Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1925 — Page 1

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CITY POLITICS IN CLEVELAND LOSING HOLD - Under Manager Plan Council Sits as Board of Directors in Charge of ** . * Municipal Affairs —No Party Lines Recognized in Election. By FELIX F. BRUNER Editor, The Indianapolis Times CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 14.—1 have just attended a meeting of the board of directors of one of the largest corporations In America. This corporation is the city of Cleveland, representing an investment in the neighborhood of $1,500,000,000. The board of directors is the city council, but it is not a city council such as Indianapolis knows a council.. It is a council elected without party organization, without party chairmen, without precinct committeemen, without city conventions. Some of the members of this council do not have politics in the sense tfeat they are Republicans or Democrats or members of any party. For instance, at this directors’ meeting I sat beside Prof. A. R. Hatton of Western Reserve University, one of America’s leading experts on the subject of city government. He is a member of the Cleveland city council, and is giving the city the benefit of his expert knowledge. He is the author of the charters of many American cities, including Cleveland, and is the author of the law which permits Indiana cities to" operate under the city manager system, the system which is working so affectively in Cleveland.

STEPSON HELD ON MURDMARGE Is Accused of Killing Father in Quarrel, By Times Special SEYMOUR. Ind.. Jan. 14.—John Tobias, 22, was helW TinefinTngs bounty jail at Vernon, Ind., today, charged with the murder of his stepfather, Delmar Eacert, 60, whom' he is alleged to have shot Tuesday morning. According to Sheriff Ray Hearne, Tobias drove to Eacert’s home, a lew miles southeast of Uniontown, for the purpose of dividing some ;orn. A dispute arose and Tobias suddenly whipped out a revolver, and, from close range, fired twice, ooth shots taking effect over Es cert’s eye. EINANCE PARLEY DRAW PACT U, S, Granted Share of German Payments, • By United Press PARIS, Jan. 14.—Accords whereby the United States shares in proceeds of the Dawes plan to collect reparations from Germany were signed at a plenary session of the conference of finance ministers today. Twelve nations signed the protocol. Three nations, Brazil. Roumania and Italy, signed with reservations, i Under the protocol signed today, the United States will receive 55,000,000 gold marks annually, starting Sept. 1, 1926, until the costs of our Rhine army have been paid. These payments will be in cash and will be priority payments. The protocol provides the American war claims shall be met in part from the Dawes annuities, the United States receiving probably per cent of the annual receipts for the next fifty years.

BUS LINES TOTAL 218 State Report Shows 52,000 Miles Traveled Every Day. On Jan. 1, this year, 171 different companies were operating 218 bus lines in Indiana, State highway commission records show. These busses are maintaining a regular schedule over 3,420 miles of rural highway and travel a total of 52,000 miles a day. Os the 218 companies, 203 operate on 2,750 miles of State roads for a total of 46,300 miles per day. Seventy per cent of the State road system is now covered by bus lines and 88 per cent of the bus traffic is on State roads, records show. Lions’ “Roar** in Harmony Lions Club joined Edward F. Kepner, leader, in singing old-fash-ioned community songs at luncheon today£ the Lincoln. A. W. Busch mann, prqddent, announced a membership drive in the near future. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m, 17 10 a. m 23 7 a. m 17 11. a. m 26 Ba. m...... 13 Uynoon) SO

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Across the aisle sat Mrs. Marie R. Wing, leader in women’s activities in Cleveland and president of the Cleveland Consumers’ League. She is a member of the city council. In another seat sat Peter Witt, nationally known street railway expert. He is a member of the Cleveland c3ty council. Next to him sat the president of the Cleveland W. C. T. U., also a member of the council. Twenty-five Members There an; twenty-five members of the council. They include a crosssection of the city of Cleveland. There is a colored man, there are businMi men, working men—and,, politicians. This council hires and fires the city manager, just as the board of directors of a corporation may hire and fire the general manager of that corporation. It is the only legislative power in the city government. There is no such thing as the veto power. Once or twice during the session the question arose as to what the city manager would think about this or .that policy. Always someone was quick to respond that the policy, of the city was fixed by the council, and it was the duty of the managed to carry out these policies. Non-Partisan Contest Thus, the representatives of the people of Cleveland, elected in a non-partisan contest and responsible to the people, govern the city. The manager is the business head of the city and is chosen for his business abilty. There is little chance for s 'gument between the council and 'he manager, for there is no quesion as to the supremacy of the < ouncil. No one contends that the city manager system, which has been effective fiere only one year, has eliminated politics, but it is generally agreed that a long step in that direction has been taken. Both old parties still seek to elect members of the council,, and partially succeed. But with the old party organizations no longer officially existing or officially recognized it is anticipated that they will become less and less powerful in city government from year to year.

SUBMARINE STILL CAUGHT IN SAND Wait for High Tide to Attempt to Free Ship, Bv United Press ORLEANS, MfLSS., Jan. 14.—An effort will be made at high tide today to pull the submarine S-19 clear from the sand bar on which she grounded near here Tuesday. Two coast guard boats and a naval tug are standing by. The grew remained aboard all night, preferring comparative comfort of their ship to hazards of a trip ashore in small boats. A similar tri p by coast guardsmen nearly took a toll of 18 lives Tuesday when their boat overturned. I Two persons have been killed I and three injured in Incfian- I *peHa.

SEARCHERS FIGHT ICY BLASTS IN HUNT FOR MISSING PEAK CLIMBER

Bv United Pres* |=-|ENVER, Col., Jan. 14. ILf 1 searching on the snowswept wastes of Long’s Peak had failed today to reveal the body of Herbert Shortland, member of the searching party which set out in a vain attempt Monday to rescue Miss Agnes Vaille, popular Denver society and business womap. The body of Miss Vaille still lies a short distance from the summit of the peak where she fell exhausted and froze to death Monday after a heroic battie for life.

GET'DEATH CAR’ DRIVER, MAYOR’S ORDER TO POLICE Shank Aroused at Killing of Girl —Body Found at Roadside. Mayor Shank, at police headquarters In person, today directed accident prevention officers to sidetrack all other Investigations and strive to find the driver who killed Miss Ada May Whitaker, 20, of 3700 W. Tenth St., and left her body lying in the road near her home Tuesday night. Police .have meager clews. The body was found by Alvin Meyers, R. R. 8.. Box 246, and L. M. Woliver, 1108 Luett St., who notified Ulysses G. Whitaker, the father and Clode Whitaker, a brother. Clews Are Found Police found a pool of' blood and a piece of glass bearing the word “Ford,” apparently from a broken automobile headlight at the spot. Condition of the girl's clothing indicated she was struck by an eastbound automobile, as she walked alopg a path at the side of the road. Police hold Harold Crombe, 18, of 16 N. West St., and Jacob Clouse, 2a, of Lynnhurst Dr., and Igmar A vs. Two Deny Connection They were arrested after two telephone calls for Information upon the accident were received at headquarters and traced to their source, according to police. Clouse, arrested at the Terminal Station, had a private detective badge and an ice pick upon him, police said. He explained, according to officers, that he called headquarters because hq had,heard of the accident and feared his wife might have been the one hurt. He was to have met her at thffe Terminal Station and" she did not appear, ne said, according to police.

Crorr.be was with Clouse. Both denied owning automobiles or knowing anything about the accident. Sergt. John O’Neal said Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mathews, Rochester Are. and Tenth Sts., east of the accident, said they 'saw a Ford coupe driven recklessly east about the time the accident Is thought to have happened. Miss Whitaker was on her way home from the Bemis Brothers Bag Company, where she worked when she was struck. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Thursday at the residence. B urlal •to in Floral Park Cemetery. SCHOOL FUNDS READY Marion County Gets $248,160 From Total of $2,308,272. The January apportionment of common school funds among the ninety-two Indiana counties was an•nounced by H. N. Sherwood, superintendent of public instructionA total of $2,308,272.85 Is being distributed on a basis of 819.9, 827 pupils. The per capita apportionment is $2.82. The seven-cent common Bchool levy raised $3,476,149.81. Marion County, with 88,139 school children, gets $248,160.72. Last June the amount was $1,774,627.95. Merton County received $190,818.51 of this.

ANDERSON TO RETURN Judge Assigned to Indiana District Temporarily. Judge A. B. Anderson, sworn In as Judge In the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago, Tuesday, was assigned to hold court during the present term in the District of Indiana, It was learned today when an order by Judge Samuel Alschuler, dated Jan. 13, reached William P. Kappes, Federal Court clerk. Judge Anderson is expected in Indianapolis .late Thursday, court attaches said. Judge Robert C. Ealtzell, of Princeton, Ind., whose appointment to succeed Judge Anderson here was

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Guards over tbe body returned to a cabin on the timber line Tuesday night, reporting it was impossible to live in tbe driving snow and the 50 belqW zero temperature. Efforts will be made today to carry her body into Estes Park valley, from where it may be brought to Denver by automobile. Meanwhile search for Shortland continues. Shortland turned alone Monday afternoon when his face became frozen in order that the searching party might not be hampered by him. He was new to the

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MME. ARTA by SEA Berries Dr-- —jETROIT, Jan. 14.—Mine. Cos lumbo Arata, dramatic sopra.no, can read niusic at sight, no matter how difficult,, but— i She can’t read English. She can sing 4n a half dozen different languages, but— To carry on a conversation with her American friends is impossible. “So, my mother decided to go to school,” says her 17-year-old daughter. At the Bishop School, along with th etoddlers, who are just learning to spell and read and write, Madame Arata, 37, mother of six children, attends classes. She is not ashamed to go to school. She tackles the same problems given six-year-olds. A daughter of artists, Mme. Arata was given every advantage toward a musical education in her home town of Genoa. She might h£ve remained in and reached the peak of fame to which so many are striving.

WEALTH OF U. S. SHOWS INCREASE / Totaled $320,803,862,000 in 1922, Bureau Reports, By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—The United States is worth $320,803,862,000, the census bureau announced today on the basis of 1922 compilations. This is an actual increase of 11 per cent over 1912, approximately what the population growth was. Taxable real estate maae up $166,908,625,000, nearly one-half the total. Other large items, approximately, were: Other large items, non-tax-able real estate, twenty and one-half billions: livestock, six billions; motor vehicles, four and one-half billions; railroads and equipment, twenty billions; street railways, shipping and canals, over fifteen billions; agricultural products, five and one-half billions; clothing, furniture and other personal property, nearly forty billions; gold and silver bullion, over four billions. Share of every inhabitant of the United States in the national wealth was estimated at approximately $2,864. Directors to be Picked Family Welfare Society will elect, [tonight at the Lincoln. Anmul re-

mountains and if was feared he has paid for his heroism with his life. Only two of the four who set out in hope of rescuing Miss Vaille reached her body. Walter Keiner, Miss Vaille’s companion on the ill-fated climb, and William Christen plowed through the deep snow and found her body. Keiner today told of the battle against the icy wind, which in Miss Vaille’s death. Overtaken by sunset while attempting to climb to the summit of

INDIANAPOLIS MEN OFFICERS IN NEW MAIL ORDER FIRM Announcement Regarded as Forecasting Big Combination. i Merger of mail order houses i)ji various merchandising lines was forecast today in Indianapolis business circles by the announcement that officials of .the Real Silk Hosiery Mills of this city have becomo Interested In Harford Frocks, a women’s ready-to-wear concern which will be incorporated in Illinois and have headquarters at Chicago. J. A. Goodman, president of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, is ,vice president of the new organization; W. G. Kobin, vice president and general manager of the Indianapolis concern, wfTTW president, and L. L. Goodman, secretary and treasurers or the hosiery Mills, treasulwr. L. L. Goodman, in a statement, said there will be no connection between the Harford Frocks Company and the Real Silk Hosiery Mills. The plan of operation, he said, will be to have an entirely separate sales organization to sell the Harford Frocks product.

JURY FREES DUFF IN HAZING CASE Schoolboy Not .Guilty of Manslaughter, By United Press HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. 14. —William Duff, 18, Hartford City high school senior, today was cleared of charges of manslaughter for the death of Raymond Morris, 17, killed over a hazing scrap last fall. The Jury which heard the case returned a verdict of not guilty late Tuesday night after three hours’ deliberation. The Blackford County prosecutor was undecided whether charges against three others under Indictment In the killing will be pressed. STATE ESCAPES COLD Tittle Change In Temperature Forecast by Weather Bureau. Predictions that Indiana would escape the cold wave which was sweeping from the Northwest were borne out today. Lowest temperature during the night was 15. About the same temperature was forecast for 'tonight. * ‘ Increasing cloudiness was expected Thursday. LABOR ASKS LOBBYISTS Three Organizations File Applicar tlons for Representatives. Applications for licenses tor legislative representatives, registering with the Secretary of State were made today by the Indian State Federation of Labor, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Indianapolis ad Cincinnati Traction Company, Indiana Brotherhood of Threshermen and Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers.

Money’s Worth Bv United .Press COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. 14. “How much will you charge for all the grape fruit I can eat?” Robert Rose, theater manager, |i asked a grocery owner. “TWenty cents,” the grocer replied. Rose st<jod at the counter and ate twent r-two grape fruits. ”1 want Hi to get my&pnoney’s worth,” -said whan th* feast was >ver. -

the mountain, they decided to continue in the dark. “We reached^ the top and started down immediately through the blizzard,” be said. For hours we battled through the deep drifts and the terrible cold. ( Finally Miss Vaille said her hands and feet had been frozen and that she could go no farther. “I tried to carry her, but whs too exhausted. So I placed her in the shelter of a large boulder and struck out for Timber Line Cab ; n. “I collapsed just as I reached the cabin and called for help.”

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BnS&v H fIHK i ABOVE: ADELINE SANTOS. BELOW: HER BROTHER, JOHN. By SEA Service S'—”" lANTA CLARA. Cal., Jan. 14. —Adeline Santos, 18, i__J and her brother, John, 16, are living in two worlds. Every night at exactly 7:30 an occult Influence is reported to take possession of them. For half an hour they commune with “spirits,” friends say. Then they become normal again. Adeline declares she Is visited by an old family friend who asks that prayers be said for him. Her brother insists he is under the spell of an old gray-whiskered figure. \ Believers advance the Poltergeist theory as an explanation. This holds the spiritualistic influ epee operates through the medium of a child, according to some authorities. But Dr. Joseph Catton of San Francisco, called by friends of the family, insists the children’s condition Is brought on by “religious ,re - THEY ARE STILL BUSY Veterinarians Devote Practice to ' Other Anintals Now. Despite motorization the veterinarian still has a place, according to Dr. W. B. Wallace, retiring president of Indiana Veterinary Medical Association, in convention today at the Severln. “With the decrease in horses our work has been devoted largely to the small animals,” he said. "Many doctors have a large practice vaoclnatlng hogs.” Dr. Harvey E. Whiffing of Lebanon, Is new president. Other officers: Dr. R. H. Boyd, Indianapolis, secretary, and Dr. G. H. Roberts, Lafayette, treasurer, both re-elected, and Dr. H. A. Smith, Anderson, vice president. Mrs. C. E. Powers is new president of the Ladies’ Auxiliary. BUSINESS BLOCK SOLD Algonquin Bldg. Bought by Chicago Man for $83,000. Purchase of the Algonquin Bldg., 225-227 N. Delaware St., by James G. Born, of Chicago, from the H. C. Long estate, for $83,000, was announced today by B. M. Ralston. Negotiations were through the B. system representing Boras and the the estate. ,t St i iJ„ *r *

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COOPERATIVE MARKETING AND BUS REGOLATION CHI DEFORE STATE ASSEMBLY . 7 Farmer Bill Designed to Eliminate Features Regarded as Unconstitutional in Measure Vetoed Two Years Ago. * / SENATOR MOORHEAD PLANS ’ STRICT MOTOR CONTROL Operators of Motor Lines Would Be Required to Show Necessity and • File Indemnity Bonds Many Measures Offered. The co-operative marketing bill was introduced in the State Senate today and the bill to regulate busses under the public service commission was introduced in both the House and Senate today. Nineteen bills Were offered in the Senate and eighteen ua the House. The House passed over Former Governor Warren T. McCray’s veto by a vote of 78 to 11 the bill to require all jersons who treat ailments of the foot to be licensed by a board of podiatrists. The bill was left over from the last session. It goes to the Senate.

The cooperative marketing bill, introduced by Senator Undley, Kingman, was prepared by the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation. It provides cooperative marketing companies may be formed by eleven or more persons, the majority residing in Indiana without capital stock, to market, sell, can, pack, ’ store or Borrowing Provided For Companies would be permitted to borrow money without limitation as to amount of cooperate indebtedness or liability and to make advances to members. Common stock may be issued to persons only engaged in agricultural pursuits. Eleven directors elected by stockholders are provided. Directors elect officers. A fine is provided for spreading false statements about the companies and fines are provided for breach of contract between members and the companies. The term "cooperaUve” Is limited to companies formed under provisions of the act. Objections Are Met The bill does not contain provisions which were regarded as unconstitutional by former Governor Warren T. McCray, when he vetoed such a measure two years ago. Senator Moorhead, Indianapolis, introduced the bill to regulate busses. Busses could not operate under it until 'they had been given permission by the public service commission after a public hearing as to the necessity for the service. Steam and electric lines already In the territory would be considered. Operators would be required to file bonds sufficient to Indemnify persons injured and property damaged by careless drivers. Taxicabs, hotel buspes, hearses and school busses would be exempted. Other New Measures

Other bills introduced: Senator Alldredge, Anderson: Requiring ice to be covered while being hauled to consumers. Senator Barker, Thorn town: Providing for assessment of real estate in 1925. and each four years thereafter, unless the State tax board thinks one necessary sooner. Senator Bradford, South Bend: Authorizing county commissioners to provide detention homes for persons held on Insanity Inquests instead of keeping them in jail, in counties having a city of more than 50,000 population. Senator Brown, Hebron: To legalize Incorporation of the town of Dunes Acres, Porter County. Senator Dickerman, Indianapolis: To excuse school children for two hours a week for religious instruction. Senator Durham, Greencastle: To authorize sentencing of prisoners escaping from the Indiana State Farm by the Circuit judge at Greencastle while In vacation. To Raise Mortgage Exemption Senator Durham: To raise mortgage exemption on real estate taxation from SI,OOO to $2,000. Senator English, Indianapolis: Making it. a misdemeanor to drive an auto while under Influence of Intoxicating liquor or drugs, punishable by sentence of one to six months on first conviction, to which shall be added an injunction against driving, not to exceed a year. For se*nd or subsequent conviction the would be one to five years imprisonment and injunction of not mrm than five years. The injunction is to apply through the entire States and violation thereof to be punished by both fine and imprisojiment.

Forecast FAIR tonight with lowest temperature about 15. Thursday increasing cloudiness, becoming unsettled by night.

imprisonment for possession or distribution of food or drink containing wood alcohol. Senator Harrison, Indianapolis: To permit children of enlisted men or officers living on United States military posts to attend public schools ho^L,janarer , or ti^UQi^jjggts^ Senator Holm ns, Gary: To allow persons who feel themselves wavering mentally to be admitted to State institutions on their own request. Senator Lambert, Columbus: Toi (Turn to Page 10> SENATOR CHARGES DOUBLE-CROSSING Daily Accuses Stephenson of 'Chicanery,* State Senator Thomas A. Daily, Indianapolis, today declared he was beaten for president pro tem. last week by “political chicanery.” Dally charged D. C. Stephenson, former Ku-Klux Klan head <in Indiana. “double-crossed” him. “I consider Stephenson a political mountebank,” he said. “He oragnized the Ku-Klux Klan in Indiana, got their money and got out and now is attempting to break It up.” The Senator said he was promised support by George V. Coffin, Marlon County Republican chairman; Schuyler A. Haks, Seventh district Republican chairman, and Republican State Chairman Clyde A. Walb if he would promise to vote against the bill to prohibit the Speedway race on Memorial day. He was told the “Speedway people” had made substantial campaign contributions, he said. He said he refused, as he is Opposed to "desecration of Memorial day.” STUDENTS® IN SLED CRASH Machine Hits Bob at Illinois School, URBANA, 111., Jan. 14.—Eight University of Illinois students, all ot Chicago, were injured when a bobsled which they had hitched to an automobile was struck by another machine. They were taken to th* hospital where emergency operation* were performed. Five of them are in a critical condition. Those badly Injured were: Milton Berk son, Herman Fox, Leo Hal perIn, Myron Kirenzart; those less seriously, Injured were Irving Cohen, Bertha Goldstein and Kate Lurjm and Ruth Steinberg. GILLIOM IN WASHINGTON Attorney General Attends Conference on Lake Michigan. Attorney General Arthur Glllfora is in Washington, D. C.. attending a conference of attorney generals of the Great Lakes States affected by lake Michigan