Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1924 — Page 6

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BUDGET AND LEVY UP TONIGHT AT SECRET CAUCUS No Citizens Appear at Regular Council Meeting to Comment on Rates, City councilmen will consider the 1925 budget and tax levy In a secret caucus tonight at the city hall it was anounced today. No citizen appeared to comment on the rate cut to $1,055 by the mayor on each SIOO of taxable property at the council public hearing Monday night. That the reduced taxes meet public approval was evident, for the council chamber is usually crowded with citizens protesting when hearings are held. The 1925 levy is 3,25 cents below that of this year. Following the meeting tonight in which the policy of the council will be formulated, "Walter W. Wise, president, announced a special meeting next Monday night for passage of the budget and tax levy. The levy must be in the hands of County Auditor Harry Dunn, by Sept. 15, and the city controller is given five days to certify it. Only Five Present Only a bare quorum of council•men was present Monday night, and several ordinances fell by the wayside when one negative vote was cast. Councilmen present were President Wise, John E. King, Otto Ray, Theodore J. Bernd and Ira L. Bramblett. Councilman Bramblett, chairman of the finance committee, said the committee's report on the request for an increased levy for the sanitary- board was not ready, but indicated part of the 2.5-cent cut made by the mayor would be restored. The board asked for a 12-cent levy for maintenance and sinking funds, but was cut to 9.5 cents. Opposition of President Wise and Councilman King on the flat-to-curb parking ordinance on Washington St. killed the measure when it was called out for passage Monday night. After the vote, Councilman Ray announced he would reintroduce the ordiance at the next meeting. Zoning Ordinance Passed An amendment to the zoning ordiance changing the district at Thirtieth St. and Martindale Ave. from residential to business, was passed, but another amendment proposing to change the district at Livingston Ave. and Sixteenth St. to industrial, was killed. A measure to change the names of Marlowe Ave. and New York St., in the vicinity of Highland Park, was struck from the flies on motion of Councilman Bernd. Many transfer and appropriation ordinances were introduced to tide departments over in funds that are now depleted. A summary of these ordinances: Transferring $5,C00 from the lighting fund to the fund for repair of buildings. Appropriating $1,325 to pay telephone bills of city caused by increased rates. Transferring $5,000 from the improved street maintenance and supply fund to the asphalt repair salary fund. Increasing salary of bookkeeper in the building department from sl,500 to SI,BOO a year. Transferring $3,000 from the salary and wage fund of the asphalt department to the supply fund. Transferring SIO,OOO from the lighting fund to the street and alley improvement fund. Appropriating $9,000 for legal printing and advertising. Transferring $950 from the asphalt repair department to the maintenance fund of tfte asphalt plant. More Gas for Cops Transferring $2,000 from the electrical department to the police department gasoline fund. Appropriating $5,000 from maintenance fund of the traffic department for purchase of automatic “stop" and “go” signals. Appropriating $891.66 to pay workingmen's compensation to Oscar Sims, who was injured in city employ. Transferring $3,000 from the brick and block department maintenance to the asphalt repair department. Transferring S7OO from the sidewalk and curb repair department to the maintenance fund of the asphalt plant. Transferring $1,294.67 from the brick and block repair department maintenance to salary fund of same department. Transferring $186.81 from the brick and block repair department to the sidewalk and curb repair department. Work AII for Naught Miss Louise Heck, 27, of 521 E. Miami St., is in jali today on charges of drunkenness and malicious destruction of property. H. M. Dowell, 53 N. Warman Ave., employe of the Citizens Gas Company, who was replacing a globe at a ligt near her home said Miss Heck would break the globes as soon as he would place them. County May Be Sued Suit to collect S3OO from the county will he instituted by the Meier Electric Company, 136 S. Meridian St.. Frank L. Meier told the county council today. The council refused to appropriate the sum to pay for engine and generator which commissioners bought for the county, poor farm March 5 in an emergency. Nurses to Have Institute Physicians and nurses assigned to city schools this fall for nutrition work will open institute in the council chambers at city hall Wednesday morning for daily sessions etxendIng more than a week, Dr. Herman 3. Morgan, city health officer, announced today. Scouts at Fairground Several hundred Indianapolis Boy Scouts are assigned to the fairground by F. O. Belzer. Scout executive. The Scouts assist In handling the crowds and give information to strangers.

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EXCLUSIVE PICTURE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES UPON HIS ARRIVAL IN THE UNITED STATES. THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN JUST AFTER THE FUTURE KING OF ENGLAND WAS RECEIVED ABOARD THE YACHT BLACK WATCH, WHICH MET THE BERENGARIA AT QCARANTINR IN NEW YORK HARBOR. THE PRINCE IS IN THE CENTER. THE MAN IN FI LLDRESS MILITARY UNIFORM IS MA J. OSCAR SOLBERT OF PRESIDENT COOLIDGES PERSONAL STAFF WHO WII.L ESCORT THE PRINCE AS LONG AS HE IS IN THE UNITED STATES. THE MAN ON THE I.EFT IS ONE OF THE COMMITTEE WHICH WELCOMED HIS HIGHNESS.

il VEIS HONOR H. 0. CHAMBERLAIN Circuit Judge Made Honorary Member at Reunion, Judge H. O. Chamberlin of Circuit Court today was made an honorary member of the 16th Indiana Regiment Association, meeting in thirtyeighth annual reunion. The reunion has been held for more than twentyfive years in Circuit Court room, ever since Henry C. Allen. president of the association, was circuit judge. Daniel Davis, who will be 100 years old April 11, was the oldest of the ; thirteen veterans present. He lives at Greenfield, Ind., and walked briskly about without a cane. “I take gymnastic exercises every morning.” he said with a smiie. “I worked hard in my youth, clearing | land, and if I sat around, the doctor I said, I would rust away. Yes, I'!l [ be back next year.” [ veterans present were W. H. ! H. Isgrigg, Cincinnati L. D. Martin, I Salem, Ird.: Martin O. Maley, Green ; field, Ind.; W. T. Addison, Spicej land, Ind.: James C. Parker, 904 ; Shelby St.: William W. Clifford. Anj derson, Ind.: H. C. Allen, 1412 Ceni tral Ave., and Henry Neutzenhoelj zer, Lebanon, Ind. DEADLOCK IS UNBROKEN Railroad and 1,000 Miners in Dispute at Terre Haute. By l nited Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Sept. 2. : The deadlock between 4,000 miners working in the northern fields of ! Vigo County and officials of the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad | remained unbroken today. The men, who walked out because j they said the train service to the ! mines was inadequate, voted to rei main idle until the railroad puts on j two more trains each day. Rail officials said the demand j would not be met. CHIEF O'BRIEN IS BACK Fire Head Is on Committee of National Body. Fire Chief John J. O'Brien was : liaok at his desk today after a two weeks’ leave of absence in which he attended the, national fire chiefs’ convention at Buffalo. O'Brien is a member of a committee working out a plan for cooperation between fire departments, fire prevention bureaus and water companies. O’Brien said 1,200 we re present from the United States and Canada. The 1925 convention will be held at Louisville. Shank to Visit Detroit Mayor Shank will leave tonight i for Detroit where he will spend j Wednesday inspecting storage | houses. He has purchased a lot at j 1430 N. Illinois St. as the holding I site for anew storage house in his | private business interests. Tool Theft Charged Eugene Henry, 32. of 902 Meikel j St., is charged with grand larceny. Detectives Row and Garringer allege tools and lumber valued at $27 were stolen from the Reliable wrecking plant, Alabama and Wyoming Streets. \ Committee Discusses Vote Cooperation with civic and professional organizations in an effort to get persons out to the polls to vote this fall was discussed by Chamber of Commerce civic affaire committee today luncheon. William Fortune, chairman, presided. Aviator Killed By l nited Press ELWOOD, Ind., Sept. 2.—Relatives here today received word of the death of Maurice Glover, 21, former Elwood boy, in an airplane accident at Oklahoma City, Okla.

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HERE IS THE ONLY i’LOSE-UP PICTURE .MADE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES AS HE LEFT 1 THE BERENGARIA FOR THE YACHT BLACK WATCH, WHICH CARRIED HIM TO GLEN COVE. L. I. NOTICE THAT THE FIRST THOUGHT OF HIS HIGHNESS AFTER HIS CLIMB DOWN THE GANGWAY WAS HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE. THE PICTURE SHOWS HIM ADJUSTING HIS CRAVAT. THE PRINCE WAS DRESSED IN A GRAY SUIT, WITH WHITE STRIPE. HE WORE A BLUE SHIRT AND COLLAR WITH A RED TIE AND RED KERCHIEF IN THE TOP POCKET OF Ills SUIT. A GRAY HAT WITH BLACK BAND SAT JAUNTILY ON HIS HEAD.

VETERINARY NEED CITED County Council Told Why Appropriation Is Needed. A request for $3,500 to pay the salary of a county veterinary to test the 10,000 cows of Marion County for tuberculosis was explained to the county council, in annual session today, by Dr. J. E. Gibson, of the Federal bureau of animal husbandry, and county agriculture agent Royal H. L. McLain. Dr. Gibson urged the “county area” system adopted in this county. There are 300 tubercular cows in the county which will have to be destroyed, he said. One-third of the cases of consumption in Indianapolis are caused by milk from infected cows the council was told. The city common council recently passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale of milk after Jan. 1, 1925, from untested herds. Under the county area plan the farmer is paid by the Government for his cows killed. Wood Is on Job By J nit ed Press CHICAGO. Sept. 2.—Congressman Will R. Wood of Indiana, chairman of the Republiean congressional campaign, has taken charge of the committee's offices at the Republican national headquarters here, it was announced today. Killing at Muncie MUMCIE. Ind., Sept. 2.—William R. Mclntosh, colored. 34, was under arrest today cha; Jd with killing Henry Wilson, al; 'ilored. McIntosh surrendered , authorities after the shooting, saying he did, it because “Wilson broke up his home.”

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TO BROADCAST WORLD’S SERIES Only Star Reporters of Air to Be Used. By Timel Special NEW YORK, Sept. 2. —Plans are already being laid for the broadcasting of the world’s baseball series. Preliminary reports have indicated that the audience of fans that will "attend” the contests by raido will be greater by many millions this year than ever before, and broadcasters are determined to make a corresponding advance in the quality of their service. Inquiries made by the radio apparatus section of the A. M. E. S. show that only "star reporters of the air” will he chosen to describe the banner sporting event of the year. Exceptional qualifications and a highly specialized technique, experience has shown, are required for the reporting of baseball games, and capable studio announcers have frequently found themselves at a loss when confronted with the probJems of the diamond. Cold at Chicago By United Prrgx CHICAGO, Sept. 2.—Straw hats and lightweight suits began to disappear from streets in the loop here today as the thermometer hovered in the sixties following a heavy rain storm Monday afternoon. Pair and continued cool weather was the prophecy.

YEGGS ME 111 IN OPENING SAFE Bore Hole in Top When Lock Resists Drilling. Yeggs who visited the offices of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 403 Holliday Bldg.. Alabama and Ohio Sts., took their time in opening the safe, police said today. First they drilled three holes around the combination, but failed to open the door. Then they drilled a square hole through the top, large enough for a hand to reach through. Hale Biddle, cashier, told police he was unable to estimate the loss as so far lie had not been aide to open the safe, due to the fact that the con.bin.itlon had been damaged.

Loch Acted Like High School Freshman, Says Girl Who Had Date With Him After Franks Murder

'Dick 1 Liked Petting, but Did Not Seem Insane, Declares ‘Patches.’ By GEORGE PR ITT. \FA Service Writer rrn HICAGO, Sept. 2.—GerI ff mame Relnhard h .s “Dick” I Loeb for a caller In ber home two days after he killed "Bobby” Pranks. She had an other date with him for Saturday of the following week, from which ho was unavoidably detained by his arrest. The foregoing isn't news, because defense attorneys made it public when they summoned the 18 year-old to testify at the boy's trial. Put she never was placed on the witness stand. And ur. til now 'her intimate story of "Dick” and "Babe” Leopold has remained untold. Miss Reinhard is the "Patches” of trial stories. The nickname is fictitious, she insists, and her riends know her as "Bud.” She is a round-faced, browneyed, worldly, winsome child, this playmate of two young millionaires. Her home in her parents’ apartment is comfortable, wellfurnished, unpretentious. “I met Dick last winter in a loop department store, playing mah jor.gg,” says ’Bud.” “I knew the girl who was teaching the game and went to see her. Dick was there and she introduced us. "We talked about the University of Illinois, where I went for a few months, and about Michigan. Kidding each other, you know. I liked him and was glad to give him my phone number. Friends “Cut In” * “Dick called me In a few days and came out to see me. He cams back and I began going out with him to lots of places. We would see each other two or (hree times a week. "He introduced me to 'Babe' Leopold and we went out sometimes with 'Babe' and Susan Lurie I never had a date with 'Babe' alone. And Dickie and I were never engaged- just friends. “Wnen we went to places on the South Side ‘Dick’ didn’t like it, because fellows he knew there would come over to our table and want to dance with me. And on the North Side fellows I knew would try to butt in. So we finally agreed that when wc went together he should have every dance but one.” If there was anything insane or abnormal or indicating deficient emotion about her two friends, “Bud" doesn’t recall it. “My family thought it was a joke when they heard the boys had been arrested and teased me

TEACHERS BEGIN PREPARATION TO START SCHOOLS More Than 1,500 Attend First Session at Caleb Mills Hall. More than 1,500 Indianapolis public school teachers attended the first of a series of pre-school opening meetings which began today at Caleb Mills Hall. E. Y. Graff, superintendent, presided. Meeting opened with singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” followed by selections by the Severin trio. Dr. Edward 11. Kistler, pastor of the Fairview Presbyterian Church, offered invocation. Ernest Messer, accompanied by Mrs. Lenore Coffin, sang a solo. Welcome address was delivered by Graff, who gave a brief review of a book by Dr. Henry SuzzaJlo, president of Washington University, entitled “Our Faith in Education.” Teachers were to meet this afternoon at their respective schools to meet their principals and new teachers. Preliminary arrangements will be made for opening of school Sept. S. Dr. O. W. Fifer, pastor of Central Avenue M. E. Church, will speak at the general meeting at 11 a. m on Wednesday Dr Edward C. Elliott, president of Purdue University, will talk Thursday morning. Oswald Ryan, former member of the national executive committee of the American Legion, will speak Fri- , day morning. ROBBERS ENTER THREE STATIONS Oil Stores Visited During Night, Police Report. Police today were investigating three filling station robberies. 8. C. Bevington. 1322 N. Illinois, [attendant at the National Refining Company Filling Station at Delaware and North Sts., said burglars broke a glass in the door of the men’s wash room and secured $175 hidden secretly in a towell case there. Paul Robbins. 1715 Montcalm St., attendant at the Standard oil station, Tibbs Ave. and Michigan St., reported a similar entrance. Thieves manipulated the combination and opened the safe. He was unable to estimate the loss. Thieves also entered the Robertson filling station at Prospect St. and | Churchmann Ave., but nothing was I taken.

“PATCHES” REINHARD

about having a date with a jailbird," she narrates. “Dick was at the house two evenings aftt*• the murder. He was just the same as always. He started talking about how terrible it was, and mother said she didn't like to think of it. "He called me up the day after the murder. When I .said I didn't know anything of it, he got a paper and read me the account over the phone. “The only queer thing about Dick's disposition was his moodishness. He would take spells of be lng silent and distant, sometimes two or three times in an evening. Acted lake Freshman "I think ‘Babe,’ though, was pretty cold and unemotional. Dick was unusually affectionate. He is the kind that likes petting whenever he can get any encouragement from the girl. “Dick tried to conceal his education and acted like a high school freshman. 'Babe' wanted to impress you with his* But neither one paraded his wealth. “One thing that surprises me, now that everything about the boys has come out. is Dick’s

Occult 'k v' ) \i n ' Bary-Crouza, known in France as the “occult dancer,” soon will come to America. She gets her name through her claim that she “enters a trance” before each performance. —A live snake is used in the unusual dance. OBI! STANDS ON HIGHWAY REPOST J. D. Williams Makes Demand for Retraction. Aroused over what they maintain was unjust criticism of the State highway commission by the State board of accounts, members of that body may take drastic action Wednesday. An official demand for retraction of the charges may be made, it was said. Acording to a statement by John D. Williams, director of the highway commission, the report of the ; board of accounts concerning transactions with O. F. Schlensger, motor car dealer, "is so full of misstatements that the entire report has no value.” He demanded that the report be withdrawn. Meantime. Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the board of accounts, said: “We stand squarely on our report. Before giving out his statement Williams was in consultation with Walter G. Zahart of Ft. Wayne and Earl Crawford of Connersviile of the highway commission. Police Seek Couple Police were asked today to watch for Miss Elizabeth Schweitert. 16, and Charles Towner, 20, who are reported missing from Reading, Ohio. Girl has blue eyes and golden hair, and the boy black flair an dbrown eyes.

drinking. He took drinks three or four times while I was with him. But I told him I didn't like It, and it was very seldom he ever did. "I used to think he was unusually truthful. He had the most convincing way you ever listened to. Some of the things he told me have turned out not to be so, though. "Dick did not like animals. I brought In a little Pomeranian dog once, and Dick climbed up on the piano bench, so it couldn’t touch him. "Both of the boys were grearly impressed with their fathers. Dick's father was more strict than Mr. Leopold. 'Babe' would drink liquor at home, but Dick's father wouldn't stand for it. Whenever Dick was going to be out late, he always called up to let them know at home Or at least he said he did. "One funny thing about Dick was the way he used to say, every day or two, 'I don't see why you want to go with me. Yoj must find me boresome.’ And he was not boresome at all. But sometimes 'Babe' was."

TUESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1924.

REDUCE BUILDING COSTS BY WORK, IN WINTER IE New Materials Make Possible Cold Weather Construction. Times Washington Bureau, 1322 hew York Are. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—A campaign to reduce high building costs by eliminating smeasonable idleness has been launched by the Department of Commerce. A committee of builders, realtors, bankers and housing experts, appointed by Secretary Hoover, found that building trades workers were employed less than three-quarters of the year and that custom rather than climatic conditions caused this idleness. “The survey proved that winter lay-offs are not confined to regions where climate is severe. Cities in the South and on the Pacific Coast are affected much like those on the Canadian border,” says John M. Gries, chief of the division of hous,n and building, who had charge of the investigation. Laying Off, A Habit “This habit of laying off from three to five months every winter is due to customs which becam® fixed when builders had not 'y™ learned how to cope with adverse weather conditions. These customs have not been changed to meet improvements in building materials, although for most types of construction it is now possible to build the year-round in all parts of the United States,” Gries stated. Gries declares that education of the public to realize that winter building is possible will greatly decrease building costs. So far more than 2,000 copies of the committee’s report have been mailed to city officials. building conTfhissions, real estate men and architects in every large city in the country. Advantages in Winter Building “In winter there is likely to be no jam on materials, the car shortage is not so marked, prices of materials are usually lower, and above all there is not the shortage of labor found at the peak of summer building,” Gries says. Another striking reason for constant building was emphasized by Secretary Hoover in reviewing the committee's work. “The need to eliminate the wastes of seasonal idlness has been brought forcibly to the attention of the consruction industries and the public by reason of high labor costs and the failure of the building trades to attract young men into their ranks. Lengthening the building season will mean greater trades and will also go far to attract capable apprentices,” Hoover c.*- iared.

LESION AND KLAN STAGE BRIEF ROW | Ex-Service Men Are Asked to Keep Peace, 3 ;/ Timm Special CHAMPAIGN, 111., Sep?. 2.—Officials of the American Legion, in State convention here, today circulated among the hundreds of legionaires asking a pledge of peace following a brief clash between a group of delegates and alleged Ku-Klux Klansmen. The clash occurred last midnight in front of a hotel when white-robed figures descended from an interurban car. After an exchange of words between the robed figures and war veterans, two of the newcomers were seized, hustled about and their robes ripoed oft'. Charles W. Schick, past commander of the legion, and others high in the legion activities, stopped hostilties. Schick and Maj. Carlos Ames and others who witnessed the clash arc asking the veterans to refrain from further contact with the Klansmen. 'CONSCIENCE WAS CLEAR^ Judge Has to "Force” Attorney Upon Defendant. "Where's your attorney?” Criminal Judge James A. Collins asked Otto Greeson, 1735 Miller St., when the latter appeared in court to enter plea to charges of burglary and petit larceny. He stole a razor worth $4 from Frank Workman. 1022 Arnold Ave., May 23, breaking into the Workman home, it is charged. “I don't have a lawyer,” replied Greeson, who is out on bond. “I have a clear conscience, and don't need any!” Collins assigned the case to Clifford Cameron, attorney for poor. GRANDSTANDS EXAMINED Shank Orders Inspection at State Fairground. Inspection of the grandstand and bleachers at the State fairground by the city building department was ordered by Mayor Shank today after visting the fairground Monday. Although the city, has no jurisdiction over State property, Hamilton said the inspections would be made and recommendations would be filed. Shank said some of the structures were a menace to public safety, and “at least the State would know how the city felt about it.” Bicyclist Struck by Auto 4 Herman Porta vo, 820 S. Capitol Ave., was cut / about the face to--1 day when he was knocked from his bicycle by a machine driven by | Raymond Yunt, 227 N. Gray St„ lat Maple and McCarty Sts. Yunt was held.