Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1924 — Page 8

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PREVENTION CUTS CR OSSING PEA THS Drive for Safety Has Cu£. Rate of Fatal Accidents Materially,

BY LEWIS A. DE BLOIS President, National Safety Council nn INCE the inception of the I I grade crossing safety movej 1 ment the percentage of deaths at crossings to total deaths caused, by automobile accidents has, notwithstanding the increase in the number of automobiles and crossings, decreased from 11.7 to 10.99 Results have been accomplished in various States and on certain railroads. One Class I railroad went all of one year without a single grade fatality. This is significant of the effect of education upon crossing accidents in States where campaigns of education against accidents is being carried on and where laws are enforced requiring precautionary measures of the motorists a ta railroa dcrossing. The American Railway Association has adopted standard, crossing signals to be submitted to the several States /for enactment by law. The most familiar form is the cross-arm sign, with the words “railroad crossing” on the arms. The standard color for these signs apd for the crossing gates is black on a white

BROOKIE FETE AT SPADES PARK TERMEOSUCCESS Thousands Take Part in Annual Feast of Lanterns, % Feast of Lanterns, given annually since 1913 by Brookside Civic League, again is a memory to thousands of persons who attended the fete Friday night at Spades Park and along Brookside Ave. The park, homes and streets were gaily decorated with lanterns. Brookside street cars were equipped with special signs and colored lights, which aftracted many downtown pleasure hunters to the park. Hundreds danced in Jefferson St. These prizes were awarded for best decorated house and lawn: J. Huber Patton, 1745 Brookside Ave., first prize: Dr. William N. Kunkel, 1768 Brookside Ave., second, and John Kramer, 1744 Brookside Ave., third. In a cake contest, Mrs. Raymond Fisher, 1911 Nowland Ave., won first prize, j and Mrs. Ada Ent, 1609 Nowland Ave., second. A. Leßoy Portteus is president of the league; vice presidents, W. H. Painter, first. Dr. William M. Kunkel, second, Mrs. Eratt, third; Mrs. J. H. Schneider, secretary'; Mrs. C. A. J®nes, assistant secretary, and M. P* Mosea, treasurer.

WOMEN GALORE VISITPRISONER Either Romeo or Much Married, Says Sheriff, By Timet Special LA PORTE, Ind., Aug. 9.—Harry Thompsqn, arrested in Chicago and brought to this 4 city on extradition papers and held under SIO,OOO botra to answer a charge of having committed a car robbery is either a real Romeo, or a much married man, according to Sheriff Fosdick. Fosdick says four women have come to the jail and demanded to see the prisoner, each of whom declared he is her husband, while letters from other alleged wives have been arriving from various sections of the country, Thompson was a fugitive for about three years. He is charged with having been implicated in a SIO,OOO robbery of merchandise from a New York Central car at Pinola, this -county. He told Sheriff Fosdick that Clarence Darrow, chief defense counsel for Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, on trial for murder, would be his attorney when he went to trial.

NAME INDIANAPOLIS MAN E. V. 'Mitchell Elected Head of National Fraternity. By Times Special RICHMOND. Ind., Aug. 9.—Omicron Pi Sigma Fraternity in national convention here, elected E. V. Mitchell of Indianapolis, grand president, chose Somerville, Mass., for the 1924 meeting, and elected other officers as follows: First grand vice president, Mauric#*Garrett, Somerville, Mass.; second grand vice president, A. L. Ferry. Los Angeles, Cal.; grand secretary, Carl Smith, Springfield, Mass.; assistant grand secretary, Myron Murley, Connersville; grand treasurer, J. Milton Snyder, Shamokin. Pa.; assistant grand treasurer. Forest Byars, Kansas City, Mo.; grand recording secretary, H. A. Porter, Richmond; chief editor of the Crocodile, Donald Warfel, Richmond. SEEK PRACTICAL JOKER Left Death Note on Screan Door Woman Faints. By Timet Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., Aug. 9. Mrs. Ray Parmeter returned home to find a "note pinned on her screen door, reading: ' Ray was killed —Police.” She fainted. Police are looking for the practical joker. And so is Ray. Mrs. Parmeter was just recovering f rom a serious operation.

background. They have also adopted standard, signal lights. Look for them in your travels and be safe. More than 2,000,000 school children are being taught accident prevention in the schools of this country as part of the regular school curriculum. The general publie is being taught to prevent public accidents by posters, motion pictures, public safety demonstrations. The newspapers and magazines of the country are using their influence against accidents. Mohs than sixty etties, ranging in population from 25,000 to 6,000,000, .have organized safety councils. These local councils reach more than 15,000,000 persons with their accident prevention activities. There is now a committee of men prominently identified with the safety movement, working on the proposed standardization of crossing signal colors, bell signals and other methods of warning that the automobile driver will be as familiar with the signals and colors in California or Texas or Minnesota as he is in his home State. Next: What remains to be done.

Today's Best Radio Features * /SATURDAY (Copyright, 1924, by United Press) WEAF, New York (492 M) 7:15 P. M., EST —The Volga Singers. WEAF, New Ydrk (492 M) 9 P. M-, EST—Vincent Lopez and his orchestra. WSAI, Cincinnati (309 M) midnight, CST—WSAI Midnight Entertainers. kHJ, Los Angeles (395M>_ 8 P. M.. PCST—Naval Reserve Band. WIP, Philadelphia (509 M) 7-9 P. M., EST—Comfort’s Philharmonic Orchestra and Vessela's Band. (Copyright, 192i, by United Pre) SUNDAY Musical program from the Capitol Theater, New York, at 6:20 p. m., EST by WEAF, New Work (492 M); WCAP, Washington (469 M) and WJAR, Providence (360 M). Musical program from the Strand Theater, New York, at 6:15 p. m. EST zy WMAC, South Arbor, Mass., (364 NO. New York Philharmonic Orchestra at 7:30 p. m. EST by WJZ, New York (455 M) and WGY, Schenectady (380 M). Union open air services with music by State Prison Band at 7:30 p. m., CST, by WOS, Jefferson City (440.9 M). Musical chape) service with orchestra and double quartette at 9 p. m. CST by WO AW, Omaha (520 M).

Hoosier Briefs T“T]RS. JOHN LANCE, 31, of Evansville claims to be the ——.J youngest grandmother in the State. Mrs. Oscar Harley, 16, her daughter, is mother of a baby son. Tipton is going to have a swimming pool, after weeks of agitation. J. N. Russell, ice manufacturer, and T. D. Foster, cement contractor, are behind the enterprise. Henderson, Ky., has invited the Prince of Wales to attend its'annual fox hunt. Hunters from southern Indiana and northern Kentucky will take part. * mT. JOHNSON of Decatur, was 90, the other day. He celebrated by taking his usual walk to his office, a mile awa f. John D. Harrington, 12, of Oilberfield, Ky., when arrested at Washington, told police he had ‘‘bummed” his way there to see the* monkeys, which he heard abounded in Washington. Three day beards and a Lit coin car don’t go together, according to Dorsey Allison, traveling salesman He saw three men in the abandoned machine, unshaven and dirty and gave them a lift to Green?burg. He stopped at police headquarters. Investigation showed the Lincoln had been stolen. B-ILAZIUS POPIK, 50, of Newport faced payment of S4OO alimony. So he remarried his divorced wife. Howard County’s new hospital will be dedicated at Kokomo today. Elwood Haynes, largest contributor to tile fund raised by popular subscription to build it, will be the chief speaker. Fireman Cary* Gates gave Columbus a treat. He exhibited a flfty-six-pound catfish at the fire station which he caught In White River. M CNCIE city council is facing scrap. An ordinance has been presented for the licensing of all plumbers. Plunders are objecting. Earl B. Barnes, Kokomo attorney acting manager of the Haynes Automobile Company, has denied reports he will abandon law. He says he will return t his profession just as soon as anew manager is named for the factory.

MYSTERY OF OLD BARED Pistols Buried Sixty Years Ago • Found Hidden in Church By Times Special -WHEATLAND. Ind., Aug. 9. Wheatland has uncovered a mystery. Two revolvers and a pistol were found hidden In the walls of the Methodist Church, built since 1860. The guns are believed to have been there for more than sixty years Heat Proves Fatal By Times Special BLOOMINGTON.-Ind., Aug. 9. Adam Binkley, 69. farmer, is dead today. He was overcome by heat while harvesting hay on his farm.

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BEGIN HERE TODAY The “Nervous Wreck." an eccentric ,'oung easterner who is a truest ~At the B&r-M ranch in Montana, drives Sally Morgan, daughter of the owner, over a rough uncertain trail from the ranch to the railroad station. They run out of gasoline and the occupants of a passing car refuse to lend them any. The Wreck takes five gallons at the point of a gun and drives on. Next morning they stop at a ranch and meet the foreman. Charlie McSween. who is in a quandary because she has lost his cooks just before the impending arrival of the owner. Sally cooks a breakfast which so pleases the foreman that he takes a wheel off the Wreck's car in order to keep them on the ranch. The Wreck wants to fight McSween, but Sally holds him back. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ill *j OU listen to me beore you | Y | do anything else,” she said. L 1 “You’re going off halfcoced dll the time, and I won't have it.” 1 He eyed her savagely. “Are you suffering from the idea that I can’t lick him?*’ “Maybe you can, Henry Williams. I never said you couldn’t. But you're not going to start in now.” “What’s the reason I can’t start now? I'm not going to take up a lot of time at It. Do you want me to wait until he gets his gang around him?” Sally regarded him severely; he seemed so much like a bad little boy that sometimes she.,deßpaired of getting anything reasonable out of him. “You’re always ready to fight somebody,” she said. “And there isn’t any sense in it. Besides, what good would it do us right now? Suppose you do whip him; if it makes you feel any better I’ll admit that you can whip him from his feet up. But suppose you and doesn’t help to find the wheel he took off the car, does it? We’d have to stay around here anyhow until he got ready to give it back to us. You can’t run a flivver on three wheels.” “I might,” he said, stubbornly. “Well, If you could, I wouldn’t ride in it, so that settles that. It might give you a lot of satisfaction x to ,get Into a fight with him, but it wouldn’t get us anywhere. It would only make a lot more trouble, ahd we’ve got enough now.” “It doesn't bother any.”

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“That’s just it,” said Sally'. “It doesn’t seem to make any difference to you how much trouble you stir up. But we can't afford to have any more right away—and we're not going to have it." The Wreck regarded her with a look of Intense disgust. ‘‘Do I look like a dishwasher?” he demanded. “Do you think anybody can make me wash dishes?" "Suppose I asked you to wash them ?’ ’ He shook his head irritably. “You haven’t got any right to ask me.” “Yes, I have. I’m in this thing as much as you are and I have just as many rights as you have. And if it’s necessary for ypu to wash dishes, then you ought to -be glad to wash them, for the general good.” Sally puzzled him. She appeared to be abandoning herself to a situation that was preposterous and Intolerable. It did not seem like Sally at all. i *- “What about your train?” he inquired. “The train's got to wait for the present,” she answered, with a shrug. “You mean to tell me you’re going to stick around here and take orders like a trained seal? You’re going to cook for' this outfit?” She reached for a chair and seated herself opposite him. “Do you realize, Henry Williams, that I’m trying to save you? I don’t claim any credit for it, because I’m trying to save myself, too. Have you forg-rtten what you did last night? Do you want to go roaming out bn the road again, to be picked up and sent off to jail? Well, if you do, I don’t. We’ve got to hide somewhere until this’thing blows over. And if you can think of any better place than this to hide, I <fl&n’t.” “I only took a little gasoline,” he said, impatie y. “And you jy neld them up with a gun, too. And scared the life out of them, and made them sit in the road, and humiliated them, and let all the air out of their tires. And you didn’t fcay for the gasoline either; so that’s stealing. You’d bet-

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ter take It from me, you'vfe done something to hide for. I know Montana, if I don’t know much else. You can’t do things like that any more.’O The Wreck scowled at the floorf “How about a bird who steals the wheel off your car? Can he do things like that?” “No; he hasn’t any right, of course. But it's done, and I’m not sure but that’s also an act of Providence, as Charity McSween says. I have a hunch that what we need right now is a hide-out, and this gives us one without hunting for it. Besides, we can eat here.” "And how long do you think we’re going to stay parked around here, Sally Morgan?" I ll©' "I COULD DRIVE TO PITTSBURGH WITH MY EYES SHUT.” “Oh, not long. That depends. I’m sure we’ll get the wheel back for the car by the time we ought to start.” 1 He pondered the prospect gloomily. The thing to do, of course, was to lick Charley McSween: no man was expected to endure what Charley TTad inflicted. -Sut he was not so entirely a creature of impulse as Sally believed ''him. There was a streak of calculation in him; it could not be called caution, but it involved a certain degree of premeditation and reckoning of consequences. He Could see Sally’s point about the hide-out. It irked him to acknowledge that it had merit; he would not publicly admit it. But he was honest with himself. His fundamental urge was to thrash Charley McSween until he produced ' the missing wheel and then ao rush Sally away to the nearest point on the railroad, where he guaranteed to

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stop any transcontinental flier that might happen along, even If he had to stall the flivver in the middle of the track. But it might not be the quickest way of getting Sally out of a mess. Perhaps it might be better to think things over a bit; not that he wanted to, but that it might be his unpleasant duty. "I’m not worrying about myself one bii,” she assured him. “I’m worrying more about you.” . The Wreck bristle# “What in—Why in blazes would you worry about me?” "Well, you were expecting to go back to the' ranch, weren’t you?” “That’s nothing. I told them I might not be back the same night.” “I know,” said Sally. “But it’s the second day after that. And you haven't got me to the train yet. And then you’ve got to find your way back to the ranch—and I don’t believe you ever can.” He flung himself into a two-armed gesture of protest. “Anywhere I’ve been once I can go again,” he said. “I coujd drive from here to Pittsburgh . -with my eyes shut. Don’t worry about me.” “But Dad and Ma will think you’re losL” * “Then let Dad and Ma dp the worrying.” “We’ll have to get you a road map, if there is such a thing, before you start back,” said- Sally, “because you’ll have a terrible time if you try to cut across country again.” “Oh, I'Jl take a bearing from Black Top,” observed the Wreck, wickedly. He grinned and Sally smiled. She was glad that he seemed to be in a better humor. She was not concerned very much about her own predicament. It mattered very little that she failed to get the train on a particular day; it was just an annoyance. It would not be an overwhelming catastrophe if she had to go back to the Bar-M. Everything could be explained us soon as the present trouble blew over. What gave her real, worry was the Wreck himself. The Wreck was headed for the door when she called him to a halt. “Where are you going?” she asked suspiciously. “Just fa look about the place. "You’re not going to hunt up Charley McSween?” “I’m not g >ing to dodge him.” "Well, you’re not going to fight with him,” she said, firmly. “Not if he leaves me alone.” ‘ "‘lt doesn't make any difference whether he leaves you alone or not. You’re not going to fight; not today, anyhow. We can’t afford it.” "I’m nq door mat,” he, grumbled.

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

“Certainly not. Nobody thinks you are. But —Henry, you are not going to fight.” It was not ■ the fact of her quiet emphasis that most impressed him. It was being called “Henry.” Back at the ranch they called him “Mr.. Williams,” and “Wreck,” and “Mister,” and "Henry Williams” and other things. It had never occurred to anybody to admit him to the comradeship of “Henry.” Coming at last, it made a rather favorable impression on him. It was the first time anybody tad called him “Henry" since he left Pittsburgh. He did not feel quite so far from home. “Oh, all right, maw,” he drawled, as he went through the door. “I ain't goin’ to fight.” Sally sat In a chair and screamed. She busied herself for a while In the kitchen, confident that he would keep his promise. When the kitchen satisfied her. she started on an exploration of the rest of the lower floor. There was a pantry, with more china in it, which ciused her eyes to widen. Beyond the dining roont was an enormous living room; it occupied at least half of the area of the ranch house. She liked It at once, not only for Its spacious dimensions, but for the comfort, even luxury, with which it was furnished. She roamed about the big rooms

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as Alice roamed in Wonderland; not amazed at anything she saw, but marveling tb&t it should all be there in the middle of the range country, where most living rooms run to plainness and simplicity, and too often to drab barrenness. Finally she picked up a book that she did not believe would be disappointing, dragged one of the big chairs close to a window and curled herself into a knot of luxurious comfort She followed the story for a or two. forgetting the Wreck and the flivver and the train going east. But after a while her mind became pleasantly dull and hazy, and a gentle weight o nher eyelids closed them. She was aware only of Ahe fact that she was going to take a nap and she found Joy In it. . (Continued in Our Next Issue}

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