Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 163, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36 —NUMBER 163

Right Her® Iff) ln cjJMk NELSON & 11 OLICE offeers will attend the P initial performance of a socalled "daring play present- j e.i at a local theater this week. Os- ' tensibly to see that public morals j are not defiled. The play is no redolent bit of fresh garbage. For two years it has been j>erformed in other cities and they have survived. But the presence of official censors ! conveys th<- impression of alluring j depravity and is a tribute to an ingenious press agent. It will be of hi V Pei*;.;, us impeccable private morals will cr'iwd to see a play some prude declares degrading because of its filth. When they wouldn’t attend a fre“ per' nuance of the Oberamniergau "Passion Play" in Monument Circle. It isn't inherent craving for smut -—just curiosity. Moral contamination is not plastered on from external sources by hooks or plays. Moral taint exists in the mind. One determined to acquire it, can pet it as easily by perusing railroad time tables or viewing Punch and i Judy shows as by reading “Sappho” or attending the performance of a j bedroom farce. All it requires is will and imagination Pioneers sayist. in a recent lecture at ' U__J All Souls Unitarian Church, said the true spirit of America, manifested In her pioneers, is now undergoing a temporary slump Pioneer life was a toilsome, harsh existence. Mostly sweaty struggle against a tenacious wilderness. Callouses were worn on the hands, not on the seat of the pants. Fo we honor the pioneers Every nation glorifies its founders. And they loom larger as they recede into the past. Until, looking down the vista of ages, people say there were giants In those days. We are sufficiently distant from pioneers that they appear to us ■supermen. We endow them with of spirit and all th- virtues —public and private—that we. their posterity, seldom exhibit. Perhaps some of them possessed nl! those attributes, and make satisfactory idols. Others have clay feet. For most of them pioneered not from lofty spiritual motives nut to improve their natural condition. Human nature doesn't change much in a few generations, and the true spirit of America still hangs around to do business when occasion demands. Sewage yrj IUTK River south <>f the jyy I ' itv Is afflicted with an ex- * I cess of unsavor sewage, < fT*l*in farmers down the river j.' V water and restricted op-ration I •>f :i.e lndimapolis sanitary plant is n sponsible. Sewage, <n ail us pristine ele gun-e. used to lie dumped into rivers unmindful of the annoyance to unfortunate communities down stream, ; s n;t,irv science has progressed. Most -ties now endeavor to dispose of -owage in a manner inoffensive to jtoi sewage forms only one of, 'ii. iisposai pioblems confronting' < For they are fertile spawni' g beds for all sorts of nialordorous rubbish for which they have no use Recently a king of the Chicago i •■lerworM was killed in * gang feud. *’hi* ■ iro aat hori t :os declare there are A rd . J ! Wh.. o a ;'.l so *v custcmFor our American plan to eradicate vice and crime is to run them out of town. It's a great system. Sweeten one city and befoul i. dozen farther down stream. When each community is compelled to install disposal plants for all its own malodorous rubbish, city life will be more fragrant. Patient M* - A ’ IK NOBEE. age 10. of De catur, Ind., will enter the l,—, James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children Wednesday as its first patient. He is crippled and bed-riddderi from infantile paralysis, but hopes to be helped sufficiently so he can attend school. A crippled child evokes ready sympathy. However, physical deformities are not insurmountable handicaps. Many men with shattered and distorted bodies ha- e written their names on the fairest pages of human accomplishments. Steinme'z the electrical genius, who died a few months ago. was a twisted little hunchback. Vet one of his brain cells was worth the whole head of Jack Dempsey or many other specimens of physical vigor. Rut crippled bodies often make schooling impossible and imprison minds. Which is tragedy. For within the cripple's head may be cells that, given a chance to develop. would yield ideas of ineulkeulable benefit to humanity. “ Some cases the Riley Hospital will cure. Others it will only help alittle. Nevertheless its work should tire imaginations and open purs*. . For either cure or slight improvement may change the course of history forty years lienee. Who knows?

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j p | ORTY-EIGHT persons were killed in 22 cities and towns I*l of the United States in automobile accidents over tlie ✓ week-end. according to reports to the United Press today. These accidents resulted in serious injury to 157 other persons. '

COM WOUNDED, KIDNAPED AND THEN MURDERED Resort Near Granite City, 111., i Is Raided by Bandit Gang j —One Robber Fatally Wounded, LOOT VALUED AT $1,600i Toss Body of Man Out of! Automobile and Speed Away. i /;,/ United Press EAST ST. LOUIS- 111 . Nov. 17. | Two men. a bandit and a guard, j I were slain in a gun battle at Eagle Park, a resort near Granite City. | early today, after which bandits | seized >I.OOO and escaped in an auI tomobile. Nelvin Xorville. 2*>. Madison a I guard at the roadhouse, reached 1 1 for his gun and was shot down, j "Chicken” Ridge, another guard. ' opened fire and shot one of "he ban- j dits twice The robbers returned the fire and wounded Ridge slightly, intimidated the dozen customers in the place, grabbed tbe money, and left, tabling Norville and their wounded com I panion outside. j The bandits then s-hot Norville 1 three times more, killing him. and j threw his body out of the automobile ' n Granite City. They took their wounded companion, whose name i , was aid to be Halley, o a hospital, ! : where he died a few hours later Ridge will recover. Harry Bricker, so-mer owner of the place, and ■a negro were found shot to death! in the place S' ,i. 2. P.Jice ad j vanced the theory then that an at j tempte’d hold-up resulted in a gun i battle fatal to both. COMMUNITY FOND IS NEAPING GOAF !Workers Meet to Catch Up Loose Ends, Reaching out toward the goal, j 5700.215. workers in the annual com , inunity Fund campaign met today at the Claypool for tlie last scheduled \ campaign report luncheon. A j j luncheon was being arranged fnr ; , Wednesday to catch up “loose ends " The Men's Special Gifts Division. I of which Arthur R. Baxter Is chairman. report-d $33,221.48, including! these donations: Polk Sanitary Milk j ji'ompany. $1,800: Mr. and Mrs. .lame?; 1 W. Lilly, f 1.000; Indianapolis' Saddlery Company and K. A. Hendrickson, $1,100: William Laurie Company, $1,000; Robert H. Hassler. SI,OOO. and A. Borin stein firm. SI,OOO. j Audit of Saturday’s reports brought 1 .the grand total to $502,973.14. MORGAN'S MOTHER DIES Banker Son Hurries From Europe But Death Is First. By f nited Per** NEW YORK. Nov. 17.—While J. j Pierpont Morgan, famous interna- j tional banker, was hurrying to her bedside from France. his aged i mother died at her home in High-! land Falls, N. V.. today. Mrs. Morgan was S3 years old. Her son was notified while he was in Paris last week and set out for i home at once. He is expected to | arrive in New York Friday or Saturday. PERSHING MENTIONED Friends l rge Coolidge Appoint Him Secretary of War. Bp United Prrxx WASHINGTON. Nov. 17.—Gen. ! John J. Pershing has been urged | upon President Coolidge for appoint- j jment as Secretary of War in event John W. Weeks carries out his re--1 ported intention to retire front the | Cabinet, it was learned today, j The now retired general of the i Army has let it he known he would ;accept the post if offered hitn. j i FIRE AT JERSEY CITY Another Disastrous Blaze on Waterfront —$2,000,000 Ixtss. B’l I nited Pr- xx JERSEY CITY. N. J.. Nov. Ip— Close watch was being kept today *n smoldering ruins of two railroad piers here to prevent a fresh outbreak of the fire which caused property damage estimated at $2,000,000 Sunday. It was the second disastrous fire here in three days.

i Joins Times TRACY W. ELLIS

Tracy W. Ellis became advertising manager of The Indianapolis Times today. Eiiis has been with the Indian npolls News for more than ten ; i years. Before e,uning to The j Times he was assistant advertising i ma ha g*T of t hat p , pec Before going to The News lie was an advertising solicitor on tiestaff of tlm nld Indianapolis Sun for one year Ellis succeeds Albert O. Evans, who remains on the advertising staff of The Times. ELECTION RESULT SOOTHESWNESS, C. OF C JEN TOLD 300 Delegates Here for North Central Division Convent^n. ‘There ran !c no doubt about the verdict of the American people We *re going to stand by the Con- ■ stitutioii and the principle of private enterprise pic. ttoiy owned and -on ducted, and il.e fundamental that - Government exists for the benefit of j the people and not the people for the ! tier etit of the Government.' The w-a., tlm statement today of ' ffichurd F. Garnt. president of tin* 1 'nited States Chamber of t'otn- j men e. incv to attend the two-day i i (invention of the Ntitth Central i Division of the Chamber at the flay- . pool. Grant declared the recent election! dearly showed that the American people will have nothing to do with radicalism. Worried Before Election "Business men generally have j been concerned of late for fear these ! disciples of unrest had acquired a i following which might in an un- i thinking moment gain control of the! Government and turn loose tin s- de-| structive forces. Business men! know that under those, conditions . our modern business institutions} eould not exist.” H. L Dithrner, president of The j Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, j welcomed the delegates on behalf of the Indianapolis business men at the morning session. More than three hundred delegates were present j when the morning session was called to order by John W. O'Leary, vicepresident of the national chamber. Production Waste I p Waste in production was the gen era! topic up for discussion at round . table. lyeonard V. Harrison, municipal i | affairs expert for the Indianapolis ; | Chamber of Commerce, prepared ai i resolution urging that municipal- 1 ities make budgets and follow them j j religiously Herbert F. Perkins, vice president j i international Harvester Company, j I gave a short address and Mangus j |W. Alexander, managing director j ! Industrial Conference Board, in the principal address declared in the future. business will become more and j more difficult to conduct. He based j his conclusions on the steadily in- | < leasing cost of Government, he! said, and the limited labor supply j due to immigration laws and the high wage level now being maintained. President Grant will address the convention on “elements of business" at a banquet tonight in the Riley room at the Claypool. A. L. Taggart, president of the Taggart Raking Company of Indianapolis. was nominated for director. A resolution was adopted asking Congress to pass a law giving to Federal Court ihe sok power to decide words generally used in various States relating to transportation. Such an act is designed to clear up discrepancy in railroad terms.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, NOV. 17, 1924

The death list in the larger cities follows: New York, 7; Chicago, 5; Detroit, 6; Boston, 5; Los Angeles, 3; Portland, 1; San Francisco, 1; Philadelphia, 2; Buffalo, 3; Washington, 1; Pittsburgh, 1; Kansas City, 1.

BULLETS FLY IN SUSPECTED GANG Man Fires at Another With Shotgun in Kentucky Ave,, Near Washington, Before Noon, _ I WITNESSES SEEK COVER — Person Fired at Draws His Automatic Pistol and Shoots at Gar, Police today believed a 1 !!••■: i gors' ga:..: war culminated in ! shooting scrap, in front of a room a 25 K, nfueky Ave . uiihi'i , few so. ■ of W. :on and 11! nois S: ... hi: :, >• . • nor m tie- city shortly heforo noon. Two nom who . \. ■ ange,l hot: h* P. - I. v ac- c script! -ns, hut not uana-s of < ).•• According to information from , ; sons standing near th, see:.,- all oi ■whom fi.-d to yTau-ways allevs 'nn-s ;ar:,i behind antomohiles a ivour.g min in a light brown ~,.cr o.iT stopped Ids Lord coupe in front of 3(1 Kentucky Ate., alighted and ‘ walked almost to tlm other ■ ;■!•• <■:' , Th., avciitu- H*- raised a slv tcun land fired, point blank, at n tall i slender man iti dark clothing who ! had just left near by rest;.uratr i The two exchanged curses. Auto Is Struck The shotgun charge tore a hob m the i adiator of a car park- at the curl) Th*' man with the shotgun non , chain lit tv walked hack to his coupe ate’ spi i southwest on Kentnck> Ave. The other mart walked across the s,r*-et and tired on. *- w, 1 ~,■ , • , matic pistol at the speeding car. The shot struck a front leg of a horse hitched to an American Linen Supply < "ontpanv wagons standing irt the center of the street. iiittTftifs Barnett Held Police held Lnvrcnr,, liHiaieit. off. 25 Vinton Si , un bu >2.O"M bon i ‘on a vagrancy charge, after Rat- ! nett and Hurry lc,- bua x. New j Jersey St., toll there there had hern a fight in front of th*- poolroom Saturday nigh 1 a, 1 <*l v i*■ Klinger of the Indiana Mi- 1 1 Market. 30 KenI Micky Ave . said that the man in . tin coupe was one of the men :g> th - (tight. The shotgun charge narrow | 1 v missed Ice, ; Barnett said that he was in the: tight, winch resulted when he job. ; i ingly pulled a man'a necktie, but do j i nied he was Mn the shooting scrape. ; The man with the revolver es- ! , raped through an alley leading from } the east side of K- nttlcky Ave.. near | the scene. MRS. HARDING IS LOSING STRENGTH ; Late President's Widow Weak and Exhausted. ! It ii t nit id I’rem MARK’N. Ohio. Nov. 17. Frcmir ixtisoning lias further complicated ! case of Mrs. Warren < i. Harding, ill i lat White Oaks farm near here, it ! was said early today. This, in addition to the heart attacks which she suffered periodical ; !y, has caused her to lose strength steadily since the latter part of last j week. For tlie past forty-eight hours she! has been drowsy and has taken very ! j little nourishment, leading to the I , fear that she is slowly slipping into j i a coma. i After two unfavorable statements | I Sunday. Dr. <'arl W. Sawyer. Mrs. ( ■ Harding's physician, issued a bulletin at midnight saying she has) slept comfortably up to that hour. | (‘COLONEL’ BROWN DEAD s Familiar Character at Terminal i Station Succumbs. I “Colonel" l'rowu. familiar to | thousands of travelers who passed I through the Traction Terminal Sta- | tion in the sixteen years he had been station master, is dead. Ethan Allen Brown was not really a colonel, but the title stuck with him ever since an uncle jokingly referred to him in that way shortly after the Civil War, in which Mr. Brown was a second lieutenan: “Colonel” Brown was 81, but he remajtmd at his post in the station until .vugust, when illness forced him to bid. He died Sunday at his ■’cme, 1.755 Ashland Ave. Funeral will ho held Thursday. Surviving are the widow and two daughters. Mrs. Joseph L. Stacy of Indianapolis and Mrs. William A. Higgins of Casa Grande, Ariz.

Cals Courtin’ His Excellency Wooed as Cautiously as He Tackles Problems of State—Until Shoemaker Friend Prodded Him.

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;:■> W t firmer rr—riOirmHAMP'D >N Mass.. Nov 17. —Burnings of the love fire in the I | bosom of calm, cautious Calvin Coolidge may be hard to imagine. I I Yet Eros pricked the heart of the solemn man who presides in Washington—once. The girl is still his sweetheart today Back m 11M>3. when Coolidge was a young lawyer here, and Grace Goodhue teacher in tlio Clark School for the Deaf and Blind, they met. Coolidge had spied the girl as he looked out of his window. A mutual friend introduced them. , Northampton was a small place, and news spread fast. Cal was a courting' But he vv.is not a fervid lover. li>• took Miss Goodhue on walks and he made punctilious calls u{,.'T’ her. He took her to none of the dances, for the young man was too bashful to dance. Lticey Advises Him One day Coolidge dropped into the shop of James Lticey for a chat. Lueey was—and still is—the village shoemaker and philosopher. ' Look her. young man." Lueey said to Coolidge, pretending to ho very cross. "You aren’t getting anywheres! "You wont to w.ilk closet to Grave. Don't go up the street as if you didn't know her. for some of these other young men around town will entii, .uid walk between you. “When you walk home with her tonight, walk very close. And when you get in her parlor, sit very close to her on the lounge. "First look at her sin es. Tell her what pretty feet she has. Then look at her skirt. Tell her what a pretty dress she has on. "Then look into her eyes. Tell her what wonderful eyes she has, and how you know she's going to make some young man a wonderful wife, and how you hope to be that man.” Whether Coolidge followed this advice or not will never be known. But a short time later their engagement was announced. Cal Kept Silent But Coolidge knew little of the delicacies of dealings with the fair sex. He did not know that it was his place to ask her to name the wedding day. The school term closed. Miss Goodhue went to her home in Vermont, greatly puzzled. She did not know whether she should stay there and work on her trosseau. or whether she should make arrangements to return to the schoc' the following term. While she vva. in this quandary, Coolidge appeared at her home, dressed in his best clothes. Miss Goodhue's father met him at the door. “Up here on a business trip?” lie asked. “No-o. not a business trip," Coolidge replied. "You see. I came up here to marry your daughter.” This surprised Goodhue. “Why, T don't think she's ready." he exclaimed. "Well," said Coolidge, his natural calm returning to him as he took a seat on the porch. "I'll wait then." r It may have been sudden news to the girl that, they were to be married right away, but she was prepared for the ceremony in a few months. They were married on Oct. 4, 1905. And, say their friends, they are sweethearts yet.

450 GUNMEN ARRESTED Chicago Police Start Drive Against rndfsirabl**. Up f nitcd Press CHICAGO. Nov. 17. —Four hundred and fifty gunmen wore arrested today in a drive by police. Seventy held were said lo be "dangerous criminals.” FAKE ALCOHOL PERMITS Senate Committee Will .Make Probe, Couzen.s Says. By United Pits* WASHINGTON. Nov. 17.—Evidence of illegalities in withdrawal of alcohol on permits Will be presented to the Senate committee investigating the Internal Revenue Re partment when it reconvenes on Wednesday, Senator James Couzetis. chairman, announced today

| JACKSON FEARS TANGLE j Refuses to Accept Additional Certified Returns. Ed Jackson, Secretary of State, today decided against accepting the i additional certified election returns | from Howard and Sullivan Counties, which give George K. Denton, j Evansville, Democratic candidate for ! Supreme Court judge, a 412 plurality over Benjamin M. Willoughby, who, according to official returns, defeated Denton by one vote. Jackson said acceptance of the additional returns would raise many complicated questions and could rightly be settled only ln a court at law. W. W. Spencer, attorney for the j Democratic State committee, said to'.ay he will file mandamus proceedings in Marion County Court to force Jackson to accept the corrected returns.

Entered as Second-class Matter at Poetofflb-. Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Snnda"

ULU KINh WIN ItK oWttro Snow, Sleet and Higli Winds Descend on Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Northeast —Record Low Temperatures Reported. THREE PERSONS LOSE LIVES; COLD KILLS TWO IN NEW YORK Lock Tender Swept Into Icy Waters —New England Shivers in Most Extreme Snap of Freezing Weather in History.

King W inter n c<d)i)ri>. snow. 1. high winds and t’reezjiiigjeini.erati.rcs. ;<*>■!< possession of Indiana. Ohio. Pennsylvania. New York and tin- northeastern seaboard over the weekend. Record droughts and exceptional November warmth van- : ished as real winter weather arrived with a blast of sleet storms Jid a substM jUellt Ihoderate snow tali. i hree persons are known to have been killed by the storm. An unidentified man and an unidentified woman died of cold 'in New York, while a :oek tend-r on the Mouongahela river, j near Pittsi.urgh, wa.< blown into 'ln- icy waters and drowned. New York City was five from snow exeept for occasional | (lurries, but the temperature was l-' degrees at 8 a. m. todav.

Buffalo was harried by snow, sleet kind wind with a low temperature. At Albany a was only 8 degrees I above. The \ilrhgcl.tcks were blanketed ! with snow, the fall ranging from one to fiftf-en. The mountains of i ventral Pennsvlyaniu were unde.' ; several inches of snow. ! Chicago and parts of Illinois had | their first snow of the year today (while Ohio was recovering from the effects of its first serious storm which was nc, itnpanied by a fiftyj mile gale. Accidents w hich resulted i m injury of a dozen persons imi j scores of fires from overheated stoves, were reported Washington and Baltimore fiad a taste of winter. Todav was Baltimore's coldest Nov. 17 in forty years with mercury registering 27 d< _tves at 7 a. lit. New England Shivered i nthe most extreme early cold snap on weather bureau records. FIRST SNOW FORECAST Frozen Radiators Reported by .Motorists. 1101 Ki.\ TK.MI’KK \TI KF (j .t. i11..... 2S It. a. m 32 7 a. m 2’J 11 a. ni 33 S a. ni 2:' 12 (noon- .... 34 9 a. in "0 Prospects for the first snow of the season were held out today by the | weather bureau The forecast 1 stated: "Fnsettled tonight with possibly light rain or snow." : Cities reporting first snow were ; Ft. Wayne. Hartford City. VaipaI raise and Kendallville. The drop in temperature rune shortly afternoon Sunday, falling from 40 at 12 to 35 at 7 p. in. The low mark was reached at 5 a. m. today with 28. Lowest temperature tonight was expected to be near freezing. Brisk sale iti alcohol was enjoyed today by auto accessory shops. First frozen radiators of the season were reported. It was the coldest morning this fall so far. COFFIN IS PREPARED “Knew What He Was About" When lie Ousted Committeemen. George V. Coffin, county Republican chairman, "knew what he was about" when he instructed twentyseven precinct committeemen to walk the plank, he said today. Furthermore. he will he ready to meet all arguments "when the time comes.” if an appeal to the State committee or courts is taken, he said. Coffin and his lieutenant, C. O. Dodson, county councilman, conferred in the office of County Auditor Harry Dunn this morning. What it was all about remains a mysiery. Coffin said he guessed the crowd of henchmen who thronged about “wanted jobs." but whether they got any or not he would not reveal. •ATTY. GEN.' IS BACK Detectives Return Alleged Swindler From Alabama. George B. .Mills, 54, of New York City, is in jail here today awaiting trial on a charge of obtaining money tinder false pretense and grand larceny. Detective George E. Stewart returned Mills front Montgomery, Ala., where he was arrested as a fugitive. The police say be obtained SSOO from Mrs. Georgia Gertrude Beeson, apartment 32 the Eugenia, by telling her he was an attorney general.

Forecast UNSETTLED tonight with possible light rain or snow. Lowest tonight near freezing. Tuesday fair.

TWO CENTS

ELECTRICITY RATE COTS PROPOSED BI COMMISSION Elimination of Demand Charge and Domestic Reduction Discussed. Elimination of the demand charge for povv *ri consumers and a 2-lrt- . ent a kilowatt hour cut in the initial rate for small consumers, such ;*s householders, was proposed by the public service commission today. Proposal was made in a hearing upon rates of the Indianapolis Light ...rid Heat Company. Hearing on lutes of the Merchants Heat and Light Company is set for Wednesday. Hearings Follow Probe The hearings follow an investigation by the commission into alleged rebating by the two companies to favored power consumers. Suit was rii.-d in a county court upon this rebating and the companies fined. It was found in the probe, according to the commission, that the companies had been eliminating the demand charge for some favored consumers. The theory was advanced in the hearing today that since the

i companies were able to eliminate this charge for some they should for i all customers. The result of eliminating the de- ! mand charge would be a straight en I orgy charge for the amount of cur* jtent used for all power consumers, | it was said. Domestic Kate Figures The .domestic rate a kilowat hour I for the first fifty kilowatt now is | 7.5 cents, with a reduction to 7 ; cents if bill is paid within ten days, j The proposed rate is 7.3 cents a i kilowatt, with discount of 5 per j cent, which would make the discount j rate 6.35-100 cents. W. J. Huddle of Chicago, expert * I for the company, testified that the substitution of the block type eni orgy charge for the demand charge would result in large consumers ; paying more than a fair and small I user less. Samuel R. Artman announced , that an attempt to settle the rate Miuestion by informal conferences would be made. If this fails a formal hearing will be held. TRAIN WRECKS WAGON Milk Driver Escapes Death at Crossing Here. Evans Masco, 41, of 1007 Harlan ; St., driver for the Polk Sanitary ; Milk Company, escaped death today : when his team of horses became ; frightened and raced in front of a Pennsylvania freight train on the Belt Railroad at Kentucky Ave. Masco leaped as the locomotive struck the wagon and escaped injury. The wagon was demolished and one of the horses so badly injured it was shot. R. S. Hollingsworth, conductor, and C. Murphy, engineer, both of Ter*- Haute, were in charge of the trail- No arrests were made.