Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 237, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 237

MAYOR LEW IN GREAT ADO ON MANAGER PLAN Returns From Cleveland All Excited About City Government Reform, BUT ZENER WORKS ON Shank Isn’t Interested in Stopping Counter * Petitions, Mayor Shank returned from Cleveland, Phio, today bubbling over with enthusiasm for the city manager form of government for Indianapolis. Meantime petitions for a commission form, prepared at his direction, and circulated through John Zener, police captain, attached to the city controller’s office, were being circulated, and the mayor admitted he had taken no steps to recall them. “This city manager system is making good in Cleveland. I talked to a large number of department managers and business .men and they all agreed that the city manager form had it all over the old political system in every way, both for efficiency and economy in government.” Cleveland Advancing ' "Cleveland is making rapid strides under the new government and Indianapolis certainly ought to adopt it. Asked what steps he itnended to take as to commission petitions, he said: “You know, I have nothing to do with that now. I am waiting for „the real estate board, Kiwanis Club and other organizations to get be■hind it. If they decide to circulate petitions for an election of the city manager plan I will get right behind them. What’s more I will see their petitions are circulated. “But they ought to get busy before it is too late.” > ' -‘w** W * * Enough Signatures Obtained? "fl* Captain Zener said he already had obtained more than the 20,000 signatures necessary to obtain an eleoy Hone—' f “We are going to index and crossindex them so there can be no possible duplication of names to give any one a basis on which to attack the petition,” he said. He refused to say when he expected to file the petitions with the city clerk. Around city hall it was said Zener would hold them up to see what action the Legislature will take on a bill for repeal of the law. According to stories in circulation Zener has about 40,000 names on his petitions. BRIDE'S PARENTS ’ SUED BY HUSBAND Riding Instructor Says Wife Is Forcibly Kept Away, Btl United Press \ MILWAUKEE, Feb. for $250,000 for alleged alienation of affections today further complicated the riding instructor-heiress romance of Jack Bradley and Emily Forster Bradley. Bradley declared if he cannot have his bride he will penalize her wealthy parents. He declares they are forcibly keeping her from him. Emily, 22, has been in seclusion for two days. Bradley, 23, former United States Cavalryman, and Emily eloped to Waukegan, 111., Sunday. They returned the same night and went to their respective homes.

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'Of Course We’re Not,’ Say Courthouse Girls, Who Walk Under Ladders on Friday, the Thirteenth,

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MISS MILDRED F. BARRETT (LE FT) AND MISS KATHRYN B. DURFLINGER.

rSJjHAT HO! Two girls under \X/ a ladder on Friday the YT 13th? Surely they’ll not' live to read their Valentines Saturday. The daring young women are Miss Mildred F. Barrett, 2610 E. Washington St., and Miss Kathryn B. Durflinger, 1002 E. Palmer St., probate copy clerks at the

Unusual Bv Times Special I r I Mr. and Mrs. John Camp--1 bell celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary Thursday. Guests included the Rev. Amos Carson, 85, who married them.

AUTO INSURANCE KILLED

Bill Requiring Drivers to Carry Protection Postponed. Representative Korff’s bill, requiring motorists to carry liability insurance, was indefinitely postponed 4NMfee House today on motion of Representative Kissinger, Columbia City. The bill, when handed down for second reading, was amended. FREeTbOOKS FOR CITY? Bill Introduced Calling for Special Levy to Cover Cost. Representative Hinkle, Indianapolis. introduced a bill in the House today requiring the Indianapolis school board to purchase and distribute free common school textbooks and authorizing a special levy to cover the financial requirements for such a' System. Othe measures of importance tq Indianapolis: Bebinger bill, legalizing thoroughfare tax levies made by council before adoption of official thoroughfare plan; Elliott bill, requiring street car lines to pave trackage. CHARGES ARE DISMISSED Judge Olds Rules Mere Possession of liquor Not a Felony. Ruling mere possession of liquor is not a felony, City Judge Pro Teas., Garrett Olds today dismissed blind tiger charges against William "Gippy” Gavin. 45, of 818 S. West St., Twelfth ward Democratic politician, and Patrick McCarty, 24, of 247 W. Wyoming St. Ralph Murphy, 26, of 4317 E. Washington St., found in a dry peer saloon ah 818 S. West St. at the time of the arrest, Jan.. 30, was fined $1 and costs on a drunkenness charge. Police testified they found fifteen half-pints of white mule: In, the saloon. FLOOD WATERS RECEDE Heavy Damage Done in East Before Cold Snap Averts Danger. Bv United Pres* NEW YORK, Feb. 13—Floods general through the East Thursday as a result of melting snows were receding today with the advent of a cold snap. Many thousands of dollars’ damage was done along the banks of the Merrimac, the Connecticut, Susquehanna, Monongahela, Raritan, Delaware and other rivers, while several thousand persons !n New York State were rendered homeless. COMMISSION LOSES HOPE Pill Granting Control Over Security Sales Killed. Hope of the public service commission to strengthen its control over the sale of public utility securities was abandoned today with indefinite" postponement of the Mendenhall House measure. After a lengthy debate the House adopted a majority report of Judiciary A Committee recommending postponement of further consideration of the bill. Pleas a£ the author of the bill ‘o pass it to second reading in order hat the bill might be explained were overridden. Barbers ttr'in Fight The Indiana House, considering the Barlow cosmetology licensing bill on secqnd reading, indefinitely ST e ghMhe ra raaure today '

Courthouse. Walking under ladders used to reach record shelves is a daily occurrence for them. “If we observed every silly little superstition in vogue today we couldn’t keep our mind on our work.” said Miss Barrett. “Os course I cross my fingers while walking under the ladder,” said Miss Durflinger.

MRS. SIOKES ASKS WMIMONY Wife of Druggist Fi s Suit for Divorce, Mrs. Emma F. Stokes. 3555 Wa ,h----ington Blvd., wife of Joseph T. Stokes, president Stokes Pharmacy Company, today filed suit for divorce on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment In Superior Court One, She asked sßo,odo alimony. Floyd J. Mattlce, attorney for Stokes, petitioned Judge James A. Leathers for a temporary restraining order to prevent Stokes from taking his funds from the bank or deeding his real estate to other parties. Prior to their mariage, Nov. 29, 1923, Stokes deeded a large part of his real estate to his brother, Charles D. Stokes, of Richmond, Ind., Ma.'Uce said. Stokes and his wife have been separated since Wednesday, Mattice said. On Jan. 3, Stokes was sentenced in Federal Court to six months In jail on charges of violat in* the prohibition law. Besides controlling three drug stores, Stokes is said Jo own the Willoughby Bldg., two apartment houses and other property. Mrs. Stokes is about 30 years old.

BLIND SCHOOL UP FOR HOUSE TALK

Bill Providing Location Made Special Business, The bill providing for re-location of Indiana School for the Blind was a special order of business in the Statehouse this afternoon, i. The Penrod bill providing or codification of fish and game laws was a special order of business in the Senate. Senate committee on labor was ready to file a divided report on the workmen’s compensation bill. The majority report .recommended passage with amendments. - Committee report on the old age pension bill was without recomraen-. dation. The Southworth-Holmes-King measure, backed by Eben Wolcott, State bank commissioner, providing more stringent regulations for loans, was indefinitely postponed. LEGaITaID IS PLEDGED Attorneys to Give Services at Request of Welfare Society. Lawrence Davis, president, Indianapolis Bar Association, has named a legal aid committee to assist clients of Family Welfare Society in securing justice and fair settlement of civil suits. Judson L. Stark is chairman. The attorneys have agreed to give their services on request of the society, in continuation of the work formerly earned on by the legal aid department last year. The committee: James L. Murray, Harry E. Raitano, Adele Storck, Edward J. Boleman, Robert N. Fulton, Walter Lieber, V. H. Mercurio, Jacob Morgan, Herbert G. Parker Mark V. Rinehart, John Hajen Wil son. Burton C. Bovard, Albrecht R. Kipp, Elizabeth Mason and Allen V. Boyd. , Insurance Measure Passed State Senator Dickerman’s bill providing life insurance policies shall be incontestable during the life of the Insured and for two years from its date by the Senate today by a vote dfUO to 0.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEB. 13, 1925

JINX DAY IS WITH JTERE are some cross-word H jinxes: I**l Don’t bathe in something In thirteen letters—Atlantic Ocean. Don’t go "out without something In thirteen letters—heavy overcoat. Don’t covet something in thirteen letters —neighbor's wife. I Don’t drink something in thirteen letters—poisoned hooch. Bv United Press OTTAWA, Feb. 13.—Friday, the thirteenth, proved a jinx for bachelors. A bill providing a heavy tax for all single men was given parliament today. Herbert Marler, ita sponsor, said If tke bill were passed there’d be no unmarried men in tha dominion Bv United Press BROOKLYN, N. Y., Feb. 13.—T0 avoid walking under a ladder that spanned the sidewalk. George Martinez, 65, stepped into the highway. - As he did so a taxicab hit him and he was taken to the hospital with a f.aetured skull. Bu United Press BROOKLYN, N. Y*., Feb. 13.—A burglar, who was captured while robbing the home of William Burrell, told the police he’d got away all right, if it hadn’t been Friday the thirteenth. Bi; United Press WHITE CLOUD, Mich., Feb. 13. —Quincy Branch discovered his radiator leaking. Stopped his automobile—lighted a match. Radiator contained alcohol. Doctors say Branch will recover. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Charlie Daniels got both barrels of jinx day. He lost his girl, got shot in the hand and then landed In jail. All because he quarreled with his sweetheart who called the police who did the rest when Charlie ran.

Marooned A cat may have nine lives, but not even an alley cat wants to spend one of them marooned on an Island. The wailing of a feline at the base of the middle pier of the Morris St. bridge over White River attracted the attention of William Mack, 913 Chadwick St. and ■ Max Stewart, 909 S. West St., as they left the Indianapolis Abbatoir Thursday evening. The two lowered a bucket, with meat in it, by a rope, and inVited Thomas to step into the elevator and be rescued. Tom was too panicky for that, so Mack climbed down the rope, put the cat inside his shirt, and climbed back. Tom was given a home by a small boy whr. had ’ watched the rescue. How he became marooned remained a mystery.

BRIDGE BILL IS SIGNED Coolidge Approves Measure to Span Wabash at Vincennes. Bv United Preen WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—1n presence of Senator Watson, Indiana; Senator McKinley, Illinois, and several Indiana and Illinois Congressmen, President Coolidge today signed the" bill authorizing the construction of a briwge across the Wabash River at Vincennes, Ind. TESTIFY IN FATAL FALL Workmen Say Clamps Used on Scaffold Considered Safe. Clamps such as those used to hold a cable supporting a scaffold from which Cecil Hurst, 20, Fillmore, Ind., and Guy Armand, 81, of 2268 Parker Ave., fell Tuesday at the Circle Inn, are considered safe by experienced workmen, according to testimony before Coroner Paul F. Robinson today. Hurst and Armand were killed when they dropped from the eighth story after one of the clamps slipped. . Testimony was offered by Matt Trout, R. R. C., Box 129, workman for twenty-three years, who witnessed the accident, and Charles Stamm, 902 W. Thirty-First St., and Coart Johnson, 328 Drexel Gardens, who were working on other scaffolds on the building. Abe Simpson, 812 S. Illinois St., newsboy, who saw the men fall, and Motor Policemen Mangus and Oaliley also testified. SECT LEADER ENDS LIFE Waits Week for Millenium, Then Hangs Self in Home. Bv United Pres* CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. IS.— Charles Ford, one of the leaders of the sect that forecast the end of the world, waited a week for fulfillment of the prophecy and then committed suicide on Friday, the 13th. He hanged himself to a rafter in his home here.

MAYOR SHANK DAY BY DAY Mayor Shank returned today from Cleveland (where the CITY MANAGER form of government is in operation) declaring he is for a CITY MANAGER for Indianapolis. Recently he declared for the COMMISSION form for Indianapolis and later expressed his willingness to work for the CITY MANAGER form. Meanwhile, Shank petitions asking for the COMMISSION form continue to be circulated. Is

TRUSTS STUDENTS RiSSHIPg? , TR p / *I ’ mvII George Mulholland, College ’Apple Merchant,’ Finds It Pays—But, Mind You, He’s a Champion Boxer,

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i—iONESTY is the best policy, Hsays George Mulholland, 2945 Station St., student, who runs three apple stands on the honor system at Butler University. He leaves the stands unattended. A sign Invites students to take an apple and drop a nickel in the tin box. George got the idea from Illinois University and found the scheme to be practical in his own school. "At first I charged a dime, but

ILLINOIS SLAYER OF FIVE HANGED Dies Calmly 7 --Thanks All Who Have Been Kind. Bv United Preen WHEATON, 111., Feb. 13.—John Kammerer, 47, Bavarian waiter, was hanged here today for the murder of a family of five because of a debt of sl2. The trap was sprung at 10:39. Kammerer was pronounced dead at 10:53. He maintained his composure to the last. His last words were: “I want to thank all the people who have been kind to me.” , Sheriff Hes.armann sprang the trap. Only a handful of men were permitted to witness the execution. The parade from Kammerer’s cell started a few moments before 10:30. In the parade were the sheriff, a priest, Deputy Sheriff Lyle Grange, father of “Red” the football star, and a few m. • Hold-Up Killer Executed Bv United Preen DECATUR, 111.. Feb. 13.—John Stacey,' 54, died on the gallows today as penalty for the murder of Hamen Rubenstein, killed during the hold-up of his store. Stacey went to his death calmly. SALARY INCREASE FAILS' Constitutional Majority Lacking for Marion County Bill. The English bill which increased salaries of Marion County deputy clerk, recorder, auditor and sheriff, from $2,400 to $3,000 failed to pass for want of a constitutional majority today, when only 24 ayes could be mustered against 17 noes. The measure occasioned heated discussion. Senator Cann declared he was opposed to any salary increases. Senator Batt asked Senator English whether the measure was not in direct violation of constitutional amendment introduced by English providing there shall be no salary increase during term of office. English replied it was.

students took the apples without paying for them,” said George. “Then I found that cheap apples wouldn’t sell. So I give them good apples for a. nickel, and the students play square.” Mulholland said they pay for about 95 per cent of the apples. But George happens to be the national junto/ light heavyweight amateur ’.Vjxtng champ and a nien!ber of Uncle Sam’s Olympic boxing team. Perhaps that has something to do with It.

High and Low Today

Key West, Fla., clear, 60. Brownsville, Tex., cloudy, 68. Williston, N. D., clear, 2. Bismarck, N. D., clear, 2. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 31 10 a. m. 30 7 a. m 30 11 a. m 30 8 a. m 30 12 (noon) .... 31 9 a, m 80 1 p. m. 32 WELFARE SOCIETY SECRETARY NAMED Miss Rhoda Welding of Muncie Is Elected, Miss Rhoda M. Welding, head of the Soeial , Service Bureau, was elected executive secretary of the Family Welfare Society at today’s luncheon at the Lincoln. She succeeds Paul L. Benjamin, secretary of the society since Its foundirig, who resigned in December. Miss Harriet Shepard has been acting secretary. Miss Welding, who will take up lire new duties March 1, was in charge of girls at Julia E. Work Training School at Plymouth until she went to Terre Haute to head the Society for Organizing Charity. She served as field representative of the Lake County Chapter, American Red Cross, and was general secretary of Associated Charities of Gary. During the war she was active in Red Cross work. In 1917 and 1918 she had charge of outdoor poor relief -of board of State- charities. Leo Rappaport was chairman of the executive . committee which selected the new secretary. MORE MEASURES READY Tile-Draining Subject of Bill by Senator King. Land owners may ask for tile draining in sub-laterals when a ditch is being run through their land, under a bill ready for introduction in the State Senate by Senator King. Sweetser. The measure provides cost of tiling may be included in bond issue for the main ditch and be assessed against the land. Senator Perkins has a bill ready which cuts re-registering fee of professional engineers and land surveyors from $lO to $5. Senator Holmes has a n> 3w measure which amends the present Barrett law vo eliminate the sinking fund restrictions. The sinking fund under the present law expired Jan. 1, 1925. Senate Passes Ninety-One Bills Up to noon today the State Senate I had passed eighty-eight Senate bills I and three House .bill*. 1

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IMMEDIATE RESCUE HOPES FADE AS NEW CREVICE IS DISCOVERED TO BE POCKET Entrance to Collins Reported Found When Shaft Diggers Run Into Narrow Passageway—Exploration Reveals Sealed End. s INTENSE EXCITEMENT AS NEWS IS FLASHED TO CAVE’S MOUTH Experts Now Believe Horizontal Channel Must Be Driven to Place Where Entombed Explorer Is Held Prisoner. By FOSTER EGNER United Press Btaff Correspondent AT THE MOUTH OF SAND CAVE, Ky., Feb. 13.—“ Dig on!” That was still the word at the shaft being sunk toward Floyd Collins’ living tomb today. Tense excitement caused by discovery of a pocket crevice sixteen inches wide caused reports to be flashed over the country that Collins had been heard to call and later that he had been taken out alive. All not directly connected with the rescue work were ordered back from the shaft when workers reported discovery of the crevice to H. T. Carmichael, in charge of the operation. General H. H. Denhardt, military commander, rushed to the scene from Cave City. Red Cross nurses and doctors were told to be “ready for anything.” '• Then a rescue worker entered the shaft. He crawled along it for twenty-five feet. Then he met a blank wall.

So the excitement died and the diggers went back to work. They were heartened by the hope that another crevice might prove more fruitful. Drillings made early today as far down as the seventy-five-foot level had failed to indicat eany cavities, and it was asserted the? sole means of getting at Colitis was to drive a horizontal tunnel from the shaft. Repeated slides today had made work so dangerous In the shaft that only experienced miners are assigned to the digging. Sides of the shaft passing through the slimy muck and rocky mixture fifty-eight feet below the surface caved four times In succession before timber men could shore them up. Collins is seventy feet below the earth. It is estimated. Picks and shovels are being used by the men in the pit, but the work is being eased by the drilL Many Crews After the dirt has been loosened by the crew, another enters the shaft and loads it into the bucket. The dirt then is dumped on a platform. Another crew of men loads the earth into the dump car. This is operated by a eteel cable from a gasoline engine operated drum placed at the end of the tramway. Grim men, red-eyqd from lack of sleep, struggled throughHthe night, shoring up the sides or the shaft to prevent new cave-ins and fighting the putty-like muck that stopepd the diamond drill which feels the way ahead of the diggers. The military inquiry went on as usual today. H. H. Denhardt, commanding general here, said it probably would continue for several days. Homer Collins, brother of Floyd took the stand late Thursday and told of his brother’s life, his love for caves and his work among them. Floyd sought to take with him the day the explorer was lost, his brother Homer, but he refused to go! "I wouldn’t go into it except to get Floyd out,” he said. No Trouble Floyd never had any trouble with John Gerald, so far as Hbmer knew “Do you believe John Gerald tried to prevent Floyd’s rescue?” one of the officers asked. “No, sir, I don’t,” Homer replied. “So far as I know nobody tried to keep anybody from helping Floyd.” He told of the beautiful cavern Floyd said he discovered behind his present position. Later the interogator concluded his examination by saying: “Homer there has been some talk about Floyd not being in the cave. Is there a man in there?" “Yes, sir,” Homer replied. “Did you see him?” “Yes, sir.” “Is he your brother, Floyd?” “He positively is, I know It. I was with him four times and I fed him myself.” Newspaper men are dropping into Cave Citj by airplane, train and au tomobile. < * The camp at Sand Cave, in which Floyd Collins has been imprisoned since Jan. 30, resembles a mining

Forecast PARTLY cloudy and probably unsettled tonight and Saturday. Lowest temperature tonight 20 to 25.

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foot of a rocky cliff fifty-eight feet high. The cave is among low hills called “knobs.” At the southwestern end of a small valley a half mile long and located about seven miles'' from Cave City is a sort of blind pocket 100 yards wide at its mouth and narrowing down to 100 feet. It resembles a wide, shallow gorge and is lined with protruding limestone ledges. At the end of gorge is a pocket about fifty feet deep which is roofed with overhanging rock. A man can stand under this natural roof even at the wall. It is at the foot of this wall that the cave was entered. Tracks Laid Under the rock roof of the pocket also is located the shaft with a wooden track running down the gorge. That track carries steelylump cars such as are used in a mine. The cars are loaded at the shaft by an iron basket holding about a quarter cubic yard. The whole zone of active work is in the end of the rock pocket. Guard, mess, sleeping and Rfed Cross tents, numbering about twenty, are on the brow of the cliff. A view of the operations in the pocket is obscured by canvas which extends twenty-five feet beyond the rock roof. This protects workmen from the weather. PREMIER SLAIN, DISPATCHES SAY Jugo-Slavia Official Reported Murder Victim, Bv United Preee ATHENS, Feb. 13.—Premier Patchitch of Jugo-Slavia is reported in unconfirmed dispatches from Saloniga to have ben assassinated by an unidentified Croat. Hundreds of arrests took place in Jugo-Slavia during the recent elections, in which Premier Patchitch’s followers won over the combined opposition by a narrow margin. Rioting and bloodshed were general and there was much talk in Belgrade dispatches of an attempt against the life of the premier. Bv United Preen LONDON, Feb. 13.—The Serbian legation here discounts rumors that Premier Patchitch has been assassinated. NEW JUDGE GRANTED • Fred C. Cause Chosen to Try Case of Thomas O’Reilly. Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court today sustained a motion for a change of judge in the case of Thomas O’Reilly, 2235 N. Talbott St., charged with false pretense and petit laFceny. Fred C. Cause was selected to try the case, which has been set for some time in March. O’Reilly ia alleged to have ob-