-tion Hagenah said the figure is based on his opinion and not on the amount the company has on hand as working capital. The figure also includes, the witness testified, the estimated value of material and*supplies on hand. Bills I’aid In Advance Gronlnger pointed out that most water consumers pay their bills three months in advance and asked if Hagenah took that into consideration. After making a long speech he said it was taken into consideration so far as It was reflected in the records he had examined. There were repeated near arguments between the witness and Groninger Hagenah was inclined to make long explanations and Groninger was inclined to cut him short. Hagenah on cross-examination he had valued the canal at $1,798,000. j He said the original cost and the history of the property were not con- j sldered. Pay Not Disclosed Clarence E. Weir, an attorney for | consumers, asked Hagenah if the rate ' payers will be expected to pay for his i services. The witness replied the cost ! (Continued on Page 11) THREE SENT TO PRISON Ex-Indlanapolls Man Pleads Guilty to Theft of Alcohol. Sentence of eighteen months in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., was given Leon A. Peavey, formerly of Indianapolis, by Federal Judge Albert B. Andersori today. Peavey pleaded guilty to stealing a barfel of alcohol from an interstate shipment on Nov. 12, 1921, at Lawrenceburg Junction, Ind.. while was a fireman on a Big Four freight train, William Siost arid James Bruce of j Cincinnati also eighteenmonth sentences for Implication in the robbery.

SEVEN INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Cars Come Together at'Delaware and North Sts. Seven persons were slightly injured when automobiles driven by Edith Jacobson, 602 E- Forty-Sixth St. and the Ervin Bennett, colored, 609 N. Senate Ave., side swiped at North and Delaware Sts., today. Bennett's car was overturned and Mrs. Jacobson’s machine plunged into a treeThe Injured in tho Jacobson car: Mrs. B. Jacobson, 602 E. Forty-Sixth St., bruised about the arms, and Alvin Cohen, 7, sarke address, right side hurt. Bennett was sverely scratched as were Mrs. Bennett, Emma Downing, same address. Novella Storm, f417 N. Rural St., and Marshall Stit, 136 Columbia Ave., all colred. who were riding with Bennett. M. E. Churches to Meet By Times Special SHELBYVILLE. Ind.. July 25. The first annual all-day rally of the Methodist Episcopal churches of Shelby County will be held Aug. 2 at the fairground, it was announced here today. A basket dinner will be field at noon, after which all oburches will take part in a program.

Forecast Generally fair tonight and Thursday not much change in temperature.

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'WHERE’S DADDY?’ ASK CHILDREN OP WORRIEDMOTHER Charles E, Glass Leaves Home and Family Was Anxious About Finances, “ iVhere's Daddy?” L:ttle Frances Glass, 7, or Garnett, 5, looks at her mother with pleading eyes as she asks haps several times And Mrs. Charles - j&mf- ■ E. Glass turns her PfeiET- face away an she replies that Daddy A is “away.” N Charles Glass. 49. of 117 N. Highland Ave. left home at 7 a. m. Saturf day, leaving his wife and their six children, with only C. E. GLASS the one son. Robert Charles, 19, to support them. Her husband, a carpenter. had been despondent over debts for many months, and had been unable to make expenses, Mrs. Glass said. An hour after Glass left, he telephoned to his w-lfe to tell his partner, Wesley Pine, rooming at the Glass home, that he wouljp be home soon. Mrs. Glass learned that he had drawn $8 from the bank and had collected a $7 commiss.on d ue from the sale of some furnaces. Before he left. Glass slipped into where Frances was sleeping. On her pillow he placed a nickel she had asked for the night before, Mrs. Glass said. \ Besides Frances, Garnett and Robert Cbar’es, the Glass children are Clara, 12; Marie, 15, and Viola, 10. Viola cries constantly for her father, Mrs. Glass said today. Glass is 5 feet 8 inches tall. He has light blue eyes and dark brown hair, and wore a mustache. Mrs. Glass said he was fond of fishing and swimming and wore a swimming suit under his suit when he left home.

‘COURTESY WEEK’ TO DESERT. 3-8 Indianapolis to Be Extra Nice During State Fair. > John B. Reynolds, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, today announced that plans are being formulated for the observance in Indianapolis of “Courtesy Week,” Sept. 3-8. This also is State fair week. The following committee will meet at the Chamber of Commerce Thursday afternoon to plan for the event; Paul Richey, chairman; Frank S. Chance, Wallace O. Lee, and James W. Carr. Indianapolis is known as th 6 most hospitable city in the world. It is the pufpose of the Chamber of Commerce *o establish this opinion more firmly in the mind of Hoosiers, especially those who live outside of Indianapolis and Marion County, Reynolds said. Cooperation of city officials especially police, and of the street railway company will be sought.

NEED SOME CASH? You can get it quickly by listing those stored away pieces of furniture in JThe Times Household Goods columns. People with cash are waiting to buy your used, as new furniture. Make a list of the things you do not need, then phone it tit Main 3500. *