Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1924 — Page 14

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CONGRESS, READY 10 ADJOURN, HAS ICO 10 FINISH + Muscle Shoals and Postal Bills Come Up After Christmas, B.'/ ( niletl Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.—With an incomplete record behind it and an uncertain future ahead. Congress will adjourn today for the Christmas holidays Purine the past three weeks, two important measures have been finally disposed of —the deficiency and naval reconditioning bills which were hanging over from the last session On Muscle Shoals and the postal salary raises, the Senate got into such a muddle that none of the leaders can foresee the outcome. The thirteen appropriation bills which the House is making short work of will require the Senate's attention as soon as it reconvenes. Three of them already have been passed by the House. Shoals Opponents Confident Opponents of the Underwood Muscle Shoals bill, enccuraged by their 41 to 29 victory on the Walsh amendment making leases subject to the Federal water power act, feel confident they will be able to defeat the measure after the recess. Senator Curtis. Republican floor leader, declared he had abandoned his efforts to get a vote before adjournment. He wants to clear up all important amendments however, in the hope that a vote can be obtained as soon as the Senate comes back. Senator Sterling, who is in charge of Administration plans to rush his bill for increasing postal rates to meet proposed raises in salaries of postal clerks, declared he hoped to have his bill before the Senate by Jan. 5. the date scheduled for consideration of the measure vetoed by President Coolidge. Hearings to Open Hearings will be opened Tuesday and speeded during the holidays. House Postoffice Committee members have been requested to join in the session, so that a separate hearing will not be required on the i House side. Hearings upon the proposal for Government development of the Wg California Boulder dam project will be opened Monday by the Senate irrigation committee and continued through the holidays. These two committees will be the only ones in session during the recess. Congress will reconvene Dec. 29. COURT RULING APPEALED Suit to Close Place as Public Nuisance Will Be Tested. A ruling by Special Superior Judge William P. Evans that reputation of a place may be used in a civil suit brought to close it as a public nuisance under liquor laws will lie appealed to Appellate Court. The %i----preme Court recently ruled such evidence is not admissible in criminal cases on the same charge. Defendants are Morris Assael, who owns a house in question at 1025 S. Capitol Ave., and his son-in-law, Isaac Levy. FIRST DISHES ARE USED Xoblesville (duple Celebrate Fiftyninth Anniversary. P‘i Times Special NOBLESVILLE, In<!., Dec. 20. Serving dinner on the. first set of dishes they started housekeeping with, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Mutchler today observed their fifty-ninth wedding anniversary. They have thirteen grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren.

Her Xmas shopping all done before the rush. A present for everybody. Money left for in*r savings account. All because she had the foresight to join on Xmas club last December.,, Indeed, she is happy. YOU Join NO W for Next Year Satisfy Yourself and Your Friends We Pay 4% on Christmas Savings Clubs for 1925 Aetna Trust and Savings Cos. ROSS H. WALLACE, Pres. 23 N. Pennsylvania St.

Christmas Cheer Assured Kiddies at Fire Stations

LEFT TO RIGHT: MRS. O. E. RAGSDALE. MRS. JOHN J. O'BRIEN, MRS. W. H. LANDERS, VIRGIL FURGASON. CHIEF OF EIRE PREVENTION, MRS. HARRV FI'LMER. MRS. WILLIAM POWELL, MRS. GEORGE NIEIIAUS.

COLORED BANDIT SUSPECTS HELD Police Say Arrest May Solve Fifty Robberies. Hugh Heston. 21, of 914 E. Nineteenth St., and Tuskie Varner, 21, of 513 L Ogden St., both colored, will be closely questioned today in connection with at least fifty robberies and hold-ups committed in the past few months. Heston was shot In the knee Friday when he attempted to escape from Detectives Sneed. Trabue, White and Hopson when discovered in a’ house at 541 Bright St. Detectives found a trunk containing mme than S4OO worth of stolen merchandise at the home of Heston's sister, 710 Douglas St., said to have been loot from several robberies. Heston and Varner are under indictment for robbing a Standard Grocery store at Agnes and Michigan Sts, and the Mendell Bros., grocery, "o 4 Indiana Ave., police say. Heston escaped from police after being arrested for the Standard robbery. PRICE ON HIS HEAD But It’s .Mother I/>v<e, Says Bulletin From Memphis. “There is a price on Howard Conrad's head —one hundred dollars. It is not like the price that is placed on a criminal's head —for his cap ture dead or alive. .It is a price of a mother's love.” The above bulletin, received by police here from Memphis. Tenn., states the young man who is 24, left there Sept. 26. following a breakdown and is walking, begging rides and food and may attempt to work. He has blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion, and when last seen was wearing giay clothing and cap, with black shoes. WOMEN LOSE PURSES ■ Two Christmas Shoppers Report Thefts so Police. Mrs. Mary Freas, 826 N. Wallace St., had a purse containing $6 taken while shopping. Mrs. Jessie Webber, 736 Ft. Wayne Ave., was shopping in a five and teneent store when someone stole her purse and sl2. Mrs. Mary Wright. R. R. M. Box 223, told police she left two rings valued at $35 laying on a wash stan<? in the rest room of the Terminal Station. They disappeared.

She s Happy

It's going to be a real Christmas for children attending any one of the municipal celebrations in fire stations next Tuesday night. The big job of sacking candy and dividing donations from wholesale candy and commission houses was started at fire headquarters Friday with the Firemen's Auxiliary, composed of firemen's wives in charge. Before the work started, a bar pin. given by the auxiliary, was presented Mrs. Fulmer :n appreciation as president of the auxiliary. Fire Chief O’Brien made the presentation. WABASH STUDENTS MAKE GOOD LOSS Payment Made for De Pauw Damage—Drop Charges, P ,/ I nitrd Pri is GUEENCASTLE, Ind.. Dec. 20. Charges of malicious trespass filed against twenty Wabash College students, as a result of smearing De Pauw University buildings with r*d paint on the eve of the Wabash-De Pauw football game, were dis missed by Judge James P Hughes in Circuit Court today, following the payment by the boys to De Pauw of une-third of the damage, estimated at *...111111 Judge Hughes lectured the hoys. He said he realized that at the time the boys did not realize the seriousness of what they did. De Pauw officials were satisfied with the settlement. WILLOUGHBY TAKES OATH Supreme Court Judge Assumes Office for Next Term. Benjamin M Willoughby, Supreme Court judge, has taken the oath of ’hat ofTF-e to serve another six years. His commission. received Friday, was issued by Governor Emmett F. Branch following Willoughby's elec tion by one vote majority over George K. Denton. Evansville, who has tiled suit to force the count of several hundred votes in his favor said to have been left out of Howard and tr.illivan Counties returns. Zach T. Dungan, Supreme Court clerk, gave the oath. TABLES ARE CHANGED Hunter ami Not Rabbit Shot Near La Porte. Pil Timer Special LA PORTE. Tnd , Dec. 20.—The tables were turned today—the hunter. and not the rabbit., was shot.. Three farmers were hunting in the same woods, each unknowing of the other. A rabbit bounced out, three shots rang, and one farmer dropped over. He was Ward Dawson. 25. and was slightly injured by stray shots. The rabbit escaped. GYP GAME NETS S3OO Thief Rifles Cash Drawer While Another Shops. Hu Timer Special KNOX, lud., Dec. 20.—The latest gyp game was worked successfully here today. Two men entered stores on the prefxt of buying making a. small pur- • base, one diverting the attention f the clerk while the other rifled the ash drawer. The scheme netted the two thieves S3OO from two stores. They escaped. ’lYaffie (iub Meets Tuesday Traffic Club luncheon will be held Tuesday at the iseverin when an amendment to the club constitution will be voted On, S. A. Farrington, secretary, announced today. HiBinders are in charge of arrangements. Mercator Christinas Dance The Mercator Club will stage its annual Christmas party and dance •at the Spink-Arms Tuesday, according to announcement today by W. G. Ulrich, secretary. A Christmas tree will feature and each member is to bring two gifts. Party For Children The Service club will hold its annual Christmas party for children. Monday, Don Vliet, secretary, said today. Committee in charge has aryoungsters.

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BIG MEETING TO HEAR A. W. EVANS Lloyd George's Nephew Will Speak Sunday, Arthur Walwyn Evans, nephew of David Lloyd George of England, will be the speaker at the Mens’ Big Meeting at English's Theater Sunday at 8 p. m. His subject will oe “Tills World of Ours, the Men in It, Six Years After the World War.” Evans, before coming to this country and becoming a naturalized citizen of America, was well-known throughout England. Scotland and Wales as an evangelist. Ills relationship to Lloyd George gave him an opening into the Inner political circles of the Empire. Big Meeting Orchestra, directed by 1,. ,-\. Yon Stnden, will give a thirty-minute concert. - John E. Johnston, of the E u. Atkins Company, will render selections on a saw. Twenty-five children dn ssed in surplices will sing Christinas carols under the direction of Mrs. James M. Ogden. They will march around the theater with lighted candles. Meeting is free and for men only.

Jingle Bells

/ft/ I'nitrd Print yON'G ISLAND CITY, N. Y„ Dec. 20. Larry Mlratrtno read a newspaper story about a run on'a bank and decid.-d a bank wasn't safe. So he withdrew the SI,OOO he had saved, giving it to his wife for safekeeping. Friday night Larry overturned a lamp and set fire to the mattress on his bed. That's where his wife had tucked the SI,OOO. All gone. /.’>/ f nited Prrtt p. HI LADELPIII A. Dec 20. Christopher Kgiuix is under —— arrest for impersonating Santa Claus. All dressed up in whiskers and red coat, he paraded the thoroughfares taking up a collection In a tin pan. COMMITTEE APPOINTED Trustees Named District Men to Draft Law Program. The following legislative committee was named by President Alva D. Swope, president of the Indiana State Association of Township Trustees l>efore adjournment of their convention at the Clavpool Friday: First District—Ralph Stevens. Evansville. Second District—George T. Adams, Bloomington. Third—Samuel Kendall, Jefferson; Fourth—Walter Farmer. Franklin Fifth—John Masselink, Vigo. Sixth —T. J. Passwater, Carthage. Seventh—Charles M. Dawson, Indianapolis. Eighth— Fred Cobbum, Bluffton. Ninth— Perry Rule. Bringhurst Tenth—William Payne, Lafayote; Eleventh —John Roush, Huntington. Thirteenth—Frank P. Gordon, South Bend. DUCKWALL BOOZE SAVED Supreme Court Restrains Judge Collins From Destroying Liquor. Criminal Judge James A. Collins will appear before Indiana State Su preme Court Jan. G for hearing on a writ of prohibition issued Friday hv Supreme Court, restraining Col lins. Sheriff George Snider and Sher-iff-Elect Orncr Hawkins from destroying .$15,000 worth of liquor confiscated at the home of H. D. Buckwall, .1818 N. Delaware St. HD rase has not been decided in Criminal Court. Collins was ready to grant a petition for destruction of the liquor being prepared by William H. Remy, prosecutor. Hydrophobia Feared By Times Fpecia' HEiVRYVILLE, Ind.. Dec. 20.—Dr. iEd McCloskey, veterinarian; John Burke, and R. C. Hardesty, farmers, are in serious condition from being bitten by a horse suffering with hydrophobia. Stockmen of this part of the State fear an epidemic. Seientech Election Monday Election of officers will feature the meeting of the Scientech Club, Monday. J. I. Wayne, secretary announced tc .lay. Members of the club will assist in distributing Christmas I charity. j “You couldn't let me have five doli lars till next week, could you?" | "No, and I cant promise to do it I then."—Boston Transcript.

BANDITS VISIT TWO GROCERIES AND GAS STATION Colored Pair Gets $25 at One—White Men Obtain sl4, Two groceries, a tilling station and a pedestrian were 1 eld up Friday night, police reports snowed loiiay. George Morris. 1033 S. Holmes Ave., manager of the Kroger Grocery, 701 Indiana Ave.. was in the rear room when a colored hold-up man quietly came in. pointed a gun at his clerk. Harold IVry. 16 of 39.,s Graceland Ave.. and took $25 in cash. The bandit knocked down Roy Mitchell 739 N. California, as he ran into him. The three men gave chase, l>wt the bandit escaped. C. M. Thompson, grocer, S3O E. North St., told police he, Avin St Clair. 627 E. St. Clair St., and Mrs. Ophelia Rosa, 611 X. Bine St., were in the store when two masked white men entered and. with drawn revolvers, ordered the three to stand in the corner while one took sl4. St. Clair said he believed one man had a toy gun and an old cap-and-ball pistol, hut the other man had a good revolver. John McClain. 1712 Prospect St., attendant at the Western Oil Kotin tng Station, Spruce and Prospect Sts., said a young bandit with a blue handkerchief over his face caminto the station, drew a revolver, and took $9.95. Two men who Edward Willis, col ored, 329 w. Michigan St., told police he knew, jumped on Ids hack as lie passed Vermont and Indiana Ave., beat him and took $6.

A Puzzle a Day

A boy went to a sporting-goods store and purchased a baseball and a glove; the glove cost him five times as much as the bull. Another boy entered the store and t>ought a ball and a glove that cost four times as much as the ball; but the ball he purchased was twice as • xpensive as the ball bought by the first boy. The second boy also bought a bat for a dollar: then he found he had spent just twice us much money as the first l>oy. What were the prices of the various articles? Yesterday’s answer: If an automobile is twice as old as its tires were when it was as old as its tires are; and if. when the tires are as old as the cur. flic age of the car added to the age of the tires will he 2*4 years, the car must be 1 year old and the tires \ of a year. For when the auto wy as old as the tires arc t\ year), the tires were one-half as old (G yean as the car is now (1 year) AUTO DRIVER IS SOUGHT Machine Struck and Injured Boy About \nkle. Police are searching for a John Davis, 45, living some whi r.- on Central Ave., on ft charge of-assault and battery. Police say he was driving an auto that struck Jack Stearns, 10, of 1741 X. Meridian St., at Sixteenth and Pennsylvania Sts., injuring the boy about tiie ankle. !b took the boy home and told ids parents the auto belonged to Isaac Born, 3$ E. Sixteenth tint he had left that address before police arrived. SUICIDE AT HOSPITAL Princeton Tailor Ties Noose Around Neck, Fulls From Bed. Pi/ Timer Special PR INF ETON. Ind.. Dec. 20.—11 l health was blamed today for the suicide of John Berger, 45. tailor, who strangled himself in a. local hospital, Friday. He tied .< noose around his neck, tied it to the bed post and rolled out of tied. When found his face was only a few inches from the floor. Judgment Against Hawkins Judgment of $1,613 on a note has been rendered by Superior Judge T. J. Moll against Morton S. Hawkins, fugitive from justice in Federal Court, and against Geneva Hawkins, Edward V". Fitzpatrick and Wliliam Fitzpatrick. Plaintiff was Charles W. Smalley. Asphalt Case Settled ftp Times Special XOBLESVILLE, Ind., Dec. 20. The case of the Headley Good Roads Company against the Emulsified Asphalt Company, ventted here from Indianapolis, was settled in court Friday for $5,760. The claim was for material furnished the defendant in building a street in Bedford, Ind. Wed Sixty-Six Years Hu Times Sprrial WINCHESTER, Ind., Dec. 20. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Pickett, celebrated their sixty-sixth wedding anniversary Friday. Mr. Picket, is 89 and his wife is 83. Both are in good health.

FIGURE THIS OUT IF you are constipated— AND have not found relief — NOR permanent cure— VIUNA TONIC THE VEGETABLE BUILDER Is the Answer Its mild and yet complete action, often resulting in permanent relief will be a pleasant revelation to you. AT YOUR DRUGGIST Constipation is the cause of many an ill.

NEW YEAR OUTLOOK GOOD, BANKER SA YS Points Out Four Favorable Factors in Present Situation —Warns Against Overconfidence,

By FRANCIS H. SISSON, V ice President Guaranty Trust Company of New York. (Written for the United Press) n EW YORK, Dec. 20.—At the beginning of the new year L_ J tile general business outlook i: more favorable than it has been at any similar time since the war. The way has been prepared for broadly diffused progress in industry and trade. The resulting prosperity therefore should be well sustained. But a possible heedless enthusiasm by inducing a renewal of general inflation of credit and prices could make certain its early passing. Favorable Factors The most important favorable factors in the present situation include: 1. Good harvests and the improved relation between prices of farm products and of industrial commodities. 2. A sound banking condition and easy money rates. 3. Confidence business will be encouraged by fiscal economy and further reduction of taxes, and for some years at least, by freedom from new meddlesome interference by governmental agencies.

BOOTLEGGER LOST? HERE’S A REASON Police Think Some of Serving Cross-Word Puzzles Instead of Warrants,

EH E person who three months ago feared the Nation would desert production for deduction now leafs a large lexicon tn pursuit of an African anthropoid in eleven letters. And fools who came to scoff remain to invent the darned things. They say the basketball coaches rue going to call a conference be<at use the cross-word puzzle craze I,ids fair to nearly ruin the season In Hoo-lerbi rid, hotbed of the corded hoop sport. For. mourn the mentors, how can ttie roote’-s get hot up enough to exhort. Wonder Fives to victory when all that rah rah rah means to them is ''i>ean oU'pruise for athletic prowess.” Paralleling the Shortridge rooter win, calmly solved a Times puzzle in the bleachers at an **xrlting high school contest, a local theater employe reported he discovered a man placidly filling the mystic squares during a vaudeville show the other day And the act wasn’t rotten,! either. Age Is No Barit gets ’em at all ages A newspaperman living on N. Talbott Ave. handed his ten months old son a • ross-word puzzle. The kid Just ate. It up. Out at Julietta, county hospital for the insane they let the patient's work 'em. Mental gymnastics! It helps take the limp out of the brain j like rubbing arnica on a Charley 1 Horse, says Dock Benjamin Potter, amiable .superintendent. Sure they do. Dock says. Don't ! the doctors treat heart trouble with j arsenic? A hefty lad walked up to Eddie Ash’s desk at The Times the other I day and left an item reading: “The Eighteenth Christians will ! cross words with the Thirty-Fifth i Presbyterians Saturday night.” It Didn’t Register Eddie's immune. He put the item under a headline, "Fencing News.” Prohibition sleuths needn’t get chesty about chasing all the bootloggers away. That isn’t why those athirst have had trouble locating; the saviors here lately. Bootleggers are about the only folks who can j afford to devote whole days to the Indoor national pastime. Which brings up the query Has I poker been replaced? Somebody’s going to write the j editor suggesting that the cops serve j cross-word puzzles instead of -jrar- j rants on bootleggers. Too Much Like Work That’ll keep ’em all so occupied ; they’ll forget their customers and by the time they wake up they’ll have to hunt up new ones. That’s too much like work, so it will eliminate the fly by nighters and systematize their business. That’s the thing these days -system In business. SPLINTER PROVES FATAL Loganspoi't Farmer Dies From | Ijockjaw. Pa Times Special LOG AN S PORT, Tnd., Dec. 20 Lockjaw resulting from a splinter in one of ids fingers proved fatal to Jesse Swin, 46, Deer Creek Township farmer. “Body Bookkeeping” Urged Pii 'Times Special LA PORTE, Ind., Dec. 20.—“ Body bookkeeping.” or a system of regular physical examinations, was recommended to the Chamber of Commerce today by Dr. William N. Wishard of Indianapolis.

I AST WINTER’S OVERCOAT Should not be thrown away. Advertise it in the Clothing Column of Times Want Ads and Sset cash for It. If you haven't tried this plan you’ll be surprised at the number who want such garments. Phone An Ad Today. MA in 3500 Want Ad Dept.

4. The successful inauguration of the Dawes plan, with its promise of increasingly stable economic conditions in Europe and further expansion of American foreign trade. Certain obstacles to progress must be recognized however. Continuing Regularities, such, for example, as the excessively high cost of production 'in some industries, have j harmful effects outside the industries immediately concerned. Caution Necessary. If confidence goes too far in replacing caution the excesses in business which regularly result from too much--optimism may speedily bring to an end the present period of growing activity. Only in the collective sober judgment of business men can adequate safeguards be found against the influences for inflation, with its inevitable penalties. This kind of restraint has been effectively demonstrated at different times in the last two years. And in this recent record there is justification for the hope that a saving moderation of optimism will prevail in 1925.

Then there’s this one from an eastern correspondent: Nobody has knitted a cross-word puzzle suit in wool yet, hut by next summer there’ll bo cross-word puzzle bathing suits. Imagine what will happen when the first puzzling bathing beauty, wearing a skimpy suit of numbered white squares and a list of the key synonyms on her cap, dashes down a crowded beach, chirping: "I wanna be solved! I wanna be solved! I wanna !”

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i ‘TO BE HELPFUL , \ TO BE KIND ” \ A said Stevenson, should be goal Jv jm of a thoughtful man. It is the 3? attainment reached, by this earnest organization, mfa fei WALTER T.BLASENGYAV Jr 257° FUNERAL HOME Strge^Jf

SATURDAY, DEC. 20. 1924

STATE COLLECTS 318 PELTS FROM y EARLY TRAPPERS Skins Are Used as Evidence and Sold at Small Cost, Three hundred and eighteen pelts were confiscated this fall, where trappers were found trapping out of season by State game wardens, according to George N. Mannfeld. director fish and game division, State conservation commission. These pelts are sent to the State hatchery northwest of the city, where William Bordenkecher, attendant, versed in the methods of curing hides, preserves them for use as evidence in prosecution and later for their sale in open market. The pelts taken this fall have not yet been sold, but, according to Mannfeld, the average is $1 a hide, since these pelts are not prime grade. The pelts taken include 228 muskrat. forty-six opossum, thirty skunk, eight racoon, four fox and two mink. The mink hides are the most valuable, fox next in value, and then In their order, racoon, skunk, sum and muskrat, although year the muskrat hides were slightly better quality than the opossum pelts. Three hundred and forty-three pelts were confiscated in 1923, but brought only $215. Only 260 pelts were confiscate din 1922. The open season on trapping starts Nov. 10. In September and October the illegal trapper is apprehended and the pelts taken. CONTRACTORS TO MEET Sheet Metal and Hardware Dealers to Gather Here. Sheet metal contractors will meet in annual convention at the Severin Jan. 28-29, instead of at Lafayette, ,as announced. Sheet metal con tractors and others affiliated with the trade are invited to attend, Joseph Gardner, 37 Kentucky Ave., said. Retail hardware dealers’ convention will be at the same time.