Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 64, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1923 — Page 2

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GERMAN NATION TOTTERS AS PEOPLE FACE MONEY PANIC

BUNDING LIGHTS CAUSE AUTO TO PLUNGE OFF ROAD Five Seriously Injured in Accident on Pendleton Pike, Five persons were seriously Injured and one slightly bruised when a touring car driven by Joe Coleman, colored, Sixteenth St., turned over twice after plunging off the road on the Pendle

ton Pike near Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Wednesday night, police reports showed today. Coleman who was only scratched, said lights from an approaching car blinded him. In the car with Coleman were Mrs. Lovle Thomas, colored, 628 E. Wabash St., cut and bruised: Mrs.

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May Ella Dixon, colored; Memphis, Tenn.. two ribs and collar bone broken mid possible Internal Injuries; Mrs. Blanche O'Banyon, colored, 630 E. Wabash St., Internally injured; Henry Blackman, colored. E. Wabash St., a member of the A. B. C. baseball team, cut and bruised, and Frank Peters, colored, X. Senate Av&., cut and bruised and back Injured. Glaring headlights caused M. S. Ellis. 1120 W. Twenty-Fourth St., to drive off of the road into a ditch on Seventy-First St,, near College Ave., Wednesday night, police said. The car turned over and Mrs. Ellis suffered a broken arm. She was taken home.

SANITARY BOARD ASKS SIX AND ONEHALF CENTS LEVY New Levy Cent and One-Half Under Limit Set by •. Law, Tax levy Os 614 cents to faise a total of approximately '5415,300 will be asked by the board of sanitary commissioners for operating expenses in 1924, it was decided today. Under a law enacted by the 1923 Legislature the sanitary department may ask for a levy as h.gh as 8 cents. The former limit was 6 cents. The board asks SIOO,OOO for ash collection maintenance and $23,400 for new equipment. A total of $70,000 is asked for garbage collection, a reduction of SIO,OOO from the 1923 figure. A sum of SB,OOO was asked for incineration, the same amount as last year. Sewage disposal costs will be $167,500 for 1924. Reduction is promised in office expenditures. $11,500 being asked, as compared with $12,000 last year. Anew Item appeared in the form of lane and track maintenance to the garbage reduction plant at Sellers farm. The board asked $2,500 for this work.

DEATH SUMMONS VETERAN GROCER The funeral of Martin Hoogwinkle, 77, who died at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Mary A- Baldwin, 1130 Parker Ave., Wednesday, will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the Baldwin residence. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mr. Hoogwinkle was bom in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1846, and came to this country when 26 years old. He lived in Albany, X. Y., and Kansas City, Mo-, previous, to coming to Indianapolis twenty-three years ago. He owned a grocery at Michigan and Lynn Sts., but had not operated it for fifteen years. He is survived by his daughter, two grandchildren. Mrs. James Waller of Indianapolis, and Herbert M. Baldwin of the United States Navy, and one great-grandchild. WITNESSES TELL OF BRIDGE DEATH Paul Keefer, 18, drowned in White River at the Southport Rd., nine miles southwest of the city, last week, had Just been ordered to stop on the bridge when it gave way with him and the truck he was driving, Harry M. Bankard, 654 E. Eleventh St., foreman for the Indiana Gunite and Construction Company, testified in the coroner’s inquest today. Keefer was driving a gravel truck. Bankard said he had ordered him on the bridge and then ordered him to atop. He said he had placed signs warning motorists not to speed over the bridge about fifty feet west, but had no signs regarding tonnage allowed. J. L. Alley, employe of the Acme Gravel* Company, Kentucky Ave. and Eagle Creek, testified there were two otheyf loads of gravel on the bridge when it gave way. He said he saw no fUms.

Love Lights Lives of Aged Blind Couple Who Have Never Seen Each Other, Though Married 50 Years

'We Are Still Sweethearts,’ Declares Wife Does Own Housework,

By JOHN WHARTON Timet Staff Correspondent EORAIN, Ohio, July 26.—Through the fifty years of their married life, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCullan never have seen each other. They are blind. • • • The house Is quiet. Then there is a football on the stslir. Mrs. McCullan’s alert ears hear. "Tom,” she says, “you will find me in the dining room.” And how does she know that it is Tom, her husband, who approaches? I said she was blind. And the blind know. I cannot tell you why nature takes care of its own—or how. I only know it is true. Attention, while the blind woman speaks: “In compensation for the loss of my sight, God has sharpened my other senses. The touch of my finger tells me, for instance, when a pie is ready to be removed from the oven.” • • • Mrs. Philomen McCullan was born in Syracuse. N. Y. She is 67. She became totally blind when she was a girl. Her husband is 73. He was born blind. It was at a scLool for the blind at Batavia, Ohio, that Philomen met Tom. There were no soft romantic moons for them. But into the darkness of their lives there crept anew light that has shone on through the years. In that city it revealed to Tom that Philomen was beautiful, though beauty he has not seen. I would not tell you, if I could, the story of their wooing. There are sacred grounds upon which I do notj tread. But three who were Hind met together—Tom and Philomen and Love.

McCullan Is a well-educated man and speaks with the diction and vocabulary of a scholar. He Is a graduate of a New York school for the blind and of the school at Batavia. Well grounded in literature and music, they were married at Amsterdam, N. Y., soon after leaving school. They own their own home and an adjoining residence. They have supported themselves by concert tours, traveling over most of the United States. They came to Lorain in 1885. Before that they lived for two years in Cleveland, where Mrs. McCullan has a brother. Rev. Alonzo Mayou. For a time McCullan was the organist at St. Mary’s Church. In 1913. however, he fell and sprained his wrist and it has been Impossible for him to play anything but the violin since them. They have had four children, only one of whom, a daughter, Is living. Mrs. McCullan’s kitchen is immacu late. Each article has its place where she can reach it without hesitation. She is a mystery to the housewives of her neighborhood. But Mrs. McCullan does all of her own housework. And it would be hard to find one who does it better. • • • The McCullans are keenly interested in radio. Through it they see emancipation for the blind. It supplies them with news, with music, with lectures. The McCullans arc hoping for the day when they can have a larger and better radio set. I hope Santa Claus has the hives and is paralyzed in both arms until he looks after that. • • • There is one great difference between this aged pair. When Mrs. McCullan dreams, she says, she sees the things she dreams about. When her husband dreams, he still is blind. For Mrs. McCullan has seen things, but to her husband, the world always has been dark. I wonder, then, what it is like to be blind. How can the mind of the blind picture a thing it never has seen? Think that over! • * * a*. "We still are sweethearts,” says Mrs. McCullan. "In spite of everything, we have lived happily together. I would not trade my life for those of many who have their sight.” Then when the three met for their tryst—Tom and Philomen and Love— Love was not so blind after all. For when Love conquered the hearts of this now aging pair, he looked down the years along a pathway on which a wondrous light still shines.

KU-KLUX AD MAN DENIESSHORTAGE Charge that he embezzjed S2O from the Rex Publishing Company, affiliated with the Fiery Cross, Ku-Klux Klan newspaper, was denied today by H. J. Van Buskirk, 26, an advertising man who worked for the paper. The case of Van Buskirk, arrested on an affidavit filed by Ernest W. Relchard of the publishing company, was continued in city court until Aug. 10. Van Buskirk is held under $5,000 bond. Officers said they were investigating a statement of Milton Elrod, editor of the paper, that he understands Van Buskirk is wanted elsewhere. Van Buskirk said that if there was a shortage it was due to defalcation by an employe of an advertising company with which the paper had a contract. Brass Foundry Goes Bankrupt The Modern Brass Foundry Company, Inc., 1319 Bates St., died a voluntary bankruptcy petition in Federal Court today. Liabilities were given as $14,693.66 and assets, $4,648.11. Vincennes Club to Picnic The Indianapolis Vincennes Association will hold an old-fashioned picnic SatiMday from 4 to 8 p. m. at the hom|j r>*| Mrs. John O. Mellett, Bell Ave. ana the canal. ,

W.L BRYAN HEADS COUNCIL TRUSTEES IN MSION State Sunday School Budget to Be Considered by Convening Board, William Lowe Bryan, head of Indiana University, and president of the Indiana Sunday School Council of Religious Education, presided, today at a meeting of the board of trustees of the council. E. T. Albertson, general secretary of the Sunday . School Council, said that the date for the next State Sunday School convention will be set. Other matters to be considered are: The State Sunday School budget and transfer of the printing of the “Awakeijer’’ to some Indianapolis firm. * Possibility of having W. C. Pierce, assistant general-secretary of the World’s Sunday School Association, came to Indiana will be discussed. Trustees at the meeting: Bryan, Bloomington ,Ind.; E. H. Hasemeler, Richmond, Ind.; M. L. Claypool. Crawfordsville. Ind.; J. F. Lehman, Berne, Ind.; Rev. M. C. Tunison, Logansport, Ind.; Rev. C. C. Goiin, E. C. Boswell, F. M. Dickerman, A. B. Cornelius, I. E. Woodard, Garry L. Cook, and Merle Sidener, all of Indianapolis. It Is Cooler Today Anyway. F. J. Dayton, 2117 N. Talbott Ave., toid police two bathing suits disappeared from the clothesline in his yard.

HOUSEHOLD GOODS TAKEN TO COURT Husband Dumps Wife's Property on Sidewalk After ‘Battle Royal,' Attaches Say.

Juvenile court officials today found themselves unwelcome possessors of a job lot of miscellaneous furniture which they said was dumped on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse shortly after daylight by O. K. Stuart, proprietor of the Sun-Lite Gas Company, 8000 E. Washington St. Stuart and his wife, according to Court attaches, had a battle royal Wednesday. Mrs. Stuart reported that she came off second best, officials said. “She certainly put up a battle,”

‘FEED WHEAT,’ IS ADVICE OF FARMER I. Newt Brown, Secretary of State Board of Agriculture, Discusses Grain Situation,

Use by farmers of surplus wheat for feeding purposes wa3 seen today by I. Newt Brown, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, as the noe feasible means of stimulating the price of wheat. "The farmer should grind for himself every available bushel of wheat and substitute it for corn in feeding. By grinding his own wheat the farmer will have saved a large miller’s bill and will be able to place his corn on the market. Com is always a more stable product than wheat and by this means the farmer will be able to take care of his immediate obligations. At the same time the outside demand for wheat probably will have increased and the price for what the fhrmer has saved will balance the amount he used for feed," Brown said. Brown said he doubted the practicabilPv of banks extending loans on the strength of slips indicating the farmer had stored wheat. He said

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MR. AND MRS. T. J. M’CULLAN

Woman Held Here as Alleged Forger

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UNA HAZEL COLEMAN Local police today awaited word from Grand Rapids (Mich.) authorities as to disposition of Miss Una Hazel Coleman, 21. arrested at 621 N. Alabama St., Tuesday. She Is alleged to have attempted to make a payment on an automobile to the Losey-Nash Company. 302 N. Capitol Ave., with a forged check. Detec tL es say the Michigan authorities want her on a forgery charge and are attempting to obtain extradition papers. Miss Coleman created a national sensation about a year ago in Chicago when she told police a bandit entered her apartment and cut off her hair, local detectives say.

Stuart said. "She hit me three times and tore up things in general. So I packed up her belongings and brought them down here. But I don’t want her to come out there. There is. an oil stove and a bed without springs she can have, too, but she can’t come out. On the sidewalk in front of the Courthouse was a sewing machine, wringer, plush coat, umbrella, hat, overshoes and a tub and box full of miscellaneous belongaiugs of Mrs. Stuart.

Interest on the loans and storage charges would probably exceed the gain In pricethat might come from holding the grain off the market. Recovery Still Hoped For The condition of Miss Mary Donahue ,18. of 12 Eastern Ave., remained unchanged today at St. Vincent's Hospital where she was taken Tuesday with a fractured skull and internal injuries. Doctors state that every hope Is held for her recovery. Miss Donahue was struck by an automobile at Eastern Ave. and Washington St. Thieves Get Thoroughly “Tired" A vulcanizing store operated by J. T. Moffett at 2709 Northwestern Ave., was entered Wednesday night and inner tubes and tires valued at $62.10 were taken. Police have found no trace of the tlfieves.

K. K. K. WOULD BUY UNIVERSITY NEAR FINANCIAL DOOM Organization Seeks Legal Procedure to Require Valparaiso U, Members of the Ku-Klux Rian, as Individuals and as an organization, are seeking legal procedure to pur chase Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, Ind.. following a statement by college officials that the institution was about to go bankrupt, and immediate relief 'was needed. Local Klan officers today said that their attorneys had been considering the purchase, but that endless litigation made it appear almost impossible. Offer to the Klan was made after D*\ H. M. Evans, president, revealed the struggle impending because of.the effort of Henry K. Brown, ex president and son of the founder, to regain control of the school, Including fifteen buildings and yalued at $1,000,000. School officials discussed the sale with Klan officers at conferences in In dlanapolis. Ku-Klux officers admitted that oily legal questions prevented their taking over the school. A total of $500,000 swing the deal, it was said. Brown, it is said, has demanded a cash payment of $55,000 to retire notes he holds against the school, relief of $85,000 surety due to the J. F. Wild Bank and assurance hiR mother will be paid annuity of $5,000. Legal action to save Valparaiso University was taken today by the board of trustees of the institution when they filed suit in the Porter County Circuit Court to obtain clear title to the real estate of the university, basing their action on a lease and contract held by the school. Three defendants, the Valparaiso Realty Company, the Cook Lab ratories, Inc., and H. K. Brown, were named in the complaint. The action follows on the heels of a lease for the university property, recently executed in favor of the Cook Laboratories and which was regarded as the death knell of the school. The chemical concern was to take possession Aug. 20 for a period of seven years. Pretty Good Trade. Floyd Schrackingast, Greenwood, Ind., reported to police that a boy stole a basket of tomatoes from his Wagon at Ray and Meridian Bts. Discovered in the act, the boy fled, leav ing his bicycle, which Schrackingast gave to the police.

FROM FAR AND NEAR

Premier Mussolinifb reception of labor leaders Wednesday is regarded in Rome as a step toward unification of Italy. Fortugese land batteries saluted the U. S. battleships “Arkansas” and "Florida” as these ships arrived off Lisbon Wednesday. German press agents are whispering Fatty Arbuckle is in Berlin seeking a fortune In marks. Rev. E. H. Knudeo, president of United Lutreren church, declared at New York Wednesday, the American girl is at her lowest moral ebb. Joseph Costello, 24, Chicago confectioner, was found dead In his store Wednesday with four bullet wounds in his heart . Robbery is believed motive for slaying. Mrs. Sidl Wirt Sprokels, widow, and Kansas prairie girl, is now Princess Chakir through her marriage to the Turkish Prince Suad of Constantinople. Soviet Russia will establish a grain

Bewildered Berliners Strive Frantically to Get Rid of Worthless Marks for Commodities —Banks Give Checks in Lieu of Change. By CARL D. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, July 23. —The spectacle of a nation of people all striving frantically to get rid of their money presented itself throughout Germany today. Bewildered Germans, unable longer to follow the drop of the paper mark into nothingness, are making desperate efforts to lay hands upon everything tangible in lieu of the practically worthless currency.

A panic is on in the minds of the people, who find the banks unable to supply the chhnge for a ten dollar bill. Citizens are hurrying to shops with thousands of mark notes done up in paper bundles. “Give us anything you have to sell,” they are demanding of harassed clerks and shop-keepers, who, Midaslike, find everything they touch turning to paper marks that are snowing under the once orderly economic life r. Germany. Pockets no longer are large enough to hold all the mark one needs for an excursion into the streets of Berlin. A familiar sight is the citizenry with long bundles of money under arms or stuffed in huge hand-bags. Every one knows what his neighbor has under his arm, bales ofji,ooo mark notes, worth less than a cent. And every one is trying to spend them lest tomorrow they become worthless. In hotels and restaurants special waiters have been installed who do nothing but figure how many million marks worth of food each guest is eating so a check may be ready for him. Meanwhile, every one is laying in canned goods. The banks are unable to, change a $lO bill. They pass out a ration of a few hundred thousand marks and give a certified check for the balance. These checks the merchants naturally accept in lieu of anything else. In many instances merchants are refusing to deliver goods C. O. D., the day following the agreement to purchase, but are demanding cash down “today.” This is because the tumbling mark may have depreciated so as to make the bargain a bad one. The charge account has been eliminated from Berlin business life. In Cologne shopkeepers are closing up early, to keep customers from buying everything they have. The lat-er are reported to be no longer asking “how much Is this or that?” but. “what will these buy?” producing hundreds of thousands of )aper marks.

CHARGES HURLED AT RATE HEARING (Continued From Page 1) in this case. Your argument Is based on the imaginary theory that this commission is bound by the securities valuation order. "Things that have no bearing on this case ought not Incumber the record. This is an independent case. Your sort of argument may be all right in come places, but not around here. “This commission was not influenced by the statements of any one. It is immaterial what was said or gossiped about last year. It is not going to influence this commission. If It did we would not be fit to sit here “We want to know whether this company is making a return allowed by law with Us present rate. Anything along that line will be welcomed.” “I am not saying the commission was influenced, but the public was Influenced.” Clancy replied. Rat is Objects “You are not going to be allowed to argue this commission did something that was not right because the public was not present to protest,” K&tts said. Jordan had been put on the stand by E. O. Snethen, attorney for civic clubs, to testify as to the manner in which the company came into possession of the canal, recited details of transactions already referred to in the hearing. At the opening of the session Clarence E. Weir, attorney for consumers, submitted an Interrogatory concerning the Indianapolis Water Works Se curities Company, which holds all but thirteen shares of the common stock of the Indianapolis Water Company. He asked also about a concern known as the Pennsylvania Company, said to be trustee tot the securities company. Weir asked numerous questions concerning the finances of the two companies. Watei company attorneys objected on the ground it was not the commission’s affair what stockholders did with their stock. Weir accused the

receiving and distributing house at Hamburg to clear export grain. Palestine is reducing expenses and many employes have been removed from the Government payroll. Boom for Governor Small in his campaign for second term as Governor of Illinois was started at Chicago Wednesday. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes Wednesday declared 99 per cent of booze seized by Federal agents is poisonous. Radiograms received at Orange, N. J., declare Mrs. Caton L. Decker, dele gate to Baptist World Alliance at Stookholm, has been lost at sea. U. S. Senator Oscar Underwood, Alabama, told the Birmingham Rotary Club Wednesday Europe’s affairs are problems for United States business men and farmers. Henry Lambert, Thomaston, Maine, is a free man after serving twenty years of a life sentenoe, after pivictlon of murdering his afid daughter. Later evidence proves Lambert did not commit the crime.

City Loses Citizen of Long Residence

MARTIN HOOGWINKLE

A resident of twenty-three years was lost by the city in the death of Martin Hoogwinkle, 77, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary A. Baldwin. 1130 Parker Ave., Wednesday. various companies of “pyramiding” their securities. Ratts withheld ruling on the questions. Fire Chief John J. O’Brien was put on the stand by Taylor E. Groninger, for the city, to testify concerning the number of additional water plugs needed. After some hesitation he indicated only 100 or 150 additional are needed. He characterized the statement of fire underwriters that 2,200 more hydrants are necessary as preposterous and said he did not agree with the water company that 1.400 more are needed. "God Almighty could not satisfy all the requirements of the fire underwriters." he said. He testified the use of water in fires will be diminished with the elimination of shingle roofs. • ‘‘Then maybe the company will reduce Its rates to S2O a plug,” he added. The company now charges S6O and Is asking S7O. Tax Valuation Cited

The water company presented an affidavit to the State tax board declaring Its physical property was worth $6,000,000 less than an expert witness testified It was worth, evidence In the hearing has indicated. Philip Zoercher, member ot the tax board, was called as a witness by attorneys representing consumers. He testified the water company made an affidavit declaring the full cash value of Its physical property was $10,853,000. This was exclusive if the socalled “fanciful” going value which the tax board does not consider sufficiently tangible to assess. William J. Hagenah, engineer and expert witness for the company, had placed the value of this property at $16,041,156. exclusive of going value. . “You didn't believe the affidavit, did you?" Mclnerney asked. “Well, we added a little to it. If that is what you mean." Zoercher replied. The value fixed by the tax board was $12,087,000. “Weren’t the earnings so lew you believed the company could no* stand any more taxes?" Mclnemy asked. "If w r e based utility valuations on earnings some of them would have no taxable vaiue at all,” Zoercher said. "We believed we had fixed the true cash value of the water company, with the exception of going value, which we do not consider.” A blow to the theory of the water company that the valuation for ratemaking purposes should be based largely on the cost of reproduction was dealt when William A. Pickens, attorney for the Chamber of Commerce, read letters from other commissions indicating this theory is not used In fixing such valuations.

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THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1923

STEEL EXECUTIVES. CONFER ON PLANS FOR MR DAY Gary indicates Change May Not Be Made for Several Months. Bu United Press NEW YORK, July 26.—Executives of the United States Stee. Corporation gathered around the conference table in company headquarters today to plan the first step in elimination of the twelve-hour day—storm center of labor disputes in the industry. With Judge Elbert H. Gary presiding. the conference went to work to find the basis upon which the change can be made. Involves Sweeping Changes Upon entering the conference Gary indicated the change might not be accomplished for months. It involves sweeping changes in operation—complete revision of the working schedules of 260,000 employes new salary arrangements and employment of thousands of new workers. ‘‘Our purpose is to consider ways to put into effect at the earliest possible moment the elimination of the twelvehour day,” Gary said. “This involves facts and figures more or less complicated.” Here are the difficulties of the project which were under discussion: 1. Workers now laboring the twelve-hour shifts —about 25 per cent of the entire employment list—would only earn $3.20 for an eight-hour day (they now receive $4.80). Will Add to Cost 2. Gary estimates the change will add 15 per cent to the cost of the manufactured ste.el product because thousands of new men would have to be employed. (The estimates of those needed vary from 60,000 to 325,000.) 3. Some smaller steel companies making the change have been met with demands for wage increases.

YOUNGERMIROFF GOES TO CHICAGO TO GELFATHER Man, Missing Since July 16, Found at Home of Daughter. Arthur Miroff. son of Isadore Miroff, 62, 17 W. Ray St., was in Chicago today to bring to Indianapolis the eider Miroff, who disappeared July 16. A telegram from a daughter in Chi<ago Wednesday stated the elder Miroff was at her home. When the telegram arrived, Arthur Miroff, who is connected with the Public Savings Insurance Company, 147 E. Market St., was tracing a clew suppled by a woman who stated a man who was at her home Tuesday was Isadore Miroff. Mrs. Isadore Miroff, who lias been seriously affected since her husband left, is awaiting his return in great happiness, relatives said. PATIENTS RECEIVE THERMOSBOTTLES Daughters of British Empire Donate Supplies. With thermos bottles and a gross of flower vases the patients at Sunnyslde Sanitorium are better equipped than they were before the visit of the committee of Daughters of the British Empire, Wednesday. The gifts were bought with the “love fund,” made up of the earnings of the fifty-five members of the Indiana chapter. Mrs. Anna Pickard, president of the Indiana chapter headed a committee to Investigate the needs of Sunnyside and found that thermos bottles for each room and vases for the many flowers sent to the hospital were most needed. Other members of the committee were Mesdames James W. Jackson, John Kendrew, Thomas France, Maude Holme, and Miss Phyllis Holm*.