Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1924 — Page 12

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DR. MUM ASKS 10 BE RELEASED FROM BOSTON U. Looks With Favor Upon Presidency of De Pauw University. President Lemuel H. Murlin of Boston University at a meeting of the university trustees at Boston today asked them to release him. effective at their convenience, on or before Dec. 1, that he may accept the offer of the presidency of De Pauw University, it was learned today. Dr. Murlin was tendered the presidency unanimously by the De Pauw trustees Sept. fi. following resignation of Dr. George R. Grose. Whether the trustees would carry out Dr. Murlin’s request, it was not indicated. Until they take action Dr. Murlin will withhold formal acceptance of the De Pauw offer. A Royal Command Dr. Murlin said: “Invitation from my alma mater is a royal command. I have had suggestions of the possibility of going to other positions, but had expected to spend my life in Boston University. When there were some rumors at the General Methodist Conference in May I wrote the trustees. saying that this was my desire and expectation: and they expressed much gratification. But an invitation from my alma mater is another matter. To return to my own college. to be the first alumnus ever chosen for such a position, to spend the rest of my life in the service of alma mater, is a most alluring opportunity. Expresses Appreciation "Let me express my profound appreciation of your confidence and esteem. That I have had them so completely and constantly has been a supreme satisfaction, but also a most solemn responsibility. I esteem you too highly and am altogether too much bound up in the possibilities of Boston University to reach this conclusion without sore trial. We love Boston as the most desirable city in the world in which to live: New England is very dear to us. We have had most sweet and cordial relations not only within the circle of the Boston University of flciaj family but in various activities in the city. The numerous letters we have received from those outside of the Boston Uniersity circle, as well as from those within, have surp'ised us by their number, sincerity and depth of feeling. Our only compensating comfort lies in the fact that our invitation to De Pauw is hearty, unanimous and enthusiastic, and gives us the opportunity of spending our last years of service among old-time friends wheie we began our life work. From all quarters of the State and from all classes of people we are receiving letters of genuine welcome and hearty promises from tried and true friends, of enthusiastic cooperation."

NICKEL PLATE ROAD EXCURSION NEXT SUNDAY ROCHESTER or (Lake Manitou) Pm*oo WALKERTON nf\ (Koontz Lake) Pwi I U Returning Same Date FISHING IS FINE AT LAKE MANITOU . Leaxe Indianapolis Inion Station. 6:3 a. m. Leave Indianapolis Mast At*. fvation, 6:38 a. ra. Phono: ftrrle (WOO: Main 4587 or Main 2120 Alt Passenger Trains Kxery Bay stno at Masnarhosetts Axe. Station

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LIVE WIRE ENDS LIFE George U. Davis Is Electrocuted While Inspecting Grounds. Funeral services for George U. Davis, 59. of Brendenwood, fashionable resilience district near Millersvilla. Ind.. who was electrocuted Monday, have not been completed, but will probably be held at bis home near Lawrence, Ind., Thursday. Davis who has been in charge of the Brendenwood grounds for nine years, was directing the work of cleaning up the debris left by the storm Sunday night, and was walking with Homer Hunseeker, Millersville. Ind.. when the pair came upon a live wire lying across the walk. Davis picked it up an i then fell. Coroner F. Robinson is investigating to learn where ihe cur rent came from. Before going to Brendenwood. Davis was caretaker of Crown Hill cemetery for twenty-five years. He is survived by his widow, Etta, a son l.auron. and two daughters .ill of Lawrence. Ind.

CLUB DOCKET HEAVY Englewood Hustling Hundreds to Consider Blind School Site. Solution of location of the blind j school, enforcement of prohibition j laws, cooperatin with educational authorities. opposition to increase in j public utility rates, plans for insta! lation of several more safety zones i and •‘silent policemen" at Rural and , Michigan Sts. and New York and • Washington Sts., are some of the problems facing the Englewood Hus- | tling Hundreds at a ineeting Oct. 6, i at Englewood Community Hall. . W. T. Quillen, president, favors i converting the woman's prison into i a blind school, thereby removing a correctional institution from a re si i dential district, and buying anew site for the prison. THREE SOLDIERS HELD Drunkenness Blamed by Police for Auto Accident. Three soldiers from Ft, Benjamin Harrison were under arrest today j as a result of an auto accident at ! Tenth St. and Capitol Ave.. in which the auto in which they were riding struck a machine driven by Elmer Case. 3815 Ruckle St. Mrs. Case was injured. Alfred Forrest. soldier. was j charged with assault and battery, i driving on left side of street, drunkenness and operating a car while Intoxicated. Carl Renn was charged with operating a car while intoxicated and Charles Loftus was charged with drunkenness. REV. FARMER NAMED Former Local Pastor Becomes Secretary of Methodist Leper Mission. The Rev. Harry Farmer, formerly \ of Indiana, but for many years con- ! nected with the board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has been elected secretary of the American Mission to Lepers, it was announced today. Dr. Farmer for twelve years was a missionary in the Philippines, and for the past eight years has been associate secretary of the board in New York City, having charge of correspondence for Latin-America and Europe. Border Job Open A civil service examination will be held Oct. 8 to fill positions of immigration patrol inspector for duty along the Mexican and Canadian borders, it was announced today by Harry M. Trimpe, Indianapolis civil service secretary. Application blanks j and information may be had from Trimpe, fourth floor Federal build- i ing.

In the public mind the school system consists of teachers, pupils, buildings and playgrounds, but it esldom thinks of another side of, the system, less showy, less apparent to the eye, but equally important. This is the work of keeping up the physical equipment of th<‘ eighty-three grade schools and tiWce high schools and the libraries in the city. And it is no small task to keep heating plants, seats, desks, clocks, drain pipes, window shades, windows, automobiles and all the other multiude of items of school equipment in condition. This is the task which falls upon the building and grounds department of the schools. George H. Rickes, superintendent. For the first time in years the department is in a position to cope on a scientific business basis with its problems. This has been made possible by the completion of the new shop building and garage at Yandes and Sixteenth*Bts. The plant was erected at a cost of about $85.00'). and. according to Rickes. salvage gathered from schools fluting the last twenty years has more than paid for the new building. The new budefine has been the chief ambition of Rickes for years. He has asked for it and fought for it year after year, but in the past school hoards, hard pressed for finances, were more anxious to make a showing than t<> spend money in an unostentatious shop. Rut finally Rickes' dream came true. Will Save Thousands "With the new plant we can save thousands of dollars and do our work far more efficiently.’’ he said "In the old day old chairs, seats and tables were broken tip ami used for kindling. Now they are sent in here, the useful parts salvaged, the wood used for various repair purposes. There is mighty little junk. In a few years, we tire going to have the system down so fine that the school board will have to buy kindling. The time when splendid pieces of oak lumber, far better than what is obtainable in the market, are shoveled into a heating plant for kindling are gone. Before we had a place for a stock room it frequently took a 50-cents-an-hour skilled man two hours to make a trip to the school board office for a requisition for fifteen cents worth of nails to complete job. Now we have our own stock room and everything is systematized. Bun Like a Factory The new plant with its modern equipment, would be a credit to any industrial institution in the city, and Rickes says he intend*, <o run it with the same degree of efficiency and business methods that a private concern would use. Here are a few activities at the shops: Chairs, tables and desks repaired, paint shop, window shades manufactured for every window in every school; 1,800 clocks kept in repair all automobiles for schools and libraries service, well equipped machine shop for all kinds of work. The telephone system connecting every part of the building did not cost the city a cent. Rickes said. "In 1916 the system was discarded at Shortridge High School.” Rickes said. “It was supposed to go to the junk heap, but I saved it. hoping for the day when I could use it in a shop. I had to wait eight years, but here it is working.” he said. Officials of the business departments of public schools who met here recently characterized the shops as among the best equipped and most complete in the country. FIRST OF LECTURES Purdue Professor to Talk Tonight at Chamber. F. S. Hochema, an instructor in Put due University school of engineering, will deliver the first of fifteen lectures on industrial and business management tonight at 7:30 p. m. at Chamber of Commerce. The series will he given under auspices of the manufacturers’ committee. Interested persons are invited. EAST SIDE TO FROLIC Commercial Association Plans Carnival for Oct. 15. East Side Commercial Association will give a community carnival on Parker Ave., from 7.t0 10 p. m., Oct 15. Vaudeville acts and circus stunts are planned. “Everyday Heroes.” community fund film, will be shown before the organization at the next ic ting Oct. 13. Plans for a com--nity newspaper are under way.

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AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION Kikhoff Wants No .More EsoajM's From l’olii c Station. Police Chief Herman F. Kikhoff today stated he would ask the board of public safety to place bars over the windows of the detective roll call room and grill room, where a prisoner made bis esoape Monday, while being questioned. Frank Robinson, alias Evans Coffee. 35, of 270s N. Highland PI . arrested Friday as a suspect in recent north side burglaries, and a paroled convict, was being questioned by De tcctlve Thomas Ifirris Robinson jumped on the desk, dove headlong out of the window and dodged into the railroad yards Harris followed, fell and dislocated his shoulder, and fired at Coffee, but missed him. MICHIGAN YOUTH IS HELD Young Man Yrrested for Alleged Actions at Service Station. Defectives wired Flint, Mich., fur information upon a young man giv lng his name -is Robert L is man. 17. and that pi. e. arrested today and he’d under high vagrancy bond. Motor polio.-men Baker and Love w* re called to the service station at 026 N Meridian St., when Kastman is alleged t-i have attempted to sell a battery to a colored workman. Ibis also allege.) to have attempted to dispose of tin Hudson auto he was driving for. SI,OOO. He dented this He told police he was en route to Terre Haute. Ind. to get his sister and the car belonged to his stepfather, John Herrington. NATURE TALK IS GIVEN S E. Perkins Tells Mercators of “Instinct of Birds." Samuel K. Perkins, president of tin Nature Study Club spoke today a: the weekly meeting of the Mer eator Club at the Spink-Arms. His subject was "Instinct of Birds." W G. Flrich. secretary, said (if teen members have signified tnten tion to attend the Chicago U. Ohio elate football game at Columbus, • ihio. Oct. 25, as guests of Columbus Mercator*. Strong Box Billed H. Frosch, 76 Irvington Ave., buyer for Swift & Cos., told police to day his offices at 58 Cnlon Stock yards business building had been entered and the si rong box of the J safe rifled. A certificate of ownership of an auto was among papers stolen.

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From Far and Near Sir Basil Zarahoff, “Europe’s man of mystery,’’ has married the Duchess De Marcttena, reputed to be Spain's wealthiest. Zarahoff is principal owner of Monte Carlo and one of the richest men on the continent. The exact size of his fortune is a mystery, but it is estimated around $300,000,000. European dancing masters, meeting in Brussels, picked the “Huppa Huppa," “Jimika Blues” and “Boutaade" as the three most impressive of a number of new steps devised by the leading dance instructors of the continent. For conspiracy to substitute water for a $5,000,000 shipment of whisky destined for Greece, Matthew F. Griffin, former Unied Statets Secret Service agent, was sentenced to se*-ve a jail term of three months and fifteen days. A tribe of missing links, called Drang Padeks by the natives, is reported to be dwelling in the vicinity of Sumatra. The Dutch government has ordered a scientific expedition to make an investigation. Members of the tribe are said to be half men and half apes. TUNNEL, DOG BY COPS, DISCOVERED Jail Break Frustrated at Greencastle, Ifti Tim in s per in I GREENCASTLE. Ind , Sept 24. A Monte Christo escape from Putnam County's old jail was frustrated Monday night by Sheriff Leslie Sears when he caught Paul Wil he’rn, IS. of Indianapolis, and A!belt Risf-y. 19, in the act of digging a unnel nuderneath the jail walls wi;h their metal drinking cups Scars said that in another hour or so the na n would have escaped. Wiihqlm and Hlsey are under sen tonei to two to five years at the State Reformatory on charges of es i-aping from the Indiana State Farm. Less than a week ago they tried to escape from the county jail. Putnam County jail has been the scene of many jail breaks during the last few months. The building is badly in need of remodeling, it is said. G. 0. P. READY FOR RALLY Plans Announced for Meeting at Tomlinson flail Plans for the Republican organization meeting at Tomlinson Hal! Wednesday night were announced today by George V. Coffin, county chairman. Talks will be made by Mrs. Arthur R. Robinson, county vice Chairman: Arthur R. Robinson, Ralph Cpdyke. candidate for repre sentativo in Congress: Ed Jackson and Harold Van Orman, candidate for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Arrangements will be made at the meeting to send a large delegation from Indianapolis to Newcastle Saturday nlglu when Jackson formally opens ids campaign A New and Better Store Reputation for fair dealing, dependable merchandise and reasonable price* has made us one of the best known jewelry concerns in the city. You will find us a good firm to do business with; always ellable and al ways with the most dependable Jewelry at the I west possible prhes Gray, Gribben & Gray Irtl NORTH 11.1.1N01S STREET W(* Trnt \nvone Vl'ho Wort:*

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LICENSE NUMBERS CHECKED 10 FIND NAME OF DRIVER Motorist Says Man Didn't Stop at Boulevard —Machine Damaged, Police were checking license numbers today in an effort to learn the identity of a driver whose car struck an auto driven by Jacob Goodman. 20f>l W. Michigan St., at West and Washington Sts. Monday. Goodman said the driver failed to stop before coming on Washington St., and after the collision backed up and drove around the damaged Goodman auto, refusing to give his name. William O. Bean, 51. of 2403 Central Ave.. was injured about the back Monday afternoon and received a broken foot, and Frank Day. 26. of 921 S. Missouri St., who was working with him, was injured about the feet when a ladder that supported one end of a scaffold twenty-five feet from the ground at the home of Joseph Bennett, 2330 N. Delaware St., collapsed. Sergeant O'Neal of the accident prevention bureau said the ladder had been cracked twice before and the places covered with paint. The men were taken to the city hospital. J. T. Pope. 901 E. Washington St., is the contractor. Leonard Spencer. 11. son of Charles Spencer. 1008 W Pearl St., was taken to the city hospital Monday With a dislocated elbow, received, police say, when he fell from a fence while playing at the Salvation Army playgrounds No. 2. 1001 W Washington St. Mrs M. A Breman. 60, of 519 Sutherland Ave.. received i fractured left arm when she was struck by a truck driven by William O'Neil. 19, of 965 S. Delaware St., owned by the Aquos Distilled Water Company. O'Neil, who was charged with assault ■it'd battery told police Mrs. Breman alighted from a street car at Massachusetts Ave. and Vermont St. and stepped fmm the safety zone into the path of his truck. She said she did not see the truck. Gyros Hear Essex Bert Essex, local realtor, addressed the Gyro Club today at luncheon at the Lincoln. He spoke on his recent tour around the world. I‘he Alpha Chi omega quartet sang. Boosters for the luncheon were Cliff Ask In and Don U- Bridge. S G G is a ITcscription for Colds, Grippe, Dengue Fever, Constipation, Bilious Headaches and Malarial Fever.

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lEMEFAED I I E I I G S The line of letters given above is, apparently, meaningless. But if a single letter of the alphabet is inserted, a number of times, among them, a sentence can be fofmed that has referenec to a baseball game. YESTERDAY’S ANSWER: The man had stamps of denominations as follows: 60, 25, 20, 20, 20, 10. 10, 10, 5,5, 3,3, 2,. 2. He placed them as follows: First package: 25. 20, 10, 10, 5. Second package: 25, 20, 20, 3, 2. Third package: 50. 10. 5. 3, 2. Thus each package contained an equal number of stamps (five), and each totaled 70 cents. YE OLD ENGLISH CUSTOM REVIVED Statehouse Employes Keep Fires Burning, It’s not such a long way to Tipperary as it used to be. An early morning trip around most of the offices in the Statehouse reminds the visitor of old London in winter with the open fireplace as the only method of heating in office buildings. Nearly every fireplace in the Statehouse casts a cheerful glow about the respective offices as steamfitters in the basement work daily to connect the Statehouse radiators with city steam lines. The building and grounds committ#e recently contracted to use city heat instead of operating the disintegrated and uneconomical Statehouse boilers for the coming winter. Fntil the connections are made. Statehouse officials are welcoming the old-time method of building their own fires.

A Great Aid to Mothers and Teaches Child to Walk Walker, $4 > It moves easily. In white /ll find red and with bright ■ '> a Last colored Kindergarten beads to amuse the baby. To Boys and Girls These Bring a Lot of Fun Stilts, With Wooden Adjustable Steps, Per Pair, 75c Charles Mayer & Company 29-31 W. Washington St. Established 1840.

Electric Washing and Wringing Machine Demonstrations in your home. Hatfield Electric Cos. Meridian at Maryland MA in 0123

Dental Prices Reduced on Platework, Crown and Bridgework and Crowns hTI necessary dental work done I to your appearance, but to I ,V ° m * ? Ito k ee P vour Q ur lower prices make it , possible for you to have your teeth attended to at once. BRIDGE I Examinations PLATE ■ WORK FREE WORK Dr. J. W. Cofield, Dentist ROOM 208 MARION BUILDING, 2nd Floor Corner of Ohio and Meridian Sts. Entrance 10 W. Ohio St OFFICE Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, 8:30 a. m. to Bp. m. LI AI ID C Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 8:33 a. m. to 6p. m. HUUKj Sunday, 9 a. m. to 1 p. in.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1924

POLICE HUNT FOR GIRLS 10 FLEE HOSPITAL WARD Both Charged With Child Neglect—Plainfield Lad Sought, Police today were seeking Esther Hardesty. 18, of 1439 N. Capitol Ave.. and Wanda Jones, 18. of 932 N. Gladstone Ave., who escaped the detention ward in the city hospital Monday night. Both are charged with contributing to child neglect Police were asked to apprehend and place in detention home. William Davis, who ran away from his home at 115 W. Twenty-Second St. Mrs. Lottie Davis said her son was dressed in a light suit and was carrying a small suitcase. He is on a bicycle that does not belong to him, police were told. Police at Winchester, Ind., and Franklin. Ohio, were asked today to watch for two young boys, one escaped the Boys School at Plainfield. Ind. Mrs. Lola Hackney. 1819 N. Meridian fjt-, told police Lester White, her younger brother, and Francis Jones, 15. her son, drove ujfl to the house in her father’s auto™ stayed a few minutes and left. She said her father, James White and Lester went to Plainfield to visit. Francis. Attaches at the school said Lester helped in the escape of Francis who is clad in school clothing. Harry Wrennick. 53. of 802 Lexington Ave., and his Willys-Knight auto are missing, according to a report to police by his wife. She said he was dressed in light clothing. William B. Thomas, Ohio, is here to ask police to help him locate his sister. Jessie Thomas, whom he has not seen in forty-three years. He said his mother was Mattie Thomas and they formerly lived in Tennessee.