Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1924 — Page 2
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ICY GREENLAND HALTS ADVANCE OF UJ. FLIERS Supply Steamer Caught in Floes —Airman Delayed in Iceland. By United Press REYKJAVIK. Iceland, Aug. 6. (By Wireless) —The ice-bound coast of Greenland today repelled the American round-the-world fliers, and Lieut. Lowell Smith, commanding the flight, announced he and Lieutenant Nelson would wait, here a couple days before continuing. Upon word from the Danish supply steamer Gertrude Rask, caught in the floes fifteen miles off Angmaksalik depends the time of the start on the next lap. Open Water Ahead The flight to Angmagsalik on the east coast of Greenland is across a 500-mile stretch of open water from Reykjavik. ‘‘We will wait a few days and see what the Rask reports,” Lieutenant Smith -said. ‘‘We are advised she is-ice-bound and unable to land supplies and spare parts. If the steamer cannot make port, it would be impracticable, but not impossible, to fly into Greenland.” Lieutenant Smith added ‘‘the sitnation now is indefinite, pending the outcome of a conference with naval officers in charge of the flotilla. Under any circumstances we must certainly continue our flight to the United States.” Despite the ice on the Greenland coast there is a narrow strip of water inside the floes at Angmagsalik on which the fliers could land if they had to. House Provided Meanwhile the airmen are residing at the home of Councilman Thorstienson. a prominent citizen of Iceland, who has placed a modern, concrete house on a wind-swept hilltop overlooking the bay at their disposal. * Speaking of the succceesful flight along the coast from Hornafjionl, Smith said: “It wasn’t difficult, although we ran into a number of dust storms, one of which was apparently of volcanic origiu.” WADE TO GET PLANE Will Join Other World Fliers in Nova Scotia. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Lieut. Leigh Wade, who was forced out of the American world flight when his plane was wrecked between the Orkney Islands and Iceland, will be given anew plane at Picton Harbor, Nova Scotia, and will be permitted to complete the flght. Major General Patrick, chief of the Air Service, decided today. Wade will follow Lieutenants Bmith and Nelson across the nprth Atlantic on board the cruiser Richmond. MOTORMAN EXONERATED Glen Cregar of Rushville, Ind., motorman of the Indianapolis and Cincinnati traction car, which on July 15 struck a truck at Emerson Ave., instantly killing Paul Hieb ; 28. o t 433 S. Ritter St., the driver today was discharged on an involun tary manslaughter charge In city court, upon recommendation of Cor oner Paul F. Robinson.
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AUTO ACCIDENT CASE ENDS WITH HEAVY JUDGMENT Driver Fined S3OO and TenDay Sentence Suspended —Appeai Taken. One of the heaviest fines pronounced In months in an automobile accident case was recorded in city court today against Harry A. Sebel, 35, of the Spink-Arms Hotel. He waß'fined 5500. given a ten day suspended Jail sentence and held to the grand jury by Judge Pro Tem. William Bain as a result of an accident July •18 at the entrance to Broad Ripple Park. He appealed. Witnesses testified that Sebel. racing with another car on Sixty-Sec-ond St., collided headon with a machine driven by Richard Reutlinger, 3051 Broadway. In the car were Elbert Rader, Penn Arts Apt., Sixteenth and Pennsylvania Sts., and Miss Dorothy Moore, 3111 Broadway, who were, seriously Injured, and Charles Riddle, 4909 Broadway, and Harold Hildebrand, 1824 N. Alabama St. Herman Hyles. deputy constable, 2053 Park Ave., testified that he told
dates when they put on their swimming suits. This is Peggy O’Day of the ‘‘Artists and Models” company, who shows here that she is going to vote for John W. Davis.
Dog Days He was only a brown cur, panting for breath as he lay on the sweltering sidewalk, In E. Washington St, She was middle-aged, well dressed—and kind. She glanced at the dog. purchased a penny paper cup. filled It with water and took it to him. The crowd which gathered quickly was too much for the mongrel. He refused to drink. The wor.uui walked away, disappointed. Half a block away she looked back. The crowd had left. The cur 'was lapping up the water. The woman smiled. The cur, waved his tail In gratitude.
Sebel to wait while he went to the other car. Sebel jumped in the car with which he had been racing, and drove away, he said. Sergt. Jack O'Neal said that Sebel first claimed his car had been stolen and he was not driving it at the time of the accident. SPLINTER CAUSES DEATH OF CHILD Lockjaw Develyops Eight Days After Injury. Mary Gutzwlller, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gutzwiller, 1321 Wright Bt., died early today at the Methodist Hospital of lockjaw. According to the child's grand mother, Mrs. Theresa Gutzwiller, Mary was rushed to the hospital late Tuesday after complaining of severe pains in her neck. Mrs. Gutzwiller said Mary ran a long splinter into her left foot July 28 when she stepped on a board while playing in a neighbor’s yard. Treatment was given and apparently the wound had healed. Mary died shortly after several injections of serum. She is survived by her parents and a brother. Paul, Jr., 4. Funeral arrangements have not been made.
BUSSES START ON MUNOIESERVICE New Cars Look Like Overgrown Limousines, Looking like beautiful overgrown j limousines, two new busses of the Motor Bus Terminal Company made their maiden trips today. The long, gray Mack de luxe sedans will travel between Indianapolis and Muncie, making three trips a day. Indianapolis had a chance to stare at the luxurious cars, with their nickel-plated trimmings, when reporters were taken for a ride in one out Capitol Ave. to Thirty-Fourth St. and back down Meridian St., Tuesday afternoon. • Safety and comfort devices include blue leather seats, holding twentythree passengers, a smoking compartment, seating eight—women included if they smoke—a small baggage compartment, ventilators in top and lights to show the driver whether all doors are closed. The emergency brake proved its effectiveness when it stopped the bus twice in about twelve feet, from a twenty-five-mile speed. Julietta Improvement Planned County commissioners today authorized Snider and Rotz, consult ing engineers, to draw up plans and specifications for anew engine and generator for Julietta, county hos pital for the insane. Uostis not tc exceed $5,600.
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ELKS PLAY HDST TO 300 ORPHANS / AT ANNUAL FETE Show at Circle Theater Precedes Picnic at Riverside. More than 800 Indianapolis orphans were happy today. About 500 Elks showed them a "big time” at the twenty'fifth annual outing given by Indianapolis Lodge No. 13, at Riverside Park. There was a mad scramble for favorite horses on the merry-go-round and othdr amusements. Elks mingled with the children, insuring their safety. Many lave favorite tots whom they look after during the year. V Thomas L. Hughes was general choi-man. ( Movie Program Early today children from the va rious homes boarded special street cars, furnished by it. I. Todd of the Indianapolis Street Railway Com pany, an Elk, which carried them to Virginia Ave. and Washington Bt. They paraded to the Circle Theafer, led by a squad of mounted police and a band. A special program had been arranged by Ace Berry, manager the Circle. The Educational Film Exchange furnished the films: Lyman Howe in "The Hodge Podge;” Joe Hunt’s nature study, "The Aunt,” and a Mermaid comedy. Circle staff, Ralph Miles, electri clan: Earl Slates, projectionist; Miss Dsssa Byrd, organist; Jake Wells, doorman, and Milton New house, usher, assisted. Picnic Dinners, Too After an hour and a half of fun, the kiddies left for the park. A picnic dinner was served, with lots of ice cream and milk. Races, contests Rnd other amusements were staged. Lieut. O. D. Thomas waa in charge of a squad of eight police, all of whom were Elks. Children from Indianapolis Orphan Asylum. Sisters of the Good - Shepherd. General Protestant Home, Day Nursery and Colored Orphans’ Home were present. OIL PRODUCTION IN INDIANA DROPS Figures Show Forty-Four Barrel .Loss in Year, Although production of petroleum in the United States increased more than 174,000 barrels in 1923 over 1922, production in Indiana fields decreased forty-four barrels. This was announced today by the Department of the Interior when figures reported to geological survey by producing companies showed total production in the United States in 1923 was 732.407 barrels. Production in 1922 had been 557.531 barrels, says a Washington dispatch. Indiana oil fields produced 1,043 barrels in 1923 and 1,087 in 1922. The decrease took place in southwestern Indiana, where three-fourths of the oil is produced, as fields in northeastern section of the State increased from 239 barrels in 1922 to 250 barrels in 1923. At the end of 1923 there were 2,300 producing oil wells in Indiana which were almost equally divided between the southwestern and northeastern fields. The former produced an average of nearly two barrels a day while tatter yielded but half a barrel daily.
TOLL Os STORMS MOUNmO EIGHT Three More Lose Lives — Flood Threatened, By United Press MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 6. Wisconsin’s death toll in the series of wind, rain and electrical storms which have been sweeping the State since Sunday night, rose to eight today, as three additional deaths were reported. The dead in addition to the five reported Tuesday are: Oscar Lundgren, 20, and Arthur Sorrenson, 10, killed when struck by lightning while standing in the doorway of a barn near Kenesha. Ruth McCann, 2, drowned when she fell into a creek, near Arnold. Rain, which fell in torrents late Tuesday, increased the flood hazard throughout the State and several large dams were today reported on verge of giving away before huge wqnll of water. The heavy rain-fall brought additional damage. Motlier Causes Son’s Arrest Aidino Luciani, 18, of 351 Douglass St., is in city prison today as the result of alleged differences with his mother. Mrs. Mary Luciani called the police and told them Aidino was “beating up” on her. > Vandals Throw Cans Mrs. Charles Seefred, 2419 Pierson Ave., reports to the police that vandals threw tin cans on the front porch of her home late Tuesday night. She named several boys as suspects. Hunter Is Killed By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., Aug. 6. William Mitten, a resident of Goodland, Ind.. was accidentally killed at Lake Lo>*i se, Cananda, while on a hunting trip, according to word received here today.
On Honeymoon MRS. ERNEST KELLY Police were asked today to clip the wing of Cupid. Mrs. Pearl Gardner, 641 Home PI., reported she found a note from her daughter, Beatrice, 17, saying she had been married to Ernest* Kelly, 18, and that they had gone to his home at Nashville, Tenn. The couple left Tuesday evening, ostensibly to go to a theater, she said. Police said they did not know what they could do but would conduct a search. Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen be long to: Arthur Walton. Ft. Harrison Davis, from there. Ralph COx. Ft. Harrison, Ford from Thirteenth and Illinois Sts.
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G. 0. P. WORKERS START OUT WITH NEW POLL BOOKS Republican Hopes High, but Coffin Orders Registration, 1 Although claiming victory in every part of Marion County except possibly the Fifth, Twelfth and Thirteenth wards. Republican workers a®county headquarters in the K. of Y?. buijding are busy this week under orders from George V. Coffin county chairman, preparing 206 new poll books. Workers will take the field In each of the 206 precincts of the county sometime j this week or early next to enroll every Republican. A complete new' set of poll books is required, it was said at headquarters, because William H. Freeman, deposed as county chairman this spring following a bitter flght with the faction led by Coffin, turned over an incomplete and obsolete set. Conditions "look rosy” for the county Republican slate, it was said at the courthouse. With the exception of Prosecutor William H. Rcmy, candidate for re-election, names of all the Republican candidates appeared in the primary election on Klan slates. Attempts to reconcile the defeated Shank-Armitage faction of the party with the victorious courthouse faction have not been very successful, it Is said. The coming election may gee a repetition of the 1922 election, when Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court, Prosecutor William H. Evans and other courthouse Republicans accused the city hall faction, at that time in control of
‘Het Up’ Bernard Dorfman, drugstore proprietor at 207 W. Washington St., got nicely cooled off swimming at Twenty-sixth St., bathing beach Tuesday night, returned to his car and got "het up” again. Someone had opened the petcock on his gasoline tank and drained all the gas. Police have license numbers of the car whose occupants, It is said, did the "dirty work.”
county organization machinery, of working for their defeat. Anyhow, with the disgruntled Shank faction, the problem of the colored vote, said to be lukewarm in enthusiasm for Ed Jackson for Governor, and the new La Follette element, it ’is conceded the Republican county leader has his hands full. BRITISH-RUSSIAN PACTAGREED ON Delegates Draw Up Commercial Treaty, By United Press LONDON, Aug. 6. —Agreement between England and Russia governing trade relations has been reached. After a break-down in the negotiation} between representatives of the two governments Tuesday, conferences were resumed today and difficulties encountered in earlier discussions overcome. M. Rakovski, chief of the Russian delegation, on leaving the foreign office at 6 p. m., >aid an agreement had been reached regarding a commercial treaty and that he was hopeful a general agreement would be reached soon.
Motorists frequently put this question to attendants at service stations of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana): “Is it not a fact that gasoline prices vary more throughout the United States than do the prices of any other product?” The answer is quoted from the Oil and Gas Journal issue of June 12,1924: “Gasoline prices are more uniform than most of the widely utilized commodities. Thirty-five states have gasoline taxes varying in amounts from 1 to 4 cents. This fact would necessitate a difference in retail prices of as great as 4 cents in some states. Crude oil is found in a comparatively small area of the United States and this fact also necessitates variances in the retail prices due largely to the difference in transportation costs from the crude producing fields and the refineries to the gasoline consuming areas. The price differences, however, are not as great as in many other products. For instance, a recent monthly survey made by the United States Bureau of Labor covering twenty-nine cities scattered throughout the United States showed the following high and low range in prices in several commodities: Sirlion steak, 26 to 61.5 cents per lb.; sugar, 9.6 to 12.7 cents per lb.; bituminous coal, $4.50 to $17.40 per ton; flour, 3 3 to 5,5 cents per lb., and oranges, 27.9 to 49.5 cents per dozen. The low in gasoline prices for the same cities was 12.8 cents and the high 20 cents. The survey was made last December when gasoline prices were lower than they are at the present although the same price range is in effect” ... t The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) serves the automobiling public by maintaining at convenient intervals throughout the Middle West, an efficient chain of service stations, which sell gasoline and oils of uniform high quality, at prices as nearly uniform as freight rates and tax laws permit The price of gasoline sold by this Company is subject only to the uncertainties of economic laws, which no commodities may avoid. This highly trained organization of 27,000 men and women is straining every nerve and fibre that you may have gasoline when and where you want it—of highest quality and at a price which is fair, equitable and low at all times. Standard Oil Company (Indiana ) General Office: Standard Oil Building 910 S. Michigan Avenue, • Chicago
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 6, 1924
GERMANS REPLY TO PROPOSALS ON REPARATIONS Make Concessions, but Urge Speedier Evacuation of Ruhr, By United Press LONDON, Aug. 6.—The German delegation worked uotil dawn today completing its reply to the documents received from the allies at Tuesday’s plenary session of the reparations conference. It is understood that Chancellor Marx and his colleagues made immediate concession of a minor character, changing their original plans in order not to block proceedings and to assist in speeding up the work of the conference. Instead of submitting a series of counter proposals, they decided to confine their reply to detailed criticisms of the allied protocol? The ans-wers were to be ready for a plenary session today. The United Press understands German observations bear the folowing points: 1. Urge acceleration of economic evacuation of the Ruhr. 2. Oppose continuation of allied railway men on Rhelnish railways. 3. Ask arnnesty for all Ruhr prisoners and exiles. 4. Object to continuance of deliveries of reparations and merchandise beyond the treaty dates. It now appears virtually impossible to finish the conference before next week. Marx. Foreign Minister Stresemann and Dr. Luther called at No. 10 Downing St. today and presented their reply to the allied leaders, who Immediately went into session to consider the German recommendations.