Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1925 — Page 2

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TRACTION LINE TO MARS HILL IS DISCUSSED Provisional Contract for Continuing Service With CommisskJri. At a special conference today the public service commission discussed a provisional contract for rehabilitation of the Mars Hill street car line by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, which has agreed to operate the Mars Hill line for five years at a ten-cent fare. According to members of a committee named at a recent mass meeting in Mars Hill, residents of the town prefer street car service at ten cents to bus service. Mrs. M. Martin is chairman of the citizens’ committee. Parties in Contract Parties signing the contract include Indianapolis Street Railway! the Lafayette Building Company and James W. Hurt, receiver for the Industrial Development Company, the two latter owners of the Mars Hiil line. The street railway •is to receive $15,000 for reconditioning the traces and is to pay SI,OOO a year for use of the property. The line is to operate for five years, with understanding that the street railway company may abandon operation the instant competitive bus service is offered. Bus Petition Made It is understood that if a petition of the South Side Motor Coach Company asking to establish a Mars Hill Line, which is to be heard Thursday, is allowed-, the contract will become void. Some members of the public service commission expressed themselves favorable to the idea of re-establish-ing street car service in Mars Hill.

SUNDAY STORM CRIPPLES CITY (Con< inued From Page 1) received at police headquarters, according to Harley Reed, desk man. Police, carrying lists of calls, and wagons with red lanterns were busy all night. Police reports show more than 300 poles and 100 trees down. According to J. H. Armington, weather bureau meteorologist, the storm vAs ah “immensely overgrown thunderstorm.” The average thunderstorm, he said, covers about a twenty-mile area, but this one took in a large part of central Indiana. Apparently there were three or four storms in various parts of Indiana, the one here being the largest by far. Cellars throughout the city were flooded by water which backed up in sewers, unable to carry the torrent. Streets were like canals and wooden pavement blocks, swollen and uptorn, floated down the gutters. Water Blocks Cars At Virginia Ave., and the railroad elevation water ( stood so deep city cars were unable to go through. The same situation existed at dozens of other places in the city. About thirty Indianapolis street cars were out of order and many feeder wires were burned out, delaying car service. Three blocks of trolly wires were down betewen the Belt Railroad rand lowa St. on S. East St., throwing the Garfield and S. East St. car lines out of service. At Capitol Ave. and Washington St. a feeder wire burned out and caused another delay. W. Tenth and W. Michigan cars were out of service from 10 p. m. until Id p. m. A huge tree fell across Western Union wires just west of the Speedway and cut off telegraph service. Otfier scattered reports of damage to telegraph wires were received. The Indianapolis Light and Heat Company reported extensive damage, but was unable to make an estimate on the total. Twenty trucks, manned by linemen and electricians, were on duty today repairing broken wires, removing limbs and replacing poles. Signboards Crash Large signboards along highways and in the city crashed to the ground, taking down telephone and light wires. At Massachusetts Ave. and Tenth St. a two-tier signboard, 50 by 100 feet, fell and tore down the city railway trolley. A detour for automobiles was necessary. Calls were coming in to the Merchants Heat and Light Company today, and from 700 to 800 requests for service were on hand this morning. Motor busses were delayed by the storm, but all arrived at destinations without accidents, it is said. Automobiles driven by individuals, however, were drowned out and many were hauled into garages today. Steam trains were running on schedule time although telegraph Wires broke in places. Road Blocked Maintenance forces of the State highway commission were clearing roads. Slate- road 6, between Indianapolis and Lebanon, was completely by trees and limbs, but it was hoped to have it cleared by noon, according to Be Roy F. Wertz, assistant maintenance engineer. Traffic on a number of other State highways was impeded by the litter. Only a few cases of the many flooded basements were reported at the office of the city street commissioner. Attaches had expected a deluge of complaints. The sewer on Sterling St. from Tenth to Twelfth Sts. was unable to care for the water which formed a lake several feet deep across the street. Paving Damaged Wooden block paving between Thirteenth and Sixteenth Sts. on Meridian was badly damaged by the downpour, and there are a number of stretches of paving on Meridian 'St. north of Fall Creek torn up durf ing the deluge. Martin J. Hyland, street commission, lent apart of his equipment to John F. Walker, superintendent of street cleaning, whose office was swamped with complaints. ’ Plate-glass windows lay Shattered

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over side-walks this morning while sheets and canvas adorned the windows of department stores. Globes over street lights and boulevard damps were crushed. Five large windows in the D. Sommers Company furniture store. Washington St. and Capitol Ave., were broken.' Park Hit At Riverside Park crowds huddled into the dance hall and skating rink while light standards and trees wer? blown down. At Northern Wood beach, north of Broad Ripple, bathers were endangered by the lightning and wind. Twenty-two window panes were broken in the Marion County jail and a three-story drain spout was torn from its fastenings. Sheriff Omer Hawkins received a call from Bridgeport reporting the light wires were down there. Lightning struck a tree in the yard of St. Vincent’s Hospital and window panes wire broken, the damage otherwise being slight. The basement of the Methodist Hospital was flooded, but no damage done. The storm brought joy to two boys. Wayne Unger, 12, of 2219 N. Pennsylvania St., and Bernard Heitman, 14, of 2233 X. Pennsylvania St., conscripted a rowboat belonging to Unger’s older brother Gene, and embarked upon the turbulent waters of the 2200 block on N. Pennsylvania St. Many spectators cheered the young gondoliers as they passed several automobiles stalled in the water, nearly two feet deep. The dressing tent at Warfleigh municipal bathing beach was ripped down, despite efforts of guards to hold it. Autos Lose Tops Tops were blown off two Ford touring cars, parked in ront of the Federal Bldg., on Ohio St. A dog was electrocuted by a live wire at 2126 Bloyd Ave. A large tree, blown down over the National Rd. west of Plainfield, necessitated a detour. Limbs from trees lined the concrete west of the city. Queer freaks were performed by the wind. Near the Delaware St. bridge over Fall Creek a tree was up-rooted, but flower boxes on the bridge were untouched. Signs were upside down or hanging by one end. A tent used by the National Guard for recruiting, in front of the Federal Bldg., was laid flat. At Ft. Harrison the citizens military training camp became a small lake while ‘rookies,” armed with spades and shovels, dug ditches to drain off the water. Three large windows of the Schwab’s furnishing store, at 259 E. Washington St., were broken and women’s dresses were scattered. An unidentified man driving a Ford stopped in front of the store and ran inside and stole two dresses, police say. Corn Damaged Corn in a forty-five-acre ‘field near Riverside Park, property of the park board, was razed by the tempest. It was the best crop in recent years, according to H. Houston Tall, assistant superintendent of parks. The wind blew down a number of frees in parks and destroyed light globes along White River Blvd., at Camp Sullilvan and St. Clair Park. Eight automobiles were damaged when the roof was blown from a residence at 4100 W. Sixteenth St., owned by George Mates, Sunday night. The motorists had parked their cars and taken shelter in an adjoining grocery store. Mates said. Buildings at the were damaged to the of several thousand dollars. Half of the roof was blown off the Purdue Bldg., built last year at a cost -of $50,000. Roofs were also blown from several horse’ sheds. The damage is covered by insurance. State Suffers Losses weer reported practically over the central part of the State. Growing crops were blown down and farm buildings in many sections were damaged. Full fur.v of the storm was felt in Hamilton County where hundreds of acres of corn were blown down and shocks of wheat torn apart and scattered. At Kokomo, a giant tree blew over and crushed j.he home of G. S. Beck. No one hurt. An auto parked at the curb was crumpled into junk by a falling tree a moment after the driver left it. Howard county. farmers were hard hit-, The storm area extended as far north as Ft. Wayne, where trees were uprooted and street flooded. Boon County farmers also suffered heavily. Lightning fired a barn on A. I. Voris farm. Lightning killed stock on the farms of James Core and Asa Sutphin.

Officials Elected to Guide B. Y. P. U. During Year

(Left to Right) Theodore F. Adams, C. W- Gilkey, John Singleton, Mark F. Sanborn, Edwin Phelps and John Gindins.

New officers of the Baptist Young People's Union were elected Saturday at the thirty-fourth annual convention at Cadle Tabernacle. Theordore F. Adams, Cleveland,

DAftm-BRYAN ©LASH IMPENDS (Continued From Page 1) row and Bryan, the resignation of one Dayton pastor, the Ban placed on public preaching, roused both sides to bitterness. Court opened with a prayer. After Attorney General Stewart had subjected Juror W. W. Gentry to an unexpected examination, and satisfied himself the juror had no opinion, the jury was sworn. The indictment then was read, preliminary to arraignment. Darrow Loses Scuffle Judge John R. Neal, of the defense, interposed his motion to quash the indictment at this juncture. Statements in support of the motion were made in the absence of the jury, under Judge Raulston’s order, which was made over a vigorous objection by Darrow. In ruling Judge Raulston said, “The court will be more at ease if these questions are settled out of the hearing of the jury,” to which Darrow retorted, “And we’ll be less at ease.” Neal lashed out a bitter attack on the anti-evolution statute upon which the indictment is based, declaring it contrary to both the State and Federal Constitutions. He read the fourteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution. Constitution Upheld “This law is so indefinite that no indictment can possibly be based on it,” he said. “It is so indefinite that it fixes no particular crime. It makes two acts mandatory. First, teaching a theory contrary to the Bible and instead that man is descended from a lower order of animals. The court would have to exercise a legislative power to determine what constitutes a crime under it.” Coming to the argument that the law violates the fourteenth amendment of the Federal Constitution, Neal said. “This subject is not a proper thing for any legislature to attempt to make binding. It was not the purpose for which legislatures were created under our Constitution to attempt to regulate questions of religion. Our founders of the Constitution regarded it so important that they laid down a binding rule that no laws were to be enacted that were to bear on such questions.” Submits Law Example Arthur Garfield Hayes of defense counsel followed Neal, contending that the Tennessee law was unreasonable and violative of the Supreme Court precedents. Hays submitted to the judge a law which he said could be passed if the anti-evolution law is held constitutional. It identical in form as the anti-solution law, but it made teaching of the “heliocentral theory” a crime. It forbade teaching that the sun was the center of the solar system or any theory which thet the earth was the center of the universe,” as taught by the Bible. The penalty in Hayes’ legislative example was death. Fireworks Touched Off When the turn of the prosecution came to defend the indictment and the law a quaint old Tenessee lawyer wit# his glasses on the end of his nose touched off some verbal fireworks. It was General Ben McKenzie, former attorney general, who is assisting thd prosecution. Dudley Field Malone, New York, one of the defense attorneys leaped to his feet in angry offense when McKenzie referred to the apparent inability of ’’these here New York lawyers," to understand the anti-evolution law,

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“which is so simple a 16-year-01.l school boy gets it.” Malone indignantly demanded defense against "contemptous” references to himself and his colleagues. Judge Raulston smoothed things over by apologizing and saying perhaps the "foreign counsel didn’t understand General McKenzie as well as the home folks did.”* Heat, discomforts and misunderstandings all contributed to a general tautness of nerves. Trades people nursed a grievance against the world for not sending a larger crowd to the trial. They hoped for better times. Scopes was one of the few who preserved calm. He danced Saturday night, motored with friends Sunday and declared that "it doesn’t matter a hog how the case comes out." Religious troubles reached a climax Sunday when the congregation of the Northern Methodist Church barred the Rev. Charles F. Potter, a modernist, from occupying the pulpit of their church. The regular pastor resigned forthwith after the incident, saying he could not agree with his flock. Statements Clash Bryan and Potter both spoke on the courthouse lawn on Sunday. Bryan had a crowd of 7,500; Potter 200. Bryan received storms of applause: Potter a gust of hand clapping when he closed and one feeble attempt at heckling. Bryan issued a statement late Saturday defending the prosecution's resistance to the introduction of scientific testimony on the revolutionary theory by the defense to which Darrow retorted with a sharp statement that the prosecution was "running away from the facts” and was afraid to face the truth. Bryan came back with a blast declaring it was the defense who were seeking to i'ade the issue which, he said, clearly was whether Scopes violated the Tennessee anti-evolution law and not whether evolution could be harmonized with the Bible. — r — By N. D. Cochran Timet Staff Correspondent DAYTON. Tenn., July 13.—While Dayton is overwhelmingly fundamentalist the only indication of intolerance on the part of the people was the objection by part of one congregation to Dr. C. F. Potter, Unitarian, of New York, speaking in Dr. H. G. Byrd’s church. This led to Dr. Byrd's voluntary resignation. A fair sized crowd listened to Dr. Potter in the courthouse yard Sunday night with respectful attention. Dr. Potter's address was the only one during the past week not made by a fundamentalist, but Potter didn't mention evolution. Bryan Irritated W. J. Bryan's afternoon address at the same place also omitted reference to evolution on the Scopes trial. He did say that both political national conventions last year failed to mention the most Important issue of all, and that the Government had failed also to do what could be done only by religion, He added that the only hope for humanity was the Christian church. These statements have only significance when taken in connection with what he said at the banquet of Tuesday night last week and his address before tlje Dayton board of education. The statement given out by him Sunday indicated that various newspaper interpretations made of his addresses early in the week in whitfT he commented freely on the Scopes trial had irritated him. After welcoming what he called a duel to death between evolution and religion he had withdrawn from that position and insists that no testimony by the defense witnesses of a scientific or educational nature be admitted. Resistance Stiff After agreeing with defense counsel that the question of ad-

the Rev. Mark F. Sanborn, of Detroit. i Edwin Pht-lps, of Chicago, is general secretary, nnd John-H. Glading, of Detroit, recording secretary.

Why Police Age in Early Years Police today searched for "The Man No One Knows.” at the request of a woman they don't know. The woman telephoned that “The Man No One Knows,” a book, and $5 in stamps, has been taken from the Meridian St. M. E. Church. She refused to give her name.

mitting this testimony should be argued out of order he and his associate counsel decline to abide by the agreement and insist on regular order. This has caused irritation among attorneys for the defense, which will probably lead to both Darrow and Bryan calling a spade a spade when they come to grips in the courtroom. That duel to death will be fought with oratory Instead of evidence if Judge Raulston shuts out the scientists, educators and modernists. But it won't shut out Darrow's speech to the jury in closing the argument for the defense. Bryan’s speeches during the week have been effective in stiffening up the resistance of the fundamentalists. If the defense evidence is shut out the only light the twelve good men and true will get on either evolution or religion will come from speeches made by the lawyers. ARRESTS TAKE SLUMP Fewer Persons Arrested on Eve of Police Chiefs Convention. One the eve of the International Chiefs of Police convention here, week-end arrests took a sudden slump, with only ninety men and twenty-one. women charged at city prison. The usual total is near 150. The number of women charged was larger than usual, however. Seventeen men and one woman were charged with intoxication; twelve men and twelve women with blind tiger operation: fourteen men and one woman with assault an! battery; thirty-one men and four women with vagraeny; three men with associating and two women with operating resorts.

CORONER INVESTIGATES .Woman, 86, Dies At City Hospital— Said to Have Fractured Hip. Death of Mrs. Jane Russey, 86, of 2951 McPherson Ave., at city hospital Sunday, was being investigated today by Coroner Paul F. Robisonson. According to hospital attaches Mrs. Russey was admitted to hospital June 6, suffering with a frac tured hip received in a fall at hei home.

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WATERS CLAIM EIGHT LIVES IN WEEK-END TOLL Three Members of One Family Die in White River in Green County. Eight persons were drowned in Indiana seeking relief'from the terrific heat wave which blistered the State over the week-end, reports showed today. The temperature at Indianapolis reached 95 degrees at 3:15 p. m., while Vincennes reported 99. and Columbus and Bloomington 98. Temperatures are considerably lower today, though the forecast is for continued warm weather. One person was killed and half a :lozen suffered minor injuries in mto accidents. The auto casualty oil was the lightest of any’ >nd this summer. Three member*, of the family of Robert Brown. 48. Green County farmer died in a treacherous hole in White River when the family went wading on the way home from Sunday school. .Steps Into Hole Brown's wife stepped into a hole and screamed for help. Her husband ran to aid her and both went lown together. Their 8-year-old -on, Carlos, became excited, stepped into deep water and drowned. Another son witnessed the tragedy from the bank. Frederick McPherson, 17. an ex pert swimmer, suffered a heart attack In a park pool at Marion and was drowned. Harry Hogswood, 25, was seized with cramps while bathing In nr abandoned gravel pit near Eiwood and drowned. In Lake Michigan Charles Sprague. Jr., 9. drowned in the waters of Lake Michigan at Michigan City. Bullo Mann. 19, drowned in Pretty Lake near Plymouth, and John Rowan, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Rowan of Cleveland. was drowned in Oliver Lake near Kendallville. Virginia Hover, 6, died Sunday from injuries received when an auta driven by her father, D. M. Hover, collided with a Red Ball bus near Greenfield. The girl s mother was badly injured. Thomas Moore. 721 Adelaide St., is held as a fugitive from justice after Greenfield authorities notified local police he was wanted in connection with the death of the girl. Several were slightly hurt in traffic accidents in Indianapolis. TOTAL DEAD IS 31 Heat and Drowning* Take Heavy To'l Over Mlddlewest. llu * vitrd Hrrs* CHICAGO, July 13.—The Middlewest today counted its dead at thirtyfour In wake of storms and a severe heat wave. Five perrons were drowned in lowa as thousands sought relief from high temperatures. Four persons succumbed from heat In St. Paul and Minneapolis, where the mercury climbed to 92. Two were drowned and two died from heat prostration in Chicago. Two deaths from heat prostrations were reported in Nebraska. Cne person was drowned in that State. Two were drowned at St. Louis ,and eight in Indiana. Eight were drowned In Michigan. HURT IN QUEER WAY Young Man Found Lying On Cnrb Early Today. Injured about the head. Charles Quinn, 24, of 134 Mclvim St., was found lying at the curb at Drexel Ave. and E. Washington St. at 2 a. m. today. Quinn told police after he had been taken to .city hospital and treated he had been to see a young woman In that vicinity and left her home at 12:30 a. m. Police think he was slugged or struck by an auto. He had not been robbed. NEPHEW IS ARRESTED Uncle Reports SIOO Theft to Police. Samuel Patton. 18, colored. 912 N. West St., was held on a vagrancy hcarge today while police Investigated theft of SIOO reported by his uncle, John Patton, colored. John Patton said he had $290 in a desk afid SIOO was taken while he was getting it ready for depositing in a bank. His nephew was the only person in the house, he told police. MANY BONDS DENIED During May and JOne the State board of tax commissioner* denied public improvement bonds totaling t $1.473.600, it was shown in a report' today. Os this amount. $532,000 was j for roads in North Township, Lake ' County. ICE PEDDLER SLATED Edward Carouthers. 45, colored. 929 Colton St., an ice peddler, today was charged with violation of the “ity weight and measure ordinance. City weight inspectors charged | Carouthers sold ice without weigh- I ing it. . ,

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Fuller Shell.mberger. life prisoner at the Nebraska State penitentiary, hasn’t, spoken one word for ten years. This is because he "talked himself into prison,” con fessing a murder when he thought he was dying, only to reoover and be convicted and sent to prison. He answers all questions by shaking or nodding his head.

COURTESY WEEK PLANS ! Publicity Committee Will Discuss Matters Tuesday. Plans for the observance of Courtesy Week during the Indiana State Fair, Sept. 7 to 12. will be made at a meeting of the publicity committee of the Indianapolis Chamj ber of Commerce at noon luncheon jat the Chamber Tuesday, E. J. [ Oausepohl, committee chairman, anj nounced today. According to contemplated plans. ! .ill policemen, street car motormen and conductors, bus drivers nnd cmployes of downtown stores will be | asked to aid the committee in ex- ! tending hospitality to visitors. The ! Indian ipolis Advertirlng Chib alreadj has voted to Join with the publicity committee' of the Chamber In laying plans. SEEK MURDER SUSPECT Fugitive Killed Two Sisters, Police Declare. Bo Cnitcd /’rets SIOUX CITY. lowa, July 13.—P0 lice today nrp-aled to authorities In surrounding towns and cities for aid in capturing a man who, it is believed. can explain the deaths of his two sisters. Mrs. Josie Goodwin, 59. and Mrs. Elizabeth Anthony, 56. The bodies of the women, partly decomposed, were found Sunday in their home near the railroad tracks. Death wa sdue to asphyxiation, the jras feed pipe in the house having been disconnected. The murder theory was strengthened by the fact that the disconnected piece of pipj could not be found. ‘MURDERS’ EXPLAINED Four Human Heads Used By Physician, Says Coroner. . Bo T'nited Prrtt BLUFFTON. Ind., July 13—A quadruple “murder mystery" was completely exploded today by William Mcßride, Wells County Coroner. Children wading in a creek north of Bluffton found the bones of four human heads and word spread about the country of a gruesome murder find. Mcßride found on Investigation the skulls had been used for dissecting purposes by a physician and then dumped in the creek. CONFERENCED CALLED Bo Timet Special OAKLAND CITY. Ind., July 13 A section conference of rural education will he held at Oakland City College. Tuesday, under the direction of the State department of education.

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ALLEGED BANDIT TO FACE TRIAL Confessions to Be Used as Record, Police Say. Detectives today said that Ray Riche, alias Ritchie, 30, of 333 N. Walcott St., will be tried on the charge of holding up Pierre Motgan, druggist, 801 H Audubon Rd., with several other robberies he Is said to have confessed. Riche was captured Friday night after a gun battle with police. Orville Wolford, also of 332 Walcott St., was shot while at the wheel of the alleged bandit auto. Thomas Malad, poolroom proprietor, 3547 Ave.. identified Wolford nnd Riche a* two of the three bandfts who held up hi* poolroom a short time before the Morgan hold-up. Police nre still hunting the third man who escaped after the gun battle. Riche, according to do* tcctives, has confessed among other hold-ups that of the Schnull A Cos., warehouse on Ma.v 14, where S2O In cash was taken. FROM WILD FLORIDA Youth Protest* When He Is Arrested for Tarrying Gun. Declaring he had Just arrived from Florida nnd while there always carried a gun. Howard Dill, 19 of 3008 W. Michigan St„ protested strenuously when he was arrested at Capitol Ave. nnd Washington St., Saturday night on that charge. Trhfflc Officer Vlles said Dili had a gun. knife, bullets, nnd no Job. He is held under SI,OOO bond. CANCER CAUSeToUND? British Press Reports Location of Basic Organism. Bn Ft* Ted Pr'* LONDON. July 13 rirltish papers today reported the British Medical Research Council has found the cause of cancer but not the cure The council, the papers say unconfirmedly, by use of strong microscopes has located a basic organism present in nil cancer cases. The council soon will publish a statement on its work- Location of the muss would be an important step toward discovery of a cure, the papers declare. HONEYS NEED NOT FEAR Eighteen Hair Tonic, Toilet Makers Going Out of Business. Bo Timet Special CHICAGO. July 13—The “hennned honeys' -“along the great flapperinn highway need not fear a cosmetic famine because eighteen hair tonic, perfume and toilet manufacturers in Chicago have decidejl to go out of business. The exit only will mean a shortage of synthetic gin, “cut" whisky, and “needled" beer, according to Chief Charles W. Vursell of the liquor prohibition staff. FIRST SUIT IS FILED 550,000 Damages Asker for Death of Track Worker. Bo Timet Special MARION. Ind., July 13.—First suit has been filed here, growing out of the fatal C. A O. wreck at Converse, when tVelve laborers were crushed to death under coal. Frank Russo, administrator for the estate of Tony Companion, track worker and one of the victims, has asked $50,000 damages, Companion left a wife and seven children. COLORED WOMAN CUT Mr*. Amy Nixon, colored, of 1041 N. West St., is in city hospital suffering from knife wounds in the abdomen and police the seeking Harry Pickett, colord, 806 Blake St., her alleged assailant. Police say Mrs. Nixon told them she was cut by Pickett while at his home Saturday.