Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 238

BUTLER RECEIVES GIFT OF $300,000 FROMCUBUS W, G. Irwin ahd Sister Make Huge Donation to Building Fund of University. IMPETUS GIVEN DRIVE Condition Made That Indianapolis Raise $700,000 in Year. John W, Atherton, financial secretary of Butler University today announced a gift of $300,000 to the Butler building fund from William G. Irwin and his sister, Mrs. Z. T. Sweeney, of Columbus, Ind. Paying a tribute to the Irwin family, Atherton spoke es Joseph I. Irwin, father of the two donors, as leader of a group of men who saved ButlA- in the days when financial depression threatened destruction of the institution. Gifts to Butler from Joseph I. Irwin and his children now exceed $600,000. When the present Butler money raising campaign started it was felt that *900,000 would be adequate for additional endowment and that $600,000 would be sufficient for a building fund. Goal Is Increased Purchase of the Fairview Park site and other expenses, together with an investigation of the cost of modern college buildings, brought the realization that this sum will be insufficient. Already more than, $1,250,000 has been subscribed for endowment and grounds fund. Atherton announced the beginning of a building fund drive for $1,000,000. Irwin and Mrs. Sweeney have made their gift conditional that $700,000 additional must be raised by the end of this year. 1 Challenge to Indianapolis “This is a challenge to the people of Indianapolis,” said Atherton. “Mr. Irwin and Mrs. Sweeney are not residents of the city but they and their father have given more to the college than has come from any other source. It is no more than fair that they, at this time, should condition their latest benefaction. “If we, in Indianapolis, cannot raise $700,000 to match their $300,000 by Dec. 31, then we are unworthy to accept thei.' money. I am confident the citizens of Indianapolis will take up the challenge, contribute what is needed and make it possible for Butler to meet the educational requirements of the thousands of Indianapolis boys and girls who are demanding higher learning at home.”

’TWAS ONLY ‘CRACKER' Poßce Rush to Home When Shooting Is Reported. , Police rushed to 1400 block on E. Market St. late Friday on report of a shooting. G. E. Alger, 1422 E. Market St.,' said his son Jean threw a firecracker out the window at another son, Gail, who was leaving ,he ” ‘HIM RULE’FOR CITIES RETAINED Politicians’ Repeal Measure Killed in House, Indiana cities still have the right to choose their forms of government. The bill introduced in behalf of Indianapolis politicians, to repeal the law pnder which cities may adopt either the city manager or the commission form of government, was killed in the Up use of Representatives late Friday. The repeal measure introduced by Representative Claremont Smith of Indianapolis and other members was reported out of the committee on cities and towns with the unanimous recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed. The report was adopted without opposition. This action of the Legislature now assures the possibility that Indianapolis can vote_ whenever a petition is filed, on anew form of government.

Fate's Trick Bu United Press r“T~]USTIN, Texas, Feb. 14. I A. I A child’s birthday par--1 '**‘l ty was turned into trag dy near here late Friday when three smalt girls were burned to death in their hay-barn play house. The dead: Frances Cullen, 6: Dorothy Cullen, 4, and May Hardin, . Firemen were taking the bodies, burned beyond recognition, from the blazing ruins when J. B. Cullen, father of two of the victims, reached home, unaware of the disaster, and with his pockets filled with birthday presents for 4-year-old Dorothy.

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M’CUNTOCKWILL FIGHT IS CARRIED TO INDIANAPOLIS Attorney for Heirs-at-Law of Late Chicago Millionaire Youth Gathers Facts Here. AFTER SHEPHARD DATA Finds Beneficiary Lived Here and Mother Now Is Resident. 1 The fight of seven heirs-at-law of the late William McClintock, Chicago millionaire youth, to break his will centered in Indianapolis today. Delvy T. Walton, Chicago attorney, representing the heirs-at-law, was here to gather evidence upon th past life of William D. Shephard. Shephard was named beneficiary in McClintock’s will. Mrs. Shephard was guardian of McClintock. McClintock was an orphan. The evidence will be used in a suit to break the will in which It will be charged the Shephards used undue influence upon McClintock, Walton said. Mother Lives Here The attorney said he found that Shephard was reared near Indianapolis and his mother, Mrs. Martha Shephard Haydon, now lives at 2394 Roosevelt Ave. A sister, Mrs. Amos Pedigo, resides-at 6404 College Ave., according to Walton. “It was very peculiar that McClintock, barely over his majority, should make a will,” said Watlton. “The fact that the lad was about to married and the wedding was delayed until he became unconscious has caused the heirs-at-law to become active." McClintock was to wed Miss Isabel Pope, pretty Chicago girl, and the marriage license had been obtained when he died, Dec. 3, 1924. The case attracted nation-wide attention, Chicago authorities becoming interested. Shephard threatened to sue instigators of an inquest over McClintock’s body, after it disclosed nothing. Court Action Next Week 1 McClintock’s will goes to probate in Cook County (111.) court next Friday. Another inquest, ordered by Judge Harry Olson of Chicago municipal court, will be held next Thursday. Shephard was born in Madison, Ind., and attended grade school near Franklin, Ind. In 1895 he was a member of the Indiana National Guard. He was mustered into service in the Spaniph-American War in 1898. He was mustered oat the 'same year and left Indianapolis about 1900, Walton -said. He had been living at 1627 N. Arsenal Ave., according to the attorney. Earl McKee, printer, 620 Berkley Court, recalled that he served with Shephard in Cos. H, 158th IndianaVolunteers in the Spanish-American War. McKee said Shephard was a sergeant and they slept in the same tent. ,

THEY WERE ‘PLAYFUL' _____ Both Slated When They Toss Hatchet at Kingan’s. Robert Barnes, 18, of 38 N. Elder St., and Otto Bill, 24, colored, 1418 Yandes St., employes in the packing room at Kingan & Cos., were in a playful mood today. Bill tossed a hatchet at Barnes and struck him on the leg. Unhutt, Barnes tossed it back and struck Bill in the head, cutting him slightly. Both were slated.

OAKLANDON FIRE DAMAGE®,! Business Block Swept by Flames, Investigation was being made today to determine the origin of the fire that swept a business block at Oaklandon, Ind., late Friday, with loss Unofficially estimated at SBO,OOO. Blaze, it is said, started in a grocery owned by Jeff Griffey, in Red Men’s Hall. Hardware store of Grouch and Foster and harness shop of Charles Jordan in the hail were destroyed. Loss to the hall and contents was put at $40,000., Universalist Church, completed a week ago, was razed when the flames spread. Damage was estimated at $35,000. Christian church, Erbin McCord’s confectionery, Fusher Overland Auto Company and Lyman Coryy's barber shop were also damaged. LARGE COYOTE CAPTURED Takes Refuge in Sewer When Chased by Pack of Dogs. By Timet Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 14.—A large coyote was captured in a sewer here Friday. The animal had been seen in the outskirts of the city for several days. It took refuge in the sewer when chased by a pack of dogs.

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mF someone will start a comic Valentine contest this photograph will be submitted against the best of them f.• first prize. Before the thirsty, let their mouths—and eyes—water, let us explain: It’s a repproduction of counterfeit labels seized by Sheriff Hawkins, Prohibition Director Morgan and Prohibition Agent Winkler at Apt. 2, at 1808 College Ave., this week.

ATTORNEY DRAWS 10DAY SENTENCE Jssse D, Hamrick Haled for Contempt of Court, Jesse D. Hamrick, attorney, 508 Lombard Bldg., received a ten-day jail sentence, 8100 fine and costs by Judge Collins in Criminal Court today for contempt arising from Hamrick’s refusal to return S2OO in fees alleged extortionate. Hamrick’s attorney filed motion to discharge the complaint, but Collins overruled it. . McCallister filed notice of appeal and bond was set at SI,OOO. ‘ Hamrick was cited three weeks ago when he refused to return S2OO collected from Mrs. Ann Hardy of Murphysboro, 111. Mrs. Hardy’s son, Kenneth .Hardy, 32, and John R. Reese, 23, were each sentenced to ten to twenty-one years’ imprisonment on charge of grand larceny and robbery. Hamrick defended H * ray ' HOURLY TEMPERATURE 8 a. m. 24 10 a. m...... 34 7 a. m....<• 25 11 a. m 37 8 a. m 27 12 (noon) ...'. 41 9 a. m 31 1 p. m...... 41

Girl Born to Alice Roosevelt Longworth

. Bu United Press Feb. 14.—A baby jCI girl was born to Alice Lir J Roosevelt Longworth here today. , The hospital announced both were in fine condition. The baby’s weight was given as 6 pounds BVz ounces.

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What’s so abSut that? The officers charge the place was a supply station for bootleggers who have been selling customers at downtown hotels "genuine bottled In bond goods.’* •The big kick— The bootleggers have been getting sl2 and more a quart for plain bootleg stuff, cleverly colored and plastered with labels like those shown above. The agents carted away a suit case full of them. Not only that, but almost p.

CLARK TO THE RESCUE Effort Made to Save Automobile Insurance Measure. Efforts will be made Monday to rescue the Korff bill; requiring all motorists to obtain liability insur-i ance. Representative Clark of Indianapolis filed a motion with the Speaker asking reconsideration of the motion by which the measure was killed. Clark has v,ntil Monday to call the motion down. JARDINE CHOOSEN ' ‘ •; i - : .' - - .. f , t > ■vt ~- , t Kansas College Head to Be Agricultural Secretary, Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Appointment of William M. Pardine of Kansas, to be Secretary, of. Agriculture, was announced at the White House today. The nomination will be sent to the Senate this afternoon. Jardine Is president of the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan, Kan. He was selected by the President from a field of 200 candidates. >

Mrs. Longworth, wife of Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, was still in a state of coma at noon. Twilight sleep was used, and when the effects of this wore off Dr. Joseph B. De Lee administered a hypodermic. The baby arived ten days

truck load of liquor, coloring matter, corks with burned trade marks, leadfoJl caps, counterfeit Canadian revenue stamps, counterfeit guarantees that the bottle’s content was "nine summers old,” warning that the booze was manufactured in a bonded distillery and under prohibition laws, was to be. dispensed for “medicinal purposes only,” and the like.. The evidence indicated that the “manufacturers” went in heavy

GIRL BURNED IN * (MOIL BLAST Neighbor Smothers Flaming Clothes in Carpet. Her clothing aflame as the result of explosion of coal-oil she was pouring on fire, Helen Pennington, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Pennington, 4048 E. Twenty-First St., was saved from death today by Plez Durbin, 4046 E. Twenty-First Stt, who smothered the flames in a carpet. J i; The girl was taken to the city hospital with third degree burns about the body and legs, and severe burns about the head. Lieut. Claude Johnson was told she had been warned to leave the fire alone by her parents before they started to worH. Durbin was attracted by screams of Helen and her sisters. Thelma, 12, and Wilma. 6, and a neighbor, Fern Lytle, 6, *4052 E. Twenty-First St., who tried in vain to stop ner as she rushed to the front of the house and back, and out the kitchen door, Firemen from Pumper Company 21 and Truck Company 27 gave first aid. Damage to tho home was small.

ahead of time. Dr. De Lee said. For this reason Longworth was not here for the event. Word was sent to him at* Washington and Longworth immediately started for Chicago. Mrs. Longworth’s mother, Kermit Roosevelt, and Mrs. Medill McCormick, wife of the

for "Scotch whisky” and "real cognac.” Among souvenirs of the raid was a quantity of an ingenious contrivance of cork and pottery which, inserted the neck of the bottle, made it impossible to refill the container, enhancing the illusion of the customer that there was no chance for him to be tricked. Now, you thirsty ones, go ahead— Read ’em and weep.

MAYOR SHANK DAY BY DAY Mayor Shank maintained a position of strict neutrality as between city manager and commission forms of government for Indianapolis today. “We need a change. I am for what the peeple want,” Shank said. M “But that boy Zener (police captain) certainly is getting a lot of names for his commission petition. I told him to stop them once.” “Stop them? Why I couldn’t possibly stop them,” Zener replied.

WANTS WATSON LICKED Shank Starts Boom for H. G. Leslie for U. S. Senator. ♦ * • A boom for Harry G. Leslie of Lafayette, speaker of the State House of Representatives, for United States Senator, was started by Mayor Shank today. “Leslie can trim the life out of Jim Watson,” he declared. “He’s sore because of the doublecross Watson gave his candidate. Judge Henninger of Tippecanoe Circuit Court for the second Federal judgeship when Watson recommended Judge Slick. , Leslie will make the race from what I understand, and I am for him all the way. Jim Watson needs a good licking and Leslie i3 the man to hand It to him.”

Senator from Illinois, were at the hospital when the baby arrived. “She looks like Teddy,” Dr. Lee remarked. “The child Is very well, active and strong and she started yelling lustily soon after coming into the world.”

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ENTRANCE INTO COLLINS’ PRISON IS EXPECTED BY SQUADMOMENTARIY Timbers in Shaft Anchored to Pre- ' vent Logs From Plunging Into Cavern Has Penetrated FiftyFive Feet Toward Entombed Man. BELIEVE DIGGERS ARE NEAR TUNNEL LEADING TO CAVE Failure to Strike Limestone Roof Makes Precautions Necessary, Official Statement Says—Soft Muck Now Being Taken Out. * By FOSTER EGNER United Press Staff Correspondent SAND CAVE, Ky., Feb. 14.—Rescue workers are expecting momentarily to break through into a cavern that will lead to Floyd Collins’ rock cell. This was indicated when officials at 12 : 30 p. m., ordered anchoring of all timbers to prevent their falling into any opening that might be struck by the shaft which now has penetrated fifty-five feet toward the living tomb where Collins has lain fifteen days. Heavy cables were fastened about the lower ends of the timbering and secured to logs stretched across the seven-foot shaft opening.

Workers had expected to strike limestone before they had reached the present depth, and continuation of the muck and stone material caused this precaution to be taken. Further auditory tests made in the choked passage down which Collins crawled confirmed earlier estimates of the distance. This information was contained In the official communique issued by officials in charge at 12:30 p. m. How long this task will take is a matter of speculation. Pit men strode nine and one-half hours to advance three feet through the last layer of stone and dirt they encountered. If they chance upon a fissure their progress will be speeded considerably. Without the aid of a fissure they expect to reach Collins in twenty hours. From the bottom of the shaft, fifty-four feet deep, Carmichael could hear voices of men he had sent into the original crawlway. Did that mean there are open spaces between the shaft and Collins* trap? Would voices carry through solid rock and earth? Diggers decided a fissure was near. They took new heart as they plunged on toward the destination. A test drill placed eight feet from the shaft being sunk toward the rock prison of Collins revealed a

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Forecast PARTLY cloudy tonight and Sunday. Somewhat warmer tonight with lowest temperature about 30.

Brothers Meet Bu United Press rpnAND CAVE, Ky., Feb. ! O I 14, — Tw ° brothers met 1 ■ I for the first time in thirty years beside the shaft seeking to free their son and nephew, Floyd Collins, from hit living tomb. Will Collins came here from Clarksville, Ky., to be with his brother Lee, Floyd’s aged father, and to give what aid he could in the rescue. He brought his two sons to work.

cavity nine feet deep at the sixtyfoot level. The drill, only an inch in diameter, could not show how wide this cavern is. Carmichael hopes it may be large enough to admit a rescue party. They will widen it with dynamite if necessary. May Lead to Prison Workers hope that the cavity may lead into Collins’ prison cr may be the same one in which he lies. Collins, according to revised estimates, is almost on the same level with it. Brig. Gen. H. H. Denhardt, military commander, caused tremendous excitement late Friday when he an nounced that Edwin Brenner, Cinctn nati, had gone down the origins) tunnel, choked near Collins with fallen stone and had heard Collins gasp. Brenner, a former miner volunteered for the work, Denhardt said. It developed later that this was the cause of the flurry of excitement which swept the country around - noon yesterday. An excited officer about that time ordered all workmen and newspaper men back from the pit and rumors started that Collins bad been saved Denhardt announced later that men had been ordered back so that Brenner, listening far below after crawling through the barricaded cave, could bear any possible sound from Collins. Brenner's statement was read into the records of the court-martial of inquiry into rescue work scandals which was being held today in a tent at the scene. A sentry paces before the door. Every outsider, including newspaper men, is excluded. The official communique Issued early today reads: "Depth of the shaft is fifty-two feet at top of timber, leaving a three foot section at the bottom to be timbered. “Drilling ceased at depth of sev-enty-one feet. We found limestone bottom after passing through si* feet of loose mud, and there is no necessity for drilling further. Limestone rock leads southwest, which is in our favor, and is in accord with calculations. "Work is being pushed to utmost with specially picked labor. Weather favorable and morale of men excellent. “J. T. Johnson, night foreman, completely exh: usted from tireleus effo,-ts. was forced to return to his home in West Virginia. Volunteer labor is plentiful and of high stand ard, being composed of veterans of last week. The athletes from West em Kentucky Normal School are es pecially conspicuous.” “Nine and a half hours were re qulred to cut through three feet of solid limestone encountered at the flfty-one-foot level. This was the hardest yet encountered.** ,