Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 188, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1924 — Page 7

TUESDAY, DEC. 16, 1924

PANAMA CANAL WEAN POINI IN DEFENSE ARMOR United States Navy Crippled by Lack of Bases and Auxiliary Craft. By WILLIAM FHILLIP SIMMS Times Staff Correspondent PANAMA. Canal Zone. Dec. 16.—A sweeping Investigation by Congress, not alone of whether the Navy is fit to fight, but of the whole broad question of America's crippled sea power, is regarded here as vital. Naval bases, for Instance, are as much a part of sea power as battleships. and a thorough probe would expos© alarmingly large holes in our armor. Panama Canal, key to our entire plan of national defense, is at least as vital as a fleet of dreadnoughts. yet It stands today exposed to destruction at both ends and in the middle. The "Washington conference was originally designed to stop the race for sea power, not merely to halt competition In battleships and aircraft carriers. The ratio of strength between Britain, the United States and Japan was fixed, respectively, at 5-5-3, but an investigation would show that In actual sta power America would tag along about half as strong as Britain and distinctly inferior to Japan. Deficiencies in naval bases and naval auxiliaries are what put her there. Punch founts Battleships may he the backbone of the Navy Just as a motor Is the backbone of an automobile. But, just as a car is of little use unless the power of the motor can be transmitted through the wheels to the ground, battleships are worth no more than the maximum punch they can deliver at the point where the fighting is most likely to take place. Should Japan force the United States into a war. for example—as a powerful military and jingo element In Japan at this moment is attempting to do over Asiatic ©xclusion — the issue In all probability would be decided somewhere near that triangle to be found inside lines drawn from Yokohama to Manila to Guam to Yokohama. Get out the family geography and look it up. Some 3.300 mi a from Hawaii, our nearest base: 5,00" miles from California, and S ©<vi miles from Panama, exposed gateway for nearly all our supplies. Admittedly Japan could take the Philippines and Guam without much trouble, the Washington conference having left these islands undefended. Without them, the driest of disinterested British estimate, our chances in a fight with Japan in these waters would be ihnut no to a hundred. Not so re assuring, ye* America fs as much in honor bound to defend the Philippines as she is Alaska. Even the Hawaiian base —farther from Manila than Liverpool is from New York—is unprepared for any real emergency. It is lacking in docking facilities, stores and equipment. Panama is 50 per cent under defended. Though the very first blow against the United States would almost certainly be a coup to close the Canal. And there is not a single adequate base anywhere along our Pacific Coast, from Panama to Puget Sound. Right Start The Washington conference was a start in the right direction. But it did not go far enough. Today the United States Is in a hole Until the Washington treaty expires or a revision can be obtained making sea power, nor battleship tonnage, the real basis of sea strength, or unless a brand new deal all the way round can be had. based on some effective world peace plan in which all the powers. Including the United States, will join, it is imperative the whole question of the state of our national defenses should be closely scrutinized by Congress and promptly remedied.

FOR HARASSED MALES Department Store to Furnish Women Guides for Men. Blush no more, ye mere males who have your hearts set upon mauve silk teddy hours for friend wife or sister for Christmas. Vour old. old problem has been rei ug tiized at last—and perhaps solved. L. S. Ayres A- Cos. announced today that a bureau for the-special servy e of such harassed men would l>e operated next Monday. Twelvetrained women will be put at the service of men shoppers, to advise them what to buy, to buy it sos them, or guide them to the proper counter. Tell us the size and stop worrying, will be the fair guides motto. MOTORISTS ARE CHECKED Move Taken to Insure Second Offenders Will (isl Sentence. I'eax th ? second offenders of the motor gpeed Jaws will escape the jail sentence compulsory on second conviction wa* expressed l>v T.i'Ut. Karl Halstead of that dilvsion ioday. To .-ombat this Halstead ordered that each member of his department go to the city clerk's of tice and check up th>- name of each arrested person. Ts they have been arrested before the notation will Ismade on the affidavit, when presented in court. CAUGHT IN BURGLARY Merchant Policeman Surprises Man in Tire Simp. Merchant Policeman fleorge Scherer. 3"4!> Broadway, saw a man. who gave the name of Charles Hill. 23. colored. Columbus. Ohio, crouched near a show window of the State Auto Parts and Tire Company, 411 S. Illinois St.. Monday night. The officer covered the alleged burglar with his gun and held him there until a passerby summoned Patrolman Oliver Pfaffenberger from the Union Station. Burglary was charged.

New Motion Freight House to Be Opened Dec . 22 ~ C-..SR LOADING PLATFORM AT NEW MONON FREIGHT HOUSE.

THREE CHILDREN DIE IN FLAMES Home Catches Fire While Mother Is Away. ftp Timn Special FT. WAYNE, Tnd.. Dec. 16. Three children were dead today, a fourth was In a critical condition, and the mother, Mrs. Glenn Dunlap, was prostrated as a result of a fire which destroyed their small, tworot m li .me here Monday. Mrs Dunlap went to a neighbor's homo to get milk. While she was gone, one of the children stirred the tire In the stove. Live coals fell to the carpet and set the room on fire. Von Glenn. 4; Vera Aline. 3; Norman. seven months old. were burned to death. June Dunlap, 2, was seriously burned. A fifth child escaped. TROTSKY NOE 10 LEAVE HIS OFFICE Influence Is Gone, Communist Leader Says. C'ip'trir/ht , 102 J. hp I nitxl Pc MoSOtW. I> 1" Loon lYotsky's present and future status and its polite .I echoes were analyzed for The Unit' and Press bv one of the most prominent communist leaders of ! Soviet Rus.-ia in an interview. The most influential communists, he declared, do not intend t" seek Trotsky s removal from membership in the revolutionary military -oumi! or the political bureau of the central . omnhf.ee of the Russian communist party. "Tiie centr'd executive committee," said this informant, "will teii Trotsky what be can and cannot do. He won’t leav< his posit an voluntarily. party discipline not permitting this. "Naturally those making mistakes such as Trotsky's bound to sac- ; rifle© their authority." NEW YORK MAN MISSING Local Police Asked to Isiok for •lames K. Ward of S\ tacuse. A si arch that began in Syracuse, |X. Y.. Nov .33. and extended west i ward reached Indianapolis today. I Police are asked by Martin Gad in. police chief there, to watch for James 11. Ward. 43. fight hair and complexion, blue eves and smooth I f *‘"' U.-’in states Ward left h;s home at Liverpool, N. V.. -nd with his ; brother came t<> S; rueu.-c and d.s appeared. * '..roncr Paul F. R"b,nson i was asked to forward a description of the man recently talon from the <'anal, and who was: buried unidentified. RITES AT LAUREL IND. Funeral services for Mrs Ella (v-'-sonett, 69. who died at the Methodist Hospital Monday, will be h"ld Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist Church at Laurel. Ind. Mrs. I'ersonett was the daughter of the Rev. James Conwell. pioneer parlor and founder of the Luirel .church. Relatives who survive in .dud* Mis. Laurel U Thayer, probation and Mrs. T Ellison ; Fish, 506 Sutherland Ave. Named on legion Committee , Cardinal O’Connell of Boston; Mrs. I Anthony Wayne Cook, president : general of the Daughters of the Daughters of the American Revolui tion. arid John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Crosi, ! have accepted membership on the honorary committee for the American Legion sr,.otifi.fioo endowment fund. Russell Creviston. national adjutant of the Legion, announced here today.

Congress Today SFN VH, Vole- on Smith amendment to Fuderwood oil I at 3 p. m. Borth committee continues campaign expenditures investigation. < 'ouzeris committee continues inves'igation of Internal Revenue Bureau Joint meeting of District of Columbia committees to consider routine business. iiofsk Begins debate on Navy appropriation bill. Appropriation Committee con sillers ind> pendent office. State. Justice and Labor Department supply bill. Judiciary Committee considers bankruptcy bill. Immigration Committee continues on Johnson deportation bill. Aircraft and Shipping Board investigations continue.

IVfonon Rout© will open its now freight depot at 23 S. New Jersey St. Dec. 22. The three-story structure Is fireproof. Dimensions are 465 feet by 46 feet. High speed electric elevators carry freight from one floor to another. THIEF MISTAKEN Bandit Escapes From Restaurant With $7, Mrs. Zetta Whitaker, 2319 M.icPherson St., employed at the Burt Foy restaurant, 2705 Cornell Ave , mistook a bandit early today for a customer. A man who was gazing into the cigar ois. thrust a revolver at her as she asked him what he wanted. Ho said it was money ho would tnke. A noise in front of the restaurant frightened tho bandit, who seized $7 and fled. Lawrence Himes, etn ployed at the Zero Ice Company, Twenty-Seventh Sr and Cornell Ave.. told police the bandit ran by him as he was entering the restaurant and joined a man standing behind a pole on the corner. They ran To a coupe, in which a third man was and drove away. A man followed Mrs. Nellie Smith, 144_ W. Morris Si., for some distance and at in alley smith of Morns and Rcisner Sts., grabbed her purse that contained *7 and disaj beared. BIBLE TEACHING SOUGHT Religious { ©tin* il Wants Book Taught in Public Schools. Marion < minty < ’ouno.l of Il©Hg ;ous Education today hop' -■ t>. have systematic r© - hi"g of tic B.M© in some Indianapolis public schools next year, following a meeting <-f 100 Monday night • t V. M. C. A., the Re V . G. II Gelihardt, president. s lid today. Dr. William A. W"b©r of Bone brake Thcologj, al Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, odd of the methods used In Dayton. Executive committee plans to form a r©pr©er.tativ* board which will direct the instruction A person qualified to give mm a! and religious instruction will !••• sought. GIRL. DIES FOR DOLL As Haims Sweep Home < idld Attempts Rescue —Baby Dies. fly 7 i ram Spcrinl GLEAN. N. V.. liec. 16.—Returning in the mils' of than-- i't-1 yu fusion for fi r dearest poss.-ssion. a doll, 3 year- Id Gtiaid.iu :o->t leu- life Sunday in a fit*; which sw> pt the Baker home. The father was severely burned while returning in < -tvh of th" lilt!" girl. Ho finally was fared to lea*, from the se< olid floor, and fiactured his skull on an iron post Tit© mother attempting to rescue a sleeping infant, was to late. She Was burned and leaped with the dead infant el...sped to ia-r breast. Another child. v. irs old. is expected to die from inhaling flame.

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LESH RULES ON ELECTION TANGLE Helds Marion - Johnson Returns Are Legal. Although certificates of election returns for joint Representative and joint Senator fop Johnson and Marion Bounties and joint Senator of Marshall and St. Joseph Bounties were improperly prepared and filed, they can be counted, according to an opinion by U. S. Leah, attorney general of Indiana, given to Frederick Schortemeier. secretary of State today. The returns were irregular in that the county clerks delivered them in person and not by mall, they were not received In th© time specified by law and the returns were in figures and not written out in words. Lesh held that th© vv.ll of the people 4 s not to be thwarted through negligence of public officers. POLICE ARREST PASTOR The Rev. MeUvvcn Slated Following Auto Vcoidcnt. The Rev. Peter* McEvven, 63 N. Irvington Ave , was slat* i at the city prison lat*- M- relay on a technical cling- of assault and battery, and r.-l- is-d on hN own recognizance Police -ay bis auto struck Mrs M lit: Allot s • ~f , East Si., as sic- crossed .Now V.-rk and Delaware Sts She Was injured about th© ic-a 1 and arm, hut insist Id Mil i-'-ira- bom... 11l Russell. 17. of 646 Russell AV' . v. as t.ik'-n to tho . ,ty ho-pita! sniff'-tang from Injuries received whin ids bicycle was struck by an auto at McCarty St. and Virginia A vo. Lindley Trott, 736 Virginia Ave., driver, was elated MODEL PLAZA BUILDING Plaster Casts Show Interior Decorations of Memorial Structure. Plaster casts of interior decorations of th© new World War Me tnorial building, to be erected in Memorial Plaza, wer" to bo sot up In a building at 533 N. Meridian St to ] v. Paul Comstock, so rotary of the I • iard HiTlout.' -ed. The models in n nlatur© nr© ex p- "ed 'o "hovv how th>> interior of the budding Will look when Completed SUPPORTS COUNTY UNIT Senator Steele Says Township Trustee Office Obsolete. J im -i s, '.ill KNOX. Ind. Dec. 16. Announcement that la will support the county urn: s.-fiool l-rll has l.oi-n made by Claude S St'-ol*-. Republican State Senator from La I'orte and Starke i 'ounti'-s Steele said th© present township trustee office is obsolete. The county unit will give each child an equal i-hrinei- he stated.

INSURANCE RATES SET ON BASIS OF HIGH DEATH TOLL Costs Will Be Lowered if Safety Drive Succeeds, Speaker Says, lip United Prmtt WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. —Automobile insurance rates are being fixed for 1925 on a basis of 30,000 deaths in about one million motor accidents, it developed at conference on street and highway safety here today. But, aefcording to Prof. S S. Hiieb nor of the University of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Insurance committee, American motorists can cut their insurance rates in succeeding years by reducing the annual number of automobile accidents. If the present conference is sue cessful in promoting caution and reducing accidents, insurance companies will giude th> nis> Ives accordingly. Huehner said. Insurance companies will be ask' and by the cun ferenoe to undertake a comprehensive campaign to promote observ mice of ordinary rules of caution. The drive will include: 1. Schools for educating drivers in safe practices and issuance of special manuals of instruction for both commercial and private drivers. 2. Periodical Inspections of insured automobiles with particular at trillion to brake adjust merit, steering control, clutch mechanism and lighting equipment. 3. Maintenance of full records of ali accidents to act as guides in framing further i'l; Huttons for the eliminating of accidents. WHAT IS PERSONALITY? Dr. F. K. Taylor Gives Definition at Mercator ( lull Meeting. "There is dang r of loosing on* s personality in the rush of modern life," said Dr. Eta fi-rick E Tr. .<r. pastor First Bap'cq Church, to lay at Mer. ator Club luncheon c p'p.nkArms. Dr. Taylor I'tirc! i>.-i >■ e ,1:1 y as "that which mist of persons." "A newspaper report*--! Saul •Philip Brooks walks a vv 11 Cat sli-t on a gloomy day looking ,i■; if t hasun just came out ' T!:ar :- person . When vv© study la-a-rv we si mb. the char o-tors of gicat men ~ nd vv "men." !i" said. "Great editorials like those produced by Grt-elv and Bennett ni© rare these days. It has teen said that one ran easily- lose his personality on a modern newpap* r nc

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Hands Off Local Pastor Challenges View of Sociologist Mother Should Pick Mates of Children,

vHODLD a, mother pick he* S daughter's husband —and her son's bride? "Yes,” says Dr. Kate Waller Barrett, sociologist, in an address to high school girls and their mothers at. Washington, D. C. "No," says Dr. Frederick E. Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist Church tit Indianapolis. Considered 5,000 Men “I am a mother of three daughters and three sons,” said Mrs. Barrett. "1 aril happy to say I have them all successfully married. When I selected husbands for my three daughters T cansidend fully five thousand young men and nearly that many young women when contemplating whom my sons should wed.” "That sounds too much like India to me,” said Dr. Taylor. "This country is too far advanced in civilization for that. Asa rule, the maj"> f y of happy marriages are those in which the young people married of their own choosing. Watch Ideals "No mother should directly clioose her daughter’s husband or her son’s v\[f©. Every' mother should din-ct htc ideals of her son or daughter so vvh©n they make their choice it will be for the best. "It may be that after fifteen or twenty years those ‘successful marriages' arranged by the pa rents will not prove successful. And the sons and daughters, if asked, might tell you a different story as to their happiness. "I don't believe the custom will get very far in this country, as the average young man or woman wouldn't stand for it anyway," he concluded. LESH TO DIG DEEPER Further Study Required on Livens© Fee Ruling. After h© had ruled today that county clerks in counties of rnor* li a ike a" population are entitled • i a in c iv foe on each hunting and ■ lssu and, \ttoiney Gin ! S. L* Ml d'-ebi'd today h© vv• aid Lav© to make further invest!*A. "i • ■ >•. :f the ruling applied a. M-ui.in county. County c; . k A" rt H. T.osche !'••• '©d OUT . " L©sh t hot a 1923 law j ;• th" Ma < unity clerk on t ■ sh's ruling h-,d ie'ii La -1 upon laws prior to Gyros Observe "Doctor's Day” "D " tor's lay" featured th© week ly lui.ch""ti "f th" Gyro club at th© Lii • "in today. Dr. W. N. Wishard

RAILROAD HEADS TO HONOR NRAFFT Veteran Employe to Be Buried Wednesday. Funeral services for Ernest L. Krafft, 62, of 324 N. Walcott Sc., chief division operator of Pennsylvania Railroad, who died Monday in Methodist Hosmr pitai, will be "*r held at 2 p. in. " r ©d n e sriay at was one of the KRAFFT founders and vicepresident of Penn sylvania Veteran Employes* Association. H© was widely known and often spoke at railroad gatherings. He was a member of T. O. O. F. and Methodist Church. The widow, one son and one daughter survive. Staff officers of Indianapolis division met today to plan th© funeral. Marry I lids, president, will represent Veterans' Association and Paul A. Kriese. president the Mutual Beneficial Association of Pennsylvania Railroad employes at the services. STEPHENSON AT TOLEDO Question Muncte Man About Alleged Part in Yacht Burning. Bv Timm Sp frial TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 16. —Invest! gatlon as to the connection John Brady. 49. Muncie, Ind., had with tiie burning of the ? 125.000 yacht R.omar 11, in Toledo Yacht Club lac--oil. Jun© 27, was being conduct'd to-lay 1-y J *hn M. Manley, assistant State fire marshall. "We r© now ready to go to the bottom of the case,” Manley said. "And we will reach tho bottom before tli© investigation is concluded. "Brady has spade a confession, but we ar© not re idy to say any more on that phase of the subject. ' D c. Stephenson of Indianapolis, owner of the yacht, is In Toledo and will remain here as long as he can boos assistacne." Farmer Found Dead Bv Time e Special GKEENCASTLE. Ind.. Dec. 16. Frank B. Alice. 61, Putnam County farmer, was found dead in bed today. Heart trouble caused bis death, according to oimner J oob MeCurry. Tii© widow. . n© son. Frank Alice, and a dauqhtei Mi.-.s Nett.e All©© of Riehnvnd survive Funeral will be 1 .i ’ 1 *J * ’ t** .1■ :t *

OFFICERS SLATE ELEVEN DRIVERS : Five Are Held on Speeding Charges. Five men slated by polic© Monday night were charged with viola.tion ;of th,e speed laws. Three other men i arrested in police investigations of accidents were charged with speeding and assault and battery, one man with driving while intoxicated and two with traffic violations. Those charged with speeding: Charles Alexander, alias Harry Baxter, 20, Ft. Harrison; Clarenca • Hale, 20, of 106 W. North St.; Clifford Harmenning, 20, of 401 Prosjpect St.; Noel White, 26, of 324 W. | Thirty First St.; Fred C. Nel my or, i 24, of 40 S. Ritter Ave. Thomas Cunningham, 37, colored, j 2445 Hovey St.; John A. Reddell, 25, jof 1433 N. Garfield Ave.; Clarenca | Thomas, 22, of 1265 W. Thirty-Fifth j St., are all charged with speeding ; and assault and battery. Harry Weeidenhaupt, 19, of 118 W. Arizona St., is charged with driving I while intoxicated. J. H. Brenhiser, 35, of 1514 Draper | St., is charger! with violation of tha i law of tho road, and Ray Dobson, 27, of Old Augusta, Ind., is charged with having no lights, license or title. — COAL SCALES ARE 0. K. Only Two Small Shortages Reported in Inspections. City weights and measures Inspectors have found only two small shortages in dally inspections of coal weights, according to Mrs. Mary Riddle, city sealer. There have been no arrests. It was explained that a shortage of fifty pounds or less could be accounted for In coal falling off wagons or trucks during delivery. Free to Thin Folks Who Want to Get Fat Offers Vitamines Free to Anyone Wiio Wants to Gain Weight, Vigor and Vitality. Kansas City, Mo.—(Special)— • Here's an interesting offer from a large laboratory lia Kansas City, that for years has been specializing la | vitamines. | The Alexander Laboratories, 1833 | Gateway Station, Kansas City. Mo., | will send a free samp!© of the genu* line Alexander Vitamines to any per- ; son who wants to put on flesh and .nerease his vigor, strength and vi--1 Tality. All that is necessary to do is to send vour name and address. The vitamines will come absolutely fre© and postpaid. Remarkable results • have been reported by chose who .'•ave tried this simple, safe and P>as:nt method of gaining weight. All thin, scrawny folks should try These vitamines while this free offer i ;s open.—Advertisement.

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