Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1925 — Page 2

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ESTIMATE FOR : SCHOOLS MAY ! BE CUT son i Figure of $7,479,000 Is Given by Finance Chairman. i A tentative estimate that $7,479,000 will be required for the 1925 ;26 Indianapolis school budget was announced Wednesday afternoon by 1 ;C’iarles L. Barry, chairman of the ;finance committee, in an address at ■Technical High, School. The figure will be “pruned down ’ ( gi?eatly, however, according to Wiljiiatn if. Hook, business director. ■ The special budget committee has ;not yet completed its efforts tov.ard cutting down preliminary requests by department heads. ~ Last year the board’s preliminary {estimate was for a budget of 1 J}!;,1197,852.24. Actual expenditures the year 1923-24 totaled s6,'j07(i,645.13. 1 An estimate of 51,945,100 for next year’s salaries of assistant superin2’teiidents, special directors, super'visors and assistant supervisors, .’clerical help in the education, de--partment, principals ami tochers, ■ wap submitted by Superintendent E. •U. .Graff at a special Meeting of the "board Wednesday Afternoon, when tthe board approved his recommendations for 1-e-appointments. The ■jwas $1,947,520, j A report of ‘ reappointments by Charles E. librarian, would inSv.olye ai> increase in salary exf ol . next year estimated fat •“? 1 V 'P*ihd issues for the construction buildings in the building program will be ready soon, according Vo Book. -PRINT SCHOOL MEETING |ll<presenfatives Will Gather at Athletic Club Fridas'. Plans for keeping the Typothetae of printing in Indianapolis twill be discussed Friday evening at £n dinner at the Indianapolis Athletic gerub given by the Indianapolis {Chamber of Commerce. RepresentNatives of school conunissionsrs, the * Trtdianapolis Typothetae, the United ♦ Typothetae of America, the printing tirade of Indianapolis and the cham■ber will be present. ■Removal of the school from Intdianapolis because of lack of facilities at Technical High School has Jlteen threatened. Opening Sale' State Auction Cos. I Friday, June 12, 1925, 9:30 A. M„ | 1837 N. New. Jersey St. *1 This auction house has been opened Jfor the benefit of merchants, manufacturers and' household (roods holders. We ♦want you to consign jour (roods to us self at auction or let us buy your •roods for cash. We have our own trueks So call for your (roods. We also advance gmoney on household (roods and merehanSdise of alf kinds. This Is the largest house in the State. We have Ajlenty of room to display your (rood*. For Hthis opening: sale, Friday we will have the articles, which are new and J-lirect from tho factory: j?3 Velour Overstuffed Living Room Suites t§ Forty-five davenports and end tables in ijwalnut. mahogany and oak: 3 cedar-lined "fhifferobej, 1 walnut inlaid chifforette. !400 pieces of aluminum ware. The following are used articles: § Melville Clark Player in Mahogany Case £ Cable upright piano, mahogany case; • small upright piano, 3 organs. 60 piano {benches. 3 living-room suites, davenports, sideboards. 9x13 rugs, dressers, games, fkitehen cabinets, stoves, chiffoniers, china yclosets. chairs. 50 ladies' mahogany writing desks 200 dininv chairs. 75 office "Chairs. 85 kettles, 45 mahogany over- • stuffed chairs and many other articles, ijtlo not miss this sale if you need new Friday. 9:30 a. m. ? Binzer, Auctioneer IfTF IT'S ON EARTH I CAN SELL IT.” Washington 1555. 3031 Park.

Saving Time for You The arrangement for our tellers’ cages and the installation of the most modern time and labor-saving equipment, reduce to the minimum the time and effout of our customers in making their deposits and withdrawals. The same teller receives and pays, thus making it necessary for you to go to .but cue window, and assures prompt, courteous service to every depositor. We Invite Your Checking Account We pay 4 Yi% on Savings HOURS—B A. M. to 5 P. M. Dally. 8 A. M. to 8 P. M. Saturday* Meyer-Kiser Bank 128 East Washington Street

MAKE WEEK-END TRIPS —VIA—UNION TRACTION —FOR—ONE CENT PER MILE (MINIMUM $1.00) ROUND TRIP TICKETS GOOD GOING SATURDAY NOON TO SUNDAY 3 P. M. RETURNING, GOOD TO LAST CAR SUNDAY NIGHT. TRAVEL ON THIS LOW RATE TO Anderson, Noblesvllle, Tipton, Kokomo, Logansport, Peru, Elwood, Alexandria, Marlon, Wabash, Pendleton, Muncie, Hartford City, Bluffton, Montpelier, Portland, Union City, Winchester, Newcastle, Middletown, etc. ‘Now / t’s Cheaper to Go Thart Stay Home 9 9 \ ‘ jr

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SHANK STIRRED BY HOLD-UPS (Continued From Page 1) with its windshield riddled with bullets had headed southward. ITumes instructed five of his men originally assigned to the chase to concentrate at the north part of the city in order to prevent escape from the machine to the wooded \tracts of land in that vicinity. No trace of the men was found. E. H. Swain of Martinsvillle, local salesman, said a car similar to the bandit auto, passed him at high speed near Waverly oik Bluff Rd. He said the windshield was broken. Both Youths Dr. G. J. Bookwalter, 31f3 N. Illinois St., was parking his auto just as the bandits entered their car. He did not know they were bandits. Fletcher Savings and Trust Company officers said the loss was fully covered by insurance. The bank’s business was not interrupted. Officers of the company planned to consider in a meeting this afternoon active steps to protect their various branches from any more banditry. “We intend to see what steps we ourselves can take to provide extra guards or other efficient protection,” said L. Albert Buennagel, secretary of the company. Patrolman Cecil Neal assigned to the district, was in a restaurant around the corner, drinking a cup of coffee at the time of the robbery. Bank robberies have been averaging nearly one a diy for the past week. Up until today, total Included mote than-$50,000. At Twelve-Mile, Ind., near Logansport, Tuesday, O. R. Pickering, cashier of the State Bank there, drew a gun and single handed drove off a bandit who attempted to hold up the bank. The bandit was later captured in a tree. Monday, two bandits obtained $3,000 at the Carbon, Ind., State Bank. June 3, the Rural St. branch of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company was robbed of $3,000 by a lone bandit. June 4, the Merom State Bank was robbed of $2,000. June 6, Galveston State Bank was robbed of $3,000. Other bank robberies: South Kokomo Bank, March 27, $11,128; Laketon Bank, March 31, $1,927; Fairbanks, May 1, $5,000; Eaton, May 5, $2,300; Bloomingdale, May 9, $600; Farmers National at Wadesville May 11, $75; Bourbon, May 23, $15,000; Brook, May 27* $2,500, A woman cashier also foiled

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Above—lnterior of portable one-room building at School 9. Dorothy Brown and ljOwrts Douglass, pupils. Below—Exterior with Miss Marion Miller, teacher, on steps.

“Fine schools In a fine city,” the key note of an address by Superintendent E. U. Graff, at Technical High School is an objective far in the distance, It is revealed by a survey of portable buildings, frame houses and cottages lnt owhlch Indianapolis school children are crowded. A typical condition exists at school 9, Davison and Vermont Sts., it was learped today. The portable building there is much better, however, than many cf those housing colored children. “It was so cold last winter we had to dismiss school two days,” said Miss Marian Miller, 5808 Lowell Ave., teacher. “The wind came through the

a hold-up of the Farmers’ National Bank at Hazlewood, May 13. Possibility that National Guardsmen may be used to guard banks, pending organization of vigilante groups throughout the State, has risen. Officials of the Indiana Bankers Association discussed protection plans Wednesday and are expected to confer with State officials on the situation. Lieut. 001. Robert- J. Axtelle, member of the administrative staff of the Indiana National Guard, will be placed in direct charge if troops are used to quard the banks it was learned. Col. Axtelle was in communication with local police and tSate motor police today during the chase after the two youthful bandits who robbed the Sixteenth St. Rank. Adjutant General Kershner, early today, refused to answer any questions concerning cooperation of the National Guard with the State Bankers' Association. Kershner left the city shortly after reports of today’s robbery reached the Statehouse, but refused to state his destination. Attaches in Kershner’u office said they din ot know where he went. To Broadcast Plans of the association to fight the outbreak of bank banditry will be broadcast tonight at 10 o'clock over WFBM, Merchants Heat and Light Company station tonight. Broadcasting will be done from the Chamber of Commerce. R. C. Saunders, of Des Moines, lowa, who played a prominent par* in organizing the lowa vigiiante plan of bank protection, will be the principal speaker. He will be introduced i, A. G. Brown of Greencastle. RECRUITING ORDERS OUT Dti Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., June 11.—Orders to recruit 132 men for Federal servict have been issued by Capt. Carl Gibson, adjutant of the 16th Field Artillery, Indiana National Guard, it became known today. Gibson is acting on secret orders, it was said, although it is understood the troops will be used to | guard banks until vigilance commitj toes are appointed. T. B. UNIT IS ADVOCATED Marion County Association Holds Annual Meeting Erection of a tuberculosis unit in connection with city hospital was advocated by Dr. C. L. Hyde, superintendent of the Springfield Lake Sanatorium, East Akron, 0., at a luncheon today at the Theodore Potter Fresh Air School. The luncheon was for the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, holding its annual meeting, together with approximately 100 reperesentatives of women’s clubs, parentteacher associations, luncheon clubs and other agencies. Sol Schloss, vice preseident of the association, presided.

State Auction Cos. 1837 N. New Jersey Randolph 4121 Consign Your Goods to Us, or We Will Buy Them / for Cash

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floor and the handsome sheet iron stove, with which rural schools in remoter parts of Brown County are equipped, smoked something terrible,” according to Lewis Douglass, 8, of 625 E. Michigan St., member of 3A. “And my feet got good and cold lots of tlmee,” piped up Dorothy Brown, 8, of 630 N. Noble St., another of the pupils. “Why can’t we have some slate blackboards to write on?” Dorothy asked her teacher, as the latter pointed out the make-shift blackboards, made of beaver board painted black. “Sh-h, It costa too much money,” replied the teacher.

WINS ESSAY CONTEST Girl Student Will Rerelvw s2s— Tuesday. Ellen Gain, a student at St. John's School, won the first prize, $25, In a national essay contest on “Thomas Francis Meagher,” conducted by the Ladies Auxiliary to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, It was announced today. The award will be made at the school Tuesday by the Rt. Rev. Francis H, Gavisk.

June Is the Dress Month—MILLER-WOHL the Dress Store TOMORROW, FRIDAY OUR BASEMENT OFFERS

Extra Size Women, Attention ■ An assortment of dresses here for you that ordinarily sell for $19.75. Prints or solid colors. Newest styles. Sizes 44 y s to 52 Ys SOBB

SKIRTS Pleated and plain skirts. Plaids, stripes or solid colors. Some in this lot were $7.95. SOJO

200 Linen and Broadcloth Dresses Mostly hand made. A truly . remarkable assorti ent. ss— Bloomers Made to sell for $1.98. There are exceptional bargains. All colors. Tomorrow only, each—sl.oo

CITY AIDS CREDIT FIGHT Indianapolis Men Subscribe for Fund —May Have Offlce Here. By Time* Seed'll WASHINGTON, June 11.—Indianapolis business men Wednesday subscribed $21,005 to the mlllion-dollar fund gathered by the National Association of Cridit Men to be used in fighting credit crooks throughout the country. The total fund has now reached $1,042,897 with principal offices located in Chicago, New York and San Francisco. The credit men will locate regional offices In other cities

No iTiatfer how severe or deep seated Y the skin trouble may be.lt usually responds to the comforting, healing touchof Resinol

AUCTION .STARTS DDieC CAI IT STARTS FRIDAY ililvL OHLC, FRIDAY Conducted by Binzer, Auctioneer TIRES & ACCESSORIES VAUGHT’S Opposite City Hall Alabama and Ohio Sts.

Old-Time Evangelism AND Gospel of vHealing Meetings BY Raymond T. Richey Evangelistic Party CADLE TABERNACLE Resumed Friday, June 12 and Continued for 10 Days Campaign Positively Closes Night of June 21 More Than 2,000 Conversions! Hundreds Healed! The Blind See, The Deaf Hear, The Lame Walk, COME AND BRING THE SICK u Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday and Today and Forever” Services: Daily, 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Sundays, 2:30 P. M. and 7:30 P. M.

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Jr 150 New Dotted Normandy f DRESSES \ m Be Here tf* O O I 1 •OOrZlTso 1 ceptional '|i to 11.30 H M Dresses ° nl y K Colors are: Thistlebloom, Blue, Red, Jw Pink, Brown, Navy, Helio, Green and Orange and Others. Lace trimmed and very attractive. Sizes to 44.

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to unite Jn stamping out companies and individuals who steal from merchants by misrepresenting their ability and intention to pay for goods received. -One of the regional offices, according to the present plans, will be located in Indianapolis, CLUBS AND MEETINGS Zeta Sigma Sorority held its re ;ular bulseness meeting Wednesday evening at the home of Miss Helen Welch. 621 N. Gray St. • • • Kappa Chi Theta Sorority will meet Friday evening at the home of Miss Maiy Coepper, 323 N. Holmes Ave.

\ We Can Repair Your Electric Jgkk Cleaner M SKILLMAN ELECTRIC 129 W. Market Cl rcle 2716

GIVEN HIGHWAY JOB Hitzelberger Made Assistant Chief of Motor Transport. Appointment of Harry Hltzelberger of Indianapolis as assistant chiff of the State Highway com-

PATARRH of head or throat is usually benefited by the vapors of— X/ICKS ▼ Vapoßub Oo*r 17 Million JariUtmJ Yearly

OLD TRAILS Automobile Insurance Assn. HOME OFFICE—INDIANAPOLIS PHONE, RILEY IS*l Broader Protection at Low Cost!

THE INDIANA TRUST CO. FOR SAVINGS SPRIMLt’S $2,000,000 Open Sntnrday Evening*, t to 8 O'clock.

For Friday Only COATS 10 coats that sold as high as $14.95 are offered tomorrow. This item should bring you here at 8:30 tomorrow. ss^o

KNICKERS In plaid or tweed. These knickers are all of a sample lot, made to sell at $6.95. For Friday—sOM

Suspender Skirts Plaids, stripes, checks or solid colors. Silk or cloth. Values to $lO. Each—s2~

DRESSES 100 new dresses in all colors. Well made and full cut. Values to $6.95. s 2=

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mission motor transport division was announced today by John D. Williams, director of the commission. Hitzelberger succeeds Harry Blassingham, who resigned to accept a position with the Indiana Truck Company of Marion.

AMUSEMENTS

WHERE THE CROWDS GO! LYRIC el p™ m en CLIFFORD and KRAMER “The Swede’s Flirtation” OTHER BIG NEW ACTS

ENGLISH’S Berkell Players In <fo. M. Cohan’* Comedy Hit* “So This Is London” MATINEIC WED,, THVm.'A WAT? I’rleen: Afternoon, 25e. 36c, 50. Mint, 'J6c. 50c, IM>c: V. 8. Gov. Ti on BOc Heut Tick*!* Only. Plain* Circle 3373. Next Week. “ChcHtliur Chenier#.”

PALACE -.-<2 POODLES HANAFORD World Famous Circus Clown and Hla Family “Itrooinellck” Huh* ELLIOTT & LATOUR “AIY DADDY” Bento Jack Brothers McAuliffe Ranee Gray Players "THE 8COOP” PHOTO PLAY “IS LOVE EVERYTHING?’'

DANCING EVERY NIGHT Friday—Waltz Night Every Other Dance a Waltz Come and Enjoy Yourself With Those Famous Dixie Land Entertainers RIVERSIDE DANCE PALACE

MOTION PICTURES

APOLLO BEBE DANIELS IN “The Crowded Hour” Imperial Comedy, 'Tuna’# Darling” Homey. Kuelin and Pelletier Kmll Seidel anil lII* yrelieatra

CRYSTAL s s t undTv g THAT DARING EXPOSE ARE YOU FIT TO MARRY? WOMEN ONLY ADMITTED

THURS.. FRI. AND tAT.

BILL CODY IN “THE FIGHTING SHERIFF”

CENTURY COMEDY “WHAT A NIGHT”

MAMMOTH C PLANT G KEEPS YOU COOL AS MOUNTAIN BREEZES

Circle the show place of Indiana

LAST THREE DAYS “CHICKIE” Full of Throbs & Thrills CINEMA OVERTURE HANDEL BAKALKINIKOFF CONDUCTING Bobby Vernon Comedy Cool and Comfortable at the CIRCLE THEATRE

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