Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1924 — Page 2

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NO PARTY LINES IN CHINATOWN’S CENTRAL OFFICE San Francisco’s PagodaLike Exchange Looks Like Tiles From Mah Jongg, By Time Special SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.—The ropularixy of Mah Jongg- has done much to stimulate American interest in all things Chinese. There are few objects. however, even in th* Celestial Republic itself, more fascinatingly Oriental than the unique telephone exchange in our own [country which provides telephone [service for the Chinatown district of [San Francisco. Cliinese Exterior | ‘ln outward appearance this telephone building Is as typically Chi|r ese as a “one bamboo" tile. Pagodahike, it lifts its tower, studded with [protruding beak-shaped balconies—a [fitting monument, it would seem, to [some long-dead mandarin cf the | Forbidden City. | But there is nothing dead inside [the exchange, where Chinese girl operators are kept busy handling the traffic, under the general supervision of Mr. Loo Ku Shoo, the manager, who is a graduate of the University of California. Operators Are Linguists These operators are required to be proficient not only in Englislj, but [in several different Chinese dialects, I for many diverse tongues are spoken among the four hundred million inhabitants of that vast count ry which stretches from Siberia to India. and from the mountains of Turkestan to the shores of the Yellow Sea. The Chinese, moreover, are proverbially secretive and have no use for party line telephones, so every subscriber served by San Francisco's pagoda telephone exchange has his own individual line. There are about 1,500 of these lines in service, afid the calls average --.000 daily. FARi EFFICIENCY IS SEEN AS BLOW JUK. WORKERS

of Surplus Agri11 cultural Labor Is Men--3 ace, Says Speaker, By 'imes Special DETROIT, July 7. —Forty per c£nt increase in the agricultural efficiency of +he United States has resulted in worse prospects for workers instead of better,” declared A W. Frye, supreme commander of the Maccabees International Fraternal Benefit Society, in an address here at a conference on old age dependency. “The United States has inreased the productivity of its farms more than 40 per cent in the past twenty years,” said Frje. "This at first sight would seem like security of ■abundant food for everybody. On ■the contrary, it has resulted in a ■migration of the surplus farm la■bbr into industry so that the aging ■industrial worker is forced out by ■the rush of new blood from the ■ farm. ■ “Since 1900 the number of industrial workers in this country has ■ increased from 19.000,000 to 31,1000.000. The farm population has ■ been steadily decreasing. In the ■ past few years migration from the farms into industry has been at the rate of 2,000.00 u a year. Os course this can’t go on. It will he overdone and the pendulum will swing back. But the effect has been that the percentage of wage earners in America 50 years old and older has diminished 10 per cent in twenty years. HOOSIER CROWD FEEL CONFIDENI I ■Believe They Can Yet Put Ralston Over, ■ fiy Times Special ■ NEW YORK. July 7 —Still con■fident they will be able to do what ■they came here so Raisiton—the Hoosier delegation sat pa■tiently through the monotonous bal■loting today. There are very few ■breaks in the ranks of the regular ■delegates, and when delegates have Been compelled for one reason or anil )ther to leave for home, alternates ■have stepped into their places. As far las Ralston's interests are concerned Bt matters nothing at all who is here Ifor Indiana, as long as Taggart is ■on the job. The delegation is solid ■for his leadership, is ready to do his ■bidding, and voted 20 for McAdoo land 10 for Smith only because TagIgart figured that proposition to be ■the most nearly neutral division he ? :ould make at this stage. ■ The Hoosier delegates have agreed kVnong themselves to take turns suiting through the convention tedium, Lnyi thus permit all to take in the tights and gain more respite from he hot stuffy hall—for it is hot to■iay for the first time in ten days. I ■ There are more telephone opera- ■ tors In the United States than there lare telephones In Russia and Fin- ■ iand combing.

Rear a Family, and Live Together, Come What May, Is Recipe for Happy Marriage

a | _ jELIEVE me. if the young [ Q persons of today would make up their minds when they get married that they are going to settle down and rear a family and live together, come what may. as we have, they would know what it means to be really happy.” ThlS was the explanation for fifty happy years of married life, given today by Mrs. \V. F. Williams. 36s \y. Twenty-Eighth St., as she and Mr. Williams celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mrs. Williams knows whereof she speaks. She has had fifteen children. Seven are living, and. with sixteen grandchildren, joined

‘FIGHT TO FINISH,’ STATE PHONE CRY (Continued From Page 1) I could be prepared in time. It will I be filed early this week. Evansville, while cooperating with I the State, may also take independent ! action and file an injunction suit in a Vanderburg County State court, it ! was indicated. 1 Leslie La Croix, traffic manager of I the Evansville Chamber of Commerce, visited the* commision offices . and assured cooperation of his city |in the fight. Evansville has been | particularly hard hit by the new I rates. Hustling Hundreds Meet A resolution commending Attorney General Lesh on his action and urg Ing him to push his good work will be presented tonight at a meeting of the Englewood Hustling Hundreds, at 35 N. Rural St. Report on erecting silent policemen at Rural St. and Sherman Dr. and Washington St. will be made. It is the State's contention that in ; making measured service compul sory and doing away with fiat-rate telephones for business houses, the I comjiany has gone entirely outside the bounds of the injunction issued , by Federal Judge Georfe T. Page of he United States Circuit Court of j Appeals. The State also contends that in 1 putting the rates ir, effect without ' complying with the Indiana law re quiring thirty days' notice and ap provai of the public service commi.i sion, the company exceeded its lega rights. Meantime the commission is going j ahead with plans for a hearing be ginning July 16, at which anew Smiles Now!

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No wonder Cyrus E. Wood is in such a happy mood. He Is a carefree man now. No longer does he have to worry about the exclusion act and other diplomatic tangles. For he has resigned his post as ambassador to Japan, and President Coolidge has relieved him of his duties.

MR. AND MRS. W. F. WILLIAMS

in the celebration. There is happiness in being the father of fifteen children —great happiness, said Williams. It's not as wearing on one as the average individual would suppose, Williams contends. “How old am I? Why, it's just twenty-four, isn’t it mother?" ha said, turning to his mate of half a century. From 1 to 3 p. m. the Williams received informally at their home for dozens of friends and neighbors. This evening the children were to drive the happy couple to Nohlesville for a picnic. Williams is 75 anti Mrs. Williams 65. When Williams came to Indi-

Gasoline Sells for 10 Cents a Gallon as Price Cutting War Grows More Bitter in Omaha, Neb.

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ELROD'S STATION A XD BARGAIN SIGN

valuation of the company's property will be determined. Civic Clubs Aroused Aroused by the increased rates, j civic and business organizations are ’ taking a hand in the fight. The subcommittee of the Chamber of Commerce public service committee will confer with the public service i commission Tuesday morning. Its | recommendations will be reported to ja special meeting of the hoard of di- | rectors of the chamber Thursday noon. The board of governors of the Indianapolis Board of Trade will | hold their annual meeting tonight It is understood the telephone situ ation will be discussed. The executive committee of the Indianapolis Federation of Commun ity Clubs will meet at 7:30 p. m. at 416 Indiana Trust Bldg A commit teee to cooperate with other com mittees of similar character proba bly will be named. A Golfing Family! On the same day Edith Cummings was losing to Glenna Collett in the Buffalo invitational, her brother, Dqxter Cummings, was winning national intercollegiate golf title for the second straight time. A Chinless Wonder It takes a sharpshooter to clout Bud Taylor, the Terre Haute bantamweight, on the chin. Taylor has no chin to speak of. Eighty thousand carrier pigeons were used by Great Britain during the war. . Only two white captains are left in command of Japanese merchant vessels. The Metropolitan Museum of Art fn New York has one of the best collections of jade in the world. The national death rate from tuberculosis has increased 50 per cent since 1904. There is a collection of nearly 380,000 finger prints In Scotland Yard. Meals served in the House of Commons bring the British government considerable revenue. Materials used in the manufacture of buttons come from all parts of the world. There are no definite records to show that Stratford-on-Avon was the birthplace of Shakespeare. High seas bookshops are becoming increasingly popular on transoceanic liners.

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anapolis, fifty-nine years ago, from Evansville, Ind., Monument Place was a park with a few two-story buildings around it. Sixteenth St. was the north city limit. Mrs. Williams was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1858. She came here when she was 7. They were married in St. Mary's Church, now a garage in E. Maryland St., by Father Everhardt, July 7, 1 5 74. Children who joined in the celebration today: Mrs. George F. Schreiber, Chicago: X. G. Williams. Mrs. Walter Rosengarden. Mrs Claude Wilson and W. L. Williams, all of Indianapolis: Mrs. Dwight Potting, r and Mrs. X. E. Proctor of Muskogee, <)k!a.

GRAND JURY IS HARD 10 OBTAIN Two of Twelve Men in First Drawing to Serve. Os twelve men summoned to Criminal Court today to furnish a grand i jury of six, only half a dozen showed | up. Os these Hawood Huggins, Bethel Ave. and Sherman Dr., and Blanchard Palmer, West Newton, a painter, were acepted for service for the rest of the year by Judge Pro Tern Charles S. Wiltsie. James T. Saul of the city board of health, said he was able and willing to serve. The question of whether |he would be holding two public I offices was raised, and Judge Wiltsie I said he would take the matter under [advisement. More names will be drawn by the jury I furnish the other four, the men to ! report Thursday. j Os twelve men drawn for the ! Criminal Court petit jury only two J reported. They were Carl F. Walk, jeweler at 5 E. Washington St., and George E. Harrison, 6155 Cornell Ave., superintendent of a construction company. Both were excused because of business. COLORED SKY WRITING j Londoners See Stream of Red Smoke Used by Aviator. NEW YORK, July 7.—A new form of sky-writing using flame-colored as well as white smoke, was initiated by The London Daily Mail recently. It was seen by visitors to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley and by people within a radius of ten miles. A machine chartered from Maj. J. Savage and piloted by Lieutenant Taitcox, at an altitude of between 10,000 and 12,000 feet, began to trace the words Daily Mail. When only half way through the first word the machine emitted a stream of red smoke, and watchers first thought the airplane had caught fire. Then it was seen that the machine was completing the word Daily in flamecolored smoke, and this color was also used for the word Mail. The airplane was traveling at over 100 miles an hour. According to the newspaper this was the first time that any sky-writ-ing had done in colored smoke.

CHILDREN’S TALE SENDS IN AND WOMAN 10 JAIL Small Girls Testify They Were Forced to Sell Beer, Two little girls ave free from enforced duties of selling liquor and a man and woman fire in jail under sentence to imprisonment on charges of contributing to delinquency. as the results of efforts' of Traffieman Frank Owens. Anna Haines, 1502 N. KealingAve., faces four months in the correctional department of the Indiana Woman's Prison on conviction before Juvenile Judge Frank J. I,ahr of having a 12-year-old foster-niece and a 7-year-old boarder sell beer at her home during her absence. William Lower awaits transportation to the Indiana State Farm to begin a ninety-day sentence on conviction of buying the beer. Charles Huggins, also a customer, was fined SSO and costs. The three, adults were convicted on the lisping testimony of the] smaller child, who detailed the trans actions of the sales, and identified 'lie two men as customers. The elder girl wll, be made a ward ! of the court and placed in a private j home. The younger child has been J sent to her grandparents. Owens discovered the alleged traf- | sic with its child bartenders when he was sent to the home 11 check up on failure to report on alleged traffic violation by .Mrs. Haines. Rritish aircraft experts recently conducted successful experiments with a [Jane that can land in almost any field.

B<! M 1 .vv.-rirr oline at bargain prices! Omaha s gas war, playinghavoc with the old line companies, has brought the price of gasoline to anew !,nv price B. S. Elrod, who joined the 15Cent League when gas was selI ling for 20 1 * cents, is now at outs i with the organization. He's selling 3,000 gallons of gasj ollni? at 10 cents a gallon. This Is to much for the league. i Dr. J. F. Despeeher president, [ suspects that Elrod plans t>, fi ightI en other dealers into ,‘easing their ; competitive practices and increase : the price. Meanwhile the war is spreading. Fremont and Lincoln are now in the battle zone. Gas stations are selling auto Juice for 15 cents a gallon. I Governor Charles P.ryan has opened a State gas station and is ' j tinue unless enjoined, he says. Commisioner John Hopkins of j Omaha, vice president of the 15- ! Cent League, is conducting the I municipal gasoline station at no profit and at no loss selling gas ; at 13 cents. He plans to k< . p the I city in business permanently as 1 a guard against high prices. The independents have been purchasing gasoline at refineries at from to 10 cents a gallon. Freight charges are 2.21 cents a gallon. The 13 cent stations center around a railroad track, which reduces hauling expenses. Rut admitting this advantage, the proprietors declare that the old line ! companies wore making millions Os dollars when selling gasoline I above 20 cents. Eyeglasses did not become popu I lar until I PSO.

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Ambassador Poses for Sculptress

MRP. NANCY COX M'CORMACK, AMERICAN SCULPTRESS. IS COMFI.ETIXO A STATUE OF HENRY PRATHER FLETCHER, AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO ITALY. HERE THE AMBASSADOR IS POSING FOR HER AT THE EMBASSY IN ROME.

Socialist Labor Premiers Meet

PREMIER RAMSAY MACDONALD OF GREAT BRITAIN STEPPED ' V KTO OPEN THE GATE FOR PREMIER M. HERRIOT OF i tAN< EAS THE TWO PREMIERS WERE ENTERING THE GARDEN AT MACDONALD'S SUMMER HOME AT CHEQUERS.

Almost a Daily Occurrence

HARDLY A DAY PASSES THAT NATHAN LEOPOLD JR., AND Ul< 'HAUL) LOEB, CONFESSED SLAYERS OF ROBERT FRANKS. CHICAGO SCHOOLBOY, ARE NOT CALLED INTO THE COOK O'tUNTY JAIL LABORATORY FOR FURTHER EXAMINATION BY ALIENISTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS. HERE DR. JAMES WHITNEY HALL EXTREME RIGHT. HAS COME WITH WALTER BACHKACIi. ONE OF THE DEFENSE COUNSEL, TO QUESTION THE YOUTHS.

Famed Bells on Radio The Carillon of Mallnes, one of the world's most famous chimes, will b< broadcast through 2LO in London and may even bo caught on this .si of the ocean. The tones of the bells will bo relayed to Brussels, broadcast there and picked up in London.

Sales Safeguarded j According to anew law in Canada, automobiles may be sold only by legally authorized dealer who can furnish a bond protecting the buyers if the autos sold happen to be | stolen cars. It is expected auto stealing will be reduced considerably.

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IMAGINATIONS . PLAY BIS BOLE AT CONVENTION McAdoo Inspires Followers to Stick to Last Ditch, By C. A. RAND AIT Times Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, July 7.—“ We’ll stick together for McAdoo if it takes 900 ballots to nominate him,” is the battle cry today of the ardent McAdoo forces. Not one whit discouraged by the rather fruitless "harmony” conferences over the weekend, the McAdoo delegates today actually believe they have the eneijy on the run. They regard Sunday's offer of all the other candidates to release all pledged delegates as the first sign of surrender. It is when the enemy makes offer of compromise that his weakness can be detected, they reason, and confidently look for a break in the ranks of all those opposed to McAdoo. To persons not vitally interested in the outcome of this convention it is doubtless difficult to understand how tired, almost worn out delegates can stijl maintain their enthusiasm for some particular man for President. Right and Wrong It is no longer a mere matter of selecting a candidate. It is a battle now between right and wrong. The forces of righteousness are engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle with the legions of sin and iniquity. Os course, that may not actually he the case. But in the imaginations, perhaps overheated imaginations, of the McAdoo supporters their side is fighting God’s battles, all their opponents are either knowingly or unwittingly fighting for the devij's triumph. And as far as this convention is concerned it is imaginings rather than facts that count. In conferences with his delegates over the week-end McAdoo inspired them anew by referring to the long struggle the allies had in winning the World War. "Can we.” he asked them, "meekly surrender a great principle and give in to the powers of sin after a short skirmish of only a few weeks, when we still have fresh in our minds the fact that we sent our boys overseas to sacrifice their lives and to stay, no matter how many years, until they had won out?” Sticking To such a proposition it is accepted as a true statement of conditions, there can be but one answer. And so the McAdoo delegates are sticking. If it were only true that McAdoo really represented all that is pure and good and honest, and that the “other side” were made up of the dirty, the mean and the dishonest, this would really be a dramatic, a thrilling fight. But there are many here who cannot think of McAdoo as quite sole defender of truth left in the land, nor can they be nijide to believe that all those who have failed to rally to McAdoo's cause have sold out to the devil. And it did not help matters any that on Sunday evening when McAdoo addressed his' delegates in what amounted to a combined prayer meeting and political rally, Gavin McNab, a lawyer on E. L. Doheny's staff, was one of the six people sitting on the speaker’s platform. Germans in Italy The eight firms that have been formed for broadcasting in Italy have turned to German radio manufacturers for their supplies. This came about after Americans failed to land contracts there and the British could not become interested in that field. Mt. Etna has been active as a volcano since 500 B. C.