Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 104, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1924 — Page 12

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TWENTY-FIFTH ST. PAVING HELD UP BY TECHNICALITY Approval of County and City Required, Mr, Fixit Learns, A*“ LTHOUGH additional step? have been taken for paving j _ of Twenty-Fifth St. from Yandes to Rural Sts., it will be some time before actual work starts. The stretch, let under contract by the “connecting link" law, must be done jointly by the city and county and must be approved by city and county councils. Times readers have asked Mr Fixit the status of the project. Mr Fixit still continues on the job for Times readers who have business or “kicks” to make at the city hall. Write him your troubles. Here is what he had today: DEAR MR. FIXIT—The Indiana Asphalt Company has been given the contract for paving Twenty-Fifth St. from Rural to Yandes Sts. Nothing has been done to date. Why the ielay? William Gwinn. Martindale Ive. and Twenty-Fifth St. This contract was approved by the board of works at a cost of $92,859.01 under the “connecting link” law. It was approved by the county council Saturday, and now p us- go to the city council. Com plet jn date will depend on how soon the city council confirms the improvement. Effort will be made to bring it before the council next Monday night. DEAR MR. FIXIT—I live in one of the houses that is to be tom down for the Pleasant Run Blvd. How soon will T have to move? —W. R. Hays. 1615 Laurel St. Newton J. McGuire, attorney for the park board, said the board expected to sell the houses at public auction next month some time, and they probably would lie torn down in November. Appraisers have started work on estimating value of lumber in these homes. TO COMPLAINT of firetrap being built in 2200 block on Eastern Ave Francis F Hamilton, city building commissioner, will send an inspector to this building and see what can be done. MR. FIXIT —What is the zoning of St. Clair and Pine Sts? Do you know if the railroad contemplates laying switch there in the near fu ture? Prospective buyer. Intersection of St. Clair and Pine Sts. is zoned as first industrial. Officials at the city plan commission said they did not know of any CuticuraSoap Pure and Wholesome Keeps The Skin Clear Sosp, Ointment, Talcum sold errrlirt PANTS 1 To Match Your Coat Ray PANTS Store 16 West Ohio vs o i

8 John W. Davis Compliments The ' Hawkeye Limited” To OMAHA On his first western campaign tour Mr. Davis has selected Illinois Central’s popular western train. The “Hawkeye Limited” has long been a favorite with discriminating travelers west and we consider its selection by Mr. Davis and his party a recognition of the high standard of Illinois Central service. The “Hawkeye Limited” leaves Chicago 6:00 p. m.; arrives Omaha 8:35 a. m.; Sioux City 8:40 a. m.; Sioux Falls 10:40 a. m. For fares, reservations and information address— City Ticket Office, 38 West Ohio Street J. M. Morisey, District Passenger Agent, Illinois Central R. R. 315 Merchants Bank Bldg., 1 S. Meridian St. Phones —Circle 4534-4535, Indianapolis Illinois Central 357 * '■iMMI I. II ■■

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Boys and girls, 18 or under, are getting busy with their pencils or colors and are drawing their conception of a covered wagon or prairie schooner. The Indianapolis Times, in conjunction with the Ohio Theater and the local Paramount office, are anxious that many boys and girls see “The Covered Wagon” at the Ohio this week.

plans to lay switch in that vicinity DEAR MR. FIIT—Will you help us get weeds cut in a vacant lot on Tecumseh St., between Twelfth and Thirteenth Sts.? W. U. C Officials at the board of health office have ordered the inspector to have the property owner cut the weeds. The board is having considerable difficulty finding the property owners of vacant lots. Many of them live outside the city. The city's weed cutting force has been discharged because of lack of funds. M’CULLOCH SCORES KLAN Candidate Speaks at Bethel African M. F. Church. "When the Civil War emancipated slaves and eventually admitted then, to citizenship, it established the principle that race was no bar to equality before the law.” This was the declaretion Sunday of Dr. Carleton M. McCulloch, Demo ratic candidate for Governor, at the Bethel African M. E. Church. “All citizens of the United States are guaranteed the right to worship according to the dictates of their own conscience and the Constitution has established citizenship principles that will stand, and whenever the K,i Klux Kian attempts to subvert these principles I will oppose it by every means within my power,” McCulloch said. DR. MAYO WILL SPEAK Famous Surgeon to Attend Medical Meeting. Dr. William Mayo of Mayo brothers hospital, Rochester, Minn., ind a former resident of Lafayette. Ind.. will speak at the public health meeting at Cadle Tabernacle during the annual meeting of the Indiana State Medical Association, it was announced today. The medics will hold a three-day meeting starting Sept. 24. Th taber nacle meeting will be held on the night of Sept. 25. Mayo’s subject will be “The Men ace of Cancer."

To make this possible The Times will give a pair of tickets to the best fifty drawings sent to The Covered Wagon Editor of The Times on or before midnight of next Wednesday. The one sending in the best drawing will receive in addition to a pair of tickets an autographed copy of the book by the stars in the picture.

Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported stolen belong to: Homer H. Horner, 1266 W. ThirtvSecond St., Chevrolet, from New York and Pennsylvania Sts. A. E. Weinert, 284 4 Central Ave., Ford, from Pennsylvania and Maryland Sts. 1,. Roy May. Columbia Club, Ford, from in front of same. Harry Finn, 340 Minerva St., Ford, from in front of same. R B. Reider es 40 Dolly Madison Apts., Alabama and Twelfth Sts., Hudson sport, from South Grove golf links. G. E. Alters, 1422 E. Vermont St.. Ford, from Franklin, Ind. W. T Johnson. 36 Laynion Ave.. Studebaker, from Monument PI. and Meridian St. Ray Digood, 528 N Highland Ave . Ford, from garage in rear of same BAC KHO.MF AGAIN Automobiles reported found belong to: Frank Marsch. Frankfort, Ind.. Ford, found at Georgia and Illinios Sts. Forest Iviin, 2918 E. Eighteenth St.. Ford, found after an accident at White River Blvd. and Morris St. William Murphy, Louisville. Kv Dodge, found at 54 W. New York St. Earl Antrim, Elwood, Ind., Ford, found at Bird and New York Sts. K. S. Stillwell. Bloomington, Ind.. Ford, found at Henry St. and Madison Ave. Walter F Gibbons. 331 N. Ban croft St., Oakland, found at Pennsyulvania and Walnut Sts. William H. Grimes, 1340 Silver Ave.. Ford, found at Arch and College Aves. C. B. Jackson, 603 Hume Mansur Bldg.. Chalmers, found at Brighton’ Blvd. and Seventeenth St. Studebaker roadster, license. No. 414.164. found at New York St. and Garfield Ave.

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Three prominent Indianapolis citizens will be selected as judges This is open to all children of 18 years or younger. So get busy, draw your idea of a covered wagon, with oxen or horses, and send to The Covered Wagon Editor of The Times. Be sure and put your name, age and address on the drawing.

DENIES BIGAMY CHARGES Woman Flee lares .Jealousy Cause of . Half-Brother’s Action. Mrs. Hetrie Lucas, 36, of 3632 W. Tenth St., arrested Saturday on bigamy charges filed by Harry Lucas, | a half brother, today denied she was guilty of the charges. She is held j in city jail on $1,500 bond. She said Lucas was jealous be- | cause his mother, Mrs. Kate Lucas, | left all her insurance to her hus- ! band, John laicas. She said she had gained a div<4ce from her first husband. Oliver Balz and given custody of their two children. Iviter she married George Clemons, who divorced her. she said. Finally she married John Lucas, she claims. HUSBAND ANGERS WIFE Woman Cuts Spouse When He (lives Dime to Cripple Girl. Mrs. Emma Ewings, colored, 613'-j Indiana Ave., is sought tdday after ; she cut her husband. Will Ewings in the left side of the abdomen. Sunday. She became angered when he gave a dime to a cripple girl, police say. Search is being made for the col nred man who shot Charles Bush, i colored, 1614 N". Missouri St., ! through the lobe of the left eat Satj urday. Police sa’ no reason was given for the shooting. F. T. CRETORS RESIGNS | Harry W ertz to Be Deputy United States Marshal. Fred T. Oretors, chief deputy United States Marshal, today handed his resign. i;i<in to United States | Marshall Linus P. Meredith, effective I Get. 1. Harry Wertz, deputy mir'hall will be promoted to chief deputy. Oretors, who has held the position since January, 1917. will enter the .genera 1 Insuiance and boi at 1128 Hume-Marisur ffidg. Wertz has been deputy marshall since Jan 1, 1923. HOLD-UP RECORD BROKEN Woman Forced to Give $9 to Colored Bandit. Hu Timm Special CRAWFORDS VILLE. Ind., Sept. B.—Mrs. Caroline Spitznagle today was suffering from shock and fright, following a visit to her home of an unknown colored man. who robbed her of $9 under threats of death. It was the first hold up In Craw fordsville in two years. Fiery Cross Burns Investigation is being made by police after a cross, ahout six feet high, was found burning Saturday in a vacant >ot at Eighteenth St. and Gent Ave. Lieutenant Cliff Richter said that he questioned several persons in the neighborhood, but that they gave no information concerning the placing of the cress in the lot. Richter said that the cross burned about a half hour. Reisler Is Re-Fleotcd Dr. Simon Reisler, 5749 E. New i York St., was re-elected president of the 149th Field Hospital, former Indiana National Guard unit, at a reunion held Sunday at the doctor's home. Fifty former members of the unit were present and recounted experiences on the Mexican border. Camp Shelby and in France. Digest Takes Straw Vote Notice was received in Indianapolis today that Literary Digest will conduct one of the greatest presidential straw votes poll ever taken. Fifteen million secret ballots are being mailed at a rate of a million a day to voters all over the United States. In Hands of Receiver By United Press ST. LOUIS. Mo., Sept. B—The St. j Louis Coke and Iron Company, cap j italized at $11,000,000, today went j into tue hands of a receiver, due to j depression of the iron market and | lack of working capital, its presi j dent, W. L. McGuire, announced. | Schloss Presiding Officer Several Indianapolis retail clothiers are attending the elventh annual meeting of the Retail Clothiers and Furnishers which convened in that city today. Sol Schloss, of Schloss Bros., president of the association, | presided. > Defense Day Supisu-t-ed Resolutions, pledging full support in the observance of Defense Day, Sept. 12, have been adopted by George 11. Thomas Rost, G. A. R. according to statement today by 1 Horatio N Ogden, commander.

LIBERIA IS ONLY NATION ACCEPTING ARMS RESTRICTION Other Countries Promise Cuts, but Make No Definite Agreement, By United Press GENEVA, Sept. S.—Little Liberia alone, of all the nations of the world, j today flatly accepted a request by the 1 League of Nations that as a preliminary to disarmament members promise not to exceed this year their 1923 naval, military and aviation appropriations. A majority of the governments, including England, Portugal , Roumania, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland and Italy, replied! announcing a desire to reduce armaments, but declining to accept any restrictions The League's machinery began today to carry out the provisions of the Herrlot-MacDonald resolution was carried unanimously by fortysix nations Saturday. The first commission was summoned to prepare a project of obligatory arbitration, while the third j commission began work on the pro j ject of mutual guarantees and disj armaments based upon the league’s | previous draft, the commission plans as well as the formula presented by the intente, the inter parliamentary union and others. The permanent military advisory commission of the League also went into session to perfect the Leagued plan to assume military control of Germany, Austria, Hungary and ! Bulgaria. ELECTION CASE HEARD Motion to Dismiss Hied by Fred S. Be<U. Arguments on whether Circuit I Judge Harry O. Chamberlin has ju- ! risdktion to settle who is the R<> ! publican precinct committeeman ir, the Ninth precinct. Thirteenth ware', were heard today. He took under advisement a motion to dismiss the eaase by Fred S. Beck, assistant city smoke inspector, Shank supporter. Beck was declared elected by the precinct board in the primary. Emanuel Wetter, Coffin-Dodson ad herent, deputy county auditor, is pi: intiff. He alleges he was "counted out of the election.” A recount held under Judge Chamberlin's order showed Wetter had the majority. •CIVIC JUBILEE’ PLANS Brightwood Civic League to Celebrate Sept. 17 Further plans for the “civic juhile, ” to be given by the Bright wood Civic League Sept. 17 on Sta tion St. between Roosevelt Ave. aid Twenty Fifth St. to celebrate the recent street improvements will be made tonight at a meeting at the Brightwood Railroad Y. M. C. A. Tentative plans for the evprit include dancing, musical program and refreshments. All residents ir that section of the city will unite in the celebration. Committee in charge is John Marsnail, chairman; Miss Allie Clark. Mrs. Rilla Reink *n Mrs J. M Singer and Mrs. Almetta Worth. COPPERS LOSE FRIEND Dog They Borrow for Hunting Is Reported Missing. A valuable hunting dog, answering to the name of “Babe.” was re ported to police as lost or stolen by Pete Brown, 547 E. Washington St., today. Police are making an active search for him, as Frown loans him to the e'Voppors” when they hunt in the fall. He is a Tunal pointer, and has brown spots on his white hair. MRS. HODGES NAMED Will Be Active in Formal Opening of Filey Hospital, Oct. 7. Mrs. Curtis A. Hodges of Indianapolis has been appointed vice chairman for women’s activities in connection with the formal opening of the Riley Hospital for Children and the fund financing program. The hospital will he opened Oct. 7, the birthday anniversary of James Whitcomb Riley. Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, general chairman for the women's activities, has returned from a trip through the northeastern part of the State, much impressed with interest shown in that section in the memorial hospital. Heavy Fine Netted Charged with operating a blind tiger, Wilbur Eberhardt, 934 Chadwick St., was fined S2OO and costs aand sentence dto sixty days on the Indiana State Farm, in city court today. Officers testified they found white mule under the floor at his home, Aug. 24.

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A Puzzle a Day What is the smallest amount of money that cannot be made up with less than nine United States coins, now in circulation? For example: Three dollars and thirty-three cents can be formed with seven coins; one $2.50 gold piece, one half dollar, one quarter, a nickel, and three pennies. The following coins may be utilized: Cent, nickel, dime, quarterdollar, half-dollar. $2.50, $5, $lO and S2O gold pieces. Answer to Previous Puzzle: I ACTS EAR STEP STAR ERA STEPS CATS ARE PETS RATS ARE PESTS By rearranging the letters of each word in the sentences: “Acts Ear Step; Star Era Steps,” we discover that: “Cats are pets; rats are pests." LOST BETWEEN HERE AND IDAHO Wife Asks Police to Aid Hunt for Husband, Mrs. Mary FT Boyer, 324 N. East St., today asked police to help her find her husband, missing since Aug. 20. She said she and her husband had been living at Band Point, Idaho, and decided to return here She left with her two children and her husband was to follow the day after. She haa had no word from him. James M. Bell, R. R. O. box 232, notified police his daughter, Alice Marie, 16, whom he had asked to search for, had returned. Bell now asks police to search for his wife, with whom the girl left. Miss Ruth Wineman, 20, is missing from the home of her sister, 385 N. Bolton Ave Police were told she left with Arthur Wright, who forfeited his bond, following his ar rest here. TEXANS ENTERTAINED Indianapolis Athletic Club Is Host to Southern Visitors. A delegation of citizens from FI. Worth. Texas, headed by Col. Amoo G. Carter, was entertained at the In dianapolis Athletic Club Saturday night following an inspection of the dub building. Meredith Nicholson presided at a dinner giver, , n honor of the Ttxas visitors. From Indian apolis they went to St. Louis ’o inspect the athletic club there. F*. Worth is building an athletic club, twelve stories high and costing $1,275,009, Colonel Carter said. MOONSHINE AND BRICKS Four TriUp Trip to City Prison as Ry sultOne to Hospital. Monnhinc mixed with fists and bricks resulte in another visit of Willie Carey, 329 Kentucky Ave.; e> and Vnna Ft:>ach, both of 152 N. Blackford St . and Tom '■ Ford. 743 W. New York St., to the city prison. Willie was sent to the city hospital to have two stitches taken in his; head. Willie was slated on an assault and battery charge and the others on drunkenness and assault i and battery charges. CLEAN-UP AT DE PAUW By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Sept. B.—! De Pauw students poured into | Greencastle today from all over the; country and took up mops and! brooms in a campaign to clean up I deserved fraternity houses prepara- j tory 1° tv heavy rush season this j week. Registration begins Wednes- j day. An enrollment of 1,500 is expected j by university officials. Rector scholarships have been granted to 250 new’ students, the greatest number awarded any single year. Acting President Henry B. Longden said. BATTON HEADS OFFICERS Robert Button, of Muncie, is new j head of Reserve Officers Association in Indiana. Other officers elected Sunday at the Severin are Henry B. Walker, Evansville, vice president, and John G. McNutt, of Indianapolis, secretary treasurer. “The heavy burden for the success of defense day, Sept. 12, falls on reserve officers,” said Maj. Maurice E. Tennant, O. R_ C. State chairman. A resolution supporting defense day was passed.

THIRD TIME WAS CHARM Man Is Given Sentence After Plenty of Warning. David Sowders, ] 306 W. ThirtyFirst St., was sentenced to thirty days on the Indiana State Farm in city court today and fined $1 and costs on a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated; sls and costs on an assault and battery charge, and $1 and costs on a drunkenness charge. Police made three runs to his home. First they found Sowders

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“raising a disturbance” and told him to go to bed, they testified. The second time he had torn up the house and left. The third time, he had beat up his wife, they said. Officers trailed him to New Pennsylvania Sts., where tl®!™ arrested him. Milk Wagon Wrecked A Polk's milk wagon standing in front of 2935 N. Capitol Ave., was struck and partially demolished by an unknown motorist early today. Georger Dirr was in charge of the wagon. The auto failed to stop.