Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1924 — Page 2

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WFERGUSON DEFEATS TEXAS KLANCAiIDATE Wins Democratic Nomination for Governor as Anti-Ku-Kluxer, By l nited Presg DALLAS. Aug. 25 —Felix D. Robertson of Dallas. Klan candidate, has conceded defeat by Mrs. Miriam Ferguson of Temple for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination upon the basis of partial returns fAem Satur-run-off primary. Returns from 230 counties out of the State's 252, including sixty-seven complete, gave Mrs. Ferguson a lead of neaily 80,000 votes over the Klan candidate, according to tabulation made by the Texas election bureau. Mrs. Ferguson's vote, according to the latest tabulation, was 403.060 end Robertson 324,297. Texas election bureau officials today predicted & total vote of 850.000 when all votes are in. Available returns have already surpassed the State's record ballot of approximately 702,000, set In the initial primary July 26. Judge Robertson sent Mrs. Ferguson a message of congratulation upon her nomination Sunday and later In the day issued a statement here In which he declared: “I will abide by the dictates of the people.” In a statement issued from her home at Temple, Mrs. Ferguson said: “The verdict Saturday tells plainer than words what the people think of the K. K. K., after they have had an opportunity to observe its workings and purposes. Texas people know more about what the Klan means than any other State, and as soon as other States have time to learn the real purposes of the Klan, they will do as Texas did Saturday and repudiate it in terms unmistakable.” Judge Robertson, defeated by Mrs. Ferguson, declared in a brief statement to the United Press that he “bore no malice.” “In searching for the cause of my defeat in Saturday’s primary. I am met with the irresistable conclusion that I failed to get enough votes,” he said. "I fought the best fight I could and have preserved my self-respect. Which is essential to my future.” CARRIERS TO BE GUESTS AT PICNIC

Times Will Entertain and Girls, ,“Oh. boy. Lookit them icicles on ■ticks, all red n yellah 'n everythin*. . . . Qlut yer cryin'. now. Th’ Times didn't give you th* whole dam park. . . Here, Bubbles, fciow yer nose. . . . blow hard. . . Attaboy. . . . Gosh, ain’t thet thriller great?,. . . Les git some more crackerjack, Elmer. Huh, will yuh? . . The foregoing is what the radio from Broad Ripple Park will be broadcasting Wednesday, when The Indianapolis Times carriers take their eighth annual outing there as guests of their employers. Street cars reserved "or the carriers will line up at 8 a. m. on Capitol Ave. between Indiana Ave. and Ohio St. The return will be made at 2 p. m.. In time for the boys and girls to distribute their afternoon papers. Games, contests and all park amusements are on the program. WOMEN RULING AMAZON PEOPLE Recently Discovered Race Frowns on Men, By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.—American explorers have found a race of modern Amazons —a people where the woman is the head of the family and ruler of the house. They are the To-Runs, a tribe of Monogol descent which inhabits that little-known part of the western China, where are found to headwaters of the Teilow River, "the stream of gold." Reports of two explorers sent to the region testify to the truth of the stories brought out of Asia. The explorers are Frederick R. Wulsin, leader of an expedition sent by the National Geographic Society, and the late William Woodville Rockhill, who left a record of the tribe to the Smithsonian Institution. The customs of the To-Runs prove that woman's invasion of industry', her determination to "live her own life,” is not a development of modern civilization. For among these primitive peoples the “weaker sex’’ is emancipated to the point of domination of the male. Auto Wrecked, Four Hurt By Times Special BEDFORD, Ind.. Aug. 25.—George Loiter, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., and his 4-year-old son, Carl, are recovering today from injuries received when their automobile turned over in a ditch near Mitchell. Mrs. Leiter and another son Arten, 9, sustained slight injuries. Nail-holes in woodwork can be filled by mixing sawdust with glue to th* consistency of thick paste. Lupins are the best plants for reclaiming land exposed l? drifting •and. j

New Warren Township High School Building Is of Unusual Type of Arrangement and Construction —Eight Outside Entrances

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CITY WILL STAGE ANNUAL ATHLETIC MEET THURSDAY More Than 250 Boys and Girls to Participate in Contests', More than two hundred fifty children under 16 years of age will par- \ ticipate in the annual track and field I contests staged under the city rec- ] reation bureau at Willard Park j Thursday. " Starting at 9:30 a. m., hoys and I girls representing the various city ] playgrounds will compete in events, climaxed by swimming contests in ; the Willard Park pool. Medals for first and second places will be awarded by the city. Two Age Classes There will be two classes of competition for boys and girls, those from 8 to 12 and from 12 to 16. In no cases will boys and girls com- I pete. Junior and senior girls will coni pete in the broad jump, hop-skip-and-jump, high Jump. May-poio j vaulting. back hand basket-ball j throw, round arm throw and fiftyyard dash. Senior boys will participate in the basket-ball throw, shpt-put, baserunning, 440-yard relay, high jump, broad jump and 100-yard dash. Baseball Tuesday Junior boys will stage contests in the fifty-yard dash. 200-yard shuttle relay, baseball throw, base-runnir.g and May-pole vaulting..* Boys and girls of all ages will meet in the swimming contests, starting at 6:30 p. m. Races include ten-yard free style, forty-yhrd free style, 200yard relay, 100-yard medley and comedy tub races. Final championship base’jall games for girls will be played between the Garfield and Willard Prtrk girls at Riley Park at 2 p. m., Tuesday. Boys will play Wednesday in final games at Riley Park. PHONE APPRAISAL STARTS I. EL Dishinger Begins Work at Shelbyville, Ind., With Crew. Small crew of “key-men,” under direction of I. E. Dishinger, appraisal engineer of the Edward W. Bemis Company, Chicago utility engineers, today started an inventory of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company property In Indiana under direction of the public service commission. Crew started from Shelbyville. Ind. Other gangs will be started In other parts of the State. Engineers of the telephone company also were said to have started work today on the company’s inventory. KOKOMO PIONEER DIES John Milton Moulder Expires Suddenly While Motoring With Family. By United Preeg KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 25.—John Milton Moulder. 75. life long resident of Howard County died suddenly Sunday night while motoring with his family. Death was caused by apoplexy. \ He had been connected with Armstrong and Landon Company, pioneer hardware dealers, for more than forty years. He was the last surviving son of John Moulder, pioneer and one of the three commissioners appointed in 1844 by the Governor to organize Howard County. Two Alleged Sped ©re Arrested Walter Wire. 25, of 6321 Beljefontaine St., and Bert Jackson, 21, of Westfield. Ind., were arrested today on speeding charges. Having lost all his teeth as a young man. a German has developed his lips till he can crack nuts or do anything with them that ordinarily would call for the use of teeth. Surplus oil, for which there is insufficient storage, can be pumped back into the earth, to remain there on til wanted.

“|HE Warren Township consolidated high school building at Tenth St. and the Ft. Harrison Rd., three miles east of the city, which is approaching completion, is attracting attention because of Its handsome appearance and Its unusual arrangement and type of construction. Taxing officials and school authorities are also giving it some attention because of the marked economy effected in building costs and high percentage of utilized space. "The building is a radical departure from the usual type of sehoolhouse.” said Edward J. Hecker, trustee of Warren Township. “It is of the one story or pavilion type, but, instead of being built in a TANARUS” or ‘E‘ shape, schoolrooms

INDUSTRIAL BOARD PROBES ARRESTS Marion County Constables Under Fire, The Indiana State industrial board is investigating reports that constables from Marion County justices of the peace are approaching thrasher outfits with warrants for the arrest of managers for not taking out industrial insurance. The constables, it is reported, also are armed with insurance policies for the thrasher to use, if he wishes to avoid arrest. Many of the thrashers declare they operate as a partnership and therefore are exempt from the law. Constables ignore this fact. It is reported. Complaint was filed with the board by Wells County thrashmon. NO MARKET TOR GERMAN MUSIC Attributes Cause to American Jazz Boom, 1 By United Pregg BERLIN, Aug. 25.—Composers of I light opera complain that foreign markets are closing to their products. A few months ago, they declare, England, America and even France offered a good market for their prod uots, and they even had to put in overtime to supply the needs. More recently a change became noticeable. However, the composers hoped that it would be done of the passing vicissitudes luippening in all markets. They fully perceive that these countries have gone back to the old good “home-made goods,” and don't show the least intention of buying German music. German composers attribute this fact not so much -to their own high i prices, but to the habit of converting Beethoven into jazz or Wagner’s “Walkyre" into a fox-trot, which, they claim, developed recently, especially in America. NEW PURDUE BUILDING Structure at State Fairground Will Open With Appropriate Ceremonies. New Purdue building erected at the fairground will be dedicated during the State fair. Sept. 1 to 6. E. J. Barker, president of the State board of agriculture, will formally present the building to the university officers. Responses will be made by Dr. Edward O. Elliott, Purdue president; George I. Christie, director of the agricultural experiment station: Dean J. H. Skinner of the school of agriculture, and Palmer R. Edgerton, trustee, representing the Purdue alufnni. Purdue Agricultural Alumni Association will also hold its annual gettogether. Grocer Asks Bankruptcy Harley E. Reynolds, grocer, Crawfordsville, Ind., filed a petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court today. His debts were scheduled at $4,877.30 and his assets at $5,286.16. Os the latter, $3,448 were due on open account*.

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are placed on the four sides of a central court, which, by the addition of floor and roof, becomes an auditorium and gymnasium 137 feet long by 66 feet wide. "This room has a stage, and the floor is entirely clear of columns or other obstructions. The main floor of this room Is 50 by 105 feet, and Is four feet below the surrounding corridor, from which it is separated by a railing. 1,000 May Be Seated “When the gymnasium Is used for basketball games and similar affairs, the spectators will be seated at the sides and ends, four feet above the playing floor. It is estimated one thousand spectators may be accommodated without encroaching on the playing floor. •“Another distinctive feature of the building is the number of entrances. There are three entrances at either side, each serving two rooms, and an entrance at either end. Short hallways lead from the entrances to the auditorium, which has eight entrances and exits. Thus the building can be filled or emptied in very few minutes. Stairways Are Outside The stairways leading to the main floor level are outside the building and are all enclosed. The only stairways in the building lead to the auditorium floor, and thence to the basement. The basement extends all the way around the building under the schoolrooms. The central portion, under the auditorium, is unexcavated. In the basement are toilets, locker rooms with showers. domestic science and manual training rooms, laboratories and lunchroom. On the main floor, in addition to the auditorium, there are an assembly room, principals office, rest room and thirteen schoolrooms. The building will accommodate 600 students." The building is of hollow tile and brick veneer, with the interior construction all carried on steel. Coat cabinets are built into the walls of each room. Only 10 per cent of the floor area is in inclosed corridors, whereas 40 to 50 per cent in corridors is not unj usual. Architecture. Unusual The architectural handling of the exterior is unusual, but distinctly pleasing. The brick work from the ground level to the top of the basement is In dark browns and reds; the body of the building is in tans and buffs, and a parapet at the top is cream color. -Green tile roofs on the entrances and extending over the windows, and a green composition roof over the central portion give a pleasing color scheme. The result is to prevent a look of sfjuattiness or a factory-like appeai%nce, notwithstanding the great size of the building without much elevation. The contract price of the building is $147,959.46, exclusive of the ground The school ground covers ten acres, four of which, to the north of the building, Is woodland. Harry F. Vahle, of New Palestine, is the general contractor. The contractors for plumbing, and heating and ventilating are Freyn Bros., Indianapolis: for electrical work, Sanborn Electrical Company, Indianapolis. The general plan of the building was made by Edward J. Hecker. The architects are Harrison & Turnock, Indianapolis. ‘WILD WESTER’ IS HELD Colored Man Battles Folice in Gun Duel. Rufus'Smith, 28, colored, of 1139 Yandes St., is held today fn the Detention ward of city hospital suffering with bullet wounds received Saturday after a gun battle with Motorpolice Stump and Giles at Sixteenth and Alabama Sts. William Kaufman, 21, of 1614 N. Alabama St., bystander was slightly wounded in the left foot. Mr. and Mrs. Fladores Northingten, colored, 1611 Ogden St., fold police that Smith came to their home in a drunken condition, drew a revolver and chased them from the house, firing a shot in the air. A stray bullet during the chase punctured the radiator of a machine owmed by R. E. Hosea, 673 E. Twenty-First St., parked at Six teenth and Alabama Sts.

AMERICA IG GIG TUING IN WORLD TO ALL EUROPE Labor Official Says Everyone Wants to Move to United States. Timeg traehingtnn Ruren'i. 1.122 Vric York .1 ve. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-—“ The magic word of the world today if I ‘America. - It is the biggest thing Tin the jvorld in ail that goes td make j up human happiness.” Tills is the observation of E. J. Henning. Assistant Secretary of Labor in charge of Immigration matters. who has just returned from a j three months' visit overseas to watch | the inauguration in Europe of the ' new Immigration Jaws. “If it could, Europe would move ‘to America,” Henning continued. I "The desire to come to this country jis not limited to any class of so- ; elety, the rich and the poor, the I halter and the banker, all regard the | United States as a land of golden | opportunity. Foor Want to Omt© j “The man who has been dealt bad? I ly with by the war and the parents j who are raising large families —these I are the people who especially want i to come to the United States. They (Ind Udifficult to understand that Ihe Ufflted States has the right to say who shall come." Mr. Henning visited Ttnly. Switzerland. France. Belgium, Holland, Germany. Great Britain and the Irish Free State. “I watched the crowds, blocks long, at ©very consulate from Naples to Belfast,” he said. “It was the same everywhere, although in Tendon it was the wocst. The long lines of folks everywhere"' is comparable only to a run on a hank." Law Is Bonn to Foreigners The new immigration law. which will admit a quotflTof only 2 per cent of the foreign born population of 1890- instead of 3 per cent of the foreign horn population of 1910, is slowly being put into effect. “Once the new law begins functioning effectively it will prove a real boon to the Immigrants as well as to the American Government. It will save many a heart-breaking trif} to Ellis Island only to he turned back a' the very gates of America. Tragedies which have been enacted daily at the gateway to America will be ended under the new law, Mr. Henning predicts, “because when an immigrant sails from Europe hereafter he will know that he will he welcomed to America." DEDICATIONS DISCUSSED Civic Federation Flans for Opening of New Schools. Public school committee of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Cluhs met this afternoon in the offices of Edward O. Snethen, president, 416 Indiana Trust Bldg., to plan for dedication ceremonies at new grad© schools to be opened soon. Leo K. Fesler was appointed by the school board to meet with the committee. Committee members are the Rev. C. G. Baker, Hawthorne Community League; Mrs. J. D. Hrss, Spades Park Community League, and T. P. Woodson. HAND WORK EXHIBITION Part of Girls’ Products to Be Shown in Mayor's Office. Exhibitions of hand work of girls attending the city's playgrounds this summer will be open to the public in the city hali Thursday and Friday, ttie recreation department announced today. Exhibits will include sewing, bas-ket-weaving, dress making and rug weaving, all done by girls under 16 years of age with supervision of playground matrons. Mayor Shank said his office would be used for part of the fine arts work to be shown.

COOLIDGE, DAWES CONFER ON G. 0. P. KLAN STRATEGY President Summons Running Mate for Discussion of Issue, By United Pregg PLYMOUTH, Vt„ Aug. 25.—Republican strategy on the Klan issue will be settled today under the mosscovered roof of Col. John Coolidge’s farmhouse, when President Coolidge and Gen. Charles G. Dawes meet to discuss their campaign. Dawes is coming here at the President's invitation, extended by telephone early Sunday, following the Republican vice presidential / inee’s references to the Klan in his speech in Augusta, Maine. He will arrive about noon and is expected to depart for Chicago tonight. Speech Is Cause Though it was thought Dawes would call at Plymouth on his return from Maine, the President made no effort to bring him here further than to let it be known Friday he would be glad to see his running mate. Then Dawes, without consulting any one, delivered his speech on the Klan. Late Saturday night, C. Bascom Slemp, the President’s secretary and chief political adviser, got busy on the long distance telephone and reached Dawes with the word that the President wanted to confer with him before he went West. It was understood the Klan would be the chief topic at the conference. With politics, reestablished as the principal topic of conversation here, the President approximately re ceived his old political mentor, Jame Lucy, cobbler-philosopher of Northampton, Mass., who is a candidate for the State Legislature Both to Win Lucy assured the President they both will he elected in the fall. The President and family attended church in the afternoon and heard the Rev. John White deliver a sermon on “The Inspiration of Divine Guidance.” Tuesday the President will receive a thousand members of the middle-western grangers on the lawn of his father's home. LEGIONNAIRES TO DONOR WILSON

Special Ceremony Planned at National Convention, 1 A special ceremony in memory of I Woodrow Wilson will feature the j opening day's session of the sixth ! annual convention of ►te America.i ! Legion at St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 13 to 19, It was announced today at national headquarters of the Legion heie. The Virginia Department of the legion is having prepared a special portrait of the late war President, which wijj be presented with suitable ceremonies on the opening day. The portrait will be mounted on an e.tsel on the platform, draped in crepe. Dr. Kate Waller Barrett, past president of the Department of Virginia, and the national organization of the I American Legion Auxiliary, will | place a wreath of flowers on the easel as a tribute from Virginia's womanhood to the late President. After the convention is adjourned the picture wjll be hung at national headquarters of the Legion. HOTEL FUNDS DISAPPEAR Porter Arrested in Investigation of $77 Theft. James Voris, 617 N. New Jersey St., night elerk at the Great Eastern Hotel, told police when he returned to the hotel Sunday night after an absence of a few minutes, he discovered the cash box, containing $77, was missing. William Hamilton, colored, porter. 1508 Cornell St., was arrested on a vagrancy charge, pending investigation. At the barber shop of Orin Searcy, 2033 Madison Am, razors and tobacco, valued at $6, were stolen, police were told. Other petty thefts: Frank Thomas, filling station at Southeastern Ave. and . Sloan St., three hams, cigarettes, and four gallons of oil, valued at $lO, taken; Mrs. Ora Harris, 517 S. Alabama St., sls taken from "dresser drawer. AN EDUCATIONAL SHOW Industrial Exposition so Give Actual Processes of Manufacturing. Any citizen who takes any time reflecting on the development society has made on providing every-day necessities and the importance of industries in the race progress will be interested in the second Indianapolis Industrial Exposition, Oct. 4 to 11, at the State fairground, according to the Chamber of Commerce committee in charge. Exhibits will be held in the new exposition building. The committee under the direction of O. B. lies is encouraging exhibits which will show actual processes of manufacturing. Weed Cutters Discharged The last of the city's weed cutters were discharged today because of lack of funds, W. P. Hargon of the street commissioner's office announced. Eight men representing two forces were affected. The 192 4 appropriation for weed cutting of $2,160 is exhausted. Asa result of'smoke, Manchester, England, has an extra laundry bill of $250,000 a year.

Aboard Ship ■ * .I®* -H. vicm '• The Prince of Wales is taking long walks on the top deck of the S. S. Berengaria. en route to this country. But so far he's dodged the ball room, vexing hopeful debs and doting mamas. WATER EXTENSIONS : WILL COST CITY Hogue Starts Investigation —No Money Available, Investigation as to what the extension of water mains ordered by the board of works on recommendation of Fire Chief John J. O'Brien will cost the city waa started by Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, today. Total cost of connecting the dead ends and relieving possible fire hazards was estimated at $120,000 by the water company. While William H. Freeman, member of the board of works, said he was under the impression the extension would not cost anything additional except for water used and extra fire hydrants, B. J. T. Jeup. water company engineer, said the city would have to pay one and a quarter cents for each foot-inch of pipe laid. He pointed out 500 feet of six-inch mains would count as 3.000 feet of pipe. He would not estimate the amount the city would have to pay, although work on connecting some of the dead ends was started today by the water company. Hogue said no funds are available for paying additional water bills or the cost of twenty two new fire hydrants ordered.

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DOMESTIC ART SCHOOL OPENS AT FAIRGROUND Ninety-Two Giris From 82 Counties Start Two Week’s Session. ' Simple Simon met a pieman Going to the fair. Said Simple Simon to the pieman, “No U6e soing there.” (With apologies to Mother Goose.) For today ninety-two girls from eighty-two counties began a twoweeks’ study of the mysteries of domestic art, which, when completed, will enable the fair beginners to prepare delicacies ranging from pies to parsley-ed parsnips. It was the opening of the sixth annual State fair school of home economcis in the woman’s building on the State fairground. The course of study will include instruction in the art of cookery and table service, daily lectures and demonstrations on the subjects of home nursing, sewing, millinery, interior decorating, personal hygiene, painting and community cooperation. Amo Woman in Charge Mrs. Lawrence Vannice of Amo, Ind., will direct the activities of the school. She is assisted by a faculty which includes Miss Pansy I. Norton of Franklin, who will attend to buying of supplies and the planning of menus; Miss Hazel Wellman, Indianapolis. home nursing: Miss Eulalie Mull, Homer, Ind.. supervisor of cooking; Mrs. Harriet Woolen Crist, Indianapolis, supervisor of baking; Mrs. Elmer Waters, South Raub, Ind , supervisor of the dining room: Hiss Mary Branson, Amo, food demonstrator; Mrs. Ida Piatt, Evansv-yie, in charge of the dormitory; Mrs. Helen McKinley. ette, sewing; Miss Mary McCrossan, Indianapolis, recreational director, and Mrs. Lawrence Foster, in charge of the evening story hour. The girls are divided into five groups, with a captain to lead each. System of Grading A system of grading on a score card which totals 100 points has been worked out by the school management. For class work. Including the study of foods, sewing, millinery, health and art, home decorations and exhibit, the student will score 40 per cent; for institutional housekeeping, 25 per cent; for the importance and completeness of note book kept during the school, 10 per cent, and for neatness and general attitude, 25 per cent. Special entertainment for the girls while they are attending the school includes a down-town visit to points of interest including the Statehouse. the Soldiers' and Sailors’ Monument, John Herron Art Institute, the city market, the Circle Theater and a noon luncheon. Additional lectures to be given during the school will be made by Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer, director of the division of child hygiene of the Indiana Board of Health, who will make health talks and Miss Elizabeth Cowan, who will speak on the subject of thrift. Attack Is Changed Albert Goodberry, colored. 2330 Aqueduct St., was arrested today on an assault and battery charge with intent to kill. Police said he slashed at Lemuel Williams, colored. 866 W. Twenty-Fourth St., in a quarrel over beer.