Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 234, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1925 — Page 1

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DOCTORS EXAMINE 01 STUDENT, 19, INPOISONDEATHS Youth Admits He Obtained Pills Which Resulted in Fatality Silent to Avoid Notoriety, STATEMENT IS PROBED r Says Bottle From Which He Took Deadly Drug Was , Marked Quinine, ' Bv United Presa COLUMBUS, Ohio, F*b. 10.—Expert psychiatrists today examined Loufs Fish, 19. to determine whether he is the “distorted mind” at root of the strychnine poisonings at Ohio State University. Fish, a freshman from Canton, has admitted obtaining the pills which caused the death of David I. Puskin, a fellow student, but insists he did not know they contained strychnine. He was arrested late Monday as Police Prosecutor John J. Chester was completing his examination of students in the pharmacy department, where the poison capsules were given out. Fish, one of the first students questioned when the probe began following two deaths last week, was recalled in belief he was holding back information. Confronted with testimony of the other students, Fish admitted he had lied when first questioned and said he was in the dispensary without authority on Jan. 30. “I didn’t say anything about it before because I didn't want the notoriety,” h* said. Fish then told about meeting David I. Puskin, also from Canton, in the -hall of the pharmacy building the day before his death. “Puskin asked me to run into the pharmacy and get him some quinine,” Fish said. "I told ltim\ I would, £ut I saw there was sfich a crowd in there getting medicine that nobody would wait on me so 1 just stepped behind the counter and took three or four capsules out of tk bottle labeled ‘quinine.’ ” These, it developed early in the investigation, contained largeO doses of strychnine. Thus far the questioning of Fish had cast no light on how the strychnine capsules got into the quinine bottleBelieving that he still may be holding back other information. Prosecutor Chester ordered him locked up ill the city prison for the night.

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CAVE CITY GAINS • . .Indianapolis Man Reports Exorbitant Prices Charged Tourists' - to Collins’ ‘Prison’ ■ , !—I mHE longer they hunt for Floyd Collins the wealthier the Cave City (Ky.) neighborhood gets,” said W. W. Ebaugh, 5791 Bonna. Ave., who today returned from a trip to the scene of the cave explorer’s imprisonment. , .

“I couldn’t find a hotel room and I had to pay $6.50 a night for a bed in a private home. About eight miles north of Sand Cave lies Mumsfordsville bridge You have to cross the bridge or ford the river to get to Cave City. One look at the river drives you to the bridge. They charge you fifty cents for crossing it. Down Goes Tax Rate “I was told that from dawn to 1:30 p. m. Sunday, 840 cars had crossed. They expect to have enough for several new bridges before they get Collins out. “Truck owners ave making all kinds of money. You can get to Cave City from Louisville by train. It is six miles out to Sand Cave. It costs $2.50 for the privilege of hanging onto a crowded truuc for this trip. “I drove my own car. Sand Cave is 220 miles from Indianapolis. ‘Roads Are Awful “Roads leading to the cave from Mumfordsville bridge are awful. They consist of a six-foot wide strip of stone and gravel, with md from three inches to two feet deep on either side. If 'you get off'the road, your’e gone.” Traffic near the cave is so heavy the National Guardsmen are directing it for half a mile. The natives make the situation by driving their flivvers straight down the middle of the narrow track, refusing, unless compelled by the guardsmen to budge over for a passing car. I met one of them and just stopped and glared at him until a guard came along and compelled him to give me half of the road. Press dispatches about the bitterness of the natives toward ‘outsiders’ certainly are true. “ Midway” Established g • . “The territory near the cave entrance resembles an army camp. There are .three Red Cross tents, about twenty army tents for the soldiers and rescue workers. Enterpriiing merchants have set up “hot dog” and fruit stands and a Louisville newspaper has a circulation station where It sells papers like hot cakes. They call the “business district’’ the “midway.” “Some of the rescue workers told me it was so noisy around the tents that they usually took blankets and went to a hillside several hundred yards away so they could sleep. Digging Is Slow “The -digging toward Collins is very slow. One of the engineers told me he did not < believe they could reach Collins until this Friday. "Collins’ father refuses to believe his son is dead and feels sure he will be rescued alive. I talked “with him for quite a while. The old man just stands around, chews tobacco and talks with whoever approaches him. He’s different from most of the natives. They are reticent around "outsiders.” , “There are about fifty dogs hanging around the temporary city. Every one of them has been referred to by. tourists who remark: “There goes Collins’ dog.” Ebaugh was permitted to go about twelve feet back into Sand Cave by virtue of a letter of introduction to the commander of the guardsmen. SHANK FDR CITY MANAGER AGAIN ■ Mayer Urges Change at Cabinet Meeting, “I hope the Indianapolis real estate board, Kiwanis Club and oWier organizations get behind the campaign ’for a city manager form of government,” Mayor Shank said today at a cabinet meeting of department heads. Meantime petitions for a commission fortn of government, prepared at his direction, are being circulated. “I could go out of office next year -with a feeling of security for Indianapolis if I felt some form of government different from the present one was going into force,” ’ie -said. Prof. A. B. Hattcn of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, will speak on “The City Manager Form of Government” at the Kiwanis Club luncheon at the Olaypool Wednesday noon. BUILDING REPORT "MADE „ Week’s Totals 209 Permits for $199,084 Valuation.. ' Two hundred nine permits for building operations valued at $199,084 were issued last week, Francis F. Hamilton, building commissioner, reported to the safety board today. Thirty-one first notices were served on violators and eighty-two inspections made, H. F. Templeton, smoke Inspector, reported. ' HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m...... 37 10 a. m. 4$ 7 a- m...... 38 11 a. m ..... 46 I * a- m...... 3* 13 (noon) .... 49 9 a m...... 40 l p, m 62

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PROBE OF JUDGE URGED House Committee Recommends Investigation of Illinois Court. Bv United Preaa WASHINGTON, Feb. IQ. The House Judiciary Committee today adopted report of its sub-committee recommending charges of improper conduct against George W. English, Federal judge at East St. Louis should be investigated. It also approved a report recommending that Federal Judge W. E. Baker of West Virginia, not be impeached pn charges laid before it. " ROBBERS BIND WOMAiil? Polio© Find Victim on Lounge and House Ransacked. Mrs. Leona McCollum, 2S, of 1214 ’S. Harding St., was found by the police emergency squad today, apparently unconscious and gagged on a lounge in her home. She was revived and said ' this morning she let two men in her home. After that, she ipld polite,

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 1925 "

INCREASE IN GAS TAX WINS AFTER heated Debate Senate Passes Bill Providing One-Cent Boost to Second Reading With Amendment, LARGER CITIES OPPOSED Daily, Nejdl and Hodges Lead Attack on Cann Measure, Although strenuously opposed by Senators from the larger cities of the, State, the Cann bill providing an increase of one cent in the present two-cent gasoline tax, passed to second reading in the Indiana Senate today by a vote Os 24 to 19. The vote was taken on a motion by Senator Nejdl. Whiting, Republican floor leader, indefinitely to postpone further consideration of the bill*, after the Roads Committee had submitted a divided report. The minority report, submitted by Senator Chambers. Newcastle, and Payne, Bloomington, Democrats, recommending passage with an amendment to give cities and towns onefourth of the extra cent to use in improvingjtheir streets, was adopted after Nejdl’s move to postpone was lost. Senator Daily, Indianapolis, spoke strongly against any Increase. Entire Tax Denounced “Indianapolis pays one-sixth of the entire gas tax now and gets none of the money,” he said. Hodges, Gary, Republican, made a ringing spee#i denouncing the whole gas tax as “unfair and unsound in theory-” “Why not tax every bushel of wheat sold, every stiff hat bought?’’ he shouted. Nedjl vigorously Renounced any increase because, he said, the auto owner is being "taxed beyond limit.” “The auto owner pays a luxury tax when he buys his car,” he said. “He pays a personal tax on it. a license tax and the 2-cent gas tax. We have gone far enough In this direction. It matters not to me whether this increase is part of the budget committee’s plan, or of the Governor’s. It is a matter of Justice to the people who foot the bill. We must not expect to pave all the roads in the State in a couple of years at the expense of the auto owner.” Committee Members Differ Payne pointed out tha| Indianapolis would get $126,000 under his amendment, from the gas tax increase. Each city and town would get 42 cents a year for each inhabitant, he said. In addition, the counties get three-fourths of the extra cent for county roads, and the State highway commission gets to keep the entire other 2 cents. Chambers said that with, 2 cents the commission in the next few years will have 5,000 miles of Staje roads paved. '*This gas tax enables the counties to cut down their tax rates on property, too,” he said. Moorhead, a member of the budget committee of the State, said the committee never figured for any increase in the gas tax, and voted to kill the bill. Chambers, also a member of the budget committee, voted for it. Party Lines Split The vote split party lines. The Lake County and the Marion County delegations, supported chiefly by other Senators having large cities in their districts, voted against the bill. Senator Cann, the author, said the farmers “like the gas tax. and want to see the increase, but they want part of the money sent back where it is raised.” PLANE FALLS; TWO DIE Aviation Officers, Texas Field, Lose Lives—Bodies Badly Burned. Bv United Pret* SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feb. 10. Dashing to earth while a great cloud of 'smoke trailed from the exhaust of their Curtiss training plane, Lieut. Arthur L. Foster and Major Leo Wright were killed two miles from Brooks Field today. The plane burst into flames as it struck the ground and both bodies were badly burned. Wright’s mother lives at Lyons, Kans 1 . GROCER TAKES~OWN~LIFE Despondency Over Business Losses Sustained in Fires, Blamed. Despondency over business losses sustained in five fires during the last year was given as the probable cause of the suicide of William C. Koch, groper, at New Bethel, Ind., who fifireci a bullet into his temple Monday night. A

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EASIER TO KILL ■ , . ■ ■ , ■' Financial Independence Makes It Less Difficult for Women to Murder , Policewoman Says

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Bv \EA ’Service rrrpASHINGTON, Feb. Fi\U nanclai independence has ’ V made it easier for women to commit murder today than ever before. / When women legarded men as their meal ticket, it didn’t pay to bump them off, even* if they need-•d-J#. &rjr>w-. “Bui now,” say* Dr. Mary B. Harris of the International Association of Policewomen, “when a woman feels the Jmpulse to kill a man, usually theije is no economic consideration to > make her hesitate.” This doesn’t mean women havq any greater liking for murder than men, she says. But there is no doubt that the percentage of women slayers is ihcreasing. What else is responsible? "The old-time criminal usually killed only in self-defense.

SIX KILLED IN TRAIN CRASH Two Women Victims at ( Crossing, Bv United Pros* PHILADELPHIA.' Pa., Feb. 10.— Six persons, • two women, were killed when a motor car and an automobile truck struck by a Pennsylvania freight engine at a crossing below Chester, Pa., near here today. ■ Five of the persons were in the automobile, a sedan. Four of them are dead and the fifth seriously injured. • -, Both men* on the truck, a five-ton oil tank car; were killed. RIOTING IN MARSEILLES Many Injured When Communists Raid Meeting of Catholics. flu United Press MARSEILLES, „Feb. 10.—Casualt'as in Monday night’s clashes when Communists attempted to break up a meeting of Catholics proved today to have been numerous than at first reported. Three priests and nearly 100 persons in all were suffering from injuries. Four policemen were badly beaten. The Catholic meeting was to have been one of protest against the Herriot goverment’s action In abolishing the Vatican embassy. ■ SNOW NEXT ON BILL Colder Weather Forecast for Wednesday Wrecks Spring Hope. Early birds may get the worm, but they’ll shiver doing it, according to weather forecast today that sent spring stock down another notch. Rain, probably changing to snow was forecast for late today and colder weather for Wednesday.

“The young modern criminal is ready and willing to kill even withbut provocation. “The war is responsible. At least it helped. , “It made women, many of them, more independent of, the husband's earnings. “The fear that she would starve no Tort*g*r held hW from' slaytfig. “Girls achieved independence too suddenly and too young. - “Back from France came the boys. New types of girls greeted them. They responded. Restraint was resented. Conventions flouted. “Demoralization is not confined to those we Class as acthal delinquents. One of dbr charges at New Jersey Home for Girls was of good social standing. "When she was released and sent home she wrote back that most of the girls inside ought to be out, and those outside, in.”

JUNIOR CHAMBER 10IALKMANAGER Invitations Sent Out for * Public Meeting, .Letters inviting members of lunch eon and civic organizations to a public meeting at 8 p. m. Monday night at the Chamber of Commerce when the city manager form of government will be explained, were mailed today by George Mize, committee chairman ol the Junior Chamber of Commerce, which -4s promoting the event. Felix F. Bruner, editor of The Indianapolis , Times, will speak. Following the talk discussion will be held. The following week another public meeting will be held, when the commission form of government will be discussed. 'Any person Interested is invited. Committee in charge is Mize. M. L. McManus and Allesn A. White. ORDINANCES SOUGHT Traffic Suggestions, to Be Submitted to Council. A number of traffic ordinances will be presented to city council Monday night, to carry out recommendations of the board of safety at its meeting today. They will provide one and one-half-hour parking on Meridian St. from Washington to Sixteenth Sts.; permit parking on the north side of Pearl St. from Pennsylvania to Illinois Sts.; west side of Bird St. and north side of Pearl St. from 6 p. m. to 7 a. m. LONDON? NO, NEW YORK Manhattan Emulates British Metropolis—Second Day of Fog. , Bv United Press x NEW YORK, Feb; 10.—So this is London' No, it’s New York! For the second successive day this city was bathed In fog. Minor traffic accidents were almost continuous. Elevated trains, seven of which were in crashes Monday that cost two lives and injured three score, ran at diminished speed. CooHdge to Visit Feb. 10.—Presi-

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ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS AGAIN INDICATE COLLINS IS ALIVE IN CAVE CELL . Newspaperman Is First Witness Before Court-Martial Inquiry Into Imprisonment of Explorer Ordered by Kentucky Governor. PROSECUTOR WILLIAMS MAY CALL SPECIAL GRAND JURY Chicago Physician Declares He Is Positive Entombed Man Is Living —Expect to Reach Him Through New Shaft by Thursday. By FOSTER EGNER . ' United Pres* Staff Correspondent AT THE MOUTH OF SAND CAVE, Ky., Feb. 10.—Still twenty feet from the cell where Floyd Collins lies, rescuers entered thier work today with the renewed conviction that the victim was alive. * Repeated electrical tests throughout the night indicated that Collins lived. While the workers bored op, a martial court of inquiry, Under orders of Governor William J. Fields, assembled here to probe conditions surrounding Collins’ imprisonment. J. Lewis Williams, county prosecutor, planned to attend the inquiry and if testimony warranted action announced he would call a special grand jury to return indictments. Such were .the activities on the twelfth day of Collins’ imprisonment.

“Floyd Collins told me be is in the only entrance to Sand Cave. There Is no way of reaching him from the rear. I never did think we will get him out.” That was the testimony of William Burke Miller, newspaper reporter of Louisville, before the court martial of inquiry today. Miller was the first witness summoned. He said he had ccnveraed with Collins while the latter lay in the grip of the bowlder that has kept him prisoner for twelve days. The court, opening at Cave probably will adjourn to Sand Cave to examine other witnesses. "I am satisfied there is no fake to Collins' imprisonment,” Miller testiflted. “I heard him answer his brother Homer when the latter called down to him. I know he was pinned so he could not get out. I believe all these rumors about it being publicity stunt are unfounded.” * Miller remarked he # believed certain factions wished td prevent another faction from freeing the explorer. , “I heard John Geralds tell -othecs to keep out of the cave for he would get him out himself,” Miller said. Jack Used “We placed a jack under the rock that held Collins and moved it a little. This helped him.” Members of the court said Miller’s testimony convinced them Collins must be brought out through the new shaft being sunk by diggers. A report from the cave during the hearing said the new opening would (Turn to Page 11) ZARINGTHEATER PLANSADVANCE Realty Firm for North Side Site Incorporated, With incorporation of the Zaring Realty Company today it was learned that work will start soon on construction of a i*o6o-seat photoplay theater at Fall Creek Elv'd. and Central Ave. A. C. Zaring. proprietor of the North Star 'movie theater. Twenty Fifth St and Central Ave.; M. A. Zaring and Charles L. DeHass are the incorporators. The company is incorporated with $150,000 capital. Property owned at the site is valued at approximately $38,000. . The theater will be of Egyptian architecture and ground dimensions of 88 by 131 feet. It will be two stories in. height, with provisions for business rooms on the ground ftoor. MOTHER AND SON TRIED Charged With Murder of Relative——Body Found in Creek. Bv Times Special ROCKPORT. Ind.. Feb. .C.—Mrs. Mat Odo Sanders and her son Bert McAdams, were on trial today for the alleged murder at James Sand igglpl

Forecast T TNSETTLED tonight and LJ Wednesday. Probably rain changing to snow. Colder Wednesday. Lowest temperature tonight 20 to 35.

CHANGE PROPOSED IN MANAGER LAW Amendment Would Further Eliminate Politics, Anew safeguard Intended further to eliminate politics from a referendum on the form of city government in Indianapolis was being proposed today by persons interested in a city manager election for Indianapolis. ~ This safeguard would be in the form of an amendment to the present law on the appointment of election commissioner for a referendum. The present law provides that the election board in a referendum would consist of the city clerk and two other members appointed by the president of the city council. It has been pointed out that this provision would give the president of 'the council majority control over the election machinery. ♦ The proposed amendment would proride that the present bi partisan election board would control the machinery of such an election. GOTHAM BAND COMING New York Police Band to Give Concert Here March 5. The. New York City Police Band will give a concert*in # Indianapolis, March 5, and will be guests of the Indianapolis police department for the day. The band will make a trip throughout the Middle West. S. L. Debalta, director, called on Mayor Shank today in regard to the visit. Motorman Is Cleared Roland Sage. 1906 Thalman Ave.. motorman on a Brightwood street car, which on Feb. 1/ collided with a city ambulance, was discharged in city court today on at charge of failing to give right of way.

Well? | I ILL’S not well at ths J wellr jointly owned by Mrs. Minnie Robertson, 45. of 431 W. South St., and Mrs. Virginia Merriman, 435 W. South St., according to testimony In -city court today. Mrs. Robertson was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Mfs. Hazel McClung. 425 W. South St., charging slander. Mrs, McClung said when she went to the well to get water, Mrs. Robertson ordered *her away. Mrs. Robertson testified that Mrs. McClung then obtained permission from Mrs. Merriman, the joint owner, went to the well and then shouted at her: * Goody, goody, I’m going to get some water anyway/’ “Remarks” followed, it was charged. ! Judge Delbert O. Wilmethi fook the case under advise i rent I