Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 116, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 116

GIRL DIES INHEAVY RAINSTORM Fata! Auto Accident Near Newcastle —Cars Stalled and Streets Flooded in Indianapolis Corn and Utility Wires Damaged, CYCLONE AT MARION; DAMAGE IS $75,000 Garage Demolished and Motors Wrecked —Houses Unroofed and Torn From Foundations Lightning Strikes Church Steeple, A girl was killed and thousands of dollars damage done to crops and electric utility wires by the electric and rainstorm Sunday which swept over parts of Indiana Sunday. Rain fell in such quantity and so suddenly in parts of the north side of Indianapolis Sunday evening that automobiles were stalled in the middle of streets. Marion, Ind., was visited by a cyclone with damage estimated at $75,000. A concrete ' garage building was completely demolished and several automobiles in it wrecked. Houses were unroofed and torn from their foundations. Telephone and light poles and wires were snapped by the wind. Xo one was seriously hurt, although a number of narrow escaped were reported. Miss Adeline Stewart, telephone operator at Lewisville. Ind., was killed in an automobile accident ten miles south of Newcastle on the Na tional Rd. Two other girls were injured in the crash, caused by the blinding rain. City in Storm’s Path Although the weather bureau re ported today only half an inch of rainfall during the past twenty-four hours in Indianapolis, rain fell in sheets and. driven by the wind, flooded sewers and overran streets In sections where sewers are inadequate. Indianapolis lay in the path of a storm which swept from Texas toward the northeast carrying a sixty-mile gale at St. Paul, Minn., and over four inches of rain at Knoxville, Tenn. Lightning caused damage in many places, striking the belfry of the ! North Methodist Episcopal Church, Thirty-Eighth and Illinois Sts., while fifty young people were at(Tum to Page 11) CAL COOLIE OR TIE-UP SAYS NEW Postmaster General Regards President's Chances Good, "Coolidge or the House of Rep- j resentatives.” This is the way Harry S. New, postmaster genera! of the United States sized up the i political situation on his arrival here 1 today to attend the convention of the National Association of Postmasters which opens Tuesday. "As I see it, conditions are favorable for the election of President Coolidge. There is only one alternative, and that is for the election to be thrown into the House of Repre-! sentatives. This would be possible only in the event La Foliette shows j unexpected strength in a number of | States in the West and Northwest." j New will return to Washington Wednesday. "It has been a long time since I have had a real visit with my family ; and I am going to take this opportunity to do it,” he said. While ; here he will be at the home of his ; arother-in-law Dr. Bernays Kennedy, j 4034* N. Pennsylvania St.

G. 0. P. PLANS ALTERED Dawes Schedule and Death of Mrs. Watson Causes Change in Dates. Change of schedule of the CoolidgeDawes caravan of political speakers and the death of Mrs. Mary Watson, mother of Senator James E. Watson, will necessitate rearrangement of plans of Hoosier Republicans who were to accompany the party on its trip across northern Indiana. Congressman Will Wood will take Senator Watson’s place on the tour. Daily McCoy, secretary of the Republican State committee, said. The caravan was to enter Indiana for a meeting at Ft. Wayne Tuesday, but will not arrive until Wednesday. The meeting scheduled for South Bend Wednesday will be postponed until Thursday. State Chairman Clyde Walb ‘will spend Tuesday at headquarters. He had not expected to return until later in the week.

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Nick, Crippled, Hopes the Cops Will Find Stolen Pushmobile

NICK MATESICK MAN JUMPS TO DEATH BENEATH BRIGHTWOOD CAR Charles Galvin, 40, 111 for Many Months, Neighbors State, I Charles F. Galvin, 40, brakeman. 1508 Sheldon St., was instantly killed today when he dived underneath a Brigntwood street car at Arsenal and Roosevelt Aves. in whiat witnesses told police was a suicide. Witnesses said Galvin was standing on the curb and waited until the street car was about half way past and then dived under the car. The rear trucks passed over his body. He was identified by his mother. The body was sent to the city morgue. Conductor Is Held Martin Carney. 2413 S. Meridian St., conductor of the car, was slated on an Involuntary manslaughter charge. Roy Brown, 817 Highland Ave.. was the motorman. Neighbors said that Galvin had been suffering from nervous trouble for some time. They _ said they thought that rather than coninutting suicide he merely became con* ised and fell under the car. T:.e mother is Mrs. Catherine Galv.n, with whom Galvin lived. Funeral Wednesday A sister, Mrs. William Moore, 1536 Sheldon St., and two brothers. Joseph and Lloyd, 1508 Sheldon St., also survive. Galvin was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. The Rev. F. B. Dowd will have charge of a brief service at 5 a. m. Wednesday at the church. Burial at Richmond. Ind. SEN. WATSONS MOTHER IS DEAD Expected End Comes After Long Illness, By United Press WINCHESTER, Ind., Sept. 22 Mrs. Mary Watson, mother of James E. Watson. L’nited States Senator from Indiana, died at her home here today from infirmities due 'o advanced age. Mrs. Watson, who was more than 92 years old, had been seriously ill since 'ast spring, when she suffered an attack of influenza. For several days early in June her death was momentarily expected and Senator Watson was called to her bedside from Washington She rallied, however, and Senator Watson returned to Washing ton. Mrs. Watson was born in Butler County, Ohio, and came to Indiana in 1848. Three sons. Senator Watson, Seward Watson. Winchester, and Charles Watson, Indianapolis, survive. WEAVERS IN DEFENSE Attorney Cites Court Order on Julietta Bond Matter. A claim that business affairs between Marion County and the contracting firm of George A. Weaver & Son, builders of new wings to Julietta, county insane asylum, have already been settled by a court, was made today in Criminal Court by Merle N. A. Walker, attorney for the Weavers. George A. Weaver and his son, Windsor Jr., are facing trial on charges of making false claims to the courty and perjury in getting the balance of the money for the job, and in having the county pay for the bond of 81,771.73. Superior Judge T. J. Moll mandated Auditor Leo K. Fesler to pay for the bond, and also the balance due. Walker maintained, after a fall hearing in which Moll decided the county eot "valued received.

Lad's Chief Means of Travel Stolen —Friends Aid Him,

UMMONING a smile. Nick Matesick, 15, of 3940 E. u__J Twenty-Sixth St., hoped tolay that the police would fin 1 his “push automobile," stolen while he was at a movie theater Thursday evening. “They're the ones that are supposed to do it," he said. That's vhy he wrote to Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff about it Saturday. His pushmobile has been Nick's chief means of getting around since a neighbor gave it to him five or six months ago. Nick has had tuberculosis of the hone since he was a little boy. One leg is in a brace and the other In a plaster cast. Doctors at the Robert Long Hospital, where the Children's Aid Society has, Nick treated, wanted to put him to bed at the hospital Saturday. But Nick persuaded them to let him go home. “I don't, care if I have to go to hed if I'm home," he explained, snuggling up to Mrs. William Bell, who, with her husband, took Nick in nine years ago when he was orphaned. “But I would like to have my pushmobile back.” Nick had a treat Thursday when he went to a neighborhood movie with a boy friend. Mrs. Bell doesn't let him go into crowds often because it is hard for him to get around. iVh"n Nick and his friend came out after the show was over the pushmobile was nowhere to be seen. He got home as best he could with his friend's aid, and told his foster parents of his loss. Friday morning Bell started out to hunt the “push automobile." Friday night neighborhood hoys took up the search. They scoured the neighborhood, in vain. So Nick waits for the police to find it. and smiles a wistful, hopeful smile. PASTOR CONFESSES HE POISONED HIS WIFE AMEND Illinois Preacher Is Prostrate in Jefferson County Jail, Not Gallows MT. VERNON, 111.. Sept. 22. —“I will not ask for the gallows.” State’s Attorney Frank Thompson declared, following the confession of the Rev. Lawrence Hight to the poisoning of his wife and a member of his congregation. "The church must be considered. I will ask for a sentence of life imprisonment on both charges.” By United Fret* MT. VERNON, 111., Sept. 22 —A mild-mannered little religious man, who confessed to the poisoning of his wife and one of the members of his congregation “to put them out of their pain” lies prostrated today in Jefferson County jail. The Rev. Lawrence M. Hight, 49. Methodist Episcopal circuit rider for the village of Ina and five surrounding towns, who admitted his guilt to county authorities today after an all-night cross-examination, is ill —so “sick to his stomach” that he cannot talk. ‘Hight Powerful’ Known to his parishoners here in southern Illinois as “right powerful in prayers," he mumbles prayers for his church and family, that his disgrace he not extended to them. State’s Attorney Frank Thompson, meanwhile is searching for additional evidence to fix certainly upon the pastor the two murders he confessed —that of Anna Hight, 44; his wife of 26 years, and that of Wilford Sweetin, 35, with whose wife the pastor is alleged by Ina citizens to have been intimate.

No Advances Mrs. Elsie Sweetin, the wife, a pretty woman of 35, denies any intimacies with Rev. Hight. "He never made any advances. I was a perfect lady.” she says, in the face of testimony the two spent much time together. Mrs. Sweetin was taken ill in July at the same time her husband was, following an ice cream social they attended, and is still confined to her home. Rev. Might's confession said he gave Sweetin arsenic in drinking water while attending his sick bed. MINISTERS TALK SHOP Methodist Preachers Hold Fall Gettogether. The Methodist Ministers' Association held an informal “get-together” meeting today at the Roberts Parle M. E. Church as its first fall meeting. Election will be held next Monday. The nominating committee is composed of the Rev. C. C. Bonnell, the Rev. E. St. Clair and the Rev. C. H. Rose.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 22, 1924.

DAUGHERTY TALK TURNS TO COOLIDGE Senator Wheeler Declares President and G, 0, P. National Committee Are Involved in Attempt to Discredit Probe, MEANS TO TESTIFY TO COMMITTEE AGAIN Circumstances Surrounding Alleged Statement to Former Attorney General Repudiating First Testimony to Be Cleared Up, Ry ( nit e<l f'rc** JOLIET, 111., Sept. 22.—President Coolidge and the Republican national committee are involved in the Daugherty attempt to discredit the recent investigation of the Department of Justice. Senator Burton K. Wheeler declared he had been informed today. In a statement issued aboard his special car on the way to Bloomington from Chicago, Wheeler declared. Another Expose “I talked with Gaston B. Means by long distance telephone to Wash ington and he told me he would ex pose to our Investigating committee. the circumstances surrounding his alleged stafunent to Attorney General Daugherty in which Means repudiated his previous testimony before the committee. "Means declared that he did not wish to make it public except before the committee because it involved President Coolidge and the Republican national committee. “I told him to see Senator Ashurst, a member of our committee now in Washington, and immediately tell Ashurst the whole story of how Daugherty got the letter from him. Another I/Ctter "Means also mentioned a letter which he said had been written to him by Daugherty. In this letter the facts of the alleged repudiation which Means has now denied are fully set forth. “Means said he had been dealing with P.iaino Coan. who previously had been mixed up in this cose. “I received confirmation of Means’ statements from Theodore Tiller, a Washington newsppaer correspondent, who talked with me in Washington after having been up all night (Turn to Pago 11) DELAY SEEN ON ELECTOR NAMES

G. 0, P, Chairmen Appear to Disagree, Delay in selection of Republican candidates for elector and contingent elector to succeed Judge Harry O. Chamberlin and Frank Childers, resigned. gave rise to stories in political circles that all is not harmonious in the ranks of Marlon County Republicans. Schuyler Haas, district chairman, and George V. Coffin, county chairman, conferred on the matter today. Before the conference Haas said he hoped to announce the new candidates today. Following his talk with Coffin, ho said he still “hoped to an, nounce them today, but was not certain.” Judge Chamberlin and Childers resigned because they held offices which they believed would disqualify them under the State law. PUPILS SENT HOME Parents to See GrafT About School Transfer Muddle. Clarence C. Wysong Is chairman of a committee to ask E. U. Graff, superintendent of Indianapolis public schools, for modification in the transfer of children from School No. 58 to No. 62. Wysong and five others were named by fathers rs transferred children Saturday night at a meeting at lome of Elmer C. Marshall, 818 N. Gladstone Ave. About fifty were present. If ne modification is not granted the nmittee will appear before the ird of school commissioners Tue y night. Parents! are continuing to send their children to No. 58, and they are being sent home by Mrs. Maude Moody, principal, acting under orders of D. T. Weir, assistant superintendent. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 49 10 a. m 60 7 a. m 50 11 a. m 63 8 a. m 55 12 (noon) .... 64 9 a. m 58 1 p. m 65

Butler Students Face Annual Beauty Contest Problem Again

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“CAN SHE REPEAT? Who G. j is more beautiful in Butler? I-, popularity and ability considered in judging beauty? These are the questions that are arising in the minds of Butler students concerning Miss Lorens Whltharn, member of the junior

MAYOR ACQUIRES ] HOUSE IN GOLDEN HILL Present Residence May Be Sold to Moody Bible Institute, Mayor lew Shank has closed a deal with Mothershead & Fitton. architects, 542 N. Meridian St., whereby he purchased anew home now nearing completion on Golden Hill Dr., just off Northwestern Ave. at a consideration of approximately $45,000. The home built for persons now unabjo to occupy It will he ready within a month, and tho mayor expects to move at that time from his present home, 35-17 K Washington St. A deal is now pending whereby his Washington St. home may be sold to tiie Moody Bible Institute at a price around $25,000. The Golden Hill home Is a whpe stucco building with a three-cur garage adjoining on the east. It lies north of the driveway, facing the Woodstock golf course. Tito home is two stories with a full basement an 1 is built with all latest ideas of architects. The front entrance leads to a large living room opening into a dining room and two guest rooms on the first floor. Part of the lower floor and walls are tile construction. Throe bedrooms and a study are upstairs, with baths adjoining- Automatic telephone service in the home is provided. Servants quarters are provided in the rear of the first floor and in the second floor of the garage. In the basements there are storage rooms for fruit vegetables, recreation room and furnace. The house is furnished with city water, gas and sewer connections. With the purchase, the mayor announced his intention of having the city purchase a strip of ground between the Golden Hill Drive and the golf course and convert the driveway into a boulevard. ROTHCHILD SENTENCED Gets Two to Twenty-One Years at State Prison on Perjury Charges. Charged wdth perjury in making an affidavit in selling a poolroom at 511 W. Washington St., Ben Rothchild, 49, today was found guilty and sentenced to two to twenty-one years in the Indiana State prison. Rothchild swore before a notary public the property had no liens against it, when he had been sued in Superior Court and a judgment of $517.56 rendered against him had not been satisfied, it was charged. He sold the property to llie Jutariu for $1,300, who had to pay the judgement. Criminal Judge James A. Collins gave Rothchild several days after the trial before passing sentence, to raise money to repay Jutariu his loss, but the defendant today said he had not succeeded. Rothchild said he will appeal.

class of Butler University and Kappa Alpha Theta. Miss Whitham is attracting attention in the Drift contest that is being held to decide the most beautiful, capable, popular girl in Butler for the. feature section of the 1525 annual. Miss Whitham won the beauty contest in her freshman year.

TWO MAY LOSE JOES AS RESULT OF BABY’S DEATH City Dispensary Failed to Respond to Parent's Calls, Dismissal of a doctor and a clerk at the city dispensary were expected today ns a sequel to failure of the doctor to appear Saturday during the illness and death of Albert Smith, two-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Carl Smith, 712 Pates St. While Albert's twin brother Ebert lay critically ill of bronchial pneumonia at home today, Mrs. Alice I’each, with whom the Smiths live, and Henry ,T. Houppert, 701 Bates St., grocer, told how the city dispensary had been called five times between 1 p. m.. when the babies became 111, and 4 p. m., when Albert died. Each time the caller was told the doctor was "on his way,” they said. Hears of Case loafer Dr. Cleon Nafe. superintendent of the city hospital, said he was not notified of the case until Saturday evening. when he sent an emergency ambulance to the home. The mother refused to allow the second child to be taken to the hospital, he said. “The persons at fault will he dismissed,” he said. "When the first call was made the dispensary was not told the baby was seriously ill. The doctor, out on his rounds, did not call in, but came in at 3:30, when he w r as told of this case and started out again. He said hisautomobile bro’ke down while he was out. He did not notify the dispensary of this. Clerk Partly at Fault "The clerk should have notified me as soon as she received the second call, telling her the baby was critically ill. We would have sent someone out.” Mrs. Peach said this second call was made before 2 p. m. According to Smith, a similar situation arose about three weeks ago, when he said he called the dispensary alj one night, while his wife was ill, without obtaining a doctor. She wag better in the morning, so the calls were stopped. Dr. Nafe said he knew nothing of this case. A private doctor was calle'd in for Ebert Smith Sunday. Dr. Nafe said the dispensary had received no request to send a doctor after Albert’s death. REASON? HE SURE HAS! Times Linotype Man Celebrates Arrival of Twin Boys. R. T. Voll, 3724 E. Market St„ linotype operator at the Indianapolis Times, punched the keys of his machine today with joyous abandon while on his face was the smile that just would not come off. Twin boys, who arrived at his home Saturday night, were the reason.

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STORMS TIE TOLL OF FORME UtESj^ Additional Deaths Feared in Sections Now Cut Off From Communication With Outside World by Demoralization of Wire Service. MANY CHILDREN AMONG LIST OF THOSE WHO WERE KILLED Property Damage Estimated at Several Millions—Clark County, Wis., Hardest Hit Wind Demolished Homes and Stopped Light Service. By United ST. PALL, Minn., Sept. 22.—Storms in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota claimed at least forty-one lives Sunday. Additional deaths likely will he reported from sections now cut off from communication by demoralized wire systems. Most of the deaths occurred in Clark County, Wisconsin, where the wind demolished a number of homes. Many persons were injured. The property damage will reach several millions of dollars, it was estimated.

The fatality list shows; • Ten dead, six adults and four children, at Thorp, Wis. Nine at Amber. TVis. Six at Sanborn. Wis. Five at Owen, Wis. One at Milwaukee, Mahtomedi and Eveleth, Minn. Flight in Family John Novabiliski and seven members of family, near Amber, Wis. Mrs. John Gardowski, near Amber. Matt Kobyalarczyk, near Thorp. Two Hill children, northwest of Owen. Wis. Two Donovan children, northwest of Owen. Infant child of Mrs. May Ash, Gilbert, Wis. A woman drowned at Lake, Wis. Two men drowned at Lake Muskego, Wis. Communication was badly hampered throughout the stricken area, telephone, telegraph and power lines having been blown down by the gale. Many cities, among them Minneapolis and St. Paul, were in darkness. The storm reached its height at dusk Sunday night, but was unequalled in that it continued in furiousness for more than six hours. Twin dries Hit In the Twin Cities hundreds of trees were blown clown, many of them damaging homes. Telephone, telegraph and electric light and power wires throughout Minnesota and northern Wisconsin were damaged. During the height of the storm the Twin Cities were in darkness and telephone service was limited virtually to local calls. Most of the damage was done between 6 and 8 p. in., when the wind reached its height. CANAL ZONE JUDGE DIES Stricken While Making Speech— Was Itorn in Greensburg, Ind. Bv United Press DES MOINES. lowa, Sept. 22. John D. (Jack) Wallingford. 55, of Des Moines, judge of the Canal Zone district court, dropped dead while making a patriotic speech in defense of the Constitution of the United States, Saturday at Balhoa, C. Z„ according to a cablegram to Mrs. Wallingford, who is visiting friends here. Judge Wallingford was appointed to the canal zone bench in 1922, by the late President Harding. He was born in Greensburg, Ind.. in 1860 and was graduated from Leland Stanford University in 1592. Four Charged With Speed Four were arrested today on speeding charges. They are; Chester Gordon, 23, colored, city; William Brandt, 16, of 809 N. eKystone Ave.; George Miller, 30. of ISIS Sugar Grove Ave.; Sherman Thompson, 33, of 3443 Birchwood Ave.

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SHE Indianapolis American Association baseball team is battling for the league title. During the past week the Indians have fought their way to the top rung and are going down the stretch with St. Paul in a desperate race for the flag. They are in Milwaukee today to engage in a double-header before going to St. Paul for the crucial series. A series with Minneapolis following the St. Paul clash will end the 'season. The Times will give its readers every detail of the games at Milwaukee today in TWO PINKS —the first Pink will be out im-

Forecast Generally fair today, somewhat cooler tonight. Fair forecast for Tuesday.

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PROTESTS STOP WORK ON 1025 TAX DUPLICATES Deputy Auditor Gives Out Figures on Rates in County, Work of preparing records for collection of taxes in 1925 will be held up more than a month by the remonstrance filed against the county tax j levy of 2S cents, said R. B. Butler, ! chief deputy county auditor, today, ; Work cannot begin until Oct. 15. the i earliest possible date the State tax | board can settle the argument i raised by the Indiana Taxpayers' As- ; sociation that the rate is too high, I he said. All the townships have reported ; the new levies on which taxes will be paid next year. Most of them i show increases. Butler said if the county levy, which must be paid in ; all tax units, of which there are ; twenty-five in the country, had not | been protested, he could have begun at once preparing the books for the unprotested corporations, such as Beech Grove. Woodruff Place and | Pike Township. Probable Figures Using 2S cents as the probable i levy to be fixed by the State, and I keeping in mind the 28-cent levy of j the county and the $1.0525 levy for | the city schools have been appealed. : Butler gave out the following sched(Tum to Page 11) U. S. FLIERS NEAR END Make Hop Today From Tucson, Ariz., to San Diego, CaL Bv United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal.. Sept. 22. Nearing the end of their globe-en-circling flight, the United States Army round-the-world fliers arrived over San Diego city at 10:27 a. m. (coast time), and headed for Rockwell Field, North Island. • The fliers left Tucson, Ariz., for San Diego at 6:55 a. m. Bv United Press HONG KONG, Sept. 22.—Maj. Fetro Zanni, Argentine aviator, attempting an eastward flight around the world, arrived here at 4:10 p. in., today from Haiphong.

mediately following the first game and the second at the conclusion of the second game. In addition to the American Association race details in the American and National League games will be carried. The New York Yankees are fighting desperately to overcome the lead of the Washington Sen ators in the American League, and the New York Giants are gamely trying to stay in front in the National League with Pittsburgh and Brooklyn knocking at their doorstep. READ IT IN THE TIMES VINK