Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 57, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1924 — Page 1

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“OFF PLAZA” ORDER TO ■CUES War Memorial Commission Approves Original Plan and Provides for Removal of Two Houses of Worship From Property, LIMITATION OF STAY IS RECOMMENDATION Architects Walker, Weeks Make Report Attorney Says Indefinite Occupancy Would Not Affect Genera! Plan, Original plans, providing for ultimate removal of the Second Presbyterian and First Baptist Churches from the site of the Indiana war memorial plaza, were approved by the State memorial commission today. The churches can occupy their present locations indefinitely without afTecting the general plan, Samuel Ashby, counsel for the commission, announced. The architects. Walker & Weeks of Cleveland, Ohio, however, said that for best results the churches should be removed within four years. The plan as adopted provides for location of the main building on ground between that now occupied by. the churches on the block between Michigan and Vermont Sts. An alternative pit a providing for leaving the churches permanently in their present positions and locating the main building on ground now occupied by the Indiana School for the Blind north of North St. was rejected. Under the plan adopted, the buildin g~r!4W*T** constructetf much sooner, as it will be on ground fully under control of the commission at prtsent. Under the alterna'ive plan, it would have been necessary to wait several years until the school was relocated-

SHANK SHAKES UP ACCIDEMEAU 'Put Our Friends In,’ Mayor Say£ to Safety Board, of the police accident' prevention bureau was made by the! board of safety today following pass- j age of an ordinance in city council over the mayor’s veto which made sergeants of the three members of the bureau. “We might as well put our friends In there.” said the mayor as the j board appointed Patrolman Jack j O’Neel, Motor Police Harry Smith ; and Mary Moore, stenographer *o ! Chief Herman Rikhoff to the places. They succeed Miss Rachel Bray, who will become Rikhoffs stenographei; Ed Glenn and Frank Owens, other members. The board decided to ask the council for an appropriation of $15,500 to make up a salary shortage in the fire department caused by abolition at the rank of substitute firemen. The board purchased a Studebaker j touring car for use of the police booze squads. ORDER IS MACE PUBLIC Commission Formally Dismisses I Phone Rate Probe Here. The public service commission today made public its formal < rder dismissing ita investigation into the rates and service of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company in its Indianapolis area. Compromise in Federal Court Friday was the cause of the dismissal The order reads: “Pursuant to a supulation entered on July 11, 1924 in cases 582 and 721 in United States District Court for the District of Indiana, this proceeding is hereby disaiissed.” CHILDREN UNDERWEIGHT One-Third Enrolled in Schools Too Light, Report Shows. One-third of Indianapolis school children are at least 7 per cent underweight, according to the report today of the nutrition department in city schools, which conducted classes for twelve weeks in twenty-five schools. Os the 405 children who were put in nutrition classes. 157 had diseased tonsils and adenoids. 13 had tuberculosis, 139 had diseased teeth and 88 had enlarged thryoid glands. * (Ml Stove Explodes Explosion of an oil stove at the home of Paul Vogelson, seven miles east of the city on National Rd., and one-half mile north, caused S3OO interior damage today. Squad No. 1 from fire headquarters used chemicals to extinguish the flames. '

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MR. and MRS. INDIANAPOLIS EAT WELL ©®@@@@©@@@® @@®®@@®®@ ©®® Fourth of Average Family Income Spent for Food; 13 Per Cent for Clothing

7TR. AND MRS INDIANA POLIS spend 28.6, per cent of—their income for food —an average of $381.19 a family a year. is one of the facts disclosed in statistics just compiled by the United States Chamber of Commerce. Figures are based on 1920 census and later bureau of labor statistics, representing the situation as of 1923. The average annual income a family is $1 334.69. The statistics cover not only Indianapolis proper, but adjacent territory embracing 53.123 population. This with the 314,194 census figures for the city'proper comprises a population of 367,317. The report shows the city proper buys $26,036,420.57 worth of food a year, and the greater city, $30,438,402.69. Clothing Bill §175.41 For elothirg the average family spends 13.1 per cent of its income or *175.41 a year; a total of $11,981,029.23 for the city proper and $'.4,006,663.91 for the greater city. For furniture and furnishings 6 per cent of the income This means $80.41 a year for the average family; a total of $5,492,244.25 for the city and $6,420,818.91 for the greater city. Fuel and light cost 7.5 per cent of the income, or $99j92 a year, for a total of $5,492,244.25 in the city proper and $6,420,818.91 in the greater city. The average daily family spends 7.5 per cent of its income or $99.92 a year for miscellaneous commodities. which means a total of $6. 524.835.76 for the city proper and $7,972,711.92 for the greater city. Rent 5245.35 a Year Miscellaneous services cost 19 per cent of the average income or

CHINESE FLOODS DESTROY CITIES; THOUSANDS DIE Pekin Threatened by Rising Water —Four Provinces Are Devastated, By United Pres* PEKIN. July 15.—Thousands of lives are reported lost and hundreds of villages destroyed in Honan, Hunan. Anhui and Kinagsi provinces of China, which have been devastated by floods and landslides brought on by prolonged rains. Tremendous financial losses have been incurred throughout the western part of the country. Pekin itself Is practically isolated except for the Tien Tsin railway line, which is threatened with inundation. The entire business district of KaJgx>. the westernmost rail head of Jhina, was destroyed and the raltoad at this point buried under landslides and debris. Millions Damage Some lives have been lost there and the property loss runs into millions o’s dollars. AJI foreigners are reported safe. Pekin is threatened by breaking dykes along the mountain river to the eastward, where soldiers are toiling day and night at constant repairs. Tien Tsin is at present not flooded, but this is only being prevented by the efforts of an army of coolies, working at the dykes. Engineers propose drastic measures to save the city, suggesting cutting some of the dykes and permitting the water to overflow into the low rice lands between Tien Tsin and Pekin. Railroads Deserted The railroad lines running between Pekin and Hankow and between Pekin and Sui Yan a:*e both without traffic. The floods were worst in the four provinces— Hunan. and Kiar.gsi—each of which re ported the wiping out of hundrels of villages and terrific loss of life. 1925 LEVIE SC ONSIDE RED Park Board and City Plan Commission Meet Today. The park board and the city plan commission were to meet late today to consider their 1925 budgets and fix proposed levies. > City plan officials believe they will not be required to ask for increased levy although the park board is figuring on an increase from 7.5 to 8 cents for maintenance and 2.25 cents to 4.5 cents for sinking fund. JUMPS IN MINERS HA FT Worker, Despondent, Leaps to Bottom of Pit. By Timet Special MT. VERNON, 111., July 15.—Joe Lipski. 44, miner, jumped into the Madison Coal Company mine shaft here and every bone in his body was broken. He was despondent over lack of work, friends say. State Road 12 Closed State Road 12, from Eagle Creek to Valley Mills, has been closed for three days while being surface treated with tar. Traffic to Martinsville should take the Dandy Trail south from W. Washington St. to Valley Mills

$253.74 a year and rent, 18 per cent, or $245.35 a year. The city proper's annual retail business is figured at $57,073,986.80 and the greater city's, $66,723,495.60. per cent of this, representing costs and profits of the retail business are substracted to arrive at the annual wholesale business, giving the total $42,805,490.10 for wholesale business in the city proper

Movie of a Boy Before , During and After

Ey'TTKRMELON OH, BOY! Marshall Joyce, 13. of 1234 ' Hoyt Ave., says his mouth has UeerT puckerin’ for a TiTg hung ever since last summer. So today Marshall went to a corner grocery where he spent 30

FIGHT MOSQUITOES Logansport Citizens Pour Kerosene Over Water Spots. By United Press LoGANSPoRT. Ind., July 15.—1n an effort to stop the ravages of mosquitces Log tn-portians are pouring kerosene over water spots. The rest is the worst tins season ever known here. CANYON CLAIMS TWO Visitors in Yellowstone Park Crash ■ to Death in Machine. By United Press BUTTE, Mont., July 15.—Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Dunn of Minneaoplis crashed to their death in a Yellowstone National Park canyon Sunday, according to dispatches received here. In attempting to back his machine on a narrow road Dunn-slid between j two trees, backed off the priciplce j and hurtled hundreds of feet below to death. The bodies were recovered J later. WOMAN AUTOIST JAILED Pleads Guilty to Homicidal Charge —Gets Six Months. By Times Special MARSHALL, Mich., July 15. Mrs. Gladys Valentine Vest Cambum Hogan, 28. of Bat'e Creek, was sentenced to not more than five years and less than six months In prison following her plea of guilty to a negligent homicide charge. Her auto struck and killed Mrs. Theodore Mantas. She did not stop after the accident. BOYS GIVE UP LIVES Canadian Youths Drown to Save Girl Companion. By Times Special BRECHIN. Ont.. July 15.—Realizing that their capsized canoe would not bear them all, two boys yelled to their girl companion to hold on and swam toward the lake shore. Before they were out of sight they sank. The girl, half crazed, was rescued from the boat after shifting winds had driven it to shore. She had been on the water seventy-two hours. The bodies of the two youths were not recovered. RESERVE BANK URGED Indianap* lis Branch Advocated by State Association. Establishment of a branch of the Federal Reserve Bank in Indianapolis, probably will be advocated by the Indiana'Bankers Association at the Claypool Sept. 11 and 12. A movement in favor of the action already is under way. More stringent laws to suppress banditry and bank robbery also will come- up for consideration. Among the speakers at the convention will be’ Dr. W. A. Ganfleld of Waukesha, Wis., president of Carroll Coyege.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1924

and $50,042,621.70 In the greater city. The average number of persons a family in the gre r city territory is 4.6. In t 1 city proper there are 68,303 families and in the adjacent territory, 11,548, making a total number of families in the greater city business area of 79.851'. Indianaoplis’ claim to great, preponderance of white, native born

MARSHALL JOYCE.

cents for a big, green melon just off ice. Flush! Marshall dropped his big nietov Isn’t that tough’ The picture shows him sorrowfully surveying the ruins. “I wouldn’t mind droppin’ it it I had a lot. but this one came all

CHILD SWALLOWS PIN; RUSHED HERE Successful Oneration Is Performed, Little Martha Richardson, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Richardson, near Tipton, was home today, recovering from an operation performed here Saturday night at the Methodist Hospital, for the removal of a safety pin which she swallowed Saturday morning. She was rushed here to the office of Dr. C. H. McCaskey, 422 American Central Life Bldg., who performed the operation at the hospital. She was taken home Monday night. The pin was found near the fifth rib where it had lodged. ‘DRIFTERS’ LEk 'E CITY Police Say Poolroom Drive Chases Many Out of T on. Many so-called “drifters” a-e leaving the city as a result of the cleanup of poolroooms, police said today. John Wernsing, south side merchant. policeman, reported to Field Lieutenant Cliff Richter he saw at least twenty men hop freight trains during the night. HEARING ON COAL RATES Indiana and Southern Illinois Interests Clash. A hearing on rates on coal frorft the Harrisburg district in southern Illinois to Hoopeston, 111., was held by Examiner Arthur R. Mackley, of the Interstate Commerce Commission at the Federal Bldg., today. Jonas Waffles, representing the Indiana Coal Traffic Bureau, Terre Hgule, opposed reduction unless rates from Indiana also are reduced. The rates are $1.92. Reduction to $1.50 a ton was asked by Hoopeston, consumers. 'CAL’ TO BE REAL BOSS Coolidge Will Head Own Campaign for Re-election. WASHINGTON, July 15.—President Coolidge will be the real manager of his campaign for re-election and William H. Butler, Massachusetts, chairman of the Republican national camipaign committee and political mentor of the President, will be his chief assistant. The “advisory board” which C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to the President, said would have the “real management” of the campaign is to be a shifting body, with no “set personnel.” These facts were brought out today by an official spokesman In outlining plans for the Republican campaign.

citizenship is borne out by the figures. There were 129,002 white, native born males and 133,450 white, native born females, a total of 262,453. There were 9,359 white, foreign born males and 7,599 white, foreign born females, a total foreign born population of only 16,958. Total white population was 279,411. Colored population totaled 34,678, divided between 17,378 males and

the way from Florida and cost almost sl.” Marshall said. Well, not so bad luck after all — all you car) do with a watermelon Is eat it. Marshall started in with a great big piece of the center. And theres no Mellon tax on that smile!

CLERK FACES CHARGES Munrie Postal Employe Brought Here to Await Hearing. Clarence Rridgeman. 36. Muncie, Ind., was to be brought to Indianapolis by United States Marshal Linus P. Meredith today to await hearing before Commissioner Howard 8. Young on the charge of embezzling and stealing letters from the mails. A warrant was issued for his arrest Monday after a bill of information was filed b|y Postoff.ee Inspector A. S. Kelley. FARMER IS CHASED She riff Snider Says Autoist Drove 6ft Miles an Hour on Harding St. William Sechrist. R, R. 0., farmer, is charged with speeding. Sheriff George Snider took Sechrist into custody Monday night after a chase on S. Harding St. The sheriff was lying in wait for a load of liquor from Chicago when Sechrist passed in a seven-passenger Marmon. When the officer followed Sechirst speeded up to sixty miles an hour, according to Snider. No liquor was found. WOMAN IS ATTACKED Stolen Auto'ls Recovered With Gas Tank Empty. Police have a stolen auto, a woman’s hat and a wrench recovered today as evidence verifying the attack by two men on Bessie Robinson, colored, of 401 W. Walnut St., late Monday. The officers say the gasoline tank of the car was empty which probably caused the assailants to take to foot for escape. The car, owned by Robert King, 2954 Central Ave., was reported stolen from Meridian and Pearl Sts. early Mor day evening. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m ’ G 5 10 a. m 76 7 a. m 70 11 a. m 77 8 a. m 74 12 (noon) .... 79 9 a. m 76

Antiques— A few days ago a party remarked, “W hat a shame," that it was so hard to locate the people who had four-poster beds, chest of drawers and other antiquated articles. And that brought to inind the fact that ho:h the person owning surn articles and the person wishing to own thpm could use to good advantage the CLASSIFIED COLUMNS of The Indianapolis Times. One to sell and the other to buy. When what you want is not offered for sale In tlie WANT ADS it Is good business to advertise that vou wish to buy. A THREE-LINE AD THREE DAYS IN THE TIMES FOR 99 CENTS. Times Want Ads are easy to use. Cali Main 3500 Ask for an Ad Taker THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ‘'Result* at Minimum Cost”

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17,300 females, Persons of all other races totaled 99 male and six female. There were 12,798 male children under 5 years of age and 12,706 female children, totaling 25,604. Figures on Children Male children between 6 and 9 numbered 12,349, and female, 12,292, a total of 24,641. Boys from 10 to 14 numbered 11,516 and girls 11,669, a total of 23,185. Youths from 15 to 19 numbered 11,697; girls, 13,002, a total of 24,899. Men from 20 to 44 numbered 69,976 and women 71,453, a total of 141,434. Males, 40 years and over, numbered 36.837, and females, 36,488, a total of 73,326. Os ages unknown there were 466 men and 740 women, a total of 1,206. Workers Number 146,358 More citizens were engaged in manufacturing than in any other gainful occupation, there bing 63,900 in the classification. In trade there were 22,152; in clerical work, 18,481: domestic and personal service, 15,721; transportation, *13,963; professional service, 8,520; public service, 2,429 agriculture, 70S, and extraction of minerals, 124, a total working population of 146,358. Number of retail dealers, including owners, managers and superintendents of retail stores was 5.029. There were 310 wholesale dealers. Os the city’s 81,256 homes, 51,874 were rented, 27,356 owned, partially or wholly, and 2,026 were of tenure unknown. Os the homes owned, 11.479 were unencumbered, 15,220 encumbered and state of ownership of 657 was unknown.

EFFORT TO FORCE RESIGNATION Os MORGAN REPORTED ‘Would Cause No Surprise if He Should Quit,' Washington Says. Bert C. Morgan, Federal prohibition director for Indiana, will resign soon, according to Washington dispatches today. It is said that his resignation has been demanded by Roy C. Haynes, national prohibition director. This version virtually was verified by Clyde A. Walb, Republican State chairman, who said on the telephone from his home at Lagrange today: ’’Yes, he asked me to help him hold his job, but I did not do anything about it. Morgan has been in there three years and his work ought to speak for him.” Morgan was out of the city today and could not be. reached. It was said at his office that he is at Ft. Wayne conducting an investigation of liquor law violations. Haynes was not in Washington today, but at prohibition offices there the following statement was given out as subordinate: “Morgan has not been requested to resign, so far as I know. It would cause no surprise if he should find it convenient to quit.” According to stories in circulation here, which are borne out in substance by Walb’s statement, Morgan was asked to resign by Haines, and immediately afterwards went to Wpst Baden to enlist the assistance of Walb, in an effort to retain his position. Walb was attending the meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association at West Baden at the time. It is said that Morgan told Walb he would not resign. JUDGMENT7s WITHHELD Cigarette Cases Taken Under Advisement by Juvenile Court. Judgement was withheld in cases of three merchants in the vicinity of Sherman Dr. and E. Thirtieth St., accused in Juvenile Court of selling cigarettes to minors, after conflicting evidence was presented Judge Frank J. Lahr. George Risk, grocer at Chester Ave. and TwentyEighth Et.; Patrick Donahue, grocer at 2806 Chester Ave., and Edwin O. Heaton, druggist at 3002 N. Sherman Dr., were defe|dant3. Affidavits were filed by Probation Officer Charles ‘Downey on complaint of teachers in Public School No. 73. Motorcyclist Hurt Dave Harmon, 652 S. Illinois St., was arrested today on an assault and battery charge. Police said his machine struck a motorcycle driven by John Wilson, colored, 2323 Yandes St., at Nineteenth St. and Columbia Ave. Wilson was hurt about the !•#.

COUNCILMAN PAVES WAY FOR DAMAGE SMS UPON POOLROOM RAID ARRESTS Otto Ray Retains Attorney Garvin */ * to Work With Attorney Symmes in Giving Free Legal Assistance to Those Unjustly Held. OFFICIAL TERMS MAYOR’S j ; ‘CLEAN-UP’ AS OUTRAGEOUS Police Said to Have Waited at Some Places Until Crowd Got Larger— Persons Seeking Refuge From Rain Thrown Into Patrol Wagons. Offer of the services of two attorneys in the filing of-suits for damages against the city as a result of arrests in Mayor Shank’s police poolroom “clean-up’’ Saturday and Sunday was made to any of the 336 persons so detained by Councilman Otto Ray today. Ray declared that his attorneys have advised him that each of the persons unjustly arrested has a good damage action against the city. The councilman said he indorsed the movement started by Charles Koehring, hardware merchant, 878 Virginia Ave.„ to bring an end lo “such injustice,” and therefore he hacl retained Attorney Thomas Garvin to act with Attorney Frank Symme..,, who is donating his services in the ease.

j The attorneys will file the suits | for any one of the 336 defendants j who, call upon them, Ray said. Drive Termed Outrageous | “This drive of the police is the most outrageous thing I ever heard ■of." said. “Why, I have information that at | some poolrooms the wasn't j quite big enough when the police first went there Saturday night so they waited until more persons came in and then rushed them all down to headquarters. Sought Refuge From Rain “I have been informed that at several places persons stepped inside poolrooms to get. out of the rain while they waited for street cars. They too were loaded into patrol wagons. Out of 336 cases in city court resulting from police week end raids upon poolrooms only thirty-three remained on the docket today. These i were continue!! cases. No Criminals Caught So far, not a single person involved in any way in alleged crimes has been caught by police in the raids, which molested hundreds of innocent persons, excepting those arrests made after the fatal brawl at State and English Aves. Sunday night. City Judge Deibert O. Wilmeth dismissed the eases almost as fast as | the defendants appeared before him Monday. The defendants appeared in groups of from ten to fifteen. In most cases the only question asked the defendants was the name and address. If this corresponded with the name and address on the affidavit, the defendant immediately was dismissed, The judge inquired into cases of thirty-two persons, discharging each. WIFE BEATER FLOGGED Judge Orders Frequent Offender Whipped on Bare Back. By Times Special HAGERSTOWN, Md„ July 15. Fifteen lashes on the bare back for beating his wife was the punish ment meted out to Lewis Longabeam by Judge Bower in court here. It was the first time in thirty years that a wife beater had been sent to the whipping post, WEEK’S PERMITS JUMP Construction Report Filed—Electricians Examined. Building activities in Indianapolis for tho week ending July 12 totaled 368 permits representing construction valued at $1,277,862, compared to 258 permits representing construction valued at $378,118 for previous week, Frances F. Hamilton, building commissioner, reported today. The board of electrical examiners have licensed eleven master electricians and twenty maintenance electricians this year and have renewed licenses for 146 master electricians and ninety maintenance electricians. Hamilton said. The smoke department reported it received two complaints, and made a total of sixty-six last week. RATE CASE DISMISSED City of Anderson Files New Schedule of Charges. The public service commission has dismissed proceedings at Anderson, Ind., against the municipal electric light plant, looking toward a reduction in electric rates for the city of Anderson. The city filed anew schedule of rates, approved by the commission, shortly after the body initiated an investigation at Anderson Juno 29.

Forecast Generally fair tonight and possibly Wednesday. Somewhat warmer weather Forecast for Wednesday.

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fim PERSONS STILL MISSING IN FI ZONES Flames Trap Parties in Burning Forests Along Pacific Coast. Bp United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 15.—The Pacific Coast's fight against forest fires turned today from a struggle to save the forests to a struggle to save human life. Os at least 100 persons surrounded in coast fire zones during the night approximately fifty remained unaccounted, for today. Os those whose fate remains unknown, the majority are at Wheeler's Mill, Washington, where they were driven back by the flames as they tried to escape in automobiles. Fear Grows Rescue parties striving to penetrate the line of fire this morning had as yet found no trace of them and fear that all or some may have perished was growing. In British Columbia sixteen ranchers from the Doukhobor Colony, near Nelson, B. C., were missing on Monday night. Twelve had been accounted fog today, having driven by horse and wagon through the Are zone. None were suffering from burns. The horses were so badly burned that they had to be shot. In every Pacific State except Nevada, Arizona ani Utah, serious fires are reported. Six separate fires, engaging nearly 2,000 fire fighters, are reported today in tbT Santa Barbara national forest, doing thousands of dollars worth of damage. In northern California, the Klamath, Tahoe and Sierra forests are the center of the fire danger. Rains Help In Oregon the situation is much improved owing to rains, although fires are still burning. Brush fires are reported in western Washington and more serious conflagration in eastern Washington and in northwestern Idaho. In the Kootenay district it British Columbia, fires have swept th Arrow Lake district and were re-J ported spreading today. ■ JUDGE SETS RECORD Thirty-Nine Jailed for Violations of Liquor Laws. By United Press SALLT STE. MARIE, Mich., J’uly 15. —Judge Clarence W. Sessions set a record for business in Federal Court today when he sentenced thirty-six men and three women to terms ranging from three months to three years for violating the liquor laws. He also sentenced one, man to Leavenworth for fraudulent use of the mails and fined a dozen others. Freed on Slander Charge Mrs. Martha ison Ave., was tody/, court on a slanderMcarrflfr .‘A 9J t O&Sf by Mrs. Mary 1 ULvUi? ’ Ave. City JudgeflOMßgl -1:1*