Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1924 — Page 12

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CITY TO BE GAY IN BUNTING FOB DEFENSE TEST Business Houses Will Be Asked to Cooperate on Sept. 12. With all the old-time wartime spirit of patriotism, flags will fly from staffs throughout the city and downtown buildings will be decorated with bunting in observance of Defense Test day. Sept. 12. Fred A. Sims, Seventh district chairman, will ask merchants and citizens to cooperate in a display of patriotic colors in honor of the day. Mayor Shank will ask that a half holiday be declared. Sims said. Regular Army units, stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, headed by a band, will form an important part of the parade. The troops will move from the fort to the State fairground the night before in order to be in readiness. More than 200 members of the United States Naval Reserves with 2th Regiment Reserve Band will taKe part in the parade. Announcement of the complete program for the cornerstone laying ceremonies at the American Legion headquarters building in Memorial Plaza has been delayed because of failure to hear from persons asked to take part, Maj. Paul Comstock, secretary of the Indiana War Memorial commission, said. An interesting feature of the parade will be participation of about 1.500 members of the R. O. T. O. of Indianapolis high schools, who are expected to take part, and the presence of about 500 men identified with the 309th Medical Regiment of the 84tb Division.

RIVALRY EXISTS BETWEEN THREE KNIGHTHTATES Indianapolis Council No. 437, Has Annual Election Monday. • Indianapolis council. No. 437, Knights of Columbus, has placed three tickets in the field as candidates in the election Monday night. Considerable rivalry exists for various offices. In the office of Grand Knight .older members of the council are backing J. F. O'Mahoney against Timothy P. Sexton who is running on two tickets. The three tickets in the field: ••Regular'’ Ticket Grand knight. Timothy P. Sexton. Deputy grand knight. Harry Caiiand. Chancellor. Leo X. Smith Financial secretary, Herman P. Kirkhoff. Recorder. James Hallinin. Treasurer. Robert K. Kroeger Advocate. Anthony J. K'ee. Warden. Andrew Oefelein. Inside guard Peter Hickey. Outside guard. Joseph Wade Trustee. Dr John F. MeCool. "Another" Ticket Grand knight J. F. O'Mahoney. Deputy grand knight. Harry Caiiand. Chancellor. Thomas A. Flaherty. Financial secretary. Herman P Kirkhoff. Recorder. Frank Monahan. I Treasurer. Leo X. Welch. Advocate. Richard Hennessy Warden. George Oefelein. Inside guard Basil Vanier. Outside guard. John Kelly. Outside guard. Joseph Wade Trustee. Dr. J. F. MeCool. "Progressive" Ticket Grand knight. Timothy P. Sexton. Deputy grand knight. Harry E. Caiiand. Chancellor. William P. Holmes Financial secretary. Herman P Kirkhoff. Recording secretary. James Hallinin. Treasurer. Thomas Jones. Advocate. Leo X Smith. Warden. Frank Monahan. Inside guard. Peter Hickey. Outside guard. John Kelly. Outside guard, Joseph Wade Trustee. Dr. John F. MeCool. BLACIT BOX - EXPLAINED Battery Experts Entertained at Film Party. Representative body of car dealers, salesmen and service dealers were entertained at an informal party at the Edle Battery Company's sta tion, 25 W. Eleventh St. A two-retl film. “The Story of the Black Box,” showing the latest types of electrically heated molds, and electrically operated machines for construction of Willard batteries, was shown. Light refreshments followed the film.

30 DAYS FOR CONTEMPT •Judge Moll Acts on Failure to Pay Allr wanoe. Judge T. J. Moll of Superior Court Five today sentenced Francis P. Williams. 43. of 121 S. Alabama St., to thirty days in Jail for contempt of court. Williams, who was divorced last March, was ordered to pay a weekly allowance of $12.50 toward support of his wife and four chil- j dren. He failed to make any pay ments. it was charged. Makes Autos Go 40 Miles on a Gallon of Gasoline The Western Specialty Company of Sioux Falls. S. Dak'., announces the perfection of an amazing device which is enabling car owners all over the country to more than double their mileage from each gallon of gasoline used and at the same time remove every particle of carbon from their motors. When the device is attached, automobiles have made over 40 miles on a gallon of gasoline—increased their power and pep tremendously and eliminated all spark plug difficulties This inexpensive little device is entirely automatic and self-regulating and can be easily attached by any one in a few minutes without tapping or drilling. The management of the company states that in order to introduee this startling new invention they are willing to send a sample at their own risk to one car owner in each town, who can show it to neighbors and handle the big volume of busires which will be built up wherever it is shown. Just send your name and address to the Western Specialty Company. 1656 Laeotah Bldg . Sioux Falls. S. Dak . and *et their free sample offer—Advertisement.

British Workman Tells How to Keep Wolf From Door and Support Family of Seven on sl3 a Week

Mother Repairs Clothes, Father Shoes Church Fetes Amusements, By MILTON BRONNER, VFA Service Writer [”“] ONDON. Sept. 6.—lt isn't ' I always easy for the Ameri--1 1 1 can working man to make ends meet and the lot of the British laborer is far harder still. Take Alfred E. Mummery, for instance. He is feeding, housing and clothing himself, his wife and five children on sl3 a week. And there are thousands even less fortunate than he. For Mummery, employed by the street cleaning department of the Borough of Southwark, which is a part of big London, gets more rather than less the ordinary unskilled worker. He's just an average Britsh workman. But to get back to his living problem in after the-war expensive England. Mummery lives in the Walworth district. His home is on the top floor of a tenement buiiding. Has Three Rooms There are three rooms—two bedrooms and a room the family uses as a kitchen, dining room and sitting room. It is in the latter his children study their lessons every night after supper. “We rented the flat before the war." Mummery explains. “We are lucky to have It. “Under the law. the landlord cannot put us out. so long as we pay our rent, and he can’t get over 20 per cent more than we paid before the war. "Most landlords nowadays, when they get an unfurnished flat vacated, put a few things in it, call it furnished, and ask almost any price they want. And they can put you out almost any they wish. “Our landlord installed in our flat a coal stove and also a gas stove with a penny-in-the-slot connection for our gas supply. We pay him nearly $3 a week. “In case I get sick, the borough will pay my wages for six months. If anybody in my family takes ill, we get doctors and medicine under the national health act. If we need dentists we get them free through the London county council. “The nine shillings (less than $2) that I keep for myself, I use partly in keeping up my dues in clubs that pay benefits in case of illness or death. “Now I supose you wonder what we eat. Well, here's about the way it runs: “Breakfast—Tea. bread and oleomargarine. "Noon Dinner—Meat, greens or cabbage, potatoes, tea. “Five O’clock Tea —Bread, oleomargarine, tea. “Eight O’clock Supper—Bread, cheese, tea. “My wife uses three or four pounds of tea a week costing one shilling and four pence (30) cents a pound. We have about eight or nine pounds of sugar a week at 7U, pennies (about 15 cents) a pound. “When we have meat It is bacon, or mutton or sometimes beef at one shilling and four pence a pound. We get greens at a penny ha'penny (approximately 3 cents) a pound. “Potatoes don'f cost us much. We get three pounds for tuppence (about 4 cents). We need about five loaves of bread a day. They are small loaves costing 4*-4 pence (about 9 cents) each. And our oleomargarine—running about three or four pounds—costs us six pence (about 12 rents) a pound." Attend Church Clothing and shoes for himself and his family, however, form Mummery's big problem. He tries to meet it by paying some of his spending money into boot and clothing clubs. That costs him about 12 cents a week. “When he has paid in a certain amount, he is entitled to boots or clothing equal to that amount. 'But we make ours last a long time.” he says. “I always can buy leather fairly cheap, and I repair the shoes of all the family. And my wife is mighty clever at patching up the clothes.” Mummer)’, unlike many British workmen, doesn't spend his spare time at the “pubs,” public houses or saloons. He neither drinks nor smokes. And he doesn’t go to the movies. Mummery Is religious. He is a regular churchgoer. And he and his brood look to the church festivals for ali their amusement. “We go to the concerts and the services at the Browning Settlement. which is near where we live. These entertainments don't cost anything, and they are pleasant. “They often have lemonade and cake, and the cost Is so small that anybody can afford It if he has a regular job.” That, in hrief. is how a man Is supporting himself, his wife and five children on sl3 a week.

GREENSBURG MAN HELD Deietives Charge Theft of Auto Parked at Stockyards. Earl Marlow, 33. of Greensburg. Ind., was slated Friday night by Detectives Klaiber and Sullivan on charges of vehicle taking and grand larceny. The detectives charge theft of an auto parked at the stackyards owned by J. M. Weatheraid, Thomtown, Ind., July 9, and that it was driven twelve miles north of Shelbyville and stripped of back wheels and a tire. Kenton to Make Big league Debut Following last week's announcement that Erie Kenton would graduate from the short to the long feature class with the completion of his Dempsey “Fight and Win” scries comes the first intimation of the feature which will be his bigleague debut. Carl Laemmle has assigned him to “I’ll Show You the Town,” the Everybody's Magaznie story and novel by Elmer Davis

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FIRST AUTOMOBILE BUILDERS UNITE AGAIN AT KOKOMO Apperson Plant to Operate Haynes Company, Facing Receivership. Bp Times Special KOKOMO, ind.. Sept. 6. —Haynes and Apperson, contenders for years for the honor of building the first car, have restored, in a measure, their original partnership, broken more than twenty years ago, according to an announcement by Don C. McCord, president of the Apperson Auto Company, that beginning today the Aperson company will operate the Haynes plant, continuing the lino of cars now being manufactured. The Haynes factory was- closed this week, following the filing of a petition for a receiver at Indian apolls. Friday, creditors of the Haynes company met with directors and agreed to a five-year lease of the factory to the Apperson interests. The plan further included settlement with Haynes merchandise creditors on a basis of 15 cents on the dollar and continuation of ail Haynes committments to other manufacturers. The entire plan is subject to approval of Federal Court before which the petition for receiver and bankruptcy is pending. One of the first automobile factories In the United States was the Haynes-Apperson Company. It grew out of the building of Elwood Haynes' first ear at the machine shnP of Elmer and Edgar Apperson at Kokomo, in 1893-4. Several years later. Apperson withdrew and both factories have operated separately in Kokomo since.

POSTER CONTEST ENDS Chamber of Commerce to Announce Winner Tuesday. Selection of the official poster for the second Indianapolis Industrial Exposition, Oct. 4 to 11. at the fairground. under direction of the Chamber of Commerce, will be made at a meeting Tuesday noon, according to Briant Sando, director of publicity. Numerous entries for the poster contest had been received. Executive committee which is in charge of arrangements for the exposition will meet at noon Monday at the Chamber of Commerce. With preparations for the exposition entering the final stages the work of all committees is being speeded up In order to have everything in readiness for the opening. NOSES ARE CASUALTIES Constables Tell Police of Fight When They Tried to Serve Writ. Two constables today were suffering from injured noses. John Taylor, 924 E. Washington St., and Martin Watson, 22 W. Michigan St., both out of the court of Justice of Peace Glass, told police they went to 952 >6 N. West St. to replevin an article from Ernest Allen. Miss Sallie Beard, colored, they said, slammed the door in their face when they asked for Alien, and when they broke the door in Howard Smith, also living there, smashed them on the nose. Smith was charged with assault and battery. * New Fraternity Formed By Time * Special COLUMBUS, Ind.. Sert. .—Alpha Phi Beta, anew non-scholastic fraternity, has been organized here and a request has been made for a State charter. Directors are George E. Kinney, Kennth N. Rinker, formerly of Indianapolis, Robert E. Lindsay, Russell Rhodes and Albert J. Thompson. Wife Seeks Husband Mrs. Raymond Foreman, 2510 N. Delaware St., asked police today to look for her husband, absent since Friday morning. She said he left to go to work at Plainfield, Ind., but failed to return. He has light brown hair, blue eyes and wore a dark brown suit and gray cap, she said.

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A teacher told a young pupil to write two simple sentences, which the child did, but mixed up the letters In each word he wrote with the result shown above. Can you rearrange the letters in the various words so as to correct the sentences? * Yesterday’s answer: If a man made three steps forfard and two backward, each step covering two feet, and made a step a second, it would take him 43 seconds to cross a twenty-two-foot carpet. if he maintained the same routine. For. in five steps * five seconds), he covers two feet. Thus he will have gone sixteen feet in 40 seconds: and his next three steps, made in three seconds, will cause him to reach the other side of the rarpet, any further routine being eliminated.

GEIGER SLATED TO HEAR CASE Formal Assignment in Hawkins Case Expected, Juuge Ferdinand A. Geiger, of the Circuit Court of Appeals, of Chicago, wll hear the mail fraud conspiracy rase against the Hawkins Mortgage Company, it is understood. Judge Geiger’s assignment to the case has not b?en formally made, but Judge Samuel Alschuler, presiding judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals, has had correspondence with Judge Geiger in regard to the matter, it is said. Judge George. W. English, of the eastern district of Illinois, assigned to the Indiana district by Judge \lschuler. during Jintga Anderson's vacation, will finish his temporary term Sept. 15. Judge Anderson is expected to return to Indianapolis by Sept. 20 The criminal case against Hawkins and his associates is expected to take up the entire month of October, beginning Oct. 1. Summonses for the petit jury for the case are being sent out by IJnus P. Meredith, United States Marshall, today. Gone, hut Not Forgotten Automobi reported stolen belong to: W. E. Peek, 1316 Merchants Bank building, Oakland, from State fairground. Otto Monical, 416 N. Tibbs Ave., Chevrolet, from New York and Pennsylvania Sts. Chester L. Waot, 1609 Olive St., Chevrolet, from Woodland Ave., and Maple Rd. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found belong to: H. W. Place, 531 N. Capitol Ave., Chevrolet, found at 158 N. Alabama St. R. W. Bassett. 413 N. La Salle St., Ford, found rear of 2126 Ashland Ave. Jacob Balenui, R. R. G. Box 234, Ford, found at Orchard Ave. and Thirty-Ninth St. H. F. Geizendanner, 238 W, Twenty-Eighth St., Ford, found at Senate Ave. and South St. Cause of Death Given Coroner Paul F. Robinson said today the death of Oscar Snyder, 66, a veteran printer, who died Friday night while eating supper at the home of Mis. Julia Brooks, 729 N. New Jersey St., was due to heart failure. Body will be taken to Enden, 111., for burial.

AUIOONLY CLEW IN HOLD-UPS BY TWO ARMED IN Bandits Rob Filling Station Attendant and Bakery Driver. Police have an auto they said was used by two hold up men In a holdup of a garage man and bakery driver, as the only clew. Two armed colored men drove into the Harry Barker garage, 4206 College Ave., and forced Elza Banks, colored, 1818 Yandes St., the night man to give them two gallons of gasoline. They took $6 from his pocket. Banks said they overlooked the key to the cash register. Just outside, the bandits held up Floyd Grimes. 27 N. Pershing Ave., ‘a driver for the Kroger Baking Company. on his wagon. They took $7 and some change. Both Grimes and Banks described the car a* Chevrolet coupe. Car Deserted Thirty minutes later. Sergt. Reilly and squad of nighr riders saw a Chevrolet coupe bearing two colored men. head north on Alabama St. They found It crashed into the front of a vacant store at 158 N. Alabama St. Hampton It. Gray, night man at the Vaught Garage, said he saw one man run from the car and dodge into a stairway. The police could not find any trace of him. Reilly said the certificate of title in the car was issued to \V. Place, 531 N. Capitol Ave., Automotive Parts Company of America He said Place had moved from 2601 N. New Jersey St. to the Indianapolis Athletic Club, but attaches there said they had not heard of him since June. The car was not reported stolen. Ice Company Bobbed Sergeant Russel! and night riders found the front door to the Polar Ice ahd Fuel station, Schiller and Meridian Sts., jimmied and the pay phone gone. The cash drawer was open, but Russell could locate no one to tell what was taken. A glass in the door of the Supreme Oil filling station at Troy and Madison Aves. was found broken by Everett Carroll, merchant policeman. He could not tell whether anything was taken. Cecil Dickey, 1010 Harrison St., told police one of two colored women at Roanoke and Allegheny Sts., drew a knife and took sl7 in bills from him. When W. S. Williams, Chicago, got on a Chicago train, he discovered a “dip” had taken a billfold with $8 and a ticket to Chicago.

ELECTORS’ NAMES FILED Commonwealth Land Party Registers With Secretary of State. The Commonwealth Land party today filed the following list of presidential electors with the Secretary of State: J. H. Reitemeier, Logansport; Herman Ritter, Logansport; L. O. Bishop, Clinton; George L. Colter, Munele; Esther A. Edwards, Frank D. Brown, Grace E. Herrin, G. R. Slater and George B. Schultz, all of Indianapolis, and Edward Kopp, Hammond. The party candidates are: William J. Wallace, Newark, N. J., for President; John C. Lincoln, Cleveland, for Vice President. BODY TO BETAKEN HOME Merrill 11. Mclntyre Dies While Visiting Daughter Here. Funeral services for Merrill H. Mclntyre, 90, who died Friday while visiting his daughter. Mrs. E. L. Hunter, 671 E. Dr.. Woodruff PI., will be held at Traverse City, his former home. Until his retirement Mr. Mclntyre was a contractor. Boosters’ Dinner Monday Monthly dinner and meeting of the booster organization of the Hoosier Athletic Club will be held Monday at 6:15 p. m., according to C. A. Olds, secretary. Russell Goodrich is chief booster. The club limits its membership to 100.

GLIB STRANGERS TRIM AGED MAN OF LIFE SAVINGS ‘Wire Tapping' Game Is Worked to Perfection for $85,000, By Vnited Press CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—Police of the country today were asked to hunt for four men who swindled Christopher Maul, 57, .out of his life savings of $85,000. Maul, a retired brew-master, told police that on Aug. 14 he was approached by a man giving the name of Mr. Parker with a request that he appraise the Hyde Park Brewery of St. Louis. Parker said he represented a syndicate about to purchase several breweries. Maul accepted the commission. While inspecting the brewery a man walked past him and dropped a purse. Maul picked it up and returned it to the man who offered to reward him with SIOO. When Maul refused, the man who gave the name of Mr. Bowden, said he would invest the SIOO in stocks for the brew-master. Bowden then reported to Maul that he had cleaned up SIOO,OOO, part of which would go to Maul just as soon as the latter showed his good faith by producing a large sum of money. Maul returned to Chicago, withdraw $60,000 worth of securities and met Bowden in Cleveland. The securities were turned into cash. Then Parker popped up and joined Bowden and Maul. Bowden said he had another tip on the market and it was decided to put all of the money on it. A few days later Bowden reported that the money had been lost and asked Maul to secure $25,000 tor another stake to go on a “sure thing " Maul turned the balance of his savings over to Bowden. The three went to Akron and were joined by a fourth man, who admitted being a wire tapper. The nmney was put on the "sure thing" and ali the losses were recouped. Maul was waiting for the division of money when Parker rushed up to him and said the sheriff had just arrested Bowden and the wire tapper. and urged the brew-master to return to Chicago and wait for further word. Man. 'turned, and. getting tired of waiting, told his story to the police. •DEAD’ CAR REVIVES Driverless Machine Figures in Unusual Accident. An unusual accident took place at Tenth St. and Massachusetts Ave. Friday night when two cars were badly damaged, and the occupants of one escaped injury and the other unoccupied. C. L. Franz, 2009 E. Forty-Sixth St., was driving west on Tenth St., and at 1118 E. Tenth St., he said his car went dead. He told police he got out of the car and started to push it out of the street when the motor started and driverless it ran down the street with him giving chase until it collided with a car driven east by Miss Mary Folson, 1714 N. Talbott Ave. Police made no arrests. Oil Station Phones Taken Pay telephones were solen Friday night from filling stations at Shelby and Raymond Sts., and at Madison and Troy Aves., police reported today Entrances were gained through windows, pojice said.

White House to the Jungle—! resident land of le soft, in the 3 shrill ▼ ceys in dark by the te r of nt gray )pl n g tangled * ■ in Africa” j fffiSßLfcU By W. ROBERT FORAN V Starts September 11 in The Times

Big Chief s jpjS JOHN E. SEDWICK John B. Sedwick of Martinsville, great incohonee, the highest office in Improved Order of Red Men, will feature in activities at the seventy-seventh great sun session. of the great council of the United States which meets here next week. SEEK BROTHER - IN - LAW Domestic Trouble Blamed for Shooting of Man. Police searched the city today for Barney Nelson Taylor, 27, colored, 16 Plum St., wanted on a charge of shooting with intent to kill George Cook, colored, 1210 N. West St. Sergeant Sheehan said he learned Turner went to Cook’s house with a shotgun after Cook and his wife, Lucilje, Turner's 'sister, had trouble. Cook ran out and Turner followed, witnesses told Sheehan. At Twelfth and West Sts. Turner fired two shots at Cook, police said. Cook was caught by Patrolman. Gibbons and taken to the city hospital. He was ordered held on a vagrancy charge. Some of the shot struck Jennie May Board, 315 Middle St., Sheehan said he was told, but she could not be found. Automobile Turns Over Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Partlow, who were riding with O. P. Larimore, 2940 N. Denny St:, when another machine collided with their Friday night are recovering today. The Larimore car was overturned. William Robbins, 2143 Bossart Ave., the other driver, was slated.

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FORMER SHERIFF DEAD Services Monday for James A. Hamilton, m Funeral services for James Hamilton, 81. of Park Ava„ a resident of Indianapolis .since 1843., who died Friday, will he held at 2:39 p. m. Monday at the home. Burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Hamilton, who was the son of a pioneer settler here, was formerly county librarian, and served seventeen years as sheriff. He later engaged in real estate business. Mr. Hamilton was a member of G. A. R.. K. of P., and F. and A. M. Surviving are three children Dr Frank A. Hamilton. Miss Ada Ball Hamilton.-and Oscar Hugh Hamilton, and Oscar Hugh Hamilton, all of Indianapolis.

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