Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1924 — Page 12

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MUSICAL PROGRAM 10 FEATURE PLAT Extra Attractions Added to Civic Federation Show, An added feature of the play. "Mrs. Temple's three-act comedy. to be gjven at Tomlinson hall Thursday night, for the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic clubs, will be harp solos by Miss Ruth Rainier. 2716 Sutherland Ave. A musical program will also be furnished by the police "snd firemen's band and policeman's double quartet. G. Carleton Guy. director city recreation department, is directing. The cast: Benjamin Harris. E. C. Gaumer. Edward Bruck, J. Carl Martin. William M. Louck. Miss Dorothy Fulkerson. Miss Margaret Roberta, Miss Elsie McKane and Miss Rosemary Cruzan. Proceeds wiil be used to buy public drinking fountains for downtown streets and help to pay the federation's pledge to the Riley Memorial Hospital. LINEMAN RECEIVES 3,1 VOLT SHOCK Glen Giberson Improves After Escape From Death. Glen Giberson. 5936 Beechwood Ave.. I. & C. Traction Company lineman, is recovering today after a nc. row escape from death Monday when 3,300 volts passed through his body and seriously burned both hands, while he was working on a pole near Julietta. He may lose the left thumb, Which was burned nearly ass. According to Giberson, be grasped a charged trolley wire mast arm. An uncharged wire leading to the ground, held in the other hand, completed a powerful electric circuit. The foreman ordered a fellow workman to rescue Giberson, but the latter's spurs gave way just before the rescuer reached him and he fell seventeen feet to the ground. His face and shoulder were bruised and lacerated. He was given first-aid treatment and taken home. LAWS FOUND CONFLICTING Attorney Genera! Inable to Solve Legislative Mystery. What's what in conflicting provisions of the absent voters' law and the primary law- concerning withdrawal of candidates' names will remain a legislative mystery, in the opinion of Attorney General U. S. Lcsh. Frank J. Conboy, Laporte attorney, has calle<L attention to the fact the absent voters’ law calls for distribution of ballots to begin within fifteen days before the primary, while the primary law gives candidates permission to withdraw their names from baiiots ten days before the primary. PLAY TO AID HOSPITAL Li.lle Theatre Society to Stage “Alice in Wonderland.'* The Little Theatre Society will present "Alice in Wonderland," for the of Riley Hospital for children at the Murat, April 3, afternoon gnd right. Hugh McK. Landon, president of the Riley Memorial Association, announced at a meeting Monday of representatives of several women’s organizations aiding the hospital will be asked to support the performance.

ONE HELD IN GEM THEFT SIO.OOO in Diamonds Consigned to Lorn cal Jeweler Are Stolen. A Chicago postoffice clerk has been arrested on a charge ~>f stealing $lO,000 worth of diamonds from a package that had been addressed to Rite's Jewelry and Gift Shop. 45 S. Illinois St., according to W. C. Ela, local postal Inspector. The stones were sh*pped from Amsterdam, Holland. Ela went to Chicago last Thursday to Investigate the theft after Albert Frankel, general manager of Rite's shop, had reported that he had received an empty caee instead of one containing 131 diamonds. ‘DRUMMER BOY’ DIES John E. Ryan, 79, Civil War Veteran, Dead at His Home. By Timet Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., March 18. —John E. Ryan, 79, Civil War veteran. Is dead at his home here. He served three and one-half years with the Northern army and was k&own as Johnny Ryan, the "drummer boy.’’ He is survived by his wife. Veteran Key Operator Resigns By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., March 19. A. G. Stanley, 75, has tendered his resignation as operator in the Western Union telegraph office heOe. He is probably the oldest”” active operator in Indiana. He has been on the job continuously forty-three years. , Polo Confesses Slaying By Catted Prett BATAVIA, N. Y., March 18.—John Petoskl, a Pole, with a long criminal record, confessed to the killing of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whalley and Mrs. George Morse at Linden, police reported today. Train Kills Two Women By Timet Special FT. WAYNE, Ind.. March 18. —Mrs. John Lehmkuhl*# - , 34, and Miss Clara Mittekamp, both ot Delphos, Ohio, were killed by a Pennsylvania passenger train at Delphos Monday. Their automobile was demolished. Wabash President Speaks President George L. Mclntosh of Wabash College will address the Sbortrldge High School Parent-Teach-er sub tonight In the school study ball ui "Weaving the Webb of Life.”

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Hoosier Briefs

Promoters of the Independent Klan of America, the new national organization formed at Muncie recently say that a national headquarters building may be built there. Six hundred farmers are enrolled in ,he Hoosier Ton Litter Club this year, according to F. G. King, secretary, Indiana Live Stock Breeders Association. A chapter -if the Improved Order of Red Men Lodge has been formed at Carlisle. Mrs. Nellie Collins. Monticello. is held in the Cass County jail awaiting arraignment in April term of court. The grand jury returned a murder indictment against her here In connection with the death of her husband who died as a r-.-sult cf eating poisoned com *bread. After the seven men and five women on a Grant. Circuit Court jury found Harold Johnson of Upland, guilty of forgery all signed a petition asking his sentence suspended Judge Dearth was assured Johnson would go to work. “Bob” Martin, popular Richmond traffic officer has resigned in order to run for sheriff in the Republican primary. The Floyd County Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis has pur4 chased a forty-two acre tract near New Albany for the site of a proposed sanatorium. Price was $6,500. Eighty bird houses built by manual training classes of the Columbus High School has been given to the Kiwanis Club to be place,} in schoolyards and parks. Ora Kantz, Pike County engineer, has drawn plans for thirty new bridges to be constructed at a cost of $60,500. Following his successful rehabilitation by the United States Veterans Bureau as an Instructor of manual arts, Lester H. Thornburg of Parker, has accepted a position as director of education at Tutila, Samoa Islands. Colbert Thurston. 18. Bicknell, js seriously ill as a result of drinking a quart of gasoline. Police say the youth mistook the liquor for water as a strong wind carried the odor away as he drank. Anew coal mine for Washington is seen in the securing of option on about 15,000 acres of land just east of the city by the Ingle Compajjy. Funeral services for Zaccheus Wills, 80, Clav City miner, former minister and president of the miners' examining board of Clay County ten years, were held Monday. Nearly fifteen school years were lost to Boone County children, or 248 days for each school day in March. Attendance Officer Akers says the average is the lowest In many years, due to various epidemics. Rushville will buy some additional fire equipment but will not comply with all orders of the Insurance underwriters to secure a reduction in fire insurance rates. One recommendation would mean a rebuilding of the city water and light plant costing $75,000. Contract for the new St. Joseph Parish School in Shelbyvllle has been let to William Gutzwiller, Batesville, for *58,000. • The new school will cost $70,000. Hennessey Is Elected Richard M. Hennessey. Aetna Life Insurance Company, is president today of the Indiana Casualty Adjusters Association. At a meeting Monday officers were chosen, including Edward J. Boleman, former secretary of the State industrial board, as vice president, and W. T. Kerr, Maryland Casualty Company, as seeretary-treas-urer. This changeable weather makes “O. G.” Witch Hazel Jelly most appreciated. It soothes and heals chanped hands, lips and face. Buy it Cl your drug or toilet goods oountsr. —Advertisement.

GREAT NEW YORK PAPERS MERGE Tribune and Herald to Be Morning Daily, By Times Special NEW YORK, March 18. —The shades of Charles Dana, Horace Greeiey and the eccentric James Gordon Bennett have been blended together in another sensational Munsey Newspaper transaction, formally announced today. Three great American newspapers of former days wove their historic texture into one clean sheet when Ogden M. Reid of the New York Tribune bought the New York Herald from Frank A. MunSey Monday. Munsey merged the New York Press and the Sun of Charles Dana fame a few years ago, then b, ught the Heroic! from the James Gordon Bennett estate, combining them all into the New York Herald-Tribune. Purchase price is reported at $4,000,000. BRICK THROWERS BUSY Show Window of American Record Shop Is Smashed. t Police were on guard today against further window smashing activities of a gang of brick hurlers who caused considerable property damage several months ago. * Aimer D. Smith, proprietor of the American Record Shop. 130 Virginia Ave., told the police someone threw a jar full of building bricks through the show window, causing SIOO damage to glass and phonograph records. Smith sells Ku-Klux Klan records and believes that is the reason for the brick throwing. " BANK ASSESSMENT CUT McCray Bank Receiver Say* §95,000 Figure Is Too High. Assessment of $96,000 placed on the Discount and Deposit State Bank of Kentland, now defunct following financial difficulties of Governor McCray, has been reduced to $3,000, William Darroch, receiver, told the State tax board that the financial condition of the bank was not shown accurately in its 1923 statement. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong to Mrs. Hannah Moore. 815 S. Missouri St., Overland, from Market and Delaware Sts. J. A. Kelly, 1114 S. East St., Chevrolet, from Market and Delaware .Sts. Charles Suter, 2230 Avondale P)., Ford, from St. Clair and Meridian Sts. BACK HOME AGAIN An • automobile reported found belongs to: Walter Richardson, FVanklin, Ind., Ford, found at Shelby St. and Southern Ave. Wayne Wants Congressman By Time* Special RICHMOND, Ind., March 18.—Alleged opposition to the return of Congressman Elliott from the Sixth District, brought out a Wayne County candidate Monday in the person of a regular “dirt” farmer, J. K. Mason of near Milton. Wayne County Republicans feel they should have a throw at the office. It has been many years since a Congressman was sent from this part of district. Franc Continues Strong By United Free* PARIS, March 18.—The French franc was stronger today thun It has been for many weeks at *0.03 to the dollar.

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MILLER TALKS TO IRVINGTON G.O.P. 'Every Official Wants Tax Cut but Ones-Affected,’ . Every official wants tar reduction except In his own branch of government, said Winfield T. Miller, State Senator and candidate for re-election, at a get-together meeting of Republican candidates Monday night, held by the Irvington Republican Club. “Cutting taxes without injuring some branch of the government, is hard,” said Miller. “If the legislature offered to curtail the schools there would be a cry. The same applies as to roads, hospitals, etc.” William H. Remy. presecuting attorney, candidate for re-election, in a short speech explained his work and said that if elected he will go into office "without any promises” to any political faction. Fred Dickerman. president of the club, advocated a radical reform in the method of choosing candidates,, denouncing the primary plan. JACKSON SCORED BV MAYOR SHANK Gubernatorial Candidate on Northern Tour, By Timt Special PLYMOUTH, Ind. March 18.— Mayor Shank of Indianapolis candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor was scheduled to speak her*, today. The mayor spoke at South Bend Monday night. He said. “The fight for the nomiration is between Ed Jackson and myself and I have confidence that the people of Indiana will not nominate Jackson." He declared Jackson is seeking Catholic support in South Bend, is working for some colored support in Indianapolis and aprealing to the KuKlux Klan throughout the State. Shank attacked the public service commission and advocated sirengthcnmg of the blue sky law. BERGDOLL MAY RETURN Draft Dodgft' "Open to Anything Reasonable” in Coming to U. S. By United Press BERLIN. March 18. —Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, American draft evader, Is "open to anything reasonable” In the way of an offer to return to the United States. Following reports that Bergdoll is anxious to return to America, said: "I have not received any definite offer to return to America and consequently have not agreed to any such proposition. However. lam op4n to anything reasonable in that line.” SOLDIER UNDER ARREST

Robbery of Fruit Siand Charged in Affidavits. Fermin Gryp. 18, Ft. Harrison, arrested early today, and Virgil Gilbert; 1722 Ludlow Ave., arrested several days ago, were reslated. Theft of $25 worth of goods from the Henry W. Shea fruit stand, 1539 Roosevelt Ave.. March 9 is charged in the affidavits. A 15-year-old boy is held at the detention £ome, charged by Detectives Fields and McDonald with the robbery Sunday night of the Rector drug store, 1229 Kentucky Ave. Cutlery valued at $7J> was taken. Tax Plans Disapproved The Mellon or Garner tax reduction plans as they are will not be supported by the National Retailers' Council, but the body favors tax reduction, sa id Herbert P. Sheets, secretary of the national council, today. Sheets has-Just returned from Washington, where the final organization meeting of the council was held. Sheets was accompanied by Sol Schloss, of Schlosa Brothers, clothing firm.

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Drums, Uniforms, Fifes for a Boys’ Drum Corps There are 57 uniforms, made of moleskin with red decorations, sizes 30, 32, 34, 36. The dfum's, 37 in all, including 2 bass, need new heads. Two dozen fifes. \ ✓ These will be sold in one lot only. If your or- - ganization or school wants to start a boys’ drum corps the price will be reasonable. See or Write Mr. Figman The Indianapolis Times 214-220 West Maryland St. Indianapolis

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A man was walking with his father's brother-in-law, his brother's father-tn-law, his father-in-law’s brother. and his brother-in-law’s father. What was the smallest number of companions he could have had with him? YESTERDAY’S ANSWER jTEimaT! ÜbeansJ The tin can contained lima beans. The same letters that formed Beam Snail" may be arranged to form "Lima Beans.” IMMONITYSOOGHT ON FIGOT PICTURE Elliott Tells of Effort by Agent for Film, An agent who said he owned rights to the Dempsey-Carpentier prize fight films tried to obtain Federal immunity from prosecution for shipping the reels in interstate commerce to Indiana, Homer Elliott, district attorney. hns stated. Elliott disclosed the fact after dispatches from Washington quoted testimony in the investigation of Attorney General Daugherty to the effect that efforts had been made to gain Federal immunity in several States | for shipping the films. Elliott said he threatened prosecution and the gent did not return. Federal law prohibits shipment of prize fight films. ARREST R. R. WATCHMAN I'olice Say Gates Were Not Working When Arident Occurred. , Charles Higgs, colored. 40, of 1901 Highland PI., Is at the Ward Hospital today Improving from injuries including a broken left leg. received when an auto he was driving was struck by a Monon train , No. 18, north bound at Nineteenth St. cross ing, -Monday night. Charles Moore, 908 B. Twenty-First 3t.. watchman at the crossing was arrested. Police say the gates were not lowered and the ball was not ringing. The engineer and conductor will be charged with the same violation when they return in addition to assault and battery. FIVE CANDIDATES FILE Four Seek Nomination for Slate Itej> rcseaitative—One for Congress. These aspirants for nomination in | the State primaries today filed peti- j tions with the Secretary of State: Democrats: Henry A Burtt, Jeffer- I sonvtlle. State representative; Jacob B. Young, Worthington, State representative; Allen Kent. Tipton, Congress. Republicans: E. O. Haynes, Muncie, ! State representative: Mllfred A. Hollo- ! way. Farmland, State representative. Newer Form of Iron Gives Strength and Energy to the Weak and Aged The remarkable discovery of a newer form of iron has proved a blessing to j thousands who were feeling the weaken j ing effects of advancing years. To be ; strong, vigorous and active you must j have plenty of good rich red blood of j the kind thai this newer form of iron helps make. It is like the iron in your blood ami like the iron in spinach, lentils and apples. If you want something to quickly help mak,3 rich red blood, revitalize worn out, exhausted nerves and give you new strength and energy, your own druggist will furnish you with a bottle of this newer form of iron, sold under the name of Nuxated Iron, and he will guarantee that if you do not feel stronger and years younger in two weeks’ time your money will be promptly refunded. For sale by all druggists.—Advertisement.

Johnson to Leave Approximately 300 will attend a farewell dinner Friday night at the All Souls Unitarian Church, 1463 N. Alabama St., In honor of Alexander Johnson, former secretary of the State board of charities. Johnson is moving to New York. The Rev. Frank S. C. Wicks will preside.. Perfection Butter Mokes Kid dice Grow. —Adv. Checking Accounts of business concerns and individuals are invited, large or small. We extend commercial credit and pay interest monthly. Jfktcfjer featringg anb QTntsft Company N, W. Cor. Market and Penn. Bts. Nine Convenient Offices

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