Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1924 — Page 6

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ray MAN FOR HIMSELF IS ROLE IN SOUTHDAKOTA Coolidge Cuts Loose From Sterling, McMasters Abandons Johnson, By I niteil Prett SIOUX FALLS. S. D.. March 24. Every marv for himself became the rule today as political aspirants of South Dakota went Into the home stretch of a bitter primary race. President Coolidge cut loose from Senator Sterling and Governor MeMaster cut loose from Senator Hiram Johnson. When the ballots are cast Tuesday voters will have individual choices to make, rather than choose a combination for President and United States Senator. Fearing the affect of Hiram Johnson's poor showing in North Dakota, hundreds of posters carrying the name of Johnson and McMaster as running mates have been withdrawn, and new posters printed with only "Gasoline Bill" McMaster. Move Is Surprise The move surprised and chagrined supporters of the Californian and no explanation was made by the McMaster forces. Friends of President Coolidge. foreseeing a McMaster victory, forgot their ties to Senator Sterling, who stood by the President from the start. They set out to gain a Coolidge victory. regardless of the Sterling vote. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin is the unknown quantity in the Republican primary. He is naturally the choice of the Farmer-Labor party, without '■ontest. * I a Follette Vote Figures But since he has not tied himself to the Farmer-Labor party and Is still a Republican—and since he drew more than 37.000 votes in the Republican primary in North Dakota last week—there is a strong belief in political circles Senator La Follette will figure largely in the Republican balloting. William Gibbs McAdoo has nttle op-1 position for the Democratic indorse- j ment. TRADE AIR FLEET I URGED BY LANDIS American Ace Speaks at Legion Meeting, By Timet Special GREENSRURG. Ind.. March 24. "Failure to recognize the aviation holds wilt result in the lessening of America's prestige among world powers." Reed Landis, Ameri- j can ?ce and son of the Judge Kanesaw Landis, Ch*cagb, said at the closing session of the\ Fourth district convention of the American Legion here Sunday. He recommended creation of a merchant air fleet which could he used for national defense. SHANK'S SOIREE TUESDAY Singe Set for Annual Charity Ball in Tomlinson Hall. Mayor Shank and other city executives will be present when the moaning saxophone proclaims the start of the second annual ball in Tomlinson Hall Tuesday . night. The police “Harmony Eight" will sing and concession stands will give the hall a carnival appearance. More than 6.000 tickets have been sold. Money will go to Mayor Shank’s charity relief fund. A twelve-piece orchestra from the Police and Firemen's band will play. INVENTION TO BE TOPIC Electrical Engineers to Meet at Lincoln Thursday Evening. Chester I. Hall, head of the De velopmental Laboratory of the General Electric Company, will speak to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Indianapolis-Lafayette sec tlon, at the Lincoln, Thursday at 8 p. m., on the newly Invented vibration recorder. Hall is widely known as an electrical engineer. He holds more than 100 patents on electrical equipment in the United States and foreign countries. His talk will be Illustrated by lantern slides showing application of the recorder to study of muscular tremors. Boys Accused of Theft An 11-year-old boy and hia 9 year-old companion faced charged In Juvenile Court today after the police sav the lads stole fifty newspapers valued at 54.50 from Bright and Michigan Sts. Sunday.

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‘Bootlegger Had No Pints, ’ Explains Woman, in Jail

By GEORGE BRITT NEA Service Writer P—-jHICAGO, March 24.—The I I spinning dime rested, heads I I up. It was Mrs. Belva Overbeck Gaertner's enactment of a metaphorical death shaking the dice, and she waa the winner. She won—ln the craziest gamble any suicide club ever played—and the prize Is a cell In Jail and a hazy, denying murmur of "I was drunk. How could I know 7" Whatever question there may be as to her luck In the toss, it is decisive that Walter R. Law waa a loser. He lost his wife and 2-year-old son and life Itself. Was “Working Late” Such Is the conclusion of a sordid, macabre adventure, involving In lta triple grip the handsome young automobile salesman. Law. his Innocent and unsuspecting wife, afid the more mature, modish and ardent divorcee, Mrs. Gaertner. Until Mrs. Law got word her husband was dead, the thought he was merely "working late." “A pint of gin was the urual allowance when Walter Law took me on a party," confessed Mrs. Gaertner. "But this time the bootlegger had nothing but quarts and we drank too much." They danced in several cabarets between drinks, and after midnight they started home In her car, the car which Law had sold and which had served to introduce them three months before. As the car zig-zagged along the streets, the pair fell to arguing. There had been an outbreak of Jealousy In one of the cabarets. Mrs. Gaertner got out her pistol, which she kept in the car as protection against hold-up men. “Am Better Shooter" “I bet I am a better shooter than you are,” she challenged, according to her story to the polle. "I suggested.” she continued, “that we toss for It and the winner

MURDER THEORY EVOLVED ABOUT MISSING GIRLS Eleven Inmates of New York School for Feeble Minded Believed Slain, By Vnited prett NEW YORK. March 24.—The fate of eleven girls, missing within the past two years from the Letchwork Village Home, may be entrusted for Investigation to a special prosecutor. If Governor Smith grants a request of Dr. Anna W. Hochfelder, who has volved a startling murder theory. Dr. Hochfelder, assistant corporation counsel, insists the bones of a skeleton found In a cave on Cheesecock Mountain are those of IJlll&n White, former inmate of the Institution. Claims He Knows Slayer Together with Capt. Grant Williams, former head of the missing persons bureau, Dr. Hochfelder claims to know the identity of the White girl’s murderer. Disappearance of Mary Weissnck and Helen Johnson, the two other Inmates of the Letcliworth home, a fortnight ago. led to demand for a special deputy attorney general to prosecute the man Dr. Hochfelder will accuse. Eight other girls, one after another, have vanished from the home, which is the New York State home for feeble minded. Finding of bleached white house in a cave several miles from the home put Dr. Hochfelder and Captain Williams on the trail. Skull Is Discovered They discovered a skull and de dared it to be tnat of Lillian White. They accused a former employe of the Letchworth home as the murderer. Alleging prosecution by local officials has been hampered by lack of funds and of interest in their murder theory. Dr. Hochfelder and Captain Williams are demanding appointment of a special prosecutor. CHICAGO RECTOR SPEAKS Rev. Harold I* Bowers to Conduct Noon Lenten Services This Week. The Rev. Harold L. Bowen, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Chicago, will preach at the noonday Lenten services at Christ Episcopal Church this week, beginning Tues day noon. His subject Tuesday noon will be “Sand and Stone.” Today’s service waa conducted by the Rev. A. L. Skerry of the Indianapolis diocese.

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should shoot ht the loser. If the winner missed, then the other would get a chanoe; and so we would take turns until the nine bullets were all gone. And then—oh, I don’t know what happened.” But Law was found dead in the car, and the shot, the police say, oouldn’t have been fired by his own hand. Law. according to his employers, waa a star salesman, "only he didn’t know how to refuse a woman when she Invited him."

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CArVIC clubs are planning warm weather activities. Special ■__! committees have been ap- | pointed to Investigate playgrounds i and recreation equipment. • • • School children are talking spring vacation. School will be dismissed • next Friday afternoon and vacation will continue all the following week. Boy Scouts are planning hikes and other outdoor activities. • • • Miss Stella M. Doeppers, secretary Indianapolis Boy Scouts, said she . saw two cardinals. • • • Asphalt street repair gangs are working downtown. City Engineer John L. Elliott said they will move to the residential districts as fast as the worst places downtown are fixed. • • • Summer furs are displayed In many store windows. • • • C. A. A. says he heard the frogs croaking the other night. That was down in Jennings County. Has any one heard the froggies in South Grove lagoon? • • • Mayor Shank walked from his home, 3647 E. Washington St., to the city hall. LONDON STRIKE GROWS IN SCOPE Electrical Workers Consider joining Train Walkout, By United Prett LONDON. March 24. —London's double strike of tram and bus workers continued 100 per cant effective today, with employes of the city’* underground lines meeting to consider joining the walkout. Electrical workers tonight will debate throwing London into darkness in sympathy with the strikers. The labor government, confronted with the third Industrial crisis of Its brief administration, is groping for a threefold solution, acceptable alike to the strikers, the private bus companies and the London county council. ECONOMY PLEA IS MADE Dr. McCulloch Urges Women to Move for Honeety. Dr. Qarleton B. McCulloch, candidate for the Democractlc nomination for Governor, addressed Democratic women at the Claypool this afternoon, at a meeting here in the Interest of his candidacy. He pleaded fog economy in State expenditures and declared that in place of economizing, public officials have juggled funds and borrowed recklessly. He declared women should lead the movement for honesty, efficiency and economy in pubilo affairs. PEDESTRIAN HAS AGILITY Man .Jumps Out of Way When Brightwood Car Leaves Track. One pedestrian and twelve passengers narrowly escaped injury Sunday when an ln-bound Brlghtwood street car Jumped the track at 2200 Roosevelt Ave., throwing the passengers to the floor. When the rear end of the car sjid over the curb an unknown man walking on the sidewalk escaped by leaping. Boys Club to Hear T. C. Howe H, Waiter Jarvis spoke on "Courag" at t.he first of a series of neighborhood meetings Sunday afternoon in the L&uter Memorial Building of the Boys Club, Market and Greeley Sts., under the joint auspices qf the Mothers and directors. Thomas C. Howe is to speak Sunday.

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CONSECRATION OF BISHOP-ELECT IS TO BE SOLEMNIZED Rev, Alphonse J, Smith to Receive Signal Honors at Tuesday Ceremony, All arrangements have been completed for the solemn consecration of Right Reverend Alphonse J. Smith, Bishop-elect of Nashville, Tenn., at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Foufbeenth and Meridian Sts., Tuesday at 9 a. m. The Rev. Smith is pastor of St. Joan of Arc church. He will be consecrated by the Right Reverend Joseph Chartrand, D. D., Bishop of Indianapolis, assisted by Right Reverend Emmanuel Ledvlna. D. I)., Bishop of Corpus Christies Texas, and Right Reverend Samuel A. Stritch, D. D., Bishop of Toledo, Ohio. The sermon will be prejached by the Right Reverend Monslgnor Francs H. Gavlsk, V. G., chancellor of the Indianapolis diocese. Officers of the Mass Consecrator. the Right Rev Emmanuel Ledvlna, D. D.. bishop of Corpus Christ!, Texas; Right Rev. Samuel A Stritch, D. D., bishop of Toledo. Ohio; secromn, the Right Rev. Francis Gavisk, chancellor of the Indianapolis diocese; arch priest, the Very Rev. P. L. Mahoney, administrator of the diocese of Nashville, Tenn.; notary, the Rev. John C. Rager, S. T. L.; deacons of honor, the Rev. Francis Bradley, Ph. D. D.; the Rev. William F. Keefe; deacon of the moss, the Rev. John O’Hare; of fthe mass, the Rev. James Holland; chaplains to the bishop-elect, the Rev. George Smith, the Rev. Jeromo Pfau; chaplains to Bishop Ledvlna, the Rev. Maurice O’Connor, th Rev. Henry Flaherty; chaplains to Bishop Stritch, the Rev. Eugene Simon, the Rev. J. E Hamlll, Ph. D.; masters of oeremonles to Bishop Chartrand, the Rev Elmer J. Ritter, the Rev Edgar O'Connor, the Rev. Cornelius Smith; master of cere monies to Mshop elect, the Rev. James H Ryan. Ph. t>.; bearers of offertory gifts, members of the class of 1908; cross-bearer, the Rev. Clement Bastnagel; candle bearers, the Rev. John ! Reldlnger, the Rev. Conrad Urbach; crozler bearer, the Rev. G. F. Walker; j mitre bearer, the Rev. Urban Sonder man; book bearer, the Rev. Joseph ; Somes: candle hearer, the Rev. Amb- j rose Sullivan; faldstools, the Rev Matthew Herold; acolytes, the Rev. Francis Dlekhoff, the Rev. Albert Deery; censer bearer, the Rev. George Sebastian: boat bearar, the Rev. Raymond Smith. Knights of Columbus as Escorts Members of the fourth degree. Knights of Columbus, under the com mand of J. O. Vanier, master of the fourth degree, will acts as the guard of honor and will appear In full dress uniform. The escort wilt assemble at Fourteenth and Pennsylvania Sts. at 8:30. A choir of sixty five voices, chosen fro mall the choirs of the ditTor ent parishes, will assist the schola j eaqjtorum of the cathedral In present lng Pietro Yon's "Missa Regina Pads” under the direction of Elmer Andrew Steffen. A banquet for all the clergy will be given at the Spink-Arms Hotel at noon, immediately following the con secration ceremony. Arrangements for this function have been completed, by the Indianapolis council Knights j of Columbus, who have charge of this part of the program. The program has been arranged by j Rev. Maurice O'Connor. Toastmaster, Rev. James H. Ryan, D. D., of Washington, D. C. Toast: "Our Holy Father, Pope Plus XI." Resoponse, HA Rev. Joseph Chartrand, D. D. "Our Country," Rt. Rev. J. B. Morris, Little Rock, Ark. "The New Bishop," Rt. Rev. Samuel A. Stritch, Toledo, Ohio. Response, Rt. Rev. Alphonse J. Smith, D. D. There will be selections rendered by Montani's orchestra and vocal numbers by the Schola Cantorum.

CANDIDATES BEING NAMED Citizens Ashed to Propose* Choices for Reviewing Wilson Award. Mrs. Alice M. French, 901 Middle Dr., Woodruff PI., India/ia chalnnan of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, today announced recommendations of candidates for the annual foundation award are being received by Miss Katrina E. Tiffany, 17 E. Forty-Second St., New York, secretary of the board of trustees. All citizens are asked to recommend candidateas. The fund of 115,000 which is given annually to the person performing the highest unselflesh public service. PUBLICATION JS DELAYED Elrod Says Dally American Will Not Appear for Week or Ten Days. The Daily American, the new morning paper planned for Indianapolis, will not be published for a week or ten days, Milton Elrod, who is planning the paper, said today. The paper was originally scheduled tc appear March 15, and then the publication date was postponed until today. It Is understood the postponement has been due to inability to obtain press facilities. It is said plans to publish from the office of the Indianapolis Commercial have been abandoned. MARGARET BALLARD DIES Funeral Services to Be Held From Residence Tuesday, Funeral service* of Mrs. Margaret Ballard, 69, who died Sunday at her home, 803 Park Ave., will be held at 2 p. m. at the First United Brethren Church Tuesday. 6urlal in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Ballard had lived most of her life In Indianapolis and had long been a member of the First United Brethren Church. She la survived by two sons. Shirley Ginn Ballard of Ko-1 komo, Ind., and Eart Fergin Ballard I of Glnaliraatl, Ofalo.

PENNSY VETS BANQUET Fourth Annual Banquet ol Emplryes’ Association Is Held. The fourth annual banquet of the Veteran Employes’ Association of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Indianapolis division, was held Rt the Lincoln Saturday night. Among the speakers were W. C. Downing, general superintendent; E. L. Kraft, division operator; H. C. Shepard and A. D. Pendleton, division freight agent, and P. J. Landers, superintendent of the Indianapolis Union Railroad. Tribute was paid eleven members of the organization who died during the year. MYSTERY HINTED ABOUT DEATH OF DAUGHERTY FRIEND Senate Probers Will Investigate Alleged Suicide of Jesse Smith, By United Prett WASHINGTON, March 24.—The Senate Daugherty investigation committee. though in recess because of the Illness of Senator Wheler, today decided to dig farther into the circumstances surrounding the death of Jes B Smith, Daugherty’s Intimate friend who waa found dead, supposedly a suicide In Daugherty's apartment last May. Though Mrs. Roxle Stinson, Smith's divorced wife, expressly d’enied any intention of hinting at the possible murder of Smith when she testified before the commute Saturday. Senator Brookhort today announced the committee had decided “to investigate all phases of the alleged suicide of Smith,’’ in view of the fact no autopsy had been performed at the time of his death. While no subpoena has been Issued for Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt. District of Columbia coroner, Brookhart said he expected to call him to explain the failure to perform an autopsy and other circumstances surrounding Smith's death. No Noe*! for One "There was no need for an autopsy," Dr. Nevitt tojd the United Press today. "It was a plain case of suicide, If I ever saw one. There was no mystery about it and no suspicious circumstances, so I issued a ceriflcate of death by suicide without an autopsy.” Before Mrs. Stinson takes the stand another clash between Howland and the committee Is expected over the Inspection of the books of the Midland National Batik of Washington Courthouse, Ohio, oA’ned by M. 8. Daugherty, brother of Attorney General Daugherty. Faces Contempt Charge Refusal of Daugherty to produoe the books la likely to lead to contempt proceedings against him In the Senate and possibly a long court fight If he holds his ground. Counsel for Daugherty take the position only ac counts relating to Jeese Smith should i be Inspected, while the committee demands all books shall be opened to it. Wheeler said Secretary Mellon probably will be called this week In connection with the liquor deal phase of the case against the Attorney General. Commissioner Haynes will be another important witness.

EDWARD H. PERRY FUNERAL TUESDAY Mayor’s Brother-in-Law Dies at Home of Daughter, Funeral services of Edward H. Perry, 74, who died Sunday at the homd of his daughter, Mrs. Jesse A. Shearer, 8330 Ruckle Bt.. will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the daughter's residence. The Rev. C. Howard Taylor, pastor of the Broadway M. B. Church, will officiate. Burial In the Anderson cemetery, Anderson, Ind. Mr. Perry, born In lowa, moved to Indiana with his parents when a child. For many years he lived on a farm one mile east of Irvington. In 1874 Mr. Perry married Miss Sarah Candis Shank, a sister of Mayor Shank. Mrs. Perry died about twenty years ago. Surviving are Mrs. Shearer, a son, Samuel Perry, of Indianapolis; three sisters. Mrs. Mary Newhouse. Lawrence, Ind.; Mrs. Jane Askren. Warren Township, and Mrs. Elizabeth Speece, Indianapolis. and three brothers, James Perry. Kokomo. Ind.; Cyrus, Perry, Heyworth 111. and Wll liam Perry Indianapolis. Wife Owes IJfo to Husband Mrs. Elsie Kern, 26, of Apt. 6, 653 Ft. Wayne Ave., owes her life to the timely appearance of her husband. He found the door locked. Neighbors said Mrs. Kern waa at home. He forced the door. Mrs, Kern had been overcome by gas from a water heater. She recovered rapidly.

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—Photo by American Coloney Jerusalem. POOL OF BETHESDA. JERUSALEM, WHERE CHRIST HEALED AN INFIRM MAN WITH THE INJUNCTION: "TAKE UP THY BF.D AND WALK." PERIOD DISTURBANCES IN THIS RESERVOIR BROUGHT BELIEF THAT AN ANGEL GAVE IT HEALING PROPERTIES. SCORES OF BLIND AND LAME AWAITED AT ITS RIM FOR SUCH CURES.

Come Into Times Contest All you have to do to enter The Times Marble Tournament Is to fill out this coupon and bring or mall it to the Marble Editor at The Times office, 214-220 W. Maryland St. The winner of the city tournament will be sent to Atlantic City by The Times. Name Address Age School

REV. 0. B. MOOR TO TALK Second Annual Y. W. U. A. Commencement to Be Held Tuesday. The Rev. Otto B. Moor, pastor of the . Immanuel Reformed Church. New Jersey and Prospect Sts., will talk on "Hanging Picture?' Tuesday j night at the aeoond annual com- . mencement of the Indianapolis training school at the Y. W. C. A. E. T. Albertson, general secretary of the Indiana Council of Religious Education, will be toastmaster at a banquet at 8 30. Graduates are: Mrs. Frark A Symmee. Miss Sophia W. SchorteToieler. Miss Huldah D. Nord Holt I Mrs. Mary F. Hastings. Mrs. John A. i

Chemistry Is a Useful Agent in Promoting Human Comfort ECONOMICAL PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICE depends upon the application of fundamental chemical laws to plant operation. THE MODERN GAS INDUSTRY is based upon the production and sale of hv-products that enter into the manufacture of dyes, medicinals, steel treating materials, and a thousand other things that go to meet the demands of modern civilization. ELECTRIC SERVICE, whether applied to power, light or transportation, demands an efficient generating plant. 1 Wasteful boilers make current expensive. Economy is attained by application of chemistry to boiler plant operation. TELEPHONE SERVICE depends upon refinement of materials used in plant equipment. Present day long distance telephone efficiency is the result of research and laboratory experimentation. SAFE DRINKING WATER in the modern city, delivered regularly at economical rates, is possible because of the service of the Chemist. The materials that enter into plant construction, such as cement, reinforcing steel, cast iron pipe—are pi’oduced in plants that have been able to improve and standardize their product by laboratory supervision. THE MATERIALS USED in clarifying water are produced under chemical control, and their efficient use demands the correlation that the laboratory gives. STERILIZING AGENTS, used as safeguards, are laboratory products. In uo other way would they have been produced and applied to water purification. THE HEALTH OF THE MODERN CITY, and the comfort of its citizens, depends upon standardized service and standardized products. YOUR DRINKING WATER is healthful because it is a standardized article produced under laboratory control. Indianapolis Water Cos.

■ Clark. Mrs. Mina A. Justus. Mrs C. j Norman Green, and Mrs. Mary L. ! Walker. Post graduates to receive ! special awards Mrs Margaret AleCrory, Miss Anna Sehortemeier, Mrs. Georgia Snyder and Mrs. Hattie Taylor. RECEIVER IS REQUESTED 8. M. Timber lake Company Named In Superior Court Suit. A receiver for the S. M. Timberlake Company, contractors, builders of the Keystone Ave. road and Raymond St., was asked in a suit filed before Superior Judge Linn D. Hay today by Ross H. Scott, who alleges he is a creditor for 12,711. Seott says 8. M. Timberlake Is 111.

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NOW IS THE TIME TO GET IN GOOD MARBLE PRACTICE Ideal Weather to Prepare for Times District and City Tourney, At last the weather man is "coming across" with just the kind of weather we have been waiting so goodness marble days. If you just couldn’t work up to the proper pitch before, you oaji now. These are the days that count, If you want to enter The Times marble tournament and come out a winner. Any fellow or girl can develop a sure-fire shot, if he just plays away. And now is the time to plug. It's worth more to a boy or girl nowa days to be a real marble king than it ever was before. What could be better than to get, absolutely free, a trip to Atlantic City? That’s what the winner of the Indianapolis Times Marble Tournament is going to get. Many Tournaments Several fellows have been writing to the Marble Editor to find out more about the tournament. Here Is all the "dope:” The Indianapolis Times will conduct in each community a tournament — and it will not be very long before they will begin. Then there will be a big city tournament, in which all the winners of the community tournaments will compete for city honors. Watch The Times carefully, and when the time for the first tournament rolls around, there will be an announcement telling when and where the tourney will be held. Winners of tournaments will be given valuable prizes. The city marble king will get a week’s trip to Atlantic City. While he is there he will play with champions from many other cities throughout the United States for the title of King of Marble Players. O''her Scripps-Howard newspapers roughout the country are conducting marble tournaments, just as The Times is. All these boy and girl winners will play at Atlantic City. Stop at Washington Any boy or girl under 15 years of age is eligible to enter the contest. If you want to get some dandy marbles free, come to The Times office to learn how you can. get them. While the winner of the city tournament is going East he will get to stop at Washington, where he may see the President, and at many other interesting places. Remember it doesn't oost the Marblo King a penny. Fill out your coupon and mall It to the marble editor today. E. V. Am Coroner Candidate Edgar V. Arn, druggist has announced bis candidacy for the Republican nomination for coroner. He sought the same nomination two years ago.