Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1925 — Page 2

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JOHN L STUART, PRESS RUREAU MANAGER, DIES Widely Known Newspaper Man Succumbs to Lingering Illness. John Logan Stuart, 39. head of the Associated Press in Indiana, died at 2:30 a. m. today at his home, 4837 N. Capitol Ave. He was a brother of James A. Stuart, managing editor of the Indianapolis Star. Mr. Stuart had been in failing health since he suffered a severe influenza attack in 1918. Heart disease caused death. His last illness lasted nine weeks. Funeral Monday Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Monday at the Fairview Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. E. H. Kistler in charge. The body will be cremated. Mr. Stuart was born in Bloomington. Ind., Dec. 27, 1885. He was educated in the public schools there and in Indiana University. Following graduation from the university in 1908, he worked on the Toledo (Ohio) Times, the Terre Haute Star, the Terre Haute Tribune and the Cleveland (Ohio)' Plain-Dealer. In August, 1910, Mr. Stuar> came to Indianapolis as day editor of the Associated Press. In 1916 he was made correspondent, a position which made him head of the organization in the State. Prominent in Church Mr. Stuart was a member of the board of deacons df the Fairview Church, of Mystic Tie Lodge, F. and A. M., and of the Indiana University chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity. He was married in 1910 to Miss Verna M. Smith of Ft. Madison, lowa. Surviving Mr. Stuart are the widow, a 22-month-old son, John Walter: the brother, and two sisters, Mrs. Harley O. Baker, of Bloomington, Ind. and Mrs. Charles Hendrickson. of Nisland, N. D. Pall hearers will be F. E. Raschig, R. B. Orr, John J. Morgan, C. H. Kuhn, E. W. Clark and E. F. Henderson. WABASH TO GIVE DIPLOMAS TO 79 Program for Commencement Announced. Bit I Press CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., May 23.—Plans for the eighty-seventh annual commencement of Wabash College have been completed. On June 13 degrees will be granted to seventy-nine men, the largest class to graduate in the history of the college. The commencement address this year will be delivered by Dr. Fredric Shannon, pastor of the Central Church of Chicago. One of the big features will be the vocal entertainment given by Carlton Gauld, graduate of the class of '22. The exercises will begin on Sunday, June 7. when President George Lewes Mckintosh will deliver the baccalaureate sermon. Monday annual faculty picnic will take place. Thursday will be the faculty-senior baseball game and the commencement dance. Friday the last baseball game on the varsity schedule Will be played at Dean’s Park. State Normal will be the opponent in the contest. The. Baldwin oratorical contest will also be held on this day. Degrees will be conferred Saturday morning.

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If you see any automobiles bearing these license numbers call the ooliee or The Inciiananolis Times, Main 3500. The owner may be able to do the same for you some time. Automobiles reported stolen belong to: Edward W. Harris. 3510 Washington Blvd., Lafayette, 993, from Georgia and Illinois Sts. Clarence H. Doughitt, 235 S. Taft St., Ford, 11502, from Blake and New York Sts. Arthur Lenthold. 928 E. Market St., Ford 540-598 from in front of residence. Charles Frost, 25, S. Colorado Ave., Chevrolet, 502-960 from Ohio St. and Capitol Ave. Harry E. Raitano. 2714 N. -Pennsylvania St., Packard. 473-569 from Michigan and Pennsylvania Sts.

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B u Vni',ed Prise DETROIT, Mich., May 23.—" God might have made a sharper thorn in the side of temperance than Detroit. but he didn’t" United States Prohibition Commissioner Roy Haynes said today. The commissioner and a corps of

CHILD STOLEN AND RETURNED Police Mystified Over Case of 6-Year-Old Girl. Detectives were mystified today over the abducting and the return four hours later of Jane Goldfarb, 6, daughter of Mrs. Dorothy Goldfarb, 3511 Birch wood Ave. The girl was enticed into an auto in the 3300 block, Fall Creek Blvd., while on her way to school Friday afternoon, and driven about tne east section of the city and Marion County, according to her own incoherent story, and was returned to the spot from where she wos picked up. Physicians say she was uninjured. Rose Goldfarb, 7, sister of the girl, told police that she was a short distance ahead of her sister and turned to see her get in the auto. The car disappeared. Rose ran into the home of Mrs. P. F. Balz, 3038 Fall Creek Blvd., who called the mother and police. Jane said the man drove into the country and tried to entice her out of the car. Later he purchased her a drink at drug store at Sherman Dr. and E. Michigan St. TORNADO RELIEF TOTAL Tornado relief funds totaled $113,753.80 Friday, according to Miss Agnes Cruse, secretary of the Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross. Danish Ladies’ Aid Society of Indianapolis contributed $20.50 and Southport Lodge No. 270, F. and A. M.. Southport. S2O, Friday.

dry agents are here, ostensibly for a conference on enforcement matters. “I believe that will ease the situation here a little, don't you?” he answered in reply to a question as to the effect of Ontario's new beer law r upon prohibition.

A. S. M. E. WILL MEET Purdue Professor Is to Speak Here Wednesday Night. Prof. George B. Shepard of Purdue University will address members of Indianapolis section, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, at a dinner at the Lincoln Wednesday night. , R. H. Banhett, secretary, announced annual election will be held. Candidates: P. C. Wagner. Terre Haute, and A. A. Potter, Lafayette, president; Daniel B. Luten, and Harry O. Gar man, Indianapolis, vice presidents; Homer Rupard, Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer, and Frederick C. Atkinson and L. B. Andrun, Indianapolis, directors. BOILING WATER CAUSES DEATH Workman Is Knocked Into Vat at Factory. J ims Cravens, 55, of 1309 E. Pratt St., who was severely scalded from the neck down when he fell in a vat of scalding water at the Talge Mahogany Company, 1101 E. Thirteenth St., died early today at St. Vincent's Hospital. Cravens was pushed into the vat when a truck he waas guiding struck a raised place in the floor. The tongue of the wagon knocked him into the vat. Lieut. Claude Johnson, who investigated, told Gordon Talge, superintendent, whom he questioned closely regarding safety measures after a similar accident several months ago, that further investigation of the accident would be made and that the matter might be placed before the grand jury. Talge said he had ordered several bars to be swung over the top of the vat when it was not in use. Monday Night The Indianapolis Athletic Club will have as guests on Monday evening a number of flying officers from McCook Field, at Dayton, Ohio, The army aviators are “hopping over'* to Indianapolis to hear the lecture of Lieut. "Smiling Jack” Harding, one of the American army world fliers, and Lowell Thomas, official historian of the world flight, who will present motion pictures and “still views taken on the expedition around the world. Frederick E. Matson, president of the club, and Howard T. Griffith, chairman of the entertainment committee, will be host to the vbtting army aviators at dinner. Brig. Gen. Dwight E. Aultman, commanding officer of Ft. Harrison, and Lieut. J. E. Parker, in command at Schoen Field, also will he guests of the athletic club officials at the, Harding lecture. An allotment of seats for the general public is being disposed of through the box office in the Merchants Heat and Light office and the Clark and Cade drug store.

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FALLS 10 FEET; DIES Man Dies in Tumble from Roof at Martinsville. H/l Time* Special MARTINSVILLE, Ind., May 23.—Harry Stipp, 53. fell ten ,feet from a garage roof. He died almost instantly. His head struck a cement walk.

SHAW ASSERTS THAT HE WILL BE ACQUITTED Hearing in Murder Trial at Martinsville to Resume Monday. Times Staff Correspondent MARTINSVILLE. Ind., May 23. "I think I’ll go free!" John Thomas Shaw, 23. colored, Indianapolis, on trial here on charges of murdering Mrs. Helen Hager Whelchel, 22, Indianapolis, Nov. 28, 1923, today expressed himself as confident the Jury will And him not guilty. Less than a month after M’S. Whelchel's lifeless body was found on the Big Four railroad tracks west of Indianapolis at the base of an overhead bridge on the High School road, beaten to death. Shaw was sentenced to death in the Marion county Criminal Court on clrcumstancial evidence, chiefly that of having her vatch and ring the same day. The sentence was reversed because Judge James A. Collins denied a change of venue. Take Vacation Defendant and witnesses took a vacation Friday afternoon until Monday morning, when the State will close its case. Shaw and his attorneys are Jubilant over evidence wrung from Andrew Parker, colored, fellow employe of Shaw at Kingan & Cos., at the time of the murder, during cross examination late Friday. Parker testified Hunky John, an Albanian who, Shaw has said, gave him the jewelry, came to the plant the day before Shaw was arrested and said to the defendant: "Shaw, they're on the trail of the damned watch!” "Well, let them be on the trail, you gave it to me.” Parker had previously testified for the J3tate he saw Shaw with the murdered girl's jewelry the same morning her body was found. Circumstantial Evidence Indianapolis detectives all day Friday wove other strands of circumstancial evidence about Shaw. "How are they getting along on the avenue?” Shaw asked newspaper men. "Boy, 1 sure do wish I could be back along those pavements tonight. I miss them. If I had told them the truth the first thing, about Hunky John, they would have been trying him and not me. But I was scared. I felt sure I would be turned loose along with Ape Face Kelly and the rest, but, pop! here come an indictment.” CRASH BY AUTO PROVES FATAL Man Ran Across Street to Pick Up Stick. Earl Lowry, 33, of 1336 College Ave., who was struck by an auto driven by GilSC oyn e r Ave., president of the Hub City Construction Company. Friday afc College and Massachusetts Aves., died early today at city hospital from a fractured skull. According to M o t orpolicemen Thompson and Powers, Lowry ran from the HI Massachusetts Ijvwrv south side of Ave. to pick up a stick in the street and while running back ran headlong into the side of the auto driven by Everett. Everett, who was slated on an assault and battery charge, will be reslated today on an involuntary manslaughter charge. NAME HOSTS FOR SHOW Theater Guild Performance Is Tuesday Evening. Mrs. D. M. Parry, at whose home in Golden Hill, the Theater Guild will give its opening performance of "Hiawatha" May 26. will be assisted by the foliowring hosts: Mayor and Mrs. Shank, Messrs, and Mesdames Romney Willson. Addison Parry, R. G. Lockwood. Meredith Nicholson, Roy Fields, Hugh McGibeny, Ernest Kneffler, Oren M. Ragsdale. George Parry, Marshall T. Levey, Frank E. Kollerman. C. A. Breece, Louis Haerle, William Brown, Mesdames T. A. Smithers. Edna S. Severin, Misses Bessie Levey, Helen Oakes and Parry Oakes and Thomas B. MeMath. / Tree 300 Years Old PARIS. May 23.—An acacia tree, planted In 1635, is still standing in the Jardin des Plantes. It was started from a cutting of acacia brought from North America by Jean Robin. The tree now is supported by a cement belt and two sets of pillars. Fined for Show HARLOW, England, May 23.—The Rev. Douglas Montagu Heath, vicar of St. John’s Church, was fined 520 for staging a play in the parish church without a license. There was no charge for admission.

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FALLS 50 FEET; LIVES Escapes Broken Bones After Drop Front Bridge. Bu Timeg, Special MADISON. Ind., May 23. Richard Hearn, 6, fell fifty fpet from a railroad bridge. He will live. No bores were broken. He was hunting birds nests.

DISCRIMINATION BY MOTOR BUS COMPANY DENIED Public Service Commission Hearing to Be Resumed Monday. Determined efforts to prove the Peoples Motor Coach Company has been a common carrier and no discrimination has been practiced against colored patrons will be made when the hearing before the public service commission Is resumed Monday, attorneys for the company intimated today. Upon these points will depend the commission’s decision as to whether the coach company is entitled to certificates of necessity and convenience for four lines now in operation in Indianapoits under the ninety-day clause of th* new motor bus law. If an adverse decision is reached the coach company must apply for a beginner's certificate. The Indianapolis Street Railway. Company has filed a petition to operate lines on substantially the same routes. New IJnes Asked The coach company also has petitions on file for five new routes. The coach company began presentatlon of its case late Friday after about thirty witnesses, many of them colored, had been put on the stand by attorneys for Street Railway company and the Indianapolis branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to prove the coach company was not a common carrier and had refused colored patronage. A. Smith Bowman, president of the coach company, insisted he had, instructed drivers to carry all passengers. Applications of four Indianapolis jitney bus operators to use south side city streets were before the commission. New Protest The Hoosier Stage Lines Inc., operating motor busses between Indianapolis, Munch and Anderson, entered formal protest against issuance of a beginner's certificate to the Union Traction Company to operate busses in the same field. This case will be heard Monday afternoon. COUNTERFEITING CHARGESFACED Farm Youths Near Portland Are Arrested. William Elzeroth and Ernest Gegenheimer, farm youths of near Portland. Ind., were In Marion county Jail today awaiting arraign ment on charges of counterfeiting. They were arrested Friday by Charles L. Mazey. assistant United States Secret Service operative after a battle with Elzeroth, in the attic of a farm house. The two boys are thought to have been operating a counterfeiting device making crude "silver” dollars, half-dollars and quarters, for almost a year. ' When Mazey, jfccompanied by Sheriff Ben Hawkins, went to the Elzeroth home they were told Elzeroth was hiding in a near-by woods. Mazey entered the attic and discovered the boy under a pile of rags. The yhuth viciously attacked the officer kicking him violently. A third young man. believed to have been a leader in the alleged counterfeiting ring, Is being sought. COASTER STRIKES AUTO And Baby Driver Is Injured About Arms and Head. George Hindle, 3, son of Carl Hindle, 530 W. Thirtieth St., was injured about the arms and head when a coaster wagon he was riding ran Into the street at Thirtieth and California Sts., and was struck by an auto driven by Clifford Cunningham, 6417 Ferguson Ave., Friday night. Cunningham was slated. MONDAY CLUB MEETING Monday Club will meet at the D. A. R. Chapter house, 824 N. Pennsylvania St. Mrs. Blrney D. Spradlin will give a talk on modern writers and familiar essays. Mrs. T. W. Engle will sing. "From the Land of the Sky Blue Waters” and “ 'Twas April,” accompanied by Mrs. M. D. Dldway. Chimpanzees have been known to place four boxes on top of each other to reach a desired object.

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Today Is Poppy day. Indianapolis patriotic organizations united In the annual sale of paper poppies on downtown streets. No one escaped the squads Os pretty women who stood ARRAIGNMENJ TO BE JUNE 6 * Forty-Two Indicted by Federal Grand Jury. Arraignment of forty-two persons and firms indicted by the Federal grand jury in reports returned Friday to Judge Robert C. Baltzell, w'ill be held June 6, according to United States District Attorney Albert Ward. The report contained thirty-five true bills. Alleged members of a paregoric ring of druggists were included in the indictments. They are Oliver P. Withers., 1243 Oliver Ave., proprietor of a drug-store where paregoric was sold In enormous quantities, it is charged; and Earl C. Abbot, and Henry B. Cassell, drug store clerks. Raymond B. Goldsberry, 146 W. Washington St., was indicted on a charge of counterfeiting. Names of others indicted but not yet arrested were withheld. FORMER HOOSIER SUICIDE New York Broker, Native of Richmond. Prepares for Death. Bu tnited Tree* NEW YORK. May 23.—After writing notices of his own death for two newspapers. Edward M. Coffin, 70-year-old Investment broker, committed suicide in .lis Park Ave. office. He also left a letter In which he explained he was taking his life because the death of hls wife a year ago had left him lonely and inconsolable. the death notices, addressed to the newspapers, read: "Coffin, William Edward. May 22. suddenly, in his 70th year. Funeral and interment private. Please omit flowers.” Coffin was a nstlve of Richmond, Ind.

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on streets corners selling poppies for the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Proceeds from the sales are used to help supply the needs of disabled ex-service men and their families. The movement is Indorsed by President Coolidge and Governor Jackson. Mrs. C. L. Cleveland. 1521 Ashland Ave., was one of the women representing Bruce L. Robinson Post of the American Legion. Miss Viola Hicks, 2112 Dexter St., was one of those aiding the Veterans of Foreign Wars. LITERARY PRIZE WINNERS GIVEN Technical High Girl Has Best Essay. CULVER, Ind.. May 23.—Winners In two contests conducted by the Indiana Literary League and the Indiana Society of Chicago for literary work among high school students of the State were announced today at the first “Indiana Literary day” celebration at Culver Military Academy. The winners: Thomas R. Marshall essay contest—first prize. $50 — Edith Myers. Technical High School, Indianapolis; second prize, $25, Russell Nichols, Greencastle High School; third prize, sls, Mary Ogdon. Indianapolis. Bootli Tarkington contest for best high school poetry: First prize. SSO, Eleanor Ashmead, Normal High School, Terre Haute; second prize. $25, Aileen Banta, Covington High School; third prize, sls, Ethel llenneford, Allen High School. Bluffton. Literary leaders and other prominent citizens of the Stute were in attendance at the Literary day celebration. TALK ON BOYS GIVEN "Tho Boy Problem.” was the topic of Louis H. Dirks, assistant principal Os Shortridge High School, before parents of Boy Scout Troop No. 69, at Weber Community Hall, Thirty-Fourth St. and Capitol Ave., Friday night.

SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925

COMPLAINTS ON BAD HOLES IN STREETS MADE City Officials Promise Fixit That They Will Be Mended. Mr Fixit of The Indisnapeli* Time* know* the rope* at the city h*U and t fairer to nerve Inutanapolti cititen* Tell him about public works that are in need of repair*. He will do hi# be*t to help you. Holes in paved streets are annoying to persons living In the vicinity and dangerous to drivers of vehicles. Mr. Fixit has received a number of complaints regarding street holes. City officials promise to repair them when they are called to their attention. ‘There is a big hole in the pavtd street In front of 1901-03 W. Morris St.,” a letter from J. Lee Miller, 1128 S. Belmont Ave., reads. “The gravel trucks In passing this place some times hit this hole and splash muddy water all over the drug store and barber shop windows and on people who happen to be passing. We wish this could either be patched or this portion of the street blocked off. “Another request Is that we get oil on Belmont Ave. from Morris St. to Oliver Ave., as soon as possible. I work at the drug store at 1901 W. Morris St.” The repair crew from the department of paved streets will tackle this Job early next week, according to Otto J. Smelcer, superintendent. The oil situation is scribed in another letter, you wil™ be on the list. Dear Mr. Fixit: The sidewalks In the 2400 block on N. Gale St. are In very bad condition, also dangerous. Will you please investigate and repair? RESIDENTS OF NORTH GALE ST. P. B. McHAFFEY, 2415 N. Gale St. Smelcer said there is now only one force of men repairing sldewalksUbut that he believed the work will be done by the end of next week. Dear Mr. Fixit: The street hetween Meridian and Union. S. Norwood St., is so dusty we can't have the windows or doors open for ventilation, as the house faces Norwood. Will this street be oiled as soon as the oiling Is begun? GEORGE MURRAY. 646 Union St. W. p. Hargon, clerk of the street commissioner’s office, said city Is concentrating on oiling avenues leading to the Speedway grounds. Funds available for oliing streets are Insufficient. This situation may delay the improvement you seek for some time, but you are on the list. Dear Mr. Fixit: Southwest corner of Twenty-Eighth and Delaware Sts. contains underbrush and shrubbery that conceal the view of motorisls traveling near the new bridge over Fall Creek. Is there no to obtain removal of the brush may some day cause a serious dent? The thicket is located on ground owned by the Jose-Balz Realty Company. Mr. Balz said he would Inspect the lot. It Is not under control of city officials.