Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1924 — Page 3

MONDAY, MAY 26, 1924

SLUGGING VICTIM CRITICALLVINJURED Three Held in Jail as Result of Fight. Three persons are under arrest today and one man is in a critical condition at St. Vincent Hospital as result of a Sunday. Bernard Hayden, 16, of 1222 Pleasant St., was taken to the hospital with a fractured skull. Richard Hood, 447 E. South St., is held at city prison on an assault and battery and vagrancy charge. Police say Hayden, with three friends, was walking on Virginia Ave., near McCarty St., when words passed with some men in an automobile. Two of the men got out prrd are alleged to have struck Egan. Miss Nellie Cooper, 1114 N. Illinois St., was victim of a purse snatcher at Market and Delaware Sts. The purse contained $25. she said. David Sowders, 1300 IV. TwentyFifth St., and Miss Cooper .were charged with a statutory offense when the couple were found in the . latter’s room. James Bramblett, 950 E. Georgia! St., told police his pocket was picked at the fairground Saturday of $lO. John Crane, 1017 Reisr.er St., lost S2B in the same manner. G. W. Boysen. 915 X. Sherman Dr., also lost his bill fold and $23. Block Gets Hospital Bond William H. Block & Cos. has received a Riley Memorial Hospital bond of $2,540.04, following final payment of subscriptions made by I employes of the Block store.

'ey- Hear Ye! Hear Ye! -Yii I’M* Hear Ye! | AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE 1 £ TO EVERY INDIANAPOLIS WOMAN WHO IS IN- gl % TERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT COOK- if lj ING WITH A MODERN GAS RANGE If ' ¥ W "We Are Pleased to Announce That W M

Why Worry Your Life Away With an old, worn out, tumble-down gas range, or still worse, an old, hot coal range? Why not purchase an up-to-date Acorn gas range with all the latest improvements, such as an automatic oven heat regulator, an automatic Rutz lighter, white enameled pans and panels, ovens elevated to the level of your eyes and many other features? Everything about this range is made with a view of improving the efficiency of your kitchen work. This Is Your Opportunity Not only to secure a beautifully enameled Aeorn cabinet range at a specially low price, but also to realize a value on your old, woru out range, which is anything but satisfactory and always wasteful in the use of gas. It is our desire to keep vour gas bills as low as possible, but this can hardly be done where out-of-date and wasteful gas appliances are used.

* All Sizes Acorn Gas Ranges Included in This Sale CITIZENS GAS CO. MAJESTIC BUILDING 47 S.* PENNSYLVANIA ST. Phone MAin 2541

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C%i your trip to Wyandotte Cave you •will pass Becks Mills a quaint wooden structure of a gone-by day situated on a

MEMORIAL OBSERVED Flowers Dropped Into Creek as Tribute to Dead of All Wars. In memory of men who died in wars in which the United States took part, flowers were dropped from the Meridian St. bridge into Fall Creek Sunday afternoon. Miss Ada Wallace spoke. The Daughters of Veterans had

MISS MABEL GARRETSON America’s Foremost Domestic Science Teacher Will Be at Our Office The First Four Days This Week She will conduct a series of interesting- cooking demonstrations for the benefit of our customers each day from 9:30 until 12 noon and from 2:30 until 5 P. M.' Every woman in Indianapolis is invited to attend this demonstration and ask any question regarding- the satisfactory operation of the modern gas range. 5% Extra Discount on All Acorns During This Sale In addition to these special prices on Gas Ranges we will make a very liberal allowance for your old coal or gas range on every Acorn purchased this week. We have handled these ranges continuously for < fifteen years. Thousands and thousands of them are in daily use in Indigftiapolis giving perfect satisfaction.

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tributary of Blue River in Washington County, south of Salem, Ind. Such pictures as this are , typical of Indiana. History and legend is woven around them.

charge of memorial services in the Lutheran and Hebrew eer#eteries. Pioneer Costumes Laid Away Costumes of the early nineteenth century were laid aside today, as 200 members of the Indiana Society of Pioneers returned to their customary tasks. The costumes were worn at the annual State banquet at the Spink-Arms Saturday, night. Amos W. Butler presided.

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KLAN CELEBRATES WITHOUT FRICTION Marchers Return to Homes After Parade Here, While the last of Klan visitors to Indianapolis straggled wearily into Kokomo, Ft. Wayne, Evansville and other Indiana cities this morning, police relaxed with the satisfaction that the first official parade of the hooded order through downtown streets passed off without friction Saturday night. Crowd estimated at 75,000 watched Klansmen and Klanswomen parade on foot and in floats and cars. A count for The Times showed 6,060 persons in the parade. . Electric crosses, bands, drum corps and symbolic floats enliven the affair. At the last minute the line of march was changed to avoid military Park, in the colored and foreign district, at insistence of police officials. The only interruptions were false fire alarms, from Maryland and Illinois Sts., Senate Ave. and St. Clair Sts. and the Meyer-Kiser Bank Bldg. Graff Principal Speaker Principal speakers at a community meeting at School No. 26, Sixteenth St., and Cohimbi'- Ave., were E. U. Graff. superintendent of schools, and Murray A. Dalman, director of research. Other speakers were Mary G. Evans, F. K. De Frantz. Rev. R. I. Hendon, Rev. W. H. Giles, Rev. N. A. Seymour and Matthias Nolcox, principal.

| Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong to: Grover Winnings, 29 N. Tremont Ave., Packard, from 1000 N. Illinois St. James W. Williams, 870 Park Ave., Ford, from Indiana Ave. and Illinois Sts. Art R. Dryer, 2123 Station St., Ford, from 706 Sanders St. Frank Wood, 1062 N. Pershing Ave., Ford, from 946 N. Illinois St. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found by police belong to: Roy Kirtley, Brownsburg, Ind., Overland, found at St. Clair and Pierson Sts. Fred I. Weber, 703 N. Elder Ave., Ford, wrecked at Keystone Ave. and Fall Creek. Robert Meredith, 316 Agnes St., found in northwest section. Survey Park Bird Life Mrs. A. P. TJjornhs and Mrs. William Gardner, Indianapolis members of the Nature Study Club 'will make a two-week’s survey of the bird life at Turkey Run State Park, Parke County. Each will instruct visitors and point out bird life in the reservation. They will make a classification for the department of conservation to be later used in publications dealing with outdoor life in Indiana. Ilearst Buys Taggart Cattle William Randolph Hearst has purchased the entire herd of blooded Hereford cattle belonging to Thomas Taggart, it has hen announced by Taggart. The battle have been kept at French Lick. They will be moved to the Hearst ranch at San Luis Obispo, Cal.

Remember Four Days Only During’ which the special prices on Acorns will prevail and our special offer for your old range will apply. Arrange to visit our offices this week and consult with Miss Garretson on your cooking problems. You are under no obligation to make a purchase by attending these cooking demonstrations. A Hearty Welcome awaits every woman in Indianapolis and we shall appreciate your visit, whether you buy or not. A small payment down will deliver one of these beautiful ranges to your home. The balance may be divided into equal monthly payments covering a period of one year, if desired.

CRISIS IN ILLINOIS KLAN WAR EASES Troops May Not Be Asked by 'Bloody Williamson,’ By United Press MARION. 111., May 26.—Williamson County is quiet today. The; tense situation caused- by the shoot-j ing of Glenn Young, Ku Klux Klan j leader, and the killing of Jack Skelcher, suspected by Klansmen of having been one of Young’s assailants, has eased, and it is not believed troops will be asked. After a two-day investigation, a coroners’ jury Sunday returned a verdict that Skelcher, shot on the road between here and Herrin Saturday when he started to run from posses of the Klan constabulary, came to his death by ‘‘gun shots at the hands of unknown parties.” Interest today centered in the identity of "Brown,” Skelcher’s companion in the automobile,, who was shot in the leg and captured by Klansmen. “Brown” refuses to give his name or tell why they were driving away from the place. Bad Flue* Causes Fire A bad flue is said by the fire de- I partment to have caused a S3OO fire j at the home of O. J. Gant, 144 S. I Arsenal Ave., early today.

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STATE OFFICIAL QUITS Head of Motor Transport Branch of Highway Commission, Probe Target. George N. Bartley, superintendent of the motor transport department of the State highway commission, resigned his position Saturday. Bartley’s department is said to be the principal target in the ' State board of accounts investigation of the high-way department. According to Lawrence Orr, chief examiner, the probe will continue several weeks. —- -- Murder Indictment Returned By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., May 26.—Mel-' vin McGee, 60, Spanish-American | War veteran, is in jail charged with ’ first degree murder in an indictment 1 returned by the Bartholomew Coun-! ty grand jury. McGee has confessed! to killing Willard Mingous after a | quarrel, police say.

WINDOW SHADES pri prf 36 Inches by 7 Feet on Sale t/]e Year Round &If Every grade and color of shades can he bought from this house at popular EACH prices. Phone for free estimates at any time and everywhere in the Central States. Indiana's Leading “Blind Men" R. W. Durham Cos. 134 N. Ala. St MA in 5829 Rl tey 1133.

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BANDIT PICKS VICTIMS ’ Chooses Four Out of Eighteen Passengers on Train; Gets S3OO. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 26. “Stick ’em up,,” a bandit with a blue bandana handkerchief over his face, ordered passengers in the observation of a crack Santa Fe train as it arrived in Kansas City yards shortly before midnight. Although eighteen passengers were in the car, the robber “frisked” only four of them, obtaining about S3OO and then dropped from the rear of the slowly moving train. Foley Memorial Speaker “Let us in the future rise above petty, party bickerings and face the future with a real mission as far as America is concerned,” said M. E. Foley, local attorney, at a memorial service Sunday at the Shiloh M. B. Church, west of the city. “We should show good will to all nations,” he said.

Boys’Sport Sweaters i-pocket style. Brown and heather shades. Sizes 0 to 16. $1 .49

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