Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 165, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1924 — Page 1

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mOSKPH HOGUE, city controller, announced anew policy for his office next year. He will insist the city expenditures be kert within—and in accordance with —the budget. That's certainly a revolutionary decree. For the past year appropriations outside the budget have been $52,156.69. and transfers between funds were $122. 873.36. Monday night at the council meeting ten | transfer nances switching $29,00' were introduced. A budget :s a fine fiscal instrument —when used. N'o income is infinitely elastic. j Hence a plan for expenditures is ' necessary ">r every disbursing j agency—whether that agency is a : private household Queen or an of- j ficial public deuce. And with public expenses soaring j to stupendous altitudes a definite | budget must be followed by every 1 governmental unit. Which to be ; effective must be inflexible. .Some transfer of funds may be re- ; o.uired in the face of sudden 1 emergences. Hu’ :n our city and S'ate budgets emergencies have become settled habits. For funds are ; < oniiiiuaily transferred to satisfy the j whims of the moment. Consequently their check on expenditures is mostly the moral ' restraint of mean looks. The budgets budge ar.d bulge, and the taxpayers j squirm and shrivel. Brakes fSpri RAFFIC officers for several I I da f s hava conducts I brake ■. . J tests and inspection of automobiles picked by chance <>n the streets at various points in the city. Besides brakes the examinations Included horns, lights. steering wheels, license plates and certificates of title. Monday 433 machines out of 666 tested were found defec- ! tive In some detail. That 5s a large percentage. I But very f< w a itom i dies result from mechanical irr.per factions. Most accident reports reveal that the safety equipment didn’t prove faulty—it was never used. Any moron can drive—and most of them do. So In spite of the street tests by traffic officers pedestrians will con tinue to gulp convulsively and leap from curb to curb. For they can't tell whether approaching cars are safe vehicles or juggernauts. If they err they twang harps in their celestial abode before thpy discover the difference. Because the only safe braking device is not on the automobile's wheels, but In the driver’s head. "Which defects are not disclosed until a coroner's Inouest. Mandate | ■“J:n.;ami.v m. wibloughby I K I was elecreil justice of the L J Supreme Court, according to the State board of canvassers. The ?ace was close and there will be a contest. For second offi-qal returns from two counties, which were not accepted. would have reversed the result. Mandamus action to compel ao ceptance is proper, for the question involves law. not prejudice. Put the action, while in the name of the defeated candidate, will be pushed by the political party to which he belongs. Because the par- | ty’s in’eiesrs are .it stake. The Supreme Court is an impartial trihidnil above factional strife and personal friendships. Only abstract justice influences it. A judge is ns non-partisan as any official In a democracy. Vet a political organization will work as hard to elect and seat Its judicial candidates as any other. It feels party Interests will suffer if it is not represented on the bench. They wouldn't suffer. The public wnuiy b" as faithfully served if ninmtenths of all judges were of one party. But politics to poli tlcians Is only a .stirring game—an 1 ’he end sought victory. Neglect "TTIERXARD BUNDY of LuwK rence County couldn’t supi port Ills aged parents. He was their only child. So he sent them to the poorhousp. Although he earned .*IBO a month. But he bought a second-hand automobile on a monthly payment of $44.50. It was either give up the car or the parents. So they went to the poorhouse. Yesterday the Supreme Court affirmed his conviction for failure to support them as required by law. A motor car is a necessity. Feeble parents are luxuries. Both often drain purses anil tempers. Rut most people gladly provide for infirm fathers and mothers, regard less of the law. For they are rather Important In the history of every individual. Without them that hisi ory would lie blank. ' So grateful children continually sacrifice to care for feeble parents. For there is a law’ of compensation. And we receive as we give. A man may neglect filial duty for a second-hand automobile. The compensation will arrive when he is old. The car won't support him.

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■suicide; says PASTOR HUSBAND OF DEAD WOMAN Columbus (0.) Minister Turns to Belief That Wife Killed Self in Furnace at Home, GIVES THREE REASONS | Authorities Continue Investigation on Supposition of Murder, By l nit ft] I'rrxs COIA MBI'S. Ohio. N',,v. 19—Rev. C. V. Sheatsley. who has declared repentedly since he raked his wife's j charred bones from the parsonage i furnace Monday night that she could i not have committed suicide, tel, ! phoned John R. King, county prose icutor. at noon today that he is now I convinced Mrs. Sheatsley took her own life. "I am now convinced that my 1 wife, of her own free will, crawled i into the furnace and burned to death." the pastor said. ! His statement will be recorded ; with other testimony in the case. ; but the investigation is not yet at an j ; end. King told the I'nited Press Th" pastor gave three reasons for swinging Hack to the suicide theory: 1. Statements of furnace men th.v : Mrs. Sheatsley could have crawled I through the door. 2. Pathological changes, due to i her age. which he believes might j have resulted in sudden mania. 3. Knowledge gained by eii-ht months in India of the ability of humans, through religious fanati--1 > -m to make their bodies virtually .nsensihlo to pain. Convinced that Rev Sheatsley's wife was murdered and her body stuffed in on the coals of the par--onage furnace, police and Prosecutor King continued their investi i gat inn. King was careful to point out that he now believes a solution to tile j mystery lies outside the pastor s family. Rev. Sheatsley and his four (Turn to Page 13)

‘OYER THE TOP' IS FUND SLOGAN Campaign Is $111,563,95 SLiort of Quota. BUBBBT IX Amount reported at today's luncheon was $18,003 s? bringing the grand total t<> C 606.65-1.92. Determined to keep Community Fund from dying from lack of sup port, workers in the annual earn paign today renewed :hrj r efforts to raise the $700,215 needed by the thirty-nine organizations affiliated with the fund during the corning ! year. Reports at luncheon Tuesday brought the grand total to UoS,651."-,. still slll 563.95 short of the j ouora. A report luncheon was held today ,t the Claypool. Campaign officials i hope to close the work with a lunchi eon Friday. CARDINAL LCGHE DIES SUDDENLY ; Death of Peacemaker Is Shock to All Ireland. By l : nitrd Prctx j ARMAGH. Ireland. Xov. 9. Cardinal Bogue, primate of Ireland land one of the outstanding figures of Roman Catholicism, died suddenly at his residence “Ara Coeli." early today. Word of his death shocked all Ireland. for his efforts to tiring about peace and tranquillity had won him the respect of those who opposed ; him on religious grounds. His eminence was outspokenly opposed to the Republican movement, | but favored the Irish Free State. He was an influence behind the compromise with the British government out of which the Free State was : born. Physically a small man. Cardinal j I/Ogue was vigorous and active up | to the time of his death. He was born at Kilmaerean, Ireland in 184 U and was ordained in 1886. In 1893 Pope ia?o XIII elevated him to the cardinalate.

COLUMBUS DISPUTES BEDFORD'S CLAIM OF BIGGEST BASS

q LEW X. BROOKS of Columbus, in a letter to The Times, disputes the eluiin of A1 Hunter of Bedford that It is four and three-quarter pound bass is the largest caught this season. 4

Hiker Rit Timex Special NOBBESVIL.EE, Ind.. Nov. 19. —Frances .VI. Small, 80, Civil War veteran, believes he has "hiked" more miles than any other man in Indiana. Recently he completed his j third walk from Winfield, Kan., a distance of 900 Smiles. averaged hound any SMALL breakfast if you want him ’o travel with you. Eating breakfast just naturally makes a dog tiiuni lazy. Feed him heavy at supper, that’s all.” Small lives with his sister. Mrs. Adaline Perry. He served in the Civil War as a member of Company lof 118th Indiana Volunteer infantry.

THOMAS H.INCE, MOVIE DIRECTOR, IN lASI SCENE Vetera# of Picture Industry Dies of Acute Indigestion. Ha I niter! Ptr.f* HOIJ.VWi )< >1 >. Cal. N’ov. 19 Thomas H. Inoe, 4", noted motion picture produce; ,nd dir*' tor, died at bis palatial Beverly Hills residence today. Ills wifi . X, 11 lr.ee. his two sons and two brothers. Ralph and John were at his ld.si<l< when the cnid earn**. Inc**, with his wife and children, had been guest.- of William Randolph If* ns' at h:- upstate ranch for several days. I.at* Tuesday the pioneer film man was stricken with acute Indigestion. Hurried Home In a speria! car, attended by two special is’s and thr*— nurses, inoe was hurried Pack to laih Angeles last night and was taken to his can yon home lie \va- unconscious dur ing tie night. Early today ho regained conscious lies- and apparently realized the cn,l was near He smiled at his wife. and. trying to speak—died Beginning his motion picture carter over a decade ago. Ineo started as a director for the old Biograph Company. letter lie founded the town of Vneeville, near Santa Monica, and been me a producer. N'otv Iricoville is deserted as a studio town, only a shell of the old sets remaining The producer later built the Goldwyn studios In Culver <’ity, which lie sold some years afterward, follow •-.) by construction of the big studio plant nearby in which his activities hate .since been cen tered. Made Westerners line was credited with being the producer, who made the Western plctuie p,.* ilar. He first gave to the screen Charles Ray and William S Hart, these wo stars making maty pictures under bis direction. Hart left Ince to become an independent producer some years ago. Kay attempted the same venture, tut was unsuccessful. A f**w months ago Ray returned to the Ince fold. Ince made a fortune through his abilities as a director and producer.

ONE DEAD, THREE HOST IN CRASH Auto Goes Over Embankment at Bridge, By Timex Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Nov. 19 Mrs. Ben Harris, 33. was instantly killed and three others were injured ir. an automobile accident seven miles south of here on State Rd. 32, Tuesday night. The injured: Mrs. Charles Disbrow, 3S, Joseph Miller, 37-, and Frank White, 36. All are local residents. Ac ording to other autoisis, the driver of the car, which was traveling at high speed, lost control is he approached a newly constructed bridge and the car plunged over a high embankment, turning "ver twice. Sheriff Beslie Sears, and Coroner Jacob McGurry. who investigated, declared they found several broken bottles of white mule in the demolished car.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19, 1924

Mark Noble, First Patient Admitted to Riley Hospital, pect of Going to

BKFT TO RIGHT—DR. JOHN IB OBIVER, MRS CAUL XOBI.E. MARK XoBBE AXD CARL XOBLE.

|*. Mark Xoble, H. of De--n tvi r Ind the Itiley Mer ,r:al Hospital for t.’hild: n off-i s more than health. It offers. ;,.*,. i-dui-.a tloti. wiiich h<* has li*‘eii <!en:*-*l ever since he was crippled b-. infantile paralysis, when he was 3 y ■ irs old. "Xi'W I can go to school," he said as h* , i ered the hospital to day. Mark was the first, patient admitted. His application was the first rt b" complet' and, and hospital authnritP-“ had promised to, wait

TR UST COMPANIES OF INDIANA SHOW GROWTH IN RESOURCES

NEW RECORDS ON STOCK EXCHANGE Rails and Industrials Advance Sales Heavy. III! I nitf<l I’ri nx XEW YORK. Nov. 19.—Wall Street continued In boiling activity today—the thirteen-dav of the great post-election boom —with trading on thr stock exchange well past 1.61)0,000 shares at 2 p. m. _ Another two million-share day seemed assured, with the buying capacity of the speculative public unappeased. Trading was at what trailers called a "3,000,000 share *aie.” Rails, industrials and motor stocks, were buoyant. Nash s, ;uod to 170, while Studebaker reached new high ground at 42 Radio Corporation also continued a speci icular Climb, reaching 48Vi, al3 point rise since Saturday. LIFE’S MOVING DRAMA Min Sentenced for Theft of Check From Woman A flirtation in a hotel. A plearont evening. Representations a SSOO check belonging to the woman could be converted into $5,000 in New York on exchange by the man, who said he was a Federal officer. Check disappears. “One to fourteen years on your plea of guilty ro grand larceny,’ said Judge James A. Collins today in criminal court, who often has the last say in. many dramas. Collins heard the details from George P. Mills, 54, New Yoik City, arrt Miss Geitrude Besson, IC ’genia Apts., No. 34. 3"2 W. New York St, the other actors.

for Him before admitting any one vise, The little cripple was proud of being the first patient. "I’m so glad you waited for me, and I’m so glad to be h.-r, ' kt> told Robert Id X'ff. administrator of th* hospital, and I)r. John 11. <!:v*q- of the hospital staff Mark drove from 1 teeatur with Ids mother and father Mr. and Mrs. Carl Xoble. They started Tuesday and .stopped at Cam bridge City over night. “Mark can hardly wait to start to school." Mrs. Noble s:,hi. “He

j $8,126,156 Gain Reported Over Last Year’s Record, SN increase of $8,126,156 In resources of 170 Indiana trust companies for the year ending June 3". 1924. over rho preceding year, was shown in a mport receive,! today from the United States Mort,range and Trust Company of X*-w V irk. Total resources of the Indiana companies for 1921 were given as 1267,526,518. Their capital stock totaled $22,302,700; surplus and undivided profits. $14,699,246.26; total deposits, including sums due banks and fiankers, $212,211,057,80, and value of real estate. $12,496,076 .43 Resources nationally. In 2,562 companies, amounted to $16,025,580,000, an increase of 51.554.042,000. Deposits nationally Increased from $11,828,983,000 to 313. 289. MS,OOO. Deposits in Indianapolis trust ; companies showed these accumulations: Aetna Trust and Savings Company, $1,704,749.38; Bankers : Trust Company, $2,935,544.28: Cltv Trust Company. $1,659,352.40; | Farmers Trust Company, $1,401,'396.31; Fidelity Trust Company, , $1,821,552.95; Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, $14,291,655.81; Indiana Trust Company, $3,969,159.30; United Rabor Bank and Trust Company, $295,068.38: Se curity Trust Company, $3,475,848.10; State Savings and Trust Company, $2,278,690.25; Union Trust. Company, $6,939,083.41; Washington Bank and Trust Company, $2,061,321.53. CORN PRICES MOUNT New High Ijevelii for Year Reached on Board of Trade. By T’nitrtl Prefix CHICAGO, Nov. 19. —Corn prices today again reached new High levels firm the year in trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. May corn sold at $1.24 a bushel and the July hit $1.24%. and oats followed corn to higher levels, but did not make records. Urgent demand for cash corn was the chief bullish factor.

Sa3's Brooks: “I know of two bass caught near Columbus that beat that. One caught by Charles Chrisman weighed five and a quarter pounds, was a little over twentytwo inches long. Boy, it was some bass! It was caught in Platrock on a wooden minnow. Ora Quiller caught a bass that, weighed four and three-quarter pounds.”

never Las been able to go regularly 1 " Hus.- there was no way to get Cm there." "Down h*U'. we'll bring the school righ* to you." Xeff assured the lad. Mark smiled his appreciation of tie chance to given him to develop th" thin h "s. which are not aide to hear his weight now. and his mind a* the same time. Five children were tv, be transferred from tin- Robert Bung llospl'al to the Riley Hospital today, and one from the Methodist Hos-

SHANK THROUGH WITH VAUDEVILLE I Stacie Contract Offered Again to Mayor, | Mayor Shank has a chance to reII urn to the stage when his term ex- | pires Jan. 1. 1926. He received from the B. F. Keith vaudeville circuit making him an offer But the mayor declared he is through with theatrical life. He .made a vaudeville tour in 1914 after leaving the mayor's office. At. the expiration of his term, he will resume active charge of his storage business at Ills new place at 147.(1 X'. Illinois St. Ho looks forward to living in his new Golden Hill home. MRS. HARDING WEAKENED Heart Action Poor; Takes Kittle! Nourishment, Doctor Says. By United Prrxx MARION, Ohio. Xov. Warren G. Harding's heart action is ■poor and she is weak and exhausted ! today, Dr. Uarl W. Sawyer said today at White Oaks farm. “Mrs. Harding rested comfortably most of the night.” the physician said. "Her condition is unchanged tills morning. She Is taking a little nourishment, but her heart action is poor and she is quite weak and exhausted." MURDER IN RESTAURANT Proprietor Shot and Killed—Personal ! Feud Believed Cause. By United Press MADISON. 111., Xov. 19.—Mike Slaver, 30, restaurant proprietor, today was shot, and killed in his establishment. The slayer escaped. Slaver died in a hospital without making a statement. Police believe the killing resulted from a personal feud. HOI BUY TEMPER YTI ItF 6 a. m 33 10 a. m 38 7 a. m 34 11 a. m 41 8 a. rn 35 12 (noon) 42 9 a. m 36 1 p. m 46

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WIDOWS AND ELDERLY MEN CHIEF TARGETS FOR STOCK TALK OF HAWKINS HEADS Carl B. Anderson, Treasurer of Firm, Under .Fire, Identifies Literature Upon Cross-Examination by District Attorney. MAYOR KIEL OF ST. LOUIS IS DEFENSE CHARACTER WITNESS Company Official Says Record Showing He Was Director of the Cooperative League of America Is Untrue —Denies Government Charges. That the Hawkins Mortgage Company, which is alleged to have swindled thousands of victims out of from $4,000,000 to $6,000,000 operated chiefly among farmers, widows and old men. was brought out in testimony from Carl B. Anderson, treasurer of the Hawkins company, on th cstand iij Federal Court today. Anderson is the second to testify of sixteen defendant officials of the Hawkins and affiliated companies, charged with conspiracy to use the mails to defraud. lie denied the charges.

Arplerson identified literature mailed out by the ilawkin.s company, urging widows and old men t > 1 Urdu,se all the stock they could. Circular Is Read Homer Elliott, United States district attorney, read a paragraph from one of the circulars which ;aid , "We make a speciality to indue*? widows with small capital to invest, and men well along in years that have the capital, to purchase all the stock they can stand, for we absolutely know there is no hazard connected with the investment and they will be sure of their income the rest of their lives and will have valuable stock to leave their heirs." Anderson testified that records of the directors’ meetings, which statlod he was ft director of the Cooperated Beague of America, were not i true. He admitted he knew letters urging exchange of Cooperative | Beague stock for Hawkins Mortgage i Company stock were being mailed i out. \. R. Sax Absent During Anderson’s testimony it was found that A R. Sax. a defendant stock salesman, was not in the courtroom. Judge Geiger directed that he be brought in. Anderson was excused from the stand for about three minutes while (Turn to I’age 13) AX HANGS OVER SEME EMPLOYES Records and Contributions Checked by ‘Higher-Ups,’ The ax+ Heavy, heavy hangs over their heads! And nothing they can do will keep it from falling! A complete list of the names, occupations, salaries and home towns of the several hundred State employes has been made and the powers that be. including Republican State committee officials are said to be studying the list with extreme interest, checking the names against campaign contributions. It's too late now, say some. Others are breathing easy. They “kicked in" satisfactorily to the finance committee. BRITISH OFFICIAL SHOT Governor-General of Soudan Seriously Wounded in Cairo. ZJ I/ rnitnl I‘renx CAIRO. Nov. 19. —Attempt to assassinate Sir Lee Stack, governorgeneral of the Soudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian army, resulted in the serious wounding of the British ofii cial today. Three shots were fired. Sir Bee being wounded in the stomach, while a policeman and the governor-gen-eral’s aide-de-camp also were hit. The assailant, believed to be an'extreme nationalist, escaped.

Forecast Generally fair tonight and Thursday. Rising temperature. Lowest tonight above freezing.

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CITY ARGUES FOR WATER RETURN OF ! ONLY G PEHCENI .New Rates Would Hit Small Consumer Heaviest, Hearing Shows, Establishment of rates to yield a return of 6 per cent on the rate base | valuation of $19,000,000 required by the injunction issued in Federal Court by Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger was asked by James M. Ogden, corporation counsel, at the opening of ; the water rate hearing before the public service confmission today. This return would enable the Indianapolis Water Company to pay all operating expenses and dividends of 13.57 per cent on the. common ; stock, if the depreciation rate allowed rate allowed by the commisi sion is reduced from Ui per cent to 1 per cent. Ogden said. Testimony of experts for the company indicated that the company in the increased rate schedule asked by it would realize 6.4 per cent on a base valuation of $19,764,000, the $764,000 excess over the minimum rate base set by Federal Court representing improvements and extensions to the service. Utilities usually seek 7 or 8 per cent returns. Early in the hearing Taylor Groninger, assisting Ogden in presenting it he city’s case, drew from John Tiri gal of Chicago, company expert, an I admission that the new rates will ; not affect consumers using more I than 50,000 cubic feet of water, but (Turn lo Page 13) CAR HIES AUTO; TWO ARE INJURED Mr, and Mrs, Loren Small Struck'at McCordsville, Mr. and Mrs. Boren Small of 920 X. Capitol Ave. were seriously injured today when their automobile was struck by a Union Traction car just east of McCordsville, Ind. They were rushed to the Methodist Hospital in an ambuiance from Fortville. Mrs. Small, it was said, had on** leg partially crushed off and the other broken. It was the same crossing where three persons were killed last August. Small, it is believed, did not see the traction ear and drove squarely upon the tracks. The auto was wrecked. The interurban was in charge of Edward Mitchell, conductor, and John Shores, motorman. GLENN H. CRANOR DEAD United Stales Deputy Marshal Dies at Methodist Hospital. Glenn H. Cranor, 47, of 724 N. Xew Jersey St., deputy United States marshal, died at 7:30 a. m. today at the Methodist Hospital. Mr. Cranor was taken ill Friday with appendicitis. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Friday at the home. Burial will' be in Crown Hill cemetery,