Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 267, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1924 — Page 2

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CUT’S REPLY TO OPPOSE ONLY CAR TICKET REQUEST Groninger Says He Will Insist Upon Seventeen Rides for One Dollar, * The city's answer to the plea of the Indianapolis Street railway for increased fare will agree to every request of the company except that for fouA tickets for a quarter. Taylor Groninger. corporation counsel said today. The city’s stand win be filed with the public service commission within a few days. (Groninger said he would insist on seventeen tickets for sl, which would mean 5.58 cents a ticket. Groninger points out that with the one-cent transfer charge asked by the company, this provide a lower fare than present rate of five cents fare and two cents for transfer. Feasey Accepts John N. Feasey, purchasing agent of the Pettis Dry Goods Company, has notified Groninger that he will accept the chairmanship of the citizens' committee to make recommendations on re routing street cars in the downtown district. Citizens continued suggestions on improving car service in letters to Groninger. A skip-stop system on Illinois 6t. between St. Clair and Thirty-Fourth Sts. was proposed in a letter to Groninger. The writer also proposed looping Illinois cars downtown over Ohio. Pennsylvania aid Washington Sts. Anothei citizen proposed an advertising scheme on cars whereby he believes the car company could realize $547,000 a year, the amount needed for the depreciation fund. Contention tha. the public service commission had no right to fix a transfer charge, was discounted by Groninger. The opinion was advanced by John W. Losh, 638 Coffey St., who paid an attorney drafted it for him. Hearing April 3 , Date for the hearing on the increased fare petition has been set for April 3 by John W. McCardle. chair- j "after breakfast take a dose of SHAPLEY’S Original STOMACH MEDICINE and you have started the day. right. Try one bottle and be convinced. Guaranteed by Hook Drug Cos.

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. MRS. LEN BROWN AND HARRY ARNOLD

There are no happier persons in Indianapolis today than Mrs. Len Brown, 321 W. Market St., and her son Harry Arnold, 23. Arnold saw his mother the first time In eighteen years Wednesday. “He's my baby boy,” said Mrs. Brown. “I raised seven children

man of the public service commission. McCardle will preside. Benjamin Perk, city utility expert, Is compiling maintenance costs and depreciation funds of street car systems _n other cities. Reports have shown that the Indianapolis Company is not setting out as much for depreciation as other cities. The local company realizes 1.02 cents for maintenance from each five cent fare, while other companies get from 1.3 to 2 cents, Perk said. The United Protestant Club, representing citizens west of White River, and south of Washington St., was on record today urging a receiver for the company during the “alleged financial crisis.’’ A copy of the petition was forwarded to Groninger. He opposes any more for receivership. TWO INDICTED ON BIGAMY CHARGES True Bills Name Martha Pack and Joel Thompson, The Marion County grand jury today returned indictments against Miss Martha Pack, 1201(4 E. Thirtieth St., and Joel Thompson, barber, 29. of 816 N. Delaware St., charging bigamy. The indictment against Mies Pack alleges that she married Albert V, Cly, 1201(4 E. Thirtieth St., without oDtaining a divorce from her first husband, William Pack, 241 Vh A New, York St., whom she had married March 15. ISIS. The charges against Thompson allege he married Alta Vanllnginham May 1, 1922, and without obtaining a divorce, married Miss Eva Hanna Feb. 2. 1924. Harlqy Harmon, 107 W. North St., was indicted on a charge of transporting liquor.

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and Harry was the one who cared most for his mother.” Arnold was separated from his mother when he was 5 yftars ofS.flle was In an orphans' home for a time and then worked oh a farm In northern Indiana. lie enlisted In the Army. When he was discharged this week Ills first thought was to see his mother.

REMY MEETS WITH DOLLINGSRECEIVER County Grand Jury Investigation Is Indicated, Affairs of the R. I* Dolling* Company of Indiana before it went Into receivership will be laid before the Marion County grand jury in the near future, It was indicated today. Prosecutor William H. Remy held a conference with Receiver Bert 6. McBride and his attorney, Howard S. Young. Mcßride has had charge of the defunct promotion company with five subsidiaries since Aug. 1, 1923, under appointment by Superior Judge Linn D. Hay. Judge Hay stated recently that while his receiver Is mnklng efforts to place the manufacturing subsidiaries on an operating basis, it Is possible lnves'ors have little chance of recovering their money. In a petition filed with Judge Hay by Attorneys Weir & Richards in beluilf of Grant Sanders, a etockholder. It was charged the Dolllnga Company paid dividends from proceeds of stock sales, and that a small group of men dominated the affairs of the Indiana companies for their own profit and t%i i jjL LUa_Uliia Ucllias.il £&31E%8Y.. .

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Tom Taggart, Indiana Democratic leader, arriving in New York from Bermuda, Thursday said: "I do hope Harry' Daugherty will look his yelpers in the face and tell them where to go. I have known Daugherty Tor years. We were neighbors in Ohio. He is too good to do anything mean or petty." When Patrolman Reilly caught Mrs. Katherine Brown just as she was about to leap from an East River pier, she told him she was going to swim to Ireland. She' was urinated on an intoxication charge. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, draft dodger, assured of mob protection by the Amerioan Legion, has agreed to return to America. Martial law has been proclaimed in Bahia province in northern Brazil due to election disorders. Governor P'nehot, Pennsylvania, In a speech at Lcwistjnrg, Pa., Thursday, demanded a house-cleaning in the Republican party including th* resignation of Attorney General Daugherty. Curtis D. 'Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, left San Francisco Thursday for Washington to take up his new duties in the Cabinet. General Pershing has been inspecting the French battlefields, incognito, gathering material for a book on the World War. The issue of a stand against future i wars was precipitated into the annual New York east conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Thursday. • - 1 ' ' E. M. Loeb, scientist, former member of the University of California faculty, and his wife have been rescued froih a reef in South Sea islands after having been marooned for nine months. Fifteen persons were killed in collapse of a four-story house at Lisbon, Portugal. NEW CANDIDATES TILING ; Three Democrats and Seven Republicans Declare Intentions. Declarations Os candidacy were filed j at the office cf secretary of State to:cay by: Democrats for State representative: William W. Spencer, Indianapolis; Addison Drake, Fairbanks; John P. Crlsney, Spencer. Republican for State representative: F. E. Miller, Kokomo; Charles T. Elliott, New Harmony; M. Bell, Marion; Russell R. Ridenour, Spencer; Marshall P. Hill, Francisville. Republicans for State Senator: Oliver E. Dunn, Spencer; John S. Alldredge, Anderson. Girl Will Recover BLOOMINGTON. Ind., March 21. Aufca Jordan, 18, of Orleans, Ind., who attempted suicide by taking poison here last night will recover, physicians said toAay. The girl ran away froi* home and was despondent because X the break ~ith

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YANKS REMAIN IN HONDURAS DESPITE ORDER JO LEAVE U, S, Minister Says Relief Party Will Stay Until Order Is Brought, By United. XetcH WASHINGTON, March 217—Tha American relief party sent to protect American Uvea and property at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, has been fired upon by troops of the Honduran government, the Navy Department has been advised. The dispatch stated the Afnerlcan bluejackets were fired on white “passing through the lines,” n®arently Into Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. The fire was not returned. An apology has been made to American Minister Morales, and the government has stated that the Americans were fired upon as a resutt of a mistake. The defacto government has demanded the American minister request the withdrawal of the landing force, tlie Navy dispatches added. Minister Morales replied he would not request the withdrawal of the landing force until the authorities showed they are able to maintain order. The tropical radio station at Tegucigalpa Is now manned by American operators and guarded by American blue Jackets, so communications with this country may be maintained. Conditions In the Honduras capital were quiet today.

DEMANDFORNEW LEADERSHIP SEEN Rector Says Today’s Civilization Is Competition, “There is a loud demand today for new leadership, of which we have a scant supply,” Dr. J. 8. Hunting, Rt. Louis rector, said today at the noonday Lenten service at Christ Eplsco pal Church. “Our drillzatlon today Is only another name for competition,” Dr. Bunting said. “There is a powerful demand for a higher standard in moral, social and political life. “There can bo no new leadership or new religious enthusiasm if we turn our back upon the serenity of Jesus. Serenity Is not noise, it is not mere placldpesa; it is not mere happiness. Serenity is the prize of battle. “.Berne was not alarmed at the disturbances of nature or at the chaos of circumstance. It was what happened to the soul that disturbed Him.” HOOVER STRIKES BACK Declares Senator Capper Either Siandvrs or looses Reason. By United Perm WASHINGTON, March 21.—Secretary of Commerce Hoover today Issued a sharp reply to Samuel Untermmyer, who in a letter to Senator Capper, charge! the American public was trust-ridden because of Hoover’s "convenient blindness and inaction,” with rospect to the anti-trust Jaws. Hoover, writing to Capper, said Un termyer “ is either engaged in slander or has lost his memory, or knows nothing of the functions of the Department of Commerce.

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RECEIVER DF BANK TO ASSESS STOCK McCray Hojdings Involved in Financial Trouble, Another financial bugaboo loomed today In Governor McCray’s money tangle. With announcement to the State board of tax commissioners by William Darroch. receiver of the Discount and Iveposlt State Bank of Kentland, of which Governor McCray formerly was president, that an assessment of 100 per cent probably would be made on stock, status of the Governor's $25,000 stock became a matter of concern. Tho State Bank department has informed the tax board that the assets of the bank will appproxlmate only $210,000, with $3 r 'o,ooo due on hills payable and deposits. An assessment of $70,000, representing 100 per cent of the capital stock, was beUved to be inevitable. In 1923 there were 20,856 newspapers In the United States.

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WOMEN OF LOCAL DISTRICT MEET ATHOTELSEVERIN • Dr, Engieman Points Out Virtues of Sterling-Reed Education Bill, Dr. J. O. Engieman, field secretary of the National Educational Association, pointed cut tho advisability of the Sterling-Reed bill which provides for educational representation in the national government, in his talk before the Seventh District Indiana Federation of Women’s Clubs today at the Severin. In his talk on “Tendencies of Modem Education.” he said that alert persons are no longer considering matters such as education from a local standpoint, but in “terms national." He said that with Federal cooperation the great majority of the 22,000,000 children now receiving Inadequate instruction would be more ably taught. It will mean an equalizing of the burden of local and national education, he said. Mrs. John Downing Johnson, representing the garden committee of the club, introduced the speakers. Jacob E. Riedel discussed the plan of the city garden committee. R. Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks and recreation, asked cooperation of the women’s club in beautifying and Improvement of the city. Mrs. E. C. Rumpler presented reso lutlons adopted by the board of the general federation to the resolutions committee to be indorsed by the club later. They favor a World Court; foster a movement to raise the standards of American Art; approval of representation of the United States Government* in the international opium conference: favor establishment of an Army and Navy to maintain the dignity and safety of the country. c. of c. to cooper/Yte The Chamber of Commerce smoke abatement committee will work with the Woman's Department Club in conducting a “smoke abatement” booth at the Home Complete Exposition, Aprli 7-12 In the Manufacturers’ Bldg., at the State fairground. Edward O. Snethen, chairman, announced today. Mrs. John W. Moore, member of the Chamber committee, and of the club, will have charge. A dally stereoptleon show on smoke evils in Indianapolis will be given. Grocery Robbery Confeased Detectives Brickley and Finneman held today Shelton King, 31, colored, 31 S. Catherwood St. They say a confession to entering the Alva Thomas grocery, 6115 E. Washington St., Wednesday night and stealing a pay telephone and some cigarettes was made.

Flotsam A sls watch stolen twenty years ago was recovered today by Detectives Samuels and Reynolds In an Indiana Ave. pawn shop. The theft was reported in 1994 by Webb Thompson, who then lived at 113 Hancock St. The detectives! in checking records, discovered the theft. Police records said Thompson “was riding in an electric car’’ when the watch was taken. A woman who pay ned the watch said it belonged to her dead husband. Thompson has not been located.

P. H. N. A. GIVEN PRAISE National Reports Commends Work of Indianapolis Association. The Indianapolis Public Health Nursing Association, financed by the Community Fund and private donations, was praised by Prof. Allen W. Freeman of Johns Hopkins University for cooperation with the health department in a committee report of the American Public Health Association. Tha American association has been making an Investigation of health conditions In eighty-three cities. Indianapolis Is given as one of thirty-nine cities out of the eighty-three having a specific fund for visiting nurse service

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PRIZE FIGHT DAN BACKED BY LESH Governor Will Permit Mere Boxing Match, Governor McCray Is supported In his announcement that a boxing match is permlssable, but a prize fight between Georges Carpentier and Tommy Gibbons at Michigan City July 4 will not be allow'ed, by Attorney General U. S. Leah. McCray announced his continued opposition to prize fights when a dispatch from Michigan City told of the proposed July 4 match, saying it was understood the Governor would approve It. V Lesh has written to Joseph J. Mokwa, Hammond, Ind.: “It is unlawful to conduct or attend prize fights, but mot unlawful to conduct mere boxing contests. However, it is the duty of police officers to stop any bout which is really a prize fight and it Is the duty of the prosecuting attorney to prosecute such cases until they reach the Supreme Court when it becomes my duty to conduct the case."

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