Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1923 — Page 2

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WORK ON SCHOOL BUILDINGS TO BE STARTED BY WINTER

CITY COWMEN DECLINE DID TO BUDGET MEETING | Controller Says Administration Cannot Operate Efficiently With Levy Cuts. , If city councilmen continue to refuse to meet with department heads on a 4% -cent cut on the 1924 city tax levy, Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, today said he would cancel the meeting to consider the schedule tonight in his office, and await the arrival of Mayor Shank from Detroit for the next move. The council Wednesday night made the cut, and notified department heads to come under the ?0.976 levy made within one week, or councilmen would -.lash it "We can’t eut the budget and maintain public service," said Hogue. ‘The council will have to cut it and be responsible to the people.” General Levy Cut to 57 Cents Included in the slicing program was a three cent cut in the general fund levy, reducing it from 60 to 57 cents; a one cent cut in the park general fund, making it seven cents, and a half cent cut in the recreation fund, reducing it to one cent. The total reduction is $279,000, $186,000 being from the general fund. The $0,975 levy does not include cents for the park sinking fund, which is handled separately through the county auditor. Councilmen Claycombe and Ray defended administration requests. Theq were voted down 5-2 on each request as Counciimen Wise, Thompson, King, Bernd and Bramblett favored reduction. Councilmen Clauer and Buchanan were not present. Strike General Average. In determining the general fund, an average was struck. Ray and Claycombe held to the 60-cent levy, Bernd wanted it cut to 63 cents, Bramblett and Wise favored 56 cents, King asked 55 cents, and Thompson 54 cents. The levy as it stands represents a reduction compared to last year’s levy when new funds provided in the 1923 Legislature are eliminated. The new levies, including those from war memorial bond funds and widening and resurfacing of streets, total five cents. This year’s levy is $0,947, 2.8 cents below the figure favored by councilmen for 1924. John White, representing the Chamber of Commerce, urged that the council ’’respect the integrity of the budget.” “If this budget is adopted, let It stand and don’t increase salaries or vote money not provided in the budget,” urged White. He referred to appropriations amounting to nearly $200,010 voted by council this year which were not provided for in the 1923 budget. HUBBY WANTS DIVORCE Samuel Robbins. Contractor, Files Charges Against Wife. Samuel Robbins .a contractor, today filed suit for divorce In Superior Court, alleging that Mrs. Elizabeth Robbins, 821 N. Temple Ave., to whom he married Jan. 30, 1922: "Cursed and swore at him. "Said she wished she never had seen him. “Said she only married him to better herself and had made a bod bargain. “On the Saturday before the separation, grabbed said plaintiff, shok him, and pushed him into a chair, saying. ‘Now I’ll give you a. talking to,’ thereby making Hfe with her unbearable and impossible."

LABOR MEN WILL MEET Hu L'nited Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Aug. 23. Alexander Howat, former president of the United Mine Workers of Kansas and W. Z. Foster, radical leader, wilt visit Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, here next week. Debs announced today. "Just a friendly visit,” Debs said. KILLED BY STREET CAR By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 23. — Harold Winter, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Winters, was killed by a street car when, in an attempt to save his son from being hit. by an automobile, the father pushed the boy on the car tracks. .Missionary to Return The Rev. Preston S. Hyde and family, who have been visiting in Indianapolis, will return to India Aug? 28, as missionaries of"the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Rev. Hyde has been appointed to the faculty of the theological seimnary at Bareilly. They will sail for Bombay from Liverpool, England. Rev. Riser Elected The Rev. J. S. Riser of Brookfield and Fairland, Ind., was elected moderator of the Indianapolis Baptist Association at its ninety-seventh annual meeting at Brookfield, Ind. The as sociation is composed of Baptist churches outside of Indianapolis in Marion County. Chef A res ted for Theft William Robinson, 35, colored, of $25 Muskingum St., a chef at the Claude Smith restaurant, 802 N. Illinois St., was today arrested on charges of petty larceny and vagrancy after Smith told police he Baw Robinson take $10.40 from the restaulant cash register. Theft of Battery Is Charge . Warren De Pugh, 33, giving his address as "city,” was charged by DeO'Donnell and Radamacher stealing a S2O battery from E.

74,000 Pound Rock Moved Six Miles by Motor Truck

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NAZARENES HONOR INDIANAPOLIS MAN Rev, Short Re-elected Indiana Superintendent, The Rev. J. W. Short, 6759 Lowell Ave., today was re-elected superintendent of the Indiana district of Nazarene churches, at the annual session at the First Nazarene Church. State and E. Washington Sts. Members of the official board were to be elected late today. Delegates to the general assembly, Sept. 20, In aKnsas City, Mo., will be selected Friday. Evangelist W. E. Shepherd of California delivered a message on Divine healing this morning. Two hundred seventy-nine delegates are registered. An evangelistic servic will be conducted by the Rev. I. G. Martin of Pasadena, Cal., tonight.

TWO KILLED IN FAMILY BATTLE Fatal Fight Occurs on Michi-gan-Farm, By United Prets SODUB. Mich., Aug. 23—Two persons are dead and a third seriously wounded as the result of a desperate battle staged on a lonely farm near here ednesday. A shotgun, a rifle and a pitchfork were the weapons used In the fatal fray, In which John Garrett, 74, shot and killed his daughter, Mrs. Ada Rechtor, 44; wounded his son-in-law, Henry Rechtor, 48, and was himself slain by Rechtor. The aged man, said to have become crazed by the thought of leaving the "old homestead,” attacked his daughter with a shotgun. She fled to the barn, seeking the protection of her husband. Rechtor seized a pitchfork and attempted to ward off the demented father. In the melee Mrs. Rechtor was fatally shot. Rechtor wounded and Garrett gained possession of the pitchfork. With it, he chased Rechtor to the house, where he obtained a rifle and killed his fa-ther-in-law. P. 0. CAFETERIA TO OPEN Indianapolis Will Have First Eating Place Owned by U. S. Employes The first cafeteria In the United States owned and operated by Federal employes will be opened formally Aug. 27. in the basement of the postoffice. Invitations have been extended to United States Senators James E. Watson and Samuel M. Ralston and Congressman Merrill Moores, and to families of all Federal employes. The cafeteria idea originated with the postofflee service relations council. Practically every local employe subscribed to stock in the operating company. The cafeteria will be for the exclusive use of Federal employes. Heavy Load Cuts Pavemrtnt W. S. Frye, transfer man. and John Van Cleave, 810 E. Harmon St., one of his drivers, today were ordered into city court to explain alleged cutting of asphalt pavement at South and New Jersey Sts. by a 16,000 pound Joad on a Frye vehicle.

FROM FAR AND NEAR

The Cuban government has paid the final Installment of its war debt to the United States. $6,988,000. Cuba Is the first country to pay In full. The Department of Justice has launched a drive against fake stock salesmen. Another eight-seeing bus plunged over a precipice in the AJps. One man was killed. It has been reported the Prince of Wales will marry Lady Mary Beatrice Thynne. Former Chancellor Cuno of Germany is planning to visit the United States next month. He will study shipping. Crossed wires caused a $50,000 fire in the store of the Child’s Fur Company In the Chicago loop district. Secretary of the Interior Work has wrfttcn letters supporting President

MISS WINIFRED MURPHY AND THE ROCK.

The birthplace of Indianapolis today was marked by a 74,000-pound bowlder upon which the Indiana Historical Society will place an appropriate tablet. The rock, hauled by motor truck from the farm of Raymond T. Hanch, six miles southwest of the city, required two days to move. It is in position at W. Washington St. and White River, where the first settler, John McCormick, built his cabin. Miss Winifred Murphy, 240 Blake St., Is shown comparing her height with that of the rock. INVEMWOF GARAGEPROMISED Council to Act on Proposal of Sanitary Board, City council will investigate proposed erection of a garage and storage plant of the sanitary board, following an appeal of John R. White, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce budget committee, that such a structure would duplicate work of city* departments and entail useless expense of SBO,OOO. ■White’s suggestion followed a conference with Mayor Shank last week, when the mayor again proposed purchase of the property of the Indianapolis Brewing Company aft a municipal garage for all departments. The sanitary board had proposed to erect a garage on a seven-acre tract at Kentucky Ave. and White River following passage of an aot of the 1923 Legislature. When property owners of the neighborhood protested against the structure, the board as sured them their “Interests” would be protected. Councilman Walter W. Wise, presi dent pro tem. of the council, promised an investigation.

EXPERT SURVEYS CHARTS Traffic Engineer Views Problem From Various Angles. Survey of charts and maps in the offices of the city plan commission and an automobile tour of the Northwest part of the city were on the program of J. Rollln Blbblns, expert traffic engineer, who is studying local transportation problems, today. Bibbins was taken on a tour through residential sections of the north and east sides late Wednesday. Following this, he was taken through the southwest part of the city along White River. AGENT REPORTS LOITERER Police Checking Up Records With Description of Stranger. Ilcrschell Hutchin, freight agent for the Big Four Railroad at Willow Branch, Ind., told police a man appearing to be 18 years old, 6 feet 8 Inches tall, weighing 145 pounds, of slender build and having dark hair, eyes and complexion, wearing a light shirt and dark trousers, had been loitering around the station since Wednesday morning. Detectives today were checking up their records with this description. > Delegate to Cotton Sliow Named Governor McCray today designated Miss Sally Haueisen, 1444 N. Pennsylvania St., to represent Indiana at the Cotton Palace Exposition in Waco, Texas, Oct. 13. Miss Haeuisen w.ll wear the guise of a princess in connection with the coronation of King and Queen Cotton.

Coolldge as the Republican nominee in 1924. President Obregon declared Mexico will be dry within ten years. i —■■ Gen. Henri Gouraud, who visited Indianapolis recently, has sailed for France. Former Congressman Volstead precipitated a lively scene in a prohibition conference at Copenhagen when he declared the dry law had decreased crime 20 per cent in the United States. The Japanese government has announced it will begin at once the Rcrupping of warships under the disarmament pact. The estate of Alonzo Barton Hepburn, New York banker, who died recently, is estimated at $7,000,000. Lassen peak, California volcano, reported active for a short time, again

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WATER FAMINE LOSSjS HEAVY Omaha Industries Close — Epidemic Is Feared, Bv United Pre OMAHA, Aug. 23.—With 15,000 men cut of employment because of a shutdown of Industries, the economlo loss in Omaha's ‘‘water famine” waa today declared to have mounted to more than $5,000,000. Dr. A. M. Pinto, city health com mlssloner, also warned that danger of a typhoid epldemio Is increasing hourly. The famine was caused by a Missouri River cave-in which filled city mains with mud Tuesday Citizens today continued to obtain their principal water supply from a fire-hose stretched from Council Bluffs. Although a slight Improvement was noticeable In the city mains, the supply Is still 40 per cent mud. Relief Is not expected for several days Thousands grouped about the hose, artesian wells and park springs, car rying water away In every sort of containers Street sprinkling wagons conveyed water to different sections of the city, passing It out from house to house. RARE STAMP COLLECTION Government to Make First Display in U. 8. In This City. A Government stamp collection will be on display In a downtown window next Thursday, according to a letter received by Robert H. Bryson, postmaster, from Harry 8. New, Postmaster General, today. Indianapolis is the first city in this country to receive the stamps, which have been displays'! in Europe. It is a display of some of the rarest stamps ever Issued by the United States. One of the most interesting stamps ! is the 24-cent inverted airplane stamp. 1 Due to a mistake in printing, very few were circulated. Collectors value i them at $1,600 apiece.

HOSIERY MAKERS PICNIC Real Silk Mills Employe* to Have Outing at Park Saturday. Athletic events and amusements have been planned for an all-day picnic of employes of the Real SIIK Hosiery Mills, 624 N. Noble St., and their families at Broad Ripple Park Saturday. Ivan Bourn Is In charge of the picnic, assisted by F. M. Williams, C. E. Miller and C. G. Sandford. A norchestra of employes will play. Dancing is on the evening program. MRS. C. FREEMAN FUNERAL Funeral services of Mrs. Corinne C. Freeman, 27, who died in Sandusky, Ohio, Wednesday, after a short illness. will be held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Cox, 706 E. Thirty-Second St., Friday, 2 p. m. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Freeman, mother of a six weeks' old baby, was born in Indianapolis. In June, 1922, she was married to Mark B. Freeman. They moved to Sandusky, where Mr. Freeman is a construction engineer. She was a graduate of Shortridge High School. Tax Hearing Set The sanitary board today set Sept. 4, at 9 a. m., as the time when taxpayers would be heard on the proposed levy of 4 cents on SIOO for the sinking fund of the sanitation department. Objectors wil be heard in the office of the board in city hall. The levy is included in the city budget, now fixed at 97.6 cents on order of city council. Everson to Attend School Brigadier General William G. Everson of Muncie, commander of the 76th Infantry' Brigade, Indiana National Guard, has been authorized to attend the three-month course in military intelligence at Washington, D. C., which opens Sept. 17, Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith was informed in a communication received today from the War Department. Man Charged With Larceny Herman Moore, 22, colored, 1327 Yandes St., today was charged with grand larceny. According to a warrant signed by Sam Coleman, 1645 Oxford St., Moore stole a suit of olothes valued at S4O. Woman Hurt by Truck Mattie Howard, 46, colored, 1421 B. Fifteenth St., was slightly Injured today when she was struck rA Illinois and Ohio St.*, by a truck driven by ■U.I H-'VAV.

RIKHOEE SCORES INDEPENDENCE’OF WARRANT SERVER Boy Must Appear in Court Before Charge Can Be Dismissed, With Investigation, being conducted by Police Chief Herman F. Rlkhoff under way and with Lieut. Arthur McGee and Patrolman Harvey Bedford under orders to appear in fcis office today to explain details surrounding the mysterious filing of “murder" warrant registered at police headquarters early Tuesday the end of the police Inquiry Is near at hand. The warrant, charging a youth now in Colfax, Ind., with the stabbing of Robert Watson, 19, of 216 Richland St., while Watson and his assailant were holding a conversation in the rear of 221 N. Richland St., one week ago today, was found groundless when Lieutenant McGee, who Journeyed to Colfax, Tuesday, came back to Indianapolis satisfied with tfce alibi presented by the youth. Left Without Telling. After preliminary investigation, Rlkhoff said he discovered McGee filed the warrant and left without tell ing superior officers where or why he was going. “This," said Rikhoff, “was a viola tion of the order issued some time ago to the department after it was discovered that men were leaving the city and taking part in celebrations and meetings, which kept them unavailable for emergency needs of the local department. “McGee would never have left here ! with that kind of warrant," said the | police chief. "If he bad told me. That ! is a serious charge and 1 hate to : feel that a member of this department would conduot such a case In such a manner that I have to get my | Information In second-hand manner ! and by rumor. Why, from what I I hear, he seems to have acted as prosej cutor. Judge, policeman and everyMcGee may be permitted to wlth- \ draw the warrant instead Instead of taking it Into court to be dimlssed, as ! la usual, the chief indicated. Rlkhoff Surprised Sergt. Melvin Wilkerson of the police emergency squad, who investigated the stabbing immediately after It was reported to police and who files all warrants, said today that he merely srw the warrant when it wae brought to him and requested that he be placed on the case, as 1b customary. When Patrolman Bedford was mentioned In the case. Chief Rlkhoff .said: ‘‘Why. that fellow has been off sick. If he is too sio.k to do police duty, it seems funny he should be able to go with McGee. Books at the captain's office show Bedford was excused the night of Aug. 5. and, after working two nights, reported off sick Aug. 8, . and has not been on duty since, i Bodford, McGee said. Wednesday [ night tried to locate the three men

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Board Hopes to Award Contracts About Oct, I—Advertisingl—Advertising on Bids, Which Must Run Three Weeks, Probably Will Be Ordered Next Tuesday,

Construction of additions and new buildings at eight puhlic schools will be well under way by winter, if plans of school officials are carried out. Following the sweeping victory of the school board in its fight for additional school facilities, at a hearing before the State tax board on a building bond Issue of $1,650,000 Wednesday, plans were under way today to award contracts about Oct. 1. Bids for the buildings probably will be ordered advertised at the school board meeting Tuesday night, according to Richard O. Johnson, business director. Ten days later, the bond issue will be advertised. The law requires that the advertisements cover a

PRIVATE SHOW FOR TIMES’ CARRIERS Secretary of State and Herb Jennings Unite to Entertain Young Local Salesmen,

The doors of the Palace Theater will open wide at 10 a. m. Friday to receive 1,000 Indianapolis Times carriers and helpers for a big private show. No one is too busy these days to give any industrious lad of Indianapolis an hour or two of solid enjoyment. “Bring The Times boys over, every one of them,” said Herb Jennings, manager of the Palace. ‘‘We will give them a show and a real one. “We will call it Mystery Morning at the Palace.’ and any Times boy who can predict what ho is going to see will be given two tickets to this theater,” Jennings said. The boys are ready to "advance” on the Palace promptly at 10 o’clock

who appeared at the home of Proeeoutor Remy early Tuesday morning and requested a warrant and who were refused It because they were not police officers. They returned later with Lieut. McGee, who was allowed to sign the was said. Evidence taken by Coroner Paul F. Robinson has added nothing to solving of the mystery. Efforts to identify pictures of graduates of Technical High School, where Watson attended school with his unknown enemy, have proved unavailing. CASH REGISTER JINGLES Happy Tunes in Controller’s Office as licenses are Paid. Coffers of the city controller bulged today as 105 men and eight women arrested In the last twenty-four hours fur falling to have city licenses rushed to the city hall to pay up so warrants against them would be dismissed. In the last week 584 persona have been charged with failing to have city licenses.

period of three weeks. Buildings bids will be received about Sept. 20 and bond bids, about Oct. 1. In the interim, the bids will be submitted to the tax board for approval, under an agreement reached at the hearing Wednesday. If the tax board approves the bids for the buildings, contracts will be awarded immediately after the bond bids are received. In order to facilitate the construction of the new buildings. Johnson said he would submit plans and specifications to the State board of health, the State board of accounts and the city building inspector before Tuesday.

Friday morning. One thousand strong, they will march to the theater. The big "mystery show” at the Palace will be a fitting close to the summer activities of The Times carriers and helpers. There have been picnics, swims, baseball, circuses and all of that, but the boys wanted to wind up with a theater party. So Herb Jennings and the Palace came to the rescue. Ed Jackson, secretary of State, who knows boy life and appreciates the training the lads are getting along the lineß of salesmanship in selling papers, will talk to the boys for a few minutes from the stage of the Palace. With the aid of the secretary of State and Manager Jennings, the boys are going to have both a profitable and enjoyable morning.

SCORE HURT WHEN TRAINJSDERAILED Indiana Woman Among Injured in Wreck, By United Pre ANNANDALE, Minn., Aug. 23. Twenty-two passengers were injured, three seriously, when four coaches of the Winnipeg filer on the Soo line was derailed west of Maple Plain last night. The derailment Is believed to have been caused by a broken rail. The four coaches, after leaving the rails, plowed through the ties for about 300 feet, then rolled over into the ditch. Among the slightly Injured was Mrs. Glenn Edwards, Veedersburg, Ind.

THURSDAY, AUU. 23, 1923

MANY WILL SPEAK' TD INSTITUTIONAL workers™ State Charities Conference to Be at Anderson Sept, 29-Oc-t, 2, More than a score of active social and welfare workers are scheduled to speak at the State conference of charities and correction, which will meet In Anderson, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. J. A. Brown, acting secretary of the board of State charities, announced today. The State association of county poor asylum superintendents will hold it annual meeting In connection with the conference to study ■>ur.ty charitable and correctional agencies. The program, proper, beginning Monday morning Oct. 1: William H. Lewis, superintendent of the Marion County poor asylum, president. Professor G. I. Christie of Purdue University, “The County Farm;” A. D. Sullivan, superintendent of the Tippecanoe County asylum, The County Asylum Super* | intendent;” Ray Gilpin, superintend™ ! ent of the Jay County poor asylum, ‘‘The Inmate;” Judge Fred C. Gause of Newcastle, ‘‘The Laws Governing County Poor Asylums.” In the afternoon Professor H. E. eJnsen of Butler College, will speak on “Th® County Unit In Social Work. James N. Goble of Greenfield, president of the Hancock County board of charities, will preside at the Tues day morning session. Speakers: Judge W. C. Duncan, Columbus, ‘‘Temporary Detention of the Insane"; Mrs. Emma L. R. Elliott, president of the Washington County board of charities, “Improvement of Conditions in County Institution”; Mrs. S. H. Mills, matron of the Henry County Poor Asylum, "County Charities”; Mattie V. Hodges, secretary of the Morgan County board of charities, “Special Needs of Aged and Infirm Inmates.” PICNIC-REUNION TONIGHT Spades Park Community Members to Have Basket Supper. Members of the Brookside Civic League and residents living around Spades park will hold a community reunion tonight in Spades park. The program will open with a basket supper at 6p. m. A series of games and stunts will be carried out. Mrs. William Kunkel, vice president of the league, is general chairman of the reunion. Church League Meets Tonight m Young people representing every Reformed Church in Indianapolis will attend a social meeting of the Heidleberg League tonight at Trinity Reformed Church, Churchman Ave. and Kelly St. Henry F. Bond, president, will have charge.