Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 258, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1925 — Page 2

BLI telephone rCOMPANY SHOWS f LARGEINCREASE •Report Places 1924 Book j Value of Property at $36,491,223, " Total investment or book value of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company for 1924 Is shown to be $36,491,223.73, an Increase of $2,330,896.51 over the amount for 1923, In annual teport of the oompany, filed today With the public service commission. Inasmuch as the commission now is engaged In evaluating the company’s physical property. It Is believed the hook value lnorease will be used by the Bell to combat the commission’s findings. Local Exchange Included 2* Operations of the company during 3the last six months show a net earn- ' ing of slightly more than 4 per cent, Covering the seventy-two exchanges in the State. The Indianapolis exchange is included In the report, although not by separate figures. It Is Customary for figures on the Indianapolis exchange to be placed In a separate report, usually following the annual report by about, a month. 1349,842.79 Year’s Earnings Total aspets and liabilities for 1924 are shown as 339,843,309.62, as against $37,817,574.87 for 1923. Net _earnings for the year were $349,''842.79, Pursuant to the 4*4 per cent existing between the Indiana Bell and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company the latter received $441,656.87 as rental on its properties and for services rendered. Gross income for the year was $1,758,999.53, from which tha contractual fees were paid. The report was filed over the name of C. H. Rottger, president of the Indiana Bell. FIVE SIGNALS ORDERED ‘New “Silent Cops” to Be Installed on Meridian St. Five traffic control signals, to be placed in the middle of Meridian St. at intersections of New York. Vermont, Michigan, North and St. Clair Sts., were ordered by the board of safety today. They will work in unison. ' -- Board to Open Bids Bids on a sandpaper machine for Technical High School and other school supplies will be received by the Indian aped is school board tonight. at its bi-weekly meeting. R. *©. Johnson, business director, is expected to submit a report showing’ a recapitulation of the board's finances in building eight new grade schools which were opened last fall.

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Here’s How Two New High Schools Here Will Look

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\bove —Architect’s Drawing of the West Side High Schorl. Below—Architect's Drawing of the Colored High School.

„ 1 ROUND will be broken late Lj this summer for two new high schools. Preliminary plans were approved by the school board Saturday and specifications ordered. They are: West Side High

ACTION AWAITED ON’KILLER BILL’ Meanwhile, Police Continue War on ‘Heartless,’ Police continued their drive on “killers” today while the Lafuze bill, which strengthens penalty imposed on motorists who flee after aocidents, awaited action of Governor Jackson. Efforts were being made to learn the Identity of the driver of an nuto who failed to stop after i Is machine had crashed Into a parked car at Senate Ave. and Washington St. Sergt. Harry Smith ot the accident prevention bureau said he saw the driver crash into a parked auto and then drive away. He obtained the license number. He said the parked machine belonged to Charlej Tritt, South Bend, Ind. CABARET APACHE SOUGHT Police Believe ‘Flat-Nosed Man’ Robbed Fay Perkins. Bu United Prett fc. NEW YORK, March 10.—When a small, grey-halred man wjjjg a fiat nose Is found, police believe they may be near solution of the robberyof Mrs. Fay Perkins, the latest viotim of New York's "cabaret apaches.” Mrs. Perkins was robbed In her apartment early Monday morning of Jewels worth $40,000. Officers are convinced that only the failure of a cartridge to explode prevented a murder -as mysterious as that of Miss King and Miss Lawson. KENNEDY TO CAPITAL Wife Charges “Railroading” Due to Threatened Exposure. Bn United Prttt SAN FRANCISCO. March 10.— Lieutenant Frank E. Kennedy, U. S. N., will leave the California State Hospital for the Insane at Napa tomorrow under guard, bound for Washington. D. C. , Mrs, Autumn Kennedy, who charged husband was “railroaded” to the asylum befcause he threatened to maksu.;‘revelations regarding naval'Mfeip Asiatic: waters” will also goh-et Washington. JACKSON TAKES REST Governor, Tired ’ y Closing Sessions, Spends Pay on Farm. Governor *3Bd Jackson was at his farm in Hancock County today, resting. Strenuousness of the clos ing sessions of the Legislature had tired therObVertor,’ friends said. He •is expected back at his desk Wednesday. ; The Governor until Saturday night to "Consider the bills passed by the Legislature during the last thres days.' Those he does not sign are automatically killed. Ambassador Not Yet Named Bu United Prett 1 , WASHINGTON, March 10.—President TJoollige has reached no decision in. thb appointment-es anew ambassador to. Germany, it was said at the W hlte House today. The spokesman for the president said several names are under., consideration. ' h I U Soldier Arrested Bryop Ward, 21, soldier at Ft. Harrison, w£aa arrested on & fugitive charge today. Police chief at Gary wired local detectives Ward was wanted there on a hold-up charge.

Boy Fights to Take Blame for Death Bu United Prett LOS ANGELES, March 10.— M >ther Dove has cast William "Sonny” Willi*,-15 years old, in a queer role. "Sonny”, has aet out to convict himself of the murder of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin and the authorities will refuse to help him. Mrs. Margaret B. Willis, the lad’s mother, who was convicted and sentenced'to life impriapninent for the murder of Dr‘Badyin, also oppose# "Sonny’s1 ’ wtrange legal fight again sit himself. ... \

' School, to be built at Sheffield Ave. and Washington St., and Colored High School on West St., between Elenvth and Twelfth Sts. The west sice school will cost approximately $500,000 and will accommodate from 1,000 to 1,200

Answers Here are answers to the public school geography questions printed in The Times Monday. This completes t the series of tests to give the reader opportunity to compare his education with that of a fourteen-year-old pupil. Geography answers by J. F. Thornton, assistant superintendent of schools: 1. (a) Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Anar die. <b) Development of China; proved means of communication. 2. Odessa, near Black Sea. Petrograd. West Russia. Berlin, near center of Germany. Montreal, on St. Lawrence river In Canada. Halifax, in Nova Scotia VTadivoetock, east Siberia on bay of Pacific ocean. Boston. New York, and New Orleans to Liverpool, London and Portsmouth. 3. Commerce Is trade In legal commodities. IS is carried on by means of all sorts of communication. trains, ships, planes, etc. Orders are sent by mail, wire, planes, etc. International law safeguards commerce among nations Just as domestic laws regulate commerce within a country! . 4, Germany, Austria and iater Bulgaria against the United States. France. Belgium. England, Italy, Russia, and later Greece; Russia out at last. 5. Between France and Germany. Attention has been called to a typographical error In the second part of problem 4 In the mathematics problems which appeared in The Times March 5. The correct statement ofdhe problem is: Find x. sx—6 13 —4x) equals x —7 (4 plus x). The answer by D. T. Weir, assist an t superintendent o f schools, is minus two-sevenths.

KIDNAPING IS ALLEGED Memphis Deputy Sheriff * Arrested With Gypsy Prisoners. Bv United Preu CHICAGO, March 10.—Alfred Clark, deputy sheriff from Memphis, Tenn. : and William Walsh, Chicago, wre arrested today as they were speeding toward the Indiana line with two gypsies wanted in Memphis on a charge of robbery. Police charge Clark and Walsh were trying to kidnap the gypsies, Steve and Miller Zieko, to return them to Memphis to avoid the of securing extr&dtiion papers. BOY, 6, STRUCK BY AUTO Mrs. Gertrude Berry Arrested When Child Runs Into Street. , Mrs. Gertrude Berry, 39, of 2605 W. Washington St., was charged with assault and batmry Monday, after Police Sergeants CYNeal and Smith had Investigated an accident at Belle Vleu PI. and Washington St., where William Huddleston, 6. of 55 8. Holmes Ave., was injured about the shoulders. Sergeant O’Neal said the Huddleston boy was on the curb and ducked under the arm of a school traffic officer and ran Into the path of an auto driven by Mrs.* Berry. Chicago Scientist Dies Bv United Prett CHICAGO, March 10.—Prof. John F. Hayworth, 66, director of the college of engineering, Northwestern University, died here today following a j?rief illness. Professor Hayworth was noted for achieving the measurement of the equatorial and polar diameters of the earth. Sentence Is Suspended Bv Timet Special HAMMOND, Ind., March 10.—Wll. liam Norman, former Hammond steel commissioner, received a suspended sentence today when he pleaded guilty to charges of padding his department pay roll more than $60,000. Restitution had been made. Headaches From Slight Colds Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets relieve the Headache by curing the Cold. A Safe and Proven Remedy. The box bears the signature of E. W Grove. 30c.—Advertisement.

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students. The colored school, which will be made a community center with a branch library, will cost $660,000, with facilities for 1,700 students. Both schools are expected to be ready for occupancy In September. 1926.

UTILITY IS TAKEN OVERBYINSULL Indiana Service Corporation Changes Hands, Bu United Pren FT. WAYNE. Ind., March 10.— Samuel Insull, Chicago utilities magnate. together with his associates in the largest group of utilities corporations in the Middle West, today Joined the management of the Indiana Service Corporation, which supplies ele trie light and power and street rtilway service in Ft. Wayne and operates three lnterurban systems running from this city. Robert M. Fustel of Ft. Wayne will continue -a* president of the company and will have active charge of the management of the property. Election of new board directors at annual' meeting of stockholders today marked* passing of control of the company from the hands of Eastern men to the public utilities operators of the Middle West. New members of the board are Insull, Charles W. Chase, president of the Gary street railways, and Samuel Insull Jr. Old directors re-elect-ed are Feustel, James M. Barret, Henry C. Paul and Harry E. Vordermark, all of Ft. Wayne.

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Pawnee Bill (Major Gordon W. Lillie), former partner of Buffalo Bill, who retired from the show business in 1913, is organizing a wild west show at his Pawnee (OklaJ.ranch which will go to London in May. Though 65, Pawnee Bill is actively directing his Aew show. King Edward will be the chief patron of the enterprise In England.

INQUIRY IS FAVORED Senate Adopts Resolution for Election Contest Investigation. Bv United Prett WASHINGTON, March It).—Resolutions authorizing investigation by the Senate Privileges and Election Committee of three senatorial contests, in New Mexico, Minnesota a.id lowa, were adopted by the Senate today. Holm Bprsum is contesting th election of Samuel G. Brattam, Dem ocrat, of New Mexico; Daniel F. Steck is contesting election of Smith W. Brookhart of lowa, and Magnus Johnson, farmer-iaborlte, is contest ing election of Thomas B. Schall of Minnesota. DIVORCE PLOT CHARGED Validity of Dennistoun Decree to Be Attacked. Bv United Prett LONDON,. March 10.—Charging the divorce which Mrs. Dorothy Muriel Dennistoun obtained from Lieut. Col. lan Dennistoun in Paris, was secured through a clandestine agreement, defense counsel In her $6,000 suit against her former husband, today will question the valid-, ity of the decree. Mrs. Dennistoun today was to face fifteen hotel attaqhee, who will seek to identitfy her as the womaq who stayed at their hotels aa the ”lfe of several men. Danville Youth Arrested Orville Crawley. 19, of Danville, Ind., waa arrested on a spaedim charge toq-S on W. Washington Bt.

LIVE INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS; SIX ARESLATED Bicycle Rider Hurt in Crash —Boy Coaster Struck by Machine. Six persons were charged with assault and battery and five were Injured as the result of accidents late Monday and early today. Harry Buckley, 4012 Ruckle St., was riding a bicycle with no lights, police say, when he was struck by an auto driven by Mervtn Sanders, 28, of 2001 Broadway. Sanders was slated. Buckley was injured about the body and cut over the eye. Coaster Hurt Richard Boles, 2918 English Ave., was driving north on Rural St., near Washington St., when his auto struck Walter Porter, 7, of 2324 Spann Ave., who was coasting in a wagon. The boy was Injured about the shoulder. Boles was Slated. John Etchison, 15, of 2422 N. Dearborn St., was slated in Juvenile Court, after his bicycle struck Mrs. George Davis, 4021 College Ave., at Pennsylvania and Washington Sts., Monday. She was injured about the left hip jnd taken to the city hospital. Autos Collide Autos driven by L. R. Hugley,' 29, of 1826 Lambert Bt., and Ben Stone, of West Newton, Ind., collided at Birch St. and Oliver Ave. Stone was cut by flying glass, Hugley was slated. Ray Rlchtmeyer, 2145 Park Ave., was slated after bis auto collided with one driven by Joseph Gray, R. R. 4, Greenwood, Ind., at Stop 4 the Madison road. A. Rigley, who was in the car with Gray/ was cut. Gray was also slated. Police say slippery pavements caused the accident.

LEMCKE-MAYOR CLUB LAUNCHED i Lucius 0, Hamilton Workers Also Organize, Republican candidates for mayor In the free-for-all city primary got their campaigns under way with a bang today when a Ralph A. Lem,-cke-for-Mayor Ulut> was formed and Lucius O. Hamilton perfected plans at a dinner at the Columbia Club. Lemcke, backed by a coalition of the Jewett-Shank faction, informally opened headquarters at 303 Lemcke Bldg, at a noon meeting attended by about 150 business and professional men. Sam D. Miller of the law firm of Miller, Dailey & Thompson, was elected president, Henry W. Bennett, president of the State Life Insurance Company, vice president; Irving W. Lemaux treasurer; James W. Carr, secretary, and Mrs. Edith Martin, assistant secretary. Charles O. Bookwalter, chairman, named a nominating committee composed of Dr. Edmund D. Clark, Mrs. Fred A. Sims and Dr. James M. Ogden. The following second vice presidents were elected: Wilbur A, Royse, Ralph A. Bamberger, the Rev. Nathaniel A. Seymour, Mrs. Hugh McGibeny, Mrs. C. H. Josey, Mrs. Catherine Hellinan, Mrs. Wolf Sussman. Mrs. Mary Johnson and Mrs. Anna B. Winstead. Miller spoke, declaring Lemcke the logical man for mayor. Hamilton entertained twenty-five men at luncheon at the Columbia Club. TRUTH IN PARADOXES Contradictions Denied in Lent on Sermon at Church. "Christ’s life as recorded in the Bible is' full of paradoxes,” said the Rev. William McMurdo Brown, dean of the Episcopal diocese in western Colorado at the Lenten service held at Christ Church, Tuesday noon. He took for his text the tenth verse from the twelfth chapter of second Corinthians. “When I Am Weak, Then, Am I Strong.” "Apparent contradiction isn’t it?” he said, “Every page in the Bible has one and every eternal truth is coucfied in one. The Gospel cf Jesus is the Gospel of Paradox, —Give if you would get. ‘Refuse if you would receive.’ ‘Sacrifice If you would save.’ ‘Be humble If you "would be great.’ In weakness is strength.’ But this result In every case Is predicated on one condition—the conscious cooperation with God.’ ”

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INDEPENDENT ARTISTS HOLD PRIVATE SHOW Waldorf Astoria Roof Holds Brilliant Display of Canvases in 'New Manner,’

Bu Timet Special NEW YORK, March 10.—It Is always a pleasure to cover the annual exhibition of the Society of Independent artists on the roof of the Waldorf Astoria because the worst that you write about most of the pictures is giving them all the best of it. Last year a reviewer wrote that one of the pictures was terrible and the artist sent a note saying; "I shall try not to let your praise go to my head.” They sell catalogs at the door, but don’t buy one because it’s more fun •making up titles as you go along the galleries. For instance, there’s a

Recommended to Be Legion Adjutant

JAMES F. BARTON

National Commander James A. Drain has recommended that James F. Barton, of lowa, be named National adjutant of the Legion, when Russell Crevlston, present adjutant, resigns. Barton will become Creviston's assistant April 1, to learn the job. Barton went into the service as a first llenteuant, April 16, 1917, and was discharged Aug. 8, 1919, as a captain. Most of his service was in command of machine gun companies. CITY MANAGER OPPOSED Politics in Hoosier Veins, Attorney Tells Club. \ Hooslers have so much politics in their veins It would be impossible to rid municipal government from political control under the proposed city manager form for Indianapolis, declared William Bosson Sr., city attorney, at Mercator Club luncheon today at the Spink-Ams. Bosson said he believed parties would get control of any form of local government. EXPULSION WINS FAVOR Ooolidge Said to Approve of Dusting La Follette Henchmen. Bu United Prett WASHINGTON, March 10.—President Coolidge thoroughly approves of the expulsion,by the Republican Senate majority of the four La Foliette supporters from committee chairmanships and assignments, 11 was said at the Whitehouse today. * The spokesman for the President said Mr. Cooliclge didn’t regard the expulsion of the independents as either punishment or discipline but rather as the fulfillment of promises made during the last campaign. r Thieves Trailed by Raisins Police learned today that the Snider grocery, 122 Geisendorff St., was entered Monday night and twentyfive boxes of raisins, syrup and washing powder, valued aat $7.65, taken. Police trailed the thieves for several blocks by raisins dropped from one of the packages.

portrait of a lady, according to the catalog description, which would be a very snug fit under the title of “Study, in Secondary Ivy Poisoning, Done in Strawberry Jam with a Kitchen Mop.” An independent painter named Bronson has an impressionistic picture which may be his impression of De Lancey St. and First Ave. on a night in June, but which more closely resembles thhe popular impression of stock-taking day in the checker warehouse of the Checker Cab Company. “The Dell” wduld be better named "couple of guys out in the woods without any clothes on.” There’s another figure, representing something in the now famous strife between capital and labor, that a doctor would recognize as "exaggerated case of obesity and water on the left knee In woman 46 years old.” The Independent artists do not exhibit their paintings In the regular art shows for the same reason that Peggy Hopkins Joyce doesn’t entertain the Astora socially. if this piece seems slightly acrimonious it should be borne In mind that It i actually a fulsome boost. THAW KEEPS CITY BUSY Complaints Flood Street Commissioner, Mayor Told. The burden which thawing weather places upon the city street commissioner’s office was shown by report of Martin Hyland, street commissioner, at Mayor Shank’s cabinet meeting today. Only twelve complaints remained to be cared for Jan. 1, the report showed. At the present time 174 remain unattended to, out of 624 received since Jan. 1. Almost all complaints are for cinders and gravel for unimproved streets and alleys. Indiana Limestone Praised “Indiana limestone, the oldest in the world, is the best for building purposes,” declared H. S. Brightly of Bedford, Ind., technical director of the Indiana Limestone Quarrymen’s Association, at the Y. M. C. A., Monday night. Brlghtly’s talk Illustrated the growth of Indiana limestone from 18,000,000 years ago when this section of the country was the upper reaches of the present Gulf of Mexico. Sixty per cent of all building stone used in the United States is Indiana limestone, he said.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1925

COUNCIL CONTEST 10 BECROWDED Fourteen File Petitions for May Primaries, There will be no dearth of councilmanic candidates at the May primaries. Fourteen filed petitions at the city clerk's office Monday. They were: Republican*: , First District—William J. Fehey, 410 N. Gladstone Ave.; Charles 1,. Clark, 2514 Station St., and Edward R. Healing, 4950 E. Tenth St., Third Dtstrle*—Fred Yeamui, 1165 E. Thirty-Eighth St.; Wallace H Berry, 029 N. Pennsylvania St., and Harry C. Singer. 3230 Graeeland Ave. Fourth District—Charles E. McCormick. 3034 Northwestern Ave., and Earl D. Cranor. 1828 N. Harding St. Democrats: First District—Arthur W. Lyday. 420 Riley Ave.. and R. B. Rex Smith. 1022 N. Ewing St. Third District—James D. Ruchanan 2962 N. Delaware St.: Henry Ruaick. 516 W. Washington St., and James D. Ermston. 1032 N Talbott St. TWO INJURED IN HERRIN EXPLOSION Blast Believed to Be Recurrence of Klan Warfare, Bu United Prett HERRIN, 111., March 10.—Two persons are in a hospital today, dangerously injured, following an explosion in the H. O. Fowlsr store here last night. The explosion is believed to be a recurrence of the Klan and antiKlan feud. Glenn Fowler is said to be a Klhnsman. Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Fowler live in an apartment above the brick building. Both were injured by the explosion. Mrs. Fowler is still unconscious. Doctors think there is little chance of her recovery. The explosion—said to have been caused by a dynamite bomb—broke windows* in several buildings in the neighborhood. The Klan-Anti-Klan warfare has been at a standstill since the killing of S. Glenn Young, famed Klansman and liquor raider, several weeks 311 Building Permits Issued Three hundred and eleven permits for construction work valued at $580,614 were issued by the board of safety last week, according to report of Francis F. Hamilton/ building commissioner, to board of safety today.