Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1925 — Page 1
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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 236
Abraham Lincoln’s Son Lives His Declining Years in Seclusion
tiu United Preen |r-=-3ASHINGTON, Feb. 12. lu/ Abraham Lincoln's son— I VY } Robert Todd Lincoln—now in his eighty-second year, is failing in health. The doors of the quaint old colonial house here where he lives with his wife and servants
GRAIN MAN DIES AFTER SKULL IS. CRUSHED BY BLOW
Brief Case Missing, Police See Rgbbery as Motive for Fatal Attack in Traders’ Alley, BODY FOUND IN OFFICE Six Are Questioned by Detectives in Effort to Obtain Clew, Ralph Cunningham, about 35, of Advance, Ind., joint owner of the Citizens Hay and Grain Company, 327 W. Pearl St., was found unconscious and bleeding from a crushed skull in his office early today by Harley Davis of the Davis Bros. Garage, 328 W. Maryland St., owners of the building Which houses the grain company. Cunningham died in city hospital at 11 a. m. A brief case, in which Cunningham carried home money and business receipts. Was missing, police said, causing them .to believe robbery was the motive of the attack. Police said they learned that the missing satchel was known to contain at least $97. This was the day’s receipts. Other money may have been in bag, police were told. A purse containing $34 in Cunnigham’B pocket was not taken. The grain company rents the Pearl St. halt of the building. According to Davis, Cunningham was in the habit of locking his offices and leaving by a door in the Davis garage cfflce. Davis was unable to open the door this morning and called police. Lieutenant Johnson broke in another (Turn to Page 11) JUDGF COLLINS WISER Is Told How Ford Car Can Be Started With Nail File. How to start a Ford by using a nail file was disclosed to Criminal Judge James A. Collins when three men appeared to answer charges of vehicle taking, grand larceny and unlawful possession. “The next thing 111 hear they are using chewing gum for punctures,” .smiled Judge Collins. Elroy Sticker, 27, of 426 N. Alabama St., was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to sixty days on the Indiana State farm, and Walter King, 20, of 801 E. Sanders St., was sentenced to thirty days in jail. Hulsie Beyers, 20, Bloomington, Ind., was discharged. Theft of an auto belonging to Dr. George Guthrie, 1433 N. Pennsylvania St., was charged.
There’s a Difference! Confusion still exists as to the difference between the city manager form of government' and the commission form, both of which are being advocated for Indianapolis. The two forms: CITY MANAGER—The people would elect a council of seven on a non-partisan ballot. This council would have legislative powers. It also would employ a city manager for an indefinite period and would have the power to discharge him. The city manager would appoint the beads of the various departments. His powers would be purely executive. This is the plan used in the larger cities. COMMISSION—The people would elect on a nonpartisan ballot five commissioners. One of these commissioners would be mayor. The five would head all the city de partments and would have absolute control of city affairs, both legislative and executive. This plan is used in a number of smaller cities. It has failed in a number of the large cities. Mayor Shank still is circulating petitions asking for the COMMISSION plan, although he has repeatedly said he is for the CITY MANAGER plan. The CITY MANAGER plan is the only one being considered by the Real Estate Board and various civic organizations. If you are for the successful CITY MANAGER plan DO NOT sign a petition asking for the COMMISSION plan, which has failed repeatedly. Read any petition presented to you bafore you sign it. 4 , \
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are closed to all except his most intimate friends and behind them he passes his declining years in seclusion as ordered by his physicians. Lincoln’s major activity is corresponding with historians and publicists who write-him to acquire details of his father’s life.
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Three Buried Bv United Preti r—iT. HELENA, Cal^Fdb. Sl2. —Three men are reported buried under tons of earth following collapse of an artificial cave on Spring Mountain, six miles northwest of here. A rescue squad left here early today. Heavy rains have washed out the roads between St. Helena and the cave and almost all the distance must be traveled on foot.
RUG MERCURY HALTS BUZZARDS Parts of State Covered With Deep Snow. High and Low Today San Francisco, cloudy, 54. Sault Ste Marie, Mich., clear, 10. Wytheville, Va., cloudy, 12. Rising temperature today and Friday was expected by the weather bureau to head off blizzards which swept the State Tuesday and Wednesday, resulting in heavy snow falls in some parts. Anderson this morning reported nine and one-half inches of snow on the ground. Noblesville had four and one-half inches. Traction lines throughout the State Wednesday were thrown off schedule because of drifts and heavy snow. State roads were almost impassable. Five snow plows were at work on the National Road, near Greenfield, clearing the snow, which halted traffic Wednesday night. The blizzard reached as far south as Evansville, which reported an inch of snow on the ground. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 18 10 a. m 25 7 a. m 17 11 a. m 26 8 a. 18 12 (noon) .... 28 9 a. m 22 1 p. m 29
Ip this he Is keenly painstaking and has the aid of one of the most complete collections of books and documents on Abraham Lincoln In the world. The bearded old man, the last living link with the great Emancipator, is very modest about his heritage and his own career,
DEATH TOLL OF 131 IN GERMAN MINEEXPLOSION Sparks From Machine Cause " Blast Which Entraps Workers in Under- * ground Levels, RESCUERS LOSE LIVES Mob, Aroused by Tragedy, Threatens to Lynch Owners of Property, Bv United Press „ BERLIN, Feb. 12.—One hundred and miners were killed in a mine explosion at Dortmund shortly before midnight. Several rescue workers, cutting their way inte the gas-filled shafts in search of possible survivors, were asphyxiated. Os the miners trapped when the blast occurred only seven were brought out alive. The entire industrial region around Dortmund was plunged into gloom by the tragedy and crowds gathered at the mine entrance threatening to lynch the directors who were making every effort to keep news of the disaster from getting out. Pitiful scenes were enacted as scores of wives and mothers clamored to be allowed to enter the pit mouth and help the hundreds of volunteers risking their lives in the shafts. Rescue workers with torches and oxygen tanks had to cut their way through rocks to the rear of the death chamber, where the explosion buried most of the victims. A series of explosions had blown a score of miners to pieces and blocked entrance to the second and third levels of the mine. Damp then caved in the walls of a pit where surviyors huddled together (Turn to Page .11) ‘HOME RULE’FOB CITIES WORTED Commercial Secretaries Oppose Repeal,' Indiana Commercial Secretaries Association is waging a fight against a measure before the Legislature to repeal the law giving Indiana cities the right tp select their own form of government, William H. Arnett, Kokomo, chairman of the legislative committee, said today. Arnett said the association spon sored the bill passed by the 1921 Legislature, giving cities “home rule.” “Cities should have the right of keeping their present form of city government or selecting a more progressive system if they prefer,” Arnett -said. Frank E. Gates, president of Indianapolis Real Estate Board, has written letters to civic nnd luncheon clubs, asking suppprt in the fight against repeal of the law. SNETHEN BOOM STARTED % Civic Club Urges Federation Head to Seek Mayoralty. George YvL Beaman, president of the MapJeton Civic Association, today wrote Edward O. Snethen, president Federation of Civic Clubs, urging him to become a candidate for Democratic nomination for mayor. Snethen said several persons had talked with him aboyl it, but he had not decided to “throw his hat in the ring.” Beaman said Snethen, who had given his time to civic interests for three years, was especially qualified to conduct city affairs. “I feel that the time has come when we need a mayor who will give his time for the betterment of the city rather than to fulfill -party pledges,” the letter said. POSTMASTER NOMINATED Minard A. Schutt Named for Michigan City Office. Bv United Press \ WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—President Coolidge today sent to the Senate the nomination of Minard A.
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which cabinet post, four years as minister to England and high places in the business world. His mind is still very alert, and since his retirement in 1916 he has remained a member of the board of the Pullman company and Chicago banks.
Warren WTownship Pupils Dismissed Because Blizzard-Blocked Roads Stop School Hacks
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_TJ AR.REN Township children VY/ blessed the weather man to_day. Snow drifts were so deep in the township, just east of the city, that lYie school busses couldn’t get through. So Township Trustee E. J. Hecker dismissed school for the day. j The blizzard was so’ severe Wednesday five busses were stalled on homeward trips in the after-
‘STAND BACK THERE, YOU COYOTES!’ EDDIE GARVIE. PRINCIPAL IN “HELL'S BELLS,” BROADWAY SHOW BARKED OUT THIS COM-MAND-ONE OF HIS DRAMATIC LINES—AND FIRED HIS PISTOL—A BROTHER ACTOR PITCHED FORWARD ON HIS FACE, A WOMAN FAINTED—THE GUN WAS LOADED. BUT SCRATCH ON VILLAIN’S ARM IS ONLY RESULT.
a By United Press rr-riEw York, Feb. 12. IN I " stand back there, you >r 1 * coyotes,” growled Eddie Garvie, pulling one of his dramatic lines, as a principal in the Broadway play, “Hells Bells.” . Clifton Self, another actor, pursued his role, and bravely ad-
Fewer Riders ■, . jLTHOUGH revenues of I/\ | the Indianapolis Street LI *1 Railway Company increased $68,689.25 during 1924 over those of 1923, there'was a marked falling off in the number of passengers hauled. During 1924 a total of 100,285,175 passengers rode on Indianapolis street cars as against 110,551,487 the year before. Receipts, however, jumped from $4,982,420.74 in 1923 to $5,051,009.99 in 1924. The increase was due to 7-cent fare which wept into effeffet May 21, 1924. Falling off in passenger traffic (during the year was due to adverse business conditions, Joseph H. McGowan, secretarytreasurer, said.
BRITISH ISLES IN GRIP OF EPIDEMIC / 1 1 ’ Forty Thousand London Children 111 With Flu. Bv United Press Li CKNUON, Feb. 12.—Forty thousand London school children are influenza victims, in some cases less than half the average attendance being in the classrooms. The British Isles are in the grip of an epidemic that is spreading with alarming rapidity, although the disease itself is comparatively mild. Influenza has made serious inroads on business, society and government work. In many ..-districts throughout England and Scotland there is also severe epidemic of
He reads widely—daily papers, magazines and books, the latter chiefly history, biography and memoirs. He is especially interested in English papers and f'ook.®. whirh-Temind him of his days there as a diplomat; He Bhakes his head over the changes that have come over England
noon. One did not reach the garage until 9p. m. The children deserted the stranded hack and plowed home afoot. Warren Central High School whs dismissed Wednesday noon so the pupils could get home before dark. Hecker said the township schools would be reopened Friday unless further snow blocks roads again.
vanced in defiance of the warning and a pistol spoke. Self pitched forward to the stage. Shirly Booth, leading lady, screamed and fainted as the bullet whizzed by her. The curtain dropped while the audience sat spellbound. Later: * It developed that Garvie, unable
COFFIN GOES TO SUPREME COURT Seeks to Block Injunction by Judge Miller, Georg© V. Coffip, Republican county chairman, and claimant of the Republican city chairmanship, today went to State Supreme Court in a new effort to beat the Shank-Jewett-Lemcke Republican faction opposing him 4 v Coffin asked Supreme Court to issue a writ of prohibition preventing Superior Judge Sidney S. Miller from permanently enjoining Coffin from ousting twenty-six Republican precinct committeemen, who favor the Shank faction. Hearing was set for 3 p. m. today. Miller Is to rule Saturday. He issued a temporary injunction against Coffin Jan. 24, the day Coffin and Ralph A. Lemcke werp elected City chairmen by the rival Republican factions. Coffin contends before Supreme Court that Miller does not have jurisdiction. MOTORISTS TAKE CARE ley Streets Hold Arrests on Speed Charges to Two. Evidence that -automobile drivers exercise care in driving over glassy streets Wednesday night was given today on the police slates, showing only two arrests on speeding charges. Keith Griner, 22, of 1115 Central Ave.. ang W. M, Renn, 31, of 1418 Barth Ave., were the two.
his friend, Gladstone’s, day. Lincoln has never written a history of his father, and probably never will. His reason Is that he collaborated with Nicolai and John Hay, who were Abraham Lincoln’s secretaries in the White House, and told them all
The State highway commission had five motor plows clearing drifts which blocked National Rd. traffic for several hours. The pictures show condition <of the National Rd. twelve miles east of the city late Wednesday. Indianapolis Motor Bus Terminal reported Richmond busses were back on schedule today, but that none had gotten through from Crawfordsville Wednesday or today.
to find his stage pistol for the scene, had procured on 4 from a and didn’t know it was loaded. Self suffered a minor wound in the right arm. The play was resumed after twenty - minutes. Garvie was released on bond for violating the law against possession of weapons. 1
Prep-a-a-re! B' j ETTER get out your horseshoes and rabbits’ I feet. You will have occasion to use them Friday. It’s Friday the Thirteenth. According to advance reports, black cats are preparing for a royal entertainment. Those who survive the dread day will have two mpre opportunities this year to jet shivers of superstition run up and down their spines. March axid November also see a Friday the Thirteenth.
ANOTHER BOOST IN GASOLINE SET Standard to Raise Price 2 Cents Friday, Gasoline prices will jump 2 cents a gallon Friday, according to announcement of the Standard Oil Company from its Chicago office today. This will make the fourth increase, for a total of 5 cents, since Jan. 23. Official hotice of the increase has not been received by the Standard Oil Company branch here. The price raise will be followed by independent companies. New retail prices will he: Low test gasoline, 22.1 cents; high test, 25.2 to 26 cents, depending upon brand. The increase will be effective in eleven midwestern States. Kerosene prices will go up one cent. Rapid advance in crude oil prices was given as reason for the increase.
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he thinks ought to be published. He ranks the works of Nicolai and John Hay above anything else ever written about his father. Before he lost one leg he was an ardent golf lover. Astronomy now monopolizes his spare time as his hobby.
HO GET GOLLMST IS CRY OF MBS AT PRISON OF MAR EMTfIMBEOIU DAYS New Shaft Diggers Approach Roof of Cave That Holds Explored May Be Hours orlOnly Minutes Until Rescue Is Made. SNOW FLURRIES AND CHILL WINDS HAMPER THE WORK New Fissures May Aid in Discovery —Chicago Physician Ready to Enter Cavern With Stimulants—Morale of Crowd Is Good. Bv United Preti AT THE MOUTH OF SAND CAVE, Ky., Feb. 12.—“G0 get Collins!” Whether Floyd Collins lies within immediate reach or many feet below them in his underground prison, rescue Workers did not know today. But doggedly they dig on. Their motto remains the same: • “Go get Collins!” Inch by inch they are sinking the shaft downward toward a solid limestone bed five feet below the shaft bottom which- is believed to be the roof of the cavern near where Collins is held. In the last twenty-four hours the shaft has reached a depth of for-ty-seven feet. At this depth, timber men entered the pit and timbered the shaft to the bottom. Oh account of the soft ground, heavy timbers are required to protect the diggers. A test drill indicated the limestone will be encountered.- at fifty-three feet. If the tests are correct a tunnel will have to be made to where Collins is held, according to H. T. Carmichael, in charge of the rescue work. “We know the roof over Collin’s head is sandstone,” he said. “That is one of the reasons we sank the shaft about ten feet from him.” Dig AH Night Workmen have been digging throughout the night in a soft mud embedded with sandstone boulders of various sizes. This, Carmichael said, was the condition of the roof which hangs over the imprisoned man. A nearby cave, discovered by Edward Brenner, Cincinnati, late Wednesday, does not enter Sand Cave, those in charge of the rescue work said, after Brenner crawled more than 100 feet into the opening after others said they were afraid to attempt it. Additional camp equipment arrived in three automobiles from Frankfort Wednesday night. This consisted of tents, cots and blankets. An official bulletin issued at midnight by M. E. S. Posey, personal representative of Governor William J. Fields, said the morale of the rescue crews was improved. There was a mad rush for the cave at 1 ;30 a. m., when a report reached Cave City that a draft was discovered by timbermen. The draft was so strong it almost blew out their lights. Investigation showed it was a small fissure which led no where apparently. The weather here is very cold and raw with snow flurries.
All preparations have been made quickly to clear out the debris, place Collins on a lift and deliver him to Dr. W. H. Hazett, Chicago, who will But here they stop. Dr. Hazlett may give stimulants. Or he may announce the man is dead. Official estimate today stated it
DOIN’S AT THE CAVE
B United ‘ret* | AVE CITY, Ky„ Feb. 12.—A m a n who claimed to be the Floyd Collins who discovered Costal Cave created a furor late Wednesday when the mayor at Haddam, Kans., a hamlet of 200 people wired Brig. Gen. H. H. Denharat to sy he was holding Flody Collin*. He followed it with another wire to Wm B. Miller, a newspaper reporter. The. State of Kentucky shelled out 53.82, and Miller 51.11. The telegrams were sent collect. , Floyd CoUina lost his bearings and doubled backwards in his search for-another uhderground wonderland, instead of getting into safe territory, according to geologists who today explained the topography of the country surrounding Sand Cave. Caves are usually capped by limestone roof which must be pierced befox'e the lower passages formed water washing out the limestone can be exposed. *' It is in trying to find openings through this sandstone, muck and mud that the explorer risks his life. Once within the structure with solid roofs overhead, the danger la past.
Forecast FAIR tonight, followed by increasing cloudiness Friday. Rising temperature. Lowest tonight about 25.
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This absorbing avocation has made him very particular on the subject of time. For years he has clocks set daily by United States naval observatory time. Lincoln’s last public appearance was at the dedication of the Lincoln memorial in 1922.
would take a maximum of sixty hours to reach the level at which Collins lies. H. T. Carmichael, general supervisor of operations, issued the following official communique: “At 9 a. m. today the shaft haJf' reached a depth of about 40 feet. T~ “Engineers calculate Collins is hot (Turn to Page 11)