Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 77, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36 —NUMBER 77

MOTORISTS FIGHT FINES FORSPEED Policy of Least Resistance Abandoned by Drivers Arrested on Charges of Exceeding Limit on City Streets. MANY GO TO COURT WITH THEIR ATTORNEYS Maximum Sentence Given One Speeder, When SIOO Fine and Thirty-Day Jail Sentence Is Assessed for Thirty-Four Mile Pace. Meekness on the part of motorists, arraigned in speed. courts of other weeks, was missing today. Drivers today showed a tendency to fight back at the city. Many came to court with their attorneys. All offered long detailed testimony. As a result the regular Thursday speed court was slowed. George Katanich, 27, of 1505 N. Delaware St., was given the maximum sentence on a speeding charge when he was fined SIOO and costs, sentenced to thirty days in Marion County Jail and had his license revoked. Katanich was arrested July 26 on "White River Bird, by Motor Policeman Jacob Hudgins. Hudgins test fied Katanich was driving thirty four miles an hour and offered hir $lO if he would let him go, as "he was going after a load of whisky." Hudgins denied the bribe. It was his Second conviction. Forty motorists had been fined fend about twenty cases had been continued at 1:30 p. m. About twenty more cases were left to be tried at that time. Walter Pritchard, former city fudge, presided for Judge Delbert O. ■Wilmoth. 1 f*. Bam Watt. 17, t S3* S Illinois pt, was one of the motorists represented in court by an attorney. He appealed a fine of S3O and costs. He paid his machine was a “Junk pile.” WCiam Buchanan, 21, of 2335 E. Raymond St., In addition to a sls fine on a speed charge, was sentenced to four days in jail on a charge of driving through a safety rone. # Twenty-five miles an hour cost Paul Craig. 227 E. New York St., SSO and costs. His car, testimony showed, struck a police machine driven by Lieutenant Thomas at Illinois and Vermont Sts. Fines, with cost in addition, were assessed as follows: Herbert CrawfTora to Page 11)

BRITISH 10 SIGN ROW PACT MacDonald Unmoved by Attacks in Parliament, By United Press LONDON, Aug. 7.—The AngloRussian commercial and general treaty will be signed Friday, it has [been announced. After strenuous attacks upon the Anglo-Russian pact had failed to shake Premier MacDonald in his determination to sign the commercial and general treaties, Parliament adjourned today until Sept. 80. Before adjournment, the House of Commons passed the consolidated fund bill, under which, technically, the debate on the Russian agreements was held, thus virtually according the Government permission to sign . the pact. MacDonald vigorously defended the pact in the House of Commons. He assured the House the treaty could be amended If Parliament so desired, after the summer recess. Paradise Is Lost Police today interrupted a small boys' paradise at the Deal Pharmacy, 1616 entral Ave. The proprietor said Ice cream freezers were kept outside the store and that the boys had been helping themselves. Police are watching the freezers now.

Hold Outposts Ten years ago today the Germans held the outposts of Liege in Belgium and the fall of the city was expected. Austria demanded that Italy act in defense of the triple alliance. England received reports that the German fleet had been defeated in a great battle In the North Sea. It was reported that Warsaw had been invaded by German troops. ,

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Alleys Bad City Has No Equipment With Which to Make a Imprqvements Complaint on Sidewalks Is Registered.

C”l OMPLAINTS from Indianapolis Tmea Readers on condition _____ of alleys have been called to city official's attention. The city, however, has no equipment to properly grade alleys, W. B. Schoenrogg of the street commissioner’s office said. All street equipment is to maintain streets and not to rebuild them. Investigation will be made by inspectors to see what can be done to relieve conditions. • • • Mr. Flxit: We have an alley'that crosses our sidewalk two feet higher than the walk, causing a layer of mud continually on our walk. The alley begins on Berry Ave., seventy feet south of Julian Ave., and runs east. J. H. Rogers, 117 Berry Ave. W. B. Schoenrogg of the street commissioner’s office will Investigate today. • • • Mr. Fixit: When new sidewalks were placed in lowa St., between Madison Ave. and Union St., the street was left three feet higher, making it hard to drive into alleys from lowa St. Can the city grade the street down at the alleyways? A. H. P. W. B. Schoenrogg of the street commissioner's office will send inspectors out to see what can be done for you. • • • TO complaint of J. E Merz on speeding busses between V,. .1 Indianapolis and Franklin. Sheriff George Snider said he hah ordered the speed to be reduced to twenty-five miles an hour. He promised to investigate and arrest bus drivers for speeding or improper driving. The county has never appropriated money for policing roads with motorcycles. • • • To complaint of North Side residents on conditions of stables at State fairground. The State Board of Agriculture and the State and city boards of health are investigating your complaint. City authorities, howler, admit that previous orders for a clean-up have been Ignored. State officials will try to relieve conditions there. W. B. Schoenrogg of the street commmlssioner’s office said FortySecond St. from College Ave. to the boulevard was billed for oil. It will be attended to immediately. MAN KILLS WIFE, SONS Then Ends Own Life With Bullet Through Head By United Press BUFFALO, N. Y„ Aug. ehooting his wife and two sons to death as they slept In their fashionable Clarmont Ave. home today, Henry Hopkins Lyons, 45, electrical engineer, retired to hie own room and ended his own life with a bullet in his head. The cause of the tragedy is a mystery. Mrs. Lyons and the children returned from a vacation visit with relatives Tuesday. MISTAKEN FOR PROWLER Man Seen Around Polar Ice and Fuel Company Proves to Be Employe. A suspicious looking man proved his identification early today and made a long watch by a merchant policeman and a run to the scene by regular police come to naught. Elmer Baker, 1222 N. Temple Ave., watched the man near the Polar Ice and Fuel Company, Tenth and Tuxedo Sts., and called police. Officers found the man to be J. E. Everett, 447 E. Tenth St., an employe of the company. He waa detailed to watch the plant, recently boys have been committing vandalism. TWO AVIATORS MISSING Left Dayton for Pacific Coast— Can’t Be Located. By United Press DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 7^—McCook field officials today expressed fear for safety of Lieut. James Doolittle and E. F. Plan, aerial photographer, who hopped off at 4 a. m. Wednesday for the Pacific coast. Inquiries along , their proposed route have brought no information as tq the fliers’ whereabouts They were to stop at\Omaha for refueling and Intended to spend Wednesday-night in Salt Lake "City. OBSERVE JAPANESE DAY Orient Missionaries to Aid Pentecost Program Today Japanese Day In the missionary program of the Pentecost Bands of the World will be observed Friday at Salem Park on West Washington St. Missionaries who have worked in the Orient will be present. Rev. O. H. Nater, who has spent some time in evangelistic work there, will make the principal address at 2:30 p. m. , Rev. Nater has received many photographic pictures of the Japanese earthquake taken by Rev. and Mrs. Fred Abel, formerly of TerreHaute, who have been In Japan for the past eight years. Case Reports Theft Theft of $95 from th 4 top of a cash register, was reported to police today by Hotel Washington case.

Children by Thousands Greet Jackie Coogan on His Near East Relief Mission in Indianapolis

Proves He Is Regular Boy, Despite Bobbed Hair and Popularity, HERE’S the Indian*?” Jackie Coogan looked around in supposed disappointment as he was driven from Pullman yard to the Clavpool this morning. Thereby Jackie proved" he really can act. He wasn’t really disappointed at all. He’s been in Indianapolis before, his mother, Mrs. John H. Coogan, explained. Jackie and his party arrived in Indianapolis at 6 a. m. from Chicago, where they spent a strenuous day in the rain Wednesday. At 8, Jackie got up. At 8:40 the 9-year-old movie star went down the aisle of the Pullman, sneaked up behind where his mother was sitting with other mem bers of the party, and threw his arms around her neck. He Is Humorous He began telling new Jokes he had heard. “Have you heard the story about the eagle?” he asked Colonel William A. Biby of Topeka, Kas., representative of the Near East Relief and director of Jackie’s tour of the country to raise money for the food ship Jackie will take to Near East suffering children in September. "What’s that story?” Biby countered. "Oh, It’s a bird.” And Jackie chuckle# gleefully. Has a Cold Jackie has a cold which he caught shortly after the party left Los AngelriS last Saturday. When his mother insisted that he use his (Turn to Page 11)

WORLD AIRMEN WAIT FOB ICE TO LOOSEN OP Overhaul Planes to Be Prepared for Hop to Coast of Greenland. By United Press REYKJAVIK. Iceland, Aug. 7.—lce binding the Greenland coast probably will loosen within a Week and permit resumption of the American world flight, seaman familiar with these wataers advised Lieut. Lowell Smith and a conference of naval offleers today. Meanwhile the airmen are held here with little to do but promenade up and down the two-block shopping district, buy white sheepskin rugs, sealskin boots and bone cigarette cases while the girls of Reykjavik, shy and dressed in quaint peasant costumes with tiny black silk-tasseled skull cape, come up and bashfully shake hands. The filers are the center of attention, their visit, being one of the important events in Reykjavik’s history. but the girls who want to lionize them can only talk the Icelandic language. The planes were to be hauled up on the beach and overhauled today after It was found that flying on to Angmagsalik still was Impossible. A Danish ship, with needed supplies, still Is locked In the ice off the Greenland port. MOTORCYCLE HITS AUTO Rider Rendered Unconscious With Head and Back Injuries Benjamin Ogle, 32, of 3827 N. Denny St., was lnjurvl about the head and back and rendered unconscious by a coL.sion l>etween his motorcycle and an auto driven by Ward Parker, 4208 E. Michigan St. The accident took place at Marlowe Ave. and Oriental St. Parker told police that Ogle was riding west on Marlowe Ave. and he ran his cycle into the front wheel of his auto. Ogle was taken to the ctiy hospital and Parker waa arrested on charges of assault and battery. EVERY PENNY COUNTS Little Betty Jo Calls Jackie Until He 'Cakysj Her Pennies. "Jacklq,. Jackie, Jackie!" • Four-year-old Betty Jo Tragresaer, parched on the shoulders of her father, J. B. Tragresser, 1513 Sturm Ave., called frantically as Jackie Coogan, movie star, started away from Hie James Whitcomb Riley home this morning. At last Jackie turned. • Reaching out from her perch to Jackie, on Mayor Shank’s shoulder, Betty Jo put something Into his hand. Five pennies, her donation to Jackie’s fund to buy food for Near East children, gleamed In the sun. Betty Jo smiled contentedly as Jackie thanked her. TOO MUCH SOCIETY Farmer Asking Divorce Says Wife’s Fling Cost Him Farm. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind„ Aug. 7.—His wife's flight into high society cost him $24,000 and a 200-acre farm, Pete'r Thorstenson, a farmer, declared today In a suit for divorce. Mrs. Thorstenson, he said, wanted to shine among the social stars and he stood tlje pace as long as he could. N

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JACKIE COOGAN GETTING INTO THE CAR IN WHICH HE SAW INDIANAPOLIS TODAY. HIS FATHER, JOHN H. COOGAN, IS SEATED IN THE CAR JACKIE FANS ARE GROUPED AROUND.

MEXICAN SLAYERS HELD Washington Told Murderer* of Woman .Are Under Arrest. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. '7 —Murder ers of Mrs. Rosalie Evans, widow of a British rancher in Mexico, who was killed Sunday near her properties at Puebla. Mexico, have been apprehended and identified, the Mexican foreign office ha* Informed American Charge D'Affair* Schoenfeld. according to word received at the State Department. CITY IS RELIEVED BY COOL SPELL Slight Rise In Temperature Is Forecast. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m...... 69 10 a. m ... 79 7 a.* m 70 11 a. m 81 8 a. m 74 12 (noon). ... 83 9 a. in...... 76 1 p. m...... 83 Cool weather has arrived and normal cummer temperatures will prevail for an Indefinite period, according to the weather bureau today. Temperature at 1 p. m. was 83, six degrees* below vhat of Wednesday. The back of the hot Wave waa broken Wedneaday noon when thunder showers sent the temperature down 10 degrees after it had reached the high mark of 90 for the day. Indianapolis slept comfortably Wednesday night for the first time this week, with temperatures hovering around the seventy mark. The lowest waa reached shortly after 6 a., m. when 68 was recorded. Generally fair weather was forecast for tonight and Friday, with not much change In temperature.

Good Times at Old Pyle House Are Recalled by W. S. Lynn, Who Was One of the Boarders

tyr| B.' LYNN, the Afdroore,' remembers when the ..J "Old Pyle House.” stood on-the site of the board of Trade Bldg., Ohio and Meridian Sts. The Times asked who recalled the old place the other day. "I was among the first boarders of Mr. Pyle when he moved from Illinois and Maryland Sts. to the Board of Trade location,” said Lynn. "We had all trades and professions at the tables; doctors, lawyers, dry goods clerks, telegraph boys, real estate men, book salesmen, professors and drug clerks. At one time TJaomas Edison, the Inventor, was a: boarder. T believe we had someone or two hundred boarders, and of course In that crowd of young and old we had lots of fun. "Center Table” for Elite "The center table was reserved for those we knew as the ’higherups,’ Buch men as Ad C. Hs-rrig, the lawyer, and John L. Smithmeyer, who afterward went to Washington, D. C., to be an expert architect on Government buildings. He died in Washington some years ago.

DELAY IN‘LOOP’ HERE EXPLAINED Increased Fares Fall Below Expectations. Delay in rerouting street cars as suggested by the public service commission la due to the fact that revenues from the Increased carfare have not reached expectations, according to member of the public service commission. ' The plan, which apparently will be the first adopted, Is construction of a loop from Massachusetts Ave. to Illinois St., on Michigan St., to continue southward to Maryland, thence to Alabama and north to Massachusetts again. A variation will be running the loop line south to Maryland and turning west to Senate, thence north to Michigan and back to Massachusetts again. It would cost $60,000 to build a line on Michigan Bt., it is estimated. THOUSANDS EXPECTED Animal Feast of Lanterns at Apades Park Friday. More than ten thousand persons are expected at the annual feast of lantern* at Spades Park Friday night, under auspices of Brookslde Civic League, A. Leßoy Portteus, president, said. Contests and other forms of entertainment are planned. Scouts will be un duty as a protection against /Ire. Speakers: Charles A. Bookwalter, president board of park commissioners; R. Walter Jarvis, superintendent of parks and recreation; E. O. Snethen, preeident Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs, and John F. White, secretary treasurer same organization.

‘ The Baptists at that time had a- female College at Michigan land Pennsylvania Sts., where Short ridge high school now stands. Some of the Center Table men thought a lot of the teachers and some of the stu ; dents at the college. So Smithmeyer took up a collection of $lO for a brass band to serenade the girls the girls to throw a lot of bouquets out the windows. Beat Them to It. "We younger fellows at the other tables weren’t so wealthy so we organized a string band and hiked out to the college ahead of the brass band. "The girls threw all their bouquets out to us. We sang such songs as ‘Old Oaken Bucket’ and "Pull for the Shore.’ Our best number was ‘The Calliope.’ We had eight boys represent the different calliope whistles and they sounded Just like a circus parade. The encores we received were great. Some of the girls and teachers had dinner at the Pyle House a few days later just so they could

j ENCOURAGE FISH PONDS State Fair Hill Have Largest Exhibit Ever Held. I Value of a fish pond on the farm | will be explained at the State Fair, j it was announced today by George ! N. Mannfeld, superintendent of the I Department of Conservation: He j said that many farms have gravel *■ pH* and stone quarries which might be utilized for fish ponds, Ir prop- | er!y stocked. Largest exhibit of fish ever held at the fair will be field this year, he said. WASHINGTONHOT, SAYS ROBINSON Senator in Chevy Chase Row Visits Ralston. Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader, was in Indianapolis for several hours today on his way-to his home In Little Rock. With him were his wife, her mother, Mr*, S. E. Miller, and Grady Miller, secretary and brother-in-law of/ Robinson. Senator and Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston met them at. the Claypool. The Robinsons and Millers driving home from Washington, following a Canadian tour. When told Jackie Coogan was in the hotel the Senators and other members of the party waited more than half an hour until the little star was dressed to meet them. Robinson, who was ousted from the Chevy Chase Country Club in Washington recently after a reported fist fight with another member, had nothing to say on that or any other subject, except that "Washington is hot."

see. us by daylight. We got a lot of dark looks from the Center Table. "The morning after the serenade Mrs. Pyle asked us where we bought the flowers. When we told her what had happened, she said: " ‘You naughty boys.’ Greatest Excitement "The most excitement we ever had at the Pyle House was when about a hundred of us were poisoned by mjlk. One fellow drank eight glasses. I drank three. A sicker looking set I never saw. We sold two gallons of French brandy at the drug store that night at the rate of $2 a pint. A doctor had told me to burn a lot of the brandy and have the boys drink It. I took a large evaporating disc and burned the alcohol off. All of us got well, but we never learned who poisoned the milk. “The only present residents of Indianapolis whom I remember as being In the old Pyle House crowd are Dr. W. L. Heiskell, W. C. Lynn, Dr. Thomas Hacker, W. D. Seaton and myself."

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FORMER SWEEfHEART OF LOEB IS WITNESS AT MURDER HEARING Pretty 18- Year-Old Girl Tells of Acquaintanceship With Youthful Slayer of Franks Boy Knew Him “Weil—Very Well.” NOTICED SLAYER WAS VERY IRRATIONAL, SHE TESTIFIES Crowe Charges Witness Perjures Herself to Save Youth From Gallows—Lawyers Wrangle Over CrossExamination Question. By United Press CRIMINAL COURTROOM, CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—Lorraine Nathan, 18, a pretty and handsomely attired former sweetheart of Richard Loeb, took the stand today to present whatever “mitigating testimony” she could muster to save the youthful slayers from the gallows for the killing of young Franks. In a low. but firm voice the girl told of meeting Loeb in November of 1921. “How well did you know him?” Chief Defense Attorney Darrow asked the pretty witness. “Well—very.well,” she replied.

"How often did you see him since 1921?” "That would be pretty hard to say, because he was going to school at Ann Arbor. X saw him when he came homp on week-ends and during vacations.” * “You say you knew him very well?" “Yes, sir.” Parties and Dance* "Do you mean by that that you went with him to parties and dances ?” "Yes. sir.” “did he ever call at your house?” "Yes./sir; quite often.” The girl told of Loeb acting in a peculiar manner at her home, and said at one time she remarked to her sister that Loeb, who had bragged of drinking, appeared to be acting very young. With an embarrassed little laugh, the girl said: “My sister said, ‘That isn't acting young: that’s acting cuckoo’. ’’ “Can you tell of some other time thaj you saw Dick?" “Yes, I saw him Feb. 29. 1924. We had a date.” “What did you do?” “We went out auto riding.” "What did you notice about Dickie that night?” “He drove very recklessly—we nearly had sev/ral accidents. I pleaded with him to drive more carefully, but he laughed at me." “I believe Dickie made a trip to Birmingham.” “Yes, that was in June, U 983.” "Did you see him at that time?” "Yes, sir, he came home from Ann Arbor and I saw him before he went to Birmingham.” "Will you tell us what happened?” "Yes, this was the first time I noticed he was irrational and irre(Tum to Page 11) BUSSES ARE INSPECTED Space Roped Off in Street and Brakes Are Tested. Inspector of Traffic Michael Glenr. today detailed Lieut. Louis Johnson and Sergt. Eugene Shine to begin an Investigation of motor busses operating from the terminal on Ken-, tucky Ave. The officers roped off a part of the street and tested brakes and instructed drivers. “The busses are in the same class as other autos, rallfoads axxj'’ common carriers-\afid' as such are to .be considered/ in Ghe-department’s cam•paign for' safety.” Rikhoff said.

AUTO CHARGES VARY Speeding, Improper Parking and Stop Failure Alleged Fred Marshall. 33. 719 N. Rochester St., and J. G. Shubert, 21, R. R. O, were held on speeding charges today. W. C. Anderson, 17, of 2138 S. East St., was arrested on a charge of parking on a sidewalk and H. T. Hill, 460 E. Washington St., on charge sos improper parking and failure to display license. Tony Rubino, Frankfort, Ind., wap charged with failure to stop at a preferential street when the truck he was driving collided with a car d-iven by William H. Gray, Bridgeport. Ind., at West and Washington Sts. $775 GEM* ROBBERY Resident Apartment Hotel Reports Missing Jewelry. Mrs. Maude Brooks, Apt. 601 Spink-Arms, today reported to police that $776 worth of jewelry had beeit stolen from her apartment during the night. Detectives are investigating.

Forecast Generally fair tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature is anticipated.

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LONDON PARLEY FACES ISSUE OF RUHR EVACUATION Conference Adjourns for Day—lnformal Discussions Held. BULLETIN By United Press LONDON, Aug, 7. —Germany has accepted in full the allied proposals for settlement of the reparations question on basis of the Dawes rocemmondations, it was understood here today. The acceptance includes allied declaration regarding possible German defaults and methods of imposing pealties for such defaults. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 7.—The interallied conference today adjourned until Friday to permit Premier Ramsay MacDonald to spend the entire day in the House of Commons, facing his critics, who are attacking the government on the subject of the Anglo-Russian pact. The interallied conference, which has now' lasted longer than any previous conclave on reparations, was expected to tackle Friday its chief bone of contention—evacuation of the Ruhr. Removal of French and Belgian arms from German territory will be discussed only informally in committee, but it is considered the most vital subject under discussion. Herriot of France is believed to "have agreed in advance to. promise military evacuation of the Ruhr, but may make the occasion one for seeking further concessions to the French viewpoint from the British and Americans in order to save his face at home. The fact Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes is departing for America is taken as & favorable sign of his confidence that the conference is succeeding and that his presence on the “side lines” no longer is necessary. U. S, WANTB PART Would Also Join in Discussion of Allocation. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Frank R. Kellogg, American ambassador to Great Britain and this country’s representative at the London reparations conference, has informed the conference the United States desires to participate in the proposed meeting following the London parley which will discuss allocation of German reparations payments, it was learrned today.

Do You Remember — When Aunt Beckey Frey kept a boarding house at the northwest comer of Illinois and Vermont Sts.?