Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 191

CITY READY FOR CHRISTMAS CAY OF HAPPY NOTE Revival of Old Customs and Programs of Organizations Mark Season, Indianapolis is ready to celebrate Christmas with the most elaborate round of festivities in many years. Citizens have caught the Christmas spirit of helping the poor and needy and attempts to remember every one have been made. Despite lack of cooperation from the weatherman. colder weather has brought relief from the drizzling rains of several days, and should prove some encouragement to Santa Claus in making his rounds tonight. Candle to Give Signal Seven thousand carolers are ex peeled to take part in community singing in Indianapolis streets tonight. While the largest singing group of 1,000 carolers will sing from the south steps of the monument, other groups will visit hos pitals and county institutions. The carolers,, under supervision of the city park department, will stop and sing for the sick in private residences if requested. R. Walter Jar vis. park superintendent, announced that 'a lighted candle in the window will be the signal for the carolers to stop before a home. The carolers will separate into smaller groups, after joining in a big chorus at the Monument, and serenade downtown hotels, public buildings and clubs. A number of community clubs have made special requests for singers. Singing starts at 6 p. m. Clubs Play Santa Various clubs were active today in remembering the children and poor families with Christmas cheer. The Rotary Club has $l,lOO to remember children at the Detention Home, those under supervision of the Public Health Nursing Association, and in hospital wards. The Inter Allia Club will aid children in the Lutheran orphans’ home. Children of the Indianapolis orphans' home were guests at the Mercator Club luncheon today at the SplnkArms. Candy and toys were presented. The Optimist Club was to give a program for children at the day bursary at the City hospital at 5 p. m. this afternoon. Gifts were tt> be presented by Santa Calus. and a musical Jirogram was arranged. Elks’ Party at Circle Activity will be continued Christmas day at S a. m. with the Elks host to nearly 1,000 children selected by social agencies. The party will form at the Monument, where a program will be given for the youngsters. Mayor Shank will make a short talk. The children will then be guests at the Circle theater. Gifts will be presented as the children file out. The Salvation Army and Murat Temple Shriners will each distribute 600 baskets of food to needy families Christmas day. The Shriners will extend the persona) Christmas greetings by a plan whereby each noble will deliver one basket to a family. Fireman at Station 26, Senate Ave. and St. Clair St., will present a Christmas pageant, "The Nativity,” tonight and Christmas night. Twenty-four are In the cast.

Post-Christmas Program Activity of Christmas celebration will extend after Christmas, with announcement of additional programs today. A Christmas tree service in the All Saints Cathedral on Holy Innocents day, Dec. 28, is planned. An “Americanized" Christmas for foreign-speaking children and their parents is planned at the Foreigners’ House, 617 W. Pearl St,, Tuesday night. Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court will speak. Practically every pastor in the city preached on some phase of Christmas in pulpits of city church Sunday. Special musical programs were arranged and in many churches children's exercises were held. The city’s Christmas to Indianapolis children Saturday night exceeded all expectations, as approximately 30,000 attended festivities in thirty-one fire stations. W. T. Bailey, assistant city attorney, was in charge. Officials Participate Mayor Shank and a number of city officials spent the evening visiting engine houses and participating in the fun. Each station was elaborately decorated with trees and holly. Each station had a fireplace where Santa Clause suddenly arrived. Candy and other presents were given. Actors from local vaudeville houses made the rounds of the stations and assisted in entertainment. The Cosmopolitan Mission of the American Settlement gave a Christmas party at the mission house, 511 W. Maryland St., Saturday night. Christmas songs and carols featured. Employes of the Indianapolis Paper Package Company were entertained *ln a Christmas party Saturday night. Units of the plant presented vaude r* stunts. More than 360 attended.

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Yuletide Joy Schedule Today 9 a. m. Dispensary Aid Association entertained 500 children at city dispensary. 10 a. m. Children’s department of Central library' entertained children with Christmas stories. Noon. Mercator Club entertained children of Orphans' Home at Spink-Aims. Tonight 6:10. Carolers assemble on south steps of Monument for rity-wide caroling progra^i. " 30. Salvation Army will en te, fain needy children at Tomlinson Hall. 7:30. Firemen at Station 26 Senate Ave. and St. Clair Sts , will present Christmas pageant. Christmas Day 0 a. m. Elks entertain 1,000 children with theater party at Circle. !* a. m. Shriners start disi.ibution of of food to poor. 5 a. m Salvation Army will distribute 600 baskets of food to pc or. Rotary and Inter-Allia Clubs will distribute candy, food, clothing and toys to children durin z the day. Christmas Night 7:30. “Americanized” Christmas Mr foreign speaking parents and children at Foreigners' Home, 617 W. Pearl St.

CHRISTMAS DAY FORECAST ‘COLD’ Weather Man Predicts Little Change From Today, HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m •... 32 10 a. in 34 " a. m 31 U a. m.. 36 8 a. m. 31 12 (noon) 39 9 a. m 32 1 p. m 38 Santa Claus must discard his sleigh for other means of transportation tonight. Indianapolis will not have snow. The weather man, who at first threatened to force Santa to a caterpillar tank to get through the mud, has relented somewhat. He promises freezing weather, hut r.o snow. Spates in the Mississippi valley will be about the same as Indiana. Some snow was reported in the Northwest, in the Rocky Mountain States, and in some parts of New England. The thermometer stood at 32sht 9 a. m., with indications of that temperature remaining fairly constant today and Christmas day. WABASH RIVER NEAR CREST White River Reported Falling at Shoals and Decker, Ind. Bv United Vrefs TERRE HAUTE. Dec. 24 —Barring further rains, the Wabash River is expected to reach its crest near the local flood stage, sixteen feet. The river was at 14.3 at 5 p. m., Sunday; 14 at S a. m. Monday. At the local Weather Bureau station river stages at Lafayette and Mount Carmel, 111., were reported at 14.7 and 21.2. respectively. The water was falling at Mount Carmel but rising slowly at Lafayette. White River was reported failing at Shoals, Ind., also at Decker, Ind.

THREE KILLED IN CROSSING CRASH Danville (III.) Auto Struck by Traction Car. By United Press DANVILLE, 111., Dec. 24. —Three persons were dead and one is dying as the result of their car being wrecked by an Illinois traction interurban Sunday. .The dead: Margaret Peyton, Edith Schramm and Robert Henry, all of Danville. Harlan Peyton brother of Margaret, will die, physicians say. The car was struck as it was coming out of the driveway of the Vermillion County infirmary. MISSING MOTHER SOUGHT Woman Disappears—Had SSO for Christinas Purchases. * Police, listening to the pleas of a husband and four small children, added efforts today to locate the mother, who has been missing since Saturday night. Charles Suddeth, 2746 Wheeler Ave., states that his wife, Lula. 30, started to town with SSO to buy Christmas presents for the family, and has not been heard from since, police said. Mary Michaels, 50, |g reported missing from her home at 111 De Loss St. since Saturday.

FOUR PAH IN SANTA’S BAG FOR MEN BEHIND BARS State Board Makes Annual Award —Three Prisoners Paroled,. Four men today were enjoying the priceless Christmas gift of freedom from confinement behind prison bars. Three Christmas paroles and one direct pardon were given late Saturday by the State pardon board. Hairy IT Weller, 42. sentenced front Miami County April 13, 1922, to two to fourteen years on charges of s.gt.lr.g l.is father's name to $1,500 north of checks, was released , n recommendation of Judge Albert \Vaid of Miami Circuit Court. Wol- j ler's crops failed and he was ,est in financial straits thereby, the board j said His wife was said to be ill. Adolph rintorl, 32, received a direct pardon from a charge of operating a still, upon which he hail been sentenced to one to five years from Vermilion County Circuit Court. Jesse J. King, 23, was paroled from a six months’ sentence and a S3OO line on a charge of contributing to delin quency of a girl und“r 18. meted out by the Allen County Circuit Court April 6. 1923. A remission of fine was granted He was serving out the fine. lie had served eleven months overseas. Alva White. 17, an orphan, was paroled from a charge of taking. upon which lie had sen--tenced to three to five years at the Ind.ana State Reformatory Nov. 10, 1922.

BURGLARS’ LOOT IRE THAN 11,1 Crooks Use Board Bridge to Get into Apartment, Police today investigated reports of burglaries over the week-end. They are making efforts to recover some of SI,OOO loot of jewelry obtained ny a burglar who, by using a board, gained entrance to the apartment of Louis Bornstein, 315 N. Senate Ave., Satur day. Clothing and jewelry valued at SB2 wero stolen from the apartment ~>t Ben Hall, 650 N. Senate Ave., Saturday. A pay telephone containing $8 and cigars valued at $5 were taken from a drug store operated at 2502 Northwestern Ave. by Granville Green. Walter Allen, manager of a tailor shop at 965 W. Twenty-Fifth St., reports 1 theft of sls from the shop Saturday during his absence. A watch valued at $lB and $2 in pennies were taken from the home of Walter Williams, 832 Fayette St., reports show.

FIFTEEN NAMED BY HARRY DUNN \ New Auditor Chooses Burchard Butler Chief Deputy. Harry Dunn. Republican, who will succeed Leo K. Fesler as county auditor Jan. 1, today announced these appointments in the office: BUrchard Butler, chief deputy; John W. Carlisle, bonding clerk; Ida Franc, record clerk; Gertrude Dobbins, stenographer. Elizabeth A. Hess, warrant clerk; Frank Brattain, transfer department chief; Jeanette Wilson transfer department assistant; Blanche Brattain, transfer department assistant. Erwin Newhart, Emanuel Wetter, Harry K. Pric# and Hadley Fite, tax duplicate clerks; Sadie Jaines and Mary Dooley, tax audit clerks, and Davis Y. Bykrit, draftsman. BABY* IS ‘SHOPLIFTER’? Detectives Charge That Mother Used ChHd in Scheme. The youngest shoplifter in police records was discovered in the person of a toddling, two-year-old baby, officers said today. The alleged discovery resulted in the arrest of Mrs. Mabel Kennedy, 20, wife of a sergeant at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, and Rosella f&Q*e. 16. her sister. According to detectives Mrs. Kennedy would shove an article to the endge of a counter. The child, it was said, had been trained to pick it up and walk away. Later the mother would fellow and take the stolen ar- • If. according to officers.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDxVY, DEC. 24, 1923

Christmas Carols

flu United Press Try EW YORK, Dec. 24. —"Hell’s \ Kitchen,” much maligned because of the predilection of that section for crimes of, violence, celebrated its reformation this Christmas by having the biggest tree in town, raised in the public playground. PHILADELPHIA—Members of the traffic, squad hung mistletoe over their semaphores. “Not yet,” they reported today. By I'nitea Press CHICAGO —Six thousand Christmas dinners —enough for 20,000 persons—were distributed to Chicago’s poor today, while the Wieboldt Foundation announced Its, Christmas present would lie the distribution of $158,000 to Chicago charities. TWO THEORIES IN DEATH ARE PUT BEFORE JURYMEN Stale Accuses Shaw, While Defense Builds Up Testimony on Alibi, The Jury in the case of John Thomas Shaw, charged with fits mur der of Mrs. Helen linger Whelehel, 22. of 1854 Applegate St., had before it today two entirely conflicting stories concerning the murder. Tiie 'State built up an extremely strong circumstantial case against Shaw. Hut there is not a word of direct evidence in the rqrord. The defense denied almost all the statements of State witnesses ami built up .in alibi for Shaw. It was obvious the statements of ] both sides could not be true. Tho jury i had to decide whom to believe. The State showed by witnesses: That Shaw was on Indiana Ave. the night if Nov. 27, when tho murder was committed. That he left the avenue at about 11 o’clock, a short time before Mrs. Wheichel was thrust Into a Ford automobile as she stepped from a street car at lowa and East Sts. That Shaw was driving a Ford tour Ing car when he left the avenue. That Shaw had in his possession the following morning, q short time after tho body of Mrs. Wheichel was found where it had been dropped front a bridge over tho Big Four railroad west of the city, a watch and a dia- [ mond ring stolen from Mrs. Wheichel. That Shaw’s automobile was stained J with human blood. That Jim (Hunky) John, from whom Shaw says he obtained the jewelry, could not have been connected with tho murder. The defense has shown in refutation, largely by Shaw’s own statements: That Shaw left Indiana Ave. at about 11 p. m. driving a Ford touring car. That he went directly to John’s homo. That John borrowed his car, leaving Shaw' in his house. That John returned sometime later and that Shaw took the car and went homo to bed. That Shaw went to work at Klngan & Cos. tho following morning and that John then gave him the watch and ring, {taking him to pawn them. That the blood stains on Shaw’s automobile were placed there by a man who cut his thumb while repair- ] ing a light on tho car.

MASONIC TEMPLE BURNS Loss to Auburn Lodge Is $43,000; Building Dedicated in 1922. By Times Special AUBURN, Ind., Dec. 24.—Fire, believed to have started in the furnace room of the basement early today, destroyed the Masonic Temple here, causing a loss to the lodge of about $43,000, covered by $36,000 insurance. The temple was dedicated in May, 1922. Baker’s grocery, the Auburn American Insurance Company, the Temple case and offices of the Lincoln Life Insurance Company were situated on the ground floor, white the lodgerooms were on the second floor. ROBBER VICTIM MAY DIE Connersvilie Man Beaten by Assailants Who Take $350. By Times Special CONNERSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 24. Marcus Hill, 39, colored, poolroom owner here, was probably fatally hurt when he was assaulted and robbed of $350 near his home shortly after midnight Sunday. He was attacked and beaten over the head with a lead pipe, his assailant leaving him lying unconscious. Physicians have little hope for his recovery. Bloodhounds were brought here today from Sv Paul, Ind., but failed to trail the robber. It is probably more will be brought. from Bedford, Ind.

Orphans Aid Santa Claus While They Wait for Him

AT THE INDIANAPOLIS ORPHANS’ HOME.

"O-o-oh, looky there! Santa didn’t forget us after all. Who said it was tough to be a ‘Little Orphant Annie’ at Christmas time?” Santa wasn't the only one who didn’t forget, at the Indianapolis Orphans' Home, the children will discover Tuesday. Early in life, they have learned that it is "more blessed to give than to receive." Receiving? Hundreds of good folks In Indianapolis have seen to that. Giving? Quite another matter and one for which the children began to prepare weeks ago. Manual training departments became bee

OWNIE BUSH NAMED TO LEAD TRIBESMEN Former Local Star Succeeds Jack Hendrickses Manager of Indians,

By EDDIE ASH, Times Sports Editor. Ownie Bush is tho new manager of the Indianapolis Baseball Club. He signed a contract today after holding a conference with President W. C. Smith, Sr., at Washington Park. Bush succeeds Jack Hendricks, who resigned Sunday afterm on. Bush will be playing manager. Tho change in managers came suddenly-. Hendricks said he had been BOOTLEGGER'S LIST OF 1,400 NAMES DISAPPEARS Said to Have Contained Many Government Officials. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Mysterysurrounding the whereabouts of a list of 1,400 customers of a well-organized bootlegger syndicate here today roused both wots and dry's to new demands that tho list be produced and made public. The customers list, seized when headquarters of tho syndicate in a downtown office building wero raided, contained the names, according to police, of Cabinet Members, Congressmen, ether Government officials and hundreds of personals socially well known. PARK BONDS AWARDED Fletcher Trust Buys $20,000 Issue for New Boulevard. A $20,000 city park bond Issue was awarded to the Fletcher Savings & Trust Cos., today on a bid of par, accrued interest and premium of $578.88. There were two other bidders. The money will be used to acquire land for tho Fifty-Sixth St. Blvd. from Meridian St. west to Coope--road and then south to the Crawfordsville road. This territory Is valued at $500,000, but, with the exception of purchases totaling $20,000, was donated.

Stricken By United Press BRISTOL, Ind., Dec. 24.—Brief funeral services were held today for Rev. George 11. Hughes, pastor of the Methodist Church, who was stricken with apoplexy while delivering a Christmas sermon to his congregation yesterday. He died soon after the stroke. He had held several charges In northern Indiana. Burial will be at Zanesville, Ohio. *

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hives of activity qs Johnny shaped presents for his "buddy,” George. As for the girls, the niinbleness of their fingers was directed to doll clothes, aprons, handkerchiefs and countless other gifts. Os course, there is a vacuum. No moiher to relate stories of the birth of Christ, no father to "show Willie how it works.” But the orphans are basking In the satisfaction of giving. Many of the presents will go to relatives who doubtless will feel a tug at their hearts as they unwrap simple gifts, representing laborious efforts of little ones who are more than eager to love and be loved.

here too long. At the time Hendricks resigned Bush, among others, was considered for the berth, but it was not until today that Bush was callel to Washington Park and offered the position. Bush made no effort to push Hendricks out of the job. The Cleveland Americans and New York Yankees had made overtures to Bush to act as assistant manager and he did not call those negotiations off until President Smith of the Indians made him an offer today to manage the local team. Another Year's Contract Hendricks had another year’s contract to manage the Indians, but he reached a settlement with Smith and the friendliest of relations exist over the matter. It is said Smith paid Hendricks In full for another year when Jack handed in his resignation. W. C. Smith, Jr., vice president of the Indians, and Hendricks have had several quarrels and ill feeling has existed between them for some time. Hendricks took over the Indians in 1914 and managed them every season (Continued on !*ige 5)

RUHR NEGOTIATIONS TO BE RESUMED TODAY * Von Iloesch Is Probable German Ambassador to France. By United Press PARIS, Dec. 24. —Premier Poincare has agreed to receive Herr Von Hoesch, German charge d'affaires, at 5 p. m. today to renew preliminary negotiations regarding the situation in the Ruhr and Rhineland. Von Hoesch, it is understood, is to be made German ambassador to France, with Poincare's approval. BRISON MARTIN BURIED Veteran Ixidge Man Dies After Illness of Two and One-llalf Years. Services for Brison Martin, 75, of 2921 W. Washington St., who on Friday, were held at 10 a. m. today at the home. Burial in Crown Hill, Mr. Martin had been ill two and a half years. He was born at Hall, Ind. He was married in 1883 to Miss Anna Townsend. Since 1889 he had been a salesman for L. Strauss & Cos. He was a charter member of Harris Lodge No. 644, I. O. O. F., and of Arion Lodge No. 254, Knights 4 Pythias. He was a member of WHt Park Christian Church. Surviving are the widow and two daughters, Mrs. William Church, Lafayette, Ind., and Mrs. Shirley McClure, Indianapolis, and a brother, William Martin of Indianapolis. Pretty Girl Anarchist Freed By United Press PARIS, Dec. 24.—Germaine Berton. "the red virgin," strikingly pretty 20-year-old girl anarchist, was acquitted today of the murder of Maurice Plateau, #4!tor of the Action Francaise, royalist newspaper.

Defense Contends Absence of Blood Stains From Prisoner’s Clothing Shows Innocence in Mrs, Whelchel’s Murder, PROSECUTOR DEMANDS DEATH AS PUNISHMENT One of Accused’s Lawyers Refers Frequently to Old Testai ment —Fate Expected to Be in Jury’s Hands This Afternoon, Absence of blood stains from the clothing worn bj John Thomas Shaw, 21, colored, proves he is not guilty of the murder Nov. 28, of Mrs, Helen Hager Wheichel, 22, said If. B. Pike, Shaw’s attorney, in the closing argument for the defense today to the Criminal Court jury, which was expected to get the case this afternoon. Punislnmug bj r electrocution was the pen&lty demanded by Prosecutor William H. Remy in his preliminary closing arguments for the State. Pike's final effort in bohalF of his client followed an address by another of Shaw’s attorneys, XV. S. Henry, colored. Pike was appointed by Judge James A. Collins. Henry was retained by Shaw's sister, Mrs. Roy Gill, 1435 N. Arsenal Ave.

“The hands that handled the bloody j pocketbook and the body would have ; left blood on the steering wheel of the car.” said Pike. “Shaw's hands 1 and clothes were not bloody. It would j have been Impossible that blood should not have appeared on the person and j clothing of the one who handled the j body. "We are not denying that a terrible ‘ crime was committed. Prosecutor j Remy kirobably will appeal to you for j -sympathy for the father and relatives of the murdered woman. I extend my sympathy with his. They are a fine family and they lost, a fine girl. Sympathy Not Issue “But sympathy is not the issue. Has the State of Indiana proved this defendant guilty beyond all reasonable doubt? "You said, gentlemen, that you believed. under the law of circumstantial evidence, that it should be‘~so strong as to remove every hypothesis of the defendant's innocence before you would vote for his conviction. You took an oath to be governed by the evidence alone. "Someone else got off that street car, dressed as an old woman, when Mrs. Wheichel alighted—a stranger. That was a crowded street car. The testimony conclusively proved the defendant never knew or saw the deceased. “After Mrs. Wheichel alighted. It was five minutes before any outcry ] was heprd. Do you think this fine woman would have stood on the sidewalk talking to a negro? She would not have stopped a second.” Questions the Mark Pike then called attention to testimony that the mark of the tire on the sidewalk from which Mrs. Whelchel was abducted at lowa and East Sts., corresponded to the pattern of the left rear tire on Shaw's Ford automobile. , “Every one knows the front wheel would go farther up on the walk in making a sharp curve,” said Pike. Pike made much of the fact that witnesses for the State had testified Mrs. Wheichel had been dead for some time before the body w T as thrown over the bridge. He declared the body must have been disposed of by the murderer late in the morning and that Shaw was at home at that time. He also called attention to the fact that tho railing on the bridge would come to Shaw's shoulder and declared It would have been almost a physical impossibility for him to have lifted the body over it. He called attention to the fact that Mrs. Whelchel’s coat was bloodstained, but that Shaw had no blood on his person. Speaks of Savior He concluded his argument by callng attention to the faet tomorrow is Christmas. He told of the teaching of Christ and of his persecution, and concluded with the beatitude: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” In opening his arguments Remy read the indictment, charging Shaw with murder in the first degree and with robbery, and the law defining first-degree murder. He described in detail the State's theory of the movements of Mrs Wheichel and of Shawon the night of Nov. 27. “Against that testimony we have the testimony of John Shaw, uncorroborated in any way,” Remy said, after reviewing the evidence presented by State's witnesses. “John Shaw presented an alibi. We know- the defense did not start out to use an alibi, because they knew it would not hold water.” Shaw Story Attacked Remy attacked the story of Shaw that he w-ent to the home of Jim (Hunky) John, Albanian, on the night of Nov. 27, to obtain liquor and that John borrowed Shaw's car. "Why did Shaw go to Hunky JTohn’s place when he could get all the booze he Wanted on Indiana Ave.?” Remy demanded. Remy pointed out that, after defense had tried to shake the testimony of witnesses w-ho identified a ring and watch stolen from Mrs. Wheichel, the defense had later admitted Shaw had had them. “Failing to shape this story of the possession or these articles, the defense sought some other theory,” Remy said. “They seized upon til* Mrs. Wheichel had been hit by

Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature. Lowest tonight about freezing.

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What a terrible collision it must have been to have knocked her necklace up on the bridge, her pocketbook to the Rockville road and her hat down to the corner of lowa and East Sts. “They were grasping at a straw.” Remv stressed the fact that men of Shaw’s ogn color and race, who had been his friends, testified against him. "Shaw did not tell the story about 'Hunky' John borrowing his automobile until after he had discovered that the police had found b) -od on the car.’’ Remy said. “Before the defense had an opportunity, we presented the defendant's statement to the police, that he had obtained the watch and ring from ‘Hunky’ John on the night of Nov. 28. "Then we knocked It flat by showing he had them on the morning of Nov. 28.” Slept Tlirorigli Music , “On Thursday. Nov. 29, Shaw wai dead for sleep.” Remy continued. "He slept with a piano and phonograph going—when he had invited a girl to his house for dinner. “All this alibi thqt he 'went down there to "Hunky” John's to get a (Continued on Page 9)

POSTOFFICE HAS RECORD BUSINESS Receipts for Month Increase sso,ooo'Over 1922, December will be the record-break-ing month from the standpoint of receipts in the history of the Indianapolis Pestofflce, Robert H. Bryson, postmaster, said today. Up until Saturday night receipts for the month were $50,751.13 in excess of those for the same period of 1922. Saturday’s receipts amounted to $20,000.11, as "against $17,971.45 for the same day last year. Early mailing has resulted in easy clearing of postoffice business, Bryson said. All mail received Sunday was ready for delivery’ today. Christmas day there will be on® delivery of first-class mail In the residence sections. Woman Takes Poison Mrs. Josie Ettington, 628 W. McCarty St., drank poison today. She was taken to city hospital, where it was said her condition w r as not serious. Burglars Use Brick A brick was used by burglars to smash a window of the Charles Zimmerman drug store, 2032 E. Tenth St. Tobacco valued at $25 was taken.

Notice to Dealers and Carriers of The Indianapolis Times: On Tuesday, Dec. 25, Christman Day, The Indian {..polls Tines will publish one edition In accordance with our holiday custom. Out-of-town carriers who, receive papers on Interurban csyra between 1:30 and 2:30 p m., may expect their papers from one to tw-o hours earlier than usual. Carriers in Indianapolis will receive papers from two to three hours earlier than usual, with the exception of those whose papers are delivered by traction cars. These carriers will get their papers on traction cars leaving Indianapolis not later than 2 o’clock. There will be no late Final or Pink Sports edition. f TIMES CIRCULATION DEPf*.