Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 94, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1924 — Page 2
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FLAPPER BANDITADITS CRIME WASFRAME-UP Names Attendant in Plot — •-N Other Girl Is Innocent. A dejected figure with her blonde bobbed tresses awry after a night In the city prison, Indianapolis’ ‘‘flapper bandit” In the person of Mrrf. Jwanneata Freels, 23, of 854 W. New York St., greeted early morning visitors in the matron's office at police headquarters today. Mrs. Freels and James Noonan. 31, of 1515 N. Capitol Ave., filling station attendant at the Great Western Oil station at Twenty-Ninth St. and Nortnwestern Ave., who reported police he was held up and robbed of sl4 by two bobbed-hair girls In a coupe Sunday, were arrested Tuesday by Detectives Harris and Kurrasch on charges of conspiracy to commit a felony and vagrancy, after obtaining a statement from the couple the robbery had been framed. 'T dont know why I did It,” the "banditess” said as she asked the matron for a comb. ‘‘l drove up to tlje filling station and Noonan handed me about sll and I drove away.” It was all over before I knew It.” Noonan and Mrs. Freels were bound over to grand jury under $3,000 bond. Bootlegging Broached The confessions in the hands of the detectives state Noonan and Mrs. Freels were riding Saturday when the subject of bootlegging was broached. Noonan said illicit liquor dealing was not as lucrative as the robbing of filling stations. Noonon .according to the statement told the girl to come to the filling station Sunday afternoon and he would stage the fake hold-up. Losing her nerve Mis. Freels did not appear until after dark. Using a machine borrowed from Paul Marlow, 1034 Congress Ave., Mrs. Freels drove to the filling station with a girl who she said she did not know- by name. According to the confession Noonan came up to the machine and gave the girl between sll and sl2 after he had filled the tank with' gas. Noonan in his statement said the girl had a revolver, but Mrs. Freels denied this. Cartridges Are Clew The apprehending of the' couple was due to the fact detectives Harris and Kurrasch were suspicious ’ when Noonan gave them two 45caliber cartridges which he said the bandits dropped from the automatic gun they were carrying. It was pointed out cartridges cannot be removed from an automatic revolver without removing the clip or discharging the weapon. Noonan told police tha bandits did neither. Noonan was called to police headquarters Friday to identify some pictures in the Bertlllon gallery and during the questioning he confessed, implicating Mrs. Freels. She -was arrested at her home and brought to headquarters where she corroborated Noonan's statement excepting a few minor details.
N. Y. ON TAXICAB SPREE Decreased Rates Sends City on Great Joy Ride. By Timet Special NEW YORK. Aug. 27.—New York, with a tax rate in existence that Is within reach of almost every one's pocketbcok, is now doing more taxi riding than ever before in its history. The town Is on a taxi spree. The slashing of rates that made the once lowly dime a factor in taxicab transportation has resulted also in a vast increase in the number of taxi users and an increase in the earnings of the drivers. But whether the cab owners can survive under present conditions is a question in the minds of many-persons associated with the taxicab Industry. “The drivers are getting the benefit of it all, not the car owners and operators,” said Jerome Davis of the Luxor Company. “Asa result of the price war the taxi business in this city is in chaotic condition.” Kenyon Engaged by Inca Doris Kenyon comes from New York to play the principal feminino role In Thomas H. Ince's production of “Doctor Nye” for First National Pictures, under the direction of Lambert Hillyer. Percy Marmont is cast for the title role of the Joseph C. Lincoln novel, others .In the cast being Malcolm McGregor, Lucille Ricksen, Claude Gillingwater, Dan Mason, Vi via Ogden \nd Ruby Lafayette, who unblushIngly admits that she Is over SO and is said to be the oldest actress on the screen. To date no one has contested this distinction. Some Big Time" Variety News Justine Jchostone is being urged to take a flyer in vaudeville this summer, but the international beauty has not been shown a sketch which pleases her . . Trlni, the Spanish dancer will soon open at the Palace In a “production” act of her own . . . Helen Jerome Eddy of the movies is putting on a vaudeville act by Rae Carroll . , . Anatol Friendland with the help of Ned Waybum has pre pared anew tevue called “Anatol’s Affairs of 1924,” which comes to the Palace . . Snub Pollard, the movie comedian opens in anew act at the New Britain, Conr.., vaudevtHe house. Dad’s Yacht in “Dearie, would you care to hate your lunch brought up on deck?” “No, Just have them throw it overboard aixl save time."—Scri(p>sPalns Sa/ v*.
Champion Aberdeen-Angus at State Fair
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In the-presentation of his champion herd of Aberdeen-Angus cattle at Indiana State Fair, opening Monday, H. O. Haxrison of .-San Francisco is affording visitors to the livestock show an opportunity to see kings and queens among bluebloods of the tanbarV: and tho stock show ring.
MAN HELD ON BIGAMY CHARGE S Wife No. 2 Jailed With Everett Comstock. Five marriages mingled with three divorces presented Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth, city court judge, with a problem in modern matrimony as Everett Comstock, 26, of 626 Russell Ave., and his wife, Mrs. Macie Comstock, 24, were arraigned before him today. Comstock was arrested Tuesday on warrant filed by Ashford Dawes of Connersville. Ind., charging Comstock lad committed bigamy wh-;n he married Mrs. Macie Comstock. Mrs. Comstock was held on a vagrancy charge. According to Comstock he married his present wife in Hamilton, Ohio, j on Aug. 2, after being separated from j wife No. 1. Mrs. Viola Vickery Com- j stock, since 1920. Wife No. 2 said Dawes was her second husband and she had divorced him April 2, 1924. Her first husband. Harry Young, was divorced in 1922. she said. “It is just a case of spitework by Dawes because Macie wouldn't remarry him,” Comstock said. Comstock, a prohibition agent, was recently attacked by a gang of men on Kentucky Ave., after the gang accused him of tipping the police in regard to illicit liquor deals. Comstock was bound over to ‘be grand jury in city court under $3,000 bond. Mrs. Comstock denied a story that she was held a prisoner in her husband's home. RAILROADS COOPERATE Templeton Reports Smoke Abatement Efforts Effective. H. F. Templeton, assistant chief smoke inspector, today reported to the Chamber of Commerce smoke abatement committee, results obtained from railroads operating in and through the city during August. According to Templeton’s statistics the average percentage of violation decreased from 39.1 per cent in July to 19.7 per cent in August, with at least one of the roads showing 100 per cent In the matter of smoke re--1 ductlon. Only 25.1 per cent violation from all roads was reported as the average to date. RHINOCEROS NEXT THING Woman Lead Animals in London Church I’arade. By Time * Kp ecial LONDON. Aug. 27.—1f one of these Sunday mornings a dainty society lady Is seen leading a rhinoceros along the church parade in Hyde Park nobody will be surprised. Already dogs are passe. FashionI able London women and cosmopolitan visitors are no longer content with the ordinary canine, nor even with a wolf-like Alsatian. They like ’em wild. A Boston woman, Mrs. E. D. BranI degee, has made friends with a chee- | tah, while Lady Ross of, Carstairs, ' formerly Miss Patricia Ellison of | Kentucky, has a small tree-bear as a "side kick.” Another London woman exhibits a tame silver fox on the j parade every Sunday.
Flivver ‘Pet’ of Air Service
A baby airplane, now the “pet” of the air service, weighing only 400 pounds and consuming one gallon of gasoline for twenty miles, has arrived at McCook field, Dayton, after a 1,300-mile journey from Kelly field, Texas. The plane,
‘ BLACKCAP REVOLUTION”
A notable of all the notables heading the Harrison herd is Blackcap Revolution, named international grand champion at tho last Chicago show, and said to be one of the world’s most valuable bulls. This monarch of the Aberdeer-Angus was born Jan. 13, 1919; was bred In the United
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GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING IS SEEN HERE (IN THE FOREGROUND, A LITTLE TOXfIIE LEFT) REVIEWING ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDSMEN IN TRAINING AT CAMP GRANT, ROCKFORD. IT PROBABLY WIIIL BE THE LAST TIME HE EVER WILL RTDE UP AND DOWN BEFORE HIS TROOPS AGAIN. FOR PERSHING IS LAYING ASIDE HIS SWORD. THE WAR DEPARTMENT S AGE LIMIT NECESSITATES HIS RETIREMENT AS CHIEF OK STAFF SEPT. 13.
FRATS’ BIRTHDAY PARTY BEGINS Carnival Features Night's Doings. The Beta Phi Sigma convention waxing more and more enthusiastic as the temperature and the numbers rise bids fair to do justice to Us twenty-fifth birthday party. “With a register showing 250 names I this morning, the first day of registration, and “the boys” still coming in for the caroiva} dance tonight, which will be a gay affair. Booths will be arranged around the roof garden of tho Severin with every possible form of fun there to be bought with real Beta Phi Sigma money (bought as you go In.) This afternoon an Informal tea dance in the roof garden was held. The business sessions were opened this morning with welcoming addresses from Mayor Lewis Shank and Col. John B. Reynolds of the Chamber of Commerce. A smoker for the early arrivals Tuesday night gave the needed zest to local committees for their weeks of work. They include Hollis Ferris, local president; Edward Fillian, Kennard Davidson, Walter R. Bonnell, Carl Craig and Albert T. Hart of Peoria, 111., grand president. SSOO CASH FOR TEXT London Vicar Bc-Uctm* Sunday Recreation O. K. i fiv Timet Special LONDON, Aug. 27.—The Rev. Arthur Gould, vicar of Huttoft, Lincolnshire. offers SSOO reward to nny one who can produce a single text in the Bible prohibiting Sunday games. He advocates that the village war memorial should be a club where tennis, bowling and billiards can be 1 played, and that it should be open on Sundays.
with a wing-spread of but eighteen feet, piloted by Lieut. Donald B. Phillips, proudly nosed Into the field and took its place alongside its big brothers. It is called the “Alouette” and can make 105 miles per hour.
States and fitted In Canada. His sire was Earl Marshall and his dam the famous Blackcap McHenry 104th. A king ajnong kings in the realrn.of the “doddies,” as the breed is known among cattlemen. Blackcap Revolution was acquired by Harrison at a cost of $15,000, said to be a record price for a bull.
Pershing in His Last Review
SOARING GRAIN TRICES HAVE CAUSED GREAT ACTIVITY IN THE WHEAT PIT OF THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE. THE PICTURE, TAKEN AT THE HEIGHT OF THE DAY’S TRADING, SHOWS THE PIT PACKED TO CAPACITY,
King’s Granddaughter Gets Human Touch in Dirty Workroom of Chicago Leather Shop
NEA Service Writer --nHICAGO. Aug. 27.—The royal | road to learning. Countess Elsa Bernadotte discovered, Is the same road of sweat and struggle which the lowliest plebeian must tread. The road for the Countess has led through a leather shop—a grimy loft of heat, dust, noise and toil. To the hard eyes of a shop foreman, the king's granddaughter and Judy O'Grady are sisters, not only under their skins, but on the outside. But the Countess Elsa's road to learning is a self-chosen path, not an enforced exile. And she has thriven on the journey. The Countess is a daughter of Prince Oscar Bernadotte, a granddaughter of the reigning King Gustave V of Sweden and a direct descendant of Napoleon’s soldier, Bernadotte, who found a marshal’s baton and a crown in his knapsack. Her father is president of the Swedish Y. M. C. A., and an active philanthropic worker. The urge to social service was in her blood. When she came to America in June to attend a Y. W. C. A. convention, she was received by t' <> leaders of society as befitted royalty. She was the guest of Jon.i D. Rockefeller Jr. and wife In New York and of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick in her Lake Shore Drive residence in Chicago. Then Countess Elsa took a room at a quiet hotel here, left her baggage and checked out. She wanted human touch. The old Caliph Haroun A1 Raschid encountered no mo t unusual experiences in Bagdad than came to this countess. The closed door, rampant on a blue apron for a time seemed the most fitting design for her crowned coat of arms. “No. we don't need a maid,'* she was told. “No, we don't want aay
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‘Bears ’ and ‘Bulls ’ at Chicago
AWARD ON CITY LOANISHELD UP Chicago Bank Must Guarantee Immediate Money. Although the Harris Savings and Trust Company of Chicago was the best bidder on the $500,000 temporary loan of Indianapolis today, Joseph L. Hogue, city controller withheld the award until the city could be guaranteed immediate receipt of the money. * - The Chicago bank offered to loan the city the money at an interest rate of 2.89 pr cent, but the representative insisted that transcript of the loan be sent to Chicago for legal examination. Local bankers objected to this, but Hogue granted an extension until late today. The Union Trust Company of Indianapolis offered the city the money at interest of 3.15 per cent; the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company at 3.25 per cent and the Merchants National Bank and Indiana Trust Company on a joint bid of 3.59 per cent. Auto Theft Charged. Earl Short. 29, givlnig his address as Grand Hotel, was arrested today on a vehicle taking charge. Detectives said he took an automobile belonging to W. S. Stalcup, 1127 Parker Ave.
machine operators.” "No. we can’t take you if you haven't had experience.” “No, the union won’t let us hire you.” Then when she found her leather factory after her continuous rebuffs It Jooked better to her than the gilded domes of a palace. Yes, they would pay her $lB a week and let her sit across a machine from a skilled workman, helping him guide tanned hides past a whirring knife, cutting them into proper shapes for shoe tops. And if her fingers slip and she spoils
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Law Steps Between Woman, 42, Blind, Deaf-Mute She Would Wed
KIEVE KAPLAN AND MINNIE YUDA.
BY HAROLD MATSON NEA Service Writer. Br pSTON. Aug. 27.—'The city of Boston doesn’t want to let Minnie Yuda marry Kieve Kaplan. Minnie is a waitress. 42-years-old. She is a big. strong woman of Russian peasant stock. Somehow romance escaped her in her youth. She has always worked, serving meals in restaurants where tired laborers eat. Hers has been a• lonely life. And now that Minpie has found one she loves the law, which she does not understand, says that it cannot be. When she -first applied for a license she was given an application blank to fill out, and after the name. Kieve Kaplan, she wrote theage, 21. , The clerk balked. She would have to bring the groom, if he was that much younger than she. "But he can not come," she cried. Minnie's tears and pleas left the clerk unyielding. Next day she appeared again, followed by three husky men who, were carrying a fourth. The fourth
a piece, the princess feels the caustic wrath of the boss’ tongue. At the end of the day the princess goes to a small, cheap, rented bedroom on the west side to a bowl and pitcher washing outfit and a straw mattress. Soon her royal highness, the Countess Elsa Bernadotte, will return to the Swedish court. There will be tho od life of a European monarohial capital. But the countess will have within her, perhaps, a bit of understanding, not familiar to most of our royalty. BURGLARS ON NORTH SIDE Tliioves Ransack Homes on North Pennsylvania- St. Police today were Investigating burglaries of north side homes, whose occupants are on their vacations. Homes of C. M. Warner, 4357 N. Pennsylvania St.; Frank F. Brandt, 8560 N. Pennsylvania St., and Fred Barrett, 3598 N. Pennsylvania St., were all entered and ransacked, police were told. No estimate on loss could be obtained. I. W. Malle of Plaza Hotel, moved out to the fairgrounds and put up a tent. Someone entered the tent and stole sllO worth of clothing, he told police. The Chicago Loan Office, E. Washington St., reported a $75 ring was missing, following the visit of a prospective purchaser of the ring. Fred Gertig, 2016 Gent St., employe of the Pecoto Packing Company, Twenty-First St. and the Belt Railroad, reported a $25 watch missing from his locker at the factory. First elephant exhibited In this country was shown at Amesburyport. Mass., in 1797.
’ was Kieve Kaplan, Minnie’s prospective groom. ‘‘He’ll have to sign the application," said the clerk. “He can not see," explained Minnie. "Do you want to marry Minnie Yuda?” the clerk asked of Kieve. Kieve stood limp, supported by the men. “He can not hear—he Is deaf," Minnie said impatiently. "Make him speak, then, so that we know that he knows what he is doing." “He can not speak—he is dumb.” said Minnie. “He is deaf, duyib, blind and crippled! Why do you want to marry him?" "Because I love him,” explained Minnie. But the love of Minnie Yuda for Kieve Kaplan is not enough to convince the city of Boston that the two should marryr Kieve, likely unaware of his presence or his fate at the marriage counter, was carried much like a corpse back to his place in the shade of the railroad bridge near Castle St. There he sits from early morning until late night. Stacks of newspapers, boxes of : chewing gum, rolls of shoelaces I are piled about him. Passersby take of these and leave pennies in the little wooden box. “I love him, I want to care for him. to stand by his side,” Minnie answers your question. She goes yi visit Kieve, standing by him silently, and there is more tragedy in her seeing eyes and her voice that speaks than in the fare of Kieve. the mute, resigned, expressionless. PEAT FOUND IN MASS. Shifting Sands Uncover Bed Near Cape Cod. By Timet Special EASTHAM. Mass., Aug. 27.—Peat beds uncovered at Nauset Beach, near this town, by the shifting of sand dunes may prove a to Cape Cod people troubled by the fuel problem. The peat can be made easily into dried briquettes for cooking and heating. Capt. Abbott Walker of the Eastham Coast Guard station discovered the peat a few weeks ago when a rounded knoll of black soil was laid bare as the wind lashed the sand away. For several centuries, according to geologists familiar with the shifting and rebuilding of Cape Cod, the winds over the sea have been working to uncover an ancient deposits of leaf mold and fallen timber from what once was a great cedar forest. Democrats Pick Candidates By T nitcii Prets TWIN FALLS. Idaho, Aug. 27. — Frank Martin. Boise, was nominated unanimously for United States Senator against Senator W. E. Borah at the Democratic State convention here today. A. G. Freenafer was nominated for Governor.
To ‘Primp’ Men William Weintraub oif Chicago is head of a national campaign to educate mer. to dress -with originality and smartness.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27, 1924
HOME ECONOMICS CLUBS TO SHOW RESULTS AT PAIR: eJ; Girls Prepare Exhibits pf Sewing and Cooking for Next Week, Four hundred Home Economic 1 Clubs making up the Indiana Home' Economic Association, will be well 1 represented In the domestic arts department of the Woman’s Bldg, during tho State Fair next week. From- rarebit to rabbit the culinary exhibits will run, while the 1 articles In needlework will include the most attractive garments of latest design for babies, school children and older folk, as well as numerous household linens, rugs, lamp shades, pillows and table runners. Mrs. E. W. Bastes of Indianapolis is in charge of the domestic arts department and Mrs. Edward Hatch of Hunter-town is superintendent of the culinary department. Mrs. Elmer Waters of South Bend Is president of the association. A display of fine arts and applied | arts also will be held In this building. Miss Elizabeth E. Heuser of I Indianapolis will have charge of the applied art exhibit. Articles In ba- | tik, textiles including wool embroidery. Swedish darning, applique, weaving and stencil work, leather work, basketry, metal work, weaving, pottery, china painting and decorated giass will make up the exhibit.! Thomas Grant, a member of the 1924 board of agriculture, is director of the different art exhibits. Louis F. Mueller of Indianapolis 1 will have charge of the fine arts dis--1 play. - This will include oil paintI ings, -water color paintings, wood | bjock print, etching and pencil drawI ings. There also will he displays of commercial art, sculpturing, and of I photography of livestock, animals, | birds, home interiors, and other sub- : jects. Autoist Is Arrested Floyd Lewis, 20, of 536 Twentyj Ninth St., was arrested today on j charges of violating the rule of the ; road and failure to have a chaufj feur’s license, following X collision | between the car he was driving and i another by Claude Watts, colored, 543 W. Twenty-Seventh St., in the 1900 block of Southeastern Ave. Name Equipment Shipped Sol Lesser. President of Principal Pictures Corporation, shipped six carloads of studio equipment, including electric lights and all accessories, to Canada del Oro (Canyon of Gold) neir Tucson, Ariz., wnere ! Harold Bell Wright’s story. “The j Mine With the Iron Door,'' is being I filmed.
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