Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 133, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1924 — Page 12

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UTILITY PETITIONS FOR STOCK SALE Calumet Company Lists Securities of $4,545,000. The Calumet Gas and Electric Company, which recently was granted permission by the public service commission to purchase fifteen northern Indiana public utilities, today petitioned the commission for authorization to sell $4,545,000 in securities with which to execute the deal. Commission said this is the largest security issue presented to it. Company listed its paper as follows: $2,500,000 in bonds, $1,500,000 preferred stock and $960,000 common stock. Os the total, $3.565,492.50 will be spent for the utilities, $524,433.70 to reimburse treasury for past expenditures and $453,000 to refund present outstanding stock and bonds. Hearing probably will be Monday. GUARDSMEN GET PAY Checks Sent Out For Service at Camp Knox. • Indiana National Guardsmen today began receiving pay for the two weeks spent in the annual summer encampment at Camp Knox, Ky. The law requires men be paid for ten days only, although they spent fourteen to fifteen days in camp. Privates get $1 a day: corporals. $1.05; sergeants. sl.lO, and non-com-missioned staff officers, $1.15. Ahout 5.000 men attended camp. Total disbursement will be about $47,000. EXPLOSION MAIMS HAND Lads Find Railroad Torpedo, Attach it to Dry Cell Battery. B]i Time* Special SHELBYVILLE. Ind.. Oct. 11.— Robert De Hoe, 12, was suffering today from the loss of two fingers and the thumb of his right hand and severe wounds on the arm and abdomen, as a result of connecting a railroad torpedo with a set of dry cell batteries. Francis, 15, his brother, was also hurt. DEMOCRATS BOOK COLBY J. Ham Lewis Also Listed /or Speech in Indiana Next Week. James Hamilton Lewis, former II linois Congressman, and Bainbridge Colby, former Secretary of State, head the list of Democratic speakers in Indiana next wek. Former Vice President Thomas R. Marshall and United States Senator Samuel M. Ralston have several engagements. Lew : s speaks at Goshen and Elkhart Friday and Colby at Ft. Wayne Thursday. Law Seniors Elect Seniors of Indiana Daw School have elected these officers: Ralph E. Johnson, president. Lester M. Merriman. vice president; Miss Gladys M. Woody, secretary, and Howard H. Bates, treasurer.

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“If young married women today expect to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, they'll have to cut out some of this running around, stay at home and attend to their own knitting," said Mrs. Lawrence Quinn, 1151 Marlow Ave., who, Friday, with her husband, celebrated her fiftieth wedding anniversary. “I always had enough to do to stay at home and see to my own business. We didn't have a lot of clubs and theaters when I was young.” she said. “I had to come to America to find a man,” laughingly remarked Mrs. Quinn, who came to this country from Ireland when she was 15. Were Married Here Mr. and Mrs. Quinn were married by Mgr. August Basoni, Oct. 10. 1574. in St. John's Church. Friday at 9 a. m. high mass was held at Holy Cross observing the anniversary. Quinn is 71 and Mrs. Quinn is 6V They have lived in Indianapolis since their marriage. Congratulations and gifts of every description poured into the Quinn home from all parts of the

City Officials Promise Fix it Street Aid Despite Low Funds

Are you having trouble with your street, sewer, alley, street light or other municipal acrvW? Write Mr, K’.xit of The Indianapolis Times. He'll help you at city hall. <<rpn IXANCIAL BLUES.” old ; M words with anew melody, | now form the song of woe i from the street commissioner's office as funds for unimproved street : and alley maintenance melt rapidly. ! "How to Get Along on Leas.” is : the topic while complaints pour in. : Laborers have been laid off, and the working schedule reduced to four days a week due to meet reduced appropriations. Operations until Jan. 1 will be restricted to emergency repairs, and dangerous street conditions, officials say. Meanwhile, complaints flood Mr. Fixit's desk from Times readers. They want streets so the coal man can get through, and children can get to scnool. Officials promise to do everything they can, hut point out they want to withhold some money until bad weather when street repair becomes heavier. Today's camplaints: MR. FI IT—We would like to have the alley between Carlisle PI. and Wallace St. fixed. The coal man can’t drive in to put in fuel. Homer F. Smith, 807 Carlisle PI. Your complaint has been referred to Frank Reid, foreman of the street commisioner’s office, who will investigate and make repairs if possible. • • • DEAR MR. FIXIT—Gray St., between Newton and English Aves., Is full of chuckholes. We understand the contractor must keep this street repaired for two years. It hasn’t been scraped th>s year. Mrs. Mabel Lowe. W. B. Schoenroff, chief clerk in the street commissioner's office, will look up the guarantee on your street. He promised the city will

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country. Ahout 300 persons visited the residence to congratulate the couple. They received SBO in gold, .a gold rosary each, a gold cream and sugar set, and numerous boxes of candy and bouquets. House was decorated with gold and white. A gold bell was presented every caller at the Quinn home. Three children living are Mrs. P. J. Welch, Omaha, Neb.: Sister M. Leonette Quinn, O. F. M., Oldenburg, Ind., and P. J. Quinn, with whom they live. Mother Always Boss "Mother was always boss, father had to mind just the same as we kids did." said Mrs. Welch. "Mother and father are very companionable. Every Saturday night father gives mother his weeks’ pay, except enough to buy tobacco with. They never miss going to mass together on Sunday," she said. Quinn was employed at Kingan & Cos., twenty-one years. He works for Burford Printing Company at present. Misses Mary and Margaret Griffin. 120 P.right St., whose mother was Mrs. Quinn's bridesmaid, were among visitors.

take action if the contractor can not be forced to grade the street. TO TIMES READER regarding broken sidewalk in front of 217 W. South St. The sidewalk repair department at the city yards will make repairs immediately. * • * DEAR MR. FIXIT—We need a traffic officer at Sherman Dr. and New York St. to help school kiddies across the street. They are all small children between 6 anil 8. Trucks and automobiles whiz by them and none will stop. Please save our children. Mothers of children. School 78. A'our letter has been referred to the police traffic department and accident prevention bureau for investigation. • • • T. F. WALTER regarding condition of Palmer St. between Quill and Draper Sts. W. B. Schoenrogg of the street commissioner's office promises to see that work is done on your street. * * • TO INQUIRY regarding paving of Twenty-fifth St. under connecting link law. Although contracts have been awarded, work is being held up until the bond sales of the city and county are completed. The county and city must each sell a $71,600 bond issue City sale will he Oct. 16. and the county sale two weeks later. CLUB HAS BIRTHDAY By Time * Special SEYMOUR, Ind., Oct. 11—The tenth anniversary of the dedication of the Farmers' Club here was held Friday. John A. Sheilds, president of the Indiana Manufacturers’ Association; Jesse R. Newsom of Bartholomew County, State master of the Indiana Grange, and County Agent Willis P. Stall were speakers. The Farmers’ Club is one of the few of its kind in the United States. It was erected by the Blish estate and was endowed so that its upkeep is provided for. Farmers of Jackson County are given free use of the building and its equipment, which includes dining room, waiting rooms and nursery. PATRONESSES GUESTS Patronesses of Mu Phi Epsilon honora-y musical 3oririty will he guests at the first fall social meeting Wednesday at the home of the president, Miss Lulu Brown, 795 Middle Dr., Woodruff Place. A luncheon at noon will be followed by a program on "Interpretation and Character Study of Wagner’s ‘Nibelung,’ ” by Mrs. Clyde Titus. Mrs. James A. Moag will illustrate the themes with piano selections. SAFE FOUND AT BRIDGE

Wallace Wells, R. R. J. Box 136. and Chris Suitors, and Raymond Martin, of Millersville, Ind., called police to a bridge east of Millersville, and showed them an old safe with door knocked off. Detectives began to check today to learn its ownership. Boy Murderer Sentenced By United Preee MIDDLE BURG, Pa.. Oct. 11.— Judge Miles Potter today sentenced Ralph Shadle, boy murderer, to not more than twenty years and not less than ten in the Eastern penitentiary. Quarryman Killed By Timea Special LOOGOOTEE, Ind., Oct. 11.— James Downey, 50, was killed today in a blast at a quarry near here. Arthur Elsey, 35, a fellow worker, was seriously hurt.

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PLOT CHARGED IN CUBAN ELECTION Six Hundred Dynamite Bombs Seized,' By United Pres* HAVANA, Oct. 11. —Six hundred dynamite bombs, 100,000 rounds of ammunition and other war material have been seized at San Jose De Las Lages, in connection -with political disturbances growing out of the presidential campaign, it was learned today. Simultaneously General Menocal, conservative nominee, issued a manifesto charging President Zayes with deliberate hampering of the conservative campaign. The president has consistently refused to allow the facts surrounding the tragedy at Camaguey last Sunday, when eight were killed and many wounded in political ,'oting, to be made public, Menocal said.

Campaign DAY BY DAY

Political leaders prepared for a week-end breathing spell today with the major parties frankly nervous at what Boh La Follette will do next. The independent candidate, conferring with his Mid Western man agers in Chicago, indicated he has not yet fired all his heavy urtfifi despite an active week in which h has accused the Republican party of attempting to raise a "slush fun-1" of from $2,000,000 to $4,000,000 and has demanded investigation by the Senate committee on campaign expenditures. John W. Davis, having launched a campaign to wean the labor goto from La Follette in a conferen* o with labor leaders in New York, invaded the West again today and will deliver a main address at Indian apolis tonight. He plans to continue his speaking tour in Middle Western States on to election time. General Dawes was en route to Topeka, leans., after attacking La Follette "socialism" again in a speech at Omaha Friday night. Kansas Republican leaders wore ready to assure him he will carry the Stat* by a big majority and he received similar assurances in lowa and Ne hraska. OPTIMIST HEAD TO SPEAK Sherman Rogers Will Be Honor Guest at Luncheon. Sherman Rogers, president of Op timi-sts' International, will be honor guest and speaker at a dinner given by the Indianapolis Optimists Club at 6:30 p. m. Friday, Oct. 24. in the Riley room at the Claypool. Members of all Indianapolis civic and luncheon clubs and all Optimist clubs within 100 miles of Indianapolis will be invited. George Schm'd, Indianapolis Optimists' secretary, announced today. Rogers, formerly on the editorial staff of The Outlook, recently was chosen associate editor of Succes;magazine, •Schmid said. Rogers is said to have been a lumber jack in the North woods until a few years ago. Lew Cooper Is general chairman for the dinner. ■GO RIGHT,’ YOUNG MAN Sklener Speaks to First Presbyterian Men’s Club. Citing rapid growth of juvenile crime. Merle Sidener, advertising man, told the Men's Club of the First Presbyterian Church Friday evening that it is up to men in the church to show young men that Christianity pays in dollars and cents and in heart satisfaction. He urged that the club adopt a definite program looking toward this end. declaring that youths are eager to "go right" if they are definitely shown that they can't get ahead in this world and the next by going otherwise. The dinner opened the club's season. THEY TOLD HIM WRONG “Two or three people told me I didn't have to pay,” Ora Clevenger, Mars Hill, told Circuit Judge 11. O. Chamberlin today when cited for contempt of cour*. Ora had failed to pay his wife, granted a divorce Julv 1, back support money of $24 and her lawyer $75, as ordered by Judge Chamberlin. He was sent to jail to think things over. He will be release?! when he decides to pay, the judge said.

TWO AMERICANS HELD By United Presx EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 11.—Two Americans were held for investigation today at Villa Ahumada, fortymiles south of the border, in connection with wrecking and robbery of the Erupcion mine ore train Friday in which nine persons were shot to death by bandits. Ancillary Receiver Asked A petitiop asking that an ancillary receiver be appointed for the plant of the American Paper Products Company at Carthage, Ind., was filed in Federal Court today by the St. Maurice Paper Company, of Quebec, Canada. Loy P. Rexford of St. Louis, Mo., was appointed by the judge of the eastern division of Missouri as receiver for that district and the petition asks that he be the receiver for the Indiana properties. "Wolf, Wolf”—No Wolf For the second time in a few months, police made a run to the Ft. Wayne Ave. State Bank, 844 Ft. Wayne Ave., only to find the burglar alarm ringing falsely-. Charles I. Offu/t, cashier, 2455 College Ave,, blamed crossed wires.

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N beginning my discussion I of psychic phenomena, I will relate my experience with Eusapia Pailadino, the late Italian medium. I had a private seance with her, and for the first time in my life I was confronted with a problem which I could not explain by any known method of deception. After submitting to every restriction I demanded, and without any physical contact other than touching the top of a table with the tip of her finger, Pailadino caused the table to rise a foot in the air. She removed her hand; the table remained quivering in the air for a few seconds, -d then dropped to the floor. Inis w.in repeated several times. (Another article of this series will appear in an early issue). • A Puzzle a Day ABC D E F (1 II I J In the "magic square” shown above, each letter stands for a different number. The lowest number is 1. the greatest. 100. The problem is to replace the letters with the proper numbers so that each iaw, horizonal, vertical and diagonal, will total 1.000, when its three numbers are multiplied together. Square AxlixC should give a product of 1.000; DxExF; AxDxG; GxExC. and so on—each group of three squares must, multiply to 1.000, Can you fill in the necessary numbers? Yesterday's answer: I. A 2. As 3. SAP 4. CAPS 5. SPACE 6. ESCAPE 7. PEXCHKS 8. I’RKAf IIKS 9. PKKA< HERS The nine steps in word building, from "A" to "PREACHERS." are given above. Anew word is formed at each step. DISTRICT MEET CALLED League of Women Voters Chairmen to Confer Wednesday. A conference of district chairmen of the Indiana League of Women Voters at State headquarters. 1410 Spink Arms. Wednesday, was called by Mrs. Ora Thompson Ross of Rensselaer, organization chairman, and Mrs. Frederick Lauenstein of Evansville, membership chairman. Mrs. Paul Rittenhouse of Chicago, Fourth Regional secretary of the National League of Women Voters, will speak in the afternoon, and will be a guest at a dinner Wednesday night. Other speakers are Mrs. Ross, Mrs. Lauenstein, and Miss Helen Rogers Hand of Indianapolis, executive secretary of the State league. The board of directors of the Indiana. league will meet Thursday at the Claypool. Mrs. Rittenhouse wifi speak. NO DOUGH AT BAKESHOP Two Bandits l/*ave After Threatening Watchman. F. H. Harold, 129 N. Linwood Ave-, night watchman for the Glaze Doughnut Shop, 4421 E. New York St., told police two colored men rapped at the door and was told (hat if he did not open it they would shoot through it. He opened the door but left the screen hooked. He told police one of the men struck him with his gun, the blow breaking the screen. When he replied to ■their demands that he did not ha,ve any money they got In an old auto and drove away. THIRD TIME NQ CHARM Watchman Runs, So Does Hold-l’p Man—Gets Nothing. The third time a hold-up man visited Thomas E. Boyle, 1315 N. Capitol Ave.. night watchman at hte Mercantile Garage, 125 S. Pennsylvania St., they found not the easy victim of before, but a fleet-footed one. Boyle told police he returned to the front office after emptying a basket of waste paper, and a colored man stuck a gun at him and said “Stick ’em up." Boyle said he was then ordered to open the cash register, but, instead, ran. So did the hold-up man He got nothing. Church Council to Elect City council and Church Extension Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Indianapolis will meet Oct. 21 at Y. M. C. A. Officers will be elected. Dr- Harry A. King, Indianapolis district superintendent, is president.

COUNCILMENTO VISIT TERRITORY Will Investigate Plea for Disannexation. City couneilmen today were to inspect a section of the city seeking disannexation because residents said they did not receive "a single benefit” as Indianapolis taxpayers. The district is between Sixteenth and Eighteenth Sts., Tibbs Ave. and Kessler Blvd. It will not satnd assessments for street improvements, and resident, through their attorney, Emsley W. Johnson, member of the park board, want relief from city taxes. School children from this district are hauled to a township school instead of attending city schools, Vestal Davis, trustee of Wayne Township, said. In return, Davis said school children living outside the city on W. Michigan St. were attending city schools, although their parents pay no city taxes. George N. Montgomery, county councilman, scored disannexation, pointing out it would remove protective regulations of the city zoning board and building department. CITY COFFERS SWELL Sale of 237 Houses to Increase Park Department Fund SIO,OOO. The city will rea.’zo $40,000 from saie of 237 houses on land to be used for boulevard and playgrounds, it was estimated today. Money will go to the general fund of the park department. Ray Wright, city purchasing agent and former auctioneer, has completed the task of selling the houses. Two houses In the 4800 block of Ronkwood Ave. wore sold this afternoon and at 3 p. m. seven houses wa re to be sold for the Brightwood playground. Forty-five houses were sold west of Riley Hospital this morning at prices ranging from sls to $350. A total of IST houses were sold along Pleasant Run between Prospect and Shelby Sts. for the Pleasant Run Blvd. WiFE ASKS RECEIVER Mrs. Ear! Hanson Seeks Action on Husband’s - Property. Receiver for property of Earl F. Hanson. 2726 Park Ave.. partner in the lining store of Stierwalt & Hanson, llume-Mansur Bldg., and support order is asked by his wife. Mrs. Marguerite Hanson, in a suit tiled today in Superior Court, room 3. Mrs. Hanson stated in the complaint her husband suddenly disappeared Sept. 5. 1924. after sixteen years of married life, without any explanation, leaving her without support. She received a letter from him in New York on Sept. 25. saying he was never coming back, and to notify his partner and mother. Assets fisted arc $2,000 in shares of stock ir. the store. NINE MOTORISTS SLATED Speeder’s Slate Slowly Fills as Drivers Observe Regulations. Nine alleged speeders were slated by pofico during the night. Thos*> held: J. C. Cox. 36, of Ben Davis. Ind.; W. H. Mead. 26. of 2929 be bn field Ave.; Driver Songer, 34, of 1256 Madison Ave.: Edwin C. Anderson. 34, of Ashland Ave.; Wilson Churchman, 25, of It. R. P. Box. Owen Fnncher. 19, of 1401 King Ave.; Randle Willis. 20. of 1115 IV. Seventeenth St.; John W. Boyer, 30, of 728 N. Delaware St.: Carl Spitzer, 2C, of 1409 N. Alabama St. HIGH BOND FOR WOMAN Alleged "Dope Runner” Held by Federal Agents on $3,000 Bond. Jessie Jackson, 40, colored, of Dullsville. Ky., is held by the Fedearl grand jury on charge of violating the narcotic act, following her arrest Friday by narcotic agents. The woman is charged with being a “dope runner" between Indianapolis and Louisville. She was said to have had SSO worth of narcotics. She was given a hearing before United States Commissioner John W. Kern, when her bond was fixed at $3,000. TWO BIDS FOR PLANT One Offers SI,OOO More Than Appraisal of Anderson Factory. Two bids on thq, Hill Pump Plant, Anderson, Ind., of the Midwest Engine Corporation, now in receivership here in Probate Court, have been received by Probate John Mah* lon E. Bash. Huntley Gordon, Boston. Mass., bid the appraised value of $178,910.40. Theodore Frazier of Winchester, bid SI,OOO more. Judge Bash fixed Oct.. 24 as the date for accepting a. bid, giving the bidders a chance to raise offers. Rotary Installs Tuesday New Rotary Club officers will be installed at luncheon Tuesday' at the Claypool. Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy of Ft. Hayes, and Brig. Gen. Dwight Aultman of Ft. Harrison, will be guests.

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M’CULLOGH ASKS t HOUSE CLEANING Stand for Honest Government Reaffirmed, By Timex Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., Oct. 11.—Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic candidate for Governor, in a speech here Friday night reiterated his stand for hone Ky in Government and declared tl at in the light of recent exposures in the Statehouse the people of Indiana deserved a clean sweep in the present administration. Now is the time to clean house, McCulloch declared. Jackson failed to tell why expenses of the State in 1916 were approximately $11,700,000 under Democratic rule and increased to $35,000,000 in 1923. "He said the State highway commission had built 4,180 miles of State highways without issuance of bonds, but failed to state the State constitution does not permit issuance of bonds except in case of war. "He failed to tell the same commission is now under probe and had been forced to return to the State $50,000.

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