Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 228, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1924 — Page 1

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SLEET AND SNOW HALT TRAINS ANO ISOLATEMID-WEST Wireless Only Means of Communication With Scores of Cities. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. s.—The Middle West today digging itself out of snow blanket and drifts from one foot to ten feet and at the same time felt around for avenues of communication with the outside. Swarms of telephone and telegraph repairmen labored in snow and cold in desperate efforts to link scores of cities which had lost touch with Chicago and surrounding towns. Wireless stations in Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapoli#soufeht to replace the fallen electric wires. They sent out limited news dispatches and broadcast relief messages. Word was lacking early today from Waupaca, Wis., where two Soo Line passenger trains were reported snowbound. Word of their plight was received via wireless station at Waupaca. A relief train with food and blAnkets was ditpatched from Chicago. The Waupaca wireless said the trains were steamless and helpless in great drifts of snow. Trains from the West are hours late. Traffic East has suffered little interruption. Weather bureau reports are the storm West has passed Its crest and is sweeping eastward, but with less violence. One Vast Snow Blanket * Twenty-four hours of sleet and snow, whipped by a gale reaching fifty miles an hour converted the ter titory between Texas and the Canadian line into a vast snow blanket. Much of the great electric wire system ;.nking city with city was ripped and torn. At 7:30 a. m. Chicago was practically isolated. The American Telephone an I Telegraph Company announced it did not have a single wire East. It was able to put only one wire West and that was to Elgin ,111., forty miles from Chicago. The company managed to put one wire into operation North to Milwaukee, eighty miles North of Chi .ago. The United Press broadcast news from Chicago and early reports showed the dispatches were being received by WLAG, powerful station at Minneapolis. At this station United Press correspondents copied the dispatches and relayed to points. Seven Hurt at Detroit At Detroit trains were late, highways blocked and transportation facilities hit. Seven persons were injured in a ■ •rash between & jitney bus and an automobile.

SLIGHT EFFECT IN STATE Storm Hampers Telephone Service in Northern Half—Snow Predicted. Sleet and snow storms, which cut off or hampered telegraph and telephone communication in parts of Michigan, at Chicago and in some northwestern States early today, will not seriously affect Indiana, the weather bureau Imre predicted. Snow with temperature as low as from 15 to 20 degrees above zero were promised here tonight. J. H. Armington, meteorologist, said it would be somewhat warmer by Thursday. The Indiana liell Telephone Company reported wire trouble in the Ft. Wayne and Soutn Bend districts. Messages were being sent over roundabout wire routes. Chicago was hard hit. The Western Union Telegraph Company reported that it suffered principally in the vicinity of Detroit and Toledo, but had communication normal conditions restored by 10:25 a. m. Hundreds of repairmen were in the held. The Western Union also had trouble in the northern peninsula of Michigan, in parts of the Dakotas and in Wisconsin. Telegraph conditions at Chicago were reported normal. Messages were being moved into affected areas, but were somewhat delayed. Wires from Dyer, to Chicago of the Postal Telegraph Company were out of service. The Postal reported it also had trouble getting Ft. Wayne, but w r as In communication with South Bend. The direct wire to Evansville of the Postal was down as a result of the tornado Monday afternoon. TORNADO HITS POCKET Property Damage at Haubstadt Estimated at sloo,ooo—No Lives Lost. Hi) Timet Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. a. —Propty loss, yet today, but running into thousands of dollars, was caused by a tornado which swept over this part of the State late Monday. It swept a path about a half-mile wide, creating destruction pn the outskirts of this city, at Ft. Branch, seven miles north, and Haubstadt, seventeen miles north. Many telephone and telegraph wires are down. It is bslieved that no lives were taken, but loss consists of live stock, orchaards and property. Four homes, an amusement resort and a schoolhouse were destroyed on the outskirts of the city. At Ft. (Continued on Page 11) HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m........ 39 10 a. m..••..•• 35 7 a. m........ 39 11 a. m 35 9 a. m 39 12 (noon) 34 9 a. m......... 39 1 p. 29

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Dead, Missing in Wreck KNOWN DEAD DR. E. BLAINE HASKINS, 39, of 1220 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis. Inspector directing department of agriculture bureau of animal liusbanry in Indiana. JOHN L. HUTCHINS, Lafayette, Ind.; guard at Indiana State Reformatory, Pendleton. J. H. CLARK, Jeffersonville, Ind.; ! guarf* ™t State Reformatory. CHARLES E. WEIS MAN, New Albany, Ind.; instructor at State Reformatory. LAWRENCE 11. FLOOD, 33. of 1130 Cnion St., Indianapolis; salesman Capitol Supply Company. JOHN MORIARITY, 20, Marion, Ind. JAMES F. T. SARGENT, 3340 Central Ave., Indianapolis, president Savings Realty Company. J, A. BRYAN, 2831 Kenwood Ave., Indianapolis; traveling salesman. WILLIS H. KINNEAR, 3306 Ruckle St., Indianapolis; president The Kinnear Company, real estate. SAMUEL A. GREENWALT. 48, Muncie, Ind. CAREY BOGIE, 23, Marion, Ind.; electrical engineer. OLIVER L. SHAW. 1103 Reid PI.. Indianapolis; employe of Pearson Piano Company at Anderson. JOSEPH L. WINDSOR. 55. of 2011 N. Talbott Ave., Indianapolis. SHERMAN FAY, 47. Ft. Wayne. REPORTED MISSING: N. F. JONES" 2170 N. Talbott Ave., Apt. No. 2, Indianapolis; traveling salesman for a firm at Elmira, N. Y. RALPH SMITH, 24 years, old, 1860 Orleans St., Indianapolis. s MISS CARRIE DUNN, Muncie.

WOMEN BARRED ON GRAND JURY, IS mm PLEA Governor, Facing Criminal Court, Attacks Validity of Indictments, Declaring the grand jury' which indicted Governor Warren T. McCray was Improperly constituted because women Were prevented from serving. p.ttorneys for the Governor filed a plea in abatement in Criminal court today. The Governor faced a bar of justice as a defendant in a criminal case for the first time since his financial crash last August. Through atterneys. he waived arraignment and filed the plea in abatei >ent.- He merely in the court room listening to attorneys and made t o statement. Clarence W. Nichols, special prosecutor, indicated he will file a demurrer to the abatement plea. Wednesday. Arguments Next Tuesday Arguments on the plea will be heard by Judge James A. Collins at 9 a. m. next Tuesday. The Governor wall not plead guilty or not guilty until a ruling is made on the abatement plea. James W. Noel acted as spokesman for the Governor’s corps of attorneys. “The plea goes into the regularity of drawing of the grand jurors." Noel raid. “The jury commissioners restricted the names to only one class of legal voters. They left out the women. The jury was improperly drawn.” The charges against McCray include forgery, larceny, embezzlement, issuing fraudulent checks, false pretenses and making false financial statements. The Governor appeared at the courthouse wearing a black slouch hat. When the court was convened and every one in the room was ordered to stand, the Governor remained seated until Noel reminded him to stand. Examines Ceiling During a part of the discussion the Governor leaned back and examined paintings on the ceiling of the courtroom. The plea of the Governor is not a new one in Criminal Court. Other defendants have objected to the exclusion of women front the grand jury and have been overruled. E. A. Hendrickson, a jury commissioner, when informed of the Governor's plea, said the law is not mandatory and that the names placed in the jury box are within the discretion of the commissioners. DROP IN RATE TO COME Service Commission to Order Cut in Coal Freight Tariff. Reduction in’ coal freight rates in Indiana will be ordered soon by the public service commission. A reclassification of schedules is underway. A tentative schedule has been prepared by A. B. Cronk. chief of the tariff department. Three orders of reparation for alleged excessive freight charges on shipments of coal ig Indiana were Issued today against tne Pennsylvania.

WORLD PAYS HOMAGE TO WILSON WHILE NATION’S CAPITAL MOURNS

Words of Funeral Services Will Be Broadcast by Radio* By LAWRENCE MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—A1l that is mortal of Woodrow Wilson will be laid to rest tomorrow while representatives of the Nation bow at his l>ier. The funeral plans were complete today. Simplicity will be the keynote. Neither at the home nor the ehapel, where the body will he placed in a crypt, will there be pomp or ostentation of grief. The radio will carry the words of the final rites to fifty thousand people who are expected to gather tn a natural ampitheater on Mount Stalhans, on the site of the new imposing Episcopal Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul. It is in the small Bethlehem chapel of this cathedral that Mr. Wilson's body will rest temporarily. When the cathedral is finished he will lie in the r.ave. Millions to Hear If arrangements being discussed to day are completed, the will be carried by radio to millions in other cities. Mrs. Wilson today gave her approval to the funeral program and to the list of those invited to the services at the home. The small company which will gather in the S St. home for the purely private services will include President and Mrs. Ooolidge. Chief Justice William H. Taft of ttie Supreme Court, a few Senators and other officials who were particularly close to the late President and the members of the family who are here. The company to be admitted to the small chapel will numlier fewer than five hundred. President and Mrs. Coolidge will attend these services, also, as will all the members of the Cabinet, the committees of Congress and representatives of foreign governments. Scores of wreaths and other floral offerings were arriving at the Wilson home today. These expressed the sympathy of millions of Americans as well as from foreign nations. Messages from foreign potentates came to Mrs. Wilson, expressing both the official and personal sorrow of the officials and peoples of other nations. From Wilson's Book From the same devotional book which Woodrow Wijson read every night, as he communed with God before going to sleep, will be read tomorrow, the words committing his body to the dust, his soul to the eternal. This book, thumbed and worn by constant use, is a small volume containing Scriptural passages, with amplifications and interpretations. From its pages Bishop James E. Freeman Wednesday will read some of the same passages w r hieh strengthened and comforted Mr. Wilson during his trying hours as President, and in his long seclusion as an invalid.

The detailed program of the funeral services, made public today, showed that simpilicity would be the keynote. Services at the Wilson home, 2340 S St. at 3 p. m., will j>en with the reading by the Rev. James H. Taylor, paator of the Central Preafoyterian Church, of the twenty-third psalm,— “the Lord is my shepherd.” Ther. the Rev. Sylvester Beach, the late Mr. Wilson’s pastor at Princeton, will offer a prayer. This will be followed by Bishop James E. Freeman. of Washington, reading extracts from the late President’s personal devotional book Military Guard Then the body will be placed in a hearse, behind which will walk eight soldiers, eight sailors and eight marines, all privates from the rank, who will typify the men over whorh Mr. Wilson was eomniander-in-chief during the war days. At the Bethlehem chapel, as the three preachers walk down the aisle, Bishop Freeman will read verses 25 and 26, chapter two, of the Gospel of St. John. opening with the sentence, “I am the resurrection and the life.” Following this, Dr. Taylor will read the Ninetieth Psalm. Then the choir will sing. Bishop Freeman after this will read “The Ordeal for the Burial of the Dead” from the Episcopal sprayer book. The choir will sing “The Strife Is Over, the Battle Won." The service will be concluded with the reading of the benediction, probably by Bishop Freeman. Out of respect for the memory of Mr. Wilson, President Coolidge today directed no work shall be required in the government department after 12:30 p. m., on Wednesday, the day of the funeral. It has been virtually decided that when the cathedral is finished Mr. Wilson’s body will rest permanently in the crypt. Mrs. Wilson desires this. Officials at Richmond, Va., who asked tliat Mr. Wilson be allowed to rest in the soil of his native State, have been "3tsfrd that Mrs. Wilson wants burial to Sie in the Capitol. Mr. Wilson thus becomes the first President to rest within the limits of the Capitol. George Washington lies nearby, but no other chief executive sleeps his final sleep within the boundaries of the Federal district.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEB. 5, 1924

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HEADS WERE BARED, THE THRONG KNELT AND LIPS MOVED IN SILENT PRAYER WHEN WORD REACHED THE CROWD IN FRONT OF THE WILSON RESIDENCE THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAD PASSED A WAV. THIS SPONTANEOUS ACTION, SHOWN IN THE ABOVE PICTURE, IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE TESTIMONIALS EVER WITNESSED IN WASHINGTON.

MORE SENSATIONS PROMISED IN OIL LEAKANDAL Former White House Official and Senator in New List — Three Subpoenaed, Bv PAUL R. MALLON I nitrd Press Staff t'orrrspondnit WASHINGTON. Feb. s—The Sen ate oil inquiry reached out for new sensational evidence today when it be gan tracing a list of names which Government officials reported to have “cleaned up In stock transactions. The list includes a former White House official, a Senator and at least rwo men high In Government department*. Senator Walsh. Montana, chief investigator, considers this the most Important phase of the rase tie is bringing up to prove “corruption and fraud" in connection with the leases on naval reserve oil lands which former Secretary of the Interior Fall gave to Harry Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny. John T. King, former Republican national committeeman from Connecticut. today was subpoenaed by the Senate committee At the same time subpoenas were Issued for Guy Stevens nnd Thomas Lee, New York. No suhpoena has been issued for the Senator In question. None Is con ttjnplated at this time The procedure would he to require the Senator to take the sta.nd without issuance of a subpoena. Broker Is Quizzes! Following lip this line of inquiry the committee met today to hear Samuel Ungerlclder. Cleveland -broker, who has offices In Washington. Although the plan was to conduct only a preliminary examination of I'ngerleider, the committee desirea to find out who bought Mammoth oil stock In Washington when the leases were made. Pall has been notified to be on hand Friday. The Senate is expected to pass a resolution continuing power of the investigating committee. This will meet one objection of Fall, who declined to testify. Steps will be taken to find him in contempt if he does not tell his story. Siiirbtir YVili Be Called As soon as Harry Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, returns from Europe he will bo subpoenaed before the committee. Carl P. Biggerman, of the Chase National Bank of New York, has been called to trace large transfers of cash Sinclair is said to have made to a Washington bank. The accountants of the federal trade commission who are going over the books of Washington brokers probably will have a report ready in a few days. They are attempting to ascertain names of those who speculated. On Thursday the Senate will resume consideration of the Robinson resolution calling for resignation of Secretary of the Navy Denby. CIVIC CHAIRMEN NAMED Chamber of Commerce Advisory Councils Appointed by Fortune. Advisory council chairmen of the Chamber of Commerce :ivic affairs commiUee have been named by William Fortune, general chairman. They are: Public finance, Arthur V. Brown; legal, Samuel Ashby; health, Dr. E. D. Clarke; county and State relations, Leo K. Fesler; engineering, Earl Carter ;public employment, Earl Beck; statistics, Murray A. Dalman.

They Didn’t Say: ‘Check Your Hat, Mr.?’ • "Their hate are pluck'd about their ears * * * " —"Julius Caesar. Scene 3, Act I.

Ml , IFTER the knaves." cried I Zxl eight guests of T. O. GasLL±I away, 1131 N. Delaware ,St., Monday night as the pet chapeau of each disappeared through the front door in the hands of two unidentified men. The agitated victims gave chase to the Ford coupe in which the intruders • disappeared, but to no

NO SOMPKR WREATH ADORNS THE DOOR OF THE WILSON HOME. INSTEAD. AT MRS. WILSON'S REQUEST, THERE IS THIS BOQUKT OF BRIGHT YELLOW JONQUILS. MIGNONETTE AND FORBYTHIA, THE DEAD CHIEFTAIN S FAVORITE FLOWERS.

INSURERS MEET FEB. 7-8 Speakers Include D. E. Shelton, President. and Newman T. Miller. The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Union of Indiana will be held at the Claypool, Feb. 7-8. Addresses will be made by D. E. Shelton. Morristown, president; Newman T. Miller, State fire marshall; If. P. Janisch, Chicago. A dinner will be given in the evening by the Indiana Mutual Cyclone Insurance Company. Speakers at the Friday session are; C. L. Quick, College Corner, Ohio; A. H. Meyers, Noblesville, and Maurice Douglass, Indianapolis. TWO KILLED IN CRASH Train Hits Chicago Street Car— Twenty Are Injured. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 5. —Two persons were killed and twenty were injured today when a freight train entering the city struck a street car crowded with workers The train, running on the Indiana Belt Harbor Line, was moving slowly, but struck the car in the middle and hurled it 300 feet through the snow drifts. Mrs. Mary Dehymer Dies Mrs. Mary E. Thrasher Dehymer, wife of A. J. Dehymer, Jlwood, Ind,, attorney, died of influenza at the home of her daughter, Mrs. D B. Goldnamer, 522 N. New Jersey St., Monday. Funeral services will be held at Elwood Thursday.

avail. The exodus of the hats was noticed when one guest saw a coat fall from a chair in the hallway where the men’s coats were lying. No one could describe the men. And these men have besought police to solve the mystery of the pui loined hats: Walter Witt, 6 W. Michigan St., hat valued at $7; C. C. Duck, 6 W.

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This boy with % flower for Wilson’s doorstep, is typical of the devotion Washington children are showing Wilson.

Michigan St., $7; Robert Morse Jr., 1831 N. Meridian St., $4.50; J. L. Thompson. 3710 Fall Creek Blvd., $10; H. D. Ridgely, 1924 Talbot Ave., $8; Charles Ritter, 1031 N. Pennsylvania St.. $6; J. C. Hendricks, IfSoo N. Meridian St., SB, and E. G. Vonnegut, 1626 Brtadway, SB.

Coroner Desires to Question Victims in Hospitals —Crew Dodges Inquest Investigation of the head-on collision on the Union Traction line near Fortville Saturday probably will be resumed in Indianapolis Wednesday, Coroner Jesse A. Helbert, Anderson, indicated today. Coroner Helbert wishes to examine witnesses who were 'hurt in the wreck and who are in Indianapolis hospitals. He expressed himself as particularly anxious to talk to N. J. Lasher, superintendent of schools at Gas City, who is in the Deaconess hospital. He said he would come to Indianapolis unless Lasher is able to go to Anderson. At the hospital it was said Lasher has a broken ankle and will he unable to go. Motorman Jumped, Lasher Said * Lasher told of the motorman on the eastbound car jumping before the crash occurred. “This investigation will jeopardize somebody’s liberty and I don t want to leave any stone unturned in getting to the bottom of the facts,” Coroner Helbert said. Rollin Flynn and Sidney Sawyer of Muncie. motorman and conductor, respectively, of the east-bound ear, who were subpoenaed to appear at the coroner’s inquest this morning, failed to appear. Officials of the Cnion Traction Company said one of them could not get to the inquest this morning. Both at Company Office Later it was learned both were at the office of the company. Both are charged with involuntary manslaughter. They were to be examined this afternoon. It was pointed out also that Elmer E. P’lick. claim agent for the company, has been attending all the hearings held by the coroner, while the public was excluded. Coroner Helbert sa : d that hereafter no one except himself, the witness being examined and a stenographer would be permitted to be present.

The coroner said he expects to examine eye-witnesses who live in the neighborhood of the scene of the wreck, either late this afternoon or later in the week. Immediately after the coroner returns his verdict, a grand jury investigation will start at Anderson. Charles E. Smith. Madison County prosecutor, will be in charge and will present to the, jury evidence obtained by the coroner. The public service commission investigation will start at Anderson Thursday morning with the entire commission sitting. The Government will take a_ hand In the investigation. John W MeCardle, chairman of the public service commission, was notified today by thj Interstate Commerce Commission. "Washington, D. C., in response to an Invitation wired, Monday. A Federal inspector, as an observer, will attend the hearing Thursday. Number Not Determined Tt was still Impossible today to determine the exact number killed in the wreck arid the number may never be known. The list of known dead contains the names of fourteen persons, but it is certain more were killed. Coroner Helbert said the number of dead may reach eighteen or twenty. The last name added to the list of identified dead is that of Sherman Fay, 47, of Ft. Wayne. Fay’s body in the morgue at Anderson was identified by persons who had been with him on the car and by H. P. Roth of Pittsburgh, representative of the Western Gas Construction Company, by which Fay was employed. A bit of brown necktie still on the body assisted in the identification. The name of Joseph L. Windsor, 55, of 2011 N. Tlabott Ave., also has been added*to the list of known dead. His body was identified at Anderson by Mrs. Windsor. He was the sixth Indianapolis man known to have been killed. The bodies of only ten of the fourteen known dead have been identified. Those whom relatives are sure are dead because of bits of jewelry and other property found in the wreck, but whose bodies have not been Identified, are James F. T. Sargent, 3340 Central Ave., Indianapolis; Carey T. Bogue. 23, Marion; Oliver L. Shaw, 1102 Reid PI., Indianapolis, a piano tuner; J. A. Bryan, 2831 Kenwood Ave., Indianapolis, a salesman. Several Unidentified

The bodies of some of these victims may be the charred flesh in the E. S. Albright undertaking parlors at Anderson, or the bodies in the morgue may be those of other victims. There are five or six unidentified bodies in the morgue. They are so badly burned the exact number can not even be determined. The list of missing is believed undoubtedly to contain names of persons who were not in the wreck, while a number of them may be represented by the bodies in the morgue. Relatives and friends of missing continued to pass through the morgue, scanning the bodies in the hope that something might be found to make identification possible. The curious crowd finally became so large it was necessary to lock the doors of the morgue. Even more visitors went to the office of the Union Traction Company, where bits of jewelry, keys and other articles picked up in the ashes were on display. Better than the bodies, these formed means of identification. The intensity of the heat which destroyed the wrecked cars was indicated by the fact that watches, keys and pocket knives were malted and welded together. Descriptions of unidentified bodies in the morgue at Anderson were given out by authorities in the hope they might lead to identification^ The descriptions: Male—Torso and head, legs missing, wore white cord shirt with laundry mark “2913” under collar band. Sex Undetermined—Part of torso. No identification .marks. Small woman or young boy—Spinal column, part of liver and legs. No identification marks. Female—llAdless torso with part cf legs. Wore corset, probably with (Continued on Page 11)

Forecast SNOW and much colder tonight with lowest temperature 15 to 20. Wednesday clearing and cold, followed by warmer at night and Thursday.

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WRECK HEROINE IS SERIOUSLY ILL Mrs, Minnie Waymire Is Brought to Indianapolis, Asa result of heroism in the Union Traction Company wreck near Fortville Saturday Mrs. Minnie roiro, a r.urse, 5753 E. Washington St., was in a serious condition today, her physician. Dr. Samuel McGaughey, said. Although her back and anHJe were badly sprained, Mrs. Waymire helped pull several men out of the burning wreckage. Mrs. Waymire was taken to St. John’s Hospital, at Anderson, and was brought to Indianapolis in an ambulance Monday, ft was feared she might be suffering from cra.umatic pneumonia, caused by her injuries. The shock of the tragedy was such that the sound of passing street cars unnerved her completely, according to Dr. McGaughey. CRASH COST ESTIMATED Fortville Damage Suits Expected to Bring Total to $535,000. The interurban crash near Fortville Saturday will cost the Union Traction Company about $535,000, William Kappes. clerk of the United States District Court, estimated today. He based his estimate on a wide experience in handling damage suit* of the kind sure to follow the Fortville tragedy. Estimating thirteen dead, with suits for $5,000 each, the average amount collected in similar suits; fifty injured, at $7,500, and SIO,OOO attorneys’ fees, together with $85,000 estimated as cost of the interurbans demolished. the figure was arrived at, Kappes said. S. P. GREY DIES SUDDENLY Machinery Concern Manager Succumbs to Illness. S. P. Grey, 73, of 511 second St., manager of the Machinery Clearing House. 424 Board of Trade Bldg., died in his office at 11 o’clock today. Coroner Robinson said death was caused by chronic myocarditis. Mr* Gray had been ill for some time. JURY MEETS WEDNESDAY Federal McCray Probe Understood to Be on Program. The Federal grand jury mil reconvene in special session Wednesday. Activities of Governor Warren T. McCray will be investigated, it is understood. About 150 representatives of banks are said to have been subpoenaed. OFFICERS ARE CRITICISED Bikhoff Censures Policemen at Safety Board Trial. "Policemen who can’t tell when a person is intoxicated no business being policemen,” said Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff today after several officers admitted before the board of safety that they were not certain if Patrolman Thomas Sullivan was drunk or ill. Rikhoff charged intoxication. Sullivan said he was ill when found at a dry beer saloon on Jan. 23. The board found him guilty of intoxication and suspended him for sixty days. Water Plant Sale O. K.d An order was issued by the public service commission today approving contract for sale of a water plant owned by the Roanoke Water Company to the town of Roanoke, Ind.