Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1925 — Page 11

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TRACK ELEVATION MAY CLOSE EIGHT STREETS

Plans for Raising Belt Railroad Across South Side Call for Blocking Some Highways and for Crossings Over Twenty-One. Elevation of tracks of Indianapolis railroads t oafford direct communication with south side will necessitate closing eight streets, H. G. Wray, city track elevation engineer, said today. Plans call for elevation at twenty-one intersections with streets considered strategic in view of traffic conditions.

Streets closed will be Orleans, New, Napoleon, Linden, Villa Ave., St. Paul and Bethel Ave., through elevation of Indianapolis Belt Rail road tracks, and Richland, through raising lines of Peoria, Eastern & Chicago, Indianapolis & Western to level of Belt Railroad. However, Miley and Koehne Sts. will be directed through subway passages under tracks of P. & E. and C., I. * W. Big Four Railroad authorities signed the elevation agreement Wednesday and officials of all other lines have agreed to come under terms of proposal at meeting of board of works Friday, Wray stated. Other lines are Peoria and Eastern, C. I. and W., Pennsylvania and Illinois Central. Board of works Is expected to indorse the plan and to take steps leading to advertising for bids and actual commencement of the undertaking, which will Involve, it Is estimated, expenditures of $14,000,000, cost to be shared equally by city and the Belt Railroad. Bridge across White River in neighborhood of Bluff Rd. will cost $1,500,000, it has been estimated. WILMETH WIN IS PREDICTED Campaign Manager Says There Will Be Landslide. Prediction of a “Wilmeth landslide,” came today from Bryant W. Gillespie, ,Tr., manager of campaign of City Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth for Republican nomination for mayor. Fact that Wilmeth’s campaign was Indorsed by 15,000 persons before any other candidates undertook circulation of pledge cards was stressed. Speakers at Wednesday’s meeting for women workers at Wilmoth’s headquarters were Mrs. C. A. James, Mrs. Samuel Davis, Mrs. Hazel Workman, director of women’s organization, and Theodore J. Bernd, member of city council. Judge Wilmeth delivered brief address. Judge Wilmeth spoke to workers at. the Kingan & Cos. plant during the lunch hour today. He is scheduled for speech at 3:30 p. m. Friday at home of Mrs. H. Harness, 3864 Wlnthrop Ave., and will talk on “Municipal Government” to members of Magazine Club at 2:30 p. m., Saturday at Y. W. C. A. Dvath Is Investigated Coroner Paul F. Robinson, is investigating death of John Griffin, 79, 3240 W. Olney St. Death Wednesday night is thought to have been caused by heart trouble.

Troubled With Pimples Two Years Cuticura Healed

“ My skin began to Itch and burn and hard, large, red pimples broke out on my face, shoulders and arms. The pimples festered and scaled over and my face looked terrible. My clothing rubbed against the pimples on my shoulders and caused them to bleed. The irritation caused me to scratch the pimples, and the scratching caused terrible eruptions. I lost my rest at night on account of the irritation. ♦ “ The trouble lasted about two years before I started using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and after using about five cakes of Soap and one box of Ointment I was healed.” (Signed) Miss Imogene Thomas, R. R. 8, J£okomo,lnd., Aug. 2,1924. Cuticura Soap to cleanse and purify, Cuticura Ointment to soothe and heal and Cuticura Talcum to powder end sweeten are idoal for daiiV toilet purposes. Soapffie. Oiatment 25 and 50e. Talcum Hie. Sold everywhere. Samplo each free. Address: “Ontloura Laboratories, Dspt. H. MsJdsn, Mans." iiCuticura Shaving; Stick 25c.

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SPEEDWAY LAP PRIZE HEAD IS G.M. WILLIAMS Two Hundred Prizes of SIOO Each Is Goal of Committee. Announcement that G. M. Williams, president of Nordyke & Marmon, will head the speedway lap prize committee this year was made today. A fund will tie raised to award the leader of each lap In the thirteen.h international sweepstakes race May 30. The goal of the committee is SIOO for each of the 200 laps. Otty Rates High "In European cities Indianapolis is regarded ns one of the biggest and most important of American cities. This is brought about by the wide publicity given the races,” Williams said. "The move Is In line with activities of the Chamber of Commerce and other public-spirited bodies to advertise Indianapolis. A Big Convention “The speedway is one big convention that we don’t have to bring here. It was born and has lived all its life in Indianapolis. Race fans are liberal spenders, and the thousands of persons who annually attend the races bring Into the city a large volume of business. Williams said the committee Intends telegraphing and writing subscribers to the fund who may benefit. from the advertising in having a lap prize named for their firm or product. CITY MANAGER TO BE TALKED Discussion at Irvington Presbyterian Church. The Rev. James Bogue, pastor of North M. E. Church, and Joe Rand Beckett, attorney, will discuss the city manager form of government proposed for Indianapolis tonight at Irvington Presbyterian Church. Fr&d Dickerman, State Senator, will argue for the present system of political control. Edward O. Snetheu, secretary of city manager executive committee, will address Altrusa Club, a business women’s organization at luncheon Friday at the Lincoln. CASE CHANGES COURTS Judge Baltzel! Says (Tiarge Shall Be Heard in New Albany. The case of Charles R. I.iebert of New Albany, Ind., Federal prohibition agent charged with assault and battery with Intent to kill, toiay was ordered removed from the Harrison County Circuit Court to the United States District Court, New Albany .division, by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. The charge grew out of the shooting of John Steph Sept. 5, 1924, while Liebert and William Marshall, a prohibition agent from French Lick, were attempting to arrest Steph on a charge of operating a /till. Liebert said he shot Steph in the leg when he made a gesture as if to draw a gun. Attempts to Take Life Frank Cox, 33, of 67 E. McCarthy St., is in a serious condition today, the result, police say, of an attempt to take hi life with poison Wednesday. The officers were unable to learn a. motive.

Princeton Woman Gave Red to Victims of Tornado

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But Now She’s Back in Hospital Crocheting to Aid Others. Ru Times Soecial PRINCETON Jnd., April 23. One of tho heroines of the recent tornado, Lucinda Watkins, S2, Is back "home' at the Methodist hospital here, after making her unique contribution toward relief of the etorm sufferers. Lucinda has been a patient at the hospital for several years. According to her own explanation. corroborated by nurses, her heart is “gtttin' lazy, fer some reason er other." Gave Her Place When the storm brought tragedy to her community, Lucinda was too old to join rescue workers, and she had no money to give. All that she had was her place in the hospital So she made that her contribution. More than seventy victims of the cyclone were rushed to the little thirty-bed hospital the night of the storm. With patients in the corridors, kitchen, office and attic, the situation was critical. Lucinda did rot hesitate. As soon ns she saw the proportions of the tragedy, she struggled into her clothes, packed her belongings in a newspaper, put on her hat, and left. Her bed and linen were heeded, she reasoned, for cases more urgent than a chronic heart disorder. In the confusion, she slipped out unseen. ' Brought Back After the emergency passed, search for Lucinda was started. It was known she had no relatives. She was found several miles outside the city, with an old acquaintance. Informed her bed was waiting for her, she repacked her newspaper, put on her hat and returned to the hospital. That "contribution" was followed by another. Lucinda has pledged $5 to the $1,500,000 fund to be raised for the four Indiana Methodist hospitals. Including her “home.” She has no money, but she can crochet. She will sell her handiwork to Princeton friends. BIG PURCHASE SOUGHT The Calumet Gas and Electric Cos. of Gary. an Insull utility, filed petition today with public service commission for authority to acquire properties of the Indiana Electrio Utilities Cos., the C. F. Cain Power and Light Cos., Hawk Brothers' Milling 00., and the Bass Lake light and Power Cos., all in northern Indiana. „ Proposed price is $576,530, in addition to which the Calumet concern agrees to assume a $108,400 debt of the Indiana Electric Utilities Cos. State Bids Opened The State purchasing board, meeting today for the first time since reorganization, opened bids on small quantities of varnish, paints, oils and chinaware. The merchandize will be used in State institutions.

One-Armed Driving Is O. K.’d Magistrate Gresser -of Jamaica, L. 1., earned one of Cupid’s bright, shiny ''little medals when he ruled that one-armed driving is not necessarily reckless driving. On a reoent balmy spring evening Motorcycle Cop Wartell discovered James J. Wesoott, who is only 28, using one arm to drive his car and promoting a petting party with the other. So Wartell arrested and charged him with reckless driving. “I myself have been driven by a man with one arm for three miles around Brooklyn,” said Judge Gresser as he freed Weseott. "He was a licensed chauffeur.”

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In prison. A two hour interview, which they were granted by Secretary of State Halkoff, the latter insisted the government believes the whole insurrection was engineered In Serbia "with the knowledge and consent and probable Instigation of the Jugo-Slav Government." Serbs Incensed Belgrade dispatches pay Jugoslavia had decided to demand an official and satisfactory explanation of Minister Rosseff's recent anti-Serb speech. An unsa.tisfhr|ory answer mgy cause a break in diplomatic relations between Jugo slavia and Bulgaria and recall of the Serb ambassador from Sofia. The military' are in charge in Safia. Secretary Kalkoff was overruled by the troops when he attempted to grant the visitors permission to enter the prisons. Standing outside the "bureau of publlo safety,” the Britishers saw within five minutes at least forty men and women prisoners brought in, some in automobile trucks, others afoot. Soldiers escorting the squads of civilian prisoners were armed to the teeth and held drawn automatics. The visitors saw men hurried out of the building and whisked away, presumably to be executed. On<* of these condemned men was conveyed in an automobile, the license plate of which was covered with a cloth, to prevent retaliatory assassinations. Two civilians held revolvers to the sides of the prisoner. The latter was forced to keep his hands concealed. Fingernails Tom Out "We were curious as to why this was done,” Mac Kinder said, "and questioned a bystander. We learned that the condemned Bpan’s fingernails probably had been tom off during the third degree torture. The government did not wish the populace tb see his condition. "We are definitely of the opinion.” Mac Kinder continued, "that Bulgaria's troubles are due to suppression of the freedom of the press and the outlawing of all decent parliamentary opposition. “A distinguished foreigner explained to us that life was cheap in a Balkan street, where an assassination excites less attention than an ordinary street accident in New York or London. "We were reliably informed that there have been executions almost daily since Stamboirfsky was overthrown. Also there have been horrible deaths in the third degree. For example the wife of a man who was arrroted in April was assured by the government that her husband was safe. His body, however, was found in the street, ears and nose cut off and with the finger nails pulled out. He had had no trial "The townspeople told us that every night reoently truck loads of prisoners were carried to lonely spots outoide the city and shot.” The soldiers and police were extremely rough, the Britishers said, and they themselves, with several prisoners, were beaten and kicked. Boy Campers to Meet A “campers’ reunion" will be held at the Y. M. C. A., at 7:30 tonight, for boys who have the annual Y. M. camp at Bedford, Ind. C. E. Isaac has charge of the program. The first camp period this year will begin June 23. Reservations are being made now. Jackson Visits Colony Governor Jackson made a trip to the Indiana farm colony at Butlerville for a general inspection of the institution. Jackson has announced intention of paying a visit to every State institution within the coming year.

TO INVESTIGATE LINER’S ACTION IN SEA TRAGEDY British Admiralty May Be Asked to Question Homeric’s Crew. NEW YORK. April 23.—The British admiralty probably will be asked to Investigate conditions which permitted the Japanese freighter Raifuku Maru to go down with all on board last Tuesday whle the White Star liner Homeric watt standing by. Such an inquiry became virtually certain today when the Japanese consul here announced a preliminary investigation already was under way in the belief that the captain may have been negligent in his efforts to rescue the crew of the doomed steamer. The Homeric docked here last night. Some of the passengers charged the'Homeric did not. uphold the best tradition of English sailors; others aver everything possible was done. Father T. J. Talbot, who has seen many die in his time, stood on the siern of the Homeric and gave a general absolution to the crew of the Raifuku Maru as it sank. “I have never seen anything so tragic as this,” he^said. Captain John Robert’s official version of the situation precluded the possibility of rescuing any of the drowning. While 123 passengers of the Homeric signed a testimonial praising Captain Roberts for his conduct, many t ensured him for not remaining at the scene of the tragedy longer, in order to be doubly sure there were no men floating in the water. Amos Pinchot, brother of Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania Is one who thinks the captain was wrong. "I saw several men In the water, either swimming or being carried toward the Homeric,” he said. But S. A. Anderson of Buffalo, N. Y„ said, "it was so misty we could not see well enough to tell."

BOOSTING PLAN TO BE REVISES C. of C. Industries Committee to Discuss Details. Revision of details of the plan for stimulating Indianapoils ns an industrial center was begun today at a luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce Industries committee, G. M. Williams, chairman, said. Williams said It would be a few days before details of the plan are known. General plan Includes hiring cf an industrial expert; raising of a large fund, a part of which is to be used in an industrial propaganda campaign. and creating, of an advisory committee to handle problems dealing with Industries. NEW COURT IS QUESTION ‘Just to Help Regular Judge’ Is Opinion of Lawyer. Status of new municipal court, presided over by Judge Dan V. White, continues to worry the politicians. Few days ago Mayor Shank lost an attempt to name Judge White's stenographer and Wednesday James M. Ogden, corporation counsel and leader in Lemcke-Shank-Armitage ranks, gave written opinion to John W.' Rhodahamel, city clerk, that fines collected should be turned over to Delbert O. Wilmeth, regular city Judge. "Clear Intent of act adopted by recent legislature is to aid the regular Judge until Jan. 1, 1926, in such cases as the regular judge sees fit to assign to the special Judge and ail reports should be made to the regular judge.” Ogden said. Judge White today announced that he entirely agreed with Ogden on the question of disposition of fines. " Assault, and Battery Charge Clarence Wynekoop, 27, of 1175 W. Twenty-Seventh St., was tar-en to Crawfordsville, Ind., late Wednesday and will be tried there, detectives say, on a charge of assault and battery'. Tho attack was alleged to have been made on a man at Brownshurg, Ind. Wynekoop was arrested and hpld here as fugitive.

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‘Death Note’ Placed on Doorstep Demand for SSO "rent,” together with a skull and crossbones, was on his doorstep at 1208 Ashland Ave., today, Hyman Cohen reported to police today. And he owns his home.

Attack Atlempt Reported Miss Ruby Gentry, 25, of 625 W. Norwood St., reported to police today an attempt a man made to attack her Wednesday night. She said she was walking west on Norwood St., near West St., when the man seized her arm. She screamed and the aecosjer ran. She described him. Dog Bites Boy William Fisher, 10. of 632 Sanders St., was bitten by a dog belonging to Mrs. Cozetta Osborn. 1244 Ringgold St., a policewoman, Wednesday, Dog was ordered penned up.

ELEVEN ARE TAKEN—BIG PARTY CHARGED Boy’s Parents Are in Florida, He Tells Police—Neighbors Call in Officers.

Asa result of what police alleged was an all-night party Tuesday, followed by a second party Wednesday afternon In a N. New Jersey St. apartment, four young men and one young woman are In prison and five girls and the 15-year-old host are in the detention home charged with- being delinquents. The parents of the boy host are in Florida, he told police. The first call to police headquarters was made by a neighbor, followdng the party Tuesday, when it was alleged two of the girls and two of the youths remained all night. Although the boy promised at 9 a. m. Wednesday that “there would he no more such parties,” according to officers, police were called by neighbors again at 2 p. m. Wednesday, when they made the arrests. Three of the girls gave their ages MYERS’ DATES MIXED So He Just Doesn’t. Speak Anywhere Today. Others Busy. Due to a mlx-up In dates, Walter Myers, candidate for Democratic nomination for mayor, did not speak anywhere today. Myers said he would see it didn’t happen any more before primary election day. May 5. “I intend to hit ’em hot and heavy from now on,” he declared. Myers spoke at 1829 S. East St. Wednesday night. Transaction of public business for private gain has disgusted the people, he said.

OFFICER MAKES SPEED CHARGE Says Motorist Struck Mother and Sister. Robert McCall, 18, of 1156 PTrison St., was arrested late Wednesday, on a warrant charging'apeed. signed by Motorpoliceman Otto Maas. The charge grew out of an accident, April 9, at Prospect and Laurel St. It is said the auto driven by McCall. struck Mrs. Lena Maas, mother of the officer and her sister Mrs. Charlotte Maas, both of 1501 English Ave., while they were en route to church services. He was cnarged with assault and battery at the time of the investigation. Others charged with speeding. Wallace Heller, 24, of 1423 Pleasant St.; Elza Hawkins, 22, of 3360 N. Meridian St.; Norman Barthel, 21, of R. R. I*. Box 231; Carl Matlock, 18, of 4027 W. Washington St. Allen Pickett, 21. of 678 Birch St., was charged with driving with an open muffler, and George Tuck, 29, of 2423 W. Walnut St., with driving while intoxicated, by State police. Instill at Purdue Bv Timm Svrrinl LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 23. The Calumet region of northern Indiana will soon be the principal industrial center of the United States In a few y'ears. Samuel Insull, president of the Commonwealth Edison Company of Chicago, declared at a banquet given by the Purdue engineering school here Wednesday nignl. More than 500 attended.

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at 16, one said she was 14, one 17 and one 18. Three of the boys are 16 and one is 18, police said. OFFICERS GO TO PRISON MONDAY Forty-Four Cincinnati Police and Dry Agents Sentenced. CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 23. The Government chartered two special train coaches today to remove forty-four policemen and dry agents to the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta Monday. Tuesday the officials will begin serving their terms for violating seclions of the constitution which they swore to defend. Others of the fifty-nine Cincinnati officers who were sentenced in Federal Court vqpterday following their pleas of guilty will serve terms in Ohio jails and pay small fines. The forty-four who drew Federal prison terms were sentenced to from eighteen months and $2,000 fine tc a xjear and a day and no fine. All confessed to accepting bribes from bootleggers, running as high as $17,000.

21 -23 North Illinois Street Opposite Claypool Hotel FRIDAY BARGAINS

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NEW OFFICERS INSTALLED BY EASTERN STAR State Chapter Holds Sessions Here at Masonic Temple. Installation of officers was held this afternoon at the annual grand chapter meeting of the Order of Eastern Star of Indiana, at the Masonic Temple. Mrs. Mamie Conrad of Warsaw was elected treasurer at this morning's session and Mrs. I.ettle Ferguson of Ft. Wnyne grand conductress. Mrs. Floyd Bunnell of Plymouth, was elected grand matron Wednesday. Others elected were: John B. Hessong, Broad Ripple, grand patron; Mrs. Albert K. Huffman. Rockport, associate grand matron; John H. Jollies, Jr. of Rockville, associate grand patron, and Mrs. Nettie Fansford, Indianapolis, grand secretary. Officers gave degree work Wednesday night at the Murat Temple before about 1,200 delegates. A visit to the Masonic home at Franklin Friday morning will close the meeting. Tipton Husband Missing Indianapolis police received a letter from Mns. Gertrude Austlll, of Tipton, Ind., asking them to search for her husband, Raymond, 38. She wrote Austin left home Jan. 12 to go to Kokomo to work in a plate glass factory. latter she leaned he failed to obtain work there and left, presumably for Indianapolis, her letter said.

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