Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1924 — Page 2

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BLOOMINGTON HAS $350,000 LOSS IN DISASTROUS FIRE Blaze Rages Nearly Six Hours, Razing Business Blocks on Southwest Side of Square, TWO PERSONS ARE INJURED Bedford and Martinsville Send Aid —Indiana Students Fight Flames, By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 25. The loss of the disastrous fire which swept two business blocks on the southwest side of the public square here last night was estimated today at between $350,000 and $400,000. The fire was the worst Bloomington has ever experienced. The Daily Telephone newspaper office, Bowles drug store, the Shaffer grocery, the Western Union telegraph office, an express office and several other offices were destroyed. Hundreds of Indiana University students aided firemen in fighting the flames, which raged unchecked from C o'clock until nearly midnight. Originates in Grocery Originating in the basement of the Shaffer Grocery store, the fire ate through into the basement of the Telephone office before fireman reached the scene. Huge quantities of news print paper stored in the basement of the newspaper office fed the flames. Every available piece of fire fighting apparatus in the city was brought into play and calls for aid were sent to Martinsville and Bedford. Both cities sent apparatus. Members of the reserve officers' training corps of Indiana University helped hold the crowd back from the burning building, while other students served as volunteer firemen.

Two Injured Robert Strain, 10-year-old boy, was seriously injured when he fell from the roof of the first National Bank building, where he had climbed to watch the fire. Earl Carter, a volunteer fireman, was injured when the fleor of one of the burning buildings caved lu. Bloomington was thrown into dark ness when the city light plant, located only half block from the scene of the fire was forced to shut down. ■Trains on the Monon Railroad were held up until the fire was ekrckcd. Origin of the fire is not known. Os the two business blocks destroyed one is owned by H. B. Gentry, circus owner, now !n Florida, and the other by W. S. and Blaine Braafute, owners and publishers of the Daily Telephone. New Equipment has been ordered by the publishers and the newspaper building will be rebuilt. The Chamber of Commerce records kept In offices in the Gentry Bldg, were destroyed. State Fire Marshal Newman T. Miller today ordered an ini’estigation of the Bloomington fire. An arson investigator and an Inspector will be sent to Bloomington tonight. The cause of the blaze and the conduct of the fire department will be investigated. “I -wonder why so much property was destroyed when the fire started in the afternoon,” said Miller. “The fire department was only two blocks away. I have ordered my men to investigate." 4-ACRE FLOOR ORDERED Convention Facilities Increased by Fairground Improvement. Convention facilities of Indianapolis will be greatly Increased by the construction of a 4-acre concrete floor on the new $240,000 cattle building at the State fairground. The floor was requested by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce for exposition purposes. Contract was awarded to the Service Construction Company, Indianapolis. for construction of the new $60,000 Purdue building at the fairground. The bid was $44,620. ATTACK IS INVESTIGATED Woman Reports She Is Seized by Colored Man; Screams Effective. Police today were investigating the report of Mrs Madge Pindell, 35, of 2033 Columbia Ave., that she was seized by a colored man while walking near College Ave. and Twentieth St., Monday night. Her screams frightened the man away. Thefts victims are: Harry Morgan, 205 N. Addison St., wrist watch, $25; E. H. Taylor, 537 E. Eleventh St., watch and revolver, SB9; Link Belt Company, employment office, s77’ Fred Scott, 833 N. Capitol Ave., diamond ring, SSO.

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Bob ’Em All Disciples of Gary Barber, Who Turns Down Woman’ Patrons, Lacking Here short Style Makes Business Better, What With Necessity for Regular Trims.

mX Gary Ind., there Is a barber who will not bob hair for women: Neither smiles, nor flattery, nor offer of lucre will budge him. A barber shop's a place where men get dolled up and it’s no place for women, contends this barber. But in Indianapolis— A reporter visited the downtown district and found no disciple of the Gary scissors wielder. They’ll cut hair for anything human in Indianapolis. Just as prohibition was a boon for the soft drink parlor the short hair style has erased the red Ink from many a tonsorial artist’s ledger. Some Ixmg Ix>cks Left It hasn't doubled the patronage—because beauty parlors get a big share of the women and there are some women left with long hair—but it’s meant a lot, say the barbers. The ladies spend more than the men, too. Some shops will cut hair any style for forty or fifty cents. But most of them that they charge from fifty cents to a dollar for original bobbing. It costs a dollar if you get it shingled—cut right up the back. Trims cost forty or fifty cents. And the repeat business—it's just like the automobile game. Sella car and they're forever coming back after parts. Snip off the tresses and milady must have a trim every two or three weeks. Depends upon the kind of a bob and how fast the hair grows. What Does Wifle Say? The hotel barber who used to boast that he cut the hair of Senator Whoosis the last time he was in town, now spreads it around that he trimmed Anne Twinkletoes yesterday. For the hotel shops report that they get a lot o fhusiness from actresses. Shops In the big office buildings get steongraphers and store clerks, mostly. Out in the neighborhood clipperies they get the housewives—yea, some of ’em mothers of four children. Woman suffrage cleaned up politics —to the extent that you don’t hear co much cussing around the polls. Even so—have you noticed any copies of the widely-known ‘sporting magazines’ which featured a burlesque queen in tights on the front cover, lying around your favorite shave palace lately?

PASIOR ELEVATED TO BISHOP RANK i Continued From Page 1) of Ccd and in union with God. It hungers for this knowledge, it finds its satisfaction only In lii3 service and will arrive at ultimate happiness only in union with God. The teaching of these truths and the administration of the Sacraments in the Office of the Church: the profession of this faith, the reception of grace through the Sacraments and the practice of Christian virtue in Religion." Remarks to New Bishop In directing his remarks to the new bishop, Mgr. Gavlsk said: "This is the significance of today’s ceremony, the consecration of one to be a bishop in the Church of God, a successor with the full powers of the Apostolate, a member of the Teaching Body of the Living Church, an ambassador of Christ, a dispenser of the mysteries of God. "In addition to the power of orders conferred upon this priest today by his consecration to the Episcopate there is Imparted to him by the laying on of hands the power of Jurisdiction in the Church of God. This is the right and the authority of administering the external means necessary for the propagation of revelation; the right to authenticate those sent to minister to the people, the right to superlnend the work of the Church of God in the diocese to which he has been sent, to the right to Judge and to legislate In matters pertaining to his Jurisdiction. ‘The flock over which the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the Church of God.’ (Acts xx, ; 28.) Faith Means to Find "The end for which Cod established the Church on earth Is to sanctify Its members so that they may attain to the beatific vision. The means to this end are faith in the truths taught by Christ and promulgated by the Church, obedience to the laws of God and the life-giving fountains of grace'in the Sacraments. ■ In discussing the patriotism of American bishops, Msgr. Gavisk seld: "The bishops of this country have on many occasions affirmed the duty of patriotism and of loyalty to the I government under w'hlch we live. In ! 1837 they declared: 'We owe civil | and political allegiance to the several ! States In which we live and also to the general Government. In acknowledging the spiritual and acclesiastical supremacy of the pope we do not thereby detract from the allegiance to which our Government is plainly entitled and which we cheerfully give.’ Obedience Admonished "In 1852 the bishops admonished the Catholic body to obedience to the constituted authority, not only for wrath but also for conscience’ Bake ’and to show attachment to the institutions of our beloved country.’ "Again in the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, in 1884, the assembled bishops and archbishops repudiate the assertion that we need to lay aside our devotedness to the church to be true Americans” or “that we need abate any of our love for our principles and institutions to be faithful Catholics.” They declare: "We believe that our country's heroes were the instruments of God In establishing this home of v freedom; to both the v Almighty and to Hie in-

Scenes at Consecration of Bishop Alphonse J. Smith In Solemn Rites at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral

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ABOVE: FOURTH DEGREE KNIGHTS OF COLFMBFS WHO WERE GUARD OF HONOR TO RT. REV. J. SMITH. BISHOP OF NASHVILLE. AT HIS CONSECRATION ENTERING SS. PETER AND PAUL CATHEDRAL TODAY FOR THE SERVICE. BELOW: SOME OF THE ATTENDING CATHOLIC CLERGY IN THE PROCESSION FROM THE CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL TO THE CATHEDRAL.

struments in the work, we look with grateful reverence: and to maintain the inheritance of freedom which they have left us. should it ever be imperiled, our Catholic citizens will bo found to stand forward as one man ready to pledge anew ‘their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.’ ” Support Pledged In April, 1919, a few days after the declaration of a state of war with the German empire, the archbishops of the U nltedStates, assembled in Washington, pledged to President Wilson the support of the Catholic citizenship and the resources of the Church in this country’-” Following the nearly thr**-hour service, a bam uet for the Catholic clergy in honor of Bishop Smith was given at the Spink-Anns under ausplcts of Indianapolis Council, Knights of Columbus. Rev. James H. Ryan, D. D.. of Washington D. C., was toastmaster. Bishop Chartrand, the Rt. Rev. J. B. Morris, Little Rock, Ark.; Rt. Rev. Bamuel A. Stritch of Toledo. Ohio, spoke and Bishop Smith responded. PARENTS UNABLE TO ATTEND RITES Baby Killed In Crash to Be Buried Wednesday, Following brief services at the funeral parlors of Kirby & Dlnn on Wednesday morning the burial of Jewel Walden. Jr., nine-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Walden, 5910 Julian Ave., will be in Holy Ctobs cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Walden, are In Deaconess Hospital with injuries re celved when a Lebanon lnterurban car collided with their automobile, three miles northwest of the city on Monday, will be unable to attend the funeral. Their child was killed in the accident. The condition of the mother remains sehlous, while the father is greatly Improved. HOSPITAL REPORTS MADE County's Quota to Central Institution Excelled Several limes. Reports of congestion In State hospitals are being received by the State board of charities, according to John A. Brown, secretary. No recommendations will be made until reports have been tabulated. Investigation follows appointment of a special committee by Governor MoCray for redlstrictlng hospitals. Marion County’s quota to the Central Hospital for Insane has been exceeded by 100 several times in 1923. RAIL ELEVATION FAVORED .Motor C'onunerce Believes in Slielby St. as Traffic Avenue. The Allied Motor Commerce of Indiana has adopted a resolution calling for elevation of the Pennsylvania tracks at Shejby St. Such action, they believe, will eliminate a dangerous grade crossing, open up anew avenue of traffic to the southeastern industrial district and take heavy traffic from the center of the city. SECOND WOMAN FILES Elizabeth 11. Dougherty, Treaty, Ind., Seeks State Representative’s Job. Elizabeth H. Dougherty, Treaty, Ind., is the second woman to file a petition with the Secretary of State to place her name on the primary ballot. She seeks the Republican nomination for State Representative. Miss Julia Landers, the first woman to file, seeks Democratic nomination to Congress. Legion Denies Charges Emphatic denial of charges by Vlotor Miller, publisher of the Service Record of Cincinnati, Ohio, that the American Legion has no "legal existence” and that the Legion Weekly has failed to comply with postal regulations was made by Legion official? today

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PHONE COMPANY HEAD EXPLAINS WIRELESS SUITS Monopoly Denied 'Protection of Patent Rights Is Only Motive,’ By H. B THAYER, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. In view of the coryiictlng accounts and interpretations of the suite re cently instituted by the company to protect its patents affecting radio telephone broadcasting, it will, perhaps, be helpful to relate the circumstances thßt respited In the present patent situation. Some time before the war, the Bell system research laboratories began development of what is now called the vacuum tube, ns a long distance wire telephone amplifier or repeater. The laboratories of the General Electric Company had also undertaken the devejopment of this apparatus for other purposes. As was inevitable, with two great experimental laboratories engaged In similar research, each company ao quired inventions and improvements of mutual usefulness. Patent Considerations When the end of the war ended the necessity for this emergency disregard of patent rights, a valuable art had ben developed which no one in the business of communications could use without infringing upon the rights of others. Fnder such conditions, there could be no further manufacturing of certain apparatus, nor further development of this art, and the Navy Department requested this company and the General Electric Company to try to relieve the situation. Negotiations were carried through to an arrangement of cross licenses to which other owners of patents in this field were afterward admitted. For practical operation under this arrangement, it was necessary that the parties to the agreement ho given the specific uses of the apparatus In question that were logical to their business. It was in this way that licenses for certain uses in connection with radio telephony came to us, as our directors reported to the stockholders at the time. Fundamental Purpose This company’s prime purpose in operating under those licenses has been such development of the radio art as would be useful In relation to telephone service. There was widespread popular Interest In broadcasting, as was evidenced by the growth of the industry furnishing apparatus for radio reception. A realization of the extent of this interest led to a sudden de- | mand for broadcasting stations. From the financial standpoint it i would have been profitable to manufacture and install all the broadcasting apparatus sought for. We deemed it better policy, however, to point out all the factors and risks of the situation, and for those wishing to broadcast, to offer our own station at moderate rates, so far as our allotted time limits for broadcasting would perrhlt. Broadcasting Development Broadcasting is made possible by inventions that have cost their owners large sums not only In acquiring patents, but als oin experimental and development expense. We have recognized the fact that marty broadcasters, In making wrongkui use of our inventions, have been Ignorant of their infringement. We have, therefore, established reasonable license fees, the payment of which, coupled with an agreement to refrain from further infringement, would liquidate any claims for Infringement and would give the broadcaster a legal right* to the use of the patents during their Spring is coming, but not here yet. Use "O. G.” Witch Hazel Jelly for chapped lips an| hands. Buy it at I your drug store or toilet goods counter.—Advertisement.

life. The fees are so moderate as to represent a return far below the customary profits on unpatented electrical apparatus. Prudence Dictated Suits With approximately 400 stations in the'United States using our inventions without a license from us. it became a matter of ordinary prudenqp for us to institute legal proceedings that would establish our ownership of patents and our rights as owners. Not to protect them would be sheer neg iect of duty. "We have been asked what our future policy will be in connection with radio broadcasting. It Is: That we keep in and abreast of the development oi the art, and that wo encourage In every way possible such devlop ment by others We shall make It possible, so far as lies within u, for any one to secure broadcasting appa ratus at moderate prices, and for those broadcasters who are now Infringing on our patents, to continue their use under reasonable and moderate terms. For the present we shall continue to operate our own experimental broadcasting station, making its facilities available under reasonable rules, in the public Interest, for those who wish to test broadcasting as a medium for attracting the public’s notice. Far from desiring the sole responsibility for broadcasting. It Is our strong belief that, In the public’s Interest, and In our own interest, nothing should be allowed to Interfere with any development of it that may bo proved beneficial. We heartily favor Government control of such act’vities and the Federal legislation that ( s pending has our cordial support. Amonopoly, either of broadcasting for entertainment of the public or for hire Is not desirable from any point of view. There has been no donger and Is no danger of such a monopoly. This communication was received today by G. H. Rottger, president, Indiana Bell Telephone Company.

HOGLE TO MAKE RACE Cmincil President Candidate for Republican Commissioner. Cassius L. Hogle, 30 S. Arlington Ave., at a meeting of the Irvington Republican Club Monday night, announced he Is a candidate on the Republican ticket for Marion County commissioner. Hogle is president of the Marion County Council. The commissioners Job in question is now occupied by John Kitley, a farmer at Julietta. Kitley is a Democrat, and president of the board. He Is a candidate for re-election. Ills term expires Jan. 81, 1925. Kitley and Hogle, as presidents of their respective hoards, pushed through the appropriation of $20,000 for care of persons suspected of insanity at the city hospital. KEITH EASTER SERVICES Miss Bertha Contle Will Speak at Noon-Day Meetings. Pre Easter noonday services will bo held at B. F. Keith’s Theater April 14 to 13. Miss Bertha Condo, author, lecturer and traveler, will speak. Her themo will be "A Spiritual Way of Life for This Generation.” Separate lectures will be given each day on this subject. Miss Conde will conduct night classes for business girls and women at the Y. W. C. A.. April 15, i6 and 18, and will speak at a mass meeting for mer. and women Easter afternoon, with “The Unescapable Christ" as her subject. $50,000 DAMAGES ASKED Mt. Vernon Strawboard Company Sued for Alleged Leg Amputation. Suit has been filed in Federal Court by Miss Orie Flaahardy for Miss Flossie Flaahardy against the Mt. Vernon (Ind.) Strawboard Company, asking damages of $50,000 for alleged personal Injuries suffered in a collision Oct. 28, 1921, between two teams, one ot which belonged to the strawboard company. The amputation of her leg •was necessary, the complaint says. Prof. Soper to Speak Dr. Edmund D. Soper, professor of the history of religion at Northwestern University, will give a series of lectures this week at the College of Missions In Irvington, beginning tonight.. The lectures are public.

VANDERUP OPENS. ‘LAUNDRY 10 CLEAN UP GOVERNMENT I Know My Washington,’ Financier Says in Discussing His Research Bureau Aiding Sen, Wheeler, IS INFORMATION CENTER Wants to Inform Public of* ‘Ugliness’ Going on in Nation's Capital, (Copyright, 102), by United Press) WASHINGTON, March 25.—Frank A. Vanderlip has opened a "laundry” with which he is going to help "dry clean the Government." “Some of my friends have suggested I have gone crazy,” said Vanderlip when he was asked to dispel a certain air of mystery with which his operations since coming to Washington recently have been cloaked. "Well, I’ll tell you what I’m doing and you can judge whether I’m crazy or not.” First, Vanderlip insisted, any account of his activities must make it plain he is, for the time being, under the direction of Senator Wheeler, the aggressive "prosecutor” of the Senate committee investigating Attorney General Daugherty. "Wheeler and I are working in close cooperation,” said Vanderlip. The citizens Federal reserve bureau which ire has just opened lea bare, cheerless office, only half furnished as yet. Invented Research Bureau “I invented this research bureau,” said Vanderlip, "to get to the American people facts about conditions in the Government "My idea was to get tl*o facts together and send them to 1 000 newspapers. Out of the 1 000 somebody, somewhere, will be sure to crack the story and then the rest of them would be ,\ 'liable to follow it. "But the Wheeler investigation guve me another channel and I om therefore giving everything I have to Senator Wheeler. “The bureau Is being incorporated as a permanent agency. When T started li I planned to have 25 of the most distinguished men in the country associated with me. But 1 abandoned that idea for you can't get twenty-five such men without finding some eviienve I am going tc have twefity five hard-boiled red nosed men insttxul Men with no pasts. I'm not going to have a 'no thoroughfare’ sign hung on any path I want to follow.” Got to Know Tilings "What gave you this dry cleaning idea—what mado you think the Government needed such a cleaning?” Vanderlip was usked. "In the McKinley administration," he said. "I was assistant secretary of the treasury. I got to know things about Washington. "Then I went to the National City B:ink. That organization, a big holder of Government bonds, keeps in touch with Washington. I built up a secret service of my own and it has been functioning for twenty years. I know my Washington. "When this personal machinery of investigation and information brought me reports of what was going on here I paid little attention to it for a long time Like a good-many citizens. I regarded it indifferently. But suddenly I saw the whole thing in its appalling ugliness. Is Made Target "A frie-nd asked me to make a sp>eeoh. I spoke on ’Courage in Leadership.’ ”1 was at once the target of a bitter tirade. loiter I was commended, and, in addition, I became a veritable reservoir into which information poured from every source. I have taken pains to check this up and such of it ass straight goes to Wheeler. "There’s the story. There’s no mystery. I’m after clean government. Seems to me one way to get that is to inform the public. That’s my game.” LEWIS’ NAME PROPOSED Miners’ I‘resident Suggested for Vice President on G. O. P. Ticket. Suggestion that John L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers of America, be nominated for Vice President on the Republican ticket, is made by the American Coal Miner, a magazine affiliated with neither miners nor operators. The magazine is edited by K. C. Adams of Indianapolis. Lewis has been president of the miners’ organization for five years. He formerly was connected with the American Federation of Labor. He started life as a coal miner. He is a native of lowa, but maintains a residence in Illinois. His office is In Indianapolis. SCOUTS BUY 57 ACRES Reservation Augmented by large Tract Across Fall Creek. A flfty-seven-acre tract of land along Fall Creek opposite the Boy Scout reservation, near Ft. Benjamin Harrison has been acquired from the Webb heirs, F. O. Belzer, Scout executive, announced today. The added tract gives the Vjcal scouts 147 acres with three-fourths of a mile along the creek. Chalmers Sohlosser, Clarence R. Martin and Dr. John W. Webb represented the Webb heirs. THREE FALSE ALARMS Police Seeking Miscreant Thought to Be Operating in Automobile. Police today Investigated three false alarms thought to have been turned in by someone riding in an automobile. At 9:41 p. m. Monday the box at Oxford and New York Sts. wmj turned in. At 9:49 the box was turned In at Thirty-Seventh and Illinois Sts,, and at 10:31 at the city hospital

Indianapolis Priest Elevated to Bishop

BISHOP ALPHONSE J. SMITH The Rev. Alphonse J. Smith, pastor of St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, today was elevated to Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., in ceremonies at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral. OLD CONTROVERSY AS 10 VACANCY IN U.S. COURT ARISES Seventh District Jurist Says He Is Successor to Late Judge Baker, Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave. WASHINGTON, March 25.—Assistant Attorney General Seymour was to render an opinion today on whether or not a vacancy actually exists in the Seventh Circuit Court, to which court President Coolidge is considering appointment of Judge A. B. Anders .in. Question as to vacancy arose because of a protest by Judge Julian W. Mack, formerly judge of the United States Commerce Court, but since 1911 member of Seventh Circuit Court. As present Federal statutes provide there shall be four Judges of the Circuit Court, and as there have been five judges until the death of Judge Baker on March 15. Judge Mack contends he is the logical successor of Judge Baker and that no Vacancy exists.

Serves Natural Life The reason for five Judges is when Commerce Courts were abolished In 1911 Congress stipulated that Commerce Court judges should serve with Circuit Courts during their natural life, but that when they died no successors would be appointed. Judge Baker, then a commerce court judge, was transferred to the Seventh Circuit. There have been a number of deaths of judges of this court since 1911 and each time Judge Mack registered his protest against appointment of anew member instead of his own substitution. As his protests were overruled in previous cases, it is believed Seymour's report will overrule his new protest and make the contention that Judge Mack is purely a supplementary’ member of the Seventh Circuit, and. while Mack's place will not be filled on his death, his presence on the bench In no way affects new appointments following the death of any other member of the court. Ralston Adds Voice Senator Ralston Monday added his recommendation of Judge Anderson to that of Senator Watson and the majority of the Republican members of Indiana’s delegation In Congress. GREENWOOD MAN IS HELD Motorist Injured When Car Is Turned Over In Accident. Thomas Snedegar, 54, Greenwood, Ind., Is under arrest today. Police charged assault and battery operating a blind tiger and transporting liquor. Police say that Snedgax’s car struck another at West and New York Sts., driven by Delbert Burford, 850 Summer Ave., turning the Burford car over. Burford was slightly* injured. Mission Prints Magazine Activities of the Wheeler City Mission are recorded in the March issue of anew monthly publication of the organization. H. E. Eberhordt, su perintendent, is editor. Included in the first Issue is a number of letters from prisoners in the jail expressing gratitude for work being done by the mission.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1924

SYNDICATE BOYS WINONA TRACTION COMPANY BONDS Reid, Goodrich and Frazer in Purchase of Securities to Free Utility of Heavy Burden of Debt. FORECLOSURE IS METHOD Property Has Been in Hands of Receiver for About Nine Years. Purchase of practically all bonds of the Goshen and Peru divisions of the Winona lnterurban Railway Company by Harry Reid and James P. Goodrich of Indianapolis and Theodore Frazer, Warsaw, was announced by Mote & Goodrich, attorneys, here today. The plan of the new holders of ths bonds, according to Pierre Goodrich of Mote & Goodrich, is to foreclose the mortgages on the property, terminate the receivership which has controlled th3 traction line for about nine years, and sell the railway. Group Sole Owners The new group expects to become the sole owners of the property free of the bonded indebtedness by this process, and it is understood they will turn over the property to anew company free of encumbrance. New cars will be purchased to replace some of the rolling stock, Theodore Frazer said. Nec-rly all the bonds held under the “creditors’ protective agreement” and the “Securities Investment Company," a New Jersey corporation, under which the bonds were collected early in the receivership have been purchased by the group. About $2,500,000 in bonds are outstanding, $1,600,000 on the Peru division and $750,000 on the Goshen division, according to Frazer.

Through Service Planned Flans of the new owners Include through traction service from Indianapolis to South Bend, both for passenger and freight service. Eventually the through service may be extended further, it was indicated. “The Interstate has absolutely no connection with this transaction,’’ Frazer said, in denying published rumors that the Interstate Public Service Company was negotiating for purchase of the traction line. RUNAWAY GIRL SOUGHT Dorothy Dobbins Missing—Said She Was Going to Join Show. Dorothy Dobbins, 20, of 740 N. Belmont Ave., said she was going to Chicago to join a burlesque troupe, according to her father, police say. Chicago police have been asked to search for her. Others reported missing: Roy Akers, 16, and Howard Sharpe, 15, Oxford. Ind.: Charles Milborn, 81, of 4627 Broadway; and Vernon Rowe, 10, of Wade and Perkins Sts. HE SWALLOWED THE BAIT Sergeant Halstead Has Merry Chase, Loses His Man—Lures Him to JaiL Pete Natali, 540 Stevens St., was in a bigger hurry than Sergeant Halstead. according to the latter. Halstead gave chase, captured Natali, took him into his own car and started for headquarters. Natali leaped from the car when Halstead had to slow up for traffic. Halstead smiled knowingly, took Natali's car to headquarters and waited. Natali appeared, seizing the “bait.” Speeding, resisting arrest and traffic violation were charged.

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