Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1924 — Page 7

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1924

MOIST HELD IN HOSPITAL AS CAR AND TROLLEY CRASH Woman Alighting From Street Car Struck by Passing Machine. William Charnes. 42. of 2214 Morgan St., is held in the detention ward at city hospital on charges of drunkenness. operating an automobile while intoxicated and without a license, while recovering from injuries received Saturday, when his machine crashed into a street car at Harlan and Minnesota Sts. Edward Hamilton, 640 Marloji Ave.. is recovering from bruises received Saturday, when his machine was struck by a car driven by Franklin Krause. 312 N. Arsenal Ave., on N. Jefferson Ave. Krause was held. Woman Struck by Autoist Miss Gladys Saylor, 960 Eugene St, is suffering from injuries deceived Saturday when she was struck by an automobile while alighting from a street car at Eugene St. and Northwestern Ave. Charles Coval, R. R. M, Box 272, driver, was arrested. Dee Dobbs, 224 Minerva St., is uk der arrest charged with driving on the wrong side of the street and operating an automobile without a license after his machine struck a car driven by Horace Linn, Bridgeport, Ind., at White River Btvd. and Washington St. Saturday. Boy Ran Down Robert S. Wright. 87 N. Warman Ave.. was slated after his auto struck Janies Weakley, colored, 8. of 948 Had ley St. Witnesses said the boy ran into the street. The boy was slightly injured. Helen Clark, 22, of 5514 E. Michigan St., was charged with failure to stop at a preferential street following collision. with autos driven by Wallace Jutt, 6373 E. Washington St., and John H. Toy, 700 Middle Dr., Woodruff Place, at Emerson Ave. and E. Washington St. Window Is Smashed A car driven by Henry Whitting, 208 E. Forty-Eighth St., crashed into a plate glas3 window of the Lexington Auto Sales Company, 1141 N. Meridian, valued at *175, according to police. When their car stalled on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at Butler Ave.. Miles Bence, 20, of 3315 Central Ave., and Lewis Wilson. 20. of 324 N. Irvington Ave.. escaped death by leaping. The car was demolished. TJje crossing watchman said his signal was ignored. Charles Frady was arrested on a charge of assault and battery after police say, Mrs. Lula Foster. 1244 E. Washington Ave., and Cecil Lutz, j Thirty-Fourth St. end Emerson Ave.. j was struck as they -were crossing Sherman Dr. in the 3300 block. Mrs. j Foster received head injuries and severe bruises and was taken to the Methodist Hospital. Frday said a ' bright headlight blinded him. Bagdaser Deranian. 3127 Northwest ern Ave.. was held on a charge of failure to stop after an accident. Philip Baglan, 2647 Northwestern Ave.. reported that his car. parked in front of his home, was struck.

MOOSE LODGE TO INITIATE Reconstruction Work Starts on Home at 135 N. Delaware St. Reconstruction of the home of the Indianapolis Moose lodge at 136 N. Delaware St., at an approximate cost of $50,000 has begun. The main auditorium will be on the third floor. Initiatory exercises will be held Tuesday night at the Athenaeum when 300 candidates will be made members. The local lodge is the fifth largest subordinate lodge in the country with a membership of 5,000. DEBT S3OO PER CAPITA State Indebtedness Increased by Goodrich Law. Batt Declares. By Time* Special KOKOMO. Ind.. April 21—" The interest on the State debt is more than sl2 a year for each person in the State.” declared Charles S. Batt, Terre Haute, candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination at a rally Saturday. Batt said the per capita State indebtedness is S3OO. He said the debt had increased 250 per cent since the advent of the Goodrich tax law. Batt will open State headquarters at the Claypool in Indianapolis Tuesday. George Moorhead. Terre Haute, former Democratic chairman of Vigo County, will be In charge. MARIE CORELU DIES Famous Author Succumbs at Home in England. By Unite* Pree STRATFORD ON*-AVON. England, April 21.—Marie Corelli, famous novelist. died at her home here today. From the time of her first published work. "A Romance of Two Worlds,” Marie Corelli was a pronounced success in the literary world. Among her famous works are “Ven detta," "The Master Christian," "God's Good Man,” “The Young Diana." and recent published articles dealing with the war. BARS ARE UP AGAIN Arizona Lets 800 Tourists Through, Then Replaces Quarantine. By United Preti YUMA. Ariz.. April 21.—The bars were lit today at the Yuma crossing of the Colorado River as Arizona re placed its quarantine against the foot and mouth disease raging in sections of California. The last of 800 marooned tourists who had spent a week at Knob Siding passed through the State’s temporary fumigating plant and crossed the river.

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WOMAN PIONEER DIES i'uner&l of Mrs. Rosina Pfaff, 9fi, Will Be Held Tuesday. Funeral services of Mrs. Rosina Pfaff. 96. bom in Germany, but a real dent of Indianapolis for sixty years, will be held st the home of a daughter. Mrs. Amelia Fritz, 726 S. Noble St., at 8:30 a. m. Tuesday and at St# Mary s Church at 9. Burial will be In St. Joseph’s cemetery. Mrs. Pfaff tiled at the Fritz home Saturday. One other daughter, Mrs. Theresa Kunz. Indianapolis, and a son. Englebert Kuhner . Indianapolis, survive. Shortnnei'r Will Speak Frederick E. Shortemeier, Republican candidate for nomination for secretary of State, will address a men s meeting 8 p. m. Tuesday at the Immanuel Reformed Church, Prospect and S. New Jersey Sts.

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BANDIT WOUNDED WHEN DRUGGIST THWARTSHOLD-UP Captured With Companion After Unsuccessful Attempt on Drug Store. Robert Halpin, 24, of Detroit, Mich., is in city hospital suffering from a bullet wound in his left lung and his companion. George Foster, 25, of Cleveland, Ohio, is held on a robbery charge In city prison. The two men held up and robbed Paul Miller, proprietor of a drug store at 4428 E. Washington St., and his clerk, Carl Keil, 102 Bosart Ave., Saturday, as they were closing the store, police charged. After obtaining $97 from Miller, the men started to leave, but were Interrupted by the entrance of a man who wanted to use the telephone, police say. When the bandits switched their attention to the new arrival, Miller grabbed his revolver and fired six shots, one of which struck Halpin. Returning the fire the bandits ran from the store and escaped in an auto. They were arrested in a rooming house at 412 E. New York St., afteHarold La Porte. 5345 E. New York St., and John Taggart and son William, 127 Linwood Ave., trailed the bandits to the New York St. address.

Admit* Another Hold-up Foster, police say, admitted he and Halpin robbed the Indiana Oil Refining gasoline station at Eleventh and Meridian Sts. of $47 Friday night. The car used by the bandits was stolen from N. E. Roberts. 1210 Sturm Ave., earlier in the evening, police say. Police are searching today for the colored man, who covered his face with burnt cork and hfild up E. B. May, manager of the Stewart Music Company, 602 Indiana Ave., and Shir ley Bryant, colored. 640 Indiana Ave., a clerk, and escaped with $135. An attempt to break open the safe in the office of the Standard Nut Margarine Company. Roosevelt Ave , and St., Sunday, was unsuc cesaful after the combination had been broken off. The “burned match" burglar entered the home of Mrs. Ruth Sparks, 1317 W. Thirty-First St.. Saturday. The house was ransacked and the wires In the electric meter pulled out, police say. Other thefts reported to police over the week end: Harry Nagle. 802 N. Illinois St., operator of restaurant. $lO2 stolen by employe: Charles Wellman. 657 E. Twenty-First St., home entered, clothing and Jewelry valued at $l3O taken; Georg# Bethel. 2042 Hillside Ave., dining room furniture valued at S4O taken from bam.

CAPTAIN IS INSTRUCTOR Indianapolis Man Named to Duty at West Point Academy. Capt. John M. Weir, 26, now stationed at Camp Benning, Columbus, Ga., as a captain of infantry, has been appointed instructor in the United States Military academy at West Point, according to word received by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Weir, 2428 Broadway. Captain Weir attained his commission at Ft. Benjamin Harrison during the war. He served eighteen months in France. AGED PHYSICIAN MOURNED Funeral Services for Dr. Solon Housfer Will Be Held Tuesday. Funeral services of Dr. Solon K. Houser. 70, who died at the Robert Long Hospital Sunday, will be held at the home, 705 E. Thirteenth St., Tuesday at 2 p. m. Burial will he in Crown Hill. Dr. Houser had practiced medicine in Indianaoplis for thirty-eight years. He is survived by two sisters. Mrs. Josephine Anthony, Clyde, Ohio,; Mrs. Hattje Hutchings. Indianapolis, and a brother, T. A. Houser, in the West. 200 ,N _ E^ E CLASS “Ownle Busli” Drive Completed hy Eagles Lodge. Initiation of 200 members of the ‘Ownie Bush class,” Indianapolis Aerie of Eagles, will t.tke place tonight. The ceremonial marks the end of a two weeks’ drive for new members. Bush, manager of the Indianapolis ball club, in whose honor the class was named, is a member of the aerie.

Electric Power Rates in Indianapolis MAKE THE CITY A Center of Profitable Industrial Operations Some folks have been talking talk in Indianapolis lately about things that aren't so. The tenor of the conversation is that industry can get cheaper Electric power rates in other cities than it can here. That, if true, would mean that industry is penalized in Indianapolis. It might also mean, if true, that some other industrial costs would have to be lowered, wages, for instance, to keep us in competition. What’s the answer? A simple one. It isn’t true. The far-away cows haven't the longest horns this time. Electric power rates in this city are based on two factors: The demand factor and the service factor. In other cities they are based on various other factors, including increases when coal prices go up and higher demand factors. In some cities power customers have to build their own primary lines. The inteVest and depreciation' on these investments are just as surely a cost as that carried in the monthly service bill. These conditions don’t exist in Indianapolis. There are no penalties, no line-building investments for the user. Indianapolis rates can’t be compared with those of cities where these prevail. The demand factor exists even where factories make their own power. It consists of the interest and depreciation on the power plant, the wages of engineers and firemen which accrue before they do a lick of work, the interest on the stock of coal and oil and what not that has to be kept on hand; and a dozen other little costs scattered through the organization that aren’t noticed. These are consolidated and reduced in central Electric station organizations. The service factor begins when the wheels are turned to do useful work. To compare the cost here with the cost there one must measure with the same footrule. He must compare likes with likes. On the basis of that kind of a comparison, the only honest one, Electric power costs in Indianapolis are cheaper than in other cities, some big ones, too. Consumers of power in this city who have a maximum demand of 100 kilowatts, call for 60 kilowatts on the peak of the load, and average 20,000 kilowatt hours of use per month. In Indianapolis, all charges considered, such consumers pay $464.55 for this service today as against $489 three months ago. They would pay for the same service $495.00 in Grand Rapids, Mich.; $494.50 in Louisville; $470.50 in Cincinnati; $540 in Cleveland; $487.50 in Columbus; $480.00 in Detroit; $495.50 in St. Louis; $550 in Akron, .nd $534.85 in Toledo. Indianapolis wins in every inning. Consumers using 150 kilowatts average 86 kilowatts at the peak of the load and average 30,000 kilowatt hours of use every month. In Indianapolis they pay $671.18 for this service today, as against $716 50 three months ago. For the identical service they would pay $742.50 in Grand Rapids, Mich,; $700.50 in Louisville; $650 in Cincinnati; $760 in Cleveland; S7OO in Columbus; $720 in Detroit, and $784.25 in Toledo. Indianapolis scores on all of * • * * a ; ® A factory demanding 200 kilowatts for its maximum load with 100 kilowatts of this demand at the peak of the load, averages 40,000 kilowatt hours of use per month. For this service the cost in Indianapolis under present rates is $870.68. Three months ago it would have cost $926.50. For the same service the price in Grand Rapids, Mich., would be $990; in Louisville, $910; in Cleveland, $980; in Columbus, $912.50; in Detroit, $960, and in Toledo, $992.75. Indianapolis rates average lower, once more. Power users who call for a maximum supply of 250 kilowatts are the most numerous in this city. Their average peak load demand is 110 kilowatts, and their average monthly use is 50,000 kilowatt hours. This class of customer pays, under present rates, $1,067.80 for this service, against $1,134 under the rates prevailing three months ago. The same service costs $1,190 in Grand Rapids; $1,107.75 in Louisville; $1,142.50 in Cleveland; $1,125 in Columbus; $1,150 in Detroit, and $1,232.35 in Toledo. There are variations in local conditions and influences, such as the presence of water power that alter these conditions slightly, in special cases, but they do not change the general rule. The cost of Electric power, under rates now prevailing in Indianapolis, are more favorable than those charged in most cities in the central West. That is why industry is prospering in this city, the number of employes increasing, and the individual output of each employe growing constantly greater as his muscle is being supplanted by mechanical power and the worker allowed to apply his brain rather than mere physical strength to the processes of industry. MERCHANTS HEAT & LIGHT CO. “THE DAYLIGHT CORNER”

VOWS REPLIGHTED AFTER HI YEARS Couple Celebrates Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary. After sixty years of married life, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Walters, 328 N. Hamilton Ave., replighted their marriage vows in Holy Cross Church today. The Rev. Joseph F. Byrne, officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Walters were married sixty years ago Sunday in Sunman, Ind. Walters served five years with Company K, 26th Indiana Infantry during the Civil War. Thirteen living children, nineteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchil-dren, were guests at a dinner Sunday in the Walters’ home. Indianapolis children of Mr. and Mrs. Walters: Mrs. George Wittenmire, Valley Mills; Mrs. D. F. Maley, 243 N. State Ave.; Mrs. W. J. Odermire, 4463 Winthrop Ave.; Mrs. Jess Smith, 1649 Southeastern Ave. and John Walters, Brighton. MRS. ROBERTS RITES SET Funeral services of Mrs. J. W. ! Roberts, wife of the superintendent of | transportation of the Eastern region ! of the Pennsylvania railroad, were I set for 2:45 p. m. today at the Hisey | & Titus funeral home. 951 N. Delaj ware St. Burial in Crown Hill cemeI tery. Mrs. Roberts died at Chicago Friday ; night. She lived here a number of i years.

Will Explain Experiments Explanation of electrical experiments conducted at Purdue University will be made by Donald T. Canfield, member of the University electrical staff, at the meeting of *. he American Institute of Electrical Engineers, In-dianapolis-Lafayette section, at the Lincoln Friday.

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Lafayette Judge Dies Bv United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 21.—A sudden attack of pneumonia caused the death Sunday of Judge Henry H. Vinton, 60. Judge Vinton had been on the bench of the Tippecanoe County court for nearly a quarter of a century.

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