Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36 —NUMBER 176

! —■— _ —■ —^ — INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

HE board of county commissioners has employed an v- .1 architect to make a survey and submit plans for remodeling the courthouse. Which is expected to cost appprcximately SIOO,OOO. The building is antiquated. Offices are crowded. In many light is bad. And space must be found for exp.tnding departments. Which is usually the case with public edifices. For they are monuments not workshops. Consequently are flanked with noble pillars outside and filled with noble inconveniences within. The Marion County courthouse is of that type of architecture. Buildings influence the state of mind of their occupants. So modem business edifices arc designed to promote the > fficiency o' their tenants. And American commercial architecture leads the world. But cities, counties an ! State will try to transact modern public affairs in reformed Creek temp.es of the B O. period. Which may be the reason public business so frequently ambles with slow, stately steps. Toys CIHRISTMAS is approaching. Shoppers have a festal air. j windows and stores have donned holiday garb. Wonderful toys are displayed. Bolls that make little girls squeal with glee. And mechanical playthings for little boys, who view feminine trinkets with disdain. For children, Christmas, and toys, form an inseparable trio that radiates happiness and cheer. Every day before shop windows gather little folks with noses flattened against the glass, devouring the marvels with their eyes. Crown ups also feel the fascination. And before toy windows pause more grownups than youngsters. For in every one there remains much of the child. And we never get over playing wPh our toys. Although In maturity these no longer consist of brightly painted gewgaws Our playthings are the fanciest of Imagination. With which wp people a make-believe world of our own contriving. In which we dwell. Which perhaps is well. For happiness does not consist of physical surrounding It Is of the spirit. Deafness prr - ] r f. s. c. wicks of aii II) I Souls Unitarian Church, in L * his sermon Sunday, spoke on "Consideration of the Deaf.” "Unnoticed sit the deaf." he said "Shut c-ff by their infirmity from social intercourse, from music and the pleasant tones of the human voice.” A surplus of sound su-gcs around to swamp and l>atter auditory nerves to pulp. Much of which is unnecessary to life or liberty. So deafness has its compensations. Person with blunted hearing may sit at case while the city roars, coughs and bustles around them with its endless clamor. They miss all the squirming, discordant sound waves that drench ordinary people. Nevertheless deafness is undoubtedly an affliction. For though they escape many annoyances that accompany the clattering progress of civilization, the deaf miss much that is pleasant. They are shut off from human voices. Vt ords may be conveyed by the printed page. But the voice transmits more than words or thoughts. Its Jones carry love, affection and feeling. And ft's not words—but the tones with which they ar embroid ered—that convey understanding. Thus the voice reveals the soul. Panic jTL FIRE In the Juvenile Deten\J\ tion Homp - 1102 >*• Capitol ' l■—-J Ave . yesterday afternoon, j threatened to cause panic among the youthful inmates. Frightened boys kicked out door panels and j window panes In their frenzy to es- i cape. The fire department's prompt ar • rival calmed the incipient but active j par ic. A’l over an inconsiderable blaze in j the supply-room and a wirp of smoke eddying through corridors. They were just children and per haps excitable. Rut adults are as easily moved to frenzy by fire. A ' whiff of smoke and a cry of "Fire”’ will turn any orderly assemblage into a frantic mob. It is not fear of death that mad dens. For the same crowd on a pinking ship would drown with composure. The Titanic. Lusitania and numer oue marine disasters reveal the heroism of ordinary people. t ßut conflagration inspires wild terror. It may be an echo from man’s prehistoric past when fire was an infrequent and awesome vis: tatlon kindled by lightning. Thougb he now- starts It with a match, and it’s an inestimable service, he sti! fears it. And perhaps mor here than hereafter.

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SECOND SIOO DAILY PRIZE IS AWARDED T. E. Sullivan Is Given SSO for Best “Lost Line” —Henry C. Churchman Receives $15 —Money Paid Every Day to Twenty-Five Winners. LIMERICK NO. 2 AWARDS FIRST AWARD SSO (locs to T. E. Sullivan, 1227 Comar i Ave. SECOND AWARD sls —(Joes to Henry C Churchman, ,lr.. 1840 N. Talbot Ave. NEXT THREE AWARDS iss EACH —(Jo to Oljra H. 1 Nessler. 740 Lexintrton Ave., K. W. Capper. 1602 Rembrandt St.; George W Newman. Rout* “(’”. Box 110-F. NEXT TWENTY AWARDS $1 EACH —List in story below. By LIMERICK LARRY The most surprised man in Indianapolis today is T. E. Sulli- j van. 1227 Coiner Ave winner of the 850 first award for Limerick ; No. 2. Because until Sullivan reads this in Lite Times, he won’t know that he is SSO bettor oft today than he was yesterday. It’s a little surprise for him hatched up by Mrs. Sullivan and myself. But you all want to know what the winning line was. Here's Limerick No 2 with Sullivan's SSO thought com-j pleting it: The water gang wants to dictate To us anew boost in the rate. Will we let them get by. Or give them this cry— 4 Let Geisty’s club dues pay the freight. It would seem that the Indianapolis folks don't think much | of handing out an increased water rate to pay dues of the water i company officials in the Athletic Club. S f ili h Her is this sls award winner sent in by Henry C. Churchman, dr., I*4o N. Talbot Ave.: More service, less graft in this State. It there isn t enough kick in those two big award winners, glance your eyes over th* three $5 w inners : Your nerve needs no tonic, it’s great. 1 —Olga II Nessler, 740 Lexington Ave. Behold—Captain Kidd—up-to-date. E. \\ . Capper, 1602 Rembrandt St. You can go where it's too hot to skate. —George W Newman. Route *'C”, Box 110-F.

Mrs Sullivan, the wife of the SSO j award winner for No. 2. said that Limerick "Lost-line" writing had b" ; come the favorite evening pastime i

T. E. SULLIVAN jin their home, supplanting’ crossI word puzzles. “We work on them together, but i he does most of the work, as he's got the most brains,” she said modestly. “But although he won the SSO, I think I know who will get it.” i Turn to Page 'J) GIANT LINER IN STORM Fifteen Passengers From leviathan Taken to Hospitals. /tv United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—-Fifteen passengers on the giant United States liner Leviathan were taken to hospitals suffering from injuries received during a two-day storm, when the big vessel docked today. Capt. Herbert Hartley said it was the worst s.torm he had ever encountered. The seas broke over the bridge, ninety feet from the waterline, he said. WRITES CHECKS; SHOOTS Man Wounds Wife Twice. Then Kills Self With Revolver. Ry t nited Pens SYRACUSE. X. Y.. Dec. 2.—After writing blank checks early today to .he order of a local cemetery and to his daughter, Harry A. Ivloek purued his wife about their home with i revolver, shot and twice wounded ler and killed himself. Mrs. Kloek fled barefooted through snow to a neighbor’s house.

SIOO Daily Eli ERE S A NEW “ Lost - line ’’ Limerick, for which awards totaling SIOO are otferod by The Times, on Page 2 today. The Times is paying SIOO EVERY DAY for “ Lost-lines. ” You have the opportunity, by supplying the “Lost-line,” to earn a brand new Fifty-Dollar Bill. .>r sls, or a $5 note, or at least a crisp One-Dollar Smacker. Turn to Page 2 NOW, read the rules, and then shoot in your “Lost-line” suggest ions. It doesn’t cost a cent to t ry. Get the whole family and your friends together and have a Limerick Party with No. 8. Remember, the “Lost-line” Limerick and the SIOO in 25 awards are DAILY affairs in The Times. It’s play with good pay. SIOO EVERY DAY

NINE HURT IN WRECK Interurban Car Derailed When It Strikes Cow. 1 Ity Times Pperii i! MONTPELIER. Ind.. Dec. 2. i Xlne persons were slightly Injured : here late Monday when an interur--1 ban car on the Union Traction line struck a cow and was derailed. J Traffic was tied up until a late ! hour. DOCTOR'S WIFE SLAIN Man Chloroforms Woman, Crushes llcr Skull With Hammer. fiv United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 2. An unidentified man climbed through a window at the residence of Dr. George T. Edwards, prominent physician of Fairfield, Birmingham subirb, early today, bruitally murdered Mrs. Edwards and wounded her husband. Thet. slayer apparently chloro formed Mrs. Edwards then crushed her skull with a hammer.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DEC. 2, 1924

Pupils Make Presents for Mother and Dad in Vocational Classes at Public Schools

Li K K tbo fits and sprites that, every year help good old S'. Nick with his gifts for every on*:-. ehiMren of the J.u rretta Mott School, 23 S'. Rural St., hasten their manual work to get it finished In time to give it to Mother or 1 >:nl Richard AloFarlan 'rigid. 201 N Oxford S'., in the 8A grade, Is shown making a Orrery, wi.r h he

BREAK IN COLB WAVE PREDICTED ; Low Mark of Day Is 20 Degrees at 6 A, M, HOI K 1 A TEMPI' R \TI RE 0 a. m 20 10 a. rn.. . . !s T n. m 20 11 a in 32 s a. m 21 12 (noon* 35 9 a. m .25 1 p. rn 30 Grip of the present cold wave will broken 'omr-wliat. the Weather : Bureau predicted toilay with a. forecast of vvarnvr weather. Tempera ■ ures tonight will not go much beI low 30, the for< cast read. Ixnv mark oday was 20 at li a in. •*un tinned cold caused suffering in the city. C. V’rosley. quartermaster of Hoosler Post G 24 .f Veterans of Foreign Wars, said lie had received many requests for food, clothing, fuel and furniture. Ho asked that all who wished to give, telephone Circle 2411 and that veterans would call for It lODISE IMS FOR INDICTED EDITORS Action Against Tax List Publishers Held Up. Ry United Press j KANSAS CITY. Mo., Dec. 2.—Demurrer filed by defendants in the | Government's case against the Kani sas City Journal-Post growing out lof publication of Income tax payments was sustained by Federal Judge Albert Reeves today. Walter S. Dickey, owner, and Ralph Ellis, managing editor of the newspaper, were indicted by a Federal grand Jury for publishing a Federal tax list. Judge Reeves held the indictments, which charged illegal pub lication of income tax payments, vie lated the first amendment of the United States guaranteeing freedom of the press. The ruling means the case will not go to trial before Judge Reeves. Government, attorneys are expected to carry the case to the United States Supreme Court for final de clsion. Roy Prisoners Recaptured Three hoys, two 15 and one 12. today were back at city detention home from which they escaped Monday afternoon during a fire at the building. Detectives stated they ob- : ained confessions from two of the >oys that they and a third lad had ■obbed the Ertt-Roe sporting goods store July 13 of more than S3OO worth of revolvers and ammunition.

ts going to give to hia mother. Philip Kramer. 22 H. Grace St., is helping "Lick” Bernice Sharp. 11. of 430 N. Dearborn St., is seated at a sewing machine working on a ''nightie." Mane of the girls in her ciiss will give nightgown* to slaters or friends. There are nbout six thousand I>oj * working as "Dick" is it: In

Red Heads mS all the long . >.peri,-nee of Charles Green as bailiff In Superior Court, only remembers ono redhaired woman getting a di voree. "I don't know why It is. hut the flaming haired waves tints' get along pretty v - jl, tuae I never saw but one It: divorce court,'' he said. Bailiff Green said he has given the matter considerable thought. He has always heard red haired women are affectionate and quick tempered. "I guess red haired spouses are quick to fight for their rights and as quick to forgive,” said Green The percentage of blondes arid brunettes runs about, even, according to Bailiff Green.

BATTERY FACTORY j GUTTED BY FIRE I Heavy Loss Sustained by Two Firms in City. Fire, thought to have originated j in the furnace* room of the Midwest Battery Company. 1 tills Bellefonj taine St., today gutted the cement ! block building and caused damage that according to officials will reach several thousands of dollars. The Continental Equipment Company In the samo building suffered \ heavy loss. | J. SB. Henry, vice president of the j battery company, said that, nothing J was saved inside the walls of the ! building, which Is fifty feet wide i and a half block long. | The battery company loss includes raw and finished motorcycle storage batteries while the Continental company. loss was In raw material and finished refrigerators. I’. A. Sperry is the manager of the latter company.

Congress Today SENATE Considers deficiency appropriation bills. Oouzens committee investigation of Internal Revenue Bureau continues. Republicans caucus for committee allottraents. HOUSE Budget message to he read. Interior Deportment hill to be reported.

dianapolis grade schools, and almost is many girls making things, according to H K. Wood, director of Me ational education. Boys ftr- making woven top stools, hook er rhs. tie-ranks and sil verware trays. Girls are making undergarments, Christmas randy and learning to prepare Christinas foods

j DERMAM BANDIT ! BAND MURDERS 3 ! Raids Villa and Slaughters Occupants With Axes. Rv l nited press i Sli: EX, Germany. Dec. 2.—Rani lit* with axes killed seven persons at a lonely villa near here today, burned an eighth alive and fatally wounded the owner of the villa, a quarry director named Angerstein. The landtts. twenty-five In number. arrived at Anger-steins villa during his absence He returned and two men halted him. stabbed him repeatedly and left him for dead lying before the garden gate. Inside the bandits were hacking Mrs. Angerstein. her mother-in-law, a woman neighbor and four servants to pieces with knives and axes. | One girl servant fled to her room land locked herself in. The b.ndits | set lire to the house, burning her alive and incinerating the remaining bodies almost beyond recognition. Angerstein’s 5-year-old daughter is missing and may have been carried off by the bandits, who fled to the woods without their loot. HOGS COME IN STYLE Touring Cars and Coupes Used on Record Market Day. Up goes corn prices and Into the Indianapolis Stockyards come hogs. In they came, nil night and all morning, in railroad trains, intorurbans, trucks, wagons, sedans, coupes and touring cars until 21,321 were recorded, nearing the year's record of 21,753, established Jan 8. and iiltting near last year’s mark of 22.001). established Nov. 37. Some hogs came in style. Elmer Cummings, of near Martinsville, roped a big porker in the rear seat J of his Ford sedan. .Horace Barns, j of near Franklin, strapped a hog on the rear end of his coupe. SOLDIER IS WOUNDED Recovery of Man at Fort Is Con- j sldered Doubtful. Recovery of Private Paul Riddle, | 24, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, who was J wounded Saturday at the post by | the discharge of his own rifle, was j considered doubtful today. Army officers believe the shooting was accidental. Riddle was alone at •he time. He was fully dressed for inspection. Shot was heard by soldiers, who found him on the floor, his rifle beside him. Bullet pierced nis right lung. His home Is at Fblrview Park, near Clinton, Ind.

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ARCH SISSIES DECIDES TO PLEAD GIHLTV TO SHOW SOS Elm MUST PAY “I’m Ready to Take My Medicine,” Says Leo Koretz, Chicago Man, Who by Fake Deals Amassed Great Wealth. FORMER MILLIONAIRE NOW FACES SENTENCE OF 56 YEARS Defrauded Friends, Relatives and “Suckers,” Then Fled to Canada, Where He Was Discovered and Surrendered, Broken in Health. By f'nitrd prrtn CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—Broken in health and spirit, Leo Koretz has decided to plead guilty and take his medicine for his $2,000,000 oil swindle, state’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe said today. Koretz will plead guilty to four indictments charging operation of a confidence game, carrying with them sentences from one to fourteen years, Crowe indicated. B> pleading guilty in the State courts, Koretz will escape • —f°r *he duration o* his sentence—the Federal Government. A Federal capias for the arrest, of Koretz on a charge of misuse of the mails to defraud is held over the eonft?ssed swindler's head. The capias will be held ready for service at the end of Koretz's term in jail.

Koretz !~ re aAy to accept whatever fate the courts deal out. and has made no effort to ask that th* j sentences on the four indictment* : run concurrently, it was said. If Koretz carries out his plan not to fight, 'he case the court can impose Ia sentence as low as four years or as high as fif'y-six years. The prisoner Is suffering from diabetes and . feels he will never get out of jail ; alive, assistants to Crowe declared. For Son’s Sake Koretz was quoted as having stated he had d* , idpd to plead guilty, to impress on his son. who is 15 and ill in a hospital, the futility of com mitring crime. "I'll take my medicine and show him that one cannot commit crime and get away with it," Kortez was quoted as stating. Crowe said he hoped to expedite action on Koretz, bringing the case to a conclusion within a week. Koretz will serve his time In Joliet I Prison, where Richard I.oeb and NaIthan Leopold, the youthful milllon- ' Hires are serving life for their senIsational murder of Bobby Franks, j millionaire schoolboy. Koretz has made a complete confession, Crowe announced. Eighteen | years ago as a young lawyer, Koretz started his career of swindling his friends. A client asked him to invest some money and Koretz said he gave a fake bond and paid the Interest out of the principal. Also about this time a friend named Pavld Nieto induced him and others to invest ?iO,OOO in a Panama land deal. Koretz said. The deal was a fake j and Koretz said his own Idea for the i notorious Itayano oil lands of Panama scheme followed. Fight for Chance Koretz sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock I paid excellent dividends, secured a palatial suite of offices. Installed luxurious furnishings and within a | short time "Investors" were fighting | for the privilege of putting their j money In Bayano. ! Last December several "wealthy” i ihvestors decided to have a first- ■ hand look at the Bayano lands and i made a trip to Panama. Shortly i after their departure Koretz fled, taking with him or hiding more than $1,000,000 in banks in the East.

Buys Book Store Koretz gave a brief outline of his movements from the time of ids flight to his arrest in Halifax. Koretz said he simply boarded a train to New York, and after remaining in hiding for a while, purchased a book store, installed a manager and left for Canada. He arrived In Halifax in March and purchased Pinehurst Lodge, a sizeable estate, where he entertained elaborately. Koretz had grown bushy whiskers and posed as a traveler and writer. A tip to the receivers of Koretz’s properties led the the swindler’s arrest . Approximately $1,000,000 has been recovered and will he paid to the swindler's victims. Aviation to Be Topic Aviation will be discussed by Major E. L. Hoffman of Grlsard field. Ohio, and Dr. Sandford A. Moss of Chicago at a meeting of the Indiana section of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Dec. 11, at the Severin. A dinner at 6:15 will precede the lectures, which will be illustrated.

Forecast FAIR and warmer tonight. Lowest about 30. Wednesday increasing cloudiness. Warmer.

TWO CENTS

SENATE PASSES DEFICIENCY BILL | WITHOUT DELAY Cash for Bonus Provided— House Takes Up Appropriation Measures, j By United Pr?** WASHINGTON, Oee. S.—The first act of Congress In Its second day of the session today was to provide cash for the soldier bonus, scrapping of naval ships under the disarmament tre,aty. payment of the j 25 per bent tax reduction refund and | the promotion of irrigation projects in the West. The Senate did this today when it adopted practically without obj jection the second deficiency bill, providing for the appropriation of $156,000,000 for these projects. The action was taken in fifteen ' minutes almost without debate. It i was the first measure to be finally acted upon at this session and had remained on the calendar since the last session when a one-man filibuster by Senator Plttsman, Nevada, prevented Its adoption. The House in the meantime took up the first of a dozen of appropriation Mils that must be passed—the Interior Department supply hill. It carries appropriations aggregating 5235.240.926, a reduction of $39.715,188 from appropriations last year. "The outstanding differences between the total appropriations for 1925 and the amount recommended in the bill for 1926.” the appropjdi atlons committee, which reported ! the bill explained, "consists in rej ductions of $27,500,000 for Army 'and Navy pensions, $4,297,520 for the reclamation service, $1,046,011 for the Indian service and $617,010 under'the general land office and increse of $672,600 for the Alaskan railroad.”

THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET MESSAGE TO CONGRESS WILL BE FOUND ON PAGE 2.

WATER FIGURES FILED Ogden Cites Increase in City’s Bills for This Year. Citing figures to show that the city’s water bill this year will represent an Increase of $33,733.48 over the 1923 total, James M. Ogden, city corporation counsel, filed additional reports in the water rate ease with he public service commission today. Based on the first nine months, Ogden showed the city’s water bill will be $347,483.08 for 1924.