Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 265, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1924 — Page 3

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BURIAL SATURDAY FOR REV. MORRIS, ‘ FORMER HOOSIER Services to Be Held in Last Church Served by Minister. Funeral services of the Rev. William E. Morris, 67, organizer and expastor of the Emerson Ave. Baptist Church, who died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Tuesday, will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Emerson Avenue church. Burial In Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr. Morris was active in Baptist church \v>rk in Indiana for many years. He was an organizer of the Cumberland church, the Cumberland State Bank and the old East Side State Bank in Irvington. After resigning from the pastorate of the Emerson Avenue church on account of ill health in 1921, the Rev. Mr. Morris, with his wife, went to Brooklyn to live with their son, the Rev. Claude E. Morris. The elder Rev. Morris suffered a stroke of paralysis last Thursday. William Morris was born in Boone County, Kentucky. He attended Georgetown College and the Southern Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky. He was married in 1884 to Miss Clara Belle Sigmon of Switzerland County, In liana. He held pastorates in Franklin, Cumberland and Xew Bethel. Ind. Besides his \flfe and son in Brooklyn he Is survived by two other sons, the Rev. Paul Judson Morris, present pastor of Emerson Avenue Church, and C. F. Morris of Peru, and two daughters, Mrs. E. H. Hunt and Miss Meta Morris, both of Xew York.

DEMPSEY-GiBBONS FIGHT FILMS MAY HAVE BEEN MEANT Elliott Not Certain Which; Movies Were Subject in Proposition. Homer Elliott. United States district attorney, today said he was not certain whether the man who approached him with a proposition to obtain im j munity from prosecution for showing j prize fight films was h“crested in the j Dempsey-Carpentier or he DempseyGibbons fight films. Following charges ma.ie before the Senate In%-estigating Committee Mon- j day that Attorney General Harry j Daugherty and other United States i i‘flicials were in a conspiracy to per- ; mit the Dempsey-Carpentier pictures j to be shown Elliott said that shortly j after he took office he was approached i on the subject. He took office Jan. 12, 1922, more than six months after the fight, which was July 4. 1921. When this fact was called to his attention today he said he might have had the fights confused and that it tnigiht have been Dempsey-Gibbons fight pictures, which were discussed with him. This fight occurred at Shelby, Mont., July 4. 1923. ROAD BIDDING THURSDAY Thirty Miles in Lot to Be Improved by State. Bids for improvement of thirty miles of roads will be received Thursday by the State highway department. Bituminous macadam and surface treatment is planned. Eleven miles of improvement is planned between Chester and Fountain City and near Richmond. Ten miles will be between Muncie and Selma and west of Muncie. South of Marion the department plans surface treatment of 2.64 miles. A three-mile stretch between Bryant and Portland will be improved. Demand Foley Pills FOLEY PILLS, a diuretic stimulalant for the kidneys, have brought relief to thousands of sufferers from kidney disorders caused through the improper working of these organs. FOLEY PILLS will promptly -flush the kidneys thereby removing injurious waste matter. Mrs. O. C. Alexander, R. Xo. 35, Montrose Mo., states: “I received the package of FOLEY PILLS, and have been greatly benefited by their use. Sold Everywhere. —Advertisement.

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Girls Federation of the Third Christian Church will give the annual “Vanity Fair” at the church at 7:30 p. m. Friday.

Many novel booths have been arranged. A minstrel show in which Chic Jackson and James Pebworth are end men, lan Small, Arnett Owen, Glenn Bond and Jack Fraser, quartette, and in which Floyd Rhinehart aji and Daniel Metzger have other leading parts will be a feature. Mrs. Curtis Hodges teaches the class and Miss

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Fay Blankenbeker is president. Committee chairmen: Eva True, sales; Ruth Lewman, activities: Ruth Callahan, publicity; Mae Bridges Robinson, fancy work; Mrs. Jackson, food: Ruth Risinger, .balloons: Ruth Hessler, athletics: Irene Hicks and Lucille Hodges, circus; Genevieve Martin, popcorn; Lois MeGammon and Thelma Dawson, fish pond; Hermanda Agger and Mary Troutman, minstrel: Myrtle Foulon, candy: Belva Odgen, ice cream: Merrill Ashley, lemonade; Ula Wright, fortune telling; Mrs. Gertrude Wark, stunts and Mary Baumgart, flowers.

LIGHTING BIDS ABE TO BE ADVERTISED ' Engineer Seeks to Make 1 Washington St. ‘Great White Way.’ Bids on the city's new ten-year street lighting contract were to be ordered advertised by the board of works late today. The contract is effective April 1, 1925. Present contract involves expenditure of $310,000 annually. The new contract is expected | to cost the city more. John L. Elliott, city engineer, is developing a plan to install two-light | standards downtown. On other 1 streets, the present one-light standard is specified. Elliott is making i special plans to light Washington St. as a “great white way’’ from Eagle j Creek to Irvington. The contract at present is held by the Merchants Light and Heat Company. If the Indianapolis Light and Hefft Company is awarded the con tract, new standards will be erected over the city. If the Merchants Company retains the contract, only the standards downtown will he replaced. Competing companies have given the city benefit of lower lighting cost than in most cities. Elliott said. FIVE TO TALK ‘SAFETY’ Tech Students Volunteer to Aid in Accident Prevention. Five Technical High School students today called on the police accident prevention bureau seeking material for speeches to be made to Tech students in the interest of traffic safety. But a small proportion of the students were reached by safety speeches made at the school Monday. These students, members of public speaking classes, will carry the “gospel” further: Josephine Kennedy, Helen Schmitz. Paul Porter, Robert Hood and Fred WilUs. RAILROADS FIGHT ORDER A temporary injunction to prevent enforcement of a public service commission older reducing freight rates on intrastate coal shipments is asked in a petition filed in Superior Court. Twenty-one railroads are plaintiffs. They lost a case brought before the commission in 1922 by the State Chamber of Commerce. The companies assert they would lose sl.o(\(■OO a year under the rates, which were tried out in 1923.

FORTUNE MISSING AS POLICE SEEK WOMAN’S SLAVER Lawyer Says Zoe Wilkins Had SIOO,OOO Few Days Before Murder, By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 19. Authorities investigating the murder of Zoe Wilkins, six times a bride of wealthy husbands, today determined she had SIOO,OOO a few days before the was slain. * Jesse James, attorney for the woman, said last week she showed him securities totaling that amount. “I asked her why she did not put the money in a bunk, but she said she was afraid of banks.” James said. Mrs. Wilkins told friends she constantly feared assassination. The slain woman’s brother. Charles Wilkins, was taken into custody. Tells of Beating Dillard Davis, janitor of the building where the woman was murdered, said the brother had attacked Mrs. Wilkins during a quarrel recently and beat her severely. Contents of strong boxes, chests and drawers had been scattered throughout the house. Mrs. Wilkins, despite six matrimonial ventures, was only 38 years old and retained much of her beauty and vivaciousness. Physicians believed she was slain on Saturday night. Her head had been crushed and throat cut with a rusty pocket knife. The body was d!scovered by a boy who peeked in a window of the room. The body was fully clothed. Woman Was Uiiropractor The woman was a graduate of a chiropractic school and had practiced her profession under the name of "Dr. A. F. Blanchard”’' There was mystery about her clientele*. Frequently imposing appearing automobiles wyuld be parked in front of the house. Until recently she retained a Japanese servant and two negro housemen and lived in style and comfort. However, neighbors said, Dr. Wilkins appeared to be running short of money. Her servants were dismissed, collectors unpaid and rent was overdue. A brother. Charles C. Wilkins, went voluntarily to police headquarters today and told of his sister's friends. “B. F. Tarpley was my sister’s most frequent visitor,” Wilkins said. “He visited her at least once and usually twice dally. He had a key to the front door. “I lived with her for a short time, but didn’t like the company she kept, so moved.” >

WILBUR TO TAKE OATH AT HOME ' 1 California Jurist Confirmed as Naval Head. Bv I nitrd Press ‘ SAX FRANCISCO, Cal.. March 19. —Curtis D. Wilbur, whose appointment as Secretary of the Navy was confirmed by the Senate yesterday, was scneduled to ktae the oath of office at the State building today, he said. f Wilour will go to Sacramento on Thursday to tender his resignation as chief justice of the California Supreme Court. Mrs. Wilbur and three children will join him there, then go on to Washington. EIKENBERRY BURIAL SET FOR THURSDAY Doctor Will Be Laid to Rest at _ Peru. Brief funeral services of Dr. A. A. Eikenberry. 64, who died Tuesday, will be held at the home, 2610 Central Ave., Thursday at 9 a. m. Burial at Peru, Ind. Th© Rev. H. A. Blake and the Rev. Charles M. Fillmore will have charge of the services. Dr. Eikenberry was born in Miami County. Ind. He was graduated from Indiana Medical College In 1885. He came to Indianapolis in 1913 after specializing in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases. Besides the widow, he is survived by four children, Herbert, of New York City; Paul, of Kokomo; Robert, cf Cedar Rapids, lowa, and Mrs. Alice Heipertz, of Chicago; two brothers, William, of Mexico, Ind., aid Frank of Peru, Ind., and four sisters, Mrs. Diana Shelly, North Manchester, Ind.; Mrs. Mary E. Weeks. Indrinapolis; Mrs. Emma Moon, Logansport, and Mrs. Rose Moon, Peru. TWO IN MUSIC CONTEST Memory Competition to Be Held at Shortridge Saturday. Winners in the Seventh District music memory contest who will take part in the State contest Saturday at Shortridge are New Bethel High School and the Nora Grammar School. Estella RansdeU made thd ( highest score for New Bethel, 127 'points of a possible 140. Claude Repine won first for Nora with a score of 133. Teams were composed of tHfte members. Indianapolis did not enter the contest. Weather Man to Talk .T. H. Armington, meteorologist in charge of the Indianapolis weather bureau, will talk about his job before the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men at luncheon at the Claypool Tharp day.

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Hey, fellow's, be sure you play marbles right. Here are the rules of “Ringer,” the official marble game. Cut them out and learn them. Thirteen “ducks” are placed in the ring. The ring is ten feet across with a cross in the center. One duck is placed in the center; the others at intervals of three inches on the crossed line. Shooters must be betw'een seveneighths and five-eighths of an inch in diameter; ducks one-half to threequarters of an inch. Lag for a line from a distance of ten feet to determine shooting order. Six can play at a time. In match games two play. Playing the Game Each player, taking his turn, knuckles down on the ring line and shoots to knock one cr more ducks out. When you shoot from outside the ring, knuckle down on the ring line. Always shoot knyckle down. If your shooter stops inside, shoot from where It lies, but if it goes outside, shoot from any place on the ring line —roundsters outside always allowed. Ducks outside are held by the player who knocks them out. If you hit your opponent's shooter pick up one duck. But you are “dead” on him until you slioiMl out another duck or hit another rpponent’s shooter, unless your shooter goes outside. Then yotv are “live” and may shoot at him again. When you knock an opponent’s shooter outside he Is out of the game. Take all his ducks. If he has none, pick up one the ring. When more than one marble or shooter Is knocked out the player Is entitled to all marbles going outside. Marbles resting with centers on tlje line are out. If the edges only touch the line they are Inside. Ending the Gams If a player knocks the last marble outside he places his shooter on the Sweet Dreams Bv Times Special CRAWFORDSYILLE. Ind., March 19. —Jesse Hodshlre carries off the long-distance sleeping championship honors. His mother, seeing the bed in which he was lying and his clothing on fire, called the fire department. They rudely awakened Hodshire, who rubbed his eyes and asked what the excitement was. Firemen believe a lighted cigarette caused the blaze.

The Operation I Avoided—

MRS. IDA M. COFFMAN SIDELL. ILL. TF there is one thing more than another a woman dreads, it is a surgical operation, and to be told that one is necessary is very disheartening. Hospitals are grand institutions, and undoubtedly many operations are necessary. However, we have received hundredi of letters from women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Every woman who suffers as Mrs. Coffman did naturally wishes to avoid an operation if possible, and the remarkable statements which she makes in her letter will be read with interest by women everywhere. Mrs. Coffman’s Letter Follows: SIDELL, ILLINOIS—“I was a nervous wreck. I was suffering from a pain in mv left side which was noticeable at all times, but sometimes It was almost unbearable and I could not even let the bed clothing rest on my body at night. I had been sick for seven years but not so badly until the last eighteen months, and had become so rundown that I cared for nobody and would rather have died than live. I couldn't do my work without help. My huaband brought me a bottle of Lydia E. Flnkhnm’s Vegetable Compound and begged me to take it. I have taken fourteen bottles of It and I feel ten years younger. Life Is full of hop?. I do all my housework and had a large garden this year. I never will be witho, v the Vegetable Compound in the house and when my two little girls reach womanhood I ahall advise them to take It.”—MRS IDA M. COFFMAN, R. R No. 2, Sldell, Illlnoli. Another Operation. Avoided CORONA, N. Y. —“I had a terrible pain in my left side and had to go bo bed every so often. Doctors had told me I must be operated on. but I do not believe in the knife and would rather suffer than go th o* ;h with it. Mv mother also did ns believe in it and she made me take Lydia E. Pi tkham’a Vegetable Compound becaut* It had helped her. ft has also helped me, for J am better and am able to do all my work. I recommend your medicine and give you permission to nae mv letter aa a testimoniaL”—MßS. J. BUSCH, jit , 11 S Raiiroad Ave., Corona, N. Y. Before Submitting to an operation Women should try Lydia E. Pinkham’s redetable Compound LYDIA. E.PINKHAH MEDICINE CO. LYNN ( MASS.

ring line. The others shoot at it from across the ring. If it is hit, he must give up all his marbles. The winner Is the player with most marbles at the end of the game. When a player is “killed” he is not out of the contest —only the game then in progress. The player getting two games first is winner. That’s the way the Times marble tournaments will be conducted. Any boy or girl under 15 years of age is eligible to er.teF’*’ the contest. City tournaments will dectce the Indianapolis marble king or queen. He will go to Atlantic City at the Times' expense and play in the national marble tournament conducted by Scripps-Howard newspapers throughout the country. . Sign your coupon today and mail it to the marble editor of The Times.

Saving Spells Success MANY successful men started their fortunes by saving. ft was what they saved from their warnings that gave them the opportunity to start in business. The same opportunity is open to you. A Savings Recount—even though it may be small—will start you on the road to success. Save at least a srhall per cent of your earnings here at interest, where you have protection of capital and surplus of two million dollars. JFutcfitr £s>abtngs anfc Crust Company Northwest Corner Market and Peneaylvanl* v branches and affiliated banks 1233 Oliver Ave. 2122 Eaat Tenth 8t 1533 Roosevelt Ave. 474 Weat Washington St. 1541 North Illinois St. 458 East Washington Bt. 2969 North Illinois St. 2812 East Washington St.

ALL ON ROLL ARE NOT POLICEMEN, RIKHOFFSTATES Chamber of Commerce Official Surveys City Protection Department, There are janitors, garage mechanics and maintenance employes listed along with law enforcement officers on the police department pay roll, Leonard V. Harrison, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce civic affairs committee, discovered today. He is surveying the police department, as a result of the request of Police Chief Herman Rikhoff’s request for 100 additional men. Officers are aiso “farmed out” to juvenile and criminal courts, Harrison learned in a talk with Rikhoff. “The public looks at the number of men on our pay roll and thinks all are policemen," said Rikhoff. “Such is not the case. Maintenance and other extra employes compose quite a large group. I think the department should not have to include these employes in Its pay roll and should fill their places with the policemen we need ”\ Light travels at the rate of 186,300 miles per second. It requires eight minutes and eipht seconds for light to some from the sun to the earth.

OSAGE INDIAN LEASE SOLD AT $1,955,000. Oil Land Brings Record Figure at Public Auction —Total for V - Day is $8,357,000,

Bv United Press PAWHUSKA, Okla., March 19. “I’ll start it with a bid of $1,000,000.” “What do you think you are dealing jn, cotton, please?” Such was the; exchange of remarks between J. E. Pew, Texas oil man, and Ed Walters, auctioneer, today in the public sale of oil lands in the Osage Indian reservation. Pew started the bidding for 160 acres of choice land at a million, a record figure. As bidding lagged, Walters, striding up and down in his $l5O hand-carved knee boots demanded the oil men crowding a little theater “shoot or give up the gun.” The oil men “shot” and the lease on the quarter section was knocked down for $1,955,000. Scores of sol-

, The Store of Greater Values THE FAIR

SPRING COATS and CAPES M The new types the fashion y7~2 ) \ magazines are showing are S here in these new springtime wraps. $Qj5 %_ m I JI Others at | M sls, $19.75, $25, up to SSO W Striped Polos—Downy Wools—Berk- ■ I shire Plaid—Shaggy Wools In great va- mblkel [ toW’ riety! Our entire second floor Is devot- kViiS? ed to the display of these extraordinary IHn jA WfSy* coats. You will enjoy seeing the new styles and marvel at the extremely low price. 11 fnfll HBXI/jfL SPRING SKIRTS New pleated crepe /K p* A A j\ VA Skirts in the wanted t f|f| JhjD springtime colors tl)t/v v \ Sizes 16 to 56

Still They Come! Dozens of M NEW SPRING fg^DRESSES i i/j MHf v Inky 3 copies of expensive t THi 1 STYLES Jr | -, ■ ..... - Designed for Women and Misses Sizes 14 to 48 Strikingly handsome frocks—not the avrSmi erage sio sort —but the kind that have r&iJzs made the Fair famous for its great values n]\ at this price. The variety is amazingly // S4 complete in colors, materials and styles. Cf bl There are types for everyone—and all are [v'j new!

Girls’ NEW SPRING COATS th and CAPES iJpV Plaids, Checks anand A Novelties in all the new spring fab- ’ In Spring Colors Others |it $6.95 and $7.95

EXTRA SPECIAL! Costume Slips SATEEN Many With Fancy Ruffles and Tailored Tops oo c Decidedly Underpriced

emn Indians, direct beneficiaries of the auction, dropped their equanimity and cheered wildly. Total revenue from the first day's sale, with the choicest sections yet to be sold, was $8,357,000.

Even Dozen By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., March 19. Mother of twelve children at the age of 36 is the unusual record of Mrs. George Myers, wife of a farmer living west of Anderson. The twelfth child was bom Tuesday.

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