Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1925 — Page 2

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OFFICIALS WARY OF THREATENED MIIIECECESSION Washington Shows Anxiety Over Possible Coal Pro* duction Tie-up. By Paul R. MaJlon* U nited Press Staff Correspondent WASHIN jTON, July 3.—Threat of a general strike of tlio nation’s half million coal miners which would completely tie up next winter’s fuel supply, has aroused Government observers who are watching with anxiety a situation daily growing in gravity. An issue has been drawn between operators and miners which is threatening the life of the union organization and both sides are prepared to fight it out. For weeks the trouble has been brewing Quietly, it had its origin in the northern West Virginia fields where tha Union hue virtually beerdriven out. Production of union coal represents only about 10 per cent of the total production of the region where five years ago the fields were nearly 90 per cent unionized. Numerous operators contending that they could not mine coal on a $7.25 union wage scale, have closed their pits, to re-open them a few weeks later on a non-union wage scale between $4 and $5. Since that time other operators in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and some other coa l producing states have taken similar action. Union leaders see in this a concerted effort to kill the United Mine Workers organization throughout the country. The chief weapon the union holds is a general strike of both anthracite and bituminous fields and the warning that it might be used was given this week by President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers in addressing the tri-district anthracite convention at Scranton, Pa. DEMANDS ADOPTED Miners Ask 10 Per Cent Increase, ( Check-Off System. By United Press SCRANTON, Pa., July 3.—j Adoption as a whole of the demands j recommended by their committee j was the last act of the anthracite j miners in convention here before ad- | journment. The demands include a 10 per cent wage increase, check-off recognition of the union, a dollar a day increase for day employes, quicker adjustment of grievances and a two-year working agreement.

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mote welfare of the children of America.” On motion of the Now York delegation a committee was authorized to work for world peace and co-oper-ation. Delegates Swelter The delegates, sweltering in the heat in Cadle Tabernacle, rushed through business reports of the trustees, treasurer and others. The New York delegation served notice they would attempt to amend the present constitution of the body in 1926 by giving States which have over 10,000 members an additional representation on the board of directors. Each State now has one. ‘‘That’s can’t be done,” said President J. H. Newlon. “Our board of directors is fixed by the act of Congress treating this associaition.” Miss Mary McSkimmon, Brookline, Mas:,., newly elected president, made a short speech, pledging her time tc. the work. Resolutions urging Congress to pass laws establishing a Federal department of education and prohibiting Interstate commerce in obscene -literature and pictures were to be presented the body. They were adopted without opp cition. Other resolutions up for final action uregd all States to pass teacher tenure laws, retirement laws and minimum salary laws for teachers. Miss McSkimmon Wins Miss Mary McSkimmon, Brookline, Mass., was elected president of the association over Miss Cornelia Adair, Richmond, Va., classroom teacher, by a vote of 507 to 322 in the balloting Thursday, it was announced today. The successful candidate 1 has been principal of Pierce School at Brookline for thirty-two years. H. Lester Smith, dean of the school of education, Indiana University, was unopposed for treasurer. President .T. H. Newlon-will become first vicepresident automatically when Miss McSkimmon assumes office. Board to Meet “It shOuU be possible for us teachers In 1£25 to see this right is not curtailed.” she said, referring to the Scopes-Bryan evolution debate in Tennessee. Rival claims of Los Angeles and Philadelphia for the 1926 convention were to be presented the new board of directors elected Tuesday, scheduled to meet at 2 p. m. today, following custom. The diretors may decide, or they may refer the matter to the executive committee for future action. Final business sessions of departments and yie board of trustees were scheduled for this afternoon, as well as of allied organizations. WAR VETERAN DIES Hot Weather Is Believed to Have Hastened Death. Coroner Paul F. Roboinson is investigating the death of Capt. James E. White, 80, a Civil War veteran, who dropped dead today while on the float porch at his home at 713 E. Sixteenth St. While his death was believed to have been caused by the infirmities of old age and heart trouble, it is thought death was hastened by hot weather.

Faster Slides Ordered for 1925 Youth

Speed! That’s what the children on the municipal playgrounds are after. Thrills on the old type of slides are Tew, according to 1925 standards, the children complained. Whereupon Edward E. Mcßride, city recreation director took the matter in hand. The result will be installation of five double slides that will handle the children 100 a minute. “Guess we’ll have to order airplanes next,’’ Mcßride commented. Meanwhile, practice continues on the old type. Lucille Fenton, 1201 E. New York St., Junior Rail, 1403 E. New York St., and Ilene Alger, 921 College Ave., are looking forward to the zippy delights of a faster chute. The new slides are slated for Ellenherger, Willard and Garfield parks and the Riley and School 4/1 playgrounds.

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Left to Right—Lucille Fenton, Junior Rail and Ilene Alger.

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vided by the 11th Infantry band and the audience will sing “America.” In addition to a complete program of track and field events with competition between soldiers, police and firemen, there wall be tugs of war, fat men’s races, fire-fighting drills, boxing and wrestling tournaments and vaudeville acts. The main boxing go will be staged by Police Lieutenant Earl Halstead and Firemen Eddie Weber, both former professional boxers. Other bouts are scheduled. Patrolman Frank Prindle, former heavyweight champion of Indiana, will wrestle Fireman Ed Smith of Pumper Company 15. strongest Policeman The world's strongest policeman will be seen in action when Traffic Officer < Sylvest breaks rocks with his bare fists and pulls a fire department pumper before the grandstand with his teeth. Traffic Officer Curtis Barge has challenged any other policeman or fireman to eat custard pie for the championship of Indianapolis. Special fat men’s race will have as participants Police Captain Barrett 8011, 250 pounds, and Patro 1 - man Metie Pollock, 270 pounds, who will run 220 yards. A feature 100yard daari will be run by Fireman Lee Cvry, Engine Company No. 11 and Patrolman Holtclaw. Officials for the meet are: Honorary referee. General Aultman; referee Harry Dame; field judge Major S. B. Philpot; assistant field judge, Lieut. E. H. Burger; timers, Lieuts. G. E. Isaacs and D. C. Roth; starter, Lieut. R. Gaither; clerks of the course, J. A. Elmore and J. F. Torrence; announcer, Sergt. M. C. Rudolph; assistant judges, Col. E. J. Nowlen, Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff and Fire Chief John J. O’Brien. Concert by Band During the evening there will be a special concert by the Police and Firemen’s bard platform vaudeville acts and a patriotic fireworks spectacle. Assembly positions for the parade have been designated, as follows: G. A. R. To form on New York St. -with head at Meridian St., facing west. 11th U,. S. Infantry—On Washington St.r with head at Delaware St., facing west. Indiana National Guard—On Delaware St., between Market and Washington Sts., head at Washington St., facing south. Organized Reserves and Naval Reservres—On Market head at Delaware St., facing west. American Legion and Red Cross Nurses (marching)—On Pennsylvania St., head at Washington St., facing south. Patriotic Societies —Ladies ir. motor cars—headed by “Gold Star Mothers”—on Pennsylvania St., head at Market St., facing south. • City Police and Fire Departments —On Market St., between Delaware and Pennsylvania Sts., head at Pennsylvania St., facing west. Fraternal Organizations—On Delaware S'., with head at Market St., facing south. Naval Reserve Training Camp and Boy Scoits—-On Alabama St., head at Washington St., facing south. A baboon ascension and fireworks are features of a celebration to be held at Riverside Park. The first marine fireworks ever shown in Indianapolis will be on *he-program, with swimming contests, at Broad Ripple Park. Celebrations are also planned at the Indianapolis Country Club, Highland Golf Club, * Broadmoor and Cvalon Clubs and Brendenwood. More than 2,000 former students of St. John’s School, 144 W. Georgia St., are expected to attend the an-

Stephenson Yields to Bath Tub NOBLES VILLE, Ind., July 3, —D. C. Stephenson, who is said to have boasted that “I am the law in Indiana,” today had been defeated in one more battle resulting from his encounter with a different law'. On one of the hottest nights of the year, Thursday, Stephenson abandoned his stand against the huge bath tub in the basement of the jail here, where the former Ku-Klux Klan leader Is held on charges of murdering Madge Oberholtzer. He took a bath, the first he had had in the tub, whose surface shows only traces of the enamel which once adorned it.

nual picnic of St. John’s Alumni Association at Columbia Park. Arrangements have been made by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company for busses to run from the street car line to the park. BOSTON WOMAN NAMED Miss Sullivan Heads Department of Classroom Teachers. Miss Julia Sullivan of Boston, Mass., is new president of the department of classroom teachers of the National Education Association, She was elected at the department’s final session Thursday afternoon at the Statehouse. Others elected were: Miss Eula Hunter, Ft. Worth, Texas, vice president; Miss Clara Lynn, Seattle, Wash., secretary; Mrs. E. C. Joiner, Norfolk, Va„ executive committee member, eastern section; Miss Anna M. Thompson, Kansas City, Mo., middle section, and Miss Jean Soulis, Spokane, Wash., western section. TRAFFIC COPS’ DOZEN Twelve Motorists Under Arrest on Various Charges. Twelve motorists were slated at city prison Thursday night and early today on charges ranging from traffic violation to driving while intoxicated. They gave their names as: Dr. Hamilton, 29, Royal Hotel; S. Strauss, 20, 1860 N. Talbott Ave., and William Van Natti, 22, 2828 N. Talbott Ave. All were charged with speeding, and Joe Wagner, 48, of 321 Cable St.; Alex Baker, 48, of 5125 Park Ave.; Joe Carr, 30, of 2016 E. Washington St., and Harry O’Haver, 24, of 415 N. Illinois St., with driving while intoxicated. Four men and one woman were violating traffic laws, police charged. AUTO ‘PLAY’ BLAMED Man Backs Into Elevator Shaft Held at City Hospital When Harry O'Havers, 415% N. Illinois, “in play" early today run his automobile toward James C. Hollywood, 16, S. Michigan St., Hollywood backed into an elevator shaft in a vacant building at 338 Muskingum St. and well twenty-five feet. He was injured about the head, face and hands, and taken to city hospital, where he is held on charges of vagrancy and intoxication. O’Haver was charged with assault and battery, vagrancy and driving while intoxicated. His wife and Miss Helen Smith, 3117 S. New Jersey St., both in the automobile were slated on vagrancy charges. WAR VET THEFT VICTIM Police and postal officials today worked on theft of a war veteran’s compensation check from a mail box at 134 W. Vermont St. Titus Raymond Kranchi said the check amounting to between SBO and SIOO, was mailed to him at Clay City end remailed to him her-

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POLICE SEEK AUTO DRIVER AFTER CRASH Speeder Rushes on After . Overturning Car, Causing Injury to Woman. A search of the city for an auto driver who failed to stop after an accident Thursday night at Toledo and New York Sts. w-as made by police today. The only clew was given by Henry- King. 607 Stevens St., driver of the auto overturned by the speeding car. King said the collision damaged the fugitive auto. Mrs. Emma King, Henry- King’s wife, was pinned under the auto and injured. She was treated at city hospital and taken home. Lights Out The street lights were not burning on either the pole light or the mushroom light at Twenty-Sixth St. and Capitol Ave., witnesses told police after Stanley- Conrad, 20, of 956 Ft. Wayne Ave. struck the mushroom light as he was ..asslrig another auto. His auto turned over. Conrad escaped injury, but Miss Mildred Baungart, 15, of 12,6 E. Vermont St., riding with him suffered a fractured collar bone and sprained shoulder. She was taken to St. Vnicent’s Hospital. Conrad’s auto struck and badly lamaged a car driven by W. B. Smith, 107 W. St. Clair St., as it overturned. Conrad was charged with assault and battery and failure to have title and license plates. Driver Held Autos driven by Spencer Galbreath, 641 Arbor Ave., and Joseph Wagoner, 321 Caven St., collided at South and Mqridian Sts. Wagoner was charged with driving while intoxicated, and driving through an automatic stop signal. John Woodson, 420 N. Blackford St., and Miss Evelyn Bowman, 429 N. West St., both colored, escaped injury Thursday night when their auto was struck by- a Northwestern Ave. car, carried down the track and wedged by a Illinois St. car going the opposite direction.

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MAN CHARGED WITH KILLING OF COMPANION Arrest Follows Investigation —Body Found in River. John Hennessey, alias “Crip, alias Jack Rappold, 45. of 1117 E. Pratt. St., is held today in the city prison awaiting arrival of Salem (Ind.) authorities who will take him to Washington County to face a murder cnarge in connection with the death of Henry Edwards. 60, Craig hotel/whose body was found in Blue River at Big Spring near Salem. May 10. Hennessey's arrest late Thursday was made after Salem authorities sent police license number of an auto that had been stalled in the mud where the body was discovered. Drew Out Money According to detectives Hennessey took Edwards from the Craig hotel on April 27 and together the men went to a local bank and withdrew $1,294 from Henry’s account. When found Edwards had only 4 cents. Coroner John Kelley of Washington County said death was due to suffocation. Hennessey after hia arrest said that Edwards was a drug addict and he was taking him to some of his relatives who live near Salem. Tells Story Hennessey- said Edwards, under the influence of drugs, was in the back seat of the auto covered with a robe and when he did not answer Hennessey found him dead. Becoming frightened, Hennessey- said he placed the body in the river. Hennessey- was formerly- a deputyconstable in Coroner Paul R. Robinson's office. •

DUNES PARK HOPES BRIGHT Commission Conference Is Successful. By United Press GARY, Ind., July 3.—Prospects for a -State park in the heart of Indiana's dunes country are disinctly encouraging, members of the dunes park commission declared today, following a two-days’ conference here with land owners. The commission members indicated that an understanding had been reached with owners of approximately 1,600 acres of the 2,000 acres they hoped to purchase for the park. The commission’s report to Governor Jackson will indicate sufficient progress to warrant going ahead with plan3 for establishing the park. The commission has $200,000 available at present for purchase of park acreage, with a million dollars to come to the State park through taxes during the next eight years. REV . NICKERSON DIES Noblesvillc Pastor Succumbs to Two Months Illness. Bn Times Special NOBLES VILLE, Ind., July 3 The Rev. H. Nickerson, 55, pastor of the First M. E. Church and widely known in the north Indiana M. E. Conference died at his home in this city today following an illness of two months. He is survived by the widow and one son and one daughter. He was a member of the conference for twenty years and held charges at Wabash, Ft. Way-ne, Winchester, Angola, aFirmount and Greenfield. He was a Mason and a K. of P. WATER FETE PLANNED Div-lng, races, canoe tilting and other water sports will feature an aquatio carnival to be held at the Rhodius Park swimming pool, July 11, city park board announced today.

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Long years of devotion to the teaching profession were given recognition in the election of Miss Mary MeSkimmon. of Brookline, Mass., as president of the National Education Association. Miss MeSkimmon has been principal of the Pierce sch.ool, a large grade school of Brookline, Mass., for thirty-two years. Before becoming head of the Brookline school, she spent some years in teaching in Maine and Massachusetts. First woman president of the Massachusetts Teachers’ Federation, Miss MeSkimmon has held this position four years. She has been active in N. E. A.

EIGHT GAMES IN ‘KITTENOEAGUE Boys All Out + o Capture Times Medals. Eight games were scheduled today- in th<s Boys' Kitten Ball League, starting the second round of contesti-. "They’re all on their toes this year to capture the medals The Indianapolis Times is offering to all members of the city championship teams." Edward E. Mcßride, recreation director, said. Following are the playground games played today: League No. 1, Riley at School 50; Military at 30; League No. 2. Garfield at Rlngold, Greer at Kansas and Meridian; League No. 3, Willard at Finch, Ellenberger at Brookville; League No. \ 4, Highland at Brookside, Spades at Brightwood. COLORED MAN SUSPECT Arrest Follows Information Given by Neighbors. Acting on information of neighbors, police early today arrested a colored man living in the northwest part ofthe city, and held him under SIO,OOO bond as a suspect. Officers say he may be the person who has been attacking and robbing women in their homes, while their husbands were working at night. Women victims will attempt to identify the suspect. TOO SPEEDY, SAY’ POLICE Police today arrested four alleged speeders. They were Leslie Cordell, 2050 N. Keystone Ave.; Francis Jackson. 19. Cornell, Ind.; E. A. Shaw, 38, Highland Golf Club and Garnet Tuttle, 32, of 738 N. Belleview Place.

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