Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1925 — Page 12

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LIEUT. WOOD’S DISAPPEARANCE EXCITES PARIS Friends Refuse to Worry About Missing American Officer, Btl Time* Special PARIS, Feb. 23.—Florence Martin, formerly of the "Ziegfeld Follies," is one of the half-dozen friends of Lieut. Osborne C. Wood who are not worrying over the strange disappearance of the stock-plunging young officer. The only established fact among a maze of rumors regarding Wood is that he is gone. One of Wood’s nightlife acquaintances claims he saw Wood Friday night. The latest theory advanced is that he still is iii J’arls, desiroi s only of escaping the squad of night club barnacles ♦ hat attached themselves to his bankroll when he arrived from the United States with something like 11,000,000 in Wall Street winnings. Bach of Wood’s followers has an explanation of the good spender's disappearance, In addition to the reports that he is in Biarritz or recuperating in an inland village. Some are inclined to think Wood has disappeared as a Joke. These claim that he has before absented himself from the Hotel Crillon. Others interpret Wood's absence more seriously. Me ntmartre is having a gay time discussing ‘‘L’ Affaire Wood.” Miss Mar ,in is one of the gayest. "I saw him lyionday evening," this lovely young dancer asserts. "Osborne was ir. the Jiest of spirits. He carried a small bag and said he was removing his things fiom the Crillon. Before he left me he gave me the use of his car and chauffeur. I sent the car home when I went to work in Montmarte about midnight. "I gathered that Osborne was leaving town for a few days. I certainly am not worrying about him." NEW COMPANY FORMED Charles .1, Orblson, President of $1,000,000 Corporation. Charles J. Orbison. attorney, Is president* of the Indiana Citizens Ravings and Loan Association, incorporated Saturday for $1,000,000. William H. Ker hner. State adjustantgeneral, is vice president. Gaming Charges Filed Deputy Sheriffs Koffel, Carter and Corey arrested these four men Sunday on charge oi operating gambling devices: L. A. Evans. Pendleton Pike and Ft. Harrison Rd.; Orie Pugh, Lawrence: Fred Helms. Range Line Rd., and Homer T. McCreery. Keystone Avt. and Allisonville Rd.

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TYPICAL MOURNERS IN MINE DISASTER. LEFT TO RIGHT, TOP ROW—MRS. MARTHA JANE ELLER. ROSCOE JEWELL ELLER. MABEL ELLER, CLIFFORD ELLER. BOTTOM ROW—JACKIE AND HAZEL ELLER.

Bv Time* Special SULLIVAN, Jnd., Feb. 23.—" Jim alwayu said the place would go up in smoke,” said Mrs. Martha Janer Eller, widow of James Eller, miner killed in the explosion here Friday, as she prepared for the funeral today. The widow and five children mourned in the little cottage James Eller bought last September when they moved from Jasonville, Ind. The children are Roscoe JeWall, 1-0; Mabel. 9; Clifford, 16; Hazel, 5, and Jackie, 4. “I don’t know how I will ever

WEALTHY MISER FOUND MURDERED V ■ Aged Recluse Believed Killed by Brothers, Bv United Pr**t CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—Inquiry was started today to determine whether Da A Slgsbee, aged recluse, found murdered in his tenement home here, was a member of a wealthy Philadelphia family. Among the victim's effects police found a letter from Rodman Wanamaker, Philadelphia department store owner, thanking Sigsbee for his letter of condolence on the death of John' Wanamaker. Neighbors told police "old Sigsbee" was very wealthy, but a miser. Police believe robbers slowly strangled Sigsbee in an effort to *orcs him to divulge the hiding place of his money. A man in Brighton, England, walked five miles in his sleep.

stand it.” said the widow. “Here I am, left with five children and Clifford never worked. He goes to high school. "Oh, If Jim had just lived long enough to see our new baby.” The stork is to arrive at the Eller home in a few weeks. "Jim oft.-n said that the mine was a trap and Joked with his brother-in-law, John Clark, a shotfirer in the City mine, that John would be carried out some of these days. "Jim always said he would quit that place if he wasn't in debt so much.”

RADIO FANS TO MEET Interference Committee Will Make Report. The East Side Broadcast Listeners Club at a meeting tonight at 3305-07 E. Michigan St., will receive a report from the interference committee. PRODE OUTLINED IN MINUTER Inspector May Be Delayed in Entering Pit, Albert C. Dally, chief State mine inspector, was to return to Sullivan, Ind., today from tiis home in Knightsvilie to start inspection of the City Coal Company mine to determine cause of the explosion, according to his office here. Dally will be assisted by a squad of mine inspectors. Present condition of the mine, the hazards involved in rehabilitating use, and further safeguards against re : currence of Friday’s catastrophe are to be considered. The inspectors may be delayed in entering the mine due to unexpelled gasses, according to the office here, but it is believed the delay will not exceed twelve or fifteen hours. 4 Dally announced from Knightsvilie he would meet with City Coal Company officials at 9 a. m. Tuesday at Sullivan to determine cause of the explosion. POLICE SLATE SPEEDER Robci-t Ive Charged With Transporting Liquor. Robert M. Ive, 33, of 1459 N. Delawer St., was Slated on charges of speeding, blind tiger and transporting liquor, folowing his arrest Sunday night by Motor Policemen Beeker and McMahon. Officers charged they found a small quantity of liquor In the car. John Naylor. 26. and Ralph Hackleman, 27, both giving their address aa Columbia Club, in the car with Love, were sit ted on vagrancy charges. VAN CAMP HOME SOLD Forty-Eight-Apartment House to Be Erected. Pazing of the home of Sa{nuel G. Van Camp, 1142 N. Pennsylvania St., to make way for a forty-eight-family apartment house to be built by the Dollman Realty Company, began today. The property was purchased by James G. Nelson for $26,000 Saturday, and immediacy leased to the Dollman Company for ninety-nine years. Ii has a frontage of thirty-three and one-half feet aid'a depth of 199 feet. BOYS HELD AFTER CRASH Police Charge Youths With Vehicle Taking. Norman Kassenbrock. 16, 1227 W. Fay St., and Henry Sheckels, *l6, 1203- N. Illinois St., wefe In jail today charged with vehicle taking. Police say they took an automobile belonging to William Newbold, 922 N. Davidson St,, Sutijav and crashed through a plateglasn window at the Standard Grocery, 1C26 Oliver Ave., and into an automobile belonging to Oren Bear, Anderson, Ind. New Church Dedicated Bv Time* Special ATLANTA. Ind., Feb. 23.—The new Wesleyan Methodist Church, just completed at a oost of $25,000, was dedicated Sunday. Services were In charge of Rev. W. L. Thompson of Marlon, president of the Wesleyan conte.-e..ce. Rev. L. E. Wibel of Bluffton, Rev. Walter Spiek ox Greentown and Rev. E. P. Schroels of Newcastle were present. , "Big" Stop Breaks Hip Bv Time* Special ATTICA, Ind., Feb. 23.—Omar Decker of Monticello, Ky., was suffering from a brokfi hip today. Be lievlng the freight car in which he was bumming his way to Inflianapolls was side-tracked, he stepped off and fell through a trestle oil which h * was J

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FORD BROTHERS STAGETHRILLERS’ Face City Court After Police Make Four Runs, Fifth chapter of the latest edition of the alleged escapades of the Ford brothers will be read in city court today when Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth will hear police tell how they rounded up the Fords and their cohorts after four runs Saturday. At 5:45 p. m. Saturday,- police went to Blake and New York Sts., on report of a fight. Participants said to have been Fords fled before police arrived. At 8:10 p. tu. Saturday, emergency squad sped to 152 Blackford St., where Detective Barnaby had been forced to draw his revolver to quiet Joe Ford. At 10:45 p. m. police went to Michigan and Blake Sts., and found Oliver Staats, 37. of 322 S. Arlington Ave.: Joe Ford. 25, of 745 W. New York St.; Clarence Harris, 29, Grand Hotele; Earl Henderson, 31, of 331 Douglas St., and Dan Casey. 28, of 731 W. New York St., had been in a free-for-all scrap. All were xr res ted on charges of assault and lottery with intent to kill, malicidts trespass, drunkenness, and agrancy. Joe Ford was sent to the city hospital suffering from Injuries. Sunday at 3:35 A. M. Viola Kress Ford. 32. of 156 N. Blackford St., and Tom Ford. 32. of 743 W. New York St., were arrested on vagrancy and drunkenness charges and John Murphy. 25, of 418 Agnes St., and Buck Solfey, 23, of 338 Blake St., were held on vagrancy charges when police found the four at 152 N. Blackford St.

FATAL TRACTION CRASHISPROBED Fear Woman Perished in Fire —Two Known Dead, Bv United Pre* FREEPORT. 111.. Feb. 23.—Investigation to determine responsibility for crash of interurban cars on the Rockford & Interurban Electric line near Rldott, 111., Sunday in which taro were killed and eleven Injured, was tc be started today at the company’s offices in Rockford, according to information. Digging among the ruins, Coroner Deistmeyer found what he believes to be human bones. This seems to substantiate theory tbat a woman who ie believed to have boarded the car at next station east of the seen* of the wreck, perished In fire which followed the wreck. A small brooch, keys, golosh buckles and various metal tiinkets were also feurtfi. Whether these were the property of the burned person or lost by some panic stricken passenger has not been determined. Repeated checking up along the line has failed to bring any clew as to the identity of the woman who It is feared lost her life in the fire. ‘KIDNAPING’ EXPLAINED Drink Blamed for Kxcited Report to Police. "A woman has been kidnaped,” police were told by an excited voice on the telephone Sunday night. "Two men g abbed her and shoved her into an automobile, despite her struggles and screarfis." Police rushed to the 500 block on Keystone Ave. They were told by Steel Siler, 656 N. Keystone Ave., that two men and a woman, none of whom he knew, came to his house. The woman was drunk and eager to take on all comers in a free-for-all fight. The men then took her away, he said. THREE SPEEDERS FINED Clayton Gasper Draws Heaviest Penalty—s2l. Three motorists were fined on* speeding charges in city court today. They were: William Arnold, 1652 English Ave., thirty-five miles an hour, $10; Clayton Gasper, 3712 Paris Ave., thirty five miles, s2l and Dwight Noble, 1221 E. Washington St., thirty-five miles, S2O. Elmer Houser, 4213 Washington Blvd., was discharged on a charge of driving twenty-seven miles an hour.

DANCE PROFITS CHECKED Proceeds of Mayor s Annual Charity Ball Uncertain. William T. Bailey, assistant city attorney, was busy today checking up proceeds of Mayor Shank's annual charity benefft dance at Tomlinson Hall Saturday night. Until reports of all ticket sellers are in the exact amount will not be known, he saJd. The dance was attended by several hundred persons. A concert was given by the Police and Firemen’s Band and dance tnusic was by the same orchestra. S. L. HAHN RE-ELECTED Stores Vaitual Protective Association Names Officers. Samuel L.. Hahn of the Selig Dry Goods Company has been re-elected president of the Stores Mutual Protective Association. Others named at the directors’ meeting Saturday are: Arthur Strauss, vice president; V. C. Kendall. s.cretary; Edwin Von negut, treasurer', and W. E. Batch, manager. ■ t Auto and Trolley Crash Dr. M. H. Prindvl, 3547 College Ave., and Mr. and Mr.'. D. Z. Everett, of St. Louis, Mo., a-e suffering today from Injuries rece'ved Sunday when the auto driven by Prindol was struck by a College Ave. ,->treet car at Col'ege and Thirty-Third Hi. Lottie Underwood. 331, N. Alabama St., nrotorman, was arrested.

A boy we shall call Peter Plnder In his eye got a terrible (1) And we heard him -- (2) "It’s as hot aj a (3) Why DID I look out of the ” (4) (1) Greater part of coal, left after burning. (2> To utter words in logical sequence. (3) Term formerly used for courting. (4) Extremely improper manner of pronouncing glazed lookouts In trains or residences. DEPAUW STUDENTS HEAR DR. MURUN New President Gives First Public Address, Bv Time* Special OREENCABTLE. Ind., Feb. 23. —ldeals and service of De Pauw men and women he had known since boyhood and his own student days were discussed by Dr. Lemuel H. Murlin. new president of De Pauw University, in his first public address today In Bowman gymnasium. He paid tribute to the spirit of the founders of the institution, in reviewing its eightyseven years' history.

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DR. L. H. MURLIN Arrival of the new president and Founders’ day were jointly observed in a special chapel service. Dr. Murlin left Boston University to come to De Pauw, succeeding Bishop George R. Grose, assigned to China. He will be formally inaugurated May 1. Faculty members, alumni and seniors attended' a luncheon in honor of the new president. Bishop Frederick D. Leete. Indianapolis. attended the trustees' meeting in the afternoon. Site for the new university church, limitation ’of enrollment, and a student petition for regulated dancing were among things to be considered. STORE EMPLOYES DANCE Pettis Dry Goods Company Observes Washington's Birthday. • Pettis Dry Goods Company employes held a Washington's birthday dance at the Athenaeum Saturday night. Prizes were warded for the most beautiful girl, the most popular girl and the most appropriately dressed for business. Each got a box of silk hosiery. M’CORMACK RESCUED Noied Tenor Adrift Five Hours in Disabled Motor Boat. Pro** MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 23, After drifting for five hours In the rough waters of the gulf stream. John McCormack, noted tenor, and two comnanions were rescued by a Ishing launch which overhauled their disabled motor boat late Sunday. McCormack was confined to his hotel today, suffering from vousness caused by the experience. -Amendments Favored Amendments to the Lindley Senate bill, calling for reorganization of the State board of education, are favored by the Indiana Schoolmen’s Club. The club proposed amendments making the board nonpartisan and requiring certain educational prerequisites for members.

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AUTO HURTS BOY, DRIVER® ON No Trace Found of Motorist Who Tailed to Stop, No trace has been fouifd of the driver of the auto that failed to stop after striking a bicycle ridden by Charles Miller. 12, of 1230 W. Washington St., near his home, Saturday. The lad was injured about face and shoulders. William Brown, colored, who said he didn’t know where he lived, is in city hospital suffering from injuries received Saturday when he was struck by an outbound North, western Ave. street car at Illinois aid Market Sts. George Cramer, of 2147 N. Capitol Ave., motorman, was slated. Miss Golda Madosh, 32, of 330 Cable St., wa slated following an accident at New York and West Sts., Saturday when her auto struck and injured Miss Maggie Collins, colored, 410 N. West St. t Kenneth Alley, Virginia Apts., Virginia Ave .and New Jersey Sts., is held today on charges of speeding, improper driving and malicious trespass after he tore up signal wires and broke control rods along the Belt Railroad at Massachusetts Ave., Saturday, when he drove his auto along the tracks to avoid collision with a train.

NEW PROGRESSIVE PARTY IS PLANNED Railway Brotherhoods and Socialists Break Away, Bv United **r** * CHICAGO, Feb. 23. —Followers of Senator Robert M. La Follette today were pledged to support a "progressive.” third party, the name of which Is to be chosen at a convention to he held some time ‘in the near future." The new third party will be without aid of the four railway brotherhoods who split with ttie Conference for Progressive Political Action on Saturday, when it became apparent the conference would not agree to nonpartisan political action. Eugene V. Debs and Morris Hilquit served notice that affiliation with the third party was against Socialist interests. Debs declared a new party would be as inimical to the workers’ Interests as the two present parties. The remnai\ts of the Ia Follette clan adopted tiie new party program. SALVATION ARMY HELPS Ministers Supplied to Stricken Sullivan Families. Salvation Army workers under Commandant Samuel Wiggins of Terre Haute, are giving all assistance possible to families in the stricken Sullivan district. Major W. B. Sowers, State Salvation Army head reported today. Immediately after the disaster. Major Sowers sent relief workers to the field and sent a telegram to Mayor W. E. Aydelotte offering assistance. The mayor replied that relief work was being adequately carried on. The local office sent $250 and a similar amount was sent from Chicago headquarters. Major Sowers’ workers are aiding in funeral arrangements Rnd offering their services as ministers. F. E. MATSON ELECTED Indianapolis Athletic Club Names New Offirers. Frederick E. Matson has been elected president of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Dick Miller is first vice president; Harry C. Stutz, second vice president: Relly C. Adams, treasurer, and W. H. Barrere Jr., secretary. ” i Elkhart Store Robbed Bv United Pre ELKHART, Ind., Feb. 23.—Police had practically no clews In the robbery of the Drake dry goods store early Sunday. Bandits obtained sßoo* from a small safe, but were frightened away before they had broken into another safe containing $1.800.,

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A Puzzle a Day X—X SEVENTH MATCH Notice the six-sided figure formed by six matches. By changing the positions of two of the matches and by adding a seventh match, two perfect diamonds may be formed. Can you do it? Ijast puzzle answer: The check was for $11.23. By mistake the cashier paid $23.11. After the man spent 65c, he had $22.46 remaining, whirfi was just twice the amount of money he should have received.

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WORLD WAR HERO PROVEN IMPOSTOR Mexican Youth, Posed al Indian, Reported Killed, Bu United Pre*n MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 23. Arthur Lopez, the crippled Mexican youths who posed for more than a year as a dead Indian World War hero, today awaited action in Washington on his case. , Telegrams were sent to the Veterns’ Bureau headquarters telling of Lopez's confessed duplicity. Lopez presented Veterans’ Bureau officials with more than fifty affl davits declaring he was Arthur Frazier, South Dakota Indian, reported to have been killed in the World War. M. J. Johannes, secret service agent, finally broke Lopez’s story. The boy may be held on an attempt to defraud the Government or may go free.