Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1924 — Page 2

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CIVIC LEADERS OPPOSE FACTION MOVE ON SCHOOLS

FACTION BLOCKS NEW HIGH SCHOOL ' BUILDING MOVE Yoke, Johnson and Barry Line Up to Undo Work of Old Board, Anew faction, composed of Charles E. Yoke, Fred Bates Johnson and Charles L. Barry, Is in control of the Indianapolis school board. At a meeting Tuesday night. Yoke was elected president and Barry vice president. Yoke and Johnson succeeded Bert S. Gafic and W. D. Allison, Jan. 1. Hopes of immediate erection of three new high schools were blasted when the majority faction put through mo'tions forbidding the business director, Richard O. Johnson, to proceed ■with purchase of ground for colored and west side schools and to order architects for anew Shortrtdge, to be located at Pennsylvania and ThirtyFourth Sts. Wofk Halted Purchase of land for additions to Schoolt No. 24, North and Agnes Sts , and No. 29, College Ave. and TwentyFirst Sts., also was forbidden and architects were ordered to cease work on plans for additions at No. 27, Park Ave. and Seventeenth St., and No. 39. State and Lexington Aves. In presenting the motions. Johnson said he believed the "old boaid" should not have ordered purchase of grounds for the high schools or selected architects, but should have permitted the “new board” to have a band in -these matters.

Emhardt, chairman of the building and grounds committee last year, answered that there was no such thing as a “new board.” or an "old board," but that the school board was a continuing organization. He pointed out that three of the five members of the board as now constituted were members last year. Barry, who seconded Johnson's motion, has been a consistent opponent of school building programs for the past three years. Adolph Emhardt and Dr. Marie Haslep. old members, voted against the motions. On the vote for President, Yoke voted for Johnson while other members voted for Yoke. Consistent Division Factional division came on the vice presidency Barry received three votes. Emhardt Is said to have voted for Dr. Haslep and Dr. Haslep for Johnson. The three-to-two ratio jHfWintained on almost everx’.ynotion. ’.Albert Baker, for more than twenty live years school board attorney before his resignation about three years ago. was selected to succeed Frank B. Ross. Johnson took the lead in attacking plans of the old board for high achoop extensions and made all motions revoking action. Barry seconded the motions. ' T 1 ~ Overcrowding Described More than 5,000 school children now attend school in portables and makeshift buildings, while all high schools are overcrowded badly, according to school officials. Yoke named these committees: Finance—Charles L. Barry, chairman: Fred B. Johnson Buildings and Grounds—Johnson, chairman; Dr. Haslep, Barry. Instruction Barry, chairman; Adolph G. Emhardt, Johnson. Public Library—Johnson, chairman; Barry, Haslep. Military Instruction—Johnson, chairman: Barry, Emhardt. School Decoration —Superintendent E. U. Graff, chairman; Barry, Dr. Haslep. More Committees Gregg Bequest—Barry, chairman; Graff. Johnson. Seegmiller Scholarship—Jonnson, chairman; Gaff. Barry. Thanks and Memorials—Dr. Haslep, Graff. Trustee of Gregg Fund—William M. Taylor. Teachers’ Pension Fund—Johnson, chairman; Barry. Citizens Library Committee—The Rev. Frank S. C. Wicks. Mrs. Kate Milner Rabb, the Rev. Allan B. Philputt, Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht, Rt. Rev. Monsignor Francis H. Gavisk, Meredith Nicholson. William M. Taylor, Theodore Stempfel, Evans Woollen, Mrs. Perry H Blue, Mrs. Agnes McCullough Hanna, Merle Sidener, Albert Baker, Hugh McK. London, Thomas C. Howe, Laurence D. Chambers, Mrs. Lee Bums, Herbert Foltz. Hilton U. Brown, W. D. Allison, Charles N. Thompson and Joseph A. McGowan. SPEAKER WIDELY KNOWN Veteran Insurance Man to Talk to Indianapolis Underwriters. William B. Burris, who will address 300 members of the Indianapolis Underwriters Association at a dinner at the Lincoln Saturday, is one of most widely known insurance men in the United States. He has been connected with the Prominent Mutual Life Insurance Company nineteen years and has become widely known, both as a speaker and as a trainer of salesmen, some of whom are said to have developed into $1,000,000 a year producers. He is expected to speak on “Givers and Getters.” Veterinarians Elect Indiana Veterinary Medical Association In convention at the Claypool. elected Dr. William B. Wallace, Marion, president, succeeding Dr. M. W. Scott. Vincennes. Other officers re-elected: Dr. Harvey F. Whiffing, Lebanon, rice president; Dr. R. H Boyd, Indianapolis, secretary, and Dr. O. IL, Roberts, Lafayette, treasurer. Approximately 253 persona attended. :

Booze Sleuths Spot Likely Hiding Places

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RILEY MEMORIAL DifiECIOBS MEET New Members of Association to Be Recommended, The State executive committee and directors of the Riley Memorial Association met at noon today at the University Club to consider new members. Recommendations were to be made to the annual meeting at the Fletcher Trust and Savings Company this afternoon. Arrangements for the annual public meeting at the Claypool, Jan. 22, were completed. Dr. George E. Vincent. president of the Rockefeller Foundation, will speak. Included in reports be read at the afternoon meeting is that of Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary. -..Three directors, to succeed. Jojncit -Wl Fesler, Dr. Carletoh B". McCiilloch and Dr. Lafayettte Page, whose terms have expired, will be elected. scHiwii BE LOCATED HERE Site for Blind Institution Not Yet Picked, The new State school for the blind will not be located in Indianapolis, in the opinion of J. Frank Cantwell, secretary of the committee on re1, cation of the school now situated on the site of the war memorial plaza. Approximately thirty sites have been eliminated from the forty-four under consideration. Not less than twenty acres are to be purchased. The committee will meet with Governor McCray Thursday at 9 a. m. Among the sites remaining under consideration are: Harry F. Campbell property, 23 acres, on Meyer Rd.; Fred L. Carter property. 20 acres, west side of Michigan Rd., north of Meyer Rd.; Cooper property. Thirty-Eighth St. and Meyer Rd., north of White River; 30 acres on Meyer Rd., west of Coffin golf course, said to belong to Harry C. Stutz. USE OF NAME OPPOSED Purdue Trustees Deny Any Connection With Wheat Growers. Trustees of Purdue University oppose the connection of the school's name with the Indiana Wheat Grow ers' Association, declaring that the associaton s a commercial organiza tion run for profit, according to a statement received here today. According to a resolution the association has advertised that ten of its eleven directors were appointed by the president of the university.

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From Far and Near American schooner T. M. Nicholson, Captain Horace G. Wilde commanding from Buckport, Me., to Port Aux Basques, has been lost with all hands aboard. Mrs. Isetta Tate, Lisbon, Ohio, has filed breach of promise suit against her divorced husband, charging lie refused to marry her a second time as he agreed to. Tidal wave has Inundated the sea front, postoffice and a number of shops at the watering town of Jftoyan, France. William Gibbs McAdoo likens the Mellon tax plan to typical concessions to privilege "sugar coated with mites for the small taxpayers.” If Richard C. Stafford, 03, Chicago, can prove he is -crazy he will Inherit $400,000. He will seek to show deeds were signed by him after he was deviated insane by a court. Purely for business reasons and not for glamor of social contact, the Rus s.an Soviet government desires rev,, nitiofi of foreign governments, o/fi c-als declare. Fourteen-year-old Josephine O’Leary and her sister Julia, 10, saved the life of their father, John O'Leary, New York, when they fought off an insane man who attacked him with hammer, hatchet and ice p ck. Dr. Serge Voronoff, conqueror of old age with monkey glands, says lie-, has rejuvenated three prominent Americans. One was a lawyer, another a governmental employe and the other a prominent business man. Brig. Gen. Charles Dawes and Ow*n I D. Young will-sit on the expert com- j mittee to investigate Germany's finances as purely private citizens, they have declared. Three months of "dictatorship” sees Spain emerging from the financial depression and political uncertainty ■which culminated In the Rivera coup. The government has won confidence j of the public. Alabama Power Company and asso- i dated southern power companies have i submitted a bid for Muscle Shoals | project offering to lease th* shoals for fifty years at a price of SIOO,000.000.

Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong to: James Martin, 2836 E. New York St., from Capitol Ave. and Washington St.. Michael Cohen, 811 S. Illinois St. W-: C. Worthington, 2901 Ruckle St., from New York and Meridian Sts. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found: Ford coupe, bearing license plates, issued to Gilbert Pauli, 1103 Cherry St., Evansville, Ind.

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HINDOO’S SPEECH AROUSES WRATH War Vets Adopt Resolution Condemning Utterances, By Time* Special SHELBYVILLE, IndL. Jan. 9. Members of Dumont Post. G. A. R., and the local Woman’s Relief Corps today stand squarely behind a resolution condemning statements said to have been made by e Hindoo student at the recent Students' Volunteer Movement convention at Indianapolis, In winch the American flag was characterized as a piece of cloth. The resolution presented before a Joint meeting of the organization went through with wild acclimation It rigorously condemns the Hindoo’s speech and characterizes persons IUfItiHAS. such remarks as cattle breedng •' 4riUf Aad discontent, stating they houkt be banished from the country. EFROYMSON REAPPOINTED T! — Trusfeet of Indianapolis Foundation Renamed for Six Years. Gustave A. Efroymson. 480 E. Fall Creek Blvd., president of H. P. Wasson & Cos., today was appointed trustee of the Indianapolis Foundation, to succeed himself, by Circuit Judge H. O. Chamberlin. Efroymson's term expired Jan. 6. Appointment is for six years. The foundation receives bequests for social and civic betterment. BUILDING IS ADVANCED t Ijosh Paper Company to Erect I>argo Plant. The Lesh Paper Company today Is advancing plans for construction of a five or six-story plant, to triple present capacity, upon anew site of nearly a quarter of a block at the southwest corner of Senate Ave. and New York St. Purchase of six pieces of property In the site was negotiated by John Osborn real estate dealer. THIRTY-SIX REGISTER 1 Community Training School Opens at Y. W. C. A. Members of thirty six church de nominations today are registered for the second semester of the Indianapolis community training school at the Y. W. C. A. The school will hold classes every Tuesday. The semester opened Tuesday evening. E. T. Albertson, executive secretary, will lead discussions on "How to Teach Religion.” PRISON TERM IMPOSED Liquor Law Violator, Captured After Gun Battle, Is Sentenced. By United Bren* CONNERS VILLE, Ind., Jan. 9. Following a plea of guilty to a charge of transporting liquor, Ren Pendleton, of Madison. Ind., was taken to the State prison at Alichigan City today to start serving a sentence of one to two years. Pendleton was captured several weeks ago after a gun battle with Chief of Police Ketchum in which both men were wounded. r Hooray for Frank! An ample supply of Christmas trees for Indiana homes next Yule season has been assured by CanadiAn grow ers, Frank N. Wallace, State entomologist, said today after returning from Washington. D. C.. where he attended a meeting of the Federal horticultural board considering an embargo on tree shipments from New England. Quack Doctors Rounded Up By United Prcsi EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. Mo., Jan. 9.—Twenty-three alleged quack physicians, preying upon people who come to this resort in search of health, were rounded u i today by Sheriff Elgin. *

NEW OFFICERS ON JOB AT SEVERAL NATIONAL BANKS Two Directors Replaced by Fletcher American— Other Changes. Several Indianapolis banks were conducting business today with revised official staffs and boards of diiectors as a result of changes made at annual directors' meetings, Tuesday. M. Hathaway Simmons and William L. O’Connor were elected directors of the Fletcher American National Bank to succeed William F. Piel and Oscar P. Welborn, respectively. 'Harold E. Sutherland 1 . assistant cashier, was advanced to vice president, Otti J. Feucht and Walter J. Hubbard were named assistant cashiers, and Parke Haynes was elected credit manager. Officers elected for the Fletcher American Company were: George C. Forrey, president; Elmer W. Stout and Theodore Stempfel, vice presidents; L. P. Robinson, treasurer; G. B. Clippir.ger, secretary;' J. F. Shaughnessy, treasurer, and E. M. Burnett, assistant secretary. L. H. Trotter, Indiana rtal estate dealer, was elected to t lie board of directors. Election of Mallott Fletcher to the board of directors was the only change at the Indiana National Bank. Fletcher was assistant cashier. Directors and officers of the J. F. Wild and Cos. State Bank, the Continental National Bank, the Merchants National Bank and the Livestock National Bank were re-elected. ’PROWLERS'PROVE QUITE HARMLESS Police Trace Mysterious Night Noises. Noises kept police emergency squad busy during the night Tuesday, reports showed today. C. D. Childs. 3068 W. Fall Creek Blvd.. heard a sound. The squad found fresh footprints of a large shoe of the side of the house. Miss Alice Do Moss, 925*4 Ft. Wayne Ave., heard a muffled noise In the Piggly Wiggly store below her apartment. The electric light went out at the same time, Sam Parker* colored. 421 E Pratt St., Janitor, said he let a door leading to the basement fall. All lights in that VlelnPy went out power house trouble. Mrs. H. C. McKee, 3272 College Ave.. thought she heard a burglar. The squad aaid the janitor made the noise. Emery Knight, 29, of 2937 Schofield Ave., and Herbert Didway, 26. giving 1005 N. Pennsylvania St., as hts address. are held on vagrancy charges. Emergency men allege they saw them stop several persons who said they asked for money.

LOWLANDS ARE FLOODED , Mississippi Rivr Being Strengthened a Wallers Rise. /?V f’nitrrl fret* MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 9._The Mississippi River has reached a stage of thirty feet and is flooding lowlands. Flood stage Is tfdrty-flve feet. Government engineers are laying plans to strengthen the levees. The rise cannot endanger Memphis. Many river bottom families have been forced to move. NiCE, QUIET ROBBERS Customers Unaware Drug Clerk Is Being Held Up. David McGuire, 1224 N. Alabama St., clerk at the M. H. O'Hair drug store, 739 N. Pennsylvania St., felt a Arm pressure In his side. It was the barrel of a gun in the hands of a young man, who invited McGuire to walk back to the cash register with hint. The bandit took a roll of currency and, advising McGuire to keep still, escaped. Three customers were unaware of the robbery until the man left. ‘B. R. F.’ TO HOLD MEETING Women’s Organization Said to Be Klan Auxiliary Leases Fairground. *’B. R. F.," said to be a women’s auxiliary of the Ku-Klux Klan, obtained a one-night lease of the State fairground manufacturing building for SSOO from the executive committee of the State board of agriculture late Tuesday night. The meeting is to be held tonight. It had been advertised several days in advance, It is said. SULPHUR SOOTHES UGLY, ITCHING SI If you are suffering from eczema or some other torturing, embarrassing skin trouble you may quickly be rid of It by using Mentho-Sulphur, declares a noted skin specialist. This sulphur preparation, because of its germ destroying properties, seldom fails to quickly subdue Itching, even of fiery eczema. The first ap plication makes the skin cool and comfortable. Rash and blotches are healed right up. Rowles MenthoSulphur Is applied like any pleasant j cold cream and is perfectly harmless, j You can obtain a small jar from any j good druggist.—Advertisement.

Wisdom of Delaying Purchase of Sites for New Buildings Is Doubted —Beaman Promises ‘to Put Up Fight. 1 , Civic club leaders today expressed regret that the new “majority faction” of the school board has blocked immediate purchase of sites for new colored and west side high schools, two grade schools and selection of architects for the new Shortridge high school building, ordered by the board as constituted late in 1923.

Charles R. Yoke and Fred Bates Johnson, new members, and Charles L. Barry, old member serving another term, known as a consistent opponent to the program designed to relieve overcrowded conditions in the schools, constitute the faction which is blocking action. Explanation of Johnson and Yoke was that they wanted "time to study conditions.” Civic leaders pointed out that five years have been given to "studying conditions," meanwhile 5,000 pupils are attending part time sessions and some of the buildings they occupy are unfit, judged by modern standards. “To Look Into Details” “This by no means means a stoppage of school construction,” said Johnson. “The new members want an opportunity to look into the details and to study conditions.” Yoke said: "We are not familiar with the detai’s of the proposed high school construction program. We were not informed of it before we came into office. We are responsible for the expenditure of the money required to carry it out and we feel that we should.be given a chance to know just what we are doing before we go ahead.” Expressions of civic club leaders: EDGAR F. BROWN, 2440 Adams St., president Brightwood Civic League—Ths city needs the schools. We assumed the old board was ex perienced and knew what it was doinr. It was expected the new board would have confidence In the old board as most other citizens have. As long as the present necessity exists it shoul i be met with the least possible delay. JOHN F. WHITE, 1545 Lexington AVe., president Southeastern Civic Improvement Club—l wouldn’t indorse it as being a wise move. I rather question the wisdom of delaying the purchase ot the sites. It certainly looks os if the new board is going to reverse the policy of the old board. "We’ll Put Up a Fight!' GEORGE W. BEAMAN, 3815 N. Capitol Ave., president Riverside Civic League—We are not going to like -the action of the new board at ail. We won’t approve of their undoing of what we have worked so hard to get. We will certainly put up a fight for the three proposed high schools because it will mean a great thing for Indianapolis. WILLIAM T. QUILLIN, 22 N. Temple St., Pres dent of Englewood Hustling Hundreds —I th nk the new board has made a mistake In repud,atlng the action of the old board. There certainly Is need of a high school on the West Side. A colored high school wouM only be a matter of just ce to the colored population. v EDWARD O. SNETHEN, 233 W. Maple Rd., President of the Indianapolis Federation of Commun.ty Civic Clubs —I’m sorry to see the act on taken by the new board to block the three high schools. They are needed very much. The civic club federation has gone on record as approving the three proposed high schools. The c.ty schools are already overcrowded and mmediate action should be taken to remedy this condition. Certainly the west side Is In need of a high school and there should be a separate school for colored ch.ldren. Council Names Democrat President By Tina Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 9. — Clarence Don ham. Democrat, assumed duties toda> as president of the city council. Election came Tuesday night after twenty-seven ’ ballots. Fred A. Stalnaker, Republican, was named vice president.

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