Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 95, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1923 — Page 2

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UNIONS SEEK NEW STATE WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT

AMPUTATION OF FOOT MAT RESULT FROMACCIOENT Three in Hospital Following Collision—Drivers Arrested? Two women and a man, are at city hospital today following an automobile accident at Troy Ave., and Bluff Rd., late Thurs- . day. Mrs. Dorothy OQ Ue'bltn McFeely, £136 iH killed in Korthwestem lecld °nt* b 'ln Ave - WaS se ‘ Marion County thi* riously injured year. and hospital physicians said her HCMbeVn ri S ht foot may I nu, tnj urrd be amputed. She ■ ■W■ In traf- wa S riding in a fidrnt*. It is yonr machine with inty to make the Leo Tracey, 27, streets safe. 806 Marion Ave., “ and Miss Helen Fisher, 910 Marion Ave., both of whom received Blight Injuries, when their machine collided with a car driven by Floyd Shreckengast, 20. of Greenwood, Ind., who was driving north on the Bluff Rd. Tracey was going west on Troy Ave. Both drivers were arrested on charges of assault and battery and speeding. L. L. Tucker, 727 Fairfield Ave., driving 'thirty-two miles an hour on Meridian was fined $24 and costs. He chose to store his car for forty days in lieu of the fine. Four others received fines ranging from $lO to $227 , Arthur Jackson, Omaha, Nel>., and four others riding in the car he was driving escaped injury when, as the car was backed out of a garage at 917 Virginia Ave. today it was struck by an Inbound street car which threw it against an outbound street car. The automobile was wrecked. Mrs. Albert Anderson, 633 *'l. Wavne Ave., was severely injured Thursday night when the car in which she was sitting at Speedway Rd., and Emerichville bridge was hurled down an embankment a3 it was struck by a car driven by Charles Fishburg, 3041 Ruckle St. Marshall Reed, 112 E. North St., driver of the wrecked car had parked without a tail light, police said. Mr. Anderson, who also was in the car, and Reed were uninjured. Darce Berry, 2304 Oxford St., was crested on charges of assault and battery when the automobile he was driving struck a car driven by Mitchell Hyland, 4640 Cornelius St., at Meridian and Twenty-Fifth St3. Mrs. Hyland was seriouly injured. i Sam Ernest, 21, 2927 W. Michigan St., and Arthur Harbqfcl. 17, 1022 N. Arsenal Ave. were arrested on charges of speeding today.

BIG FOUR CHIEFS VIEWJPAYAPPEAL Parley'Opens on Request for 10 Per Cent Increase. Conferences started today In the office of I. S. Downing, general master car builder for the Big Four system to consider wage increases of 10 per cent asked by 4,500 federated shop craft employes of the Big Four road and affiliated lines. Downing and D. J. Mullen, motive power superintendent, are representing the_ railway company in the negotiations. ~ L L. V. Hart, president of System Federation No. 54 of the shop and craft organization, and chairman of the various shop crafts under his Jurisdiction, is representing the employes of the classification. Machinists, blacksmiths, sheet metal workers, electrical workers and boiler makers now receive a minimum wage of 70 cents an hour with an 8-hour day prevailing in most shops of the Pig Four system, while the carmen receive 63 cents an hour as the minimum wage. The minimum wage of helpers Is 47 cents an hour. No decision is expected before next week. SUBWAY TO BE LIGHTED ■ Robberies and Hold-ups Cause Board to Act. • Plans for new subway lights, where city streets run under railroad elevations, were before the board of works this afternoon. Numerous accidents and hold-ups have caused a proposal for high powered electric lights under elevations. Every elevation in the mile square ® and Important outlying ones are included in twenty-one under consideration. ' John Elliott, city engineer, completed signature of the plans and drawings today. Work may be com pleted before winter, Elliott said. NEW SUBDIVISION OPENED i Tract Around Broad Ripple Will Be Sold by Fletcher Trust Anew subdivision In the northeast territory, surrounding Broad Ripple, was opened today by the real estate trust department of the Fletcher Savings and-Trust Company. The new tract is to be known as the Morton B. Dawson subdivision No. 1. It lies in Sixty-Second street and Valley View Drive and contains twentyone large residence lots, according to announcement today from Burt E. Richardson. The ground is a part of a large tract lying between Broad Ripple Pa*- 1 : V ‘ /v.. over In Lun.j..., „ ..... Du.Lyi. i.eLa.

Touchstone for Happiness Given by Couple Married Fifty Years

CHARLES LEWIS HENRY AND WIFE.

“The secret of fifty years of liappy married life is ‘just working togetherl’ ” Charles Lewis Henry, 1414 Broadway, in speaking of the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary he and Mrs. Henry are planning, gave this today as his simple “formula” for matrimonial success. "res, that’s what it takes,’’ he reiterated. “You can’t live that long together without some unhappiness, of course; but as a whole the years have been long and happy ones.” All Will Help Celebrate Mr. and Mrs. Henry have five children. Three daughters at home, Edna G., Atta L., and Alice C.; one married, Mrs Edith S. Linstrom. and George S., all living in Indianapolis.

My Most Interesting Case The Times has asked Indianapolis lawyers to tell about the most unusual affairs they have been involved in. Here is No. 4: ■ JAMES W. LAMKIN

“Mrs. So and So is beating her hus- | band again.” neighbors of a certain family some years ago telephoned police headquarters one night. Police arrested her, filing charges of assault and battery. She weighed right at 200 pounds, and not a pound of fat on her. He was a little, dried-up specimen, weighting not' more than 110 pounds. He was desperately afraid of his Amazonian wife, so he hired me to help prosecute her. He told me he was a slave. His wife took every cent he earned in his little store, and once in a while would give him a nickel or dime to spend on himself, he said. I smuggled him into the police station the day of the trial. She was waiting in the corridor, but we went in a side door of the court. "How often do you strike your husband?” I asked the lady, keeping out of range of her baseful glances at her terrified husband. He tried to hide behind me. "I do~n't strike him," she retorted. t "I spank him, and I spank him Whenever, in my judgment, he needs it!” "And I can spank any man in this courtroom. If I can’t, I can >lick him,” casting a significant glance at the judge, several burly' policemen, who shifted a little under her gaze, and me. "Dollar and costs,” announced the judge. She paid and departed. Her hapless spouse saw her waiting outside I finally slipped him out the back door, afid told him to run for his life. He did. How she found out I don't know, but he had just cleared out down Pearl St., when she swept by. About three blocks away she caught up, and right then and there gave him one of the well-known spankings. The last I ever- saw of them, she was marching him ADVENTISTS HEAR SOUTHERNAUTHOR Thurler Says Spiritualists Do Not Prove Claims, By Timet Special BETHANY PARK, Ind., Aug. 31. "There is a great battle in this country between science and spiritualism," said Prof. E. Thurber, author, of Nashville, Tenn., in an address before the Seventh Day Adventists conference, in session here. "Many rich prfees have been offered by scientists to spiritualists if they will come forth and prove the truth of their claims,” Professor Thjirber said. / "Everywhere people are asking why the spirits do not welcome those tests. The answer that spiritism is giving to this question Is that investigators that approach must come with open minds; and in fact, they must believe in the spirits before the spirits are willing to demonstrate their marvelous powers. In this demand science finds itself in a dilemma for the very basis of science is to approach everything in a spirit of doubt and to believe nothing that can not be proved according to the rules of laboratory and reason. “The Christian stands on vantage ground wtjen no claims are put forth by the cult of spiritism for recognition of its faith. It is not necessary for him to fit up an investigating labratory to offer prizes and go to great expense in testing out the spirits. He deals with them from the author of the word of God, the surest and most satisfactory test for every ‘ism’ that arises in the world. Bloomfield Man looses Car The sedan of Curtis %Jlendren. he notiled the police.

The children and*the seven grandchildren will all assist at the celebration Sunday at their home. Mrs. Henry, who was Mis Eva Smock, lived in Greencastle before her marriage. She met Mr. Henry while he was a student of law at ol<P Asbury Cos ege, now De Pauw University. Mr. Henryks boyhood was spent in Pendleton. t President of Traci lon Cos. Mr. Henry is president of the Indianapolis and Cincinna** Traction Company, and is eT active and interesting as a man of 40. Mr. and Mrs. Henry’ will be at home to all their friends Sunday aftnoon. No invitations have been Issued.

toward home with a firm grip on his coat collar. He never got back to pay me. And I was glad. I was afraid she might come along. LABOR BANK HERE IS REPUDIATED BY STATE FEDERATION Proposal to Purchase Ten: Sharesls Tabled by Delegates, By R\LPH BROOKS. Times Staff Correspondent. MUNCIE. Ind., Aug* 31.—The La ! bor Bank of Indianapolis was repu- j dialed today at the convention of the j State Federation of Labor here, when a motion was tabled, proposing that the executive committee of the State organization purchase ten shares of the bank's stock. Michael Mitch, vice president, District 11, United Mine Workers, was the principal speaker against the bank.’ He said: “We all indorse a co-operative bank, but I understand that the men who are backing the bank are not trade unionists.” “Even when wo have labor banks, we cannot use them in an economical way and to our advantage,” said Mitch, telling of the rufusal of the Stone Bank of Cleveland, a co-operat-ive labor bank, to lend striking miners money to carry' on their operations, Mitch said the Stone bank is a railroad union bank and owns mines in West Virginia and JCentucky in which non-union men are employed. _ In his attacks on the bank, Mitch said he was in Indianapolis at the time the Labor Bank here was being organized and he nor any of his associates were consulted about it. Charles Kern, Indianapolis, member of the organization committee of the bank, said Mitch was entirely in error and that every official connected with the union had been invited to attend the conference. John Riddell, legal adviser of the miners, is legal adviser to the bank, it was brought out. The Indianapolis school board was indirectly commended for its recent move to push to completion school facilities here when the convention adopted a resolution of genera! commendation of all school boards in the State which have fought for betterment of schools. The resolution was presented by Russell H. Gilmore of Indianapolis Typographical Union, No. 1. The State federation went on record as being opposed to the proposed establishment of a work-shirt manufacturing department at the State reformatory at Pendleton. Motion picture operators asked for an investigation of working conditions in projecting booths by the State board of health. South Bend was chosen as the next convention city. Clothing Vaiued at S7OO Gone A suit case bearing the name Wilma Kidwell, Chattanooga, Tenn., was lost from jJie side of an automobile in Meridian St., between the Union Station and South St. The case contained clothing valued at S7OO. Junior Commerce Picnic Members of the Widianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce will .ho'd a picnic Saturday afternoon and evening at Broad Ripple Park. Special games and contests will be held, with dancing in the everfine -;

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Second Day of Federation Meeting Closes in Tumult as Painters and Decorators Propose Recognition of Russia,

By RALPH L. BROOKS, Times Staff Correspondent. MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. 31 The Indiana State Federation of Labor today fostered a movement to institute anew State workmen's compensation act. President T. N. Taylor will select one member of a committee of three to revise the present law, if plans materialize. Following denunciation of the present Indiana law Thursday by Herold A. Henderson, Terre Haute, State mine workers’ legal adviser, the thirty-ninth annual convention of the parent State body adopted a resolution providing for a commute of three to study the Ohio law, considered a model, and to drdft a similar bill for Indiana. Members are to be appointed one each by the Governor, Indiana Manufacturers’ Association and the president of the State federation. The bill is to be presented by the next General Assembly'. The resolution was presented by District 11, United Mine Workers of America. Present Law “Barbaric’’ “The present law, giving employers sole right to select physicians is medevial and barbaric.” Henderson declared. During the last legislature, a similar bill was defeated through efforts of Insurance company lobbyists, he said. “We are trying to get a law that will give every cent paid into insurance back to the worker. When the people and employers understand the present law they will demand a change.” The second day came to a tumultous close, when delegates were faced with a resolution proposing the convention go on record as favoring recognition of Soviet Russia, and that trade relations be resumed with that country, It was presented by the Indiana State conference of painters and decorators. President Taylor took up the cudgel against adoption. He pointed out that the delegates were not enough acquainted with international questions to vote intelligently. “The Interna-

Busy Days for These Young Women

LEFT TO RIGHT, MRS. H. M. BOUCHER, MRS. ROSE KING AND MISS MINNIE FISHER.

"Yes, we’re having no picnic.” say Mrs. H. M_. Boucher, 2830 Brookside Pkwy., N. Dr.; Mrs. Rose King, 2346 College Ave., and Miss Minnie Fisher, 661 E. Twenty-Fourth St., aldesk to Newt Brown, secretary

PHONE SERVICE IS CHANGED BY MANY Rate Boost, Effective at Midnight, Moves Users Groninger Rehearing Petition Fiied.

Increased telephone rates throughout the Indiana Bell Telephone Company system go Into effect at midnight tonight. Rates will be advanced in twellve citieb, including Indianapolis, and upon long distance nines outside a radius of thirty mllut. In accordance with a Federal Court temporary order. In other exchanges rates will be altered to comply with the publlo sei commission order which preceded the Federal Court order. Many Changing Service Many subscribers were ordering their class of service changed to less expensive grades. Some ordered phones taken out. The eomnany announced it would give subscribers advantage of the rates for cheaper grades of service on change orders received as late as Monday. No charge will be made for the change. It will he physically impopirtbUe to make some changes, such as shifting WILLIAM PIEL RITES AT HOME SATURDAY Starch Company Founder Will Be I>ald to Rest F*uneral services for Williiam F. Biel. 72. founder of the Piel Brothers Starch Company, who died at his home Thursday, will be held at the residence, 3138 N. Meridian St., and at the Church of Our Redeemer, Saturday afternoon. The Rev. William Elfert, pastor, will conduct the services. Burial in the Lutheran cemetery. Mr. Piel has held an Important place in many Indianapolis concerns. He was a member of the Lutheran church and the Columbia club. Four of his eight children survive; Alfred, Elmer, William and Mrs. Edgar A. Metzger. One brother, Charles F. Piel and two sisters, Mrs. Emelia Melcher and Mrs. Frank Subbrock, all of Indianapolis, also survive. South Side Festival Several thousand South Side residents attended an outdoor festival Thursday night celebrating the improvement of W. Arizono St., between S. Meridian St. and S. Capitol Ave. The program was In charge of Mrs. Charles Werbe, S. Meridian St. Talks on fire and accident prevention ware made. Several musical numbers wefe--provided. '£ ■

tional officers have advised State federations not to take action on this question.” he said. \ Would Recognize Russia Supporting the resolution F. H. Detrick, Gary, of the Painters' organization, declared "Senators Borah, La Follette and others whom we have as our representatives have studied this matter thoroughly. They urge resumption of business. We ought to assist them. They’re the only ones doing anything for the workingman. Not to adopt this resolution would be a slap in their faces.” “When we formed our Nation and pulled away from the autocracy of Great Britain, we were up against the same proposition as the Russians now are.” said William Mitch, Terre Haute, chairman of the resolutions committee. which advised concurrence. “If it’s a working class making their own government. we as workers ought to recognize them.” The resolution was indefinitely postponed. Against Immigration If the bars of immigration are let down, the United States will he deluged with a flood of European Immigration, such as the country has never seen, and Irreparable damage will be done the workingmen of the country, declared Oswald Ryan. Anderson, member of the United States Commission on European Imrriigratlon, in an address. Vice President Edward P. Barry, Indianapolis, acting for the federation, presented Charles Gorman, Louisville, Kentucky State Federation fraternal delegate, with a gold pen and pencil. Harry E. Grube. Indianapolis, organizer of the Indiana Labor Bank, outlined the bank proposition. Stock in the bank is being sold at the convention headquarters. The big social event of the convention was the annual "Red Fire” parade and dance at the Hotel Roberts Thursday night. The parade, led by the Muncie band, passed through the central part of the city.

of the State beard Qt agriculture. State fair times heaps work upon their heads. They are up to their elbows, keeping the office at the State fairground running smoothly pending the fair opening Monday.

a phone from a two-party to a fourparty line, for some time, the cornpen y stated. However, subscribers will be billed for the service they request, even though they may still be getting service for which a higher rate is provided. Order Phonos Removed A resident near Fortieth St. and Graceland Ave. said many In that neighborhood are ordering phones out, despite strong appeals by phone company representatives that they take four-party service Instead of two-party measured service. The new fourparty service costs $2.25, the same ns the old two-party measured. Corporation Counsel Taylor E. Gronlnger today filed his petition for rehearing in the telephone rate case with the public service commission. The commission, it is predicted, probably will deny this, thus clearing the way for Groninger to file an appeal in a Marion County court. IST Say “Bayer” and Insist I 'Bmulne) Unless you see the "Bayer Cross” on/package or on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over twentythree years and proved safe by millions for Colds Headache Toothache Lumbago Earache Rheumatism Neuralgia Pain, Pain Accept “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” only. Each unbroken package contains proper directions. Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin Is the trade mark Os Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacldester of S&llcyllcacld-—Advertisement.

Fine Saddle Horses to Be Seen in Action at State Fair Night Shows

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J. M. CASEY, DANVILLE, ICY., RID ING “SARA KATHLEEN.”

With approximately 260 saddle horses entered for the three and five-gaited classes and In the combination light harness contests at the Indiana Stats fair next week, officials hope to make these-animals a dominant feature of the night ahows. From 400 to 450 lorses, ranging from light harness to draft, will more than fill the brick barn east of the Coliseum, Lin Wilson, superintendent of the show horse department, said today. Draft horses will compete for ribbons during the day, while roadsters, pairs and saddlers will appear at nights. A large stable of horses Is being shipped from Seattle, Wash., and several Kentucky sta-

FROM FAR AND NEAR

Alvin* Owsley, National commander of the American Legion was decorated as a commander of the French Legion of Honor following a tour of the Ruhr. The threatened gas workers' strike In Chicago has been postponed. The Colorado, anew warship, has AGHAraRSPEHL U. S. CONSTITUTION, BURRISJECLARES State School Superintendent Defends Court at i institute, Movements for limiting the powers of the Supreme Court, fixing prices and forming legislative Mocs, and those of similar nature, provide a 1 fertile field for “professional agitators,” Benjamin .T. Burris, State superintendent of schools, told Marlon County teachers today at their annual Institute at the courthouse. w “To cripple the Supreme, Court would be to change our form of government," he declared. He pictured the initiative, refertthdum and recall as a menace to the constitution. Responsibility Inca-eased Burris pointed out to the teachers their increasing responsibility as a result of changing social conditions with demands for more liesure time for working men. "It is dangerous to give some people eight hours leisure unles they know how to use them for self improvement,” he said. The Rev. Allan B. Philputt, pastor of the Central Christian Church, told the teachers to emphasize individuality.

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bles will be represented. Wilson said. About fifty Indianapolis owned saddle horses will be In the night contests. Some local young women are buying saddle horses instead of motor cars, Wilson said. Old Hickory Mountain stables of BarbourvlUe, Ky., will send four of Its five-gaited champion saddle horses to the fair this year, including Sara Kathleen, Feudist, Vendetta and Milady Minton. Sara Kathleen, one of Kentucky’s best saddle mares, has won five-gaited contests in Kentucky shows for the last three years, won the five-gaited mare contest at the Cincinnati horse show last November and high honors In the Louisville horse show last June.

been added to the United States Navy. Senator Reed Smoot is proposing a new tax on luxuries. F. E. Scoby, intimate friend of the late Warren G. Harding, has resigned as director of the mint. The Butterlck company and five other makers of dress pateras have been prohibited by the trade commission from selling their patterns to dealers for resale at stipulated prices. The first 2-cent stamps bearing pictures of President Harding have been put on sale at Marion, Ohio. Steamers are lining up outside of New York harbor with their September quota of immigrants. Bubonic plague has broken out in Constantinople. Twenty-five persons were hurt in a chemical plant explosion at Philadelphia, PLAN SPIRITUALIST CAMP Buy Land in Hancock County and WUI Expend $200,000 By Tlmee Special GREENFIELD. Ind.. Aug. 31.—The Spiritual Alliance Mediums' Association has bought sixty acres of land in Hancock County, with an option on an additional 260 acres. It is the plan to expend $200,000 in the erection of a college, sanitarium, hotel and lake, the property to b/ known as Nervana Spiritual camp. SCOUT CAMP TO CLOSE Ceremonies Will Be Held Near Ft. Harrison Tonight. Formal campfire ceremonies will close the Boy Scout camps for the summer at the scout reservation near Ft. Harrison tonight. At a meeting of the court of honor Thursday night. Lloyd Byrne, Troop 34, and Robert Rainer, Troop 42, were made Eagle Scouts. Rainer, Ferris Rujggles, Troop 47; ByroWGoetz, Troop 75, and Kenneth Mark, Troop 58, attained the rank of life and star scouts. Sixty-one merit badges were awarded.

FRIDAY, AUG. 31, 1923

MAYOR FOLLOWING TRAIL TO SLAYER OF ROBERTWATSON Jealousy in Love Affair Is Substituted for Religion Theory, Following a “hot” trail, officers today believed that the arrest of a man suspected of being the slayer of Robert Watson might be expected hourly. Mayor Shank canceled all engagements today and joined Capt. Roy his personal investigator, and Detectives McMurtry and McGlenn in the investigation which centered on the theory that the slayer is in Indianapolis. The man sought, according to present theories of Mayor Shank, Had been confined in the State prison and if he is out on parole now, the may<ir said it “appeared certain’’ that ha was the right man. Search turned to Greencastle Thursday as the mayor and officers questioned a woman there who formerly employed the suspected slayer. Her descriptions of the character and actions of the man wanted tally with descriptions given by three persons who on the night of Aug. 16 hauled the slayer in their cars following the stabbing. Officers are satisfied that jealousy over a girl and not religious differences caused the stabbing. A romance dating back to Tech high school days of 1920 is beiqg investigated. Watson before his death told his mother that It was a former schoolmate who stabbed him. Local Klansmen have a reward out for apprehension of the slayer on theory that a religious dispute caused the fatal stabbing. George Sanders, chief dispatcher for the Big Four Railroad, Majestio Bldg., told detectives he received a message over the railroad wire that police of Springfield, Ohio, are holding a young man resembling the description of the Watson murder suspect. The young man escaped from Troy, Ohio police several days ago, it was said. He talked glibly of a murder In Indianapolis and seemed to be familiar with streets here, according to the message. Detectives said the man might be Albert V. Smith, wanted for the murder of Theresa Perry here several months ago. They asked for pictures of him. Secret Conference At a secret conferense today Sheriff George Snider and Claude M. Worley, special Investigator for Prosecutor William P. Evans, discussed what they said was an important lead in the effort to arrest the man who stabbed. Watson. Worley and the sheriff refused to dlsI close what they were considering. Worley has conferred with many witnesses in the past few days. “I feel that we are going to get somewhere in this case, but I do not want to make our plans public, the investigator said. J. HARRY FOX FUNERAL Secretary-Treasurer of Peerless Foundry Dies Thursday. The funeral service for J.‘ Harry’ Fox, 36, seoretary treasurer of the Peerless Foundry Company, who died Thursday at }xls home, 324 Bosart Ave., will be held at 9 a. hi. Monday at the Our Lady of Lourdes Church In Irvington. Surviving are the mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Fox. 324 Bosart Ave., four sisters, Mrs. E. W. Mann of Chicago; Mrs. W. C. Bezington of Audubon Ct.; Mrs. Ernest Distler, 31 N. Riley Ave., and Miss Francis Fox, all of Indiahapolis. Mr. Fox was in the employe of the Peerless company fifteen years. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus. Kirby & Dinn are in charge of the funeral. Plants Valued at $lO Taken Plants, valued at $lO, were taken from the front porch of A. A. Baird 2153 N. Pennsylvania St.