Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1925 — Page 2
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SPEEtt IN COURT APPEALS URGED IN SENATE BILL mi \ \ Only Eleven Measures Introduced —One Revamps' Election Laws, Rack to work after a holiday since Friday noon, the Indiana Senate received only eleven new bills. Hodges, Gary, Republican, introduced a measure which would require appeals in criminal convictions to be tagen within thirty days after the motion for new trial is filed. It also provides that the Supreme or Appellate Courts must render a decision within a month after receiving the transcript, or the lower court’s decision will be considered affirmed. Senator Quillen, Indianapolis, introduced a bill revamping the general election laws. The secretary of State would replace' the Governor on the State election board, under the biU. The’bill also limits the number of voters in- precincts using voting machines to 600, and to 250 in precincts where Australian ballots are used. Other bills: Making it a misdemeanor instead of a felony to overdraw a bank account by checks of less than sloo', by Harrison, Indianapolis; legalizing street railway and interurban companies operating of busses, by O’Rourke, Ft. Wayne, Republican. Senator Perkins bill raising the pay of the legislators from' $6 to $lO a day was indefinitely postponed. The Alldredge bill providing for installation of devices on gasoline pijmps to assure correct measure, was also killed. BOOTLEGGER WAR SEEN Two Residents Report Bullets Fired Through Windows. A bootlegger battle was one of the clews police were working on today to explain mysterious shootings reported early Sunday morning. A. I. Frankli.n 1914 N. Pennsylvania St., said he was awakened by a shot and found that bullets had been fired through a bedroom window, where two of his daughters, Ruth and Ellen were sleeping. One of the bullets went in the ceiling and another lodged *ver the bed. F. M. Hetzler, 1725 N. Meridian St. told police a bullet was fired through his bedroom window and lodged in a door casing. Miss Bertha Markowitz, 1723 N. Meridian St., also told police she heard the shot.
G. 0. P. MOVE HITS SNAG precinct Boundaries Bar to Registration Reform. The Republican State committee measure which would provide that poll at general elections shall be the registration at the following elections struck a snag today when It was pointed out that precinct boundaries in city and jxmnty elections are not the same. i Asa result the measure will either be withdrawn or amended to read that the registration at primary elections shall be the registration at the following general election. The measure also eliminates the precinct registration boards and provides for a county registration board. MILK BILL FAVORED House Committee Reports Pasteurization Measure for Passage. House bill 238, providing for pasteurization of milk, was reported out for passage by the Committee on Agriculture in the House today with •tm ndments placing enforcement with the county prosecutors instead of the State health board. Amendments also provide that the law may not react against retail shipments of milk outside the State. DOUBLE PARTY PLANNED Athenaeum to Observe Anniversary and Washington's Birthday. Arrangements are being made for celebration of thirty-ifecand anni versary of the Athenaeum Feb. 2J<’ in connection with observance of Washington’s birthday. Richard B. Warner, manager, is in charge of plans for the event. Dinner will be followed by speeches and dancing. Men's Chorus will furnish music. Pullman Surcharge Upheld WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The Interstate Commerce Commission today refused to abolish the surcharge collected vy railroads for transportation In Pullman cars. After a prolonged Investigation, the commission reported “there is less warrant for eliminating the surcharge than for reducing the basic passenger rates.’’ ' * ,
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Randolph La Salle Coats, Indianapolis artist, has been signally honored by acceptance of one of his paintings, “Wee Mke Hoggish, ’’ for the 120th annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arta opening in Saturday. Coats’ canvas- was one of about 200 chosen out of a possible 1,200 to 1,400. Coats’ painting, which is 25 by 30 inches, was made four years
NEW FLOOD POURS INTO BILL HOPPER | : • ■ : Representatives Disregard Plea of Speaker Leslie to Hold Down Number of Measures.
Notwithstanding a plea from .Speaker Harry Leslie further legislation be held to a minimum, these bills were introduced in the Indiana House of Representatives today: Providing appropriation of $441.70 for relief of Irl H. Ingram, private in Company F, Ist Infantry, State Militia, who became ill with appendicitis while on duty. Providing a weekly half-holiday for county employes on Saturday, by Representative Elliott, Indianapolis. Regulating pawnbrokers’ business by issue of a license from the Secretary of State, license fee to bo SSOO on filing of $6,000 surety bond. Pawnbrokers are to submit an annual report of their business, and rate of interest Is not to exceed per cent a month. Penalty of SSOO is provided. and Hinkle, Indianapolis. Tenancy Affected Providing tenancy at will cannot rise or be created without express pontract Mid providing that all general tenancies for agricultural purposes shall be deemed monph-to-month tenancies and not year-to-year, ty( at present; by Representative Duncan, Indianapolis. Providing valuation of all utlity property shall be made by the public service commission on the basis of the last assessment for taxation purposes made by the tSate tax board, by Representative Mendenhall, Indianapolis.’ * , „
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ago !n Provincetown, Mass., where the artist conducted a school for two summers. It shows the Portuguese settlement in Provincetown. “Wee mite unogglsh” is a term used by the Portuguese residents to describe a certain atmospheric condition. The painting won first prize In the annual exhibition of the Art Association of Provincetown last July.
The Statd board of health shall collect statistics concerning marriage and divorce for information of the public, under a bill Introduced by Representative Lowe, Crawfbrdsville. Clerks of Circuit Courts are to furnish such information. Under a bill Introduced by Representative Wright, Randolph, persons entitled to perform marrfhges shall be issued licenses by clerks of Circuit Courts. Fish Bait License Another bill by Wright makes It unlawful to sell minnows or otbes flsh ‘bait without a license, to cost sls, „ Penalty Is fixed at from s2<) to SIOO, Time of election of county assessors Is changed from the general election In 1926 to the general election in 1928, and each four years thereafter, under a bill introduced by* Representative McCutchan, * Representative Carney, Morristown, would require teaching of elementary agriculture, Industrials and domestic science in common school and elementary grades, in a bill Introduced. Use of common school textbooks containing material of a partisan or jectarian nature is forbidden in a bf,l Introduced by Representative" Carney, Morristown. > FARM RELIEF PUSHED Senate Committee Confers With CooHdge Commission. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.—The Senate farm bloc today began to mould agricultural relief legislation for possible passage In the remaining twenty working days before adjournment. Members of the special farm commission appointed by‘President Coolldge were called into consultation by the Senate Agricutural Committee.
RECORD CONTRACJS LET Hamilton County Authorizes 593,000 for* Gravel Roads. Bti Timet Bvecial NOBLESVILLE. Ind., Feb. 9. The board of commissioners has awarded four gravel road contracts to the amount of $93,000, the largest amount of public —work which the board has given orders to have done at any one time since the close of the World War. The largest of the four contracts waaythe McKinney road, near Sheridan. This work was given to the McCoun Construction Company, of this city, for $64,000. MAXIMUM TERM GIVEN Brothers Sentenced for Fa% to Provide for Parents. John De Pew, 1042 S. Senate Ave., and his brother Warren, 208 W. Morris St., drew the maximum fine j of S2OO and costs and a six-month sentence on the Indiana State farm I in city court today on charges of failing to support their parents, Mr.! and Mrs. Isaac De Pew, who live with Warren. Sentence was suspends by Judge Pro Tem. Garret Olds on condition the men care for the parents. P. O. Clerks’ AmdliiuT to Meet The monthly meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary to Local No. 130, National Federation of Postoffice Clerks will ta@ hell Tuesday at 1:30 p. m. in the women's, department of the Fletcher American Bank. Car Stolen and Burned An autorrjobile belonging to Clarence Stoneliouse, 365 Virginia Ave., was stolen Sunday night from downtown and taken south of Beech Grove, where it was destroyed by ! Are. It .‘was valued at $l,lOO, the thieves) set the car on firei"
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NEW CHARGES IN STOKES SCANDAL Letters Will Prove Wife’s Case, Investigator Says, Bv United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—W. E. D. Stokes, New York millionaire, knew that Helen Underwood, beautiful habitue of the notorious Everleigh Club here, was dead when he “concocted evidence” to show that Helen Elwood Stokes, his former wife, and Helen Underwood were one, W. C. Dannenberg, investigator for Mrs. Stokes, charged today. “We have letters, some in Mr. Stokes’ own hand-writing, showing he 1 knew Helen Underwood in the old days; that he knew she married a saloonkeeper and that she died in 1917,” Dennenberg said. Stokes and several others are on trial on charges of conspiracy to defatne the character of Mrs. Stokes. So far four jurors have been accepted by both sides and four tentatively accepted. DICKERMAN LOSES AGAIN House Kills BO (riving Credit for Religious Education. After & spirited debate the House today voted to postpone indefinitely the Dickerman Senate bill requiring public achpols to credit pupils for religious Instruction obtained elsewhere. It was the third Dickerman bill to die In the House. Representative Mendenhall moved to postpone the bill Indefinitely when the measure came down for second reading. Representative Wright, Lynn, moved to table the Mendenhall motion, but withdrew it when members of the House became confused on the action before them. LONG ILLNESS FATAL Funeral of Mm, L Cross to Be Held Tuesday. Mrs. Laura L. Cross, 65, wife of Charles M. Cross, 322 Downey Ave., who died Sunday after an Illness of a year, will be buried in Crown Hill cemetery following funeral services at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the residence. Mrs. Cross, who had lived here forty-two years, was bom In Maple Grove, Ohio. She was a member of Irvington Methodist Church, Tuesday and Shakespeare Clubs. The husband, a son, Harry E. Cross, and a daughter, Mrs. L. G. Buddenbaum, all of Indianapolis, survive. GREENFIELD MAN HELD Capture Made Afl.V Patrolman Fires Several Times. A than giving bis name as Roy Glasscock, 97, of Greenfield, Ind„ was held today on a vagrancy charge under high bond following his capture early Sunday by Patrolman Forest Swank, who fired several shots to stop Glasscock. Swank said he saw Glasscock jump from an automobile belonging to Alex Benson of Newcastle, Ind., at North and Pennsylvania Sts. Swank fired and captured Glasscock at Meridian and North . Sts. Glftsscock said he knew nothing ofr a motometer missing from the machine, according to pplice.
SCOUTS IN ANNIVERSARY Fifteenth Tear Observed With Various Programs. Here. Indianapolis Boy Scouts are'observing the fifteenth anniversary of scouting In the United States this week, Scout Chief F. O. Belzer said. Executive board will met at luncheon, Thursday at Chamber of Commerce, when a special program will be lreld. Thursday night a rally will be held at the gymnasium of Emerson Avenue Baptist Church. Meetings will be held Saturday night at Jewish Communal 81dg.,, and West Side Community House. BERLIN TEACHER SPEAKS Missionary Work DescHbed by German Professor. Dr. Julius Richter, professor of missions at University of Berlin, Germany, npoke at luncheon of the Ministerial Association of Indianapolis today at T. M. C. A. He told of the work of missions in foreign lands. A reception will be held for him at' the College of Missions at 4 p. m. Tuesday. 4 . George B. Dugan Dies Bv Timet Svecial - RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 9.—Funera arrangements were being made today for George B. Dugan, 82, half brother of the late Daniel G. Reed, and a veteran railraod engineer, who died at his home here Sunday evening, 'following a long illness. Harris Bill to Engrossment Insisting efforts toward indefinite postponement, Representative Harris’ bill legalizing issuance of $125,000 in bonds to pay for the Bloomington waterworks, was passed to engrossment in the House today. Impeaching Bill Engrossed The Roe bill, making city officials impeachable, was passed to engrossment in the House today. V
Dubious SHAT Griffith Powell of Evansville, district inspector of the Bureau of Mines, in charge of work attending supposed efforts toward the rescue of Floyd Collins, was dubious of the authenticity of Collins’ imprisonment in a Kentucky cave, was indicated by Powell's son, William E. Powell, who was a visitor at the State Legislature today. The younger Powell said: “We had talked the matter over when father was called to Kentucky and "saw then the possibility of the whole matter being- £ mswar stknt.”
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WILLIAM E. CLAUER Wljllam E. Clauer, new Democratic city chairman, dark horse candidate, defeated Albert Wlsman, Center Township trustee, backed by the regular organization at the Democratic city convention' Saturday. He succeeds Thomas Meeker. Clauer Is secretary of the Indianapolis Athletic Association, owners of the Indianapolis American Association baseball team, and a member of city council.
VISITORS LINED ON SPEEDCHARGE Evansville and Connersville Men in Court, Two out-of-town drivers were among motorists fined in city court toffciy on fast driving charges. Speeds charged and fines were: Secil Cooley, Connersville, Ind., thirty-one miles, S2B; Walter Heller, Evansville, thirty-three mile, $25; J. H. Miller, 5251 Washington Blvd* thirty-one milesT S3O; John Clark, 3648 Salem St., thirty miles. S2B. Case of Maicom 'Thompson, 23, of 3939 Graceland Ave., captain of the Indiana University swimming team, charged with driving thirty miles an hour, was taken under advisement to March 27. Judge Pro Teta. Garrett Olds was on the bench. DESPONDENCY IS FATAL Fred Cortrnn, Takes life at Mother’s Residence. ✓ Paul F. Robinson today said dibath of Fhed Corhan, 33, who took poison Sunday night at the home of Ms mother at 322 N. Addison'' St., probably was.due to despondency over Separation from his wife. Corhan talked with bis mother on the front porch and went to the rear of the house. She found him a short time later In the back yard. DELTA U. ALUMNI ELECT i W. H. Meub Placed at Hep* of Chib at Annual Dinner. W. H. Meub, 639 N. Central Ct., Is new president of Delta llpsllon Alumni Club. Other officers elected at annual State dinner Saturday night at Indianapolis Athletic Club; E. R. Grisell, vice president; Harold S. Brown, re-elected secretary, and R. W. Roberson!, director. Chapters at De Pauw, Indiana and Purdue Universities made reports. More than 100 attended. Victor R. Jose Jr. was toastmaster. . VAN ORMAN WILL SPEAK , Lieutenant Governor to Address Gyro Club Tuesday. Lieutenant Governor F. Harold Van Orman will speak at the Gyro Club luncheon Tuesday at the Lincoln. Ladies’ day will be observed. Carroll Tomey, secretary, an nounced a smoker will be held the night of .Feb. 24 inste&l of the .weekly luncheon on that date.
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DISEASED FOWLS ‘ WILLBEKILLED Delaware County Fights European Pest, Four flocks of chickens in Delaware County containing about 2,000 fowls have been found with the European fowl pest by inspectors from the State livestock sanitary ttoard, according to R. C. Julien, State veterinarian, who returned today from Muncie where he helped organize that county Sunday. in the fight against the disease. The flocks are to toe destroyed Tuesday. to Julien, the State now has a chief inspector in each county and the entire staff of each will be organized against the fowl pest by nightfall. Practicing veterinarians will be asked to aid inspectors in these counties. In establishing a policy of indemnifying poultry raisers against loss because of the necessity of killing diseased fowls, Dr. Julien said the State would pay for building brooders where new chick hatches are coming off. The owners, unable to ship them, must have some place to keep them until the embargo Is lifted. BURIAL AT CROWN HILL Mrs. Eldon Dynes, Resident Here 1 Many Years, Dies. Mrs. Eldon Dynes, 43, a resident of Indianapolis for a quarter of a century, who died Sunday at St. Vincent Hospital, will be buried Tuesday in Crown Hill Cemetery. Funeral services will be at the residence at 2 p. m. Tuesday. She was born in Maysyille, Ky. She was a member of D. A. R. and Second Presbyterian Church. The husband and a daughter, Miss Lillian Dynes, survive.
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MRS. FRANCES WERBti Mrs. Frances Werbe, 132 W. Vermont St., was elected vice chairman of the Democratic City committee by a landslide vote at the city convention, Saturday. Two other candidates were nominated, Mrs. Edna Christian and Mrs. George Miller. Mrs. Christian with.' drew before balloting began, and long before the roll call was completed Mrs. Miller moved to make the election of her opponent unanimous. Mrs. Werbe’s success was due largely to the campaign conducted on her behalf by Miss Hazel Fesler, clerk of the Marion Circuit Court. Poison Booze Bill Near Law Senator English’s bill, providing that the sale of methyl or wood alcohol for beverage purposes be punishable by SSO to SI,OOO fine and not more than one year imprisonment, went to Governor Jackson for signature today. v
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SEVEN CAUGHT IN RAID * m Manager and Clerk of Hotel Charged With Keeping Resort. Seven persons including the manager, clerk, two bell boys and three women arrested when Lieut. Hudson and squad raided the Colonial Hotel, New York and Illinois Sts., at 3 a. m. Sunday. . Charles A Cropper, 43, manager, and George Tyler, 48, Brevort Hotel, the night clerk, were charged with keeping a resort. * Others arrested were Milton Cruze, 28, colored, 2041 Highland PI., and David Wells, 23, colored, 614 Agnes St. Misses Lillian May, 24, of 1126 N. Capitol Ave.. and Blanche Rose, 18, and Marie Adair, 24, both of the Ctolonial. m *
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