Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 86, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1923 — Page 3

TUESDAY, AUG. 21, 1923

TWO FIREMEN ARE KILLED AS DANCE HALL WALLS FALL Forty-Seven/ Injured While Fighting Blaze —Many Narrow Escapes, By United, Press v NEW YORK. Aug- 21.—Two firemen were killed and forty-seven Injured today when the old Masonic Hall in Brooklyn collapsed, while burning. The dead men -ire Raymond Farrell and James Su’’ van. When the walls and roof fell f->rty-nlne firemen were buried in the debris or hit by flying missiles. There were many remarkable escapes and rescues. Used as Dance Hall The' old Masonic Temple was a Brooklyn landmark. Recently it had been used as a dance hall. Fire was discovered in it shortly after midnight. After the blaze had been fought for two hours the structure collapsed. When the roof went down in a cloud of sparks many firemen went with it. Others were caught beneath showers of bricks as portions of the walls toppled into the street. First reports were that fifty had been killed. Then the rescue squads began pulling out the victims and found that most of them were alive. Rescue Gangs Work Weak and staggering, smeared with blood and grime, other firemen extricated themselves from the debris and tottered to report to their superiors. The rescue gangs worked at feverish speed through the dark hours belcre dawn, while a big crowd watched from behind the fire lines and ambulances and dead wagons stood waiting. Some of the injured suffered hurts, which fiiay result fatally. Many were seriously burned and cut by flying glass. RAILROAD AWAITS OFFICE NOTICE Mayor’s Signature on Crossing Ordinance, With Mayor Shank's signature on an ordinance requiring a traffic watchman at the Tibbs Ave. crossing of the T. H., I. & E. Traction Company and the Big Four railroad, rail officials were today awaiting "official notification" that the ordinance Is in effect before taking action. Move to put a watchman on duty there followed action of The Indianapolis Times and citizens of the neighborhood after the death of Mrs. Mary Coy on July 31. Many other accidents had occurred at the same crossing. Seven have been killed in thirteen years. The ordinance was introduced by Councilman Walter Wise and passed under suspension of rules. Mayor Shank notified the council Monday night he had signed the orinance which provides for one watchmen on duty for both roads from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m.

MRS. HENRY HOLTON TO BE BURIED WEDNESDAY Body of Local Woman Brought Home From Yonkers, N. Y. Funeral services of Mrs. Anna E. Holton, 70, 609 E. Twentieth St., who died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. C. Leckner, In Yonkers, N. Y., of heart trouble, will be held Wednesday at the Twentieth St. address. The body was brought to Indianapolis today. The Rev. F. E. Webb, pastor of lhe College Avenue Baptist Church, will conduct funeral. Burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Holton was born In .Canada. She lived in Indianapolis twenty years. Her husband, Henry H. Holton, is a bookkeeper of the bricklayers’ union. Surviving are the husband and daughter, three grandchildren, Mary, Myron and Marshal Leckner, of Yonkers, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Montgomery of Detroit, Mich NEW PASTOR IS NAMED The Rev. F. W. Lineberry Comes to Grace M. P. Church. Grace Methodist Protestant Church, Ethel and Thirtieth Sts., has anew minster today, following action or the eighty-fourth annual conference of the Indiana Methodist Protestant conference at Kendallville. The Rev. F. W. Lineberry was assigned to succeed the Rev. Natnaniel. Vice, 621 W. Twenty-Ninth St., as pastor of Grace Church. The Rev. M. L. Alley was retained at the Unity and the Rev. G. L. Farrow at the Victory M. P. Churches. CONVENTION DATES SET Marion County Sunday School Council Arranges Meeting Oct. 1-2. The Marlon County Sunday school convention will be held in Indianapo--lis, Oct. 1 and 2, under the direction of the Marion County Sunday School Council of Religious Education, E. T. Albertson, executive secretary, announced today. Committees to plan sectional conferences: Children’s division, Mrs. C. Norman Green and Miss Nellie C. Young: young people’s division, C. G. Jacquart; adult division, G. A. Everett and Albertson. Publisher Killed By Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., Aug. 21. A. J. Schaeffer, publisher of Akron, 0., was killed near here on the Lincoln highway Monday when the car he was driving collided with one driven v ’v Charles Meyer, 16, of Ainsworth.

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SOMMER CAMP OF INDIANA GUARDS IS ONLY MEMORY General Carter Considers This Year's Encampment Best He Has. Ever Known, By DOROTHY STANHOPE , Times Staff Correspondent CAMP KNOX, Ky.. Aug. 21.—The 1923 summer camp of the Indiana National Guard is a memory. The 139th Artillery has ‘‘folded Its tents” ana the place that has known it for two weeks is deserted. For eight weeks the National Guard of four States* has come and gone from this place. Every Sunday’ some have arrived, some left. It is no longer so. There is a battalion of lowa National Guard left. Another week and they will be going. The annua} encampment of the citizen army is coming to an end. Successful Encampment This is considered by Gen. Elerbe Carter, commanding the 63d Brigade, of which the 139th Indiana is a part, as the most succesful encampment he has known. The spirit shown has been excellent and the morale high There were nineteen boxing bouts in the open air theater. These were mostly between the 13;'th Indiana and the 13Sth Kentucky. .There were inter-battery contests for baseball honors, and there was a football game between Battery B of Noblesville and Battery Dos Princeton. There was one afternoon of mass athletics. Band Concerts Held There were several band concerts held after mess In the evening. There was a dance when a large number of young ladies came out tgom Louisville. There were also two social evenings when talent was brought from Louisville. Some of the Indiana officers have had their families with them, and for these two weeks have been a delightful vacation spent, as they have seen, at the Officers' Club, more like a summer hotel than an Army clubhouse. PRISON CONGRESS TO HEAR AMOS W. BUTLER Warden of State Prison to Speak on “Insane Criminals" Amos W. Butler, former secretary of the Indiana Board of State Charities, will speak on "County and Municipal jails," at the fifty-thif-d congress of the American Prison Association at Boston, Mass., Sept. 13-19. E. J. Fogarty, warden of the Indiana State prison, Mishlgan City, will speak on “The Treatment of Insane Criminals.” Butler is a member of the board of directors and a member of the committee on criminal law and statistics, of the American Prison Association. He was president of the congress In 1910 w’hen it met in Washington in conjunction with the International Prison Congress. WATER FAMINE LOOMS Mains at Omaha Are Filled With Mud. By United Press OMAHA, Aug. 21.—A serious water famine was caused here today when a mud bank in the Missouri River caved in just above the intake pipes at the Florence pumping station, filling all city mains with muddy water. The mud was so thick all laundries In the city were forced to close down. Many other industries wijl be Forced to suspend. A near-riot occurred at Elmwood Park, where several thousand persons gathered around the seven artesian wells there for drinking water. Driver Thrown From Wagon Mort McConnel, 609 W. "Vermont St., is at the city hospital today, following an accident Monday night, when he was thrown from the seat of a wagon, his head hitting the curb at West and New’ York Sts. It is said McConnel was driving a blind horse, which stumbled. Collar-Bone Is Broken By Times Special WABASH, Ind., Aug. 21.—Mrs. A. A. Hawkins, of Onward, suffered a broken collar-bone in an automobile collision near here Monday.

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Thousands of wheat farmers face bankruptcy Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said in an Interview in Washington. Illness of Premier Baron Cato of Japan is said to be serious. New York motion picture theaters have taken out $1,000,000 policy to insure against damage throi'gh a strike by machine operators. Eighteen Chicago "coffee shops" have been closed on ground they sell white mule. A Government announcement said CLOTHES ARE FEWER So Pastors IJeeiare—Now They’re in Jail. By United Newt MARIETTA, Ga., Aug. 21.—“ Day by day in every way the women take off more and more." The Rev. Christian Chasers and the Rev. W. D. Bowers, itinerant Holiness ministers, in their cells In the county jail, had plenty of time to reflect Monday on these charges that they made Sunday, to a crowd on the public square. “The Pagans," the preachers declared, “get Christianity and put on more clothes to cover their aboriginal nudeness. In our land, already deemed Christian, the women day by day take off more and more.” An unsympathetic officer took the ministers where they wouldn’t see the alleged display of nudity. DAY NURSERY SUSPENDED Catholic Community Center to Have New Headquarters. All activities of the Catholic Community Center day nu-sery, 124 W. Georgia St., have been stopped until the new headquarters at 1002 N. Pennsylvania St., are opened this fall. Work cf the relief station, the administrative offices and transient assistance will continue at the old center until the stove. Announcement was made that the parish grade school for girls of the St. John’s Catholic Church would be moved from St. John’s academy to the cld center, before opening of school, Sept. 6. Rings Worth SIOO Go:ae Detectives investigated a report today of the theft of three rings, one a diamond, total value SIOO, from Stanlay Morris, Apartment 4, 1J49 Fairfield Aye. /*. ~ SL - . f

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rood prices increased 2 per cent during July. Death toll from tidal wave and storms in Korea has reached 346. Steel mill heads at Pittsburgh say eight-hour day Is attracting men from other Industries into the mills. President Coolidge is reported to be interested in a law to curb mobs of floggers. The frontier mine at Kemmerer, Wyo., where ninety-nine men recently were killed in an explosion, will reopen Monday. Will H. Hays is again being boomed for Republican National chairman. Governor Walter of Oklahoma has announced he will act to prevent waste of surplus oil. Forest fires have broken out anew near Nice, France. All labor unions in Greece have been ordered dissolved by the government. CHURCH SESSION ENDS Methodists Invited to Meet Next Year at jVluncle or Greenfield. By Times Special KENDALVILLE, Ind., Aug. 21. Invitations to meet next year at either Muncie or Greenfield were received at the close of a successful eight-day session of the annual conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. The stationing committee announced appointments which were approved by the conference. Treat for Women. Mothers, sisters, wives or sweethearts are to~be included In the next big party of the Rainbow Division Veterans' Association, R. E. Murphy, secretary, said. Plans are to be made in Superior Court, Room 3, Wednesday evening. /

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NATHAN MEEK TO BE LAID TO REST IN TOWN OF BIRTH Last Surviving Member of Riley’s Famous Band Dies Monday, Nathan C. Meek, 85, Civil War veteran, who died Monday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Furry, 2408 E. Tenth St., will be buried Thursday afternoon in Park cemetery at Greenfield, Ind. Services will be held at the home of his son, Harry Meek, Greenfield, under auspices of the G. A. R The body will be taken to Greenfield Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Meek was bom in Greenfield, Ind., Sept. 14. 1837. He was the last survivor of Riley’s band, which was organized in 1856, In Greenfield Members of the band were as follow: W. E Hart, Nathan Meek, Nat Snow, Tom Richardson, Asa Richardson, War Barnett, Tom Offut, Billy Ogg, Will Lindsey and Johnny Riley, brother of James Whitcomb Riley, who immortalized the band in a poem. At the outbreak of the Civil War every member of the band enlisted in the Union Army. Mr. Meek served in Company A, 53rd. Indiana Volunteers. He remained in the army throughout the war, and took in thirty-three battles. He fought in the seige of Vicksburg, Sherman’s march to the sea and the battle of Shilo. He was a member of the George H. Dunbar post No. 92. G. A. R. Following his discharge from the army he become a brick mason. Today there are standing In Hancock County many school houses which he erected. Mr. Meek has lived in Indianapolis nineteen years. He was a member of the Greenfield Christian Church. Besides the daughter here he is survived by three sons, John D. and Walter H. Meek of Indianapolis, and Harry W. Meek of Greenfield, Ind. A brother John C. Meek resides In Los Angeles and another, Jerry Meek in Greenfield. RELATIVES SEEK AHERN Stator of Missing Man Is Dead at . Pittsfield, Mass. Relatives of Thomas J. Ahem at Pittsfield, Mass., today asked the Times to help locate him, Ahern’s slater has diod and another sister, Miss May Ahern at Pittsfield, desires to communicate with him. The last heard of Ahem was at Covington, Ind., where he was working for the Ralch-Mead Bridge Construction Company. He left there to go to Indianapolis, it is said. Girls Molested, Is Charge Sam Mcßee, 74, living In tlje rear of 902 Roache St., was arrested today and charger with molesting two girls. The warrant was filed by a man living on E. Minnesota St. Mcßee denied the charge. FOR ITCHING TORTURE Use Antiseptic Liquid Zemo There Is one remedy that seldom fails to stop itching torture and relieve skin Irritation, and that makes the skin soft, clear and healthy. Any druggist can supply you with Zemo, wrhtch generally overcomes skin diseases. Eczema, Itch, Pimples, Rah, Blackheads, in most cases give way to Zemp. Frequently, minor blemishes disappear overnight. Itching usually stops Instantly. Zemo is a safe, antiseptic liquid, clean, easy to use and dependable. It costs only 350; an extra large bottle, SI.OO. It Is positively safe for tender, sensatlve skins. Adver ilsement.

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MANY ARRESTED IN NEW LIQUOR RAIEGAT GARY Said to Be the Largest CleanUp Since the Famous Conspiracy Trial, By Times Special GARY. Ind., Aug. 21.—What is said to be the largest clean-up since the Gary conspiracy trail before Judge Geiger in the District Federal Court last March has been made in week-end raids on alleged blind tigers by the Gary detective bureau under direction of Chief of Detectives William J. Linn. Wholesale arrests of alleged liquor law violators have been made. Police declare that at least 600 raids have been made in the last forty days. Damp Spot on Coiling A damp spot on the plaster in the basement of the residence of Tony Raville, 2196 Adams St., was the clew by which officers found the most ingeniously constructed booze storage tanks and moonshine dispensing system ever found by local officers. Detectives had tried to obtain evidence on Raville for four years and a half. Time after time persons were nabbed coming out of his place possessing liquor. Every search was fruitless. About to give up after a recent raid, on close examination the officers found a tiny faucet In the center of the damp spot. They scraped the plaster away, and found brass and rubber tubing. They fallowed the direction of this through the wall to a bathroom window-. Breaking the wall, they disclosed a long copper tank which fitted in the walls below the window casing. The window sill served as the top of

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ENGINEER PUSHES INVESTIGATION OF DISPUTEDPAVING Borings May Be Made to Examine Concrete Base of 29th St, / Investigation of pavement on Twenty-Ninth St. from Capitol Ave. to Riverside park was under way by John Elliott, city engineer, today, on order of the board of public works. Borings may be made and the concrete base examined before the board decides whether it will accept the pavement and pay the contractor. Plan for the Phoebe Hill memorial fountain to be erected at Fountain Square from funds left the city in her will may be discussed by the board and a special citizens' committee today. Myra Reynolds Richards, sculptress, has submitted a miniature design in clay, which Is to be considered. These resolutions were on the records of the board today: Fifty-Fourth St., from Pennsylvania St. to Winthrop Ave., and Reisner St., from Ray St. to Morris St., permanent improvements. Opening of Thaddeus St., from Naomi St. to Van Buren St.; Southern Ave., from Boyd Ave. to first alley east, and Conser Ave., from FortySecond St. to Forty-Third St. Bnmed-out Cross Found A small cross covered with rags which had burned Itself out, was found at Summit St. and English Ave. Police Chief Rikhoff and the board of safety recently prohibited the burning of crosses as a violation of the code forbidding bonfires not In metal containers.

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