Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1924 — Page 2

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PUBLIC WILL TALK OVER STREET CAR SITUATIONTONIGHT Hearing Based on Perk's Report Showing Half-Million Necessary, View? of the public on the street car situation will be aired before the city council tonight. The report of Benjamin Perk, utility expert, showing an annual depreciation fund of $500,000 is necessary to rehabilitate service and equipment, will be used as basis for the hearing. Perk will be present. A 7-cent fare, four tickets for 25 cents, 1-eent transfer, with eighteen tickets for $1 will produce this revenue, Perk estimates. He has also obtainel promise of the street car company that it will use extra revenue only for replacing equipment and im proving service. Walter W. Wise, president of the city council, said he believed considerable public objection would be obviated by this guarantee. Every citizen will be slotted a certain period of time to express views. Hearing starts at 8 p. m. No official action was taken at a conference Saturday in the office of Taylor Groninger. corporation counsel, when representatives of civic organizations were Shown the carfare sitfiation. Councilmen today said they would confer further with Perk and Gronlnger before a formal petition is entered with the public service commission. SIX YOUTHS HELD AS AUTO THIEVES Lost Hat Leads to Arrest of Young Men; * Detectives today said arrest of six youths on charges of vehicle taking will clear up theft of at least twelve automobiles, all of which were used for joy riding and deserted. All the cars stolen were of the same make. The young men left the first clew to their identity Thursday nighi . after the car in which they were being chased by Sergeant O'Connor and squad turned over at Thirtieth and Wheeler Sts., according to officers. Those under arrest are George Neal, 18, of 2627 Adams St.; Clifford Craig, 16. of 2250 Pruitt St.; Raymond Jarrott, 17, of 2214 N. Dearborn St.; Ralph Cutter. 17, of 2145 N. Gale TSt.; Paul Jones, 16. of 2209 Avondale PL, and Lawrence Green, 19. of 320 X. Davidson %• Police said Cutter, Green and Jones jumped before the car turned over and escaped amid a shower of bullets. Police said a hat lost in the escape led to the arrests.

REVOLT THREATENS BULGARIAN HONE Reports Declare Overthrow of King Boris Is Sought. By United /'res* ATHENS, Feb 25—The Greek general staff at Salomca has received reports of a serious communist revolt la Bulgaria, designed to overthrow King Boris and establish a republic. Many supporters of iho present government are reported tc have been arrested and shot by the revolutionists. The government is reported to have sent troops to the north to put down the revolt. Reports Probably Untrue By Uniter* Press LONDON, Fob. 25.—The Bulgarian legation Issued a statement today to the effect reports of a revolution, coming from Athens, probably are untrue. SECRET ROOM IS FOUND Police Arrest Woman on Blind Tiger Change After Raid. Two secret doors and a thirty-foot tunnel today led Police Lieutenant Johnson and squad to a secret room at 15 N. West St., where a ten gallon still and a quantity of liquor and mash Were seized. Mrs. Ida Bridwell, 45. was arrested, charged with operating a blind tiger. The officers entered the basement, crawled under a part of the house where the basement is shallow, opened double trap doors imbedded horizontally in the earth and found a room ten by five square in which the still was operating, they said a tunnel leading to the outside was found. Gone but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong ta: Norman Reid, 3304 N. Sherman Drive, Ford, stolen at Illinois and Vermont Sts Daniel F. Bass, 3353 Broadway, Dodge, from garage in rear of house. B. H. Perrlll, Lebanon, Ind., Buick, stolen at Lebanon. BACK HOME AGAIN An automobile reported found by police belong to: James Stone 511 b Carvel Ave., Ford, at Capitol Ave. and Washington St. .Maid and Child Find Fire Fire damage late Sunday at the home of Herbert Selig, 4012 Central Ave., was estimated at about 11.000 today. A maid discovered the flames and left with the 8-year-old daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Selig before they were in Sanger. . ' • • - . ; ... .. ..

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From the pleasure automobile of the Iloosier poet to a garage tow car—that is the fate of the 1911 Peerless touring car of James Whitcomb Riley. The car today is property of E. W. Rother, 629 Eugene St., manager of the repair department of the Plaza garage, 30 W. Vermont St.

OOHENY FLATS OIL PROBERS ANO CALLS SENATORS ‘LIARS’ Oil Magnate Defends Daugh- . erty and Denby in Dome Scandal, By Inited Pres* NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Edward L. Doheny, lessee of California naval oil reserves. * about whom the senatorial investigation has revolved, lashed back at his critics in an inter\ie\v published today in tho New Vork Tribune. Flaying the foes of Attorney General Daugherty. Doheny called Senator Borah and Senator Wheeler liars, accused the Democrats of playing cheap politics at the expense of good men's characters and insisted there is no oil rear. dal. Senator Walsh. Democrat. Montana, who is leading the investigating, is trying to become President, Doheny said. "Senator Wheeler Med when he said Daugherty was a friend of mine," Doheny said in the interview. “I met him only once and that was three years ago next May at the Metropolitan Club, with four other members of the Cabinet. "As for McKean, I have never seen him In my life, regardless of what Senator Wheeler says. He remarked ‘everybody knows’ about four times in his speech. That’s a good name for him—everybody knows Wheeler. Voted for McAdoo Four years ago Borah said that I had contributed $50,000 to Major General Wood’s campaign fund. I was a delegate to the Democratic national convention and voted more than forty times for McAdoo at the time, so I wired him asking hlin to correct his statement. Although the telegram was read on the floor of the Senate, he 3at in his seat and made no reply. He stands convicted of lying." Doheny decried the ousting of Secretary Denby "who had never been accused of wrong doing" and said the Democrats planned to bowl over one member of the Cabinet after another like nine-pins and send them from office, discredited men. He then paid ids respects to the Senators who come from the wheat growing countries, which he said was suffering because of conditions in Europe. "Those bolsheviks." Doheny said, “are afraid of their constituents. They have chocolate eclair spines. What we need in this oii affair is someone to pin down tne people who are talking recklessly and say, 'who told you this? Where did you hear it?' "Most of them would have to admit, as did Mr. Vanderilp on the witness stand, they were simply hawking rumors.

ROW ENDS IN KILLING One Dead, Another Injured in Ken- £ tucky Shooting Affray. Bp I nited Press MADISON, Ind . Feb. 25. —A drinking party, followed by a quarrel over a boat is believed responsible for the killing of John Jeffries and the serious wounding of Willis Jen kins. The shooting occurred across the Ohio River at Milton, Ky„ Sunday, When James Singer, deputy sheriff, attempted to stop a quarrel between the two and Isaac Pollard of Milton. Jeffries attacked Singer and asked Jenkins to help him, according to of fleers. DEER RITES WEDNESDAY Widow and Two Daughters Survive Indianapolis Citizen. Funeral services of John Deer, 66. who died his home, 2535 E. Pratt St.. Sunday will be held at the Royster and Askir funeral parlors, 2501 E. Tenth St„ at 2 p. m., Wednesday. Services will be private. He is survived by his widow, and two daughters, Mrs. Edna Rinderknicht and Mrs. Edna A. Shockley and a sister. Mrs. Barbara Wellar all of Indianapolis. Autos for Clergymen Arrangements have been made by the St. Patrick’s Day committee of tfce Ancient Order of Hibernians, to provide automobile transportation for the clergy and Other church officials in the annual parade, it was announced today by Edward J. Sexton, chairman of the committee. Fifty' t hickens .Stolen VV. O. Harding, Shadeland, Ave. and Thirty-Fourth St„ today told police fifty chickens, valued at SIOO, had. been stolen.

When Riley died the car was willed to George Ray, his chauffeur. About a year ago, Ray left the car at the garage. He disappeared. F. R. Chandler, manager of the garage, Saturday sold the car at public auction to cover storage costs. All oVbr S2OO, was to

Young Bride Is Held ' Charge of Bigamy --PACK '.IA, . r..~ Prison bars today separated Martha Pack Cly. 20, from her husband of a week, Albert V. Cly, 20, of 1201*4 E. Thirteenth St. Mrs. Cly is charged with bigamy. William Paok, 241 W. New York St., her first husband, alleged she married Cly without being divorced from Pack. "William was Jealous," Mrs. Cly de elarej today. "He told me we were divorced; so did his lawyer. I think it was Just a plot to get ;■*, into trouble. "If I am sent to prison. I'm going back to Albert when I get out. He’ll wait for me; he said he would." Mrs. Cly said %he and Pack were married in March, 1919. and separate-! in 1920. She said her mother, in Ben Davis, was caring for her 3-year-old daughter.

LEGACY TO HELP GIRL SEEK HEALTH Miss Edna Michael, Believed Dead, Receives Inheritance. "It’s the only good fortune I’ve ever had," was the only comment Alias Edna Michael, reared in a Chicago orphanage, had to make when she was informed of a $2,800 inheritance from her grandfather, Rhinehart Weber of Indianapolis. Miss Michael .was given up as dead in 1920, after detectives told relatives it had been learned she was drowned when the Eastland sank in the Chicago River in 1915. She was di* covered working in a Chicago tuberculosis hospital by Francis Ohleyer of the trust department of the Fletcher Savings & Trust Cos., administrators of the Weber estate. The girl inherits $1,400 as her share of the estate and another $1,400 that belongs to her sister, Cyrene. who died .in 1910. Miss Michael said she would use the money in regaining her health. SMOKE TALK SCHEDULED Prof. A. \V. Cole, Purdue, to Give Sixth Address on Abatement. The sixth lecture In a series of ten on smoke abatement will be given by Prof. A. W. Cole of Purdue University at the Chambeh of Commerce Tuesday at 8 p. m. His subject will be "The Influence of Smoke on the Public Health.” The addresses, w'hicli are being given under the auspices of the Selentech Club, the National Association of Stationary' Engineers, and the Chandler of Commerce. EARLHAM SEN|ORS~ELECT West Milton Boy Honored With Presidency of Class. Bp Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 25.—Newlin Mills, son of Edwin Mills of West Milton, Ind., hjas been elected president of the senior class at Earlham College. The class has an enrollment of seventy-eight, the largest in the school’s history. Mills also is editor of the Earlham Press and a member of the college debating team. Jealousy Thought Attack Motive Bp United Press NEW ALBANY, Ind., Feb. 25. Jealousy was believed by police today to have been the motive for an attack on Martin Flynn, 19, here, in which he was beaten into unconsciousness. After Flypn had escorted Helen Denison home from a dance an assailant stepped from behind a hedge and beat him on the head. College Debate March 7 fig Times Special CRAWFORDSYILLE, Ind., Feb. 24. —Wabash College debaters will open their season March 7 with Notre Dame and De Pauw Universities. The affirmative team wilj meet Notre Dame here and the negative team will go to Greencastle.

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; have gone to the Riley Memorial llos--1 pital for children. Rother bought the car for S2OO. Mayor Shank was auctioneer. The historic old car will be used this summer as a sight seeing car. In the fall it will be dismantled and converted into a tow car, Rother said.

COALITION PRESSES HT TAX PROVISO IN REVENUE BILL Democrats and Progressives Support inheritance Amendment. By United Pirss WASHINGT ON, Feb. 25.—The Democratic-Progressive coalition in the House prepared to write a gift tax provision Into the new revenue bill and increase levies on estates as the fight entered the final stages Democrats and Progressives are supporting an inheritance tax amend ment by Representative Ramseyer. lowa. It would take one per cent of SIO,OOO estates and 40 per cent of sl,000,000 estates. Chairman Green of Ways and Means Committee is pressing his gif! tax provision. Progressives are demanding a heavier tax than 10 per cent on 11,000,000 gifts. A bitter fight Is in prospect, on the proposal of Representative Clancy, Michigan, who Will attempt to have the live per cent tax on automobile trucks and accessories cut In half. Clancy charges railroads oppose Ida amendment. Whilo Representative Gamer, Texas, ranking Democrat on the committee is inclined to favor Clancy's amend ment, he has announced he'will oppose any further tax cute. He fears the reduction may go too far and leave the Treasury without sufficient revenue. He claims the measure in Its present form will raise more revenue than the Mellon Kites, hut the Republican loader charts that It would result In a s3oo,ooo,ln'® deficit In 1926.

GIRLS ESCAPE AS ESCORTSAREKILLED Lie Beside Bodies of Two Dead Companions, By United Prpes LOUISVILLE, Ity.. Feb. 25.—After lying beside the deatd bodies of their companions beneath an overturned autobobile for seven hours, suffering cold and shock, but otherwise not seriously injured, Miss Kffie Thompson, Garret', Ky., and Irene cfiilton of tills city were rescued early today by farmers. The men were Guy Burnett and Charles Whalen, both of Vine Grove, Ky. Their car went over a sixteenfoot embankment and turned over. The two men. were killed instantly. FILM TO BE EXPLAINED Aultma.il to Describe Production of Student) Benefit Movie. Maj. Gen. Dwight E. Aultinun, commander of the Fifth Army Corps, will outline circumstances under which “The Cross-Roads of the Old World,” a movie of peasant life of northern France, was produced at the opening of the picture at the Mumt theater tonight. Proceeds of the picture will be used for founding exchange scholarships between America and France. Patrons and patronesses for tonght’s showing. Peer dent Robert J. Aley, of Butler University; Judge and Mrs. Albert B. Anderson, Miss Fredonia Allen, Frederic M. Ayres, Mrs Arthur V. Brown, Mrs. Hugh McGibeny, Mrs. Hugh Mck. Landon. Meredith Nicholson, Mrs. Lafayette Page, and Mr. and Mrs. Booth Tarkington. NEWS FOR CAMERA MEN Eastman Kodak Company to Conduct Photography School. The Eastman Kodak Company’s itinerant school for photographers will open at the Lincoln March 4-6. Professional, commercial and press photographers will attend. The newest methods of photography will be demonstrated by means of eighteen reels of motion pictures. Studio work will be displayed. Phone Company Dissolved The Portage Home Telephone Company, Inc., of Valparaiso, Ind., petitioned the public service commission todhy for permission to dissolve and dispose of the corporation property. E. S. Miller, president, said the company had beenj operating at a loss and had not rendered service since Feb. 5.

WALTON MOTION GRANTED Hearing on Appeal to Supreme Court Set for April 7. Bi/ United Press WASHINGTON Feb. 25.—The motion of former Governor Jack C. Walton of Oklahoma to advance the hearing of his appeal from he dismissal of his complaint in the United States District Court was granted by the United States Supreme Court today. The hearing was set for April 7. Recently Walton’s petition for a direct appeal from the Oklahoma Legislature sitting as a court of impeachment, was denied. TOWER TYPE OF FIRE ESCAPE IS PROVIDED IN BILE r Hamilton Drafts Ordinance to Affect Future Building in City. An ordinance providing smoke tower fire escapes on all new buildings to be erected in Indianapolis was drafted by Francis F. Hamilton, city building commissioner, today. It will be introduced in city council next Monday. Hamilton's action followed discovery that many downtown buildings were without fire escapes. Investigation disclosed that State law regulates fire escapes, but enforcement is left to city officials v The new ordinance will clarify misunderstandings and put regulation back in the hands of city officials, it was said. According to its provisions buildings of three or more stories must have the fire tower which is an inside spiral stairway within a fireproof wall eight inches thick. Buildings of less than 6,000 square feet of floor area must have one stairway. Buildings between 6,000 and 12,000 square feet, two stairways, and build Itigs of over 12,000 square feet, three stairways. The stairways must be 3 feet 6 inches wide with landings every eight feet. Windows must he provided to obtain light, and entrance will be gained by outside platforms at the cage of the building. Every floor must have an entrance to the town Penalties of $lO to SSOO fine aie provided for violation. INQUIRY STARTED IN 1350,000 FIRE Evansville Flour Mill Is Destroyed. By United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind Feb. 25.—Investigation of the biggest fire in Evansville’s history began today with three points to be cleared. ‘T will call the fctitfV fire marshal, if necessary, to determine how ;he fire started, why it gained such headway before the alarm was sent in and why the sprinkler system failed to hold the fire in check until firemen arrived,” Fire Chief Carter announced today. Saturday night the Kelso y-Btirns flour mill, formerly the Akin-Krskine mill, was destroyed with a loss of nearly $350,000. Seventy thousand bushels of wheat, in steel tanks, was saved.

ASSESSORSUIPS CAUSE TURMOIL Jefferson and Deputy Reported in Disagreement, Turmoil in the office of Center Township Assessor Michael L. Jefferson. arising from the congregation of seekers after the 160 deputy assessor appointments culminated today when Jefferson's chief deputy, Martin Kimmell, threw up his hands and, according to some of the office seekers present, announced his intention to resign. Kimmell refused either to affirm or to deny the report. Kimmell objected because Jefferson was naming too many members of the Coffin-Dodson political faction, with whom Jefferson had not hitherto been in sympathy, politicians said. Kimmell is said to have favored adherence to the W. H. Freeman-Shank faction. Since tho Coffin-Dodson faction is Identified particularly wdtfi the county offices, office seekers said the cause of Jefferson's actions was not far to seek. County officere control money for office expenses of the assessor, they pointed out. G. 0. P. ROOMS OPENED County Headquarters Replace Those of Shank Gubernatorial Campaign. Headquarters of the Marion County Republican committee were opened in the Pythian Bldg, today in the rooms formerly occupied by the county Shank-for-Governor headquarters. iJvilliam H. Freeman, county chairman, has named Arthur C. Rennick, 6338 Julian Ave., Warren Township chairman, as secretary of the committee. William Bosson of Allisonville ‘has been named Washington Township chairman to succeed Warren Sampsell. Women, Always! LONDON, Feb. 25.—Yes, the women were vain 2,000 years ago. They liked to primp just as much as the women of today. A bronze hand mirror, just presented to the British Museum, testified to that. It is believed to have been used by a Celtic lady of fashion about the time of Caesar’s invasion in 55 B, C.

ROCKWELL BRANCO NEW ATTACK ON M'ADOQASSELFISH Contingent Payment of $900,000 Already Pointed Out by Candidate. By inited Press • CHICAGO, Feb. 25. —New attacks on William G. McAdoo’s relations with the Doheny oil interests "constitute another attempt on the part of the anti-progresslvea, to divert the issue in the nomination campaign," Judge Rockwell, manager of McAdoo's campaign, declared today. "There certainly has been no endeavor on the part of Mr. McAdoo to keep secret the offer of Mr. Doheny, when the law firm of McAdoo, Cotton, & *Franklin was retained by him in November, 1919, of a contingent pay- , ment of $900,000 in the event of suc- | cess attending the firm’s efforts to i secure a settlement of the difficulties ;of the Doheny companies with the ! Mexican government over the retro- ; active application of article 27 of the | Mexican constitution," Rockwell said. Rockwell pointed out McAdoo had ! said the Doheny interests offered to | pay additional compensation for set- ! tlement of the Mexican troubles. This | was in (Sedition to sums already paid I McAdoo for acting for the company. RookW'ell sees in the new attacks | "selfish and sinister reasons to imj pede” McAdoo's candidacy. JUDGE SELECTED FOR WATER CASE Milwaukee Man Will Hear Injunction Suit. Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger, United States district judge of Milwaukee, will hear an injunction suit brought by the Indianapolis Water Company against the Indiana public service [ commission, to prevent interference 1 with establishment of increased water i rates, it was announced in Federal Court today. Judge Albert B Anderson asked, more than a month ago, that tnother judge be named, because Judge Anderson is related to one of the water company’s attorneys. Judge Geiger will hear arguments on an intervening petition of the city of Indianapolis, asking to be made a party to the suit, and on a demurrer of the State to the suit, March 3. He indicated that, if the case goes further. tlie suit will be heard late in March. ALLEGED GANG OF SHOPLIFTERS HELD

Three Caught by Police After Theft Is Charged, Detectives today said they have arrested three members of a gang of shop lifters operating in local department stores. They gave their names as Clair Ford. 23; his wife, Mae Ford. 23, and 1/cßav Caine, 3b, of 725 N. Capitol Ave. charges were denied o htheir bel.ulf. Women detectives Duclus and Osborne. said they watched Caine steal a woman's hat, coat and five pair of I stockings, before arresting him. Ford was arrested when he attempt tal to show the nrrest was a mistake. Mrs. Ford was takan into custody when sho apoeared at police headquarters and attempted to give diamond rings and ear rings as bond securities on ‘he two men. All are charged with vagrancy and larceny. 500 DESERT NAVY AS FLEET SAILS Submarine Service Stands Low in 'A, W, o.’ By United News LOS ANGELES. Feb. 26.—Naval authorities are at a loss to explain the absence of approximately 600 sailors who became either stragglers or deserters when they absented themselves at the time of the sailing of the Pacific fleet for the Caribbean Sea. Wholesale Jeave-taking usually is forecast by expressions of discontent and by complaints, but neither of these was apparent while preparations were being made to depart. The losses are highest at the training stations where boys are youngest, and lowest at the Navy yards where most of the men are older skilled artisans. It is noteworthy that the submarine service which is supposed to be the hardest naval service stands next to the bottom in the number of deserters. Bachelors Form Organization Bn United News SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 25,—Fifty of San Diego's most handsome bachelors have organized for mutual protection to resist feminine leap year proposals. Their society is called the Junior Bachelor’s Club. Officers have been selected and bylaws framed. Violation of the misognlstlc commandment ,will be penalized with immediate suspension. Membership is limited t<W fifty and vacancies are filled by election.

Charter Member Is Honored by O. E . 5. jaMmjP... - j MRS. MARY C. MOULTIN Queen Esther Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, gave a surprise party in honor of Mrs. Mary C. Moultin, 80, of 208 Roberts apartments. New York and Illinois Sts. She is the only charter member living. The party was at Masonic Temple. 13 BONDSMEN ARE SUED BT COUNTY Remy Attempts to Collect Forfeited Money, Thirteen suits ag;ui%t bondsmen acting as sureties for prisoners to appear in city court and who defaulted bonds, were filed in Superior and Circuit courts today by Prosecutor William H. [viicmy, through Robert L. Brokenburr, bond deputy. Judgement was asked against Harry Haspiel. surety for John Lee, on $1,600 bond defaulted Oct. 23. 1923; Albert Mueller and Herry Roepke, surety for Winfield B. Smith, who defaulted $2,000 bond Nov. 15. 1923. Harry Haspiel, surety on SI,OOO bond for Stephen Long, defaulted Oct. 23, 1923; Hairy Rothchild. surety for Leonard Colemann, $1,500 bond defaulted Nov. 27. 1923; John Schulmeyer. surety for Fred Smith, on $1,500 bond defaulted June 2, 1923. The remaining suits were minor ones.

JUDGE ORANGE 13 GRANTED M’CRAY Defense and State to Select One of Five Lawyers. The tidal of Governor McCray on county indictments charging embezzlement, grand larceny and making false statements will pass from under Criminal Judge James A. Collins to a special judge. Judge Collins today sustained a motion for change of judge filed by McCray attorneys. Bias and ptejudice was alleged. in the absence of an agreement between both sides. Judge Collins named five attorneys from whom a judge will be selected. The Sta e struck off the names of Solon J. Carter and (Charles Kemster, leaving the defense to strike out two of* the following names: Circuit Judge Ilarry O. Chamberlain, Charles S. Wilsie and Frank Daily. McCray’s attorneys said they would rrinke the selection Tuesday at 9:30 a. m. The name remaining will be that of the judge to try the case. .'lotion for continuance of the case one week from March 4, which was to have been filed today, will be filed under the new judge, McCray attorneys said. MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD Harold Taylor Delivers Eulogy on C. W. Moores. A memorial address on Charles W. Moores, Indianapolis attorney, who died several weeks ago, was given by Harold Taylor. Indianapolis, at the annual meeting and banquet of the Indiana Society of the Sons of the American Revolution at the University Club today. Other speakers were 4 Cornelius F. Posson. Indianapolis, president: Thomas J. De La. Hunt, Cannelton; C. T. Jewet, Terue Haute; Albert Stump. Indianapolis; Herbert Briggs. Terre Haute. The Rev. A. C. Wilmore. Winchester. conducted devotional services. •STOP THIEF!’ UNHEEDED Purse-Snatcher Outdistances Woman Victim in Chase. Her cries of “Stop, thief!” and "Get him!" unheeded Mrs. Christlra Schmid, 145 N. Sheffield Are., was outdistanced after chasing a colored purse-snatcher a block, she told detectives today. Mrs. Schmid said rdie was walking In Morris St, near Illinois St., when the thief grabbed a bag dangling from her arm, pulling it loose from the handle. The bag contained $1.50 and a watch valued at $25. Estate Valued at $500,000 By Times Special PERU, Ind., Feb. 25.—The late Mrs. Florence Fuller Wallace, whose husband was Benjamin Wallace, widelyknown circus man, left an estate valued at $500,000, according to the Wabash Valley Trust Company, administrator. A sister, two brothers, a niece and a nephew are heirs. Springers Complain of Graft Complaints of graft and hoaxes practiced on descendants of Charles Christopher Springer. who once owned the present site of Wilmington. Dei., it is believed, by people who promise to recover the lost patrimony for the clan, were discussed at a meeting of Indiana Springers Sunday at the Severin. Heirs we attempting to obtain title to the property^

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OFFICER AT FORT GARRISON UNDER, ARREST IN CRASR Major Bluemel Held After Wife Figures- as Driver Accident. Major Clifford Bluemel, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, was under arrest today %on charges of assault and battery, following an accident at 1143 E. Washington St. Officers said a car driven by Major Bluemel’s wife skidded into an auto dr sn by Miss Pearl McCarty, 1857 Or.t-ans St., causing Miss McCarty’s car to run over the curb and strike a pole. Mrs. L. C. McCarty, 1857 Orleans St., riding in the car, was Injured about the legs. Lewis Davey, 23, of 1154 S. West St., and Clarence Schultz. 21. of 1100 Dakota St., are in the City Hospital suffering from injuries about the hips and legs, received Saturday when their machine sideswiped a freight train at the Speedway Rd. and the Big Four railway. Davey is held on charges of assault and battery and speeding. B. E. Dodge, R. R. P., Box 153, is held on an assault and battery charge. The car he was driving struck. Abe , Rouls, 1223 N. Oakland Ave., at Alabama and Ohio Sts., Saturday. CITY BUSINESS IS GROWINGS. OF C. Indianapolis Has 1,215 Manufacturing Plants. Value of manufactured products in Indianapolis increased from $139,700.000 in 1914 to $425,200,000 in 1920 according to figures announced by the bureau of industry of the Chamber of Commerce today. For the same period, the number of manufacturing plants increased from 800 to $1,215. The number of men employed in industry increased from 30,971 in 1914 to 56.000 in 1922, and the capital invested from $87,50,000 to $220,000,000. Meat packing led all products in value in 1922 with $131,400,000. Metal trades second with $48,000,000. Other products in order: Auto aoeessories, $33,500,000; automobiles, $28,000,000; canning industry, $27,000,000; wear- | ing apparel. $21,000,000; printing and publishing, $12,000.00; grain and cereal, $11,000,000; furniture and vender, SB,800,000; drugs. $8,000,000: baking, $5,-| 500,; ether products, $64,000,000. ACTION TAKEN FOR PSYOOPATHIG WARD

| County Commissioners Order Ordinance Drawn, | County commissioners today ordered County Auditor Harry Dunn* to prej pare an ordinance appropriating ; $20,000 for the maintenance of a temporary psychopathic ward at city hospital. The ordinance will be considered at a special meeting of the ccunty cohncil Friday. Sol Schloss, president of’the city board of health, asked for the appropriation in a letter to commissioners today. Later he conferred with commissioners, outlining his plan for relieving inmates of the county jail suspected of insanity. The board h'ad agreed to appropriate maintenance of patients if such a detailed proposal ! were submitted. Schloss pointed out that the exact amount needed was undetermined, but that since disbursements were -to be directed by commissioners, none of the appropriation would go for other purposes. F CONSTIPATED SICKJILIOUS Harmless Laxative for the Liver and Bowels Feel fine! No griping or inconvenience follows a gentle liver and bowel cleansing with “Cascarets.” Sick Headache, Biliousness, Gases, Indigestion. and all such distress gone by morning. For Men, Women and Children —10c boxes, also 25 and 50c sizes, any drug store.—Advertisement. Ihnn tablets as most ImmediateIt on eoterlna -he stomach. At all drug stores XI cough Is persistent, we suggest K, * XI. White Pino Compound in coiuieotion—• onto and reliable cough remedy. —Advertisement.