Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1923 — Page 12
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LEGION VETERANS CLOSE CONCLAVE IN GALA NIGHT Californian, John R. Quinn, Is Elected Commander —Tyndall, National Treasurer, By United News SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20.—The fifth annual convention of the American Legign, heralded by former doughboys as the most successful conclave yet held, closed late Friday amid a blaze of color and the blare of bands. John R. Quinn, of California, who was elected national commander for the coming year, qalled the first meeting of the national executive committee following adjournment of the convention. With all business completed, the legionnaires fox trotted with the fairest of California's girls at the grand closing ball Friday night, prior to leaving for their homes. Chaplain Elected The convention, as its final business session, elected Ezra Clemons of Minnesota, national chaplin for the coming year. The following national vice commanders were also elected: Ryan Duffy, Wisconsin; Thurman Kamn. North Carolina; William S. Healey, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; C. M. Stoddard, Arizona; Lester Abbott, Idaho. Edgar B. Dunlap of Gainesville, Ga., was elected to the finance committee for a three-year term. Minor Officials Minor officials who served this year were reappointed for the next year at the meeting of the national executive committee. Lemuel Bolles of Washington continues as national adjutant, with Russell G. Creviston as assistant adjutant. Robert H. Tyndall of Indiana will continue as national treasurer, Eben Putman of Massachusetts as national historian and Robert A. Adams of Indiana as national judge advocate general. The next executive meeting of the committee will be in Indianapolis in January. A meeting of Statte adjutants and State commanders is expected to be held at that time also. The American Legion Auxiliary adjourned Friday night after electing Mrs. Franklin Bishop of Leicester, Mass., as national president. Its next meeting will be held in St. Paul at the time of the Legion convention.
ARGUMENT ENDS FATALLVFOj THREE Murder, Heart Failure and Suicide Figure in Tragedy, By United Press ALLIANCE, Neb., Oct. 20.—Three men are dead today as a result of an argument over the pulling ability of horses owned by Shelby Lemaster, 45, and Fred Ward, 28, farmers. Lemaster and Ward argued about merits of their teams. Friday, as Ward approached, Lemaster shot him dead without warning. Lemaster and W. 11. Keister, another farmer, carried the body into the house. Keister fell as he entered the door. Death was caused by heart failure, doctors said. Lemaster barricaded himself in a shack. As deputies went to the door a shot rang out. Lemaster had killed himself. BIRKLE RITES TUESDAY Member of Auto Repair Firm Will Be Buried in Madison, Ind. The funeral of Charles W. Birkle, 55, member of the automobile repair firm of Birkle & Cardella, 327 N. Talbott St., who died Friday at his home, 410 Eastern Ave., will be held Tuesday at his old home, Madison, Ind. Mr. Birkle came to Indianapolis from Madison in 1912. He was an employe of the Oakland Mtor Company until 1921, when he became a partner in the repair company. Ho is survived by the widow, Mrs. Nellie Birkle. MOTORIST KICKS BANDIT H. L Hiatt Thwarts Held-Up as Man Leaps Upon His Machine. Two bandits were .thwarted in their efforts to hold up H. L. Hiatt, 4611 Winthrop Ave., Friday night. At Fairfield and Winthrop Sts., two men ran from behind shrubbery. One jumped on the running board of Hiatt’s car. Hiatt kicked him and the bandit rolled off Into the arms of the other man running to catch the auto. PROWLER IS WOUNDED Probably .Fatally Shot as He Attempts to Enter Home. WASHINGTON, Ind., Oct. 20 —Dorsey Wayne, a negro on parole from the State reformatory, was shot and probably fatally wounded early today while trying to break into the home of Ray Horrall, a merchant. Aroused by the Intruder’s noise, Horrall was Jying in wait and shot the negro as he climbed through a window. THERE IS QUICK RELIEF In every dose of SHAPLEY’S Original STOMACH MEDICINE Try one bottle and be convinced. FoMiale at all Drag Stores.
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JAIL FOR MOTOR SPEEDERS URGED Laws to Reduce Accidents Likely, Reeves Warns, Automobile dealers and salesmen should go,, on record In favor of jail for speeders and other reckless drivers, Alfred Reeves of New York, general manager of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, told the Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association at a dinner at the Columbia Club Friday night. "If the number of accidents is not cut down, harsh legislation will be put on you,” he said. The automobile trade is on the decline now. as it returns to normalcy after a period of unusually heavy business, Reeve3 said.
VEGETABLES SOAR AT (MARKET Eggplant Doubles Water Crest and Endive Appear, Cabbage, eggplant, head lettuce, and sweet corn advanced at the city market today. Mushrooms selling at 81.15 a head Thursday and 81-25 today was the only vegetable to decline. Eggplant was more than double with a price of 35 to 50 cents compared with 15 to 20 cents Thursday. Head lettuce increased from 15 to 20 cents, sweet com from 30 to 35 cents a dozen, and cabbage from 3 to 5 cents a pound. Water cress and endive sellllng at 10 cents a bunch were the only new vegetables to appear. Other vegetable prices; Jersey sweet potatoes, 10 cents a pound; fancy potatoes (for baking) 10 cents each; pumpkins 20 cents each. Lima benas. 70 cents a pound; cauliflower, 25 cents to 40 cents a head; green beans, 15 cents a pound; green onions, 10 cents a bunch. Strawberries were only at one stand, that of M. A. Beard, and were bringing 35 cents a pint. Watermelons were 30 and 35 cents each; Ango pears, 15 cents a pound; Jonathan and Grimes Golden apples, 10 cents a pound. SIX FUND GIFTS $47,000 Eli Lilly & Cos., Makes largest Gift Ever Received. Six voluntary contributions to the Community Fund campaign, beginning Oct. 29, total 847,500, an average increase of 62 per cent for the same givers last year. The largest individual gift ever received in a Community Fund campaign was 818,000, from Eli Lilly & Cos., G. Barret Moxley, chairman of the initial gifts committee, announced at a dinner Friday night. Kingan & Cos., has donated 810.000. Allard Smith, Cleveland banker, spoke at the dinner. SOLON ASKS CHURCH AID Prevent War by Christianity, He Appeals in Address. Senator Samuel M. Ralston called upon church people of the world to prevent wars by the doctrine of Christianity in an address before the Men's Club at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Friday night. He pointed out that nations are now engaging in extensive war preparations as a matter of "protection. A silver cup was awarded to the division of Joseph A. Moeslein for largest attendance. Way Up in the Air , Residents near the Home Brewing Brewing Company, Dale and Cruse Sts., had aching necks today. They watched Dave “Preacher” Huddleston, steeplejack, 427 S. Warman Ave., paint and repatr the 275-foot smokestack at the brewery.
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FRIDAY IS IK’ TO AUTO DRIVERS; 9 MISHAPS TOLL Four Injured, Four Arrested in Series of Traffic Accidents, Four persons were injured, nine cars damaged, four persons arrested and a search Is being made for the driver of a car that failed to stop.
in a series of nine automobile accidents Friday night. Paul Lynch, 16, of 935 S. East St., was Injured when an unknown- driver of an automobile ran Into the bicycle he was riding at Maryland and Alabama St.
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Mrs. Claude Miller, 124 N. Denny St., was injured about the hips, legs and arms when struck by an automobile at New York St., and Garfield Ave. The auto was driven by Mrs. J. L. Von Burg, 543 N. Oakland Ave. Witnesses told police the accident was unavoidable. John Zimmerman, 33, of 1918 S. Delaware St., was cut about the head and after treatment was lodged in the city prison charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after driving his auto at Union and Palmer Sts. into a truck driven by Leonard Klrsch, 733 Sanders St. Eugene L. Porter, colored, 1040 W. Twenty Fifth St., escaped injury and his wife, Henrietta Porter, 21, was taken home slightly injured following an accident at Minerva and Michigan St., early today. Porter drove his car upon the tracks in the path of an inbound T. H., I. & E. Crawfordsville division traction car In charge of William F. McDowell, 917 Congress Ave., motorman. Intoxication Charge Is Made. Roscoe Broadstreet, Coatsville, Ind., was charged with operating a vehicle while Intoxicated aftet his auto smashed in an auto at Capitol Ave. and North St., driven by Harry Moulder, 417 W. Market St., turning it over and hurling it into a parked machine owned by C. B. Moore, 2702 Clifton St. Vincent Brown, 1541 S. Eastern Ave., was arrested and charged with failure to stop at a preferential street after his car was struck and hurled Into the abutment of the elevation at Noble and E. Washington Sts., by an auto driven by Mrs. Hi P. Page, wife of “Pat” Page, college athletic coach. Three women in the car In addition to Mrs. Page, escaped InjuryHomer Whit lock, Edinburg, Ind., was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle while Intoxicated following an automobile collision at Capitol Ave. and Michigan St., when he ran Into an auto driven by E. C. Miller, 2433 Kenwood Ave. Mistaking a warning light for the rear light of an automobile Russell B. Hussey, 26, of Seville Apartments, drove Into a barricade twelve miles north of the city on Michigan road. The car turned over. Hussey was Injured Internally. IBs passenger, Horace S. Kehm, 27, Chicago, 111., was cut upon the body and head. Both were taken to Methodist Hospital. Dodges Imaginary Object. John Zimmerman, 1918 South Delaware St., dodged an imaginary object and crashed Into an automobile parked at Union and Palmer Sts., police said. Zimmerman told the police that rain hindered his vision of the parked machine. Police said there was no rain at the time. Charles L. Setton, R. lit. Box 209, drove his automobile, which he had owned only two hours, Into a plate glass window of the Roberts Clothing Company, 108-110 W. Washington St. Setten told police the clutch stuck. t Two Escape From Farm Two Indianapolis new prisoners at the Indiana State Farm, Greencastle, Ind., escaped Friday, according to a message received by > police. George Batts, 32, formerly of 301 W. Vermont St., and Wilson Schloss, 21, of 414 Douglas St., sentenced on blind tiger convictions, are the men at large.
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PAVINGS CHANGED AS JOBSARE LET Three Out of Five Specifications Switch Materials, Property owners petitioning for different material than specified by the city caused changes in three out of .'ive contracts awarded by the board of works Friday. James E. McNamara was awarded the contract f or paving Milcy Ave., between Washington and New York Sts., with two-course concrete at 84.80 a lineal foot, total 816,607.04. and Ohio St., between MUey and Elder Aves., with two-course concrete at 84.56 a lineal foot, total 85,297.58. The board originally specified asphaltic concrete. Property owners demanded asphaltic concrete on Bradley Ave., between Walnut and Tenth Sts., when the board had specified two-course concrete. The contract was awarded the Mead Construction Company at 85-06 a lineal foot, total 818.096.18. Asphaltic concrete was asked on Chester Ave., between Walnut and Tenth Sts., but there were no signers. The contract was awarded to the Mead Construction Company at 84.37 a lineal foot, total 815,585.92. The stretch of paring on College Ave., from a point seventy-one feet south of Fifty-Fourth St., to the center line of Fifty Fourth St., was awarded to the Mansfield Engineering Company at 83.50 a lineal foot, total 81,351. New Ten-Story Store Building A ten-story industrial and store building will be erected at 601-605 E. Washington St., by the Washington and Liberty Realty Company, a subsidiary of the E. G. Spink Company. The structure will cost approximately 8500,000. Perfection Butter Makes Kiddles Grow.—Adr.
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WILLIAM D. FOULKE TO ADDRESS WOMEN Speaker in Civil Service Under Theodore Rooievelt, William Dudley Foulke, member of the civil service commission under Theodore Roosevelt and now president of the f National Civil Service Reform League, will address the ParentTeacher Association In Caleb Mills Hall Wednesday at| 3 p. m. His subject will be “Reminiscences of Theodore Roosevelt.” Tuesday afternoon Foulke will address the October meeting of the community welfare department of the Woman’s Department Club on "The Battle Against the Spoils System.” Mrs. G. Quincy Dunlop, chairman of the department, will preside. The Indianapolis school board assisted the parent-teachers in obtaining Foulke for this meeting. All teachers In the city are Invited. Mrs. Charles M. Smith, president, will preside.
DEPAOW ALUMNI TO GIVE 550,000 Drive Will Begin Monday for Quota in City, Indianapolis alumni of De Pauw University will take off their coats — flgurately speaking—and go out Monday to raise 850,000 of the 8200,000 sought locally toward a 81.000,000 endowment fund. Alumni of the city are Invited to attend a meeting at 9 a. m. Sunday, called by Guernsey Van Riper at the old home of the late C. W. Fairbanks. Thirtieth and Meridian Sts. The general drive committee announced the total fund Is now more than 832,000. This committee; of which Henry H. Hombrook Is chairman. will meet at the Columbia Club, Wednesday noon. The Rev. C. Howard Taylor, pastor of Broadway M. E. Church, will preach on the De Pauw endowment Sunday and other Methodists pastors will emphasize the campaign. Judgment of $72,347 Is Given Judgment for 872,347.52 against the American Paper Products Company, Carthage. Ind., was given In Federal Court Friday In favor of the Lagerloet Trading Company, New York. Judgment was given in an opinion handed down by the United States Court of Appeals. Action was brought on contracts said to be held by the Lagerloet company on shipments of wood pulp which the Indiana company refused to accept after it had sought to cancel the contract.
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Start with the letter “T,” in section 1, and pick c-ut the letters in each section, by following the line around, three times, as indicated. You will thiis form the phrase, THRICE AROUND THE OCTAGONS. City Officials to Banquet Heads of city departments with members of the council will be guests of Charles E. Coffin, president of the board of works, next Saturday at a banquet at the Columbia Club. The dinner will be in the nature of a cabinet meeting, and projects of the city In 1924 will be discussed. An Ounce of Prevention (By OSCAR SCHMIDT. The number of suicides In this country Is growing annually to an alarming degree. Many have 111 health as a contributing cause, but many more are from financial worry—ill fated investments which have wiped out a life time savings, stirring into life that remorse whose constant plaint are those saddest of words, "what might have been.” It Is the purpose of the Saving & Loan Association to relieve the saver of this worry-strain. Money safely Invested Is a comfort, savings Intrusted to shaky propositions are a constant menace to health and life itself. The Saving &. Loan Ass iciatlon protects Us deposit ",rs by first mortgages on real estate, and then only after the property has been appraised and approved by at least three of the directors. There Is no better security under the sun. There Is no chTnce to lose and an opportunity to realize a dividend of 6% for the use of your savings. We took the “If” from “Thrift.” MONUMENT SAVING & LOAN ASSOCIATIONSI Monument Circle 6% ON YOUR SAVINGS
STOLEN AUTO FOUND DESERTED BY ROAD Howard T. Griffith Recovers Car With Three Tires Missing. George W. Asklns, Tradeland, Ind., found a deserted sedan along the highways near his home, one mile east of the city limits. The rims and three tires were taken off the car. License records show the car to be the one stolen from Howard T. Griffith, 2715
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N. Meridian St., earlier in the night, police said. Automobile Accessory thefts were reported by: W. O. Matter, Bri igeport, Ind., two tires; Rupert Lindsey, 1219 N. St., automobile side curtains; Waldei? Wright, 1219 N. Illinois St., spare tire; W. R. Poland, 1227 N. Alabama St., two lap robes. William A. Whetsell, 2033 Dexter Ave., has recovered his automobile, stolen. A spare tire and wheel lock were missing.
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