Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 251

AUTO SHOW OPENS AT 7 TONIGHT Officials Say Heating Plant in Building at Fairground Will Keep Visitors Comfortable • Despite Cold Weather. • When the doors of the fourteenth annual automobile show of the Indianapolis Auto Trade Association at the Auto Show Bldg., State fairground, are thrown open at 7 o’clock tonight, an army of motorists and other spectators willtroop in to find awaiting them what is claimed the most complete automotive exhibit in the history of Indianapolis. Snappy little roadsters, giant trucks, dignified, sedate sedans, business-like touring cars, with worlds of baggage space, enormoiis balloon tires resembling gigantic rubber doughnuts; in fact, every conceivable automotive device from the dinkiest grease cup to the most massive motor monster, are to be found among the thirty-nine exhibits of forty-eight makes of cars and forty-five accessory displays. Indications point to a record breaking first-night attendance, John H. Orman, show manager, said today. All gate receipts tonight will be turned over to the Sullivan relief surd. The decoration scheme is novel and daring. Decorations run through the color spectrum and the mixture of bright blues, flaming reds, orange, pink and yellows give the enormous building a bixarre OHenta' effect. Cold weather will have no effect on the show, as the building is well heated and the spectators will not be forced to divide their attention be--1 tween the exhibits and desperate attempts to keep warm as has been the case at some automobile shows In the past. Sunday was a busy day. All exhibits were set in six hours, a record for fast work in this particular. The result la that today exhibitors have been able to devote the entire time to putting on finishing touches. When the show opens tonight it will be complete In every detail.

FEARS FOR SAFETY OF YOUNG MISSING GIRL Miss Helen Gbrdon, 16, Disappears After Returning From Dance Saturday Night,

Fear that harm may have befallen Mian Helen Gordon, 16, was expressed by police and relatives today. The girl has been missing since midnight Saturday, when she was last seen by her aunt and two girl friends. IV,rs. C. F. Bales. 1839 N. Harding St., her aunt, with whom she lived, planned to notiQr police at Versailles, lnd„ today to watch for the girl. The girl formerly lived at Versailles. Mrs. Bales said her niece and two Mother girls went to a downtown "show Saturday night. She heard voices In front of the house anci saw her nieCe and the two girls with three men on the sidewalk about midnight. She saw tjjerfi walk toward the home of the other two girls and she expected her niece would return. Sunday, one of the girls came toi her home and gave her the balance of some money she carried Saturday night for Helen, Mrs. Bales said. She was greatly surprised when ( she learned Helen was not at home; Mrs. Bales said: “The girls said my niece had started home.” The three girls went to the Lyric ballroom, the other girls told Mrs. Bales, and there met the three young men who accompanied them home.

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Speed Cases Lead Total Convictions in City Court for 1924 Given as 2,467.

IONVICTION for speeding t— __ led all other law violations in city court last year, according to annual report released by Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth. Total convictions were 2,467, almost double that of the preceding year, when 1,006 drivers were convicted. The report shows convictions for drunkenness next, with 2,261, an increase of 301 over 1923. Blind tiger convictions totaled only 499. as compared with 1,120 in 1023. A court ruling holding mere possession of liquor nqt unlawful was blamed. Total number of cases in city court during the year was 30,329, a decrease of 1,966 over that of 1923, when 32,295 were arraigned. July was the heaviest month, with 2,994 cases on the docket. The lightest month was In March, when 2,293 were tried. Total receipts for tlie year dropped nearly $70,000. Only $119,407.95 was coUected in comparison with $187,793.40 in 1923. This, was the result of more than 5,000 less fines paid. A total of 10,753 paid fines in 1923. Last year, only 4,341 paid and 4,507 had their fines stayed. Os the 30,329 cases, 8.349 defendants were found guilty of violating State laws and 570 of city ordinances; 7,018 were discharged, 8,315 had cases dismissed, 881 were continued indefinitely, 779 went to Criminal Court; appealed cases. 493; bonds forfeited, 224; judgment withheld in 2,271 cases. City court sent 2,036 to jail, 690 to the Indiana State Farm and 69 to the Indiana Women’s Prism. ‘EVERYBODY ABOARD’ Shank Orders City Employes on Lemcke Bandwagon. “Come out for Ralph Lemcke for mayor or lose your job.” This was the ultimatum delivered by Mayor Shank to city employes today. "I’m not going to have a hopse divided against ‘(self,” Shank announced. All job seekers applying at the mayor’s office today were referred to Lemcke’s office, 840 Consolidated Bldg. “Nobody is going to get a job without the O. K. of the Lemcke committee,’’ he said.

Neither of the two girls know the young men, Mrs. Bales said. “The dance matron remembered the blue beaded dress Helen wore when we questioned her Sunday, but Helen was not seen there Sunday,” said Mrs. Bales. “She was wearing a tan coat, blue hat and orange stockings with patent leather slippers.” The aunt Bald the girl did not like to live in Versailles and always seemecßcontented to live here. retlwesof PORKSOAR HERE Best Cuts Go Up 5 to 10 Cents a Pound, Pork chops and tenderloins are soaring in price as a result of the recent increase in hog prices, according ’to A. At Coverdale of the Allen |ieet Market, 2301 N. Talbott Ave. Best cuts, he said, have gone up from ’ to 10 cents a pound. Tenderloins are Belling at 65 cents and pork chops at 30 to 25 cents. Hog prices on the local livestock exchange went to 40 and 55 cents today with all weights selling at sl3 per hundred pounds. It set a record for the year. In November, 1920, hogs sold at $18.26. Further rises are expected by livestock men.

COOLIDGE GAINS WEIGHT

Bv ifnited Pre* rrrtIASHINOTON. March 2 I yyj President Coolidge, more aI. ..J than any President since Taft, appears to be really enjoying his job. ' * Contradicting the popular Impression that running the Government is a “killing” work, Coolidge, on the eve of his inauguration Is eight pounds heavier than when he took office at the time of President Harding’s death. This is because he has applied himself to a wiltture of pleasure and wjork to Uu *nd that M, burdens ar being

OIL DIVISION CUT $90,000 BY SENATE Slashes Totaling $160,000 Made in Bill —Heated Debate Precedes Reduction Practically Abolishing Inspection Department. The Indiana State Senate considering the biennial appropriations bill as a committee, of the whole, today virtually abolished the oil inspection department by cutting the appropriation of SIOO,OOO annually, as amended by the House, to $lO,000 annually. The motion was made by Senator Chambers after his motion to give the balance of the- oil Inspection appropriation, $180,0.90. to Riley Memorial Hospital, was lost. Net cut in the bill at the morning session was $166,000. The Chambers motion occasioned sharp debate. Senator Saunders declared that the oil inspection law was a joke and that while he was oil inspector for three years the State did not benefit one cent. He declared the law one to make jobs for the party in power. Expenses Increased The Senate committee raised operating expenses of the clerk of the Supreme and Appellate courts from SI,OOO to $1,600 annually, on motion of Senator Harmon. Senator Nejdl, as chairman of the committee, ruled the "ayes have it” on a close viva voice vote over a motion of Senator O’Rourke which provided for an appropriation of $20,000 annually for employment commission. The House abolished the commission by providing for only S6O for operating expense. Ten thousand dollars annually was slashed from the attorney general’s appropriation for enforcement of liquor and anti-trust laws. The appropriation for printing, binding and stationery in the bureau of public printing was cut from $28,000 to $26,600 annually. Total o t SB,OOO annually was added to the State fire marshal’s appropriation for a department of dry cleaning. Charities Board Blamed

On motion of Senator Moorhead. $3,000 was cut out of appropriations for rent and repair of armories. Following a word battle as to whether the board of State charities was responsible for plans that caused heavy building expenses of the Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton, the amount allowed the board for operating expenses was cut from $16,500 to $14,500. Senators Sims and Batt, Terre Haute, were expected to offer an amendment adding the $125,000 appropriation for anew gymnasium at the State Normal School, Terre Haute, and Senator Merry, Dunkirk, was scheduled to offer the amendment for $250,0D0 for the Riley Hospltal. These amendments were cut from the bill in the House. Cuts proposed in Senator Moorhead’s amendments: Enforcement of prohibition, antitrue s and escheated estate laws, cut from $20,000 to $10,000; bureau of public printing, for printing, binding and stationery, from $28,000 to $26,000; adjutant general’s office, for rent, purchase and repair of armories, $160,000 to $150,000; board of State charities, for operating expenses from $16,600 to $14,500; deep waterways commission, $12,000 to $6,000 annually. The amendments would cut out $300,000 for new building for the Southern Hospital for the Insane, at Evansville; $75,000 for anew building for the Northern Hospital for the Insane, at Logansport; $25,000 for a hospital for the Indiana State Reformatory, at Pendleton; exces-i per capita, rate of S2OO a year at the reformatory; $50,000 from department of conservatism. Trip Abandoned Governor Jackson and. Lieutenant Governor Van Orman did not go to the Coolidge inauguration st Washington because of the apwopriattons measure They blamed the Democratic Senators’ "strika” of last week for holding up thflr trip. Representative J. Glenn Harris, member of the legislative subcommittee to probe State highway commission, said Investigation would get under way today. Senator Walter S. Chambers, Democrat also a, member of the subcommittee, has refused to take any part on the theory not enough time remains to accomplish anything definite. Senator Chambers said his interest In the Investigation ended with appropriations for the commission.

tossed off with dispatch and with no apparent ill effects upon himself. The fact is that the President likes his job and hence takes daily measures to prevent its exacting routine from becoming irksome. He does not permit his work or his recreation to interfere with each other. No better indication of this is to be found than his decision to make the firat White House" at the home of his father in Plymogjrh, and the "second sum-

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1925

Cream of 1925 Motor Production Awaits View of Public When Exposition Doors Swing Open

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” JHEN Mis Lucile Lawson, yy 1108 College Ave., telephone *——* operator at the Indianapolis automobile Show at the State

SPIRITS DID NOT HELP HER

MOTORIST KILLED BY TRACTION CAR Police Told Auto Is Driven in Front of Interurban, Burton R. Davis, 34, cabinetmaker, R. R. E., Box 391-G, was fatally Injured today when his Ford automobile was struck.by an Interstate Interurban car at Stop 6. Madison Rd., about five mile® south of the cKy. v Davis was driving down the road which skirts the track and turned directly-into the path of the car, police were told. The car hurled it against a waiting station. The machine then rolled on do*vn a hill. Davis was carried to the Long Acre general store, near by. He d'ed In a few minutes. Coroner Paul F. Robinson and Police Lieutenant Thomas investigated. Tim Conners, 6Q. motorman, and Chester Williams, 38, both of Greenwood, conductor, were In charge of the car. The widow and three children survive. Davis was employed by the Holcomb A Hoke Manufacturing Company! 1546 Van Buren ' St. * '-•** PAY RAISE EFFECT HERE Bill Adds $275,000 to Ixx-al Postal Employes’ Salaries. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson today said that the postal salary Increase bill which has been signed by President Coolidge will mean a S3OO annual pay Increase for all local postal employes below the rank of postmaster. It will mean total yearly increase of $275,600 here, he said. Substittite carriers will receive 70 cents an hour instead of 60 cents. Regular carriers’ salary will be from $1,700 to $2,100 a year instead of $1,400 to SI,SOO, Bryson said. Big Footed Burglars Sought Search was being made In Indianapolis today for burglars with large feet who stole clothing,, jewelry and old coins and a fountain pen from a house in Franklin, Ind.,- Sunday. Prints in the snow gave evidence of the large feet.

his friend, Frank W. Stearns at Swampscott. Mass. Unlike the iate President Wilson, who established himself in the summer of 1916 in a cold and Isolated retreat at Long Branch, N. J., which he grew to thoroughly dislike before his vacation was over. Coolidge is going to make his summer home "with the folks”—his parents and his friends There he can do just what he wishes, when he wishes and with whom he wishes, apart from " al, “ wa*

Fairground, wandered out of her booth today to look over the cream of 1925 motor production, she just couldn’t resist the urge to try out

Woman Says She Dealt in Spiritualism, Not Alcohol. S J " PIRITUALISM, not spirits, was the forte of Mrs. Kitty —I Clyde, 3im E. Walnut St., she asserted today. Nevertheless, sne was held to the Federal grand jury under $3,000 bond on a charge of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition laws. Bound over with her were Marshall Rcwe, 1064 Oliver Ave., and William Crews, 429 E. Morris St. All were arrested Saturday. . Instead of being a bookkeeper for a liquor ring that has been hauling almost 1,000 gallons of alcohol into IndlanapQlls weekly, as Federal agerlts charge. Mrs. Clyde is a psychic. a seer, a seventh daughter, she assured an Indianapolis Times reporter. “I am not guilty,” she declared. “There never was a drop of liquor in my house. “I was bom with the power to foresee. I am a seventh daughter, bom with a veil. My ability to foresee is psychic.” The reporter suggested that the seventh daughter might have foreseen the shadow’ that was to fall across her path in the shape of a prohibition agent armed with a warrant for her arrest. But no. f Not In Scope “As I am not guilty,' this situation, which Is merely passing, would not come within the scope of my powers.” Mrs. Clyde explained. Neither did she foresee any future interference with her psychic work as the result of her arrest. “I am Innocent and this is only a change of circumstances,” she said. "I am glad, for their sakes, I,am not affiliated with local spiritualistic churches, although I am, affiliated with the Natinoal Spiritualists Association.” Whereupon she proceeded to demonstrate her psychic powers by revealing to the reporter his past, present and future. * • “You have the power to foresee, also,” she assured him. "But you call it ’hunches.’ Quito a Surprise "I see that you have had a great disappointment and that you have lost your confidence In women.” “Strange,” the reporter mused, as he thought of his happy marriage. “You are going to make a change in your work which will be very profitable,” the mystic’s voice continued. /'But I would advise you to buy tha.‘ property that someone Is trying to get you to buy." “What? A real (state agent on ray trail and I didn’t know ft!” was the interviewer's fearful thought. Your grandfather died and his estate, although small, was not settled to the satisfaction of everybody and there are some hard feelings.” Mrs. Clyde continued. This the reporter admitted. There the “sitting” ended. Old-Age Pension defeated Aqting on recommendations of Ways and Means Committee, the Indiana House today definitely postponed the Nejdl Senate bll* - rearing an old-age pension conwiMKm,

the upholstery in the model in which she was snapped. She says she believes every one who visits the show when it opens tonight will feel the same urge.

HOITEL BOOSTS MANAGER FORM Board Secretary Says Plan Is Not Political'Question. That the movement for a city manager form of government for Indianapolis is a move for civic betterment 'and not a political question was pointed out today by Henley T. Hottel, secretary of the Real Estate Board. , “There Is nothing to prevent nonpolitical organizations from getting behind the movement,” he said, “The board is backing the proposal because we believe it is for ths betterment of Indianapolis, and we want the cooperation o.f every organization interested In civic progress.” Lions and Mercator Clubs will discuss the city manager plan at luncheons this week. George W. Beaman,, president Mapleton Civic, Club, said a special meeting would be held March 10 to discuss the plan. Winfield Miller, attorney, w ill discuss the merits of the plan before Indianapolis Traffic Club March 19. D.-J. Angus, president of the Scientech Club, at luncheon today at the Chataiber of Commerce, appointed Daniel B. Luten and Homer Rupard on a committee to keep the club informed on activities for the city manager form. , WARD TAKES OFFICE Peru Judge Sworn In as U. S. District Attorney. Albert Ward of Peru, formerly judge of Miami Circuit Court, took the oath of office as United States district attorney today. He Will assume his duties immediately. It Is understood that Alexander G. Cavins, first assistant, will retain his position. *

The “Burglar” Was Grandma Another grievance against the "younger generation” was recorded by police today. Sergeant Tooley and- emergency squad made a record run to the home of Dr. Joel Whitaker, 1707 N. Pennsylvania St.. Sunday night after neighbors reported hearing Meyers Whitaker. 13, yell "burglars!” out of the window. It developed that the “burglar" was Meyers’ grandmother. Mrs. Quincy Meyers, coming In Did grandmother get a scolding for staying out late? Oh, no. It was Meyers who was scolded. He had stayed late when he went to a show. Mrs. Meyers had gone to look for him. In the meantime. Moyers had re turned. i “These young i’tins,” sighed the police.

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MERCURY SMS TO NEAR ZERO MARK. MAKE CITY STATFS COLDEST PLACE Temperature Falls to Within EightTenths of Degree of Equalling Mark for March, Established Here Twenty-Six Years Ago. / WARMER WEATHER AHEAD; RISE TO- COME TUESDAY Chilly Spell Accompanied by Snow and Ice Over Indiana Month Ushered in With Earthquake Little' Damage Done. Indianapolis was the coldest spot in Indiana this morning, according to reports received by the weather bureau. Shortly after 7 a. m. eight-tenths of a degree above zero was registered by the Government thermometer. This meant street readings were below the zero mark. It was a near record for March. The coldest on record since the weather bureau was established is zero on March 7, 1899.

Temperature was climbing slowly. At 1 jx m. it was 6 above zero. Crest of the midwest cold wave will pass to the eatsward tonight, the weather bureau at Chicago forecast. The local bureau predicted warmer weather Tuesday, with probably another cold night tonight. Lowest temperature was expected to range between 5 and 15 above. Drop Since Midnight * The mercury took Its recordbreaking drop after midnight, falling more than fourteen degrees In six hours. “March came In like a lion, all right,” J. H. Armington, Government meteorologist said, “but we place about as much credence in the tradition that the month will go out like a lamb as we do in the ground hog story.” Snow and ice which accompanied the cold wave which broke late Saturday night and early Sunday morn ing, claimed one victim. Miss Bernice Kelso of Rushville, ind., was taken to the Deaconess Hospital Sunday night with a fractured leg just above the ankle. She told police she fell while crossing the street at 112 N. Illinois St. Streets Are Dangerous More than an inch of snow was on the ground Sunday. Melting and later freezing into hard crusts.

SENATE COMMITTEE FOR ‘KILLER’ MEASURE Roads Body Ready to Report Favorably Upon Representative Lafuse’s Measure,

Favorable action by the Indiana Senate on Representative Lafuse's bill which provides that both parties to an auto accident must stop and report to each other and to the police—aimed at the “killer.” who ‘SLIPPING ROCK CAUSED QUAKE’ So Declares Expert on Earth # Tremors, * Bv United Preee NEW YORK. March 2>-The slipping of a rock mass in the Atlantic Ocean /off the coast of Maine, about 345 miles from New York, caused the earth tremor of Saturday night, which shook eastern Canada and the northeastern part of the United States and as far west as Wisconsin. This has been established by Dr. Chester A. Reeds of the American Museum of Natural History from a study of the seismograph record at that institution. < Dr. Reeds said evidence Indicated the quake was due to anew movement in a recentlv discovered fault or fracture in tho ocean bed extending from the Bay of Fundy, southward to the Isle of Shoals, off Portsmouth. N. H. $65,000 CHURCH BURNS Zero Weather Hampers Firemen In Btaze at T',pt<hi. Bii Time* Special TIPTON, Ind.. March 2.~Fire destroyed the First Presbyterian Church today with a loss estimated at $65,000. An overheated furnace was blamed. ‘Near zero weather hampered the firemen. Calls for aid were sent to Kokomo, Noblesviile^n.! - Elwood.

Forecast FAIR tonight and Tuesday. Slowly rising temperature. Lowest tonight 5 to 10.

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streets were made dangerous for traffic. The snow was general all over the State, Armington said. Traffic was Impeded by drift* In same sections. Indianapolis was shaken by ah earthquake, felt all over this section of the country Saturday night. No observations were taken by the weather bureau. Other Indiana towns reported slight quakes, although no damage was done. * “The quake was not very severe here.” Armington said. “I waa at home reading at the time. I felt nothing.” Raymond G. Farrell, in charge of investigators of poor relief in Center Township trustee’s office, said about twenty-five requests for coal were receivev early today from poor persons. There was 150 requests for food Saturday, which was heavier than usual, he said. The Salvation Army also reported more appeals for relief. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 12 (midnight) 15 7 a, m 1 1 a. m 13 8 a. m t 2 a. m 11 9 a. t 3 a-.m 8 10 a. m 2 4 a. m 7 11 a- 4 5 a. m 4 12 (noon) .... B 6 a. 3 1 p, m...... •

strikes and runs away—is expected this afternoon. Senator Leonard, chairman of Senate Roads Committee was ready to make a favorable committee report this morning, but was prevented by the Senate consideration of the appropriation bill. Leonard said he would make his report late this afternoon, with minor amendments to other provisions of the bill. The provisions aimed at the "killer” are not molested, however. Under the proposed law the State is relieved of the burden of proving the defendant arrested for failure to stop was at fault. Meanwhile police continued the drive on motorists who fail to stop after an accident. Charles Parker, 41, of 783 Buchanan St., was held as such a driver, after the automobile of Charles Siegler was struck in front of Slegler’s home, 61 Sanders St., Saturday. Parker Also was charged with Intoxication. G. 6TP. EDITOR DIES George A. Elliott, B'xth District Chairman, Dies. Bv Timex Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., March 3. George A. Elliott. 47, editor of the Newcastle Courier and past 'president of the Republican State Editorial Association, died at his home today after several weeks Illness with heart disease. He was the son of William H. Elliott, who bought the Courier in 1877. Mr. Elliott was active in Republican politics, being Sixth District chairman. The widow ahd three children survive. Elevator Men Get Bonus The House today approved a reso lution appropriating SIOO for pay ment. of Statehouae elevator men who have rendered additional serv ices during the present legislative sr salon. Beneficiaries: Robert Bal ■gil&taglftfceiaj**. fSK*