Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1925 — Page 12

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ELKS SWELL FUND FOR MINER AID Relief Sum Now Reported at $8,523,04, Funds raised by the Indianapolis Chapter, American Red Cross, for sufferers of the Sulivan mine disaster, amounted to $8,523.04 today. Miss Agnes Cruse, secretary, announced. Among the contributions was SIOO from Indianapolis Elks, lodge No. 13 The sum of $146 was sent by the International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers at Lafayette to headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America here. This amount, together with $145 collected from office employes at headquarters was forwarded to William Hitch, secretary of District 11, Terre Haute. Various funds raised in Indianapolis amounted to more than $26,000. PROWLER GETS AWAY Shots Fail to Stop Escape From Brass Foundry. Warned by an alarm set off when 4 ' sMe window was broken in the F. H. Langsenkamp brass foundry, 130 E. Georgia St., at midnight Tuesday, William Montgomery and Stewart Coleman of the American District Telegraph Agency burglar alarm system fired three shots at a man who ran out of the back door. The Intruder escaped. Nothing was disturbed in the foundry. * O. Wormer, 3680 Central Ave., reported a woman’s gold wrist watch, set with a diamond, and a ring, both valued at S7OO, stolen from his home. Guy Lemon. 4901 Washington Blvd., reported silverware, a fur piece and a coat, all valued at $240, stolen. AUTO ROBBERY SETTING Ohio Man Forced Into Car By Hold-Up Men. Police today had only a meager description of two armed men who forced John M. Underwood, Marietta, Ohio, into their automobile as he alighted from a street car at TwentyFirst and Illinois Sts., Tuesday night and robbed him as they drove around. Underwood, who Is at Ft. Harrison preparatory to entering West Point, reported his loss as S3O, a. woman’s watch engraved with the name ‘‘Henrietta,” and another watch, a gold chain and a Boy Scout charm valued at S3O, Mrs. George Willis, 1435 Bellefontaine 3t., told police a man grabbed her purse, containing SB, as she was walking in Fourteenth St. near Ashland Ave. I

FIGHTING IN BERLIN Communists and Republicans Clash —Police Prevent Bloodshed Hu United Prttt BERLIN, March 4.—Communists and members of the Republican Reichsbanner organization clashed in Under Den Llndenstrasse at noon, shortly before President Ebert’s funeral. There was sharp fighting for a few moments, but police dispersed the rival factions without bloodshed. LITTLE CHANGE IN SIGHT Above Freezing Temperatures Expected to Prevail. Not much change in temperature was forecast for tonight and Thursdya by the weather bureau. Tenth of an inch of snow fell late Tuesday night. Cloudy weather will oontinue, according to the forecast. Temperatures this morning were above freezing, following a jump of SB degrees-Tuesday. FROZEN; THAWS; LIVES ■v&nsville Man to Survive Denatured Alcohol Spree. By Timet Snedal . EVANSVILLE. Ind., Ma ch 4. Police today hail'- George Bailey as a He was found nude and frozen in his home, as the result of drinking denatured alcohol Police said he had thawed out and Will live.

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The drawing contains a number of black dots which are connected with a network of lines. Sttyting at point 1, it is not difficult to trace a course from dot to dot, finally terminating at point 2. The problem, however, Is to discover the "shortest” possible course—that is, the route which passes through the smallest number of black dots, always following the lines. Can you find the “shortest” course? Last puzzle answer: To take away five marbles from a group of eleven, then add four, and have nine—not ten —the boy did as follows: He took away the five marbles, and added the four extra marbles to the five! Thus he formed a group of nine, leaving six in the original group! GRAND JURY TO ACT Alleged Auto Thieves Given Preliminary’ Hearing in City Court. Frank Ulsas, 22, of 1630 S. Meridian St., and Alonzo Archer, 19, of BVi Adler St., are held under $1,500 bonds to grand Jury today following preliminary hearing in city court Tuesday on vehicle taking charges. Jqhn Casey, 23, of 1526 S. Meridian St., arrested with Ulsas and Archer is held in detention ward at city hospital suffering from bullet wound received when the trio was fired upon by police while they were fleeing in the car alleged to have been Morris Edwards, 33 Irvington Ave. HOPE ON FREEMAN BILL Compensation Bill Spongers See Chance in Scnatel Although the Alldredge woiHunen’s compensation measure has failed twice in the Senate to receive a constitutional majority, friends of the Freem&n House bill, carrying similar provisions, see a chance for that measure to receive more favorable consideration in the upper body. After having failed or.ce, Represent, atlve Freman Tuesday called his bill down and it was passed. 58 to 32. Total possible compensation is increased from $3,960 to $5,000 under the Freeman bill.

CITY DOCTOR IS SENT Family Says Other Physicians Re- • fused to Attend Child. After police were notified that Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, 433 S. Alabama St., could not obtain the services of a physician to come to their home and treat their 3-months-old baby, Capt. Fred Drinkut sent a city dispensary doctor. The Davis family said they had a doctor for five days, but he was called from the city and when they attempted to get another all refused to come. The child became worse and the police call resulted. MATE 'DUMB,” WIFE~SUES Woman in Divorce Action Says Husband Refused to Talk. Bu Timet Special LA PORTE. Ind., March 4. Because she alleges her husband refuses to talk to her, Irene Witt is suing Emil, her helpmate for twen-ty-two years, for divorce. She Is asking $2,600 alimony and the custoday of their four children, the oldest of whom Is 20. Mrs. Witt also charges that her husband has threatened her and her children with violence. Child Is Scalded After treatment at the city hospital Willis Johnson, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Johnson, 1436 E. Fifteenth St., was taken home suffering painful burns received when he pulled a pan of boiling hot water from a small stov^.

SAUNDERS GIVEN HANDSOME RADIO Fifth-District Friends Contribute for Gift, Bti Timet Spertal WASHINGTON, March 4.—Everett Saunders on assuming his new duties as secretary of the President, was given a surprise party by Indiana friends this afternoon. The party netted Saunders a magnifleient $450 radio set. * The money for the wist was raised among Saunders frient s, in ther Fifth Congressional District, and sent to Washington with instructions to Robert Heinl, former Terre Haute resident, to buy something for Saunders. Heinl picked the radio outfit, and this afternoon in the presence of the Hoosiers who came to Washington to witness the inauguration, the Hoosier congressional delegation and the White House stafT, Saunders was duly surprised. Representative Noble Johnson of Terre Haute who succeeds Saunders in the House made the speech of presentation.

TEAMS TO ‘CROSS WORDS’ Cathedral High and Crawfordsville Schools Debate Tonight. Cathedral High School and CrawfordsviUe High School debating teams will “cross words” at the Knig/hts of Columbus Hall on the question, "Resolved, That Congress be given power to overrule by a twothirds vote decision of the Federal Supreme Court on the constitutionality of Federal statutes.” Cathedral’s affirmative team, David Lawlor, John Fogarty, Kenric Canfield and Frank N6ll, will meet Crawfordsville’s negative here. Cathedral’s negative team, Charles Perrin, John Scanlon, Joseph Elward and John Conner, will go to Crawfordsville. ATTACK CHARGE DENIED Grandson Arrested at Home of Sister at Eaglesfleld. Traced to the home of his sister, near his home in Eaglesfleld, Ind., Charles Scott, 21, was arrested by Sheriff C. T. Bolsourt of Decatur County and returned here Tuesday to face charges of robbery and assault and battery with intent to kill. Scott denied, detectives said, that he struck his grandfather, Howard Scott, 84, of 2829 Burton Ave., on the head with an iron bar nad robbed him of $5 F*b. 20. Instead he offered his aid in apprehending the guilty person. The aged man is in a critical condition, police said.

TRACTION LOSS HEAVY Report Shows 2,000,000 Lees Passengers Curled in 1924. By Timet Special ANDERSON, Ind., Murch 4. Union Trcctlon lines carrieJ more than 2,000,000 less passengers in 1924 than in 1923, ocec ulnj; to report of Arthur Brady, president, submitted to a 'jtockholders meeting Tuesday. Onlj 1-1,405 49* were carried last year as compa-ed to 16,659,343. Automobiles and Lus traffic are blamyd. A deficit of $419,642 for the year was shown. In 1923 the company had a surplus of $73,336. Hold-Up Suspects Held Two young colored men were held today under $2,000 vagrancy bonds by detectives as suspects in these hold-ups Saturday night: Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company grocery, 952 E. Thirtieth St., sllß in checks and money: Max Cohn grocery. 1253 Yaindes St.. $27.

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99* S^e - i I For Women, Misses PKN and Children jCwWill wonders never cease—now at the Shoe Market thousands and thousands of pairs of footwear to go on I sale at 99< a pair. Many of these styles were made to sell at 4 to 5 times this price—they are the biggest t\V y values we have ever seen. $ 991 i |i FANCY STRAPS HIGH HEELS CUT OUTS LOW HEELS CSKaf/fa NOVELTY PATTERNS MEDIUM HEELS JWLp SANDAL EFFECTS OXFORDS M WM COMFORT SLIPPERS HOUSE SLIPPERS WW Tw AH Colors, All Leathers, All Sizes THE SHOE MARKET pC Just One Block South of the High Expense District Mm

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SPEEDING IS BLAMED Eden Man Slated Following Crash at Downtown Corner. Floyd Umbenhower, 21, of Eden, Ind., was slated on speeding and improper driving charges, following an auto accident at New York and' Alabama Sts. Tuesday night. Police say he said he was driving only twenty miles an hour when he struck an auto driven by Mrs. Marie Hesler, 28, of 34 N. Addison St. Both cars were damaged. Police say Harry Dietz, 375 S. Gray St., skidded forty feet in his auto before it struck the front wheel on a Red Ball bus, driven by Edward Kelly, 525 Concord St., at Senate Ave. and Washington St. DECISION IS HELD UP Re-Zoning of Meridian St. Taken Under Advisement. Decision on requests of George J. Marott and E. G. Spink to buttd a $3,000,000 hotel at Meridian St. and Fall Creek on condition they obtain permission to construct a garage on Twenty-Seventh St. between Meridian and Illinois and of the International Typographical Union to occupy the former home of Samuel Murdock t at Meridian and Twenty-Eighth Sts., have been taken under advisement by the city plan commission. Re-zoning of this section of the city with a view to permitting its use for business purposes, will be considered by a committee of the city council, the plan qommmission and Mayor Shank soon.

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(If you see any of these license numbers, call The Indl mapolla Time#, Main 3500. or the police. The owner may be able to do as much for you some time.) Automobiles reported stolen belong to: B. F. Kelly, 31 E. Fifty-Second St., Overland, license 88, from Ohio and Pennsylvania Sts. Harry F. Vice, 1118 Shelby St., Chevrolet, 498-142, from Ohio and Delaware Sts. Harry WoodsmaJl, 3340 N. Meridian St., Hudsofc, 460-200, from 1010 Kentucky Ave., rear.

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An automobile reported found by police belongs to: Emmanuel Unter, 1619 E. Nineteenth St„ Overland, found at, Seventeenth St. and the L. E. & W. railroad tracks. SCHOOL HEAD RESIGNS Superintendent for Twelve Years to Quit at Seymour. By Timet Special SEYMOUR, Ind., March 4. Thomas Abbott Mott, for twelve years superintendent of the Seymour public schools, %as resigned, effective at the end of the present school year. He came here from Richmond and has been public school superintendent for thirtyeight years and in public school work for forty-eight years. Norman J. Lesher, superintendent of the Gas City (Ind.) schools, has been elected to succeed him here.

OAKLANDON KEEPS DEPOT Big Four’s Petition to Abandon Station Denied. Public service commission today denied the petition of the Big Four Railroad Company for authority to abandon their station at Oaklandon. Petition stated that expense of maintaining the station out of proportion with tho amount of business handled. Commissioners ruled that - the station was necessary because Sunnyside Sanatorium was. nearby and that the population of Oaklandon was increasing. The railroad wished to establish a station at McCordsville, three miles east of Oaklandon. TROTSKY SEEKS PEACE Former Soviet Minister Negotiates With Communists. By United Prett LONDON, March 4.—Leon Trotsky, erstwhile soviet minister, has opened negotiations for reconciliation with the central committee of the Communist party, according to word from Helsingfors, quoting a dispatch received there from Moscow.

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Boy Street Accident Victim Howard , Marshall, 12. of 1221 Drake St., was recovering today frorh injuries received late Tuesday when he was struck by an, automobile at Ray and West Sts. Job* Schaller, 28, of 1301 Kentucky Ave., the driver, was slated.

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