Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1924 — Page 2

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PAY BOOST FOR ALL OR NONE IS liYOjfS THEORY Increase for Policewoman Rachael Bray Opposed in Letter to Chief, Policewoman Rachel Bras’, recently promoted to sergeant, should be reduced or every woman emplos’ed by the city should be given an salary. Mayor Shank informed Police Chief Rikhoff in a letter today. M.'ss Bray, who is in charge of the accident prevention bureau of the police force, was promoted Dec. 31 by the board of safety on recommendation of Rikhoft'. “We have women in the city’ hall who do four times as much work, and a lot more responsible work than Miss Bray does,” said Mayor Shank, “and I'm opposed to picking her out and giving the Increase." Mias Bray's new pay iB approximately $2,000 a year. “Some of these girls at the city hall work late every night for S9O a month, and it's not right to refuse them a pay boost,” said the mayor. After the letter was sent the mayor said he would ask the board of safety to reconsider the promotion.

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CHURCH WORKERS MEET SATURDAY Matters of organization and inter esting young people In church work ■will be major features of the first annual Baptist young people s gather ing, starting Saturday at First Baptst CJ>ureh. Merdian and Vermont Sts It is expected 1,000 will attend. Speakers Saturday afternoon include the Rev. F. A. Hayward, executive secretary Federated Baptist Churches of Indianapolis; J. W. Cox, Richmond, Ind.; Ford Porter. Evansville, Ind.; Ray J. Wells, the Rev. T. J. Parsons, the Rev, O. R. McKay and the Rev. Carlos M. Dinsmore. Edwin Phelps, general secretary Baptist Young People’s Union of America, will lead an open forum. At a banquet Saturday night at the Y. W. C. A. the Rev. Norris L. Tibbetts of Chicago will speak. The Rev. Allyn K. Foster, New York, wiij speak Sunday afternoon. The conference will end Sunday night. MISSINGCOUPLE HELDINFLORIDA? State police today are awaiting positive identification of a coupie held in Femandina, Fla., as Lauren Swagert, formerly of Newcastle, and Marjory Lane of Franklin whom Swagert Is said to have married under the name of RobeVt Johnson. Nov. IT. It was found later he had a wife and child in Indianapolis Florida officials wi,-eU Robert Hume, chief of State automobile police, on Thursday advising him the couple was being held. They gave names as Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lana of Indianola. Fla. Hume wired for further identification before dispatching officers to return the couple Charges will be placed against Swagert at Franklin. Hume said. The girl’s parents desire to welcome her home. New Paris May Have S', eel Mill By Tim r Special MILFORD, Ind., Jan. 4.—New Paris, near here. Is to have anew steel and Iron mill for the manufacture of bridge and construction material, according to Henry Roeher, architectengineer of South Bend, who is to erect the plant. It will cost $20,000. Roeher said approximately 120 men will be employed by Tune 1. -• jr- .

FAIR OFFICIALS TO MEET Indiana County and District Associations to Convene Here Tuesday. Echoes of Hoosier county and district fairs last summer and fall will be heard Tuesday when the annual meeting of officials of Indiana county and district fairs will be held at the Severin. Forty-eight fair associations are members. J. E. '’’Green, Muncie, member of the State board of agriculture, is president, and H. C. Van Way, Shelbyville, is secretary and treasurer. ELIXIR RESTORES - WOMAN TO LIFE By United Pres * CHICAGO, Jan. 4. —Adrenalin chloride may become the elixir of life for persons with heart trouble, Dr. Arthur G. Frey, Chicago, said today. With the aid of adrenalin Dr. Frey on Thursday restored life to Mrs. Emma Wolf, Cairo, 111., whose heart stopped beating for ten minutes. Mrs. Wolfe was to have undergone a major operation," said Dr. Frey. “Apparently it was a case of death due to fright. After ten minutes I injected adrenalin chloride into the heart with a hypodermic needle. “Within thrty seconds,” he said. “The patient's heart resumed beating and in half on hour, she had regained consciousness. Dr. Frey cannot say definitely whether Mrs. Wolf actually died.

CIVIC FEDERATION REVIEWSRESULTS Accomplishments of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs in 1923 will be reviewed tonight by Edward O. Snethen, president, at the monthly meeting In Snethen's office, 416 Indiana Trust Bldg. On the list is indorsement of the Belt railroad track elevation bill at the last legislature session. Seven south side clubs obtained 10,000 names of property owners favoring the bill. The federation helped defeat the anti Speedway bill because it felt the Speedway was a great asset to the city. Agitation was started for smoke abatement ordinance. Resolutions were adopted favoring a west side high school and a separate high school for colored pupils.

Man, Once Legally ‘Dead’, Dies on Gallows

FOLSOM (Penitentiary). Cal. Jan. 4.—With the stroke of gally “dead’ ’and “buried” with all the honors of a respected dead man of Lodi, Cal., was dead in actuality. At that hour he was hanged, paying for the murder of Ed Meservty, itinerant laborer from Illinois. As the rumble of the dropping trap heralded the passing of his life, Mrs. Kels became the widow for the second time. And insurance companies will pay to her SIOO,OOO in insurance—so

POLICE SAY FIVE THEFTS SOLVED Five local auto thefts were cleared up in the confession of Ellsworth Walker, colored, 20, of 1639 Columbia Ave., and Fx-ank Tilley. 19, of 1010 E. Sixteenth St., who were returned to Indianapolis from Louisville, Ky.. Thursday, police say. Police esay Walker was shot In the right shoulder by Louisville police In a chase in which the two wore arrested In possession of a car owned by W. L. Seitz, 3318 Carrollton Ave. Five young men driving a car ne-

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ANOTHER WOMAN IS INVOLVED IN HOLLYWOOD CASE Confession of Greer Leads to Questioning of Mabel Normand’s Companion, By United Prc L.OS ANGELES, Jan. 4.—Confession of Horace A. Greer, chauffeur who shot Courtland S. Dines, today involved another woman in the mystery surrounding the assault Tuesday night while the Denver oil man was entertaining Edna Purvlanca and Mabel Normand, Greer's employer. Arraignment of Greer was ordered for today by Detective Capt. Herman Cline. It Is expected Greer Will ask bail, which will he set at SIO,OOO. Detectives interrogated Mrs. Edna Burns, companion of Miss Normand. Following Greer's statement as he was leaving for Dines apartment. Mis. Burns saw him take the revolver with which the shooting Was done and admonished him to “be careful.” Motive Ntiil Sought Authorities wished to know if Mis.' K rmund s companion could throw any light upon the chauffeur's motive In assaulting Dines, who has been in the Good Samartan Hospital since New Year's night with a bullet wound In the chest. Greer told police Mrs. Burns fre quently had told him Mies Normand had “too many had associates." Mrs. Burns might have unwittingly influenced the chauffeur to imagine himself Miss Normand's protector, po lice said. Greer's version of the shooting was that he shot the Denver man when the latter attempted to interfere wtih Miss Normand’s departure. The screen star was herself in the Good Samaritan Hospital today "re covering nicely" following an operation for appendicitis Thursday. Physicians said It will be a week before either Miss Normand or Dines will be able to receive visitors. Man May Have Been M ordered By United Perm HAMMOND, Ind., Jan. 4.—Further investigation into the death of Nicholas Angel, whose body was found near East. Chicago, was conducted today by Coroner Teegarden. The coroner believes the man may have been killed. No marks of violence were found on his body. It was first believed Angel died of heart disease.

Kels will have accomplished through the workings of the law the thing he sought to bring about when he murdered Meservey and permitted burial of the body as that of his own, though in donig it he has become “the man who died twice.” Kela, his final hope gone when Governor William Richardson on Wednesday refused him a reprieve, spent his last days quietly. He did not storm at his fate, but whispered words of penance to a priest. He prayed strength might be given his wife. He accepted his fate In silence and smoked countless cigarettes.

longing to John Wilhelm, 3545 Carrollton Ave., were arrested in St. Louis, Mo., police learned late Thursday. All live in Russell. Ky., it Is said. John Reissinger, city, was returned from Louisville by police on a charge ! of stealing an auto from John Greenj back, 501 H. New Jersey St. TRAIN VICTIM’S ESTATE GIVEN 55.000 DAMAGES FIU f’nitrrj Prr** BLOOMINGTON. Ind . Jan. 4—The estate of Mrs. Pearl B. Davis, de- • ceased, was awarded $5,000 damages . against the P., C., C. & St. L. Rall- ! road in Monroe Circuit Court Joday. Plaintiff asked SIO,OOO. Mrs. Davis was killed in Vincennes jby a train June 23. 1921. The case : had been venued from the Knox Clr--1 cuti Court.

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It was three months ago that Lodi heard with a shock the body of Alex Kels, cattle man and prominent in the town's business circles, had been found in a burned automobile —the skull horribly crushed and two bullet holes telling the story of how death came. Mrs. Kels identified the body. It was buried while she wept beside the grave—her sorrow Prevent Influenva The Tonic and Laxative Effect of I.axa tiv-e BKOMO QI’ININK Tablets win keep the system In a hcslthy condition and thus ward off all attacks of Colds, Grip or Influenza. The box nears the Signature of E. W. Grove. 30e. -Advertisement.

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doubled by tho knowledge that soon h child was to be born to her which was to go through life robbed of a A stranger, the last man sc-: with Kels, was sought us the mur derer. Just as tho insurance, was about to be paid, Alex Kels—the man who was supposedly buried, waa arrested at Eureka, Cal., in the act of attempting suicide. He waa brought back to his home county, admitted the murder of the mar* whose body had been found, and in a courtroom crowded with his friends, a judge whom he had known since childhood ordered that he l>e “hanged by the neck until dead, dead, dead.'

JOHNSON FIRES OPENING GUN IN 1324 CAMPAIGN Speech at Cleveland Scathingly Denounces Coolidge Policies, By United Pretn CLEVELAND, Jan. 4—Senator Hiram Johnson, opponent of President Coolidge for the Republican presidential nomination, was busy with conferences today following of his opening campaign gun at a public meeting last night. Johjison will fight Coolidge in every precinct In Ohio, and to this end Is campaigning the State. Friends of the Senator conferred regarding a campaign manager for the State. John D. Faekler, once prominent in Bull Moose circles, may be named. Johnson plans to carry his fight to the people In every State. Johnson punctuated his speech with scathing attacks on the Cool■lge Administration. He attacked the President's stand or. almost every Issue and condemned pcllUctans “seeking to nominate Cool* idge by default.” VERN FARMER IS JAILED it/ United Pret* ... m MARION, Ind.. Jan. 4. —Vem Farner, Summitville, was in jail here today charged with fraudulently col'ectlng SIOO Insurance money from he K. of P. lodge. Farmer Is Bald to have represented limself as the husband of Mrs. Jesio Lineberry, 24, who committed uiclde at Farmer s home, and to have illect, and the Insurance money. At or funeral Farmer is understood to ,ave declared he was not married. Myron D. Hodges Honored Myron IJ. Hedges, who recently eniste’d in the United States Navy from he Indianapolis district, has been made honor man of his company at he United States naval training ft talon, San Diego, Cal., it was learned today. 666 Is a Prescription prepared for Colds, Fever and Grippe it is the most speedy remedy we knotv. Preventing Pneumonia Let Cuticura Be Your Beauty Doctor ?—P.OitTwmt Tl<im.rtc.gYfry wrt>gf. Fwrttmpfw .•:jur. ' A.Cmt.eßz a i 1 HL alfoa. iu

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diana, western Pennsylvania and Illinois will be negotiated at Jacksrin ville, Fla., Feb. 11, It was announced at Cleveland today. Messenger for the Centropolis BanlV at Centropolis, Mo., a suburb of Kan sas City, was held up by bandits and robbed of $32,000 in cash today. Secretary of War Weeks stated to d,ay a decision regarding sale of arms to Mexico was to be reached this afternoon, following a cabinet meeting at the White House. Striking producers and dairy farmers were deadlocked today over price of milk for Chicago consumption. Supply remained near normal. U. S. VICE-CONSUL IN MEXICO IS WOUNDED That Was Accidental and Government Expresses Regret. By United Pr'-ix WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Harold G. Bretheton. American vice consul at Aguas Calientes, Mexico, has been accidentally shot in the leg by Mexican federal troops, the State Department was advised today. The Mexican government has expressed its regret, it is understood and is investigating the affair.