Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1924 — Page 12

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RADIO WILL LOSE GOOD ENTERTAINER WHEN DOORS OPEN 'King of the Ivories’ Will Leave Missouri Prison Jan. 16. B'i XFA Service JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Dor. 27 —Radio soon will lose one of its best entertainers, when Harry Snodgrass leaves prison. In the loss, however, radio will win the credit of having reformed i criminal. An unsuccessful hold-up in St. Louis, a three-year term, half of it lopped off for his good record, and now the famous "King of the Ivories" Intends to return to his wife, his son and a flattering job when he leaves Jan. 16. Those eighteen months in prison, rather than quenching his ambitions, raised them to such a height that he feels confident of success hereafter. "I’m going straight forever" he reiterates. “I’m through with white mule that led me into this. I have several offers of jobs. I suppose I’ll take one and settle down with my wife and son.” "Several offers of Jobs” is Snodgrass’ way of describing the numerous enticing propositions made to him from theaters, vaudeville circuits, cases and dance orchestras. He has his eye on one job. however. That is. making music roils for a player piano company. Fund Collected Topping these expressions of appreciation by the fans is a fund that is being collected for him through station WOS. from which Snodgrass lias been broadcasting. In one night 1,500 telegrams were received announcing contributions were on the way. They range all the way up to $lO from each fan. and come from such distances as Rhode Island. Salt Like City, Winnipeg and New Orleans. That means practically the end of

SHERLOCK HOLMES DETECTIVE PASSES New Head of Government Sleuths Looks Like Bond Salesman —Has Two Law Degrees.

By Time* Special crjl ASHINGTON, Dec. 27. —The |\l/j age of the old-fashioned ** * I sleuth. Sherlock Holmes style, somehow personified in William J. Burns, has passed in the Government service with the coming of J. Edgar Hoover, the young man who has stepped into Burns' shoes as head of the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice. Hoover is just 80 years of age. IRISH MAY BAN BULLS Bill Introduced to Stop Shipment of Scrub Animals. By XFA Service DUBLIN. Ireland. Dec. 27.—Scrub bulls In Ireland may follow her snakes, if a bill being considered by the Dail becomes law. The measure requires that only licensed bulls be used for breeding purposes in Ireland. The bill also provides that licenses be granted only to bulls free of disease infection, which are not calculated to beget defective or Inferior progeny. A fee of five shillings will be charged for the licenses The act ms; also be applied to rams and boars, through the authority of the minister of lands and agriculture. AMERICAN CONSUL DIES Francis J. Dyer Succumbs at Post in Cologne, Germany. By Time* Special WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. —Francis J. Dyer. American consul at Coblenz, died at Cologne. Germany, from a stroke Friday. The State Department has been informed. Prior to entering the consular service he was a correspondent for Los Angeles and San Francisco newspapers. Dyer was horn in Dyersville, lowa, la 1864. and entered the consular service in 1914. WILL GO TO JULIETTA State Tax Board to Make Remonstrance Probe. The State tax board, accompanied by its engineers, will inspect the west wing of the Marion County Hospital for the Insane at Julietta Monday in investigation of the remonstrance against a $30,000 bond issue proposed by the county to provide funds to rehabilitate the roof and part of the upper story of the wing which the county alleges is unsafe. Ilemonstrators allege the building can he made safe by minor repairs.

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Hounds and Hunters Lined Up for Big Fox Drive

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I I LEFT TO RIGHT—CARL BRISTOW. CHRIS SHAKE!,, CLARENCE RIEL. O. C. WALKER. ' <> PUGH AND HARRY ROBERTS. ALL RESIDENTS OF WARREN TOWNSHI P. LINED UP WITH THEIR DOGS AND CLUBS READY TO START THE RIG FOX HUNT TODAY.

radio entertainment for Harry Snodgrass. Short, sallow and wiry, Snodgrass looks little like a piano player. But when he touches the keys, his stature is forgotten. His playing has attracted radio fans throughout the United States and Canada to tune in on Station WOS, here, especially when the Missouri State Prison Band is sceduled to broadcast. He has brought renown to WOS, broadcasting station of the State board of agriculture. Wires from fans all over the country have come into the capitol home, where the studio is located, praising him. Fans Respond Proof of Snodgrass’ fame as a piano broadcaster is shown by the thousands of telegrams he received, the mash notes he has had to turn down, the gifts of candy, tobacco, musical instruments arid other valuables and his election to the highest honor in fandom. That honor is first prize as most popular radio entertainer in the country. With the publication of this announcement by a radio magazine, came offers of adopting Snodgrass, of financing his education, giving enticing jobs and seeking his parole. To all lie has turned his back.

Physically, he is a boyish contrast to his stocky, well-proportioned predecessor. Hoover is slight in build, just above medium height, and looks much like a young bond salesman. He has keen, flashing brown eyes, sharply defined features, and is as little like 4 ! the traditional detective in appearance as is possible. He dispatches his business with a vigorous air from behind his broad mahogany desk In Burns' old office. Primarily Lawyer Burns was always "the detective.” Hoover is primarily a lawyer, but also a trained investigator, with many big cases to his credit. In keeping with his training and ids philosophy of the profession, Hoover has instituted anew order of things in the bureau of investigation. Emphasis is put on legal training for the investigator, instead of ability to shift false whiskers, creep down silent hallways with cat-like tread, and listen at keyholes. “The principal qualifications of an agent,” Hoover said discussing his work "are honesty, loyalty, and common sense. I would prefer an honest plain man to a brilliant man who has no conception of ethics." Hoover Insists on legal knowledge. He says it is necessary in working up a case which must he presented to the courts. Often, evidence that has been gathered has been found useless because the investigator was not sufficiently acquainted with the law. Fact-Finding Bureau “This bureau is the fact-finding bureau for the Department of Justice. and its agents must know how to gather facts and evidence that is admissible,” he said. Seven years ago Hoover was a legal clerk in the bureau, entering the service fresh from college here, with two degrees in law. Two years later he was made chief of the general intelligence division. The only other job he has held was as clerk in the Congressional Library, while he was attending college. FRANKLIN MAN IN LINE William Paulish Candidate for State Veterinarian. William Paulish, Franklin, is a candidate for the office of State veterinarian in the Jackson administration, it was announced today. Paulish is county chairman of Johnson County, which went Republican in the last election the first time in recent political history. Take Animal Pictures PARIS, Dec. 27.—The only animal photograph studio In the world has been opened in Berlin. Pictures are made exclusively of animal pets. The studio is fixed up with articles of furniture that make enticing backgrounds for animal pictures. The shop already is swarmed with patrons every day. Marshal Fox Improved George W. Fox, 953 East Dr., Woodruff PL, for many years marshal and custodian of Woodruff PI., who has been seriously ill in the Clark-Blakeslee hospital, was Improved today, according to relatives. License Delinquents Held Police, continuing the drive on city license delinquents, arrested fourteen business men for failure to have electric signs re-inspected and pay fees thereon. Two Drivers Slated Edwin Haase, 18, of 724 E. Walnut St., and Earl Ruddles, 29, of 25 W Michigan St., were arrested toduy on speeding charges.

Arctic Explorers, Imprisoned in Ice Floes of North, Long, for Home as Another Christmas Passes By

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By A / i Seri ire EATTLE Wash., Dec. 27 After two and a half years of drifting in arctic ice, the handful of hardy adventurers that put to sea in Roald Amundsen’s schooner Maud is beginning to weaken. All hands are ready to call it day and come hack. Rut. caught in t lie ice, they can’t. All they can do is drift on and on, waiting fur tide or Fate to pull them out. That is the gist of the latest report on the expedition received hy United States weather bureau officials. To Visit Pole The expedition was launched on the quite well established theory that the movement of arctic ice, caused by ocean currents, is over the north pole. Amundsen’s plan was to force the Maud under her own power as

$5,721.66 MAILED ABROAD

~fr~\ LLIE, Fritz, Hans, Gretchen 1/ and Nicholas all remembered the folks in the old country during the holiday season. It was revealed today when Indianapolis postofllee records showed a total of $5,721.66 sent in more than 600 international money orders to foreign countries between Dec. 1 and 24. , More than $.1,000 was sent by former Britishers; $1,926 was sent •PASSIVE RESISTANCE’ Democratic Ix-gislators Resigned to Fate in General Assembly. Democrats in the next general assembly will adopt a stand of “passive resistance,” according to Democrat legislators today. tine Democrat State Senator declared. "let ’em spend the people's money. The people don’t seem to care, so why should we. We can not prevent them anyway, so why should we make a fight.” Appointment of Walter S. Chambers, Democratic Senator from Newcastle, and Democratic State chairman, to the budget advisory committee by Governor Emmet F. Branch was reported displeasing to Governor-elect Ed Jackson. Woman Fatally Burned By Time* Special HARRODSBURG, Ind., Dec. 27. Funeral arrangements were being made today for Mrs. Kittie Stormes, 83, burned to death Friday in her home.

Doomed By Times Special rrUJASHINGTON, Dec. 27. YU The old Surratt house. I where John Wilkes Booth came on the afternoon before he assassinated Abraham Lincoln and arranged with Mrs. Surratt for guns and horses, is to go the way of numerous other landmarks about the Capital. A contract has been let by the present owner, calling for construction of a modern store front in the old structure for many years believed to be haunted by the ghost of Mrs. Surratt.

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far north as possible, then let her drift with the floe s. Mis idea was to collect almost every conceivable type of geological, i m cant 'logical and meteorological information. Most important of nil, by plumbing the depths of the sea and g.-tih-ering data on wind. Tidal find oilier conditions, lie hoped to enable science to predict weather conditions in ?lie temperate regions six months ahead. With thi* in mind. Amundsen set out with the Maud in 1919, but the venture was short lived. The next year the schooner was pulled out of the ice and rescued off northern Siberia by the United States coast guard cutter Boar. I’ndiscoiiraged by tics. Amundsen resolved to fry again, and in 1922 the Maud sailed through Bering Straits with a dozen men on board. The ship was provisioned for seven years. It also had on board seven boxes, containing Christmas

to persona in Germany, and the remainder was scattered among thirteen other nations, according to O. A. Keely, postofflce money order cashier. The orders averaged about $lO each. Keely said. The countries and number of orders sent each were: Great Britain, 350 Germany. 260; France. IS: Sweden, 17; Italy, lv Denmark, 11; Switzerland. 7; Holland, 7. Hungary, Austria and Japan, PERSHING CABLES HERE Sends Greetings to Legion Hoad From Lima, Peru, National Commander James A. Drain of the American Legion, today received a cablegram of "cordial holiday greetings a best wishes" from Gen. John J. Persh ing at Lima, Peru. General Pershing is attending the celebration of the centennial of Peruvian independence as official representative of the American Government. Commander Drain replied with "best wishes and happy New Year." TILT LIGHTS IN FUTURE Engineers Predict That This Replaces Dimming. Hy A TEA Kervicr NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Tilting may replace diming of headlights soon. This is the* prediction of engineers of the Illuminating Engineering Society here, who made thorough tests of these methods on different kinds of roads. Dimming of headlights is illegal today in Massachusetts. It may be abandoned with * the provision for tilting the lights at three-degree angles when passing other vehicles. This was found more practicable than dimming. Throe Hundred Men Fed Gen. Isaac Ramsey today reported that God’s Army fed 300 men at headquarters, 31 N. East St., and distributed thirty-five baskets to the poor on Christmas day. Old Coins Taken Burglars used a skeleton key to enter the home of Smith J. Gray, 5028 College Ave. Old coins valued at s2s'and $35 in cash were taken.

PRISONER TRANSFERRED Man Who Was Wounded in Poolroom Taken to Jail. Albert Maufins, colored, 28, of 930 W. Walnut St., changed his hoarding place Friday from city hospital to city prison. On Dec. 2, police alleged Maufins and three men, two of whom escaped, entered the S. M. Jordan poolroom, 2348 N. Sherman Dr. Jordan opened fire and the bullet struck Maufins in the groin. Maufins returned fire and wounded Jordan in the hand. Police charged Maufins with entering a house to commit a j felony, shooting with intent to kill and vagrancy. His bond is $5,000. Hit Stomach Play PARIS, Dec. 27. —A one-act play in pantomime, the scene of which is laid in the human stomach, has been barred from tho Parisian stage. The characters in the pantomime are various popular banquet foods. The play, modeled after a similar English production, was branded as ’indecent.”

presents for the crew—one box for each Christmas they might lie marooned. And a phonograph donated by the girls of Norway. For a time the Maud kept in touch with tlie United States weather bureau by radio. Then she drifted out of range. Caught In Floes The message that just came was relayed. It stated that the Maud was north of Wrangel Island, caught In the floes, and drifting rapidly to the north und west. Just why the explorers were discouraged and ready—though unable—to turn hack, was not specified. The nerve strain of being cagel together, helpless, in the stark, frozen wastes of the far north—-perhaps listening to the same talking machine records over and over again, of knowing for months in advance what each dinner menu would he—is believed to have played its port.

each 3. China. 2; Honduras, Lithuania, Mexico and Palestine, each 1. "They were not particular whether the money reached its destination in time for Christmas,” said Keely. "They wanted it to get there about the first of the year.” International money orders experienced a boom beginning about Thanksgiving time, Keely said, and continued until a few days before Christmas. COMMiFTEE IS APPROVED Commission Chooses Advisory Board on Grade Crossings, Governor Emmett F. Branch has approved selection of a safety advisory committee by the public service commission to work with Frank T. Singleton, commissioner, in the interest of grade crossing safety. Tiie committee: Walter Pritchard, automobile clubs; H. N. Sherwood, State superintendent of public instruction; B. C. Byers, Big Four Railroad; P. H. Crane, Indiana Farm Bureau Federation; Arthur W. Brady, president Union Traction Company; Eli F. Seehirt, mayor South Bend, and John D. Williams, State highway commission. New Athletic Club Formed Articles of association for the Hummel Athletic Club, 1211 Kentucky Ave., were filed with the Secretary of State today. Officers: F. J. Callahan, 1306 Nordyke Ave., Marion Craig, 1422 Silver Ave.; M. P. Bailey, 1433 Silver Ave., and A1 free! F. Hummel, 1211 Kentucky Ave.

Mother Battles Father for Child

A walling child, belligerent mother, dazed father, irate judge and a stairway battle worthy of the movies, entertained a large audience at the courthouse today. When it was all over Ralph Jones, 125 N. New Jersey St., had temporary possession of his 6-year-old son, Jack, and his former wife, Anna Jones, 116 N. Taft St., had been threatened with jail by Judge Harry O. Chamberlain of Circuit Court. The trouble arose over modification of a divorce decree grant-

Couple Married 62 Years

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lilt Time* Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Dec. 27. —Mr. und Mrs. F. M. Applegate recently celebrated their sixty-sec-

DOCTOR’S HEROISM MAY BREAK ‘JINX’ Physician Tramps Twelve Miles Through Zero Weather to Aid Colleague 111 on Island, llij l nit"d Press . „ „ „ I*l T-IN-BAY, Ohio, Dec. 27.-—The heroism of Dr. G. M. Kilev, who tramped twelve miles over a perilous bridge of iee in darkness and sub-zero weather, was believed today to have saved the life of Dr. J. L. Sowash.

Slowly hemorrhaging to death as a result of a severe stomach attack. Dr. Sowash, lone physician on this desolate little member of the Bass Island group in Lake Erie, was without medical aid until Dr. Riley risked his life to assist a professional brot her. Today reports from the island doctor's bedside said he had rallied remarkably and may live. Dr. Sowash Is still too weak, however, to he removed to a mainland hospital on the big sled island inhabitants constructed. Tho journey from Port Clinton to Put-in-Bay was made by Dr. Riley, Christmas night with the help of two United States mail carriers, who acted as guides. Bass Island lighthouses. dark during the winter when tho islands are hound in by ice for •several months, were illuminated nnd their Hashing beacons pointed the way. The last victim of the so-called Jinx that hangs over the island was Or. T. C. Greist, predecessor of J>r. Sowash, who was drowned in the lake F>h. 17 1923. with Miss Sylvia Schultz. 24 t nurse. The auto in which they were riding broke through the ice. U. S. IMPORTS PARASITES Government Searches for Means of Best Eradication. I<u XFA Sen Ice ■WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—The United States has gone to the native countries of .“ome of our most troublesome crop pests to find means of their i radical ion. The alfalfa weevil is being checked In its ravages by an imported paraThe gipsy moth, which has done great damage in New England, is l.elijg pm under control by a parasite imported from Europe. Scientists in Japan have been searching for parasites to stop the advance of the Japanese beetle, now a bad pest in N< w Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. And the corn borer, native of Eu rope, is finding its equal in a parasite that is being introduced in the corn belt, also shipped from Europe. IMPURE OIL ESSENTIAL Easy Starting In Winter Aided hy Diluted Oil. Bp XFA Serf ice DAVTON, Ohio, Dec. 27. —Diluted motor oil, which engineers had been trying to avoid as an impurity, is essential to easy starting in winter! This discovery is made by J. H. Hunt, a member of the research laboratories of a large auto firm located here, and was brought out recently at the Chicago meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers. According to Hunt, clean undiluted oil becomes so thick and viscous at low temperature that the starting motor and battery find it hard to turn over the engine fast enough to start It. Thinned oil in the crank case, therefore, permits of easier starting in cold weather. JOHNSON WILL UPHELD SI00,00(1 Estate Goes to Sister-In-Law of Late Manufacturer. The will of Albert D. Johnson, late secretary-treasurer of the Diamond Chain Company, who died Nov 1. 1923, was upheld hy Judge Mahlon E. Bash in Probate Court today. By the terms of the will the entire estate, valued at SIOO,OOO. goes to his sister-in-law, Helen M. Eichrodt, 3947 N. Delaware St. His niece, Charline Johnson Barnaby, filed suit, alleging undue in fluence. duress and unsound mind. Mrs. Johnson died the day before her husband. WIFE —Guess what I have come to ask you for? HUSBAND—Money! WIFE —Oh what a dear, clever husband you are!

ed Mrs. Jones last June, to give Jones possession of the child every other week-end. Mrs. Jones refused to abide by the decree, took the child away from her husband and swapped punches with him on the stairway, escaping with the child. Judge Chamberlin watched the battle from the top of the stairs, sent for the/mother, and told her that she would abide hy his decree or go to jail, and he didn't mean maybe.

ond wedding anniversary. Applegate is 86, his wife, 84. He formerly was a blacksmith.

A Puzzle a Day

“What he has • • • Is * * * Ills * • There are three words missing from the simple sentence given above. Each word (indicated hy the stars) is composed of the same three letters, differently arranged in each case. Can you supply the missing words? Yesterday’s answer: By removing the dotted lines, and inserting the heavy lines as indicated in the drawing, the dead dogs may be restored to life. Hold the drawing sideways to see its original appearance. CASH FOR CHRISTMAS Federal Reserve Batiks Issued $70,000,000 In Notes for Shoppers. By Time Sp,cial WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Federal Reserve Banks throughout the country were required to circulate $70,300,000 additional Federal Reserve notes to provide Christinas shoppers with cash this season, a statement by the Reserve Board revealed. Shoppers in the New York district used $13,500,000 of the notes.

Start a Savings Account W 0 Pav J A Savings Account started with M the money you received as a SaJL ’ ff\ Christmas Gift is a start towards independence. on Savings Atena Trust & Savings Cos. ROSS H. WALLACE, Pres. 23 North Pennsylvania Street

CI&W EXCURSIONS CINCINNATI, O $4.00 DECATUR, ILL SS.OO|SPRINGFIELD, 1LL.56.00 ROUND TRIP EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY RETURNING SUNDAY AND MONDAY TICKETS GOOD ON ALL TRAINS. For Ticket* or Information Call on City Ticket Office, 38 W. OHIO ST.. Circle 4600; Depot Ticket Office, UNION STATION, MA in 4567.

Supfno^ Facilities A perfectly appointed equip- \ ment adds to the ceremonial, A service conducted with ? marked respect and digni- SI * fled in every charming detail. OT ESS WALTERT.BLASENGYM|2 ? a| 2570 FUNERAL HOME Street if

SATURDAY, DEC. 27, 1924

INSANE HOSPITAL REPORTIS GIVEN $412,550 Building Plan Proposed, The annual report of the Central Hospital for the Insane for the year ending Sept. 30, made public today, by Superintendent Max A. Bahr, contains a description of a ten-year building plan for the institution which the Legislature will be asked to approve. Plan calls for Immediate construction of two cottages for men, each to hold 100 patients. Cost of the two Is estimated at $412,550. Four other cottages would be added later. The report quotes former reports as far back as 1893, all of which speak of "horrible conditions” at the old men’s building and ask aid. One ward attendant was employed for each 11.8 patients during the year. The average number of employes was 279. There were 725 men and 927 women in the hospital at the year end, an increase of thirtynine. THREE MORE ARE OUT New Resignations Reported From G. O. P. Committee. 1 Three more Republican precinct committeemen resigned today making a total of twelve resignations during the past two days, according to statement at headquarters of George V. Coffin, Republican county chairman. Successors have been appointed, it was said. The resignations make a total of thirty-nine committeemen who have either been ousted or have resigned since the November election. According to William H. Armitage, leader in the Shank-Armitage-Jewett-Lemcke faction, opposing Coffin, the present organization fight is a question of "who will he fooled the worst.” Armitage declares his faction has enough committeemen to control at the city convention for election of city chairman.

Correct Clothes and Accessories for After-SIX ress AiSu and Dinner : A\r/yn Suits i / vii'Gr-'-V / /Han d-tailored \ I'V i* J Ns/ /and ready to W I I*JT / *Dto—sso.oo VESTS (White, Black)..ss to 810 SHIRTS S3 to S5 NECKWEAR 50c to 82 DRESS SETS 82 to 810 GLOVES 81-50 to 85 CANES 82 to 810 MUFFLERS 82 to 810 "If IPs From Jud’s, IPs CorrecP * K Wasr’ ißg.oHic