Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1924 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16, 1924

CHAOWELL PLEADS SELF-DEFENSE AS JURYGETS CASE Defendant in Sparks Murder Trial Declares He Was Attacked by Opponent, By RUSSELL CAMPBELL Times Staff Correspondent FRANKLIN, Ind., Jan. 16.—Thd jury received instructions and retired early today in the trial of Chester Chadwell, 20, of 2001 W. Vermont St., Indianapolis, charged with fatally stabbing William O. Sparks, 24, at 3032 Jackson St., following an alleged controversy over the Fiery Cross, Ku-Klux Klan paper, Nov. 15, 1922. Chadwell took the stand in his own defense Tuesday and for two hours was questioned first by his counsel and then cross-examined by the State. The defendant’s story of the argument leading up to the fight almost coincided with that of preceding witnesses, but in telling of the fight Chadwell testified Sparks struck him with a blunt weapon, choked him, and said, "Now I’ve got you, you little and I am going to kill you.” Chadwell further testified that when he stabbed his opponent Sparks was coming toward him. He then fled, and did not know he hpd injured Sparks until he returned to the neighborhood and saw the ambulance arrive, he said. He also testified he was standing near the corner of the house when police arrived. He then told of his travels in which he went to Terre Haute, came back to Indianapolis, went to Cincinnati and to Somerset, Ky., where he lost his left arm while working on the railroad. He later was married. He returned to Indianapolis and surrendered because he wanted to get the matter off his mind, he said. Prosecutor Remy attempted to disprove Chadwell’s testimony by showing that although Chadwell made his written statement voluntarily to police when he surrendered last August, he did not include any of the details indicating he killed Sparks in self defense. Chadwell's mother, Mrs. Grace Samon, 2001 W. Vermont St., Indianapolis, burst into tears and rocked her son’s two-weeks-old baby to and fro when the father took the stand. His wife sat beside the mother, but showed no emotion. MRS. LOUISA BERND DEAD Councilman’s Motlier Will Be Laid to Rest Friday. A reader from the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, will have charge of funeral services Friday afternoon of Mrs. Louisa C. Bernd, 76, who died at her home, 105 W. Morris St.. Tuesday. She was the mother of Theodore Bernd, city councilman, and George P. Bernd. Burial Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Bernd was born in Lexington, Ky. She came to Indianapolis with her husband in 1869. Mr. Bernd founded Bernd Brothers, wagon manufacturers. Besides the sons, Mrs. William Grieb and Mrs. Adolph Emhardt, daughters, survive. Mrs. Bernd was a member of the Second Church of Christ, and was a charter member of the Germania Circle. Republican Program Arrangements for three Republican meetings have been made, Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of the State committee, has announced. A McKinley day meeting will be held at Huntington, Jan. 29; a meeting wiil be held at Princeton Feb. 12 and one at Rochester Feb. 14. GRANDMA HEVESUET HER HAIR GEY GRAY When you darken your hair with Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can tell, because it’s done so naturally, so evenly. Preparing this mixture, though, at home is mussy and troublesome. At little cost you can buy at any drug store the ready-to-use preparation, improved by the addition of other ingredients called "Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound.” You just dampen a sponge or soft.brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. By morning all gray hair disappears, and, after another application or two, your hair becomes beautifully darkened, glossy and luxuriant. Gray, faded hair, though no disgrace, is a sign of old age, and as we all desire a youthful and attractive appearance, get busy at once with Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound and look years younger.—Advertisement.

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Meetings Here Thursday Remington Arms. Meeting." Severin. Automotive Engineers Society. Meeting and dinner. Severin. Indiana Bakers Association. Meeting. Severin. Indiana Retail Lumber Dealers Association. Banquet. Claypool. Indiana Bankers Association. Banquet. Claypool. Indiana Polled Shorthorn Breeders' Association. Meeting. Cjaypool. Indiana Memorial Craftsmen Convention. Lincoln. Indiana Merchandise Brokers Association. Convention. Lincoln. / Lumber Credit Bureau. Luncheon. Lincoln. Whist Club. Ladles and gents. Severin. Traffic Club. Banquet. Severin. M * American Association of Engineers. Luncheon. Board of .Trade. American Business Club. Luncheon. Severin. Credit Men’s Association. Luncheon. Claypool. Sigma Chi. Luncheon. C. of C. General Contractors. Luncheon. Spink-Armß. Advertising Club. Luncheon. Seventh floor C. of C. Electric Leagiqe. Luncheon. Lincoln. Locomotive Explodes By United Press HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. 16.—James Bennett, engineer was killed and another trainman was injured when the locomotive of line freight train No. 31 exploded near Grayburg today.

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SALE! Women s and Misses 9 NECKWEAR!! Half Price ltt i t • • • • O About 300 pieces taken from our regular stock Vestees, Guimpes, Camisole Vestees, Collars and Collar and Cuff Sets, all smartly fashioned of laces, organdy or linep. Priced regularly 48c to $4.98. On sale Thursday at exactly Half Price —Petti* neckwear, street floor.

Everything fresh and new—the prettiest and best qualities of both American and imported weaves. All included in , Our January Sale of FANCY WASH FABRICS — Pretty New Dress Ginghams, Fancy Printed Voiles, Fancy Woven Tissues, Fancy Ratines, Checked Suitings, Silk and Cotton Brocaded Crepes, Silk and Cotton Checks, Silk and Cotton Crepe de Chines—Wash Goods for Dresses, Blouses, Lingerie, Shirts, Aprons—a wonderful assortment of beautiful new weaves!

7,000 Yards of Fine Dress Ginghams 25c Excellent quality and peat of styles In the prettiest new spring ginghams, offered at a remarkable saving They are strictly fast colors and will stand hard wear; 32 filches wide. In a vast assortment of checks, plaids, stripes and plain colors. January Sale price. 25t* yard.

... ... *" ... 29 e oo_ 49c Sale! Table Glassware! Second Day! New Shipments Brought Forward! 3 Big Lots! Lot No. 1 | | Lot No. 2 | | Lot No. 3 j 9c 23c 29c Genuine hand-cut table turn- Genuine hand-cut crystal glass- Assorted solid colors or stern biers, in straight, optic or bell ware, including goblets, sherbets only colored—fine crystal table shapes. and'beverage glasses. glassware. —Pettis glassware, basement.

DISCOUNT COMPANY GETS CONTINUANCE Permanent Revocation Said to Be Considered, A second continuance was given Tuesday by the State securities commission in the case of National Mortgage and Discount Company, Indianapolis. The commission had suspended license of the company. Permanent revocation was under consideration, it is said. Charges were made by commission administrator, Maurice Mendenhall, that the company attempted to sell stock held in escrow in violation of the State law and that the firm was in a “very unsatisfactory condition.” President of the financial house is Otto L. Krauss, ex-State auditor. Original officials and directors whose names were used, it is charged, in selling of stock are: Bert Morgan, Federal prohibition director for Indiana; Lawrence Lyons, former Republican State chairman; M. Bert Thurman, Federal revenue collector for Indiana. All have resigned. CLERKS’ WEEtTIs CUT C„ I. & YV. Employes Given Alternative of Reduction in Force. Clerks in the auditing department of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railroad are going to have a five-day-week. Following notification by officials that the clerks must either accept a five-day-week or have the number of clerks reduced, tho employes Tuesday voted to accept the short week. Action was taken by the Clerks' Association. The clerks represent about 77 per cent of the employes of C., I. & W. office.

Excellent Fancy Printed Percales 15c These percales are In choice pretty new and very neat patterns and colors on white grounds. Yard wide. January Sale price, 15* yard.

The New Woven Checked Suitings 69c They look like the new checked flanneb\ same checks and color*, and will fashion smartest dresses for early wear: 30 inches wide, In an assortment of the choicest colors January Sale price, 69* yard.

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_____ UNUSUAL PEOPLE . Heads School Teachers fryi EW YORK, Jan. 16.—1f ever a IN I national department of educaI I I tion is created, with a secretary in the President’s cabinet, it will bo largely through the efforts of Miss Olive Jones MISS JONES hopes to succeed in a similar national endeavor. She is also principal of a group of special schools with some 600 "incorrigible” boys in her custody. There she maintains she handles boys' and girls “like humans, and not like so many pieces of mechanism.” J. A. BURNS RITES HELD Burial services for James A. Burns, 64, a life resident of Indianapolis and a veteran of the Spanish-American War, were held In Holy Cross cemetery Tuesday afternoon with members of the Harold C. Megrew camp of the U. S. W. V. and ex-war comrades in charge. Mr. Burns died at State Soldiers’ Home Saturday, where he had lived a number of years. Surviving: A brother, Charles Burns, and a niece, Katherine Melee, both of Indianapolis.

Again Thursday!! More of Those Superb HHO PURE SILK HOSE at QO lAbsolutely flfst quality, pure thread, dipped dye 4k l\\r7iV f R<lk l* o * l ® l *. Mercerized lisle garter top and foot. An 1 outstanding hosiery value —noteworthy of your attenRemember > First Quality—Full Fashioned—Pure Silk—9sc a Pair —-Pettis hosiery, street floor.

Rodier Crepes Very Special $1.39 In neat little silk and cotton self-colored checks, or light and dark colors. Very new and pretty; 40 Inches wide. January Sale price, 81.39 yard.

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TIE-UP ON PENNSY LINESNEARS END Railroad Officials Deny Danger. Pennsylvania railroad schedules were nearing normal today, following tioup caused by condemnation of locomotives by Federal inspectors. The only train reported very iate this morning was the 7:45 train from New York, which left the station nearly an hour late. The railroad is changing locomo tives on through trains at Terre Haute and Richmond, instead of at Indianapolis, as customary. Pennsylvania officials admitted some locomotives were not up to standard, but any of those in use were in a dangerous condition CHURCH TO OPEN DRIVE A campaign to raise SIOO,OOO by Feb. 8 for erection of anew Methodist church at Meridian St. and Maple Road Bivd., is under way today. Decision to conduct this campaign as part of a $250,000 drive to build the new church was reached by the church building committee at the North Methodist Church, Illinois St. and Maple Road Bivd., Tuesday night. Work will be started as soon as SIOO,OOO is raised. The Rev. Jesse P. Bogue is pastor. I. A, C. Invitations Out Members of the Indianapolis Athletic Club today received formal invitations for the opening of the club house. Meridian and Vermont Sts., Saturday. Directors are holding special meetings to pass on applications for membership.

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Fine Fancy Dress Ginghams 29c The kind you see on others and admire, the styles and colorings tha f are new and different, the quality very unusual, in checks, stripes, plaids and plain colors: 82 Inches wide. January Sule price. 29* yard..

Renfrew Devonshire Cloths 39c Choice new stripes, checks and plain col ors. Styles suitable for women and children. A material of splendid wear and launders beautifully. Sun and water will not fade these beautiful Devon shires that are 82 Inches wide. Jauuary Sale price, 39* yard.

Fine Linen Finished Ginghams 29c These pretty ginghams usually sell at 39C yard. They come In pretty colored checks, plnlds and plnln colors. In 1 to 10-yard lengths, which we cut to suit you; 32 Inches wide. January 1 Sale price, 29* yard

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Onubw Ruffled Curtains, pair, 98c Sheer quality swiss in two sizes crossbar patterns. Dainty na r row ruffles and tie-back loops to match. rtQ Pair JJOC

ELECTRip POWER TOPIC Professor Predicts Passing of Making Energy Locally. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan.' 16.—Passing of individual town and city power plants for the making of electric eni ergy was forecast by Prof. C. F. Hard- [ lng, head of the school of electrical engineering at Purdue University, in an Address before the Indiana public utility conference in session here. Soon great central power plants, operating either by water power or steam, will supply surrounding territory In a radius of 500 miles, Prof. Harding said. Club Votes on Improvements Members of the Highland Golf and Country Club, Fifty-Fourth St. and Whitewater Rd., are voting on proposed improvements totaling $50,000, which have been approved by stockholders. Additions planned include a group of cottages along the river bank, swimming and wading pool, and alterations on the clubhouse. Cold in the Head? Apply liberally in nostrils. Head clears instsntly; inflammation quickly disappears. Cools, soothes, heals. All druggists. Send this adv. to Bear Mig. Cos.. Tarre Hants, Ind.. for sample. Home Made Remedy PARMINT Stops Any Cough Quick Get from any druggist, one ounce of Parrr.nt (double strength), add to it a little sugar and enough water to make a half pint. The minute you take it, like a soothing, healing poultice, it spreads, and relief comes at once. Children like it, too.—Advertisement.

6,000 Yards America’s Best 35c Ginghams 25 c This very low price is because they arc In 2 to 10-yard lengths, but we cut anv desired length and the assortments are very pretty and varied checks, stripes, plaids and plain colors; 32 inches wide, good weight, very durable and strictly fast colors; 25* yard.

at January Sale Prices 98c Art Veltone Cloth Doqble-faced, velvet-finished fabric In large, attractive colorings. Suitable for draperies and 7Md* 98c Overdrapery Madras, Yard, 69c Yard wide fine mercerized madras in beautiful allover woven patterns interwoven with a figure of contrasting color suitable for any room in the house fjn Yard 0“C Double Bordered Curtain Voiles and Marquisettes, Yard, 25c Fine curtain voile am} marquisette of the better quality, with fancy Jacquard and lace stripe OP _ borders. Yard faDC 39c Dotted Marquisette, Yard, 29c Yard wifle, splendid quality marquisette in OQ various size dots. Yard &/C $1.39 and $1.75 Fiber Silk Drapery Materials, Yard, 98c Beautiful drapery fabric of silk and fiber, plain and figured stripe, 36 Inches wide, rich lustrous colorings of blue, mulberry, gold and rose. Guaranteed qq sunfast colors. Yard *7OC

FAIL TO COLLECT FINES State Board of Accounts Report on South Bend City Finances. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 16.—Offices of the city treasurer and city clerk here failed to collect $11,251 In fines last year, according to reports Issued today by the state board of accounts. The board also reported

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Fancy Tissue Ginghams 48c Avery nice quality in choice new colors, in checks, plaids and with little Interwoven cords. They are 75c ginghams ; yard wide. While the lot lasts, yard. 48*.

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New Arrivals in the Art Needlework Dept. > STAMPED HOUSE __ DRESSES (one illua- f" trated), in coral, apricot, blue and yellow. V f Each, 89*. W STAMPED BED- JL 1 \ SPREADS in lovely JB f new pattern*. Priced from f2.19 to 95.26 Jr V y STAMPED BUFFET // IMM| AND VANITY SETS, W-. i In lovely designs. The w *' fT| 1 I Bet, 25*. r~f I STAMPED SILVER j £ I I WARE CABE3, on } * white materials, each, J Jtt, 2 98c STAMPED LIIL VOILE SASH CUR- Fill TAINS, lovely quality Jf [l and beautiful designs. fj \\ Only a few in the lot w Each, 59*. —Pettis art needlework, fifth floor.

New Fancy Fine Fancy Printed Printed Voiles Voiles 59c 95c Patterns of style and Styles that are new beMty colorß rhat and prettier than ever. are the vogue for the A large and very new season wear. Make choice assortment of y° ur election while . our assortment la so styles and colors; 45 complete; 40 lnehefl Inches wide. Jauuary wide. January Sale Sale prise, 59* yard. price, 95* yard. —Pettis wash fabrics, street floor.

Hi. Book. Curtains of Dotted Marquisette Pair, *l.lO Fine marquisette curtains, medium size dot with full narrow ruf3es and tie- in backs. Pair tgi.lU

—‘Petti* draperies and curtains, third fleer.

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