Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1925 — Page 6

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BUSINESS HEADS IN CHICAGO SAY MING Leaders Believe Coming Year Will Be Era of Prosperity. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. I.—Business leaders of Chicago believe 1925 will show marked progress over 1924. They forecast a year of unusual prosperity, many of thfcmi declaring, however, that new energy and sound business principles must be applied to bring the prospects to fruition. W. R. Daves, president of the Chicago Association of Commerce: “After a yeatr of excellent progress the now year promises to be much brighter.” James Simpson, president of Marshall Field & Company: • “The United States is entering upon anew era of industrial expansion that promises prosperity for many years to come. We may expect this expansion to be healthy and stable and to be comparable in its results to the period of prosperity which followed the election of President McKinley in 1896.” O. E. Bradfute, president American Farm Bureau Federation: "Farmers feel that things are getting better. They are improving the quality of their products and sending them to the markets in a more saleable condition. There is real improvement in the economic condition of agriculture, which promises great things for the future.” Leeds .Mitchell, president of the Chicago Stock Exchange: “I see nothing to stop the new year from being one of excellent prosperity.” Samuel M. Hastings, president of the Illinois Manufacturer's’ Mutual Casualty Association: ‘Nineteen twenty-five will be a year of recovery and prosperity.”

UNION MOTION IN RECEIVERSHIP Anderson Court Appoints Company President. Bp Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. I.—The pinion Traction Company today was ■perating under the direction of the ■circuit Court here, as the result of Being declared In receovershlp late Wednesday by Judge W. A. Kittinger on the petition of the Westingliouse Electric end Manufacturing Company. Judge Klttinger named Arthur W. Brady, president of the company, as receiver. The Acesttnghouse company In their Complaint alleged that the traction' company owed them $74,192 and Jvas otherwise heavily Indebted and in imminent danger of Insolvency. The traction company filed a general denial. BALTZELL DECIDED ON? Dispatch Says He Is Picked for Indiana Federal Bench. Judge Robert C. Baltzell, Princeton, will be nominated Federal judge for Indiana by President Coolidge as soon as A. B. Anderson, present judge, is advanced to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago, according to Washington dispatches. Coolidge let it be known be had decided to appoint Baltzell after receiving a report from Attorney General Stone, it is reported. Baltzell’s appointment will follow immediately after the Senate confirmation of Anderson’s nomination by Coolidge. It Is expected the changes will take place Friday. SHANK DEFENDS PLAN Mayor Says Pay Boost Would Not Affect Taxes Until 1926. Increasing pay of police and fireman sl6 a month will not mean any boost in the city tax rate before 1826, Mayor Shank pointed out today in answering some criticism of the proposed increase. At the same time, Shank showed city taxes for 1925 had dropped from $1.0875 to $1,056 on each SIOO of taxable property.* A surplus/of $333,000 in the general fluid this year Is due to rigid economy in which the city government operated below estimates, Joseph I* Hogue, city tX?ntroller said. Board of safety members have the pay Increase under consideration. General approval has been voiced by leading business men. GAS STATION HELD UP Bandits Escape With S7O in Robbery 1 at Noblesville. .By Tims Special I NOJBJLESVI-LLE, Ind., Jan. I. ffTwo unmasked bandits late Wednesday . feht held up the filling station jkif ti Oil Company here ■bid <8 %ped with S7O. Glenn Beaver, Btteiu was forced to open the Hlsha %ter and safe. Among the Vot B ,led away by the robbers >erw pennies. Their car carried pm iS license number. Fait rim Strikes Workman David |ge, 55, colored, 647 N. Douglas bt, a laborer working on the new Banner Furniture Company building, was Injured early today when a piece of angle iron carried by another workman fell several feet and struck him on the l^ad.

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DEPUTY SHERIFFS LEAD IN SEIZING NEW YEAR BOOZE Total Liquor Confiscations in City Less Than Three Quarts. Deputy sheriffs led all other raiding officers in Indianapolis NewYear’s Eve in the amount of liquor seized. At that, they obtained only two and a half quarts, according to Sheriff Omer Hawkins. Police and Federal officers seized less than a half pint. A man who gave his name as Harry Watson, 35, of 1921 N. Delaware St., but who the sheriff said was Vern Hutto, 30, of 2164 N. Pennsylvania St., was arrested at Liberty Beach and charged with operating a blind tiger. The sheriff said he had two quarts of Canadian Club and a half pint of white mule. Franklin C. Burton, 29, of 802 N. Sherman Dr., also was charged with operating a blind tiger, at the same place. Deputy Sheriffs Clausen and Petty said he had a half pint of white mule. At the Severin, Federal Officers Holman and J. C. Thompson and Policemen Kegrls and Fleming arrested Guy Courin, 24, of 2924 Kenwood Ave. They said he had a very small amount of liquor. “Dupky” Holmes, 40, of 30* E. Vermont St., was charged -with having a third of a pint of liquor at :.he Jack-O-Lantera Case, 416 N. Illinois St., by Harm Fischer, special officer. Police charged Fred Rouse, 27, of 2726 N. Meridian St., with vagrancy, Intoxication and disorderly conduct. Miss Billie Blackstone, 27, colored, was charged with assault and battery, resisting an officer and intoxication. FIGHTS IN RESTAURANTS Five Men Attack Two Who Refused to Give One a Dime. Clair Weaver, 1416 E. Eleventh St., manager of the lunch room at Highland Ave. and Tenth St., and Ernest Brown, 1520 E. Tenth St., a customer, were attacked in the lunchroom by five men . arly today. One asked for a dime. When both Weaver and Brown refused the men struck them and ran. James Brown, 547*4 Kentucky Ave., was charged with assault and battery by police who investigated a fight in the restaurant at 9 Kentucky Ave. The officers say Alfred Woodward, 541 Holly Ave., and a party told them they were eating and Brown ordered them out stating they were making too much noise. He struck Woodard, police were told. AUTO THEFTS WITNESSED Driver Gives Police Number of Car Used by Suspects. Ralph Noble, 3814 N. Capitol Ave., told police while he was driving on Meridian St. he saw three men stealing from parked cars. He obtained the license number of their auto. Police are investigating. A brick was tossed through the front window of the Pete Nomas restaurant, 148 N. Delaware St. Pork chops and seaks valued at $5 were taken. Mrs. Carrie M. Yates, 720 E. Fifty-Second St., told police chinaware, tools and phonograph records valued at $22 were taken from her home. Gus Banister, 328 W. South St., reports a rifle valued at S6O taken. RAILROAD TO PAY CITY Brownstown Wins Judgment When Trains Fail to Stop. Bv Timas Special SEYMOUR, Ind., Jan. I.—Brownstown, county seat of Jackson County, has been awarded judgment for S3OO against the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad Company for failure to stop certain passenger trains there. The suit was filed last summer after, a new schedule had been put in effect by the railroad company. MARJTAL SPREE AIRED Woman Can’t Remember All of Her Husbands. By United Press % SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. I.—The mstrimonlal road has been full of chuck holes for Sarah Brown here. Her first adventure was with Ora Drake, eleven children were bom. Since his death Sarah, now 54, has been to court seven times with her domestic troubles and each time the judge has freed her from them. Judge is now considering her plea for divorce from Ja me* Brown, 66. So numerous has been her husbands that she could not remember all thei • name* while on the witness stand. *

TURKEY RUN SCENE DURING SNOW STORM.

Turkey Run State park proved, Increasingly popular with Hooslers during the yea*;. Said visitors for 1924 totaled 76,538, an increase of more than 7,000 over 1923, figures compiled by the land and waters division of the State conservation department show. Through park earnings it was possible to purchase an additional area of 235 acres north of the park and adjoining, all timbered land and necessary to the proper park development. McCormick’s Creek Canyon Park had 13,036 paid visitors compared to 10,016 the previous year. Cli fifty Falls park had an attendance of 31,993 visitors, first recorded attendance. The department secured the affirmation of the State’s claim to the navigability of Lake Wawasee, hence the State’s ownership of the bed of the lake and the control thereof by the department. Ownership of the State to the bed of the Wabash River In Vigo County, was established and hence ownership of the coal underlying the river. Issued permits to companies to mine the coal and collected royalties for State amounting to $13,834.83. With divisions of fish and game and engineering, defeated a project known as the Matchett Ditch which contemplated making a drainage ditch of the Tippecanoe River for a distance of twentytwo miles. FISCAL YEAR PROPOSED City Officials Discuss Law to Change Financial System. A bill providing that the fiscal year of all city departments start July 1, instead of Jan. 1, is expected to be fostered by city officials at the coming session of the Legislature. By the change, Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, pointed out that the necessity for making temporary loanß to tide the city over until the first, installment of taxes would be eliminated. James. M. Ogden, corporation counsel, is investigating legal steps. Hogue figured the saving of interest alone would be $20,000 a year, based on loans of the general city and the beard of health. ACTORS ATTEND FUNERAL Services Held for Kate Elinor©, Vanudeville Star. Representatives of the National Vaudeville Artists’ Association came from Chicago today to attend the funeral of Mrs. Kate Elinore Williams at noon at Flanner and Buchanan chapel, 320. N. Illinois St. Mrs. Williams, known professionally as Kate Elinore, was a director of the association. The Rev. F. S. C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church, had charge of services. The body was to be cremated. The ashes will be taken to the Williams home in Northport, L. 1., Friday afternoon by Mrs. Williams’ husband and vaudeville partner, Sam Williams. Mrs. Williams died Wednesday at the Methodist Hospital following an operation ten days ago. HOOSIER LADS WINNERS Awarded Scholarships in HomeLighting Contests. Joe Kelly, 14, of Martinsville, Ind., and John P. Crawford, 14, of Kokomo, Ind., were winners of scholarship prizes in a national homelighting contest for high school students sponsored by public utilities over the State. Each of the boys received a S6OO scholarship in any standard institution of higher learning in the United States. Kelly was a page to Governor Emmett F. Branch when Branch was Lieutenant Governor. Crawford has won a number of prizes for literary compositions. URGE PSYCHIATRIC WARD State Board of Charities Gives Out Legislative Program. Progress in clinics for diagnosis and study of mental and nervous diseases long sponsored by the State Board of Charities, is again urged in its legislative program published today. It urges establishment of a psychiatric ward at the Robert Long hospital. Continuation of the committee on mental defectives is urged with sufficient appropriation to allow progress in the stu£y of problems of Insanity, feeble mindedness sand epilepsy. POLICE BUSY IN 1924 Made Twice as Many Runs as Preceding Administration in 19.1. Police reports compiled by telephone- operators Fled Loucks, Harley Reed and C. O. Johnson, show police made twice as many runs In 1924 as |n the last year of the proceeding administration in 1921. In that year, motor teams made 10,602 runs. The last run made at 11:60 Wednesday night made 22,128 for 1924 V.

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HONOR AS FIRST SPEEDERIS CLOSE Police Say Distinction Goes With Arrest at 12:30 A. M, C. W. Collins, 24, of 1341 N. Illinois St., has the distinction of being the first citizen to be arrested in 1925 on a charge of speeding. He was slated at 12:30 a. m. and was closely contested for the honor by Russell Meyers, 21, of 516 N. Garfield Ave. Motorcycle Officers Tremp and Bushong made a thrilling chase to capture Walter Ryeman, 17, of 1914 N. Talbott Ave., who is charged with speeding, vagrancy, resisting arrest and vehicle taking. Tremp said they followed him for a mile on W. Washington St. at forty miles an hour, and he finally Bwerved around a corner, down a terrace and struck a light pole, wrecking the car owned by Ernest Knefer, 1914 N. Talbott Ave. Ryeman ran and Tremp later found him crouched ort a front porch and arrested him. Others held on speed charges: Sam Workman, 46, of 2802 E. Twenty-First St.; Sam Graves, 22, of 2853 Station St.; Herbert Mayer, 28 of 248 W. Morris St.; Mark Hadley, 18, of Hadley, Ind.; Byron Francis, 28, of 904 Union St.; C. L. Gates, 82, of 437 Temple Ave.; Harry Patterson, 27, of 2109 Ringgold St.; Alvin R. Williams, 21, of Brownsburg, Ind. NEWSPAPERS VALUABLE Union Opposes Increase in SecondClass Mail Rates. Opposition of the International Typographical Union to the proposed Increase In postal rates on second-class mail to meet proposed Increase in wages of postal workers, Is based on the conviction that newspapers and magazines are Invaluable as an educational agency, according to James M. Lynch, president. To curtail their circulation, by adding to their cost, would hamper education seriously. Lynch said. He added that the union favors higher pay for postal employes, and that postal service was not meant to be self-sustaining. POULTRY EDICT ISSUED Effort Made to Stop Shipment of Diseased Fowls. The State livestock sanitary board has issued an edict against sale of any poultry known to have been exposed to or having contracted any disease, and requiring shipment, of healthy fowls In thoroughly disinfected cars. Dr. R. C, Julien, State Veterinarian, left for Washington, D. C. today to confer with Federal officials on the poultry disease situation, which has resulted In a strict embargo against affected poultry on the Atlantic seaboard. Dr. Julien said the disease has not been reported in Indiana. CITY REJECTS OIL BIDS Used Material to Be Sold at Public Auction, Jan. 5. Five bids for 275,000 gallons of road oil have been rejected by the board of works of high price. The bids will be readvertised. A quantity of used material, including several tons of sheet copppr, street machinery, and five mules, was ordered sold by the board at public auction, Jan. 5, at city hall. Ray Wright, city purchasing agent, is in charge. AFTER TWO-SCORE YEARS Democratic Sheriff Takes Office at .Nobles ville. By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. I. Hamilton County today had its first Democratic sheriff in forty years. Charles Gooding, Democrat, succeeded Frank Sherrick. Even Robbers Cejebrato By United Press VINCENNES, Ird., Jan. I.—Robbers joined in the celebration of the arrival of the New Year Wednesday by stocking themselves with S3OO in clothing from the Kroeger Specialty Company’s store here, police reported today. Gant Indicted KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. I.—Joseph R. Gant, former president of the defunct Centropolis State Bank, was under indictment here today on charges of forgery in connection with the disappearance of $625,000 of the bank's funds. Gant, -who is ill In a sanitorium here, is under $50,000 bond. KaßlF'*l.:.. - v - ...

J. C. M’CLOSKEY ELECTED HEAD OF COUNTY FATHERS ■ \n'‘ pfift; ■ , . * .f/ Commissioners Follow Usual Custom —New Officials J on Job, The apples were on incoming county officials at courthouse today. A barrel of apples was “on tap” in the county commissioner’s office. They were sent by C. O. Sutton of Perry Township, Republican, commissioner, who succeeded Albert Hoffman of Bridgeport. “Why, I remember the time when we not only passed out apples, but cider, too,’’ said John Kitley, retiring president of the commissioners. “But we had to cut the cider out,” he sighed. Following a reception to friends, a short business session was held. John C. McCloskey, 731 E. McCarty St., was elected president, following the commissioners’ custom of giving the office to members on the board longest. Appointments were then read. George G. Schmidt, who succeeded John J. Griffith as county surveyor, was the first to receive a gift. It was a box of flowers. His office was filled with friends. James Wilson, Thomas Mathews, Alfred Ferguson, and Robert F. Wands, were announced as rodmen by Schmidt. Miss Violet Tax will be his stenographer. Sheriff Omer Hawkins, who succeeded George Snider, said he was going to keep up the good work that Snider did as sheriff. “I’m for law enforcement and intend io carry it out to the limit,” said Hawkins. Cigars and apples were passed out by Hawkins to all visitors. , # NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY READY Deliveries to Residences Will Start Friday. Delivery of new January telephone directories will begin FMday through the residential section, according to Paul P. Baker, directory supervisor of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Nearly 80,000 books will be delivered to stores, offices, factories and homes by a crew of 200 men and a fleet of large truck*. Thousands of new telephone numbers, especially on the north side, are listed due to change In telephone equipment, many manual telephones having been replaced by automatic Instruments. Subscribers are requested to have the old books ready when t.he new books are delivered. All old telephone lists prepared by business men and housewives should be carefully checked with the new book in order to avoid delay in making calls. Approximately forty tons of paper were used in the Issue and the work of preparing the directory required about five months. Baker/ hopes to complete delivery of the directory In a week. As usual the Smiths are stronger numerically than any other name In the directory. More than 600 Smiths and a large assortment of similar names, such as Smitha, Smithey, Smithson, Smyth, Smythe, Schmidt, Schmid, Schmitt and Schmitz, are included. WILMETH BEGINS PLANS Asks Friends Who Sponsor Candidacy to Cal! on Him. A series of meetings with his supporters in his campaign for mayor of Indianapolis will be held by Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth, he announced Wednesday in a letter sent his workers. “You are one of the first 7,000 voters who have indorsed in writing my candidacy for mayor of Indianapolis,” the letter said. “I would be pleased to have your assistance as a volunteer worker in the campaign. / “I am arranging to be at my office, 35 S. Alabama St.; on Saturdays during January from 2 to 8 p. m. If convenient for you to call during that time I shall be very glad to talk over future plans with you.” IDENTITY IS UNKNOWN Womaan Who Falls Unconscious Taken to City Hospital. The identity of a woman who fell unconscious on the sidewalk near 114 N. Oriental St. Wednesday afternoon had not been learned today. She was reported in a serious condition with heart disease at city hospital. The woman is about 50 years old, is 5 feet. 8 Inches tall, rather stout, fair with blue eyes and light bobbed hair. She wore a blue dotted dress and a light cape. Mrs. Agies Donahue, H 24 Deloss St., and Mrs. Joseph * lowers, 144 N. Arsenal Ave., sav r her fall. . ad Dream—lnjured Nose A nightmare caused Raymond Worley, apartment 2, at 426 E. New York St., to nurse an injured nose today. Police said that he fell out of bed early today.

Dog! By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 1. “Skinnay,” pet dog, burned to death in the fire that destroyed the Young Car Company, rested in fjeace today. He was given a public burial in a real casket Wednesday with ten children as pallbearers.

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AT LAST WE KNOW WHAT THE WILD WAVES WHISPER. AT LEAST VERNA LEE FISHER SAYS THAT THEY ARE GREAT AT WHISPERING THE ANSWER TO CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. FOR HERE SHE IS SHOWN FLOATING ON A SUG-OOTER AT PALM BEACH AS SHE WORKS OUT A PARTICULARLY TOUGH ONE.

$12,875,619 TOTAL IN STATE EXPOR TS Three-Month Figures of Department of Commerce Places ♦ Indiana Eighteenth,

Indiana maintained its eighteenth place In the relative standing among the different States in merchandise exports when it attained figures of $12,875,619 for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 1924, according to statistics of the Department of Commerce. It superseded North Carolina, which dropped several places, and gave way In turn to Minnesota, whose export trade for the three months took an amazing jump. Automobiles, lard, hams and shoulders and bacon continued to be the principal export commodities for the quarter under review. Automobiles and parts were shipped to the extent of $2,810,327; lard followed with $1,772,868 and then came hams and shoulders with valuations of $1,660,813. Bacon was exported to the amount of $1,086,179, and ores, metals and manufactures of, LEON TROTSKY IS REPORTEDKILLED Conflicting Rumors of Death and Vacation Unconfirmed, Bv United Press LONDON, Jan. L— An unconfirmed report is in circulation in Bucharest, based on advices from Bessarabia, that Leon Trotsky, Russian minister of war, has been assassinated, according to press dispatches here. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent says it is insistently reported there that Trotsky “has been completely crushed and is interned in a Moscow \ '.lace.” Direct Mivoow dispatches to the Untied Press yesterday said Trotsky is on vacation in the Crimea, partly shorn of his power because of his differences with the Central executive committee of the soviets. KIWANIANS HEAR HAYNES Inventor Urges Broadening of College .Curricula. Broadening of college curricula was advocated by Elwood Haynes, inventor of one of the first automobiles, of Kokomo, Ind., in an address before the Kiwanis Club Wednesday. Haynes was introduced by Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana University. Bryan spoke briefly on the value of training in meeting life’s problems. “Some students have great organizing ability, great stamina and powerful executive qualities,” said Haynes. “They should not be restricted in their progress in college because they have no taste for law, language or the classics. The curriculum should be arranged to meet their needs.” VETS GET DATES MIXED Time for Filing Disability and Bonus Claims Confused. Midnight Wednesday was last date on which World War veterans could show disability existed, according to J. H. Ale, sub-district manager of the Veterans’ Bureau, 600 Meridian Life Bldg. Advance announcement of this led many men to believe that this date was the deadline on the bonus and compensation, but such Is not the case, said M. D. Cummings, chief of cooperation section. There has been a last-minute rush to file claims and more work has been done in the last week than in the previous month. Greatest number of cases has been tuberculosis and nervous diseases. More than 18,400 cases have been handled through this office since It was opened. ‘GOLDEN’ FRIENDS WED Evansville Couple Culminate Half Century Acquaintance. By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. I.—Oldest honeymooners on New Year’s day here today were William J. Large, 83, and Mrs. Anna E. Schultz, 76, who married Wednesday as the culmination of a fifty-year, friendship.

except machinery and vehicles, totaled $1,034,255. First ten States included In the tabulation, and the amounts of their foreign shipments, are: New York, $175,909,180; Texas, $163,205,839; Pennsylvania, $71,834,632; Illinois, $70,755,613; California, $54,374,555; New Jersey, $49,852,174; Louisiana. $46,470,829; Michigan, $39,715,774; Ohio, $31,071,984, and Massachusetts, with $27,702,446. Oregon, Just ahead of Indiana, acquired trade figures of $13,186,084, while Missouri, run-ner-up, was about $3,000,000 shy of Indiana’s figures. Grand totals for the, first nine months of the year give Indiana exports of $41,859,510, and nineteenth place In the entire list of States. Although Indiana lagged behind North Carolina to the amount of approximately $1,500,000, it clearly topped Missouri, its nearest competitor, by well over $8,000,000. CHURCH WILL SEEK AID Help to Be Asked to Rebuild Structure Destroyed by Fire. Local Protestant churches will be asked to contribute funds to help rebuild the Moravian Church, 2502 College Ave., destroyfed by fire Sunday, the Rev. Christian O. Weber, pastor, announced today. Only a small amount of insurance was carried on the church, the pastor said. The Zion Evangelical Church, North and New Jersey Sts., raised $350 'for the church. Residents in the community have pledged approximately SI,OOO. The congregation has rented a house at 658 E. Twenty-Fifth St., where Sunday school services will be held each Sunday at 9:45 a. m. Holy communion, followed by a reception, will be held at 11 a. m. Sunday. At night the Christmas cantata will be rendered by the choir. The fir© prevented its presentation. ENGINEER KILLS SELF Train Pilot of Fatal Dining Car Crash a Suicide. Bv United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Minrt., Jan. I. Brooding because his clear record of 21 years as an engineer was marred when the dining car on a train he was hauling left the rails and sank into the Chippewa River, causing the death of eight persons, Harry J. Colwell was found hanging to a beam in the basement of his home today. Colwell was engineer on the Soo Line train, the dining car of which plunged into the river at Chippewa Falls on Dec. 20. His 19-year-old daughter, Lois, discovered the body. The coroner returned a verdict of suicide. NEW SECRETARY DUE Rev. Evans to Take Over Church Federation Work. Rev. Ernest Evans of Pittsburgh, Pa., was to arrive in Indianapolis today to become secretary of the Church Federation of Indianapolis, succeeding Rev. C. H. Winnders, resigned. The Rev. Winders, pastor of the Northwood Christian Church since September, has been seriously ill with influenza. Several months will be required for his recuperation, physicians say. DEADLINE PUSHED UP Arrests for Having No 1925 License to Begin Feb. 15. Feb. 15, instead of March 15, has been set as deadline for displaying 1925 auto license plates, according to H. D. McClelland, manager State automobile license department. Officers over the State have been notified not to arrest persons failing to display 1925 license before this date. TROLLEY CARS CRASH New Year’s Celebrators Are Injured at Wilkesbarre, Pa. By United Press WILKESBARRE. Pa., Jan. I. Fourteen persons were injured, none seriously, early today when two trolley cars of the Wilkesbarre railway company crashed. The majority of the injured were New Year’s celebrators.

TETRSDAY, .TW&I, 1925

ONEKILLEPP MORE MAY 01 IN WELCOME FOS ’29 \ Girl Thrown on Red\ Hot Stove In Burning Police Told, New Year’s eve and monflng brought with It a waive of orime in the colored,belt today, resulting in one killing and two brutal ’ attacks that may result Jn death*. Police say when they arrived ax 1533 Mill Si. early today thsy found Miss Fredocia Fuqua, 24, colored, lying side of the red-hot • stove on. which she was said to have been thrown by Mack Price, 31, colored, with whom she had been living. The house was on fire and police called the fire department to extinguish the blaze. Price Is also charged with cutting the girl. She was sent to the city hospital, where her condition was said to be critical. Price escaped. Police say they do not believe the story told them by George Rodgers, 28, colored, 1801 Martindale Ave., that he was playing In fun with Boyden White, 27, colored. Thirteenth and Lewis Sts. died at the city hospital after belrqp shot, it la said, by White. Sergeant Sheehan, who investigated, believes the men argued over a crap* game. White escaped. William Frye, 24, colored, 951 W. Michigan St., was sent to the <dty hospital with a fractured *kulL Police are searching for a man who is alleged to have struck Frye with an auto crank while they argued in front of the Keystone Club, 326*4 Indiaan Ave. Two women and a man who were In the auto owned by the assailant when police arrived, gave little information. The police mixed the auto deserted by the man, but had difficulty in checking the ownership. BUDGET BOARD I TOWED KNIFE Expected to Cut Requests for State Funds, 8 With most of the requests of State departments and institutions for appropriations to cover the next two received, the budget, committee la faced with the problem of tfrepail ing its recommendations for the ap-’ propriation bills to be presented to the Legislature late this month. It is expected that the committee will cut considerably the requests which eall for an Increase of approximately $6,000,000. Among the eeonomy proposals Is the combining of the State School for Feeble-Minded Youth at FI. Wayne and the farm colony for fee-ble-minded at Butlerville. Butlerville is a comparatively new Institution. The site and character of the institution have met with opposition from the start. Both institutions are asking for large amounts for new buildings. The State Normal School has added ita requests to those of other institutions. It is asking an increase of $500,000 annually in its appropriation. , ‘BABY DEL’ POPULAR Heavy Traffic Over Newly Dedicate J City-County Bridge, Heavy traffic streamed over the new Delaware St. bridge spanning Fall Creek today. “Baby Del,” a* the bridge was christened by Mayor Shank, greatly relieved congested traffic on Meridian St. and other north side thoroughfares. A bottle of grape pop served the purpose of wine for Mrs. Shank a* she formally christened the by crashing the bottle against thU bridge rail. County and city officials joined in forming a parade across the structure after the dedication ceremonies, in which the police and firemen’s band led the way. Although the bridge proper is completed, approaches to be put In by the city will not be paved until spring. / '• 'spi INNOCENCE IS PROTESTED Woman Prisoner Denies Part in Marion Bank Robbery. Mrs. Mary Bridgewater, 29, arrested in Indianapolis by a Webster Detective Agency operative Wednesday, charged with complicity in the South Marion State Bank robbery Nov. 27, today was in the Grant County jail at Marion, Ind. She denied having anything to do with the robbery and stated she and another woman sat in a machine while five men went into the bank, according to police. She didn’t know why they entered the bank, she said, according to the Webster Agency. • JOKE ON HOLD-UP MEN Two Bandits Escape With Box of Shotgun Shell*. I Charles Brock, 3301 W. hopes the two bandits who fejjed him with a blow on the head ne&ad his home Wednesday night, thought the box they grabbed contained money. It didn’t. .It contained shotgun shells. Mrs. Max Geller, 545 Indiana Ave.. operator of a poultry store, told police a man came in and said a chicken he had purchased waa to? small. As he left, supposedly to get the fowl for exchange, he grabbed a goose, and escaped in a waiting automobile. The goose was valued a* I