Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 229, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1924 — Page 3

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HOLD-UP VICTIM’S CONDITION SERIOUS Laundry Wagon Driver Is Slugged and Robbed, Moffett Crail, 248 Laclede Ave., laundry wagon driver, was in a serious condition today from a blow on the head Inflicted by a hold-up man. Police sought a clew. Marcy Bynum, helper for Crail, living at the same address, told Motor Policemen Hague and * Pettit, that bundles had been stolen from the wagon while it was standing in the rear of the Columbia Club. Bynum went In the club. He said he came out and found Crail lying on the street, unconscious. Sixty dollars was missing. Mrs. Opal Franklin, rooming at 224 X. Senate Ave., reported an electric iron valued at $9 was taken from her room. Mrs. Ruth Hampton, 37 W. Thirty - Third S., reported her purse containing a diamond ring, cameo ring, reg istered letter and $2 in money had been either lost or stolen. A thief entered the kitchen of Mrs. Blanche Coleman's home, 3903 E. Washington St., and took a handbag containing an Eastern Star pin and $3.

MISSING PILOTS FOUND Aviators Lost in Fog and Snow Make Landing. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 6. —Jack Speed, wealthy Minneapolis aviator and Jack Cope, Chicago piiot, were located today at Dolloe, 111., forty miles from here after an all night search for the two missing airmen. The flyers became lost in the fog and snow and landed on a farm near Dolloe. BANDIT TRIO GETS $4,000 Three Hold Up Secretary of Building and Loan Association at Hammond. By Times Special INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., Feb. 6. Three bandits held up M. Krajewski, secretary of the Sobieski Building and Loan Association, in his office here, and escaped with $4,000 in cash Tuesday. Rite Meeting at Murat The State reunion and convocation of the Scottish Rite, March 18-22, will be held at the Murat Temple instead o fthe Scottish Rite cathedral, William J. Dobyns, thrice potent master, has announced. Ritualistic forces are being strengthened for elaborate exemplification of the degrees. Petitions of condidates will be received tonight by the Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection.

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A mystery man by the name of Raffles, assisted by Miss Childs, comes to the Pajace Thursday afternoon for four days. This man claims he can get out of anything at any time. ' • New Variety Bill Opens Thursday "Cheating the Grave.” an illusion presented by Raffles, the mysterious master cracksman, will be the headline offering at the Palace Thursday. Raffles has surrounded himself with a talented little company of one man and two women, and all seem to possess some supernatural poWer, for they can open safes, escape from handcuffs, slip from beneath the tightest bound ropes, apd do other uncanny stunts. The big, thriller will be when Raffles escapes from the .inside of a steel safe after it has been locked, tied, sealed and bolted. Other acts on the hill ■will be headed by "Stars of Record,” which has for a stage setting a gigantic phonograph through which the stars of record give fort htheir vocal efforts in imitation of some of the most famous singers of

CLUB TO HOLD I. U. NIGHT Alumni aiwi Undergrade to Feast at First Presbyterian Church. It will be “Indiana University night” at the monthly banquet of the Men’s Club of the First Presbyterian Church Friday night. The chief speaker is Dr. Charles J. head of the Indiana University English department. His subject will be "The Greatest Literature in the World.” Dr. Charles P. Emerson, dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, will preside. City Councilman Ira Branablett will furnish a string to play roljege songs and Herbert S. King will be yell leader.

the day. Hank Brown and company, with Harriet Moran, have a bit of chatter and songs under the title. "Come Here —Come Here.” Hodge and Lowell appear in another comedy skit, "Object Matrimony,” and McGood, Lenzen and company offer "An Evening in a Billiard Parlor," a backing for several athletic feats. William S. Hart, two-gun man of the screen, returns after a two-year absence In “Wild Bill Hlckok,” a drama of a wild western town In the days when bandit gangs were roving the plains and mountainsides. -I* -I- -IAttractions in view today include. Restelli at Keith's; "In Transylvania," at the Lyric; Nihla at the Palace; "Laffln Thru,” at the Lincoln Square; "The Talk of the Town,” at the Capitol; “Bits of Hits,” at the Broadway; "Her Temporary Husband,” at the Circle: "Scaramouche,” at English's; “The Extra Girl,” at the Ohio; “Judgment of the Storm,” at the Apollo; “Black Oxen,” at Mister Smith's, and "The Man From Wyoming,” at the Isis.

WILSON VISIT IN 1901 0 I>emarch ns C. Brown Tells of Address Before Irvington Body. The first visit of Woodrow Wilson to Indianapolis was in 1901 when he delivered an address before the Athenaeum, an Irvington organization, according to the memory of Demarchus C. Brown, State librarian, who was Athenaeum president and host to Mr. Wilson and his wife. Mr. Wilson was a professor at Princeton at tha time. He returned to the city in 1902 for an address before the Athenaeum and the Contemporary Club. POLICE IN GUN BATTLE Suspected Auto Thieves Are Chased Through South Side Streets. A gun battle between three suspected auto thieves and four patrolmen occurred In the 1000 block Union St. and vicinity Tuesday night. Patrolmen Wallace and Gegaa saw the men enter a garage owned by Mrs. Barbara Engelking, 1008 Union Sts TheJ- followed. As they entered the men ran and the officers fired several shots. Patrolmen David Kern and Shields took up the chase and one of the men fired at Kern.

ALLEGED SLAYER MAY DIE Hammond Youth Kills Woman Then Shoots Self, Police Say. By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 6.—Nacies Marches, 19, is expected to die of a Reff, inflicted bullet wound through his lung. | He shot himself "here Tuesday after fatally shooting .Mrs. Katherine striok ler, 21, according to an alleged con fesslon obtained by police. The shooting occurred at the home of Mrs. Strickler. Her husband was at work at the time of the shooting. CROSSING TAKES LIFE Three Others Hurt as Auto Is Struck by Clover Leaf Passenger. Bp Times Special MARION, Ind., Feb. 6.—Herbert Bryan, 30, died here Tuesday as a result of injuries received when his automobile was wrecked by an eastbound Clover Leaf railroad train at a grade crossing near here. His wife, an 8-year-old son and Miss Cecilia Johns, 18, sister of Mrs. Bryan, riding with Bryan, suffered severe injuries. Four Held in Freo-for-All After an alleged free-for-all fight in the restaurant of Mike Farmakis, 401 Massachusetts Ave., police held Roy Willis, 40, of 316 E. Vermont St., charged with operating a blind tiger; his wife, Ethel Willis, 26, charged with intoxication and assault and battery; Stella Zimmerman, 24, of 416 N. New Jersey St., charged with Assault and battery, vagrancy and disorderly conduct, and Richard Applegate, 27, of Michigan St. and Massachusetts Ave., on the same charges. Professor to Speak Dr. William R.. P. Emerson, Boston, Mass., professor of children’s diseases. Tufts College, will address the Indianapolis Medical Society next Tuesday night on “Physical and Mental Unfitness in Children.” Dr. Louis D. Belden spoke Tuesday night on “The Use of Solium Citrate in Control of Hemorrhage,” and Dr. W. F. Hughes spoke on “Some General Points of Diagnostic Value Found in the Eye.” Bar Meeting Feb. 13 The February meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association will be held at the Indianapolis Athjetic Club Feb. 13 instead of Feb. 12, as previously announced, Secretary John W. Kern said today. Albert J. Beveridge has tentatively accepted invitation to speak. Roscoe Kiper, Boonville, exjtidge of the Warrick County Circuit Ogrt, also will speak. Rainbow Vets -Meet Tonight The Rainbow Division Veterans Association jvill meet in Superior Court, room 3 at 6 p. m., today.

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PARDON BOARD TO DEAR AT APPEALS Six From Marion County Courts Seek Clemency, Clemency has been asked of the State board of pardons by six persons convicted in Marion County courts, it was announced today. The board will convene Feb. 11 for a week’s session. It will consider fortyone other appeals. New cases filed: Virgil DeMar, Marion juvenile court, April 17, 1923, six months State Farm, quency. David Ruffman, Indianapolis, city court, Oct. 29, 1923, thirty days State Farm, fined $100; violation of liquor laws. John M. Wright, Sept. 20, 1922, two to fourteen years; Indiana Reformatory. y Nathan Guice, Indianapolis, city court, Oct. 31, 1923, sixty days State Farm, fined S2OO and costs; violation of the liquor law. Walter Brock, February, 1923, two to fourteen years, conspiracy to commit felony; State Prison. Virgil Peters, Oct. 18, 1923, six months State Farm, fined $1 and costs, petit larceny. OLD RESIDENT DIES Body of Mrs. Helen C. Brown (o Be Taken to Newark, Ohio. The body of Mrs. Helen C. Brown, 80, who died Monday at her home, 1216 Newman St., will be taken to Newark, Ohio.j her former homo, for burial. Mrs. Brown had lived in Indianapolis about forty years. She was the widow of William J. Brown of Newark, Ohio. She is survived by her daughter. Miss Lula Brown, Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Henry Hodgkins, Syracuse, N. Y., and Mrs. Harriet Smyers, Newark, Ohio. Reed Receives Sentence Albert E. Reed, 21, Old Augusta, today faced a sentence of a year and a day at Federal penitentiary at Atlanta. Ga. He was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court. Reed, employed as a substitute mail clerk in the Indianapolis postoffice, pleaded guilty to stealing from the mails. Monday Reed attempted to end his life by drinking poison, police said. Mrs. Cora Iflll Buried /tv Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 6 —Mrs Cora Hill, 53, wife of Jacob Hill, who retired from the county clerk's office of the first of the year was buried today. She was active in church work. The husband and two children, Paul Hill, a student at Indiana University. and Mrs. Otto Frietzschie, survive.

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HEART BALM IS DENIED ;SWEETUM’ Jury Holds Mrs, De Bouchel Still Legally Married, j By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 6—Mrs. Onezima De Bouchel, New Orleans beauty, was on her way home today, “surprised and disappointed.” and without any of the half-million dollars she sought as heart balm from the wealthy Asa G. Candler. A jury In Federal District Court returned a verdict denying Mrs. De Bouchel damages on the grounds she is still legal wife of Adolphe Rocquet, from whom she secured a divorce decree in Reno, Nev. “The jury in this case for technical legal reasons was afforded no opportunity to condemn Mr. Candler and punish *him for his inexcusable attack upon my character,” Mrs. De Bouchel said after the verdict. Candler’s only reply to his “Sweeturns” was “I am very happy. I have no statement to make.” NEWS FOR FISHERMEN f Shite to Stock Hoosier Streams With Piko—Perch. The United States Bureau of Fisheries will cooperate with the State in obtaining 20,000.000 pike-perch eggs for artificial propagation and later for stocking Hoosier streams and lakes, George N. Mannfeld, chief of the State fish and game division, said today. The Riverside and Tri-Lake hatcheries, are equipped with apparatus for hatching these eggs. “Pike-perch is a real game fish,” .Mannfeld said. “For that reason we are anxious to introduce it into Indiana waters.” Odor Bomb Case Reported Police today said thqt persons reported to have been distributing cards derogatory to the Lincoln Square, Gem, Gayety and Manhattan Theaters were not found. Officers said, also, that they did not find persons reported to have thrown an odor bomb at the Lincoln Square. Polled said motion picture operators are on strike.

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By NEA Service ■Zri LATTSBURG, Mo.. Feb. 6. J- Breckenrldge Ellis of this city, in a wheel-chair since he weis a small child, has written more than twenty successful novels. The two best known are "Fran,” which was a best seller a few years ago, and “La- > homa,” which at- § talned great popu- | larlty as a movie, pra* /.'? <y v. j Ellis, despite his . If physical handicap. Is an optimist and three terms as Missouri Writers’ ELLIS Guild and teaches one of the lau-gest Sunday school classes in his section of the State. Ellis is also a pianist of some ability and has composed and published severaj songs, of which he wrote both words and music. TEN HELD IN RAID Second Visit Within Week at One Addre&s Nets Wagonful. The second raid In a week on a house In the rear of 624 N. Capitol Ave., resulted in the arrest of seven men and three women on charges of vagrancy. Police say that on several occasions entrance has been denied while liquor Is being poured out. Those arrested gave their names as I<ena MeGilllvary, 21, of 624 N. Capitol Ave.; Juanita Freels, 23, of 965 Indiana Ave.; Jennie Barnhart, 19, of 428 N. Illinois St.; Jack Ray, 26, of 3317 N. Capitol Ave.; John McGillivBrown, 25, and Earl Harris, 24, both soldiers at Ft. Harrison; William Taylor, 31, Greenwood, Ind.; A1 Ruel, 48, of 816 E. St. Clair St., and Carl Freels, 624 N. Capitol Ave.

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