Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 226, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1924 — Page 2

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G. 0. P. SPLIT PAVES WAY FOR DEMOCRAT TAX PROGRAM

TWO YOUNG MEN TO BE QUESTIONED IN REINERT CASE Detectives 'Mum' on Mysterious Call to Relative of Victim, Detective William Rugenstein who went to Salem, Ind.. Friday is expected to return today with two young men who are to be tried here on charges of vehicle’ taking. The young men also will be questioned as to their whereabouts on Monday night, at the time of the murder of John Reinert, 55, of 3879 Byram Ave. Reinert was killed by one of two bandits who entered the office of the Allied Coal and Material Company; 2112 Northwestern Ave., and shot him with a .3s-calibre revolver. The car, said by detectives to have been used by the bandits, was stolen from Francis B. Perkins, 1440 Belle Yieu PI., a short time before the f.hooting. It was found deserted in a. vacant lot at Tenth and New Jersey Sts. An empty shell of the same calibre was found on the running beard ot the car. Inspector of Detectives John Mullin said today that one of the men arrested at Salem in an auto taken from Pennsylvania and Vermont Sts., owned by Warren Smith, 4440 College Ave., has beer under arrest before. Detectives would give no information as to the rumored questioning of a man taken into custody after a phone call had been received by a relative of Mr. Reinert. The woman who called the relative is said to have refused to give her name, but said a certain man seemed to know a great deal about the “inside" of the shooting.

FATE PLAYS TRICK ON TRAIN FIREMAN Roy Stutsman Dead Because of Change in Plans-, “Today Is the last time,” Roy J. Stutsman, 32, of 1210 S. Randolph St., Big Four fireman, declared when he started the trip Friday that ended in his death, Mrs* J* I. Elder his mother-in-law. of the same address, said today. Mr. Stutsman was killed when his train struck a handcar near Thomto*n Friday. The locomotive turned over. Mrs. Elder said she had suggested the Stutsman not make the trip because he was feeling ill. He had been called to take another run, but because he was not ready in time he took his regular train. Beginning today, he was to have taken a slower run. Robert F. Pannell. 3709 E. New York St., engineer, was seriously injured, and W. C. Cottom. Norman Ave., fireman. was slightly hurt. Mr. Stutsman is survived by two sons, Robert, 3. and Leroy. 7; three brothers, Elden of Cincinnati, Earl of Indianapoiis, and West of Jefferson County, and his mother, Mrs. M. E. Law, Deputy, Ind. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Mr. Stutsman’s wife died Feb. 15, 3922, Woman Struck by Auto Mrs. Pauline Beeks, 40, of Champaign, 111., is suffering today from injuries to her hip and right leg, received Friday when struck by an automobile as she alighted from a street car at Sixteenth and Olney Sts., with her daughter-in-law. Mrs. Fay Shanks, 1421 Kealing Ave. The auto did not stop. The license was not obtained. Anto Agency Building A one-story cement block and brick veneer building will be erected at 650652 Virginia Ave., immediately, Rus sell N. Edwards Company, architects and engineers, have announced. The building w.ll be occupied by the Prather-Chevrolet Company, which has purchased the site. The building will cost 116,000.

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Little Theatre Plays Go on Sale

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LEFT TO RIGHT: W. O. BATES, MRS. E. WATTERSON HUGHES, MRS. HELEN ADAMS

“Each of them a masterpiece, madam,” say the Little Theatre saleswomen of the book of Prize Plays of 1923 which went on sale today at L. S. Ayres, W. K. Stewart Company and Charles Mayer’s. The picture shows W. O. Bates, one of the contributors to the book, author of “Where Do We Go From Here?” autographing one of the copies being sold to Mrs. Helen Adams by Mrs. E. Watterson Hughes at W. K. Stewart Company. Maurice Carter Tull of Lafayette, another one of the winners, author

Leap Year Opportunity Ignored by Shy Maidens

For Sale —Good marriage licenses, cheap. Marion County is not the marryin' county she used to be. Fewer licenses for the tie that binds were issued by County Clerk Albert H. Losche for January. 1924. than any other January since 1916. Licenses sold during the month totaled 254, as compared with 305 for January. 1923. “And it’s leap year, of all years to show a slump,’’ quoth Miss Margaret Mahoney, deputy in charge of Cupid's counter. “Why. last lej&p year, in 1920. we sold 384 licenses the first month.” Even the added inducement of a cook book guaranteed not to ravel under hard wear proved of no avail. Silk Dress No Novelty “You know, under the old rule, when a woman proposes to an eligible young man in Leap Year and he refuses without a valid reason, he has to buy her a silk dress," said Miss Mahoney. “But I guess all the girls haVe plenty of silk dresses nowaday.

MEDIC PROGRAM FORMED! Public Campaign Arranged by State Associa.lon Committee. A publicity campaign to establish closer relations between the medical profession and the public was outlined today by the bureau of publicity of > the Indiana State Medical Associ- i atlon. The bureau will cooperate with vari- j ous health agencies. A publicity and j health council will be promoted with I a representative from each of the I leading State agencies. Literature on ! public health will be given to news- I papers for publication, and medical publicity talks will be given before various gatherings in the State. G. A. Drysdale Made Editor George A. Drysdale, metallurgist, Indianapolis, will become metallurgical editor of Foundry, a trade Journal of Cleveland. Ohio. Drysdale came to Indianapolis as metallurgical engineer of the Atlas Engine Works in 1911.

of “Treason,” was to assist with the sale today at L. S. Ayres book department. Thb book includes also “The Marriage Gown,” Judith K. Sollenberger; “Brothers,” Donald Gfooms King; “Two Dollars, Please," Margarette Stevenson, and “Nocturne,” H. L. Earnest. Other members of the Little Thetre who will attend the sale today at the two book shops are Mesdaftjes Everetf C. Schofield, Dorothy M. Woods. A. I. Dugan and Carl Lieber.

I "The girls are getting wiser. They j I know that If they get married, It's; I just keep on working. Also, the 'old I folks' don’t help newly married couples . , as they used to.” j The other marriage license deputy, | Ray Buennagel, himself just at the I eligible age of 23. took another view. In Defense of Men “Girls, as a class, are too bold and | free In these times,” he said. "Consequently, men cannot respect them, i and any one a fellow cannot respect i he cannot love. Os course, that doesn’t i apply to all girl#.” Losche’s theory is that Leap Year 1 never did amount to much anyhow, because man hangs back waiting, and woman cannot overcome her natural timidity. “The general disposition of modem man is to be humored,” he expounded. “As this is Leap Year, he insists that the female exercise her prerogative.” Chief Deputy Frank Childers said hard times have caused the slump. Just wait until business speeds up, he. says, and the young folks will marry.

ADVOCATE SCHOOL BATHS Speaker at Superintendent’s Meeting Would Keep PupLu Clean. “Every school system should have a set of shower baths for use of the students so they will get In the habit of keeping clean,’’ declared C. £1 Schlafer of the Indana University physical education department, speaking before the closing session of the Indiana City and Town School Superintendents’ Association at the Claypool today. Officers elected are: 1., W. Keeler, Michigan City, president; E. G. MoCullum, Jeffersonville, vice president; W. C. Goble, Sway zee. secretarytreasurer. Executive comrrjttee: E. B. Wetherow, Laporte: Z. M. Smith. Greenfield; J. F. Wiley, Elkhart G. E. Derbyshire, Princeton; N. F. Hutchison, Salem.

Auto Owners Collect Insurance By Timm Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 2.—The jury returned a verdict Friday afternoon in the case of Granville Ellingwood and wife against the State Automobile Insurance Company, awarding the plaintiffs sf<oo. full amount of the insurance policy carried on their car. The company was assisted by the | State fire marshal’s office and endeavored to offer testimony to show that Ellingwood set fire to Ills machine for the purpose of getting the insurance. Utility Grant Opposed Maintaining the public service commission had no authority to admit a bird electric utility in Indianapolis, :he Merchants Heat and Light Com!>nny has filed a brief with the Supreme Court opposing a certificate of public, convenience and necessity ■ranted to the Terre Haute, Indian- | tpolls & Eastern Traction Company, pheld in Marion Superior Court, and now on appeal. Rotary “Committee” Day Various committees will have charge | f the Rotary Ciub program at the Claypool Tuesday. Chick Jackson, cartoonist, will be presented by the entertainment committee. Walter F. Tear, new member, will be presented by the fraternal committee, and the district conference commitee will have “something special.” Institute Marrh 4 to 6 A meeting of the Indiana Chris j LRU Institute will be held at the j gjMiewood Christian Church Marchj 4, I and 6. \mon g the speakers will j bo the Rev. Book, Columbus;: 5. S. C. J. Sharp,! Loulnvllle, and R. B; X-jfeKrat °- W. JJltylor, cin-i ■ fajfnrTFpMTvl I

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EMPLOYERS WILL REAR OF RUSSIA AT ANNUAL MEET Newly Elected Directors to Name Officers Friday— Rubin to Speak, “Russia From Within” will be discussed by Jacob H. Rubin, Milwaukee, at the twentieth annua! meeting of the Associated Employers of Indiana at the Knights of Pythias building next Friday night. Dr. G. W. Dyer, professor of economics at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., will talk on "The Uw of Supply and Demand; Economics of Employment Relations.” A ballot taken among membership of the association has resulted in the election of these directors for three years each: Samuel O. Dungan, E. J. O’Reilly, Henry L. Dithmer, Fred C. Gardner, Alfred Kauffmann, A. L. Taggart, A. G. Ruddell and Blaine H. Miller. The board of directors will meet after the meeting Friday to elect officers. The finance and auditing committee report shows fifty-seven new members were added during 1923. Admission to the annual meeting will be by invitation. Before the meeting the speakers will be entertained at dinner at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. OFFICIAL EXPLAINS STOPPING ENGINES

Shippers Here Talk on Pennsylvania Tie-up, John A- Shirley, assistant chief In- j spector of locomotWes of the Inter- j state commerce commission today said : that If the Pennsylvania Railroad had lived up to Its own rules of safety the wholesale condemnation of loco motives by commission inspectors | last month would not have occurred., Shirley explained to a gathering of railroad men and shippers at the Chamber of Commerce that he had pointed out to the railroad certain j law violations and that he received j no satisfaction from the company. He said the inspection follow r ed as a natural outcome. Shippers, among them coal mine op j erators who said that mines were shut down when the Pennsylvania could not supply cars, complained that Interrupted frolght movements were due to wholesale condemnation of locomotives and declared the action unwarranted. From Far and Near Walter Pears. Chicago, thanks Mar coni. With the aid of radio he trapped his wife and boarder and secured a divorce. Busses continue to carry Akron to work. Mayor D. C. Richboldt, who refused to grand franchise to street car company for Increased fares, said I the motorization plan will succeed. Mexican senate today ratified the general claims convention with the United States settling claims for loss of life and property during bandit movements in Mexico. The London Times editorially today attacked the British government's policy of recognition of Russia. Liberal newspapers praised the move. Thousand policemen maintained order in Tokio Friday as mobs blocked streets where 300 members of Par liament staged an anti-government meeting. "All they’ll get is my dead body,” Edward Nadle, Chicago, shouted Into phone when his wife telephoned him to appear In court in their divorce suit. Then he shot himself. Failure to Stop Charged Joe Cropper, 1156 W. Thirty-Fourth St., was slated by Jack O'Neal, lnves tlgator for the accident prevention bu reau, at city prison Friday, for failure to stop after an accident. Improper driving, driving while Intoxicated, assault and battery, profanity and drunkenness. His automobile was in collision on N. Capitol Ave. several days ago. after which It Is said he failed to stop. Socialists Meet Tonight Indianapolis Socialists will meet at | 49% S. Delaware St. tonight.

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Advocates*of Mellon Plan in House Block Deal Chairman Green Makes With Progressives—44 Per Cent Rate May Be Adopted, By FRAZER EDWARDS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—A split in Republican ranks today paved the way for adoption in the House of a surtax maximum far higher than the 25 per cent rate proposed by Secretary Mellon.

WOMEN TALK ON UOUSINGPROBLEM First of Series of Meetings Monday at Library, “Municipal Housing” will be the subject of the first of a series of conferences of the housing committee of the Indianapolis branch of University Women Monday afternoon in the Cropsy auditorium of the Public Library. * Social agencies and housing committees of various clubs are Invited to cooperate. The second meeting will be held Feb. 11 in the Cropsey auditorium. Members of the committee 're Mrs. Frank D. Hatfield, chairman and member of the housing committee of A. A. U. W., Mrs. Ralph Hills, Miss Irma Brayton, Mrs. Bertram E. Silvers, Mrs. Waiter O. Lewis, Miss Gretchen Scotten, Mrs. Robert M. Sherwood, Mrs. Murray Hadley, Mrs. Thomas M. Mullins and Mrs. Janies A. Bavvden. The group meeting Monday will form itself into a temporary group or council to study housing problems. At the close of the conferences, which will probably be five m number, the group will determine whether or not It shall form a permanent unit, cooperating with certain State committees, to support social measures In the next Legislature.

PERHAPS HE WILL, BUT WE DOUBT IT Weather Man Believes Ground Hog Will See Shadow, The groundhog cavorted gaily In front of his dugout this morning unterrified by the sight of his shadow. However, his arch enemy, the United States weather bureau, was hoi on his trail. J. H. Armington, meteorologist, predicted that before sundown sufficient shadow-making sunshine would filter through the clouds to send the old boy back to winter quarters. Fair and slightly warmer weather Is in prospect, Armington said. A minimum temperature of about 35 degrees above zero may be expected tonight, he said. A wide range of weather conditions prevailed In January. according to official statistics issued today. The mercury reached a high mark for the month of 50 above on the ninth, after establishing a low mark of 13 below on the fifth, a range of 65 degrees for the month. The high January mark was 70 above, recorded in 1890 and 1906. The lowest recorded in January was 25 below, Jan. 5, 1884. LAWYERS OPPOSE BILL Bar .Association Against New Federal Court.

This resolution opposing the Hickey; bill for the establishment of a second Federal Court in Indiana was adopted j by the board of managers of the Indianapolis Bar Association today. “We are earnestly opposed to the Hickey bill providing for two district courts In Indiana, for the reason that an additional district court, as proposed, is wholly unnecessary as shown by the civil and criminal dockets of the present district court, and the added expense can not at this time be tolerated and for the further reason that the method proposed by the bill for the division of the State is indefensible." Relnert Fund $1,322 With a $25 subscription from Charles Alcon, an attorney, and n similar amount from the Mason Contractors’ Association, the reward fund for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer of John Reinert reached a total of $1,322, the Commercial Credit and Correct Weights Bureau announced today. Killed in FaU From Scaffold By Timm Special PENDLETON, Ind., Feb. 2.—Nathan Turner, 28, Crawfordsville, was instantly killed while at work at the new State Reformatory here. He fell forty feet from a scaffold, crushing hia j skull.

Chairman Green of the Ways and Means Committee said he would not be surprised to see the 44 per cent rate advocated by Democrats carry. By binding the Republican members of the committee to the 25 per cent rale, the advocates of the Mellon tax plan blocked a compromise deal Green had made with the Progressives. Green makes no effort to conceal his chagrin and the hostility of the progressives toward the Mellon plan has increased. DECISION ON AUTO UCENSESAWAITED Oral Arguments Completed in Appeal on Law, , Decision of the Supreme Court on the fate of the automobile license law, i under fire as invalid because of an * Inheritance tax "rider,” is awaited 1 by attorneys fbr the State and the | South Bend Motor Bus Company, : which appealed the case. Oral arguments were closed Friday afternoon after a three-hour discussion. Attorney General U. S. Lesh held the dominant feature of the law was that of revenue and that disposition of the Inheritance tax was related. Will H. Thompson, who appeared as a friend of the court, based his pleas on the regulation of motor vehicle licenses. Attack upon the law was led by Arthur L. Gillion, South Bend attorney, who declared the act to contain separate and distinct subjects. JOG DISPUTE STILL ON V Elliott (diargee County With Effort at Blackmail. “No filling stations In the middle of a public street!” This cry was renewed today by county commissioners, who Friday sent the county attorney. Russell J. Ryan, to beard the city board of public works on how and why the city plans to leave a filling station of the Sinclair OH Company on an "Island,” surrounded by street, In straightening the jog at Delaware and Twenty Second Sts. “How do they get that way? The county cannot blackmail the city into eliminating tills jog by a county plan.” said City Engineer John L. Elliott. There the matter rests. Message of Death Received Bu Time* Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 2.—Mrs. Susan Kepner, 75, widow of Henry Kepner died at Tucson, Ariz., Friday, according to a message received by relatives here. She left here a year ago when she went to the Southwest to care for her son, Dr. Arthur Kep ner. well known Indiana physician. Cldld Deserter Gets 1-7 Years Hu Time* Special NOBLES VILLE, Ind., Feb. 2.—Ray Downs pleaded guilty to charge of child desertion before Judge Hines Friday afternoon and was sentenced one to seven years in the State Reformatory. v A woman giving the name of Blanch Grandstrass, arrested with Downs, has been turned over to Logansport authorities.

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First Woman Seeks Congressional Seat

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MISS JULIA LANDERS The first woman ever to seek a Congressional nomination In Marion County is Miss Julia Landers, who announced her candidacy on the Democratic ticket today.

SPEAKER DEFENDS WIVEINT 'Left Wing’ Miners Hold Another Meeting, “I hope to God that the Bolsheviks do capture America and take things away from the robbers in power now,” Joe Manley, Chicago, secretary of the Workers’ Party, told a small group of “progressive” miners In Machinists’ Hall, 30 S. Delaware St., Friday night. He was outlining for the miner# the Teapot Dome scandal. “The Workers’ Party of America was founded by the left wing group in the labor movement, which saw In the Russian revolution new hope for the working classes,” said William F. Dunne, labor editor of the Daily Worker, a "progressive” labor publication. “Unaided, the capitalists could not win industrial wars,” Dunne declared. “It Is the Government that breaks strikes; issues injunctions; sends in the militia.” Strange Hold-up Described Sheriff George Snider and detectives today are searching for an automobile and four men who fired a shot to stop an automobile driven by E. A. Morris, Middletown, Ohio, forced Morris, his wife and 2-year-old baby and Fred Lapp of Middletown to get out, and searched the car, saying they were looking for whisky. When Morris started to the car to get the license number, he told detectives, the men jumped Into It and escaped McCulloch Speaks at Pendelton Bu Timm Special PENDELTON. Ind., Feb. 2.—Dr. Carlton B. McCulloch, Democratic candidate for Governor spoke at a meeting of the community organization here Friday night discussing community ideals. Ed Jackson. Republican candidate, also spoke. "Gentle Harbinger of Spring" Mrs. R. H. Schmidt, 1347 E. FortySixth St., heports a robin was seen in her yard Tuesday and again Friday.

SATURDAY, FEB. 2, 1924

WOMAN ENTERS RACE FOR SEAT IN NATIONAL DOUSE Miss Julia E, Landers First of Sex to Seek Honor From Marion County; The first woman ever to seek a nomination for Congress in Marion County announced her candidacy today. She is Miss Julia E. Landers, candidate for the Democratic nomination. Miss Landers set out’ these principal points in her platform: A soldier bonus. Reform in the Veteran’s Bureau. Repeal of Fordney-McCumber tariff law. Cheaper transportation, lower taxes and curtailment of road building aa solutions of the farm problem. Limited immigration. Child labor law. Born On library Site Miss Landers was born in Indianapolis’ on the site of the Riley public library. She was educated in the public schools, the Girls’ Classical School and was graduated from Bryn Mawr College. She was one of the organizers of the League of Woman Voters and is advertising manager of the Woman Voter. She is a member of the American Woman’s University Association, the National Educational Association, of the State board of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of the Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays, the Indiana Democratic Club, and is educational chairman of the Seventh District Democratic Woman’# Club. National Committeewoman Miss Landers was appointed associate national committeewoman of the Democratic national committee in 1918 and was elected national committeewoman in 1920. In 1920 she was a presidential elector-at-large. During the war she was acting chairman of the woman's committee of the State council of defense for five months and was chairman of the committee to register Indiana women for war service for a year. Miss Landers is the second Indiana woman to seek a seat in Congress In 1922 Miss Esther Kathleen O’Keefe was the Democratic nominee.ln the Thirteenth district. ESTATE IS PUT IN TRUST Louis G. Desehler Leaves Bulk Os Property to His Daughter, The Indiana Trust Company today took charge of the *150,000 estate left by Louis G. Desehler, tobacco tner- | chant, who died Jan. 28, under the terms of a will probated Friday. The bulk of the estate will be made a ' trust fund for a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy D. Francis, and his sister. Miss Louisa Desehler. Mrs. Francis is to receive three-fourths of the income, and a cash bequest of SIO,OOO. Miss Desehler will receive the property at 1421 N. Illinnols st. and $5,000 cash, in addition to one-fourth of the trust Income. Mr. Desehler left SI,OOO each to his niece and Miss Agnes Desehler, and to slsters-in-law, Mrs. Emma Desch ler and Mrs. Mary Desehler. Abe quest of SSOO was left to St. Mary's Catholic Church. Veterans Must Make Haste Disabled veterans of the World War who desire compensation from the Government should make their claims immediately, Frank T. /lines, director of the Veterans’ Bureau has advised. The time for filing claims will expire for most veterans this yea;.'.