Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1924 — Page 6

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BODIES OF TWO DIXMUDE AIRMEN PICKEDUP IN SEA Wreckage of Lost Dirigible Definitely Located Off Sicily Coast, By United Press PARIS, Jan. 3. —Wreckage of the lost dirigible, Dixmude, was found in the Mediterranean sea today. Bodies of two more of the missing crew were found in the sea eastward of Siaccia, on the coast of Sicily. An aluminum tank and half burned debris told of the air liner’s fate. One of the gasoline tanks was found off San Marco, on the Sicilian coast. A telegram to the ministry of marine from the commander of the cruiser Mulhouse confirmed the belief the disaster to the Dixmude, which cost the lives of fifty French officers and men, occurred off Sciacca, Sicily. A report from Toulon to the Echo De Paris said the aluminum gasoline tank which was picked up bore numerous pencil scribblings which have not yet been deciphered. It is thought possible these might be last frantic messages from some of the crew.

MERGER IN DEMOCRATIC RACE (Continued From Page 1) to $114,641,524.32 in 1922 and that they will be still higher this year. Commission “Restoration" Critenberger pledged that he would restore the “original purpose and standing” of the public service commission. He called attention to the fact that at the end of the Ralston administration there was a balance of $3,750,000 in the State treasury, where there is now a defitit of $4,000,000. At least a majority of the sixty boards and commissions functioning in Indiana are worthless, he said. He declared for legislation protecting women and children in industry. The absent voters’ law- should be strengthened, he said. Other declarations: For good roads at a mfnimum cost. For taxation of bonds now- tax ex empt. For the repeal of the “blue sky” law and the enactment of a better law. For Transfer Law Repeal For the repeal of the law providing for the transfer of State money from one fund to another. For the transfer of the State banking department back to the auditor’s office. For the repeal of the township advisory board law. For placing the responsibility for pardons and paroles on the Governor ■ nstead of the State pardon board. For cooperative marketing. For placing the State fair absolutely in control of the State. For equality of women with men in party organizations. Crittenberger said he is not ready to announce his campaign plans other than that he is “going out to the voters and present the case.”

BREWER TELLS Os SIB,OOO PAYMENT (Continued FYom Page 1) told him “somebody’s influence was needed.” "According to your story it certainly looks as if some lawyers and others in Washington had robbed this man deliberately,” Judge Anderson said. Matthews said a prohibition official told him that it looked as if “Shriek had paid dearly for making a little beer, and had been bled white.” Before sentencing the two Stokes and Belton. Judge Anderson asked Alexander G. Cavins, assistant district attorney, to make a statement of the case. Cavins said grand jury testimony had shown that two Stokes pharmacies were entitled to 800 gallons of alcohol a year, that the records had been falsified and at the time a ra;d was conducted June 27 the records were made up three days in advance of that date. The records were padded, he said, fictitious name-3 were used and clerks in the stores testified this condition of affairs had existed for a long time. Alcohol Is Diluted There was evidence that alcohol had been diluted as much as 50 per cent,

Times Safety Club J—^| PLEDGE THAT: 1. I will drive carefully in 1924. I 1 2. I will particularly watch out for children at the curb or playing in the street. 3. I will observe all traffic rules. 4. I will drive to the curb and stop when I hear fire truck, police emergency or ambulance sirens. 5. I will stop at dangerous crossings. Name Address Clip and mall to Times Safety Club Editor, Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Ind.

More accidents were reported today as a result of slippery pavements more reasons for making a pledge to drive carefully in 1924. Doubtless many have made this resolution in their minds, but most of those who have signed The limes Safety Club pledge have pointed out that a resolution worth making is worth telling others about. The traffic department' and Hoosier Motor Club emphasized that at no time this

Police and Firemen’s Band Ready for 1924 Debut

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POLICE AND FIREMEN S BAND. WITH CITY OFFICIALS. (RIGHT) MISS MINNETTE HUTCHINGS, SOLOIST.

Indianapolis boasts one of the best police and firemen s bands in the country. The cops and firemen have just been fitted out with new uniforms and are shown here for the first time in their ne wregalia. Mayor Shank, Police Chief Rikhoff and Fire Chief O'Brien could not resist the temptation to appear with the band. The first formal appearance of the band in 1924 will be benefit concerts next Sunday at 2 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. in Tomlinson hall. Admission is fifty cents in the a f ter noon and $1 at night. Money will be used to pay for uniforms.

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• ' A FLORENCE CRITTE NTON HOME GUEST

Some of the tiniest hosts and hostesses in the city will welcome callers at the open house of the Florence Crittenton Home, 2044 N. Illinois St.. Friday afternoon. Nursery, living rooms, and hospital rooms will be open to the general public for the first time since the home was moved to its new location last summer. Fifteen babies are being cared for in the nursery. Mrs. Howard M. Gay Is in charge of arrangements. Assisting her In the reception of guests will be Mrs.

he said, so that alcohol costing $6 a gallon was retailed at S4O a gallon. “Not only did they violate the law, but defrauded their customers as well,” Judge Anderson said. In passing sentence on Carnefix, Judge Anderson said: “This man took the witness stand and testified to things the jury did not believe. He evidently had tampered with witnesses also. In addition this gentleman’s political friends have been to see me. He had better keep them away.” Three Chicago men arrested by Mayor Shank and police while bring ing alcohol into Indianapolis from Chicago after Mrs. Joseph L. Hogue, wife of the city controller, had over' heard a telephone conversation between them were sentenced as fol lows: John Sadler, eighteen months, Jacob Fortish, five months, and Joseph Mango, five months. Fifteen months' prison sentences and SSOO fines were imposed on three Vigo County deputy sheriffs convicted of levying blackmail on bootleggers. They were John Reese, Richard Lidster and George Storms. Francis Govensky and John F. Schmidt, from whom the money was collected by the sheriffs, received jail sentences of six months and fines of SSOO each. Jail and penitentiary sentences were imposed on three members of an Indianapolis liquor ring by Judge Anderson. Peter Pacini, 4263 Guilford Ave., eighteen months, SI,OOO fine. Nunzio LaKosß., 909 S. New Jersey St., and Joseph Laßosa, commission

winter has it been mare imperative that drivers play safe in handling cars than today when streets and sidewalks were coated with a layer of thin, treacherous ice. Yet an observer noted that some cars were dodging around corners and speeding past cross streets as recklessly as on the balmiest spring days. New Safety Club members: Otto M. Rosemeyer, 1715 Rembrandt St.; George Fowler, 1132 Ohio St., and Orral Q. Wilson, R. R. P, Box 49-D.

Nearly 800 children from various social agencies and Institution will he guests at the afternoon concert with tickets purchased by Indianapolis merchants. In addition, Councilmen Ben H. Thompson, Theodore Bernd, John E. King, president, and Walter W. Wise will each bring thirty children from his neighborhood. Emmott Tyler, deputy city controller, will bring thirty children from the vicinity of fire station 23. Nearly 200 boys from organizations affiliated with the Indianapolis boys’ club in charge of R. Walter Jarvis, park superintendent, will also attend.

Aloert R. Coffin, president of the board of directors; Mrs. Ralph Lemcke, Mrs. William A. Atkins, Mrs. John S. McFarland, Mrs. E. I. Wagner, Mrs. Charles O. Itoemler, Mrs. William Allen Moore, Mrs. Carl Gibbs, Mrs. John Brandt, Mrs. Clarence Strickland, Miss Edna Heaton, Mrs. I'z McMurtrie, Mrs. Carl H. Wailerich. Mrs. Guy Ramadell. Mrs. F. E. Abbett, Mrs. J. W. .Wright, Mrs. Bert K. Black, Mrs. R. Hartley Sherwood, Mrs. William H. Thompson, Mrs. Carlos Recker, Mrs. Henry Talbott.

merchant, 41 S. Delaware St., fifteen months. Edward Dean, 828 Woodlawn Ave., Harry W. Ice, 111 W. North St., and Frank Clutter, Thirty-Eighth St. and Arlington Ave.. six months, SIOO. William Haskell, farmer, Johnson County, sixty days. louis Kaiser, farmer, living near Speedway, one day. Other sentences: I)r. William B. Hartsock, 14 W. Ohio St., one year and one day, SIOO fine, for selling morphine to addicts. James F. Parrott, Vincennes, for misrepresenting Monroe County land to purchasers, through the mails, two years. William M. Sparr, for white slavery, . one day. : David Coleman of Evansville, two years and SI,OOO for consniracy to rob box cars. Joseph Blatt, Coleman’s partner, : eighteen months. Noble Roach, Wilbert Turpin, Cecil Stone and Theodore Coleman, who said they were employed by Coleman and Blatt to rob the cars, three months each. Dr. Martin E. Klinger, Garrett, Ind., aid Dr. James D. Kerr, Green's Fork, six months and SSOO, for violation of narcotic laws. John De Ville, Ft. Wayne, six months and SSOO for violation (if liquor laws. Thirteen residents of Anderson and Markleville were given six months 3nd SSOO for violation of prohibition laws. Sentences of more than one year will be served in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.; those of one year or less, in the Marion County jail. Public interest centered in the cases of Joseph T. and Walter Stokes and Harvey Belton of the Stokes Pharmacy Company, and Louis W. Carnefix, druggist and formerly president of city councii, who were to be sentenced later. Carnefix was found guilty by a jury of violating prohibition laws. The other three entered guilty pleas. Floyd Fitzsimmons of Michigan City, indicted on charges of failing to pay admission taxes on tickets to boxing bouts staged by him at the Michigan City arena, was to be arraigned. NEW FIRM INCORPORATES Articles of incorporation for the Atlas Supply Company, Indianapolis, were filed today with the Secretary of State. Capital is $20,000, In 1,000 shAWs. The company will do a general merchandise business in toilet article?. Incorporators: H. B. Tilman, R. R. C. Box 417; W. T. Randall, R. R. G, Box 470, and Orlando Rag, 614 E. Thirty-third St.

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BAPTIST MEETING OPENS SATURDAY More Than 1,000 Young People Expected, More than one thous;fid young men and women engaged In the program of Baptist Young People's societies in the Indianapolis area will attend "the Religious Retreat” at the First BuptUt .Church Saturday and Sunday. Guests will be entertained in Indianapolis homes. Ray J. Wells Is chairman of the coulmlttee In charge. Delegates will begip registering %t 1 p. m. Saturday. The convention will open at 3 p. m Sunday morning the delegates will worship In local churches. In the afternoon addresses will be made at the First Baptist Church. Tho final session will begin at 6:30 p. m. Sunday.

DRUGS ENTER IN MOVIESHOOTING (Continued From Page 1) time resident of Buffalo, N. Y., who had come under his observation during an investigation in the Eastern city. Investigation Nears End Examination Into the shooting for the time being at least Is about ended, Cline said today. With a confession on file, signed by Greer, there remains little investigating to do, while pressing the charge against him will necessarily await the outcome of Dines’ Injuries. Miss Normand, before going to a hospital for treatment for a nervous breakdown, branded tho police theory of Greer's possible love for her as an "entirely preposterous Idea” and “utterly ridiculous.” Her secretary engaged Greer, Miss Normand said, and she "never talked with him, except to tell him where I wanted to go.” ifliss Purvinnce. whose friendship for Dines had developed Into what many believed to be an engagement, remained at her home today. Will Hays, movie czar, Is speeding West from his home in Sullivan, Ind., to investigate the case. LIGHTING SYSTEM SURVEY City Engineer Asks $2,500 to Investigate Illumination Situation. An ordinance appropriating $2,500 to investigate the street lighting situation In Indianapolis will be introduced In city council Monday night- 4 John L. Elliott, city engineer, has asked for the money to be used by the council, the board of works and the engineer’s office before another contract is made. The present contract with the Merchants’ Heat and Light Company expires April 1, 1025, but the law provides the new contract must be drawn a year in advance of the expiration of the old contract. RATE BOOST PROTESTED Motorists Give Up Reserved Parking Space as Cost Goes Up. Depletion of city coffer Is resulting from boost In rates for reserved eighteen-foot parking space, it was reported at the city traffic department today. Asa result of Increase to S6O annually, many persons ordered police to collect their signs, Michael department captain, said. Dozens of autoists pleaded guilty to charges of using bright headlights In the city. This ordinance will be rigidly enforced in 1924, Glenn said. Saving the Abbey Floors NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—ln order to preserve the floor of the Westminster Abbey Chapter House in London, visitors are requested to remove their walking shoes and put on sandals before entering. The floor in the his toric building dates back to 1290. The rule Is enforced strictly and there Is a watchman at all times to see that it Is carried out. A generous supply of sandals, including all lengths and widths. Is kept on hand.

WOOLWINE CLEARS MABEL NORMAND IN TAYLOR CASE Former Prosecutor Says Hollywood Is Good as Rest of People, By t'nitea Press PARIS, Jan. 3.—'Thomas Lee Woolwine, former district attorney of Los Angeles, today gave Mabel Normand a ‘ clean bill of health” as fax as the William Desmond Taylor murder i mystery’ is concerned. Miss Normand, one of the most popi ular members of the Hollywood screen colony, was the last person known to I have seen Taylor alive. I “The William Desmond Taylor ; murder is to me as great a mystery las the day it occurred,” Woolwine S said. “I personally examined Mabel Normand for many hours when we ! were investigating the Taylor case, | and after the most exhaustive checkI ing up and verification of her statements, it was the unanimous opinion ! that she had no guiity knowledge of the crime.” Woolwine Recovering Woolwine is in Paris recovering from internal which nearly resulted fatally. “During the Taylor investigation,” ' he said, "I also examined the man who at that time was Miss Normand’s ; chauffeur. We ran down his story, but got nowhere. “In the present cause, I would like to know whether Greer, the chauffeur was infatuated with Miss Normand, or whether some other motive impelled him to shoot Dines.” Exciting As Gopher Prairie In answer to the question: ‘What's the matter with Hollywood?” Woolwine said: “The movie population Is about as free from crime and wrong doing as the balance of the people. The majority are hard working and well behaved. They have the same desires, passions, ambitions and impulses as other human beings. "Hollywood Is about as exciting as Gopher Prairie."

MERCHANT'S YELLS FRIGHTEN ROBBERS Couple Stopped on Street by Man With Revolver, Two hold-ups were reported to police today. A colored man entered the dry goods store of Dave Liehtenberg, 630 Massachusetts Ave. Wednesday night, and 1 after ordering a suit of underwear | wrapped up. drew a gun on Llehten--1 berg, police said. Liehtenberg said he screamed and ran to the sidewalk, where he was i confronted by another colored man i with his pistol drawn, according to I police. The 'outside guard fled at • Llchtenberg’s continued yelling. The man in the store escaped also. Nothing was taken. A colored man. with revolver drawn, confronted Lee Oliphart and Irene Davis, both rooming at 315 W. New York St., as they were walking in Toledo St., Wednesday night. Oliphart was searched and 25 cents taken. Miss Davis was not molested. Other thefts were reported by WilI 11am Duncan, 36 W. Thirteenth St., baggage, clothing, S3B; J. W. Pringle, j 325 Wallace St., pocket picked, sls i and SIOO check; Miss Flora jE. Washington St., pocket picked, : $35; Mrs. James Griffith, 1850 Central Ave., coat, SB. ‘BLOSSOM TIME’ RETURNS Mural Shriners Buy Out House for Opening Perfot mattce. | Shriners are preparing for a rush : when the seat sale opens next MonI day morning at 9 o’clock for “Bios- ! som Time,” which opens at the Mu- ! rat .Tan. 14. They have ’ taken the | entire house the opening night for | the first theater party of the year. Additional interest centers in this return engagement of the operetta. I It will be presented by the original New York company, a member of which Is Howard Marsh, a former Indianapolis boy. A dance Is to be given after tho show for all who attend. The 1924 entertainment committee: Edward J. Oausepohl, chairman; Reinhold A. Miller, vice chair- | man; Walter T. White, Clyde Titus, i Charles A. Rusch, A1 Hoffmelster, j George Wellbaum, Paul Maas, Homer I Cook, William Anding, Boyd W. Tem- ! pleton, Scot Wade, Charles Fant, I James Makln. Charles A. Harms, John i R. Browne, Alfred Kuerst, Carson B. | Harris, William D. Keenan and Carl I B. Julian.

EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGED Charges of embezzlement today were placed against Frank M. Liston, colored attorney in Criminal Court by Claude M. Worley, Criminal Court investigator. Worley alleges that. Liston, while attorney for Bertha Moore, colored, of 537 Bright St., collected $42 for her and failed to give it to her. Liston is the attorney who first announced he would defend John Thomas Shaw*. Judge James A. Collins refused to allow him to do so. Liston denied the charge. TREE EMBARGO HEARING Fran ft N. Wallace, State entomologist, left today for Washington, D. C., to attend a public hearing of the Federal horticultural board Friday on whether a Federal embargo on shipment of Christmas trees into Indiana should be ordered for next season. “I am opposed to the proposal uti less the Government can show it is impossible to ship New England trees, inspected for the gypsy moth and insect pests, into Indiana next Christmas,” Wallace said.

Woman Doctor Rides Her Hobby in All Directions

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DR. LILLIAN CROCKETT LOWDER

The “spare moments” of Dr. Lillian Crockett Lowder, 204 Pennway Bldg., New York and Pennsylvania Sts., are not wasted. In them she works at her hobby, inventing. Her latest invention is a mermaidlike figure with winged arms, which may be used as either a book-end or a toy. Although patent was applied for three years ago, It has just been received. Dr. Lowder also holds patents on a head-rest for patients, a bookholder —"invented because I did not like to hold up my heavy medical books.” she explains—and stairs that adjust themselves as a ship lists. She hits exploited none of these inventions. In Dr. Lowder’s office hangs an oil painting of a tulip tree branch that represents fulfillment of a lifelong ambition. Seven years ago, when Dr. Lowder suffered a badly crushed left shoulder In a fall, she was unable to follow her profession. So she attended John Herron Art Institute. Several paintings resulted. When the State Legislature adopted the tulip-tree flower as the State

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flower last year, Dr. Lowder’s painting hung in the legislative halls for several weeks. The painting is that of a tree next to the new Indianapolis Athletic Club, Meridian and Vermont Sts. CITY HOLDS ‘SURPRISE’ New Points Uncovered in Fight on Haxvey Bedford Order. Although he refused to divulge the nature of the “surprise” attack, James M. Ogden, city attorney, said he had uncovered new legal points In the city's fight against the Circuit Court order in which Patrolman Harvey W. Bedford was ordered reinstated on the police force over the head of the board of safety. Ogden said the city would ask for anew trial this week. LABOR BANK SPEEDS UP Deposits in the United Labor Bank totalled $34,397.59 Wednesday, the first day of its operation, officials etated today. Sixty-four commercial accounts, totalling $30,788.85 and thirty-six savings accounts, totalling $3,608.74 were opened.

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ACCOUNTANTS Gill BOARD IRE Till Sanitary Commissioners DiS cuss $3,968 Overpayment.^ T. W. Whitaker and J. P. Smith. 1 examiners for the State board of accounts, granted the sanitary board an extension of time today in making good a $3,968 shortage discovered in the accounts by overpayment o£ an electrical contract. John Elliott, city engineer and newly elected president of the board, indicated the case might be carried to court to determine liability of board members. Joseph Daniels, attorney, is investigating. The overpayment was made to the Scott Electrical Company for a wiring contract at the city sewage disposal plant. Since then the company has dissolved, and officials cannot be located, the board contends. MAYOR’S ACTION MAY BE PROBED BY JURY Invest igation Understood to Be Result of Police Squabble. I By United Press MUNCIE, Ind.. Jan. 3.—Muncies police squabble will be investigated by the grand jury during the session now being held, it was indicated today i when members of the board of safety were called before that'inquisitorial | body. It is understood that the investigation is* being directed at the action of Mayor John Quick in appointing a humane officer over the head of members of the safety board. PRISON FIRE DISCUSSED Officials Confer on Whether or Not to Resume Manufacture. I With an uninsured loss in the bind|er twine plant fire at the Indiana State Prison Wednesday estimated to be $2,000 to the building and $160,000 j to twine. State officials were consider- ! ing today whether or not to renew i plant operations. The plant was closed two months ago. A contract with the Indiana j Farm Bureau Federation to supply \ binder twine this summer h,as been j pending. J. F. Moorman. Knox, member of I the prison board of trustees, conferred with Governor McCray and other officials.