Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1924 — Page 6

WOMAN IS HELD FOLLOWING FATAL AUTO JCCIDENT Manslaughter Charge Placed -Against Mrs, Ethel Haley, Mrs. Ethel Haley, 35, of 2206 N. Capitol Ave., was reslated at the city prison today on charge of manslaughter and held under $5,000 bond. Mrs. Mary Dickerson, 45, colored, 839 S. Pennsylvania St., died at city hospital a short time after she is alleged to have been struck by an auto driven by Mrs. Haley at W. Washington St. bridge over White River. >■ Drove Through Zone Sergeant Dean said he was told by Rufus Perdue, 132S E. Raymond St., Mrs. Haley was driving in the line of traffic east-bound over the bridge and she turned out to pass a car ahead and drove into the safety zone. Ernest Raker, 706 Woodlawn Ave., street car motorman, said he saw the auto strike the woman. He Jumped from the car and on to the running board of Perdue’s car and they chased Mrs. Haley to Blackford St., where they told her about the accident and she turned around and drove back. Mrs. Haley said she felt her wheel strike a safety z-"ne marker, and Miss Betty Haley, her daughter, said she told her mother to go ahead, as she had just run over an umbrella. Autos Collide Miss Rosa Meo, 259 S. East St., was slightly injured about tie wrist when an auto in which she was riding with Angel Stone, 2457 Barnes Ave, collided with an auto driven by Harry Decall, 302 S. New Jersey St., at Virginia Ave. and New Jersey Sts. Both drivers were charged with assault and battery. Police continued a search today for Nate Givens, colored, 212 W. Merrill St., who is wanted on a charge of manslaughter. Police say fie was driving an auto that struck and- fatally injured Stacy Moncrief, 68, of 1649 Roosevelt Ave.

POLICE BAND HOME Officials Enthusiastic Over Trip to Montreal and East. A tired group of city officials, in- j eluding members of the fifty-piece j police and firemen's band was home today after a ten-day tour in which , they participated in the police chief’s j convention at Montreal. The special train which left July 11 arrived shortly before midnight | from Cincinnati, the last stop on the homeward joirney. Fourteen cities were visited in a trip covering approximately 2.000 miles. ■"Police Chief Herman Rikhoff and other city officials were enthusiastic over the results of the trip in which Indianapclis was selected for the 1625 eorfc-ention, and the city given widespread advertisement. DAM FOR MONTICELLO Plans Completed far Second Hydroelectric Development. 'Plans for the erection of the second development of\he Indiana Hydroelectric Company-on Tippecanoe River, near Monticello. Ind., have been completed, Harry Reid, president of the Interstate Public Service Company, announced today. Reid is also president of the Indiana Hydroelectric Company. The first of the company’s hydro developments was completed last year at Norway, Ind., on the Tippe-. canoe, near Monticello, at a cost of nearly $2,000,000. Many vegetables that can be grown in very cold / climates have been developed by tJie Indians pf the high Andes.

No Money Down Sale of Genuine Cork IF" 1 ' Linoleum Remnants (K H l|(iL> I j J The Kind With the Heavy - w*?** - - L-—.,, 1' \ Promptly at 8:30 tomorrow morning we will pine* Wfijfr Sf- t; ~ jJ. | \\\ \ o n snip nn enormous special lot of genuine Cork _ p^cSAi Linoleum Remnants, at a price so astoundingly low gjfe|rJ lml that they will probably not last until closing time. || r ■ Vp will find several suitable pieces of the same patU g from the roll at the reguV^.^Bring Yonr Boom Measurement*.

Some Things ‘The Thoughtless FooV Causes

CALIFORNIA FOREST FIRE *

Bit NEA Service JAN FRANCISCO. July 22. “The Thoughtless Fool’’ is i blamed by United States Forest Service officials for fires which did millioA of dollars’ \yorut of damage in Pacific Coast for-® ests this summer. “The Thoughtless Pool” is the

ONE OEAD, TEN HURTJN STATE Auto. Accidents Reported at Four Cities, Auto accidents were fatal to one and caused the Injury' of ten in the State Monday. At Ft. Wayne, Archie Stewart, 27, was killed in an auto collision at a cross roads. His wife and son were Russell Brown, 30, colored, driver of the other auto, is in jail. Four were hurt at Seymour when an auto driven by Allen Swope, former postmaster, collided with a touring car driven by the Rev. William Aker of Waymansville. Injured beside Swope, were Mrs. Swope, Mrs. H. C. Whitmer and Mrs. Caroline Cone. Three were hurt at Elizabethtown, Including Mrs. Walter Cox, 134 Fulton St., Indianapolis. A car driven

camper or city vacationist or ranch hand or hobo jvho leaves the smoking embers of his camp fire alight in the forest, or carelessly throws his burning cigarette or cigar into the brush. Jail sentences are now being muted out to those who even smoke in the forest reserves.

by Mr. Cox struck a machine driven by Owen Harden, 21, who was also hurt. James Luckey, 78, i3 suffering from injuries received when he was struck by an auto driven by Mrs. Lottie Price of Kentucky. * At Richmond, Clarence I. Wilson, 12, was seriously injured when he was struck by an auto driven by A. B. Mulligan.

FUNERAL FOR VETERAN I John 11. Collins Dies at Home Southeast of Cit. Funeral services for Jphn H. CoC lines, 81, Civil war veteran, who died Sunday at his home southeast of Indianapolis, will be held at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday in New Bethel Baptist Church. Burial in Acton Cemetery. Collins was born a half mile fjrdm l the place of his death. He served , with* Wilder’s Lightning Brigade during the Civil war. Surviving: The widow, a soif Robi ert, a daughter, Mrs. E. Y r . Wheatley; i eleven grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Moonlight bathing has proved so I popular at several English beaches that “electric moons” are to be installed for use on cloudy nights.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FIGHTING A FOREST FIRE IS HARD, HOT, DIRTY WORK. THESE MEN ARE CLEARING A LANE THROUGH THE WOODS WHICH THE RAGING FIRE CANNOT JUMP. THEY USE FIRE TO FIGHT FIRE, BURNING THE BA RREN STRIP THROUGH THE TIM BER.

AFTER THE HOLOCAUST. ACRE AFTER ACRE OF FINE OLD TREES ARE LEFT A TANGLE OF CHARRED AND BROKEN TIMBERS.

And the millionaire tourist, the hobo, the ranch hand city vacationist alike are subject to constription to save the virgin for ests frorrf destruction. Up to July 15 a total of 889 forest fires were reported to Fores: Service officials year. Os these 659 were due entirety toy

ASK CONTINUANCE OF BIBLESCHOOL Children Regret. Closing, Says Settlement Director, Children are begging to study the Bible. - ’Boys and girls are anxious to have another Ljaily .Vacation Bible School started at onde at the American Settlement, 617 W. Pearl St., according to Miss Zenith May Eller. This comes with' the announcement that the settlement will have its closing exercises of its Daily Vacation Bibl* School yn Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock, A pageant, “Into All the World,” will be by the junior and intermediate children. All the children of the school will be used in the chorus. u ■ Miss Eller as director, io assisted by Margaret Yale, Mary Riggs,.Mrs. W. H. Roberts, Henrietta Scneibr, Maisel Pierpont and Blanche Born. Twenty-five vhildren are enrolled in the kindergarten, thirty in the primary and forty-six* in the junior and intermediate groups, making a total enrollment of 101. The average daily attendance is announced as seventy. Craft Work from all departments will be on exhibition Thursday night.

Argentina Flier to Start

By United Press AMSTERDAM, July 21.—Plans of Major Zanni, Argentine aviator, for his attempted flight around the world, have been completed and the aviator will probably take off from the city In the next few days.

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carelessness. A vast land army of fighters supplemented by Army airplanes and the radio, battle doggedly on a very western front, but “The Thoughtless Fool” keeps just ahead of them, and weary workers subdue one fire, only to be rushed to fight another.

PROBE IS REOPENED Coroner Makes Unexpected Move in Child Scalding. By United Prat ANDERSON. Ind., July 22.—Investigation into the death of Lillian asson, 3, whWo was scalded to dea.h with boiling coffee at her stepfather’s home in Elwood, was unexpectedly reopened here today by Coroner Jesse Helbert. l Helbert did not intimate what lines he \w.s running down, further than to say ho had detectives working on several possible clews of murder. The girl’s stepfather. John Larrison, was held following her death, but was later released when authorities were unaoble to obtain more than statements from the dead girl’s sister and circumstantial evidence. FUNERAL FOR VICTIM City Employe Killed by Auto to Be Buried Wednesday. Funeral services for Stacy Moncrief, 59, of 1C49 Roosevelt Ave., wild dfbd Monday when struck by an automobile at Maryland and Eddy Sts., will be held Wednesday at 2 p. m. from Moore’s Chapel, 1602 Broadway. 1 Moncrief was employed by the city stioet repair department Surviving:' Two sons. John A., of Camden, N. J., and William H. of Indianapolis and a daughter, Miss Stella E., of Indianapolis. \ If all the eggs of a single codfish were hatched into fish, which should in turn hatch all of their eggs, in a very vew years the whole earth woKuld be buried under many feet of codfish.

NATIONAL DEBT OF GREAT BRITAIN AT HEAD OP LIST France Second and United States .Third, With Italy Fourth, 1 By Timex Special NEW YORK, July 22.—0n Dec. 31, 1923, national debts of four leading participants in the great war, on the side of the compared as follows: The internal debt of France was $52,247,000,000 and the external, debt, estimated at the rate of exchange then current, wfcs $28,331,000,000, making a total indebtedness of $80,578,000,000. On the some date the internal debt of Gre%.t Britain was $32,709,000,000, the external debt $6,290,00(fj)00, making the total debt.,538,999,000,000. The internal debt of Italy was $18,393,000,000, tho external debt $19,354,000,000, a total debt of $37,747,000000. * The United States at that time owed $21916,000,000, tof course all internal.

Figures Are Adjusted If these figures are adjusted for varying degrees of inflation by dividing the t*tal debt of each country by the wholesale price index number of that country, the following results' is obtained: The debt of France so stated amounts to $17,555,OOOiOOO, that of Great Britain to $24,999,000,000, that of Italy to $6,542,000,000, and that of the United States to $14,514,000,000. If these figures, which for simplicity may be referred to as figures on the pre-war gold bsLsis, are compared with the estimated national wealth of each country similarly estimated in pre-war gold dollars, the debt of Great'Brituijrj is 35.71 per cent of her wealth, that of Italy 30.78 per cent of her wealth, of France 30.32 per cent of her wealth, and the United States 6.31 per cent Comparing the interest charge estimated in pre-w-a** gold dollars, with the national income on the same ba- | sis. the percentage of interest charge j to national income for Great Britain |is 10.62 per cent, for France 9.30 ! per tent, for Italy 6.18 per cent and for the United States 2.1§ per cent. On Per Capita Basis On a per capita ba&iSl the debt of Great Britain in pre-war gold dollars is $531.89, France $430.13, Italy $163.55, and the United States $131.95, whereas • the, per capita interest charge is $22.38 for Great .Britain, $16.69 for France, $6.15 for the United States, and $5.25 for | Italy. I Figures show, estimated in pre--1 war gold dollars, the national debt ! of Great Britain is heaviest, that of : France comes next, that of the j United States next, and that of I Italy last.

BYSTANDER SHOT IN WATTLE Motor Policeman Fires at Driver of Booze Car, A bystSpder was shot today in a gun battle between police and tuleged bootleggers at Vermont St. and Senate Ave. .* Police received a tip that a booze delivery was to be made in the 300 block on Osage St., and Patrolman Borvst Swank and Motor Police Schley and Long hid in a neighboring garage. When a large touring car drove up, Swank ran out and commanded them to halt. The driver of the car sped east on Vermont St., and struck a owned by I. J. Cooper Tire aVi-FTlubber Company, but did not stop. Swank then -pulled his gun and fired frvpr times. One of the shots glanced off the disc wheel of the car and struck James W. Dickey, colored, 156 W. Walnut St. above the right knee. , The men escaped, but §wank said he recognized one of the men in the car as Joe Byrd, colored, 823 W. Tenth St. Police wAt to Byrd’s home and mrrested him on a charge of vagrancy. People in the South ofEngland believe that if a €ow has been bitten by a snake and the milk allowed to stand, the form of the snake will be seen in the milk.

‘Retiring’ MISS ALMA TEIFERT Late hour3 are not for Miss Alma Teifert, holder of more Girl Reserves “honors” than any other Indianapolis member. The Reserve is a branch of the Y. W. C. A. Honors are based upon knowledge, service and in matters of health, knowledge, service and spirit. Miss Teifert, a Manual High School sophomore, has earned approximately 450 honors. All she needed to-get Reserve ring was 330. One of the big requirements for honors is eight full hours of sleep a day. Miss Teifert says she has obeyed the requirement rigorously —and is healthier and happier as a result.

CLINE SOEO FOR ALLEGEDPROFITS City Council Committee Takes Fight to Court. Determined attempts to force Fred E. Cline, former member of the park board, to turnover to the city of Iftdianapolis $30,000 or more profits which he is said to have made through the sale of filling station locations to the Standard Oil Company, will be made by the city ci unci! investigating committee. In a ‘suit filed in Superior Court Monday by Joseph R. Roach and Frank A. Symmes. special atomeys for the committee, Cline was accused of “fraudulently and corruptly conspiring with the Sunnymeade Realty Company and the Standard Oil Comipany and tVilllam O. Polkinghorn to fraudulently secure large sums of money from the Standard Oil Company.” Polkinghorn is jan employe in Cline’s real estate office. The money is asked to be declared a trust fund in favor of the city. MOTiON PICTURES

Now Play inf? CONRAD NAIiEL ALMA RUBENS /‘THE REJECTED WOMAN” Comedy, “One Ghostly Night.” Special for Wed. and Thursday. Modern Woodmen Log Roiling at Rushvllle on July 4th. GABE WATERS’ SOUTHLAND ORCHESTRA

“REVIVAL WEEK” APOLLO TODAY ONLY ‘The MiracieMan’ WITH THOMAS MEIGHAN AND BETTY COMPSON Mack Sennett Comedy “HOLLYWOOD KID” IA/rn Rudolph Valentino, in wtß ~ “THE SHEIK”

TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1924

DR. G. M. WELLS DIES OF STROKE Indianapolis Physician Is Stricken at Lake Wawasee. Dr. George M. Wells, 62, of 2126 Coyege Ave., stricken with apoplexy while in bathing at Oakwood Park, Wawasee Lake, Indiana, Monday afternoon, died before medical aid could reach him, a dispatch said today. Charles M. Wells, 3515 N. Pennsylvania St., assistant secretary of civic affairs of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, a son, went to the lake late Monday night. Swimming With Daughter. The dispatch said that Dr. Wells was swimming with his daughter Jane when he was stricken. Dr. Wells was widely known. He served in the Spanish-American War, retiring with the rank of major. An injury to his knee, inflicted by a bolo, had caused him intermittent trouble ever since, and friends here thought this may have had something to do with the stroke of apoplexy. Dr. Wells’ office was at 622 HumsMagsur building. In City Score of Years He had practiced in Indianapolis for about twenty years. His family home was at Paoli. Ind. The widow and another daughter, Mrs. Ross Williams, Danville, Ind., also survive. The body was expected to be brought to Indianapolis late today. Fum ral probably will be held here. Husband and Wife Disagree An argument over sweethearts of old was allege dreason for a cutting fray at 1130 E. Twenty-Third St. Monday night, which resulted in James Lipscomb, 38, colored, being sent to city hospital with knife wounds in the right chest and shoulder and right cheek and chin. His condition is critical. Police say Mrs. Lavina Lipscomb, 28, colored, his wife, did the cutting.

AMUSEMENTS : TONIGHT, MATS. TOMORROW 8:15 THCRS., SAT., 2:15 THE JU RAT PLAYERS PRESENT GEORGE GAUL in “THE BROKEN WING” Eve., 35, ppipirC Mats , 83e, 81.10. i r , 25c* 59c, 25c Next V’eek. “In Love With Love’’

ENGLISH’S BERKELL PLAYERS IX ‘MastWarning’ Matinee Wed., Thurs. & Sat. Afternoon: 25c, 35c, 50c. liUvS >i K ht: 25c, 50c. 68c. 90c. TAX CHARGED ON 68c AND 90c SEAT TICKETS ONLY Next Week—“NEW TOYS”

L Now On Ti Evexyeodys Sißst J STILL FLAYIKO CAPTIQL THEATRE” AT SHC.AL SUMMER PRICES - Souvenirs far A//~Wed~Mat

I VIC BERTON AND HIS Wolverine Orchestra FAMOUS RECORDERS FOR GEXETTE RECORDS , , McGRATH Jack & DEEDS °* Sylvla OLGA ReTue KANE Enos Frazere & Corrine PHOTOPLAY “Forgive and Forget” Starring PAULINE GAROX

Where the Crowd Goes i voir A ™“ L 1 fllUltollP.M. •JACK WYATT AND HIS SCOTCH LADS AND LASSIES 8 HOPE VERNON SKATING TURNERS LEGROS4. LILLIAN CALLAHAN & RAYMOND DOUGLAS GRADES & CO. three: BIG ACTS BELMONTS FOLEY FOUR Dancing in the Lyric Hail Room Afternoon and Evening.