Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 57, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1924 — Page 2

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ITELEPHONE RATE FIGHT DEVELOPS AS NATION WIDE Commission Broadcasts Ruling for Use of Other States. The public service commission's itest coup against the Indiana Bell 'elephone Company and the parent oncern, the American Telephone nd Telegraph Company, New York, 5 the broadcasting to forty-seven ther commissions the commission’s ecent order refusing the Indiana ompany permission to purchase mailer exchanges at Clinton, Linon, Columbus and Rookport. The written by Samuel R. new commissioner, is now the hands of the State primer. are to be sent to the public boards of every State. H John W. McCardie. vice chairman Hind Earl Carter, chief engineer, are Washington in conference with and engineers of State utility bodies, w Fight Nation-Wide ■ The chief purpose of the conferit is said, is to consider apand valuation o's the propunder control of the AmeriTelephone and Telegraph Cnmv ''.h a view to bringing the nttion-wide situation to a McCardie will cite Indiana's recent with the Indiana Bell Company. It is expected will be used as the experimental and that all other States will suggestions. „ ■ In the commission order Artman the Indiana Bell for its with the parent company declares the company is a mere He shows the stock of the small om pani es is held by the Indiana H Dividends Set Out HB During the hearings on the petito purchase it was brought out the four companies averaged Hmmon stock and the four together was filed. It then developed in all the Indiana Bell's smaller over the State there ap--9B tred a defmt of more than SIOO,OOO the Ben took them over. ■ The indictments contained in the will as Indiana's conto actions other States may Ha-e agair.6t companies controlled the American Telephone and Company. The question Es dummy directorates and stock dis was throughly aired in jS| ."man's order.

rWO DAUGHTERS AHO MOTHER ARE INJUREDjN CRASH 3ne Girl Probably Fatally Hurt —Woman Held in Prison, Thelma Lindenhall, 13, is in Lons Hospital today probably fatally injured, and her mother and another sister were less riously injured when a water wagon on which they rre riding with James Watson, an of the Columbia Construction Company, was struck by an Inbound limited traction car on the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction line today. Watson was uninjured. The mother, Mrs. Jane Lindenhall, is in city prison on a charge it child neglect; Etheline, 11, a laughter, is in the detention home with injuries, and James Watson, 58, was in city prison on a charge it assault and battery and contributing to delinquency. According to police, Mrs. Linden hall and Watson were in Juvenile Court several weeks ago nd were ordered to stay apart. Mrs. Lindenhall. police said, however, went to the camp, maintained by the construction company, engaged in road work near Stop 11 on the Greenfield line, and 'btained employment as a cook. Etheline told police she, her sister and mother and Watson lived in a shack at the camp. I Today the four of them went ridBng on the water wagon. Watson, Bt is said, was driving on the /s'ationEl Rd. and drove the wagon directly Bn the path of the oncoming tracBtion. He first told Benjamin SanEord and Harry Bowles of Cambridge ■City, the car crew, the woman was Els wife and the children h:s. E Thelma, attendants at the Long Eiospltal said, was in a critical conEition. She suffered a conctissifcn of ■he brain, a crushed chest, a comEound fracture of the right shoulder End collar bone. Enly~ ONE BID FILED The Indiana National Bank was ■he only bidder for the $300,000 temEorary loan of the board of health, Effered for sale in the office of JoEeph L. Hogue, city controller, toEay. City officials were considering the offer of 4.5 per cent for the ■oan. which is wanted in three Installments. ■ A total of $125,000 is asked imme■Siately by the board, with Bional SIOO,OOO Sept. 1, and the final ■ 75,000 Oct. 1. Money is needed to Bneet current expenses pending the Eext payment of taxes. if Mystery Surrounds Injury ■By United Prest E VINCENNES, lnd„ July 15. jgCollce today qnestioned Burton on h.s bed at a local ha is confined in a :th „ru ; arm .-hot r - ? - rr -* h:3

“Stick to Your Husband Until Death ”, Recipe for Happiness in Married Life, Scys Couple Wed 50 Years

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SHE aged have advised the young from time immemorial, but here is one Voman who has lived with the same man for fifty years, and has no recipe for happy married life except—when you marry a man stick with him till death. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Lombard, both 71, of 1827 Hoyt Ave., celebrated , fifty years of happy married life today. “I think young people should stay single until they have sense enough to marry the right person," Mrs. Lombard said. And she isn’t one of those persons believing that modern young people are "going to the dogs” either. All of their married life, except three months, has been spent in Indiaanpolis. They have lived at

INDIANA WOMAN ON COMMITTEE PROGRESSIVES La Follette Starts Drive to Win Woman's Vote at Polls, By United Press WASHINGTON, July 15.—Mrs. Sadie Scott of Huntington, Ind., was 1 named one of a group of thirteen women appointed to the progressive national campaign committee today as La Follette leaders launched a special campaign to attract the femj inine-vote. 'JVives of farmers and laborers throughout the Nation will be called to the polls to file their protest , against leadership of the Republican land Democratic parties. Special women's campaign is being conducted on advice of Mrs. Robert M. La Follette, wife of the , presidential candidate. She acted as the Senator's counsellor in the I fight for suffrage in Wisconsin. La Follette leaders believe the women’s vote in November will prove a greater factor in the final result than at any time since national suffrage was accomplished. ! La Follette’s record as a leader of | the women’s equal rights fight in Wisconsin will be used as a basis i for the movement. OIL CLAi ABE' WON BYHOOSIERS Terre Haute Company Wins Rights in Red River, By Times Special WASHINGTON, July 15.—Claims !of the Burke Divide Oil Company of Terre Haute to rights in Red ! River oil section on the border be- ' tween Texas and Oklahoma were upj held today in ruling rendered by Secretary of the Interior Work. These claims are known as Belle Isle, Judsonia and Mary Isle. The Burke Divide Company's fate is of intense interest to some 800 Hoosiers in the Terre Haute and surrounding sections because the edmpany conducted an extensive stock selling campaign there. ‘‘These recommendations,” says ! the secretary’s report, "do ont bind the Government to issue oil leases to the applicants to whom the awards are made, but merely settle the rights between the rival claimants. Neither will there be a distribution of the funds derived from the operations of the oil wells In the Red River field as a result of these recommendations. This fund was recently transferred to the Secrtary of the Interior by the Supreme Owurt and will be held pending a decision of its final disposition.” All the claimants whose applications have been rejected by the general land commissioner have the right to appeal to the secretary of the interior up to Aug. 31, 1924. Appellants must also serve appeals on , the conflicting claimants who have \ the right to file replies up to Sept. 115, 1924. There were altogether 178 applications, only sixteen of which were not conflicting. Awards were kSiade in the case of thirty-six claimants.

MR AND MRS. JOHN F. LOMBARD.

1827 Hoyt Ave. for thirty-one years. Mr. Lombard was born at ’Waterford, Ind., March t 7, 1853. and Mr3. Lombard at Madison, Aug. 27, 1853. They met at Southport where relatives lived. Neither of them received more than meagre education. "All of the men were in the army and the women were needed as nurses during the Civil War, so schools were shut down,” Mrs. Lombard said. Over fifty persons, including the nine children, twenty-one grandchildren, and two great grandchildren, are expected at the Lombard home tonight at 8. The little home is elaborately decorated. Their daughter, Mrs. Grace McConnell, of Lebanon, will celebrate her eleventh wedding anni-

From Seattle ' * - i / VI k \ / lg Elizabeth Naujok, phone girl, has been voted the prettiest girl in Seattle. She won her title In a beauty contest held in connection with an American Legion carnival over which she ruled as Miss Liberty. TRY COLORED POLICEMAN t barges Against Officer Are Heard in Juvenile Court. s Trial of colored Policeman Fred Starks on charges of contributing to the delinquency of Helen Porch, colored, 1137 N. West St.„ high school junior, was begun today in Juvenile Court with testimony of the girl. Starks is suspension by the board of public safety. Tlie girl testified Starks met her walking home from church the night of June 2, took her to his brother's house at 2127 Allfree Ave., and kept her captive until the afternoon of June 4. Police Captains Fletcher and White were character witnesses. Child, Crossing Street, Struck Miss Billy Marguerite Hansen, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hansen, 4102 Ruckle St., is suffering with bruises about right eye and leg today. While crossing the street she was struck by a truck driven by Ernest Herider, 3925 Washington Blvd., at Forty-Second St. and College Ave., policemen say. _ Stolen Auto Found An automobile bearing certificate of title issued to Maude Sox, 203 E. Hendricks St.. Shelbyville, Ind., stolen from a downtown parking place here Sunday night, was found today by Sheriff George Snider, abandoned two miles .south of the city on Harding St. Dog’s Leader Arrested Belle Walker, 41. of 30214 W. New York St., and Robert Lee, 23, of .302 W. New York St., were arrested toda? on a charge of harboring a vicious dog. Police said that Lee was leading the dog, whem the animal bit Louis Haas, 3, Emlie Apt., Vermont St. and Senate Ave., through the lip.

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versary also 'tonight. Other children: John A. Lombard, 2226 N. LaSalle St.; Paul Lombard, 44 N. Beville Ave.; E. C. Lombard. 749 Lincoln Ave.; C. H. Lombard, 1536 N. Rural St.; Mrs. Edith Lewis, Franklin; Mrs. Julia Burk. 814 S. State St.; and Misses Mary and Ida Lombard. Mrs. Lombard's sister, Mrs. Anna Freeman, 264 E. lowa St.; Mr. 'Lombard’s brother, Charles D. Lombard, 1214 Ringgold Ave., and a party from Milwaukee, Wis., including Mrs. Clare St. Clair, a sister of Mr. Lombard, will be resent. * Mr. and Mrs. Lombard have been life-long members of the Baptist church. Mrs. Lombard is a great lover of flowers and canary birds.

LITTLE HDPE IS SEEN FDR PHONE RATE REDUCTION Lawyers See 4,5 Per Cent Contract of A, TANARUS, and TANARUS, as Stumbling Block, Regardless of any action by the public service commission in the telephone rate case, telephone users cannot hope for any substantial Reduction in telephone rates, lawyers familiar with the situation declared today. In fact, the public will be lucky if the rates do not go higher eventually, they said. As long as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's contract with the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, by which it takes 4.5 per cent of the earnings of the latter company, is held legal by the courts, there is little chance of establishing a rate much lower than the present one, and not have it held confiscatory by Federal Court, lawyers said. Significant Statements It is considered significant that during the Federal Court hearing Friday before Judge George T. Page of Chicago, 111., Frank C. Dailey, attorney for the company, sai 1 several times that under existing conditions the rates asked by the company almost two years ago. which were refused ny the commission las? year, and which are in effect now. were confiscatory. Judge Pagd admitted that the company had Intioduced evidence to this effect during the hearings before him, but that the final decree did not take up this point. Federal Bogey Si ill in Air It is predicted that if the commission, at the conclusion of Us investigation and hearing' of reduced rates, the company will again resort to the Federal Court. Public Service Commissioner Frank T. Singleton gave out a statement in which he says the commission desires aid of all affected communities in the State, the most competent engineering and legal aid will be employed, the commission will pay all expenses and that the commission is not hampered by any court ruling in arriving at the new valuation and rate schedule for the phone company. BOSTON TRIP ARRANGED G. A. R. Headquarters Team to Leave Here Aug. 9. Indiana headquarters train to the national G. A. R. encampment in Boston, Mass., wijl leave Indianapolis at 7:45 a. m. Aug. 9, F. M. VanPelt, department commander, and A. B. Crampton, assistant adjutant general, announced today After a six-hour stop in New York City, Indiana delegates will arrive in Boston at 6:10 p m., Aug. 10. Special rates have been made for G. A. R. members and their wives and dependent members of their families, widows of members, and members and dependent members of the families of these auxiliary and allied organizations holding conventions in connection with the encanmment: Woman's Relief Corps, Ladies of the G. A. R., Daughters of Veterans, Sons of Veterans, Sons of Veterans Auxiliary and Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War. Police to the Rescue William Haywood, colored, 413 W. Michigan St., was ordered to bed by police after his wife, who is alleged to have found a letter from another woman, chased him into the street in bis pajamas.

ONION RAILWAY ADMITS VIOLATING CROSSING LAWS Suoerintendent Declares Ordinance Is Obsolete — Willing to Cooperate, Twenty-one violations of the crossing guard ordinance were found upon the Indianapolis Union Railway tracks, Police Captain Charles Sumner reported today. He said he found that many places where required warning bells are not in operation. P. ,T. Landers, superintendent, admitted the condition exists, but said *at the ordinance was adopted so maty years ago that it does not fit pre He said warnings are not needed at many of the places and that those where they are a moving arm or other device to attract visual attention should be installed. He said he hoped all railroads could confer with city officials and make the requirements fit present conditions. - No Bells Found The crossings were Sumner found no bells: 't E. Tenth St., E. Sixteenth St., E. Twenty-First St., Sherman Dri, Avondale P!., St., Adams St., Qlney St., Oxford St.. Rural St., Fountain St., Cushing St., N. Beville Ave., N. Jefferson St., Greenbrier' Lane, Sheldon St., W. Sixteenth St., W. Twenty-Firsts St., W. Twenty-Third St., Burdsal Pkwy., W. TwentyFifth St. * Sumner also recommended that befin or flagmen be p*ced at E. Pratt St. and Massachusetts'"Ave., where ordinance does not now require them. Traction Company Named He urged that signal bells be installed by the Big Four on the Springfield division at Emerson Ave., and cm the Newcastle division of the Union Traction Company at Emerson Ave. The safety committee of city council will make an inspection tour of north side crossings of the Monon and Nickel Plate railroads within the next few days, with John Cochran, Nickel Plate attorney, and William L. Taylor, Monon attorney, with a view to amend the municipal code on guards at crossings. A similar tour was made Monday by Riley. Cochran, Mayor Shank, Ernest L. Kingston, safety board president, and Elmer Gay, board member. Railroad officials the code wa3 put into effect before bells and other safety devices were used by railroads, and that these devices insure as great safety as watchmen at many crossings, according to Gay. Since The Indianapolis Times pointed out lax observance of the code, following a fatal crossing accident, the railroads have been obeying the code to the letter, at great expense, officials say. Watchmen Essential It is essential to maintain watchmen at crossings near the downtown section because of constant switching, according to officials. Taylor pointed out that three-fifths of the acidents on the Monon within the past three months resulted from motorists driving into the side of trains. Gay said. At the Forty-Ninth St. crossing of

LIFE SAVING * HOW TO .S.T VE TWO FROM DROWNING

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FIGURE NO. 1 IS SHOWING HOW TWO PERSONS. CLUTCHING EACH OTHER AND DROWNING, MAY BE SEPARATED. NO. l’S FOOT HAS BEEN SWUNG UP OVER FIGURE NO. 2’S SHOULDER AND PLACED AGAINST THAT OF NO. 3. A PUSH WILL SEPARATE THE PAIR.

This Is the fourth of a series of six articles on methods of life saving'. B\ MARGARET PLUNKETT icled many instances of two - t 1 persons, fallen from an upset canoe, clutching each other and drowning together. The same thing has occurred when one person has set out to rescue another But a third person may break their grasp and save one, if not both, In the following manner:

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GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING, WHILE IN BRUSSELS, PAID HIS RESIT Gt TO THE MEMORY OF BELGIUM’S UNKNOWN SOLDIER. HE AN HIS PARTY ARE SEEN HERE ARRIVING AT THE TOMB.

both Nickel Plate and Monon roads, bricks and other building materials 1 obstructing the view were ordered removed by the safety board members. At Thirty-Fourth St., where the monon Nickel Plate both maintain watchmen eighteen hours a day, it was found the Ft. HarrisonAnderson line of the Union Traction Company, without either watchman or bell, constituted the greatest danger, Gay said. Traction officials are to be consulted in the matter of guarding this crossing, according to Gay. Blind streets ending at crossings at Twenty-First and Twenty-Third Sts. will be marked by “No thoroughfare" signs, it was decided. The railroad attorneys said that no-accident record of the ThirtyEighth St. Monon crossing showed the safety of the bell and waving signal devise instead of watchmen. LAST DAY,TO HELP U. S.— Sale of Savings Certificates to Close Today. United States Treasury savings certificates sold rapidly Monday and today at the Federal Bldg., according to Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. Over $2,500 in certificates were sold before 11 a. m. today and SIB,OOO worth were sold Monday. The sale ends when the postofflee closes' today. The savings certificates were first placed on sale in 1920 in denominations of $25, SIOO and SI,OOO each, bearing approximately 414 per cent interest. Booze Charge Draws Sentence Charles Anderson, colored, 308 N. Senate Ave., was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to thirty days on Indiana State farm on a blind liger charge in city court today. Anderson. police said, threw away a pitcher of white mule when his home was raided. Evidence was mopped up. Pioneer Resident Dies By Times Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind., July 15. — Mrs. Indiana Riggs. 81, lifelong resident, is dead at the horAe of her daughter, Mrs. Willis Flanders.

If you are the rescuer, bring one foot over the shoulder of the person nearest you and place it on the shoulder of the person opposite. Seize the chin of the person nearest you. Push with your foot. The push will separate the pair, making it possible for the one nearest you to be easily saved and probably enabling the rescue of the other, also. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ine.)

DIRT FARMER, IN PLUNGE ON CORN, AMASSESFORTUNE Arthur Cutten Nets Around $2,000,000 in Big Coup. By United Press CHICAGO, July 15.—Arthur W. Cutten, hero of the “corner in com" which netted him somewhere between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, mounted the throne? of “king of com" on faith, he told the United Press today. “I’m not a speculator,” Cutten said; “I’m a dirt farmer and it was my faith in the inherent value of corn, and the belief, amounting to certainty that corn would go to higher prices that enabled me to make a profit.” Cutten was hesitant to talk of the masterful coup that placed him with the immortals of the Chicago Board of Trade. “The reports of my winnings are somewhat exaggerated," he laughed. Big Figure But his friends hold the figure between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 are a proper estimate. Cutten is about 50, of medium height, rather slender: immaculate in attire, with his deeply sunburned face evidencing much time on his splendid farm some fifty miles south of here. “I started buying corn when I was in California last February,” he said. "It was about So cents then. Soon afterward it began to drop. It hit 76 cents and then went lower. "I bought more, and continued to buy more. Losses? Os course.” Cutten continued to buy uvil he had the Chicago supply of July corn “sewn up.” It is stated that the total was between 5,000.000 and 7,000,00 bushel. The average gain was probably around 30 cents per bushel. Back of the “faith” which Cutten credits for his profit were three other factors, gained in long years of work. The first is knowledge of markets. This Cutten gained while a bookkeeper in A. S. White & Cos, twentyseven years ago at $125 a month. Saved $3,000 The second is capital. Cutten saved $3,000 out of his salary. With this amount he started his own operations, becoming a member of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1896. His knowledge of money Increased, and six years later Cutten was a prominent trader. The third factor is knowledge of crops. Cutten himself is a farmer. Eight hundred acres near Glenn Ellyn, ll}., are his home. There he watches crops first hand. And there he watches the effect of the weather. “Knowing the weather was the biggest factor in my success this time,” Cutten explained, "I knew that under the adverse weather conditions we have been having corn would be bound to go up. Therefore, I had the faith to buy in spite of lowering prices.” The hero of L a Salle St. thinks more of his Glenn Ellyn home than he docs of La Salle St. “I went from the city to the farm, not from the farm to the city,” he said. “And the farm's my home. I lived there all the time — of course I come into the city often enough to keep posted, but I like my own crops and fny own stock.” REPORT ON STADIUM Y U. Trustees Receive Supplemental Letter From Engineer. Trustees of Indiana University today received a letter from William J. Titus, head of the engineering division of the State highway department. supplementing a report on the new stadium under way for the university at Bloomington. The report, made several weeks ago, said eonr-truction was faulty.

Try This One Breakfast —Raspberries, crisp broiled bacon, fried eggs, creamed potatoes, crisp toast, coffee. Luncheon Shrimp salad, bran bread sandwiches, baked cherry pudding, cream, iced tea. Dinner —C?am broth with whipped cream, stuffed halibuU steaks, creamed potatoes, "buttered new beets, pineapplecream cheese and nut salad, blackberries with thin cream, sponge cake, iced coffee.

TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1924

FOOR-GORNERED CAMPAIGN TUBE WAGED BY DAVIS Democrats Will Carry Fight Into Every Section of * Country, By United Press NEW YORK, July 15.—The Democrats probably will direct a fourcornered campaign to voters of the country to put over John W. Davi3 as the next President of the United States. The nominee has been in conference with party leaders from all sections of the couhtry since his selection and it has been fairly well established that headquai’ters are to be opened at Chicago, New York and San Francisco. The Southjof course, will claim Davis as its own, and the nominee will receive notification of nomination at his boyhood home at Clarksburg, W. Va. Davis Busy Davis is now busy collecting ideas for the first political broadside to be delivered when he receives notification of the nomination. The Democratic party plans to gain the jump on the Republicans as the present plans call for the acceptance speech to be made a week prior to the Coolidge speech of acceptance. The President will be notified at Washington, Aug. 14. Task of selecting a chairman of the natioiil committee is still holding up the movements of the Dem ocratic machine. Cordell Hull, retiring chairman, was in conference with Davis late last night and the conference will be resumed the first thing today. Conference Continues Davis will spend the week in New York, continuing his conferences with party leaders at the home of j Frfink Polk. Friday he will gather up the ideas he has gained from these conferences and retire to the home of Charles Dana Gibson at Dark Harbor, Maine, where he will draft his speech of ac ceptance.

NEWPORT PRONE COMPANY GIVEN INCREASE ORDER Bond Issue of $6C,000 Is .Authorized by Service Commission, The public service commission today made public its order granting an increase in rates to the Citizens Telephone Company at Newport. The new rates aa-e based on a $7,000 plant valuation and range from $1.75 for a two-party residence phone to $2.25 for a single business line. The Citizens Gas Company, In dianapolis, was authorized to issue and sell $68,000 in 5 per cent bonds for additions to the plant and equipment since June 30, 1923 and some additions in 1921. Newcastle Gets Order The city of Newcastle was authorized to issue $40,000 in boneft for additional equipment at the city water works. The Scottsburg Water Company, in an order supplementing permission given recently to sell $40,000 worth of stock, was authorized to issue $19,250 in notes for extension of mains. The Galveston Water Company was authorized to sell SII,BOO in common stock and $23,600 in preferred for money with which to con' struct a $35,000 water works plant. The Sam Sprinkle plant there is to be abandoned when the new one is completed under the order. MiUersburg Also The MiUersburg Water Company was authorized to sell $9,300 worth of common stock and SIB,OOO preferreo to construct a $25,000 water works at MiUersburg. The freight rate order, which the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and other roads recently attacked in vain, wl’l not g, into effect until July 25, under another modified order of the commission. The railroads contended they did not have time to publish the tariffs ordered befora that time. The effective date of the order, first set at Feb. 15, was later moved up to March 14. VACANCIES ARE FILLED Governor Appoints Two on State Board of Charities. Governor Emmett F. Branch today announced two appointments to the State board of charities to fill vacancies caused by expired terms. They are: \ Mi’s. E. C. Rumpler, Indianapolis, succeeding Mrs. John Dinwiddle, Lafayette. Judge W. H. Eiechhom, Bluffton, succeeding Louden A. Harriman, Princeton. STOLEN GUNS ARE FOUND Boys Find Revolvers Taken From Sporting Goods Store. Revolvers valued at S2OO stolen from the Em-Roe Sporting Goods Store, 209 W. Washington St., Sunday were found late Monday night by three boys playing in the rear of the Harris Transfer Company, 330 S. Alabama St. The loot consisted of seventeen revolvers, one pair of handcuffs and 1,000 rounds of ammunition. Several of the guns had been loaded before they were thrown away.