Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1924 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 187

CONGE HOLDS JOINT SESSION IN WILSON'S HONOR President and Other Government Officials Join in j Tribute to America's War President. SPEAKER LAUDS WORKLife, Dedicated to Giving Humanity New Faith, Not \ Failure, He Says. By United Press WASHINGTON. Deo. 15—In the chamber of the House of Representa- ‘ tives, where Woodrow Wilson delivered his famous war messages to Congress, dignitaries of the Nation today held simple and solemn services In his memory. At the stroke of noon. President Coolidpe. flanked by members of his I Cabinet, filed into the crowded chaw- ] her. where members of Congress, the diplomatic corps. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, the widow, end intimate friends of the war President were already assembled. The scene was not unlike that j seven years ago when Wilson, from the seme rostrum, summoned the Nation to war. Old Cabinet Present Most of the personages who graced j that occasion were present, even in- [ eluding half a dozen members of 1 the old Wilson Cabinet, who re turned to pay tribute to their chief. Those high in official and social life of the capital were crowded into j the galleries where admittance was i given only upon Invitation cards. Hundreds stood in the halls out- ; side. Nine radio stations broadcast the ceremonies to several million; others. The services consisted of the i opening prayer by the Rev. James ! S. Montgomery, chaplain of the; House; a eulogy by Hi win Anderson Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, and benediction by j the Rev. J. J. Muir, chaplain of the Senate. Tracing the life of Wilson from its early youth through his term as President of Princeton University, as Govt mor of New Jersey, and! then President. Alderman said: "He had the heart to match the memorial hopes of mankind against their passions. He sought to give the twentieth century a faith to Inspire It and to justify the sacrifice • of millions of lives and if there was failure, it was humanity's fail- j ure. Not Failure "Therefore. I do not envisage ; Woodrow Wilson as a failure as he came back to these shores bearing in his hands the covenant of the i League and the imperfect treaty it- j self. I envisage him rather as a vie- I tor an l a conqueror ash returned to America, untouched by the sordidness of dishonor, unsurpassed in moral devotion and offering to his country leadership in the broadest i and worthiest cause in all the his- 1 tory of human struggle for a better life. "What statesman in the history of the world adjustment in defense ' of a code of shining if unattainable idealism, had ever borne himself more stoutly or battled with such foes, or achieved, with so little sup port at home or abroad, so astounding a result?” BEACHES COMBED FOR SHIP’S CREW Thirty Believed Lost When 1 Lake Freighter Sinks, Bu United Press SAT'I.T STB. MARIE. Mich., Dec. 15.—Reaches along Lake Superior were being combed today for bodies from a freighter believed to have sunk with a crew of thirty men and i officers off Eagle Harbor, Mich., In a gale Sunday. Wooden hatches, spears, rigging i and other bits of wreckage, carried 1 ashore during the night, were the j first indications a ship had gone j down. None carried markings to I Indicate the name of the ship. The j amount of wreckage indicated the I boat foundered and probably carried j a crew of approximately thirty men j and officers, coast guards ffiid All the fury of the seventy-mile j wind was spent today. Small craft reported missing in the storm of Sunday were still unaccounted for today. All the crew of the steamer that floundered are believed to have perished.

Higher By Times Special LA PORTE. Ind. Dec. 15. "Swing me higher" shrilled Don Schultz, 8. Playmates did. Don fell seven feet to a concrete walk, landing on his head and suffering a slight concussion. He was unconscious three hours but recover, doctor says. "It didn’t' hurt,” said Don, later.

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Outpouring of ’Pure Joy’ S r ~~ ~J HADES of John Barleycorn! Enoug-h alcohol to float a battleship—a small battleship, i__i '—will be poured into the sewers at Hammond if First Assistant -Cnited States District Attorney John R. Emison has his way. Emison today filed a libel action In Federal Court, seeking to destroy 1C.500 gallons of pure grain alcohol, valued at SIOO,OOO, seized at Hammond by Federal prohibition officers Dec. 2. The alcohol, three carloads of it. was consigned to Calumet Park, 111., from a Xew Jersey firm. Somebody is using a lot of money, according to Bert Morgan, Federal prohibition director, for pure grain alcohol cannot bo secured without money. What is known as sugar alcohol, and passed on as grain alcohol, is being manufactured, according to Morgan, and it is believed this is the liquor being distributed in the northern part of the State which has caused two persons to run amuck, resulting in murders during the past week.

TWO MORE SMOKE OFFICERS 10 GO ON DUTY JAN. 1 Building Department Clerks Appointed Aftei Meeting, Two additional smoke inspectors ; will start work for the city Jan. 1. i in an effort to clean up the present j smoke nuisance, it was decided at a ; conference today in the office of Joseph L. Hogue, city controller. New Inspector? will no Thaddeus | Gurley and Fred Hollingsworth of j the city building department, who i are now employed as clerks inside j the office. Tho men will be given umberscopes, an Instrument t> measure smoke density, and make ob- : serrations for city smoke engineers i to follow tip with inspections. Civic Bodies Represented Attending the conference were E jo. Bnethen. president of the Tndiani apo’is Federation of Community i Civic Clubs; Leonard V. Harrison, Chamber of Commerce civic .-ffriirs j head; Mrs. J. D. floss and Mrs. J. W. Moore of Woman's Department I Club smoke abatement committee; W. A. Ilanley, engineer of Ely Lilly & Cos.; Francis F. Hamilton, chief smoke Inspector, and Hogue. Hogue Insisted the p- smoke law should be tested in court before j any expense in obtaining additional smoke Inspectors is met. lie said there w.-is no provision in t' o hudg, T for additional smoke Inspectors, and suggested building Inspectors h ■ made smoke Inspectors during wln- | ter months. ! "If everybody would burn coke or j hard coal, there wouldn’t be any j smoke.” said Hogue. "It's the coal ' quality that makes smoke.” "Well, we all can't afford to buy I coke or hard coal," replied Mrs. I loss. Questions Present Ordinance •'! don't believe the present smoke law- will stand tu court, anyway,” raid Hogue. "1 have received any number of calls supporting my position in opposing more smoke Inspectors till this ordinance is testI ed.’’ Hamilton said more inspectors were needed In order to speed up the work, but H. K. Templeton, assistant smoke Inspector, said the department needed combustion engineers Instead of “carpenters" to make inspectors. Harrison and Hogue engaged in a i verbal tilt over the 1325 city budget as to its provisions for smoke inI spectors during tno conference, j Bnethen salt! he had helped prosecute other smoke cases in court, and I believed the law would hold. Templeton said after the conference that no immediate arrests were planned. 1925 PLATES GIVEN OUT Distribution of Licenses Begun by State, Distribution of 132' automobile license plates began today at. the Secretary of States' off ,< t . The annual rush did not set in the first day, there being bo long waiting line. The new plates are maroon numerals on an Ivory background. Licenses also were Issued through j branch offices In county seats. OIL ATTENDANT ROBBED Three Armed Men Enter House and Frighten Women. Robert O. Stewart, 13, Valley j Mills, attendant at the filling etation ; at Howard St. and Kentucky Ave., i told police ho locked up Sunday j night and was getting into his car j when two masked men held him up. I They took $3.75, he said. Miss Bessie Davis, 409 W. Ohio St., told police three men entered her home Sunday night and drew guns on her niece, Miss Mildred Tates. Mias Yates said ehe screamed and they fired three shots into the aar and escaped. She said two of them were masked. MYSTERY IN ACCIDENT Woman, Struck by Auto, Cannot Remember Leaving Home, i Bu Timet Special I.A PORTE. Ind., Dee. 15.—Left : for dead by a passing motorist. Mrs. i Nellie Steamer, 55. was found with a fractured skull by workmen here. When she regained consciousness i she said that she could not rememi tier leaving her home near by. Her 1 recovery is uncertain.

TREASURER EXECUTED C hinese Official, W ho Misused Funds, l’ut to Death, By I'nitril Brest PEKIN, Dec. 15.—L1 Ten Chang, who was personal treasurer to President Tso Ivun during the latter’s administration, was executed at noon today. He was found guilty of criminal misuse of funds. BANDIT WAS NERVOUS Grocer Just Whistled When Money Was Demanded. Whistling makes some folks nervous. It did this bandit. When a "c-ustomr" pulled a revolver and demanded Worthing Day. grocer, at 1211 Newman St., turn over money in the cash register Saturday. Day just whistled. The man fled. Police are hunting him today. ‘The Giver Times Santa Claus Has Hearty Response to Calls for Aid for City’s Need Many Unprovided For, A I,IST OF NEEDY FA .MI El ES WH.E RE FOUND ON PAGE 7. •* *-' It'll and poor, voting and old, Indianapolis is flocking to the aid of the very needy of the city, to give them a merry Christmas. Some of those who rail Th Times Santa Claus hardly have enough for themselvs, but 1 hoy want to help those less fortunate. “We haven't much, but we manage to get along, and 1 want to give to someone more in need than 1 am." fine woman said. Mayor and M'-s. Samuel D-ovs Shank are doing their bit, too. At the solicitation of Mrs. a. c. Lyons. 711 Carlisle PI., they agreed to send furniture to a. family in which Mrs. Lyons became interested Besides providing the family with present needs. Mrs. Lyons and Mrs William A. Thomas, 73) Carlisle PI., arranged for the father to start work at tho Big Four shops Women, too old to visit the famllic; themselves, have asked The Tinos Santa Claus for the addresses of families, so that they might send someone to them, or send them what they need. The list of families Is provided by the Christmas Clearing House, which works with organizations of Community Fund. Children are helping, too. The intermediate department of the First Presbyterian Sunday School will pep that one family is tint missed on Christmas day. Mrs. H. H. Hanna dr., 1735 N. Pennsylvania St . is superintendent of tills, department. But wl*li all this generosity, there are more than enough families to go around to those who wish to help. A 4 year-old hov and a 2-year-old girl, members of family No. 28, like milk, tint their father, who has had Influenza and has been out of work, cannot provide it. There are others. If you want to help, call at the Indianapolis Times office jn person or by telephone. Main 3500. Just ask for the Times Santa,'Clans. You will be given the names and addresses of families you desire to aid. and your job will !>e to see that they re- < *-ive your gifts Several persons are arranging to ta.ke children to their homes over Christmas day, and seo their eyes grow bright when they look at. a Christmas tree, probably their first one.

Tarzan of The Apes By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS. line of the most interesting and gripping stories in modern literature will be printed serially in THE TIMES beginning Monday, Dec. 22. You have heard of the story—you may have seen it in the movies—you may have read it. If you have seen it you will want to read it. If you have read it you will want, to read it again. If you have neither seen the movie nor read the story, you have a treat coming. Remember, it starts next Monday in The Indianapolis Times Order the Paper Delivered to Your Home

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DEO. 15, 1924

SHELL-SHBOKEO WORLD WAR VET SLAVS FATHER Wealthy Chicago Manu-j facturer Stabbed by Son Following Roadhouse Party, SWORD IS WEAPON Dying Man Defends Youth Who Joined Marines at Age of M, By l nU<a Press CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Bruce A. I Shaw, wealthy automobile part? manufacturer and Inventor of Oak Bark, died early today from a sword thrust In the chest, delivered by j George Shaw, his SC-year-old son. .Georg** is a shell-shocked veteran of the World War. With his dying words, the elder! Shaw defended the son’s act as that i of a crazy man. Defends Son "He is crazy, shell shocked.’’ he j told doctors. "He has he<-n a psycho- j neurotic since the war and has been in many sanitariums." The stabbing occurred in the Shaw i home Sunday following a road house party consisting of George, his sister. Miss Hazel Brady, and Karl Todd, friend of the Shews. The sister and Miss Brad;, were in bed j wla-n George walked Into the room i shouting and brandishing a swor 1 he i had brought with him from Frame The father, attmeted by the noise, i tried to quiet the son. George and-, ; denly plunged the sword through the I father's chest The two girls were ' witnesses to the stabbing. Former Marine George, ran away from homo at the, t age of It anl joined the marines H<* w is gassed and shell shocked and i h;us spent several years in hospitals. George is in Jail. Miss Brady is ; also being hold as a material wit- t j ness. APPOINTMENT IS EXPECTED SOON' Congiess May Boos! Andcr-j son This Week, Appointment of Federal judgto succeed A. B Anderson and pro-! motion of Ander-on i<> Circuit Court' of Appeals ;,r Chicago will likely be made this \\oi-i<, according to offi-. cials at tie- Federal Bldg. The appointment is expected to 1 ‘ made before adjournment of Con-i gross for the holidays. Adherents of Butted States! Senator James !•;. Watson predict I Judge Robert Liltz-dl, Princeton will | be the man, while other officials de- j dare the plum lies between Homer Elliott, present district, attorney. Judge William Sparks, of Rushvtile, and State Supreme Court Judge Fred t,a use, Newcastle. Elliot ,t expressed the wish that appointment of bis successor would he made so that h* could cleanup his office bv the first of tlie year. Congressman Everett Sanders, Terre Haute, is being mentioned as Elliott’s successor as well ns Arthur J. Robinson, local attorney. PROPHETS TO FROLIC Sahara Grotto “Easttuners” Will Dance Tuesday Night. “Castainers” of the Sahara Grotto will give an “every day clothes” dance and entertainment at Irvington Masonic Temple, Washington St. and Johnson Ave.. at 8 p. m. Tuesday. Adimission will be free to members. On Dec. 27, from 2 to ?:30 p. m.. the Grotto will give Its first Christmas party for children of member* at the Athenaeum. At 7:30 p. rn., Dec. 27, art oldfashioned Yulntlde party will he held for Prophets and their wives or sweethearts.

MR. MOTORIST and MR. PEDESTRIAN: The United States is in the midst of one of the greatest disasters of modern history. This disaster has resulted in enormous loss of life. It. has been caused by recklessness in driving bilesIT HAS RESULTED LY THE DEATH OF 22,600 PERSONS THIS YEAR. Let’s compare this disaster with others of recent years. The number of American soldiers killed in the World War WAS LESS TITAN THREE TIMES TIIE NUMBER OF PERSONS KILLED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS THIS YEAR. FORTY FOUR TIMES as many persons were killed in traffic accidents this year as were killed in the San Fran- j cisco earthquake and tire. i THIRTY-ONE TIMES as many were killed as lost their lives in the 1910 floods. SEVENTY TIMES as many were killed a-, died in the great Galveston floodMORE THAN 200 TIMES as many were killed as were killed in the Knickerbocker Theater tragedy. MORE THAN FORTY TIMES as many were killed as died in the Iroquois theater tire. TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS KILLED FIFTEEN TIMES ! as many persons as the number who lest their lives in the ! Titanic disaster. SIX I LEN 1 I MLS AS MANY PERSONS lost their lives in traffic accidents this year as were killed when a : German torpedo sank the Lusitania Yet all of these things turned the world to mourning. ; They arc listed as among the greatest disasters of modern time. But all of us arc living through a far greater disaster. Will it occur again next year? I I IS I P TO YOl , Mr. Motorist and Mr. Pedestrian. '

READY FOR AMY RUSH i Robert H. Bryson \drfs Facilities at I'nstoflire. With addition of four iron extra j men and fa, ill ties to handle the j crowds. Postmaster IM • r H. Pry j son today said he anti- ipno-d no long j waifs for pox!(dll, patron.-, during j the Christmas rush. Four tables, with scales for weighling parcels, were stationed in th ! east lobby of the Federal building j and lines of persons at par,-el po- 11 windows were handled we: ,!i-> : pateh. Bryson is anticipating the biggest business in history of !h local of- ; flee. THRONG VIEWS GOMPERS’ BODY Thousands Pay Final Tribute j at St, Louis, By United Press ST. LDFIS, 3b>.. Dec. 15. Labor of St. Ixuils bowed today in respect to Its fallen chief —Samuel Gompers. The body of the aged leader who dipd Saturday at. San Antonio. Texan, arrived here today and thousands of laboring men and women thronged the t'nion Station to pay a final tribute. Gompora' body will lie in state on the private car here until noon, following which it will ho transferred to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for the last trip Fast. Many women wvre In the crowd at the station, and several were sobbing. Some carried small bunches of flowers o.nd dropped them on the blanket of flowers which covered \ the coffin and floor around. DONALDSON TO RESIGN Accountant - Engineer to Accept Evansville Bridge Job. A. L. Donaldson, engineer and field examiner of tho State board of accounts, today declared that ho would resign from the position as soon as he completes work upon which he is now assigned. Donaldson has been offered a position as superintendent of a bridge construction project at Evansville. Donaldson was criticised by Law- ! rence F. Orr, State examiner, for i preparing plans and specifications j for the bridge, it is said, although , Donaldson denied receiving any j money for the work. Orr has in- I dlcated no examiner may make plops and specifications for public improvements that are subject to examination by the accounts board. Donald son, it is said, has done detail work for counties in several parts of the State while a field examiner. HOURLY TEMPERATURE I j 6 a. m 27 10 a. m..... 32 7 a. m 28 11 a. m...... 35 8 a. m ?8 12 (noop) .... 38 9 a. m.. JO 1 p.

GERMAN CABINET MEMBERS RESIGN j Marx Ministry Quits Noj j Successors Chosen. ! By r nited Press BERLIN 1x- ■ 15.- The German > beaded by Ghancelior Marx, ' resigned late today. I‘resident Ebert accepted the resig nations and commissioned the chan j ccilni* to carry on until a ntnv cabj inet is formed. Decision to resign was reached by 'cabinet ministers after a session, with 'ham llor Marx early hero to- j dav. With no successors In sight, the; Marx government hesitated to leave j office. It was said. Negotiations to ’ form r coalition government were j | carried on over the week end with-j out success. AUTO DEVICE COMPANY To Make Automatic Traffic Signal for t losed Cars. V device whereby autolsts in closed cars may give traffic signals without lowering the car windowwill be manufactured Imre by the Signal Port Manufacturing Company incorporated for SIO,OOO recently, j Luther \V. Dickinson, an incorpor- I ntor, is tho inventor and patentee. ’ The company will Require the patent j for $8,750 in stock. Other incor- j porators are Arthur A. Kessler and I Koscoe G. Garrett. YACHT BURNING AIRED Indianapolis Man Held in Stephen- i son Ship < a so. lit/ I nited Press TOLEDO. < >hto. I Tec. 15. —A man giving the name of John Brady, Indianapolis, is held by (M.lice on a charge of Incendiarism growing out of the burning of I>. O. Stephenson's $125,000 yacht in tho Toledo Yacht Club lagoon last June 27. Stephenson, living in Indianapolis, believes the fire was a result of his activities against a hooded order to which ho once belonged in Indiana. Brady came to Toledo voluntarily, according to John M. Manley, assistant State fire marshal. Stephenson is expected her© today. m % )jt I **

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CONFERENCE IS CALLED i asm s. c, is COHSIJITISFFIS 111 Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover Addresses Meeting, Lamenting Great Numbers Killed Annually in Automobile Accidents, FRANK T. SINGLETON IS REPRESENTING INDIANA Figures in Indianapolis Show That 73 Persons Have Been Killed, 15 of Them Being Children Nation’s Total Is 22,600. MORE THAN 22,600 persons have been killed and 678,000 injured in street and highway accidents in the United States ; this year. SEVENTY-THREE PERSONS, of whom fifteen were children, have been killed in traffic accidents in Indianapolis this year. This number is idem ideal with the total billed in 1923. A TOTAL OF 2.062 persons have been injured in traffic accidents in Indianapolis this year. There have been 7.320 such accidents. Last year 1.892 persons were injured and there were 5.504 accidents. i By l tilted I'rm WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.—An awakened nation demands in no uncertain terms that the annual carnage in American streets and highways due to recklessness and incompetence of both motorists and pedestrians be checked. Secretary of Commerce Hoover declared in a speech to the national conference | on street and highway safety here today. “It is high time that something should be done about this/* ■ Hoover said. “We must find constructive measures to meet tho I crisis of tens of thousands of deaths annually, with hundreds of ;thousands of serious personal injuries and millions of property : damage, accomplished by an economic loss of some staggering I sum such as .$600,000,000 voarlv.”

Hoover proposed three lines of ap- ! preach to tho remedy: 1. Prevention and safeguard. 2. Much stronger punishment for violation of I lie rights of others. 3. Public education. Long Siege "Remedy cannot be accomplished overnight," Hoover warned. "It Is only the preparation for a long siege which will eventually free the American people from much of the menace of traffic. ''The annual death loss from traffic accidents is one-third the total of American deaths In the World War, Hoover pointed out. There were, more than 22.600 persons killed this year in accidents. The injured totaled 678,000." Avery t trio proportion of them, he said, are pedestrians. “But the motoVists themselves, are the victims of reckless driving upon the part of a small minority of vicious and ignorant.” The blame for the present traffic conditions, however, cannot be put on any one class. Hoover said, emphasizing the fact that the dnfety conference brought together every one interested in highway safety. Three Chief Causes "If we wore to analyze the facts presented as to the causes of the enormous death toll, we would find that Incompetence, carelessness and recklessness are the largest of the contributors to this ghastly toll.” he said. "W© would find in a lesser degree the lack of preventative measures. We would find a considerable contribution from the confusions over the regulations In force. We would j find also that prevention of acci- i dents are In part Involved. In large j problems of difficult solution in tho planning of our cities, the construe j tion of our highways and generally j tho handling of these new traffic problems that have been thrown upon cities and country wholly unplanned for such use." SINGLETON ATTEND3 Public Service Commissioner In Washington. Frank T. Singleton, public service commissioner, who conducted the 1 State safety conference here for Governor Emmett F. Branch, is attending the national safety conference at Washington. D. C. TONG BATTLE IS FEARED Neutral Chinese-Ameiican Murdered In New York. Bv United Press NEW YORK. Dee. 15.—The r>o!ice guard In Chinatown was doubled today following slaying of a neutral Chlnese-Amerlcan by tongmen and threats of a renewal of bloody warfare between the Hip Sings and On Leongs. Chin Song. 40. an American citizen for many years was shot down as he stood In front of his home Sunday night. Police believed Chin Song was shot either by mistake or under the Impression he was an Informer.

Forecast RAIN probable tonight and Tuesday. Warmer tonight. Lowest temperature slightly above freezing. Colder by Tuesday night.

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Finis Final Times Limerick Awards Made —John F. O'Brien is Winner of sloo’Prize. By LIMERICK LARRY u { t"|T PA.’ * to keep right at. it,” ! I J[ John F. O'Brien, 511 Dwwsoa * St., declared today -a hen ha "as informed that he had been awarded the first prize for the best last line to Limerick N.., 12. It paid O'Brien particularly hecans the prize was doubled for Limerick No. 12. He received 8100 instead of the usual SSO. His line was selected as hew by employes and oC flcials at the Marion County courthouse. who acted as judges, lanes were submitted to them without ! the names of the writers attached, and when they read tins they will know for the first time the identity of the winner. O'Brien said ho wrote last itnea every night during the contest, but not until the last Limerick appeared, did ho w rite a winner. You remember Limerick No. 13 read: A wonderful dancer was May, Who danced every night until dayj When the music would start, On the floor she would dart— This is the way O'Brien finished it! And more than her skill she’d display. Running n clown second was tha line which the Judges awarded tlisi (Turn to r.ige 3) 3 DEAD: BLAME~ BOOZE Colored Man Kiiis Woman and Police-man at Roadhouse, By Times Special ELKHART, Jitd., Deo, 15.—Polled today were Investigating 1 the sourctj today of poison liquor that resulted in three killings at a -Saturday. A colored man, only known an Ike, crazed with liquor, *hot and killed Mrs. Helen Walker, proprietor of tho roadhouse. Police were called and the man shot Henry Wants, gfi, patrolman. In the leg. He died shortly after from loss of hlood. Lyman Fonda of Goshen, deputy sheriff, was also shot, hut not Berioukly wounded, r Plia colored man WR4 killed in the fusillade that followed. Do You Remember —• Mlhcn Rill Tron har! a saloon and gambling house on N, Illinois St. at the corner of the alley baek of the News office, and when the old Journel always referred tn the News as ‘‘the University* *of Tron’s Allay S**