Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 65, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1923 — Page 2

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AUTO TURNS OVER, INJURING TWO MEN, WOMAN AND Ot Car Owned by Clyde Oliver Plunges Into Ditch on Rockville Road, Two men, a woman and a 12-year old girl today were suffering from Injuries received when an automobile owned by Clyde Oliver, 28, of 12 Fredohema Terrace, 728 N. East St., turned over and plunged Into a ditch on the Rockville road at 9:30 p. m., Thursday. The accident occured three-fourths of a mile west of the county line. The car was ____________ badly damaged. p . r . • n . Passing motor- / / hare been ists offered aid. I I killed in They were told a a tomoblle to send a wreckMarlon County lng Car this year. scene. The Injured refused to give names, ftft |“ Hae been Oliver was in llftT 1 "■* ° p bed at his home today. He said It la your the car skidded duty to make the off of the road atrort* safe. and turned over -——— —J an d no one was seriously Injured. He said he was driving from Rock ville. Miss Virginia More, colored, 932 Superior St., Is recovering from injuries received when she was struck by an automobile truck driven by James McCord, colored, 222 W. Twelfth St., at Illinois and Pratt Sts. McCord was arrested on charges of assault and battery and speeding. A big red automobile crashed Into a car owned by George B. Brorm, 221 E. Vermont St. Brown’s automobile was parked In front of his home. It was badly damaged. The driver of the red automobile drove away without giving a name.

CITY HAMMERS AT WATER PROFITS (Continued From Page 1) now is no charge. The city has agreed to pay for this water. The history of. the company has been one of big profits and large stock and bond dividends, figures previously submitted by Park show. Here are some of the city’s contentions as revealed by its exhibits presented to the commission Thursday: The actual net cash Investment In the physical property March 31, 1 23 was $7,907,741.74. Average annual cash dividends on the original $500,000 of common stock amount to 34.17 per cent. High Dividends In 1922 Cash dividends in 1922 totaled $400,000, the highest since 1913. The company has issued a total of ?5,000,000 in bond dividends, $4,500,000 in slock dividends and $4,185,533.50 in cash dividends since its organization In 1881. The company has paid a total of $2,931,250 interest on bonds Issued to stockholders as dividends. The net Income of the company in 1922 was $550,808.63. the highest in its history. The company has mkde a profit every year except its first year. The net income last year would equal 96.2 per cent of the original common stock. The income available for return last year was $845,985.63 above a 7 per cent return on the actual Investment In the property. Overhead C harge Varies The actual structural overhead charge shown on the company’s books from April 16, 1881. to March 31, 1909 amounted to 5 per cent, and from Jan. 1, 1913, to Dec. 31, 1922, It amounted to 8 per cent. The company is claiming 15 per cent. The commission has ordered an eight-tenths of a cent depreciation charge on all the $2,949,167 worth of land and other non depreciable property. The charge on actual depreciable property would therefore be 1.16 per cent. If the company should lay aside slßu,ooo a year for depreciation, as it hopes to do, at the end of seventyeight and one-half years, the estimated life of the property, it would have a reserve of $82,948,207 at 4 per cent compound interest. The company is using one method of depreciation to show high per cent condition of the plant and another to obtain a high depreciation allowance.

WOMEN GIVE PLAY FOR PATIENTS AT SUNNYSIDE Missionary Society Arranges Entertainment at S&nitorium. Patients at Sunnyside Sanitorium will be entertained this evening with a playlet, “The Two Masters,’’ given under the auspices of the Women’s Missionary Society of the Eastern Heights Christian Church. A committee composed of Mrs. Arthur Dickens, president, Mrs. Clarence Firth, and Mrs. Anna Pickard, found the patients in need of entertainment. The cast is composed of Mrs. Firth, Miss Sue Firth, Mrs. Jacob Jones. Mrs. William Crapo, Mrs. Ernest Prosch, Miss Melba Prosch, Miss Virginia Lett and Miss Clara Worrell. Laundry Company Loses The Sterling Laundry Company branch office at 326 Virginia Ave., reported the theft of 75 cents in cash and several shirts on Thursday night. A side window was entered. Exchange Club Plays Golf Members of the Exchange Club held an outing and golf tournament today at the old Highland golf course. They met at the Lincoln at noon. Hospital Reunion Present and former employee of the Cdfeitral Hospital for the Insane will hold their annual reunion at Brooked* Park. Aug. 5.

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EDWIN B. WESPEY Death of Edwin B. Wesbey, 43, of 59 N. Brookvllle Ave., Thursday night, was caused by sleeping sickness, physicians say. He was manager of the Johnson-Woodbridge Company, paint dealers.

ANTHRACITE COAL STRIKEjSFEARED Hope of .Agreement Between Miners and Operators Seems Slight, By United Press ATLANTIC CITY. N. J„ July 27. Hope of agreement between miners and operators seemed slight when the final meeting of the Joint sub-com-mittee of both sides opened here today. An agreement is contingent on a demand for full recognition of the United Mine Workers of America. The present wage agreement . between miners and operators expires Sept. 1 and it appeared today that unless the miners’ union was recognized by the operators a strike in the anthracite fields might result. PROMINENT QUAKERS MEET AT RICHMOND English and American leaders Attend Ten-Day Conference. By Times Special RICHMOND. Ind.. July 27.—The fourteenth annual conference of the Young Friends of the Five Years Meetings formally opened today and will be In session ten days. Prominent young Quakers of this country and England who have been leaders In their denomination are meeting at Earlham College and will discuss the scope of their work. There will be classes In Bible study, Quaker problems, human relations, missisons, international friendship and Sunday School methods. LIQUOR IS CONFISCATED Charles Allison Arrested on Charge of Running Blind Tiger, Ten quarts of gin were 'confiscated at the home of Charles Allison, 2605 Bellefontaine St., in a raid by Lieutenant Stoddard and squad of policemen Thursday, according to their report. Allison was charged with operating a blind tiger. He said she liquor was for his and friends’ use exclusively. Charted for New Club A charter of the National American Business Club will be presented to a newly organized local unit next Thursday at the Severln. George C. Baker, Robert Wild and Richard Habbe are arranging the installation ceremony.

End of July USED PIANO SALE

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BOOMING CANNON KEEPS CAMPKNOX UVELYTHIS WEEK Gov, McCray, Visits Indiana Troops at Artillery Practice, By DOROTHY STANHOPE, Times Staff Correspondent CAMP KNOX, Ky„ July 27—The howitzers of the 150th Indiana Artillery are booming. All week they have been at target practice on the artillery range and the constant firing is not only heard in the center of the camp, but also In Louisville, thirty miles away. The artillerymen live In camp and march out to the target range every day. Part of the infantry live in tents bn the rifle range; the rest march out each morning. It is only a few miles, so It Is easily done. No Danger From Guns There Is no danger of any one being hurt by either the big or little guns, unless he deliberately gets In the way. The hills among which they are fired are uninhabited, the roads are closed and guards are posted, to see that no one wanders Into the danger zone. The Old Dixie Highway between the North and South, used by the armies during the Civil War. goes right through the path of the firing. So when the Government bought up this big tract of 33,000 acres to establish Camp Knox and built the ranges, making the highway dangerous, the New Dixie came into existence. The Governor of Indiana came over this New Dixie on Wednesday, as did all of the Indiana Guardsmen who motored down. Visits Indiana Regiments Besides visiting all of the Indiana regiments, the Governor and adjutant guard had lunch with General Tyndall at his headquarters in the Polo Club. Here the commanding general of the 38th Division and his staff are established in what was once a beautiful Kentucky plantation home. It is now the Camp Knox Polo Club, where, every Sunday afternoon, the officers and ladies of the camp assemble after the polo game for a cup of tea. The regiments have only a day or so left before they fold their tents and hasten away to make room for the next unit. Other Indiana troops, including the 139th Field Artillery, Col. John C. Flshback. Indianapolis, commanding, is not expected until August. Ohio regiments will arrive this ooming Tuesday. The C. M. T. C. is now coming in. One thousand of the 4,000 expected arrived by special train at 5:30 Thursday afternoon.

PRINTERS BUILD HOSPITAL Changes Made In Colorado Home of International Union. Removal of the hospital of the Union Printers Home at Colorado Springs, Colo., to make way for anew hospital unit haa been undertaken, it was announced at headquarters of the International Typographical Union here today. Delay In admission of applicants will be unavoidable until early fall. It was said. More than sixty-five applications for old-age pensions within the International Union were made in the past month, according to Secretary-Tress urer J. W. Hays. Chain Drug Store Owner Arrested According to a dispatch from Richmond, Ind., Clem Thistlethwaite, Spiuk-Arms, ouerator of a chain of drug stores In this city, was arrested there Thursday for operating two drug stores without legally licensed pharmacists In charge. Thistlethwaite is out of the city. Employes here said they knew nothing of the arrest. Policyholders Picnic at Park Free eats and games for the kiddles and grown-ups were among many features planned for the third annual picnic of the policyholders of the Public Savings Insurance Company, at Columbia Park today. The event was sponsored by the Public Savings Booster Club and was In charge of Arthur Mlroff, district manager

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A bomb wrecked the.police station in Ballintra, County Donegal, Thursday. The Russian soviet government has granted ship concessions to private steamship lines. Thirty thousand bricklayers in Rome went on strike Thursday when bonus subsidy was cut. Former Governor Frank Lowden, Illinois, has thus far refused to answer demands that he become a candidate for Governor of Illinois. Blue laws are invoked at Ludington, Mich. Auto rides, boating, confectioners, billiard halls, picture shows, newspapers and restaurants are included in the Sunday bna. Waukegan, Illinois citizens have threatened a boycott on barber shops If the announced price increase on shaves and haircuts is put Into effect. British government announced

REPORIED PLOT TO KILL PRESIDENT LACKS FOUNDATION Department Also Runs Down Rumor of Design on Daugherty’s Life, By United Press WASHINGTON, July 27.—Department of Justice agents two months ago Investigated a reported plot to assassinate President Harding and found there was absolutely n truth in the report and no foundation for the rumors, William J. Burns, chief of the bureau of investigation, said today. The department had been told at the same time of a “plot” to kill Attorney General Daugherty but this also proved quite without foundation, Burns said. For a time, in view of the reports that reached him. operatives investigated activities of PhilJp Kurinsky and Sophie Bishwick, alleged anarchists, Burns said. “But we found there was not a thing to the story.” What purported to be a Department of Justice circular dated July 12, said a plan to have Kurinsky and Miss Bushwick trail Harding on his Alas kan trip and kill him with a revolver equipped with a silencer had been reported to the bureau. FARM BUREAU WILL” DEMAND HARDING’S AID Designation of Farm Granaries as Government Warehouses Is Plan. By United Press CHICAGO. July 27.—Aid for ‘‘millions of farmers facing bankruptcy" will be demanded from President Harding by the American Farm Buraeu Federation as soon as Mr. Harding returns to the White House, federation ,fflcials announced today. Administration of the Intermediate credits act by the Farm Loan Board and designation of farm'granaries as Government warehouses. enabling growers to borrow money on stored wheat, will be asked. STOP SIGNS ERRONEOUS City Ordinance Does Not Apply In Two Instances. After enforcing the boulevard stop ordinanace against motorists at crossings over PJeasant Run and Washington Blvds. for several months, Traffic Capt. Michael J Glenn today announced It has been discovered that these highways are not Included in the ordinance s provisions. Stop signs along the streets will be removed at once, he said. Detroit Police Identify Yegg Police today received a wire from Detroit detectives declaring Walter Watts, 534 N. Senate Ave.. arrested here two days ago on a charge of attacking his wife, is Walter Worthy, wanted In Detroit on a charge of safe blowing. The man was identified by pictures sent out from the local bureau.

REGENT—Has good action and wonderful an m* tone; Mahogany p I y PLAYER PIANOS A fine WEGMANN player, with new player action; * ml* In beautiful mahog- ty W any case; like new.. MILTON Very latest style; sold new for & M p* $775. Sale $/|(|k price ‘jLt/ll FOOT-POWER AMPICOS— Look and play a m like new ; one at v / / k $675; one at ff ELECTRIC AMPICO Knabq, new 4 _ ■sr $ 1,400

Thursday opening of an airship line to India. Unconfirmed report in Paris declares revolution has broken out in Greece. An abandoned baby two weeks old, was found Thursday night n a bench in a Chicago park. Secretary Mellon and Premier Baldwin, Britain, will confer at the latter’s country home near London Sunday on the rum situation. West Virginia 2-cent tax on gasoline went into effect Thursday, boosting price from 24 to 26 cents. Chief of Krupp works in Berlin today denied rumors the German plant was seeking French and British capital. George Arliss, noted actor, sailed Thursday on the Aquit&nia, for England. Admiral E. W. Eberle has been made chief of naval operations at Washington, succeeding Admiral Coontz.

MIROFF IGNORANT OF STRAYING INTO DAUGHTERS HOME Son Finds Father in 111 Health —To Undergo Treatment. Isadore Mlroff, 62, of 17 W. Ray St., broken in health, was found at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jack Dorn, 1346 S. Central Park Ave., Chicago, 111., by his son, Arthur Mlroff of the Public Savings Company. The son went to Chicago Thursday in answer to a telegram that his father, who has been missing from hio home here since Monday, July 16, was there, a dispatch to The Times today said. According to Arthur hid father Is unable to tell with accuracy his whereabouts, but after being treated by physioiana stated that on leaving Indianapolis he sought rest and went to Martinsville, Ind., where he stayed about three days. He started to Chicago and when he arrived or where he has stayed since he cannot tell. His daughter, Mrs. Zorn, told _ the younger Mlroff that she was reading when she looked up and saw her father standing in the room. It Is the plan of the family to leave him In Chicago under the care of physicians for two weeks. Then he will visit another daughter in Denver, Coro. Mrs. Sophia Mlroff, his wife, was overjoyed at her home today and will go to Chicago at once to care for him and accompany him to Denver. WIFEOFFORMmTMES EMPLOYE DIES IN WEST Mrs. Alice Kirohnor Is Buried In Los Angeles, CaL Mrs. Alice M. Kirohner, 29. wife of Fred E. Kirchner, formerly connected with the circulation department of The Indianapolis Times, died at her home in Los Angeles July 20, accord !ng to word received here today. Funeral services were held Tuesday. Beside Mr. Kirchner, one daughter, Alice R. Kirchner, survives.

—TWO DAYS ONLY—SATURDAY and MONDAY GORDON CUSHION COVERS For Back and Seat Cushions Only Mr. Miller, special factory representative, Is with us again. He induced the factory to allot us another quota of these 2-Piece (Per Seat) . . . . t $2.95 and Up 1-Piece (Per Seat) . . . $2.25 and Up FOR FORD CARS TWO-DOOR SEDAN—Complete (regular Qp price, $19J)0), $8.85 and FOUR-DOOR SEDAN —Complete (regu- <M O OC lar price, $23.00), $12.95 and COUPE—Complete (regular price jr $13.00) SO.4J Their Perfect Fit Makes Them Famous FOR ALL OTHER CARS During this sale we will take Bpecial orders for seat covers and floor carpets for all other popular cars, and allow you a t similar discount GORDON CUSHIONS ■ We also have secured at a very special low price a beautiful assortment of genuine Gordon cushions. Just the thing for REGULAR $2.00 VALUE. jb| Oft SPECIALLY PRICED AT Si.JZ7 FLOOR CARPETS FOR FORDS Coupe $2.64 Sedan $4.89 These carpets are tailored to fit perfectly the front and back seotlons of your automobile. Open Saturday Night Until 10 o’Clock Phone Cl rcle 8146

PREACHER,ACTIVE IN ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE, IS DEAD Suffers Stroke of Apoplexy While in Anderson on Business, Funeral services for the Rev. Charles J. Everson, 47, 1726 Central Ave., who died Thursday at St. John’s Hospital at Anderson, Ind., following a stroke of apoplexy, will be held Saturday 2 p. m. at the residence. Burial will be In Crown Hill. The Rev. Orien W. Flfer, pastor of the Central Ave. Methodist. Church, will condutc the services. The Rev. Everson had gone to Anderson Wednesday night to seek funds for the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, of which he had been field secretary in the finance department for the past nine years. He was bom in Philadelphia, Pa.., Dec. 4, 1876. In 1903 he married Miss Alta Smith of Upland, Ind. For twentyone years he had been a minister in the Northern Indiana M. E. Conference. His last charge was at Summitville, Ind. He had been a pastor in Normal City, Muncie, Summitville Anderson and Desoto, Ind. Before the Rev. Everson assumed his duties as field secretary of the Anti-Tobacco League he was for three years financial secretary of Taylor University of Upland, Ind. The Rev. Everson Is survived by the widow, Mrs. Alta Everson: two sons, Leslie and Thomas Everson; one daughter, Miss Meriam Everson, all of Indianapolis; a brother, two sis ters, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Everson of Perth Amboy, N. J.

ILL HEALTH CAUSE OF SUICIDE EFFORT \ Mrs, Robert Williams Taken to Methodist Hospital, Mrs. Florence Williams, 37, of 1944* N. Capitol Ave., was taken to the Methodist Hospital today in a serious condition as a result of taking poison. She is the wife of Robert Williams, with offices in the Peoples State Bank build! nf. Bicycle Policemen Maas and Chitwood said they found that she had taken twelve poison tablets. 11l health was given as the cause for the act. WOMAN USES AUTO CRANK Mr. and Mr*. Rynes Arrested After Argument In Automobile. Pryor Rynes. 30. 649 Bright St., was arrested on a charge of keeping a blind tiger and assault and battery, and Mrs Rynes on a charge of as sault and battery. Rynes struck his wife with a club when she refused to get out of his machine and Mrs. Rynes hit him with an automobile crank, according to police. One pint of bonded liquor was found, police said.

Twenty-One Years in M. E . Conference REV. CHARLES J. EVERSON Door Unlocked; Pockets Picked D. O. Campbell, 2140 Bellefontaine St., told the police he left the side door unlocked Thursday night and v „ke up this morning to find $18.50 In cash and sl2 check missing from his trousers pocket.

SALE— Ladies’ Bathing Suits All $5.00 Suits, n0w.... $3.00 Ek All $7.50 Suits, now... .$4.50 \\ J All $8.50 Suits, now $5.10 \1 jI All SIO.OO Suits, now... .$6.00 \ IMR All $12.50 Suits, now... .$6.90 All Fancy Bathing Caps, now All $1.50 Bathing Shoes, now SI.OO \ / All SI.OO Bathing Shoes, now 75 $ V j I Water Wings 25<* j I 40% Discount on Children’s Suit* Smith-Hassler-Sturm Cos. J 7 219-221 Massachusetts Avenue

Clean-Sweep Shoe Sale Bargains for Men f Women and Children Ladies ’white Ttd strap slippers j “ d l %nd •*- $3.00 kind now )X/# $3?05. nd $1.98. *4.00 brown #xsl.so !!•<* oxford*, $1.50. Ladies’ black satin strap slippers—ss.oo kind $3.95 blMk nd t>r©w oxford*, $4.00 kind $2.98 #3 ‘ 4B ‘ $3.50 kind $2.48 to close out, $6.00 red slippers ....$3.95 100 - $2.00 house slippers.. ,$1.50 p pr*. $3.00 black and brown kid ox- , _ . -- fords $1.98 “?** .*^7.. . ' 69c 1546 North If • HP p, *S3 K. Wash. St. mi not. st. Held s Iwo Mores c s

lpo® S ' step away down in price— Thus enabling you at a slight expense _ to re-establish your W” old coat and vest as a suit! 48 Pairs that Strauss }"2 QC W sold at $5, $5.50 and $6, at ( /1/ i /li 65 Pairs that Strauss $A QC jm J iF sold at $6.50 and $7.50, at fl LLP 227 Pairs that Strauss JC QC j / , sold at $8.50 to SIO.OO, at & <! Worsteds plentiful in every group, also cassimeres— f f“i5 S oT suiting patterns predominate. and up. 3-Piece Fancy Some suitable 1 Tj "C © j|7 jrt for Fall, CO I €s, 20% Off. , 33 to 37 West Washington Street ' •*p Rinr .. - r.,f* iftv<3t iO v wttH n!• T PENALTY OF PBIC fJ

FRIDAY, JULY 27,1923

MOVE TO LOWER GAS PRICES ENDS* IN WILDUPROAR Oil Men Adjourn in Near Riot Without Accomplishing Purpose, By United News CHICAGO, July 27.—A national convention of independent oil refiners and distributers, called to lower gasoline prices, ended In an uproar without accomplishing its purposes today. Adjournment was proclaimed amid a near riot. L. V. Nicholas, president of the National Petroleum Marketers’ Association, who called the convention and presided as chairman, was booed and hissed by producers and refiners opposing his plan for a 4-cent a gallon decrease. After fifteen hours of heated debate, the only action taken by the conference was adoption of a resolution providing for an Investigation Into the cost of refining, producing and marketing petroleum products.