Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 59, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 59

FIVE CENT. TAX BOOST EXPECTED Budget Figures, as Presented to City Controller, Call for $339,604.34 Increase in Expenses Under General Fund for 1924. SEPARATE ALSO ARE ASKING INCREASES Hogue Starts Pruning Process in Hope of Bringing Figure Within This Rate —Shank's Promise to Keep in Limit is Recalled. An increase of $339,604.51 in the budget of the general city for next year was shown by totals today of the six departments in that fund. If the increase is allowed, the tax rate would be increased 5 cents. Figures of Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, show that in 1924 the general city obtained $4,142,149.11. This year the same departments ask $4,481,753.42 to operate in 1925. Departments Include the board of safety, the board of works, the finance department, the city plan commission, the legal department, building department and the purchasing agent's office. The separate taxing units of the city are not included in the general fund, although they have all asked for increased appropriations. The sanitary board asked for a total of 11.6 cents, of which 8 cents is for maintenance. The park department has asked for 8 cents for maintenance and 4.25 cents for sinking fund. The budget of the board of health maintenance fund may be reduced half a cent, Sol Bchloss, president, said today. The board obtained a twelve cent lpry this year by mandatory order in court, Hogue immediately started on the pruning process in the hope of bringing the budget to within this year's tax rate. Mayor Shank has promised that the ram will boas low or lower than 1924. City officials pointed out, however, that an increased water bill of SSB,000 will cause some increase in the tax rate or cripple some .departments if they are not allowed extra money for water bills. Estimates now place the valuation of the city at $633,000,* 000, with each cent bringing In $63,000. This year's valuation was $620,000,000.

RUMORS UNFOUNDED War Department Denies Fifth Corps Headquarters Will Be Moved. Rumors originating at Louisville, Ky.. Wednesday that the War Department is considering removal of the Fifth Army Corps headquarters from Columbus. Ohio, are unfounded, according to a Washington dispatch to The Indianapolis Times today. Indianapolis business men were Interested in the report, because a movement to get the headquarters moved here from Columbus was considered. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce was notified by Brig. Gen. Dwight E. Aultman, commandant of Ft. Harrison, that he knew nothing of the report. SPEEDER STORES CAR Fine of SSO More Than Auto Is Wotth, Judge Says When James Gardner, colored, 2532 Columbia Ave., charged *with speeding, told City Judge Delbert O. Wllmeth today his Ford was a 1917 model, the judge commented "the fine would be more than the car was worth."' x "How much would you take for It?’* he asked. "Oh, about $50," Gardner said. “lil make the fine SSO and costs and you may store your. car for thirty days. You might as well give us the car." said the judge. The driver said he’d store the car. PROHIBITION DEFEATED Saskatchewan Voi*s for Government Control of Liquor. Bv United Prena REGIXA, 'Saskatchewan, July 17. ■ —With a decisive majority for straight government control of liquor, the electorate of Saskatchewan defeated prohibition at the polls Wednesday. Returns from 1,117 out of 2,851 polls in the province today showed 49,926 in favor of prohibition, 69.621 against, 61,123 favoring straight government control of liquor and 42,040 favoring government control plus sale of beer on licensed premises. Returns from the remaining polls are not expected to change this general run of the vote. Water Rates Increased The public service commission to day granted increased rates to the njunlcipal water works plant at Mishawaka.

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This Is Just a Reminder That May Help You Keep Out of City Court —Watch Your Arm Signals When You Turn or Stop Car

' ' ■ -i LEFT TO RIGHT—MISS MOXIE PALMER DEMONSTRATES CORRECT HAND SIGNALS FOR RIGHT TURN. STOP AND LEFT TURN

P'ThETTY Miss Moxie Palmer, 2052 College Ave., Is a l__| ‘'safety” driver. When she intends to stop, out flashes her hand, up and down;

BILLMIRE HUNT 10 BE EXTENDED AS SCOUTS JOIN Kiwanis Club Hopes to Find Missing Member in Northern Thickets. F. O. Belzer, Boy Scout executive, and Henry L. Dithmer of the Kiwanis Club yere working out plans this afternoon for cooperation of scouts in the Kiwanis Club search for Dell Z. Billmlre, 52, of 719 E. Thirty-Fourth St., Kiwanian, missing since July 8. The Kiwanians found no trace of Billmlre in a search of a thirty-five acre thicket between Thirtieth St. and the Monon railroad and Fall Creek Wednesday afternoon. A man answering Billmire’s description has been reported seen in this vicinity several times in the last few days. The Scouts will patrol a wider territory, it being possible that the search will be extended over the north part of the county. Walter White, who has been conducting _the hunt by the Kiwanis Club, of which Billmlre is a member, with friends and members of the family, looked for Billmlre until past midnight. Clues received from residents of the neighborhood lead the family to believe that Billmire is wandering in the territory near the Monon Railroad and Thirtieth St. A man partially answering Billmire's description was seen Wednesday about 3 p. in. on Thirty-Eighth St., by a barbecue place attendant. 'Scouts Camp Out Troop No. 28, Boy Scouts, whlcri volunteered its service, camped in the territory Wednesday night, keeping an all-night watch. Billmire, who in July and August suffers from result of a case of malaria during the Spanish-American War, is believed to have an hallucination that he is being pursued. , Last Tuesday Billmire left his of flee, where he 1$ local representative of Ligonier Refrigerator Company, and the Daytm Money Weight Scale Company, feeling badly. In Winter Clothing WHen Billmlre did not call for his family on a farm near Clinton Saturday as planned the faipily became alarmed and Sunday returned to Indianapolis and began hunting him. He is believed to be wearing a dark winter suit and black derby hat. Believing that Billmire Is still alive and in the neighborhood, Kiwanians raised a fund of S4O to aid the search. It was decided to offer this money to the Boy Scout fund and ask Scout Executive F. O. to have Scouts -.extend the search over several miles. Police who have followed all clews dragged Fall Creek Monday and aided in the search. Elkhart laborer Bankrupt Henry Cripe, laborer, Elkhart, Ind., today filed a petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court. Gripe’s schedules showed his only assets were household furnishings and SSO in cash. He owes $1,240, according to the schedule.

Prudent Petting .Permitted

LIET your conscience be your guide. v__l This is the gist of Inspector Walter White’s idea of regulation of bathing beach morals. Petters may pet and the girls parade in one-piece bathing suits at Riverside municipal beach but the cops aren’t going to get excited about it. Not that undue liberties wdth the proprieties may be taken, but just ordinary spooning and

when she is going to turn left she extends her hand straight out and when right she points skyward. Simple, isn’t it? But police say they have been

EIGHT TIRES STOLEN Thieves Get S2OO in Loot From Murat Tire & Rubber Cos. Eight automobile tires, valued -at $.30, were stolen from the Murat Tire & Rubber Cos. store 209 E. New York St., Wednesday night. Thieves entered through a rear door. HEART BALM IS ASKED % Evansville Manufacture* Sued for $30,000 Damages. w I By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 17. Suit for $30,000 balm, charging seduction and breach of promise, is on file here today against William Beggs, former local factory superintendent. The suit was filed by Martha Wlcht, 32, who claims her reputation was destroyed by his actions toward her.

TWO FIREMEN DIE FIGHTING FLAMES Explosion Wrecks Kansas City Rooming House, By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 17. Two firemen and six negroes were killed, six firemen were injured and a score of negroes are missing as a result of a fire and explosion in a rooming house here early today. The blast came in the early morbing hours- when most of the occupants were asleep. John T. Hughes, a patrolman, standing a block from the building, saw the structure suddenly spatter with red flames. A deafening detonation shook surrounding buildings. Hughes said hf believed not one of tjvefity-eight persons occupying rooms above stores in the building could have escaped. While firemen were desperately battling the flames a fifty-foot brick wall of the two-story building collapsed, burying rescue workers and firemen. POLITICAL UNITY ASKED Marx Government Sends Note to Premier MacDonald By United Press BERLIN, July 17.—A demand that the allies' promise that the politicals unity of Germany will be re-established was sent to Premier MacDonald by the Marx government today. The German memorandum which was , timed to reach MacDonald while the inter allied conference on reparations was in session, also asked that a time be set for with-draw-al'of French and Belgian troops from the Ruhr/ and the evacuation of Duisberg and Dusseldorf. i To File New Suits By United Press WASHINGTON, July 17.—New anti-trust suits will be filed in the near future by the government, it was said today at the department of justice. Attorney-General Stone, however, would >not divulge details of the proposed action until the suits' have been filed.

one-piece suits which are just positively shocking will get by. The police are not even Regularly patrolling the beaches. They’re leaving it to recreation directors, White said. “Women ought to be the best judges of moVal conduct. I think the* can be trusted for the most part., to obey this rule: Do nothing which might be injurious to the morals of the many young persons who go to the beaches.”

INDIANAPOLIS. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1924

trying to educate motorists to do it for two years without much success. City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth in speeders' court today demon-

FEAR EOR SAFETY OF BRITISH FLIER LOST IN PACIFIC Japanese Destroyers Fail to Find Trace of Daring Airman, By United Press TOKIO, Japan. July 17.—Although early reports today caused optimism as to the safety of MaJ. A. Stuart MacLaren. missing British* round-the-world aviator, fear for his safety Increased greatly later. One source described the search for him as "apparently hopeless." Reports indicated that blizzards, for which the Kurile Islands, his destination. are famous, may have arisen and brought disaster. Japanese destroyers, searching for the aviator, had found no trace of him ,at any of the emergency landing points. YANKS ARE HOPEFUL Believe Englishman Will Be Fonud by Searchers. By United Press BROUGH, England, July 17. Lieut. Lowell Smith and his Comrades on the United States Army world flight arrived oafely at Brough today, having flown from Croydon Airdrome, outside London, in two hours. The leading plane, , piloted by Smith, landed at 1:10 p. m., the others a moment later. They left Croy don at 11:10 a. m. Here, the flyers will remain until July 25, while their planes are equipped with pontoons for the homeward Journey across the Atlantic £ia the Orkneys, Iceland, Greenland and Labrador. 7,000 Miles Remain Brough is on the coast near Hull, England, less than 200 miles from London. But v 7,000 miles remain to be covered before the flyers will have completed their world journey. A small group of British air service officials waved farewell and "bijn voyage” as the three American planes took the air from Croydon airdrome at 11:10 a. m., soafed southward to. gain altitude, and then swung about and made off on a bee-line for'Brough. Before taking off. Lieutenant Smith expressed confidence that Major MacLaren, the British airman, who was reported missing somewhere in the Kuriles Islands, northeastward of Japan, was safe. Fishermen Would Help "Probably he landed at one of the hundreds of small Islands abounding In that region,” Smith said, hopefully to MacLaren's wife who met him here. He said the fishermen or the region were aware of the world flights and would do everything In their power to help MacLaren. The airman last was heard from when he hopped off from Yetorofu Island headed for Paramushlru Island early Wednesday. America's round-the-world flyers came safqly through this dangerous passage of snow’ and ice earlier in the year and fonud it the most perilous and difficult of their entire voyage.

COP FACES CHARGES Policeman Suspended Following Alleged Attack on R. L. McVicker. Inspector of Police Walter White, acting chief in absence of Herman Rikhoff, said today he would recommend charges of conduct unbecoming an officer be preferred against Patrolman Patrick Finney, 10.2 Koehne St. at the board of safety meeting next Tuesday. Kinney was suspended Wednesday It is said following an alleged attack on R. L. McVicker, Lorraine Hotel, Tuesday night.

strated hand signals from the bench. He, too, is determined as well as the police department, that motorists must signal cars in the rear.

,AD CLUBS PICK HOUSTON London Convention Chooses Texas City for 1925 Meet. By United Press IjONDON, July 17. Houston, Texas, was unanimously selected by the International Advertising run- ! vention today as the 1925 convention ! city. A full meeting confirmed the i choice of the board. SPEEDERS ARE NABBED Beech Grove Having Little Drive All Its Own—Forty Caught. Beech Grove has,a little speeS war all Its own. Constables have arrested forty speeders this week, according to reports from the front trenches, and Justice of Peace Henry ( L. Hurst has administered the medicine. - The law's net has caught about an equal percentage of Indianapolis and Beech Grove citizens. GASMEN” BTWALL STREET Overproduction of Oil to Direct Cause, By United Press NEW YORK, July 17.—The cause of widespread cut-in gasoline prices may be explained with one word—-over-production—according to information in Wall Street today. The "street” believes the muchfeared war in oil is on and it expects additioral price cuts which may end in absorption of some of the smaller companies by the Standard Oil Company. In addition to over-production and unseasonable weather the spring months saw a considerable slowing down in many lines of industry which ordinarily are big consumers of gasoline. PASTOR WILL SPEAK The Rev. Philputt to Discuss ‘‘The Disciples of Christ” at “Y.” "The Disciples of Christ" will be discussed by the Allan B. Philputt, pastor Central Christian Church, at Y. M. C. A. Bible Investigation Club meeting next Wednesday night. Dr. Williard O. Trueblood, pastor First Friends Church, sp< ke on “Society of Friends" Wednesday night. LAKE GIVES UP BODY Xlnety-Six-Hour Search Ends at Kendaflville. By United Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., July 17. —A nlnety-slx-hour search of Adams Lake for the body of Glenn Blievernicht, 13, Ft. Wayne, ended here today when an expert diver raised the body from its watery grave.' Thousands of people lined the shores and witnessed the finding. The boy jumped from a row boat to recover an oar while he was rowing his father and mother arounc the lake Sunday. He never came to the surface after the first dive.

For Auld Lang Syne!

By United Press 17.—A rare old bottle of l__J liquor that has graced the annual banquet table of the "Last Man’s Club” for thirtyeight years will be opened Monday, •Since the old Sawyer House, where the club has met each year since 1885, has been torn down, the banquet will be served in the directors’ room of the First National Bank. Three of the four regaining members of the company of the Ist Minnesota Infantry from which the club was recruited are expected to attend. They are

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“It’s easy, once you get in the habit of it," says Miss Palmer. "I put out my hand subconsciously now and I’ve never had an accident.”

REVOLT SITUATION IN BRAZIL IS SAID TO BE ALARMING Shells Fall Near American Consulate in City of Sao Paulo, By United Press * BUENOS AIRES. July 17.—Tfie situation in Brazil, where the army of State of Sao Paulo has rebelled, is very alarming, the newspaper La Razon understands from an offiical source today, Th# rebellion was prepared by important chieftains of the Brazilian army, according to the newspaper's information, with the aid of high political leaders of the State of Sao Paulo, in .contact with the revolutionary elements of other States. - "A big banklryj hbuse, believed to have official connections," is financing the revolt. 6,000 Troops The revolutionary troops comprise about 6 000 men with abundant war materials. The movement has as its primary purpose establishment of anew Federal regime and will demand complete amnesty for participants in the uprising in Ric, de Janeiro in 1922. Federal troops sent against the rebels so far have not displayed great energy, La Razon's informant adds, and give observers an impression of lack of discipline. Development Soon “We have reliable information from a private source indicating an Important development in the situation Is imminent,” La Razon said. A complete censorship on telegraphs, telephones, radio and the mails has been placed in effect throughout Brazil. Even the usual official communique relating to Federal successes, failed to Arrive from Hlo de Janeiro Wednesday night. STRONGHOLD BOMBARDED Cable From U. 8. Consul Tells of Narrow Escape. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 17.—Shelia fell within half a block of the American consulate at Sao Paulo when Federal forces were bombarding the stronghold of the Brazilian revolt on July 12, the State Department was advised today in a cable from Sao Paulo dated July 12. The consulate was undamaged, however, the message stated. Six persons in the Hotel D’Ceste were killed when a shell struck the building, the message said. The industrial center, Braz, is being bombed and is practically deserted by its inhabitants. The city of Sao Paulo Is surrounded by 15,000 Federal troops, who are bombarding forces located there, the State Department cable from Santos, dated Wednesday, stated.

Charles Lockwood. Chamberlain, S. D., 79; John S. Goff, Minnesota Soldiers Home, 79, and Peter Hall, Atwater, Minn., 83. Brail Graff, St. Cloud, Fla., 83, will be unable to be here. There will be thirty crepedraped chairs about the table representing those of the club who have passed on. At the first annual banquet, thirty-eight years ago, a bottle of rare old vintage was presented to the club, and it was stipulated that the last survivor should open it. The three remaining members voted last year to share its contents.

BUS LINE EBUJfI LEADS TERMINAL WILL BE BUILT Station to Be Established Within a Year, Secretary-Treasurer of Union Company Says Location to Be Near Present Site. 162 ROUND TRIPS A DAY ARE MADE BY RUBBER-TIRED CARS Some of Newer Types of Vehicles in Operation Out of City Cost $ll,OO0 —Traffic Congestion Grows to Serious Proportion. Within a year motor busses running to all parts of Indiana will arrive and depart from their own Indianapolis terminal station, a modern, extensive building with a commodious waiting room and covered “train sheds,” Ted C. Brown, secretarytreasurer of the Indianapolis Motor Bus Terminal Company, announced today. * Definite location of the new station will be announced later, ifter all arrangements have been completed, Drown said. It will be very close to the intersection of Kentucky Ave., Maryland St. and Capitol Ave., he said. The present terminal is at 50 Kentucky Ave.

Train Shed Planned “Unprecedented growth of motor bus business in this section of the country Has made better equipped and more commodious quarters necessary,” Brown said. “The new station will be equipped with a large sheo. and all busses will load and unload passengers under cover. Members of our association now have in service fttore than 100 busses, making 162 ronud trips a day, and handling as high as 7,000 passengers a day. • The new terminal will do away with traffic-confff-stion in the neighborhood of the present station, which at times has assumed serious proportions and is growing worse daily. Some of the newer types of cars cost as high as SII,OOO and are so wide that they block traffic if parked fiat along the curb, and are so long that they extend into the regular traffic lanes when parked in the middle of Kentucky Ave. adjoining the present station. Equipment Value Doubled “Progress made by motor bus industry in the past year is shown that the value of equipment owned by members of our organization is just about twice as much per car j as it was a year ago,” Brown said, i "The days of converted touring cars and makeshift bodies on regular stock chassis is gone. The motor bus is a distinct, individual type of motor car, as different from the ordinary automobile as a Pullman car js from a stage coach.” When the terminal company was organized two years ago there were i only a few companies operating less j than a dozen busses. i So rapid has been the growth of j the business, he said, that the big 1 motor "Pullmans” operate out of Indianapolis to the north as far as Ft. Wayne, east to Richmond, west to Terre Haute and south to Madison. ' MEfICURY TAKES DROP Increased Atmospheric Pressure Forces Cooler Air Down Increase in atmospheric pressure ' throughout the Great Lakes area, forcing descent of cooler air, caused a rapid drop in temperature during Wednesday night, according to J. H. Armington, local meteorologist. The mercury dropped from a maximum of 84 Tuesday afternoon to 66 at 7 a. m. today. VICTIM OF SUNSTROKE Man Dies in Hospital After Being Found in Yard. Albert Bodkte, 65, of 2240 Union St., who died at city hospital early today, after being found unconscious in the rear of his home Wednesday, was a victim of sunstroke, according to Dr. William A. Doeppers, deputy coroner. Bodkte never regained consciousness after being taken to the hospital. HELD ON MURDER CHARGE Detectives Allege Prisoner Shot John Williams John Gallman, alias Pickenpack, 22, colored. 1339 S. Pershing Ave., was returned to Indianapolis today and slated at the city prison on a charge of murder. According to Detectives McDonald and Fields, Gallman several days ago shot and fatally wounded, John Williams, colored, 1139 S. Tremont Ave., near the Williams’ home, and escaped before police arrived. He was arrested at Union, S. C., and held for the local police. .

Forecast GENERALLY fair and slightly cooler tonight. Friday fair with rising temperature in the afternoon.

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STREET PROGRAM! FOR 1925 ABOVE LEGALMEW Expenditure of $378,500 Called for as Outlined by Board of Works, A city street resurfacing program calling for an expenditure of $378,500 in 1925 was outlined by the board of works and submitted to Joseph L. Hogue, ciyt controller, today. The amount is higher than the law permits, since a tax levy of only 5 cents, calculated to raise $315,000, is permitted by State statutes for street resurfacing. Board of works members hope to complete the program, however, by transfer of funds. Include Main Streets Projects outlined by the board irNM elude some of the city’s main tho* oughfares. They are: Pennslyvanla St. from New York to Nineteenth Sts., $45,750; Michigan St. from East St. to Tacoma Ave., $45,000; Delaware St. from Nineteenth to Fall Creek, $67,500; Delaware St. from Massachusetts Ave. to St. Clair St., $21,750; Noble from Massachusetts Ave. to Virginia Ave., $30,000; Eleventh St. from Delaware St. to Capitol Ave., $12,000; New Jersey from Nineteenth to Twenty* Second Sts., $13,500; New York from Blake to Beauty Sts., $10,500; College Ave. from Twenty-First to Twenty-Fifth Sts., $14,250; Northwestern AVe. from Fifteenth to Nineteenth, $11,000; Thirtieth St. from Boulevard PI. to Northwestern Ave., $21,000; McCarty St. from Meridian to High Sts., $12,000; West from New York to Fourteenth Sts., $52,500; Alabama from Nineteenth to TwentyThird Sts., $21,750. Projects This Year Projects planned for the remainder of 1924 include: Ohio from Alabama to East Sts., Central from Nineteenth St. to Fall Creek, Bellefontaine from TwentyFirst to Twenty-Third Sts., Arsenal Ave. from Washington to Michigan Sts., State Ave. from Michigan to Prospect Sts. These resurfacing contracts will 'tijtal $124,000, It is esti-\ mated. State law provides the city pay three-fourths of resurfacing costs, and benefltted property owners onefourth. A Mailing List of 56,000 A mailing list of this size is not only hard to find, but hard to keep up-to-date. To mail a letter to such a list, telling of your property for sale, or offering your services, etc., would'- be prohibL tlve In cost, and the percentage of waste would be great. You can reach such a list, , which is up-to-date, every evening by using a Times Want Ad, nt small cost. A THREE-LINE AD THREE DAYS IN THE TIMES FOR 09 CENTS. Times Want Ads are easy to use. • Call Main 3300 Ask for an Ad Taker THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES “Results at Minimum Cost” -