Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 216, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1925 — Page 2

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OVERCROWDING GROWS AT SHORTRIDGE

ECHO OF C, 0. P. FIGHT SEEN IN BOARD’S ACTION Jesse A, Hutsell, Coffin Man, Reduced to Fire Captain. Echoes of the Republican factional fight In Indianapolis were seea in the reduction of Jesse A. Hutsell, brother of George Hutsell, secretary of the Republican city committee of the George V. Coffin faction, by the board of public safety today. Hutsell was reuced from battalion chief of the fire department to captain. Albert Ray, brother of Councilman Otto Ray, who is opposed to the Coffin faction, was promoted from fireman to lieutenant. He was reduced last year following the break between Councilman Ray and Mayor Shank. Fulmer Promoted Herbert Fulmer was promoted from captain of the fire department to his old position of battalion chief, which he held during the admniistration of Charles W. Jewett as mayor. Other fire departmetn changes were: Lieut. Steve Childers, Pumper Company No. 14, promoted to captain; Charles Shank, fireman, promoted to lieutenant; Lieut. Otto F. Gray, reduced to private; Herbert Dwyer, PunVper Company No. 10, promoted to chauffeur; P. Moll, same company, promoted .from chauffeur to lieutenant. Mistake Charged Childers was reduced a month ago through a mistake, it was said. The following firemen were appointed: Vernon Warner, G. Purcell, W. E. Kearney, Joseph B. McIntyre, R. Dungan, C. "McCarty. John Wemsing was reinstated from the pension fund to active duty. Traffic officer S. R. Lambert was promoted to detective sergeant. William C. Paul, charged with drunkenness and conduct unbecoming an officer was dismissed. The resignation of Nora Mounts, pondkeeper was accepted and John E. Totten named in her place.

BOARD SURVEY ROW READY Will Be Made Public Soon, Secretary Says, Th* report of Governor Ed Jackeon’s State board and commission survey committee will be made public late today or Wednesday, according to his secretary, Pliny Wolfard. The report is now In the hands of the printers, according to Wolfard, and vdll be del vered to members of both house* cf the General Assembly as soon as it Is printed and delivered at the Statehouse. Chief among the anticipated recommendations of the report toward consolidation of State departments, boards and commissions Is a proposal understood to have been considered by the committee to place the board of accounts under the State auditor, since the hoard is wholly an accounting body. Criticism has been heard among State officials that the board was exceeding Its powers in alleger attempts to control the discretion of certain public offices it has examined. Placing the board under the auditor’s office would more clearly define Its power and duties as a strictly auditing body, declare supporters of the proposal. ALLEGED SLAYER GUILTY Charley Coleman Convicted on Manslaughter Charge. ‘'■’■'Charley Coleman, 25, colored, alias Charley Smith, 623 Hudson St., was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in Criminal Court this morning, in connection with the fatal shooting of Jordan James, colored, July 18. Sentence will be passed Saturday.

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ALTERATIONS PROPOSED Election of Municipal Cofirt Judges Favored. Advocates of a proposed measure providing a court for Indianapolis are in ravor of having the four judges elected instead of appointed, It was learned today. Alvah J. Rucker, head of the committee which drafted the measure, is expected to meet with his committee Wednesday night to consider the change. The bill as originally written provided that the judges be named by the Governor f .-om a list submitted by the Ineorpd .-ated bar association of the county. FOURTEEN BITES INTRODUCED BY STATE SENATORS Both' Houses Adjourn Until 10 a, m, Wednesday— Committees Meet. Fourteen new bills were introduced in the State Senate today, three were passed to second reading, and one was killed on first reading. Four proposed amendments to the State constitution, passed by the last Legisature, were sent to committee. The Senate adjourned until 10 a. m. Wednesday _ Senator Dlckerman, Indianapolis, Republican, introduced a bill to raise salaries of chief deputy clerk and auditor of Marion County to 44,000 a year, from $2,400. Others were: Easton, Vincennes, Democrat, to establish a Superior Court in Knox County. - \ Lindley, Kingman, Republican- To provide for completion of roads by county commissioners when contractor refuses to finish. Shirley, Woodbum, Democrat: To provide bond issues by Incorporated towns to improve street and alley intersections. Steele, Knox, Republican: Te give railroad detectives police powers to arrest off railroad right-of-way. Ice Bin Killed A bill to Require Ice being hauled to consumers to be protected from sun and dirt was killed when brought up- for second reading. A public hearing by Judiciary A Committee on Senate bills 33 and 25, the garnishee bill and that providing county clerks deposit trust funds held for litigants be kept in public depositories, was announced by Chairman Daily. The committee, will also hold a public hearing Wednesday afternoon on bills relating to regulation of public utilities. The House also adjourned until 10 a. m. Wednesday. Chiropractic bill hearings were scheduled for 2 p. m. In room 319 Statehousti. Judiciary A committee of the Senate scheduled a hearing for that hour on the bill requiring county clerks to place trust funds in a public depository* ) Speed continued to be a factor in both Houses, and although the flood of bills continued to pour In, haste in reports of committees allowed the law makers to keep up with the procession. Steering Committee Speaker Hafry Leslie of the House named a steering committee to facilitate handing down of important measures. Members are Representatives Harris, Gary, Pittenger, Selma and Gottschalk, Berne, v ' • The Podiatry bIH, providing for a State board of examination and registration of podiatrists, was passed over the veto of former Governor McCray by a vote of 36 to 10 In the Senate. The Public Morals Committee reported favorably Monday on the Wright bone dry bill codifying the State liquor laws. Bus Regulation Action on the bill to regulate motor busses by the public service commission was expected fb result in a date for public hearing. Senator James J. Nejdl, Whiting, chairman of the Committee on Education, said his committee would report favorably on the Sims bills requiring display of United States flag on all school buildings. No decisions has been reached on the Dlckerman bill providing for two hours’ religious instruction weekly for pupils in public schools. Speaker Leslie declared selection of a Republican caucus chairman I would be delayed. Hunting Trip Fatal By Timet Special MICHIGAN CITY, Jan. 10.—Body of Joseph Polak, 63, was sent to Chicago today for buriaL. He died from injuries received -when he accidentally shot off hie arm while hunting near here.

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TWO YOUTHS ARE HELD TOR QUIZ IN AUTO DEATH I • Arrest Follows Telephone Conversation in Which Accident Is Mentioned. Two 21-year-old youths were held under high vagrancy bonds today for questioning in connection with the death of Miss Ada May Whitaker. 20, of 3700 W. Tenth St., last week, when she was struck by an automobile that failed to stop, near her home. One of the.young men, owntr of a Ford coupe, was under SIO,OOO bond; the other, said to have been with him the night Mlsu Whitaker was killed, was under $5,000 bond. They were arrested Monday by Sergts. Jack O’Neal and Harry Smith of the accident prevention bureau. A telephone conversation in which one of the youths mentioned an accident led to’ the arrests, according to O’Neal. Police said one headlight of the coupe was broken.- Part of glass from a headlight was found near Miss Whitaker’s body. A third man, not under arrest, told police he was with the other two the night of Miss Whitaker’s death. He said they had been drinking heavily, and driven past the spot where she was killed, according to police. Officers said they had definite information the auto was driven back to the Whitaker home later In the evening, when the three learned a girl had been killed.

BUS LINES TO OPPOSEIMROL’ Charge interurbans and Railroads Interested, In a communication to members of the Legislature today W. B. Hiner of the Red Ball Bus Terminal Company and the Hiner Red Ball Lines, Inc., charged railroads and traction lines with lobbying with the hope of placing motor bus regulation under the public service commission, “so that rates can be controlled for the benefit of the interurbans and the railroads at the expense of Mr. Public.” “Bear in mind that this public service motor control Is the final prelude of railroad monopolization at still higher raw that you are paying,” the communication declares. The letter declares the State highway commission should be vested with authority to stop busses from going on roads in the soft and wet season of the year, "and that should be the limit of their authority.” “I don’t want to see this control under the Slate highway commission or any other commission,” Hiner says. > Among other things he wants a tonnage limit on trucks, three cent per gallon gasoline tax and liability insurance for the protection of passengers? INJUNCTION ASKED BY OSTEOPATHS Action Taken Against Medical Societies, Coirfplaint for injunction was filed In Superior Court Three today by Marion E. Clark and Clarence B. Blakeslee, operators of the ClarkBlakeslee Osteopathic Hospital, 1116 N. Delaware St., ag;unst the Indianapolis Medical Society and the Medical Society of Marlon County. Plainiffs, who have osteopathy at their hospital for four years, charge the medical societies recently approved a resolution prohibiting Its members from going to the hospital as consultants. The report alleges that such procedure Is in violation of the principles of ethics of the American Meffical Association. The complaint-chargee, that 500 operations have been performed at the hospital. It is charged that at times it was necessary to call in members of the medical societies to assist.

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MORE THAN 1,1 HELP CELEBRATE INSURANCE DAY’ Indiana Federation to Hold Banquet Tonight at „ Claypooi. More than 1,600 persons participated in celebration of “Indiana Insurance Day” today at the Claypool. Mayor Shank welcomed delegates to the annual meeting of Insurance Federation of Indiana. Officers were slated for election on recommendation of nominating committee, headed by C. D. Lasher, are: Russell T. Byers, president; Joseph G. Wood, secretary, ''and Sol Kiser, terasurer, all of Indianapolis. Principle of agency qualification was favored by Frank M. Chandler, retiring president, In his annual address. Bill requiring licensing 6t agents and brokers ma ybe presented to the present Legislature, after opinions have been gathered, Chandler said. Separate Meetings Authorisation to join the United States Chambar of Commerce and reemphasis of the stand of the federation to oppose “heresies of State fund insurance and other participation of agencies of Government in business” were contained In resolutions to be presented late today. Indianapolis Fire Insurance Agents’ Association, Indianapolis Association of Life Underwriters, Indiana Association of Legal Reserve Life Insurance Companies, Indiana Insurance Society, Indiana Casualty Adjusters’ Association, Indiana Association of Insurance Agents, Indiana Association of Life Underwriters, all allied organizations, held' separate meetings.

Banquet Tonight Thomas S. McMurray Jr., Insurance commissioner of Indiana; Merle Sldener, Indianapolis, and Newman T. Miller, State fire marshal, were among speakers. Insurance films were shown. Claris Adams will preside at a banquet tonight. Lieutenant-Governor Van Orman, S. O. Dunn, editor Railway Age, Chicago; William Herschell, Indianapolis newspaper man, and Charles L. Underhill, Congressman from Massachusetts, will speak. TRAINING EMPHASIZED Young People Told Church Loaders Must Be Fitted. Need for trained leadership In religious education and administration of the church was stressed by Harry G. Rowe, young people’s superintendent of the Indiana Council of Religious Education, at a' rally Monday night at Fletcher Place M. E. Church, Fletcher and Virginia Aves. Rowe said no young person should enlist in church work unless he is willing to give part of his time to preparation and training. Following the service readings were given by Miss Marlon Fehrenback of Technical High School. ORBISON IS RE-ELECTED Murat Temple Shriners Choose Same Officers for Next Year. Murat Temple Shriners have re--elected Charles J. Orblson illustrious potentate. Other officers re-elected: George M. Spiegel, chief rabban; Arthur B. Wagner, assistant rabban; W. H. Robinson, oriental guide; Charles F. Meyer Sr., treasurer, ind Charles S. Barker, recorder. Delegates to the imperial council to t>e held at Los Angeles, CaL, in June are: Orblson, Spiegel, O. L. Wade and Van C. Blue. . / MILLIONAIRE IS BURIED Daniel G. Reid Laid to Rest ' Near His Birthplace. Bv UnHei Prrnt RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 20.—1n the little EarDmm cemetery, not tax from the house 'where he was bom, the body of Daniel G. Retd, tinplate mjnicmalre, was laid to rest today. The body reached Richmond from New York at 9 a. hl, accompanied by the daughter, Mrs, wir— ~r<*m Topping, and Secretary of Labor Janies J. Davis and a acorn of others. Brief funeral services were held at the United Brethren Church by the pastor and the Knights Templar Private services were held at the cemetery before the Inrial. V Reid, who rose from -i jauftcrr In a Richmond bank to a position among th* financial powers of th* nntton. ffisd in New York Saturday

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DELBERT V. BLACKBURN One of the most Important posts in the Senate is held by Senator Thomas A. Daily, Indianapolis, chairman of the Judiciary A com-mittee.-Senator William F. Hodges, Gary, Is chairman of cities and towns and criminal code commit-

MORTGAGE BILL SURVIVESATTACK House Passes Measure to Engrossment, After numerous attempts to nullify provisions of the Murden hill Increasing real estate mortgage exemptions to s£,ooo, the Indiana House today passed the bill to engrossment. Efforts to strike out the emergency clause, to postpone Indefinitely, to remove benefits of the bill from mortgagor’s holding tax-exempt securities and to reduce the maximum exemption to $1,200, failed. Bill providing for tax reassessment in 1925 and one providing reorganization of State board of pharmacy also were engrossed. The House killed the Claypool bill abolishing attendance officers. Bills introduced: Cooper of Vigo, empowering Governor to proclaim June 14 as Flag day and Nov. 11 as Armistice day; Harris of Monroe, appropriating $15,000 toward ’*lndiana Circle" at Vicksburg (Miss.) memorial battle ground; Hinkle requiring county recorder to keep discharge record of ex-service men of all wars; Johnson of Bartholomew, requiring voter to prove eligibility at polls by showing tax receipts. EMBEZZLER SENTENCED Fred Graham Gets On* to Fourteen Years on Plea of Guilty. Fred Graham, 32, who walked away from the office of the Central Indiana Coal Company, 1016 Merchants Bank Bldg., with in valuable bonds on Dec. 3, 1924, was fined SI,OOO and costs and sentenced to one to fourteen years In the Indiana State Prison today, by Judge James A. Collins In Criminal Court. He pleaded guilty. / James Dlan, 32, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to one to five years fc.t the prison on a charge of Issuing a fraudulent- check. He was charged with giving Abe Havel. 326 Indiana Ave. a $25 check In payment so ra traveling bag and suit case. LESH WAITS FOR RULING Specific Data Needed in Telephone Receivership Suit. Former Attorney General U. 8. Lesh today awaited specific ruling of the Johnson Circuit Court In sustaining motion of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company that the State further amend its third amended complaint in Its case against th* company charging maintenance £t a dummy directorate and demanding revocation of character and appointment of a receiver. The motion was sustained Monday. A specific ruling la necessary before Lesh can'determine the character of the amendment necessary, he said today. The case was venued from Marion County Superior Court to Johnson County. Breach of Contract Charged Harry D. Winnie and M. M. Coifing, operators of the Rainbow Casino Gardens, were named defendants in a snit on contract filed in Superior Court 4 today by Claude S. Wallin- Wallin charged that during the season of 1924 !ae agreed to

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THOMAS A. DAILY tees. Senator Rowland H. Hill, Carthage, Is railroads committee chairman, and Senator Fred M. Dlckerman, Indianapolis, is public health committee chairman. Senator Delbert V. Blackburn, Evansville, is chairman of the insurance committee.

stabbing is mysterious Man Found in Room With Throat and Abdomen Slashed. Police were attempting to solve a mysterious stabbing affair at 612 N. Senate Ave. . Mrs. Sallie Haynes, 39, colored, housekeeper for Mack Horn, 32, colored, told police she was at the drug store and on arriving home heard a peculiar noise in Horn’s room and called John Hester a roomer and thejf found Horn with his throat cut. At the city hospital four stab wounds also were found in his abdomen. Horn said an unidentified man cut him. GOTHAM SWEPT BY SNOW AGAIN Harbor Traffic and Service Lines Hit, Bn United Prett NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—New York wallowed through the most uncomfortable snowstorm of the winter today, a driving wind piling drifts in side streets and making the work of shovelers difficult. It wu. the second severe snowstorm of the new year and came just as an overworked street cleaning department was clearing away the ..fast of the blizzard which swept the city early In the month. Surface lines were handicapped and traffic in the harbor was delayed.

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Principal Does Not Know What He * Will Do With 325 New Students Expected When Semester Opens Plans for Building Held Up. While teachers at Shortridge High School are forced to sit in halls to grade papers, while other instructors use their class rooms for recitations and students recite in poorly-lighted supply rooms the Indianapolis school board is considering “preliminary plans” for three new high schools. Contracts with architects for plans have'been let for over a year, but no further steps have been taken to relieve the situation.

With the opening of the second | semester, Jan. 26, Shortridge will have an increase of about 325 students. The school, built to accomodate 1,650, already has an enrollment of 2,380. The site for anew Shortridge has been purchased but the contract for plans lies in the hands of an architect, unsigned, while an injunction suit against the board pends in Superior Court Contract Rescinded The suit arose because the present board when it came into office in Jan. 1924, resciinded a contract let by the preceding board. Contracts for plans for the west side high school and the colored high school were also rescinded, but later allowed to stand when the boards found no reafeon for trying to cancel them. Shortridge has been over crowded for five years. While most high schools have only six class periods a day Shortridge has been forced to increase its to nine, lengthening the day’s work for teachers and allowing students to go home as aoon as recitations are over. More than 10C Shortridge students are compelled to attend classes in rooms In the upper stories of the Benjamin Harrison grade schcol, Delaware and Walnut Sts. Those upper floors have been condemned as unsafe. The school officials have scoured the neighborhood for available rooms, but no more can be found. "We will hare to hang the new students up on nails, I guess,” said L. H. Dirks, assistant principal. Problem Is Difficult “We will try to take care of them some way,” said George Buck, prfncipaL “But I can’t explain just how we’ll do it. We will have to increase the size of the clhsses some.” Shortridge belongs to the North Central High School Association and must strive to keep within the association's standards of thirty-five students in a class to keep Its rating. Almost 2,90# students will enter Indianapolis high schools with the opening of the new semester. About 400 will complete their work, but many of then? will continue in school until June to take post-graduate work. Erection of the West Side High School and the colored high school would relieve the situation greatly by drawing students from the present schools, officials say. Many colored students, now attending Shortridge, would attend the new colored school. Near Bond Debt Limit The school board will have to float a bond issue of about $2,600,000 to build the three new schools. The bonded Indebtedness of the board Is about $10,100,000, according to R. O. Johnson, business director. This leaves a margin below the bonded debt limit of about $2,639,800. Tax receipts for the school city will produce about $2,000,000 tfhlch will be paid the board in four installments beginning about March 17, Johnson said. Conditions in other high schools are not bad, according to reports. Manual Training High School’s new addition, built during the past year, will be open for classes next semester and Manual’s 500 new students will be taken care of easily. Technical will receive about 1,000 new students and Broad Ripple, thirtysix. Brood Ripple has a capacity of 400 and its present enrollment is

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Graduates A total of 1,842 students will graduate from Indianapolis graue schools at the end of the semester, Friday, according to statistics compiled In the office of Superintendent E. U. Graff. Os this number all but twentyfour will continue their school training, reports show. Os the L 842 graduating, 1,812 plan to attend Indianapolis high schools. Six will go to private schools or business coir leges. Thirty-seven have said they will enter Broad Ripple High School; 486 Manual, 945 Technical, and 344 Shortridge.

about 154. Technical has almost 4,900. Grade schools are expected to have room for their new pypils as eight new buildings were completed last year. Many of the older schools, however, are poorly lighted- Steps to repair the lighting systems are under way. CHICAGO TO FIGRT FORMER LAW Mass Meeting Held to Plead Cause of ‘Health/ Bu United Prest CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—Chicago’s representatives who today go before the Senate Lakes to Gulf Waterway committee in Washington to plead for “Chicago hettlth,” have the organized support of the 8,500 people living in this city’s sanitary district. Forty-six public mass meetings were held Monday night for the purpose of fighting for life, health and sanitation.” Speakers, including Mayor William Dever, pleaded that It was necessary for the city to draw on the water supply of Lake Michigan to dispose of sewerage. The United States Supreme Court recently ruled it illegal for Chicago to draw its present amount of water from Lake Michigan. A law by Congress is the only source of appeal. Other lake States are opposing the law. TRI-CORNERED ACCIDENT Dorior Injured In Crash of Street Car and Autos. A street car and two autos figured in a collision at Eighteenth and Alabama Sts. lat£, Monday, police records showed today. Police Lieutenant Winkler said he learned Dr. S. H. Mai pas, 2102 N. Alabama St., drove from a parking space in front of a street car, of which Clarence Schaffer, 35, of 961 Rochester -A ve., was motorman. The Malpas auto was hurled into a parked auto owned by M. H. Moore, 1824 N. Alabama St. Dr. Malpas was injured about the left arm and leg; TIGHT FEELING DISAPPEARED Weet Virginia Man Tells How He Was Relieved of Stubborn Digestive Troubles by Taking Black-Draught. Telling how he obtained relief from very disagreeable symptoms of stomach trouble, Mr. Charles T. Wintz, of R. F. D. 4, this city, Huntington, W. Va_, made the followiag statement: "I began taking Black-Draught about fifteen years ago. "I would have gas on my stomach that Just pressed and seemed to shorten my breath, and I would have all kinds of feeling. My heed would ache and I was in a very bad fix. “I had tried remedies that didn't seem to do me any good. "I Black-Draught advertised and sent for it. “After taking a few <Jpses, I knew it was helping me. It seemed to break up the gas, and the tight, bloated feeling disappeared, and I was like anew men. I would not be without Black-Draught. "I can eat anything I want to. "If I get dizziness in. the head, Black-Draught relieves it. “I give it to my boy, Leroy, for colds and biliousness. "It is our family medicine for liver trouble.” Men and women who suffer as Mr. Wintz described above, owe It to themselves to give Black-Draught a fair trial. Sold everywhere.

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