Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 154, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1923 — Page 2

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FOUR DEAD FROM MOTOR ACCIDENTS WITHIN SIX DATS Driver Held on Manslaughter j Charge After Man Is Killed, * ■t Four persona have died from Injuries received rin automobile accidents In Indianapolis since No Accident week began last Sunday. Fiftyfive have died from motor vehicle accidents In Ma ion County since Jan. 1. The total for all last year was sixtyo|ie. • The latest death was that of A. C. Johnson, 79, of 2943 Highland PI., lft Methodist Hospital Thursday night, lie died soon after he was struck by automobile at Thirtieth St. and Oapitol Ave. Coroner Paul F. Roblason ordered the driver, Gus Hawcolored, Westfield. Ind., slated of> a manslaughter charge. , Police said Hawkins was driving e(owly Mr Johnson stepped Into Hawkins’ way to avoid a car being driven In the opposite direction, according to witnesses. Funeral at Home ..Funeral services for Mr. Johnson Were to be held at the home at 2 p. m. today The Rev. N 8 Hlchterman, pastor of the Grace Presbyterian church, was to conduct the rites. Spec*ll services will be held by the Masonic lodge Burial at Ccown HIU. *Mr Johnson was born In Marlon dount. Ohio, but had lived In Indlarrajpoiia twenty-seven years. He was fSr fifty three years an employe of tie Big Four Railroad, from which he a pensioner. The widow, a son, R. Johnson, a daughter, Mrs. H. M. Qhinn of Salt Take City, Utah: one sis ter. Mrs. Amle Baker of Oklahoma cjty, Okla., and two brothers. Will Jbhnson of Oklahoma City and Samuel Johnson of Marlon, Ohio. T. J. Brennan. 65. hf 33 S. Euclid Aye., was injured about the head, chest, left hand and arm and bruised afrout body when struck by an at Euclid Ave.. and WashIngtonSt., Thursday night, police say. Driver Is Held Richard M. Howenstlne. 418 N. Randolph St., driver. Is held on speedlag and assault and battery charges. “Two men In an accident at Rural apd E. Washington Sts., said to have b4en Intoxicated, are sought by police. ? Their car crashed into a City Baking Company wagon driven by Joseph M. Loftus. 612 Lockerbie St., vfhlle he was inside a store. "The men abandoned their car. tried to etart another parked nearby, and then fled, police say. gßennie Roland, colored. 1415 Alvord S|., Is charged with drunkenness and operating an automobile while under the Influence of liquor. The machine he was driving turned over after striking the automobile of Harry Morgan, 815 E Tenth St., at Tenth and Bellefontains Sts., police say. W. E. Reeves. Eminence, Ind.. was bruised aboue the body when the cattle truck he was driving was struck by ft Pennsylvania gravel train at Howard St. The truck was wrecked, but the cattle uninjured. John Catherly, 80, 3704 Salem St., was slightly bruised about the body when struck by a car driven by F. J~ Wagner, 2756 Bellefontalne St., at Indiana Ave., and North St., according to police.

WILMETH DECLARES NEW W WEEDED Bond Issue of $300,000 Urged by Judge.Deciaring that “If New York can give $50,000,000 to care for Its mental defectives, Indianapolis can give $300,000,” City Judge Delbert O. WII- - today declared the need of a psychopathic ward in Indianapolis. The people of New York State voted in favor of the $50,000,000 bond issue for new buildings, in the election Tuesday. 'he issue was called to the attention Judge Wilmeth in an editorial in i, New York Sun and Globe, sent him'' Frank R. Wolf of Indianapolis. Under a plan worked out by Judge Wilmeth, Councilman Walter W. Wise and Dr. E. E. Hodgln, president of the city department of public health and charities, a $300,000 bond Issue will be asked for establishment of a psychopathic ward on the city hospital grounds. . LEAVES ENDOWMENT-FOR HOME FOR AGED WOMEN Mrs. Mary LuJck Makes Provision for Delaware County Institution. By Timet Special MUNCLE, Ind.. Nov. By the will cf the late Mrs. Mary Jane Lulck, 80, who died at her home Monday night provisions are made for the erection and up-keep of a non-sectarian nome for aged women. Mrs. L-ulck was the wldoW of George Lub-k who died about fourteen years ago. Thor had an estate valued at $78,000. The gift la made to Delaware County. COLLEGE PRESS CONVENES Batter Is Host to Journalists of Indiana Universities. Annual meeting of the State Intercollegiate Press Association will begin tonight in the Butler College chapel. Members are guests es the Butler Press Club. The buslnes session and election of ofßoers will be held Saturday morning. Place for the next meeting will be selected. Eleven college will be represented. Orville Hooker, Butler, Is president of the association. The meeting will dose with a dinner and dance at the Igaooln, Saturday night.

Cops to Abdicate in Favor of the Fair MRS. PEARL OWENS Mrs. Pearl Owens, 1127 Bacon St., wants to see how traffic looks from the "other side.” So she will be one of five women to direct traffic at Meridian and Washington Sts., from 12 m. to 12:30 p. m. Saturday, the last day of No Accident week. Mrs. Owens, who wAs the first woman to volunteer for the Job. drives a "flivver” through—the downtown district dally Uniformed officers will be on hand Saturday to help the women cops, If necessary.

STATE DEMOCRATS DECIDE ON FEASTS room RACE Prospective Candidates for Governor Meet With Indiana Committee, Indiana Democrats held here today what football fans would call a "pep meeting." The "game.’ it was decided. will start early In January with a number of Jackson day banquets followed by district meetings all over the State. The meeting, Rt the Claypool, was attended by members of the Democratic State committee and by some of the prospective candidates for Governor. The committee Invited six men who have been talked of as candidates. Four were present during the morning. They are: Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Indianapolis; William H. O’Brien. Lawrenceburg; Charles S. Batt, Terre Haute, and Joseph M. Cravens, Madison. Dale J-.~ Crittenberger, Anderson, and John S. McFadden, Rockport, who were invited as prospective candidates, were not present early in the afternoon. Ralston Presidential Talk Batt was the only one of the four present who announced generally that be was In any more than a receptive mood. He has been campaigning actively for some time and carried his campaign to those attending the meeting. O’Brien held numerous conferences with Democrats from Indiana and outstate. Thomas Taggart did not attend the meeting. While the governorship campaign held the center of attention, there was considerable presidential talk on the appearance of Senator Samuel M. Ralston at the meeting. Walter Myers, who has been look*, lng after some of the Interests of William Gibbs McAdoo as a candidate for the presidency, said McAdoo will not enter the Indiana primary or attempt to control the Indiana delegation. It was said a clear field will be left for Ralston as far as Indiana Is concerned. Shank-Jackson Fight Seen Democrats were watching closely the activities of the Republicans, and the candidacy of Mayor Shank was talked of almost as much as prospective Democratic candidates. It appeared to be the general opinion among Democrats present that the Republican campaign will resolve itself into a contest between Shank and Ed Jackson, Secretary of State, In an outright Ku Klux Klan ,flht. A resolution on the death of Joseph E. Bell, who was Seventh district chairman, was adopted by the State ccmmlmttee.

COUSIN OF LINCOLN DIES Mrs. Mahals Skinner, 86, Succumbs at Her Home at Greensburg. By Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind. Nov. 9.—Mrs. Mahala Skinner, 86. second cousin of Abraham Lincoln, died at the home of her son. Frank M. Skinner near Milford Thursday. Funeral services are to be held at Burks Chapel near Letts, Saturday. Surviving are nine children, George, Marion; Frank, Milford; Emery, Letts; Ed, Westport and also of Westport; Mrs. Mary Wasson, Westport; Mrs. Viola Hudson, Crawfordsville; Mrs. Leat Jessup, Rushville and Mrs. Albert Ricketts of Westport. - $20,000 Clfy Market-Fees The city will realize $20,000 this year on fees of market standholders, Oscar Wise, executive secretary of the board of safety, said today. LeaSfes must be renewed the week of Deo. 3. Fees are the same with the exception ofi"~a 10 per cent renewal cost and $1 Issuing charge. Gone, but Not Forgotten An automobile reported stolen belongs to: Ariel A. Butcher, 931 Cottage Ave., taken from near Clermont, Ind. Prevent Influenza The Tonic and Laxative Effect of Laxative BROMO-QUININE Tablets will beep the system In a healthy condition and thus ward off all attacks of Colda. Grip or Influenza. Tim fees boar* sicnaturs el S. W. Grove. 30a idrtrUtemMt

RIKKOFF EXPLAINS BOULEVARD‘STOP’ SIGNSFOR AUTOS Council Charges Denied by Police Chief After Row, Denying ‘ charges by members of the city council of “legislating traffic regulations.** - Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff today declared that signs exist at Washington Blvd. Intersections merely because they had been painted permanently on -the pavement In compliance with the original ordinance, later changed. "Failure to pdace signs at Meridian St. Intersections was due to the exhaustion of the supply of paint,” he added. *T have had no personal interest ln-any traffic signs." The city council Thursday night charged that 'the board of safety and Rikhoff have assumed duties of en acting laws as well as enforcing them. Claycombc Launches Attack Councilman Walter Wise, president of the council safety committee, was Instructed to notify the safety board and-Chief Rikhoff that enactment of new traffic regulations without council action must cease. Wise propslsed to do this Tuesday at the next board meeting. • Councilman Lloyd D. Claycombe, who launched the attack, referred to the marking of Washington Blvd. as a "Stop" street, when It had never been designated such by the council, and the failure to mark Meridian St. north of Thirty Eighth Bt. "It’s time to find out who Is leglsLatnlg for the city, the council or the police force. ’’ said Claycombe. “You can never get what you want from the board of safety, either. Their attitude 1% a slap at the dignity of the council."

Claycomee charged that Wise had neglected his duties as chairman of the safety committee by allowing ! ruch conditions to exist. “I’ve told the board and the chief." ittorted Wise, “but all they did was to give my letter to the newspapers. It's folly for me to go back.” Wise also assailed the pollen department for creating parking zones ! and special traffic laws under the ; head "Police order.” "A stranger in this clfy would think we had no council or mayor, and nothing, but a police force," '- said Wise. Wise will report at the next meetlpg of the council after talking to the boards * An ordinance authorizing 175,000 bond issue for purchase of ground at Fifty-Seventh St. and the Monon as a 1 north side, unit in the street cleaning department was Introduced. Councilman Otto Ray’s motion to suspend the rules for immediate con- \ slderatlon was lost with only two I .ifflrmative votes. Prohibiting parking on the west side of Oriental St. Instead of east side, and prohibiting parking for more than ; fifteen minutes In front of the Fe"deial building entrances. Approving board of work* purchase of five-ton 6ewer pumper costing $9,166 14. Changing zoning classification at Kenwood Ave. and Thirty-Fourth St. from business to residential. Adopting a series of minor traffic fines payable to the city clerk when offender receives a sticker. The of fender must come to police headquarters wltnln seventy-two hours after receiving the sticker, pay $2 for first l oflenae, $3 for second and $5 for third or subsequent Offense. Ordinances Dropped Ordinances struck from flies: Annexing schoolhouse property tn University Heights. Changing corner of Prospect St. and Sherman Dr. from residential to busi- : ness. . An ordinance permitting the Vonne- : gut Hardware Company to construct a switch from south ion Missouri St. and across Pearl St. ito Maryland St. was Introduced. I The council set Monday. Nov. 19, ns the date for public hearing on zoning territory In vicinity of Brookville Rd. and Butler Ave.. from residential tq. business, and an ordinance proposing that the zoning board have Jurisdiction on location of churches, schools, libraries and museums. BONE _ ¥dLLERS~ TOO' FAST Police Unable to Catch Gamblers on Indiana Ave. The boys "rolling bones” on Indiana Ave. Thursday night were too fast for Capt. Herbert Fletcher and his police squad. Fletcher reported that he kept the trail hot between five'places where he suspected gambling but got no evl defice. He said there were Indications games were resumed as soon as police left, HONEYMOON INTERRUPTED Tharp and 12-Year-Old Bride Taken In Custody. Bo Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 9.™ After a two-day honeymoon, Charity Eagler, 12-year-old school girl and Oscar Tharp, Anderson, were arrested at Paris, 111., late Thursdiy. The girl disappeared from her home here early this week and It was J earned that she was married at Paris. Tharp was charged wPh contributing to. delinquency and sont to Jail under sl,o()'ff bond. The girl was sent to the Friendly Inn. Police say Tharp was an Illiterate, whom the girl was teaching to read and write. RECORD FLOWER SHOW Shreds of chrysanthemum blooms scattered over the floor at the Athenaeum today were all that remained of the two-day Chrysanthemum Show which ended Thursday night. An attendance estimated at 40,000 for the two days broke the record, officers said. New officers of the Chrysanthemum Society of America, elected Thursday, are A. F. J. Baur, Indianapolis, presl-. dent: Frank Trendley, New York, vice president; Charles W. Johnson, Rockford, IIL, treasurer, and Charles H. Lotty, Madison, N. J„ secretary.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

PROVERB PICTURE NO. 11— NOV 9

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Saturday Is the Last Day of Our Rug Sale! The Greatest Rug Selling Event - We Have Had This Year v Thousands of dollars worth of rugs purchased at the recent New York Rug Auction and sold on our regular terms at Prices Far Below the Present Market! • All Sizes z I ] Terms All Kinds Easily One Lot of One Lot of $5 Rag Rugs Chenille Rugs Sizes 25x50 Sizes 24x36 v WHILE THEY LAST WHILE THEY LAST 79c $ 2-M NO PHONE ORDERS, PLEASE / Room Size Fibre Rugs Size 9x12 and 8.3x10.6 S Good, durable Rugs, in suitable colors for any room. Especially good for bedrooms. Wide assortment of color combinations. * M W SALE PRICE $52.50 Axminsters SBO Wilton Velvet High pile, line quality Heavy, seamless, Axminsters that are pd fringed rugs of unusual __ real bargains at this N .i/D beauty, In colors of C/■ ft CA price. Good choice of ~ blue, rose, taupe, tan, *r M**. O patterns and colors. *1 • 1 gray and brown. Size ft S B Size 9x12 9x12... 75c Prolino Sq. Yd. . . . ; . 49c $1.6512 Ft. Linoleum Sq. Yd. 95c $2.25 Inlaid Linoleum Sq. Yd. s ldl Banner Furniture G> 33 South Meridian Street The above items also on sale at oar Fountain Squate Stove, 1054 Virginia Ave.

HONOR JUDGE F. C. GAUSE 100 Members of Bar Attend Dinner Given at Muncie. Bo Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 9.—Judge Fred C. Gause of the Indiana Supreme Court was honored at a dinner hero Thursday night, at which more than 100 attorneys and Judges of eastern Indiana attended. Judge Gause was formerly of the Henry Circuit Court at Newcastle. COLDS THAT DEVELOP INTO PNEUMONIA Chronic coughs and persistent colds lead to serious trouble. You can stop them now with Creomulsion, an emulsified creosote that Is pleasant to take. Creomulsion Is anew medical discovery with twofold action; it soothes and heals the inflamed membranes and kills the germ. Os all known drugs, creosote Is recognized by the medical fraternity as the greatest healing agency for the treatment of chronic coughs and colds and other forms of throat troubles. Creomulsion contains, in addition to creosote, other healing elements which soothe and heal the Inflamed membranes and stop the Irritation and Inflammation, while the creasote goes on to the stomach, la absorbed Into the blood, attacks the seat of the trouble and destroys the germs that lead to serious complications. . Creomulsion Is guaranteed satisfactory in the treatment of chronic coughs and colds, catarrhal bronchitis and other forms of throat diseases, and is excellent for building up the system after colds or the flu. Money refunded if any cough or cold, no matter of how long standing. Is not relieved after tak ! ng according to directions. Ask your druggist. Creomulslon Cos., Atlanta, Ga. —Advertisement.

FftIDAY, NOV. 9, 1923

Two weeks ago l'e was named to the Supreme bench. / Judge Rufus Hlnshaw, who succeeded Judge Gause at Newcastle, was toastmaster. Judge William Sparks, Rushville, and Judge Charles K. Bagot, Anderson, were principal speakers.

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