Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 234, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1925 — Page 6
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U. $. COMMISSION BEGINS PROBE OF ALLEGEDTRUSTS Bread, Tobacco and Electricity to Be Investigated on Order of Senate, Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Bread, tobacco and electricity were the subjects of investigation by the Federal Trade Commission today l under authority of the Senate. I To learn whether it is true, as I charged, that monopolies control the I production and distribution of these F three commodities, the Senate voted to look into the conditions in the industries. Probe Charges The commission’s task Is to investigate specific charges as follows: Bread—That bakeries of the country are rapidly being swallowed by one gigantic baking corporation, whose alleged control of prices costs the nation $500,000,000 a year in unwarranted high bread prices. Tobacco —That the American Tobacco Company and thf Imperial Tobacco Company of London, by mutual agreement, boycotted southern tobacco farmers’ cooperatives, buying their tobacco supplies elsewhere at higher prices, and that they agreed to let each other have absolute monopolies in their respective countries. “Light Trust” Electricity—That the General Electric Company is a gigantic power “trust’ dominating every electric light bulb in the country, through subsidiaries. The commission wiil report its findings to the Department of Justice. If the department finds evidence of law violations, appropriate action will be started. Gone, but Not Forgotten An automobile reported stolen belongs to: Henry F. Butye, 3607 % E. New York St., Chevrolet, from Pennsylvania and Union Station. Service Greatest Issue “The great issue before us is to enlist a citizenship that will carry on in the service of mankind,” declared Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, of Cleveland, Ohio, in an address on “Men With Iron in Their Blood,” at a father and son banquet at the First Baptist Church, Monday night.
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Latest in Footwear Exhibited in Observance of Buyer’s Week Here
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JOMBIN ATION colors, neat and conservative oxfords, and one-strap smart tailored pumps will be the spring and summer style in women’s shess, according to salesmen. Step-in pumps and oxfords with the diagonal strap will be worn. Hiking boots and sport shoes with crepe soles wil 1 be popular for sport wear. - Miss Betty Barnes, 2938 E. Washington St., is shown trying on a pair of Peacock shoes, displayed by V. L. Rash, 3943 Winthrop Ave % salesman for BoydWelsh Shoe Company of St. Louis, Mo. Balloons With Us let Men will wear the balloon last and wide toe shoes to go with large bottom trousers, it is predicted. Crepe soles will be popular More than 500 buyers have visited the 100 displays at the Clay-
Government Price Control Looms in England as Living Costs Rise
By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Correspondent rz —I ONDON, Feb. 10.—For the Government control oi I 1 1 meat, wheat and tea. Government purchase of these commodities. Government sale of them to the wholesalers. Government control of the retail price. Government subsidy—ls necessary—to maintain these prices. This sounds like state socialism, but it is what a Tory government now in control of Great Britain may put into force before summer. It will be one of the most sensational peace-time moves ever attempted by a conservative government. It will be prompted by the necessities of a very serious situation, and it will have tremendous repercussions in the United States. The English pound sterling is at last looking the American dollar in the face on practically equal terms. But business is still bad. 'More than a million people are still drawing unemployment Insurance. The price of necessities still mounts. People who are drawing doles and people who are drawing wages are alike having a hard time. It was thought that when the pound sterling reached par or near It, prices would go down. The reverse has been the case. Meat costs more. Bread costs more. Tea—ln spite of the late labor government taking the tax off —costs more. Faced by this, the new Conserva-
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pool this week in connection with the annual Shoe Buyers’ Week, under auspices of Indiana Shoe Travelers’ Association. Harry S. Noel, advertising manager Eli Lilly Drug Company, presided. C. I. Slipher Is secretary. Special Luncheon Mrs. Harry Springate was in charge of a special luncheon for women, followed by a card party in the chateau room, In charge of Mrs. W. F. Crooke. Mrs. Fred Nagely is chairman of the reception committee. “Shoes have Increased In price from 15c to 25c a pair over last year, said W. F. Crooke, vice president. Dancing Wednesday night will end one of the most successful observances of “Buyers’ Week,” according to F. E. Hart, chairman publicity committee.
p| ';|p9r Hr y B. s * If * " WMm glk Mr V shhk y ijßr W / wwMm, * SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES tlve government recently named a royal food commission to trace the trouble. It is headed by Sir Auckland Geddes, former ambassador to the United States. This commission did not go very far before It became convinced that there was considerable monopolistic control of the people’s food. It found evidences of combines and trusts. It ran up against reluctant and even insincere witnesses. And now the tip is quietly going around In the commercial world, which deals with wheat, meat and tea, that the commission is going to recommend to Premier Baldwin that the government take control of those commodities. If this Is done and if the premier and Parliament accept the recommendation, the machinery soon will whirr. There are experienced men in the.civil service who know • all about it. They could have the whole food machine set up and In working order within a month. And If it were to come Into being, American markets, American grain exchanges and American food speculators would have about the liveliest times they have known since the World War raged. When Great Britain, at purchaser for the bulk of the wheat and the meat of 45,000,000 people, came to America to buy, prices would naturally tend to go up and up and up. Word would go everywhere: "England is buying!" And when England satisfied Its needs and quit buying that same market would go flop. SIXTY BARRELS OF WINE Bv United Preaa CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—Six bandits Invaded the Chicago Milwaukee A St. Paul freight house Monday night and worked until 6 a. m., today removing sixty barrels of California win© in a truck. One of the robbers covered the engineer in charge of the building with a gun and forced him to keep firing the bcilerjn order to keep up
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EAST VS. WEST POLITICAL FIGHT, SOEON PREDICTS Californian Airs Views Concerning Warring Factions, Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—A “po lltical West.” that will not only wipe out present geographical demarcations between the Republican and Democratic parties, but will contest for supremacy on the issue of governmental development, of the natural resources, is In the making. This is the assertion of Senator Hiram Johnson, California, Republican, expressed as an aftermath of the internal warfare In the ranks of both the Democratic and Republican parties on the floor of the Senate during the past month. “East Is East"/,! “East is East and West is West in this Government today,” said Johnson, “and that Is the true demarcation in the present warring philosophies of Government. “It is not in the label I wear as a Republican nor the name men of the Democratic faith bear. The West has no fear of having the Government continue with what the Government inaugurates nor does it tremble whenever it is suggested that the Government may do what municipalities and counties throughout the United States are doipg.” Johnson pointed. to the defeated Norris plan for Government operation of the $160,000,000 power and nitrate manufacturing plant at Muscles Shoals, Alabama.
Policies Divided "I grant you that that principle is at variance with the viewpoint of the East, but it is the dividing line today in politics, Johnson said, "though not between the two major parties. “These two warring philosophies in the days to come will fight It out In this nation; fight It out In the Senate; fight It out in the two parties, because it is internal, interclne strife in each of the dominant parties—and fight It out until ono or the other of these philosophies have become wholly triumphant. "I glory In this division coming from the far Pacific. The West believes In Its government and is not afraid to have It handle the affairs which touch upon the entire people of the land, whether they be matters of taxation or development of natural resources and other affairs." "This theory of government will outlast every member of the present Congress and Its crystalization is not far off." OIL INSPECTION JOBSATTACKED Senator Batt Would Make End Doubly Certain. Abolishment of the offices of oil inspectors is provided in a bill introduced today In the Senate by Senator Batt, Terre Haute. Although such abolishment Is provided for In the State budget, "a little previous abolishing would not hurt," Senator Batt said. Senator O’Rourke, Ft. Wayne, presented a measure authorizing the Governor Jo order the board of trustees of the State School for Feeble-Minded Youth at Ft. Wayne to turn over property along the St. Joe River for a boulevard. Under a bill Introduced by Senator Saunders, Bluffton, fine of $25 is provided for persons who carelessly or negligently allow live stock to run loose. Senator Saunders, Bluffton, also Introduced a bill allowing cities owning municipal light plants to erect city or community buildings from profits. The Bluffton light plant has a surplus of SBO,OOO. 'TUT CURSE’ HITS SHOW Comedy on Ancient Being Stops as Actors Are Taken 111. Bv United Preaa LONDON, Feb. io. —The course of the pharoahs took anew Victim when an act was omitted from "The Punch Bowl," a revue at the Duke of York’s Theater. A skit was In preparation featuring Miss Gwen Farrar, one of the best of London’s music hall stars, in a playlet founded on the life and times of Queen Nefertlti, the mother-in-law of King Tut, who invented the "shingle bob.” First one of the actors fell 111. Then the musicians went on strike Then the composer quarreled with the director. Finally Miss Farrar herself came down with influenza. And so the whispers went to work, telling the world that the curse of King Tut-Ahnk-Amon was getting in its deadly revenge. Whereupon the cast rose en masse and refused to work. And the skit was removed from the bill! RECORD BANKRUPTCY Former Omaha Millionaire Lists Assets at $2,509. . Bv United Preaa OMAHA, Feb. 10.—One of the biggest personal brankruptcy petitions ever filed In the middle west was filed in Federal Court here today by Ward M. Burgess, formerly a millionaire Omaha merchant. Burgess listed his liabilities at approximately $4,500,000 and his assets, at $2,500, .including his automobile.
Girl, 7, Star Pupil in School, Youngest Homicidal Maniac
Attempted to Poison Family-Told of Murdering Three, Bv WE A Semes EOS ANGELES, Feb. 10.—In school she has attained the unusual distinction of being the smartest girl in the eighth gftre. she is yet 7. At hraie she is feared because of fiendish plotting. And in jail, this little girl, Alsa Thompson, is looked upon as the youngest homicidal maniac ever observed by local scientists. Precocious, co-operative, the child often helped her guardian, Mrs. Inez Platts of Hollywood prepare meals. Creative, too, she loved to concoct, now and then a dessert dish; this once she prepared with ant paste and sulphuric acid. It was poison enoug to kill the whole family. Luckily Its taste was forewarning. Foiled, the child flew into a rage of fury, found a razor and tried to slash the baby of the family, Maxine Platts, 6. So the police were called. “I guess I did it because I am so mean,” Alsa explained with childish frankness. She told police she had poisoned to death her twin sister and a woman. Authorities Investigated her murder story and discredited it. She was turned over to parole authorities for corrective treatment, after Juvenile Judge Gates ruled she Is not Insane, but "mentally diseased.” She probably will be closely guarded for several years In an attempt to destroy her homicidal tendencies. The girl’s parents are separated.
ATM MADE ON BUS LEGISLATION * W. B. Miner Flays Public Service Commission. Motor bus regulation now pending In the Legislature Is backed by electric railway interests anxious to crush motor bus competition, W. B. Hiner, president of Red Ball Transit Company, charged at a public meeting at Tomlinson Hall, Monday night. About 600 persons attended. Hiner attacked the public service commission and advocated Its abolition. "Administration of the utilities law has been a burden on all classes of people In Indiana instead of a relief,” he said. "The theory of the commission has been to stifle competition, fttheory which is of course fundamentally wrong." SOLUTION FOR AUTO JAM Make Trucks Larger So There Will Be Fewer of Them. Bv NEA Service .WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—-A new solution to the traffic congestion problem: Make trucks bigger, so there will be less of them! This Is no freak Idea. It’s the brain child of no less an authority than A. W. Herrington, one of Uncle Sam’s best engineers for the Army service. Herrington thinks In terms of six and even eight wheels for a truck, with heavier loads, and broader wheel area, so that one truck may take the place of two today and less road space be taken up. Beauty A Gleamy Mass of Hair 35c "Danderine” docs Wonders for Any Girl’s Hair Girls! Try this! When combing and dressing your hair, Just moisten your hair brush with a little “Danderine" and brush It through your hair. The effect is startling! You can do your hair up immediately and it will appear twice as thick and heavy— ts mass of gleamy hair, sparkling with life and possessing that incomparable softness, freshness and luxuriance. While beautifying the hair "Danderine’’ Is also toning and stimulating each single hair to grow thick, long and strong. Hair stops falling out and dandruff disappears. Get a bottle of "Danderine" at any drug or toilet counter and Just see how healthy and youthful your hair appears after this delightful, refresh, iog dressing.— Advertisement.
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ALSA THOMPSON FORMER CONVICT CHARGESTORTURE Prisoners Beaten to Death in Texas, Doctor Says, B v United Press AUSTIN. Texas, Fet. 10. Charges of brutal and Inhumane treatment of prisoners were to be further Investigated today by a legislative committee, following testimony of Dr. H. E. Boaz, former convict, who told the committee of seeing Joe Furey, convict, tortured to d#ath. Charges . that four prisoners died as a result of cruel punishment <n the Texas penitentiary were made by Boaz. Furey was starved until he was nearly dead, Boaz testified. Then he was dipped Into ice-cold water, beaten over the head with a stick of firewood and stamped and kicked by C. C. Fowler, convict caretaker In the prison, Boaz charged. Other testimony by Boaz Included stories of the death of a Mexican prisoner after a severe beating and the slaying of a negro convict who was killed when a guard struck him on the head with an iron bar. 3 PER CENT CARELESS Most Motorists Are Cautious When Crossing Tracks. Only 3 per cent of automobile drivers are careless, according to Thomas H. Carrow, Pennsylvania Railroad safety superintended!. Carrow bases his conclusions on a survey made by the road in October. In the thirteen States through which the lines pass, 97 per cent of the 114,257 drivers noted by men stationed at the crossings, observed reasonable care, the survey showed. 6,000 Volts Fall to Kill Bv Times Svecial RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 10.—A. C. Abelsperger, city electric light plant employe, was suffering from badly burned hands received when 6,000 volts passed through his body as he switched on the city’s lights. Physicians marvel that he lived.
Most People go to Chicago on the MONON ' • The Monon Route takes pardonable pride fn the fact thetmost people who travel between Indianapolis and Chicago use itsline. The Monoa Route appreciates this patronage and strives to deserve it. The Monon is the shortest line to Chicago—it operates ovsv its own rails all the way. It operates four fast trains daily in each direction—each one —— to Chicago and back the same day, with half a day in Chicago £of business or pleasure. The Monon has provided anew passenger station at 38th Street, known as “Boulevard Station, * where eSL its trains Stop. Local sleeper from this station to Chicago, open at 9:00 p,m. AH Monon trains use Dearborn Station, Chicago—only two All Monon day trams carry Library-Observation Cars. AO Monon day teams carry “The Famous Hoosier Dining Car Service,” s dining car service that challenges comparison and i, deserves the animated pcaiae it receives. When you travel between Indianapolis and Chicago, do as most people and on the Monon. It costs no more than to travel on otner lines, and you axe protected by Aotomatie . . . i■
CIVIC CLUB APPROVES Board Commended for Leaving Oriental St. Open—Others Scored. The Southeastern Civic Improve ment Club today adopted resolutions, through Its officers, commending the board of works on decision to leave Oriental St. open In track elevation program, and severely condemning the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Association for advocating closing of the street. Special criticism was directed at Nicholas Noyes and O. B. lies, the Chamber representatives, and Carl Taylor, Merchants Association representative, at a hearing before the board of works last week. LINCOLN GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE S. ' ’ 'V / ■ Jury Finds Chicago Lawyer Guilty of Murder,
Bv United Press GENEVA, 111., Feb. 10—Trankful to escape hanging, Warren J. Lincoln, 46, lawyer and floriculturist, today prepared for removal to Joliet prison to serve life for killing his wife and her brother, burning their bodies and imbedding the heads in a concrete block. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder last night, but directed life Imprisonment. Only two jurors wanted hanging. Tne jury found that Lincoln was insane when he committed the crime, but is sane now. Lincoln and his son burst into tears when the verdict was read. “I’m glad it wasn’t hanging, Dad,” the 21-year-old boy cried. Lincoln said he killed his victims because of certain intimate relations. BURIAL IN ARKANSAS Body of Switchman to Be Taken to Former Home. Following a short funeral service at the home at 10 a. m. today the body of John D. Wells, 45, of 753 N. King Ave., switchman who was crushed to death Monday under a cut of cars at the Big Four tracks and 8. Sherman Dr., was taken to Tiggott, Ark., his former home, for burial. Mrs. Sarah Wells, the widow, and the five surviving children, Laura, Thelma, Lafayette, Carroll and Mary, accompanied the body.
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BRITISH HOUSES OPENJESSIONS Members of Commons Scramble for Choice Seats, Bv United Press LONDON, Feb. 10.—Parliament reassembled this afternoon. There was the usual scramble for choice seats in the House of Commons. Dawn found a number of silk-hated M. P.a shivering on the door steps. Lady Astor, who always Is insistent upon obtaining a good seat, arrived breathlessly about 7:30 a. m. Owing to difficulties about his new title, former Premier H. H. Asquith was unable to take his seat in the House of Lords.
CHURCH WORKER HIRED Miss Alma Korengel Employed in Children’s Division. Miss Alma S. Korengel of the Presbyterian Training School of Chicago has been employed as a fulltime children’s division worker by the Indiana Synod of the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Robert J. McLandress, director of religious education, announced today following a meeting of the Christian education committee Monday at the Claypool. Miss Korengel, a trained kindergarten worker, has been here several times to conduct vocational school institutes. She will take up her duties at once. Champion Debaters Named Lester Budd, Winston Reilly and Benny Cohen today were acclaimed the champion debaters of Butler University following an inter-organ-ization tourney Monday in the chapel. Team members will have their names inscribed upon a silver loving cup. FOR SKIN TORTURES Zemo, the Clean, Antiseptio Liquid, Just What You Need Don’t worry about Eczema or other skin troubles. Yon can have a clear, healthy skin by using Zemo. Zemo generally removes Pimples, Blackheads, Blotches, Eczema and Ringworm and makes the skin clear and healthy. Zemo is a clean, penetrating, antiseptic liquid, that does not show and mav be applied day or night Trial bottle, 35c; large size, SI.OO. Zemo Soap, 25c. All druggists.—Advertise- | ment.