Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1924 — Page 2

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UNCLE SAM GOIF<S 10 CHECK Up 1 TRAFFIC VMOR Questionnaires Sent for Statistics to Curb Accidents, Bu Time* Sp-'/rial WASHIN GTON. Sept. 10.—“ Uncle Sam is going to check up on the traffic lav/ violator. The national conference on street and higlAvay safety, working under the dir action of Secretary of Commerce Hoover, has sent out questionnaires, to several hundred communities in an effort to get statistics that will serve as a guide toward redaction of auto accidents. Vn most cases police departments w/ill gather the information. The reports will show the age, 'color, sex and business of violators. whether they can read traffic signs in English, whether they own real estate or other property, and whetjier they carry insurance on their machines. \ Another line of questions will ask how much .driving experience the violator has had, whether he drives his own machine and' whether it was bought new or second-hand, together v. ith its age. The report will also show if the motorist is a professional chauffeur or a private driver. Records of previous accidents will be inquired into to ascertain if he is a reckless driver. The conference will attempt *,o analyze the reports and draw thf/re front definite recommendations for remedial measures. FRIDAYPARAI PLANSWLETE Seven Divisions in Defense Day March. Finp.l nrrang f -i*®nts for the Defense .fciy parade Friday were announced today by Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith, chief marshal. The parade will start at 2 p. m. fram'd Delaware St. and move west Ctfi Washington St. to Capitol Ave., countermarch to Meridian St., north on Meridian around the east half of the Circle to St. Clair St., east on St. Clair St: to points of disbandment. The reviewing stand will be at Meridiaji and St. Clair Sts. The p trade, will be in seven divisions commanded by Maj. William Kllqfgen. Lt. Col. John B. Reynolds, Sergt. Byron I C. Young, Lt. Col. Ger>rge Hume, Col. George H. Healey, Maj. Louis J. Koster. RUDDELL GETS POST Heads Arrangements Committee for Riley Hospital Opening. J. W. Fesler, general chairman far the dedication and formal opening of the Rs!ey Hospital for Children, today announced the appointment of Almus G. Ruddell as chairman of the committee on arrangements. Serving on Ruddell’s committee will be Robert E. Neff, vice chairman; Vs. G. Bobbs. John N. Bromert, Lawrence A'. Sheridan. John F. Walker. P. C. Reilly and F. F. Shortemeier. The general committee for the dedication day activities is composed of J-’esler, Neff. Bobbs. Dr. Lafayette Pa.ge and Dr. Samuel E. Smith. H. C. Curtis’ Father IU Mrs. J. M. Curtis of Vernon, Ind., today asked local police to locate her son, Harry C. Curtis, thought -to be proprietor of an auto repair shop in Indianapolis] His father is very ill, she said. Coal Miner Killed By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Sept. 10.— Fred Walters. 27. coal miner of Jasonville, was killed here when he tried to board a freight train to make his way to South Bend. Three Dogs Stolen Charles Stiles, 845 W. Thirtieth St., reported to police that a fox hound and two coon dogs were stolen from his kennels. Dogs were valued at S2OO. The making of plaster masks from living faces is superseding photography and portrait-painting in Vienna

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DIMETRIOP* SIGELAKIS, 26. OF HOBOKEN. N. J., IS PLANNING A ROUND/THE-WORLD TRIP IN THE CARCH ARIAS. THE BOAT IS ONLY TWENTY-TWO FEET LONG AND SEVEN FEET WIDE. IT HAS A DRAFT OF LESS THAN A FOOT.

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PfV Times Special TIPTON, Ind., Sept. 10—S. G. Young has served as mayor of Tipton enough terms to be hardened to many exasperating circumstances which confront a city, but he tells the world he is peeved over the new delay confronting the improvement of Conde St. Citizens are protesting the paving of the street again because of the cost. The project has been up several years and delayed each time.

SEPARATE UNITS OUTSIDE LIMIT Ogden Rules Bonds Not to Be Considered in Total, Bonded indebtedness of separate I city taxing units is a separate debt, ; and should not be included in the ; j borrowing limit of 2 per cent of the assessed property valuation of the , | general city. This was the opinion of Ogden, city corporation counsel, submitted to Mayor Shank today, after it was found Tuesday, that tije total bonded indebtedness of all units was over the 2 per cent limit, j Although this opinion gives the i general city a margin of nearly $6.-1 ! 000,000 on which it car, issue bonds. | it is adverse to the mayor's’ plan of , j rewriting the city charter eliminatj ing separate taxing units, i The mayor insisted that moves to I have the charter rewritten con : ■ tinue.. : Evans Heads Fund Speakers William P. Evans, former pro- ; secutor. will he chairman of speakI ers' bureau of the Indianapolis Com- j j munity Fund, by J. K. Lilly, general ‘ campaign chairman announced, j Evans has selected Judson L. Stark' as secretary, with offices ;t 312 1 Chamber of Commerce Bl.lg. Pep for ‘Monon Day’ Indianapolis Traffic Club will hold j a pep session in anticipation of “Monon day" at the luncheon Thurs, day at the Severin. An excursif will be run to French Lick on Mon /> n day, Sept. 18. Couplings Crush Foot George Tanner, 841 W. Nev/ York St„ is in city hospital with a crushed foot, deceived when he wa , caught in between couplings on a freight train early today at Ave. and the Big Four. Mrs. Mahlon I) ,y Hies By Time* Special NOBLESVILLE, ’Aid., Sept. 10.— Mrs. Mahlon Day, fi,, is dead at her home near here. Curtis Day, business man of Ind'/ 4 napolis, is a son. Animal Aid Outlined Dr. Klizabet/i Conger, city poundmaster, instructed policemen at the three roll crjls today how to care for injured animals and 1° treat rabies.

“If we are going to object to Ihe cost, why not revert to the old days,” Young says in a statement. “Let us make it of corduroy. We can get some secondhanded telephone poles, cut them into right lengths and place them in the street. Dirt from the Cicero Creek dredge can be secured at the cost of hauling, and if a generous supply of this is piled on these poles, we will have a street that will not cout much and will stand there until Resurrection day. After that, none of us will care a damn whether we have a street or not.”

GRADE SCHOOLS DROP Enrollment Expected to Incira.se in Few I>a.vs. Preliminary tabulation of enroll ment figures reported to Superintendent E. U. Graff today showed 47,778 pupils enrolled in grade and high schools of Indianapolis. This figure is about 1,000 less than the to > tal for September. 1923, hut this 1 year's figure will show an increase within a few days. The report showed 39,205 in U Jv elementary schools, compared w f n 40,296 last year, and 5.513 in ,he four high schools, as compared t, v jth 5.488 last year, an increase of 04. Enrollment reported in the, high schools were: Technical, 4,23' f shortridge. 2.070, Manual,. 2,1/3, and Broad Ripple, 140. ACCEPTANCE W/THHELD By Times Special GRLENCASTLE, 'Atd.. Sept. 10.— Trustees of De i *aiw University received word ft p r . Lemuel H Murtin. chosr a t o be president, that he will not able to announce his doc sion on -whether he can accept until'Oct. Dr. Murlin. who at present is president of University, is spending h / vacation at P.aileya Island, net Portland, Maine. Dispatches ti fixi there quote him as saying: "De 'fauw has fine old traditions and ht /,1h considerable sentiment for me. f \ started my career and still have many devoted friends at the uni /r-rsity. I am considering the off dr. but am not in the position to n Ake any definite statement at this * Sine.” New Brightwood Church Petition for erection of a Christian Church at 2862 Denny St., has been granted by th board of zoning appeals. The board approved a petition for filling station at Union and Morris Sts. Petitions for stations at Forty-Sixth St. and College Ave. and Thirty-Eighth and Pennsylvania Sts., were taken under consideration. Lower State Levy Seen The State tax levy probably will be lower for the coming year than lt was during the present year. It now is 30 cents. This was the opinion expressed by officials of the State, beard of tax commissioners today. The levy will be set Sept. 22. Dawes Speeclies Planned By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 10. —The Republicans will make a drive during the next three weeks in the Northwest with Charley G. Dawes, candidate for Vice President, leading. Chairman Wil'dam A. Butler announced today.

History By Vnitrd Prtnt CHICAGO, Sept. 10.—Following arc the dates of outstanding events in the Franks murder case: May 21 —Robert Franks kidnaped and murdered. May 22—Body found In railroad culvert. May 29 —Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb taken into custody. May 31 —Leopold and *Loeb confessed kidnaping and murder. June 6 —Slayers indicted by Cook County grand jury. June 11 —Boys arraigned and pleaded not guilty. July 21—Leopold and Loeb sprang a surprise by changing pleas from not guilty to pleas of guilty. July 23—Hearing of evidence “in aggravation and In mitigation” of punishment started before Chief Justice John R. Caverly. Aug. 19—Hearing of ev.dern e closed and closing arguments started. Aug. 28—Arguments ended Sept. 10—Sentence imposed

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DAWES TOUR OF STATE PLANNED Republican Candidates at* Luncheon With Walb. Frank E. Rozelle, La Grange, chairman of the tl. O. P. speakers’ bureau, announced today speaking dates for Charles G. Dawes, Republican candidate for Vice President, in Indiana would be announced Tuesday after a conference in Western headquarters in Chicago. Rozelle will spend Monday in conference with Everett Sanders, Terre Haute, chairman of the national speakers bureau. Adam Bede, humorist, will speak at Peru Sept. 18 and Montaville Flowers, writer, at Greencastle the same day. State candidates were guests at luncheon at the Severin at noon today of State Chairman Clyde A. Walb, La Grange, and other members of the State committee. Postmaster General Harry S. New spoke. 1 Tuesday night State and Fedora', department heads recited achievements of their departments at a meeting with Walb and L. C. Schneider, chairman of the publicity bureau.

EFFORT IS MADE. TD ARREST W 0 Judge Decision * When Warrant Is Asked. By United Press NEWARK, N. .T„, Sept. 10. —An application for a feench warrant ff.r the arrest of L j-: ;s Angel Firpo, ,’r genttne boxer who 'meets Harry Wills in Jerse y city Thursday night, was made t e judge William N. Runyon in I t,<]eral Court here today. The app l jr-ation asks for a warrant on o r. irges of violation of the Mann wi f slave act In connection with ihe visit of Kennrita Bianca Picart to this country. .Tud f Runyon reserved decision until Thursday morning. Tr application was made by BerC. Gilson, attorney for religious an i civic organizations 0/ New Jer v attempting to prevent the Firpo A ills bout. MAN'S DEATH IS PROBED Dies at Hospital After Being Slated on Drunk Charge. Coroner Paul F. Robinson today began an investigation of the death i of Joseph Broderick, 60. of 16 S. Sen ate Ave.. who died at the city hospital early today. Hospital at tarb.es say that Broderick died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Turnkey Burk said Broderick was slated at the city prison Tuesday afternoon on a charge of intoxication, by Patrolman Prindle. and later, when his condition became wors~ in the cellroomA |he was removed to the hospital He I was carried to the prison from the \ patrol on a stretcher-Motor-man Exonerated William .Tames. Clifford. 111, was discharged in city emir ttoday on an involuntary manslaughter charge, filed following the death of Mrs. Mary Lex. 77, of 919 E. Market St. when she was struck at Illinois and Washington Sts., Aug. 27. by a car. Testimony was that Mrs. Leg walked directly in front of James’ oar uni t lint he was not to blame. Solution for World Trouble*) For the salesman to sell with the benefit of customers In mind, for labor and capitol to exchange services with consideration of the viewpoint of each other, is the panacea for the Ills of the world. Harry C. Spillman, New York, said Tuesday before the Rotary Club. G. O. P. Women Chosen Mrs. Arthur R. Robinson, vice chairman of the Republican county committee has announced thirty-six women helpers in the coming cam- | palgn. George V. Coffin, county | chairman, will name a similar committee of men. Burns Are Fatal to Boy Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept., 10.— j Redlss Mercer, 18, climbed a pole cf the Interstate Public Service Coin- j pany for sport. He touched a high 1 tension wire. He died at a hospital here from bums. Two Drix-ers Held Herman Johnson, 2007 Yandes St., ! is held on a speeding charge, and ! Otto Acree, Ft. Harrison, is charged with assault and battery, following a collision at Thirtieth and New Jersey Sts. Alex Johnson, colored, rear 323 E. Walnut St., riding with Herman Johnson, was slightly injured. I

Dollar Day Tomorrow Jewelry DepartM Leather Goods Dept. 91 Down—Men’s $1.50 Suitcase.... (£ JfS and Ladies’ El-. x \ gin .and 111 in j IpS Leather Boston j I'||S Watches. Newest / Bgrj Bag / |||J $1.50 Watt/Ws ... Leather. Hand Chicago Jewelry Cos. 203 E. Washington St. Opposite Courthouse

COFFIN RITES THURSDAY Pioneer Manufacturer to ’Be Buried in Crown 'Hil /, - Funeral services of William J. Coffin, 79, pioneer local cigar manufacturer, who died Tu# sday, will be teld at the home of his'daughter, trs. Charles W. Road, 824 S. Randolph St., Thursday fit 2 p. m. Surviving are the daughters, Miss Rebecca Coffin, Ne-fv York; Mrs. Edward Bryce, Mrs. "Edward Miles and Mrs. C. W. Read, all of Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. O. w. Fowler, and a brother, Abrahu m Coffin, both ot Indianapolis. SEVEN SEEK OFFICE Spanish War Veterans to Elect Loa imander-in-Chief. By Utiitcd Press MICH 1(7 AN CITY. Ind., Sept. 10. —Sevqn f arididates were in the race today tot ■-commander-in-chief of the United 'Spanish-American War Vetcram. C'Antf idates; John ,T. Garrity, Chicar/i; Ray Tice, Allentown, Pa.; ChfiuMcey Herrick, New York City; G /op ge H. Peed, New Jersey; Hern.iap Fink, St. Louis; Richard Flynn, ’Bo* ton, and Maj. Elsworth Wilson, Cl? attanooga. ‘Rerton Johnson. Montgomery, Ala., and Harry Eranr# St. Paul, t v’cj'c nominated for senior vice commander. \ St. Petersburg, Fla., and Portland, i Ore., seek the 1925 convention.

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Atctomnbiles reported stolen belong to; Earl Hammond. 125 W. Fourteenth St., Ford, from Michigan and Noble Str, , Kissell-Skiles Company, 14 N. Senate Ave., Ford, from there. 1 Joseph Nally, 738 E. Ohio St.. Ford, from Massachusetts Ave. and New Jersey St. Charles Cole. Peru, Ind., Ford. from Capitol Ave. and Washington St. L_ HACK HOME AGAIN Autncmobiles reported found by police belortt to: Albert Fanagan. 820 N. Meridian St., Dodge, found at Washington St. and Riley Ave. Family Welfare Budget Topic Budget will be discussed at a mrerting of the executive committee Family Welfare Society today Tfie board, of which W. 11. Insley is president, will hold Its monthly meeting Friday noon at . the Severin

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1 or More Will Start e. Savings Account Here We Pay 4V2 % on Savings Todctfs Savings Are Ton furrow's Capital Mvyer-Kiser Bank 128 E. Washington St.

237-241 E. Washington St. $ Day ,j\OrffianS $ Day Original and Only Bluebird Store _

DOLLAR DAY SENSATIONS Phonograph THURSDAY SPECIAL Heaters SSX PORCELAIN TOP ’ KnaMg^ABLE A Genuine Porcelain Top Kitchen Table, P H 1 |l Slightly Imperfect. This Is A![\ * ▼ * 1 Ia Real Special at \ our fall show . ■ No phone orders. No mail orders. of heating __ tionally large. All Jpl Down -—~ \\r rI sizes and styles. _ . ,—We Give I a u prices from Buys This Away a B h < tc PHONOGRAPH Set of = Finish D shes I of Bluebird ' See Window MOW With Any sl3 jSor Display S o9= Jp Purchase of J. CjOver £) own Easy P -CASH OR CREDIT- • Mr A d Terms Lr-n ———n sls.oo.purchase.

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Tomorrow, Thursday More real values will be offered in our Dollar Day Sale tomorrow than we have ever shown in any previous sale. For the choice of Lae offering we advise you to be here whin the store opens at 8:30. A surprise awaits you, as there will be many more bargains which space does not permit us to list. f Dollar Day Special New Fail and Winter COATS ft Marvelous values! Nearly every garment luxuriously a fur trimmed and handsomely lined. Take your tomorrow of any of these stunning models. All you pay at present is a deposit on your selection and balance to suit your convenience. Garments stored free. Materials £J Styles and Brytonia Tp jf|| Straightline, Block Polaire 54/ z Colors kr

Larger Women’s Dress Sale We again demonstrate to the larger women of this city our ability to give them stylish larger size t 5 - Dresses in all the new Fall styles, colors and mate- t * rials, sizes 46 to 54Vf>, at •

Children’s Coats <hg New early Fall models, and H plaids. 'Sizes 5 to 8. SKIRTS for early Fall wear. NtH Plaids, stripes and t H plain colors. Sizes PI 24 to 36 oUta

Exceptional DRESS Values f|| i)p Final Clearance of All Summer Dresses—Silks, tpra Crepes, Voiles, Linens, Ratines and Combinations. Values Unheard Os. mtMa

New Fall Trimmed Mra hats $| _ Velvets Shapes tJijLy A Combinations Colors

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Fall Coats Sizes 16 to 44 Tan fj* Polaire Gray UsK'sw Velour Brown foa.Vo^effy Navy Cloth

New Fall Skirts Checks, Wools and Plain Colors . Special for Dollar Day, $g.94

RAIN CAPES for Children. Just the thing for school R 9 wear TWEED SUITS *fl New stylish Fall k ||j Suits for Women > lip find Misses. Sizes H 16 to 44