Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 240, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1924 — Page 2

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HANS READY FOR CONFERENCE AT WEST BAOEN iW Indianapolis Members Will Leave Thursday for TwoDay Meeting, Indianapolis Rotarians are eagerly awaiting time to embark Thursday for French Lick and West Baden, scene of the annual Twentieth district conference, Thursday and Friday. La Monte Daniels, of the Indianapolis Club, is chairman of the resolutions committee. The Indianapolis Double Quartette, including- Joseph F. Gregolre, Bert A. Boyd. Bert F. Kelly, Floyd E. Payne, Harry J. Berry, Harry L. Richardson, James E. Daugherty and Dr. N. E. Clark, will sing. Women guests will visit the training camp of ths Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Arthur Nehf, star pitcher of the New York Giants, and a member of ths Washington (Ind.) Rotary Club, Is a member of the Smiley-Nutter-Xehf trio, that will entertain the Rotarians. Robert E. Heim, secretary of the Richmond Rotary Club Is the only candidate for governor of the Indiana district, it was announced todday. State highway official* today undertook to provide information on State roads and the best routes to French Lick. Os the more than 2,000 visiting Rotarians, the majority will motor, R. M. Richter, Bedford, member of the entertainment committee, informed John D. Williams, director of the State highway commission. Rotary chiefs from the four corners of the country will attend. Included will be Guy Gundaker, Philadelphia, president of Rotary International; Arch C. Klump, Cleveland, and Raymond M. JTavens, Kansas City, Mo., past intm-national presidents, and Everett W. Hill, Oklahoma City, Okla., first vice president of Rotary International.

BLAZE IN WHICH THIRTEEN DIE IS INCENDIARY ORIGIN Epiletic Held as Fire Bug WhenNew York Tenement Burns, By United Pres* NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—A gibbering epileptic is believed to be the firebug who set a crowded east side tenement In flames today, snufgng out thirteen lives. The man tvas arrested as ho was shuffling hurriedly away from the building. He was unable to give coherent answers to questions. Flames Discovered Flames were sweeping the lower levels of the building when discovered by Patrolman Heusling. Immediately afterward he saw the strange man emerge from the structure.and placed him under arrest. The suspect gave his name as Lewis Schoenfeld, a news butcher. He had Army discharge papers and a small vial of white powder in his pocket. “I haven’t any matches; you can search me if you want,” he said when seized by the policeman. Heuslin© whistled for an assistant and held his man until a detective arrived. The patrolman then dashed through flames which were roaring through the lower hallways and made his way to the upper floors, beating on doors to arouse the sleeping families. Die in Bods The dead were suffocated In their beds as the flames rushed through the two upper floors, filling them with thick, acrid smoke. Scores saved their lives by jumping onto adjacent roofs. Chief Inspector Henry believed the Are was Incendiary and the firebug started It by throwing lighted newspapers Into a lower hallway. Two families were almost entirely wiped out. Bernard Barrett, a laborer, his wife and two children perished, the only surviving member being a aaubhter, Margaret, who is badly burned. Alex Hoqui, lost his entire family—a wife and three sons—and he Is in a hospital suffering from severe bums. • Benjamin Berger, his wife and a young son and daughter all perished. A Mrs. Bessie Schmidt, 40, also Is among the known dead. A. R. \V. Holding Revival The American Rescue Workers, Inc., are holding a .two weeks’ meeting in their hall, $23 King Ave. The revial began Monday night. There will be a different speaker each night.

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Mourners Overflow Church at Lawson Funeral

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In the little Alvarado, (Tex.) P.aptist Church, in which Louise Lawson attended Sunday school years ago,-.- they heM her funeral. She had lejffU|e homo, town to study v She was

New U . S, Ambassador to Mexico City? CHARLES B. WARREN By United . WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Charles B. Warren, Detroit, -mentioned as a possible successor to Secretary of the Navy Denby, Is considered, by the White House to have accepted the post of ambassador to Mexico. Warren left for Detroit declaring he had noCmade i® Jil*irjshd, JSut officials regarded the spatter sh fettled.

KINDNESS CAUSES WOMAN’S ARREST Aunt's Trip With -Fatherless Baby Ends in Prison,’ A two-day-old boy lay in the nursery at the Indianapolis Orphans’ Home, 4107 E. Washington St., today. In her cell at the city prison, his* aunt, Mrs. Bertha Sampson, 29, of Charleston, 111., sobblngly told his story. She awaited decision Indianapolis police requested from Charleston authorities. . "I just tried to save my niece and her family from disgrace,” Mrs. Sampson said. "The baby’s father left Charleston three months ago. Oh, mother warned me not to come, but I had heard of putting fatherless babies in institutions. My niece begged me to do It.” Mrs Sampson was arrested \tfhen the matron at the Union Station, of whom she Inquired the location of an orphans’ home, called police. Raid Nets Liquor and Arrests By United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 19.—State and local police joined forces late last night in a series of three liquor raids, their efforts netting them sixty gallons of confiscated liquor and three arrests.

found murdered In her luxurious apartment. Hundreds of Alvarado folk attended her funeral, for in death she had the fame which in life was denied her. Pictures show the Alvarado, funeral scenes.

REINERT MURDER INQUIRY SHIFTED TO KENTUCKY CITY i Detectives to Question Prisoners Wounded in Gun Battle at Louisville, detectives McMurtry ami McGlenn will go to Louisville tonight to question Ret Stacy, 23, Indianapolis, and Herbert Wallace. 24, Franklin, who were wounded in a gun battle with Loulf-ville police Monday night. The detectives will question the two men rs to their whereabouts on Jan. 28, when John Reinert, 3879 Byram Ave.. yardmaster for the Allied Coal and Materials Company, was shot and killed by two bandits at the company’s office, 2112 Northwestern Ave. Louisville detectives arrested the men in investigation of alleged auto-mobile-thefts. Pistols were taken from each and they were placed in a patrol wagon,’ according to dispatches. They produced hidden weapons, opened' fire on four officers In the patrol and Jumped out, police say. Other police, who were conducting a raid in a nearby house, wounded the fugitives as they ran toward them. Four officers were slightly wounded in the battle. Escaped From Reformatory According to'local officers, tho two men escaped from the Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton, Jan. 12. Stacy was sentenced from Indianapolis for from three to five years on a second vehicle taking charge in 1920. Waflace was sentenced for from two to fourteen years from Indianapolis in 1922. It was charged by Detectives Samuels and Stump Uiat Wallace was Involved in theft of $2,000 In diamonds and antiques from the home of Mrs. John McGaws, 308 N. Senate Ave. Lieutenant Hynes of the local automobile theft squad said he believed Stacy and Wallace made their way south from Pendleton in three stolen automobiles. An automobile was stolen from, Fortville and found here a short time later. Another car stolen here contained two pairs of prison overalls and a prison fireman’s badge when found at New Jersey and Michigan Sts., Hynes said. Third Car Missed Later the same night the automobile of W. A. Miller. 4211 E. New York St., was stolen from Alabama and Washington Sts. It has been found In Louisville, Hynes said. Captain Kinney said police are investigating whether the flight southward had anything to do with the robbery of a Franklin (Ind.) store of several thousand dollars worth of clothing. Louisville polloe, according to a dispatch, say the men went to Louisville Sunday night, accompanied by women giving the names of Eva Smith, Effingham, 111., and Dorothy Conrad, Wayerly, Ky. They met at Evansville, police say. Stacy has bullet wounds In tho stomach and hip, Wallace was struck in the legs. AUTO STRIKES OFFICER Ralph Kelch motorcycle policeman, is recovering at home today from injuries received when his motorcycle was struck by an auto at Southeastern and Keystone Aves., Monday night. Orville Smith, 19, of 214 Leeds Ave., said by Kelch to have been the driver of the car, Is charged with assault and battery and failure to stop after an accident. According to police, Smith was overtaken several blocks away. Kelch was chasing a speeder, h said, when his handle bars were tides wiped, causing hint to less oontxol.

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ANDERSON JURY ' TO START WRECK INQUIRY MONDAY Motorman and Conductor of East-Bound Car Are Bound Over, The Madison County grand jury will begin its investigation Monday Into the wreck on the Union Traction line near Fortville Feb. 2, in which at least sixteen persons were killed. Rollin Flynn and Sidney Sawyer, motorman and conductor respectively of the eastbound car. have been bound over to the gTand Jury. They waived arraignment on manslaughter charges nfter Coroner James A. Helbert had returned a verdict placing responsibility for tho wreck on them. The bond of each tis the defendants was Increased from $2,000 to $3,500. They furnished bond Immediately after being re arrested. Dr. Rene C. Julian, 4816 College Ave., has been named administrator of the estate of for, E. Blaln Haskins, who was killed in the w f reck. The estate consists of personal property valued at SB,OOO.

Griffis Welcomed to Ohio Home ’t: 'V‘ v-. r " — 1 11 u***mm ntmniimmmmmmmmmmmmmymmmmtmmmmmmmm im ■ n imwmmmmmrnmmmmmmmimmm—mmmmmmmmmmmm—mm MAYOR HOWARD KELLEY WAS FIRST TO GRASP THE HAND OF CORLISS GRIFFIS AS lIE STEPPED OFF THE TRAIN AT HAMILTON, OHIO, AFTER SPENDING SIX MONTHS IN A GERMAN PRISON FOR ATTEMPTING TO ABDUCT GROVER BERODOLL, NOTORIOUS DRAFT EVADER.

WIFE MISSING AS HUSBANDRETURNS Mother and Daughter Sought —Friends Tell of Departure, Search was started by police today for Mrs. Myrtle Mains, 26, whom her husband reported missing from their former homo, 1033 S. Harding St. Tho Mains’ 19-months'-old daughter also whs gone. Mains left three weeks ago, with two other children, to prepare a farm he recently purchased, near Scottsburg, Ind., for occupation. When he returned for his wife and baby Monday, neighbors told him Mrs. Mains sold a,ll the furniture Feb. 10 and left. Mains saicl his wife was suffering from a nervous trouble. Mrs. J. L. Smith, 3010 N. Capitol Ave., told police her colored maid, Edna Perry, 30, had been missing since Friday evening. Mrs. Smith raid the maid had been In her employ live years. DORMITORY BID ACCEPTED By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 19.—A proposition for the construction of a $160,000 men’s dormitory at Indiana University made by the Ostrom Realty Company of Indianapolis has been accepted by the trustees of the school. Work will startj about April 1. It will be ready for pccupancy next fall. Tha dormintory will accommodate 150 students r • A

TIMES MOVING TO NEW BUILDING ON W. MARYLAND ST. Paper’s Home Is Modern Newspaper Plant in Every Respect, The Indianapolis Times is moving this week to its new home, just completed, at 214-220 W. Maryland St. Moving will be completed Sunday and ail departments will be open for business at the new building Monday morning. Tho entire mechanical plant will be moved between Saturday night and Monday morning and not a single edition of the paper will be missed. The business office will move Friday afternoon and \*ill open in the new building Saturday, the editorial department remaining with the mechanical department In the old building on S. Meridian St. until Saturday night. The new building Is a newspaper plant modem in every detail. It is two stones in height, making possible the most efficient and fastest operation. The business office, including the display advertising, circulation and .'classified advertising departments, will be bn the first floor. Presses will be in the basement, where there will also be commodious space for paper storage. On the second floor will be the editorial department, the composing room, the stereotyping department, the engraving department, the United Press and other telegraph services. WOMAN IS SHANK AID Mrs. Edith Longfleld of Ft. Wayne Campaign Manager. Mrs. Edith Longfleld of Ft. Wayne will have charge of the women’s organization In the campaign of Mayor Bhank for the Republican nomination for Governor, Will K. Penrod, Shank's campaign manager, announced today. She will assume her duties March 1. In order to take tho position, Mrs. Longfleld has resigned as deputy stamp collector of internal revenue at Ft. Wayne. “All to Themselves” Leroy E. Fuller was silent booster for the Mercator Club luncheon at the Splnk-Arms today. There was no regular speaker and the Mercators had a "good time all by themselves.”

FATE OF FIREMAN IN BOARDS HANDS Barrett Ball Gets Place of Lieut, Corrigan, Tho case of Fire Lieutenant William E. Hanna, charged with unbecoming conduct, was taken under advisement by the board of safety today. Hanna was arrested by Lieut. Cox and police squad after his car collided with a police machine at New York and West Sts. Cox exhibited a pint of liquor which he found in Hanna’s car. Hanna admitted taking a drink, but denied he was drunk. Hanna has been a fireman thirteen years. The board accepted resignation of Police Lieut. John Corrigan and promoted Sergt. Barrett Ball to Corrigan’s place. Patrolmen William Woodward and Orman F. Sailor were promoted to traffilemen. Sergeant Claude Johnson, candidate for the Republican nomination for sheriff, was granted leave of absence from March 1 to May 10 to conduct his campaign. Albert H. Stone and George Lindsey were confirmed as regular firemen. REVIVAL IS CONTINUED "Nothing but God" will be tonight’s subject of Evangelist Emory W. Petticord at the Cadle Tabernacle. Monday night he gave his lecture on "Bethlehem, or the Birth of Christ.’’ The evangelist recently returned from the Holy Land*

Marie’s Four Great-Grandfathers LEFT TO RIGHT—JOSEPH CHRISMAN, D. M. BECK, MARIE CHRISMAN, WILLIAM GLASGOW, AND WESLEY SHAW.

Four great-grandfathers. Not many children can boast of having even two grandfathers, but Marie Chrisman, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Chrisman, Newburn,

1 MILES TAKEN FROM STATE ROAD BUILDING PROGRAM Earl Crawford of Highway Commission Tells Gyro Club of Situation, Approximately 200 miles of State pavement planned for the 1924 and 1925 construction program, will not be laid, Earl Crawford, mertiber of the State highway commission announced today In an address to the Gyro Club at the Lincoln. The commission’s decision, Crawford said, follows the Supreme Court ruling declaring invalid the 1923 motor license fee law. This ruling reduces the commission’s funds approximately $3,000,000 annually. There are 4.128 miles now in the State system, under maintenance and construction. Crawford explained. The system touches every county seat, and town of 2,500 population except four, and serves approximately two-thirds of the total population of Indiana. “Indiana Is the twelfth State In the number of vehicles owned per mile, ninth in the total registered, with 116 cars per mile of State highway,” Crawford said. "We are forty-sixth in the average cost of license fees. The average license fee for all States is $13.24, while Indiana'3 average is $6.” Had not tho commission’s program been curtailed, 1,500 miles of paved road would have been available by the end of 1925, Crawford said. The maintenance cost of State roads varies from SIOO to $1,500 a mile, it was pointed cut, depending entirely upon the density of traffic. The average cost of maintenance was $545.

WEHKING FUNERAL TO BE THURSDAY Services for Contractor to Be Held at Trinity Lutheran. The Rev. Johr. D. Matthlus, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, will of Delate at 2 p. m. Thursday at funeral services of Charles F. Wehklng, 78, who died Monday at * f bomb, 4732 Cornelius Ave. Servlc s will be at the church. Burial in Concordia Lutheran Cemetery. Mr. Wehking was bom in Westphalia, Germany. When he was 25, he came to Indianapolis. He founded the Charles F. Wehking Brick Contracting Company. He retired as president five years ago. Mr. Wehking helped co* rtruct the L. S. Ayres & Cos., Century, Manual Training and Shortridgo High School. Marion Club, Indianapolis Telephone Company and the Y. M. C. A. buildings. Surviving are the widow; six daughters. Mrs. Edward Reeener, Mrs. Otto H. Schulz, Mrs. William A. Kurman, Mrs. Otto P. Kern, Mrs. L. H. Flinn and Miss Florer ,e Wehking, and twelve grandchildren.

PURDUE G. 0. P. TO UNITE Boilermakers <o Form Republican Club Wednesday Night. A Republican Club will be organized at Purdue University, Wednesday, eve nlng. Frederick E. Schortemeier,’ secretary of the Republican State committee, will speak. Washington's birthday meetings will be held at Linton Friday noon and at Terre Haute Friday night. Schortemeier and Clyde A. Walb, State chairman, will speak at Linton. The principal speaker at Torre Haute will be W. L. Harding, former Governor of lowa. DE MOUY~ELEcTs~~HEAD Marshall Dafoe Is New Master Councilor of Order. Marshall Dafoe, 4519 Guilford Ave., Is th© new master councilor of Indianapolis Chapter, Order of De Molay. Adrian Pierce, OJney and Tenth Sts., is senior councilor, and Eugene Reid, 2110 Sugar Grove Ave., is junior councilor. They were elected at the clubrooms, 630 N. Meridian St., Monday. Citizenship training classes will be started for members of the local chapter as soon as final plans can be arranged. Prominent men wllj be asked to address the classes from time to time. Father and Son-in-Law Held Claude Chamber, 65, of 1227 Nordyke Ave., and Herbert Ward, his son-in-law of the same address, today were charged with assault and battery, following an argument. An additional charge of carrying concealed weapons n*M placed again* TOwd.

Ind., is the proud possessor of four great-grandfathers. They are: Joseph Chrisman, 77; William Glasgow, 74; Wesley Shaw, 75, all of Newburn, Ind., and D. M. Back, SB, of Columbus, Ind.

Model Killed in Auto Accident This magazine cover girl Is dead. Miss Mata Stoddard, 22, artist model, was killed in a Los Angeles automobile accident. Her face graced scores of magazine covers.

MOTHER AND BABY DEAD FROM BURNS Father Seriously Burned -in Oil Stove Explosion, By Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Feb. 19.—Mrs. Harry Mills and her 20-months’-old son are dead as a result of an explosion of a kerosene stove at the home at Lapel Monday. Harry Mills bought the liquid at a public sale as kerosene. Mrs. Mills and the baby were taken from the burning house and died In the hospital. Mills was seriously burned. The coroner Is investigating.

lUand cross last nightHow To Keep A Child Healthy A GENERATION ago parents easy passage without griping or thought that sickness was a strain. It does not contain narpart of a child's life, but we know cotics, and you can give it with better now. The secret is in the absolute safety to an infant at food the mother allows the child the breast. to eat, and in watching that elim- T . . ination occurs regularly two or AlaglC in a 1 Caspoonlu! three times a day. Mrs. J. Russell Every store that seUs medicines of 19,141 Havana Ave., Detroit, sells Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, Mich., keeps her family of two and the cost is less than a cent a young children in perfect health dose. Give half a teaspoonful to with Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, any ailing baby or child at night and Mrs. R. L. Smith of 519 Maple when you put it to bed and you Ave., East Pittsburg, Pa„ says will find a happy, laughing youngher family of three children have ster in the morning. Take Syrup never been sick a day since giving Pepsin yourself when constipated, them Syrup Pepsin. and give it to any member of Ao .... . , • the family young or old, for any substitute tor Physics ailment due to constipation, such Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is as biliousness, headache, lack of a scientific compound of Egyptian appetite, sleeplessness,bad breath, senna with pepsin and suitable cankers, fever sores, indigestion, aromatics. The formula is on and to break up fevers and colds, every package. You will find you Stop that first sneeze or sniffle and do not have to force children to you will have a healthy winter, take it, and it is much _ „ _ . _ . better for them than *•* You Can Bare A Trial Bottl. castor oil, calomel or J "Syrup Prpein,” 517 Washington St., COal-tar drugs liks* ; Monticeilo, Illinois. phenolphthalein even ! 1 need “ a " d w ° u ‘ d li £* to K 1 , . , ■ you say about Dr. (.aidwell s Syritp Pepsin by actual if covered with sugar , test. Send me a free trial bottle. Address to or chocolate. Syrup J Pepsin is mild and ; Name. genUe in action and l Addras your child will have an * • • Not more than 000 (free trial bottle to a family

TUESDAY, FEB. 19, 1924

IRISH POET TALKS OF FREE STATES , AND FREE VERSE Seumas MacManus Predicts Complete Independence for Native Land, "England again never will dare to send an army into Ireland,” declared Seumas MacManus, Irish poet and lecturer, who was in Indianapolis to'day. "The ‘lrish Free State’ is a misnomer. Ireland is far from being a free state. There are two parties, the Republican and the Free State party. Their ultimate goals are the samecomplete independence. "The Republicans believe in striking while the iron is hot —while the feelings of the Irish people already are stirred. The Free State party believes that w© should rest, recuperate from our weakened condition. Riley Recalled ‘‘lreland will have complete independence within twelve years.” The poet is well built, with fluffy dark hair. When he spoke of his native country his voice was tense. His eyes gleamed behind glasses. When he turned his conversation to the common folk or to literature his voice became mellow, his eyes! kindly. ' * “Yes, I knew James Whitcomb Riley well,” he said. "I had luncheon with him several times. I loved him and his work. Riley wrote and knew about the common folk. They are the ones I love, too.” Free Verse Disliked Put ths "strenuous poets.” Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell and other free verse writers, do not appeal to him. "Their work is good, but it doesn’t appeal to me ” McManus explained. The Irish poet is acquainted with many Indianapolis persons, including Thomas Carr Howe and Robert J. Alev, president of Butler University. MacManus spok© today before the Rotary Club, St. Agnes Academy and the Woman’s Department Club. Tonight he wijl speak at Indiana Central College, ,

BRITISH PREMIER WARNS PROFITEERS Press 'Supports MacDonald's Stand in Dock Strike,' By United Preen | LONDON, Feb. 19.—As the Strike 1 8f dock workers entered Its- -fourth day there was hope Prime Minister MacDonald’s early intervenUpn:'(may shorten the tie-up. The whole press has come out In full-hearted support Os the government. Premier MacDonald's warning to the profiteers is “timely and needed,” tha Daily Mail said. “Th© government is to be congratulated for its display of firmness.” The warning referred to was Issued last night. ‘The cabinet has information from varioias parts of the country,” an official statement after the meeting said, “that the prices of meat and other commodities have been increased from 33 1-3 to E 0 per cent. Full force of the strike began to be felt today. Hundreds of ships arriving at British ports docked and lay Idle. Outbound ships were unable to load cargoes. POWER FIRM ORGANIZES Insull Interests File Incorporation Papers for Gary Company. Articles of incorporation were filed today With th esecretary of State for the Calumet Power Company of Gary, Ind., by Interests of Samuel Insull, Chicago. The company will provide electric current to cities in the Calumet district. Fifty thousand shares without par value are authorized. Directors: Samuel Insull, C. A. Munroe, Charles W. Chase, S. E. Mulholland and Morse Dellplain.