Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 79

SHALL INDIANAPOLIS HAVE UP-TO-DATE SCHOOLS OR MUST FOURTEEN PERSONS RETARD PROGRESS?

RE the long gone, almost forgotten days of crude, one-room, illy ventilated, stove heated schoolhouses of pioneer times to return to Indianapolis ? Are fourteen objectors, many of whom, according to school officials, do not understand conditions or the school law, to be permitted to block school progress in Indianapolis? These are questions which will be fought ouLbefore the State board of tax commissioners Aug. 22, when the board will hold a public hearing on the remonstrance against a bond issue of $1,650,000 for the erection of new buildings and additions' at eight public schools in Indianapolis. If the bond issue is refused it will mean, school officials say,

MOTQRMAN KILLED BY LIVEWIRE Philip S. Tyner, Shelbyville, % Dies When Head Touches Fuse. WORKING BENEATH CAR I > i Interurban at Five Points Bound for Rushville When Tragedy Occurs. Philip S. Tyner, 56, of Shelbyville, a passenger motorman of the Indianapolis and'Cincinnati Traction Company, was electrocuted today when his head came in contact with the D. C. fuse under his interurban car at Five Points about seven miles southeast of the Terminal Station. The accident occurred at 7 a. m. Tyner’s car was en route to Rushville. The car stopped at Five Points to await a west-bound car. Tyner is said to have been under the car draining the air tank when his head came in contact with the fuse. The body was taken to the Flanner & Buchanan funeral parlors. Conductor Finds Body The exact amount of current that passed through Tyner Is not known. Traction officials said 33,000 volts ccme down through the trolley, but that after this current goes through the transformer there is only 430 volts. Henry Cory, conductor, dragged the body from under the car. Tyner had been employed by the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company since Oct. 2, 1905. Tyner had been ill for several months, having been in the Robert Long Hospital. He returned to work Aug. 1. Family of Six Survived Tyner is survived by a widow and a son Howard, a member of the Coast Guard at Sault Sainte Marie. Mich., a son Glenn, who lives at Detroit; a son Charles, living at Shelbyville; a daughter living at Beech Grove, and a daughter at South Bend, Ind. He was a member of the Masonic and Eastern Star lodges at Shelbyville, and the K. of P. at Morristown, his former home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. The body will be taken to Shelbyville.

FOUR PERISH IN OHIO WIND STORM Dozen Injured and Thousands Lost in Property, By United Press , COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 12.—Four personsVare known to have perished In a severe wind and rain storm which swept over Ohio and West Virginia from the .Northwest during the i Jtlffht At least a dozen persons were in- j jured and thousands of dollars were lost in damaged buildings and crops. , NEW COAL CONFERENCE CALLED ON WAGES Miners and Operators Will Make effort to Agree. By United Preet WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Aug. 13. The anthracite miners and operators will reconvene for joint wage negotiations within a few days in an effort to reach anew working agreement before the present contract expires Aug. 31, Rinaldo Cappelini, announced today. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6a. m . 65 10 a. m.......; 76 7 a. ra 66 11 a. m 76

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TROOPERS GUARD MEN IN SMELTING WORKS Return of 500 Strikers to Plant Is Without Incident. Bu United Brest HILLSBORO, 111.. Aug. 13.—Under the watchful eye of 500 troops of the Illinois National Guard, half of the striking employes of the American Zinc and Lead Smelting Company at Taylor Springs, a suburb, returned to work. Their return was without incident. A striker or two stood about and looked on, but there was no overt act or conversation that might have started trouble. condltls aT ORPHANS’ Ml ARE CRITICISED Superintendent and Charities Board Differ in Opinions on Methods. Criticisms of the management of the Indianapolis Orphans’ Home, 4107 E. Washington St., was voiced In a report to county commissioners today by the Marlon County board of charities and corrections. The 176 boys and girls should be fed upon tablecloths and chairs with backs should be used at meals Instead of stools, it was said, so that the children could be trained to enter good homes. The superintendent, Mrs. Laura E. Beggs, Informed the inspection committee that the orphans spilled food on the tables, making cloths a nuisance. The placing agent should make more effort to place the older children In homes. In spite of views of the superintendent to the contrary. It was recommended. The average- cost of each child a month is $27, it was found, which "was felt to be too high.” Everything was In excellent shape at the Childrens’ Guardian Home, It was said. There the orphans ate off clean table cloths, which were changed but twice a week, and children were trained so they could be fit for home life, says the report. The children at the Indianapolis home are well cared for, and the house neat and Clean, it waS said. The home was too crowded, twentythree beds being found in ond room, according to the report. The superintendent said she did' not care to discuss the matter and that she tried to keep the children neat and clean.

GIRL ENDS LIFE AFTER MAN BREAKS PROMISE Leaves Note to Piano Salesman, Who Is Married. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 13.t—Miss Audrey Peebles, 18, waited two hours after her married loveV had promised to telephone her and then swallowed poison, dying shortly afterwards, according to police today. _ She left a note addressed to Harold Carpenter, a piano salesman, which said: ‘You might know I couldn’t stand to let the things you do hurt and disappoint me any longer. I still love you, Hal, but please don’t ever do to another .girl, what you have done to me.’ r * SAFE AT LAUNDRY ROBBEDOF SI,BOO Detectives Discover Loss After Several Hours, When Detectives Stone and DaJton opened a safe in the laundry of Charles Delong, at 340 Indiana Ave., today, investigating after burglars had visited th eplace Sunday night, they found SI,BOO missing. The proprietor returned after a four-hour absence and found a pile of oil-soaked rags burning in a corner. The combination had been battered off the safe and the door slammed shut again, making it necessary to , batter the safe open to investigate

the addition of more portable and temporary buildings to the 103 which will be in use when school opens next month. For more than two years school construction in Indianapolis has been held up by remonstrances to the State tax board, and as a result school board members say the entire school system of Indianapolis has been hampered to a point where conditions have become critical. Every effort will be made to convince the State tax board of the necessity of the bond issue, school board officials said today. Figures will be presented to the State body, showing that more than 5,000 school children now are housed, in portables and temporary makeshift buildings, that the school population of Indianapolis is increasing at the rate of 1,200 to 1,500 annually, and that a vote taken among parents of school children of Indian-

PHONE HATE MOVE UP 10 0. S. COURT Original injunction Suits Withdrawn and New Appeals Filed. AUG. 11 ORDER IS BASIS Commission Schedule Grants About Half What Company Demanded. A restraining order forbidding enforcement of the new increased telephone rates for Indianapolis and Indiana established by the public service commission in an order issued Saturday, was asked by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company in two suits filed in Federal Court today. The complaints asked that the comInlsslon be enjoined from putting into effect the new rates and from Interfering with the collection of still higher rates asked by the company. The case will be heard by Judge George T. Page. United States Circuit Judge, at Chicago Wednesday. In event the restraining order Is granted It will remain in effect only until three Federal Judges can hear the case on temporary injunction. Replace Former Suits The complaints filed today will replace the Injunction suits filed last week before the commission’s order was issued. Confiscation of the property of the company -was the basis of both actions. The complaint as to Indianapolis rates stated that there are about 70,000 telephone users in this city and that the rates fixed in the commission’s order -of Aug. 11 would yield about $40,000 less a month than v (Continued on Page 11)

SEVEN KILLED IN Rt|AD WRECK Head-on Collision Fatal to Western Trainmen, By United Ijress PUEBLO. Colo., Aug. 13. —Seven railway employes were killed and two trainmen and one passenger Injured today at Fowler, Colo., in a head-on collision between passenger trains of the Colorado & Southern and Santa Fe Railroads. Colorado & Southern passenger No. 600, detoured from Walsenbqrg to La Junta because of floods, and Santa Fe No. 6, running on schedule from Put eblo west, crashed at the west switch at Fowler. Both engineers and firemen on the Colorado ants Southern double-header and the engineer on the Santa Fe were killed and the engines overturned. One baggage car was demolished and the other derailed by the impact, but no passenger coaches were damaged and only one passenger injured. Relief trains from Pueblo and Le Junta were rushed to the scene and doctors in Fowler are caring for the injured. Cane and Clarinet Taken A $5 gold-headed cane was missing from the home of Emerson Morton, 345 W. Eleventh St., he told police today. L. H. Abram, 333 N. Illinois St., reported a traveling bag containing a clarinet and watch stolen. Men Attacked and Robbed While standing on the corner of Capitol and Indiana Aves., Sunday night, Finnert Carpenter, colored. 1202 Cameron St., was hit on the head with a rock by another colored man and robbed of $7. Carpenter could give only a meager description of his as-

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, AUG. 13, 1923

PARENTS FACE THIS QUESTION

TELL THE TAX BOARD AUG. 22

No Need for Kiddies Near This Home to Swelter These Scorching Hot Days

LEFT TO RIGHT—HELEN FOWLER, 2456 N. TALBOTT, AND JANE LAIDLE, 119 E. TWENTY-FIFTH ST.

The sweltering: weather doesn't worry these kiddles much. A pool, knee deep, and just the thing to jump and splash about in, in the

GOVERNOR CONSIDERS GASOLINE PRICE WAR

Considering Retail Cost in State Too High' in View of Wholesale Figures, McCray Plans Conference With Attorney General Lesh.

Govemor McCray today indicated that Indiana would steps toward forcing a reduction in gasoline prices, and said he would hold a conference soon with Attorney General U. S. Lesh on the subject. He said he would communicate with officials of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, at Chicago, and ask for an explanation of the present high prices. "Considering the prices of crude oil and gas in the fields a decrease would be entirely justifiable,” the Governor said. He sal/ ho had made an investigation of gasoline prices June 1 and found Oklahoma prices at 12.3 cents a gallon. At this time, he said, the freight was cents, transfer'costs 2 cents and filling station costs 2 cents. r "In view of the fact that these figures show a legitimate cost price of a fraction more than 20 cents a gallon the 23.8-cent price which prevailed at that time was unreasonable. The Governor said he believed the same comparisons in present prices prevailed. Attorney General Lesh was out of the city, but it believed the two will confer Tuesday. In line with McCray's announcement of plans to investigate gasoline prices dispatches from Chicago shower the price war being waged in other States. Cover nor McMasters of South Dakota, who started the movement, went ahead with plans to sell the fuel through State depots. Governor Nestos awaited an answer to his to the Standard Oil Company demanding re™ duction. Governor Bryan of Nebraska acted similarly. GovertTbrs Small of Illinois and Kendall of lowa are studying the situation with the latter favoring the South Dakota plan Mayor Shank said that he would be back of a gasoline price war "because we're paying too much for gasoline here.” He said would do nothing until Governor McCray tqlleed with Lesh, and if they decided upon something definite, he would cooperate. MUNICIPAL GAS STATION Milwaukee Selling Fuel at 15.5 Cents Per Gallon. * 0 By United Press MILWAUKEE. Wis., Aug. 13.—The city of Milwaukee tomorrow will start selling gasoline for 13.5 cents a gallon for low test and 14.8 for high test in an effort to drive down prices here.

apolis showed more than 16,000 in favor of the building program and only 1,500 opposed. >- Civic organizations, parent-teachers’ associations and clubs of various kinds have announced their intention of aiding the school board in its fight for proper housing facilities for the school children of the city. % The last building program .of an Indianapolis school board was brought to a halt two years'ago when the ta'x board refused to approve a bond issue for four new ouudings on remonstrance of ten members of the Taxpayers’ League of Indiana. After that building operations ceased entirely. year the school board again took up the problem. After long study a program cover-

back yard of Joseph W. Talbert, 2448 N. Talbott Ave., affords the kiddles of the neighborhood a fine hot weather rendevous. Every day they

fuel will be distributed to the public through a city filling Battion. v The price represents cost and is about 10 cents a gallon less than present filling station prices. BREAK AT PHILADELPHIA One Cent Reduction Puts ITlce at 22 Cents. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13.—The first break in gasoline prices, when a reduction of 1 cent per gallon was ordered by principal refining and distributing companies. The Texas Company cut their price to 22 cents a gallon, including the State tax of 2 cents. WISCONSIN IN LINE By United Press MADISON, Wis., Aug. 13.—Wisconsin today joined a half dozen other Western states fighting with some success to secure lower gasoline prices. Following a ruling by Edward O. Nordam, commissioner of markets, that the markets law permits the state to control prices. Governor Blaine ordered an investigation to determine a fair price.

GIRL’S ASSAILANT UGHTIN CHASE Member of Posse of Sixty Farmers Makes Capture, By Times Special FORTVILLE. In<J„ Aug. 18.—Attacked by a man rfbout 20 years old while waiting for an Indianapolis interurban at Davis Crossing, near here, at 6:40 a. m. today, Miss Helen Davis, 21, living one and one-fourth miles *vest of Fortville, beat off her assailant. Rolling down a two-foot embankment, the two scuffled. Jumping up, the girl ran, screaming. A posse of sixty farmers and townspeople sutrtea after the man. William Kelly, farmer, living two miles west of town, captured a man giving his name as Albert Heick of Buckner, 111., on his farm at 9 a. m. The man was brought to the Fortville Jail. Miss Davis Is employed In Indian-

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flock there. When they tire of the fountain, they turn on the garden hose, and have great fun taking turns sprinkling each other.

FRANK WAMPLER FAVORED FOR JOB WITH STATE BODY Ex-President of Phone Company Strong Contender for •~Van Auken’s Place, Strong sentiment favoring the appointment of Frank Wampler, former president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, on the public service commission, to succeed Glenn Van Auken, “whose Resignation has been presented, coupled with the fact that Governor McCray has indicated his desire for a man of Wampler’s qualifications, was taken as an indication today that the choice is practically made McCray has said he desires a man "with a decided inclination toward the public’s welfare and, at the same time, one not easily swayed by unreasonable arguments." It was believed today that Van Auken, while originally intending to retire about Aug. 15, will remain until the Indiana Bell Telephone Injunction proceedings hiave been settled. McCray said a large number of applications had been forwarded to him and that It would be necessary to consider them before making the appointment. Albert Stump, local attorney, and Edgar A. Perkins, local labor leader and a member of the 1923 Legislature, are\among those mentioned. \Vampler seHtirrfent seems to prevail, however, In view of his resignation from the phone company a day before the Indiana Bell filed It* first Federal injunction suit for rate Increases, was sold to be due to dissatisfaction with the move. YOUNG GIRL BREAKS LEG Justine Sachs, 7, Injured When She Falls Over Wire. Justine Sachs, age 7, received a broken leg Sunday when she tripped over a wire stretched in front of 1001 English Ave. The girl riding with her mother, Mrs. Catherine Sachs, 1106 Spann Ave., when ley fell from a street car at McCarty St. and English Ave., striking their machine. They had just stepped out of the car to investigate the damage when the accident occurred.

ing five years was announced providing for grade and high school construction. In an effort to avoid delay the school board invited public officials, State boards, civic organizations and the general public into conferences on the proposed buildings. -It was hoped that by these means all differences could be ironed out, legal delays avoided and the city lined up behind a program which would get the school children of the city out of obsolete buildings, portables, temporary shacks and into modern, fireproof buildings. This effort was nullified last week when the fourteen remonstrators, none of whom appeared before the board when the buildings were .under consideration, filed their remonstrance. What are we going to do about it?

GERMANY HAS NEW CABINET Stresemann Ls Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs —British Challenge French Occupation of Ruhr as Illegal. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 13.—The new German cabinet has been completed as follows, according to a Central News dispatch from Berlin today : OhancellorNmd foreikn affairs, Stresemann; finance, Hilferding; economy, Beumer- railways, Heinrich; justice, Badbrughinterior, Fuchs. The portfolios of posts and labor are unchanged. Nine persons were killed and thirty injured at Sietz, Saxony, when communists attempted to stom the town hall. Wjth downfall of the Cuno government, the publication of correspondence between the Allies, and two fighting speeches by Premier Poincare of France, the reparations situation became decidedly more-acute over the week-end. In anticipation of a break between England and France, the French franc fell to the lowest point of its history.

Great Britain caused a sensation Avhich many believe may lead to a definite break with France and Belgium over reparations when a note in which the legality of the Ruhr occupation is flatly challenged was made public. - On Sunday In' speeches at Marville and Stenay, Fremier Poincare made two inflammatory speeches in which he recalled the horrors of war-time and attempted to inflame his hearers to continued hatred of Germany, declaring occupation of the Ruhr will not end until Germany has paid. The reasons for Cuno’s downfall were economic and had to do with the internal situation. Decision of the Socialist party to vote against the government on a vote of confidence resulted in the resignations. Berlin an Armed Camp * While the political crisis was on, Berlin continued •an armed camp, strong detachments of soldiers and police patrolling the Wilhelmstrasse and guarding government buildings to prevent Reds from carrying out threats of an attack upon the retiring chancellor and President Ebert. Although the retirement of Cuno was expected to bring a lull in disorders which Swept the nation over the week-end, resulting in upwards of thirty dead and wounded, it was not believed either Stresemann or any other leader would be able to stave off for long the Impending storm caused by hunger and despair. v FRANCE CONSIDERS REFUSAL British Note Declared Inaeceptable to Paris, Is Statement. By United Press PARIS, Aug. 13. —Franco regards the proposals in the British reparations note as inaceopt#ble and Premier Poincare probably will reply flatly refusing the British suggestions, it was learned semt-officially today. A semi-official analysis of the British note said the whole tendency of the Downing Street communication was to demand diminution of the French

NAVY NEGOTIATES FOR RIVER RESORT Government Seeks Casino Gardens as Armory Boost in Price to SBO,OOO Holds Up Deal.

The Government is negotiating for purchase of Casino Gardens, cabaret resort on White River, near the Erarichville bridge, it became known today. Lieut. O. O. Kessing, in charge of naval recruiting in Indiana, said the Navy wknts tlie place for use in connection with Camp Shank, naval reserve school in Riverside Park. Price Boosted Kessing said negotiations had been temporarily halted because of an in crease from $50,000 to SBO,OOO in price. “We had an appropriation of $50,000 ready,” said Kessing. The naval reserve force now has headquarters In the old Prcpylaeum

Forecast GENERALLY fair tonight and Tuesday. Somewhat warmer Tuesday.

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claims- and abandoning the guarantees which France considers necessary. FRANC ON TOBOGGAN Anticipation of French-British Break Causes Fall. By United Press PARIS, Aug. 13.—The Bourse was a center of feverish excitement today as the French franc, in anticipation of a smash-up of the entente as a result of Britain’s reparations note, broke to anew low of 17.95 to the dollar. STRIKE RIOTS ARE FATAL Number Killed and Many Wounded at Hamburg. By United. Press BERLIN, Aug. 13.—A number of nien were killed and many wounded In, Hamburg today when Communists attempted to prevent workers who had been locked out from returning to their posts In the shipyards. The message indicated severe fighting between the Communists and the workers. LOCALMioiES IN AUTO ACCIDENT Thomas Thornton Killed in Cincinnati, Thomas E. Thornton, president and general manager of the Terminal Transfer Company, 118 W. Wabash St., and proprietor of a restaurant at 252 S. Illinois St., was killed in an automobile accident in Cincinnati Sunday, according to a report received here today. Details of the accident have not been received. Thornton lived at the Spencer Hotel.

vania SL, which will be torn down when work on the war memorial plaza starts. Would Be Armory "The place Is Ideal for our purposes,” said Kessing. “It is planned to use It as an armory. We would keep our boats and aviation equlp> men there.” Garnette R. Dads, manager gnd part owner, said there had been negotiations, but “there is nothing deflate to say until later.” "Business has been getting right along, and I don’t know ff|gj9 we are eager to sell,” said course, I am a business man.mtjJß would not refuse to sail anything