Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 276

lEGOTIATE MERGER OF US LINES lerstate Public Service Company Bickering for Purchase of Rival ■irm Between Indianapolis and Prjjmklin—sloo,ooo Consideration? advance of electric interurban railways into the Jjflgvj, passenger hauling business will be marked, in a few ■purchase of the J. and H. Bus Line between IndianapJnd., by the Interstate Public Service ComffiMvas indicated \oday.

■TION USED ■FITABLY IN Kay contest ■Calls Reach Chamber Bommeree for Facts I on Industries. |Bhlgh school hoys and girls IBnapolis are puttlnsr their vaIM me to profitable use la indicalls to the bureau of in ■f the Chamber of Commerce, ■mher of Commerce building, about Indianapolis, facta are to be used in es- ■ Industries Should Come to ■polls.” ■lseays will be entered in the In bolls Times Industrial Essav lit, which will close at midnight 1 15. I bureau of industry is receiveen fifteen and twenty calls has many pamphlets and will help the contest en■chamher of Commerce la inHi in the contest. which is beBnducted in conjunction with "hamber's bigger Indianapolis am. lays, to be not more than 200 t long, must be written in ink typewriter, on one side of the . and mailed or delivered in n to The Indianapolis Times (trial Essay Contest Editor, st prise is sls; second, $10; $5. y pupil of any Indianapolis I or preparatory school may Inies report k DISCHARGED ■ship Assessor Says No I Deputies Fired. Pliship Assessor M. 1.. Jefferson ■denied a report that he had jigged sever‘y-five deputy as- ■ because they were for Ralph Bicke instead of John L. DuQ Republican nomination for were ordered to turn in when they called for Biges. said that he believed the BBrose when he called in fourJgSjjuties and told them they ■ave to do better work or be ■H>d. £aing to another report. Jes fourteen of his Slhecauso of failure to turn gfijlTlie fourteen included eight nchmen, It was said. supporters later were fcQjJri on demand of County Harry Dunn, member of pSjfln-Du vail-Dunn faction <>p. e Lemoke-Sha nk A emit age cording to. a report. ■peed COPS HURT in Crash; Other limned YSrj Cycle Catches Fire. SO' -oliceman Harm Fishier. mjnl a * St " was in jured about when his cycle was T 0 auto driven by John inMrß■ r, f 208 L. Thirty-Second and Meridian Sis., KUDKiy. Witnesses say that PBfoJ not give the hand signal to turn, lie was ?361561.h assault and battery, I/Oitis Schneider ■ jkflh slightly burned fingers Sir’dcle caught fire at Merid--IS&3ilnut Sts. The fire was fitufjSl by the fire department.

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Lemuel M. Brown, general manager of the traction company said negotiations are under way for the purchase. A. G Harmon, of Southport, operates the J. and H. line with sixteen busses. It is reported the traction company will pay approximately SIOO,OOO for J. and H. equipment and good WOT. The merger will end competition on the Franklin line. Idnes Compete The traction company started operating in competition with Harmon’s line several months ago. The electric line operates its busses out of the Traction Terminal, averaging a bus about every forty-five minutes each way. The two bus lines parallel the Interstate's electric line. At the time the Interstate went into the bus business it was reported in business circles it was desired to protect the electric line from the heavy inroads into its business by the rubber-tired haulers. Service to Continue indications were, however, that the expected purchase of the rival bus line by the traction company would not mean the end of bus service between Indianapolis and Franklin. It is reported that the traction company would operate its combined bus line out of the Indianapolis Motor Bus Terminal. 50-54 Kentucky Ave., instead of from the Traction Terminal Station. The Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction Company and the Terre Haut°. ,’ndianapolis and Eastern Traction Company are operating bus lines from the bus terminal. This move would result In all busses except those of W. B. Hiner's Red Ball lines operating from the Indianapolis Motor Bus Terminal. Hlner is building a terminal of his own at Senate Ave. and Maryland Street. ONE DEAD, ONE HURT IN CRASH Auto Struck by Freight Train Near Wabash. Bu United Press WARSAW. Ind., April 1. —Russel Eisenbladder, 27, of Goshen was killed aind Roy Stouder of Waterford Mills was injured today when their auto was struck by a freight train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Milford Junction. The two men, employes of the Interstate T’ublic Service Company, were-on their way from Warsaw to Goshen. DODGE COMPANY PROPERTY SOLD Deal Believed Prelude to Huge Merger. Bu l nitrrl Press NEW YORK, April 1. The Dodge Brothers Automobile Cornpan •, one of the largest and richest single factors in the automobile in.dustry, has passed into the hands of Dillon, Read A Cos., after a bitter fight with the Morgan interests. The transaction is believed to involve a sum over $160,000,000 and Is expected to prelude a $500,000,000 automobile merger to include the Packard Motor Company, the Hudson Motor Company, and the Briggs Body Corpotaiion. The Dodge Company was owned by the widows of John and Horace E. Dodge and was managed by trustees of the two estates. It is capitalized $50,000,000 an increase from the $10,000,000 figure of 1923 and has an annual produc tion of more than 200,000 cars.

The Times today adds these prizes to those already offered in the marble tournament. Os course, the Lbier award is the free week's trip to Atlantic City for the national tourney in June. Play in the neigh- — I 1 KR&'?d eliminaJm meets begins soon. Fill out an entry at once. You’ll find one on Page 7.

SHE SKA TED IN THE STREET

“jryslHlS certainly is a lesspn ; | Ito me, and tell other little Indianapolis girls and boys not to skate'in the street.” That's what Lillian Petty, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Petty, 1526 W. Ohio St., said as she lay seriously injured at city hospital. Tuesday rhe and Mary Brown. 11, and Rosemary Brown, 8, of

1 1 Indianapolis girls and Along came a truck of the W soys not to skate'in the street.” Merchants Heat and Light Com 1 That’s what Lillian Petty, 13, I>ay. driven by Russell Kumpff. , ... . , 24, of 3741 Schofield St., and after 1 laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank u wpm LllU{|n .* fastor than any Petty, 1526 W. Ohio St., said as thing.” Momentum carried her I^>< ! the lay seriously injured at city too close to the truck wheel, her RH" jg# -jjvp. J- _ v r *-^,

SPEEDER ARRESTS SHOW BIG DECREASE

Fall Off 69 Per Cent During Last Half of March — Politics Denied. Police arrests for speeding are on a decrease, figures compiled at police headquarters today show. With the mayoralty campaign growing heated, during the month of March eighty.five men and four women were arrested on speeding charges. During the first fifteen days of the month sixty-five men and three women were slated on speeding charges. Since March 15, twenty men and one woman were slated. With the primary approaching political foes of (he present administration charge the decrease is because the present administration does not wish to bring about the enmity of any one by an arrest. I <ct Down Denied Police Chief Herman Rikhoff, stoutly denied that their had been any oficial let down by the motorcycle squads He said he had issued no orders and said the r sa tions by the other / siere merely brought on by "politics.” “I have noticed speeding on Meridian St. since the advent of the one-way street system. I assigned several men to that street alone to regulate the traffic and stop fast driving,” he said. ‘I have not hid (Turn to Pago 13) IRON WORKERS OUT ON STRIKE No Agreement Reached on New Wage Scale. Structural Iron Workers' Union members were on a strike today after no agreement was reached on the wage scale for the coming year. The wage scale, which was $1.25 an hour last year, expired Tuesday night. The union workers, of which John J. McNamara is business agent, asked an increase of 25 cents an hour. Harrison Walters, chairman of the wage scale committee of the contractors, said construction was not delayed today because of the “walk out.” Other workmen have been employed, he said. There are about 175 union iron workers in the city, it was estimated. Several days ago it was said only about 35 per cent, were employed. MINE VOTE PROTESTED Final Count Challenged by Khelbiim Candidate Bu I Jiitrd Prmx THRRE HAUTE, Ind.. April I. The first protest against the final count of votes in the recent election of District No. 11, United Mine Workers of America, -has been filed by Charles M. Lowery, Shelburn, who was defeated by 37 votes for member of the district executive board from sub-district 3. The basis of the protest is the recount of vote from locals whose votes weie ilieKefl to have been tampered with on their first return. ' HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 32 10 a. m 48 7 a. m 36 11 a. m 50 8 a. m 41 12 (noon) .... 62 9 a. m 46 1 p. m. 63

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1925

1428 W. Ohio St., went over to Now York St. to skate. Along came a truck of the Merchants Heat and Light Com pany, driven by Russell Kumpff, 24, of 3741 Schofield St., and after it w r ent Lillian, “faster than any thing.” Momentum carried her too close to the truck wheel, her coat caught in the spokes and she was pulled on over, the wheel passing over her body.

PHONE FIRM’S CHARTER MADE SAFE BY JUDGE Jury Only to Consider Injunctions Against A. T. & T. Contracts. Bu Timm Rnroiol FRANKLIN, Ind.. April I.—The Slate scored today In Its suit to revoke the .charter of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company when Judge Fremont Miller In his Instructions told the Jury that whiie It could not order the forfeiture of the company's franchise. It could decide whether the Moll Company should be perpetually restrained from: Enforcing its 414 per cent, license contract with the American Telegraph and Telephone Company, and other contracts entered into by directors in the alleged restraint of trade. .From creating an advisory committee. From electing directors who hold stock through executed options to the A. T. and T. Henry E. White and Will H. Thompson spoko for the defense in final arguments this morning. Will Fetherr.gill closed for the State about noon. Judge Miller expected to take approximately an hour and a half to read his instructions, putting the case in the jury's hands about 3 p. m. today. HEAVY SENTENCE GIVEN Colored Man Gets Maximum Blind Tiger Penalty. Fine of S6OO and six months on the Indiana Btate Farm was given Ben Sims, colored. 1524 Lewis St. in city court late Tuesday, on a blind tiger charge. This is the maximum penalty. Slnis was arrested Feb. 24. It was alleged that he had used a 13-year-old boy as an aid in seling liquor.

POLICE DRY RAIDER SCORED BY COLLINS Judge Looses Anger on Lieutenant Cox .When Officer Admits Breaking Down Door.

Destructive tactics of prohibition officers of the Indianapolis police force in breaking down doors to private homes in an effort to arrest alleged violators of the liquor laws was scored Tuesday afternoon by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Judge Collins ire was aroused when Lieutenant Cox admitted he broke down the door to the home of George Divers, 218 Hancock St., without knocking or giving anyone inside an opportunity to open it. “Lieutenant Cox this isn't the first time you've been' in this court and admitted doing this,” said Judge Collins. “This system of going to? private homes and kicking doors in isn’t right and I don’t like it. I resent it as an American citizen. If you knew these persons were violating the law, you had a right way to arrest them.”

Lillian Petty

Aprille Fooles’ Prankes Watch Out for the Fake Phone Calls and Pocketbooks.

B r— —] AUK in the days when knight hood was in flower, and all l___J that sort of thing, the gallant men and their ladies fair spent one day of the year making fools of one another, so 'tis said. And we're still at it. Earliest records of April Fool Day describe its observation as that of "sending friends on fruitless or impossible errands.” Harry Hampton, colored, 237 W. Vermont St., thought he was the victim of that kind of medieval joke when he received a telephone call early today to meet a certain person at an Indiana Ave. restaurant. He kept the appointment, but the other peraon did not. However. W'hen he returned to his room. Hampton changed his mind about the joke. His trunk, contain ing SIOO, wap gone. Hampton saw the trunk in the back yard. He called police, who waited near by. When John Maxwell, colored. 2426 Ethel St., appeared, he waa arrested on a charge of vagrancy. Telephone operators were kept busy all day bv prank-players. “Information, please give me the number of Sophia Davenport, on Cushing St.,” was a favorite. There were calls, too, for (he Garden of Eden. “I'd like to speak to Violet, plea.se,” florists were told over tne telephone. Sometimes ,it was “Pansy,” or “Fern" who was wanted. Fish markets answered calls for “Mr. Bass.” and the dog pound, for “Mr. Wolf and “Mr. Kerr." The French allude to the April Fool victim as "un poisson d' Avnl,” an April fish. In America we make It a “poor fish.”

Cox did not reply. Divers appealed from city court where he was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to thiry days in jail. He was discharged by Judge Collins. “There hasn’t been at bit of evidence to warrant a conviction in any court.” said the judge. TWO THEFTS REPORTED Service Company, Builder Are lasers Tuesday Night. Police today received reports of two robberies Tuesday night. Meridian Service Company, 2451 N. Meridian, reported $25 taken from the cash drawer, and $25 in change taken from beneath the counter. Robert Cordell, 36" Audubon Rd., building a house at 355 S. Audubon Rd. reported tools valued at $168.75 had been stolen.

NEW ELEMENT OF MYSTERY IN SHEPHERD CASE California Lawyer Recalls Charge McClintock Poisoned First Wife. Bu I nitfd Prrm CHICAGO. April 1. —Immediate trial has been agreed upon for William D. Shepherd, former Indianapolis man, charged with the murder of Billy McClintock, If Judge Jacob Hopkins again rules against bail, It was made known today. William Scott Stewart, chief defense attorney, and States Attorney Robert IC. Crowe have agreed to quirk action. Another element of mystery entered the case with the appearance of a letter, purporting to show that William McClintock, Sr., had once been chnrged with poisoning his first wife for the fortune bequeathed to Billy. The letter is from Attorney Peterson of Oceanside. Cal., announcing he would claim the fortune for his client, Lyman O. Caswell, nephew of the first wife of McClintock. Sr William M. Caswell, father of Lyman, sought a brother's share in the estate of Sarah Hit-king McClintock and filed two court actions, one charging McClintock with having used Injurious drugs, and liquors to weaken his wife's inind. Peterson wrote. This suit was actually started in Chicago, but later was wlthdrnwn when a settlement was made out of court. The price of the settlement was half of the million dollar fortune, the letter states. The suits were filed in 1899, Peterson says. Some time after these events McClintock married again, and Billy was born. McClintock Sr. died shortly after the birth, leaving his fortune to his wife. On her death the estate went to Billy. Peterson Is seeking information on which to base a suit for the estate, bequeathed to Shepherd by Billy. Shepherd was Billy’s foster father.

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CIRCHBi manaHs PETmflj Cam| * : t tires A in Form f* Headqua p SUI ’PORTERS EXPECT BBS NAMES NEEDED IN t|BB Committee of 1,000 Citizens Move —Aim Is to Secure Bil Like, Non-Partisan Condil Municipal Affairs. I The drive to obtain 20,000 signatures of voters I for a special election on the city manager plan was! day by the citizens committee of 1,000. Leaders of the committee, which includes proirJ ness men, were confident the petition will be ready t< the city clerk in at least two weeks.

Under the plan, a non-partisan manager would he chosen by city council to run the city instead of a mayor. Tt is in effect in 300 cities of the United States, notably Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio. Open Headquarters Headquarters for the drive are being opened up in the Meyer-Kiser Bank Bldg. The petitions were distributed in noon luncheon clubs house-to-house vass will he made. Edward (>. Snethen. dent of the Federation i Tuesday noon nddreaggf\ Council of Women's ('1 *~ renting nc-irl.v Ido *4 ganiz itiinis. at a nnon '- f• . Li*' i'••(di al < n :n tinWj ■-TYTm oto-t I tot.an i |n .Its fro '.'.1.1 •■"litrol on t * pi'"' at that a Wniiii'iißjf- %**■ ..f l.ann will he m-ga s*i,*”*. in the work. "The movement Is and ir beii* K mail*' tiy Ie;3IPM i*>' • •lasses." said one of t of IT 1 " 1 . a prominent ■HHK man. "Every one who Is m I ndtaiia polis as a for his business or jy support tliis movement. N't officers have been 'h*- committee, as (lie me it Is a group of workers common good. Federation of clubs, h’oal Instate Board, t Optimist ( 'lulls are on record jEHoC mg the movement, A ga ni'/.a timis have discussed t h^KlPu| informally. Leaders in the citizens foresee the possibility pollnyKgQfc might attempt to block t lie eit ager plan by tiling of a like for a special election on the of adopting a commission government. secrecy mmols . onumss.op twiilinns BCSgSS government gatheYed /iencr former police • s's * - away would reveal only IhHRb •row, according to stories lion in political circles 6,000 Names “Those petitions do not anything like the necessary her of signatures, a city said. 1 doubt if there are than 6.ltOft names on them." Mk Zener announced when was stopped on order of Shank some lime ago that he hatffliM mote than the 20,000 needed. The petitions, he said are locked up in a bank vault. It has been understood he would tile them if necessary in an effort to block the city manager movement. "I don't believe we will do much with them.” Mayor Shank said today. "If the city manager petitions are filed I don’t believe anything will be done with the others.” In case a petition for change of government is filed, the city primary now being prepared for will have to be postponed until it is seen whether the voters want a change of form 'of city government. Service Open lo Public Progressive Spiritualist Church Aid Society will hold a service open to the public at 2 p. m. Thursday at the home of Mrs. Minnie Kling, 2544 Central Ave.

A RAi>IO S| For the Runner-

MONEY ASM CITY OFFid mam| of Warier her^Mj^’S /v/ State completed In ' ci-M imninduUflMHMK* charges lie disrnis^Ljrf^, cf insufficient evidtPM’Oi There was much tlte court ruled was sufficient and ifT wants to save his life heJ for it. § After lunch calling: of wl the defense began. i Judpre Groehl, d<£M£j| was t wiHBB 'hapiAP'i 'flits not tlie day Policeman >w|ll| during robbery htlja store. 1