Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 92

‘SPEEDER’ IS GIVEN' 40 DAYS

PHONE CASE COST WILL BE $52,296 Service Commission Puzzled Over Problem of Payment, LASTED YEAR Attorneys General's Ruling * That Public Must Pay Is Questioned, The public service commission today was wondering how to apportion the $52,295.45 cost of conducting the Indiana Bell Telephone Company rate hearings. The attorney general's office gave an opinion which -was interpreted by L. C. Loughry, secretary of the commission, to mean that the public would have to pay costs in instances where rates were increased and the company where rates were decreasd. The commission discovered a statute which it believes means that the utility must pay all the costs within twenty days after an order is issued, so it sent the question back to the attorney general. The hearings extended over more than a year, culminating a few weeks ago in an order increasing rates in most Indiana Bell exchanges and on Bell long-distance lines in the State. Rates were untouched, or lowered in a few minor instances. The company, dissatisfied, went to Federal Court and got a temporary-order increas.ng the commission's new schedules in twelve cities, including Indianapolis and on long-distance lines.

FLIERS BREAK SPEEDREGORDS Fuel Taken on While Planes i Are in Air. By United Pres SAN DIEGO, Cal., Aug. 28.—Roaring through the air lanes over San Dlago Bay and the shores of the Pacific, their giant Liberty engine hitting perfectly on every cylinder, Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lieut. John P. Richter today continued on their epochal endurance and speed flight. They had been in the air twentyeight hours at 9:07 a. m. At that time four roeed records had been broken, those of 2,500, 3,000. 3,500 and 4,000 kilometers. They took aboard a hearty breakfast of ham and eggs, potatoes and coffee. The flight is not without jts thrills. The airmen had two unpleasant minutes when their De Haviland plane twice nose-dived from the height ofI, feet to within 100 feet of the earth. Disaster was avoided both times the pilot brought the plane sunder control just above the ground. | The dives were caused by the shut ting off of fuel while transferring fuel, it being necessary to shift gasoline feed from the main to the auxiliary tank. NO REASON GIVEN FOR RESIGNATION ‘Mystery 1 Appears “When Detective Quits Job. Reason for the resignation 'of Charles O'Donnell, city detective, 624 N. Rural St., was not disclosed at the board of public safety office today. “He resigned ’of his own accord.”s said Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff President E. L. Kingston of the board said he did not care to discuss a report that O’Donnell was fn some kind of trouble. O'Donnell was called before Inspector of Detectives Jo£p Mullin Monday afternoon. Mullin said he had nothing to say about the affair. O'Donnell was appointed a patrolman Sept. 10, 1911. INFIRMARY BONDS SOLD J. F. Wild & Company Takes Issue for Building. A ten-year bond issue of $130,000 for the erection of anew men’s building at the county infirmary was sold today to J. F. Wild & Company, local bankers. The bonds will come due thirteen a year, and pay 4Va per cent Interest, tax exempt. The Fletcher Savings -and Trust Company bought a bond issue of $45,025 for building county bridge*.

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How Income Is Divided This is the weekly budget of the Binger family, showing how they live on $32 a week—and are happy: - Rent 7.. .$ 3.75 Meat 3.00 Vegetables 4.00 Groceries 10.00 Milk 5.00 Ice 35 Coal 2.20 Insurance health 1.25 Binger's carfare, etc 1.00 Clothing (partly donated).. 1.45 Total $32.00

ASKED IN BUDGET FOR NEW SHORTRIDGE School Levy to Be Increased 6,7 Cents Over 1923 Figure, Provision for anew $350,000 Shortridge High School will he contained in the school board budget which will be presented to the board at its meeting tonight. Items of $4,000 each for a colored high school and a west side high school will be contained in the budget, it is said. The money will be used for preparing preliminary plans. The new levy will be 98 rents, It Is said. This is an increase of 6 7 over the present levy. The increase is made necessary by the mounting cost of school administration, due to the annual increase of about 1,500 In school population and to the Shortridge High School appropriation. The budget committee has discussed asking an additional levy of about 6Vi cents for the completion of work planned several years ago for Emmerich Manual Training High School. About $400,000 is needed. It is planned to order advertisements for eight new buildings at grade schools tonight. In accordance with the agreement reached the State tax board bids will be received In three groups, for three buildings in three weeks, an other three ten days later and the remaining two ten days after that. NEW MEXICAN RELATIONS NEAR White House Says Recognition Awaits Notes, By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 28— American recognition of Mexico awaits only an exchange of formal notes between the two countries, It was declared at the White House today. The White House reiterated that reports from Mexico CSty that the United States had already recognized Mexico were premature.

These Two and— Desolation No summer sea this. Instead, the Arctic. On a vast, heaving ocean just a smudge of smoke! A tiny ship breasts the billows. Night falls. The storm fiend rages. A crash! Then silence absolute. Gone the little vessel. But 6ee! On a ribbon of beach surrounding a mere speck of land in the wilderness of icy waters a cockleshell of a boat is washed up. ’Tis The Isle of Retribution Doomsdorf, the evil, waits —sole master of the wilderness. He helps the castaways ashore —Ned Cornet, fresh from the lap of every luxury; Bess Gilbert, the seamstress; Lenore Hardenworth. society princess. In this land of hardship unimaginable, beyond all hope of outside aid, in the power of the island ruler —as as intelligent as he is wicked —how do they fare? What fate be r falls them? The answer Is found in the story—greatest of all novels of the North — The Isle of Retribution by Edison Marshall To Run Serially in The Indianapolis Times Beginning Thursday, August 30

MOTHER 'OF TWELVE CHILDREN TELLS ■ HOW FOURTEEN LIVE ON $32 WEEKLY

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AGED MAN FOUND DEAD BESIDE ROAD Albert Beach, 68, Missing From Home Since Friday, Albert Beach, 68, who resided with his daughter. Mrs. Gertrude Tucker, 2406 W. McCarty St., was found dead in weeds beneath several small trees at Oliver and Mount Sts. today. Fred Sanders, 13, of 726 S. Mount St., discovered the body while playing. There were Indications the man had been dead several days. The body was lying face .downward. A tobacco sack was found several feet from the body by police, hut they did not regard this as a sign of violence. Beach left home Friday afternoon and returned at 2:30 a. m. Saturday. He asked his son-in-law, Claude Tucker, not to go to work/Saturday, because he knew he would not live. He complained of his stomach. He said to Mrs. Tucker: “Tell Fred I'll meet him In the next world.” referring to a brother in Dayton, Ohio. Then he disappeared. Policeman Missed by Auto George Snyder, 35, of 3221 N. Cap tol Ave., faced the jjadge of city court to answer a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He barely missed Traffic Policeman Slate at Sixteenth and Meridian Sts. Monday night, according to police.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUG. 28, 1923

MRS. HENRY BINGER AND TEN OF HER TWELVE CHILDREN.

Big Family Is Happy and Healthy Despite Limited * Income, By 808 DORMAN NEA Service Staff Writer ASPETH. L. 1.. Aug. 28.—Could you and your husband sup--1,, port yourselves and twelve children on $32 a week? There’s a man and wife In this little Long Island town who do. and although the going Is hard at times, they’re always happy. Henry Binger, the father, works in a linotype factory In Brooklyn. Each Saturday night he takes home his pay envelope of S3O. To this his wife adds $2 a week that she receives for cleaning the halts In the neighboring buildings. With this $32 a week they support themselves and their children: Hubert, 14; Henry, 13; Adele, 12; May, 11; Eddie, 9; Alice, 8; William, 7; Harold, 6; John, 6; Dorothy, 3; Walter, IV4. and George. 7 weeks. But let Mrs. Binger tell her own story. “I want to say first that my husband and myself are the happiest peo pie In the world. “It’s true that we might do more for our children if we had more money, but we are happy just as we “The youngsters mean more to than any amount of money hoarded up. Watching them happy at play is better than the best movie I ever saw. "Do I go to the movies?” “Well, it’s been so long since I saw one that I have forgoten when it was “When one is busy, one is happy, /end caring for the number of youngsters we have, keeps us pretty busv. "But, with the exception of Adele, who has heart trouble, they are all well, and If the Good Lord wants me to bring more of them Into the world rny husband aftd 1 them and try to do our best for them. “My twelve children are the only jewels 1 have, but I wouldn’t trade them for any of the diamonds worn on Fifth Ave “We buy only the plainest of food, but that is the healthiest kind. We take our pleasure/outdoors in the park, and that Is good for us. “We don’t mins the hectic pleasures that some people have to have to enjoy life and we are the better for it. "The pipe that my husband smokes is as much pleasure to Jiim as the rich man’s cigar. “We are making the best of life as we find it, and are happy in so doing.” v COUCH TO BE ARRAIGNED ■fudge James A. Collins Back From Rest; Arranges Calendar. Roy Couch, former Statefiouse custodian, in jail on charges of embezzling $9,000, and of presenting false claims to the State Auditor, will be arraigned In Criminal Court, Sept. 4. Judge James A. Collins, back from vacation today, arranged a calendar for preliminary hearings of sixty-five persons. Charles Rollinson, local attorney, will be arraigned on charges filed by Sheriff George Snider of transporting intoxicating liquor. Will H. Latta and Edwin A. Hunt will bff-araigned on anew indictment alleging conspiracy with Richard V. Sipe, former county clerk, to embezzle trust funds In the flee. Hunt’s trial last resulted In a disagreement. Snethen to Give Address Edward O. Snethen, attorney and president of the Federation of Community Civic Clubs. Is to speak at the Hamilton County teachers' Institute, Noblesville, Ind , Wednesday. He will discuss civic prbblems and citizenship. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 64 10 a. m 72 7 a. m 65 11 a. m 74 8 a. m 67‘12 (noon) 77 9 a. m 69 1 p. m 78

PINCHOT MEETS. WITH OPERATORS Direct Bargaining May Be Near in Anthracite Strike Crisis —Further Sessions Are Scheduled.

By United Pre* HARRISBURG. Pa., Aug. 28—An thracite coal operators _ today gave Governor Ihnchot, peace-maker In the strike prevention negotiations a statement of the maximum they would concede in anew working contract with the miners. The operators placed their entire case before the Governor In a threehour conference in executive chamber at the Capitol. As Indicative that matters were nearing the point of direct bargaining, Pinchot announced after the meeting that he would meet both parties in brief separate conferences this afternoon. Before*the operators went into the Governor’s private office sot their conference, shortly after 9 o'clock, they LAO FINDS W ON CITY STREET And the Owner Gives $lO Reward to Youngster. Overalls and eleven years don’t of*en go together with a fortune, br.t Charley HaJtf'. colored, 616 Ogden S'... felt for a few minutes today all tne thrills of wealth with such a combination He had started cut for a walk. Crossing the Alabama and Vermont Sts. intersection, he noticed a roll lying on the pavement. Trafilcman Thomas McCormick interrupted the lad as he was picking it up. “I was just going for someone to’ read off the names on these papers,” the boy said. The name of the i'uncker Bottling Works was found on many checks. Summoning Lee Yuncker, president of the works, the three proceeded to police headquarters. Exactly $572.89 In checks and $252 in bills appeared from the roll. Yunckers, smiling, handed two $5 bills to Charley. "Boy,” the lad ejaculated, his eyes big as doughnuts, “I’se g’wine right home to mother.” ' HARTMAN IN CITY COURT lawyer, Who Had City, Practices Again. J. Herbert Hartman practiced law again in Indianapolis today. He defended a. woman, charged with assault and battery, in city court. Hartman’s appearance here several days ago occasioned considerable comment since he left the city several months ago announcing he. Intended to live in California. This was after Federal and Criminal Court bonds upon indictments charging him with complicity with Frank Francis “the confessing burglar,” were lifted and he was permitted to go on his own recognizance. Traffic Control by Engineers? Possibility of taking traffic regulation from police and . placing it With a commission of engineers and exj perts, will be investigated by Mayor I Shank- A similar movement is under way al Los Angele*. Cal.

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reiterated the statement they- hava not changed their position, but would listen to what the Governor had to say and present thelf case. He conferred with the miners’ representatives late yesterday. His meeting with the owqers today is to hear their side and ascertain precisely how far they will go toward meeting the miners’ demand for a 20 per cent wage increase and other concessions. This Is Pinchot’s program: 1. Ascertain the utmost each side will concede. 2. Communicate this information to neither side until he has worked out an impartial basis of settlement. 3. Go to the parties with this impartial solution and say, "take It or have the State of Pennsylvania working against you both.” Compromise Sought This impartial basis of settlement might be for the operators to agree to a nominal increase In wagers and the miners to drop their demands for a check-off. This would he a compromise which might be worked out, it is admitted by authorities at the conference. Plnc.hot found the miners somewhat suspicious of what he might be leading them into, but he was successful enough to persuade them to come back for another conference. It is known the miners did not weaken from their position, but their agreement to come back was seen as a more or less hopeful sign. Check-Off Opposed He finds the operators ready to talk business, ready perhaps to grant a slight increase, hut willing to fight against the check-off to the last ditch. Politicians from every corner of the State are here ready to take advantage of any situation to wreck Plnchot's chances of increasing his prestige. Some came here for that' purpose and they would feel greatly encouraged If he should fall in his present effort to work out a basis of agreement. In the face of these new difficulties Pinchot Is maintaining what he terms "golden silence.” He Is not telling either side what the other tells him: he has Instructed both sides to make no statements to the newspaper men and he is giving out no inferential statements himself. LEWIS OPENS HEADQUARTERS Preparations for Coal Strike Are Go- „ ing Forward. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28.—John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, established “strike headquarters” in the Bellevue-Strat-ford Hotel today, so as to be near the anthracite and personally direct the walk out of 155,000 hard coal miners scheduled for midnight Friday. - ■

BODIES TO BE MOVED

VEN the dead must make |h v/ay for transportation progJ ~" < l ress. Bodies in the old public cemetery lying north of Oliver Ave., acquired recently through the Marion County court for an interurban freight terminal by the Terminal Realty CorporatioTt; are to be Identified individually and reinterred, according to an announcement of the corporation today. \ "The plat of land, however, does

Judge Delbert 0. Wilmeth Carries Out Threat to Sentence Fast Drivers Convicted Second Time to Indiana State Farm. B. F. HULBERT APPEALS FROM CITY COURT DECISION Trafficmen Checking Up on Persons Found Guilty of Exceeding Safety Limit Since April 1 to Prevent ‘Getting By' as 1 First Offenders.' City Judge Delbert 0. Wilmeth today carried out his threat to senteuee to the Indiana State Farm persons convicted in city court a second time since April 1 on speeding charges.

REVOLUTIONS IN NEXT lEN YEARS □REDDY GROSE University President Reminds Teachers of Great Responsibility. Only teachers, working with preachers and publicists, can save America from conditions duplicating those in Russia. Thus Dr. George R. Grose, president of De Pauw University, today warned teachers at the Marion County Institute at the courthouse, of their great responsibilities. “Conditions are favorable for the outbreak of riots and revolutions on a large scale, In the next decade,” Dr. Grose said. "Illiterates and nearUliterates hold so nearly a balance of power that our industries are threatened and respect for our courts Is being undermined. "We must have experts in the teachers' chairs. In thefcnurch pulpits and on the benches of our courts, or the future of democracy is not secure. We now have quacks in medicine, ignoramuses in pulpits and untrained teachers. Teachers are In bush ness of training experts." Edward O. Snethen. president of the Federation of Community Civic Clubs, preceding Dr. Grose, took a more optimistic view. “Mo long as we have noble men and wetnen such ls you we need nbi fear bolshevism,” he told the teachers. Dr. Groso was to speak this afternoon on “Glimpses of Conditions in China," and Snethen, on “The Bower of an Ideal.” Mrs. Miriam B. Huber, teacher in the Indianapolis schools, and Chic Jackson, cartoonist, will speak Wednesday morning. The institute closes Friday.

FINDER OF MONEY STILL MYSTERIOUS Workman Refuses to Tell Amount of Cash, By United Press SAMPLES MANOR, Md„ Aug. 28. “I can say what I please when I am not under oath. Now I'm saying I found a dime. Os course, if I'm under oath I'll tell the truth.” This statement today by Lee Houser, added to the furore in this little mountain settlement over Houser's reported find of a “pot of gold” under the surface of the BrownsvilleWeverton road, where he was working out hIA taxes. Houser, who put the whole countryside In a ferment last night by disappearing temporarily, was back in his home today, after having consulted a lawyer at Beckerton, W. Ya.. and his brother, George Houser, R-unswiek, Md. He would not say what advice the two had given him, but today his story was that his claim of having found from SIO,OOO to SIOO,OOO ,'n a rusted tin box was “just a joke.” GOVERNOR PREUS ILL Condition of Minnesota Executive Reported Serioud. By United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 28. —Governor J. A. O. Preus of Minnesota is reported seriously ill at Grand Marias, Minn., today. Advices at the State capltol here said three Rochester physlcans are at his bedside. According to this word the Governor’s Illness is due to hay fever and heart trouble.

not extend to that part of the cemetery in which Confederate veterans have been buried,” Robert I. of the Indianapolis Street Railway corporation, said today. Arrangements have been made with Kirby & Dinn, undertakers, 1901 N. Meridian St., tp do the work. Bodies are to be .relnterred in Floral Park Cemetery, except those Identified as Catholics. These will be reinterred in the Holy Cross Cemetery.

Forecast FAIR tonight and Wednesday. Not much change in temperature.

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The judge also took steps to prevent any second offender from posing as a first offender by requesting the police traffic division to furnish a list of all persons convicted of speeding since April 1. Four man merely given fines as “first offenders” Monday were found to be second offenders, police said. The first man sentenced was B. F. Hulbert, 120 S.-Spencer Ave., who was given a forty day term. He appealed. Hulbert was arrested Aug. 22 by Motocycleman McCarty, who charged hi was driving thirty miles an hour on E. Washington St. He was arrested again Aug. 24 by Motorcycleman Moorman, who testified he was driving thirty-four miles an hour In E. Tenth St. near Arsenal Ave. On the first charge Hulbert was lined $lO and costs and on the second S2B, and costs in addition to the farm sentence.

Speedometer Off Hulbert said his speedometer did not register. “Second offenders can show their speed with a wheelbarrow at the State farm,” said Judge Wilmeth. "Or If they don’t like that perhaps they may work in a quarry down there where there is plenty of opportunity to show speed.” Will Shumacher, 1524 N. Capitol Ave.. was fined SIOO and costs on a speeding charge. One hundred dollar bonds of J. M. Edwards, 126 E. Pratt St., and Noble Below, 3041 McPherson Ave., were forfeited when they failed to appear on speeding" charges. Richard Hennessey, 3537 Winthrop Ave., was fined sl4 and costs when officers testified he drove at thirtyfour miles an hour on Park Ave. . Three More Arrested Three men charged with speeding were to face Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth. They are Robert Beckenhaugh, 571 W. Wilkins St.; Lon Richardson, 928 River St., and Noble Below, 3041 McPherson Ave. Monday was a hard day for speeders. One received the maximum fine of SIOO and costs and ten others received fines ranging from S2O and costs to S3O and costs. Charles Hamilton, 4218 Guilford Ave., was fined SIOO and costs for speeding, $1 and costs for failure to display certificate of title, and $1 and costs for failure to display license. Racer Gets Penalty. Herbert Boling, 2246 Bellfontaine St., who was racing with Hamilton at the time of the arrest, was fined $26 and costs. Testimony showed that Hamilton, after passing Boling’s car, crashed into a machine driven by Mrs. Charlotte Clemons, 610 E. Tenth St. Witnesses estimated his speed was thirtyfive miles an hour. “Speed Trap” Is Devised Capt. Michael Glenn, traffic department, Is devising a “speed trap” for motorists. Two plain clothed traffic officers will be stationed at various Intervals and “clock" the passing motorist. A chart has been worked out to calculate the number of seconds and the rate of speed in passing a distance of 528 feet. Among those arrested on speeding charges were Earl Moore. 845 N. Jefferson Ave., and John Wharton, 240 Villa Ave. SHANK DEPLORES POLICLACTIONS’ Religious Dissension Must Be Stopped, Board Told, “Factions” at police headquarters arising from religious differences were again assailed by Mayor Shank today before -the board of safety, following filing of charges against Lieut. Arthur McGee and Harvey Bedford. The mayor struck? at rumors that a dispute over the. Ku-Klux Klan resulted in the murder of Robert Watson Aug. 21, and that religious differences were causing friction between officers and-departments on the force. “We must get. rid of all that—talk and feeling If we have to fire every man on the force," the mayor said. "Religious feeling should not hampsr efficiency of the force, nor interfere in any arrests for law violation.” Police Chief Rlkhoff *as present but made no statement. Board of safety members talked with the mayor after the meeting. Rug and Fur Stolen When Mrs. Stella Anderson. Apt. 1, the Arlington, 323 E. North St. returned fyom a two weeks’ outing at the lakes, she found a rug valuM at S4O was taken from the floor, and a fur neckpiece valJkd at $25 missing.