Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 228, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1925 — Page 7

TUESDAY, FEB. 3,192D

WORKMEN TOIL AT WILSON BIER Oil DEATH ANNIVERSARY

BURGLARS’ LOOT| FOR NIGHT RUNS INTO HIGH FIGURE Hold-up Men and Burnt Match Thief at Work , Again, • One hold-up, one attempted hold- ■ up and several large thefts were investigated by police Monday night and early today. The burnt match burglar again was in actioft. John Smith, 2126 N. New Jersey St., told police two men, one with a revolver, stopped him at the Belt railroad and Pleasant Run Blvd. Smith said he ran and the bandits fied the other way, getting no money. Alfred Fields, colored, Cleveland, Ohio, arrived in Indianapolis, and, one block from the Union Station, asked three colored men where to find a good room. They led him to a vacant house near Indiana Ave., where they stole $37. Burnt Matches When Frank Blackledge, 2021 NDelaware ?t., arrived home he found the front door open and the house ransacked. A small outside door in the ice box was used to gain entrance. Burnt matches were strewn over the oor, but Blackledge said he knew of nothing missing. Mrs. Louise Lee, 2239 Fairview Ave., gave a description of two men she suspected of stealing a phonograph and overcoat, both valued at $57.50. They later returned the phonograph to a house across the street. , Fur Coot Taken L. S. Ayres & Cos. reported a delivery wagon was looted of a fur coat with mink collar valued at $750, property of Mrs. N. P. Graham, 1919 N. Delaware St., and a hand-made quilt of high value, property of Mrs. J. B. Rickey, 2201 N. New Jersey St. Sally Kirkland, 324 W. TwentyFirst St., reported her apartment entered with a key and a coat, shoes and two rings, valued at SIOO, taken. Alleged Burglar Held Albert Saxton, 17, colored, city, is charged with burglary and grand larcey. Detectives say he entered the home of Miss Jeanette Goldman, 602 S. Illinois St., and stole clothing valued at SSO. *

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Uniform Flag Plan Tried Out

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The plan for uniform flag decoration of Indianapolis has been first put Into execution by the board of control around Soldiers’ and sailors’ monument. plan which hap received wide indorsement was recently adopted by Indianapolis Chapter, No. 1, Disabled American Veterans of the World War; McGrew Camp, No. 1, United Spanish War Vetei-ans, and Hoosier Post, No. 624, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Three of the flag committee members are shown in the picture.

LEFT TO RIGHT, C. CROSLEY, ALBERT L. PAULEY AND GEORGE T. BOCKNER.

STARVED EMOTIONS SWAY HERRIN FOLK Violence Brings Relief From Loneliness—Provides Outlet for Racial Traits,

Bv Time* SDecial CHICAGO, Feb. 3.—Three hundred miles south of Chicago, 100 miles east of the nearest metropolis, St. Louis,' lies Herrin, 111. A city whose streets are flag draped when armed hooded Klansmen parade, but whose group of dominant citizens laughs at city officials, sneers mention of countv officers, and chortles when State authority is invoked. Herrin is dominated by local leaders of the Ku-Klux Klan. They have worked both with the law, and outside the law. Extra legal enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment in Herrin been marked by black Record of gang feuds, murders and terrorization. In the tartgled web of contradictions that causes businessmen of Herrin to support a campaign of violence, and Some of the clergymen of Herrin to invoke God’s blessing on that campaign, definite psychological elements are involved. Emotional Folk / Herrin’s leaders come of racial stock, both Northern and Latin, which have always bred both feudists and crusaders. Herrin’s people are isolated in a lonely country where outside authority seems and is far away. Furthermore, in that lonely barren country starved emotional natures react to the glamor of organization, plot and crusade. But above all, Herrin people feel that the crusade against rum is “for the right.” Herrin was symDollzed when, as my train rolled into town, an elderly, griszled miner entered ' the smoking car at a way station, lit a corncob pipe, opened his Bible and, with peering eyes, read until the town was reached. Herrin’s people are God-fearing folk who love "the right” with the love of the Spanish Inquisitors. The clergymen who preached at Glenn Young’s funeral emphasized that "Glenn served God.” Carl Nielson, reputed Exalted Cyclops of the Klan, quoted Scripture as he threatened violence to cameramen taking pictures of Young’s funeral. . Apparently no sectarian factor enters into the Herrin situation. Klansmen declare that they have no ill feeling against Catholics or Jews there. An $85,000 Roman Catholic church has been built there during the past year, and the large Catholic community is not involved the local struggle. But the Klansmen wage their war on bootleggers with a servos of religious feeling. ‘‘Bloody Williamson” The second great factor in Herrin is that Willianrjison County has always bred feudists. There was a upsetstomach: GAS, INDIGESTION Chew a few Pleasant Tablets, —Stomach Feels Finel So pleasant, so inexpensive, ao quick to settle an upset stomach. The moment "Pape's Diapepsln” reaches the stomach all pain and distress from indigestion, or a sour, gassy stomach vanishes. Millions know its magic. All drug-

bitter rum feud there in 1825. Hundreds of the townspeople were born Kentucky and Tennessee mountaineers. Some are Klansmen; some bootleggers. Among the original rum runners were Sicilians, with traditions of knife feuds below Mt. Etna. The rum runners operated, it is said, with “Egan’s Rats,” notorious East St. Louis gang. Lastly there is the loneliness of prairie life. Herrin’s movies show gory melodrama to feed the drama love of folk who see only empty plains, empty sky and the field entries of the mines. And now the crowds clap, taut with excitement, when the hero rescues the girl from the clutching hand! Virtue has triumphed agaih!! Perhaps one answer to Herrin’s grim record is that, given feudist folk, there really isn’t much to do in Herrin after the movies close.

Who Knows? -■ ■ • Groundhog Predicts Fair Weather for New York, but Weather Man Says He’s Wrong,

Bv Time*- Svecial JEW YORK, Feb. B.—There is NT a difference of opinion regardA ing the future intentions of the weather. James H. Scarr, the -Government’s forecaster in New York, says there will be either rain or snow right away and claims that no authority can say what might happen next week. The groundhog intimates winter is over and that the crocus will soon be croaking in bosky dells. Scarr bases his opinions on the antics of certain delicate weather jiggers that can’t be read' by any one without a college education. Brother Groundhog has never gone to college and his predictions are based on the reactions of a sensitive nature. Brother Groundhog came out—at least it is assume dthat he did— Monday and saw no shadow here. Therefore, it is reported on high authority in Republican circles, the groundhogs have sublet their dwellings for the rest of the season and will live in the open, spring being imminent. \. > The Weather Bureau does not consider gorundhog readings in forming its conclusions regarding the weather. “The groundhog no doubt is a conscientious .forecaster,” said the weather bureau men, “but his percentage of error is notoriously high. It just happened to a cloudy day.” VOTE RECHECK URGED Recount in Six Counties to Be Asked in Denton Contest. A recheck of the vote for judge of the Supreme Court In Howard, Whivley, Crawford, Sullivan, Hamilton and Blackford counties will lie proposed to the joint Legislative committee hearing the Denton-Williough-by contest at its public hearing tonight, according to E. A. Miles, attorney for the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. ' The league, without the sanction of George K. Denton, defeated Democratic candidate and his attorney, Thomas tR. Marshal, is seeking to have the bench now held by Benjamin M.\ Willoughy, Vincennes, Republican,’vacated. Willoughy was declared dfectod over Denton by one vote. I

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DRASTIC BILL ON PISTOL-CARRYING PASSESJENATE Measure Providing Heavy Penalties Goes to Houpe, A drastic bill designed to decrease crime by minute regulation of pistol ’’toting” and sale was passed by the Indiana Senate today, 34 to 6, and sent to the House. The bill, introduced by Senator Holmes, Gary, Republican, would require all "toters” to be. licensed with conuty clerks, on application signed by the petitioner and two resident property owners. Heavy fines and imprisonment are provided fbr violation of any section of the law. . Only "reputable dealers" could be licensed, by the same officials, to sell pistols, which are defined as “guns less than a foot long." . Resale Regulated No private owner could resell his pistol to another except in front of witnesses, nor could he sell on day of application. He would be required to furnish the county clerk with all details of the transaction. Minor offenses done, or attempted while carrying a pistol without license would become felonies, punishable by one to five years in prison. Other provisions: Judges could not suspend sentences for violating provisions of the act. No /ninors allowed to carry pistols, nor any one allowed to furnish under any circumstances, a pistol to a minor. No ex-convict or alien get a license. Sentence Heavier On second or third conviction of misdemeanors while carrying pistols the Judges might double or triple the one to five-year sentence. Giving false information in getting licenses or selling pistols punishable by prison term of one to five years. Changing markings on a pistol made a misdemeanor. If charged with a felony, possession of a pistol at the time would be prima facie evidence of guilt, and the defendant would have to prove himself innocent of the charges. The bill exempts citizens in their homes or usual place of business, employes of baking companies, peace officers 'and soldiers.

AGREEMENT NEAR ON DEM ST. Reduction In Assessments for Benefits Proposed. Agreement between. the board of works’ and north side citizens remonstrating against assessment for improvement of Delaware St. Twenty-Ninth St. was in prospect today. Twenty-flve per cent reduction in assessments for benefits is the basis of the proposed agreement suggested at the board meeting Monday. The question will be taken up for final disposition next Monday. Removal of jogs at Twenty-Second and Twenty-Ninth Sts. and acquisition of land for approaches at the new Fall Creek bridge at Delaware St. are covered by the resolution. Benefits of $95,000 wert assessed against property owners in the district bounded by Ft. "Wayne Ave. and Pennsylvania, Thirty-Eighth and Alabama Sts. Tobacco Production Less ' Production of all types of tobacco grown in the United States was smaller in 1924 than a year before. Total crop was 1,243,000,000 pounds as against 1,515,000,000 pounds in 1923, JjS t 'V ■ Y WELL-MERITED SUCCESS A distinguished citizen, honored politically and professionally, Dr. R. V. Pierce, whose picture appears above, made a success few have equalled. His pure herbal remedies which have stood the test for fifty years are still among the "best sellers.” Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is a blood medicine and stomach alterative. It clears the skin, beautifies it, Increases the blood supply and the circulation, and pimples and eruptions vanish quickly. Beauty is but skin deep and good is beneath both. For your blood to be good your stomach roust be in condition, your liver active. This Discovery of Doctor Pierce’s puts you in fine condition, with all the organs active. Ask your nearest druggist for doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, In tablet or liquid form, or send 10 cents for trial package of tablets to Dr.

HARRISON SCORES CITY PAY BOOST Chamber of Commerce Expert Accuses Council of Trying to Make J oke of Budget,

City council is scored by Leonard V. Harrison, civic affairs expert of the Chamber of Commerce, for passage of the ordinance raising pay of policemen and firemen 60 cents a day in a statement issued today. Harrison said: The ordinance making anew schedule of salary rates for the police, fire and electric departments effective July 1, 1925, contemplates a gross violation of the budget passed by the common council in September for the year 1925. It is nothing short of scrapping the budget. “Attempt to Cheat” If this ordinance is to be aftythlng more than a kindly but empty political gesture to the employes of the departments effected, it will be necessary for the council to pass an additional salary appropriation ordinance. The passage of a supplemental appropriation outside of the regular budget can scarcely be construed. as anything other than a deliberate attempt to cheat the taxpayer of his right to a hearing and a right of appeal which obtains only at budget-making time. It should be pointed out In this connection that the council was not careful in its obligation to determine what funds were to be available over and above funds to be raised by tax levies fixed by council last September. Hence no account was taken of the large balance in the general fund recently revealed. It is evidently being treated as a windfall to be passed around where it will do most good politically. The taxpayer doubtless will not overlook the fact that the present time, before primaries In the year of a general municipal election, is the open season for extra distributees of public money In the form of salary increases. Not a Joke Notwithstanding all of this, the law defines emergencies and not political opportunities as being the only just grounds for making supplemental appropriations. The attempt to pass eaTtra appropriations of the character required by the recent salary ordinance would make a joke of the budget. The budget, however, is not a joke to the taxpayer, nor was It conceived as a Joke when devised by the Legislature as an Instrument for controlling public expenditure. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce reasserts Its stand for the integrity of public budgets and hopes that when the appropriation comes up for passage that the council will

Jewelry Auctions Persons patronizing jewelry auctions should exercise extreme caution in making purchases, especially of diamonds and personal jewelry. Few persons are competent judges of the quality and value of diamonds. Here are a few things to watch for: Cappers or by-bidders in the employ of the owners of the stock who may run up the bid on you. Running up of the bid by the auctioneer through pretense of having received bids from the audience. Switching of the article sold and substitution of an article of less value. Misrepresentation of the auctioneer as to Quality and value. A purchaser should always have one or more witnesses along to take careful note of the auctioneer’s statements that this evidence may be used in court in case of fraud. \ Watch especially for representations as to the weight or size of diamonds and whether represented to be “blue white," “perfect," “perfectly cut," etc. x ‘ > ( If a watch is being sold, make note relative to representations as to make, such as “Waltham,” “Elgin," “Hamilton,"' “Hampden/* etc., the quality of the case, such as “solid gold/* “gold filled," “twenty-year case/* “twenty-five-year case/* etc., and especially as to the number of jewels. Be sure that a watch represented as 17 jewels does not have 7 jewels only. It is very easy for the auctioneer to say 17 jewels, and when confronted with the watch of 7 jewels to claim that he said 7 jewels. Watch for representations of value. The tags on articles may be marked to represent a fictitious price. Thus a watch chain may be marked $6.00 and look like a $6.00 chain and only, be worth about one dollar. Report any cases of this kind to < f'** :* j The Better Business Bureau! 203 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Lincoln 15511

likewise feel bound to respect the financial program for 1925 which was legally approved by the budget for'the year. ‘GAMMERS’ FOUNDS STATE Men Had Own Wells and Refineries, Employment of Charles Benjamin, gasoline tax collector under Robert Bracken, former State auditor, as field man, resulted in the discovery of two “gasoline bootleggers” in the northern part of Indiana, of whom the State knew nothing,* according to A. M. Bobbitt, new collector, today. These men,' Bobbitt said, had their own wells and refineries and sold gasoline at market prices without reporting taxes. Benjamin collected $2,596 in delinquent taxes from them. It was the first time a field man has been employed. Benjamin also turned In an additional $3,405 In delinquent moneys. Collections for January were $364,703. The delinquent tax brings the total to $370,704. Collections January a year ago were $353,674. The increase was $17,031., PRINTER DIES SUDDENLY Frank Beadle, 57, Collapses at Sentinel Plant. Frank Beadle, 57, of 164 W. Pratt St., dropped dead this morning as he started to change Into working clothes at the Sentinel Printing Company, 123 W. Market St., where he was a veteran printer. A heart attack was believed to have caused death. Harry Snyder, 437 N. Bancroft St., and Frank Weimer, 1120 N. Pennsylvania St., fellow employes, put Beadle into a chair, but he was dead before aid arrived. Lions to See Navy Movie Lieut. F. D. Gibbs, commanding officer of Naval recruiting station, will, present motion pictures of the Navy’s activities at Lion’s Club luncheon Wednesday at the Lincoln.

Just One Year Ago Today the War President Died —He Sleeps Entombed in Tiny Bethlehem Chapel in Washington.

By JAMES A. MORAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—On the slopes of Mount St. Albans, high above the city, where once he resided as head of the nation, Woodrow Wilson, tweny-elghth President of the United States, dead one year today, sleeps on. Entombed forever in the tiny Bethlehem chapel of the still unfinished Episcopal Cathedral of BS. Peter and Paul, his resting place has become a nathlonal shrine, the object of reverent pilgrimages, 1 The anniversary of his death today passed virtually unnoticed. Workmen called to one another as they struggled with giant blocks of stone, derricks creaked and rattled as the work of finishing the cathedral proceeded. There were no ceremonies to interfere. Pass Piles of Bricks To visit the tomb, one passes piles of brick and stone, concrete mixers and groups of workmen, to reach a small door leading down a flight of stairs to the Bethlehem chapel, the only completed part of the cathedral. In the quiet ot the chapel the noise from the outside cut off by thick walls, one comes upon the last resting place of the Nation’s former leader. The tomb might be passed unnoticed were it not for three flags that hang over the sarcophagus. By close scrutiny one finds the simple inscription: "Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924.” Nothing is said of the exalted position he once held, no words describe his work and for all one can tell by looking at the tomb, Woodrow Wilson was no more than one of the countless million inhabitants of country. Crusader’s Cross The sarcophagus, recently completed, is made of mankato limestone from Minnesota. On Its top is a plainly carved crusader’s cross and the Inscription. Above Is an oak canopy on which is carved "I am the Resurrection and the Life, sayeth the Lord.” Under the vaulting is a cluster of shields of the allied countries. Under Is a wrought iron grill with its posts surmounted by crosses. On top of all are three flags. Two, the four starred President’s flag, one for each-term of office, and the other an American flag carried during the war by the first body of American troops to land in Europe and said to be the first American flag saluted by a British monarch on British soil. It was presented to Wilson upon the return of the regiment to the United States. Day after day the number of vis-

itors grow larger. It is estimated that more than 200,000 persons have visited Mount St Albans during the year. As many as 7,000 persons have visited the tomb on a single day. One person visits the tomb each week, never failing. She is Mrs. Edith Boling Galt Wilson, widow of the former president. No one around the cathedral knows when she comes. She slips hi unnoticed, remains a few moments and departs, and few, if any, of the visitors present at the time recognize the lady in black as the widow of the man whose memory they too are honoring. PENNSYLVANIA GAS UP Two-Cent Increase Put Into Effect in Keystone State. B’< United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa.. Feb. 3.—An increase of 2 cents a gallon on gaso line, bringing the retail price of the fuel to 22 cents plus a 2-cent State tax at tanks, was put in effect by the Atlantic and Gulf Refining Company in Pennsylvania today. Old Folks Feel Younger With Cod Liver Oil Thank Goodness You Don’t Have to Take the Nasty Tasting, Horrible Smelling Oil Any More, for McCoy’s Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets Can Be Purchased at Any Drug Store. Why should auy old person let feebleness overwhelm them in these enlightened days? Sorely everyone knows by this time that Cod Liver Oil contains more vitamines than anything else on earth and is the greatest body bnllder In the world. Any physician will tell you that. You’ll like to take McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets —they are sugar coated and as eaay to take as candy and they do help old people. Why not try being years younger again—why not grow stronger In bod/, in mind, in vitality? Why not take McCoy’s Cod Liver Oil Tablets and drop years from yonr age In 30 days? We believe that a 30 days’ treatment will make you feel years rounger—but at arty rate try them for SO days and If you are not satisfied get your money back —60 tablets—6o cents at Hook, Haag. Goldsmith Bros., or any progressive druggist. Be sure and get McCoy’s —the original and genuine.—Advertisement.

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