Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 252

MOTORISTS INJURE THREE AND FLEE

Coolidge Gains President Is Eight Pounds Heavier Than When He Took Office

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PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE

EDNESDAY Calvin Coolidge \Jy will be inaugurated as ..-J thirtieth President of the United States. The job will not be anew one to him, for since Warren G. Harding died he haa been holding down the Job and has thrived on it—at least reports from Washington would idieate that be has., .

SOARING MERCURY BREAKS ZERO GRIP Temperature Jumps 18 Degrees in Climb for ‘Above Freezing’ Weather,

A Jump of eighteen degrees between 6 a. m. and noon today restored temperatures to near normal and strengthened predictions of J. H. Government meteorologist, that “above freezing’’ weather would be here late today or tonight. At 1 p. m. it was 30. The warmer weather followed the coldest day ever recorded for March since the weather bureau was established here, Armington said. The mercury held at 9 degrees above from midnight, to' 6 a. m., jumping to 19 at 10 a, m. Unsettled weather was expected to accompany the steady rise in temperature, Armington said. Monday's average temperature was seven degrees, or two degrees lower than any average temperature recorded on any March day, he said. Lowest .was eight-tenths above zero and the highest 13. Although zero was reached March 7, 1899, the temperautre climbed during the day, for a higher average. Fruit men of the State declared the cold would mean a loss of thousands of dollars. Lee Dußois of Noblesville, owner FLAPPED FANNY sea* Jt&l / Iff J I The' lms i know about some boys, the more you think _

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Those reports say that Mr. Coolige has gained eight pounds since becoming President. The abov* is one of his latest pictures. Is he showing his weight? Perhaps this President’s mechani cal “steed,” recently discovered, accounts for the Increased poundage. • J 1

HOURLY TEMPERATURE 12 (midnig) 0 S 7 a. m 10 1 a. m...., 9 3 a. m...... 13 2 a. m 9 9 a. m 16 3 a. m 9 10 a. m 19 4 a. m 9 11 a. m 22 6 a. m 9 12 (noon) 27 6 a. m 9 1 p. m 30 of one of the largest peach orchards in the State, said there will be no peaches in the central part of Indiana this season. He said he had examined buds of many trees and found them all ’dead. Emh Heller of Seymour, owner of 6,000 trees, stated the crop will fall short of normal this year. He said the trees were damaged by extreme cold about Dec. 28 and Jan. 28 and that the present near-zero weather had added to the damage. The buds had swollen considerably during the recently warm weather, Heller said, and the cold has killed the buds as a result. Heller’s normal crop is 15,000 bushels. Sugar camp owners were rejoicing, however, over the cold wave. They said the zero weather would make maple syrup Bweeter. MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN PERISH Burned to Death When Flames Sweep Tenement. Bv United Prett BROOKLYN. N. Y., March 3.—A woman and her two children were burned to death, two other persons received burns that may prove fatal and fifteen firemen and policemen were injured today in a Are that destroyed a five-story brick tenement house here. The dead are: Mrs. Elsie Carroll, 33; her son, John, 8. and her daugh ter, Ruth, 6. Trapped on the third floor of the burning building, Mrs. Carroll bo came hysterical and threw her two children out a rear window. Their clothing already was afire when the mother mads a last desperate effort

ASSEMBLY PROBE OF STATE- ROAD BOARD STARTED Public Service Commission V Vindicated in Report of Legislators. QUIZ ON WAR MATERIAL Chairman and Member Are Called Before Representative Harris for Testimony. Legislative probe of the Indiana State highway commission was .started today with Representative J. Olen Harris as the inquisatorial member of the sub-committee. Charles Zeigler. Attica, chairman of the commission and Earl Crawford, ConnersviWe. a member, were called before Harris for testimony. Harris said probe would be along lines of reported extravagance, He said sale of war materials would be gone into thoroughly. The report of Harris and Senator Barker, Thornto\rn. on the public service commission vindicated the utility body on charges of extravagance. Eeondhiy Seen The report recommended straight appropriation of $170,000 be given the commission without a rotary fund. This is the amount carried by the appropriations bill. “Our investigation showed clearly that economy was being practiced in the investigation of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company In contrast to policies of prior boards,” the report read. “This is illustrative of the thorough, careful and economic poll cies as administered by the present board.” The report set uut amounts paid by other States in utility probes as far greater than amounts in Indiana. Salaries Upheld The report upheld salaries being paid special employes in investigation of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. The report said the commission had contracted with Edward Bemi?, utility expert, to inventory the telephone company’s property for $25,000; Benjamin Perk to act as accountant for $6,000, and Taylor Groninger as legal adviser, $7,500. . ACCUSED PASTOR QUITS Bourbon Minister Resigns Rather Than Face Trial. fit/ United Preti WARSAW, lnd., March 3.—Called before officials of the Goshen District of the Methodist Church and given the choice of resigning or standing trial on charges of misconduct, the Rev. E. S. Riley, of Bourbon, today decided to withdraw from the ministry.

POLICE SHAKE-UP RUMORSTARTED Safety Board in Closed Meeting, Rumors of a shakoup in the police department were current about city haJi today, following a mysterious executive session o< the board in which Mayor SbanV and Police Chief Herman F. Rllrl.off ;>artielrated. Newspf per men and others were requested to the room, and doors were closer, tightly. After almost an hour ot silence the doors were opened. V “We were Just talking about traffic matters,” board members said. But a special session was idled for Wednesday. BILL STILL SURVIVES Jennings County Election Measure Passes to Second Reading. A bill providing that. Jennings County, lonfc he scene of a bitter county Beat fight between Old Vernon and North Vernon, may hold another election to decide whether the county seat shall be. moved to North Vernon, today survived an attempt to kill It In the Indiana Senate. It wap passed to second reading. Senator Cravens, Madison, Democrat, moved to Indefinitely postpone. “They have had two elections in that county, and couldn’t end the discussion,” he said. “This bill will take up a lot of time here, sc let’s get rid of It now.”. Bishop Leete to Preside Bishop Frederick D. Leete. Indianapolis Area of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will prieide at annual church conferences of the New Jersey and ♦Pennsylvania areas. He

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1925

Wolf Trails Smash-Up * ••• ••• ••• Widow and Four Children of Burton R. Davis, Victim in Traction-Auto Crash, Face Future With Dread of Want

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HOUSE MAY BALK ON APPROPRIATION BILL AMENDMENTS G, 0, P. Floor Leader Moves Senate Changes Be Not Concurred In, , Warning of further breakers ahead for the State adminisctratlon appropriation bill in the House was given today when a motion of Representative Plttenger, Selma, Republican floor leader, that the House refuse to concur in amendments by the Senate was carried. The bill, with fifty-four amendments. was passed by the Senate late Monday. Pitenger moves that Speaker Leslie name a conference committee, at his pleasure. Leslie took the matter under advisement. The bill, as sent back by the Senate, carries a total of $3?),450 higher than the House allowed. The new total is $48,617,322.64. Chief Items of Increase Chief items of increase were the $250,000 appropriation for Riley Memorial Hospital; SIOO,OOO for Indiana State Normal School; $50,000 for cottage building at Central Hospital for the Insane and $39,900 for free employment bureaus. These appropriations are expected to cause trouble for the bill In the House, the lower body having defeated them. Chief decreases wem made at the State Reformatory, where $25,000 for anew hospital was cut out and the excess per capita of S2OO a year a man over 900 inmates was cut. This totals approximately $85,000! according to the finance committee. The oil Inspection department was cut $180,000; ABO,OOO was’ slashed . (Turn (o Page 11) THREEIis OP mi WAVE Women, Two Men Freeze to Death in Chicago, Pv United Free* CHICAGO,- March 3.—Three persons froze to death here during the past twenty-four hours, police reported today. One of the victims was ; an unidentified woman of about 45, whose thinly clad body was found on the sidewalk. The other victims were Emil Levitus, 60, and Michael Engelhardt, 48. The Mid-West cold wave has invaded the East and South, the weather bureau reported today. Freezing temperatures prevail in the eastern gulf region and East. Temperatures in the West are markedly higher, the bureau said. However, several northern Michigan points reported 2 below zero. Postal Receipts Higher Indianapolis postoflice receipts for February showed an increase of $5. 165.17 over receipts for February of last year, according to Robert H Bryson, postmaster. February’s re ceipts were $319,822.35. For Febru

ABOVE. LEFT TO RIGHT, FLORENCE, 3; INA. 9; MRS. DAVIS AND CHARLES WILLIAM, 5 MONTHS, AND FREEDA, 5. (INSET) BURTON R. DAVIS, THE FATHER. BELOW, THE ONE-ROOM < HOME. By ROSS H. GARRIGUS mT'S a long hard, rutty road that leads to one of the saddest, most forlorn homes in Marion county today. Snow crusts the ground that was to bloom with a garden in the spring and a cold bitter wind sings against a tar paper shack that was to be replaced with a better home when warm days

came. But warm days are far away and spring may never come again, says Mrs. Burton R. Davis, R. R. E, box 391-G, as she mourns her husband. killed Monday when his Ford machine was struck by a south-bound Inter-State Traction car at Stop 6. Madison Rd. Widowed with three little girls, the eldest 9,. and a baby son, 5 months old, with not a dollar saved, with only a little pile of coal, with a meager supply of groceries on the shelf, Mrs. Davis sits and wonders. “I don’t even know how I’m . going to bury him," she said. Weather Saved Widow It was zero weather that saved Mrs. Davis' life. “He was geing to town on business,” she said, “and I was to go along. He said, ‘No, it’s too cold. You stay home.’ ” Davis was driving down Madison Rd. At Stop 6 he turned to take the road that leads to his home. The curtains were down. The interurban caught his mar chine and hurled it against a waiting station. The auto rolled over into the ditch. Davis died a few minutes later in the Long Acre store, just across the pavement. "And we had just paid for the auto,” Mrs. Davis said. "We bought it on the installment plan. No Insurance Carried "I don't know what*J’U do. He didn't carry any insurance. His folks are all dead. My father lives on a farm near Madison. Ind. I’m (Turn to Page 6) ALLEGED BACKER OF ‘RING’ HELD Eddie Monfort Surrenders to Federal Agents, Eddie Monfort, 5214 Broadway, alleged by Federal prohibtlon agents to have been one of the financial backers of the bootlegging gang which the agents started rounding up last Friday surrendered at the Federal building this afternoon. A warrant charges him with conspiracy to violate national prohibition laws. Agents have arrested two men and a woman besides Mdnfort and have warrants out for several others. They charge the band brought as much as 1.000 gallons of. liquor a week into Indianapolis and disposed . .. . , _ . . _ . _ ■ .... . _

SPEAKERS ADVOCATE CITY MANAGER PLAN C. of C. Expert, Civic Federation Head and Attorney Urge New Form at Three Luncheons.

"An advantage of the city manager form of government is that it makes the selection of trained men the paramount duty of the commission," declared Leonard V. Harrison, Chamber of Commerce civic affairs expert, before the Gyro Club at luncheon today at the Lincoln. John B. Reynolds, Chamber secretary, introduced Harrison. The Chamber has not taken a stand on BANDITS HOED UP BANK INST. LOUIS Obtain $30,000 and Escape in Waiting Auto, Bv United Prett ST. Ik)UIS, Mo., March 3.—The Mound City Trust Company was held up early today by three bandits who obtained approximately 330,000 in cash. The bandits escaped in a motor car which had been waiting in of the bank. / CHICAGO JEWELER ROBBEf) Bandits Tie Up Those in Store— Take $10,(MO in Geras. Bn United Prett CHICAGO, March 3.—Four automobile bandits today tied up Joseph Wilimoviski, jeweler, one clerk and' two customers and escaped with $lO,000 In jewelry. Scores’ of persons passed the west side shop as the robbery was in progress. FIREMAN ADMITS DRINK Case of William tleuser Taken Under Advisement. The case of William T. Heuser, fireman of Company 14, charged with drunkenness, was taken under advisement for a week by the board of safety today. . Heuser admitted taking one drink from a stranger. “I wouldn’t take a drink with my best Mend iet alone a stranger,’

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Police Search City for “Potential” Killers After Woman, 60, and Two Men Are Struck Drivers Speed Away. Two potential “killers’’ were at large today, following two accidents in which three persons were injured. One victim of the motorist of the “hit and run’’ species was Mrs. Alma Buckley, 60, of 609 E. North St., knocked down by a Ford coupe Monday night as she crossed the street at 892 Massachusetts Ave. The driver speeded up and escaped an auto that pursued him. Mrs. Buckley, injured about the head, hipo, right arm, both legs and back, was treated at the city hospital and taken home. The second irresponsible driver failed to stop after his automobile had struck and damaged a car driven by Walter Hook, 318 S. Temple Ave., early today at Shelby St. and Lexington Ave. Hook was bruised about the chest. Sam Hickey, 1015 Sanders St., riding with Hook, was cut on the head. Floyd Birdwell, 1005 Edison St., who pursued the auto that struck Mrs. Buckley, was outdistanced. J. C. Dumato, 805 Massachusetts Ave., who administered first aid, said the speed of the car was such the license number could not be obtained.

Mrs. Buckley, suffering severely from pain in her back as she lay on a bed in her home, advocated more stringent penalties for failure to stop after an accident, with a five-year prison term instead of the present six months’ maximum. Her husband, Edward E. Buckley merchant policeman, suggested that stricter enforcement, with no suspended sentence, Is needed, rather than stricter laws. “I believe that driver must have been Intoxicated, or he never would have left the scene,” Mrs. Buckley said. “I think he might give himself up yet If he finds he didn’t kill me.” Dragged Several Feet Mrs. Buckley .attributed her life to the fact she has not omitted morning exercises since childhood. This enabled her to withstand the shock she believed. “I know’ I was dragged several feet, because my clothes were all torn,” she said. “Everybody was surprised when witnesses reached me and found T was able to talk. I raised my head enough to see the automobile speeding away, but I was so dazed I couldn't see any numbers. “I remember looking the way the automobile was coming and could not see it. I do not understand how it got me so fast. I was only four feet from #he curb when I was struck. “I am so careful. I have a horror of leaving the house because of the way these automobiles are driven. “Why. I might have died for all that driver knew.”

the movement for city manager government for Indianapolis. Harrison discussed the differences between the three forms of municipal government. “Provision of trained men ie the most important development to be looked to in municipal administration,” he said. Personnel Most Important “In my judgment failure to provide able personnel is much more serious than failure to provide machinery. Adoption of the regular commission form would be a backward step. "City manager government gives continuity of administration, which is necessary to the best progress of city affairs. Politics, under the manager form, can be eliminated. "A disadvantage is that political leadership is not developed. A manager would be lost if he attempted to deal in politics. His function as a trained executive is to carry out policies. The city manager plan is not automatic. Voters must keep up enthusiasm if the plan is to work to the best advantage. # Snethen Talks "Scrapping of the budget, as was dpne A Monday night in making extra appropriations for police and firemen’s salaries, could hardly havF come about unher the city manager plan or under a responsible, strong, mayor type of government. “Our problem is how to destroy the idea that city government is a private enterprise on lease for four (Turn to Page ll)

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< Forecast PARTLY cloudy and somewhat unsettled tonight and Wednesday. Rising temperature. Lowest tonight, near freezing.

NEAR ZERO FAILS TO DIM SUCCESS OP AUTO EXHIBIT Crowd of 10,000 Sees Motor Show at State Fairground, Enthusiastic over the tremendous success of the opening night of the fourteenth annual automobile show of the Indianapolis Auto Trade Association at the State fairground Monday, exhibitors and managers today predicted the show will be the most successful in the histoY of Indianapolis. The show is opened at 10 a. m. daily. Near-zero weather failed to check the throng of more than 10,000 persons that poured through the entrances of the Manufacturers Building Monday night. The crowd seethed through the long aisles, wound in endless* lines through the exhibits of pleasure cars, trucks, accessories and equipment. It sat in the SIO,OOO limousines and bounced up and down in the little cars, gathered armloads of catalogues and demonstrated the doctrine “in times of winter prepare for summer” by rapidly exhausting a gigantic stack of fly swatters one company distributed as souvenirs. But the automotive Industry did not have a monopoly on public attention. A rival was in the field, the radio. It was noticeable that radio receiving set displays held their own with the most expensive and luxurious automobiles. One of the features of the evening was the Mason-Dixon orchestra which will play every day during the week.

CORONER’S QUIZ ON BEAST BEGUN Witnesses Tell of Escaping Gas in Sullivan Mine, SULLIVAN, March 3. —Escaping gas from an old working caused by falls and squeezes caused the blast which a week ago last Friday took fifty-one lives at City mine here, witneses testified today at a coroner’s Inquest. That the miners had scented gas and had called -for ,the mine boss, then prepared to leave their workings for safety when the explosion occurred, was also borne out by witnesses, all of whom were miners who escaped from the mine alive and who aided in rescue worl^. A dust explosion must havs followed the gas Explosion, witnesses testified. Witnesses funJier declared that the mlne # was safe from gas up un til a few minutes before ths explosion, when it began to leak out from, the old workings which had been sealed sometime previous. , Joe Meakin, a fire boss, was the principal witness. ) A. C. Daily, State mine inspec tor, was to give his report this aft ernoon. ONLY ONE MAN CAUGHT Another Rearrested for Failure te Appear in Court. g One man was caught speeding Monday night police say today. He gave his name at the city prVmn as L. A. Woods. 34. of 838 E. Pratt 9L Maurice Sweeney. 27, of 16319 Lexington Ave.. are rearrested- He failed to kpvmr in eourt tor trial m *